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

• 1 do not think there is any doubt that the intention of those connected with the moratorium is to put a point of view which is in complete conflict with the Government’s point of view on Australia’s participation in and contribution to the defence of South Vietnam. [More…]

• 138, and made under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968, be disallowed. [More…]

• This matter is under negotiation at the present time and no doubt the Minister for Defence will be making a statement on it at a later date. [More…]

• We of the Opposition would rather see a policy in which the Government insisted upon external orders being related to our defence productive capacity. [More…]

• In regard to the latter part of the question, 1 did have a number of discussions with the Minister for Defence on the FI . [More…]

• 1 ask the honourable senator to put that question on the notice paper, because he is prying into discussions between the Minister for Defence and me. [More…]

• I think the honourable senator is aware that the Minister for Defence went to the United Slates of America to discuss the whole FI 1 1 project. [More…]

• Discounting the flippancy at the end of the question and replying to the matters of substance, f point to the background of what was said here yesterday and what the Prime Minister said in another place to the effect that until the Minister for Defence returns to Australia and reports to the Government on his discussions in Washington with the Secretary of Defence and others, it is unreal to be making up hypothetical questions and expecting an answer of substance. [More…]

• 1 direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, ls the statement appearing in today’s Press correct that Phantom aircraft would be available on a least- or a reimbursement basis and that such a lease would cost in the vicinity of $850,000 for each Phantom aircraft for 2 years? [More…]

• Will the Minister for Defence, during his time in the United States, shop around the American discount houses or used plane yards to see whether he can get a trade-in on the $200m equity that we have in the FI 11C aircraft? [More…]

• Can the Minister tell us, as Minister for Air, irrespective of what the Minister for Defence might say upon his return to Australia, what we are going to get, whether the Air Force now wants the Phantom F4Es, the F111Cs, the F111Fs or any other type of aircraft as Australia’s strike reconnaissance aircraft? [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• It will be recalled that when the Minister for Defence made his statement on the forward planning for defence purposes reference was made to a Service requirement for helicopters. [More…]

• I would be quite prepared to have that part of the question - in fact, the whole of the question - referred to the Minister for Defence; but I believe that there would not bc in the first part the substance that there is in the second part. [More…]

• If the honourable senator puts the whole question on the notice paper it will be referred to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence because it concerns the 3 Services and I believe it is more appropriate that the Minister representing the Minister for Defence should receive it. [More…]

• The honourable senator’s questions are blatant propaganda questions and they follow, of course, the statement which was put down last night by the Minister for Air who represents the Minister for Defence in this matter. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has been to America and has negotiated a new agreement, and I think that, far from an apology being made, the Minister for Defence will receive the praise of everybody in- Australia who reads the new agreement thoroughly. [More…]

• Will the Government also give an assurance that such incredible open ended contracts as that signed to cover the purchase of the Fil ls will never again be entered into and that major defence issues will never again be used as election bait? [More…]

• We are prepared to sit here and deal with all the matters on the business paper, which include the defence statement. [More…]

• Does the Government’s continued avoidance of bringing on the debate on the defence statement which appears as Order of the Day No. [More…]

• 13 indicate an unwillingness to enter into such debate because of the present inadequate state of the nation’s defence system? [More…]

• When will the Senate get an opportunity to debate defence? [More…]

• Royal Australian Air Force firmly believes that a strike and reconnaissance capability is an essential element in a balanced defence force. [More…]

• I repeat that it is an essential element in a balanced defence force in Australia. [More…]

• I do not expect to receive any reports until the team returns to Australia and makes a full report to myself and the Minister for Defence who then will take it to Cabinet. [More…]

• 46 and made under the Defence Act 1903- 1966 be disallowed. [More…]

• Hewill recall that last December the Treasurer announced that ex-service pensioners would benefit from the distribution of surplus assets in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• 1 have checked the position and have learned that the evaluation team is hoping to come home on Sunday week.It then hopes to make a report to me and to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence is hoping to have the information before Cabinet by about the middle of June. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is a document entitled ‘Australian Military Forces Pocket Book, South Vietnam’ on issue to our defence forces? [More…]

• So far as I understand, the investigation into this matter is still going on between the Department of Defence and the Department of the Army. [More…]

• I cannot add anything further to the answer I gave last week when I indicated to the Senate that the evaluation committee had returned from America and had reported to the Minister for Defence and myself. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence and I have had discussions on the report, and a further report has now been prepared for Cabinet. [More…]

• The proposal is to provide funds for expenditure on defence services which have already been authorised by the Parliament in the Appropriation Acts. [More…]

• I draw the attention ot honourable senators to the presence in the gallery of a parliamentary delegation from Japan led by Mr Asao Mihara, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Opposition supports the amendment The history of this matter began on 9th June last in the House of Representatives when the defence forces retirement benefits legislation was before that chamber. [More…]

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

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence in a position to provide any information as to when a decision on the establishment of an Army base in Western Australia can be expected? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI would prefer this question to be put on notice so that I may get a comprehensive answer from the Minister for Defence. [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…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate and refers to the public statements made by the former Chairman of the Defence Committee and Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Henry Bland, which strongly contest the present policies of the Government in defence procurement and organisation and question Australia’s commitments to the purchase of sophisticated equipment dovetailed into United States policies, equipment and designs. [More…]

• 1 ask: Is it a fact that similar recommendations were made by Sir Henry Bland when he occupied the position of Chairman of the Defence Committee? [More…]

• Like the honourable senator I read what appeared in the Press in relation to a statement made by Sir Henry Bland who was formerly the head of the Department of Defence and prior to that was head of the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]

• For instance he suggested that instead of having the Department of Defence, 3 Service departments and the Department of Supply the number of departments should be reduced to, I think, 3. [More…]

• He was moving towards implementing those views in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Wc were in agreement that there should be a far greater Australian component in the weaponry in our defence complex. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence and I will have a good look at it and if we think it appropriate we will make some further comments about it. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, lt refers to the discussions currently being held in Canberra between representatives of the United States of America Defence Department and representatives of the Australian Department of Defence, ls the Australian Government promoting a strong, positive policy that Australian industry, government and private, should have a greater share in coproduction or offset orders related to the heavy Australian purchases of the United States military equipment? [More…]

• I do know that discussions were held this morning with the defence complex and they are continuing this afternoon. [More…]

• My question addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence relates to the current discontent amongst members of the Services with wages, allowances and housing and also to the fact that the Government is to conduct an inquiry into these matters. [More…]

• German forces have for many years had such a union organisation which seems to have performed a useful role in settling differences between servicemen and defence heads? [More…]

• If no consideration has yet been given to this matter will the Minister refer the proposition to the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee so as to find out to what extent such an organisation might provide a vehicle for settling differences and determining the reasons for the resignations which seem to be occurring in all the Services? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Housing, ls it a fact that land on Horn Island has now been transferred from the Department of Defence to the Department of Housing? [More…]

• As to the final report, I think the Minister for Defence said in his statement towards the end of the last sessional period that it would not be until the end of 1971 that the Governments would be in a position to make a final determination as to when we would receive the aircraft. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of the recent newspaper reports indicating that the British Conservative Government’s first defence White Paper proposing a new 5 power defence arrangement for South East Asia is designed to replace the existing Anglo-Malaysia defence agreement? [More…]

• I seek clarification from the Minister as to whether this money or this percentage has as a component of its total, any expenditure on defence activities in South Australia such as the Woomera establishment? [More…]

• Senator Fitzgerald has already indicated that when he asked me this question during the last session I replied that it was something which still had to be worked out between the Royal Australian Air Force and the Department of Defence in the United States of America. [More…]

• Does the Government regard the Eyre Highway as having national economic and defence importance, and as a highway which is peculiarly not the responsibility of a single State? [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Defence is not present in. [More…]

• This is obviously a question of policy which should be directed to the Minister for Defence and I will do so. [More…]

• 1 address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Can we now accept the assurance given by the former Minister for Defence in a Press release on 19th February that any action to phase out civil action projects in Vietnam would be contrary to Government policy and that a reduction of civil action was not in contemplation? [More…]

• Is there any truth in reports that the Prime Minister overruled objections by both himself, the Minister for Air, and the former Minister for Defence on this matter and that the United States Air Force is now sending the Fill aircraft to Australia for the period 1st April to 6th April next? [More…]

• I know that Senator Cavanagh means well but Mr Gorton will be visiting Vietnam on a matter of defence. [More…]

• In conclusion I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs, no matter who he may be, and the Minister for Defence to make a joint approach on this matter. [More…]

• I have not received a request from the Minister for Defence for a VIP flight to take him to South Vietnam. [More…]

• Minister for Defence, the Rt. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that the American Central Intelligence Agency is responsible for the financing and equipping of a provincial reconnaissance unit in Vietnam? [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform the Parliament whether it is a fact that Australian mail is “not delivered in Vietnam on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays of each week? [More…]

• As apparently there are direct air services into this country, can the Minister advise whether Australian mail is held on a direction from the Department of Defence or on the direction of the Postmaster-General? [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Of course, we would have to carry out an evaluation against the strategic requirements of the Australian defence force when the need arose to replace an existing aircraft in the RAAF inventory. [More…]

• Studies and discussions are proceeding between the Department of Air, the Department of the Army and the Department of Defence on the role that this aircraft could play in both Army and Air Force operations. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the Lavarack Army Barracks at Townsville will continue to play an important role in the nation’s defence after Vietnam? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI can react to the question asked by the Leader of the Opposition only by saying that the joint defence research facility at Pine Gap is an agreed facility under the Australian, New Zealand and United States defence pact - ANZUS. [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 1970 to 31st January 1971. [More…]

• Estimates Committee A - Department of Health, Parliament, Department, of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Defence, Department of the Treasury. [More…]

• that the inadequate defence vote reveals the Government’s failure to appreciate the deterioration in Australia’s strategic situation caused by recent world events including failure to provide the necessary supply and logistic support programme; [More…]

• or his colleague, the Minister for Defence, to give this Parliament a report on this matter? [More…]

• 1 shall have to refer the question to the Minister for Defence and get the honourable senator an early answer. [More…]

• They are the Superannuation (Pension Increases) Bill 1971, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1971 and the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Bill 1971. [More…]

• That the following Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees, appointed by the Senate on11th June 1970, be fully established: The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and the Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the Defence Report, 1971. [More…]

• For those 2 reasons, I suggest that I should refer the first part of his question to the relevant Minister, who obviously must be the Minister for Defence, and that the second part of his question really involves a matter of policy on which I should not comment. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs explain how the Cambodian Government has accepted Australia’s offer to train Cambodian troops in Vietnam when both the Acting Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence say that no offer has been made and that the Cabinet had simply agreed in principle to discuss the training of Cambodians, subject to suitable arrangements? [More…]

• We will discover that in the net position the American contribution to overseas defence and wars was substantial enough to outweigh any gain that country might have received by being a powerful industrial economy in times of war. [More…]

• I wish to mention to honourable senators that this day being 11th November, at 11 o’clock this morning I shall invite honourable senators to stand with me in remembrance of those who have fallen in the defence of their country. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether there are more than 25 American bases sited in Australia and in Australian territories? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Air or to the Leader of the Government who represents the Minister for Defence, whichever is appropriate. [More…]

• Recently Mr Packard was out here and the Department of Defence and the Department of Air had discussions with him. [More…]

• My defence rests on that document. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I support what the Minister representing the Minister for Defence has said. [More…]

• At present a defence committee, on which the Department of Defence, the Department of Supply, the Department of the Army and the Depart- ment of Air are represented is studying the project in depth and the requirements that the Service might have. [More…]

• I think the most recent retreat, which was epoch-making, was when the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Whitlam, put his leadership on the line in defence of Mr Harradine, who said that there were in the Labor Party friends of the Communists who were likely to influence Labor Party policy. [More…]

• I present an interim report from the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]

• Proposed expenditure - Civil Defence, $8 1 2,000 - agreed to. [More…]

• We now proceed to group A covering the Departments of Health, the Parliament, the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Treasury, including a consideration of the Advance to the Treasurer, and Defence. [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• Mr President, I ask for leave of the Senate to incorporate in Hansard a ministerial statement that was made in another place by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) yesterday relating to the training of Vietnamese and Cambodians in Vietnam. [More…]

• In contradistinction to his, I recommend the serious consideration of the defence propositions which are contained in the early pari of the report. [More…]

• The report identifies substantial trade, aid, political and defence interests in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I do not want to rake over the old question as to whether our Party should be involved on the Joint Committee but we have in the Senate an all-party committee on foreign affairs and defence which has wider powers. [More…]

• It does not have the circumscriptions that the Joint Committee has and I, for one, would suggest that real consideration be given by the Senate to enlarging the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Government is conscious: of the need for a continuous watch on developments and, indeed, has already taken certain steps to improve our defence posture in the area. [More…]

• I cannot recall any statement made by either myself or the Minister for Defence on this matter, but 1 draw the honourable senator’s attention to a joint statement made by the Minister for Defence and myself in which we indicated that the Commonwealth Government had decided to continue with the Fill contract at a price of $US344m. [More…]

• I refer to the contracts held by the Australian Government for the purchase of the defence system known as the F111 aircraft. [More…]

• If the honourable senator looks at the joint statement made by the Minister for Defence and myself on 16th December last following the Government’s decision to go ahead with the procurement of the Fill aircraft, he will note that we said that a modern reconnaissance capability was still a requirement to be considered but that investigations were not yet completed and the RAAF was not yet in a position to make a recommendation to the Government. [More…]

• There is no doubt whatever that the subject of CommonwealthState relations, and particularly financial relations, does cover almost every activity of government in this country, apart from foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• Therefore, apart from the attention given by this Parliament to matters of foreign affairs and defence, this subject is absolutely basic to the whole problem of government with which we are confronted in this Parliament and which is confronted by the whole of Government institutions in this country. [More…]

• It would be true to say that the defence science staff of the Department of Defence, in conjunction with the Royal Australian Air Force, has had talks with the United States Air Force about the possibility of a research programme being carried out in the upper atmosphere by high flying aircraft. [More…]

• Australian Defence Review [More…]

• 1 have seen a reference to the matter and, anticipating that it might be raised here, I inform the honourable senator that the matters referred to are the responsibility of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Air or the Minister representing the Minister for Defence what is the current position relating to Government and Royal Australian Air Force investigations into proposals for replacement aircraft for the RAAF and for related offset or coproduction schemes? [More…]

• The Defence Printing Establishment, Brunswick, Victoria, which provides a combined printing service to the Defence group of Departments. [More…]

• Can be give me any further information on the RAAF plan for its replacement of the Winjeel trainer, particularly as it is related to common defence needs between Australia and New Zealand and especially regarding any Australian made components? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the existing command structure justified in the light of statements made by Air Vice-Marshal G. Hartnell at a recent Australian National University Defence Seminar. [More…]

• The total amount sought in this Bill is $ 1 ,3 1 7,790,000 comprising departmental, $797,290,000; Defence Services, $495,500,000; and advance to the Treasurer. [More…]

• 35, and made under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1971, be disallowed. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate as the representative of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement concerning the progress made by the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in considering the Japan reference transmitted to it by the Senate. [More…]

• The defence rests. [More…]

• On 17th May Senator Bishop directed a question to me asking whether the report of the Department of Defence recommended a production run of 12 to 20 Project N aircraft. [More…]

• 1 can now advise that on 16th August the Minister for Defence said: [More…]

• I make available to the honourable senator a statement made by the Minister for Defence and also a statement made by the Prime Minister. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• This is the same amount announced jointly by the Minister for Defence and myself in December 1971. [More…]

• 127 and made under the Defence Act 1903-1970 be disallowed. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Here tonight he has given us his usual selfrighteous, Pharisaical defence of his own attitude. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The honourable senator’s question involves technical as well as intricate defence matters, so I ask that it be put on notice. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the Defence Report 1972. [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 1971 to 31st January 1972. [More…]

• I understand that the establishment of the war service land settlement scheme was authorised under the Commonwealth’s defence power. [More…]

• Article IV of the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty provides, inter alia, that ‘Each Party recognises that aggression by means of armed attack in the Treaty Area against any of the Parties or against any State or territory which the Parties by unanimous agreement may hereafter designate, would endanger its own peace and safety, and agrees that it will in that event act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes . [More…]

• Will the recommendations of the committee of inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund be introduced during the life of this Parliament? [More…]

• This is the responsibility of the Minister for Defence and I do not think it will do any good to ask the Minister for the Army to reply. [More…]

• I present the forty-second report of the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances concerning the retrospectivity of regulations relating to the defence Services. [More…]

• As indicated inthe 1972 Defence Report the Karinga air-dropped weapon is being developed for use against material targets and is not designed to be used against personnel, while the research work on fragmenting warheads is applicable to warheads for existing weapons. [More…]

• Are you aware that at page 6991 of today’s Senate notice paper there is listed under the Leading ‘Joint Committees of the Parliament’ the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation? [More…]

• That contingent upon the reappointment of the Legislative and General Purposes Standing Committees, there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter: [More…]

• The role of ANZUK as a result of the change in Australia’s defence establishment in South East Asia. [More…]

• I present the report and transcript of evidence from the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into Japan. [More…]

• The matter is one for the Minister for Defence, but I can say that within my own knowledge the answer is no. [More…]

• Mr President, 1 seek leave to make a statement concerning United States defence installations in Australia. [More…]

• Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Defence, Minister for the Navy. [More…]

• I became aware of this statement when Senator Bishop, the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, began to read it. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, follows the question asked yesterday by Senator Brown in respect of which the Minister said he would seek some information, ls it the Government’s continuous intention to provide Australia with a balanced and strong defence? [More…]

• ls air power considered an essential part of this defence role? [More…]

• Does the Government acknowledge that the recent announcements by the Prime Minister and by the Minister for Defence that a number of troops should remain in Singapore represents a judgment by the new Government that there is merit in their continued presence in that place? [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen a statement made by the Prime Minister at his Press conference in Djakarta on 22nd February in which he said, in relation to the Fill aircraft: ‘We have paid for them, so we might as well take them. [More…]

• Would such a move not give a welcome boost to the local aircraft manufacturing industry while at the same time increasing the national defence potential? [More…]

• Is it the approach outlined by Mr Barnard, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, or the qualified approach expounded by Senator Willesee last Thursday night; or is the policy to be decided at this week’s Caucus meeting? [More…]

• This matter was discussed fully in the other place during the debate on the motion of censure on 1st March and I refer the honourable senator to the statements made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence during that debate. [More…]

• 1 will get his answer, as the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• DEFENCE: Fill AIRCRAFT [More…]

• I take the advice of the Minister for the Media and ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• 25 of the House of Representatives relating to the appointment of a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The proposal is to establish a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Joint Committee is to consider and report upon foreign affairs and defence generally and such matters as may be referred to the Committee by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, by the Minister for Defence or by resolution of either House of the Parliament. [More…]

• The Opposition agrees to the Defence Services Homes Bill being debated provided there will be no lengthy speeches. [More…]

• I will ask the Minister for Defence to give consideration to Senator Mulvihills question. [More…]

• In October of last year the present Prime Minister and the present Minister for Defence, in a joint statement, said: [More…]

• I add that the Defence Forces Structure Committee has reported to the Minister for Defence and he will be making a statement to the Parliament next week in respect to the other matters raised by the honourable senator. [More…]

• >l wish to direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that the Minister for Defence said in Sydney last night that he was alarmed that there had not been a Government inquiry in the past 23 years into Australia’s defence needs? [More…]

• Was he saying that all past conferences, either at international or internal chiefs of staff levels, have ignored Australia’s defence needs and have in fact been a waste of time? [More…]

• I shall ask the Minister for Defence to give as quickly as possible the information which Senator Withers requests. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence: In view of the discrepancies concerning the number of naval persons not wishing to sail on HMAS Sydney’ if it is to take part in the protest against the French nuclear tests, will the Minister put down a statement listing the numbers and the designations of those involved and the reasons for their not participating in the operation? [More…]

• I will put the honourable senator’s suggestions to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• by leave - The statement I am about to make was made in the other House this day by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, the Honourable L. H. Barnard. [More…]

• Copies of this statement already have been distributed to hon’ ourable senators and they will understand that when I speak in the first person I am referring to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• 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…]

• I think that I should direct it to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question without notice to the Minister representing the Minister for surrender- I beg your pardon- the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate whether it is a fact that the civil defence forces - [More…]

• It was the disposition of the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation - Senator Devitt can correct me if I am wrong - that under the projected scheme no person should be at a detriment. [More…]

• Will the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence inform the Senate what cuts have been made to flying training hours for the Royal Australian Air Force and, in particular, which units are to be affected? [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement on Australian defence. [More…]

• Various representations have been made to the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, about this matter. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As the honourable senator knows, when the Senate resumes after the next adjournment, we shall debate the Defence (Re-establishment) Bill. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• I ask the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence whether it is a fact that Navy patrols of Australia ‘s north-west coastline have been suspended or reduced as a result of defence expenditure cuts. [More…]

• If one of the important arms of our Defence Services has been so restricted in the so-called cause of Government economy, why is it that the Federal Treasurer has been allowed an RAAF VIP aircraft to fly to Nairobi, a trip which will take some 1 6 hours flying time each way and will cost about $20,000, when he could have gone by commercial aircraft. [More…]

• I also draw the honourable senator’s attention to the statement made by the Minister for Defence on 22 August 1973 that a Royal Australian Air Force detachment of some 1,500 and our Mirages will remain at Butterworth, at least until we review the situation again in 1975 and that we shall continue to maintain a small naval presence in the area. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• I ask: In view of that statement is the Government reviewing its defence programming in relation to which the Minister for Defence stated that there would be no foreseeable threat of war for IS years. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from Senator McManus requesting his discharge from attendance on the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and nominating Senator Kane to be a member of that Committee. [More…]

• That Senator McManus be discharged from attendance on the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and that Senator Kane be appointed a member of the Committee. [More…]

• I will refer the question to the Minister for Defence for a full answer. [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 1 February 1972 to 31 January 1973. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Before I put the adjournment question I inform the Senate that I have received letters from Senator Gietzelt and Senator Wheeldon requesting their discharge from attendance on the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate nominating Senator Devitt and Senator Poke to be members of that Committee. [More…]

• That Senator Gietzelt and Senator Wheeldon be discharged from attendance on the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and that Senator Devitt and Senator Poke be appointed members of that Committee. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

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• For the information of honourable senators, I present the Defence Report 1973. [More…]

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• Following the Government’s decision on the drastic and dangerous cutback in defence Services, will the further 20 per cent reduction in flying time for the Royal Australian Air Force also apply to RAAF VIP aircraft? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

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• I think it should be referred to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I do not think that the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) serves himself or his office well by the defence of it which he has raised today. [More…]

• I will take up the matter with the Minister for Defence immediately and let the honourable senator know what is the position. [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…]

• Pursuant to section 14 ( 1) of Defence Forces Retirement 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…]

• I wish to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is he able to confirm that, now that the Army, Navy and Air Force have been combined under one Minister for Defence- and we would have expected as a result some efficiencies- in fact the number of officers in the Department of Defence who are receiving more than $17,000 a year and who are becoming well known as ‘fat cats’ has increased at a time when defence expenditure has decreased? [More…]

• If the Minister is able to confirm this increase in the number of’fat cats’, can he say just what efficiencies have resulted from gathering all the defence departments under one head? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -On 8 November 1973, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Withers) asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question without notice regarding the tabling of manifests for Royal Australian Air Force VIP aircraft from the day details were last given until the end of October 1973. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The the continued run-down of the Australian defence force, the erosion of our defence capacity and the deliberate understatement of Australia’s vulnerability in a volatile world is detrimental to the long-term security and well-being of the Australian people. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Was the decision to scrap the project opposed by the committee which was charged with advising the Minister on the development of the defence forces as a whole because such a decision to scrap the project would lead to a weakening of Australia’s defence capacity? [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for Defence recall my question asked on 6 December last relating to the long delay in introducing a uniform disciplinary code for the Services? [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our Defence Forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies, [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether he can enlighten the Senate on the method by which we now engage in defence components procurement? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the 1 973 working party on the Defence Force Disciplinary Code and seek leave to make a short statement. [More…]

• I am aware also that the Government of the People’s Republic of China holds the view that the Paracel Islands are a part of its territory, and that it has accused the Republic of VietNam of attempting armed occupation of the islands and has stated that China was obliged to take action in its own defence. [More…]

• I note that the actions and attitudes of the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Viet-Nam are explained by them as being in defence of what they hold to be part of their territory. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, concerns the request by Russia to establish a defence intelligence monitoring system in Australia, which system will be masquerading as a scientific facility. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• What stage have negotiations reached between the Department of Defence and the New South Wales Government on the release of Sydney Harbour foreshore land for a national park. [More…]

• Will the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence confirm that the Government has decided to purchase 2 patrol frigates from the United States of America at a cost of $ 1 87m? [More…]

• If he confirms this, has the Government broken a promise given by the Minister for Defence in the House of Representatives on 23 May last? [More…]

• Did the Minister for Defence say on that date that, whatever decision was reached by the Government on the DDL or alternative project for the Australian Navy, he would give an unequivocal assurance that the destroyers would be built in Australia at the Williamstown dockyard? [More…]

• It is a defence to a prosecution for such offence that the defendant proves that the seaweed was obtained from waters outside the Territory. [More…]

• Senator BISHOP (South Australia-Minister for Repatriation and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence)- I move: [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform me whether it is the intention to continue training Indonesian servicemen in interrogation methods at Woodside army camp? [More…]

• It is a serious matter because obviously policemen who are at present on duty in Cyprus are subject to the same sort of hazards as those to which members of the defence forces would be subject when doing similar duties. [More…]

• It is understood that the New Zealand Minister for Defence has announced that an investigation into the allegations will be prosecuted vigorously. [More…]

• I preface my question, which I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, by referring to reports from New Zealand that defence authorities may investigate allegations that 4 New Zealand soldiers shot dead 6 American soldiers found torturing Vietnamese civilians. [More…]

• In addressing my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence I refer to the statement appearing in today’s ‘Australian Financial Review’ indicating that Woomera is headed for mothballs. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform the Senate whether there are any improvements or healthier trends in defence forces recruitment figures? [More…]

• Environment and Conservation; Social Security; Immigration (to be re-allocated); Overseas Trade; Primary Industry; Attorney General; Aboriginal Affairs; Capital Territory; Defence; Northern Development; Manufacturing Industry; Education (awaiting delivery). [More…]

• In that statement the Prime Minister gave a number of examples of such restraint including: The intention to keep the Budget allocation for the Post Office in 1974-75 to not more than the actual amount allocated in 1973-74; the intention to hold expenditure on civil aviation capital works in 1974-75 at not more than the level of expenditure in 1973-74; the abolition of the petroleum prices subsidy scheme with effect from I August 1 974; a ceiling increase of 1 per cent in 1 974-75 in total operative staff employed under the Public Service Act; further economies in civilian manpower in the Department of Defence in 1974-75; a reduced production program for light observation helicopters; and a reduction in road grants below that recommended by the Bureau of Roads. [More…]

• The Regulations and Ordinances Committee has considered the situation where, in respect of a defence, it is necessary to prove that ali reasonable precautions were taken and all due diligence was exercised. [More…]

• I submit that it is a reasonable defence if a person shows that he took reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to avoid the contravention. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform the Senate whether it is a fact that the Australian Government plans to drop the prefix ‘HMAS’ from the names of our warships? [More…]

• Is the Government not interested in maintaining our defence factories in production now that less money is being spent on defence hardware? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the Interim Annual Report of the Director of Defence Service Homes for the year ended 30 June 1974. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

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• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence outline the Government’s plans in relation to the probable increase of our current complement of patrol boats in view of additional responsibilities in northern waters? [More…]

• In relation to the question of Tasmania, I understand that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) issued a statement in Tasmania related to the sorts of examinations to which Senator Rae referred. [More…]

• I rise to say a few words in defence of Mr McLeay who cannot defend himself in this chamber. [More…]

• During his absence the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, is acting as Minister for Education. [More…]

• Can he inform the Senate whether there is a policy ensuring that employees of sensitive defence and security establishments are Australian citizens? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the present surplus in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• How many Air Force personnel, other than officers, who left the Air Force in 1972 and 1973, were eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme. [More…]

• How many Air Force personnel, other than officers, who re-engaged, would have been eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme if they had not re-engaged. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) How many Air Force officers who resigned in 1973 and 1974 were (a) eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme; (b) ineligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme; and (c) over 38 years of age. [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male Air Force Officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 31 July 1974, (a) 134 were eligible for a pension under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme; (b) 140 were ineligible for a pension under the Scheme; and (c) 144 were above 38 years of age. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• How many Naval Officers who resigned in 1973 and 1974 were (a) eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme; (b) ineligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme; and (c) above 38 years of age. [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male Naval Officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 31 July 1974, (a) 55 were eligible for a pension under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme; (b) 45 were ineligible for a pension under the Scheme; and (c) 53 were above 38 years of age. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• How many Army Officers who resigned in 1973 and 1974 were (a) eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme; (b) ineligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme; and (c) above 38 years of age. [More…]

• 1 ) Of the male Army officers who resigned in the period 1 January 1973 to 31 July 1974, (a) 290 were eligible for a pension under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme; (b) 127 were ineligible for a pension under the Scheme; and (c) 308 were above 38 years of age. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) How many Army personnel, other than officers, who left the Army in 1972 and 1973, were eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme. [More…]

• How many Army personnel, other than officers, who re-engaged, would have been eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme if they had not re-engaged. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) How many Naval personnel, other than officers, who left the Navy in 1972 and 1973, were eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme. [More…]

• How many Naval personnel, other than officers, who re-engaged, would have been eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme if they had not re-engaged. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence been drawn to an article in a Western Australian newspaper which stated that Derby airport will be upgraded to allow full operational use by the Royal Australian Air Force? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• I would refer the honourable senator to pages 27 to 34 of the speech on the Australian Defence Estimates 1974-75 tabled in the House of Representatives by my colleague, the Minister for Defence, on Thursday, 24 October. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Defence say what stage the replacement program for the Winjeel, the present Royal Australian Air Force basic training aircraft, has reached? [More…]

• They are on record and I have already discussed them with the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• I support what the honourable .senator says in respect of the representation from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Defence Research and Development Establishment -Administrative [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What zoning regulations control the land surrounding the Department of Defence land in Avoca Street, Randwick, New South Wales. [More…]

• Would any high rise development by the Department of Defence be out of character with the surrounding area. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Is 50 acres of land in Avoca Street, Randwick, New South Wales, held by the Department of Defence for Defence purposes. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• That Judicial discretion which allows fault in Property Settlement, the usual accusations necessitating defence in custody and access matters, as well as (a) and (b) above, will result in very much the same litigation in ancillary matters as under the present iniquitous Matrimonial Causes Act. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter [More…]

• I present the second report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board dealing with the administration of Part III of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act for the period, July 1973 to 30 June 1974. [More…]

• 1 ) What are the current Ministerial directions under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether the pay and conditions of the Services are as attractive as the Minister has stated on many occasions. [More…]

• It deals with a situation where some cases have commenced before 3 December and the defence of illegality has been raised. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Defence admit that the Royal Australian Air Force did in fact work out flight plans for the route proposed to be used by the Prime Minister in case the Prime Minister decided in his wisdom to use the Air Force BAC 1 1 1 s for his round the world trip? [More…]

• -My question which I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence refers to the Omega question. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Employees of sensitive defence establishments are screened to a level appropriate to the required security level of the establishment. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Postmaster-General who represents the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -I think the Minister for Defence said recently that the future of Woomera depends on what arises out of talks with the British. [More…]

• These factors include possible conflict between military and civil air space requirements and possible restrictions on the defence use of the area because of the issues that I have mentioned concerning Senator Cavanagh ‘s Department and the people with whom he is concerned. [More…]

• The completion date of the study cannot be stated precisely, but it is expected that the Minister for Defence will be able to make a firm decision on acquisition in about the middle of the year. [More…]

• -The Minister representing the Minister for Defence will recall my question of March last year relating to a proposal to establish a major defence field training base on Yampi Sound in Western Australia. [More…]

• The Opposition accepts that further amendment but in so doing I refer the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) to my speech at the second reading stage where I pointed out that the power existed under the Defence Service Homes Act and also mentioned that as far as I knew it was never used. [More…]

• Under the Defence Service Homes Act the Commonwealth has always respected the laws of the States and of local government. [More…]

• It was never the intention to over-ride the laws of the States and Territories but in the Defence Service Homes Act the Commonwealth has a power which we think it is important to retain and which has operated successfully. [More…]

• Cowers, the Corporation shall, except as otherwise provided y this Act or the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1975, comply with all laws of the States and Territories in which it operates. [More…]

• The only difference between that and his amendment is the insertion of the words: or the Defence Services Homes Act 1 9 1 8- 1 97 5 . [More…]

• Again the Government seeks to preserve the rights that it has under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1975, under which the Australian Government has this power. [More…]

• I am advised by my officers that the only time under the Defence Service Homes Act that this power has ever been used to take Crown land was in the case of acquisition at the request of the State for some technical conveyancing purpose involving some question of title. [More…]

• But as t he power is now in the Defence Service Homes Act it should be retained. [More…]

• The Corporation should not limit the power we have under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]

• This section shall not affect the power of the Corporation to acquire land for the purposes of the Defence Service Homes Act 1 9 1 8- 1 975. [More…]

• Leave out all words after ‘shall’, insert, ‘except as otherwise provided by this Act or the Defence Services Homes Act 1 9 1 8- 1 975, comply with all laws of the States and Territories in which it operates ‘. [More…]

• The Attorney-General has given an undertaking that he will amend the prosecution procedures in relation to offences under the Motor Traffic Ordinance so that a person charged with an offence will have an opportunity to put in writing, in conjunction with the plea by post system which already operates, any defence which he considers that he may have, and the prosecuting authorities will be obliged to take any such statement into account before proceeding with a prosecution. [More…]

• The exchange of notes followed discussions the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, had in Washington in January 1974 with the United States Secretary of Defence, Mr Schlesinger. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present a statement by the Minister for Defence on the appointment of a Development Council for the Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Construction: Can he indicate the earliest date on which applications approved for loans under the provisions of the defence homes legislation will be serviced by the Department? [More…]

• The present position in relation to applications for Defence Service Homes loans is that as a result of a heavy demand for loans, the provision of $1 ISm made in the Budget has been extended except for certain moneys which must be retained to meet progress payments to building contractors. [More…]

• 6 which is now before the Senate for the allocation of a further $15m for Defence Service Homes bringing the total allocation for 1974-75 to $130m. [More…]

• As the honourable senator will be aware significant improvements have been made to the Defence Service Homes scheme in relation to eligibility for loans, transfer of loans and the maximum amount of loans. [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate if the Defence Service Homes Division has funds on hand, or is it a fact that the Division is out of funds and is awaiting a new appropriation. [More…]

• Nevertheless, allowing for the fact that there is a joint responsibility all I can do is refer the matter to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who is the Federal Minister responsible for liaising with the Tasmanian Government. [More…]

• Has the Commonwealth been asked to provide one from either the defence forces or elsewhere within its resources? [More…]

• I take it that the Department of Defence, which runs this facility, ensures that the spirit of this agreement is being carried out. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a small number of totally and permanently incapacitated repatriation pensioners are ineligible for defence service home loans because they did not serve in a theatre of war? [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- [More…]

• The procurement policies of the defence forces in the context of what is publicly known as the strategic assessment. [More…]

• Senate by the Minister for Repatriation and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence on 6 March 1973. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The President of the Superannuation Board is, ex officio, Chairman of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority and of the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]

• Amongst other things, the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill 1975 provides for the Commissioner for Superannuation, a position provided for in the Superannuation Bill 1975, to replace the President as Chairman of the Authority and of the Board from 1 July 1975. [More…]

• The Bill also changes references in the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-74 to the Superannuation Act 1922-1974 or its provisions, and to the Superannuation Act 1975 or its provisions. [More…]

• Because the Superannuation Bill has not been passed, provisions in the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-74 so changed would become inoperative from 1 July. [More…]

• For these reasons consideration of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill 1975 should also be postponed. [More…]

• That consideration of the Superannuation Act Amendment Bill 1975 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill 1975 be postponed until the next day of sitting. [More…]

• I have not seen the brochure to which Senator Grimes referred but I will look into the matter and, if necessary, talk to the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) about it. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence tell me whether there have been any developments in relation to the future of the Woomera rocket range in South Australia? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question which arises out of a number of inquiries that have been made of me as a former member of the Joint Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation concerning taxation on commuted parts of the retirement benefit under the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of rumours circulating within the defence force that the Government intends to abolish or modify the current commutation provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act? [More…]

• In view of the concern with which serving members of the defence force view such allegations, will the Minister inform the Senate of the true position in this matter? [More…]

• Commutation has been a feature of the defence forces retirement benefits scheme since 1948. [More…]

• At present an examination of the commutation provisions and other areas of the benefit scheme is being undertaken at the direction of the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee, which includes as members the chiefs of the personnel sections of the Services. [More…]

• Should any recommendations concerning the overall conditions of the DFRB scheme be made, the Minister for Defence and the Government would consider them. [More…]

• 1 ) That the Bill be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for consideration and report upon the clauses of the Bill; and [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, and I refer to the decision of the Government to disband the Army school cadet corps. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Can he inform the Senate of the current position in relation to the proposed purchase by the Australian Army of Nomad aircraft? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the interim report on the operation of the defence service homes insurance scheme for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]

• Young to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in place of Mr J. M. Berinson. [More…]

• 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 1 975. [More…]

• Before the chair is the Bill to authorise the raising and spending of moneys for defence purposes and it covers matters such as the application of moneys borrowed. [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 ‘. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Can he inform me of the current position in regard to the proposal to establish a base in north-west Australia? [More…]

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

• I emphasise that the Bills seek appropriations for the payment of moneys in respect of a wide variety of expenditures including: Salary and wages for public servants and other employees of departments and of statutory authorities; student assistance programs; health services, including for the operation of 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…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: How seriously damaged has our defence capacity been by the high rate of resignation of our senior and middleorder officers whose invaluable experience will be impossible to replace in the short term? [More…]

• I will seek the information from my colleague, the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask whether the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence has been drawn to a report in the Brisbane Courier-Mail of 30 October 1975, alleging that Lavarack Barracks at Townsville is to close as a result of many senior officers resigning. [More…]

• If it is not, what is the future of the defence force in the area? [More…]

• -I should like to direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Owing to the importance of the Defence Research Group at Salisbury and the need to preserve this expert unit, what does the Government intend doing to ensure that this important section of the defence establishment is kept occupied and intact? [More…]

• If there is insufficient defence work for these scientists, will the Minister investigate the possibility of using this source of expertise for research and development into domestic scientific matters such as solar energy and wind energy? [More…]

• -I do not think even my colleague Senator Jessop would expect me as Minister representing the Minister for Defence to be able to answer that question in the detail in which he would like it answered. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the following matter: [More…]

• I undertook to get an answer for him in detail from the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The deletion of the sub-paragraph to which I have referred would involve the deletion of the Senate Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that because there is a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which had 2 1 members in the last Parliament and in the Parliament before that, inevitably there will be duplication. [More…]

• I therefore move for the deletion of the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I am told- of course, this does not resolve the issue- that in times past the Fraser Island Defence Organisation has made similar complaints which have been investigated. [More…]

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

• I cannot say what is the intention of the Department of Defence or- more accurately in our system of governmentwhat is the intention of the Minister for Defence or of the Government. [More…]

• There was some speculation in the Press this week about letters which allegedly had passed between the Minister for Defence and myself, and myself and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• All I say is that I have never sent any letter to the Minister for Defence on this subject. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• How many hours of work did Defence personnel contribute to the meeting. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The National Disasters Organisation is an established division within the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Operation of the Commonwealth Government program to meet civil defence emergencies affecting civilian population; [More…]

• Development and implementation of plans to cope with natural disasters and civil defence emergencies in Commonwealth Territories and special areas; [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• There has been no reduction in flying hours for Defence Force pilots since those ordered in August 1973. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Have RAAF, Army and Navy pilots been forced to reduce flying hours because of expenditure cutbacks in the Department of Defence? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• These roles are relevant to the defence of Australia but will vary in application and emphasis according to circumstances. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Government given any consideration to the establishment of a Special Force Directorate within the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Will the Minister make a statement to the Parliament on the role of special forces in the continental defence of Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has advised me that there has been no change to the guidelines relating to the use of VIP aircraft since 1 1 November 1975. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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 1 976 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…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) Some Defence installations throughout Australia employ security companies. [More…]

• Private security company employees are the subject of scrutiny checks wherever they have a requirement to enter Defence areas involving classified material. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Will the Minister verify that the opinions of the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs are as stated in the article by a Mr Brian Toohey published in the Financial Review on 12 March 1976. [More…]

• Are the Government’s proposals for future defence expenditure and more assistance to American forces contrary to the Departmental advice. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) Dealings between the Government and its advisers are private and confidential. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Are private security companies employed to protect Defence installations throughout Australia. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• What was the expenditure by the Department of Defence for the financial years 1973-74, 1974-75 and what is the anticipated expenditure for 1975-76 in each of the States and Territories. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators 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…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to increase pension benefits payable under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1975 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1975. [More…]

• However, as honourable senators will appreciate, it was not until recently that the Government reached decisions on the new Commonwealth Public Service superannuation scheme thus allowing the Government a clear basis upon which to proceed with the development of a generally comparable updating procedure for defence force pensions. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Purchase of Liquor: Defence Establishments (Question No. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I shall seek the information from the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a review of the Defence Service Homes scheme: Its nature, history and operations. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Development of Navy Supply Centre and Army Workshop Facility at Defence Establishment, Zetland, New South Wales. [More…]

• -I shall ask my colleague the Minister for Defence if he will get it up as soon as he can, as I understand the honourable senator is interested in this matter. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -I shall certainly pass that question on to the Minister for Defence and ask him to take into consideration the matter raised by the honourable senator. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Do estimated defence outlays for 1976-77, shown in the Table on page 29 of Statement 3 attached to Budget Paper No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My colleague in the other place, the Minister for Defence, has already made a statement on that matter. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The report by Mr D. O. Hay (Defence Forces Ombudsman) who was appointed by the Government to review the delivery of services financed by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs was received by the Government on 4 [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The nature of the shortages is such that there is no significant effect on the defence preparedness of (a) the Australian Army, (b) the Royal Australian Navy, and (c) the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Have austerity measures within the Department of Defence caused shortages of about 300 items of ammunition and equipment normally readily available, as is suggested in an article in the Sunday Telegraph dated 22 August 1976. [More…]

• II so, what effect are these shortages having on the defence preparedness and functioning of (a) the Australian Army, (b) the Royal Australian Navy, and (c) the Royal Australian Ait Force. [More…]

• I ask for leave to make a statement on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), concerning the establishment of a Defence Force Academy. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In a letter to me on 4 June 1976 the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, wrote: [More…]

• As I indicated during the debate in the House of Representatives on the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1 976 - [More…]

• I have issued instructions to my Department to prepare appropriate amendments to the Defence Force retirement benefits legislation so that in future members of the Services schemes are placed in comparable circumstances with members of the Commonwealth Public Service schemes where a recipient spouse remarries. [More…]

• I also notice that the attempt became somewhat submerged as England’s age old built-in defence mechanism rather engulfed them. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a White Paper on Australian Defence. [More…]

• Proposed expenditures- Rent (Defence), $29,300,000; Acquisition of Sites and Buildings (Defence), $4,966,000-passed [More…]

• -I am afraid I have not read the Defence White Paper with the particularity with which my honourable friend and colleague has read it. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister to paragraph 8 on page 4 of the Defence statement where Taiwan is referred to as the Territory of Taiwan. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Defence: Technical Co-operation Program (Question No. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) Defence Force Retirement Death Benefits Authority; Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board; Administrative Review Tribunal Established Under Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973; Australian Services Canteens Organisation; Australian Services Council for Canteens; Australian Services Canteens Organisation Board of Management. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Which statutory authorities come under the control of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Statutory Authorities under control of Department of Defence (Question No. [More…]

• Buildings, works, furniture and fittings (Defence) [More…]

• Repairs and maintenance (Defence) [More…]

• Will the Minister remember the sacrifice made by the Timorese people in the defence of Australia? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence explain to the Parliament what is Operation Whistlestop? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the projected staff ceiling for the Department of Defence as at 30 June 1977. [More…]

• I present the report and transcript of evidence from the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into Australia and the Indian Ocean region. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• It would seem to me that the Defence Service Homes Act, the parent Act, confers certain powers on the Corporation. [More…]

• What are the functions conferred on the Corporation by the Defence Service Homes Act? [More…]

• We assume that the Corporation has only whatever powers are conferred by the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]

• I think that the answer to the honourable senator’s question is to be found in clauses 13 to 16 under the heading: ‘Part Ill-Amendments of the Defence Service Homes Act’. [More…]

• It will be found that this provides a tie-in between the creation of a new corporation and the existing Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]

• That Act outlines the powers, functions and policies of the defence service homes scheme which in future will be conducted by the Defence Service Homes Corporation created by clause 8 of the Bill that we are now considering. [More…]

• So the answer is that one has to look at the Defence Service Homes Act to find all the powers, functions, policies and so on which are going to be administered by the new Corporation. [More…]

• I appreciate that to some extent the Bill is a misnomer in that, as Senator Grimes said, one would probably expect to find one Bill abolishing the Housing Corporation and another Bill setting up the new Corporation, to be known as the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]

• For the purposes of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 there shall be a body corporate under the name ‘Defence Service Homes Corporation’. [More…]

• I think honourable senators would find that if there were a completely fresh Bill to establish a Defence Service Homes Corporation it would not provide any differently. [More…]

• Until the establishment of the Australian Housing Corporation the defence service homes scheme had always been conducted by a person known as the Director of Defence Service Homes or Director of War Service Homes. [More…]

• Clause 8 (Defence Service Homes Corporation). [More…]

• -A11 I can inform the honourable senator is that my colleague, the Minister for Defence, will be raising this matter with his colleagues to determine how these aircraft can best and most speedily be replaced. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 147 of the Defence Act 1903 I present the annual report of the Royal Military College of Australia covering the period from 1 February 1975 to 31 January 1976. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Total civilian employment in the Department of Defence is set out in the table below: [More…]

• -I shall have to refer that question to my colleague the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) Since 1 1 November 1975 the only officers of the defence forces who have left the Governor-General’s staff are those whose normal postings have been completed. [More…]

• 1 ) What is (a) the name, (b) designation, and (c) salary and entitlements of each defence force officer who, since 1 1 November 1975, has departed from the Governor-General’s personal staff. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the Defence Report 1976. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: (1)and(2)No. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) I have no knowledge of any such operation. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Honourable senators, at the conclusion of his speech, the Leader of the Opposition, Senator Wriedt, moved that the paper under debate be referred to the Joint Committee on Defence and Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to amend the Defence Act by changing the title of the instructions issued by the Chief of the Air Staff under section 9a of that Act from ‘Defence Instructions (Air)’ to ‘Defence Instructions (Air Force)’. [More…]

• The Bill provides that Defence Instructions (Air) which are in force immediately before the amendments come into operation are to be preserved and deemed to be Defence Instructions (Air Force). [More…]

• The Bill also makes routine amendments of a drafting nature to the Defence Act. [More…]

• I would expect that the matter would be properly referred to my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• I will draw the attention of the Munster for Defence (Mr Killen) to the remarks she has made and I thank her for her support of the Bill. [More…]

• The figures do not include dwellings built or being built for occupancy by serving members of the Defence Forces under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement (Servicemen): [More…]

• I table a statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) concerning appointments to the defence forces. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In view of President Carter’s announcement last night that he intends to seek demilitarisation of the Indian Ocean, will the Government now reconsider its strategic assessment of defence requirements in the Indian Ocean in the light of the recently prepared White Paper on defence? [More…]

• -I report to the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) nominating senators to be members of the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees as follows: Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee- Senator Button, Senator Devitt and Senator James McClelland; Education and the Arts Committee- Senator Button, Senator Robertson and Senator Ryan; Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee- Senator Mcintosh, Senator Primmer and Senator Sibraa; National Resources Committee- Senator McAuliffe, Senator McLaren and Senator Robertson; Science and the Environment CommitteeSenator Colston, Senator Melzer and Senator Mulvihill; Social Welfare CommitteeSenator Brown, Senator Grimes and Senator Melzer; Trade and Commerce CommitteeSenator Cameron, Senator Coleman and Senator Walsh. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it the intention of the Government to retrench all or most civilian employees at the Edinburgh air base in Adelaide by June of next year? [More…]

• in reply- I thank Senator Georges and the Opposition for their support of the Defence Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• -The Defence Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• The second reading speech which was delivered by the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) indicates that the purpose of the 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…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]

• Does the Defence Department intend to ground the helicopters in question, pending results of an inquiry. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The defence program includes the acquisition of an underway replenishment ship to enter service when the fleet oiler HMAS Supply retires in about 1980. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• Has electronic surveillance equipment been found in the Canberra offices of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) In what trades have apprentices been employed in the Department of Defence since 1 July 1970. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The trades in which apprentices have been employed in the Department of Defence since 1 July 1970 are: blacksmith, boilermaker/welder, carpenter and joiner, coppersmith, electrician, electrician fitter, electrical mechanic, electro-plater, engine smith, fitter machinist, fitter and turner, french polisher, instrument maker, joiner and moulder, optical finisher, painter decorator, painter signwriter, pattern maker, plumber, radio electronics, radio tradesman, refrigeration mechanic/serviceman, sail maker, sheet metal worker, shipwright/boat builder, upholsterer, welder, wood machinist. [More…]

• -There is a defence ordinance? [More…]

• This Committee of officials was established to help co-ordinate New Zealand’s activities in various fields as they affect their Pacific island neighbours, particularly in fields such as trade, economic co-operation, immigration, health, defence and transport. [More…]

• Proposed expenditure- Department of Defence, $67,503,000-passed [More…]

• Proposed expenditure- Rent (Defence), $800,000-passed. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• At 30 June 1972 the Defence group of departments comprised the Departments of Defence, Navy, Army. [More…]

• I ) and (2) The number of Third Division Public Servants in Clerical/Administrative designations in the Defence group of departments at 30 June 1972 and the Department of Defence at 30 June 1 976 were as follows: [More…]

• Honourable senators 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…]

• I refer to allegations made in the May issue of the Pacific Defence Reporter that the Department of Transport recently spent $10,000 to have a second examiner of airmen endorsed on the Learjets I ask the Minister: How many Learjets are on the Australian aircraft register and how many pilots are endorsed on this aircraft? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), (2 ) and (3 ) The principal Australian contractors have been: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (a)- [More…]

• I have noted with interest a story on the front page of the Australian newspaper of 6 September 1977 concerning a confidential’ report to the Minister for Defence, the Hon. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 7 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 September 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 June 1977: [More…]

• -I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move that the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence: [More…]

• by leave-I present a ministerial statement entitled ‘Defence Review’ which was made in the House of Representatives today by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 September 1977: [More…]

• -I seek leave to move a motion to amend the terms of reference of a matter currently before the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• On the face of it, it was sent by the Commandant to the Department of Defence in March 1977. [More…]

• Senator WITHERS (Western AustraliaLeader of the Government in the Senate)- by leave- I assure honourable senators that I shall make urgent inquiries of my colleague in the other place, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), on the basis that I would like to inform the Senate tomorrow why this delay has occurred. [More…]

• -( Western AustraliaLeader of the Government in the Senate)- 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 1976 to 31 January 1977. [More…]

• I rise to support the recommendations and the conclusions of the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which investigated the Middle East situation. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act 1965 em- ployers, including the Crown, were not required to count sick l eave accrued in respect of National Service. [More…]

• Are national servicemen specifically excluded, under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act 1965, from the provisions that permit servicemen to accrue sick leave for the purpose offulfilling Australian Public Service sick leave conditions. [More…]

• Rent (Defence) [More…]

• Acquisition of Sites and Buildings (Defence) [More…]

• Furniture and Fittings (Defence) [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the Defence Report 1977. [More…]

• I have received messages from the House of Representatives requesting the concurrence of the Senate in the appointment of a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, a Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, and a Joint Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House. [More…]

• Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence [More…]

• 6 of the House of Representatives relating to the appointment of a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Admittedly, the latter Department, the Minister for which I represent, is involved but the matters raised should also be referred to the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Transport. [More…]

• Everyone, including the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), believes the surveillance to be totally inadequate. [More…]

• I do not say that by way of a defence or an argument that I should not pursue what Senator Mulvihill seeks. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 February 1978: [More…]

• That the amendment of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations, contained in Statutory Rules 1978 No. [More…]

• 3, and made under the Defence Act 1903, the Naval Defence Act 1910 and the Air Force Act 1 923, be disallowed. [More…]

• 278 and made under the Naval Defence Act 1910; and [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 7 March 1 978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I rise to deal with some comments made by Senator Colston in relation to the premiums charged for the defence service homes insurance scheme in Queensland. [More…]

• The decision to charge a loading on the insurance premium for defence service homes in [More…]

• The Defence Service Homes insurance scheme has been in operation for nearly 60 years. [More…]

• I bring up the 60th report of the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances relating to the amendment of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations contained in statutory rule 1978 No. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services. [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and refer to the question I asked yesterday about the establishment of a United States defence satellite communications system in the north of Western Australia. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has given me advice- unfortunately it was not the Minister for Defence whose advice I was working from yesterdayabout a facility at North-West Cape. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]

• How many civilians are employed by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• Is the station to which I refer to be used for naval communications or wider communications in the defence area? [More…]

• -I do not know whether the Minister for Defence has made an announcement on this matter. [More…]

• Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in the Ukraine are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom-minded Australian. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Has the Cabinet, as reported in the newspapers last week, made a decision to approve the upgrading of the satellite communications facility at North West Cape? [More…]

• The first notice of motion relates to some naval financial and air force regulations which conferred upon the Minister for Defence a discretion to determine certain allowances of members of the Defence Force. [More…]

• I have now received from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) a letter in which he gives an undertaking that he will amend the regulations so as to remove the Minister’s discretion and to make the operation of the regulations objective. [More…]

• The second notice of motion relates to an amendment of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations. [More…]

• I have now received from the Minister for Defence a letter in which he gives an undertaking that he will repeal this amendment of the regulations. [More…]

• I thank the Minister for Defence for acceding to the Committee ‘s views in these two matters. [More…]

• Will the Government devise the best system to ensure that records are kept on people only where reasonable grounds exist for believing they would: (a) be a threat to the defence security of the Commonwealth; (b) attempt the overthrow by force or violence of a constitutionally established Government; or (c) be a danger to any overseas VIP personnel. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Is he forecasting further legislation being introduced by the Commonwealth Government under the commerce power, the defence power, or one of the other heads of power to which he has referred? [More…]

• I ask my question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I rose at this time to support and congratulate my colleague on what I believed to be a very significant speech in defence of the Senate. [More…]

• I notice that the Bill is concerned with arranging for extra finance for the defence forces. [More…]

• I should like to be assured that none of the finance for the defence forces provided in this Bill will flow in that direction. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 April 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The estimated cost of building the proposed new Defence Force Academy is $49m in February 1977 prices. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) What is the estimated cost of the proposed new Defence Force Academy. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognizes the period of service only and embraces also full time as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services: [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [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 31 January 1978. [More…]

• I will refer the question to the Minister for Defence and endeavour to obtain an early answer for the honourable senator. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1978: [More…]

• I will also refer that question to the Minister for Defence and endeavour to obtain an early answer. [More…]

• I will refer the question to the Minister for Defence and seek an early answer from him. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 June 1978: [More…]

• Are sufficient apprentices being trained to meet the foreseeable requirements of the Defence Forces in view of the increased complexity of weapons systems (Question No. [More…]

• Have the Defence Force Apprentice Training Establishments the capability to train additional apprentices. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) Sufficient apprentices are being trained to meet the foreseeable requirements ofthe Defence Force. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence- Senator Sibraa. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]

• What in relation to the United States World-wide Military Command and Control Systems and its Defence Communications (DCS) is (a) the Satcom program; (b) the Seafarer program; (c) the Harpoon technique; and (d) the Tomahawk technique. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Defence Communication System is the generic title given to the US general purpose world-wide defence communications system which is supported by the Defence Satellite Communication System. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]

• Is the United States Airforce Satellite Communications (AFSATCOM) program and/or the Defence Satellite Communication System (DSCS) part of the overall Defence Communications System currently operating or to be operational in the future, at the North West Cape Naval Communications Base. [More…]

• I now seek leave to make a statement relating to Defence Force personnel entitlements. [More…]

• When the first personal pronoun is used it refers to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• I will be making a statement on planned defence expenditure to the Senate during the Estimates debate. [More…]

• I state them now as they impinge on conditions of service in the Defence Force. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence relates to the status of plans for the development of Casey University. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]

• Have any arrangements been made for the defence of the people of Alice Springs in the event of an attack on the Pine Gap base; if so, what arrangements. [More…]

• Neither this Government nor its predecessor, when considering the defence of Australia, discerned a requirement to introduce special arrangements specifically for Alice Springs. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: In recent weeks has security at Maralinga been increased? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a statement by the Minister for Defence concerning Maralinga. [More…]

• It is not for the defence of Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 September 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) How did the Department of Defence arrive at its decision, set out in the answer to Question No. [More…]

• Are the employment practices of the Defence Department in breach of the International Labor Organisation Convention No. [More…]

• Will action be taken to ensure equality of opportunity for women in the Defence Force. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present a statement by the Minister for Defence entitled ‘Defence Review- October 1978’. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]

• I have also noted the comments of Senator Bishop with regard to defence service homes and other matters. [More…]

• Department of Administrative Services, Rent (Defence)- proposed expenditure, $40,500,000-agreed to. [More…]

• Department of Administrative Services, Acquisition of Sites and Buildings (Defence)proposed expenditure, $7,8 12,000- agreed to. [More…]

• Department of Administrative Services, Furniture and Fittings (Defence) [More…]

• Housing for Servicemen- Advance to the States (Defence)- proposed expenditure, $ 1 1 , 600,000-agreed to. [More…]

• The Australian Housing Corporation was reconstituted as the Defence Service Homes Corporation on 13 December 1976. [More…]

• Defence Service Homes Corporation- annual report 1976- 77; [More…]

• Defence Service Homes Coporation- interim report 1977- 78. [More…]

• 1 ) The Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]

• Section SOB of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 requires the Defence Service Homes Corporation to prepare and furnish to the Minister an annual report of operations under the Act, together with financial statements in a form approved by the Minister for Finance. [More…]

• Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]

• The final report of the Defence Service Homes Corporation for 1976-77 was delayed because the associated financial statements could not be prepared until the form of those statements had been approved. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence dated 23 November 1978. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the Defence Report 1978. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 November 1978: [More…]

• -Whilst I am informed that all appropriate security measures are being taken, I think it is appropriate for me to refer the question to the Minister for Defence and to get more details. [More…]

• When may I expect a reply to the question I asked in the Senate on 9 November 1978 (Hansard, page 1834), concerning the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme. [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take immediate steps to remove the discrimination directed at certain Queensland residents whose property is insured under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme. [More…]

• In reaching the conclusion of my remarks in relation to the motion that the Senate take note of the statement on foreign affairs I reiterate the importance in dealing with matters of this kind of taking into account the defence issues, the power issues and the international political structures and I reiterate that throughout history the movements of people have caused the greatest effect and influence on international affairs and have been the greatest cause of international tensions. [More…]

• In 1978 seven incidents were reported suggesting less than the prescribed standards of separation between civil aircraft and defence aircraft, and five of those reports involved general civil aviation aircraft. [More…]

• How many of the near misses- if any- involved a Department of Defence aircraft? [More…]

• Finally, are Department of Defence aircraft equipped to receive and listen to appropriate civil aircraft frequencies which happen to be in use in their area? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 November 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Is there growing disquiet and unrest in the Defence Forces over fears that the Government intends to tax their commutation on retirement. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s failure to extract a definite and positive denial from the Government increased those fears, so that many officers and senior non-commissioned officers of the Defence Forces are ready to resign if the Minister is not forthcoming with a firm and positive statement on the issue. [More…]

• Will the Minister issue a statement that the Government has no plans to tax commutation or to change a serviceman’s commutation rights in any way whatsoever now, or in the future, thus preventing a spate of Defence Forces resignations and discharges, particularly amongst the longserving and highly skilled members, and the accompanying loss of experience and skills from our Armed Forces. [More…]

• -On 20 February 1979 (Hansard, page 14) Senator Lewis asked me a question, without notice, about a report that the term of office of the Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, has been extended under section 86 of the Public Service Act for a further 12 months after he reaches the mandatory retiring age of 65 years. [More…]

• I have made inquiries and no action has been taken under section 86 of the Public Service Act to extend the term of office of the Secretary of the Department of Defence beyond the mandatory retiring age. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Bartons’ defence was that they wanted to return to Australia to face their accusers. [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence: Australia and ASEAN. [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That Compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees ) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]

• -A defence statement of 38 pages by the Honourable D. J. Killen, the Minister for Defence, has been incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• I rise simply to make the point that defence is a vital issue confronting this nation. [More…]

• The question of our nation’s defences, including their inadequacy, is becoming a matter of political significance in this country. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) soon after he was elected talked consistently about ‘a steady enlargement of self-reliance and defence capability’. [More…]

• Of course, Mr Killen made the comment in 1 975 that our defences were such that they were ‘unable to protect Botany Bay against an enemy on a summer afternoon’. [More…]

• The provision in 1978-79 for a defence outlay larger in real terms than any achieved since the last Budget of the McMahon Government . [More…]

• In fact, if one has a look at the provision for defence in successive Budgets one will see that the provision for defence in the 1978-79 Budget as a proportion of total outlays was lower than in any year for the last five or six years. [More…]

• But I hope that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Chaney), before he adjourns this debate, may be able to advise the Senate when a substantive debate could take place on this vitally important matter of defence. [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Defence explain the reasons for the procrastination and delay in the appointment of a Chaplain-General of the defence forces? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]

• Defence: Ministerial Meetings with Business Consultants (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]

• I will bring that question to the attention of the Minister for Defence and seek his comments. [More…]

• I take it from what the AttorneyGeneral has said that any industrial action which had the effect of obstructing, hindering or interfering with the Defence Force, even if it is a goslow campaign, for example, would fall within the provisions of this clause. [More…]

• Does not the statement by the honourable senator, who is no mere Leader of the Opposition in the Senate but the Australian Labor Party shadow Foreign Minister, seriously weaken the defence of Australia and the whole of the Western Alliance, because when stripped of all its humbug the statement has the sole purpose of creating an intolerable situation for the United States of America and Australia so that the United States will withdraw from its bases? [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 1978 to 31 January 1979. [More…]

• Defence Department Personnel in United States (Question No. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As I understand it, for about 80 per cent of their time they will be used for defence purposes as transport planes. [More…]

• I fail to see why she cannot answer it when officers from the Department of Defence are present. [More…]

• Surely with the officers from the Department of Defence here the Minister must be able to find out. [More…]

• Surely we can be told by the officers of the Department of Defence who will foot the bill. [More…]

• That in order to: - facilitate the development of the North of Australia - provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa - facilitate better defence of Northern Australia - provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets - boost tourism [More…]

• The petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth: That in order to: - facilitate the development of the North of Australia - provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa - facilitate better defence of Northern Australia - provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets - boost tourism [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on defence policy. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 November 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• During World War II, the Australian Defence Canteens Service was established and its ‘account’ was initially funded by an advance on temporary credit from the Treasury. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]

• Was a Defence Services Canteen Trust Account established during World War II; if so, was it originally intended that this fund ultimately be distributed to World War II Service personnel, and when was the distribution made? [More…]

• Pursuant to section 50b of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918 I present an interim statement on operations under the defence service homes scheme 1978-79. [More…]

• I might say, in furtherance of the comment that I made about these prisoners attracting a support from a broad political spectrum, that late in July the National Executive Committee of the British Labour Party did, in fact, back the Charter 77 Defence Fund. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 August 1979: [More…]

• The comments made by Senator McLaren concerning the VIP aircraft fleet will be brought to the attention of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and undoubtedly will be taken into account by him. [More…]

• If this is so, I am very reluctant to vote for the expenditure of $ 1,800m without knowing how the money is to be spent other than that it will be spent on defence. [More…]

• -I will direct that question to the Minister for Defence and seek his answer. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1 979: [More…]

• 1 ) What is the total number of projects received by Australian firms for the production of offset items in Australian defence equipment orders placed overseas since January 1976. [More…]

• What are the names of the Australian firms which have sucessfully negotiated contracts with overseas suppliers of defence and associated equipment to Australia. [More…]

• I will refer that question to the Minister for Defence and ask him to give an early reply to the honourable senator. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 August 1979: [More…]

• Will the salaries, allowances and other expenses of the personnel be paid by the Department of Defence or the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]

• Were the costs of crewing and maintaining the aircraft in connection with the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Lusaka covered by the Prime Minister’s Depanment or the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Is the cost of the Prime Minister’s use of RAAF aircraft and personnel usually met from the Defence appropriations or is there a separate vote to cover these matters. [More…]

• What certification of service is required by the Department of Veterans ‘ Affairs from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• What is the usual time lapse between a request from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for certification and its receipt from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• This is a matter which should be answered directly by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the interim report of the Defence Services Homes Corporation on operations under the Defence Services Homes Act for the year ended 30 June 1979. [More…]

• Neither the Sub-Committee, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence nor the Parliament could be left open to a charge of making allegations which could not be substantiated. [More…]

• I will refer it to the Minister for Defence and seek the relevant information. [More…]

• That in order to: facilitate the development of the North of Australia provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa facilitate better defence of Northern Australia provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets boost tourism [More…]

• Pursuant to section 50B of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918, I present the annual report of the Defence Service Homes Corporation 1977-78. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the Defence Report 1979. [More…]

• I acknowledge and am grateful that the Opposition supports the Defence Amendment Bill 1979, the Naval Defence Amendment Bill 1979, the Air Force [More…]

• Amendment Bill 1979 and the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill (No. [More…]

• 1 will refer the concept of the amendment to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) for his study. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) How will equipment possessed, or being acquired by the Defence Forces assist them in expansion as necessary (see the answer to Senate Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1979: [More…]

• Why is the Department of Defence not aware of any stability problems associated with the fitting of masthead radar on the Royal New Zealand Navy’s Lake Class patrol boats, as was stated in the answer to Senate Question No. [More…]

• It might be referable to Group F when we get to the consideration of the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]

• What requirements has the Department of Defence set forward as being necessary to house servicemen? [More…]

• We ought to know what are the requirements of the Department of Defence and we ought to be able to be told to what extent that target has been achieved. [More…]

• The matter which the honourable senator has raised is dominated by the direction of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Defence on the Bonnett inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Defence on the selection of a new tactical fighter aircraft. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement concerning the report by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Torres Strait Treaty. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement concerning the report by the Seante Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australia and the Indian Ocean region. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement concerning the report by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australia and the South Pacific. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement relating to the report by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Middle East. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 November 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Prime Minister seen a report of a special United States Presidential Commission under the chairmanship of Mr Thomas Gates, former Secretary of Defence, which report stated that the draft system of national service in Australia is unnecessary, that Australia could have avoided the introduction of national service by raising pay and reorganising recruiting and that Australia has not made a concerted effort to attract additional recruits on a voluntary basis? [More…]

• Both President Nixon and Defence Secretary Laird have stated already that there are no American ground combat troops in Laos. [More…]

• All this began through the collaboration of the Department of Supply with the Department of Trade and Industry and had its genesis really in an Australian delegation which went to the United States for the purpose of looking generally at the situation and then looking in particular at some specialised areas where we could get an offset in relation to our defence activities. [More…]

• The present process is within the pattern which was established so firmly by the former Minister for Defence, Sir Allen Fairhall, some years ago and within the pattern which has been developed, within our capabilities, within my own Department and within the Department of Trade and Industry to get orders as we can and wherever we can. [More…]

• what benefit will these planes be to Australia’s defence when they finally come into commission some time in the near or distant future? [More…]

• Does the Minister recall that on 25th November last year he promised to obtain information on the progress of arrangements for offset orders for the Austraiian aircraft industry in relation to defence and other overseas procurement then being made? [More…]

• 1 have taken on board what the honourable senator has asked and I will have my people prepare a comprehensive and up to date report of the position of the Austraiian aircraft industry and the general position in respect of defence procurement. [More…]

• Bland mission, as it is called, was a committee made up of officials of the Department of Defence and the Department of Air. [More…]

• It was sent to America at the request of the Minister for Defence and it was to report to him. [More…]

• The mission has now returned and has reported to the Minister for Defence, lt is a matter for him whether he releases the report. [More…]

• Regulation 1 of the amendments of the Military Financial Regulations, as contained in Statutory Rules 1969 No.112, and made under the Defence Act 1903-1966; [More…]

• 113, and made under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968; and [More…]

• We believe that there should be a treaty covering defence and defence assistance to an independent Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• At first it was guarded by Australian troops but in view of what has happened in Vietnam and with the great reorganisation that has taken place there this duty was taken over by the Vietnamese local defence force. [More…]

• The subject of light aircraft, mentioned in the defence portion of the Speech, has been a matter of some concern to many Australians for some considerable time. [More…]

• The aircraft industry is obviously of the greatest importance to the defence of Australia, to Australian industry and in particular to the Australian aircraft industry which should be as versatile as possible. [More…]

• Our Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), our Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and his predecessors, have had discussions with other leaders. [More…]

• We say that in terms of hard and practical common sense we need adequate defence for Australia proper. [More…]

• We are told the Government favours forward defence, and it initiates measures which, if they mean anything, appear to me to mean that they are preparing to get out. [More…]

• The Government has announced that Australia is going to take certain defensive measures in Western Australia, but has it done anything in the direction of collective defence arrangements? [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his defence statement some considerable time ago made this fact, I think, patently clear. [More…]

• But in the past 12 to 18 months there has been a change of policy and the South Vietnamese have shown themselves to be not only willing but also able to bear a far greater burden in the defence of their own country. [More…]

• What is the attitude of the Australian Government to the new policy presented to the NATO defence Ministers at their meeting in Brussels on 3rd December which stated that in an emergency situation between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Western powers nuclear weapons would be fired into Polish and Czechoslovakia airports and supply depots? [More…]

• A meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Defence Planning Committee on 3rd December 1969 adopted general guidelines for the possible technical use of nuclear weapons in defence of the NATO Treaty area. [More…]

• Probably our attitude to defence basically spells out the difference between the two major political factions in this place. [More…]

• I believe that we must review some of our policies in regard to our defence forces, particularly the selection of personnel and the term of service. [More…]

• In this way I believe that more people would be effectively prepared for the defence of Australia. [More…]

• More benefit would be obtained from the period of service if everyone were given instruction in matters relating directly to defence. [More…]

• The national servicemen and the members of the defence forces who serve in Australia are in a different position from those who serve overseas. [More…]

• I was very pleased to hear some of the remarks the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made when addressing a meeting of Young Liberals in Perth. [More…]

• That table shows that whereas in 1954-55 Commonwealth defence expenditure represented 3.5% of the gross national product, in 1967-68 the figure was 4.3%; and that whereas in 1954-55 other Commonwealth outlays represented 10% of the gross national product, in 1967-68 the figure was 12.4%, or an increase of 2.4%. [More…]

• I refer to the defence of Australia and the manner in which we can go about this; the general economic climate within Australia, how some adjustments may be made to that so that we may continue to have the ability to grow as we have in the past without having the increased costs which have been generated over the last years and which have created problems which beset our primary industries at present; and this immensely important international mutter involving the sustenance of New Guinea. [More…]

• I have the double distinction now of having been refused the right of entry not only to a defence project but also to a native reserve. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• the Press, that a current review by a joint Defence Department-Army committee of inquiry into proposed new Army installations on the Australian mainland now considered to be urgently required and involving the expenditure of several millions of dollars is being restricted to sites in Western Australia and Queensland and that no consideration is being given to proposals that South Australia should be included in the provision of sites for units or for ordnance depots? [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for External Affairs advise whether the Government is in agreement with the statement made by the Indonesian Foreign Minister on the neutralisation of the Indian Ocean area and ridding the area of all defence equipment? [More…]

• Would the proposed defence base contemplated by the Government in Western Australia and the North West Cape installation at present under construction in that State conflict with the Indonesian Minister’s policy? [More…]

• I wish to direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the former Minister for Defence, Mr Fairhall - now Sir Allen Fait hall - journeyed to the United States of America last year and attended a handing over ceremony at Fort Worth, Texas, on 5th September 1969, where he formally received and accepted the first F111C aircraft on behalf of the Australian Government? [More…]

• It is true that Sir Allen Fairhall, as he now is, who was Minister for Defence at the time, visited the United States of America and, at a ceremony, received nominally an aircraft in connection with Australia’s F111 project. [More…]

• I do not accept, and I am sure that the Government does not accept, that this will in any way inhibit the discussions the present Minister for Defence proposes to have with the United States Government when he visits that country in the near future.I am not in a position to give the figure the honourable senator seeks or to give an answer to his imputation in regard to that figure, which is, of course, a different matter again. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence made a statement in another place last Thursday night in connection with the F111 aircraft and I commend it to the honourable senator. [More…]

• Senator Rae talked largely on the problems confronting Australia in relation to defence and referred in particular to the defence needs of South East Asia, including Vietnam. [More…]

• In regard to defence personnel the Governor-General said that the strength of Australia’s permanent forces, which was 83,794 at the end of 1969, was expected to increase to 86,500 by June of this year. [More…]

• This brings us back to the question of defence. [More…]

• When one looks at the question of defence one has to take into consideration national service training. [More…]

• Under the first system youths had to register and do their training over a period of 6 months, but this was found by the defence chiefs to be insufficient time to train personnel adequately. [More…]

• Another headline said that Moscow is to boost Arab defence aid. [More…]

• by leave - In making this defence statement, honourable senators will understand that where I use the first person singular pronoun I am referring to the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• 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, 1 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…]

• My colleague, the right honourable the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon), will, in the course of this session, be giving the House a survey of the international situation and of Australia’s external policies.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 v/e are elaborating our defence policies. [More…]

• We have seen huge budgets for war and defence. [More…]

• The Governor-General’s Speech of 1951 carried much of the overtones and much of the substance of the statement on defence which was delivered by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator [More…]

• It was a matter of defence. [More…]

• God forbid that there should ever be an invasion of Australia, but honourable senators opposite should not go round this country saying that the honourable senators who sit on this side of the Senate will not stand up to their defence responsibilities. [More…]

• Yes, I recall the questions and I am happy to say, as background, that it should be remembered that I indicated that the delegation that came to Australia came as a result of a high level mission that we sent to America in relation to offset procurement, with particular emphasis on the defence aspect. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question. [More…]

• Nevertheless, if the honourable senator feels that there is some aspect of his question about which he would like further information I will get a reply from the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, as he said in his statement to the Parliament, is going to America to discuss the matter of the Fill project with the Americans. [More…]

• In view of the changed circumstances it is not surprising that the Speech emphasises defence and security. [More…]

• It mentions the continuation of our policy of defence outside Australia by maintaining forces in Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]

• If we are not ever-vigilant in our defence we could be a rich prize for some powerful aggressor. [More…]

• This is a big factor in defence. [More…]

• Now, 200 years after Captain Cook’s exploration of our east coast and 182 years after the first European settlement here, we have to make more provision for our own defence and we have to have friends and allies who will come to our aid if we are attacked. [More…]

• With regard to defence, the Speech mentioned that a statement on defence would be issued shortly. [More…]

• It spelt out in great detail our defence policy for the next 5 years. [More…]

• New proposals will be made for the Defence infrastructure, and for new equipment in the years ahead. [More…]

• Contrary to what has been said in today’s newspapers consequent upon the statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) last night to the effect that we were rejecting the concept of isolationism, 1 believe that the conduct of Australia in recent years is bringing about the very reverse effect whereby we will be isolated from our near northern neighbours. [More…]

• The pretext of committing Australia to military adventures in South East Asia in the so-called defence of the free world against Communism can no longer stand. [More…]

• According to the Government’s defence programme which was placed before this House last night Australia is resisting and will continue to resist any move on behalf of local people to determine their own future. [More…]

• There can be no doubt that the States have ceded to the Commonwealth any responsibilities for defence. [More…]

• Leave out all words after ‘but’, insert: ‘the Senate is of opinion that the Government has shown lack of leadership in foreign policy and defence as well as in internal affairs, and the Senate deplores the failure of. [More…]

• adequate defence equipment and industries; [More…]

• That is part of their defence policy. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party says that there should be adequate defence equipment and industries. [More…]

• There is not adequate defence. [More…]

• We have seen the Government’s initial bungling compounded by all sorts of evasions, putting things off from election to election, and the plain fact is that there has been a lack of that defence equipment. [More…]

• It is trying to save itself by a compromise in all sorts of directions instead of standing up to the position and getting out of the mess it is in and providing adequate defence equipment. [More…]

• The sooner it turns to providing defence industries in Australia the less Australia will be dependent on this kind of foolish contract that the Government has entered into, and the better for our defence. [More…]

• He awakened Australia to the fact that in the near north we needed to be helpers and advisers when required and when invited, that we needed to place defence forces in that area when asked, and that we needed the nations in the near north as friends and trading partners. [More…]

• I am talking now about the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It has been decided to postpone this notice of motion on the understanding that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) would like more time to consider his position. [More…]

• Heading the list is a reference to defence. [More…]

• This comes in after the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has made a statement which obviously sets out the Government’s line of action. [More…]

• It is one of the most distinct and all-encompassing lines of defence action we have seen for very many years. [More…]

• A foreign policy, defence policy or defence programme today is a concept of international politics. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said that in future S60m worth of orders will be placed with Australian industry. [More…]

• We would expect that the honourable senator, as a lawyer and as one who believes that it is necessary to send young people to fight, would take an interest in the defence of Australia or in the activities of the Australian troops in South Vietnam. [More…]

• Then we would respect him for his arguments which at present do not seem to us to be arguments about the defence of Australia but rather jingoisms which do not do the honourable senator much credit. [More…]

• adequate defence equipment and industries; [More…]

• 1 have been surprised - possibly I should not have been as surprised as 1 have been - by the attitude of members of the Labor Party in defence of the posture they have maintained for a long time with regard to Vietnam. [More…]

• We shall promptly increase our assistance lo your defence effort as well as help relieve the destruction of the floods which you describe. [More…]

• If the Communist authorities in North Vietnam will stop their campaign to destroy the Republic of Vietnam, the measures we are taking to assist your defence efforts will no longer be necessary. [More…]

• The first part of the amendment to which attention has been drawn is the failure of the Government to provide a programme for adequate defence equipment and industries. [More…]

• In the ministerial statement on defence we heard an announcement about defence equipment which had been promised. [More…]

• Despite Article Nine of the Japanese Constitution, Japan’s defence forces are expanding at a rate which, I should think, necessitates a very close examination by countries in the Asian area. [More…]

• Although the build up in Japan’s armed forces will appear constitutionally only as a build up in its defence forces, it nevertheless will have a very big impact on the balance of power not only in the Pacific and Asian area but also throughout the world. [More…]

• The forces in Japan are described as self-defence forces. [More…]

• They are supposed to cope with localised or small scale invasions, sharing the task of strategic defence with the United States which in turn is responsible under the mutual security pact for strategic offensive roles. [More…]

• It is spending 5 billion yen which in turn gives Japanese industry plenty of scope to expand its defence manufacturers. [More…]

• Turning to Japan’s maritime force, efforts will be made to strengthen defence along the coasts, straits and in other sea areas adjacent to Japan, and also to increase the ability to secure the safety of maritime traffic. [More…]

• Let me compare that situation with the increase in our defence equipment. [More…]

• Here we have the Government in a very loudly heralded defence statement outlining what it intends to do to defend an area the size of Australia, and on the other hand there is a country which is prohibited from rearming and which openly can boast an increase in its weapons of war to the extent that I have mentioned to the Senate. [More…]

• Australia as a military nation and, although it is not prepared to declare war, embarks on a war with all the consequences of a war; yet it has no policy of internal defence other than the measly and very mediocre contribution it is making. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to provide adequate defence equipment and industries in this country is something for which it should be condemned. [More…]

• The Speech reflects the views of the Government in relation to foreign affairs, defence, responsibility to our territories, and our domestic economy. [More…]

• It is significant for instance, that Senator O’Byrne has spoken on defence matters. [More…]

• I read to the Senate a statement on defence matters which took 1 hour 10 minutes to read. [More…]

• Leave out all words after ‘but’, insert: ‘the Senate is of opinion that the Government has shown lack of leadership in foreign policy and defence as well as in internal affairs, and the Senate deplores the failure of the Government to provide a programme for - [More…]

• adequate defence equipment and industries: [More…]

• For instance, in dealing with the question of Australia’s adequate defence, coming in the face of the statement on defence which I read to the Senate, Senator O’Byrne chose to make comparisons between what is being done by the Austraiian Government in a progressive programme of defence procurement continuing since World War II, and the course followed by Japan. [More…]

• Of course, Japan has certain responsibilities and limitations in its defence programme because it is really just commencing that programme, lt seemed to me that the honourable senator drew quite a wrong conclusion about our defence programme. [More…]

• The Australian Government has announced a defence procurement programme which will add tremendously to our capability for defence in our geographical position in South East Asia. [More…]

• With the increasing number of off-shore island fauna sanctuaries, notably Chappell and Goose Islands in Bass Strait, and Pearson Isles on the South Australian coast, will the Minister confer with the Minister for Defence on the future use of some of the on-order helicopters for special island patrols to combat carnage and vandalism by nomadic fishing craft? [More…]

• As to whether his suggestion in this instance is practicable, I shall refer to the Minister for Education and Science whom 1 represent in this chamber, and ask him and the Minister for Defence to consider this question together with question No. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence announced in the House of Representatives last Thursday, 5th March, that he would visit the United States of America at an early date to consult with the United States Secretary of Defence on all relevant aspects of the F111 project. [More…]

• There is the right of the defence to challenge any evidence. [More…]

• Will favourable consideration be given to greater use of this capacity through Government orders for such defence requirements as the logistics cargo ship and other defence needs? [More…]

• I refer to his promise to bring before the Senate current information on the state of the Australian aircraft industry and on the achievement of offset orders for the Australian industry in relation to defence procurements overseas. [More…]

• The only thing that surprises me is that the Minister did not call the honourable senator in to draft the Bill because the suggestions he put up were merely a sickly defence of the Government and he made no real contribution to this debate. [More…]

• Some reference has been made to the need for Australia to establish an area of defence, and this brings me to the problem which I see existing in terms of what is known as the Butterworth air base in northern Malaysia. [More…]

• But in the final analysis it seems to me insupportable and insufferable that Australia should disperse its defence forces forward to an area where those forces are not under the control of the Australian Government or of responsible officers appointed to control the area. [More…]

• Honourable senators should understand that the Small Arms Factory at Lithgow is a tremendously important factory not only for our defence complex but also for the area of Lithgow. [More…]

• Is it a fact that a fee is charged when a rating applies for his entitlements from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund: if so, what is the justification for this charge. [More…]

• The scale and type of amenities provided for serving personnel of all three Services is determined by die Minister for Defence and reviewed from time to time. [More…]

• Leader of the Government in the Senate concerns what appears to be a conflict between a statement made by the Prime Minister and a statement made by the Minister for Defence in relation to withdrawals from Vietnam. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Government will remember, the Prime Minister said as far back as December last that Australian withdrawals would accompany the next withdrawals by United Stales troops, and that more recently the Minister for Defence was reported from Vietnam as having placed some restrictions on that proposition. [More…]

• Apparently the honourable senator in his judgment sees some variation or contradiction in the statements made by the Prime Minister, on the one hand, and by the Minister for Defence, on the other hand, in relation to Australia’s participation in future possible withdrawals from Vietnam. [More…]

• From any comment thatI have heard or from my own knowledge there is not, to my mind, any inconsistency in the views expressed by the Prime Minister and by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As is known, the Minister for Defence is currently in Washington in the United States and amongst other things is having discussions in relation to the F111. [More…]

• The circumstances of the Government’s decisions to send to the Republic of Vietnam, at the invitation of the Government of that country, a group of Australian military instructors in 1962 and a combat force of an infantry battalion in 1963 were set out in statements made respectively on 24th May 1962, by the then Minister for Defence, Mr Athol Townley, and on 29th April, 1965, by the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, the Hon. [More…]

• Australia has already given some assistance to the Government of South Vietnam in meeting this threat by providing communications equipment, barbed wire and other materials for village defence, and has promised more aid of this nature. [More…]

• Up to some 30 Australian Army personnel will be sent to provide instruction in jungle warfare, village defence and other related activities such as engineering and signals. [More…]

• -(New South Wales Minister for Supply) - by leave - I wish to inform the Senate 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 F111 projects and contract. [More…]

• Mr Fraser is expected to return to Australia on14th April and during his absence the Postmaster-General (Mr Hulme) is acting as Minister for Defence. [More…]

• We need the land for the Defence Department. [More…]

• In fact, a large area on the island is reserved for defence purposes. [More…]

• lt is reserved for defence purposes. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate in his capacity as Minister for Supply and as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, ls he aware of Press reports to the effect that the United States Defence Department will not agree to transfer any of the $200m-odd which has been paid by Australia for the FI 1 1 aircraft towards the purchase of another aircraft? [More…]

• As everybody including the Leader of the Opposition knows, the Minister for Defence is in Washington in the United States of America at the present time, having discussions with the Defence Department and the manufacturers in relation to Australia’s acquisition of the Fill. [More…]

• Quite obviously, when the Minister for Defence returns to Australia he will report to the Government; he will report to the Executive. [More…]

• As to the number of American armed forces personnel held prisoner by the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong, the most recent figures available are those contained in a news release dated 19th February 1970 by the Assistant Secretary of Defence and Public Affairs. [More…]

• The Minister for External Affairs said that the views of the Government on Japanese foreign and defence policy were set out in his preliminary statement of 19th March in which considerable attention was paid to the position of Japan and the plans of the Japanese Government for the development of the self defence forces. [More…]

• Those plans indicate a greater self reliance and willingness by Japan to accept responsibility for its own defence. [More…]

• The Government of Japan has indicated that it has no intention of assuming security responsibilities going beyond the defence of Japanese territory. [More…]

• The reason why I refer to the Democratic Labor Party in those terms is that we hear from it from time to time a plea that vastly greater sums should be spent on the defence of this country; we have Senator McManus racing around the countryside, as much as his age will permit him, and saying that there should be a better deal for the primary producers and that more money should be spent; and from time to time the Democratic Labor Party suggests, as Senator Little will remember, that more money should be spent on the married pensioners and various other people including recipients of repatriation pensions. [More…]

• In dealing with this subject I think I should attempt firstly to give a brief indication of the size and nature of the defence aircraft industry in Australia. [More…]

• Final assembly and flight testing of defence aircraft is carried out at the Avalon facilities. [More…]

• It could be said that the problem is threefold: Firstly, there is the need to maintain basic defence aircraft facilities capable of supporting the Services; secondly, there is the need to ensure that the technologies of the industry are upgraded in line with the latest developments; and thirdly, there is the need to achieve economy of operation, which in itself not only involves developing projects for the industry but also rationalising effort. [More…]

• It is the continued policy of the Government to maintain a basic defence aircraft industry in Australia which will develop in line with Australia’s future needs. [More…]

• In his recent defence statement, my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) indicated that it was planned to purchase 84 light observation helicopters for the Services and that the final selection of the type of helicopter will be made on the basis of the best prospects for local manufacture. [More…]

• Negotiations with the United Slates Department of Defence have resulted in a policy designed to encourage the opportunity for Australian industry to seek work from United States firms engaged on defence contracts. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall earlier arrangements whereby a United States Defence procurement officer was located in my Department and a post of Trade Commissioner, Supply, was established in Washington. [More…]

• As announced by my colleagues - the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr McEwen) and the Minister for Defence - and me during the Easter recess, the Government is to set up new machinery to work closely with Australian industry in an effort to increase its participation in this work. [More…]

• The new machinery to be created will consist of a Standing Committee of the three departments principally involved, Defence, Supply and Trade and Industry, and a new advisory committee of businessmen which will be appointed at an early date. [More…]

• The Committee of Departments will have the task of developing and carrying out a co-ordinated programme of work to promote increased overseas sales of Australian built equipment and components; to encourage co-operative research and development projects between Australian and overseas industry; and to encourage firms to take on work in Australia for overseas firms wishing to build up the Australian content of items offered for sale to the Australian armed forces and to seek sub-contracts from United States defence contractors. [More…]

• lt is the Government’s policy to increase where practicable the proportion of defence equipment produced in Australia, and the present programme of seeking orders overseas should assist in the maintenance and development of Australian defence production capability and the upgrading of our industrial technology. [More…]

• This, indeed, applies particularly to our defence aircraft industry. [More…]

• The type of commercial work required is not so much that which results in a diversification of activities but that which utilises the administrative and productive skills of the people who, together with the physical facilities, represent important defence potential. [More…]

• Ideally, the defence aircraft industry should become more involved in civil aircraft work of a like nature. [More…]

• Summing up, I make the following points in answer to Senator Bishop and for the information of the Senate: lt is Government policy to maintain an effective defence aircraft industry in Australia, (t is considered that, in the interest of the future of the industry, there is some scope for rationalisation of activities in the Fishermen’s Bend complex. [More…]

• I might add, in Kelly’s defence, however, that his record has been a good one and at no time, other than the incident in question, has there been any suggestion of aggressiveness in his behaviour. [More…]

• 112, and made under the Defence Act 1903-1966; [More…]

• 113, and made under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968; and [More…]

• 1 understand that yesterday the Acting Minister for Defence (Mr Hulme) introduced in the other place a Bill for an Act to carry out the matters now done by the regulations about which the Committee is concerned. [More…]

• If we consider the application of such a decision in this case, if the regulations are disallowed certain allowances which have been paid to heads of defence forces would then be disallowed, so they would not be receiving those allowances. [More…]

• The title is: ‘A Bill to amend the Defence Act 1903-1966 in relation to the Remuneration of Certain Officers of the Defence Force’. [More…]

• For some reason, allowances for the armed Services, under the Minister for Defence, are fixed by regulation. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been responsible for this new thinking on the matter. [More…]

• 1 think that the Minister for Defence has been contemptuous of the Committee. [More…]

• Firstly, the Regulations and Ordinances Committee was asked to deal with a regulation based upon the provisions in section 124 of the Defence Act which give to the Government power to make regulations concerning rates of pay, but which do not give to the Government power to make regulations concerning the payment of allowances to members of the defence Services. [More…]

• I suggest that had there been included in the provisions of section 124 of the Defence Act a power to make regulations concerning allowances, there would have been no problem at all. [More…]

• It was the considered opinion of the Committee that there was in fact no power to make such regulations under the provisions of section 124 of the Defence Act. [More…]

• I return to the point that I made earlier, that if the provisions in section 124 of the Defence Act do not include the power to authorise the payment of allowances to these people, then clearly the payments are not legal and they cannot be supported. [More…]

• I should have thought that there would have been sufficient precedent and knowledge of past procedure to make it fairly clear that this sort of decision could not be upheld, but if that point of view were to be sustained, I think the proper procedure would have been to write into the provisions of the Defence Act, a clause concerning the payment of allowances. [More…]

• I am yet to be persuaded that there is an authorisation in law for the award of allowances under the provisions of section 124 of the Defence Act, which is quoted as the initiating legal authority for the making of awards of this kind. [More…]

• So the United States Senate has a constitutional entry into the area of foreign affairs and defence through its own placita, if I may use an Australian word in the context of the American Constitution. [More…]

• It is undeniable that the conduct of foreign affairs and defence under a Westminster system of Government such as we follow in Australia, with power over foreign affairs and defence, is totally and exclusively an executive power. [More…]

• The executive power over foreign affairs and defence under our system of government, or the House of Commons procedure, is curbed by the fact that the Commons may discbarge a Ministry, or the House of Representatives in Australia can discharge a Ministry, if it does not agree with the conduct of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• 1 think it is proper that we should have it clearly in our minds that foreign affairs and defence are an executive function and not a function of parliament. [More…]

• They brought down that statement quite properly so that the foreign affairs statement, the defence statement and this statement could be embraced in a cognate debate. [More…]

• The eligible organisations are religious organisations, charitable or benevolent organisations, defence force organisations and organisations determined by the Minister to be eligible organisations. [More…]

• We have been talking in this place about defence. [More…]

• The only reason that we think it is economic to be in Papua and New Guinea is for the purposes of defence. [More…]

• The excuse of Australia for doing certain things is that it does them for defence purposes. [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s statement that the RAAF has only 6 pilots who have been trained on Phantoms, 3 only of whom are in Australia at present, can the Minister state whether any discussion took place between him and the Minister for Defence, prior to the latters departure for Washington, on whether the Phantoms would be satisfactory to the needs of the RAAF in any emergent situation? [More…]

• Its decision will depend on the report made by the Minister for Defence to the Cabinet, after which a statement will be made in the Parliament. [More…]

• In the numerous discussions that the Minister for Air had with the Minister for Defence before the latter’s departure for America on all aspects of the Fill aircraft, did the Minister for Air discuss the possible use of Phantom aircraft and did he advise the Minister for Defence as to the number of pilots available to fly them? [More…]

• In view of the serious problems encountered by the Government in equipping Australia with proper aircraft for the defence of the country, can he advise whether the Government has any plans on hand to build here in Australia an all Australian defence aircraft? [More…]

• I think it is proper that I should reply to this series of questions because the matter of the Australian aircraft industry is within my responsibility as Minister for Supply and also I represent the Minister for Defence in this place. [More…]

• If, for instance, wc wanted to build and for defence purposes to have possession of, say, 24 or 25, or even 50, strike-reconnaissance aircraft it would be stark staring crazy to set out to build (hern if that was the ultimate requirement because the cost factor would be beyond even the comprehension of Senator Fitzgerald. [More…]

• We will not know any of the answers to the questions he has asked until the Minister for Defence reports to Cabinet and then makes a statement to the Parliament. [More…]

• How important is a fleet of strike reconnaissance aircraft to Australia’s defence requirements? [More…]

• As I just said in answer to Senator McClelland, until the Minister for Defence makes a report we do not know. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Air advise the Senate whether it would be possible to borrow some DC3 aircraft from Taiwan to tide us over pending the delivery, if ever, of a strike reconnaissance aircraft suitable for our defence needs? [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Army or the Minister for Defence as I am in some dilemma as to the ministerial responsibility for this subject. [More…]

• In the circumstances I think it would be far better to take the question as a whole and have it processed in the Department of Defence so that I may obtain a considered reply to the honourable senator. [More…]

• In view of the answers and, in some cases, the lack of answers given this afternoon, I ask: To expedite proceedings at question time will the Minister advise the Senate on what aspects of his portfolio he is prepared to answer questions pending the return to Australia of the Minister for Defence? [More…]

• On 10th March in response to a question asked by Senator Bishop I undertook to obtain from the Minister for Defence some information relating to the findings of a joint Army/Defence Committee of Inquiry into the establishment of new Army installations on the Australian mainland. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has now provided the following information: [More…]

• The joint Defence/Army examination into the question of additional accommodation that will be required by Army after Vietnam is not restricted to consideration of sites in Western Australia and Queensland. [More…]

• Nothing could demonstrate more clearly the validity of Labor’s stand in defence of preserving a water supply vital to the growth of South Austrafia and to the national development of Australia. [More…]

• I am pleased to see that at least one South Australian senator on the Government side agrees 100% with the contentions that we placed before the Senate in defence of our State of South Australia. [More…]

• I do not believe in the repeal of the National Service Act because I believe that Australia must have a defence preparedness. [More…]

• If Australia is to have a defence preparedness it must have troops. [More…]

• Cabinet decided that the Minister for Defence would go to America to try to obtain some of the answers to these questions. [More…]

• Yesterday a statement was issued in the name of the Australian Minister for Defence and the United States Secretary of Defence, Melvin R. Laird. [More…]

• It Is understood that the Minister for Defence would be reporting to the Government the results of his exploratory- and I underline the word ‘exploratory’ - discussions, having ascertained the views of the United States Department of Defence on a number of issues. [More…]

• Until we know what those issues are and the results of the discussions, neither Senator Anderson, who represents the Minister for Defence in this place, nor I can add any further comment. [More…]

• 13S, and made under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968, be disallowed. [More…]

• 1 12, and made under the Defence Act 1903-1966; [More…]

• 113, and made under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968; and [More…]

• Without canvassing again the possible weaknesses in the Acts themselves, particularly in section 124 of the Defence Act in respect of which there is some doubt as to the authority for making regulations under the Act for this purpose, we believe that the procedure adopted offends against one of the firmly held principles of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee, namely, that a proposal of this kind ought to be given effect to by the introduction of substantive legislation and nol by the making of a regulation, which was the procedure originally adopted. [More…]

• I will not argue the substance of that beyond saying that the Department of Defence, the Attorney-General’s Department and the draftsmen believe that there is no question of the validity of the regulations. [More…]

• Not one of you of military age has attempted to carry on that fight although you profess to believe in the defence of Australia in Vietnam. [More…]

• As the Minister for Defence is now back in Australia can the Minister for Air officially advise the Senate what arrangements if any have been made to obtain a strike reconnaissance aircraft for Australia pending the delivery, if ever, of the F111? [More…]

• Last Thursday in answer to a similar question I went into some detail as to why I could not, at that time, make any announcement as to what had taken place during the discussion that the Minister for Defence had with the United States Secretary of Defence. [More…]

• Today all I can add is that I have had discussions with the Minister for Defence, with the Secretary of the Department of Air and with the Chief of the Air Staff. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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 - and legislation for superannuation, defence forces retirement benefits and regulating trade practices is most intricate and has demanded a great deal of time and attention from the few experienced draftsmen available. [More…]

• When the British Minister for Defence, Mr Healey, was here, he told us that there was, first of all, the question of the economic drain on Britain. [More…]

• We cannot give these people control of everything except finance and defence. [More…]

• As I listened to him tonight there flowed into my mind a clear understanding of one aspect of our Australian wildlife which Senator Mulvihill, in his examination of foreign policy, foreign affairs and defence matters generally, personified. [More…]

• Therefore the concept of defence of South East Asia should be based upon a regional capacity. [More…]

• What is meant by a regional capacity for defence in South East Asia? [More…]

• We find that such a pragmatist as the Prime Minister of Singapore at least acknowledges the fact that he must do something, and he has built up a substantial defence force. [More…]

• This is the great watershed in which we find ourselves in the context of our defence and our foreign policy in 1970. [More…]

• I have no apologies to make for speaking as an individual here in my place in the Senate as to the change that must take place in Australia’s foreign policy and Australia’s defence because the concepts on which defence and foreign policy were directed in the 1950s and 1960s has disappeared with the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from east of Suez and the United States retreat - not retreat but retirement - to the area where it can exercise its greatest strategical flexibility. [More…]

• Since I was warned when I came into the Senate after the suspension of the sitting for dinner tonight that I was to follow Senator Mulvihill in the debate on the defence and foreign policy statement, I have had to jot down some notes. [More…]

• The first axiom that I put down is this: Australia has no defence or foreign policy initiatives in a thermo-nuclear war situation. [More…]

• In the event of nuclear war no initiatives and no defence capacity are left to Australia. [More…]

• Therefore, if this first axiom is accepted, as I believe it should be accepted, that there are no initiatives in terms of grant strategy or defence strategy or political overtures and initiatives in a thermo-nuclear war, then we must ask ourselves: What is the situation in less than thermo-nuclear condition? [More…]

• Being an island gives Australia, in terms of pure defence and strategical capacity, a great deal of geographical benefit. [More…]

• Therefore, Australia’s foreign policy and its defence capacity in these circumstances must be directed at and focused on meeting this sort of situation. [More…]

• In other words, 1 am driven to the conclusion that, for the first time in my lifetime, Australia has to evolve and invoke foreign and defence policies which rely on its own capacity. [More…]

• All I can do is point out that there are certain significant signs which can be seen by those people who wish to look for them and which indicate that Australia will be involved in the next 10 years in a total reassessment of its foreign and defence policies. [More…]

• The Government has shown in its rather guarded statements on its defence and foreign policies that it is aware of this fact and is moving towards this end. [More…]

• But no government can move towards a true and strict concept of what its foreign and defence policies should be unless it has the support of the Parliament. [More…]

• I think he was referring to alleged takeovers by the trade unions or someone of that nature during the course of this Moratorium but in fact the points which he made were in defence of a government which itself in 1955 in South Vietnam ran away from free elections. [More…]

• Not long ago Mr Denis Healey, the Secretary of State for Defence in the United Kingdom, published a White Paper on the defence position of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• It is a most amazing document because in it he warns, among other things, that Russia’s military spending increased by 6% last year and that he considered that Great Britain’s expenditure on defence would be reduced to less than 2%. [More…]

• A few years ago when I was in the United Kingdom some Labor members of the British Government were advocating a reduction in the defence commitment so that, as they put it, they would be able to extend their social services programme. [More…]

• I suppose that is their business, but it is certain that a country cannot spend its substance to provide free this, that and the other and still provide adequate defence and act as a policeman in some parts of the world. [More…]

• Then he went on to enumerate the very great depletion that has taken place in Britain’s defence forces. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister whether the specialist air force and defence teams presently in the United States are continuing their investigations into these matters or have their investigations been suspended? [More…]

• As to the likelihood of a report to the Parliament, 1 understand that the Minister for Defence is hoping he can make such a report when we resume after next week’s break. [More…]

• On the other hand the Government of New South Wales has requested the Commonwealth to vacate large areas of land now held on the foreshores of Sydney Harbour for defence and other purposes to enable it to set up a national park. [More…]

• Are current English-language technical journals on naval matters, e.g., ‘International Defence Review’, made available to all serving officers and other ranks to whom such information may be of value. [More…]

• The position is that any member of the Defence Forces who is allotted for special duty in a prescribed special area, is eligible for repatriation benefits under the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act and a War Service Homes Loan under the War Service Homes Act. [More…]

• The establishment arrangements under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act, which include vocational training and agricultural and business loans are provided for National Servicemen only and are not therefore available to R.A.A.F. [More…]

• 35, and made under the Naval Defence Act 1910-1968, be disallowed. [More…]

• The whole pattern and tactic of Western defence against an expressed Communist ideology which is world-wide in its objectives has been to resist aggression and to resist any attempts at takeover; and so since Greece, since Korea and since Vietnam there has been forceful action taken and it has preserved a peace in the world which, without this action, may never have been achieved. [More…]

• I say that the Australian Labor Party objects to it because the Liberal Parly has used it as an alternative to a proper defence policy. [More…]

• The Government claims that by taking a section of the 20-year-olds and conscripting them into the Army it has a defence policy and that everyT is crossed and every I is dotted. [More…]

• That is a cheap way of having a defence policy. [More…]

• However, let it be said for members of the Nazi Party that they did speak in defence of the German forces. [More…]

• It is in these circumstances that the Australian Labor Party has declared that it will mobilise as many mass meetings as possible in relation to the Moratorium to induce the Australian Government to discontinue the defence of South Vietnam. [More…]

• Having regard to her purpose in South Vietnam and the cause to which she has committed herself there - the defence of a small nation against violent aggression - I would have thought that the gratitude for assistance in the past would earn respect for the present alliance and that, so far from disparaging the cause of the United States, no responsible person in the Commonwealth Parliament would denigrate her cause. [More…]

• The Australian community has never been prepared to accept conscription other than in respect of a small area in the Pacific at a time when we were engaged in a war in defence of what the whole population thought was a vital principle and when our country was being attacked. [More…]

• But I am looking now at a statement made in Perth by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who said that we sometimes believe that the peace that we desire is the peace that is shared in the same way by all nations. [More…]

• I believe that as we can raise loans of substantial amounts of money in time of war for the sort of things that people claim are to be used in the defence of this country - and I am not arguing about that matter at this stage - surely we can strain a little nerve and muscle here and there in order to provide a sufficient amount of money at least to meet the urgent housing needs in the Australian community. [More…]

• ]f we could have used the money spent on that aircraft for the provision of housing for the needy people of Australia, for those people upon whom we rely for the development and defence of this country, we would have been doing a very much better job for Australia than we are doing at the present time. [More…]

• In order to overcome this problem the Air Force - in fact all the Services have - has made representations to the Minister for Defence for an examination of pay and conditions generally. [More…]

• A committee from the Department of Defence has been investigating pay and conditions for some time. [More…]

• I am hoping that very shortly the Minister for Defence will be in a position to make an announcement to the Parliament. [More…]

• Therefore general business would proceed in terms of the notices of motion in the order in which they appear on the business paper under general business, the first being that a select committee of the Senate be appointed to inquire into Australia on Defence. [More…]

• When my motion was put on it preceded a defence statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) which was of considerable length and in very great detail. [More…]

• However, we do not desire to denigrate in any way the importance of the defence statement by taking it off the business paper. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has been funding the liabilities of the States since 1929, in addition to finding revenues to fight a war in defence of Australia. [More…]

• Then finally, of course, as I see it in this contest, is the problem that the Commonwealth Government may find itself in an emergency involved in responsibility for the defence of this country and have to impose penal rales of taxation in order to fund the defence structure and make a proper application of resources in terms of defence. [More…]

• We are involved, for instance, in project Mallard’ with other nations involving a communications system for the defence forces. [More…]

• We have in Australia a great deal of technical know-how and are developing defence know-how and this particular role will continue. [More…]

• Payments equal to child endowment are at present being paid in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in respect of 459 children, all of them children of members of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• We need defence forces. [More…]

• In the last Budget about $1 ,100m was set aside for defence purposes, the major part of it to be spent in defending those countries in South East Asia which are being infiltrated. [More…]

• If our policy is to have an army and a National Service Act which calls on some young men in the community to go overseas to support the defence of this country, I do not believe that we can stand for people marching in the streets behind the Vietcong flag. [More…]

• Although such action is, perhaps, considered comical when it is taken in the grounds of a university, it certainly is a most serious matter if we, as a government, allow such subversive action as the raising of the standard of an enemy power and the carrying of it down the main streets of Australia when we arc directing lads to war under the National Service Act and when we are spending so much of this country’s resources$1,100m in the last Budget in an attempt to preserve the defence of this country. [More…]

• So much horror was aroused by this purge that General Giap, the Minister for Defence, admitted in October 1956 that the terror had become too widespread. [More…]

• Anybody in Australia who takes protection, as a resident of this country, from the defence that is given by its armed forces there has a duty to support them. [More…]

• If there is any legislator who cannot bring himself to the degree of conviction as to his undivided loyally to the armed forces which the democratic, freely elected Government of this country compels in part and organises in another part to engage in that conflict - if there is any legislator who cannot bring himself to the degree of conviction that his duty is to support them, he is wanting then those elemental human qualities of judgment and character which alone can create the defence of this country. [More…]

• Indeed, I only despise it because it is the duty of an armed soldier to kill in defence of the likes of you and me and in defence of the principles that this country elected a Parliament to decide who were our enemies. [More…]

• The people who are now trying very carefully to divert this argument to one about the national liberation forces <bd the nag were the people who, during the debates in the Senate last week, accepted the principle that there was a right to protest against the Government’s policies on matters of defence. [More…]

• Yet in the United Stales the defence committee of the Senate did not arrive at its decision with a small majority of perhaps 6 to 4 but arrived at it with a majority of 9 to I - almost a unanimous decision. [More…]

• by leave - In making this statement, I should explain that where the wordI is used, it means the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• My purpose tonight is to report on the results of the recent mission which I led to the United States of America to discuss with Secretary Laird and his Deputy Secretary Packard and other Defence officials, problems concerning F111 aircraft and the need for Australia to get into its inventory a strike bomber. [More…]

• Were these amounts included in the statement al’ the Minister for Defence? [More…]

• Are they to be offset against the future charges announced by the Minister for Defence? [More…]

• Government’s view, and this is strongly supported by the Chiefs of Staff Committee that an air strike and reconnaissance capability is an essential element of a balanced defence force for Australia. [More…]

• If we do not have one, does this represent an admission by the Government that we lack a balanced defence force? [More…]

• As the Minister advised me, in answer to a previous question, that the Canberra bomber constitutes the strike capability in our defence system, is he aware that the Mark 19, which is a later version of the Canberra than that used by the Royal Australian Air Force, is currently used for radar target practice by the Royal Air Force? [More…]

• On several occasions the Australian Labor Party has been accused, when it has moved that the defence vote be reduced by 1 - as it used to be - of wanting to spend less money ondefence. [More…]

• of Defence. [More…]

• (1962); ‘The Purpose of American Politics’ (1960); ‘In Defence of the National Interest’ (1951); ‘Scientific Man vs. Power Politics’ (1946); etc. [More…]

• Justice Louis D. Brandeis; first General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board (1934); U.S. Labor Commissioner in Geneva (liaison with Internat’l Labor Organization); Member, National Defence Mediation Board; Asst. [More…]

• The shortage of engineers is having very serious effects upon our industry because, as the Secretary of the Association has pointed out, a country like Sweden is able to develop her own defence aircraft and export the design of telecommunications equipment to Australia, while Japan is able to establish an endless variety of capital intensive industries like steel processing, importing 40% of the raw materials from Australia. [More…]

• This may explain, he said, why despite our success in developing small units of defence like the Ikara missile and exporting it, we must depend on countries like the United States to develop our major items. [More…]

• Payments equal to child endowment are at present being paid in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in respect of 459 children, all of them children of members of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• Additional appropriations totalling $30.8m are sought for defence Services, including approximately $20m 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…]

• Article IV of the schedule attached to the South-East Asia Collective Defence Treaty, which was ratified by an [More…]

• We find, again, that when there is a threat of armed attack the parties shall consult immediately and the member nations of the South East Asia Collective Defence Treaty shall come together immediately in order to agree. [More…]

• I take the opportunity in this debate to comment on the matter of defence. [More…]

• I do so because it would appear that we will not have an opportunity to enter into a debate on defence during the remaining period of this session, and there are some comments that I wish to make concerning the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• We have had 20 years of Liberal Government in this country, and in those 20 years we have been told repeatedly - and possibly the Australian Democratic Labor Party would also take this view - that it is only the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government that really knows anything about the defence of this country, that it is only this Government which is competent to make decisions on what ought to be done about defence and that any other person of another political colour who suggests that the Government’s policies might be wrong is obviously misguided. [More…]

• In doing so, I want to refer back to last year’s Budget session when a document known as the ‘Defence Report’ was submitted to this Parliament. [More…]

• If we look at the report which was submitted to the Swedish Parliament by the Swedish Naval Board - and I am quoting from the ‘International Defence Review’ of [More…]

• I quote from the English journal, the Defence Quarterly’. [More…]

• During the comments of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in the other place some weeks ago, he made reference to the development of indigenous industries for the purpose of developing Australian defence technology. [More…]

• We should not pull the wool over our eyes about how good we are and how wonderful a defence job we have done in recent years. [More…]

• The Eyre Highway is important not only from a tourism point of view but also from a defence point of view because it could play a major role in a future defence system in Australia. [More…]

• It could then be used, as I have said previously, not only as a means of enabling people in one State to visit another State but also, if an emergency were to arise in the future, it could play a very important part in our defence system. [More…]

• This is the Minister’s thin defence and it is under challenge. [More…]

• Then we have the statement of the 13 councillors, which is the Minister’s last defence that this thing never happened. [More…]

• It is a defence if a person charged with failing to comply with a provision of this section, or a defendant in an action arising out of a failure by the defendant to comply with a provision of this section, proves that he took all reasonable steps to comply withthat provision. [More…]

• These two components supply the RAAF with a reserve of trained personnel that can be called upon in times of war or defence emergency. [More…]

• The purpose of this force is to augment the Permanent Air Force in time of war or in time of defence emergency or in circumstances considered necessary as proclaimed by the Governor-General. [More…]

• In the realm of defence there is also a significant requirement for extra money to meet wage and salary increases. [More…]

• Briefly, what is involved in programme budgeting is that, instead of an annual bedgetary procedure whereby we seek to expend at the end of a particular period, we have a process whereby we have a programme in mind, whether it be for defence or for a civil project, and finance is allocated on the basis of the programme. [More…]

• I said that the increases were largely due to increases in salaries and wages and that was for, in general, an amount of $20m, and in the case of the defence services also some $20m. [More…]

• The defence that is raised to queries by my Department is that that is what the general public want in their requirements for timetables, considering the main burden of traffic between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. [More…]

• The principle which was originally enunciated by Sir Allen Fairhall when he was Minister for Defence was that a very real look should be had at the possibility of turnback orders for the Australian aircraft industry, lt will be recalled that a delegation of Australian industrialists went to the United States of America for the purpose of propounding this principle. [More…]

• While some of these reasons are inseparable from the nature of service life other areas are currently under examination by the Defence (Conditions of Service) Committee. [More…]

• Senator Murphy, f draw your attention to the fact that this Bill does not deal with defence. [More…]

• It can be spent on defence, on paying more money for the FI 1 1 aircraft, or paying money for an investigation to get Australia out of this deal, lt could be to pay for negotiators to go to America and get Australia out of this deal. [More…]

• I cannot add very much lo what I said at question time beyond reiterating the point that this is very carefully watched by me as Minister for Supply, by my Department and by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the defence complex. [More…]

• By the time the government carried out its public works programmes and made provision for defence and other matters the responsibility of all governments, it did not have very much scope in which to effect reductions in taxation. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence; [More…]

• In October 1960 the Committee pointed out, in connection with certain defence forces regulations, that over $100m had been expended without legal authority in anticipation of the regulations. [More…]

• I recollect from party discussions that the other chamber has before it at present a Bill that seeks to validate payments made to members of the defence forces since 1961. [More…]

• As honourable senators are aware, it is the practice of my Department to seek, whereever possible, projects which might result in the local design, development or production of defence equipment. [More…]

• The report will be presented to the Minister for Defence who in turn will present it to Cabinet. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence made a statement yesterday. [More…]

• I think, in which he pointed out that, because Australia will require a certain number of helicopters - more than a hundred - for our defence Services, and this will involve an expenditure of the order of$100m. [More…]

• In the first place, if it is a military document, the authority for its publication will be obviously within the defence complex. [More…]

• I therefore suggest that the question should go on notice and I will get a reply from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• If the document entitled ‘Australian Military Forces Pocketbook South Vietnam’ is on issue to the defence forces, and even if it is on a restricted list, will he make a copy available to the Senate for perusal? [More…]

• I point out that this question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence was placed on the notice paper on 21st April. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: (1.) [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask leave of the Senate to make a short statement on behalf of the Treasurer (Mr Bury) relating to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• Honourable members may recall that on 6th May last, in reply to a question without notice, 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 month. [More…]

• 1 have now been informed by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board that payments will commence next week. [More…]

• The persons who will benefit are being notified through their Service department or directly by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]

• Department of Defence Estimates Committee B - [More…]

• 51 and made under the Defence Aci 1903-66, be disallowed. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Air or to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Very properly, the Government and the relevant people in the defence complex, the Service departments and my own Department of Supply have to study these proposals. [More…]

• Minister for Defence has said that Australia would get back SUS130 to $US150m under the buy-back arrangement to which he and the Secretary of Defence in America agreed during his recent visit to America. [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…]

• The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence; [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence; [More…]

• Take, for example, the committee dealing with foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• If the Senate desired, it could .send lo that committee for its consideration the estimates of the Department of External Affairs and of the various defence departments. [More…]

• Let us suppose that Senator Webster was a member of the committee dealing with foreign affairs and defence matters and wanted to ask some questions on defence. [More…]

• It was recommended that consideration of the Standing Orders be amended to provide that at the commencement of each Parliament the following 6 standing committees be appointed to deal with Bills and other matters: The Standing Committee on External Affairs and Defence; the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications: the Standing Committee on Trade. [More…]

• For instance, Estimates Committee A would cover the department that I, as Leader of the Government, represent in this place, namely, the Department of Supply, the Parliament, the Prime Ministers Department and the Departments of the Cabinet Office, Trade and Industry, External Affairs, the Treasury and Defence. [More…]

• A standing committee on foreign affairs and defence has been proposed. [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• Nine aircraft are at the Government Aircraft Factory for modification to equip them for the dual roles of air defence and ground attack. [More…]

• The interest produced from members’ contributions under the investment plan is used to provide the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund share of pension entitlements. [More…]

• and (2) Building programmes are formulated by the Naval Board with final determination being made by the Minister for Defence and the Government. [More…]

• Close liaison is maintained with Departments of Defence and Supply through all stages of development. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to promote design and construction of Australian aircraft and helicopters for defence and commercial purposes. [More…]

• Furthermore, there has been a rethinking of the Australian requirements for close air support and defence training and as a result it has been decided that continuation of work on the project cannot be justified. [More…]

• The Minister recently made a statement on the defence aircraft industry in which he referred to the problems which I am talking about and I accept that the statements were fairly accurate. [More…]

• He said there was a need to maintain basic defence capability and a need to continue with developing technologies. [More…]

• The explanations given by the Minister in this place, and by the Minister for Defence in the other place, indicate that the Government has no positive policy to ensure that a sufficient work load will be given to these enterprises so that Australia will not lose its ability to produce aircraft, to produce equipment for all of the Services and to produce parts for aircraft and other items which we are importing from overseas. [More…]

• I am submitting that commercial requirements and defence requirements are obviously related and the industries ought to be dovetailed, particularly in respect of the manufacture of parts within Australia. [More…]

• We would be interested to find out from the Government what it proposes to do in future to maintain the skilled sections of the work force in constant work, to the benefit of the country and certainly to help the defence industries. [More…]

• (10.49]- On behalf of the Opposition, Senator Bishop moved an urgency motion which referred to the failure of the Government to promote the design and construction of Australian aircraft and helicopters for defence and commercial purposes. [More…]

• The production of defence aircraft is one thing, and in a sense Australia’s capacity in relation to commercial aircraft is another. [More…]

• It is true that I made a statement in this place on the defence aircraft industry some time ago, perhaps a month ago. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a statement in which he pointed out that Australia would have a requirement for helicopters. [More…]

• The defence Services will take 84 of .them. [More…]

• Let us not forget that Australia’s needs defence wise and commercial wise will not in their own right preserve what we have. [More…]

• Recent statements by both the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Supply (Senator Anderson) have indicated quite clearly that they are opting out of a project which could well have established this industry on some basis of continuity. [More…]

• Indeed, they have severely criticised the Minister for Defence for some of the statements he has made in relation to the reasons for opting out of the project that was contemplated. [More…]

• Here is a man in the industry who is very close to it and who denies a statement by the the Minister for Defence that the RAF is uninterested in the project at all. [More…]

• The Government and the Air Force have supported the Australian industry because it is recognised thai our industrial capacity is of direct defence significance. [More…]

• In other words, industry might be said to be the fourth arm of defence after the Army, Navy and Air Force. [More…]

• Development of our natural resources and the strengthening of our industrial complex adds to our overall defence capabilities. [More…]

• The Government and the RAAF have supported the industry because we recognise that aircraft production and all Australian industries must in times of emergency provide many weapons, ammunition - about which I answered a question this morning - equipment and supplies needed to sustain our defence. [More…]

• Last March the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his statement on defence indicated quite clearly that the Government recognises industry as the fourth arm of defence. [More…]

• Has not the Government said on numerous occasions that a rounded defence system for any country encompasses a viable aircraft industry? [More…]

• A country must have the right type of aircraft to round out a defence system. [More…]

• While this outmoded and lack lustre thinking by the Government persists we are not likely to have a rounded out defence system, ls it not proper for an Opposition - and it is the role of an Opposition to raise matters of this kind - whenever the occasion permits, to .raise matters of urgency when the consequences of not doing so are as drastic as they are in this instance? [More…]

• During the years attempts have been made by people with a tremendous interest in the welfare of this country, in the defence of this country and in the promotion of a viable aircraft industry in this country, to make sure that the country had proper protection and could be serviced in times of defence and in meeting the needs of plain commercial economics. [More…]

• Now he says that we should sit into the night because a matter or urgency has been raised by the Australian Labor Party, which is concerned with the defence of this country and the development of industry. [More…]

• The failure of the Government to promote design and construction of Australian aircraft ami helicopters for defence and commercial purposes. [More…]

• Firstly, there is a consideration of aircraft for their own sake: secondly, a consideration of helicopters; thirdly, consideration of the defence needs for bo:h aircraft and helicopters: and fourthly, the possible commercial needs for both aircraft andhelicopters. [More…]

• I do not consider myself to be in a strong position to talk at length about the defence needs for either aircraft or helicopters, although I understand some of the problems and complexities involved. [More…]

• I am sure that Senator Bishop and Senator Devitt will understand that when a country considers involving .itself in the manufacture of aircraft or helicopters for commercial or defence purposes it has to say to itself, first of all: ‘It is unlikely that one aircraft manufacturing plant will be capable of manufacturing efficiently civil aircraft, defence aircraft, civil helicopters and defence helicopters. [More…]

• When we talk about the size of the market we have to look at the Australian scene and ask ourselves: ‘Where will the orders for aircraft come from to enable us to run a really decent and efficient industry manufacturing aircraft or helicopters for civil or defence purposes?’ [More…]

• What 1 do say is that we have available figures on aircraft on the Australian civil register and Australian defence aircraft, and those have now been incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• Statements were made not only by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) but also by the Minister for Supply (Senator Anderson) making it quite apparent that this industry is to be sold down the drain, despite the fact that people associated with the industry believe that the Royal Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force may be interested iti. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Defence, in the statement he made following his visit to the United States, said that $US252m was the amount which had been authorised for this project, but at the same time he hinted that there could be further costs which have not been taken into consideration at this time. [More…]

• We have a defence advisory committee on which, I understand, are representatives of industry who meet from time to time for the purpose of giving advice to the Government on the purchase of defence equipment. [More…]

• He referred also to the Defence Business Board. [More…]

• It would be quite inappropriate if the function of the Defence Business Board were to make purchases for the Department of Defence and the Board included representatives of 4 or 5 different mercantile selling organisations. [More…]

• 1 agree with Senator Gair that decentralisation is very important from a defence point of view if for no other reason. [More…]

• If so, with what results7 ls action proposed io investigate the operations of the Australian Services Canteens Organisation, which controls the supply of liquor to defence establishments, to ensure that similar actions are not permitted in the future? [More…]

• In addressing my question to the Minister representing the Minister for the Army, I refer to the report made in April that the Federal Government was to consider recommendations from the joint Department of the Army and Department of Defence survey about new establishments on the Australian mainland to accommodate troops, being mainly troops withdrawn from Vietnam. [More…]

• The matter of constitutional authority has also received attention and evidence submitted to the Committee tended to establish that the Commonwealth has, through a coalescence of powers in the fields of taxation, defence, external affairs and other areas, sufficient legislative competence to establish a national approach. [More…]

• It reads: 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 force 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…]

• The amendment to the Defence Act will come into operation on a dale to be fixed by Proclamation. [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- 1 959 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- 1 959 other rank members, the contribution rates applicable to post-1959 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…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances has the right of examination and has exercised it in the case of regulations relating to the defence Services. [More…]

• We have had before the Senate a defence Bill which provides for allowances for the Service chiefs and we have had Bills providing allowances for permanent heads of departments. [More…]

• This second line of defence in our balance of payments means a great deal to us because wc cannot always rely on having sufficient inflow of overseas capital to balance our payments. [More…]

• Therefore we require this second line of defence to give security to our economy, to our standard of living and to our women and children so that the good life that we enjoy may continue. [More…]

• The Minister for the Army has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1)The Director-General of Recruiting, Department of Defence, provides paid advertising support, most recruiting literature and Combined Services Recruiting Centres for the three armed Services.In addition to the general cover given by the Director-General ofRecruiting the Army undertakes the following special recruiting activities directed towards its own needs. [More…]

• In addition the Director-General of Recruiting, Department of Defence, has expended the following amounts on advertising through all media an Army Recruiting. [More…]

• The agreement provides (hat 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 passengersor that it was possibleto take such measures. [More…]

• We could have selected first for specific establishment the committee suggested on external affairs and defence; but for the very reason that this is a period of experimentation and that what we call the hot subject committee might have the effect of precipitating situations that might result in the destruction of the committee system in its infancy, we have deliberately avoided that I think, again, that prudence dictated thai thai should be the approach to the committee system. [More…]

• He also asked whether these costs were included in the statement by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• These costs were not included in the charges announced by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Bank the amount required to complete the financing of the deficit in 1969-70, if this proves to be necessary, and to expend the 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…]

• This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to$US100m for the purchase of general defence equipment in the United States. [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 borrowing 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 Loan Council is not required. [More…]

• We wish to propose amendments to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that President Nixon set up a commission to examine conscription as compared lo a voluntary system of military service? [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article in today’s ‘Australian’ regarding a statement by the Secretary of Defence in the United States of America, Mr Laird, to the effect that he was not committed to buying another 40 Fill aircraft and a statement by Senator Charles Percy of the United States in which he described the FI 1 1 project as a disaster aud said that the money involved should not be added as another strain on the economy? [More…]

• This team was set up by the Commonwealth and sent to the United States to investigate the offer which has been made by the Department of Defence in the United States in regard to the leasing of Phantom aircraft. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• An explanation of the position is that 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…]

• 1 notice that the salaries and allowances of certain officers of the defence forces shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation. [More…]

• In the main they are in accord with section 124 of the Defence Act which provides: [More…]

• The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing ali matters which by this Act are required or permitted lo be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for securing the discipline and good government of the Defence Force, or for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and in particular prescribing matters providing for and in relation to . [More…]

• The fixing of the rates of pay of members of the Defence Force who are paid for their services. [More…]

• In accordance with that regulation making power the Governor-General has always fixed by regulation the rates of pay of members of the Defence forces, but for the first time he has fixed, in these regulations, an allowance of $1,000 a year. [More…]

• 1 do not imagine that an inquiry of this kind would occupy much time, because the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board already has conducted a survey of the problems and it would have ready at hand the sort of observations and recommendations which could help a committee of inquiry to iron out the problems in the scheme. [More…]

• In the light of the concern which I hope we have for our defence system such an inquiry should rank high in importance as a responsibility of the Parliament. [More…]

• 1 earnestly suggest that if some difficulty arises as to the availability of honourable senators because of the decision we took a few days ago and which will not be implemented for some time, it might be a wortwhile exercise to set up this committee of inquiry which will do much to dampen down the worries and concern of members of the defence forces. [More…]

• I have heard quite high ranking members of the armed forces say that they could quite speedily provide at least an outline of a very worthwhile defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• As an amendment, at the end of the motion, I move the addition of the following words: but the Senate is of opinion that a joint select committee of senators and1 members of the House of Representatives should be appointed to investigate and report on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• I think we are indebted to Senator Devitt for the very interesting survey that ho gave of the present situation, the indication which he gave of the feelings of members of the armed Services and the proposal which he put for a form of inquiry into what should be a proper defence forces retirement benefits measure. [More…]

• They are entirely dissatisfied with the present situation of remuneration and with the defence forces retirement benefits that are available to those in the Services. [More…]

• The purpose of the 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…]

• I am able to tell him thai an explanatory booklet has been compiled and is only awaiting the passage of this legislation before printing can be completed and an up to date booklet issued throughout the defence forces. [More…]

• I want to make it clear that section 53a was inserted in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act in 1959 on the basis of the Allison Committee’s recommendation that invalidity benefits should have regard not only to the medical condition of the ex-serviceman but also to his earning capacity and earnings. [More…]

• A decision to suspend pension does not sever a pensioner’s connection with the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund; nor does it affect a contingent liability of the Fund in respect of the benefit entitlement of a deceased pensioner’s dependants. [More…]

• The pensioner’s case is kept under notice by the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Board and is reviewed periodically for the purposes of section 53a. [More…]

• This Bill and the Loan (Defence) Bill may be dealt with in the light of the same considerations. [More…]

• Firstly, the legislation proposes the borrowing of some $US100m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States of America for the purchase of defence equipment. [More…]

• That is the first area of imprecision - $US 10Om for the purchase of general defence equipment- [More…]

• 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 . [More…]

• Does that mean the purchase of additional defence equipment or the additional purchase of defence equipment which has already been partly purchased? [More…]

• The Loan (Defence) Act of 1968 provided for the borrowing by the Commonwealth of a further $US75m to assist in financing the purchase of the Fill aircraft. [More…]

• This is part of the defence equipment, as the Minister said recently, to round out the defence set-up. [More…]

• We do not have this aircraft and we do not look like having a rounded-out defence set-up until 1973. [More…]

• The basic attitude of the Australian Labor Party is that defence equipment or a substantial proportion of defence equipment purchased in this country, being expendable stores, ought, if possible, to be paid for from the revenue resources of the nation. [More…]

• If we are speaking about the Loan (Defence) Bill, according to page 3458 of my daily Hansard the motion for the second reading in the House of Representatives was resolved in the affirmative and no vote was taken. [More…]

• As the honourable senator has indicated, this Bil’l approves the borrowing of $100m for defence purposes - the purchase of general defence equipment. [More…]

• It will be part of the expenditure on the defence programme as postulated in the statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) some time ago. [More…]

• The precise details cannot be spelt out in this legislation, but the money is clearly for defence purposes. [More…]

• It extends far beyond the field of defence, into the field of the total loan programme for the Commonwealth and States. [More…]

• When loans are used at least some contribution is made by posterity to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• I think it is a fair proposition that it would be quite wrong to expect the people of 1970 to be completely responsible for a defence purchasing programme that may extend over a 5-year period or a 10-year period. [More…]

• The same situation applies in relation to defence. [More…]

• Because Australia is a huge country and our defence requirements are very heavy indeed, we could never properly defend this country if we had to rely solely upon revenue income. [More…]

• I say with great respect we can never do that if we hope to pay for our defence out of revenue alone. [More…]

• Both defence and national development need a forward looking programme. [More…]

• One of the most important provisions of this measure is its effect on members of the defence forces. [More…]

• of the Social Services Consolidation Act 1947-1948, any pension or allowance in respect of a child dependent upon the earnings of the employee, any payment other than a pension under the Superannuation Aci 1922- 1948 or the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Act 1948. deferred pay payable to the employee, any payment under section seventy-four of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1948 or under section eight of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1944) which the employee receives from the Commonwealth during the period of his incapacity and shall reduce the amount of the weekly payment otherwise payable under sub-paragraph (b) or sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (I.) [More…]

• Under the provisions of paragraph (1 A) (b) (ii) of the First Schedule of the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act the consolidated revenue portion of pensions grunted under the Superannuation Act and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act are taken into account in determining weekly compensation payments Any benefits due by way of extended leave or furlough are independent of. [More…]

• Should any case arise of the termination of the engagement of a survivor of the Voyager tragedy on medical grounds attributable to that event, and the serviceman concerned is in consequence granted a Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund pension, paragraph (IA) (b) (ii) of the First Schedule of the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act would be applicable. [More…]

• They said that the importance of the Australian synthetic fibre industry was shown by the fact that it produces essential raw materials used in the manufacture of textiles for apparel and in domestic, defence and industrial applications: it employs about 3,000 persons and pays almost $10m annually in salaries and wages; it uses fixed assets, that is. [More…]

• The Snowy Mountains Authority was set up originally under Australian defence powers for one purpose. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Supply in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask: What action is the Government taking to place orders upon Australian industry for the supply of the 3 Services of ships, helicopters, landing craft and other requirements outlined by the Minister for Defence in March last? [More…]

• The circumstances of the Government’s decisions to send to the Republic of Vietnam, at the invitation of the Government of that country, a group of Australian military instructors in 1962 and a combat force of an infantry battalion in 1965 were set out in statement, made respectively on 24th May 1962, by the then Minister for Defence, Mr Athol Townley, and un 29th April 1965 by the then Prime Minister, S’ir Robert Menzies. [More…]

• The hitler was made in the House of Representatives: the text of Die statement issued by Mr Townley is as follows: [‘The Minister for Defence, the Hon. [More…]

• Australia has already given some assistance to the Government of South Vietnam to meeting this threat by providing communications equipment, barbed wire and other materials fur village defence, and has promised more aid of this nature. [More…]

• Up to some 30 Australian Army personnel will oe sent to provide instruction in jungle warfare, village defence and other related activities such as engineering and signals. [More…]

• A Vietnam veteran is re-established on the land by obtaining a sum of money - 1 think it is $6,000- through (he Defence (Reestablishment) Act. [More…]

• The fourth fact necessitating the legislation was - it is a wonder that Senator Gair with his great defence of the States did not advert to it - that the States invited the Commonwealth to pass this legislation. [More…]

• Throughout this session we have seen Senator Greenwood spring to the defence of the well entrenched monopolies of this country. [More…]

• What about the millions of dollars the Government has wasted on defence? [More…]

• He is putting up a weak defence because he has run away from the things I have been talking about. [More…]

• It was typical of Sir Wilfrid that he then told me that he proposed to extend his tour abroad because he felt that he had contacts which could be of value to Australia, particularly from a defence and a security point of view. [More…]

• In view of the action of 200 members of the Navy who, according to the Minister for Defence, Mr Malcolm Fraser, have waited too long already for pay adjustments, can the Minister inform the Senate when adjustments will be made, acknowledging the principle that the RAAF air crew salaries should be adjusted to match movements in the civil aviation industry? [More…]

• For some time my Department has been represented on the Defence Conditions Committee which has been looking at pay and conditions in the Services. [More…]

• A number of national servicemen who prior to call-up were employed in the Commonwealth Public Service, have been discharged medically unfit interms of Section 52A of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1969: under that Section they are entitledto a gratuity as if they had been classified as Class’C’ under that Act. [More…]

• This benefit would be the entitlement under the Superannuation Act or that which would have been applicable under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]

• In view of the Treasurer’s announcement, last December, that ex-service pensioners would benefit from distribution of surplus assets from the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, what progress has been made in the distribution of these assets. [More…]

• Payments due to eligible pensioners from surplus assets in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund have been completed with the exception of amounts due to estates and a few cases in which there is still a need to ascertain current addresses; the bulk of the distribution was completed before Christmas 1969. [More…]

• The conditions of entitlement were set out in section 15’ of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act (No. [More…]

• 3)1968; the main requirements were that a member should have become liable to contribute to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund before 4th December 1959 and have received pension from the Fund at any time during the period 1st July 1959 to 30th June 1964. [More…]

• You would cancel all our defence contracts. [More…]

• The Budget is aimed at promoting the sound economic growth of the country whilst meeting the needs of the State governments and our objectives in the fields of defence, social welfare and assistance to rural industries. [More…]

• It represents the judgment of the Government as to what the shape of things should be in the next 12 months in terms of taxation, social service benefits, defence and the needs of all departments. [More…]

• I refer to a recent occasion when the provisions of section 127 of the Defence Act was invoked, If that is the correct term to use, to give substance to an argument that the power under that Act to make regulations included the power to make regulations not only for salaries but also for allowances. [More…]

• The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) then indicated that he had advice to the effect that the power to make regulations as to salary also included the power to make regulations as to allowances payable to senior officers of the defence Services. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• In my statement on Defence to the Parliament on 10th March 1970 (Hansard, page 241) I indicated that I was having this matter examined. [More…]

• Article 13 of the Status of Forces Agreement between Australia and the United States, which applies to the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, contains a similar provision. [More…]

• In the case of the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, representatives of the two Governments cooperate closely with the local authorities to ensure that Australian laws and regulations are observed. [More…]

• The most appropriate way of dealing with the honourable senator’s question is to outline briefly the situation at each of the 3 major defence aircraft production establishments, that is, the Government Aircraft Factories at Fishermen’s Bend and Avalon in Victoria, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Pty Ltd at Fishermen’s Bend in Victoria, and Hawker-De Havilland Australia Pty Ltd at Bankstown and Lidcombe in New South Wales. [More…]

• The main prospects for an early new work load are the possibility of producing Macchi aircraft for New Zealand, co-production of light, observation helicopters, the manufacture of an anti-aircraft missile for the Army, Turana production, project ‘N’ production, and participation in overseas defence projects through off-set orders, coproduction and subcontracting. [More…]

• Here are a couple more Communists for Senator Gair - former United States Defence Secretary Clark M. Clifford and a large segment of war-weary American public opinion. [More…]

• The amendment embraces many of the recommendations of the report of a presidential commission headed by Thomas S. Gates, who served as Defence Secretary in 1960. [More…]

• I can well imagine the smile coming across the face of General Giap, the North Vietnamese Defence Minister, who said that one of the objectives of the Communists was to destroy the will of the Western world to resist. [More…]

• It is interesting to note what Mr Som Dutt, an Indian, wrote in an Indian publication entitled ‘Security and Defence of South and South East Asia’. [More…]

• Doctor T. B. Millar of the Australian National University, writing in a publication of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre entitled Soviet Policies in the Indian Ocean area’, referred to Russia’s fear of China expanding her influence. [More…]

• The first is that history teaches us that a good proportion of British defence and diplomatic effort in India during the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century was devoted to containing Russian pressure southward when she, as a land power, was anxious to extend her influences by pressure from the land. [More…]

• Despite Government attempts to minimise the cost, it is apparent from an examination of defence and war expenditure that the cost is extremely high. [More…]

• A computer study of the national accounts of expenditure on defence and war over the last 12 years gives a trend line of expenditure up to the time of the Vietnam war which if projected represents hundreds of millions of dollars less than the expenditure shown on the actual trend line which swung upwards sharply when we put troops into the Vietnam war. [More…]

• The decision to purchase the Fill aircraft was not a defence proposal but an election gimmick. [More…]

• All honourable senators know that prior to 1963 there was a defence run-down as it was called. [More…]

• There was a reduced expenditure on defence. [More…]

• Since that time there has been an increased expenditure on defence not only as a result of the Vietnam war but also as a result of re-equipment which becomes necessary over a period of time when various equipment has to be replaced. [More…]

• Senator Murphy says that if the amount expended before the Vietnam war is related to the expenditure on defence since one can see a vastly increased defence expenditure since the Vietnam war started. [More…]

• They were unreal if for no other reason than that he used a period of well known low defence expenditure and compared it with a period of high defence expenditure. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Air whether it is a fact that effective operation of the Phantom aircraft to meet Australian defence requirements will depend upon in-flight refuelling and the use of tanker aircraft because of the Phantom’s short range? [More…]

• I wish to ask a question of the Leader of the Government in the Senate who represents the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Will this lead to an acceleration of our activities in defence measures so far as they concern the Indian Ocean trade routes? [More…]

• The Act makes this a defence in most circumstances. [More…]

• But let us assume that the Government is taking the responsibility for the defence and administration of Australia and that it finds that the expenditure is necessary. [More…]

• The Department of Defence vote has increased by 3.1 per cent over last year. [More…]

• 73 of the House of Representatives with reference to the appointment of a joint select committee to inquire into and report upon the defence forces retirement benefits legislation. [More…]

• If one looks at the estimates of expenditure mentioned in the Budget Speech one finds a vast number of avenues of expenditure - payments to the Slates, defence, mental health institutions, home nursing services, education scholarships, assistance to industry, assistance to wool growers, advances for capital purposes and a host of other items that Senator Young expects the Leader of the Opposition here to deal with adequately and then pay enough attention to primary industry. [More…]

• Although we have a holding budget I am pleased that we have been able to maintain our defence policy. [More…]

• Of course the Opposition is not interested in defence. [More…]

• All honourable senators, regardless of what we may say in this chamber in defence of our arguments and beliefs, have to accept responsibility not for what we meant to say but what we did say. [More…]

• I would assume that some very important matters will be referred to, say, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence when it is set up. [More…]

• The Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) apparently thinks that there is no better weapon of defence than a cricket bat. [More…]

• In a moment I will tell honourable senators just how cynically, how off-handedly, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) treated this matter when representations were made to him only a few weeks ago. [More…]

• They are available to you, Mr President, or to the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) or to the Minister for Defence if he is interested enough. [More…]

• On 18th February 1970 I wrote to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• To return again to some of the other matters in the Budget, we note that on this occasion the defence vote has been increased to $ J, 137m, which is an increase of 3.1 per cent over last year. [More…]

• I think that the people of this country would be more than interested in getting the truth as to what is being done with the defence allocation. [More…]

• For defence, sociological and economic reasons I believe that decentralisation is an important issue. [More…]

• In the 6 years since the Government involved Australia in the war in Vietnam - the figures I am about to cite were prepared for me by the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library - defence expenditure has amounted to $5,432,895,000- almost $5,5G0m. [More…]

• In other words, 25 per cent of the revenue raised by the Government from Australian taxpayers for defence purposes has been spent outside this country. [More…]

• With the concurrence of honourable senators 1 incorporate in Hansard details of defence expenditure from - the years 1964-65 to 1970-71. [More…]

• Of the estimated expenditure of almost $l,137m in the present financial year, some $23 3m will be spent abroad in the so-called defence of this country. [More…]

• the defence vote still does not adequately meet the requirements for Australian defence and security demanded according to the Government’s own Budget statement by “the changes occurring in international relationships especially as they affect South East Asia and Australia, and of developing defence policies which will serve us in the strategic developments of the future”; [More…]

• For example, the amendment of the ALP makes no reference at all to the vital issue of our defence. [More…]

• Our Party does not adopt the suggestion put by some people that we should protest merely because there may not have been an increase or a desirable increase in the defence vote each year. [More…]

• Our objection is to the failure of the Budget to contain an indication of a co-ordinated plan for the future defence of our country - a plan which should be based upon vital proposals such as one for a naval base in the west for the defence of northern Australia and also for our commitments to the assistance of allies, particularly those in South East Asia. [More…]

• The ALP amendment makes no reference at all to what is perhaps a vital issue in regard to our defence - the increasing number of resignations from the forces and the failure to maintain the strength particularly of officers and noncommissioned officers. [More…]

• We believe that an essential feature of the defence vote in any Budget is that provision should be made for improved remuneration for those who enter the service of their country so that in future young men may make the armed forces a career. [More…]

• If there is a proposition, what is to be the situation regarding the issues which the DLP has always said are most vital in any Australian election, those of defence and security? [More…]

• Are we going to be asked to collaborate to put the ALP into office in order that it may overturn every policy that we see as being vital to the defence and security of Australia. [More…]

• So I say to myself: ‘If there is a proposition, if there is a suggestion that the ALP should be put in power, where does it stand on defence and security? [More…]

• Today we have witnessed an exhibition of double standards by an Opposition which, when it desires to preach freedom can be very eloquent in defence of that concept. [More…]

• As the Minister for Defence said some time ago, a judgment will be made towards the end of next year at the earliest on whether the aircraft ultimately will reach the operational technical requirements of the RAAF. [More…]

• If so, will the Government consider providing the cost from the defence funds and so free $130m for allocation to the States for legitimate power requirements? [More…]

• He says that getting a better return from the same resources enables the nation to spend more on education and social services without having to short-change investment in the future and provisions for defence to do so. [More…]

• I believe this Government has to give a lead in making lawlessness come to an end because nothing is more certain than that the great majority of people in this country would follow without question a government which gave a strong, positive lead in these matters and which came out stoutly in defence of the law and showed the people of the Commonwealth that it firmly intended to uphold the law. [More…]

• I could be wrong about it, but as I understand the situation the total amount we are spending on defence is about $ 1,000m. [More…]

• Government supporters claim with a great deal of pride that they believe defence is imperative for Australia. [More…]

• They say that we must do everything to ensure that our defence is paramount, but actions speak louder than words. [More…]

• Notwithstanding increased costs and the effects of inflation, and the claim by Government supporters that pegging workers’ wages will prevent price increases - those price increases have occurred - the appropriation for defence in this Budget has been increased by only 3.1 per cent over last year’s defence expenditure. [More…]

• Taking into consideration the inflationary spiral of the last year, defence expenditure is actually to be reduced in this Budget. [More…]

• At the same time this Budget helps to achieve other great national objectives in important areas such as defence, social welfare and the economic welfare of industry - including our great woolgrowing industry .. . [More…]

• We are talking about a sound economic growth, a fair and increasing share to State governments of the gross national product: social welfare; the consideration of the importance of defence; the economic welfare of industry: assistance to the wool growing industry: and tax relief to lower and middle income groups. [More…]

• In that period of 20 years Defence expenditure has risen by 10 times. [More…]

• Defence expenditure has risen 10 times. [More…]

• Defence expenditure rose by 10 times. [More…]

• In defence purchases from the United States, instead of paying out money we had a net improvement of $3m. [More…]

• If I get talking about defence I will criticise honourable senators opposite further. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Air recall the statement by the Minister for Defence on 12th May this year that the use of the type D6ac steel in the Fill aircraft ‘overshadows all other problems at this time’? [More…]

• Will this threat lead to an acceleration of Australian defence measures, so far as they concern the Indian Ocean trade routes. [More…]

• The views of the Australian Government remain as expressed to the House in Mr McMahon’s statement on19th March 1970 and in the statement of the Minister for Defence on 1 0th March 1970. [More…]

• At the same time this Budget helps to achieve other great national objectives in important areas such as defence, social welfare and the economic welfare of industry - including our great woolgrowing industry that is currently beset by special problems. [More…]

• On the question of the Budget helping to achieve objectives in important areas such as defence, what was the planning that went into the purchase of the Fill aircraft? [More…]

• Australian defence industries, about which we have spoken in this place, have not really been started or been given the assistance which any government should give them. [More…]

• Despite occasional strong Ministerial statements, Government policy towards the industry seems to be one of scratching around for some defence work to keep the industry going. [More…]

• Defence will take $34m and social welfare $157m. [More…]

• 1 turn now to defence. [More…]

• As most people will be aware, the Democratic Labor Party gives first priority to defence and foreign affairs. [More…]

• I have stated on many occasions that social and domestic policies - no matter how just or progressive - are not worth the paper on which they are written unless this country is guided by a realistic foreign policy and has adequate defences. [More…]

• Consequently, I am extremely disappointed by the likely fall in the defence expenditure from 4.6 per cent of the gross national product in 1967-68 to an estimated 3.3 per cent in 1970-71. [More…]

• The monetary increase in the proposed defence expenditure this year over the expenditure of last year does not disguise the fact that we will be spending a lesser percentage of the gross national product on defence. [More…]

• I will pass very quickly through the defence allocation of Si, 137m. [More…]

• He says that getting a better return from the same resources enables the nation to spend more on education and social services without having to short-change investment in the future and provisions for defence to do so. [More…]

• Of course, the Government has obligations with regard to defence. [More…]

• Defence is one of the paramount obligations of the Government. [More…]

• Apparently the Government recognises this fact because it has provided more than SI, 100m for defence, which represents a 3 per cent increase on the amount provided last year. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask: Is it a fact that Australia’s defence planning is being impeded by a shortage in staff, a failure to recruit specialist staff or the application of new management or organisational procedures which have resulted in considerable delays in purchases amounting to millions of dollars? [More…]

• As this question has an importance which relates to the Department of Defence it warrants a considered reply from the Minister for Defence, and it may well be that I shall wish to add a supplement to that reply insofar as my own Department is concerned. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that in matters dealt with by the Appeals Board, conducted under section 55 of the Public Service Act, persons charged with offences or subject to disciplinary procedures are being denied access to the transcript of proceedings and other documents essential to the conduct of their defence? [More…]

• the defence vote still does not adequately meet the requirements for Australian defence and security demanded according to the Government’s own Budget statement by ‘the changes occurring in international relationships especially as they affect South East Asia and Australia, and of developing defence policies which will serve us in the strategic developments of the future’; [More…]

• The fixed commitments - that is, the inescapable commitments, those which may vary from year to year in amount but are fixed in obligation, either in political obligation or in contractual obligation - are things such as the defence commitment, payments to or for the States, social welfare payments, the ordinary administrative costs of the Government and matters of that character. [More…]

• In the area of what I call the rigidity of the Budget, the matter we have raised to the prime position in our amendment is the provision of Australian defence. [More…]

• Australia therefore is now in the position that she must pursue her national destiny independently, using her own resources, making her own national decisions, taking up her own international positions, adapting herself to international situations as she sees them and making her own decisions on defence, foreign affairs and international economic policy. [More…]

• In terms of the Latin phrase salus populest suprema lex - the safety of the people is the supreme law - we must necessarily, as a matter of national obligation, elevate the defence of Australia to a position of prime concern. [More…]

• Because this is so, we must continuously write into national Budgets firm and rigid commitments in the area of defence. [More…]

• Despite all the talk in the world and no matter which party is in power, it will have to face up, in some degree or another, to the necessity for major defence votes for Australia in the context in which Australia finds herself. [More…]

• I do not propose to make this a speech on foreign policy; but, because we make a point of the inadequacy of the financial provision for the defence requirements of [More…]

• Those are the areas in which, by the Australian military presence, the defence requirement to a major degree is committed. [More…]

• Quite apart from that, it is also an indication of our own concern for the security of this nation in a process of forward defence. [More…]

• If that is so, the provision of finance to back such defence commitments is an inseparable part of our national obligation but necessarily writes into the Budget a certain rigidity which again is inescapable. [More…]

• Therefore, if in this Budget we accept the rigidity of an adequate defence provision, limiting opportunities that might otherwise be given to a government for expenditure in other fields which it might be the wish of any government to engage in - to extend the social and cultural life of the community - this is one of the inescapable facts of Australian life at this period of our national development and this period of our history and of the world around us. [More…]

• If not, there will be constriction from year to year until the Budget will become like the laws of the Medes and the Persians and in the hands of any government of any complexion, unless it can cut down on essential and fixed commitments like defence, we will get the difference only between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. [More…]

• Honourable senators will note that most of the propositions in our amendment are positive in context and penetrate to the fundamentals of the Australian economy - fundamentals such as defence. [More…]

• The defence vote still does not adequately meet the requirements for Australian defence and security . [More…]

• demanded according to the Government’s own Budget statement by ‘the changes occurring in international relationships especially as they affect South East Asia and Australia, and of developing defence policies which will serve us in the strategic developments of the future’; [More…]

• If we supported that part of the paragraph we would be adopting the basic assumption of the Government’s defence policies, which we reject. [More…]

• through a coalescence of Commonwealth power in the fields of taxation, defence, external affairs, meteorology, fisheries, quarantine, and other fields, sufficient legislative competence to lay down and enforce a national approach through Commonwealth legislation alone. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence the following question which I placed on the notice paper on 10th June: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• They will not be at the expense of those nations’ own defence, indeed they will contribute to their security which they see bound up with events in Cambodia. [More…]

• I believe that a war widow is receiving not a pension but a compensation for the loss of her husband who died in defence of his country. [More…]

• its main responsibility is the defence, security and development of this country as a nation. [More…]

• We would be saying to this capable, honourable tribunal: Take the running of the economy of this country into your own hands, spend what you like on social services, and then when you have told us what you are going to do we will tell the people what we can do, if anything, for the development of this country in relation to health, hospitals, education, defence and grants to the States.’ [More…]

• Even if it cost $40m that is not a great amount of money in the context of a Budget which provides $1.403m for defence. [More…]

• I am not being critical of the defence expenditure. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that soldiers will receive an increase in their pay as soon as the complicated committees set up by the Defence Department and other departments get under way. [More…]

• The first motion on the books is a matter concerning the defence of this country. [More…]

• Whatever one’s views may be as to how our defence ought to be conducted and what decision ought to be made in relation to it, it is an extremely important matter which has been raised by an honourable senator. [More…]

• That motion deals with defence. [More…]

• We of the Democratic Labor Party put the matter of defence and foreign affairs very high on the list of priorities in our platform. [More…]

• Yet we find that the overall percentage increase for repatriation pensions and benefits is less than the percentage increase in the defence vote of this country. [More…]

• But that observation is made in the superior context that national security and national defence require a system of defence. [More…]

• At the present time the Government’s system of defence is national service which requires that every individual, irrespective of occupation, status or qualifications, should take an equal turn in the ballot for national service. [More…]

• We believe that this system is the only fair and equitable one to be maintained in the present circumstances of Australia’s defence. [More…]

• Disobedience of a military order is subversive to the whole idea of defence. [More…]

• But, Mr President, the words I used were that advice of this sort was seriously subversive to the discipline which alone in the armed forces could create effective defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister repre senting the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The only defence offered by the Government is that some of the publications are unnecessary. [More…]

• In fact, if the Government were to decide that there was an urgent matter which required the spending of a large amount of its revenue in a particular financial year - it might be upon defence - the Post Office could be restricted in its expansion. [More…]

• One way would be to reduce government expenditure on pensions, health, education or defence. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Air seen a report in today’s Press to the effect that yesterday the United States House of Representatives approved of the payment of certain moneys for 40 Fill aircraft which have completed severe tests and been found to be structurally sound for use by the United States Defence Department? [More…]

• As I have informed the Senate previously, technical and scientific officers of the Department of Defence and the Department of Air, are monitoring both in the United States of America and in Australia the testing programme of this aircraft. [More…]

• I would like to remind .the Senate and the honourable senator who asked the question that when the Fraser mission visited the United States in April the United States Secretary of Defence agreed to meet the specified operational and technical requirements which we believe are necessary if this aircraft is to perform a strike role in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Air aware of the reported decision of the United States House of Representatives yesterday approving the payment of $283m for 40 Fill fighters which the Defence Department said had been found ‘structurally sound’? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate why there is the great discrepancy between the cost of the American purchase, namely, 283m for 40 FI 1 1 fighters, as against the advice from the Minister for Defence that the last known cost, though not a firm final figure, for Australia’s 24 Fill fighters was $262m? [More…]

• If he is not in the position to give a ready answer will he refer the matter to the Minister for Defence for his attention and early advice? [More…]

• My question ls addressed to the Minister for Supply who represents in this chamber the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• A submission on it has now gone to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• When can we expect the Australian Government to abandon the national service scheme which is also divisive, costly and inequitable, and to adjust the pay conditions of all servicemen so as to restore the traditional Australian volunteer defence force? [More…]

• In each of the last 10 years, how much has Australia paid or agreed to pay to the United States of America for defence material and services. [More…]

• Thecommitment of funds in the United Stales of America for defence materials and services for . [More…]

• I think we should be considering how much these charges should be discounted for defence reasons. [More…]

• We know that there are several airfields in Australia that are used by the defence Services as well as by the Department of Civil Aviation. [More…]

• The Government has for a number of years neglected defence bases in Western Australia and has announced that it is going to do something about Cockburn Sound and that .it will upgrade Learmonth airport so that it can.be used by whatever aircraft - whether it be the Phantom or the Fill - is to be chosen for Western Australia’s defence. [More…]

• There is provision in one of our Acts whereby the Commonwealth Government can commandeer all the aircraft owned by the domestic airlines and by Qantas for defence purposes. [More…]

• What amount should be discounted for defence purposes, from the cost of providing navigational aids? [More…]

• For instance, should we not attribute some part of the cost to the provision of future defence facilities? [More…]

• Cost attributable to defence needs totalled another $8.4m, the airlines said. ‘ [More…]

• Senator Cant raised some interesting points when he was arguing that various proportions of the cost should be charged to defence, national development and so on. [More…]

• I presume this means that it is now possible to say how much of the cost of facilities should be directly charged to defence and how much the facilities might be charged to community services, etc. [More…]

• What is appropriate in ali the circumstances in different localities, and what transfers are made in relation to all the aspects of national development or defence commitments when depreciation is assessed? [More…]

• In my opinion there is no reason why the information should not be given to the Senate so that we will be aware of the general objectives of the Department, which are stated as being to recover as much as is economically possible in relation to the operations and responsibilities of domestic and international airline operators, but not to impose upon them an obligation to pay for something which is clearly a national responsibility, whether it be in relation to national development, the extension of rural aviation services or defence purposes. [More…]

• What the working group is now trying to do, as proposed by the Government after receiving many complaints from the operators, is to put these matters into special categories and to decide to what extent airports in various isolated parts of the country, for example, are more a defence or national development facility than a commuter or necessary community service. [More…]

• It is trying to decide to what extent intrastate services might be purely community services or to what extent certain airports are defence establishments. [More…]

• There are elements in the provision of aerodromes - elements concerning decentralisation, defence and a multitude of other matters - which bear upon the development of a country like Australia. [More…]

• He indicated how money could be saved in many ways by avoiding the tremendous wastage which occurs in defence procurement, particularly on items such as the Fill aircraft. [More…]

• It wilt compromise with them on matters of defence. [More…]

• I refer to joint parliamentary committees such as the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Committee. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Royal Australian Air Force fighter base at Butterworth, which accommodates a substantial part of the Australian fighter capacity, at present has no air defence system and the minimum airfield defence complement? [More…]

• I am not sure what the defence system is at the moment, but I will make it my business to find out and let the honourable senator know. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question, and it is in almost identical terms to the answer given to the previous question: [More…]

• A ministerial statement on defence was adjourned on 10th March, in accordance with the formal motion that it be adjourned to the next day of sitting. [More…]

• One of the items which it has for discussion during General Business relates to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• In recent years because of the departure of Great Britain from our area and the necessity for us to be more self-reliant in defence we have had to spend a lot more money on our security. [More…]

• They have not the moral courage or the background to enable them to enter the debate in defence of their Government. [More…]

• The conservation of fodder which is a defence against any drought has been encouraged by tax concessions and freight subsidies. [More…]

• Tax concessions allow the establishment of sheds, storage spaces, silos and the like for the holding of supplies which are an essential defence if we are to meet a drought when and where it occurs in this country. [More…]

• I have informed the Senate on a number of occasions that the Department of Defence and my own Department are considering trying to get a 707-320 as a tanker-cum-transport aircraft. [More…]

• (4)I presume that theother forms of compensation referred to by the honourable senator are payments under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act and the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act.I am not aware of the numbers of widows and children receiving payments under that legislation. [More…]

• By his use of the termother forms of compensation,I presume the honourable senator is referring to payments under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act and the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act. [More…]

• In that 21 years expenditure on defence has become 10 times greater although the total amount spent has risen by 7 times only. [More…]

• Various other items are involved, but in the broad a great lump of the money that the Commonwealth provides for expenditure is in the area of defence and payments to the States. [More…]

• The calls for funds from universities, for roads, health, social services, defence and assistance to industry have increased greatly, not only in total but also per head of population. [More…]

• It always will be a tremendous problem when society is expecting the revenue to provide a great number of services; where in effect it has a great expenditure pattern for various reasons such as defence, development of the country, social welfare - all these things which really call for a lot of money. [More…]

• If the document entitled ‘Australian Military Forces Pocketbook South Vietnam’ is on issue to the defence forces, and even if it is on a restricted list, will he make a copy available to the Senate for perusal? [More…]

• They are questions Nos 422 and 423 and are directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The normal procedure for me, as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, when questions are outstanding for any length of time is to attempt to obtain replies to them. [More…]

• The honourable senator attempts to divert us by talking about defence. [More…]

• It will talk about a 35-hour week; it will talk about defence; it will talk about anything but its failure to take effective action against price rigging. [More…]

• These people were ignored completely in the Minister’s defence, almost as though their problems do not exist. [More…]

• In particular, the State is interested in the land on the foreshores of Sydney Harbour held by the Commonwealth for defence and other purposes on which it proposes to establish a national park. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has a sympathetic understanding of the State’s interest in the Sydney Harbour foreshore lands but at the same time our responsibilities for essential defence services cannot be ignored. [More…]

• If anyone wants to have a discussion on the defence of this country surely it would be Senator Byrne in whose name a motion stands as the first business for tonight. [More…]

• The third matter dealt with defence. [More…]

• At the time the third matter was listed it had a particular urgency because of the absence of any specified and articulated Government defence programme. [More…]

• Shortly after that the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a most comprehensive defence statement to the Parliament. [More…]

• The statement of the Minister for Defence answered a great number of the queries which may have been raised during the course of such a debate. [More…]

• It seems to me that it was common consent then that as a matter of priority this matter had lost some of the element of its urgency in view of the statement by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Under the Act there is an obligation on all 20-year-olds who are called up by the Minister to serve in the defence forces of Australia. [More…]

• Therefore it is a defence which is provided by the Act against prosecution. [More…]

• The regulation which Senator Cavanagh impugns is one which gives the Minister authority to refer a defence 1o a court- die question of whether any conscientious beliefs exist The only effect of that is to give the defendant an opportunity to prove that he holds a conscientious belief and therefore would be exempt from service under the Act. [More…]

• The Government believes that it is a law which is essential to strengthen our defence forces. [More…]

• 7m in advances to the States under the Housing Agreement, including supplementary advances for housing of the defence forces. [More…]

• Britain’s new While Paper on defence gives Australia the major responsibilityfor air defence of Malaysia and Singapore and it also gives to Australia the senior role in the army garrison maintained by Britain, Australia and New Zealand. [More…]

• The exact composition of Australia’s contribution to Cambodia’s defence against Vietnamese Communist aggression has been and is being determined in the light of consultations with the Cambodian Government. [More…]

• Is it a fact that land on Horn Island has now been transferred from the Department of Defence to the Department of Housing; if so, how many buildings blocks will be made available and can the Minister explain the reason for the secrecy that is apparently associated with the project. [More…]

• This 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 F111 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 F111 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 Loan Council is not required. [More…]

• Is it a fact, perhaps, that the land has not been released yet by the Department of Defence? [More…]

• Is it a fact that land on Horn Island has now been transferred from ihe Department of Defence lo the Department of Housing’.’ [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• If the document entitled Australian Military Forces PocketbookSouth Vietnam is on issue to the defence forces, and even if it is on a restricted list, will he make a copy available to the Senate for perusal. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Is a document entitled Australian Military Forces Pocketbook ‘South Vietnam’ on issue to the defence forces; if so, does it, as is claimed by the Catholic Worker, give only right wing accounts of the Vietnam war. [More…]

• I take advantage of the debate on the estimates of the Department of the Treasury, particularly in relation to the Commonwealth Superannuation Board and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]

• Defence Services [More…]

• as an instruction to the Government that it should move for the appointment of a joint committee to inquire into and report upon the Australian Defence Forces in relation to: [More…]

• During the past 3 or 4 years to my knowledge, when trying to keep pace with increases in pay which should be applied to members of the defence Services, a number of our committees have been faced with the problem that, because of the processes of back-dating, there would have to be retrospective payments. [More…]

• Late last year, after great protests and a large number of resignations from the Services, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) decided to set up a committee, but during the first months of operation of that committee it became apparent that it could not handle the situation that was developing in the services. [More…]

• In the Budget an allocation of $1, 137m is proposed for the defence services, yet we have nol found a means of giving serving members of the forces a fair go. [More…]

• Some 200 serving ratings in the Royal Australian Navy walked off 5 ships and almost instantaneously the Minister for Defence approved a wage increase for them of $8 a week. [More…]

• This was a most unusual circumstance in the Australian defence scene. [More…]

• The Government, the Department of Defence, and heads of the Services recognised that there were great injustices and accepted actions by serving officers and men that in other days might have been regarded as mutinous. [More…]

• He became Secretary of the Department of Defence and retired because of the effluxion of time. [More…]

• He recently made some observations about the general situation obtaining in the defence Services, to which I will refer presently. [More…]

• If honourable senators examine the ‘Defence Report 1970’ they will see that the Minister for Defence has drawn attention to some matters which relate to the dissatisfaction with Service conditions and contribute to the growing number of resignations. [More…]

• I know from recent experience that there has been considerable dissatisfaction amongst the Jervis Bay naval personnel, as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence would know. [More…]

• I take the opportunity while 1 am on my feet to direct to the attention of the Department of Defence some of the abnormal delays associated with decisions. [More…]

• The present Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) seems to have his own system. [More…]

• 1 want to know how the proportion of salaries of staff of the Commonwealth Loans Organisation becomes a commitment of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I presume that the loans are essential for defence requirements, but why should they be grouped under the heading Recruiting Campaign’, permitting the Department to show the figures as concerned with recruitment? [More…]

• One would question the success of this campaign when, as we have just heard from Senator Bishop, it would appear that the numbers we are succeeding in getting into the defence forces are being lost just as fast. [More…]

• The other question I want to raise concerns Division 609 - Defence Aid for South Vietnam, $3,304,000. [More…]

• Australia did not give defence aid to this country in the last financial year. [More…]

• However, looking at Division 608 - Defence Aid for Malaysia and Singapore, it appears that the defence aid given to these countries has been reduced by a similar amount to that which has been given to Vietnam - from $8,207,000 last financial year to $5,500,000 in the current appropriation. [More…]

• It appears that this amount has been transferred to defence aid that is to be given to South Vietnam. [More…]

• 1 thought that the situation in South Vietnam had reached a stage where that country could take over it own defence and that the activities of Australians in that country would be concentrated on the pacification programme and in helping to develop the country. [More…]

• However, under this appropriation we are giving a direct vote for defence. [More…]

• I cannot recall discussion or consideration of whether it would be wise to provide defence aid. [More…]

• Before we make gifts to South Vietnam for defence I think wc should have some assurance that the aid will be used for the purpose for which it is given. [More…]

• I would like to have any information that can be obtained on the nature of the defence aid which is to go to South Vietnam. [More…]

• Senator Cavanagh has asked about defence aid to South Vietnam which amounts to $3,304,000. [More…]

• Australia has agreed to undertake a comprehensive programme of civil, military and defence support aid to South Vietnam extending over a 3-year period. [More…]

• This vole has been created under the control of the Department of Defence to take charges relating to, firstly, the provision of personnel for military advisory training and civil action and similar schemes carried out by the Australian forces in Vietnam: secondly, accommodation and equipment for the Nui Dat training centre; and thirdly, military and supplementary military aid to South Vietnamese forces. [More…]

• I think Senator Cavanagh drew a comparison between the estimated expenditure for defence aid for South Vietnam, which is a new line estimate, and the estimated expenditure for defence aid for Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]

• Defence aid which is given to Malaysia and Singapore is at the end of a cycle, whereas aid given to Vietnam is at. [More…]

• In the series of approvals a total of $45,128,000 has been made available to provide a programme of defence aid to Malaysia and Singapore for the period up to 31st December 1970. [More…]

• The motion which has been moved by Senator Bishop is a vehicle to reduce the Defence Services appropriation by $10. [More…]

• We all understand that in the parliamentary sense this motion expresses a criticism of the Department of Defence in relation to the question of pay and the conditions of service.I believe that we should vote on this question and dispose of it in one way or the other. [More…]

• It is true that in (he field of the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Scheme which relates in some directions to the conditions of Service personnel an all party parliamentary committee of both Houses has been set up. [More…]

• There is a fairly substantial sum appropriated for the administration of the Act but the appropriation for payments under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act under Division 760 has increased by only a very small amount. [More…]

• I suggest that the amount that is now paid under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act ought to be doubled or perhaps even trebled because no young person can re-establish himself in the rural industry with the small amount of money that he is now entitled to, nor can he re-establish himself after an absence of about 2 years from civil life in any small business undertaking. [More…]

• Senator Keeffe will notice that under subdivision 1 the vote asked for this year is $606,000 for payments under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act. [More…]

• I want to refer to an issue which was raised in the Committee and it applies to the Defence Services, Division 755, concerning the appropriation for the administration of the National Service Act. [More…]

• I have in my hand something that was issued by the Council for the Defence of Government Schools, which I think has been sent out to members of Parliament and senators. [More…]

• Secondly, it reminds us that a solicitor’s function is, according to the facts, to advocate any rational reason or defence before a court of law for the application of the law but not to make himself a party to any revolutionary manoeuvre that might include as part of it defensive proceedings in a court of law. [More…]

• An interdepartmental committee was established by the Department of Defence to inquire into conditions of incarceration in military corrective establishments. [More…]

• References have been made to the Department of Defence, to the Department of Air and some to the Department of Health. [More…]

• Quite apart from the air defence arm of aviation, with domestic aviation doubling about every 5 years we can see the strain on the system, the strain on finance, the strain on ground facilities and the strain on equipment, and the essential need for maintaining high levels of training. [More…]

• When it introduced the present national service scheme the Government acted in accordance with the powers conferred on it by the Constitution and it did so after an exhaustive review of defence policy and several years experience had indicated it was the only way to increase the strength of the Regular Army to the extent necessary. [More…]

• The service required of national servicemen is as provided for in the relevant provisions of the Defence Act and the National Service Act; there are no constitutional difficulties. [More…]

• He proceeded against his employers and the defence was that as it was a Commonwealth place and had been acquired by the Commonwealth, State law did not apply. [More…]

• This Bill seeks parliamentary approval to borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to $US125m for the purchase of defence equipment in United States of America. [More…]

• It has been mentioned that, under the Loan (Defence) Act 1966, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US450m. [More…]

• Under the Loan (Defence) Act 1970, which was passed earlier this year, the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US89m. [More…]

• We certainly dealt also with the wider issue of purchasing United States defence equipment in this period. [More…]

• The Labor Party does not agree with the remarks of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who said in the other place that this is a favourable opportunity for borrowing overseas. [More…]

• As 1 have mentioned, the Minister for Defence in another place quite belatedly provided a list of the items which will be covered by this purchase. [More…]

• We know that some of the items which are indicated as necessary defence requirements are items which, if proposed to Australian industry, could be manufactured in whole or in part by Australian manufacturers. [More…]

• It is quite obvious that despite pressures from the Opposition and despite some recognition by the Government that there has to be a certain sharing by Australian manufacturers in the production of the defence items being purchased, not enough progress has been made in this desirable direction. [More…]

• The national accounting estimates for public authority, receipts and expenditure, shows that in these years the overseas outlays for war and defence in the following years were: In 1965-66. [More…]

• In 1965-66, the amount was $85,907,000- In 1966-67 it was $118,629,000; in 1967-68 it was $125,232,000; in 1968-69 it was $174,139,000; in 1969-70 it was $95,757,000, which of course is still an extremely heavy expenditure in view of the acceptance, as I have said, as far back as the time when Sir Allen Fairhall was Minister for Defence, of the principle that we should produce as much as we can within Australia and as far as possible get co-production arrangements or offset orders. [More…]

• It has been posed by none other than the former Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Henry Bland, who was also at one time the Secretary of the Department of Labour and [More…]

• The Japanese Government is initiating policies like the major American defence policies. [More…]

• It has been stated that this very competent ex-Government official lit a number of fires during his term of office in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• He wrote about this general position of defence competence in Australia: [More…]

• Perhaps the outsiders will accelerate the Uend to independent and novel Australian solutions to defence equipment needs. [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…]

• We are continuing to be dependent upon overseas sources for most of our defence equipment. [More…]

• It would help this country of your commercial adoption if you could arrange for some major American defence company to bring sub-contract work here. [More…]

• We have been seeking to get subcontract work in relation to some of these orders to ensure that once again Australian industry will have the opportunity to be co-ordinated into the supply of our own defence equipment. [More…]

• I refer to page 12 of the ‘Defence Report 1970’, in which the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said: [More…]

• We believe that a more positive policy should be adopted towards this matter, and that a major part of our defence requirements ought to be produced within Australia. [More…]

• (4.7) - In reply - The Opposition has indicated that it will oppose the second reading of this Bill which seeks parliamentary approval for borrowings by the Commonwealth of up to $US125m for the purchase of defence equipment in the United States of America. [More…]

• The Government’s argument is that since we have determined to purchase defence equipment overseas, if we can borrow at a reasonable rate of interest and if we can borrow on advantageous terms, then to the extent that we do borrow overseas for our requirements we improve our own domestic capital position. [More…]

• The rate for defence loans is determined by the cost of money to the United States Government at the time the loan is negotiated. [More…]

• I think that the main part of Senator Bishop’s argument was related to the fact that, firstly, Australia should manufacture its own defence requirements and, secondly, that where we do go overseas to purchase defence equipment or, for that matter, civil equipment, we should at all times seek to get a flow back of offset orders. [More…]

• It is true, as Senator Bishop said, that tremendous impetus was given to this matter during the period when Sir Allen Fairhall was Minister for Defence and when Sir Henry Bland was head of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Getting away from the aircraft industry, although there is a problem there - I am trying to be brief as Senator Bishop was brief - as far as our defence equipment is concerned our needs may be very small for some type of equipment and it would just be sheer folly for us to say: Right, we need this particular type of equipment so we will manufacture it in Australia.’ [More…]

• Servicemen: The Minister for Defence has informed me as follows: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Thew reductions are spread right across the board, but it will be observed thai the areas where the more substantial savings have been made are defence, capital works and capital advances. [More…]

• The Public Service Board reported to me that a routine statistical projection made prior to my instructions indicated an increase in 1970-71, in full-time employment under the Public Service Act, of 4.6 per cent on the numbers employed as at 30th June 1970.In 1969- 70 the comparable increase was 4.8 per cent, whilst the increase in total civilian and defence forces employment in the community was 4 per cent. [More…]

• In defence of my Party I want to reply to the suggestion by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Murphy) that we had a tremendous opportunity to do something about this during the 1970-71 Budget debate. [More…]

• Firstly, 1 am pleased to say that the defence forces have made a considerable contribution towards rescue and other emergency operations. [More…]

• Minister for Defence have replied? [More…]

• There is a general rule relating to the disposal of aircraft or of any defence equipment by the Services. [More…]

• He said, without prior consultation with anybody, that there could not be any self government or independence in relation to matters of external affairs or defence. [More…]

• The House of Assembly now consists of 84 elected representatives and 10 nominated representatives.- Last July the Prime Minister made a significant’ statement in which he- said that legislative authority having been exercised with such credit to the local Assembly, we had come to the conclusionthat the responsibilities and authority of the local Administrator’s Executive Council should bc extended and that it should be responsible only to the indigenous elected members of that - Assembly, that it should take sole responsibility for educational matters, public health, tourism, cooperatives, -business advisory services, workers compensation, industrial training, posts and telegraphs and other matters, reserving to Australia responsibility in matters of external security, enforcement of law and order, the judiciary, defence and matters of that sort, I do not wish to repeat the complete statement of the position. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Supply as such and as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• To what extent will the $1On cut in defence procurements in Australia announced by the Minister for Defence, and which apparently will include such items as spare parts and related equipment, affect the efficiency of Australian private and government factories and their ability to supply goods and services which might otherwise be expensive imports and thus create a demand, in special circumstances, for the importation of such articles? [More…]

• I shall place it on notice and refer it to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• When the Department of Defence supplies information I will add a component dealing with the matters related to the Department of Supply, l will give the honourable senator and the Senate a comprehensive answer. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Good topographic maps are of course essential 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…]

• The area in which the most substantial savings are to be made is defence. [More…]

• The proposition put forward by the Minister for Air that the Australian Wool Industry Conference is superior to the Senate would not be accepted by 5 per cent of the Australian people-, yet the Minister made that a defence of his policy. [More…]

• Will the Leader of the Government explain the conflicting reports from Vietnam on Australian civil aid programmes and the misleading statements by the Minister for Defence? [More…]

• I ask honourable senators to bear in mind that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition posed a question on this matter in the other place yesterday, to which the Minister for Defence gave a reply, lt would be inappropriate and very unwise for me to start assuming things from the Minister’s reply. [More…]

• -I desire to ask a question of either the Minister representing the Minister for the Army or the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• National Service was introduced in Australia in 1 965to provide a defence force of the size necessary to protect the security of Australia and to give support to defence planning and preparations being developed in conjunction with our allies. [More…]

• In that event any periods of full-time defence service they may have rendered overseas would be recognised and they would be liable only for a residual period of national service. [More…]

• I have on the notice paper a proposal for the appointment of a select committee on defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of the extreme resentment felt by Service personnel at the cancellation of inter-Service sports events on the grounds of budgetary economy? [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 1st April 1961 because all payments made prior to thai 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…]

• The inspector has gone along to the house and has seen a television set or a radio set and the owner has not had a licence, and really there is no defence. [More…]

• Therefore he has no opportunity to acquire legal aid or to submit a defence. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence; [More…]

• There is also the matter of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• One of the Democratic Labor Party senators has on the notice paper a proposal that a select committee on defence be appointed. [More…]

• Surely an inquiry into the whole topic of defence ought to be one to be undertaken by a standing committee with the expert staff, the facilities and senators on both sides of the chamber, including the Democratic Labor Parly senators, anxious to inquire into the topic. [More…]

• The gag was imposed on discussion of certain of the Estimates last year, particularly those relating to defence - the Estimates for the Army and the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• Australia was not accepted as a party to this agreement because America was doubtful of Australia’s security in its defence establishments. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence explain the statement in the Press release of the then Minister for Defence on 21st February that the guidelines for civil action in 1971-72 issued by the Commander of the Australian forces in Vietnam, MajorGeneral C. A. E. Fraser, had been, in part, misunderstood? [More…]

• Will the statement that was made by the former Minister for Defence in the House of Representatives be made also in the Senate? [More…]

• What is the reason for the dispute between the Department of Defence and the Army? [More…]

• (2)Is he also aware that only the Minister for Trade and Industry, and the Minister for Defence have replied? [More…]

• One has to look also at the defence aspect. [More…]

• The Defence Pay Bill 1971 is one of the most curious pieces of legislation to come before the Senate for many a long day. [More…]

• The Bill is described as a Bill to validate certain payments made to or in respect of members of the defence forces between 1961 and 1963, and to civilian employees of the Royal Australian Navy up to June 1969. [More…]

• On my recommendation the Right Honourable J. G. Gorton was sworn as Minister for Defence on 1 0th March. [More…]

• On a number of occasions in the Senate I have mentioned that the defence aircraft industry, by its very nature, is subject to fluctuating work loads. [More…]

• As 1 have explained in the Senate, the Government’s policy is to maintain an efficient defence aircraft industry. [More…]

• I ask: Which department of th.2 Commonwealth owns and operates the Civil Defence School at Macedon in Victoria? [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform the Parliament why soldiers of the Citizen Military Forces below the rank of sergeant are not issued with polyester shirt and trousers for summer uniforms? [More…]

• Treasury and the Department of Defence. [More…]

• At present there are 4 joint committees, namely, the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, the Joint Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Joint Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House. [More…]

• We know that the findings of the latter Committee have been treated with contempt by the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), as I think he is now. [More…]

• Let us consider now the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I asked questions about the overall , situation of the committee of inquiry into Service detention arrangements and details of expenditure incurred by the Department of Defence on advertising for recruits for the Royal Australian Navy, the Army and the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Supply as such and as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, refers to reports about civilian staff at the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Minister may have seen a statement yesterday that staff who were recruited as part of the reorganisation of the Department of Defence commenced during the term of service of Sir Henry Bland are apprehensive about their future as a result of the appointment of a new Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is there likely to be any modification of the existing long term planning for defence? [More…]

• The question asked by the honourable senator is predicated on the basis that there has been a change in the Defence portfolio and that therefore there may be some difference of emphasis which will have some effect upon civilian staff. [More…]

• I am answering the question in good faith when I say that my own view would toe that the change will not have any significant influence upon the programme of the Department of Defence as suggested by the honourable senator. [More…]

• The defence programme, which affects the Service departments and my own Department, is a long term programme. [More…]

• Indeed, on the defence side, we talk in terms of a 5-year programme. [More…]

• If there is some change of emphasis somewhere I will be informed of it and as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence I would be happy to provide the information at question time. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the former Prime Minister who is now Minister for Defence is leaving this week for a 4-day visit to Vietnam and that the publicly stated reason for this visit is to assess the military position in Vietnam, I ask: Is it fair to expect a freshly appointed Minister for Defence who is racked by the humiliation of his recent fall from high office and who has only a hastily acquired concept of his new Department to be able to sum up the critical situation in Vietnam? [More…]

• The honourable senator has mentioned that the Minister for Defence is going to Vietnam to assess the military situation, but having said that he suggests that the issue should be decided now during question time before the Minister makes his visit. [More…]

• As to the honourable senator’s statement about the Minister for Defence not having an appreciation of the defence position - and I think he used the words ‘hasty concept’ - I say that the Minister for Defence has always had a very clear understanding of Australia’s defence both in his earlier portfolio as a Minister of one of the Services and then as Prime Minister. [More…]

• Obviously, in the final analysis the Prime Minister has to have a complete understanding of defence policies and organisation. [More…]

• I say to the honourable senators is that they can safely leave the mission that the Minister for Defence is undertaking to Vietnam to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate inform honourable senators of the exact nature of the brief that will be taken to South Vietnam by the Minister for Defence? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Air whether he has received a request from the Minister for Defence or the Department of Defence for a VIP aircraft to be made available to take the Minister for Defence to South Vietnam this week. [More…]

• The problems of increasing the wealth of Australia, of improving the standard of living of Australians and of providing a basis for the proper defence and security of this country in very large measure depend upon the questions of productivity and industrial efficiency, which have been touched on this afternoon. [More…]

• This was pointed to by the exPrime Minister, the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), in a debate early last year or the year before. [More…]

• I think - it is my thought alone - that if, for example, one were to look at the defence of this country, one might find that it would be far more important to attend properly to industrial efficiency and productivity than it would be to purchase, say, another half a dozen frigates or concern ourselves with the purchase of some military hardware from elsewhere. [More…]

• Substantially this measure flows from a decision taken, I think, in wartime in order to produce in Australia cellulose acetate flake primarily for rayon yarn for the manufacture of motor vehicle tyres for defence purposes, lt is still imported to produce this material in this country for defence purposes. [More…]

• It has been quite important to maintain the production of that company, both in terms of having an Australian source for normal use and to have an import alternative, and to have a defence position in reserve. [More…]

• I wish to pay a tribute to the civil defence organisations in the various towns in which floods occur. [More…]

• No words or sentiments of mine would be able to express the full credit which is due to the men and women of the civil defence organisations. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the exact nature of the brief that will be taken to South Vietnam by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI referred this question to my colleague the Minister for Defence who has provided the following information: [More…]

• During his recent visit to Vietnam, the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) had valuable discussions with Vietnamese leaders and with the Commander of United States forces in Vietnam. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Naval Defence Act to enable the Australian Sea Cadet Corps and the Naval Reserve Cadetsto be amalgamated into one body. [More…]

• The Naval Reserve Cadets, the older and smaller of these 2 bodies, had its origin in the Defence Act of 1903. which authorised the establishment of bodies of Naval and Military Cadets. [More…]

• From 1909 to 1930 the Naval Reserve Cadets consisted of youths of 12 to 18 years of age who were required to render universal training under the Defence Act. [More…]

• The Naval Defence Act was suitably amended in 1952 and the Australian Sea Cadet Corps regulations were made in 1954. [More…]

• Section 39 of the Naval Defence Act as amended in 1952 empowers the Naval Board to make arrangements with the Navy League of Australia for the instruction and equipment of the Australian Sea Cadet Corps. [More…]

• Section 38 of the Naval Defence Act makes provision for the Naval Reserve Cadets. [More…]

• At that time, on every occasion that something was said about defence it was suggested by Government supporters that the Labor Party would not take over Manus Island on behalf of Australia. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and concerns the Australian aircraft industry. [More…]

• Following the visit of the then Minister for Defence, Mr Malcolm Fraser, to America and discussions between the [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 properly, possible action to prevent such a disaster happening again, and whether changes are needed in the warning systems and emergency procedures. [More…]

• There is an established distribution for FAO documentation which includes the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Primary Industry and other appropriate Departments, depending on the subject-matter of the documents, lt is proposed that the Departments of Defence, External Territories. [More…]

• The defence offered by the two honourable senators who are lawyers. [More…]

• Senator Withers and Senator Byrne, is the classic defence. [More…]

• Following a visit to Vietnam by the new Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) the Government announced that Australia intendedto withdraw some 1,000 of her troops from Vietnam, leaving 2 combat battalions totalling some 6,000 troops in Vietnam. [More…]

• Whilst one of the lower ranking officers has been found guilty, as today’s ‘Australian’ reports the defence counsel for Calley as saying, this man was following his teachers’ instructions - kill, kill, kill. [More…]

• He no longer has the defence that he was acting under instructions from higher authorities. [More…]

• He no longer has the defence that he was carrying out military instructions. [More…]

• There is another question which must concern those who are interested in the future defence of any country. [More…]

• Forces in Vietnam 731 actions may bring a death sentence upon himself and in which he has no defence that he was acting on instructions, ft is unlikely that anyone would voluntarily put himself in the position of joining the Army knowing that he may be found guilty of causing the death of somebody other than under the normal requirements of military action. [More…]

• While it is a case of a life for a life and a struggle for survival, a person is justified in using a gun in his own defence. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Civil Aviation have an inquiry made into the reason why last Friday, 2nd April, a Trans-Australia Airlines Fokker Friendship aircraft, carrying a full load of passengers including the Minister for Defence and a number of parliamentarians, amongst whom was myself, proceeding to Melbourne and other destinations, was dispatched from Canberra terminal only to wait for 40 minutes at the end of the runway before takeoff because of Royal Aus- - tralian Air Force requirements? [More…]

• I refer to matters such as education, health, the States, the arts and a hundred and one other responsibilities, and finally the defence of this country. [More…]

• Is it a fact that resulting from a defence study the requirements and role of Australian helicopter squadrons are likely to be modified? [More…]

• A study is being conducted by the Department of Defence in respect of the maritime contribution of the Royal Australian Air Force in conjunction with Navy patrols. [More…]

• Therefore, profits of Australian companies provide a major source of the revenues needed to finance social services, defence, rural reconstruction, education and health services. [More…]

• One can only say in defence of the Government, as the Minister for Health (Senator Greenwood) did in his response that nobody, in Government or Opposition, can point the finger at the financial management of Australia during those years in trying to pinpoint the blame for this situation. [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• 15 - Defence - Ministerial Statement. [More…]

• 20 - Defence Aircraft Industry - Ministerial Statement. [More…]

• He gave not the slightest suggestion that he was opposed to the defence of this nation or to the national service legislation. [More…]

• In self defence they even had to dispose of the ruffians coming to arrest them. [More…]

• I have here details of the top 45 companies showing the value of their main defence contracts together with their products. [More…]

• The actual value of ail their defence contracts is probably 30 per cent to 40 per cent higher than the figure quoted - 1 will quote them in a moment - as the smaller contracts were numerous and time consuming to extract. [More…]

• The number of companies sharing in very small slices of the defence cake would be several thousand. [More…]

• I point out that the firm in question obtained defence contracts worth Sim in the past 2 years. [More…]

• The total number of contractors involved in the defence industry would number thousands. [More…]

• These Australian defence contractors are making millions at the price of the loss of Australian lives. [More…]

• Australia would be far better off had it devoted the whole of its defence expenditure in Vietnam to some sort of civil aid work in the underprivileged countries in the Asian area. [More…]

• The Government wants to save expenditure on expense so that it can spend the money that it saves by not building up Australia’s defence capabilities on electoral promises. [More…]

• by leave -I wish to inform the Senate that the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) left on 12th April to represent Australia at the Five 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) is acting Minister for Defence. [More…]

• If a Government does that it must make up its mind as to where else it will raise the revenue necessary for all the things that it must do in the fields of social service and defence and every other known field of government activity. [More…]

• The Department of Air has made a submission to the Department of Defence, which is examining the situation. [More…]

• The matter of in-flight refuelling for RAAF aircraft is still under consideration between my Department and the Department of Defence. [More…]

• 1 think it arose out of discussions on the Defence Bill and was connected with the proceedings of the Senate Regulations and Ordinances Committee. [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…]

• Can the Leader of the Government in the Senate verify a report in yesterday’s ‘Age’ of a speech by the former Minister for Defence, Mr Malcolm Fraser, in which he said that in future Western nations might not back non-Communist nations which were under threat and that Australia might have to act on its own initiative in future in making military commitments? [More…]

• That question was related to the allied subject of rehabilitation services and, in this regard, it is advised that certain rehabilitation benefits are provided for discharged national servicemen under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act, including the provision of vocational training and re-establishment loans, which come under my administration. [More…]

• The provision is made because of the involuntary interruption to normal life suffered by national servicemen, in contrast to voluntary enlistees in the defence forces whohave chosen the regular forces as a career or an alternative to some civil occupation. [More…]

• When we consider the various proposals which Senator Byrne said, with some pride, the Democratic Labor Party has brought forward as matters of urgency and attempt to assess the cost of all that has been proposed, we find that the Democratic Labor Party would have absolutely no money left to give to another area where it is urging constantly that more money should be spent, namely, the area of defence. [More…]

• I pose this question rhetorically: Where will the Democratic Labor Party find the $200m which it wanted for its pension increases and the many hundreds of millions of dollars increase which it wants in defence expenditure? [More…]

• You support the great defence project that is going on in Vietnam. [More…]

• In defence of the Government the Minister for Health (Senator Greenwood) and Senator Buttfield referred to what had been done for the people of Australia and particularly for the parents. [More…]

• The defence to this motion put forward by Government supporters makes that quite clear. [More…]

• The former Minister for Defence, Mr Fraser, admitted this in the last few days. [More…]

• Which Commonwealth Department operates the Civil Defence School at Mount Macedon in Victoria? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether he has seen reports of the alleged beating up of a naval cadet during initiation ceremonies at HMAS ‘Leeuwin’? [More…]

• In the statement made by the then Minister for Defence the cost of the lease was set out. [More…]

• The target strength for this financial year (as per the Defence Report 1970) is 36,000 and the current strength is approximately 4,500 below this. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether his attention has been drawn to a current news article in which it is suggested that Russia is developing a fortress type of island in the Indian Ocean in conjunction with the fleet it apparently has established in that ocean. [More…]

• and (2) There is an agreement at the Defence level between the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada, known as the Technical Co-operation Programme’. [More…]

• I say to any young people listening to my speech - 20 or 30 of them - that if they are opposed to the ALP views on Vietnam, according to what happened in my office and according to the defence being made out by the ALP, they are entitled to enter the office of an ALP member, order his secretary to one side and read his private papers. [More…]

• Nowadays Mr Whitlam seems to be so often out of touch with other members of his Party, but I was pleased to read his defence of the right of diplomats in Australia to be protected from molestation. [More…]

• It has been done sometimes, it has been done during war-time in defence emergency legislation. [More…]

• In special circumstances successive governments have from time to time given the Board directions in relation to a particular industry being reviewed - for example, shipbuilding and machine tools for defence reasons. [More…]

• Examples are where factories in decen tralised locations provide major employment opportunities, or where an industry has defence significance. [More…]

• The DLP knows that that is impossible, but they put about that an invasion is imminent and we must divert our resources to build up a military and defence complex against that inevitable threat. [More…]

• Many people today feel that the money they pay towards the war in Vietnam in the form of taxation is their contribution towards defence. [More…]

• Prior to 1932-53, when presenting the Supplementary Estimates Bill, it was customary to show a deduction representing under-expended defence appropriations as an offset against additional amounts sought for defence purposes. [More…]

• Prior to 1952-53, when presenting the Supplementary Estimates Bill, it was customary to show a deduction representing under-expended defence appropriations as an offset against additional amounts sought for defence purposes. [More…]

• I do so on the basis that I believe that while nobody today opposes outright any of the conservation causes, a tendency has developed to roll with the punches or to adopt what might be called a ‘defence in depth’ attitude. [More…]

• Additional appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund totalling $55m are sought for defence services, including about $35m 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…]

• Would it be possible for the Minister to consult with the Ministers of other Commonwealth departments, including the Department of Defence, to determine to what extent additional orders can be placed by them with the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation and, if they are in the same position, the Government Aircraft Factories, even to the extent of cancelling some orders which have been placed overseas? [More…]

• I also had a discussion this morning with the Minister for Defence about it. [More…]

• However I understand that the question is currently being examined by the Department of Defence to see what action can be taken to improve the environment, particularly in relation to the playing areas at Townsville. [More…]

• Under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund it is not possible legally to pay a pension in some cases. [More…]

• But does this amount come out of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, the Army canteen fund or the welfare fund? [More…]

• I write again to you because it seems to me that ii is a near impossibility for a person to leave the defence Services one day and obtain permanent employment in the Public Service the next [More…]

• The total amount sought in this Bill is $ 1 , 2 1 9,758,000 comprising - departmental, $706,396,000; defence services, $488,362,000; advance to the Treasurer, $25m. [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 our 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…]

• 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…]

• Nowhere in the Bill does it say that it shall not be an offence for people peaceably to assemble and, whatever is done by the authorities, that it shall be a defence for a citizen to prove to the satisfaction of a court’ that he intended to engage in no violence. [More…]

• The Committees advise the Minister for Supply on the satisfaction of defence requirements by their sectors of industry, as indicated by each Committee’s title and on associated raw materials. [More…]

• The point of this definition is to ensure that that sort of defence will not be available if, in fact, 3 or more persons are assembled for a common purpose. [More…]

• AH that is given here is the opportunity for the State to say: This is an unreasonable obstruction’, and I fail to see what sort of defence anybody could have. [More…]

• As far as I can see, it would be no defence to say that even though the apprehension was reasonable it was nonetheless unfounded. [More…]

• I do not care whether it is a parliamentarian or an ordinary citizen, he is entitled to defence from this kind of action. [More…]

• In conjunction with the British Government the Australian Government conducted a defence project at the rocket range at Woomera. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 14 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1970, I present the twenty-second 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 Auditor-General on those accounts. [More…]

• I would imagine that it would be virtually impossible to succeed if any unlawful violence or damage had taken place and that the persons who forcefully dispersed the assembly would have a perfect defence to any subsequent proceedings taken against them with regard to the use of force. [More…]

• On the other hand, if I were on another person’s land and held a belief in a state of facts on reasonable grounds, the state of facts proving to be true, that would always be a defence in common law. [More…]

• Once the defence produces evidence to rebut the evidence permitted by clause 21, the onus is on the prosecution then to produce evidence to contradict the evidence which has been given by the defendant, or to try to destroy its force by crossexamination. [More…]

• We also have continual discussions with the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Did the former Minister for Defence, Mr Fraser, in a speech reported in the Age of 20th April 1971, say that in future, Western Nations might not back non-communist nations which were under threat and that Australia might have to act on its own initiative in future when making military commitments. [More…]

• A valuable opportunity to ease Sydney’s dockside congestion and to provide an important transport link as a defence safeguard appears to have been missed by State and Commonwealth planners. [More…]

• ‘The technical co-operation programme’ which Australia joined in July 1955, and details of which have been announced by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• There is an agreement at defence level between the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada known as the Technical Cooperation Programme. [More…]

• It was further referred to by Mr Fairhall, the then Minister for Defence, on 13th August 1968. in reply to a question by the Leader of the Opposition in another place.We find from the Minister’s answer that there are no provisions for other security forces to be responsible to Australian law. [More…]

• In 1967 the then Minister for Defence acknowledged the theft. [More…]

• I direct my pleas to Senator Wright, who represents the Minister for Labour and National Service; Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, who represents the Minister for Defence; and Senator DrakeBrockman, who represents the Minister for the Army. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Ministers representing the Minister for Labour and National Service, the Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Army. [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 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 1 have just described will be of particular interest to members of the defence force. [More…]

• Australia is asked to produce $US48m: Austria $US16.3m; Belgium, $US40.8m: Canada, $US150m- and Canada can afford to pay that for the simple reason that it has very small defence expenditure. [More…]

• Reference is made to defence purposes. [More…]

• I understand that one reason for that is that the raising of money for defence purposes for a specific object does not require the authority of the Loan Council. [More…]

• I do not mean that we should destroy Service autonomy but it would be sufficient for a Minister for Defence to handle matters relating to the Royal Australian Navy, the Army and the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• I harken again to a saving of Ministers in the defence area. [More…]

• Navy, the Army and Air be amalgamated under one Minister, a Minister for Defence, allowing these Departments to function with autonomous powers and independent of each other but brought together under one head? [More…]

• While it may be true that Japan spends only 1 per cent of its gross national product on defence, as the Prime Minister announced in the House of Representatives, is the Government aware that substantial contributions to the re-arming of Japan have been made by the Government of the United States of America since the end of World War II? [More…]

• It is well known that the United States of America has made substantial contributions to the Japanese economy, as well as to the defence of Japan. [More…]

• I think it would be well known that recently the Japanese Government has increased its expenditure for defence purposes. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon 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 to 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 I should explain. [More…]

• in the way credit is given for a transfer value paid to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• For example, an other 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, from the time that he would have completed 1 5 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…]

• It was asked why the Departments of the Army, Navy, Air and Supply could not be amalgamated with the Department of Defence. [More…]

• At that time, on behalf of the Opposition, I moved an amendment in these terms to the motion to take note of the Budget papers: and the Senate is of the opinion that the Budget is inadequate in that - (a) it increases taxation and health and housing costs for families; (b) it makes no considered and comprehensive approach to the needs of all schools; (c) it ignores the problems of capital cities and regional centres; (d) it defers further development projects and urgent rural measures; and (e) it neglects industries based on Australian natural resources and defence requirements. [More…]

• Defence Services were to take some 14 per cent of the total. [More…]

• I have said before, when speaking on this general area, that if the Democratic Labor Party also wants increased expenditure on defence - as i have heard it say from time to time - theo undoubtedly there must be greater revenues available for Government. [More…]

• The Government introduces stupid measures but does not cut down on its defence expenditure, except that it is trying to reduce salaries and wages of soldiers, airmen and sailors. [More…]

• A former Minister for Defence, Sir Allen Fairhall, and the Government maintained that we were buying more than an aircraft; we were buying a weapons system and it would fly soon. [More…]

• For example, the 1967 Defence Report, following references to the matter in the Parliament, stated at page 40: [More…]

• It has fitted too neatly into the defence concepts established by the United States. [More…]

• It has been pointed out in earlier debates that we are importing into Australia defence and civil aircraft to the value of millions of dolars, but that very small orders are sifting through to the Commonweath Aircraft Corporation or to the Government Aircraft Factories. [More…]

• I have referred in this place to the retrenchments which took place in March of this year from the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation and the more recent sackings which have occurred, but the best answer that the Minister for Supply has been able to give has been that he has talked to the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) to see to what extent additional work ‘can be given to these factories. [More…]

• Australia will be dependent for all time on other countries for aircraft for defence purposes and, in time of war of course, these aircraft may not be able to be delivered. [More…]

• The statements by Senator Anderson and Mr Barnard highlight the dilemma of trying to support what there is of an Australian aircraft industry with bits and ‘ pieces of defence work, leftovers from importing, and any commercial work that people do not choose to place elsewhere. [More…]

• Despite occasional strong Ministerial statements, Government policy towards the industry seems to be one of scratching around for some defence work to keep the industry going. [More…]

• It has recently set up several advisory components in the reorganisation of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It has every opportunity to confer with the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton) and his advisers and with the Department of Air and its advisers on the Fill. [More…]

• It is tragic that the Government should have picked an issue which could jeopardise the defence of this country. [More…]

• When the original agreement was entered into, a document dated 19th October 1963 was circulated in the Parlia ment which gave details of the text of the memorandum of understanding between the United States Secretary of Defence and the then Australian Minister for Defence. [More…]

• There was an attempt to rescue the position when the then Minister for Defence went to America in May 1970. [More…]

• We were being told that this was the greatest aircraft in the world and that it would be when it flew; but notwithstanding the fact that at that stage it was expected to be in Australia in 1967 we now look forward to the fact that, if ever we do see it, it will not be before 1974, according to a recent statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), as Senator Bishop has said, we have been too soft on the whole deal. [More…]

• The longer it goes on the harder it will be to make that decision and the greater will be the loss to our defence capability and the greater will be the Government’s eventual embarrassment. [More…]

• Whatever steps have been taken to clean up the contract and, in the interests of Australian defence, to get Australia on a better footing with what should be a friendly nation, have been made very tardily. [More…]

• If there is one thing that Australia particularly needs from a defence point of view it is a viable and effective aircraft industry. [More…]

• For a long time now many people have criticised this purchase and asked whether there was a need for a strike aircraft in the Australian defence force. [More…]

• Many people who are against having a strike aircraft in our defence force immediately set out to criticise the Fill. [More…]

• On the other hand there is a group in this country who, while accepting that there should be a strike aircraft in our defence force, say that the Fill is not the aircraft we need. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that last year the then Minister for Defence, together with officers of my Department, went to the United States of America and spoke with the Minister for Defence in that country, Mr Laird, before coming back here with what is now called the Fraser-Laird minute. [More…]

• It might be said that the industry is the fourth arm of the defence forces, following the 3 Services. [More…]

• The development of our natural resources and the strengthening of our industrial complex adds te our overall defence capabilities. [More…]

• Many smaller nations seek to keep up with modern technology by manufacturing their own defence equipment wherever possible. [More…]

• United States of America offset orders and sub-contracts for Australian industry as a means of easing the foreign exchange burden on defence equipment. [More…]

• Examples are where factories in decentralised locations provide major employment opportunities, or where an industry has defence significance. [More…]

• In no sense of the word can one look upon sugar harvesters as strategic material and I should imagine that the Australian Government’s export policy in this respect would have no defence significance for any of our allies. [More…]

• Again, defence requirements stipulate a 4 or 5-letter code. [More…]

• 1 would be interested to learn whether the Government accepts the proposition as it affects not only members of the defence forces but also, say, railwaymen who live in barracks provided by the Commissioner for Railways. [More…]

• Might I suggest that this Bill and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill 1971 be dealt with in a cognate debate as they are related matters. [More…]

• The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill relates to members of the 3 branches of the armed Services. [More…]

• In passing I remind honourable senators that although we are under some pressure due to the lack of time remaining for this session the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation is examining matters relating to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• So that one would imagine that throughout the whole field of the defence forces in relation to superannuation benefits, pay and allowances and things of that kind, these committees will ultimately furnish to the Parliament detailed reports covering these aspects of the matter. [More…]

• A person contributing to one of these schemes - and that is the superannuation scheme or the defence force retirement benefits scheme- who changes his employment with the Commonwealth and is required to contribute to another Commonwealth superannuation scheme, will be able to gain credit in the new scheme for his accumulated interest or stake in his former scheme, including the Commonwealth’s share of that interest or stake. [More…]

• As I say, the Government has quite a good reputation in relation to the Public Service and the defence forces, because well over 70 per cent - what is the figure? [More…]

• in reply - In dealing with these 2 Bills, the Superannuation Bill and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill, we have been reminded by those who have spoken in the Senate that the 2 Bills have a joint purpose, that is, to enable officers either coming to or going from these schemes to carry with them certain rights with regard to superannuation. [More…]

• The arguments I have put forward in respect of this Bill apply equally to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill. [More…]

• I shall merely submit my amendment to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Bill to a vote in due course. [More…]

• The Honourable N. H. Bowen, Q.C., has been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs The Honourable David Fairbairn, D.F.C., has been appointed Minister for Defence. [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…]

• 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…]

• With a war on its hands in Vietnam and the cauldron bubbling at several other points around the world, it has had no fewer than 3 Defence Ministers inside half a year. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• There exists already on our statute book an Act of Parliament designed to prevent union usurpation of the Commonwealth defence powers. [More…]

• I refer to an Act providing for ‘the protection of the approved Defence Projects’ - I am sure Senator Cavanagh will know something about this - ‘and for other purposes’. [More…]

• The Act makes it an offence without reasonable cause or excuse, by boycott or threat of boycott, to prevent, hinder or obstruct, or to attempt to prevent, hinder or obstruct the carrying out of an approved Defence Project as defined or to publish any declaration of such a boycott or threat of such a boycott. [More…]

• But a boycott or black ban of the character contemplated by the Act is not for the industrial purpose of improving the conditions of workers, but for the seditious purpose of sabotaging the Defence Policy of the Government and the Parliament. [More…]

• On page 11 of these copious notes he told us of the penalties imposed by Dr Evatt’s Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]

• He could not get into the rocket range because Mr Chifley said that he was not a person to be allowed to enter the site of a defence establishment. [More…]

• I ask this question: Do honourable senators opposite or does anybody listening tonight believe that the appointment of Mr McMahon as Minister for Foreign Affairs, the appointment of Mr Bury as Minister for Foreign Affairs and the appointment of Mr Gorton as Minister for Defence were for administrative reasons, or were the appointments made for personal reasons? [More…]

• During this time we have had 3 Ministers for Defence who have had a tremendous responsibility not only in this sensitive area but also in co-operating with the Minister for Foreign Affairs in dealing with other nations that are involved also. [More…]

• This is always an arguable case and because of that I will quote only from the defence and not from the attack. [More…]

• Yet in defence of this proposition Sir Frank Packer made statements when he was obviously putting undue pressure on to the Government. [More…]

• The same is to be said of Mr Fairbairn, who is now the Minister for Defence and who has held the portfolios of Air, National Development and Education and Science. [More…]

• The honourable senator will recall that in May last year, following the visit to the United States of the then Minister for Defence, Mr Fraser, the Fraser-Laird agreement, which included a clause providing for certain tests to be carried out, was announced. [More…]

• They have submitted a report to the Department of Air and to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• That report is being studied carefully, with a view to making a report to the Minister for Defence and to the Minister for Air. [More…]

• I hope that later the Minister for Defence will be in a position to make a submission to Cabinet as to whether a decision can be made at the end of the year. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, cannot wait for later discussion. [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…]

• Section 36 of the Naval Defence Act provides that the discipline which is in force in the naval forces consists of certain pieces of imperial legislation save where they are modified. [More…]

• Of course, the Geneva Agreements give the lie to the claim that we are there in defence of a small independent country. [More…]

• 1 ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is the Government planning to take any action against the former Prime Minister and former Minister for Defence, Mr Gorton, to stop his damaging articles appearing in the Sunday Australian’? [More…]

• If Mr Gorton writes so disparagingly of Mr Fairbairn as to call him ‘pedestrian, conservative and slowthinking, without the capacity to pose a competitive threat’, how can the public be persuaded that Mr Fairbairn has the ability to carry out his vital duties as Minister for Defence? [More…]

• Is this statement by Mr Gorton representative of what most Government members think about the third Minister for Defence in 3 months? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• If not, is Australian mail held by direction from the Department of Defence, or by the direction of the Postmaster-General? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• To what extent will the $10m cut back in defence procurements within Australia, including such items as spare parts and related equipment affect the ability and efficiency of Australian pri vate and Government factories to supply from Australian sources goods and services which might otherwise be expensive imports? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• How many members of the Australian Defence Forces who have been wounded in Vietnam have subsequently died outside Vietnam? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• For instance pilots overseas, defence personnel, etc. [More…]

• In the meantime the citizens of the Australian Capital Territory would not be deprived of a modern evidentiary code, so much of which will tell in favour of the defence in proceedings, and that is important. [More…]

• According to the figures I produced last year on the cost of the war in Vietnam to Australian taxpayers - and I do not know that these figures have been challenged by the Government or the Department of Defence - this increase in revenue does not even equal the cost of 6 months of our military involvement in Vietnam. [More…]

• In making that comparison it is necessary to have regard to our defence costs prior to our involvement in Vietnam and to assess the change in annual expenditure. [More…]

• It is necessary to study the way in which the graph illustrating our defence expenditure has sharply altered. [More…]

• The Budget increases defence spending by $117m to a total of $ 1,252.4m. [More…]

• But there is no reference in the Budget to the absorption of any part of that tremendous amount of money into general defence spending. [More…]

• Instead we are told, as always, that defence spending is going up. [More…]

• One of the largest overseas military commitments in our history is ending and we ought to see a substantial reduction in defence spending, not an increase. [More…]

• Expenditure on this military hardware could well be spent on defence in areas which basically would increase our military strength. [More…]

• We should be spending money on seeing to it that we have the potential to produce aircraft and other military vehicles, on building roads which are necessary for defence purposes, and on improving our industrial efficiency. [More…]

• In these ways the defence potential of the country would be vastly increased. [More…]

• But apparently, in the view of this Government, the only kind of defence spending which should be engaged in is the purchase of military hardware. [More…]

• Those who criticise the policies that are expressed in the hard cash figures of the Budget - it is those with which I want to deal, not fanciful theories of Socialist nonsence such as we have listened to - should note that more than two-thirds of the $833,00Om is committed under 4 items - defence, the States, the National Welfare Fund and repatriation services. [More…]

• When one considers the degree to which any one of those is over provided, one starts to criticise the expenditure for which we are budgeting because, for defence services, the Budget is providing $ 1,252m - an increase over last year of $117m. [More…]

• I come to the question of defence. [More…]

• My earlier remarks that Budgets often provide valuable clues to the way governments think on important issues have particular relevance to the question of defence. [More…]

• In a real sense the defence vote is the insurance premium that a nation is prepared to pay to cover future contingencies and threats to its national survival. [More…]

• It is true that in monetary terms the defence vote has gone up by 10.3 per cent, that is, by $117m. [More…]

• What is the background against which the defence vote must be judged? [More…]

• We will be concerned that the nations to receive such help are those with the greatest defence self reliance and those who have attempted to organise regional defences of their own.’ [More…]

• Already India has concluded a 20-year defence pact with Soviet Russia. [More…]

• So also is our need to build up a maximum defence self reliance. [More…]

• Against this background, what does the defence appropriation do? [More…]

• Despite the defence increase in monetary terms, the true position is that the defence vote expressed as a percentage of the gross national product will now fall to 3.21 compared with 4.28 in 1967-68 and 3.23 last year. [More…]

• Clearly the Democratic Labor Party is deeply concerned at the Government’s whole approach to defence as shown by an analysis of the Budget. [More…]

• I will content myself with those few observations on the important question of defence, which means our security and the preservation of the freedom we enjoy, our social services and other benefits. [More…]

• Let me say in conclusion that the Budget, while it tries in some fields - social services, is an example - to make up for the omissions of the past, is seriously defective in its provision for Australia’s likely defence problems of the 1970s. [More…]

• Then and only then will problems such as the Common Market and defence be met by anticipation rather than by the stop gap methods which frequently pass for statesmanship in the minds of some people. [More…]

• That the inadequate defence vote reveals the Government’s failure to appreciate the deterioration in Australia’s strategic situation caused by recent world events including failure to provide the necessary, supply and logistic support programme; [More…]

• 1 seeks the setting up of a select committee to inquire into Australian defence. [More…]

• 1 standing in my name, which relates to the reference to a select committee of the Senate of the defence situation in Australia. [More…]

• In addition, apart from the erosion of importance because of the passage of time, the Budget discussions will allow opportunities for debate on the defence situation. [More…]

• These are people who should be made Assistant Ministers to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• A bankrupt, who on his public examination under section 68 of the Bankruptcy Act 1924- 19S0 gives answers of such a nature as to convey to the court an intention not to give any real answers to the questions to which they relate, can properly be convicted of refusing to answer such question, but before he is convicted of contempt of court arising out of such refusal the specific charge against him must be distinctly stated and he must be allowed a reasonable opportunity of being heard in his own defence; that is a reasonable opportunity of placing before the court any explanation or amplification of his evidence and any submission of fact or law which he may wish the court to consider as bearing either upon the charge itself or upon the question of punishment. [More…]

• The charge having been made sufficiently explicit, the person accused must then be allowed a reasonable opportunity of being heard in his own defence, that is to say a reasonable opportunity of placing before the court any explanation or amplification of his evidence, and any submissions of fact or law, which he may, wish the court to consider as bearing either upon the charge itself or upon the question of punishment. [More…]

• In other words, whether it was convictions to be proved or something to be stated by the convicted man in his own defence it was not heard and the court proceeded to consider the quashing of the conviction. [More…]

• That is a decision of the Full Court of New South Wales in 1966 where counsel for the defence was not given the opportunity to be heard after his client had been convicted and before his client was sentenced. [More…]

• When dealings with these journalists this Parliament was not acting as a court of law; it was acting as a legislative body in defence of its privileges in accordance with the powers conferred on it by the Constitution. [More…]

• Any senator who had reason to believe that he as well as other honourable senators had erred, not when the evidence was presented to the Committee but when this Senate actually established the guilt of these people after the hearing of evidence at a secret trial and established their guilt at their first appearance before the public when, for the first time, they had the opportunity publicly to say anything in their own defence, was justified in bringing this matter before this chamber tonight. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators: Would they as judges sit here and submit to a proposition that some person be sentenced to a long period of imprisonment for a very serious breach of the rights and privileges of this Parliament if the only public defence that such a person was allowed was to stand silent while he was sentenced? [More…]

• Natural justice demands at least that before a sentence is passed a person found guilty should be given the right to speak at the eleventh hour in his own defence. [More…]

• He was given no opportunity to speak publicly in his own defence. [More…]

• This Budget provides for an increase of $117m in the defence vote or an increase of 10 per cent. [More…]

• This is a very good thing because it will continue to keep our defences strong. [More…]

• I have never heard from a member of the Liberal Party or the Country Party one word in defence of the situation. [More…]

• On the expenditure side 70.6 per cent of all expenditure by this Government is on 3 items: Firstly, payments to or for the States; secondly, the social welfare items of health, social services and repatriation; and thirdly, defence. [More…]

• In addition, 23.2c in every $1 of expenditure goes to health, social services and repatriation, and 14.2c in every $1 goes to defence. [More…]

• The Government continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a so-called defence policy basing such expenditure on outdated policies of fear and a misguided understanding of the evolutionary developments taking place in Asia. [More…]

• A government largely may determine how much it is prepared to spend in the public sector, in such areas as health, education, public works and defence, by the amount of the national income it is prepared to collect in taxation, either direct or indirect. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen an article entitled ‘Service Wrangle Threatens New Plane’ which appeared in the Melbourne ‘Herald’ on Wednesday, 8th September 1971? [More…]

• In the final analysis it will be the Minister for Defence who will report to the Government on this matter and who will make the decisions on it. [More…]

• I put the responsibility for one of the very great tragedies on to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• First of all, I refer to defence. [More…]

• I do so only briefly so that it is in the record because all honourable senators know that after weighing the situation and all its responsibilities this Government has increased the amount of money to be spent on defence by $117m. [More…]

• It is noteworthy, though - no complaint will come from either side of the chamber - that it appears that at long last servicemen will be better paid for their services as professionals in our defence forces. [More…]

• Of this extra $117m allocated for defence, some $66m will go in extra pay and allowances to our servicemen. [More…]

• I will not go into details on defence but I wish to express my real sorrow that we in this Parliament - in both Houses - cannot have more togetherness with respect to our approach to the 2 great fundamental areas of defence and foreign relations. [More…]

• But I say from my heart that I have a fear that a tragedy, a collision, more deaths, more wounded, a crashed aircraft, a delayed defence order brings joy to some people who are opposed to the politics of this Government, when in reality for the good of this country and for the people who serve in our defence forces they should share with us the sincere regret that something has happened that has harmed a person, equipment, the stature, the morale or any other aspect of the defence forces of this country. [More…]

• I believe that we as members of Parliament have a responsibility not to do anything to lower the morale of and destroy the heart and soul of our defence forces. [More…]

• Foreign affairs and defence are matters which are interrelated. [More…]

• We would not be bombed in order to stop any defence works connected with our allies, the Americans. [More…]

• I Relieve it is being disloyal to this country to declaim the actions of this Government and the offerings of our allies in respect to these defence works. [More…]

• I believe that they are part and parcel of our defence requirement. [More…]

• I have always worried about the question of how to reconcile the sanctity of life with killing in self defence and in war. [More…]

• The first would be in the case of justifiable and adequate self-defence; the second, in the case of a just war: and the third, in the case of a crime for which a person has been legally and properly condemned by the tribunals to which he . [More…]

• In a crime in which the mind is suffused by passion, by drugs or by alcohol - if those were not to an extent to provide a proper defence in law - or is suffused by some other motive, usually the mind does not advert to the legal consequences of the action which is to be undertaken or is undertaken either by deliberation or with spontaneity. [More…]

• Is he aware that on Sunday last the publisher of that American book was interviewed on the ‘Four Corners’ programme and said that the manuscript, prior to publication, had been submitted to the United States Department of Defence, had come to the knowledge of the Secretary for Defence, and that the American Department of Defence had informed him that it proposed to take no steps to block publication of the information? [More…]

• In view of that can the Minister tell us why facts about Australia’s defences should be kept secret from Australians when the American Department of Defence is prepared to permit those facts to be released in this manner to the American public and to the world per medium of some journal? [More…]

• I think it would be more appropriate for the question to be directed to the Minister for Defence so that he could examine what was said on that programme, the background and how it was said. [More…]

• Pending total disarmament, however, it was intended to pursue the French Nuclear Defence Programme. [More…]

• We are confronted with the necessity to consider global strategy no longer in the area of defence only. [More…]

• I hope that as the demands and the pressures are applied to the Commonwealth, whether in payments to the States, demands for increased welfare payments, or greater expenditure on defence or repatriation, consideration will be given to those demands but at the same time the restraints and the restrictions that have been placed upon the economy against the background of a world situation that is particularly difficult to comprehend, or even to judge, will be understood. [More…]

• But I say from my heart that I have a fear that a tragedy, a collision, more deaths, more wounded, a crashed aircraft, a delayed defence order brings joy to some people who are opposed to the politics df this Government, when in reality for the good of this country and for the people who serve in our defence forces they should share with us the sincere regret that something has happened that has harmed a person, equipment, the stature, the morale or any other aspect of the defence forces of this Government. [More…]

• But 1 say from my heart that I have a fear that a tragedy, a collision, more deaths, more wounded, a crashed aircraft, a delayed defence order brings joy to some people who are opposed to the politics of this country. [More…]

• Let us consider what was said in the Budget about the defence vole. [More…]

• The Defence Vole proposed is $I,252.-Jm. [More…]

• Anyone reading that would think that the money available for Australia’s defence requirements would be increased by 10.3 per cent, but if we read a little further we find that such is not the case. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence will make a statement on the new pay structure. [More…]

• There will be a small increase in expenditure on defence aid programmes. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the great build-up given to this subject when we are told that there is to be a 10.3 per cent increase in defence spending, we’ find when we analyse the situation that there’ is to be a small increase in expenditure on defence aid programmes. [More…]

• We see Government charges in such fields as health, education, defence and administration generally increasing at a very much faster rate than the rate of increase in costs in the private sector. [More…]

• Is it a fact that (he aircraft industry would welcome a clear cut Government statement of its intentions for the industry as well as the inclusion of the defence aircraft industry in the 5-year rolling defence programme? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the cost of the Department of Defence’s public relations? [More…]

• What is the present personnel establishment of the Department of Defence’s public relations branch? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The present personnel establishment of the Department of Defence Public Relations Branch is: [More…]

• It was in these aspects that the Department of Defence and the Service departments were drawn into the committee’s discussions, and I would like to say 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…]

• They occur in the areas of defence and foreign affairs. [More…]

• That the inadequate defence vote reveals the Government’s failure to appreciate the deterioration in Australia’s strategic situation caused by recent world events including failure to provide the necessary supply and logistic support programme; [More…]

• 1 want to have a look at the Defence vole in the Budget. [More…]

• If we look at the anticipated expenditure on defence we find that it comes in round figures to some $ 1.200m. [More…]

• Actually, the Defence vote covers the ancillary services of Navy, Army, Air, as well as Supply and General Services. [More…]

• When we look at these figures individually we find that the vote for the Department of Defence i& he smallest. [More…]

• If we could find economies in our defence spending the amounts that are now spent on defence could be spent in other ways. [More…]

• I reiterate: When dealing with the defence estimates, let us look closely at where the money is being spent. [More…]

• We contemplate a stronger defence programme. [More…]

• We are disappointed that the Budget does not provide for the necessary logistic support programme which we think a viable and adequate defence policy in Australia and for Australia must embrace. [More…]

• That the inadequate defence vote reveals the Government’s failure to appreciate the deterioration in Australia’s strategic situation . [More…]

• Department of Defence [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 twelve months. [More…]

• This bill, which is a companion measure to the Superannuation (Pension Increases) Bill that 1 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…]

• Retiring Allowances Act in accordance with principles similar to those incorporated in the 2 Bills already introduced into the Senate providing for increases in existing superannuation and defence forces retirement benefits pensions. [More…]

• With the exception of defence and security legislation, I feel that this Bill is the most important that we will be required to deal with in the course of this session. [More…]

• These tests were to reach a stage which would allow the Department of Air and the Department of Defence to evaluate them so that a decision could be made by December of this year on whether the Government would take the Fill. [More…]

• It has been sent to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• A submission is now being prepared for the Minister for Defence to take to the Cabinet. [More…]

• These pensions are paid by an allegedly grateful nation by way of compensation to persons who have fought in wars in the defence of this nation. [More…]

• Before Mr Gorton was removed from office as Minister for Defence this year he was able to convince the Cabinet to increase defence expenditure by about $120m. [More…]

• In 1968 the then Minister for Defence answered a similar question in another place. [More…]

• My Department and Department of Defence are presently examining these aspects following a visit to America by a team of experts. [More…]

• He expounded the theory that we must promote a greater concentration into the major cities so that we may achieve proper production for defence purposes and so on. [More…]

• Where does the obligation lie between retaining capacity for production and the providing of basic wealth for future generations, between handing down our productive capacity in a way which can continue to meet the requirements - as indicated by Senator Murphy - which are basic for our wellbeing, our defence, our overall security and ability to maintain high living standards and, at the same time, not intruding unduly into the environmental background. [More…]

• Surplus defence aircraft are normally sold by public tender widely advertised in Australia and overseas. [More…]

• I propose to address myself to the Superannuation (Pension Increases) Bill 1971 and the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances (Increases) Bill 1971 and Senator Devitt will deal with the substance of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1971. [More…]

• Another member of the Opposition will speak in relation to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill. [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…]

• 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. [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 national service be maintained because the alternative would be a significantly reduced full-time military force unable to meet its defence obligations. [More…]

• 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…]

• Labor would raise a force in the national interest only under threat of defence emergency. [More…]

• However, if Australia’s defence manopwer 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 Senate that the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, its 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 is not prepared to place Australia’s defence effort at risk. [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 is to be expected; 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…]

• The obvious case is that of self defence, which I concede Senator Carrick dealt with. [More…]

• I believe that one of our greatest practical problems in administering the criminal law in Australia has been the absence of adequate rules not only in relation to the defence of ‘insanity’ but also to provide a defence or defences for people who are suffering from some degree of mental incapacity which is less than any degree of insanity either by legal standards or psychiatric standards. [More…]

• Another feature of the Homicide Act in 1957 was the introduction of a concept of diminished responsibility as a defence to murder. [More…]

• Anybody who has experienced the atmosphere of a capital trial, as I have on several occasions, always for the defence, can never subscribe to the view that an atmosphere of fear and apprehension is not engendered by the mere fact that a verdict of guilty at that trial leads to the inevitable sentence of death. [More…]

• In the criminal law, as I understand it, nobody advocates the elimination of the defence of self-defence. [More…]

• Debates on subjects dealing with the defence of the country are not often conducted on a very high level in this Parliament, but I trust that tonight’s debate will be an exception and that the Senate will not become bogged down in a contest in patriotism. [More…]

• The real question that we are called upon to discuss is this: What is the best method of securing the defence of Australia? [More…]

• Since it is so much part of the stock in trade of the Government to attempt to depict honourable senators on this side of the chamber as being uninterested in the defence of Australia, I think that by way of preamble it might be appropriate for me to cite briefly the leading features of the Opposition’s policy on the defence of Australia. [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…]

• The Australian Labor Party has always considered that the conditions of the armed forces are among the most important features in securing the kind of defence force that we have in mind. [More…]

• Even when this is not stated explicitly, it is implicit in the Government’s unceasing propaganda designed to show that the Australian Labor Party is not really interested in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• He is a former professor of war studies at Kings College, London, and is now a fellow in higher defence studies at All Souls College, Oxford. [More…]

• First he pointed out that Australia at present lives in circumstances that are comparatively new to it in the matter of defence with the disappearance of the British presence from this area, with the impending withdrawal of United States forces from South East Asia and, of course, with the shock of President Nixon’s reversal of previous American attitudes towards China. [More…]

• He said that the real defence problem of Australia was that it did not have a defence problem, that there was not at present a single cloud on the horizon that seriously threatened Australia’s security. [More…]

• This, I suggest to honourable senators, is the context in which we should examine Australia’s defence needs in the time ahead of us. [More…]

• It was under the chairmanship of Thomas Gales, a former Secretary of Defence. [More…]

• Of course, if honourable senators do not like my prediction as to the likely effects of this increase in rates of pay, 1 would be prepared to rely on the opinion of a wellknown defence spokesman for the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Ninthly, it argued at length that we can look at the Labor Party’s performance in World War II to show that Labor has the means of conducting proper military defences. [More…]

• I say that voluntary service as the basic and total means of defence is immoral, wrong and inefficient. [More…]

• Any government - Labor or Liberal- must have as its first duty the defence of the community. [More…]

• I am going to assume that nobody in the Opposition takes the view that we need no defence at all. [More…]

• Even Bertrand Russell - if honourable senators recall - in the final analysis admitted that he would have some defence. [More…]

• I am assuming that the argument of the Opposition is that there must be some defence. [More…]

• Senaor Cavanagh - The pacifist would not want defence, would he? [More…]

• The true pacifist when he believes that peace wilh freedom and dignity can only be obtained by defence puts the price of his life and limb on it. [More…]

• So many, many pacifists believe in defence. [More…]

• Nevertheless a country and a government - Labor or Liberal - has as its first responsibility the organisation of a defence system. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, if you apply those 2 principles, any person who believes in defence of any kind at all in this country - other than total non-defence - has the responsibility to share personally in its defence. [More…]

• I repeat that a government having decided upon its responsibility in defence then has a moral obligation. [More…]

• I repeat that a Government has a responsibility to decide on its defence, then to decide on methods and then to decide on the equity of those methods. [More…]

• But even the late John Curtin was an appallingly bad prophet because 10 months before World War II broke out - not 10 years but 10 months - he was saying that those who wanted to increase defence at that time, after Munich, were hysterical. [More…]

• Defence expenditure must depend entirely, upon lbc conditions which prevail in the world from time to time. [More…]

• 1 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…]

• If the Labor Party does not regard itself as an authority on defence and defence expenditure it ought to opt out of its present position and opt out of Parliament because it is charged with the responsibility of acquainting itself with world conditions and coming to a valid conclusion. [More…]

• As regards our troops in South Vietnam, statements have been made by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Army that the overwhelming majority of troops will be home from Vietnam by Christmas, lt may well be that some troops will have to remain there after the main withdrawal of our troops. [More…]

• That the following legislative and general purpose standing committees appointed by the Senate on 11th June 1970, be fully establishedForeign Affairs and Defence; Constitutional and Legal Affairs; and Finance and Government Operations. [More…]

• They argue further that there is no early threat to Australia in terms of defence. [More…]

• They argue that the defence forces, in any case, should be reduced to 28,000 from the present level of 44,000, that this could be done and that the Gates Commission in America sets the guidelines. [More…]

• With regard to the claim that national service is wrong and immoral, I pointed out that the very reverse is true, that voluntary service sought as the basis of the defence of a country is immoral, wrong, inefficient and dangerous to the life and limb of those in our defence forces. [More…]

• I pointed out that nobody should ask another person to carry a public burden for him, and specifically a defence burden. [More…]

• In my view, the tragedy of the 1930s, which should be kept to the forefront in this debate, was not only the unpreparedness of the defence forces of the -Allies but also the unwillingness of the Allies to go to the help of an independent sovereign state, Czechoslovakia, in 1936- 37. [More…]

• Australia, through its defence forces, proudly has intervened to help an independent sovereign state which is recognised by the great majority of countries. [More…]

• Finally I say that over the years in debates on national service and defence generally a belief has grown up that if one mouths the word peace somehow or other, like the rain callers of other days, perhaps one can obtain peace or if one can say the word loudly enough one is by far the strongest peacemaker. [More…]

• I hope to be able to show that at the present stage of Australia’s defence situation national, service is not desirable and is not in the best interests of defence. [More…]

• I accept Senator Carrick’s remark that there is a responsibility on all parties to provide an efficient defence for Australia, but we are not assisting our defence position by this Bill, nor are we assisting it by continuing with our system of national service. [More…]

• There has been some question about who are the authorities on this subject, and rather than express my own opinion on the matter I propose to refer to no less authorities than Prime Ministers of Australia, Ministers for Defence and Ministers for the Army. [More…]

• Firstly I shall refer to the deteriorating position of Australia’s defence, quite apart from defence hardware, by mentioning the Army manpower. [More…]

• In this Bill it is proposed to reduce our total Army manpower, a third of which is made up of national servicemen, from 44,000 to 40,000 to meet today’s defence requirements. [More…]

• The first question I ask is why this is necessary to meet today’s defence requirements. [More…]

• In Perth on 9th August 1964 the late Senator Paltridge, who at that time was Minister for Defence, told the Western Australian Party Conference that it was generally agreed that a scheme of selective training of 12,000 youths would not be effective. [More…]

• He was the Minister for Defence, so he should have known, and he said that such a- scheme would not be effective. [More…]

• The Minister for the Army, who was supporting the Minister for Defence in that view, had the advantage of the advice of the Department of the Army that it would be necessary to train national servicemen for 6 months, after which we would get 18 months service only from a 2-year conscript. [More…]

• This was a quotation used by Mr Calwell when speaking on the ministerial statement on the defence review which announced the introduction of conscription. [More…]

• He continued: when the Government was assessing the overall strategic basis of its defence policy the military advisers put the view that the strategic situation then did not warrant the introduction of selective national service training. [More…]

• On 10th November 1964 the Prime Minister said why it was necessary at that stage to act contrary to the advice given by the Government’s military advisers, contrary to the express statement of the Minister for Defence and contrary to the express public statement of the Minister for the Army. [More…]

• In a statement entitled Defence Review’, the then Prime Minister said: [More…]

• Those of us who are interested in the nation’s defence may have some misgivings about the fact that a reduction of about 4,000 personnel in our armed forces will result. [More…]

• The present Budget contains an increased vote for defence at a time when most departments have had their appropriations reduced. [More…]

• If this means that our national defence is nol to be cut down in any way by the reduction of national service training, those of us with misgivings may find that they are unjustified. [More…]

• It is true that the basis of any national defence is the volunteer system. [More…]

• I have said that the basis of our defence forces should be volunteers. [More…]

• To that statement I reply that we must always be vigilant when our defence is involved. [More…]

• They accept national service as a necessary step in Australia’s defence. [More…]

• The Opposition believes in compulsory unionism and everything else that is compulsory except compulsory service in the nation’s defence. [More…]

• When national defence is concerned the Opposition’s policy is this: Hands off the Communists whether they be from Russia, China or anywhere else because they do not represent a threat to us. [More…]

• I am a firm believer in national service as an insurance for our armed forces and for our general defence. [More…]

• Senator Carrick last night and again today put up a very good case for national service in the defence of this nation. [More…]

• It has been necessary in the defence of other nations which have had to face the threat of aggression in the past. [More…]

• We will maintain a defence force that can meet most emergencies. [More…]

• As I said earlier 1 would not like to have seen the forces reduced but I am quite sure that this Government, acting in the interests of the people, will make sure that the defence of this country will be maintained and that our friends in the Pacific and Asian areas will be able to count on us as a firm and sound ally. [More…]

• I repeat that a government has a responsibility to decide on its defence, then to decide on methods and then to decide on the equity of those methods. [More…]

• If anybody wants to accuse the Australian Labor Party of not having a proper attitude to the defence of this country he would do well to read part of our platform on defence. [More…]

• I suggest that if members of the Country Party have got up to their ears in their involvement in the Vietnam war because they wanted to sell their beef and wheat - it should be remembered that they were selling their wheat to China until they lost the market - they ought to develop a proper attitude to defence and not give Australian blood for trade with any country. [More…]

• AH 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…]

• be capable of flexible mobility in Australianowned air and sea transport to areas necessary for the defence of Australia or her vital interests; [More…]

• It is true that we have a number of planes on lease from America, but we are paying for them through the nose because the Government has been too short sighted to provide the means of defence. [More…]

• The ‘Melbourne’ has become famous in Australian defence history because its favourite habit is running down ships in peace time. [More…]

• If we are to take defence seriously, the responsibility comes right back to the Government. [More…]

• A little while ago we had the Minister for Defence denying his Prime Minister publicly, and vice versa. [More…]

• Half the time there is an argument going on between the 3 Service Ministers, plus the daddy of them all, the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Government does not spend the defence vote properly. [More…]

• When we come to the end of the financial year there is a mad rush to spend the accumulated funds in the defence forces. [More…]

• I proudly lead in this national Parliament a political party which has always been fully conscious of the necessity for adequate defence for Australia. [More…]

• I have listened to the debate up to now, and I am amazed at the indifference of some people to the necessity for defence. [More…]

• I suspect that those people who would have Australia defenceless are subscribing to ideologies of and doing a service to people who could have their eyes on Australia. [More…]

• Surely we have learnt a lesson from the neglect of governments and oppositions prior to the Second World War when the Menzies Government failed this country and did not increase the defence vote by 1 over a period of many years. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party, which begrudged any expenditure on defence, was then in Opposition. [More…]

• Senator Carrick pointed out that Mr Curtin, as Leader of the Opposition, 10 months before the war broke out deplored the amount that was being expended on defence. [More…]

• It behoves each and every one of us to be not war-minded but defence-minded, and to pay some regard to the necessity of defending our shores not only by increasing the ranks of the Army but also by improving Air Force and Naval defence. [More…]

• The Australian Democratic Labor Party has made no apologies for putting defence in a very high position of priority on its programme and platform. [More…]

• I definitely charge both the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party with the neglect of Australia’s defences prior to World War II. [More…]

• Even though 10 months before the outbreak of the war John Curton may have said that he deplored the amount being spent on defence, at least he redeemed himself to a great measure by the exemplary manner in which he conducted himself and the Labor Party during the succeeding years of war. [More…]

• That is why the Australian Democratic Labor Party, which I am privileged to lead, for as long as it is here, is intent on alerting and prodding the Government - irrespective of which party is in government - about the necessity of having adequate defence. [More…]

• The Professor said: ‘You have no defence problems at all. [More…]

• I say that if no-one is going to invade us we need the army in our own defence against the subversive forces which are operating in Australia at the present time. [More…]

• One day in defence of our country we might be forced to fight within. [More…]

• The only thing wrong with it, I feel, is that we should be in a position to do more in training young men for the defence of their native land or the land of their adoption. [More…]

• Is the ALP suggesting that there should not be compulsion to bear some part of the burden of national defence? [More…]

• I have a good ally in that because after the 1969 election no other than Mrs Whitlam advocated the conscription of the young womanhood of Australia for the defence of this country. [More…]

• It is not too much to expect from people who live in a land such as ours, with all the advantages, all the privileges, all the freedoms and all the liberties, that they should be prepared to learn something about defence so that they may defend this country if the occasion should arise. [More…]

• There is no parallel between the defence position of Australia and the defence position of the countries of Western Europe. [More…]

• Professor Howard, who was quoted so warmly and so enthusiastically last night by Senator James McClelland, had the European situation in mind when be attempted to evaluate Australia’s defence in his radio talk. [More…]

• We will do nothing about Australia’s defence. [More…]

• I repeat that every young man in Australia should be trained in the defence of this country. [More…]

• When the Government last undertook a review of the strategic basis of defence policy, the military advisers did not believe that selective national service training was warranted at that time. [More…]

• On this occasion, when the Government reviewed the strategic basis of our defence policy, our military advisers believed that the situation had deteriorated to a point at which it was necessary for them to tell the Government that the only way to establish an Army of the size we required in the time we required it was by introducing a selective service training scheme. [More…]

• I do not wish to quote any authorities other than those whom Senator Cavanagh would regard as impeccable; for example, General Giap, Commander-in-Chief of the North Vietnamese forces and Minister for Defence, and Truong Chinh, the architect of what I will describe in a minute. [More…]

• I tried to understand what was said by the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard) who is the Labor Party’s defence expert. [More…]

• Another aspect of national service training which has been completely overlooked, and which I suggest is vital to the defence of Australia, is that this scheme builds up a substantial force of reserve troops who are fully trained and who are available at a moment’s notice. [More…]

• What would the Labor Party do with the advice of its expert and military adviser if the departmental advisers on defence said: ‘Mr Minister, we require an army of 50,000 men to be available’. [More…]

• Nevertheless a country and a government - Labor or Liberal - has as its first responsibility the organisation of a defence system, ft knows that its policy is unpopular. [More…]

• In 1964 the Government proposed an amendment to the Defence Act. [More…]

• The Defence Act sets out the option about which Senator Carrick is so proud. [More…]

• In time of war or in time of defence emergency, the Governor-General may, by proclamation, call out the Citizen Forces, or any part of those forces, for continuous full time service. [More…]

• of the Defence Act states: [More…]

• When the Defence Act was amended every member of the Military Forces had to resign. [More…]

• But members of the Government parties never had the intestinal fortitude to declare the Vietnam conflict a war so that Australia would be placed in a defence emergency situation and the position would not be war for the 20-year-olds and business as usual for the capitalists. [More…]

• I believe that since its introduction it has been a very successful element in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• It has been very interesting to note that not one speaker on behalf of the Opposition during the whole of the debate yesterday and this evening has put forward the Australian Labor Party’s proposition for an adequate defence force for Australia. [More…]

• I hope that the honourable senator who is interjecting will be able to show me afterwards where the Labor Party’s policy has been put forward, because I do not think it has a comprehensive policy on the defence of this country. [More…]

• Let me reiterate that every Opposition senator who has spoken on this Bill has been very vocal on every matter other than national service and the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Let me read the defence policy from the platform and policy of the Labor Party. [More…]

• The Labor Party insists upon the adequate defence of Australia and asserts the need for defence forces of the highest professional standards. [More…]

• A strong citizen army should be created for the defence of Australia and her overseas territories. [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…]

• I firmly believe, and probably the Opposition believes with me, that its inability to get over to the Australian public the defence philosophy in which it believes - and 1 take it in which it genuinely believes - has kept it out of office for the past many years. [More…]

• He said also that national service was not in the interests of the defence of Australia. [More…]

• I imagine that it is still our wish to produce within Australia a competent defence force with competent officers and leaders. [More…]

• In the past Australia has been particularly proud of its defence forces, and all of us have read the congratulatory remarks of visitors from overseas on the type of forces that we have in readiness in Australia. [More…]

• This will result in an enormous work load and perhaps will involve an element of waste because of the numbers being trained for our defence forces. [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr N. H. Bowen, took the opportunity with his inevitable gentlemanliness of reminding the responsible audience - which he addressed as the embodiment of things which have made this country great in every sense of the word - of points of discomfort which had arisen in various fields such as the law of the sea, trade and defence matters of common interest. [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…]

• We do notice a feeling developing in this country that for too long you have carried the burdens of defence and of economic development of the free world, and that you attribute some of your current domestic problems to this and that you should carry degrees of commitment and call on others to carry a greater share of the burden. [More…]

• After saying that there is not a single cloud on the defence horizon that seriously threatens Australia, Professor Howard said this: [More…]

• But this does not mean that clouds cannot build up with quite startling suddenness, and the problem of Australia’s defence planners is to have adequate and appropriate armed forces to cope with them when they do. [More…]

• He analysed the principles of compulsory military service with great advantage to those whose understanding yearns with anxiety on the question of compelling men to serve for defence. [More…]

• He established the equity of a system of compulsory military service when the defence force requirement is only a percentage of one age group. [More…]

• I detain the Senate longer only to express ray abhorrence of the latter part of the speech which emanated from Senator Cavanagh in which, on behalf of a minority however small, he called for an attitude of revolt to legislation that might require defence forces for the defence of this country. [More…]

• I noticed with regret the marked absence from any Labor Party advocacy during the debate of a claim that the Australian Labor Party could make a voluntary system of defence operate. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, Mr David Fairbairn, in another place referred to the Government’s efforts on previous occasions in improving conditions and rates of pay in the forces to make them comparable to civilian callings, and to the insufficiency of the response in the state of total employment that we have in this country. [More…]

• I had expressed the hope that the level of debate would be rather higher than it usually is when defence matters are being discussed. [More…]

• But, of course, once more Government supporters are out of step with their ex-leader who, in one of his memorable contributions to the journalism of this country, pointed out that in his defence policy he did not want Australia’s young men dying in jungles and swamps because of possible Balkan-like quarrels which he felt were the responsibility of the local government. [More…]

• The fact is that the Defence Act clearly states that a member of the military forces can be required to serve here or abroad. [More…]

• An official document I saw today, the Defence report for 1971, states that as at 30th June 1971 there were 29,364 personnel regularly serving in the Citizen [More…]

• On the other hand the Government, conscious of its obligation to Australia and our national defence, does not believe that national service should be abolished. [More…]

• It believes that the defence of Australia requires having available at all times personnel to comprise the defence forces which would be necessary in any situation which can be foreseen in the immediate future. [More…]

• They have no real interest in the defence of this country as they would regard the defence forces of Australia as no more than boy scouts. [More…]

• 1 hope that the people of Australia will have an opportunity to appreciate the way in which the Labor Party regards the defence of Australia; in the words of Senator James McClelland, it. [More…]

• I think that the defence of Australia is vastly more important and requires a much more mature approach. [More…]

• I am quite sure that Senator James McClelland knows the legal position under the Defence Act. [More…]

• What he ignored or did not say is that the only time that a person in the CMF can be required to undertake service outside Australia is in a time of war or a time of defence emergency . [More…]

• Of course it is open to the Government to declare a time of emergency, but at no stage in the past 6 years, much to the chagrin of the Opposition, has the Government declared a state of defence emergency. [More…]

• The simple point is that if a person is in the CMF he can be required to see service outside Australia only in a time of war or a time of defence emergency. [More…]

• The Government has clearly indicated that it believes in the concept of national service and adequate defence of this country. [More…]

• It rejects an Opposition amendment which would end national service at the end of this year and therefore jeopardise the defence of this country. [More…]

• of the Defence Act 1903-1964, which was initiated by this Government, states: [More…]

• In time of war or in time of defence emergency - [More…]

• of that Act was amended by the Defence Act 1965, apparently as a result of the introduction of national service. [More…]

• Section 16 of the Defence Act 1965 states: [More…]

• With no possibility of any dispute arising at present and, according to the previous Prime Minister, with no visible possibility of an invasion of Australia or of a necessity to defend Australia in the next 10 years, it is apparently necessary to have a strength of 40,000 men in the defence forces. [More…]

• But there is no logic in arguing that because the Labor Party opposes compulsory military service it is not interested in Australia’s defence. [More…]

• The Labor Party is interested in Australia’s defence. [More…]

• The Government is sacrificing Australia’s defence by following a useless system of training men at a colossal cost to the nation. [More…]

• The opinion of the Labor Party’s own expert, Professor Howard, is, as Senator Carrick reminded us last night, that Australia’s defence scheme is one of the least wasteful in the world. [More…]

• Because they have done so I fee) that I should refer precisely to the sections of the Defence Act which indicate the obligations of a person who undertakes service in the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]

• I understood Senator Poyser to say that no government should ever have the power to call up persons for national service or to the defence of their country in a time of emergency. [More…]

• Senator Poyser said that unless the Parliament was sitting so that by a process of debate it could determine the merits of the situation no government should have any power to call up persons in the defence of their country. [More…]

• I refer to the obligations of a member of the Citizen Military Forces under the Defence Act. [More…]

• I do assert what I earlier stated, that is, that a member of the Citizen Military Forces is not required to serve outside Australia except in time of war or in time of defence emergency. [More…]

• Section 50 of the Defence Act says: (1.) [More…]

• Section 50a of the Defence Act alters the position in the circumstances set out in the section as to when a member of the Citizen Military Forces may be required to render full time service. [More…]

• In time of war or in time of defence emergency, the Governor-General may, by proclamation, call out the Citizen Forces, or any part of those Forces, for continuous full-time service. [More…]

• What is meant by ‘in time of defence emergency”? [More…]

• What does ‘time of defence emergency’ mean? [More…]

• the period between the publication of a proclamation declaring that a state of defence emergency exists in relation to Australia and the publication of a proclamation that that state of defence emergency no longer exists. [More…]

• I appreciate that the publication of a proclamation is required, in terms of the defin- tion of ‘time of war’ and there certainly is required in the case of the definition of time of defence emergency’. [More…]

• The persons who are rendering continuous military service in the Citizen Military Forces are those persons who by virtue of a proclamation in a time of war or in a time of defence emergency are bound to render continuous military serbound to render continuous military service. [More…]

• A person in the Citizen Military Forces is not required to serve outside Australia except in time of war or in time of defence emergency. [More…]

• If the members of the Opposition are prepared to say that in no circumstances - even in time of war and even in time of defence emergency - are members of the Citizen Military Forces required to serve out of Australia, I think the people of Australia are entitled to judge them on that basis. [More…]

• Nothing that he has said in citing sections 50, 50A and 50C of the Defence Act detracts one iota from the proposition that I have put forward tonight, and which Senator Cavanagh also has put forward. [More…]

• When Curtin was faced with the possibility of an invasion of Australia he had a regular force which could operate anywhere in the world, as necessary for the defence of Australia, and he had a militia establishment which could operate only on the shores of Australia in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• In 1943 Curtin, with the approval of the Labor Party, amended the Defence Act to permit the militia, which previously was restricted to the shores of Australia, to be employed in a denned area in the West Pacific south of the equator. [More…]

• What Curtin said was: ‘Here is a force that we have in Australia at the present time for the defence of Australia. [More…]

• It would strengthen our defence if we could use that force in a wider area but we do not want to break the Labor Party’s traditional opposition to conscription. [More…]

• We do not ask that that force be available to be used wherever the regular force can be used: we ask the Parliament to extend the area of defence of Australia to the denned area of the West Pacific south of the equator’. [More…]

• Let honourable senators who are interjecting look up the Defence Act 1943 and see what it says-. [More…]

• We believe in the defence of this country and the obligation, unpleasant as it is at some times, to impose upon the young people of Australia an obligation to render national service in the national interest. [More…]

• The Opposition, for its part, whatever it might say about the defence of this country, is not prepared to take the people of Australia into its confidence as to how it would manage that defence. [More…]

• -I address my ques tion to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence or the Minister representing the Minister for Supply. [More…]

• At present representatives of my Department and the other Service departments are discussing with the Department of Defence the evaluation of this aircraft. [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The installation at Pine Gap is the Joint Defence Space Research Facility (JDSRF). [More…]

• Access, of course, is subject to permission being granted under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act. [More…]

• I desire to direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Will the Minister give an assurance that this viewpoint of a distinguished expert will receive due and careful consideration by the Government in its planning for Australia’s future defence? [More…]

• Representatives of my department and the Department of the Army are at present having discussions with representatives of the Defence Department on the evaluation of this aircraft. [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing .he Minister for Supply relates to the recent announcement by the Minister for Defence regarding the cancellation of orders for helicopters for the Services. [More…]

• An evaluation of an aircraft type by the Department of Air is then discussed with the Department of Defence in the context of the timing within the 5-year rolling programme. [More…]

• Secretary for Defence in the United States of America- said once that what was good for General Motors was good for the United States of America. [More…]

• If the close proximity of a defence area now prevents the use of these unused homes by civilians, could not the housing area be separated from the defence area to permit their use? [More…]

• Would a statement by the Government on its intentions for the aircraft industry, and the inclusion of the industry in the five-year rolling defence programme, allow the aircraft industry to plan for the future and so eliminate employment troughs which occur between major production runs. [More…]

• As requirements fluctuate it would not be practicable to guarantee any specific level of activity in respect of Government orders for defence equipment. [More…]

• This is particularly true in the defence aircraftindustry which suffers from troughs in demand between major production runs. [More…]

• It is recognised bythe Government that the present Australian aircraft industry relies on defence contracts for its basic workload, and a good deal of effort has been put into the development of projects for the industry in order to reduce the present troughin requirements. [More…]

• It is stated policy to maintain a small viable defence aircraft industry in Australia and to support the ‘industry with the available defence work which can be appropriately allocated to it: this is well known in the industry. [More…]

• The requirements of the Services which will result in workload for the industry are included in the Defence Programme. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• It is necessary for elements of the Australian Task Force to remain in a local defence role while operational responsibilities in Phuoc Tuy. [More…]

• Australian forces will be required to undertake the local defence of their own bases until final withdrawal. [More…]

• If there is a flood we work in with the civil defence system. [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…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate whether it is true that a request has been made to Australia to leave Australian servicemen in Vietnam as advisers to train Cambodians, presumably for the defence of the Government of Lon Nol, the dictator who has dispensed with parliamentary democracy and is operating under martial law? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that troops from Singapore will now be trained in Australia? [More…]

• Is it purely coincidence that the American Defence Secretary, Mr Laird, yesterday pledged a continued American military presence in Indo-China at the same time as the Australian Government agreed to leave Australian troops in Vietnam to train Cambodian soldiers? [More…]

• My question, which I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, relates to the transfer of the major part of the plant of Hawker Siddeley Electronics Ltd from Salisbury in South Australia to Brookvale in Victoria, resulting in the retrenchment of skilled South Australian staff who are employed now on important defence contract work. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Is it a fact that, when this company secured a recent Sim contract for electronic defence devices, it was claimed that the work would be performed in South Australia? [More…]

• This question is posed to me as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I would need to refer to the Department of Supply through the Department of Defence to obtain that information. [More…]

• It may have been that in announcing the contract the Minister concerned - it may have been me; it may have been the Minister for Defence; I cannot recall - said that this development would be of some significant help in relation to the employment situation in the Salisbury area. [More…]

• The implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community and the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly of the United Nations and on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China and to expel the Republic of China from the world body. [More…]

• These 2 events happened 6,000 miles apart and it might appear that there is no inter-relation between the two; but honourable senators will notice that I have embodied in the resolution a common consequence, that is, the effect on Australian defence and security of these 2 major and historic decisions taken so very far apart in geographic terms. [More…]

• Because there necessarily will be a uniform system of commerce and perhaps of general common law; because there will be a uniform currency situation; because there will be a common trade policy and because there obviously will be ultimately a common defence policy and a common policy on foreign affairs, ultimately there will be a complete politic.il identity. [More…]

• It is not only a question of Australian forward defence; it is also a question of our involvement in the security, independence and integrity of those nations. [More…]

• I know that when our defence programme is placed before the Parliament, or more particularly when it is mentioned in the Press, we are inclined to hear that type of sarcasm or ridicule which states: Who is going to invade Australia? [More…]

• After all, my Party has always presented a policy of strength in defence. [More…]

• By implication they are correlated and tied to the Australian defence and security. [More…]

• I find it difficult to accept the proposition that the 2 events are tied necessarily to the defence of Australia in the sense that the honourable senator has put them. [More…]

• With that background I want to come to the context of the matter of urgency motion, which says that the entry of Britain into the European Economic Community and the vote taken in the United Nations on Communist China’s admission to that body are linked to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• The second point is that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community will by no means spell the end of her political, commercial, investment and defence interests in the rest of the world. [More…]

• This assurance has been given this week when we are discussing the proposition that she may move away from us and prejudice our defence. [More…]

• I refer to the Five Power Defence Arrangements which came into effect on 1st November. [More…]

• I repeat that the announcement regarding the Five Power Defence Arrangements was made after and not before Britain’s decision to enter the EEC. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that the governments which make up the Five Power Defence Arrangements - Australia, Britain, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore - have expressed their intention of continuing to co-operate closely in defence matters. [More…]

• I suggest, bearing in mind what has been set out in the Five Power Defence Arrangements, that the closest British presence is not moving 12,000 miles away but is continuing to stay in our part of the world. [More…]

• The 5 governments also have set up an air defence council which is responsible for the functioning of the integrated air defence system, and a joint consultative council. [More…]

• It is also true that the AngloMalaysian Defence Treaty has been terminated. [More…]

• The implications for Australian defence and security. [More…]

• Two points are made with respect to Australia’s defence and security. [More…]

• I want to make a point about what I believe is a judgment implicit in the subject of this urgency discussion; that is that the entry of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations is going to prejudice our defence. [More…]

• I obtained the clear impression while there that although the United Kingdom desired to enter the Community it was not .coins to enter a closed shop, as it were, but that it was going to make a real contribution to the defence of Europe. [More…]

• The clear view was expressed that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community would strengthen the defence of Europe but never at any stage was it suggested in the United Kingdom - rather it was to the contrary - by those for and against Britain’s entry that Britain’s ties with the Commonwealth ultimately would be given up; that its entry would mean separation from those ties of blood and brotherhood with Commonwealth countries such as Australia and New Zealand. [More…]

• So I say that I cannot accept the view that there will be a threat to our defence as a consequence of Britain’s entry to the European Economic Community. [More…]

• In that way I hope and pray, as I know we all do, that as a consequence the danger to defence and security in the Pacific will be lessened rather than increased. [More…]

• ; for Australian defence and security of Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community- [More…]

• Particularly I remember debates inside the British Labour Party; but debates were taking place inside the British Conservative Party and elsewhere as to whether at that stage Britain should join the European Defence Community. [More…]

• How can British continue to exert in the world a strong and constant influence - in defence of her own interests, certainly, but also in the interests of commonsense and of humanity? [More…]

• The matter of urgency refers to the implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s decision to enter the European Economic Community and the decision of the United Nations to seat the People’s Republic of China in the General Assembly of the United Nations and on the Security Council in place of the Republic of China and to expel the Republic of China from the world body. [More…]

• for his mealy-mouthed approach to the defence situation. [More…]

• On 11th August 1969 the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party, Senator Gair, said that a new defence pact between Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and other Asian nations should be established. [More…]

• The Government is required to find additional money for the defence of this country, which can be justified in present circumstances. [More…]

• Assumption by Australia of some responsibility for the defence of Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand; strengthened defence capability to make that possible; active Australian diplomacy for regional co-operation to provide the framework for collective self-defence; expanded Australian aid to Indonesia; trade opportunities for Malaysia and Singapore; and a trade agreement with the United States to end our squabbling over meat and wool. [More…]

• Senator Gair said that defence funds had been allocated unevenly since World War II. [More…]

• This indicated 3 necessary strategic considerations - decentralisation of the population, adequate civil defence expenditure and preparation for the day when Australia could make its own atomic warheads. [More…]

• The Government defence policy and the question of Soviet influence in the Indian Ocean area a’re rapidly emerging as key issues in the election campaign. [More…]

• When one reads carefully the matter contained in the motion of urgency moved by Senator Byrne it becomes quite clear that the operative words are ‘Australian defence and security implications’. [More…]

• They are ‘Australian defence and security implications’. [More…]

• The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) has dealt, in quite a detailed way, with the foreign affairs and defence aspects of this matter. [More…]

• Equally, Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community will not spell the end of its political, commercial, investment and defence interests in Australia and countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. [More…]

• Defence has to depend to a very great extent upon self-interest, and there is great self-interest by the British in the area with which we are concerned. [More…]

• There is the 5-power defence arrangement referred to by the Leader of the Government. [More…]

• We all depend on our friends in matters of defence and security. [More…]

• If we cast our minds back to the beginning of the matter of urgency where it refers to Australian defence and security implications, and refer to the remarks made by the President of the United States to the Prime Minister a couple of days ago, I suggest that that is a reasonably fair defence and security implication which should be read by everybody who is interested in this matter. [More…]

• Some comments have been made about United Stales isolationism and the idea that we will not see any more of that country in matters of defence. [More…]

• Senator Byrne stated that the countries to our north with whom we have substantial friendly and defensive arrangements are conscious of the danger of subversion from outside and require time to strengthen their defences and security. [More…]

• The United Kingdom forces remain east of Suez and we are involved ourselves with other people in defence arrangements. [More…]

• I could be grateful to Senator Cotton for bringing the debate back to the real issue in the motion; that is the implications for Australia’s defence and security. [More…]

• Others will look to Australia because of the effect on their defence even though Britain’s entry into the Common Market may not produce trading repercussions for them. [More…]

• The late John Curtin was a conscientious objector and he sent men to war when it was necessary for this country’s defence. [More…]

• I do not believe that there was any desire to uncover a conspiracy, as was suggested by Senator Wheeldon; I believe there was just a genuine desire to have discussed the implications for the defence and security of this country of the impact of 2 very, very important events so far as the whole world is concerned. [More…]

• While entry into the EEC may not be a good thing for the United Kingdom economically and while it may be true, as Mr Wilson says, that the struggle is only just beginning, nevertheless if the guidance is forthcoming politically for the United Kingdom this could have long range effects upon the defence of this country and upon the peace of the world. [More…]

• If the United States sinks more and more into isolationism and withdraws its forces or part of them from or substantially reduces them in Europe, it does seem reasonable to think that this action might speed up the further federation of the countries that comprise the European Economic Community into a real, virile defence unit as a counterpoise to the influence further east of the Soviet Union. [More…]

• I suggest it is a very loose proposal because it refers to the implications for Australian defence and security of Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community and also raises the subject of the entry of the People’s Republic of China into the United Nations. [More…]

• We talk about defence capability. [More…]

• Do honourable senators know that the real defence capability is to have a capability in our own country? [More…]

• That is the defence capability we have; that is the capability we have to develop. [More…]

• We can do this if we give aid to the industries about which I have spoken and if we take a positive stand about the importation of aircraft, defence equipment, war stores and munitions. [More…]

• We should force the Government to make sure that orders for a large quota of imported equipment which is related to aircraft and defence requirements are given to Australian industry. [More…]

• It seeks to examine the implications to the defence and security of Australia of 2 epoch making events - the potential entry of Britain into the European Economic Community and the entry of Mainland China into the United Nations. [More…]

• The defence and security of Australia cannot be observed or studied in isolation. [More…]

• I say that if honourable senators read it - there are some 360 pages - they will find it is a defence treaty. [More…]

• It is a defence treaty as a whole. [More…]

• I look upon this matter of urgency with some misgivings because it purports to indicate that there are serious implications for the defence and security of Australia. [More…]

• Beyond that the United States has claimed thai 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 SUS5 billion annually 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 w was made, as 1 have mentioned, to trade and defence issues. [More…]

• They also seek some undertakings from some of their trading partners on trade and defence matters. [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…]

• The Minister for Defence said in the House of Representatives on 29th September that the Government and its military advisers were doing everything possible to ensure a safe withdrawal of Australian forces from Vietnam. [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…]

• 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) Act 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…]

• When I was in my room I heard Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson introducing Bills to provide for loans from the American people for the purchase from America of equipment for Qantas Airways Ltd and defence equipment. [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Navy recall the statement made on 18th February this year by the then Minister for Defence, Mr Fraser, that ‘Russia’s ambitions in the Indian Ocean are a threat to Australia’ and that ‘Anyone who cannot realise there is this threat has misread the lessons of history’? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether he has been able to investigate the matter raised by me on 2nd November relating to the proposed transfer to Brookvale, New South Wales of the Hawker Siddeley Electronics Engineering plant, which is performing defence contract work at Salisbury at a location very close to the Weapons Research Establishment. [More…]

• in view of the Government’s decision to spend such a great deal of its defence allocation upon destroyers which most probably would be easily destroyed in time of war, will the Minister say whether consideration has been given to the alternative of building a larger number of high speed coastguard ships which could be used to patrol Tasmanian and other Australian territorial waters against poaching of fish? [More…]

• What action has been taken to tighten up security to ensure that future secret defence documents will not be offered for sale by public auction? [More…]

• Al end of motion add: but the Senate is of the opinion thai firm arrangements should have been made for substantial coproduction procedures for imported aircraft and a joint select committee should be appointed to inquire into and report upon the effectiveness of Qantas management in relation to crew retrenchment, migrant carriage contracts, the future role of Qantas In the major international aviation scene- both from commercial and defence aspects, the question of Qantas’ role in Australia’s balance of payments, entry into and extent of activity in international charter operations, charter fare structures, the company’s continued viability as the national flag carrier in Australian aviation and its industrial relations ‘ policies and practices.’ [More…]

• I make it clear that they include not only civilian aircraft but also defence aircraft. [More…]

• Rearrangements of the defence programme nave also reduced the amount of servicing work available to the industry from the Royal Australian Air Force and other units nf the Services. [More…]

• It would put in jeopardy the part that Qantas plays in our commercial and defence structure, and it does play a part in both. [More…]

• The inflow of such currency into the economy of a small nation is very important when viewed against the need to maintain for defence purposes airfields, aircraft and equipment. [More…]

• Let us get some competitive element between our aircraft factories because without it they could lose the vigour which is so essential to the defence aspects of our country. [More…]

• It has not emphasised sufficiently to those nations from whom we purchase - they are people with whom we have friendly relations for the purposes of defence - the absolute necessity of Australia being commercially independent in conducting a viable aircraft industry as part of the defence of this country if the need should ever arise. [More…]

• This is a good thing from the point of view of Australia’s defence structure. [More…]

• We have given some attention to whether this endeavour can be incorporated into the defence structure of this country. [More…]

• I mention this matter because of the enormous prospect there would be for Australia to use general aviation facilities as part of her genera) defence structure, lt is quite obvious that Indian Ocean facilities would offer a very material defence advantage to Australia. [More…]

• But there seems to be little co-ordination between the defence arm of the Government and Qantas on this question. [More…]

• The Democratic Labor Party wishes to stress to the Government as strongly as possible that the only possible way in which it can co-ordinate these things is to take an active interest in bringing together all facets of the Australian airways industry and the defence structure of this country. [More…]

• It should be a defence commitment clearly entered into by this country. [More…]

• They have produced the most modern type of defence equipment. [More…]

• As a background to our defence structure the Qantas fleet is a major asset. [More…]

• He dealt wilh co-production procedures and the offsets in defence production matters, which are of great interest to him and, indeed, to us all. [More…]

• I should comment here that this is properly a consideration for the Departments of Supply and Defence. [More…]

• In talking about offset production, to which the honourable senator directed attention, I propose to refer to a note that I have from the Defence Department to the Treasury. [More…]

• Following initial approaches by Ministers and officials, in March 1970 a report by an Australian Defence Industries Mission which visited the United States of America to explore the possibility of increasing United States procurement from Australia was considered. [More…]

• An interdepartmental committee was set up to introduce a programme to achieve increased sales to America and overseas defence and other industries as an offset against Australian purchases of defence equipment. [More…]

• Senator Little spoke about the defence potential of Qantas and its contribution. [More…]

• The ability to fly across it successfully is a matter of immense importance not only from a commercial point of view, but also from the defence .point of view. [More…]

• The observation that Senator Little made about Cocos Island from a civil point of view as a landing, refuelling stopover point for fast charter flights from Europe to Australia is not lost on me, and neither is his comment on the defence implication. [More…]

• Senator Little also said that he gathers that there is little co-ordination between the commercial aspects of Qantas and the defence aspects of Australia. [More…]

• I have a few extra notes on aircraft defence production which may serve in illumination for both Senator Bishop and Senator Little, who referred to this aspect. [More…]

• As to Qantas defence work and potential, it performed quite a number of military charters both to Vietnam and Malaysia, and some HS 125 charters for the Navy. [More…]

• Borrowings for defence purposes are excluded from the provisions of the financial agreement and, accordingly, they are not subject to the approval of the Australian Loan Council. [More…]

• I regret that I have to disrupt the procedure that we have been following this evening, by which the Australian Labor Party has consented to a series of Bills, and to announce to the Government that the Opposition will oppose the second reading of the Loan (Defence) Bill. [More…]

• The Opposition is very much concerned at the fact that our defence depends upon our ability to borrow money from overseas. [More…]

• We believe that defence should be paid for as we go and we should not rely on overseas investment and overseas borrowings and thus be placed in the position of paying additional interest on the money that we borrow. [More…]

• If we looked at the matter from a point of view other than that it would appear to be wrong for defence to rely upon loan money, we would question the necessity for the loan and whether the Department of Defence and the Australian Government really know what their loan requirements are from the Bank from time to time. [More…]

• The Loan (Defence) Bill 1968 sought agreement, and we got approval, to borrow $US75m repayable over 7 years at 6 per cent interest per annum. [More…]

• There were 2 Loan (Defence) Bills introduced in 1970 which sought approval to borrow from the same bank $US89m repayable at 7 per cent and 8 per cent interest per annum. [More…]

• The Loan (Defence) Act (No. [More…]

• An agreement was made for the United States Defence Department to be credited with $US123m for supplies we would receive between 1st July 1970 and 3 1 st December 1974. [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…]

• There is nothing set out in the Minister’s second reading speech to show the purpose for which we are borrowing this money for the defence of Australia. [More…]

• We are paying interest to United States lenders for giving United States suppliers the privilege of supplying our defence needs. [More…]

• An amount of $90m is very small compared with the Budget estimate for defence alone of $1,252.4m, which is $117m or 10.3 per cent more than last year’s. [More…]

• For some timeI have been saying in this chamber that it stirs the emotions of members of the Parliament when we talk of defence and the need for defence. [More…]

• The expenditure on defence is useless if it is never needed. [More…]

• This year we will spend$1, 252.4m among the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Department of Defence - all to create power to kill and all to create warlike activities. [More…]

• We are spending more than$1, 000m a year on defence. [More…]

• We have a Minister for Air, a Minister for the Navy, a Minister for the Army and a Minister for Defence. [More…]

• We have 4 Ministers in the defence field, but we have no Minister who is propagating peace throughout the world. [More…]

• 000m that we spend on defence would serve just as well as a defence potential if we were to spend it on spreading peace throughout the world. [More…]

• If a situation should arise in which atomic power is used there would be no defence against it so our expenditure would have been wasted. [More…]

• We must meet at the conference table and give up this concept of Australia having mighty defence forces so that Australia may become an advocate of peace throughout the world. [More…]

• I am not sure whether Senator Cavanagh was speaking for the Australian Labor Party because, as I understand it, one faction of the Labor Party has declared that it would not reduce the defence vote. [More…]

• It has stated that it believes in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• But as 1 understood Senator Cavanagh, he does not think that we need defence forces. [More…]

• If we were living in a world in which everybody believed in peace we could afford the luxury of not having a defence force, but unfortunately we do not live in such a world. [More…]

• Other countries, including the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, are spending mammoth amounts of money to provide defence forces, lt would be an act of utter stupidity if Australia, which is in an unstable part of. [More…]

• the world in which there is a constant threat of one sort or another, did not try to provide for itself credible defence forces at least. [More…]

• This Bill seeks the consent of Parliament to borrow $90m from the Export-Import Bank of the United States to enable us to purchase defence equipment. [More…]

• One of the great problems facing Australia today is that we are lagging behind in the provision of modern equipment for our defence forces. [More…]

• The cost of this equipment is growing and, sooner or later, a decision will have to be made to re-equip our defence forces with much of the modern armoury which is required for the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• The main purpose of the Bill is to assist with finance to equip the defence forces. [More…]

• Because of a continuing need, unfortunate as it may be, we must provide for Australia a credible defence force. [More…]

• I believe that Australia’s defence depends on constant preparedness. [More…]

• Our defence forces cannot be built up in a day. [More…]

• If we reject the Bill we deal a serious blow to defence proposals which most members of Parliament believe are necessary. [More…]

• As it is desired to complete consideration of the Bill this evening, it is not possible at this stage to debate the whole question of defence, but other opportunities will arise before the Parliament ends its operations for this year. [More…]

• I am amazed at the number of people who, while saying that they believe in the defence of Australia, insist that there is no danger to Australia. [More…]

• In the kind of world in which we live we need defence. [More…]

• I believe that any political party which goes before the electors and suggests that we do not require adequate defence is manufacturing the circumstances of its defeat. [More…]

• My Party stands for strong defence. [More…]

• It relates to the financing of defence procurement and not to the defence situation, although this has very properly been referred to. [More…]

• It seeks the approval of the Parliament, in the first instance, for the borrowing of $US90m from the ExportImport Bank of the United States of America to assist in the purchasing of general defence equipment. [More…]

• The second reading speech mentions that under the Loan (Defence) Act 1970 the Commonwealth arranged borrowings of $US89m to finance orders for general defence equipment. [More…]

• It mentions that under the Loan (Defence) Act (No. [More…]

• The Government considers it prudent to finance the expenditure on defence equipment by borrowing from the Export-Import Bank in this way. [More…]

• The intention of the purchase is to increase the capability of the defence Services. [More…]

• We are dealing with the financing of a defence programme to which we, as a government, have agreed to defend this country and its people during a certain period. [More…]

• By way of preface and, in defence of you, Mr President,I state that it is necessary to ask this supplementary question to avoid my raising the matter during the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the Senate. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of which Senator Sim is chairman, has just started consideration of a reference on Japan. [More…]

• I will cause to be handed to honourable senators a statement which will give them information on all defence loans arranged with the Export-Import Bank of the United States under the authority of the Loan (Defence) Acts. [More…]

• Clause 4 of the Loan (Defence) Bill - the Bill wilh which we are dealing here - authorises the borrowing of up to $US90m in accordance with the terms of the proposed agreement with thi Export-Import Bank which is shown as a schedule to the Bill. [More…]

• It is clear from the terms of the agreement that the loan will only be dispersed by the Export-Import Bank provided the loan money is spent on defence articles, equipment and services of at least 95 per cent United States content. [More…]

• Orders for defence equipment to be financed under this loan are approved of in the first instance by our Service departments and the Department of Defence and then by the United States Defence Department. [More…]

• These arrangements have applied to all loans arranged in the United States for the financing of defence equipment. [More…]

• Of course all these loans have been authorised by the various Loan (Defence) Acts. [More…]

• Two loans have been arranged under the authority of the Loan (Defence) Act 1966 and the Loan (Defence) Act 1968 to assist tn the financing of the purchase of the Fill aircraft. [More…]

• The technical arrangements for this loan were as follows: For each of the financial years 1966-67, 1967-68, and 1968-69 Australia, the United States Defence Department and the ExportImport Bank concluded note purchase agreements. [More…]

• Under these agreements Australia issued promissory notes to the United States Defence Department for disbursements against the, loans. [More…]

• The United States Defence Department sold those notes to the Export-Import [More…]

• The agreement for this loan is set out in a schedule to the Loan (Defence) Act 1968. [More…]

• The attached table gives details of the individual note purchase agreements as well as details of all other loans arranged under the authority of the Loan (Defence) Acts. [More…]

• In respect of those 4 loans the amount outstanding and available to be drawn on for defence purposes is no less than $ US 169,7 14,000. [More…]

• The unused balance of this loan will be drawn to finance payments on defence orders already placed in the United States. [More…]

• In respect of the final amount of $US2 1, 704,000. which is outstanding and available to he drawn on and which is part of an original loan of$US123m, the notation reads: $US74.2m of this loan has been cancelled and the unusedbalance of$US21.7m will be drawn to finance payments on defence orders already placed in the United Stales. [More…]

• I believe it is reasonable to say that honourable senators are entitled to have precise information on the hardware or defence equipment that the Government intends to purchase. [More…]

• But, in addition, Ibelieve that the statistics that honourable senators have been good enough to allow me to have incorporated in Hansard show that the Department of Defence and the Government do not have a firm objective in view, in terms of the types of equipment that we require for the defence of this nation, at the times when they are seeking approval of these loans. [More…]

• The precise details of the drawings on these defence credits and the purpose for which the drawings are made are presented to the Parliament annually in the report of the Auditor-General. [More…]

• Further details are contained, also in the annual Defence Report of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Government considers it prudent to finance the expenditure on defence equipment by borrowing from the Export-Import Bank in this way. [More…]

• The intention of the purchase is to increase the capability of the defence Services. [More…]

• I observe only that we are really dealing here nol with an argument as to defence policy, which is argued elsewhere in other places, in other fashions and on different occasions, but with the financing of a defence programme which has been agreed to. [More…]

• However, I stand ready to try to answer any further questions thai may come along but 1 do not feel that I should involve myself or the Government in a debate on general defence policy. [More…]

• Paragraph 34 on page 39 of the AuditorGeneral’s report for the financial year 1970-71 indicates that the Loan (Defence) Act 1966 made preparations for the borrowing of $US450m. [More…]

• A further Agreement was entered into pursuant lo the Act whereby the Export-Import Bank of the United States agreed to finance payments, not exceeding $US35,05 1,734, required to be made by the Commonwealth to the United States Department of Defense and other suppliers of defence equipment. [More…]

• Paragraph 33 of my report dated18th August 1969 referred to an Agreement approved bythe Loan (Defence) Act 1968 (Act No. [More…]

• Paragraph 34 of my Report dated 25th August 1970 gave details of an Agreement authorised by the Loan (Defence) Act 1970 (Act No. [More…]

• As I indicated during the second reading debate, should not the Government be financing its defence on a pay-as-we-go basis? [More…]

• The defence programme of this country is a huge one. [More…]

• The expenditure for Defence Services in the year 1961-62 was shown as $409,353,000. [More…]

• For the year now being considered, of which this Billwould form part of she general appropriation, the Defence expenditure is estimated at $1,252,383,000. [More…]

• The value judgments it makes are these: What proportion of the national resources it will devote to defence as against the other competing priorities and how much it will be prepared to forgo other things to defend itself. [More…]

• Out of the moneys appropriated for defence the Government looks at the defence situation and obviously makes decisions on what equipment it will purchase and how it will spend that defence resource. [More…]

• Fundamentally, therefore, for various reasons its defence or supply train links it to the United States. [More…]

• This is part of the reason for forward financing.I should inform honour able senators that all this is coming out of my head and remind them that I am not the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• This is a matter of the procurement programme, the supply programme and the defence supply train. [More…]

• There is no surplus available or accumulated for new defence orders proposed for 1971-72. [More…]

• I asked how much credit we had and I was told that the credit is committed already for defence procurements this year. [More…]

• How much this expenditure is associated with defence I am unable to say, but I suppose that defence is one of its purposes. [More…]

• We are not attempting to prevent the expenditure of money for defence purposes,but we suggest that we should be fully informed on whether the expenditure is for essential purposes. [More…]

• There is no surplus available or accumulated for the new defence orders proposed for 1971-72. [More…]

• If honourable senators look at pages 20 and 21 of the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) - what I call the full version, the one with the published accounts at the back - they can see the kind of programme envisaged for the defence services. [More…]

• Total expenditure on defence services is expected to increase in 1971-72 by$117,400,000 or by 10.3 per cent. [More…]

• The remainder of the$36,791,000 reflects the additional pay day this year, the cost of awards and determinations made in 1971 and expected changes in the strength of the forces and civili an staffs of the departments in the defence group. [More…]

• I know that Senator Cavanagh is trying to help me, but it is very difficult to see how and why.I am just trying to go through the defence situation to illustrateto the honourable senator the gigantic size of the defence programme and to point out quietly,I hope, that substantially the equipment is obtained for good and sensible reasons in the United States of America because this suits our weapons and equipment programme, and also our arrangements with allies. [More…]

• We will have to seek that answer from the representatives of the various defence departments during the debate on the Estimates in the Committee of the Whole. [More…]

• The Minister referred to the difference between the philosophy of the Government on the matter of financing our defence requirements and that of the Opposition. [More…]

• 1 say that notwithstanding the fact that there has been some indication that some part of those undrawn loan moneys has been committed to defence orders already placed in the United States. [More…]

• Some additional drawings will be made to finance payments for defence items for which orders already have been placed with the United States. [More…]

• The point I made earlier is that philosophically [ believe it is sensible to borrow money to purchase defence equipment at this rate of interest rather than apportion the Australian resource for that purpose, bearing in mind that the Australian resource of reserves itself earns interest. [More…]

• The agreement with the Export-Import Bank for this loan was shown as a schedule to the Loan (Defence) Act 1968 and the obligation to pay a commitment fee is set out in the agreement. [More…]

• I think the question would be best directed to the Minister for Defence in the first instance, and I will arrange for that to be done. [More…]

• A study is being conducted at the present time by my Department and the Department of Defence as to whether the aircraft about which the honourable senator speaks would be a suitable replacement, bearing in mind that it could be used as a transport tanker aircraft. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Others were young men who were conscripted into national service when the defence structure of this country was threatened, because of a lack of manpower, with being unable to remain a viable force. [More…]

• Overseas countries are probably more competent to judge good economic management than are some of the people who have been called up in the defence of what is said to be a bad economic position. [More…]

• The examination of issues such as foreign policy, defence and economic policy, in my opinion, is very properly one to be conducted seriously, exhaustively and thoughtfully in the Senate. [More…]

• I will be quite happy if at the end of it all we emerge with a bipartisan view because what matters here is an understanding of the real issues that concern the Australian people, what 1 call the long term issues - the foreign policy issues, the defence issues and the economic policy issues. [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 British relations with the European Economic Community, Mr Rippon; and the Governor of the Bank of England. [More…]

• Mr Heath 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…]

• We has useful opening discussions directed to increasing defence co-operation in the Indian Ocean area. [More…]

• I emphasised the role we are seeking to play in regional economic cooperation and regional defence cooperation in South East Asia. [More…]

• Following re-negotiation of the UK/ Australia Joint Project agreement in 1968 only a small proportion of the Salisbury workload is related to the support of the Woomera trials; the major workload of the Salisbury establishment is now in support of the Australian Defence needs.It is thus necessary to considerthe Salisbury and Woomera establishments separately in answering the honourable senator’s questions. [More…]

• National servicemen qualify for re-establishment training under Part IV of the Defence (Re-establishment) Act. [More…]

• -I preface my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence by referring to the motion carried in this chamber last week expressing the gratitude of the Senate to the members of the armed Services of Australia who served in Vietnam. [More…]

• Will the Minister be good enough to ask the Minister for Defence whether the terms of both those resolutions will, in the proper and appropriate manner, be promulgated through him and through the Service Ministers to the armed forces of Australia? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has already discussed the matter with his colleagues, the Service Ministers, asking them to convey the contents of the resolutions to the forces. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall the statement by the then Minister for Defence, Mr Fraser, on 18th February 1971 that ‘Russia’s ambitions in the [More…]

• The Commonwealth should provide it directly and without requiring that 5 per cent of the money provided by agreement with the States to house low income earners should be allocated for housing ex-members of the defence forces. [More…]

• Whilst we agree with many of the things that Opposition senators have said on many aspects relating to the economy and the Government’s approach to this important question, our view is that although mistakes in economic matters may be uncomfortable they certainly can be remedied, whereas mistakes in matters of defence and foreign policy involve the life or death of a nation. [More…]

• Because of that and because of the altitude of the Opposition to the matters of defence and foreign affairs we are not prepared to use the measures now before the Senate as a means of defeating the Government. [More…]

• But at present, while the Opposition maintains its present attitude on defence and foreign affairs, and while it devotes, as it does, so much of its time to trying to devise ways and means of bringing about the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality, we will not be prepared to defeat the Government. [More…]

• Senator Kane has said that whilst mistakes in economic matters may be uncomfortable, mistakes in defence and foreign policy involve the life or death of a nation. [More…]

• defence and foreign policy the Australian Democratic Labor Party was not prepared to use the measure now before the Senate to defeat he Government. [More…]

• No political party in Australia has a better record than the Australian Labor Party insofar as defence and foreign policy are concerned, but to relate the state of the economy at the present time to defence and foreign policy and other extraneous matters is, quite frankly, complete and utter balderdash. [More…]

• I had some apprehension that the honourable senator was about to denigrate labrador dogs and I was ready to spring to their defence because I am a great lover of these dogs. [More…]

• Estimates of wages salaries and supplements include pay and allowances of members of the defence forces. [More…]

• At present the Government is being called upon to provide huge sums for defence, health and transport - you name it, more money is wanted for it. [More…]

• That is more than we spend on defence. [More…]

• I am impelled to speak very briefly in defence of our new Estimates Committees system and rebut what has been said particularly by Senator Poyser and to a lesser degree by Senator Georges whose main complain’, f thought, was that one committee only should meet at a time and that this arrangement would meet the purposes of the whole Senate much better than having 2 committees sitting simultaneously. [More…]

• Many people write to honourable senators and ask questions about health, civil aviation, defence, the Air Force and other matters and we are required to ask questions at meetings of the Estimates Committees. [More…]

• As a member of 2 of the Estimates Committees, 1 wish to say a word in defence of the officers. [More…]

• As I said yesterday in my defence of the general practitioner, the referral system has as its keystone or fundamental basis the protection of the general practitioner. [More…]

• Defence. [More…]

• It is hoped that the Minister for Defence will put a submission before Cabinet next week. [More…]

• In view of the decision to expend a large amount of the defence financial allocation on naval destroyers which would be easily eliminated in time of war, what consideration has been given to the building of a larger number of high speed coastguard vessels, which could also protect Australian territorial waters and the Tasmanian coast, in particular, against illegal fishing. [More…]

• The concept of the naval light destroyer project (DDLs) was based on the need to meet defence strategic requirements and to fulfil the specialist destroyer role of a fleet unit. [More…]

• It is considered that there is some scope for rationalisation of the activities of the defence aircraft industry, particularly in. [More…]

• Last night Senator Bishop asked certain questions about the relationship of the Legal Service Bureaux to certain rights that under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act which might be sought to be availed of by persons entitled to those rights. [More…]

• Re-establishment rights are given to national servicemen by the Defence (Re-establishment) Act, which is an Act administered by the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]

• Section 12 of that Act makes it an offence for an employer to fail to reinstate a member of the forces in the occupation in which the member was employed immediately before the commencement of a period of defence service and under conditions not less favourable to the member than those which would have been applicable to the member in that occupation if he had not been absent. [More…]

• Certain defences are available. [More…]

• Those defences are also set out in the Act. [More…]

• In direct response to what Senator Bishop said, I think the position is that if an ex-serviceman sought advice from the Legal Service Bureau concerning his reinstatement in employment the Bureau would advise him of his rights under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act. [More…]

• According to the inquiries I have been able to institute in the short lime since this matter was specifically raised, there have been no prosecutions, as far as is known, by that Department under section 12 of the Defence (Re-establishment) Act. [More…]

• Committee, the Australian Capital Territory Committee, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee and the New and Permanent Parliament House Committee. [More…]

• If he makes that accusation I will be unceasing in my defence of the Government, believe me. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, or the Minister representing the Minister for Supply, relates to the Australian manufactured project N24 aircraft, the tests of which have been successful and which is to be demonstrated in Canberra tomorrow. [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONAnswering the question as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and as the former Minister for Supply - during my time as Minister for Supply the project N concept came into some reality - I can say that the Service departments have been made very much aware of the project. [More…]

• The system in relation to defence requirement is that there has to be a stated requirement, from the various Services. [More…]

• That would come through the Service portfolios to the Minister for Defence and subsequently to the Government. [More…]

• That is all the information thatI can give as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The honourable senator’s question is understood to relate to rural loans made available under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act to national servicemen. [More…]

• The total number of applications from discharged national servicemen for rural loans under the Defence (Re-establishment) Act exceeds 650. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence upon notice: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That evidence presented to the Committee tended to establish firmly that the Commonwealth has, through a coalescence of Commonwealth power in the fields of taxation, defence, external affairs, meteorology, fisheries, quarantine, and other fields, sufficient legislative competence to lay down and enforce a national approach through Commonwealth legislation alone. [More…]

• The people in Darwin can see no reason why money cannot be allocated which will allow the development of the Darwin Airport to go ahead, particularly as it serves a joint purpose - for defence and civil purposes. [More…]

• In view of the successful test flights conducted today in Canberra f the aircraft known as Project N, can the Minister advise the Senate whether this excellent Australian designed and manufactured aircraft has been ordered by any Government departments, including the Department of Defence, or by any commercial organisations? [More…]

• The honourable senator asked whether orders have come from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• At the present time a committee in the Department of Defence on which the Departments of Supply, Air and Army are represented is studying this matter in relation to the possible requirements of the defence Services. [More…]

• Part Six, chapters XVIII to XX, provides the reasons in support of the conclusions and recommendations on 3 other matters - namely, defence, the Navigation Acts and training and manpower - which, although not specifically provided for in the legislation, do have considerable bearing on the application and administration of the joint legislative scheme. [More…]

• Mr President, the Interim Report I have just presented from the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation attempts nothing more than to explain why it has not been possible for the Committee to complete its Inquiry in time to present its final report to the Parliament during the present sittings. [More…]

• Et is vital for many reasons, the major one of which is defence. [More…]

• 1 do not accuse the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) because these arrangements are made through the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Was the decision made to resume the land at Learmonth during the period that Mr Gorton was Minister foi Defence? [More…]

• Senator Cant may recall that at 11th November 1969, and for some time thereafter, the Minister for Defence was Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]

• At that time the Minister for Defence was Mr Fairhall. [More…]

• Approval of the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Defence had to be obtained. [More…]

• Is the Minister asking the Committee to believe that there was no liaison between the Department of Defence and the Western Australian Government as to the requirements of the Department of Defence with respect to the Learmonth Air base at that time? [More…]

• I remind the honourable senator that the Department of Air makes many recommendations but that the recommendations must first be approved by the Department of Defence and then by Cabinet. [More…]

• In addition to that, the Department of Air has received the approval of the Department of Defence and the Treasury. [More…]

• 1 understand that travel to Vietnam by this troupe was through the defence forces charter. [More…]

• The only estimates remaining to be considered in the defence block are those for the Department of Air, consideration of which was postponed earlier this evening. [More…]

• I was going on to say that at present my Department, together with the Department of Defence, is investigating what the future of these houses will be. [More…]

• I want a report from my Department and from the Department of Defence before I make a decision on this matter. [More…]

• Clause 7 paragraph (e), which seeks to insert proposed new sub-sections (1b) and (lc), includes defence provisions which should reasonably be available to a defendant charged with an offence under this section. [More…]

• As an example, one case of which I am personally aware and on which I have made representations concerns an Air Force officer who, in order to obtain a home for his family, was forced’ to resign from the Air Force so that he could commute part of his Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund entitlement and thus have a deposit for the home. [More…]

• It could well he the case that a very good argument could be made outthat some assistance should be made available to those people who have served in the defence forces of this country at any time. [More…]

• Whether the loan should be available to members of the defence forces who have not served in a war zone or whether it is possible to isolate a war zone today in the exact terms that were employed when the Act was first given effect after the 1914-18 war is very doubtful. [More…]

• We have to remember that this nation, to save itself, virtually had to arrive at a basis on which the whole nation was organised and was practically given defence service if not war service. [More…]

• We had a Civil Constructions Corps which was as regimented as members of the defence forces who did not leave Australia. [More…]

• To the same degree people in industries were regimented in the interests of the nation and were giving service in the defence of the country, though in the industrial field. [More…]

• They were not permitted, to leave employment, to change employment or to seek increased wages - to do any of the things that may have disrupted the whole defence structure of the nation. [More…]

• If we are to devise a plan to set up a defence forces assistance scheme for homebuilding purposes, should these people be included also? [More…]

• The honourable senator will recall that, just before the Parliament rose at the end of the last session, the Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Defence, Mr Packard, came to Australia with departmental officers of the United States Air Force. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence and I and officials from our departments had discussions with him on this matter. [More…]

• In our joint statement issued on 16th December last, the Minister for Defence and I made the point that the Royal Australian Air Force required a reconnaissance capability and that this was to be considered. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• and to the statement on the training of Vietnamese and Cambodians in Vietnam made by the Minister for Defence on 9th December 1971 (Hansard, House of Representatives, pages 4477-4480). [More…]

• Does the Government believe that its advisers should withhold such vital information from the Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence, the Minister for the Army, the Cabinet, the Government and the Parliament. [More…]

• I refer the honourable senator to the reply by the Acting Prime Minister to a question without notice by the Leader of the Opposition oil 10th November 1971 (Mansard, House of Representatives, pages 3221-3222), to my reply lo a question without notice by me Deputy ‘Leader of the Opposition on 23rd November 1971 (Hansard, House of Representatives, pages 3454-3455), and to the statement on the training of Vietnamese and Cambodians in Vietnam made by the Minister for Defence’ on 9th December 1971 (Hansard, House of Representatives, pages 4477-4480). [More…]

• Can the Minister explain how the Cambodian Government has accepted Australia’s offer to train Cambodian troops in Vietnam when the Acting Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence both say that no offer has been made, and that Cabinet has simply agreed in principle to discuss the training of Cambodians, subject to suitable arrangements. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Other joint undertakings sometimes referred to as bases are: The Joint Defence Space Research Facility at [More…]

• Pine Gap, near Alice Springs; The Joint Defence Space Communications [More…]

• These activities were described by a former Minister for Defence on 29th August 1967 and on 19th October 1970. [More…]

• That is the key lo the defence recommendations, which are some 7 of the 17 recommendations. [More…]

• However, long-range defence planning cannot ignore the possibility of all forces being stationed in Australia. [More…]

• The Committee, therefore, recommends the strengthening of the defence capability of our northern, western and south-western shores. [More…]

• Those defence recommendations arc an indication of the importance of a defence role for Australia which the Committee believes we should pursue in the Indian Ocean area. [More…]

• We must look at them in terms of Australia’s overall defence commitment. [More…]

• For example, the ANZUS treaty, the 5-power pack and SEATO are all part of the defence symphony aimed at creating peace and stability in the area. [More…]

• As we look at the whole question of the defence capacity of Australia, we see that the great difference between the Opposition and ourselves is not only the failure of the Opposition to admit that there are possible threats to peace but the desire of the Opposition to move towards a form of non-alignment not only in the West but in the East. [More…]

• The Democratic Labor Party’s interest is Australia’s interests, the interests of its people and the defence of this country. [More…]

• Free access is also vital in the maintenance and security of the military routes, communications and staging facilities necessary for Australia’s defence. [More…]

• The report also speaks of Australia’s further interest in the Indian Ocean as the protection of our shores and the continental shelf together with the territories of Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island, the maintenance of a continuing defence and economic stabilising effect in Malaysia and Singapore, and the stability of the Indian Ocean generally. [More…]

• Might I add that these occurrences to which the report refers no: only justify Australia’s increased concern about the Indian Ocean but also should spur the nation to hasten the maximum possible degree of self-reliant defence preparedness. [More…]

• The Committee’s report, which is now under debate, docs dismiss for the present the prospect that the Soviet naval presence represents a direct threat to Australia’s defence security unless in the situation of general war. [More…]

• It states further on page 57 that there is a danger that Australia by her complacency in relying on the United States, Great Britain and Japan for her trade and defence is playing into the Soviet hands without considering the Soviet presence. [More…]

• While it is not possible, nor is it my intention, to deal in depth with all the aspects of the Committee’s report - it is some 70 pages long - I wish to refer briefly to the practical steps and recommendations which state the consequences in terms of Australia’s defence which arise from the Russian naval presence. [More…]

• Australia as an island continent must place a large responsibility on the forward defence role of the navy, and air force. [More…]

• That recommendation simply urges the development of a Pacific economic and defence community, which my Party urged, advocated and propagated in 1958. [More…]

• What we need is a government which is prepared to defend Australia and not just lo talk about the defence of Australia. [More…]

• He found that Australia had no defences. [More…]

• We talk about the development and potential of our great young country and yet if we subscribe to the views of the Australian Labor Party on the subject of defence we indicate that all the things that have been achieved over the years matter very little to us and that we are content, prepared and willing to hand them all over to anyone who is prepared to challenge the continuation of a democracy in Australia. [More…]

• Our future activities and interests in trade, aid programmes, cultural exchanges and defence will unquestionably have a bearing on these relationships. [More…]

• With this in mind the Government has already taken steps to build up the defence infrastructure in the west and north west Australia. [More…]

• The negotiations with our regional allies - Malaysia, Singapore, Britain and New Zealand - leading to the establishment of the five-power defence arrangements, have been successfully concluded and the arrangements are now in effect. [More…]

• An Australian, Air Vice-Marshal Susans, has been appointed commander of the integrated air defence system established for the air defence of Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]

• If the ‘Melbourne’ is to be used on the east coast and if a squadron of frigates or destroyers is required to screen it - if there is an operating task force on the east coast - it strikes me that Western Australia needs that type of defence as much as the east coast does. [More…]

• I think I have said enough to indicate that this Committee’s study is a sober and serious appreciation of the defence situation existing on our western coast. [More…]

• Already the Japanese have increased their defence vote by 20 per cent and Japan is virtually a nuclear country already. [More…]

• It is significant to point to something to which Senator Wheeldon failed to allude, that is, th:it the report has 17 main recommendations - 3 covering diplomacy, 3 covering trade, 3 covering aid and 7 covering defence. [More…]

• I commend Senator Carrick on the excellent presentation of the case for Australia’s improved defences in the Indian Ocean region. [More…]

• We have just heard a most remarkable speech by Senator O’Byrne who has endeavoured to represent that everyone who believes in the defence of this country is a warmonger. [More…]

• He said that because we believe that the defences of Ibis country should be improved upon we are inviting war from other countries which are armed to the teeth and which arc equipped with the most modern nuclear weapons. [More…]

• We recognise that Britain is required to leave a great deal of the defence of this country to ourselves and that we cannot continue, as we did for centuries, to hang on to the apron strings- of Britain, America, or any other country for that matter, for our defence, lt is undeniably true that Britain’s navy has sailed the oceans in the defence of democratic countries. [More…]

• We were warning against this emergency when we advocated, from the inception of our Party, the need to step up our defence. [More…]

• So if we really believe in the defence of Australia and in its military security we ought to be able to say: ‘We do nol face any threat for the next 10 years. [More…]

• We have to maintain a certain quantity of armaments and certain defence forces because the situation may change and it could be necessary to build upon them. [More…]

• But I do not go along with the honourable senator in saying that in working towards this goal we should reduce the defence effort of this nation. [More…]

• I believe that to be the realistic background against which we have to consider these problems and free our minds of the hysteria which is part and parcel of the approach of people on the Government side of the chamber whenever they talk on the question of national defence. [More…]

• Our best defence is to establish good relations with as many Indian Ocean communities as possible and to abandon this philosophy of fear and xenophobia which may have kept the present coalition Government in office for 20 years but which has been of poor service to the people of Australia. [More…]

• I refer to, firstly, the question of defence and, secondly, the question of who is going to take over Australia. [More…]

• In regard to the question of defence, I agree wholeheartedly with Senator Gair’s statement that it is time Australia did something about her own defence. [More…]

• I cannot understand the attitude of the Australian Government to defence. [More…]

• Over the last 22 years it has done nothing about defence. [More…]

• It should be realised that for many years only 1 per cent of our gross national product was spent on defence and that the figure then went up to 2 per cent. [More…]

• However, the percentage of our gross national product now spent on defence has decreased now to about 3 per cent. [More…]

• One can see how little Australia is spending on defence when one compares our expenditure on defence with the expenditure of other countries. [More…]

• For example, Great Britain spends about 9 per cent of its gross national product on defence and the United States of America spends between 12 per cent and 15 per cent. [More…]

• Senator Murphy was quite correct when he said that a nation can become industrially strong by not spending its money on defence. [More…]

• But we have not spent much money on defence for 25 years, yet we are not as strong industrially as such countries as Japan and the USA. [More…]

• In all that time, if Senator Murphy’s theory is correct, we should have been building up our industry as we were not spending money on defence. [More…]

• However, we cannot escape the fact that the time has come for us to do something about defence. [More…]

• The Government just cannot leave Australia as defenceless for the next 20 years as it has been in the past. [More…]

• It is time Australia spent some money on defence. [More…]

• Everyone knows that spending money for defence purposes, is not sound electorally as it does not buy votes. [More…]

• the Minister for Defence, [More…]

• Part of this report is reproduced in New South Wales Civil Defence Bulletin April 1971. [More…]

• During the relief operations this involved the Army, the Corps of Engineers, the Airforce, the Navy, the Office of Civil Defence and many other organisations. [More…]

• In Australia the only State which might be regarded as having an effective civil defence headquarters is New South Wales. [More…]

• There is a Commonwealth Director of Civil Defence who also has under his control the civil defence school at Macedon in Victoria. [More…]

• The Director’s task is to foster the development of civil defence organisaions within the various States by providing training and guidance. [More…]

• The school has been active since 1956 and it trains both permanent civil defence officers and volunteer personnel from the States in special fields such as fire fighting, first aid, communications, rescue work and so on [More…]

• One of the features about the New South Wales civil defence organisation is that in the event of nuclear attack it is intended that wide powers be given to the Director. [More…]

• Whether this is basically wrong - it might not seem to be - it would appear that the Commonwealth Director of Civil Defence has no function either to assist or to control and co-ordinate federal aid which might be required to help out. [More…]

• Emergency Preparedness and the Office of Civil Defence in connection with hurricanes such as Camille involved everything from the debris clearance, emergency public health measures, treatment of the injured in emergency welfare services, through such complex situations as the provision of post disaster employment, the redevelopment of local businesses and industries, and provision of credit with respect to their immediate needs. [More…]

• But in whichever way it is financed, it must provide also for the civil defence organisation. [More…]

• I am not complaining about the activities of the civil defence organisation in Townsville at the time of this disaster when it was obliged to act in very difficult circumstances. [More…]

• The civil defence organisation is well equipped to handle insurrections. [More…]

• The newspaper report of the conference refers to Mr Lionel Towner, our local RSL delegate, and mentions that he told the conference that oil and petrol for the Townsville Civil Defence Organisation’s vehicles had, until a short time ago, been paid for by a supporter. [More…]

• Another man, Mr P. Toohey of Collinsville, claimed that Collinsville and Bowen civil defence workers had been forced to pay for fuel and repairs to their gear. [More…]

• Another Ingham delegate, Mr J. Pearson, said that there was a remarkable lack of interest in civil defence organisations throughout the north, with the exception of Townsville. [More…]

• He was presenting the other side of the picture, ft is the people of the civil defence organisation who need the help. [More…]

• Apart from a financially starved and inadequately equipped civil defence organisation I do not know what instrumentality there is in existence, either on a Slate basis or on a national basis, to cope with any of the national disaster problems that seem to be recurring now like hardy annuals. [More…]

• True it is, as 1 mentioned earlier, we have a civil defence organisation. [More…]

• But, Lord help us, I have sat in this place long enough to have heard the Opposition say that the strength of the armed Services ought to be reduced or that so much money should not be spent on defence. [More…]

• I remember an occasion on which we were dealing with the Defence estimates and representatives of the Government told us that a considerable number of helicopters had been acquired. [More…]

• It is useless to suggest that we cannot use the defence system of this country. [More…]

• Why do we have a defence system? [More…]

• If we cannot use our defence system in the internal situation when disasters and so on are likely to happen, then we are not capable of handling this nation’s affairs. [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…]

• Prima facie, any material which is logically probative of a fact in issue, that is, which tends to show that a particular thing relevant to the course of action or to the defence happened or did not happen or is likely or unlikely to happen, is capable of assisting the court in its task and should be capable of being tendered in evidence, unless there are other reasons for refusing to admit it. [More…]

• Its effect will be that the accused, if he goes into the witness box, may expose himself to crossexamination as to his previous convictions, offences or other misconduct if he has endeavoured to establish that he is a person of good character - that is, he has put his character ‘in issue’ - or if his defence has involved casting imputations on the character of the prosecutor or a witness for the prosecution, or if he has given evidence agains a person tried jointly with him for the offence. [More…]

• The judge is allowed to comment on the accused’s right to make an unsworn statement from the dock and on his right to call witnesses other than himself in his defence. [More…]

• Arising out of this was the important question of defence and who would occupy the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• To recapitulate what I said about defence, I support the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party (Senator Gair) in accusing the Government of doing nothing for the defence of Australia. [More…]

• It is no good saying continually that we have no enemies and therefore we need do nothing about defence. [More…]

• There are many other aspects of defence which need building up. [More…]

• We should have a proper defence programme, but we do not have one. [More…]

• We must spend on defence more than the 1 per cent to 3 per cent of the gross national product that we spend at the present time. [More…]

• When we raise with Ministers this question of expenditure on defence they answer by saying: ‘You cannot have it both ways. [More…]

• You must have development and you have to consider that in regard to defence.’ [More…]

• But Israel is not only able to spend a tremendous amount on defence but it is also able to develop the country to such an extent that it is one of the wonders of the developing world. [More…]

• We could learn a lot from Israel in regard to both development and defence. [More…]

• I do not want to continue on the subject of defence. [More…]

• The fact that there is a Russian presence in the Indian Ocean region has brought up the claim that Australia has to do something about her own defence. [More…]

• Let mc point out that there are more serious reasons why we have to do something about our own defence. [More…]

• The Japanese are saying that they have no military intentions and no wish to go nuclear, but there was recently a 20 per cent increase in Japan’s national defence vote. [More…]

• I admit that that increase is not as large as it sounds as Japan’s defence vote has not so far been very large because America has been protecting that country, but from now on Japan will rapidly expand. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, I listened to the contributions to this debate of several honourable senators and they all spoke of defence and of the Russian presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I am trying to point out to honourable senators that it is not the Russian presence in the Indian Ocean that should be concerning us but our own defence necessities. [More…]

• I suggest to the Senate that there is sufficient evidence in this report to show that spokesmen for the Government are attempting to bang the drum and kick the can, as they have been doing for the last 20 years, on the question of defence in order to establish in the minds of the Australian public a need for greater expenditure on defence and thereby get a reaction from the electorate that will keep the present Government in office. [More…]

• I do not think anyone in this chamber will disagree with me when I say that defence considerations or defence debates have dominated the functioning of the Parliament over the past 20 years. [More…]

• Before I became a member of this chamber I often read the Hansard report of the proceedings or listened to the broadcasts and I was always struck by the fact that matters related to Australia’s defence occupied a great deal of the time of the Parliament. [More…]

• The Soviet presence fluctuates but that is the most recent reading unless my defence colleagues have something more up-to-date. [More…]

• Mr Spiers’ defence colleague, Mr Pranger, concurred with this estimate but pointed out that: [More…]

• At the Committee of Appropriations hearing, the Defence Secretary, Mr Laird, when questioned about United States interests in the Indian Ocean, said: [More…]

• Up until the last year or two the whole of the DLP approach to matters of defence was based on the American alliance. [More…]

• Of course, it will be said by Government speakers and those who follow thai the Australian Labor Party is quite happy to leave Australia in a state of inadequacy as far as defence is concerned. [More…]

• The Labor Party will take initiatives to obtain regional arrangements within the United Nations Charter and to make pacts of friendship, trade, non-aggression and mutual defence with Australia’s neighbours in South-East Asia and the Pacific ami Indian Ocean areas. [More…]

• Let us put aside the fear and fantasy which has plagued this Parliament for such a long time during any rational debate on foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• We are just as concerned with the defence of this country as any other normal person would be. [More…]

• I fear “that, as a result of this state of affairs, Australians as a whole including members of the national Government have been inclined to ignore the problems and the potential problems that exist for Australia in this region, particularly in regard to the defence of the western shores of our nation. [More…]

• It dealt with matters of direct defence, and I shall say more about that aspect shortly. [More…]

• If one had not read the report and relied only on the comments of Labor senators who have participated in the debate, one would think that all this report did was to emphasise matters of defence, and particularly the socalled Russian problem. [More…]

• I emphasise that this report deals with many more aspects of the problem than defence - rightly so - because, all-important as defence may be, very important questions relating to our trade relations with the nations of the region and, of our aid programme for underdeveloped nations surrounding the Indian Ocean, are involved. [More…]

• I turn from that to the question of defence. [More…]

• I do so without any apology because I believe that, important and all as these matters of trade are, it is certainly to problems of defence that we as a nation have to have the most immediate regard and make the most immediate response. [More…]

• I have said already that we as a nation have virtually ignored for 180 years the problems of defence presented by our situation as an Indian Ocean power. [More…]

• The emphasis that we place on the Russian fleet is perhaps a matter of judgment - a matter of expert defence judgment. [More…]

• Our policies become important - the recommendations of the Committee in this regard are of particular importance - because of the need for us to provide for our defence and to provide, in alliances with nations such as the United States and Britain, naval and air bases and so on on the western coast. [More…]

• I commend the sections of the report which deal with defence recommendations and defence policies. [More…]

• If we do not have these growing defence facilities on the western coast it will be too late when the threat comes. [More…]

• we cannot allow this part of the coastline, this important one-third of Australia, to remain completely defenceless. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the Minister for Defence, the Honourable D. Fairbairn, and the Minister for the Army have publicly repudiated the assessment made by the Minister for Air of the needs of the Department of the Army in relation to the aircraft known as ‘Project N’, is the Minister still of the opinion that the Royal Australian Air Force and the Army have no requirement for this aircraft? [More…]

• I specifically indicated that the military need for this aircraft was still under consideration by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Since that time the statements made by the Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Army in commenting on my reply have confirmed that the purely Army needs of this aircraft are still to be determined. [More…]

• Until the investigation is completed by the Department of Defence 1 do not think the Government is in a position to decide what the requirements will be. [More…]

• As the Minister for Defence has said, an evaluation will be completed some time in April. [More…]

• This afternoon I have gone on and said that both the Minister for Defence and the Minister for the Army have said that the Department of Defence was investigating the matter to see whether there is a military need as far as the Army is concerned. [More…]

• If so, can this demarcation dispute be resolved by the election of a Labor Government which would amalgamate all 3 branches of the defence forces into one efficient department? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• and (2) I have previously dealt with the matter of the relative rights of access to the Joint Defence Space Research Facility. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Minister currently prepared to report on Australian Defence needs over the next 10 years with particular regard for the need to have a credible naval force for service in the Indian Ocean in that period. [More…]

• Did the Government reject this plan on the grounds that an increase in current annual defence expenditure of $ 1,400m by a further $l20m would not be within Australia’s economic capacity. [More…]

• Was $2,000m spent in Australia in 1970-71 on gambling and alcohol, that is, more than the additional amount proposed to be spenton defence over the next 10 years. [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) As the Minister for Defence stated in the House of Representatives on 7th December 1971 it is expected that it will be possible to bring forward a White Paper on defence this session and this would discuss, amongst other things, requirements of the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• No decision has been made on the amount of defence expenditure over the next 10 years. [More…]

• I for one would be quite happy to stress and to publicise the reasons, including defence preparedness, why we should have a National Service Act. [More…]

• The type of national service we are discussing today is national service involving training for defence duty. [More…]

• I would have thought, Mr President, that it was the duty of the AttorneyGeneral to ask about a parliamentary candidate who had defied the process of the law by not appearing to submit to the judgment of the court, after putting up his defence in a proper way. [More…]

• Therefore it would appear that if the act of making prejudicial statements against an accused is dishonouring the office of Attorney-General, the case against the Minister has been established - subject, of course, to the defence put forward on behalf of the Attorney-General, a defence which wc have not heard so far, and the matter being given a fair trial. [More…]

• I repeat that he made no defence of the Attorney-General. [More…]

• The Labor Party has a firm policy, which we are presenting, that conscription is only a method of running the defence of Australia on the cheap. [More…]

• That motion of no confidence was moved at 3.10 p.m. and at 8.10 p.m. tonight, despite the thousands of words that have been spoken by Government supporters in defence of the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) on the charge of no confidence, which was moved so ably by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate [More…]

• But 5 hours after that charge was laid we still have not heard one word from the Attorney-General in his own defence. [More…]

• At 8.10 p.m. we still have not heard one word from the Attorney-General in his own defence. [More…]

• Had such a charge been levelled against a member of the Opposition I am sure that the Opposition senator accused would have, wanted immediately to rise in his place and take up his own defence. [More…]

• 1 am wondering whether leaving his defence to the last possible moment is a deliberate act on the part of the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]

• Some people may say that our defence preparedness docs not require such a law. [More…]

• Some people may be prepared to say that they do not believe in defence preparedness and therefore ask why have the law. [More…]

• But we on our side of the chamber - those of us who are in government - have believed for a long time that our defence preparedness requires a law like this and unfortunate though it must be that some young people will be taken away from their normal vacations, nevertheless, the defence of this country requires it. [More…]

• Until the people reject us that will be our policy because we have some sense of the defence of this country. [More…]

• Call-up for military training within Australia is a legitimate subject for debate on grounds of general defence policy,: it is not a justification for placing the rule of law in disrepute. [More…]

• I do not know whether it is the anxiety of the left wing, as expressed by Senator Wheeldon, to make it clear to the electorate that in no circumstances would the Labor Party in office ever have a policy whereby individuals would be called on at any stage to train in the country’s defence. [More…]

• In order to have some credibility in formulating a defence policy Labor will certainly have to reverse its policy on conscription. [More…]

• There are comprehensive provisions in the National Service Act, and the Defence (Reestablishment) Act, binding on all employers which afford protection to a registrant in his existing employment and provide for his reinstatement in employment and facilitate his resettlement in civilian life after service. [More…]

• It considers not only our approach to foreign affairs and defence but also our approach to trade. [More…]

• It is in the areas of foreign affairs and defence that we, as an Indian Ocean country, are more concerned. [More…]

• But in the eastern Indian Ocean there is a more direct Australian defence interest in the approaches to our own west coast. [More…]

• But it does add clarity to our outlook on this broad region to acknowledge that in some respects, including defence, a new emphasis in attitudes towards the Indian Ocean has been reflected at home in developments on our west coast, and that in all respects our interests in the area will continue to be well served by the development of the closest co-operation with our nearest neighbours in all possible fields. [More…]

• We make independent decisions in defence, foreign relations and monetary and trade policies. [More…]

• Incredibly there emerged, not only out of the uniform taxing power of the defence power granted by the war but also a ruling of the High Court to the effect that the Commonwealth had parallel but not superior powers on taxes. [More…]

• The Commonwealth itself must have centralised powers for defence and for the security of this country. [More…]

• It is to the credit of then Prime Minister Chifley that probably within the Labor movement heads were cracked and the Snowy Mountains scheme was commenced under the defence scheme. [More…]

• I believe that if the Queenslanders had twisted the meaning of defence purposes’ a little they probably would now have a more advanced system of flood mitigation and water conservation. [More…]

• On 1st March this year, he advised the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) that, with the concurrence of the Committee of Inquiry on Pay for the Armed Services, he had decided to return to judicial duties on a part time basis. [More…]

• He had a Defence Secretary named Wilson who had the idea that anything that was good for General Motors was good for the United States. [More…]

• I must confess that I can assume only that this section was at least relied on because, at the hearing for bail, the magistrate cleared the court of the public and allowed only the Commonwealth Police, the Crown Prosecutor, the defence lawyer and Mr Bissett to be present in court. [More…]

• In reply to a defence submission that the arrest had been illegal as there was no summons or warrant, the magistrate, Mr Cuthill C.S.M., said: [More…]

• Not even Darcy Dugan would have these rights taken away from him, yet we find this young man of 22 years in a situation where he was unable to put before the courts a proper defence. [More…]

• I rise to respond to Senator Poyser but before I do so I think I should say a few words in defence of Senator Marriott. [More…]

• Could not such a statement as ‘he’ - meaning the deceased - never wavered from his task, choosing to expose himself to danger rather than risk the lives of his fellow officers and the police, culminating in his ultimate death on 9th August 1971 while carrying out his official duties’, a statement which was contained in the Press release, have the effect of being prejudicial to the accused, particularly if their defence was one of provocation or self-defence? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence issued a statement in which he said that delivery of the order has been deferred. [More…]

• The post-1959 Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme incorporates this contribution principle. [More…]

• When introducing the Superannuation (Pension Increases) Bill, I said that the position of orphans and children would be given special consideration by the Government when the results of the quinquennial investigations of the superannuation and defence forces retirement benefits funds became available. [More…]

• (1) Every accused person on his trial, whether defended by counsel or not, may make any statement at the close of the case for the prosecution, and before calling any witness in his defence, without being liable to examination thereupon by counsel for the Crown, or by the Court, and may thereafter, personally or by his counsel, address the jury. [More…]

• That Committee suggested that if the Bill received a second reading consideration should be given in the Committee of the Whole to the following matters: The possible effect of existing Imperial laws; the application of the proposed law to proceedings pending; the question, if the word offence’ is used in the proposed law, of the extent to which this would have effect in relation to the defence forces; and the effect of the proposed law on existing and future laws of the various Territories of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Standing Committee referred to the question of whether the word ‘offence’ would have effect in relation to members of the defence forces. [More…]

• If I may just go on, the word ‘offences’ insofar as the defence forces are concerned is dealt with in section 96 of the Defence Act, which makes certain provisions in regard to trial by a court martial if the offence charged be punishable by death. [More…]

• But, more importantly, what it does mean is that that which has always been the accepted rule with regard to our defence forces will be set at nought in an area where, distressing as it must be to those who have experienced actual warfare, which I have not but which I must acknowledge with feeling from what I have heard and read, with death everywhere apparent,” those who would desert their colleagues and those who would traitorously give away their own side to an enemy, may condemn their colleagues to death but in terms of their own crime they will be subjected merely to life imprisonment. [More…]

• I do not believe that those of us on this side of the chamber who feel strongly about the matter should willingly, and without some protest, accept a position that in our defence forces people may engage in treason and that they may engage in traitorous conduct in the face of the enemy and, in those circumstances, imperil the lives or worse of their colleagues, and do so knowing that they do not face the death penalty in the face of the enemy but that they will suffer life imprisonment. [More…]

• If we look at the report of the Committee we see that, in the one area of activity in which it concerned itself, it did look at - I presume that it looked at - and give consideration to the views of the Department of Defence with regard to the laws which impose the death penalty within the responsibility of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It is apparent that the Defence Act creates certain offences by way of adapting to the purposes of Australian defence the provisions of the Naval Discipline Act of the United Kingdom and the Army Act of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• I believe that if we hold the view that the defence of our country is of paramount importance - I know that a majority of the Committee takes that view - the least we should be prepared to do is to maintain our support for those who bear arms and risk their lives. [More…]

• To remove the death penalty for the types of offences which I have indicated, to me, is not supporting our defence forces. [More…]

• I refer to page 2 of the letter which was sent to the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs by the Department of Defence on 9th November 1971. [More…]

• In this instance I am focusing attention upon the actual constitution of the defence forces and upon the enforcement of discipline, firstly from the point of view of physical confrontation with the enemy and secondly from the point of view of traitorous correspondence with the enemy. [More…]

• the question, if the word ‘offence’ is used in the proposed law, of the extent to which this would have effect in relation to members of the defence forces; … [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that during the second reading debate I referred to the principle underlying self defence and said that if somebody were to raise a pistol at me and I got in first, I would lawfully kill according to the laws of this country. [More…]

• But f do plead with the Committee to take full acceptance of its responsibility and not enter into a precipitate decision to accept proposed sub-clause (2), which would repeal provisions in the defence legislation which are’ absolutely indispensable to a proper system of defence. [More…]

• I will vote for the abolition of capital punishment because in fact in time of full war when conditions are so precipitant that it is necessary for the Department of Defence to use capital punishment, the Government of the day has the powers so to implement. [More…]

• The defence forces are not. [More…]

• Therefore we Should consider the different application of our laws to the civil laws and the defence laws of New Guinea. [More…]

• I simply say that if it is felt desirable by Senator Murphy to raise this amendment and to put into the Bill a clause which says that its provisions apply to any law in relation to which this Bill applies, including a provision which would, but for this Act, have effect by virtue of such a law, it means that he feels that it is desirable, either for precautionary or for other reasons, to ensure that it would cover (hose areas in the Defence Act which adopt the English provisions. [More…]

• Fortunately, he shoots the criminal dead in self-defence. [More…]

• So far as I know, there is no suggestion that this incident was anything other than a plain case of selfdefence by the policeman. [More…]

• If that policeman had not successfully dealt with his victim as his victim would have been dealt with by sentence of death if he had come before a court of justice, can anybody say that justice wou’d not have required that the death penalty be imposed as a deterrent against that sort of conduct, in defence of the police? [More…]

• Are persons who apply to join the permanent defence forces also precluded on these grounds? [More…]

• Advice has been received from the Department of Defence that each case is considered on its individual merits. [More…]

• There are many reasons why it is necessary for us to encourage the development of our own industries - not only from the point of view of the employment that is provided and the stimulus that is given to economic development in Australia but also in the context of defence. [More…]

• He would stand alone in his defence of the Queensland Act. [More…]

• If we are to be accused of making a political issue when we stand up in defence of the Aborigines, then I say that the ex-Prime Minister has also to be accused because what he has said is on record. [More…]

• I do not know why Senator Milliner chose to come to the defence of Dr Everingham. [More…]

• I would be remiss in my responsibility if I did not congratulate Senator Keeffe on his great defence of coloured Australians, when compared with the attack made on him by one of their race in defence of the white man’s treatment of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, relates to the five-power defence arrangements which involve Britain, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. [More…]

• The Prime Minister of Malaysia has stated publicly that the five-power defence arrangements and other arrangements are not inconsistent with Malaysia’s general policy of non-alignment or with her objective of the neutralisation of South East Asia. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is he aware that appeals are being made by the legal advisers of the New Guineans charged for assistance to finance their defence? [More…]

• or legal aid should be provided for the person charged in order that there may be no suggestion that in any way the defence has been impeded by lack of proper legal aid? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether his attention has been drawn to the recent warning by the United States Defence Secretary, Mr Melvin Laird, that the Soviet Union is aiming to achieve overall military supremacy by the late 1970s and that the existing, dwindling margin of military superiority of the United States on present trends will disappear within the next 2 or 3 years? [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI understand that the Minister for Defence is going to put down a paper. [More…]

• It may well be - I believe it will be - that some of the implications of the very issues which Senator Carrick raises will be dealt with in depth by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• But with more particularity in response to the question I think I should say that in Australia we follow closely statements made from time to time by the United States Defence Secretary, Mr Laird, on matters of relevant strength of the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The main reaction has been from the Defence of Government Schools organisation which calls itself the DOGS organisation - I make no comment on the appropriateness or otherwise of that title. [More…]

• It was put out by the Movement for the Defence of Government Schools, or the DOGS. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• In addition there were Army Engineers engaged in the transfer of the Jungle Warfare Training Centre from Nui Dat to Van Kiep, administration personnel, the Australian Force Headquarters and a security force, comprising one rifle company and one troop 3 Cavalry Regiment, which provided local defence for the Australian troops and equipment. [More…]

• Five Power Defence Arrangements. [More…]

• by leave - The statement I am about to make was made on 28th March 1.972 in another place by the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]

• As the statement is couched in the first person singular, honourable senators will understand that it relates to the Minister for Defence and not to me. [More…]

• 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 Aus tralian defence review which has been prepared 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, 1 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…]

• 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 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 The United States, the Soviet Union, China and Japan are exploring each other’s attitudes and examining the effect of initiatives taken. [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 cither 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 undemanding with the United States and with Our northern neighbours in the expectation that the United States will, as pledged to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) since the Nixon Doctrine was promulgated, provide the foundation of Australian security against threats or actual attack going beyond Australian capacity to deal with alone. [More…]

• To lay stress on dangerous contingencies against which Australian defence efforts must steadily prepare over the longer term is not inconsistent with 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 3 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 Review in the terms in which our advisers see them. [More…]

• 1 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…]

• 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…]

• As I have said before, Project N is still undergoing an evaluation of the military need for this aircraft in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• By way of preface to my question I refer to a viewpoint expressed by Senator McManus on South Vietnam and the rather cautious responses from both our Minister for Defence and Minister for the Army. [More…]

• When I was Minister for Supply certain studies of deep diving were being carried out in a defence laboratory or one of the other sections of the Department. [More…]

• I am relying on memory now: I will get a report from my own Department without delay and I will also seek some background information from the defence Complex. [More…]

• In the early stages of World War II he served in the Croation Domobran, which was the section of the Army used for home defence. [More…]

• There is a further but secondary reason for my concern which I have not yet mentioned and that is the relationship between the transport industry and defence. [More…]

• No, because I did not believe in the Party’s policy in regard to defence. [More…]

• Those are matters of very considerable importance in relation to the manner - I use my meaning of the word manner’ - in which this takeover has been effected and the defence to the takeover has been effected. [More…]

• We all know and understand the enormous requirement today for a postal service in trade, commerce and defence and the need for that service to be efficiently and regularly run. [More…]

• The Government’s policy on national service and defence has the respect, admiration and confidence of the people of Australia. [More…]

• Finally, I think I should add that the Minister for Defence announced within the last few days that offset orders worth $3m from aircraft companies in the United States of America and Britain had been arranged with the Australian aircraft industry. [More…]

• The other members on the Committee are the Commonwealth Director of Meteorology; Director, Commonwealth X-ray and Radium Laboratory; Committee and Executive Officer, Defence Standards Laboratories in the Department of Supply. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Leader of the Government who represents the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• lt should never be forgotten that the National Service Act requires for our defence preparedness that a cetain number of young persons undertake 18 months service. [More…]

• It must be clear to the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman), to the Department of Supply, the Department of Defence and their ancillaries that there is a competence in the industry which ought to be used. [More…]

• In using that capacity we would not only ensure that there would be useful production but also that in the proper defence circumstances we would have a continuing capacity; we would not be caught with our pants down if any crisis occurred. [More…]

• He stated that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) and the Minister for the Army (Mr Katter) are studying the position and that investigations are being conducted. [More…]

• It is evident that it can be placed and used as part of our defence capacity. [More…]

• It is clear that following debates in the Parliament the Minister for Defence and, I think, other Ministers in this place have said that they believe in a viable industry. [More…]

• Recently the Minister for Defence said that a relatively small but viable aircraft industry was essential in Australia and that there were some studies now being made as to the extent to which increased work might be given to the industry. [More…]

• The Minister for Air is probably in a better position than most to estimate how long it would take, but it would seem that a very good stimulus would be given to the industry if the Government and the Minister in his own right or in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence could determine quickly some of the outstanding questions which are arising today. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has repeatedly said that he believes in a viable aircraft industry. [More…]

• The ‘Australian Defence Review’ which has just been issued states at paragraph 31: [More…]

• The Government has Already negotiated with the United States and, to a lesser extent, the United Kingdom and other large suppliers of defence equipment, such opportunities for Australian industry. [More…]

• For many years we have been producing highly sophisticated defence requirements, including aircraft. [More…]

• In this connection I want to mention an important statement made by Sir Henry Bland in September 1970, some time after he retired from his important post as Secretary of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Let me say straightaway to Senator Bishop and to all those listening that it is the expressed intention of the Commonwealth Government that a viable and effective defence aircraft industry should be maintained in Australia and that the industry should develop with the country’s needs. [More…]

• These ups and downs are in a way unavoidable because the industry is dependent .on work load levels which in turn are dependent on defence orders. [More…]

• Recently we had the situation where the Government, through its policy of continually endeavouring to stabilise the work load in the industry, directed certain defence projects. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), in conjunction with the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Supply (Mr Garland), on 14th April announced that an agreement had been reached with the Boeing company for offset manufacture in Australia of nearly $3m worth of spare parts for Boeing 727 civil airliners. [More…]

• The Government and my Department, together with the RAAF, give heavy support to this industry because they recognise that aircraft production and, indeed, all Australian industry must in times of emergency provide many weapons, ammunition, equipment and supplies needed to sustain the defence of this country. [More…]

• I think that it is axiomatic that a strong industry is vitally necessary for the defence of Australia. [More…]

• But it cannot remain strong unless it receives the constant stimulus of defence orders. [More…]

• Stage of the aircraft should be recommended for approval is now under examination in the defence group of departments and can be expected to be considered by Ministers in the near future. [More…]

• This includes an inter-departmental committee, consisting of the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department of Defence and the Department of Supply, and a committee of industry experts. [More…]

• The industry, of course, is heavily dependent on defence orders for its workload. [More…]

• We on this side of the House believe that if there is to be a rationalisation of the industry in that manner the Government must have the predominant say in the industry on matters concerned with defence, because, as I understand the situation, GAF owns something like 70 per cent of the total assets of the industry and CAC owns 30 per cent. [More…]

• This is a long term proposition which may be looked at, but I do not believe that the interests of the Australian people, the interests of the industry itself or the interests of the defence of this country can be served if we have the kind of amalgamation which is suggested, namely, that it would be on the basis that a private industry would have at least equal say in its operation. [More…]

• This type of situation is not good for the defences of this country. [More…]

• I notice that the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) presented some interesting figures when speaking to a similar motion in the other place on 1st March. [More…]

• It is all very well to say that the defence forces should have it. [More…]

• Senator Poyser went on to say that there is some dispute in the defence Services as to who will fly the aircraft and that therefore a decision about it has been delayed. [More…]

• In order to put the record straight I think I should quote from the speech made by the Minister for Defence on 1st March when he answered the allegation made in some sections of the Press about what he termed the so-called fight going on between the RAAF and the Army about who is to fly this aircraft. [More…]

• In that same speech the Minister for Defence said: [More…]

• I was quoting the figures given in the speech made by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has assured the Parliament that the aircraft is being evaluated and I think, from memory, that the evaluation will be complete at the end of the month. [More…]

• Then the defence forces will be in the position of being able to say whether this aircraft is suitable for their needs. [More…]

• An interdepartmental committee representing the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department of Defence, the Department of Supply and a committee of industry experts is involved. [More…]

• At the same time he admits that work levels in the industry are largely dependent on defence orders. [More…]

• This is really an admission that the Government does not have a coherent, continuing defence policy, but that in this, as in other spheres, it procedes in fits and starts. [More…]

• Last December, the Minister for Defence, Mr Fairbairn, said interest dad been shown in the aircraft by local and overseas companies and also by a number of Government departments which use light aircraft. [More…]

• Is it perhaps because there is some disagreement between the Ministers - between the Minister who has spoken today and the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]

• It is known that the defence authorities here favour the HS 1182 and would want to follow the British decision. [More…]

• That sounds like the kind of proposition in which the Government should be interested not only as a defence proposition but as a stimulus to our lagging local aircraft industry. [More…]

• We believe that from a defence point of view in particular it is vital. [More…]

• Britian can no longer assist us in our defence as it did to our advantage so many times in the past. [More…]

• Australia, while seeking to retain those desirable alliances which have helped it in the past, faces the situation that realistically it has to be as self sufficient as possible in defence in future. [More…]

• If we base our defence on the prospect of supplies from overseas we have to face the fact that our sea routes may be cut. [More…]

• One of the most significant things that we must bear in mind is that Soviet and Chinese submarine forces have been exercising for some time in the region of the Solomons, which covers the area across which our communications and defence supplies would have to come if we were not providing the bulk of our defences. [More…]

• In Italy there has been trouble in regard to the supply of defence parts to certain countries. [More…]

• May I say from he outset that I too am concerned about the defence of this country. [More…]

• I believe also that a viable and effective aircraft industry is important in that defence. [More…]

• So let us not be concerned about our performance in relation to defence. [More…]

• It is not very interested in defence but it wants to spend money on the development of military aircraft. [More…]

• The DLP believes in defence. [More…]

• Although we on the Government side are most keen on defence, we believe that there are other projects which are- [More…]

• After all, these are all important in our defence structure. [More…]

• But, in the final analysis, the aircraft industry is one segment only of our defence effort. [More…]

• I take the point tonight that aircraft production is only one segment of our overall defence policy. [More…]

• Whatever may have been said up to the early 1950s, with the rundown following World War II, the plain fact of the matter is that after that period when the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies as he now is, beat the big drum about defence the poor relation was the aircraft industry. [More…]

• Whatever may have been said about the mistakes of the mid-1950s, many people have argued that Australia’s role in defence production could have been comparable not merely with that of France but with that of countries in the Scandinavian orbit. [More…]

• I can recall in 1966 visiting Puckapunyal with a defence committee of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• Each year in our consideration of the defence estimates we have argued that we should get a dollar’s value for each dollar spent. [More…]

• All that has happened is that far too often to obtain our defence requirements we have put ourselves into pawn with the countries whose industries have supplied our needs, namely, England and the United States. [More…]

• One of the enigmas of the defence situation has always been that if one of the Latin American countries wants the current bomber or fighter that is on the production line in industrial America that country has no difficulty in obtaining 20 or 30 of those aircraft if its dictatorship is on side with the American White House. [More…]

• The acquisition of such aircraft might not matter in Latin America but I think that it has been made abundantly clear that with aircraft providing the front line of defence for [More…]

• Senator Maunsell argued about priorities in the allocation of expenditure between development and defence. [More…]

• Our commercial and trade policy has meant that we have been beholden to many major powers, and the result has flowed down through our defence line of command. [More…]

• This is a question concerning a vital component of our defence forces. [More…]

• The matter which has been raised by Senator Bishop and which has received only token opposition from the Government is a timely reminder that when people beat the big drum of defence it does not mean very much if they drain off so much of our expenditure as to make us beholden to other nations. [More…]

• Senator Bishop has adverted to a very serious and important question in our industrial life and in our defence life. [More…]

• Unless the Defence forces have a requirement for Project N and unless we have very many overseas purchasers rushing in, wanting to put their dollars down and saying, ‘Look, we will have a dozen or a couple of dozen of these aircraft’, it would be the height of folly to become involved in a project of this kind. [More…]

• These aircraft are needed for defence purpose. [More…]

• One does not need to be Mandrake to know that the Australian Labor Party has no defence policy. [More…]

• That being the case, how on earth can it show any interest in the production of aircraft from CAC, GAF or Hawker Siddeley for defence? [More…]

• We do not have to go beyond the treachery of that decision to know how little interest the official opposition has in defence, foreign affairs and our relations with our great and powerful friends. [More…]

• It is not difficult to understand the sensitivity of my friend Senator Cavanagh in relation to these matters which indicate quite clearly that the Australian Labor Party is not interested in defence and is not interested in foreign affairs. [More…]

• It was a great triumph for Australian scientists, engineers and manufacturers to compete successfully with American defence manufacturers, having in mind that, by congressional order, overseas orders are not placed for defence equipment unless it is absolutely necessary. [More…]

• It would be of the greatest concern for the defence potential of the nation if the industry were to go out of existence. [More…]

• It was essential to the defence of this nation in the years of the Second World War to have an aircraft manufacturing potential. [More…]

• Subsequently I can remember a particular type of aircraft developed and manufactured in this country which made quite a notable contribution to our defence potential in the Second World War. [More…]

• I remember - I guess this will be news to a number of honourable senators and to many people throughout Australia - that Sir Lawrence Wackett developed a twin engined bomber which at that time seemed to offer us an opportunity to extend our defence potential in the direction of the manufacture of multi-engined aircraft. [More…]

• It is sad to reflect that over the past several years, despite the claims which the Government makes about the need for the development of the highest level of defence potential, we have seen a quite serious decline and a very serious fluctuation in the fortunes of the various sections of the aircraft manufacturing industry in Australia. [More…]

• This Government claims to have the interests of the defence of the nation very much to heart. [More…]

• During the evening I have been engaged in a very important committee meeting concerned with the final judgment on the merits of a report on the defence forces retirement benefits and I have not had an opportunity to follow as closely as I might the fortune of today’s debate. [More…]

• There is no doubt that our defence system has a requirement for light aircraft. [More…]

• There seems to be no ability to make any judgment on the merits of some project which may be of tremendous benefit to the defence of this country and in the production and development of the necessary skills for the manufacture of both light and other forms of aircraft. [More…]

• an increase in the defence vote. [More…]

• In order to secure these policy objectives, there were 5 desirable objectives in the October 1969 Federal election, (a) prevention of the ALP victory which would have destroyed national service, the ‘forward defence’ policy and the pesence in Vietnam; (b) 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…]

• For example, there are the notes of the meeting of 2nd and 3rd October 1971 which deal with such matters as President Nixon’s announcement of his projected visit to China, the world power situation, the basis of new policy orientations in China and the United States and various other strategic matters of foreign policy, including policy submissions, defence policy, foreign policy and the industrial situation, which covers such things as the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress. [More…]

• The election of John Gorton as Prime Minister, with the associated defence policies, was an anathema to PWF’s objectives. [More…]

• I am amazed at the eagerness of DLP senators to leap to the defence of a Government Minister. [More…]

• the prevention of an ALP victory which would have destroyed national service and forward defence policy and the presence in Vietnam; [More…]

• reduction of the Governments majority to a Still comfortable six to seven seats to ensure that the Government could not claim any popular mandate for its defence or Russian policies; (c) the requisite tightness of the DLP preferences to ensure the prevention of ALP policy and the reduction of the Government’s majority. [More…]

• It is a ridiculous assertion to suggest that a body which is concerned with Australia’s defence, the maintenance of Australia’s freedom and the alerting of the people of Australia to the menace of communism should in some way be regarded as manipulating democracy. [More…]

• That was to dismiss the Executive on the basis that it was influenced by a group called the Trade Union Defence Committee, which - [More…]

• But it is common knowledge that the significant unions in the Trade Union Defence Committee were controlled by the Communist Party and were exercising a very significant influence throughout the whole of the Labor movement in Victoria. [More…]

• Otherwise, why would the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party in 1970 decide to disband the Victorian Branch on the basis that this Trade Union Defence Committee had exericised an undue influence. [More…]

• The Federal Executive finds that the Trade Union Defence Committee has been permitted to dominate the Victorian Branch and the Victorian Executive. [More…]

• With a relatively minimum amount of publicity it overruled the decision of the Federal Executive that this Trade Union Defence Committee had in fact exercised such control. [More…]

• This represents the same continuing pro-communist attitude which was exhibited by elements in the ALP in the days when the Trade Union Defence Committee was acknowledge to be influencing - in fact controlling - the ALP. [More…]

• After all, if the newspapers are to be believed, he was a strong defender of the Trade Union Defence Committee at one stage. [More…]

• The purpose of the operation was the replacement of the so-called Freeth-Fairhall policies on defence with the Fraser policies on defence and a change in the Liberal Government. [More…]

• They are largely Labor Party policies - support of draft resisters; opposition to national service; conniving at the breaking of the law; the destruction, as far as possible, of Australia’s defence arrangements, and actually collecting money and sending it to the enemy in Haiphong. [More…]

• Most of the matters mentioned in the newspaper refer to defence, foreign policy, the influence of communist subversion in Australia, the Vietnam war - all matters which are good solid points of Liberal Party policy. [More…]

• but no amount of white washing and no amount of hindsight will get away from the fact that the Party to which the Leader of the Opposition belongs is not interested in the defence of this nation. [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…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The use of these facilities by Sir Robert and Sir John needs no defence. [More…]

• I well recall in the 1966 election - the Vietnam election, the khaki election - a DLP spokesman saying that Australia could not afford to do anything about overseas capital or to impose restraints upon overseas capital at that time because such action could place in jeopardy the interest that the United States of America might take in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• But the Government is inhibited because it believes that such action will jeopardise our stature, our treaties or defence commitments. [More…]

• One of the classic commercial ventures on which I indict this Government - it is one of the reasons why I have little confidence in it - was initiated in 1963 when the then Minister for Defence, at. [More…]

• One more of less feels that Australia will be left defence naked if that line is not followed. [More…]

• If so, what is the intention of the Government regarding the placing of orders for the purchase of this excellent Australian designed aircraft for defence and other purposes? [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Air relates to the current estimate of the total Fill aircraft project costs, stated by the Minister for Defence to be $US344m. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that in inquiries conducted in future by standing committees, except where an element of secrecy related to the defence of this nation is concerned, members of the committees should be provided with a copy of the relevant reports even if only on a confidential basis by the department or Minister concerned. [More…]

• I make those observations because wc look forward to the emergence of the new nation and to having, for example, a treaty of friendship and a mutual defence arrangement with it if it is so inclined. [More…]

• It is the age at which he is called upon to take part in the alleged defence of Australia, whether on our own shores or on a foreign shore. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Air, follows a question asked earlier about the evaluation of an aircraft for the defence Services. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Is it a fact that a Department of Defence report recommends a production run of 12 to 20 Project N aircraft? [More…]

• I was not aware that a Department of Defence announcement had been made. [More…]

• My understanding is that a committee working within the Department of Defence is making the final preparations prior to presenting to the Mnister for Defence a report for his examination. [More…]

• No doubt, in due course, having studied that report, the Minister for Defence will make a submission to Cabinet for its consideration. [More…]

• If the honourable senator wishes, I will convey the substance of his question to the Minister for Defence, and if the Minister has anything to add to what I have already said I will pass it on to the honourable senator. [More…]

• Is his defence of the Freeth statement an essay in selfjustification? [More…]

• After my appointment I became a parliamentary colleague of the late Athol Townley, Minister for Defence and for many other portfolios in his time, an uncle of our Senator Townley. [More…]

• I now turn to Commonwealth expenditure in Tasmania on elements of the defence forces. [More…]

• I believe that Tasmania requires and deserves a better deal in respect to expenditure on defence Services. [More…]

• I believe that we would win friends in New South Wales by taking some of the naval defence services from along the harbour shores of Sydney and returning those shores to the people of New South Wales. [More…]

• Earlier this evening Senator Wood made a spirited defence of certain mining companies. [More…]

• 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 present the report of the Joint Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]

• The report which I have just presented recommends the repeal of the existing defence forces retirement benefits legislation and the immediate introduction of a new scheme. [More…]

• In the report the Committee outlines a scheme which it considers should meet the requirements of: the defence force for the foreseeable future. [More…]

• Firstly, the special nature of a career in the defence force. [More…]

• For these reasons we do not believe that the Commonwealth superannuation scheme is an appropriate foundation on which to base a retirement benefits scheme for the defence force. [More…]

• We found that few members of the defence force 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 Minister for Defence should be the responsible Minister. [More…]

• The Committee has been very conscious of the importance of the defence forces retirement benefits legislation to the recruiting and morale of the defence forces. [More…]

• I think it would be much more appropriate for the report of the Joint Select Committee cn Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legis lation to be discussed at a later time when honourable senators have had an opportunity to study it. [More…]

• (12.4)- There is a recommendation in the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation on which I would like to comment briefly. [More…]

• The matter of the defence of this country is of great importance. [More…]

• But the defence of this country should be performed by men who are properly paid volunteers, thoroughly trained. [More…]

• When Senator Gietzelt says he considers a man of this type the salt of the earth, I cannot help but wonder what type of defence administration we might expect from a government to which Senator Gietzelt would be a significant adviser. [More…]

• Is the Attorney-General aware that a Mr Fergus Robinson, a draft resister, was recently detained in Victoria on a contempt of Court charge, and was subsequently proceeded against by the Commonwealth Police, without reasonable notice to prepare his defence, for failing to register for National Service and was fined the sum of $40. [More…]

• My question is directed to either the Minister representing the Minister for Defence or the Minister representing the Minister for Supply. [More…]

• In this chamber I shall represent the Prime Minister; the Minister for Works, Senator Wright, will represent the Minister for Defence; the Minister for Civil Aviation, Senator Cotton, will represent the Acting Treasurer, and the Attorney-General, Senator Greenwood, will represent the Acting Minister for Health. [More…]

• I refer to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board annual report for 1970-71, in which it is stated that the amortised investments of the Fund amount to more than $134m I ask the Minister: What happens to the return from this investment? [More…]

• On top of this at the present time the Leader of the Government in the Senate, who is the Minister for Health and who represents the Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence and the Treasurer in this place, is overseas and his work load has fallen onto the shoulders of the 4 remaining Ministers in this place. [More…]

• lt excludes those who are acting in a legal capacity in the defence forces. [More…]

• useful for the defence of the. [More…]

• He said that the proposed section should include a proviso that it shall be a defence against any action for breach of section 27 if it can be shown that the nonattendance was because of a reasonable cause. [More…]

• These figures include the cost of air travel by employees under the Public Service Act, the Supply and Development Act, the Naval Defence Act and the Trade Commissioners Act and other departmental employees. [More…]

• The cost of air travel by employees of the Papua New Guinea Administration and members of the Defence Forces is not included. [More…]

• There are some who become apoplectic with moral indignation over the National Service Act, an Act designed to preserve the defence and security of the nation, but they happily ignore - they even praise and support - glitter type literature designed to corrupt school children. [More…]

• This was in response to a query from me as to whether the decision to acquire the land was made while Mr Gorton was the Minister for Defence, or when he was Prime Minister. [More…]

• I say that because the situation could arise where the Government will be bound up in an extensive defence policy requiring a large number of tradesmen to do particular jobs and it will find that there is a denuded work force in the engineering trades. [More…]

• If this kind of question is to be permitted and if the questioner is entitled, as I understand it, to ask the Minister whether the Australian Labor Party has any defence policy, any rural policy or any other policy, that does not accord with the purpose of question time. [More…]

• I wonder whether in their defence of the crown of thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef my Country Party colleagues were not subconsciously protecting the Premier of Queensland, who is dying to get his oily little hands on the Great Barrier Reef, to exploit it and to bring up the millions of barrels of oil that are undoubtedly in the depths around the Great Barrier Reef He does not care what happens to the Reef. [More…]

• However, a report on the Phantom and the United States offer is now with the Department of Defence. [More…]

• If they are purchased, their cost would still have to be worked out between the Department of Defence and the United States Government. [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Minister for Air who represents the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I do not represent the Minister for Defence in this chamber but I recognise that the Minister for Defence made an announcement relating to the purchase of this aircraft on behalf of the Department of Air. [More…]

• The facts as to the purchase of this aircraft were made available in a statement in New Zealand by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• It is clearly a statement of a responsible person and it shows that there would be substantial damage to the defence effort if national service were abolished. [More…]

• I think that the extent of damage which Opposition policy would do to the defence of the country is a matter which should be taken into consideration. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Minister for Defence in 1951 said that national service greatly handicaps the development of a more effective army because of the excessive demands it makes on manpower and money? [More…]

• The Committee decided that it would not restrict the scope of the inquiry to foreign affairs and defence only. [More…]

• To use the legal jargon, the defence would rest on those 3 paragraphs. [More…]

• Further to my reply to the honourable senator to his similar question without notice on 13th April 1972, the Minister for External Territories has advised that the matters referred to by the retiring Joint Force Commander in Papua New Guinea on 11th April are under examination in the Department of Defence in conjunction with other departments. [More…]

• As stated in the recent Australian Defence Review, studies are proceeding on a number of important matters as a basis for future consideration in Australia and in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• As the Minister for Defence has also said, the Parliament will be advised of decisions as they are made. [More…]

• Will the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate inform the Senate what progress has been made by the Government in consideration of the report of the Joint Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation? [More…]

• Each Service Minister has written to the Minister for Defence giving his views and the views of his Department on this matter. [More…]

• Since writing, the Service Ministers have met the Minister for Defence together with the departmental heads in the defence group for further discussions. [More…]

• Is the Treasurer aware that the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Annual Report 1970-71 states that the present amortised investments of the fund amount to more than$1 34m. [More…]

• The income forms part of the Fund in accordance with Section 15 (2) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]

• The Minister for Works, Senator Wright, will represent the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Does a section of the Tariff Board report on shipbuilding lay the burden of national defence on a few small yards capable of producing only small ships such as minesweepers, patrol vessels and landing barges? [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…]

• defence programme. [More…]

• Mr Acting President, this statement was made in another place last Wednesday by the Minister for Defence, Mr Fairbairn. [More…]

• (The statement of the Minister for Defence read as follows): [More…]

• 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…]

• Finally 1 would like to make a comment in defence of the ANL. [More…]

• Is the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that the annual report of the Commonwealth Auditor-General discloses that the United States of America has overcharged Australian Service departments at least Sim for defence equipment in the past 2 years? [More…]

• The Deputy Leader of the Opposition has asked a question relating to the whole of the defence group. [More…]

• I have noted the Press reports indicating that the Australian Defence Services may have sustained possible overcharges amounting to $US900,000 in respect of supplies from the United States Government. [More…]

• The Government proposes to increase expenditure on defence from $1,21 7m last year to $ 1,323m this year. [More…]

• If the past performance of this Government is any guide, orders for expensive and flashy defence hardware, placed immediately prior to an election, can lead to an extended financial hangover which persists long after the electoral purpose of the orders has been completed. [More…]

• Our defence vote is being increased. [More…]

• Other honourable senators will talk of many of the expansions in our education programme and many of the decisions taken with the regard to the defence priorities of Australia, national development projects, communications systems which we are developing and all those other things which are part of a great national programme. [More…]

• The Treasurer’s next reference is to defence. [More…]

• Following the loss of 500 Australian lives and the maiming of 2,000 other Australians in the Vietnam involvement, the Government sets out in this Budget a long ranging defence plan. [More…]

• For a long period of time the Australian Government has been niggled by the Opposition into doing something positive about defence plans. [More…]

• I submit that should the national disaster of the return of the present Government occur, these defence plans will be just pushed under the table again. [More…]

• As I said a moment ago, if one looks at the whole of the defence planning in depth one sees that there is nothing to it. [More…]

• The transfer of the land from the Department of Defence to the Department of the Interior has taken place but nothing has been done about making it available to the people. [More…]

• The honourable senator has made casual reference to defence, but of course the Labor Party is not interested in defence. [More…]

• A responsible attitude has been adopted by the Government to defence. [More…]

• The Budget provides for an increased allocation for expenditure on defence generally despite a reduction in the number of those in the armed forces. [More…]

• The sum of Si 06m is to be provided for the strengthening of our defence. [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• All the information has been supplied to the Department of Defence which, with my Department, is now considering the offer. [More…]

• I am pleased that expenditure on defence has not been cut back in this Budget. [More…]

• This means that the Government is prepared to maintain a well trained and efficient defence force. [More…]

• Also, a committee consisting of members from both sides of the House of Representatives recently brought in recommendations relating to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and I understand that the Government intends to do something about them. [More…]

• I am pleased that the Government is facing up to its defence responsibilities. [More…]

• Also, we must not forget the importance of these roads to the defence of this nation. [More…]

• The defence issue is important and beef roads play an important part in the defence of this country. [More…]

• Yet that was the tone of the defence put forward by Government supporters in the other place. [More…]

• The same defence was taken up in this place last night when Senator Maunsell, time and again, blamed high wages for the unemployment position in Australia. [More…]

• That is why we have advocated, since the formation of our Party, that defence should be high in the order of priorities. [More…]

• I am glad that the Government recognises the necessity to provide adequate defence - to build up our Navy and our Air Force. [More…]

• To keep ourselves prepared for any attack that might take place is nothing more or less than insurance for the defence of our people. [More…]

• Defence and immigration are to be maintained at their present high level. [More…]

• If not, will the Minister give a clear indica- tion that the Government Aircraft Factories and their skilled work force will remain an important and foundational part of Australia’s defence capacity, continuing under the control of the Australian Government and Parliament? [More…]

• Firstly, I say to the honourable senator that it is the Government’s policy to maintain a small but viable and effective defence aircraft industry. [More…]

• It sought the benefit of the experience of the Defence (Industrial) Committee, which investigated the matter and made a report to the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Supply. [More…]

• That Committee made certain recommendations to the Minister for Defence, who submitted a report te Cabinet. [More…]

• 7 relates to a ministerial statement on Australian defence and the question is that the Senate take note of the statement. [More…]

• Mr Gorton was deposed as Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of growing concern among Service personnel and their wives and families that the delay of the Government in announcing its policy in relation to the report of the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation indicates that the Government is not disposed to accept the recommendations of the Committee? [More…]

• The Service departments then put to the Department of Defence a submission outlining their views on the report. [More…]

• Subsequently the Minister for Defence met with the Service Ministers and they added their views on the report. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence then forwarded a submission to the Government. [More…]

• The honourable senator has made casual reference to defence, but of course the Labor Party is not interested in defence. [More…]

• Senator Jessop criticised Senator Keeffe and he said he was not interested in defence. [More…]

• I well remember that at the height of the Vietnam war in 1969 Senator Jessop and a couple of his colleagues in the other place lost their seats at the election because of their policy on defence. [More…]

• I gather that Senator McLaren, who has just resumed his seat, is opposed to the Budget and therefore is opposed to the increased allocation for payments to the States, opposed to the development of the Eyre Highway and the north-south railway line, opposed to the development of a defence programme, opposed to assistance to rural workers, prepared to drive people off their farms because he is opposed to relief from estate duty, opposed to pensions, opposed to other social service benefits and opposed to the abolition of the means test. [More…]

• Sandwiched in the middle of Senator McLaren’s speech on the Budget - I presume that somehow or other this was strategically designed so that it became the filling in the sandwich - he referred in one way or another to some of my colleagues and their references to the defence policy of the Government. [More…]

• But he did he tell us anything about the defence policy of his own organisation? [More…]

• Did he tell us that they would refuse the United States of America the opportunity to assist in and strengthen the defence programme of this country? [More…]

• Let me remind him and the Senate in general that the policies my colleagues have been propounding in this Budget debate are designed to achieve the creation of modern and mobile defence forces and sound alliances for the strength and security of this country. [More…]

• Does a section of the Tariff Board Report on Shipbuilding lay the burden of national defence on a few small yards capable only of producing small ships such as minesweepers, patrol vessels and landing barges. [More…]

• In its report the Tariff Board said, amongst other things, ‘Capacity to build large vessels is only a secondary defence requirement and the very costly production of the whole range of Australian demand for these vessels is not considered justifiable on defence grounds. [More…]

• The sectors of the industry which constitutes the nation’s main defence requirements use resources relatively efficiently and the Board will recommend long-term assistance designed to maintain and encourage the development of these sectors. [More…]

• The Government accepts that the capacity for the production of large ships is seen as of lesser importance at this stage as it is likely to be of defence significance only in the event of an extended threat or extended conflict. [More…]

• On what specific grounds did the AttorneyGeneral refuse to grant a fiat to the Defence of Government Schools group on Commonwealth assistance to private schools, and was he obliged to take into account the public interest in making the decision; if so what factors did he consider and, if not, to what extent was his decision influenced by the degree of substance in the groups’s challenge. [More…]

• If land is to be acquired for housing in the States it can be done only under State powers, unless the Commonwealth, acting within one of its specific powers, such as its defence powers, wants to acquire land. [More…]

• The studies of the future of air defence are, of course, in the hands of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Well over 100,000 are students and many thousands play an important role in our defence forces, some here and some overseas. [More…]

• I said that if the persons concerned had a belief that the ordinance was invalid they could plead that and I thought that that would be a good defence. [More…]

• Is it too much to expect the Government to illustrate the lurid case which it has made out about what the Opposition is trying to do - in what we consider to be a legitimate defence of civil liberties - and to give examples of the dire results if, in fact, the dragnet operation of this Bill takes effect. [More…]

• Ignorance of the law in itself is no defence to a prosecution for a breach of that law. [More…]

• It is true that people who would have this technical defence available to them as a result of the legislation before us will no longer have that technical defence available to them. [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• I have stated quite clearly in the Senate on a number of occasions that for some time the Department of Defence and the Department of Air have been looking at a replacement for this aircraft, from the aspect of having a carriercumtanker type replacement. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matters for urgent inquiry and report - [More…]

• One cannot avoid also recognising that the recent events in Sydney, where 2 bombs exploded and a number of people were injured, add a complicating factor to the matters which Senator Murphy seeks to have discussed bv the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It is not a denigration or a criticism of the august senators who comprise the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to suggest that they, whilst they would undoubtedly do their best to be fair, could find themselves the unwitting vehicles by which a certain political vendetta is carried on. [More…]

• We could well remind ourselves that we are debating a motion moved by Senator Murphy which seeks to refer to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence a matter primarily relating to complaints by the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia that there are in Australia bases, training ranges, storage places for weapons and diversionist material for criminal activity against Yugoslavia, and that the Australian Government has tolerated migrants engaged in terrorist activities against Yugoslavia, and so on. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, earlier I made the point that I oppose referring this matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence because I believe it to be highly inappropriate for that Committee. [More…]

• Firstly, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee to which this reference will be passed, if that be the will of the Senate, I feel it would be improper for me to engage in discussion of the subject matter of this debate. [More…]

• I readily accept Senator Sim’s assurance that if this matter were referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of which he is chairman, he would do all in his power to ensure that the matter was con sidered impartially and dispassionately. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing either the Minister for Defence or the Minister for the Interior. [More…]

• If the Minister for the Interior considers that it is the responsibility of the Minister for Defence no doubt he will direct the honourable senator’s question to that Minister. [More…]

• He needs no defence merely because he happens to be an Aborigine. [More…]

• Tax reductions wherever practicable, consistent with the essential needs of defence, social and public services and of the economy and to preserve equity as between taxpayers. [More…]

• It is not without pride that some parents recall that their sons whom they have cherished for 20 years now wear the Queen’s uniform and are being trained in the honourable and heroic profession of defending their country, making this country safe and engaging in Commonwealth defence projects. [More…]

• This system has to be changed if we are to have a defence force. [More…]

• This is your defence. [More…]

• We have seen those sorts of things in the Shortland electorate, in the trade union defence committee in Victoria and in the outright expulsions from the Victorian Labor Party of people who were never given any opportunity to defend themselves and who, notwithstanding the muchvaunted reforms in that organisation, have still not been readmitted to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, relates to the proposed new defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Minister for Defence announced yesterday that a new DFRB scheme would commence on 1st October 1972? [More…]

• ls the announcement of details held up because of disagreement between the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Defence on the basis of the range and cost of the recommendations of the Jess Committee which are being resisted by Treasury? [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 - Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board organisation that had been created in 1963. [More…]

• The Committee believes that these circumstances reflect an urgent need for improvements in the quality of internal audit within the SuperannuationDefence 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 internal audit activities and, within this arrangement, to allocate internal audit teams to the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Boards. [More…]

• I believe that this is an area in which the Government must make a judgment that the amount it spends on social services is to be measured against how much is to be spent on education, how much is to be spent on defence- [More…]

• If the Government, for example, were to eliminate altogether the payment on social services and the payment on defence, one would suppose that the rate of taxation would be reduced very significantly. [More…]

• Now in Britain as here the government of the day fully recognises the serious responsibility it has to those who have risked their lives in defence of the nation. [More…]

• I am thankful that, especially in peacetime - of course, we take it for granted in wartime - there are honourable men and women who are prepared to devote their lives and their energies to the service of the nation in our defence forces. [More…]

• 1 point blank refuse to regard the serviceman who risks his life for our defence as being in any way inferior to a boilermaker, a metal trades worker or even a waterside worker. [More…]

• 1 believe that this legislation, together with the .projected defence forces retirement benefits legislation, will give the serviceman and his dependants at least that degree of frugal comfort and security to which his endeavours on behalf of the nation have justly entitled him. [More…]

• Senator Hannan made a speech in defence of these Bills. [More…]

• In view of the serious growth of violence and terrorism in all nations throughout the world, and in order that the Australian public should be fully informed on all aspects of this grave problem, will the Federal Government consider the early establishment of a major study group on the subject bringing together representatives of all levels of government, law enforcement, civil and military defence authorities, academics and representatives of industry, commerce and the trade union movement? [More…]

• A major national study conference of law enforcement authorities, defence authorities, academics, representatives of trade unions and commerce, and responsible citizens, I believe, could give a valuable guide. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has a corporation power and a whole host of other powers, leaving aside such powers as the defence power. [More…]

• Men such as Laurence Short spoke out with courage in defence of the entitlement of their members to work. [More…]

• Dismissal from the Defence Force. [More…]

• If the Government had ordered an Inquiry, then I would have thought that at that stage the matter was sub judice and the Army officer in charge of the camp had the responsibility to answer in his own defence in the course of that inquiry and not to make a reply on behalf of the Minister outside this Parliament to the allegations made by my colleague. [More…]

• But I was going to observe in passing that I am very conscious of the development potential of the west coast of Australia and its defence importance. [More…]

• I refer to matters like defence, economic policy, foreign relations, security issues, and what I call the trends of independence and the trends of national character, national opportunity and national aims and aspirations, and properly we should be talking, I think, along the lines that this is how we should approach this measure. [More…]

• If we have allowed our servicemen to vote at the age of 18 years, I believe we should give every youth of 18 years the right to vote because we should classify every youth in Australia as being willing, if called upon, to take some part in the defence of his or her country. [More…]

• Will the Government consider giving a clear indication that the Australian Government not only is opposed to any future tests but also in the circumstances will reject any future Australian-French collaboration in the manufacture or supply of Australia’s defence requirements? [More…]

• That Act created the Commonwealth offence of hijacking 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 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 2 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…]

• The Government’s defence advisers have reviewed the possible advantages, the costs, industrial implications, and other factors bearing on a decision whether or not to retain the F4E aircraft. [More…]

• In considering the additional capability that would be provided by the retention of the F4Es, a review was made of the forecast needs in the air defence and close support roles, and of the existing and continuing capabilities of the RAAF’s Mirage 1110 and the Skyhawk aircraft of the Royal Australian Navy and the projected capabilities of new-generation aircraft that may come into service late in the 1970s or early 1980s. [More…]

• The resulting overall financial effect on the 5 year defence programme would be substantially greater than the simple purchase price of the aircraft and leased items. [More…]

• After considering a detailed report on all these matters and bearing in mind the effects on the development of Australia’s force structure as a whole, the Government has concluded that although the terms of the United States Air Force’s offer are attractive, the total cost and other consequences could not be justified against other high-priority major items now included in the projections of the 5 year defence programme. [More…]

• the revenue power virtually is concentrated in the Commonwealth and the expenditure opportunities, apart from defence and things of that nature, virtually are confined to the States. [More…]

• A Bill for an Act to authorise the Raising and Expending of a sum not exceeding Six million five hundred thousand dollars for a Defence Purpose. [More…]

• I agree that this is a war service land settlement scheme, but as it deals with farms, and with money which is to be made available to farmers, why should the Bill be described as having a defence purpose? [More…]

• It has nothing to do with defence. [More…]

• I presume that I can do nothing to have the long title altered, but I should like to know why we must persist in calling this a defence purpose. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I think we should know why our wording still harks back to the inauguration of the scheme which was established under the defence power and why the long title should describe the Bill as having a defence purpose. [More…]

• But it will be a defence if a person prosecuted can show that the act was committed in private with only one other person and that both people were over 21. [More…]

• The report was strongly critical of the Service Departments, particularly the Departments of the Army and Defence, which had caused much of the retrospectivity through administration delays and inefficiency. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThe Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• In this regard, special management arrangements are being made for the project by the Departments of the Navy and Defence in association with management consultants. [More…]

• It is a defence of a country which is being invaded and which is subject to aggression. [More…]

• Is it a fact that this reference brought a passionate defence of these 2 men from Dr Cairns, ending in oleaginous adulation? [More…]

• Whatever the outcome of the election in December - it will not matter which party is in office after then - the Government will have to balance health, education, defence and many other issues. [More…]

• 1 have said at various meetings, including some conducted by the Council for the Defence of Government Schools and the independent school organisations, that as a socialist I want to see an equitable society. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• No-one on this side of the House and no-one in any defence force or any air force in the world believes that an aircraft is invulnerable. [More…]

• We believe that the Fill is a magnificent aircraft which will play a tremendously important part in the defence of this nation. [More…]

• 1 will put the question on notice to the Minister for Defence if the honourable senator wants me to do so but I do not think the question is appropriate for that course. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 14 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971, I present the 24th 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…]

• The amendment we moved on that occasion reads: but the Senate is of opinion that firm arrangements should have been made for substantial co- production procedures for imported aircraft and a joint select committee should be appointed to inquire into and report upon the effectiveness of Qantas management in relation to crew retrenchment, migrant carriage contracts, the future role of Qantas in the major international aviation scene both from commercial and defence aspects, the question of Qantas’ role in Australia’s balance of payments, entry into and extent of activity in international charter operations- [More…]

• A year or so ago the Minister for Defence decided to release 60 acres of land for house building purposes. [More…]

• You would be amazed, Mr Deputy President, to know that to date - a year after it was released by the Department of Defence - that land is still in the process of going to the Queensland Government so that it can then be subdivided and made available for homes. [More…]

• With regard to Thursday Island, which was another area in respect of which Senator Keeffe made a number of general allegations, the fact is that some 60 acres of land has been released by the Department of Defence, and the Director of Aboriginal and Island Affairs in Queensland will be acquiring the area of land which is required for the building of [slander homes. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for the Army and/or the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I would say this in defence of the previous Labor administration: During the war it was faced with the problems of the war and after that, until 1949, with problems of reconstruction. [More…]

• by leave - On 16th August, 1 informed the Senate of the progress which had been made by the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence into its current reference on Japan, and advised that, ‘if at all possible’, a full report would be presented during the present Parliamentary session. [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…]

• And whether the take-over would have adverse effects on the Government’s defence objectives, environmental protection, or regional development. [More…]

• It is headed ‘Defence Forces Retirement Benefits’. [More…]

• 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 inter-depart mental 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 Fairbairn), 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 of 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…]

• Proposed expenditure - Department of Defence, $34,720,000- passed. [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.I should like to assure the Senate that officers of the Repatriation Department will take steps to ensure that the measures will be given publicity in the areas where these former ex-servicemen live, so that all those eligible are aware of this important change. [More…]

• Yesterday Senator Devitt asked me whether the listing on the Senate notice paper of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation meant that the Committee is extant and. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI am not in a position to answer that question at question time, but I certainly will have it referred to the Minister for Defence without delay. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Will not the rejection by the Government of the recommendations of the Jess Committee for a new, modern and upgraded defence forces retirement benefits scheme be a serious blow to the morale of serving members of the defence forces and pose a substantial deterrent to the recruitment and retention of personnel? [More…]

• Does this not indicate that the Government has set a priority for the preservation of the defence capacity at a level substantially below that which its protestations to the contrary would have us believe? [More…]

• Its defence areas around Sydney Harbour are outside the control of city planning. [More…]

• The Government’s essential concern is to ensure that Australia maintains an aircraft industry with the capacities and capabilities needed to meet defence requirements. [More…]

• In the present period of low defence workload, the Government has supported projects which have both defence and commercial applications in order to develop opportunities for the industry. [More…]

• In accordance with current practice, reciprocal purchasing opportunities are sought when important defence items are to be purchased from overseas. [More…]

• Any person who is prepared to take a risk with the security and defence of this country is acting in a way that is completely intolerable and could not be accepted by the vast majority of Australians. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that serving members of the forces view with unredeemable cynicism the statement of the Minister for Defence on defence forces retirement benefits, defending a government that has made defence an issue to win elections for more than 20 years? [More…]

• Might T remind the Senate that the Minister for Defence issued his statement on Sunday - I think on Sunday evening. [More…]

• I will send a copy of the statement issued by the Minister for Defence to the honourable senator after question time. [More…]

• Australia is kept fully informed of the position, and as soon as information does come to hand it will be forwarded to our Air Force officers in America who will refer it to the Departments of Air and Defence where it will be studied very carefully. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: How many Australian troops remain in each of the following countries: South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand? [More…]

• Mr Richardson qualified for 2 separate types of benefit on termination of military service on 2nd July 1969: Those related to disability compensation due to war service, under the Repatriation Act, and a pension benefit under the contributory insurance benefits arrangements of the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• As to the DFRB pension, the Chairman of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board has stated that Mr Richardson was paid the pension for over 3 years from the date of his discharge until 1st September 1972 when payment was suspended. [More…]

• Suspension does not sever Mr Richardson’s association with the scheme; it will be restored automatically if ever his income is reduced below the prescribed level, and, in any case, his position is reviewed periodically by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board. [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 (I.) [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 1948-1971 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 it goes to defence protection, which is the first meaning I would attribute to it, in no circumstances is that a State responsibility. [More…]

• I know it is argued that it is a defence industry. [More…]

• May I say that as I understand it - and I am only quoting from information I have - that a study was undertaken by the Department of Trade and Industry into the Australian electronics components industry, so described, and that inquiry described in one word the Australian market of that industry as a defence industry. [More…]

• I think that we have to be very careful when people claim that their industry is a defence industry. [More…]

• We need to have a close look at the argument that an industry is a defence industry. [More…]

• If it is a defence industry, we must ask who should bear the cost of protecting that industry. [More…]

• Should it be the consumer or should it be our defence services through the defence vote? [More…]

• After years of agitation we were able to get 60 acres of land released by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Hundreds of acres of land are still reserved for defence purposes. [More…]

• That the Senate unequivocally supports the retention of Australian defence units in Singapore. [More…]

• Contingent upon the re-appointment of the legislative and general purpose standing committees, I shall move: That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following mailer - The adequacy of the Australian Army to perform its necessary part in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Contingent upon the re-appointment of the legislative and general purpose standing committees, I shall move: That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matters - All matters relating to the recognition of China and the status of Taiwan. [More…]

• In October last, as Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I reported progress to the Senate on our inquiry into Japan and advised that a report would be available for presentation when the Senate next met. [More…]

• Defence to be worthy of the close consideration of the Government. [More…]

• He was Minister in Charge of War Service Homes from 1934 to 1936, Minister for Defence from 1937 to 1938, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1938 to 1939 and Postmaster-General and Minister for Health from March 1940 to October 1940. [More…]

• Minister assisting the Minister for Defence: In the light of the changes made by the Government in ministerial authority, who is the approving authority for VIP aircraft and what changes, if any, have been made to the rules, as set out in Senate Hansard of 30th September 1972, which are to be applied before approval is given for the use of VIP aircraft? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I am informed that the Press Broadcasting and Television Defence Committee, a voluntary committee, has in the past co-operated with the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I address another question to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [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 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 [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…]

• 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…]

• The 100 warriors, with their heart and soul set on defending their homeland, might be a lot more effective defence structure for the Torres Strait islands that the Labor Government would provide for them. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to the Government’s well publicised announcement of general increases in the defence services pay and allowances. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that because certain allowances and increments have been cancelled and the increases made taxable, most defence services officers are now worse off financially than they were before such increases were made? [More…]

• Federal laws make punishable by death treason, certain crimes committed on board aircraft, the killing of a person protected by the Geneva Convention and certain crimes covered by the defence legislation. [More…]

• 1 find it interesting that a party which has condemned conscription which has been used for the defence of this country and which had wide and generous statutory grounds of exemption should seek to impose conscription in the industrial area where the Government does not allow conscientious objection on a general basis. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• If not, how does the Government’s attitude align itself with the statement of the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, that defence hardware, including small naval vessels, will be built in Australia? [More…]

• All I can say about general defence requirements is that the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, has on 2 occasions recently assisted 2 important shipyards. [More…]

• On Friday he visited Williamstown with the object of placing as far as possible, additional orders in that area for defence requirements. [More…]

• There is a downturn - there is no question about this - and there are proposed retrenchments in the area of defence, which the Minster has refused to accept. [More…]

• In directing my question ‘to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence,” I refer to a defence statement issued in July last year regarding the purchase of a basic trainer aircraft. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Has it been decided whether the American Central Intelligence Agency has influenced or does influence the policies of the Australian Department of Defence as is apparently alleged by the former secretary of the Victorian Australian Labor Party, Mr Hartley? [More…]

• Such matters will be handled by the Minister for Defence in consultation with the Prime Minister. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, he being a Minister having some responsibility for VIP aircraft. [More…]

• I remind the AttorneyGeneral that an undefended case shows that the respondent has no defence and that the respondent has committed a matrimonial offence. [More…]

• Yesterday Senator Drake-Brockman directed a question to me in my capacity of Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• A defence statement of 24th July 1972 pointed out that before the contract could be signed 2 factors were required to be resolved. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite know that in some States in this Commonwealth a person may not belong to the medical defence league unless he is a member of the AMA. [More…]

• Mr President if that motion is carried it will enable a debate to be brought on tonight on the statement made in this place the other night by Senator Bishop on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• Since the original sitting times were agreed upon it has been indicated that some honourable senators wish to sit tonight and debate the statement by Senator Bishop on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), which seems to be a reasonable request. [More…]

• When the debate on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in relation to Japan was adjourned I had said that I believed the report was worthy of close consideration by the Government Now I shall deal briefly with several aspects of the report which I consider worthy of special attention. [More…]

• This debate concerns the report from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its reference, Japan. [More…]

• Firstly, this is the first reference of any kind to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It involved Japan, the Japanese people, their history, their background, their sociology, their economic and trading problems, their attitudes to foreign affairs and defence, the way that they look at the world, the way that they look at themselves, the way that they negotiate and trade, the way they communicate, the way in which the world looks at them and, in particular, the way in which Asia looks at the Japanese people. [More…]

• Pre-war and during the war the people of Japan were defence and militarily orientated. [More…]

• We concluded - I am merely being discursive today because I commend to the Senate a full reading of this document - that at this moment if you asked these questions the answers would be that the Japanese selfdefence forces are not aggressive military forces in the sense that other countries may have military forces. [More…]

• The forces are adaptable to a move from local home defence to a more aggressive role, and this applies to the Air Force and to the Navy, although for the Japanese to develop in an aggressive fashion they would need to develop, in particular, their Navy and especially their submarine forces. [More…]

• Being an island nation lying so close, as it does, to the Asian mainland, if the Japanese are to have real defence they must move their mobile defences, their mobile rocket launching platforms, wider out into the oceans in order to gain some protection. [More…]

• If there is a detente between America and China, how valid or credible is the American defence and nuclear umbrella for the future? [More…]

• Is it credible that America can guarantee and deliver in the future a nuclear and orthodox defence umbrella? [More…]

• So, can Japan maintain its present defence and foreign affairs attitudes if there is any threat to its trade or if there is any challenge to the welfare of its people? [More…]

• Firstly, let me look at the field of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• Although it is generally conceded that there is no apparent threat to Australia’s security in the foreseeable future, this does not mean that Australia can allow its defence status to decline. [More…]

• The need to have a sufficient defence, capability exists at all times; it does not alter because of foreign policy shifts. [More…]

• The Australian people are in the unfortunate situation that, irrespective of the defence need and the nation’s security, it is not these factors that will dictate whether a small contingent of ground forces remains in Singapore or whether some other aspect of defence, policy is implemented. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard), who is also the Minister for Defence, has made it quite clear that it is the Federal Conference of the ALP which is responsible for dispositions of Australia’s ground forces - not the Government. [More…]

• We on this side of the Senate believe that in the conduct of foreign affairs and the shaping of defence policies we do not have to turn our back on those nations which have been friends and allies for a long period of time. [More…]

• it has pursued and intends to pursue defence and foreign policies which are contrary to Australia’s international treaty obligations and which ignore or reject long established bonds with traditional and trusted allies; and further the Senate views with alarm - [More…]

• On 28th February a statement was made in another place by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, and was placed on the record in the Senate. [More…]

• The statement of the Minister for Defence marked the first occasion on which a government of this country had sought to place openly on the record a clear expression of the place of United States defence installations in Australia in terms of Australian national interests. [More…]

• It may be of value and to the benefit of honourable senators opposite to say clearly that Australia does have national interests, in the defence area as in other areas, distinct from those of the United States. [More…]

• Our defence alliance with the United States is natural and reflects the breadth of our common interests in many fields. [More…]

• What has the acquiescence of previous governments meant in respect of American defence installations in Australia? [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…]

• The joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap was established in 1966 under an agreement, Article 1 of which says: [More…]

• In accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement the Australian Government and the United States Government shall establish maintain and operate in Australia a facility for general defence research in the space field. [More…]

• These agencies are the Australian Department of Defence and the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. [More…]

• The Joint Defence Space Communications Station at Nurrungar near Woomera was established under an Agreement in 1969 which states at Article 1 that: [More…]

• The Australian Government and the United States Government shall co-operate in establishing, maintaining and operating a joint space communications station in the vicinity of Woomera, Australia, together with support facilities, to support defence activities. [More…]

• These agencies shall be the United States Air Force and the Australian Department of Defence. [More…]

• In respect of both these installations - the Joint Defence Research Facility at Pine Gap and the Joint Defence Space Communications Station at Woomera - we believe that Australian sovereignty and the breadth of Australian defence interests and other national interests are not disadvantaged by their continuation. [More…]

• Except with the express consent of the Australian Government, the station will not be used for the 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…]

• After a full and complete discussion regarding consultation on use of the station with Minister for External Affairs, il was clearly understood thai 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…]

• They will be discussions between members of a defence alliance - ANZUS. [More…]

• lt is a relationship of defence co-operation between friendly, independent and sovereign states. [More…]

• It is on the basis of friendship, independence and an abiding concern for Australian sovereignty that the outstanding matters in relation to United States defence installations in Australia will be discussed with the United States Government. [More…]

• On Wednesday of last week Senator Bishop, representing the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in another place, took some 15 minutes to put down a defence statement on this matter. [More…]

• What then happened in the other place was that Dr Forbes, the honourable member for Barker, moved an amendment to the motion “That the House take note of the paper’, in which is it fair to say that the Opposition, in some aspects, praised the Minister for Defence for what he had said. [More…]

• What Dr Forbes’s amendment did was to highlight the fact that there was almost no difference between what Mr Barnard said and what our Defence Ministers have been saying for years. [More…]

• We are dealing with a change in 2 statements - one by the Minister for Defence and one by the Special Minister of State. [More…]

• Would not anybody believe that the responsibility of the Leader of the Opposition is to state what the Opposition feels about the policies of the Government, particularly in respect of defence and foreign affairs matters, to make a studied complaint about what the Labor Party has done and to give some reasons for his objections? [More…]

• He did not answer the questions that have been posed by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• He has simply amplified something the Minister for Defence said in his statement, which was rather brief. [More…]

• Honourable senators will remember that, in the statement which [ read in this place on his behalf, the Minister for Defence made the point that there had been too much secrecy about the United States installations; that it was an obligation of the Government to give the Parliament more information about them, which we are doing; and that it was an obligation of the Government to identify the differences between the previous Government and ourselves on some matters. [More…]

• That was done by the Minister for Defence in a very brief but very clear statement. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, I accompanied the Minister for Defence and certain advisers on the visit to the installations at Woomera and Pine Gap. [More…]

• We want that sort of thing to happen to make sure that Australia’s defence facilities and abilities are the best we can have. [More…]

• In our view, the Minister for Defence has made a progressive statement in respect of those areas and it is good that he has become involved in promoting visits to them by members of the Parliament. [More…]

• I am sure that all honourable senators, whether they are on the Government side of the Parliament or on the Opposition side, want to see Australia in a position of having the best defence capability. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence said that he intends to have arrangements made so that members of Parliament might visit them. [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…]

• The only point which the Minister for Defence made in respect of Pine Gap and Woomera is that he would like to see our responsibilities upgraded. [More…]

• Generally speaking, however, we are sharing those facilities and the Australian defence organisation knows what is going on. [More…]

• The distinction between the point of view of the Opposition parties and our point of view is this: The Minister for Defence said that he believes that Australia should take up with the United States Government the issue 01 control at North West Cape. [More…]

• That the following words be added to the motion: and recognising that the paper acknowledges (i) 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…]

• We agree that the installations in central Australia are not part of a weapons system but in respect of North West Cape we say exactly what the Minister for Defence said in his statement, and what he said was no different to what Senator Willesee stated. [More…]

• Senator Willesee simply drew out for the benefit of honourable senators the extra points which were not developed by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In his statement the Minister for Defence said: [More…]

• I cannot understand any honourable senator of the Australian Parliament coming into the Parliament and being more concerned about the politics of a defence matter, something which concerns this country’s welfare, and talking about separating the left and right wings of the Labor Party. [More…]

• In addition, the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence have stated our policy and that policy has been re-affirmed by the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]

• In my opinion no Australian should feel that in some way he is inferior in respect of technology, administration, productivity, defence capability or anything else. [More…]

• We have the ability to produce almost all the things that we need for our defence requirements. [More…]

• We have established conditions of service for defence personnel which are fair, just and modern. [More…]

• Because of the defence connotations there will be areas of disagreement between the 2 sides, but some members of the Government say that there is not much difference between the point of view expressed by the Opposition and our point of view. [More…]

• defence. [More…]

• On the one hand, the legitimate right to criticise and seek to change the Government’s defence policy by democratic process: on the other, the illicit claim to perform acts designed to destroy defence measures undertaken by the elected Government, responsible to a democratically elected Parliament. [More…]

• All countries observe a certain amount of confidence and secrecy in regard to their defence installations and establishments. [More…]

• Neither the present Government nor the previous government or any other government in Australia is obliged to make available to the community in general full and complete information which might be used by foreign powers at a later date to the detriment of our defences. [More…]

• I hope that we will be sensible about this matter and that we will not, first because of an outcry which is in effect designed to destroy defence measures, adopt the attitude which some people say we should adopt and which Dr Evatt condemned. [More…]

• I believe that the attempt, under the guise of seeking desirable and necessary information, to endeavour to force discontinuance of defence arrangements which are in Australia’s interests is a very serious matter. [More…]

• In the previous Government 5 Ministers had to look after the 5 defence portfolios, and none of them said that he was underworked. [More…]

• I think that the Senate will agree that the statement presented by Senator Bishop, the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, does strike a new tone. [More…]

• As I listened to Senator McManus, who made out a case for a little discretion on defence secrets, 1 was reminded that one of the things that always irked Government supporters when we were in opposition was that we were told to be seen and not heard, but we found that facts released to the Press from United States congressional inquiries were not given here. [More…]

• One of the things that irritated us, if we were expected to keep our side of the agreement in relation to the sanctity of defence secrets, was that the bounden duty on the United States Congress was not always adhered to. [More…]

• Kennedy inherited a ramshackle agreement on certain American defence installations in Turkey and, to a lesser degree, in Spain. [More…]

• 2, United States installations in Australia, ministerial statement - a statement read to this House by the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• Defence co-operation cannot be conducted on any other basis. [More…]

• Do not forget that it has been referred - let this be denied - to the Minister for Transport and Minister for Civil Aviation - not to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) or to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Whitlam) or to the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) who is in charge of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, or to any of these naughty boys - for evaluation for civil communications use. [More…]

• The present dilemma of the Government in another place, in its difficulty over press secretaries, lies in the fact that the Minister for Defence has not 5 jobs but 6 jobs. [More…]

• His primary job is that of Minister for Defence of Mr Whitlam’s back. [More…]

• Mr Barnard, as the Minister for Defence, has been in bother as being an overoccupied man. [More…]

• The honourable senator’s remarks are irrelevant to the subject matter before the Senate tonight which is that the Senate take note of the statement by the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence in relation to United States bases in Australia. [More…]

• The DEPUTY PRESIDENT - I cannot rule that the remarks are irrelevant to the broad question of defence. [More…]

• 1 address a question to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• It seemed to me that it was a very serious anomaly in the law that a person might have to pay a fee, for example, to file a defence to the proceedings. [More…]

• cessation of defence [More…]

• The figures cover civilians only, as members of the defence forces are excluded. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask: What assurance can the people of Australia have that the Government will provide them with a balanced and strong defence? [More…]

• Can he inform the Senate whether an essential part of this defence will be the use of Fill aircraft as a strike force? [More…]

• The honourable senator ought to know that the recent figures as to the numbers in the defence forces have been very satisfactory. [More…]

• We have supplemented and improved by the defence forces retirement benefits provisions by means which were ventilated during the administration of the previous Government and in fact rejected by it. [More…]

• I think I can say, on behalf of the Minister for Defence, that we are not satisfied now about those financial arrangements but that the aircraft will take its place in the complement of the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• What we are saying is this: Because we are in the position of having to accept the aircraft we will use it, but we are very critical of the premature decisions of that previous Government in selecting such an aircraft in the face of the general position of Australia’s defence. [More…]

• He wants to take further advantage of the fact that the Senate proceedings are being broadcast directly to bring forward this proposition so that he can use the Senate chamber to defame an Australian citizen who, at this stage, has not been heard to speak in his own defence. [More…]

• The point of order raised by the Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) is, of course, a very important one, and, although our Standing Orders are silent in this connection, fortunately we have ample precedents to guide us. [More…]

• From the statements of the Minister for Defence, speaking on behalf of the Repatriation Department, and of Senator Elliott, it appears to me that the terms upon which this business was handed over by the Repatriation Department to the trustees is a matter which is now awaiting settlement by the Court, because certain parties, according to the statement by Senator Elliott, have initiated proceedings to prevent the trustees from taking any action in regard to it. [More…]

• It is most reprehensible because they want to use the committee which they hope to establish for the purpose of extracting evidence from this gentleman to use in court in the defence of Senator Kane. [More…]

• Honourable senators on the Government side of the chamber, in their tender solicitude for anybody who is well to the left of Brezhnev, Kosygin, Mao Tse-tung or the late lamented Chairman Ho, have rushed forward and put a defence which, from my observations of his writings and appearances on television, Burchett himself would not put. [More…]

• He was working in a most important aircraft factory in Australia, trying to assist in the defence of this country but because he made a mistake - he acknowledged his mistake - and was in the [More…]

• However, under a special provision, a member of the defence force serving in a war zone outside Australia, who is under 21 years of age, is entitled to vote at a Federal election. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and refer to a statement made last evening by the Minister for Defence announcing the Government’s acceptance of the Fill aircraft, a statement in which he pointed the finger at the former Minister for Defence. [More…]

• When Mr Malcolm Fraser was Minister for Defence and when he discussed this matter with Mr Laird, he agreed to an escalation in the total project costs which included a number of factors. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence tell the Senate whether the Royal Australian Air Force shares the present Government’s doubts concerning the effectiveness and value of the FI 1 1 aircraft? [More…]

• The statement by the Minister for Defence has been made after consultation with his advisers from the Royal Australian Air Force and the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Following the preliminaries, including delivery of indictment, application was made by the defence to adjourn the trial until 19th March on the grounds of initial non-availability of defence counsel. [More…]

• This was done to gain extra time to complete a defence. [More…]

• Just because they were caught in circumstances in which no defence was available to deny the misdemeanour. [More…]

• Senator Gair, but he has commissioned me as the spokesman on foreign affairs and defence for the Australian Democratic Labor Party to present the motion to the Senate. [More…]

• That the Senate unequivocally supports the retention of Australian defence units in Singapore. [More…]

• The fact is that defence aid is being given and will continue to be given to these countries. [More…]

• We are working with Indonesia on defence co-operation. [More…]

• There was only one of all his remarks with which I could agree, that is, that there are very few areas of discussion which occupy more of the time of this Parliament than the area of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• We make no excuse for our continued defence of the situation in relation to Australia’s involvement in the countries to our north west and north east. [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate the complaint of numerous members of the defence forces of Australia that in the September-November 1972 period they were summoned to appear before a tribunal convened to review pension entitlements? [More…]

• Let me continue to quote this author: 1 have visions of Mr Lance Barnard leading a squad of military police in an assault on the Defence Department to assert his authority over Sir Arthur Tange. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator BISHOP- The Minister for Defence has supplied the following information as an answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• It is estimated that the requirements of civil departments in that period will be about $23m and, of Defence Departments, $8m. [More…]

• I do not think I have heard anybody, even on the other side, rise to the defence of this abomination, the discretion statement. [More…]

• I assume that no Senator on the Opposition side, not Senator Carrick and not Senator Wright, will speak in defence of the continuation of the discretion statement, but if this motion is carried it means that this abomination continues until we get a total amendment of the divorce law, which may be many months away. [More…]

• Today, in defence of these matrimonial causes rules - the Murphy rules, as they have been known, or Murphy’s law - he spent most of his time and certainly most of his argument vilifying members of the legal profession in regard to costs. [More…]

• However, if you have had any experience of these matters, I submit that to omit the Facts from a Petition which is to be served on the other party is equivalent to getting a warrant to arrest a person without stating any evidence on the charge on which he is to be arrested, whereas a person is entitled to know what the accusations are so that he can prepare bis defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• If the Minister is not able to do it immediately, will he endeavour as soon as possible to make a statement to the Senate indicating if and when legislative action will be taken to give effect to the recommendations contained in the Jess Committee’s report on defence forces retirement benefits? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for Defence recall a statement made by the present Minister for Defence last October in which he talked about the Royal Australian Air Force having what he chose to call a pretty good run in the purchase of top drawer and top price aircraft from the United States of America? [More…]

• Is this statement to be taken as an indication of future policy in the defence departments? [More…]

• But of course we would have regard to the defence Services’ advice about the type of aircraft that they would like. [More…]

• It is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• foreign affairs and defence generally; and [More…]

• by, the Minister for Defence; or [More…]

• Last Thursday, I undertook to advise Senator Marriott when the legislation to amend the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act is likely to be introduced. [More…]

• Where does his defence stand in the light of that? [More…]

• If this is the best he has to offer in his defence, the charges that were made against him stand - that he was soft on terrorism, that he was irresponsible, and that he was indifferent to the existence of this menace in our midst. [More…]

• Immediately on reading that memorandum and on his own say-so, without consulting the Prime Minister - even though the inter-departmental committee involved the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Defence, his own Department and ASIO, and even though a breach of this would cut across the whole of Cabinet protocol - Sir Galahad, on his little white horse, goes to Melbourne and raids ASIO. [More…]

• The defence which Senator Greenwood put up today is not in reality a defence at all because he has not studied or considered what Senator Murphy has said. [More…]

• Here I refer to what I consider to be his honourable intention for he did not reveal the reason for several days, not until his Party colleagues told him that he should do so, that he should mention in his’ own defence the reason for his action. [More…]

• I believe that he was entitled to be heard by the Senate and was entitled to have as much time as he required to present his case in the form of a defence against the indictment to which I referred at the beginning of my remarks. [More…]

• I want to refer briefly to the statement that was presented by Senator Greenwood in a defence in which frankly I must concede he had difficulties because he was attempting to defend the indefensible. [More…]

• That eminent helper of Senator Murphy, Senator James McClelland, was the first person to speak in defence after Senator Greenwood had made his factual statement- a statement not filled with pejoratives and adjectives but a statement filled with facts. [More…]

• Senator James McClelland apparently rushed to the defence of the statement for reasons best known to himself as to why he should wish to so assiduously defend the statement which Senator Murphy made. [More…]

• All I say is that I find it most interesting to see Senator James McClelland rushing to the defence of the statement. [More…]

• Senator James McClelland, in what I thought was a somewhat ineffective defence of the statement - we do not know whether he was defending himself or somebody else - said that Senator Greenwood was prepared to use hearsay because he was prepared to say in relation to the question of agents provocateurs that there was only hearsay evidence, but in relation to others, on similar evidence, he was prepared to make categorical statements. [More…]

• Judge McCracken upheld a defence contention that Mangan - the man who was responsible for the bombing of a building and who threatened the lives of 9 people in an act of extreme violence and terrorism - had been unlawfully detained by New South Wales police on a vagrancy charge. [More…]

• I welcome the opportunity to join in this debate because on the occasion when the previous Opposition attempted to debate the matter of terrorism and violence in Australia the majority on the other side of the Senate denied us an opportunity to move a motion that sought to refer to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the complaints of the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia about bases and training facilities in Australia and the questions of whether there had been any terrorism, violence or any illegal activity engaged in in Australia and whether any Australian facilities had been available to terrorists. [More…]

• It is clear that the Opposition will follow the pristine approach to this matter, and that is that attack is the best method of defence. [More…]

• This will mean that the Senate will proceed to consideration of sessional orders as to the days and times of meeting, the reestablishment of the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange, the re-establishment of the Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control, the establishment of a joint select committee on prices, the re-establishment of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and the consideration of the first 5 Bills on the notice paper. [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…]

• I would like to co-operate with the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and get this motion through because, as far as I know, our members on the proposed Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence have been selected already. [More…]

• It also will abolish the death penalty in the circumstances provided for under the Defence Act which, shortly stated, involve traitorous conduct or mutiny. [More…]

• There are those who argue against capital punishment who have, in the service of their nation, borne arms and been prepared to accept all that the bearing of arms in the nation’s defence involves. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the horrors that people in those circumstances have witnessed and experienced, I cannot but assume that there would be many who on a future occasion would still be prepared, in the defence of their nation, to take the same course. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister been informed of a claim by, Mr Denis Warner, an authoritative respected and highly knowledgeable Australian journalist specialising in Asian affairs, that the Minister for Defence assured the Singapore Government in early 1972 that an Australian Labor Government would maintain ANZUK with a sizeable Australian presence in Singapore. [More…]

• and (3) I refer the honourable senator to the answer provided by the Minister for Defence to bis Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Will the Minister make available to the Australian Consumers’ Association reprints emanating from the Defence Standards Laboratories. [More…]

• I assume the honourable senator wishes to know if I will make available the results of tests carried out by Defence Standards Laboratories on items of interest to consumers. [More…]

• Tests by the Defence Standards Laboratories usually relate to quite specific aspects of technical performance, composition, or function against specifications for one consumer. [More…]

• 1 refer to my question of 27th March 1973 dealing with the investment of $347m in property construction and mortgages by the Commonwealth Superannuation Board, ls the Minister aware that the latest report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board shows an increasing investment in the spectulative field of property investment by that organisation? [More…]

• The matters which are the subject of Senator George’s question fall within the responsibility of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Committee, lt is the Defence Press, Broadcasting and Television Committee. [More…]

• It consists of officers of the Department of Defence and the Departments of Navy, Army and Air, plus representatives of most sections, if not all sections, of the Australian Press - newspapers, radio, television, wire services and so on. [More…]

• Having considered the matter, the Committee decided that a D-notice should be issued, and then the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, contacted me. [More…]

• 1 understand that the Secretary of the Department of Defence contacted the Secretary of my Department and our consultative advice was sought as to which sections of the Press and the media should be issued with the D-notice. [More…]

• The matter of determining whether a D-notice shall be issued is the responsibility of the Defence Committee to which I have referred and which comes within the responsibility of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I had already had the matter in respect of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, to which the honourable senator is referring, brought to my attention by the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Drury. [More…]

• The question as to whether D-notices will issue is a matter for the D-Notices Committee established within the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Therefore, the question asked by the honourable senator should be directed to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Recently I gave to Senator Keeffe an answer on this matter which pointed out, as Senator Douglas McClelland has done, that a D notice is a self-imposed discipline arranged through the agreed representatives of the Press and 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 restirements benefits pension, on account of invalidity due to his compensable injury. [More…]

• There were some offsetting items of savings on the abolition of national service and the end of defence aid to South Vietnam. [More…]

• Fundamentally the Bill is about an increase in expenditure provided in the Budget which has to be financed in a situation in which the law does not permit it to be financed other than by a transfer from the defence fund. [More…]

• An amount is transferred from the defence fund. [More…]

• I had in mind that previously action of this type took place in relation to defence expenditure; that is what the Minister says in the second reading speech. [More…]

• But it was my view that action of this type in other years had taken place in relation to specific defence expenditure. [More…]

• Is there no evidence to support the claim that I make that in previous years expenditure from this Fund was related to specific items of defence expenditure? [More…]

• Specific items of defence expenditure are not being met from the Loan Fund. [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• A matter which arises in such a case is that an employee who is totally incapacitated with respect to his ability to perform his employment by reason of injury or disease is provided for already either by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, if he is in the Services, or by the Superannuation Fund, if he is in the Public Service. [More…]

• In relation to redemption, which is a point to which Senator Wright referred, the fact is that there is a dual right to compensation and superannuation or a defence forces retirement benefits pension. [More…]

• Though we will seek to make our economy increasingly self supporting and viable, and though we may seek assistance from other countries, we will look to Australia to continue aid to us and assist in our defence for some time to come. [More…]

• I would remind honourable senators that last September the present Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Murphy, moved that the matter of terrorist activities in this country be referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• After having a week to prepare his defence Senator Greenwood said in effect: ‘There are other documents to which Senator Murphy did not refer which showed that I was concerned about this problem’. [More…]

• As to their methods, we have to do no more than look at the list, which was tabled by Senator Greenwood in his own defence, of the unsolved crimes of violence committed in this country by these extremists. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter - The adequacy of the Australian Army to perform its necessary part in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that up to the present they have been unable to embark upon a number of matters which they anticipated were to be referred to the Committee. [More…]

• I therefore, move this motion for an examination of this very serious question by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Government does not have any objection to this reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• One of the reviews, of course, is into the necessary strength and the efficiency of the Australian Army and the other one is that announced by the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, some weeks ago in relation to the efficiency and so on of the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]

• In addition to the reviews being conducted by our defence advisers and experts, the Government has initiated a number of basic reforms which will have the effect, we think, of establishing the Australian armed Services, as a completely efficient and professional; body. [More…]

• I refer, of course, to the new pay scales, the new Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund agreements and other procedures which have been instituted by our Ministers and our Government which have given the Services a number of new aspects which are complementary to the idea of having a new professional service. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter - Thailand. [More…]

• Since the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has completed and tabled a very full report on Japan and because the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs has undertaken a study of Indonesia, I believe that Thailand is a country of self-selection. [More…]

• While SEATO perhaps may not be meaningful to some nations, it is vitally meaningful to Thailand and to the Philippines, being the essential defence pact of those countries. [More…]

• The Australian Democratic Labor Party supports the motion for the reference of the matter of Thailand to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The linchpin of their defence in a sense rests upon the integrity of Thailand, and if Thailand is broken through and into, these countries become vulnerable. [More…]

• This debate is merely referring to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter: Thailand. [More…]

• The motion is the normal formal motion which comes forward at the commencement of each parliament and which sets up what was known as the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs but what in this Parliament will be known as the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It has been agreed among senators on this side of the chamber that the Country Party shall have a member on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Legislation will also be introduced to reform the system of War Service Homes, which will be known henceforth as Defence Service Homes. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Does this mean that the team from the Departments of Air and Defence which visited other countries in carrying out evaluation of possible alternative aircraft has wasted its time and effort and the taxpayers’ money? [More…]

• My authority for that is General Giap, the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• 1 do not think we have been given any clear vision of the type of defence structure that is likely to replace the organisations or countries with which we were previously allied. [More…]

• But we have not been given any clear view of what Australia hopes to have as a defence organisation in the future. [More…]

• Are they of benefit to Australia in regard to our future defence? [More…]

• Certainly, they have reason to desert us because of the attitudes the Government has taken in relation to cutting down and degrading the Australian Army and breaking down Australia’s defence forces. [More…]

• It has been most useful that Senator Hannan has moved this motion to enable the Senate to discuss this matter and to hear vehement defence of the Vietcong from Senator McLaren and the most vehement and noisy defence from Senator Brown, disclosing now without shame or qualification their unequivocal support for the Vietcong, the enemy of everything that Anzac ever stood for. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As the honourable senator knows, the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister already have made some references to the possibility of a supply ship being used for this purpose. [More…]

• I should like to assure Senator Wheeldon, whom I have known for an awfully long time, that I was not a party to a plot to have Mr Manfred Cross as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, as the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) desired. [More…]

• My early recollection was that the amendments moved by Senator Withers in respect of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and by Senator Marriott in respect of the Joint Committee on the Austraiian Capital Territory were an attempt by the Opposition, I thought, to take away from the Prime Minister or the Leader of the Government in the Senate the right to nominate the Chairman of each Committee and to provide that the Chairman should be elected by the members of the Committees. [More…]

• Whether the effect was that the Prime Minister should nominate the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I thought that the previous amendment indicated that it was the Senate’s wish that the nomination of the Chairman should come from the Committee. [More…]

• The principle behind this is exactly the same as it was in relation to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The House of Representatives, as in the case of the other proposed Committee, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, accepted the view that this Committee, the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory should be able to elect its own chairman from either of the Houses of Parliament. [More…]

• So there is no suggestion that in some way there is a great plot to undermine the Senate by the simple carrying through of the principle which arose only because of a previous error when the Parliament was dealing with the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• This is the resumption of the debate upon the report on Japan prepared and tabled by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Defence. [More…]

• This is so mainly because of its location but also because of the type of people and number of people in Japan, as well as its tremendous industrial and defence capability. [More…]

• First of all I wish to pay a tribute to the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for their hard work and co-operation during what I think was a unique inquiry. [More…]

• Under this Bill treason, offences committed on board aircraft which could endanger the lives of passengers and crew, the killing of a person protected by the Geneva Convention and certain crimes covered by defence legislation are all punishable by death and will be removed by clause 4 from the list of offences currently punishable by death. [More…]

• What happens to the ‘Straitsman’ in Tasmania will have repercussions nationally in relation to our defence, geographically in relation to Cairns and district and economically in relation to both. [More…]

• As a Queensland senator, I am now asking the Minister and the Government to consider the wider implications of this matter in relation to defence, to the efficient operation of a Naval establishment that the Government put in the area and in relation to the maintenance of this small but vital, relevant and significant secondary industry in the northern part of Australia. [More…]

• My question, which is in 2 parts, is directed to the Acting Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Firstly, does the Government intend to introduce in this autumn session legislation which will implement the changes it has promised to make - I might add the promises were made as long ago as last November - inthe defence forces retirement benefits scheme? [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…]

• Al 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…]

• To reflect more aptly the type of service which will constitute qualifying service under the scheme upon the enactment of this legislation, the Bill provides for the title of the Principal Act to be amended to ‘Defence Service 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…]

• To recall an expression that Senator Wright used in the course of the second reading debate, ‘You cannot require your forces to take up arms in defence of the nation, send them into the field of battle and allow a traitor to expose them to the fire of the enemy by betraying them’. [More…]

• The effective penalty for a person who commits that type of offence is the death penalty, because the circumstances of war are involved and he is betraying colleagues in circumstances in which they are absolutely defenceless. [More…]

• 1 say to those persons who take the view that the death penalty should be removed in ail circumstances that I believe they owe it to this nation and to the persons who render service in the armed forces of this country, who may take up arms and be required to do so in the defence of this country or in the pursuit of national objectives following the acceptance of wider international obligations, to explain to them why, if in the circumstances which 1 have postulated they are betrayed, the person responsible should be treated as being in some way of higher quality than those whose lives have been sacrificed. [More…]

• For example, me 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 each of 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(UK.) [More…]

• We believe that if the Government is prepared to require citizens of the country totake up arms and to fight in defence of the country they ought not to be able to be treacherously betrayed or delivered up to the enemy in time of war by actions of individuals, and if it does happen that there are such persons, the offence which is thereby constituted is an offence for which the punishment should be death. [More…]

• In so doing it not only deals with the crime of- murder in the Commonwealth Territories but also reaches into the Commonwealth Crimes Act and abolishes capital punishment for the crime of treason, into the Defence Act and abolishes capital punishment for major offences, including desertion, and into the Crimes (Aircraft) Act of 1963 and abolishes capital punishment for certain offences committed on aircraft, lt also affects Australia’s commitments under the Geneva Agreements. [More…]

• I realise, of course, that in all these situations there is a question of self defence. [More…]

• In war, as in selfdefence, there must be the right of the individual who is attacked to defend. [More…]

• One would think also, because we have had emergencies and the frequency is increasing, that we would receive an assurance that, even recently, more checks have been made on the teamwork among the Commonwealth Police, the State police forces and the civil defence authorities to ensure that if a national crisis occurs in our community the footwork and teamwork will be there, the terrorist will lose and therefore his action will not be copied. [More…]

• We want to be assured that the ground crews, the air crews, the civil defence authorities and the police, both Commonwealth and State, know what to do. [More…]

• I am unrepentant, not for revenge but for a sober, sturdy defence of the people who constitute this law-abiding community. [More…]

• The prison officer is in the same position, lt is not that a prison officer has any more virtue or value than other members of the community, but because he takes a stand against criminals in the defence of the community the community gives him some added protection. [More…]

• The policeman shot in proper self-defence. [More…]

• If any man says to me that we are to deprive the ordinary citizen of his right to self-defence or the policeman of his right to self-defence in a situation like that, 1 say to him: ‘You are losing your senses’. [More…]

• If that right of self-defence exists for me and if, in such a situation, 1 happened to be half a second slower on the trigger than the criminal and I am killed, if my comrade arrests the criminal and he is brought to trial and judged guilty of murdering me and 2 policemen, by what reason or logic is it said that in that case the community should not carry out the course which was perfectly available to me if I had been half a second quicker on the draw? [More…]

• If it -is proper for self-defence to be undertaken by a.n individual, by a group or by a nation, then it is proper that the Government of this civilised country should not yield that ultimate right basing itself as it does on laws made by, 1 hope, a thoughtful Parliament, upon a system whereby the police are strictly regulated in the prosecution of crime, upon a situation in which the courts are scrupulously fair in the evidence they use and upon a system where the judgments are those of juries and then of the Executive Council which applies its standards of mercy. [More…]

• I ask the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence whether he can say when the first of the FI 1 1 aircraft will arrive in Australia. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, flew in an F1 1 1 aircraft when on a visit to the United States of America some time ago and that since then he has never really criticised the Fill? [More…]

• Will the Minister, as the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, be making a flight in an Fill when the aircraft arrive in Australia in order to obtain a first hand impression of the features of this aircraft? [More…]

• In this respect I am following the practice of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister further aware that the New Zealand Labor Party Conference also rejected demands for withdrawal from overseas alliances, including SEATO, ANZUS, ASPAC and the Five-Power defence pact? [More…]

• 2), the Defence Service Homes Bill, the Housing Assistance Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Bill (No. [More…]

• In so doing the Opposition is deliberately withholding finance which will be made available under the Defence Service Homes Bill, assistance to workers under the Housing Assistance Bill and assistance under the States Grants (Universities) Bills that I introduced into this chamber yesterday. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition expected the Defence Service Homes Bill to be introduced last Thursday. [More…]

• I refer to the Defence Service Homes Bill, which is a most important Bill. [More…]

• Senator Withers said that the Defence Services Homes Bill was introduced into the Senate only yesterday and that it was late coming to this chamber; he said he expected it last week. [More…]

• There is the Defence Services Homes Bill, and many honourable senators have had people remind them about it and have cases before them concerning it. [More…]

• However, under a separate program an additional $20m has been committed for defence and technical co-operation with Indonesia in the period 1st July 1972 to 30th June 1975. [More…]

• In view of the delay in proceeding with Government business brought about by the diversionary tactics being used, will the Minister seek an assurance from the Opposition that it will give priority to the passage of the Defence Services Homes Bill and so relieve the considerable financial hardship and other problems for many persons awaiting the passage of the Bill? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, follows the question asked by Senator Poyser and the answer given by Senator Cavanagh to the effect that in some way the Opposition in this chamber had been delaying or preventing the passage of the Defence Services Homes Bill. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is it not a fact that the Defence Services Homes Bill was introduced into this chamber on Tuesday of this week and that the Opposition spokesman at that time indicated that it, the Opposition, would co-operate with the Government in having the measure passed? [More…]

• Finally, will he enable the Defence Services Homes Bill, if he regards it as being of the urgency to which Senator Cavanagh referred, to be discussed and passed by the Senate this afternoon before, on his resolution, the Senate suspends its sitting for the meeting of Estimates Committee A? [More…]

• It is true that the Defence Services Homes Bill, was introduced [More…]

• I propose to move that intervening business be postponed until after consideration of the Housing Assistance Bill, the Defence Services Homes Bill, and certain other matters that ought to be dealt with speedily. [More…]

• We 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…]

• 1. the Housing Assistance Bill 1973, No 6, the Defence Services Homes Bill and then Government business, orders of the day. [More…]

• If the Senate accedes to this motion, that would mean that, apart from the sitting of the Estimates Committee which has been arranged and for which the various officers have been notified to be here this afternoon, we would proceed to deal substantially with the Housing Assistance Bill, the Defence Services Homes Bill and the other matters referred to in the motion. [More…]

• I turn firstly to what has been said about the Defence Services Homes Bill, lt appears that it has become a matter of great urgency to have it passed. [More…]

• This is the Defence Services Homes Bill 1973, which we are told in this place today is a matter of urgency. [More…]

• The standing committee to which Senator Murphy sought to refer the investigation - one of profound consequence - was the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the membership of which at that time comprised 2 members of the Australian Labor Party - a minority in number - 2 members of the Liberal Party, one member of the Australian Country Party and one member of the Australian Democratic Party. [More…]

• The committee that was proposed last year by the Opposition - we were the Opposition then - was a committee which was already established - the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence - and which had an effective majority of Government members and a Government member as chairman. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence - [More…]

• I would be prepared to agree right now to a proposition in exactly those terms, being referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for inquiry. [More…]

• I ask him to say whether he is prepared to forego his support for the present proposition and agree to a referral to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of a proposition in exactly those terms. [More…]

• We were hoping, as a result of what was said today, that because only a short period would be involved the Opposition would vote with us to oppose the motion for the adjournment of the Senate and permit the Housing Assistance Bill and the Defence Services Homes Bill to be passed tonight. [More…]

• I do not think the Defence Service Homes Bill should come on. [More…]

• The War Service Homes Act will become the Defence Service Homes Act, if the Bill is passed. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In view of the planned vandalism of the New South Wales Transport Commission in proposing to surrender certain Hawkesbury River bushland frontages to developers, can the Minister for Defence consider invoking the defence powers in order to take over the land in dispute and retain it in a virtual state of conservation limbo until the New South Wales Premier halts this desecration of an outstanding tourist area? [More…]

• I direct a question to the’ Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, during his recent visit to Indonesia committed Australia to an expansion of the current defence co-operation agreement with Indonesia? [More…]

• What military aid should be given was a matter of discussion between Mr Barnard, the Minister for Defence, and the Indonesian Government. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence simply told the Indonesian Government that that would be the amount that the Australian Government could provide for that particular purpose. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The honourable senator asked a question about defence aid for Indonesia and I answered that it was a matter, as I pointed out, which resulted from continuing discussions between the previous Government and the present Government and which has been, I think, satisfactorily settledon the terms of co-operation between the 2 countries. [More…]

• Each one of them spoke up in defence of the. [More…]

• I have received letters from the leaders of the parliamentary parties nominating, in accordance with the resolution establishing the Committee, the following senators and members of the House of Representatives to serve on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, namely, Senators Carrick, Drury, McManus, Maunsell, Milliner, Primmer, Sim and Wheeldon; and, from the House of Representatives, Mr Berinson, Mr N. H. Bowen, Mr Coates, Mr Cross, Mr Duthie, Dr Forbes, Mr Hamer, Mr Katter, Mr Kerin, Dr Klugman, Mr Luchetti, Mr Lucock, Mr MacKellar and Mr Oldmeadow. [More…]

• That the senators nominated be appointed members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Not only the Australian Democratic Labor Party, which has been a special target- of the Labor Party, but also every minority party - I refer specifically to the Australia Party, the Defence of [More…]

• The Labor Government which .cynically exploited the second preference votes of the Australia Party, the Defence of Government Schools party, the Women’s Electoral Lobby and others, will now discard them in case the preferences of those parties should turn against them. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether it is a fact that a Royal Australian Navy ship has been ordered to the French bomb testing area in the South Pacific. [More…]

• The honourable senator has probably seen some statements by the Prime Minister and by the Minister for Defence about the matter. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, is supplementary to the question asked earlier concerning HMAS Supply’. [More…]

• Our defence experts have stated that the ship will be in the area which is not particularly involved with the explosions. [More…]

• Minister for Defence) (12.47) - 1 am surprised, after all the debates we have had and the tensions created in the Senate, that the Opposition has not agreed to the proposition put forward by the Government. [More…]

• But now I have the opportunity to give way to the Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh) and to hear what can be said in reply or in defence of this Bill. [More…]

• This concept of a national pipeline system also takes account of wide 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 has pursued and intends to pursue defence and foreign policies which are contrary to Australia’s international treaty obligations and which ignore or reject long established bonds with traditional and trusted allies; [More…]

• My question without notice is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• We will be told the facts so that there can be an opportunity for those people who would raise a voice in their defence to raise that voice. [More…]

• Whatever may have been necessary in furtherance of our defence when Australia was engaged in war, particularly in this area, nevertheless it put naturalised Australians in a very peculiar category. [More…]

• It is a defence under the Act to the charge of having married a minor without the required parental or other consent if the accused proves that he believed on reasonable grounds that the person with whom he went through the form of marriage had attained to the age of 21 years. [More…]

• the Minister for Defence and myself, to see whether it was possible so to align the training as to achieve an equivalent acceptance of standards with outside industry! [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…]

• for the purpose of ensuring the availability, where a state of war, or danger of war, exists, of petroleum in each State and Territory for use for the purposes of the defence of Australia; or [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…]

• On 2 December they gave us, in no uncertain terms, a mandate to govern and to go ahead with an ‘Advance Australia for Australians’ policy, lt has been said that not only are matters of defence, decentralisation, population growth and national development involved but also matters of inter-connected supplies are involved. [More…]

• This pipeline could be used for defence purposes. [More…]

• Therefore it seems sensible, particularly in view of the defence aspect, that there should be a national authority having the backing of the Commonwealth Parliament which in extreme circumstances can override the rights of individuals and of the States in the interests of the whole of Australia. [More…]

• I went one further because I know that the second line of defence is to say: ‘If it is not there you must look in the Labor Party platform’. [More…]

• I am not saying this in defence of big business. [More…]

• In fact, this is a defence on my part of the little people of Australia who, every time a Labor Government has entered into a socialist enterprise, have paid heavily through their pockets. [More…]

• Perhaps he should look at the tremendous amount of money we have spent on defence over the last 10 years. [More…]

• This Authority, this pipeline and the efficient method by which it is going to be constructed and organised are an essential part of defence. [More…]

• If it is worth while to spend $ 1,000m a year in defence, then part of that money can be and should be allocated to this project. [More…]

• The sooner that we accept the proposition that governments must not be just regulatory concerns but must also be planners, constructors, developers and traders, the better it will be for all of us and for the nation, and the greater chance we will hays to survive if it comes to a matter of defence, which is what is concerning Senator Hannan. [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…]

• The Minister went on: 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…]

• But I am sure that the Minister for Defence would not be saying that there had not been any study within the defence forces. [More…]

• Rather, as he has said before and as the Government has stated, when the Labor Party came to power it undertook to make an in-depth study of the requirements of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]

• It is a study which is related to what might be called Australia’s current defence needs. [More…]

• I stated in answer to a question, this week I think, that as the Minister for Defence is to make a statement in relation to these matters next week the honourable senator might well reserve whatever criticisms he has until a later stage. [More…]

• As I understand the situation it is a matter for the defence authorities as to whether one of our ships goes as a supply ship to a New Zealand ship. [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 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 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…]

• However, our civil aid - 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 at Nurrungar are related to satellites and that they analyse and test data. [More…]

• We 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 concerned 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 s*s 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…]

• Pursuant to the resolution of the Senate of 14 March 1973 I lay upon the table of the Senate the statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Whitlam) relating te the report on Japan of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator BISHOP - The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• In the case of insurance for boats, this is a matter currently under joint Defence/Service examination as part of an overall study of expenses incurred by Service personnel when posted from one locality to another. [More…]

• My question which refers to the projected arrival on Friday, I think, of the first 6 F111C aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence or the Minister representing the Minister for Transport. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, particularly in respect of his administration of the use of VIP aircraft. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Minister for Defence is to leave Australia shortly for Europe and places in between and round about? [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Minister for Defence will be travelling in a BAC-III aircraft? [More…]

• Does this indicate that the Minister for Defence, the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, is rated as less than the VIP with the Mercedes-Benz? [More…]

• Will the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence at some time before the Senate rises indicate who will be the passengers in the aircraft taking the Deputy Prime Minister overseas later in June? [More…]

• As far as I know, at present the complement on the aircraft will be the Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, other important defence advisers and his own staff who specialise in matters in which the Minister for [More…]

• Defence will be engaging. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, relates to an answer which he gave to Senator Marriott. [More…]

• The honourable senator will recall that in answer to Senator Marriott I pointed out the advantages of the use of such an aircraft for the very important mission by the Minister for Defence during which he would need to have with him the top advisers on defence and a number of his own staff who specialise in these things. [More…]

• Clearly the Commonwealth does have sovereignty in these areas under its constitutional powers relating to foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• It really is not a question of whether the Commonwealth has any sovereignty in this area, and therefore there is no danger to our foreign relations or to our defence. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the Commonwealth has sovereignty in this area in relation to defence just as it has sovereignty in relation to the defence of the Australian mainland and all the islands comprising Australia. [More…]

• It also has powers in relation to defence over the area of the territorial seas and the seabed. [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 Services 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 $1.6m for the purchase of land for a housing compound at Osaka; $14m for the purchase of pipe and associated equipment for the Moomba-Sydney gas pipeline; $0.6m for the acquisition of sites and buildings for various Commonwealth departments; $6m for the National Capital Development Commission primarily to meet additional commitments on current contracts arising from movements in wages and prices and additional housing on account of the resumption of the Melbourne to Canberra transfer program; and $0.7m for the Department of Works for Construction projects. [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 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Defence tell the National Press Club on 15 March that he was not happy with the present deployment of the Army in Australia? [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence concerns VIP aircraft. [More…]

• What is the estimated cost of the BACIII flight to be undertaken by the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, Sir Arthur Tange, Admiral Sir Victor Smith and their wives, and what would be comparable cost of their travel in commercial aircraft? [More…]

• I think I said clearly yesterday that there are good reasons why in respect of these very important discussions between Mr Barnard, on behalf of the Labor Government, and the other governments with which we are associated in the Five Power Defence Arrangement we should have a self-contained group of specialists, including the Defence heads. [More…]

• An additional substantial amount of money is sought for the defence services. [More…]

• I attack the principle which, in a Westminster system of government, allows a faceless people to be in the system to provide a protection or a defence of the Minister against his departments and to have absolute immunity from probing. [More…]

• How can an embattled man, the nonDefence Minister - I think his statement showed him to be a person who is dismantling defences - look after the Army, Navy, Air Force, Defence, Supply and the Deputy Prime Minister’s job on 2 engines? [More…]

• Honourable senators will understand with interest this reference that I make because we had the privilege of serving on a committee some 10 or 12 years ago which established the defence of that part of the system. [More…]

• The Department of Defence has an appropriation of $S6m but no other department requires anything near the amount to be appropriated for the purchase of pipe. [More…]

• The only power that the Commonwealth has to make laws in regard to housing is as an incidental, for example, to the defence powers - the provision of facilities for members of the Services - or in the way of incidental provisions for members of Commonwealth instrumentalities which have been established under other heads of Commonwealth power. [More…]

• The defence services homes scheme provisions have been made easier and even national servicemen can qualify for loans. [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 Retirements 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…]

• The Bills give effect to the Government’s decision announced last year to implement the recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on the defence forces retirement Benefit 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…]

• It was against this background that the previous Government decided in June, 1970, on the initiative of the present Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, to appoint a joint committee of senators and members of the House of Representatives to investigate and report on the DFRB scheme. [More…]

• The Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefit legislation, under the chairmanship of Mr J. D. Jess, C.B.E., M.P., came into being on 2 September 1970. [More…]

• It is of more than passing interest that on 22 December 1972, shortly after this Government assumed office, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) announced publicly our intention to implement a new non-funded retirement benefits scheme for members of the Defence Forces based on recommendations of that Committee. [More…]

• It will apply to all serving members of the Defence Forces as at 1 October 1972 and to all members retiring after that date. [More…]

• The Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, with assets totalling some $174m, will, in effect, be frozen as from the commencing date of the new scheme and 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 Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme from the Treasurer to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Services and the office of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board are already preparing the basic data for the calculations to be made, but it may be some time before all the necessary work is complete. [More…]

• The Joint Select Committee recommended the repeal of all existing Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation but this is not possible at this stage. [More…]

• The Bill to amend the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-71 does precisely that. [More…]

• Although, as I have already mentioned, it is not practicable to repeal the existing Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation at this stage, the Minister for Defence will be looking for ways of repealing as much of it as possible in the near future and having it produced in a consolidated form that will make it more easily understood. [More…]

• 2) 1973, makes provision for those contributors to the Superannuation Fund who become liable to contribute under the Defence Force scheme. [More…]

• is required to contribute to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund on entering the Defence Force on continuous full time service for 12 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…]

• Should he die or become an invalid and unable to be employed by the Commonwealth, the present legislation provides that the benefit that becomes payable is paid under the Superannuation Act and that where the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits benefit would have been higher, the Superannuation Act benefit is increased to that level. [More…]

• The amendments take account of the changes in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme and ensure that the existing beneficial arrangements will continue. [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 Defence Forces Retirement Benefits 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 the 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…]

• investigated and assessed in relation to their implications for the Defence Force scheme. [More…]

• As there has not been an adjustment of Defence Forces Retirement Benefits pensions since 1 October 1971, the Government has decided that rather than delay the granting of a much needed increase, an early adjustment should be made in the pensions of those who retired under the conditions of the old scheme, that is, before 1 October 1972. [More…]

• I should like to make it quite clear that the method to be used on this occasion for adjusting Defence Forces Retirements Benefit pensions may not necessarily apply in the future. [More…]

• As I have already mentioned, this is a matter currently under examination and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) shall announce full details of the method to be used as soon as the present inquiries are complete. [More…]

• (The speech read as follows) - The purpose of this Bill is to make provision for a contributory retirement benefits scheme for Papuan and New Guinean members of the defence force. [More…]

• It has necessarily been designed, however, to meet service requirements and incorporate a number of features based on the provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister rep resenting the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Will the Treasurer make available to the Senate the names of companies and the amount of funds Invested by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Fund in ‘loans prescribed under Trustee legislation’ and ‘Mortgages of Land’ as shown on page 21 of the 1970-71 Report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]

• Senator BISHOP - The Chairman, Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board, which has the statutory responsibility for the investment of the Fund, has provided the following Information: [More…]

• During his absence the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard is Acting Prime Minister and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• Because such people are citizens of another nation, ft could be that they might opt out of responsibilities to Australia such as the defence of this country. [More…]

• So I think that the honourable senators argument about the defence criteria is not justified. [More…]

• It would be wise to keep within this group of nations which maintains links giving us a defence connection, a strong association with powerful friends and, more than that, an association with strong friends with whom we have so much in common. [More…]

• It is the justification for government activity in promoting or conceivably abandoning policies of defence preparedness. [More…]

• The Committee also gave consideration to competition and co-operation between the 2 countries in third markets, tourism, defence procurement, trade promotion and the concept of freer trade. [More…]

• There is great urgency in the need for re-examination of the present Air Force defence base. [More…]

• It appears unjust that this other area should be acquired while this enormous area within Darwin is still left to be used for defence purposes. [More…]

• Defence based on such facilities in Darwin would be completely abortive in times of war. [More…]

• The consultants were directed in their investigation by a steering committee comprising representatives of the Departments of the Interior, Treasury, Works, the Defence group, Civil Aviation, Education, Health, and National Development and the Commonwealth Railways. [More…]

• The steering committee concurred in these recommendations but the Defence group and the Department of Civil Aviation had reservations about relocating the airport before 1990, favouring remaining on the present site until after the year 2000. [More…]

• The Department of Defence has agreed since to a 1985-90 airport removal. [More…]

• The second reason was that the Defence Services need residential land in urban areas of Darwin beyond their present defence reserves and had a requirement beyond that required to meet the needs of the normal population development. [More…]

• Defence needs were expected to increase with the importance of Darwin as a defence area. [More…]

• So honourable senators can see that defence plays a very great part in this question of acquisition. [More…]

• A lot has been said in this Parliament about our need for defence, and the Labor Party goes along with that. [More…]

• However, are we to be at the mercy of private developers when we want to acquire land in Che Darwin area to enlarge our defence areas, particularly land for an airport? [More…]

• In addition to this projected figure, the total expenditure on capital works for civil and defence departments and the Australian Post Office in the Northern Territory in 1972 was $47m. [More…]

• One such important group of legislation is the defence forces retirement benefits legislation which, when passed, will be of great value to all members of the Services. [More…]

• The Party to which the honourable senator belongs talks about the needs of the defence Services. [More…]

• We should be discussing at this stage defence forces retirement benefits. [More…]

• Basically they are the result of work carried out by the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]

• That Committee worked hard and well and produced a report which endeavoured amongst other things to introduce a greater degree of equity and simplicity into the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• We support the legislation with the hope that the suggestion which was made in this afternoon’s Press - that the legislation will result in large scale resignations from the defence forces - will not in fact be the product of this desirable legislation. [More…]

• I speak as a member of the Joint Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]

• I also, as a member of the Joint Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, am delighted to see come forward the enabling legislation which has adopted in substantial detail the Committee’s recommendations. [More…]

• The amendment which I shall present is one which sets out to provide that unmarried male and female contributors to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund would have some entitlements to pass on in succession to a surviving mother, brother, sister or child, particularly if dependent, in the same way as can a married man in the Services in relation to his surviving widow and children. [More…]

• I deal with the position of unmarried women who are in the defence forces. [More…]

• As a member of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, I, too, would like to place on record appreciation of the fine work which was done by our Chairman, John Jess. [More…]

• The main Bill, the Defence Force Retirement Bill, substantially implements the report of that Committee. [More…]

• I was pleased to hear Senator Maunsell say in his concluding remarks that when the recommendations of the Jess Committee were brought in it was conceived that the defence forces personnel would receive a retirement benefit in excess of anything hitherto dreamed of. [More…]

• I think a brief statement assists to point out that it is imperative that repatriation, defence forces retirement benefits, civilian compensation, general compensation for invalidity and compensation for the accident victim who is self-employed be brought into alignment one with another, so that there is a basis of equity. [More…]

• I have some pride in having been very instrumental in securing a decision from the previous Government when our Vietnam involvement was at its height that serving personnel should not be left with Repatriation benefits alone but should be entitled to repatriation plus defence forces retirement benefits. [More…]

• I support and join in the comments of Senator Rae about the interest and general pioneering efforts of Mr Jess in respect of defence forces retirement benefits, because there is no question that his endeavours in the early stages were instrumental in the formulation of the scheme which is the best scheme that has yet been proposed. [More…]

• I should mention too the other members of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund Legislation who should share some of the commendations. [More…]

• As every honourable senator knows, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in the other place has made suitable commendations, particularly to Mr Jess, and I support what he has said. [More…]

• Senator Wright spoke in the first place about the situation of Commonwealth employees compensation and defence forces retirement benefits. [More…]

• If a person earns a war pension attributable to his service in war, he can receive that pension plus his defence forces retirement benefits pension. [More…]

• I think that everybody would commend the particular interest of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• But it is a new proposition, as he acknowledged in his minority report in the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has already made it clear that if any serious anomalies are found in the arrangements proposed, he will be pleased to have a further look at the matter. [More…]

• It relates to the distribution of surplus assets in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• In the second reading speech on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill, I gave an assurance that the method adopted for adjusting the pensions granted in respect of members who retired before 1 October 1972 was an interim measure only and that the whole question of adjusting benefits in the future was under review. [More…]

• This proposal and others that may be put forward for consideration will, of course, be examined during the review promised by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I do not propose at this time to enter into a discussion, as I possibly could under the terms of this Bill, of the somewhat tattered policy of the Australian Labor Party in relation to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• An amount of $15m is included in this Bill for the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund for which legislation was passed this session and that is to be understood. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that yesterday in the course of debate on the defence forces retirement benefits scheme I moved an amendment to the second reading to project the same principle in relation to male and female unmarried members of the defence forces. [More…]

• So while there is a certain personal element is this, it is not necessarily totally personal but is a projection of the principle which I outlined in the conclusions of the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]

• That compares with the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund which we discussed last night. [More…]

• Under that scheme a serving member of the defence forces after 20 years service is entitled, I think, to a pension of about 35 per cent of salary and only after 40 years is he entitled to a pension of 76 per cent of salary. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator BISHOP- The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided me with the following information in reply to the question: [More…]

• The duties include covering such matters as communism, subversive activity, espionage and sabotage, vetting reports on persons who are liable to be security risks, dossiers kept and maintained on communists and suspects, advice and assistance to the local defence planning committee and a number of matters about aliens and so on. [More…]

• The honourable senator probably already knows, because there has been a public statement to this effect, that the Minister for Defence will be making report on Wednesday night, following the presentation of the Budget statements, and it would be inappropriate for me to give the honourable senator details that he is now seeking. [More…]

• I wish to advise you that I have appointed the Honourable A. Peacock to the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]

• There is no support for a weak defence against our policy. [More…]

• It is a normal requirement that accommodation used for post office facilities located on Defence Establishments be provided by the Service concerned. [More…]

• The remainder reflects direct expenditures in Papua New Guinea by various Australian Departments like Civil Aviation, Works and Defence which have been performing certain functions of government in that country. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall that during the last election campaign the Australian Labor Party promised not to reduce defence spending below 3.5 per cent of the gross national product? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that earlier this year the Prime Minister and he modified that promise by pledging that the defence provision in this year’s Budget would be not less than 3.2 per cent of the gross national product? [More…]

• Does not the actual Budget defence vote fall short by 10 per cent of the Minister’s own modified pledge? [More…]

• Will the Minister indicate the approximate date when the Government plans the final elimination of the Australian defence structure? [More…]

• What the Government has done - I refer particularly to the reorganisation of the Services into one defence department - has been to place emphasis on spending on wages and salaries. [More…]

• I point out that approximately 62 per cent of the defence vote is related to improvements for personnel in the Defence Services. [More…]

• Everybody knows that one of the complaints by the LiberalCountry Party Government and by the Australian Democratic Labor Party in the old days was that Australia could not have a volunteer professional Army or Defence Service. [More…]

• The Labor Government has demonstrated that this is possible and has spent massive sums to increase defence salaries and to improve the defence forces retirement benefits scheme and has provided very significant funds for Service housing. [More…]

• In this area, which obviously is a basic area of the defence Services, we have done extraordinarily well in a situation in which general welfare demands have been great. [More…]

• The defence expenditure proposed for this financial year, expressed as a percentage- of gross national product, is 2.9 per cent, which is slightly less than the percentage last year. [More…]

• Let us look at annual appropriations for defence by the former Government. [More…]

• In 1962-63 the Liberal-Country Party coalition devoted 2.6 per cent of the gross national product to defence. [More…]

• I think anyone who reads the Press comments about this matter will find that people realise that the Australian Labor has done what it should have done in relation to the general allocation of funds for defence purposes. [More…]

• We have largely met our promises and we are going to ensure, as has been clearly stated, that the necessary examinations in the defence area will go on. [More…]

• This is the first time in our history that any government has tackled the problem of reorganising the defence Services and of avoiding the multiplicity of objectives and the strategies which have been the propositions of other governments. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Repatriation, who is also the minister assisting the Minister for Defence, recall election assurances that a Labor Government would provide greatly expanded work for Australian defence industries? [More…]

• How does he reconcile this pledge with last night’s announcement of major reductions in defence spending and the abolition of 7,000 defence jobs? [More…]

• Is the Minister happy to find himself now presiding over the disman tling of Australia’s defence and the displacement of thousands of Australian workers from their jobs? [More…]

• The facts are - and I told the Senator this - that in the general context of the Budget the defence vote has been reduced slightly and this has affected manpower and will affect some work. [More…]

• Never has any Liberal coalition goverment planned to coordinate and rationalise the defence forces. [More…]

• I had the pleasure, while I was Acting Minister for Defence, of getting through Cabinet an order for 50 Nomads. [More…]

• These sorts of things will engage the work force in our defence capability. [More…]

• 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 firstconsideration 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 assessment 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 their 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 capability 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, 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. [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 1980s. [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 also into account the current strategic assessment to which I earlier referred. [More…]

• Turning to our air capability, the main offensive and defensive units are 24 F111C strike 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 4 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 S713m, that is, no less than 53 per cent of the $l,345m 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 economies 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 Development 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…]

• Today, in an era of growing and highly mechanised violence we are seriously taking the step of ridding the community of the defence and the safeguard that it has to deter crimes of murder by the existence on the statute book of the sanction of capital punishment. [More…]

• 1 am ashamed of people who take the defence of police officers and will not give them corresponding safeguards for their defence when they must confront criminals at the risk of their lives. [More…]

• He is justified in law, by the law of self defence, which nobody, whatever be the passage of this Bill, will have the temerity to remove from the statute book. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Defence (Re-establishment) Act 1965-68 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 (Reestablishment) 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…]

• Mr Acting Deputy President, 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…]

• In view of the Minister’s answer to a question asked of him last Thursday by Senator Gair concerning Labor’s reorganisation of the Services into one Department of Defence, does the Minister still hold the same view as he expressed to the Congress and does he see any threat to repatriation continuing in its present form? [More…]

• It is also on record that the Minister for Defence has made the same statement to a deputation from the Returned Services League national group which met him about defence and repatriation matters. [More…]

• I can only give the assurance that the Minister for Defence and 1 would resist any such amalgamation. [More…]

• But there is no doubt, as I think has been announced, although it might not have received much publicity, that the real reason for this happening after so many years has been undoubtedly the enthusiasm, dedication and persistence of Mr Lance Barnard, firstly as a private member of Parliament, then as the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives and presently as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence. [More…]

• 1 believe that it was with a great feeling of achievement that Mr Barnard, as Minister for Defence, was able to see that his efforts were rewarded by the reversal of the previous decisions rejecting appeals by Lieutenant Reid over a period of 30 years. [More…]

• This, of course, stands in stark contrast to many of the other promises which it made, for example, in the field of defence. [More…]

• The present Government stated that defence spending would not fall below 3.5 per cent of the gross national product, but now it has tumbled to 2.9 per cent. [More…]

• I bet that not one of them, including honourable senators who have spoken tonight, would not, in defence of the 4 people being held, try to take the life of their captor and save them. [More…]

• Of course, there are situations in which persons have ben forced to take lives in self defence. [More…]

• But they are severely handicapped when he joins in a denigration of a man like Senator Webster whose whole life has been dedicated to humanitarian ism and a jealous defence and betterment of the community of which he is masterful member. [More…]

• If the Committee deprives the community of that last defence for women and perhaps children - innocent passengers - against a malicious, deliberate criminal planning hijacker, I say that it marks a great step in the decadence of Parliament. [More…]

• As I have said, I do not wish to go into the question of what happened in the case of Mr Evringham; I wish merely to go to the general proposition that this place is endowed with tremendous power and authority and honourable senators must by sensitive in their exercise of that power and authority, particularly where people do not have the rights that they have in courts of law to be heard with all the due protection of the law, the right of counsel, the right of defence and all the legal canons that surround the rights of those people in those places. [More…]

• Is it a fact that Government instructions have been given to Government departments that public servants and members of the defence forces are not to visit Taiwan? [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence say whether there has been a change of procedure with respect of recruitment of naturalised Australian citizens wishing to undertake officer training courses at Australian naval colleges? [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In view of the greatly decreased use of our defence forces’ aircraft, ships and modern equipment with the resulting increase in the use of moth balls and the general trimming of defence man power, has the Government yet given consideration to ordering a heavy cut in the advertising campaign that is still being conducted through the media for recruits to the 3 Services, as it would seem that the recruiting rate would not now be required at the former level? [More…]

• There is, in fact, a slowing down of operations, as he well knows from the statements on defence. [More…]

• In relation to the question of recruiting, I point out that it has be?n claimed by the defence experts that it is necessary to continue recruiting despite the fact that in some areas there will be some redundancies, because the Services still want to obtain the specialist appointees that are required for a modern defence force. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Defence indicate whether a code has been applied for the conduct of Australian missions abroad selecting aircraft and other defence components when some of the potential manufacturers are overlavish in their hospitality to such delegations? [More…]

• I have seen defence works of tremendous capital cost, particularly housing, escape the scrutiny of the Committee because it has been decided in the public interest not to submit the work to the Committee. [More…]

• But in that same policy the Labor Party promised to keep defence spending at between 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• Perhaps the most scurrilous of the Government’s broken promises, and its biggest blunder, is in its cavalier attitude towards defence. [More…]

• Mr Barnard, in his statement to the nation, tells us that Labor’s 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…]

• It will lose not only onequarter of its fighter strength but also, to save a little more on the defence budget, 1,200 men. [More…]

• Mr Barnard also claimed to have set out the Government’s thinking on defence; in modern parlance he has set out the Government’s non-thinking on defence. [More…]

• He admits that the nation’s security is the Government’s first responsibility, that there can be no neglect of defence; and then he immediately defers decisions on all acquisitions for the Services and cuts back their manpower. [More…]

• But he neglects to say that if the contribution was to be at all useful it would probably involve the export of our total defence force under th:.s Labor Government. [More…]

• The Government has based its defence policy on the assumption that we live in peaceful times and tells us that present trends generally point to a prospect of relative stability in the global area. [More…]

• From that he had deducted $20.61 in Defence Forces Retirement Benefits payments and $53.90 in tax. [More…]

• The rate of resignation is expected to accelerate in the next few months following Labor’s Defence Budget. [More…]

• Yet the Government’s defence policy concept depends on the existence of an organisation big enough and well enough trained quickly to enlist, train and assimilate large numbers when necessary. [More…]

• Sir, it’s time - it’s time the Government realised that the Defence forces of our country must not be allowed to run down; the lead in time is too long and too costly to allow this. [More…]

• For that reason he concentrated not only on the Doomsday sections of his statement but tried to be a Colonel Blimp and an expert on defence; and from there he went across the board to become Mr Chipps and’ to pride himself on being an expert on education. [More…]

• We have heard the Leader of the Opposition - alias Colonel Blimp - say that the Labor Government has decided to cut down on defence expenditure. [More…]

• The actual outlay on defence in 1972-73 was $ 1,234m. [More…]

• The Budget provides for a total defence outlay in 1973-74 of $<l,266m. [More…]

• In other words the Labor Government’s projected expenditure on defence represents an increase of S32m on last year’s figures. [More…]

• I respectfully suggest that the figures which were quoted by the Leader of the Opposition in respect to rural industry - they were not quoted in the field of defence because the Leader of the Opposition was a little more careful there - were in most instances false figures. [More…]

• The Labor Government is to increase the allocation to defence service homes by $28m this financial year. [More…]

• Another important heading which this Budget proclaims is defence. [More…]

• We see a drop in defence expenditure. [More…]

• Indeed, defence expenditure will be 33 per cent less than that proposed by Mr Whitlam when he was out on the hustings trying to get himself into office. [More…]

• I think that it is disastrous to Australia to scale down the Army, the Navy and the Air Force - indeed, our defence services. [More…]

• But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards. [More…]

• I wish to reply to the attack that has been made on the Labor Party’s defence vote. [More…]

• The criticism of the defence vote amazes me. [More…]

• There has been a massive increase in expenditure for servicemen and people who have retired from the defence area. [More…]

• The Labor Government accepted the advice of its defence experts. [More…]

• I point out that those defence experts are not only the advisers to the Labor Government; they are the same defence experts who were advisers to previous governments. [More…]

• With the introduction of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme, they have cost the Government approximately $l00m. [More…]

• Do not honourable senators remember that the last Federal Government, the McMahon Government, decided not to accept the report of the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Legislation? [More…]

• Mr Barnard, who was then the shadow Minister for Defence, said that a Labor government would accept the report and put it into operation. [More…]

• So we started off on the basis that in relation to the defence Services at this time and in the present international context we should do something to ensure that Australia was defended by a professional and well equipped army. [More…]

• Of course, these large improvements for the defence forces have been welcomed, not only by the soldiers but also by the exservicemen’s organisations. [More…]

• It seems to me to be trivial for Opposition speakers to talk about cuts in the defence forces and to talk about some officers in the manner that you might talk about some category of wage employee who might not get the sort of increase that he ought to have received. [More…]

• I wish to outline what the Labor Government has done and compare the figures of expenditure by this Government with the figures of expenditure by the previous Government, in 1970-71 an amount of $ 1,097m was spent on the defence vote. [More…]

• In 1971-72 an amount of $1,1 64m was spent on defence. [More…]

• In 1973- 74 - this is the first year of the new Labor Government - an amount of $ 1,266m was spent on defence. [More…]

• In respect of our welfare promises and defence obligations we are confident that we are doing what the people wish us to do in this period. [More…]

• There will be no dropping back on the question of responsibility for defence capability. [More…]

• Defence experts ought to support what we have tried to do in our period in government. [More…]

• As Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence and Acting Minister for Labour on occasions, I have found that some of the provisions in that Bill would have succeeded in resolving successfully the differences in respect to the Moore v. Doyle argument. [More…]

• In respect to defence, repatriation, welfare or education, no government has the record that we have up to now. [More…]

• Finally, I want to make some references to the question of defence. [More…]

• This Government was so desperate to save money for extravagant adventures in other directions that it determined to do so by cutting down on defence. [More…]

• Does the Government propose to cut our defences to such a degree that we will be left open to a sudden and unexpected attack? [More…]

• They are being made because the Government made extravagant promises in other directions and, having made those promises, in order to get the money it needed it determined that the appropriate place to make cuts was in the defence field. [More…]

• Then we have the hoary old question of defence. [More…]

• They always concern themselves about this mythical enemy, this threat which even the defence experts in their submissions to the Government and to the various committees of the Parliament tell us no longer exists, if it ever existed at all. [More…]

• I find it ludicrous for the Democratic Labor Party to make an issue out of defence because its mentor, Mr Santamaria, in addressing a mass meeting in Melbourne in the late 1930s called for the abolition of armaments and for peace. [More…]

• Our defence was in such a bad .state in those years that every rifle in the unit in which I was serving - we had 1904 model rifles - was taken from us and sent up to Milne Bay. [More…]

• Something was said about defence. [More…]

• I think that the task force was quite right in drawing the attention of the Parliament to the fact that claims by defence on community resources need to be scrutinised with more than usual care and that a reduction in those claims and a redistribution of them between domestic and overseas resources would be economically of great value to the Government’s financial and economic planning. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As soon as the position was clear, Mr Barnard, the Minister for Defence, advised the Australian Council of Trade Unions that he was prepared to discuss with it and with the unions concerned the position regarding defence factories and shipyards. [More…]

• It should be condemned, fifthly, because it abdicates defence responsibility. [More…]

• The Budget has reduced defence expenditure to a level where the Navy may be capable perhaps of resisting an attack by Ruritanian shrimp boats. [More…]

• The Army will be able to engage in the defence ot Australia only if an intending enemy is sporting enough to restrict its attackers to not more than 5,000 soldiers. [More…]

• it has pursued and intends to pursue defence and foreign policies which are contrary to Australia’s international treaty obligations and which ignore or reject long established bonds with traditional and trusted allies; and further the Senate views with alarm - [More…]

• We are seeing a weakening of our defence capability because if government has a primary obligation it is to maintain the society, the nation, the civilisation, secure from external attack and secure from internal subversion. [More…]

• May I mention, without going into them in any detail, the types of things which are weakening our external defence capability. [More…]

• We have recently had a Budget and a defence statement but we find, at a time when there is a tremendous increase in Government expenditure, that the proportion of the gross national product which is applied to the defence of this nation has dropped from the 3.5 per cent which it was in the last financial year to 2.9 per cent in this year. [More…]

• It may not be very important, in one sense, to refer to the fact that last year the Government promised it would maintain its defence expenditure at the same level as that at which the previous Government maintained its defence expenditure, but that promise has now been dishonoured. [More…]

• But I think it is significant that we ought to be prepared to maintain our defence capability in a way that ensures the people of Australia that defence is a concern of government. [More…]

• We find that in the defence statement, when allied to the Budget, we have various cutbacks. [More…]

• We have a reduction in the number of personnel who will be employed in the Army, Navy and the Air Force; a reduction in certain defence expenditure in terms of what is available for our defence industries. [More…]

• With all this we have a cutback in our capital programs which are necessary to enable our various Services to function effectively in accordance with what the experts in these Defence Services regard as desirable as the years go by. [More…]

• We have, essentially, problems for our Defence personnel because those who make a career of the Army, Navy or Air Force must wonder as they look ahead what prospects exist for them. [More…]

• We denude ourselves of the ability to maintain our Defence Services at the level at which they should be maintained. [More…]

• We find the USA, which has long been our most effective ally, withdrawing from South East Asia on the basis that it will always be prepared to assist those countries which in their own interests will act to look after their defences; and we, from our point of view, are not taking that action which is likely to maintain the continued interest of the United States in this area. [More…]

• The truth is that a detente is, without question, a means of improving relations, but it is not an excuse for not taking the action which is necessary for the defence of the country. [More…]

• May I simply say this: One of the bases upon which the Government has justified its reduction in defence capability is that there is no apparent enemy which is likely to attack Australia. [More…]

• But it must not, even at the behest of a Minister or a Government Department, take part in investigating the private lives of individuals except in a matter bearing on the Defence of the Realm as a whole. [More…]

• We need a security service because the task of a security service is to protect the nation as a whole, to secure the defence of the nation from external and internal dangers arising from attempts at espionage and sabotage and from actions of persons and organisations whether from outside or inside the country which are judged to be subversive to the whole society. [More…]

• I remind the honourable senator that the problem of dual nationality is at present the subject of examination by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which is, of course, a committee of this Parliament. [More…]

• I know that it has been referred to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for its consideration. [More…]

• That may provide a defence or, on the other hand, it may provide the basis of a prosecution that would not be justified. [More…]

• -The Opposition supports this Bill, as it would support any measure that contributed to improved conditions of service and improved welfare for our servicemen, although I seriously doubt, if the Government pursues its defence policy as outlined in the Budget, that there will be many servicemen left in Australia’s forces to benefit from these rehabilitation decisions. [More…]

• As the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has stated, this Bill has 2 purposes- to apply to regular servicemen the rehabilitation and retraining benefits which have applied in the past to national servicemen, and to put into legislative form Labor’s preelection promise to pay a re-engagement bonus of $1,000 after 6 years of service on the basis of a further 3 years of service. [More…]

• It is of great wonder to me that this double-dealing Government, after slashing the Defence vote from its promised 3.5 per cent to 3.2 per cent of the gross national product, to 2.9 per cent, effectively removing the teeth from our defence forces, has the gall to grandstand on this Bill that it is honouring an election promise by providing these benefits. [More…]

• The Government has claimed that it was not aware of the Defence requirement until it actually took office. [More…]

• Unfortunately for this country, in matters relating to defence and a host of other subjects, it still does not know what it is talking about. [More…]

• It has whittled away career opportunities for advancement and promotion, it has withheld vital equipment, it is receiving unprecedented numbers of resignations from all Services, and it has reneged on its obligation to maintain adequate defence forces. [More…]

• I have said in this chamber before that the most scurrilous of the Government’s broken promises was its cavalier attitude towards defence. [More…]

• The Labor Party’s thinking on defence has not changed over the past 40 years. [More…]

• In November 1938, after the Munich Pact and as Germany stood poised to launch herself against the world and the Japanese were in the process of subduing China, the leader of the Labor Party, the late Mr Curtin, told this Parliament that so far as Australia was concerned, any increase in defence expediture was ‘an utterly unjustifiable and hysterical piece of panic propaganda’. [More…]

• Mr Barnard, the present Minister for Defence assures this nation that there is no foreseeable threat for 15 years, I only hope for the sake of this nation that Mr Barnard’s crystal ball gazing is much more accurate than was the late Mr Curtin ‘s. [More…]

• In this time of rapid change and closing distances between nations, I do not see how we can possibly wait 15 years before taking effective measures for this nation’s defence. [More…]

• He inherited a well-trained and well-equipped armed force when he became Minister for Defence. [More…]

• He acknowledged this in his defence statement when he said: [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…]

• As I have also pointed out in this chamber before, the defence lead in time is too long and too costly to allow the defence forces of our country to run down. [More…]

• Whilst supporting this Bill for the two advantages it will give remaining servicemen, we in the Opposition, question its ability to attract able young men to the Services and condemn the Government for its overall approach to defence. [More…]

• -The Australian Country Party supports the Defence (ReEstablishment) Bill. [More…]

• Senator Withers who led for the Opposition made some criticism of the Government’s present slowing down of the defence vote. [More…]

• The view of everybody in the defence area has been that low pay standards, housing and low superannuation rights have been the factors which have militated against attracting the best quality servicemen to all of the Services, and I do not think that anybody can gainsay that statement. [More…]

• If honourable senators look at the total defence vote, which they can do if they read the Budget Papers, they will see that more than 53 per cent of the total defence vote is used for the pay and conditions of servicemen in all of the Services. [More…]

• The shadow Minister for Defence in the other place talked in this strain with a double tongue. [More…]

• In referring to this situation the shadow Minister for Defence in the other place said that this additional expense was one of the reasons for the Government’s difficulties at the present time. [More…]

• He is the man whom honourable senators opposite put into office as the shadow Minister for Defence. [More…]

• If the Government were prepared to accept the recommendations of its defence advisers . [More…]

• Our defence advisers are the people who have submitted the document which has been released by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and which deals with this long range situation in which we can decide what our capacity might be and what our options might be. [More…]

• It is only in the defence situation of Australia that we can really take time off to calculate what we might do. [More…]

• This is what the shadow Minister for Defence said: [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…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Labour inform the Senate of the outcome of discussions held yesterday between the disputes committee of the Trades and Labour Council, the Minister for Defence and himself concerning the 24 hour stopwork by employees of the 3 American tracking stations in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, and I have met the people concerned at different times. [More…]

• I refer to a recent report stating that 22 scientists and 100 technical staff, as well as 177 tradesmen and, I think, 57 clerks lost their jobs at the Weapons Research Establishment at Salisbury in South Australia as a result of the Government’s decision to cut down on defence expenditure. [More…]

• I think he knows already that it has been announced that Mr Barnard, Mr Clyde Cameron and I will be meeting the trade unions concerned with this matter at 9 o’clock on Monday next to discuss the whole area of the slow-down in defence expenditure. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: What consideration has been given by the Government to ensuring that additional work will be provided for the aircraft industry to make up for the considerable loss of work load which will be caused by the reduction in flying hours imposed on the Services and also by the Government’s decision not to continue with its aircraft replacement program? [More…]

• The Government has also allocated $102m for defence service homes, 38 per cent more than 1972-73. [More…]

• He gave a figure of 26 per cent greater increase in the allocation of funds to the private sector for building, and for defence needs 35 per cent. [More…]

• The Government also has allocated $102m for defence service homes. [More…]

• In respect of other issues which have added money to the domestic economy, such as pay rates, for the first time in the history of the economy and for the first time in the history of the defence forces, we have had a complete and comprehensive overhaul of pay scales for the armed Services which, with the increases related to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, has cost about $70m. [More…]

• I refer to the world tour by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in June, some 6 or 7 weeks before the Budget, to shop for a fighter aircraft to replace the Mirage. [More…]

• I can remember when the honourable Denis Healy, the Minister for Defence in the Wilson Government, came out here and preached a doctrine that Britain would not remain a policeman anywhere if it was not wanted. [More…]

• I am reminded of the fact that the previous Government always argued that when it came to defence it knew what was best. [More…]

• This is now the Opposition which bleats about defence dismissals. [More…]

• As a government it waited until it was involved in the war in Vietnam; it was getting these components from Sweden- and did not think it was worth while to establish a viable defence industry in order to be independent of Sweden in this respect. [More…]

• There were all these situations in which the previous Government was involved: On the one hand it wanted to be big; on the other it was not prepared to encourage viable defence industry. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• At end of motion add, ‘but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards*. [More…]

• But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this Budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the Budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards’. [More…]

• I am deeply concerned about the serious erosion of Australia’s defence capabilities and the betrayal of the people in the rural industries. [More…]

• The Minister’s announcement of a cut in defence expenditure in terms of its relationship to the gross national product blatantly broke a pre-election promise and placed the security of Australia in jeopardy. [More…]

• Labor made a crystal clear promise during the election that it would maintain defence expenditure at between 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• Any government which downgrades defence priorities is courting trouble. [More…]

• Defence requirements should not be assessed in terms of immediate threat from within or without or in terms of the apparent absence of immediate threat. [More…]

• I am sure we all wish that the international situation was such that every country could opt for token defences on the same premise. [More…]

• But I confess that I wondered whether I should do so when I first saw what was to be done to our defence establishment by the Labor Government. [More…]

• In his statement to the Parliament, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) said that the nation’s security was the Government’s first responsibility and that Labor policy called for a strong and valid defence capability which would demonstrate beyond all doubt the nation’s intention to defend itself and its vital interests; there could be no neglect of defence. [More…]

• I am amazed that after thus outlining the Government’s defence philosophy, the Minister went on to devote pages to explaining why he considers there is no threat to Australia. [More…]

• If it believes that defence is its first responsibility then no volume of argument can save it from the charge that to reduce savagely expenditure on defence equipment and manpower is a contradiction of the principles it purports to hold and follow. [More…]

• As I have said, our defence expenditure as a percentage of the gross national product is proposed to be 2.9 per cent. [More…]

• The latest figures I have show that of South East Asian countries in 1971, only Indonesia 2.2 per cent, Japan 0.7 per cent, New Zealand 1.7 per cent and the Philippines 1.8 per cent, have a smaller defence to gross national product percentage than ours will be. [More…]

• It must be remembered when comparing those figures that Australia has a much longer coastline than any other country in the area and therefore has to spread its defences wider at greater cost to gain even reasonably adequate security. [More…]

• I would have thought these were statements to be uttered by a Minister or a government seeking to justify a buildup of defence facilities. [More…]

• Here I refer to my question yesterday to Senator Bishop as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, in regard to future workload at the Commonwealth Aircraft Factories, and I am sure this is going to be a great problem to the Government in the months ahead. [More…]

• The new defence decisions do this Government great discredit. [More…]

• Government, he no doubt still retains considerable interest in the defence activities of this Government. [More…]

• He has given us the impression that the Australian nation has been left virtually defenceless. [More…]

• It is quite out of place for the honourable senator to suggest that the defence efforts of this Government are inappropriate. [More…]

• I do not want to dwell on the matter of defence, but it does bring to mind the fact that the subsidies which are alleged to have been taken from the rural community total something like $110m. [More…]

• If Senator Webster were so concerned about it he might be more active in his defence of the primary producer, because as a representative of the dairy industry in this place he would be about the weakest representative that it has. [More…]

• What about the defence promises? [More…]

• Labor promised to keep defence spending to between 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• The areas of Commonwealth expenditure such as defence, social welfare, administration and debt servicing would have to have first call on Commonwealth resources. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s priority for defence, security and social welfare, justice and general well-being would have to be ensured together with the ability to manage the economy and maintain stability in the currency. [More…]

• But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools - [More…]

• But the Government is going to sabotage the Australian defence forces. [More…]

• That would be news to a lot of people- and will continue to advocate, measures which would, under international supervision, assure a ban on nuclear arms and their manufacture as well as the destruction of existing stockpiles, France is pursuing her policy of defence; given the present state of world armaments, the development of a nuclear armament is essential for French security and independence. [More…]

• In the circumstances we say that, as it is not possible because of this refusal to co-operate by certain nations which are already armed with nuclear weapons, it is necessary that other countries in their own interestsand Australia- should endeavour to obtain a deterrent which is the only method of defence against nuclear attack. [More…]

• Like Senator O’Byrne, I attended the Civil Defence School at Mount Macedon. [More…]

• Like most of those who attended that School I came away with the firm conviction that it is impossible to do anything really worthwhile for civil defence where one nation is attacked and other other has no means to deter the attacker by the ability to reply. [More…]

• In those circumstances we came to the conclusion that the only defence against nuclear attack was the ability to reply. [More…]

• The trouble is that they are faced with the problem that they are a part of a world in which the great powers which have the bomb are determined to retain it but refuse to guarantee the defence or protection of other countries which do not have the bomb should they be attacked by a country which has the bomb. [More…]

• The French say they have no particular desire to spend their money upon nuclear explosions and that they have no particular desire to busy themselves with preparing for nuclear defence. [More…]

• The French are perhaps as much defence conscious as any people in the world. [More…]

• A the same time the Prime Minister published a defence and foreign affairs statement saying that in the world as we know it there is no conceivable threat to world peace in the next decade or more. [More…]

• If indeed there is a threat why are we demolishing our defences today because no ohe- no country and no man- is and island. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In reply to the last part of the honourable senator’s question, I point out that the Minister for Defence has already given that assurance. [More…]

• In relation to the issue about mooring buoys, let me repeat what the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, said yesterday in the other place. [More…]

• I will attempt to obtain further information from the Minister for Defence in respect of the last part of the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that he told me last week that he intended to consult with his ministerial colleagues and various trade unions regarding the possible redundancies which are likely to occur as a result of the Labor Government’s decision to reduce defence expenditure. [More…]

• In relation to the general question of redundancy and possible retrenchments, the idea of the Government was to announce to the central labour organisations what the redundancies and retrenchments might amount to and to discuss ways of making retrenchments made necessary by the reduction in the defence vote. [More…]

• It is a necessary logistic base for the Defence Services and I feel very confident that that section of it will remain so. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence, follows the question just asked by Senator Jessop in regard to yesterday’s announcement that a special committee would be set up to look into redundancies in defence industries. [More…]

• In one or two areas the Minister for Defence has already decided what factories should be kept in operation because of the need to keep decentralised industries going. [More…]

• Repatriation benefits will be extended to members of the regular defence force. [More…]

• These changes, Mr Deputy President, 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…]

• In the course of my second reading speech on that Bill I described, in general terms, the members of the defence force who will benefit from the extension of repatriation benefits to peacetime services. [More…]

• Honourable senators 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 included in the second reading speech I made when introducing the Defence (ReEstablishment) Bill on 23 August 1973, as reported at page 167 of Hansard. [More…]

• The former provides that the Compensation Act does not apply in relation to the 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…]

• By means of his amendment, Senator Withers wants the Senate to add these words at the end of Senator Willesee ‘s motion: but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners . [More…]

• As the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) completely destroyed the weak argument put up by Senator Withers regarding defence, I will deal only with the other 2 matters. [More…]

• I now speak with much concern about the defence vote. [More…]

• He said that there is one thing on which the Labor Party always falls down; that was the subject of defence. [More…]

• Mr Barnard, the Minister for Defence, assures this nation that there is no foreseeable threat for IS years. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, concerns one of the unannounced cuts in defence expenditure. [More…]

• Will the Government find suitable alternative employment for these men as it plans to do for civilian defence workers? [More…]

• They have met the operations consistent with what was necessary to keep Air Force expenditure within the vote which nas been allotted to it in view of the huge amount which has been appropriated in other directions in the defence Services. [More…]

• The slow down in operations generally is largely the result of the expenditure which the Government has announced in respect of improved conditions- that is, pay, defence forces retirement benefits, re-engagement bonuses, housing, etc. [More…]

• -The Prime Minister’s announcement followed an inquiry by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence last year under the chairmanship of the present Minister for Science and Minister for External Territories, Mr Morrison, into the whole subject of aid. [More…]

• The first thing which the Government did to cut back on defence expenditure was to say to the Air Force: ‘You have to take a cut of 25 per cent in flying hours’. [More…]

• We find Mr Hawke coming up here and saying: What about the jobs of my men in the defence works?’ [More…]

• The Government disagreed with the defence policy of the Party to which I happen to belong. [More…]

• It argued that many of its promises could be financed as a result of defence cuts, and it has endeavoured to do that. [More…]

• Mr Hawke arrived again this week and said: ‘Stop putting our fellows in the defence industry out of work’. [More…]

• Mr Hawke arrived here and said: ‘In spite of the fact that you have now created no need for work in the defence industries, you must keep the fellows employed.’ [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has agreed to some extent with this philosophy because he has said: ‘We will not put anyone in these industries out of work’. [More…]

• But the Labor Party dreamed of financing some of the things which it thought were more important than defence by putting people in the defence industries out of work. [More…]

• If the Government dreamed, as I believe it did, that many of the things which it has suggested were more important to the nation than defence could be financed by putting people out of work, it was wrong. [More…]

• The Labor Party realised the enormous expenditure on defence and thought that there could be great savings there. [More…]

• Labour power that is involved in defence production is always inflationary because it produces nothing that can be commonly used to meet the demand in a time when there is no war. [More…]

• In the last few weeks in which we have been debating the economy and examining the Budget I have heard all sorts of complaints about not enough money being provided for housing, for pensions and, according to the Democratic Labor Party, for defence. [More…]

• The plain fact is that the only defence against misfortune that this country has is the Senate. [More…]

• Up until 1 949 the Commonwealth Government, under its defence powers, had control of prices in the Commonwealth. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it the intention of the Department of Defence to close the Tropical Trials Establishment of the Australian Army near Innisfail in north Queensland? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• It adverts to a statement by the Minister for Defence some days ago which indicated that Australia had entered into and, I think, completed an agreement with the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration for an additional launch program at Woomera? [More…]

• Will this new agreement, which I think we all hail as a good thing for Woomera, have any bearing on the decision which has been taken in regard to defence retrenchments which, as I understand the position, also involved some retrenchments at the Woomera station? [More…]

• In short, he is claiming to the Senate and to the country that the Government has erected a defence against the misfortune of runaway inflation. [More…]

• The whole of the Federal Government’s case on foreign relations, the whole of its case on defence or non-defence and the whole of its argument for dismantling defence are based on its statement that in terms of predictability of threat -a concept which I reject totally- there is no predictability of threat in our region for the next 10 to IS years. [More…]

• If that is so, and evidence is building tragically to support this view, what this Government is doing in terms of dismantling its defences at this moment is not only another ghastly double standard but also a treacherous act in terms of Australia’s security, because on the one hand it knows that threats are mounting and on the other it seeks to disarm. [More…]

• Yet we have had a statement from the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) that the reason for dismantling our defence forces is that the global situation is stabilising and that there is detente among the major powers. [More…]

• Let me refer to my own area of interest as the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, particularly his portfolio as Minister for the Navy. [More…]

• It has the undoubted responsibility for the defence of the superjacent waters, the control of navigation and the apprehension of smugglers and wrong-doers in these waters. [More…]

• I also want to refer the Minister to certain undertakings which he gave when we were discussing the defence forces retirement benefits legislation. [More…]

• I have continued to receive copies of representations which have been made to the Minister and to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• I am appalled at the situation we now face in which regular defence Service personnel are to receive repatriation benefits. [More…]

• I think it would be a very poor country that did not make some acknowledgement or some concession to the fact that a man or woman who suffers from this disease had served in a war in the defence of this country. [More…]

• The repatriation benefits will be extended to members of the regular defence force. [More…]

• Fortunately history and the law reports are replete with instances of how the prices-control legislation of the wartime years and those miserable years immediately after the war until the Labor Party Government was displaced, exercised the power to control prices which it had taken under the aegis of the defence powers of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided trie following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Housing recall stating on 11 September in answer to a question by me that ex-servicewomen qualify the same way as ex-servicemen for defence service homes finance? [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen a Press statement reported to have been made by a former Army officer and member of the Australian Labor Party Federal Executive’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee in which he stated that the Minister for Defence had been defeated in the councils of government by the left wing with respect to defence policies? [More…]

• The bill for defence housing that the Labor Government will meet is approximately $60 m. In regard to what Senator Jessop says Major Young said, Major Young is not a spokesman for the Labor Party. [More…]

• He was a member of the Labor Party, but he does not speak on behalf of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• For example, we have improved the benefits provided under the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• We have improved the classifications of pay within the defence forces. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, 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…]

• I believe that it is appropriate for such a motion to be moved by the Democratic Labor Party in a period of crisis because the DLP, from its inception, has always been a defence minded party. [More…]

• In the period from 1955 to 1961, when the DLP was first operating, we always made it a principle of our election speeches to insist that the item of most importance to Australia was Australia’s defences and security. [More…]

• In the case of the 2 major parties, defence was relegated to the least important sections of the policy speeches. [More…]

• In my first term as a senator, from 1955 to 1961, there was hardly a change in the defence vote which, each year, was pegged at one hundred million pounds, although each year the value of money was decreasing. [More…]

• Therefore, the amount actually being spent on defence, while appearing to be the same, was steadily decreasing. [More…]

• During the 1961 election campaign about the only thing on which the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party agreed - they disagreed on practically everything- was that the defence vote could continue to be pegged and that there was no necessity for Australia to improve its defences. [More…]

• But because of the seriousness of what appeared to be the situation both the major political parties in Australia in the early 1960s became defence minded. [More…]

• Defence received more and more mention in the policies of the Australian Labor Party and the then Government parties. [More…]

• The result was that public opinion veered around in a direction antagonistic towards defence. [More…]

• Defence was smeared. [More…]

• The anti-defence spirit spread throughout certain members of the community who, as I said before, were influenced by propaganda which the Government of the day did not resist sufficiently. [More…]

• That proposition is now being echoed by the present Government, with the exception that instead of saying that we have nothing to worry about defence-wise for 10 years, the present Government is extending the period and says that we have nothing to worry about defence-wise for about 15 years. [More…]

• Those of us who look back through history will recall that prior to Hitler’s war and the war in which we were involved with Japan, Mr Baldwin, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, held an election and at that time he hardly mentioned defence. [More…]

• He allowed the defences of Great Britain to be down-graded. [More…]

• When one finds that four or five of these bands, which are comprised of trained musicians who are able to make a considerable contribution to morale generally, are to be disbanded, one can only wonder where the Government will move next in this frantic search for economies at the expense of our defence forces. [More…]

• We have always claimed that while we will make a contribution to our own defence we will rely upon allies, but that to ensure that they will assist us and join with us we will be prepared to make a contribution in the event of mutual trouble. [More…]

• But it will look to the nation directly threatened to assume the primary responsibility for providing the manpower for its own defence. [More…]

• I believe that even though it costs money, expenditure on reasonable defence is insurance. [More…]

• I believe that the people of Australia are not as anti-defence as many people are making out. [More…]

• I believe that as they look at the world today they are becoming gravely concerned about our defences. [More…]

• I believe that they are gravely concerned at the run-down which is taking place in our defences. [More…]

• I believe that all the Parties on this side of the chamber paid the penalty at the last election when they allowed themselves to be conned into the idea that defence would not be a good issue. [More…]

• All of the Parties on this side paid the penalty electorally for allowing their opponents and a big section of the media effectively to con them into the idea that defence was not an issue. [More…]

• We in the DLP ask the Government to reconsider what it is doing on defence because it ought not to gamble with the security of our country. [More…]

• We have heard from Senator McManus what I think is a general statement of the philosophy of the Australian Democratic Labor Party on defence. [More…]

• His argument, of course, is based on the proposition that a maximum amount of money ought to be spent on all the Defence Services. [More…]

• This is the almost unanimous opinion of the Government’s defence and other experts who are the advisers who held those offices during the currency of the last Government. [More…]

• Their advice is based on the sharing of intelligence with people concerned with the defence forces of the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]

• This defence vote is based on the opinions of the experts as we see and know them. [More…]

• As a start perhaps we should look at the figures to see the defence expenditure and the strength of the forces at periods in Australian history when it might have been thought that the amount spent on defence should have been greater. [More…]

• For example, let us look at the defence expenditure as a percentage of the gross national product. [More…]

• I have been pointing out that defence expenditure as a percentage of the gross national product is little different now to the period of what was called the Indonesian confrontation. [More…]

• But what honourable senators opposite are posing to me is that the Government, in this day and age when it is spending huge amounts on welfare and on improvements to Service standards- to which Senator McManus gave some supportwhen it is trying to catch up on the lack of welfare provisions in the Services and in the community generally, and when it is providing additional educational facilities, should increase the defence expenditure above the amount which was granted by past governments. [More…]

• I refer also to the defence forces strength. [More…]

• In 1962-63 there were 21,944 and in 1 963-64- of course these are the years when we needed the assurance that our defence forces were strong and mobile- there were 22,681. [More…]

• Let us look at the total strength of all the defence Services- Navy, [More…]

• In relation to our defence allocation people are talking in 2 voices. [More…]

• On the one hand we have people who say that the Government has to curb Government expenditure- that is the argument put forward by the Democratic Labor Party- and on the other we have people who say that we have to be able to manage the defence Services in the climate of peace and detente which exists. [More…]

• Few nations ever enjoy the chance to design a defence program on a blank canvas. [More…]

• Think of how much stronger we might be and different the defence budget would be, if: [More…]

• Its defence industry was inefficient and sure to give up the ghost without a quick influx of technology and new business. [More…]

• Australia’s independence of policy and action had been traded away for ‘defence on the cheap’- yet its closest allies, the United Kingdom and the U.S., were withdrawing into low profiles’ on the understandable premise that their friends should be as ready to defend their own freedom as we had been. [More…]

• He is literally designing a new defence program on a blank canvas. [More…]

• Whitlam has streamlined his defence ministries, abolishing the posts of 3 Service Secretaries while consolidating - [More…]

• It is a reputable defence document which is circulated - [More…]

• This document is read by all the defence Services. [More…]

• Whitlam has streamlined his defence ministeries, abolishing the post of 3 Service Secretaries while consolidating procurement and support functions (with paring some forces). [More…]

• He has contended that the Liberal policies in the past were not defence conscious, and he criticised them. [More…]

• In Brisbane recently- I am told 2 weeks ago- Senator Gair said that the Liberal Government had nothing to boast about in the matter of defence as it had left the defence of Australia to girl guides and boy scouts. [More…]

• A situation of peace, as far as the defence forces are concerned, is always critical because soldiers are taught to be ready for war and to perfect the skills of war. [More…]

• The Government, the defence Services and the advisers have to decide how the Government will spend the money, how it will apportion the money between the Services. [More…]

• We have improved on the report of the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation which was chaired by Mr Jess. [More…]

• We have continued with the setting up of a committee to inquire into defence forces pay; Only yesterday a deputy president of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, Mr Justice Coldham, was appointed chairman of the committee. [More…]

• We have increased the vote for and have spent more money on defence Services homes than ever before. [More…]

• In addition, as everybody knows, we have promised to appoint a defence forces ombudsman. [More…]

• We have established a new relationship for the defence forces. [More…]

• We cannot understand why people, even people in the media who are in a vacuum about defence at present, should say that the morale is at a low level. [More…]

• With the advice of the defence experts about whom I have spoken, we have been able to get a field force of 1 1,500 from 31,000 soldiers. [More…]

• I can understand any Australian being concerned about how much money is spent on defence. [More…]

• I would like to see the defence vote increased. [More…]

• But we have decided that our expenditure priorities are such that in this Budget the defence vote will be kept at 2.9 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• For instance, already this year a platoon of the 6th RAR has visited the United Kingdom, 150 soldiers have visited the New Zealand defence forces and members of the 6th Task Force have visited Hawaii for exercises with the United States 25th Infantry Division. [More…]

• I think he stated the position of the DLP and his concern for a greater defence expenditure. [More…]

• In the circumstances we have decided that our Budget expenditure on defence is sufficient. [More…]

• What the Labor Government has said is that in those years let us reorganise the defence forces to provide a new platform. [More…]

• Having done that, let us ensure that we have sufficient people serving in the defence Services. [More…]

• I would like to have been able to say: ‘The cutbacks in defence spending will not take place this year’. [More…]

• We should be thinking about defence. [More…]

• I am quite sure that in the later years of the Labor Government we will expand our defence services and thus satisfy the aims of all those who want to see Australia properly defended. [More…]

• He said that in the later years of the Labor Government it will expand our defence forces. [More…]

• I have the greatest personal respect for him but I am afraid that he failed completely to answer the charge that the Government is running our defence forces down to a serious degree. [More…]

• If I were to take a text for this debate, I would take the words used by Mr Barnard, the Minister for Defence, in a major election address to the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University in March of last year. [More…]

• Any Government that shows it lacked interest in defence or sought to cut back sharply on defence or even dismantle pan of the defence structure would not be the Government of this country for very long. [More…]

• This term is used widely in the defence forces today as a term of contempt and derision at the actions of the Minister for Defence and the Government. [More…]

• This can be proved easily by a statement made by none other than Major Young who, I understand, is a member of the Labor Party and a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of that Party. [More…]

• He was speaking on an ATN Channel 7 broadcast and said that the Labor Government had misjudged very badly Australia’s defence arrangements and that if Army morale was not at rock bottom ‘it’s about two inches off it’. [More…]

• It is not my intention tonight to go through the various measures that have been taken by this Government which have destroyed the efficiency and morale of our defence forces. [More…]

• We can no longer say that our defence forces are credible. [More…]

• Following upon the so-called defence statement made by the Minister for Defence, the Government has continued with all sorts of ad hoc decisions, almost day by day, to dismantle further our defence forces. [More…]

• When we hear about the encouragement of a voluntary defence force I am reminded of the Government’s reported decision to dismantle the university air squadron, a volunteer force made up of members from Australian universities. [More…]

• After the Munich conference, Mr Curtin- I do not criticise him for this but it is a fact of life- said words to the effect that there was no longer a threat of war and any expenditure on defence forces was hysterical. [More…]

• Our defence forces may become depleted to an extent where they no longer have credibility. [More…]

• We would be faced, in the situation I have referred to, with what we faced in 1939 when our defence forces were sent into action untrained and ill-equipped. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that our defence forces should be extraordinarily large but they should be capable of rapid growth should the occasion arise- and one hopes that it never will arise. [More…]

• The Minister for Repatriation and the Minister for Defence have said that we are now approaching a situation of global detente or that in fact such a situation has been reached. [More…]

• In recent weeks a series of newspaper articles has appeared on the capability of our present defence forces to defend Australia. [More…]

• I now wish to refer to an article on defence which appears on page 17 of the 1972 annual report of the Returned Services League of Australia. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘RSL Defence Paper 1973 ‘, the report states: [More…]

• This year marks an important point in the history of Australia’s defence development. [More…]

• A government would be foolish if it did not listen to its defence advisers. [More…]

• The Labor Government has listened to its defence advisers. [More…]

• The Government’s defence advisers have completed a strategic re-appraisal of our defence needs based upon information from the Joint Intelligence Organisation. [More…]

• The re-appraisal carried out by the Department of Defence was concerned not merely with the apparent intentions and ambitions of other countries but also with their military potential. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) is not allowing the fact that there is no direct threat to Australia to lull the Government or himself into any state of false security. [More…]

• He has given the assurance that the Department of Defence will regularly review the international situation, which is being monitored, so that any deterioration in our strategic situation will be recognised in advance of the threat becoming a conflict. [More…]

• We have accepted the responsibility of making substantial changes in relation to defence, and we recognise the fact that there must be changes. [More…]

• The proposed changes involve members of our defence forces in a transition virtually from a war-time to a peace-time situation. [More…]

• National service has been abolished and our defence forces now operate wholly on a volunteer basis. [More…]

• The section I read earlier was under the heading ‘RSL Defence Paper 1973 ‘.On page 19. under the heading ‘Defence Forces’ the report states: ‘ [More…]

• The Defences Review shows we will spend this year $ 1 ,252m on defence. [More…]

• -The latest report, and the headings are under ‘ RSL Defence Paper 1 973 ‘. [More…]

• The Defence statement brought down by Mr Barnard has the Army strength at 3 1 ,000 with an increase of 1 ,000 a year until 1976 when it will reach a total of 34,000, at which time another review will be made of our situation. [More…]

• Then, if necessary, the numbers will be increased and the whole defence force will be updated at that period. [More…]

• Not only do they take pride in it but I believe their morale will not suffer as a result of the cut back in the Defence vote. [More…]

• The Australian Country Party associates itself with this urgency motion because the Australian Country Party believes great emphasis should be placed on defence. [More…]

• There is no doubt that since 2 December many tragic decisions have been made by this socialist Government but one of the most tragic, I believe, is the effect it has had on the defence forces of this country. [More…]

• The Government has run down the defence forces to such an extent that they will take a long time to recover. [More…]

• There is a mistaken idea that defence expenditure can be turned on and off like a tap. [More…]

• Some people have the idea that if there is a situation of little risk- it has been said by the advisers of the present Government that there is no possible risk to this nation for 10 to 15 yearsit is a waste of money to spend money on defence and that what the Government should do is to spend it in some other avenue. [More…]

• This is the very thing that the Government should not do with the defence forces. [More…]

• This is when the lack of morale starts creeping in- and there is no doubt that there is a great lack of morale in the defence forces today. [More…]

• The Government just cannot operate the defence forces with obsolete weapons and it cannot expect maintenance people or trained experts in this field to be able to switch straight on to new and modern equipment. [More…]

• I would like to bring to the attention of the Senate the danger that has resulted from the defence cuts. [More…]

• It is absolutely wrong that a nation with the standard of living that we have cannot afford a bit more to ensure that the defence forces are maintained so that in time of aggression we can defend ourselves. [More…]

• I refer to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• Senator Devitt, Senator Byrne and I were members of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]

• The Government got around to it after the Treasury, the Department of Defence and everyone else had had a look at it. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, one of the main reasons why the McMahon Government held it up was because the Defence Department itself and representatives of the armed forces wanted to have a look at it. [More…]

• The Committee brought down its findings and I assure honourable senators that we had been given an assurance before we went to the last election that once the Treasury and the Department of Defence had investigated the recommendations - [More…]

• Of course the defence structure is based very largely upon the twin considerations of money and men. [More…]

• I suppose that proportionately there has been a cutback in the defence vote, although this year in terms of money the defence vote has increased. [More…]

• There has been an actual increase in the amount of funds allocated for defence in the current Budget. [More…]

• Do not let us get away from the fact that while, as I acknowledge, there has been a decline in the proportion of defence expenditure in relation to the gross national product the total sum has not declined but has increased. [More…]

• The record very clearly shows that in 1967-68 4.6 per cent of the gross national product went into defence expenditure. [More…]

• It may be recalled that on 22 August 1973 the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) put down a ministerial statement in the Parliament. [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…]

• Let us not forget that this was based upon a report made to the Minister for Defence which he commissioned immediately on assuming responsibility as Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I was saying when Senator Little interrupted me that the Minister for Defence commissioned a complete report on the whole defence structure. [More…]

• And of course nobody underestimates the importance of defence. [More…]

• One of the first things I would have done and surely one of the first things that any sensible person would have done would be to take a complete look at the whole structure of our defence. [More…]

• I think that if we are spending vast sums of money it is tremendously important to ensure that we are spending it properly and that we achieve what we set out to achieve, that is, a proper defence capacity. [More…]

• Senator Sim said that the Department of Defence advisers were wrong when they gave the previous Government the same advice as was given to this Government and said that they could see no threat to the security of Australia in the next 10 years. [More…]

• Is that why it did not adjust the force structure to accord with what the Department of Defence has long known to be the strategic fact of life in this area? [More…]

• I am very pleased to say that in the interests of this country and its people this Government accepted the advice about the restructuring of our whole defence capacity. [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 capability that accords with our foreign policy. [More…]

• As I said, the planning of the present Australian defence system is based upon these sorts of considerations. [More…]

• In a statement on Australian defence policy tabled on 30 May 1973, Mr Barnard, after listing all the benefits which have been provided by this Government in so short a time, said: [More…]

• Secondly, I do not propose- I am not called upon to do so in a speech of 15 minutes- to proclaim a defence policy or to deal with minute details of our defence services. [More…]

• I make it quite clear also that in supporting this motion and the establishment of increased defence Services in Australia I am not being a warmonger. [More…]

• But I do believe in defence preparation and in defence education. [More…]

• Our defence academies are providing up to and above university education for the officers who are required for the sophisticated equipment, aircraft and ships that we have. [More…]

• The matter of urgency before the Senate regrets the lowering of the morale of our defence Services, and I support that aspect of it. [More…]

• It is true to say that the morale of a nation is mirrored in the morale of the defence Services. [More…]

• At no time can it be said that it is easy to run a peace-time defence Service, lt will be more difficult because of the announced policy of this Government that troops and servicemen generally will all remain in Australia and or in Australian waters. [More…]

• I am a firm believer in the armed services for defence only, not for aggression. [More…]

• Nobody who cannot be usefully used in the work of the defence services and their administration should be employed in the Services. [More…]

• The taxpayers, who are paying immense sums of money every year to maintain the Services, deserve to see on occasions the Navy, the Air Force and units of the Army from various areas parading and displaying their training and ability in order that the public may know what their defence Services consist of. [More…]

• The stronger we maintain our defence Services the greater will be the respect shown to us by our allies. [More…]

• It is axiomatic that the stronger we are and the stronger the respect of our allies for us is the less is the chance that we will have to call our defence services into action to defend us. [More…]

• If we weaken our defence power and go on insulting our allies, neighbours, influential countries and friends the greater will be the chance of attack from the north, be it the near or distant north, upon these shores. [More…]

• This is why I believe that we should be alarmed at what appears to be happening today in relation to the Australian defence services. [More…]

• In 1945, when Labor was in office, the Australian defence Services were the strongest, bestequipped and well-trained in our history. [More…]

• I remember early in my career in the Senate in 1954 saying in the Budget debate that we had found that our defence Services were a thing of shreds and patches. [More…]

• We saw the closing down- it appears for keeps- of the Suez Canal which would be an important sea link for us should ever we require our defence Services to be maintained in a time of war. [More…]

• This Government has been highly critical and insulting about South Africa, but we who know our nation’s history remember that South Africans fought side by side and bravely with our men in 2 world wars, and those who may be blind in their ideology and criticism of a country that they know little about should remember that the naval base at Simonstown, the ports of Cape Town and Durban and the sea routes around the Cape will be of great importance to Australia and its allies should our defence Services ever be called upon to defend this country. [More…]

• I am not prepared to say at this moment that that is all bad, but we cannot help but proclaim that Russian armed services are a potential threat to this country and we would have little defence against them if we did not maintain the friendship of strong allies in America, the Commonwealth of Nations and other countries. [More…]

• Senator Devitt said that the previous Government- the Government that really cared about defence- did not take the advice of its advisers, yet the new 2-man syndicate that started to run the country on 2 December last year did. [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 . [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. [More…]

• That was said by the Minister for Defence and all the other portfolios in a statement in the House of Representatives on 22 August 1 973. [More…]

• Mr Barnard was man enough to say: ‘Yes, we could close down a bit because in the last 10 years my predecessors have built up strong defence forces for this country’. [More…]

• It is understood in the defence Services that the one great shortage which this Government has caused or is causing is the shortage of mothballs because the Government just cannot find enough throughout the world to put into the equipment which will lie idle. [More…]

• Government has scant regard for the importance of and need for adequate defence forces in Australia today. [More…]

• Another newspaper saw fit to say- and I completely agree with it- that there is no person outside the defence forces who knows in reality how much shearing and cutting off is going on and that the only way in which we can find out is by asking a series of searching questions of the Minister. [More…]

• There is no such thing as open government in the defence Services of Australia today. [More…]

• One significant point that he made in his general attack on the defence policy of this Government was that the closing down has been too rapid. [More…]

• It was quite clear from the figures that were quoted by Senator Devitt that there was a continuing decline in the amount of defence expenditure by the previous Government as a proportion of the gross national product. [More…]

• In 1966-67 4.2 per cent of the gross national product was spent for defence purposes. [More…]

• For example, the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, which was chaired by Mr Jess, have been accepted by this Government. [More…]

• The defence Services homes loan has been increased from $9,000 to $12,000. [More…]

• There has been an increase in the range of eligibility for repatriation benefits, and a defence forces ombudsman will be appointed shortly. [More…]

• Of more interest is the fact that it is not just a matter of how much money is spent on defence, it is a matter of how that money is spent. [More…]

• We have always said that our forces should be wholly mobile and should be directed towards the defence of Australia. [More…]

• We are reassessing the areas in which we are spending money on defence. [More…]

• The main point I want to make in the brief time which I have at my disposal relates to the argument that we are downgrading the defence forces. [More…]

• As Senator Sim said, we mostly refer to the expenditure on defence as a percentage of the gross national product. [More…]

• One could assume that as there has been a drop in the expenditure on defence as a percentage of the gross national product there has been an abrogation of responsibility. [More…]

• I wish to quote now the expenditure on defence, as expressed in terms of” a percentage of the gross national product, of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation nations. [More…]

• In each case the percentage spent on defence has dropped. [More…]

• I would, however, like to take issue over your description of myself as ‘a leading defence apologist for the Labor Party’ in your editorial yesterday. [More…]

• But I wish to state that the essential feature of the defence policy of this Government is that it does not see the need to confront neighbours. [More…]

• But at the same time, we are not unmindful, nor will we be unmindful that a nucleus of a trained defence force is necessary. [More…]

• We are debating a matter of urgency concerning the reduction of Australia’s defences to a degree which destroys the morale of our armed forces, leaves Australia without credibility as an ally and gravely endangers our security. [More…]

• I am conscious of the fact that the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard) in another place before he became the Minister for Defence showed some concern in relation to this matter. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence said: [More…]

• Any government that shows it lacked interest in defence or sought to cut back sharply on defence or even dismantle part of the defence structure would not be the Government of this country for very long. [More…]

• What has happened since this Government came to office and since the Minister for Defence started to cut back on defence spending? [More…]

• To use one of the Government’s own phrases, it is time that the people of Australia woke up to the fact that because of the actions of this Government, particularly of the Minister for Defence in regard to what is happening with our armed forces, the morale is low and the men are wondering what will happen to them next. [More…]

• But even the expenditure of the civil defence service has been curtailed and it is not able to do some of the things it wants to do. [More…]

• It is time that he woke up to himself and made sure that this country had a defence policy and that we would be able to defend ourselves should there be a need for this. [More…]

• However, as the question of defence has been raised I suppose one has to take some trouble to answer the arguments, if they can be described as such, which have been presented tonight. [More…]

• It is interesting to look at the figures of Government expenditure on defence. [More…]

• However, let us look for example at the expenditure by the national government of Australia on defence in the year 1959-60- a period at the height of the cold war. [More…]

• In the financial year 1959-60 the Commonwealth of Australia spent 2.8 per cent of its gross national product on defence. [More…]

• This Government’s estimated budgetary expenditure on defence for the 1973-74 financial year is 2.9 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• However, as this matter has been raised by the Opposition I think it is worth while taking a little time to tell the Australian people and the Opposition that in fact the percentage of the Australian gross national product now being spent by this Government on defence is greater than the percentage of the gross national product spent by the previous Government in any financial year between 1959 and 1963- and it was very little higher than the present figure at any stage during the life of the previous Government. [More…]

• This Government has carried out the recommendations of the Committee which inquired into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund- a committee chaired by Mr Jess, a former Liberal member of the House of Representatives. [More…]

• This Government has increased the defence service homes loan and the amounts available for homes for servicemen. [More…]

• The next point I wish to make does not delight me particularly but I might as well raise it since we are talking about defence and it has been drawn to my attention. [More…]

• I mean no disrespect to members of the armed forces or those concerned about defence matters but I believe that there are much more important matters for Australia’s security than the percentage of the gross national product spent on the Army, the Navy or the Air Force, or what we are doing in those fields or what we are doing in talking about the Navy. [More…]

• The main argument produced by the Government to substantiate its reductions in our defence forces has been that the main theme of our policy must be to make friends with the countries around us. [More…]

• He mentioned the proportion of the gross national product spent on defence by countries such as Switzerland. [More…]

• If this factor is ignored in Australia’s defence structure we are asking for trouble. [More…]

• We seek no aggression; nobody in this Parliament would think that we have in any shape or form ideas of aggression in the light of our numbers and capacity to build an adequate defence structure that will at least gain us the respect of friends or potential enemies. [More…]

• We, with our coastline, are being compared in terms of defence with countries that have no coastline at all. [More…]

• The potential for tomorrow is being restricted all the time yet in this area the Government knows, as I know, that we must plan 10 years in advance even for air power alone to be able to cope with anything like modern defence forces. [More…]

• Bishop who is the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• This is a message which says that other countries which deal with Russia, which make treaties with Russia, particularly defence treaties, are putting themselves and therefore the world in peril when they as countries with freedom of thought make pacts with a country which has total totalitarian organisation of human thought and action within itself. [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, the Minister for External Territories created the portfolio of Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Transport to the reported statements of the President of the Australian Road Federation that a national highways system would be of tremendous defence value to Australia. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen the statement and can he tell me whether there has been any consultation between the Department of Transport and the Department of Defence in relation to a national highways plan? [More…]

• -On behalf of the Minister for Transport I can report that the Department of Transport recognises the importance of the relationship between defence and a proper roads system. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• What role is the base to play in the immediate defence structure? [More…]

• There was land which was held by various defence units and it was considered that for the reasonable development of a city such as Darwin and in the best interests of the people and the community generally some of these installations should be moved. [More…]

• Although I do not say it authoritatively, I recall being advised when a member of the Public Works Committee that there would be some movement of some of the Defence Department establishments into more remote areas of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• However, are we to be at the mercy of private developers when we want to acquire land in the Darwin area to enlarge our defence areas. [More…]

• I do not think that anybody in his right mind would suggest putting more defence areas into the middle of a city of 50,000 people. [More…]

• It is quite clear, and it is agreed to in principle, that certain defence installations will have to be relocated so that they are mutually compatible with the several ways in which the civilian sector intends to develop. [More…]

• My Party has always had a very strong feeling that the defence of this country is of paramount importance. [More…]

• And because it happens to be an area where defence and intensification of population are so essential for the whole of Australia it must be done not only in the interests of the development of the city but also in the interests of Australia. [More…]

• Will the Minister have this matter fully investigated in the interests of the defence of this nation? [More…]

• By inserting after sub-section (2) the following subsections: “(2a) In a 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) of sub-section ( 1a), it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court that- [More…]

• Just because we introduce a phrase that makes it a defence against wrongful dismissal that an officer, delegate or member of an organisation has done a lawful act, horror is expressed on the other side of the chamber. [More…]

• That is an offence under paragraph (f) which relates to dismissal- arising under paragraph (f) of subsection ( 1 ), it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court that- [More…]

• If it is a breach under the civil law or a breach of contract of employment it is not a defence. [More…]

• The conduct of the employer is also a defence if the employer satisfies the court that: [More…]

• If the action were a breach of civil or criminal law or if it were of an unlawful nature as has been referred to the employer has a complete defence. [More…]

• If he goes beyond the bounds of what is reasonable to the extent that his action is unlawful under civil or criminal jurisdiction we say that there is a defence for the employer. [More…]

• In the future- and I welcome it- the portfolio of Minister for Foreign Affairs will be in the Senate and, just as in America the Senate is the chamber of foreign affairs and defence, so it should be here. [More…]

• But a war in which nuclear powers could be involved on a world scale would be a devastating experience for’ mankind and the contribution or involvement or otherwise of Australia in such a matter would be so small that it is absurd to suggest that Australia could start even to contemplate having defence forces on s scale that would be material to such a world conflict, which would probably be over even before a report could-be made to the Senate of its commencement. [More…]

• Will the Minister request the Minister for Foreign Affairs to allow the Ambassador to brief the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on events in Chile? [More…]

• The honourable senator asked what could be done to instruct persons to give evidence before the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• This question concerns the Minister for Defence who is represented in this chamber by Senator Bishop. [More…]

• If so, how can the Government reconcile the possibility of such a threat with its statement that there is no foreseeable threat to Australia in the next 10 to 15 years, and with its significant cutbacks in the defence forces of Australia. [More…]

• Defence and foreign relations remain reserved to Australia until independence. [More…]

• At the moment in Papua New Guinea there is a portfolio of Defence and Foreign Relations. [More…]

• I doubt that one can get all the experience and knowledge one requires in defence and foreign affairs after taking up those functions for a period of 18 months. [More…]

• The only matters that will be left to the determination of the Australian Parliament and the Australian Government will be matters of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• Because after 1 December we as a national parliament will still have responsibility for Papua New Guinea’s foreign affairs and defence and, I think, for a general oversight of the affairs of that nation, we ourselves will have to shoulder some considerable responsibility in determining this vital question of independence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to a recommendation by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in its report on Japan that machinery be established for consultation between the Government and industry prior to the next meeting of the Australia-Japan Ministerial Committee. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Will the Minister endeavour to ensure that the Government will extend the inquiry into the sinking of the ‘Blythe Star’ to include the subsequent search and the reasons for the failure of the most expensive maritime search in Australian history which, though using large numbers of defence aircraft and naval ships with all their allegedly sophisticated equipment, failed to locate the survivors while they drifted for 8 days, including across the mouth of the Derwent River? [More…]

• The purpose of the inquiry is to get to the bottom of the matter, and I think there is little doubt that the Government, and not only the Minister for Transport but also the Minister for Defence, would want to know whether the procedures were efficient and, if not, why not. [More…]

• I cite the appointment of a judge to inquire into the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• I do not think we could have logically or rationally expected Israel to give up this territory which it believed and which many believed was essential for its defence and was proved essential for its defence, until such time as there was a settlement. [More…]

• To bring him to Israel and charge him with being a member of an illegal organisation, which is what is being done at the present time, would be parallel to someone from South Africa coming to Australia, kidnapping a member of the South African Defence and Aid Fund and taking him to Johannesburg and trying him for being a member of an illegal organisation when the organisation to which he belonged was perfectly legal in this country. [More…]

• I will not take sides by blaming the Arab nations because I feel that they are but pawns in a bigger pattern that is developing to keep the world in a state of semi-peace and semi-war, a state of constant violation of countries and borders with incidents which stretch the economies of the nations of the world in their endeavours to manufacture and keep pace with the necessity to produce the sophisticated equipment they need for defence in these areas. [More…]

• To promote mobility of people between the academic, industrial, government and defence sectors of science by lowering administrative barriers and ensuring portability of superannuation. [More…]

• To review constantly the overall funding of science and technology including medicine and defence and the relative allocation of funds to various areas, maintaining the principle that greatest support should go to areas of greatest need and promise. [More…]

• To review the funding and organisation of the Australian Defence Scientific Service in the light of future defence requirements and industrial development. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether it is true that a decision has already been made to site the proposed Omega base in Tasmania and that it is to be built in the south-eastern part of that State? [More…]

• In defence the respondent to the application says that among the reasons why the court should not grant the increase is the fact that it would impoverish the industry because the condition of the industry is such that it cannot afford an increase. [More…]

• Therefore we are making this a valid defence without proof against an application because at present the onus of proof is on the applicant. [More…]

• But a person only has to disclose this if it is his defence against an application. [More…]

• by inserting after sub-section (2) the following subsections “(2a) In a prosecution for an offence arising under paragraph (f) of sub-section (1), it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court that- [More…]

• it is a defence if the employer satisfies the court that- [More…]

• Let me say, perhaps in some defence, that I think the number of questions which have not been answered by me is a very small fraction of the number of questions which have been answered by me during this year. [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 Maori Kiki, participated. [More…]

• Over the years we have had the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which has devoted itself to hearing and collecting information about what is happening in a number of countries where foreign affairs are important. [More…]

• Admittedly it was an important question, but it was not one for the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Government was in trouble in getting its own Caucus to approve of Omega, and some genius had the brilliant idea that the Goverment would send the question to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• So it was a way of using the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to get through something which the Government was not able to get through its own Caucus. [More…]

• He knows why the question was referred to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• If the members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence only stopped to think they would realise that there is only one country in this area of the world to which we will be looking for support, and that is China. [More…]

• A few years ago the only thing that they would talk to me about was getting rid of the Americans so that they could have their own defence force. [More…]

• The defence forces in Japan at present are peace keeping and are supposed to be for internal security. [More…]

• Australia is practically defenceless. [More…]

• I give the Labor Party no credit for what it has done with regard to defence. [More…]

• What I do wish to come to are some matters raised at the end of Senator McManus ‘s speech in which he made some reference to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of which I am Chairman. [More…]

• Those matters include the investigation of the foreign affairs and defence implications of an Omega station in Australia and the question of dual nationality. [More…]

• Japan is the third largest industrial power on earth and a country which, by way of balance industrially and indeed by its attitude to defence, its attitude to Asia and to the world, can play one of the great peace-keeping roles of the world. [More…]

• The report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Japan, tabled in this Parliament many months ago, has set out all those things as background, but one must have something to say in a public relations journey and there it is. [More…]

• It is a strange situation that Senator James McClelland in defence of a Minister- appointed commission should read out the classifications and qualifications of a series of people as justification for their being there. [More…]

• The second response which Senator Murphy gave by way of defence was a most curious one for a Minister of the Crown, faced with questions by senators seeking information. [More…]

• He made a point of saying that the record was not very good, but in defence of what I said I should remind him that I referred to questions and said that all except a very small fraction of them had been answered. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Defence table the manifests of RAAF Squadron 34, that is, the VIP Squadron, from the day details were last given until the end of October 1973? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the report of the Defence Legal Services Committee of Review dated November 1971. [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…]

• Senator Bishop, as Acting Minister for Defence, wrote and suggested that if another target area could be found there was no desire to use this particular island. [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…]

• Although section 1 14 of the Constitution exempts Australian government property from municipal rating the Australian Government has, 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…]

• I have had occasion to be supplied with some information on this subject matter and I can inform the Senate as follows: In January of this year Mr Lewis, the New South Wales Minister for Lands, wrote to Mr Uren seeking a discussion on the question of transferring defence lands to the State. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence in March set up a committee to examine all the aspects relating to shifting defence personnel from one area to another. [More…]

• when spending very large sums of taxpayers money on defence. [More…]

• He said some things that simply do not tie up with the Government’s program, especially its program on defence. [More…]

• It is inconceivable that at this time of inflation, at this time when, without any question our defences are going down the drain, a pair of irresponsibles you have to call them that- can purchase an alleged work of art for US$2 m that originally cost US$36,000. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I will pass this on to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I will pass it on to the Minister for Defence and see whether the matter can be attended to. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence indicate whether the full complement of patrols boats is on duty in northern Australian waters to detect fishing poachers? [More…]

• This question primarily is for the Minister for Defence and I will draw it to his attention. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a fully viable and comprehensive electronics industry is vitally important to the defence forces of Australia and to Australia’s ability to be self-supporting in times of international emergency? [More…]

• Be it noted that the ABC, when making an accusation against him, told a lie as to his connection with a firm of solicitors, and then claimed in its defence that what it said had none of the imputations that Senator Gietzelt has hoarded in his mudbag until the very eve of the elections in the hope that the Press of this country will have such lack of principles as to print what he has said. [More…]

• I must rise to the defence of honourable senators on this side who remind us of the Alexander Barton scandal which has been a running sore in the securities market for a number of years. [More…]

• Senator Wright is one of the foremost people in always leaping to their defence, as he leapt to the defence of these corrupt people tonight. [More…]

• I direct a question to him in his capacity as Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Has a request for a royal commission into Australia’s defence requirements been brought to the Minister’s attention? [More…]

• Was the request made by the Thirty-Niners Association of Australia in an attempt to ensure that defence efficiency and preparedness have not been avoided or overlooked? [More…]

• I would think that if the request had any substantial support it might have been raised in this place or in the other place, because the defence situation has been debated recently and the spokesmen for the Opposition have put their points of view. [More…]

• The Opposition has not made any such suggestion; in fact, it has tested its view of the defence situation on the basis of what the Government and the defence advisers of the Government have stated to be the position. [More…]

• Secondly, we think they receive subsidies on the manufacture of some items which possibly could be phased out and the companies could concentrate on the manufacture of products which can be produced profitably, Thirdly, the Government is determined to see that there is an effective electronics industry in Australia to meet the requirements of defence and other areas. [More…]

• Is the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence aware that Japan’s Parliament recently authorised significant increases in the size and scope of that country’s self defence forces? [More…]

• Is not this decision another example of the emphasis placed by Asian and South East Asian nations on the need for stronger defence capabilities? [More…]

• Does not the latest erosion of Australia’s defence capabilitiesa fact which was not hidden in the Minister’s statement delivered yesterday- further add to the deterioration in Service morale and effectiveness and place this country hopelessly out of step with its neighbours? [More…]

• I have seen the newspaper reference to the new defence targets set by the Japanese Government. [More…]

• But, in respect of the general question of whether our defence advisers, in giving their advice to the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, and the Government, have been wrong in their assessment, I suggest that this is a matter which, as I said yesterday, has to be debated by the members of the Parliament. [More…]

• The Government is confident about the advice that it has received from its defence advisers. [More…]

• On the basis of that advice, the defence planning of the Government has been shaped. [More…]

• We have spent large amounts on the defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• It is rather unusual to hear all these complaints from honourable senators opposite who also say ‘You have to cut back Government expenditure’, or You have to obtain effectiveness in the defence Services’. [More…]

• My question without notice- and I do not expect the Minister to have anything to read from- is addressed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -The position of the defence vote was such that it entailed some rethinking and some savings. [More…]

• On the advice of the defence advisers, the Government decided that certain savings could be made in the allocations of services and equipment for the organisations to which the honourable senator refers. [More…]

• That is consistent with the general planning of the defence vote. [More…]

• There is an intention by the Government that this participation of the Services be extended as far as possible; but on the other hand, for the reasons which have been explained in this place and by the Minister for Defence, some savings have had to be made in respect of the huge amounts which have been spent on the Services generally. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• He was elected to the House of Representatives for the Division of Corio in the by-election in 1940 and he became Minister for War Organisation of Industry in 1941, Minister for Post-war Reconstruction in 1945 and Minister for Defence in 1946. [More…]

• After the war he remained in politics, holding the portfolios of Post-war Reconstruction and Defence. [More…]

• In view of future cuts in the defence forces of Australia, is the Government now contemplating converting important military bases into hostels for unemployed civilians? [More…]

• As far as I am aware every step taken by the Minister for Defence, who is also the Minister for Air, has been in the interests of Australian defence. [More…]

• By the same token the powers of the Commonwealth Government are clear in relation to defence and the protection of our fishing beds and so on against any foreign intruders. [More…]

• I am not referring necessarily to the decisions that were made but the fact that it is the responsibility of the Australian Government to maintain our defence against such intrusions. [More…]

• The long range plan of conservation of our resources for domestic requirements and, most importantly, defence requirements is essential. [More…]

• It is because of the importance that has been given to this new area- the continental shelf- that it has become so important to consider which parliament has the power to deal with interstate trade, navigation, defence and petroleum exploitation or the subject matter of particular importance in this Bill, namely, mineral exploration in the territory off-shore. [More…]

• Is there anybody who suggests that as to defence the Commonwealth has not power to put defence emplacements, take land for defence purposes, operate the navies, and mine what seas it likes within the territorial sea or on the coast of the territorial sea? [More…]

• It is not in the course of defence, except in the case I have mentioned, and it is not in the course of navigation. [More…]

• I think that in relation to Commonwealth power over foreign trade, external affairs, navigation between Australia and foreign countries and defence the proper conclusion in these matters is the conclusion which was arrived at in relation to petroleum, and that is that the Commonwealth should legislate. [More…]

• I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Transport to the reported statements of the President of the Australian Road Federation that a national highways system would be a tremendous defence value to Australia. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen the statement and can he tell me whether there has been any consultation between the Department of Transport and the Department of Defence in relation to a national highways plan? [More…]

• The President of the Australian Road Federation made certain statements regarding the defence importance of a national highways system during an address he delivered to the Australian Automobile Association Symposium held in Canberra on 9 October. [More…]

• The Department of Defence, in common with other Departments with interests in the development of a national highways plan, is being consulted. [More…]

• Not only does the Government want more powers in Canberra, but also it wants all these powers to be concentated in one House of Parliament in Canberra, because it is notoriously well known that the Government wishes to abolish this Senate which is probably the last real bastion of defence that the people and the States have for this federal system as we know it. [More…]

• At the same time, it has improved the conditions of service in the armed forces so that we may attract men who will be prepared to volunteer for our armed Services, so that we will have a loyal and dedicated defence force within this country made up of people who joined it because they wished to join it, not because they were compelled to do so. [More…]

• I listened to his eloquent defence of the Australian Council for the Arts. [More…]

• Most of the argument- if one could call it such- that was used in defence of this general proposition that masquerades as an urgency motion consisted of tired, waffling rhetoric, but once or twice Senator Durack did attempt to get down to chapter and verse. [More…]

• If there were a major oil spillage tomorrow the State concerned would probably have to utilise the services of the Department of Shipping and in an extreme case seek assistance from the various defence forces. [More…]

• I do not know what the situation is, but my defence rests on that telling rejoinder to what Senator Durack put up. [More…]

• The facts put before me, if accepted by the Court, would have established a defence to the charge. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Repatriation recall his answer to a question asked by me on 28 August in which he said that both he and the Minister for Defence would resist any proposal to amalgamate the Repatriation Department and the Department of Social Security? [More…]

• I can only reiterate the assurance that I gave before and what Mr Barnard, my colleague the Minister for Defence has said- that as far as we personally are concerned we would resist such moves. [More…]

• The following information is provided in reply to the honourable senator’s question: In July of this year the Commandant of the War College raised with our Embassy in Saigon a proposal which he had put to the South Vietnam Defence Ministry that he and IS members of the College should visit Australia as part of a tour including Indonesia and New Zealand. [More…]

• Proposed expenditures- Repatriation Department, $507,387,000; Department of Defence, $36,837,000; Department of the Navy, $319,933,000; Department of the Army, $460,239,000; Department of Air, $352,284,000; Department of Supply, $129,457,000; and Department of Labour, $35,726,000-agreed to. [More…]

• Was the lessening of military activity in Vietnam one of the reasons advanced by the Government when it decided to reduce Australia’s defence capacity? [More…]

• In view of the rapid escalation of housing prices, has an overall review of defence Service homes property values been carried out so as to ensure that insurance is sufficient to cover the replacement cost of the houses? [More…]

• Will the Minister take steps to advise all defence Service home owners and, for that matter, all home owners that their properties may now be undervalued for insurance purposes? [More…]

• On the question of defence Service homes, the Department supplies a booklet to those home owners to keep them advised. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• With the threat of cutting off vital supplies held by fuel producing countries over consuming countries adding to world tensions, does the Minister agree that the Government’s official policy as outlined by the Minister for Defence that there is no threat to this country for 15 years is now much out of date? [More…]

• Will the Minister ask the Government to reconsider its decision to run down our defence forces? [More…]

• If the honourable senator wishes, he can rise in the Senate and take sides on whether the expert advice from the Government’s defence advisers should be questioned. [More…]

• The honourable senator will have seen statements made by the Minister for Defence that there have been some discussions with representatives of the defence Services in respect to requirements for hardware and equipment for the next 5 years. [More…]

• I would think that the Government has done all it should do and all it can do to obtain effective defence Services in the light of its other obligations. [More…]

• Only last week the Minister for Defence announced, in addition to the $60m that has been spent previously during our 12 months of government, that another $47m would be added to the payroll for serving members of the defence forces. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Although this regulation has not been brought to my notice, I should be glad to refer Senator Wheeldon ‘s comments to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 16 ( 1) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973, 1 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 1 973. [More…]

• But when he steps outside his shadow Ministry, as he so frequently does, he likes to speak also on the defence of the country against the invading yellow hordes. [More…]

• He cannot quite forget that he was once Minister for Defence. [More…]

• It is expected that in the short-term about 300 civilian officers will be placed outside the defence Services. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, relates to the reorganisation of the Defence group of departments. [More…]

• The report which relates to the new Bill, which will be called the Defence (Discipline and Justices) Bill, is in its final stages prior to submission to the Minister for Defence and the Government. [More…]

• This has become an unhappy experience for honourable senators and various members and supporters of the Government who have taken an interest in primary production, education, taxation or defence. [More…]

• The defence of ‘reasonable excuse’ which is expressly available to a person objecting to answer or to produce is uncertain, meaningless and in practical terms of little protection. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators not to forget that air services and the facilities at airports are also important to defence. [More…]

• The exercise will involve one squadron of the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) and elements of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]

• -(2) Regarding internal security, I refer the honorable senator to the statement made by the Minister for Defence in the House of Representatives on 22 August 1973, and tabled by me. [More…]

• The minister for Defence said: “… 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…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Parliament if police or the Queensland Aboriginal and Island Affairs Department ever approached the Department of Defence at any time for assistance with the search? [More…]

• Amendment (15) is the remaining amendment of substance and it provides for the portion of a superannuation or Defence Forces Retirement Benefit pension that is not attributable to an employee’s own contributions to be offset against the weekly compensation otherwise payable in all cases, whether or not the retirement in respect of which the pension is payable resulted from incapacity due to the compensable injury. [More…]

• In welcoming this Bill I say to the Minister that I am still awaiting information from the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• -On 20 November 1973, Senator Marriott asked the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence the following question, without notice: [More…]

• One can think of the dreadful business between the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister in the previous Government, and all the other matters. [More…]

• In fact, if we include the 10.3 per cent of people covered by the pensioner medical service, the subsidised health benefits, the 2 per cent covered by repatriation benefits and the 0.6 per cent covered by the Australian defence forces medical care, there are at present 1,700,800 people- representing 12.9 per cent of the population- who have cover outside the non-profit medical funds. [More…]

• He had no defence to support the opinions which he said were contained in that document. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 50B of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1973, I present the annual report of the Director of Defence Services Homes for the year ended 30 June 1973. [More…]

• I join with that our thanks to the many members of the staff of the Senate who have been so efficient, who have made our lives as happy as they could reasonably expect to be and who have assisted in the defence of the Senate on a number of occasions. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Government has taken steps to end this uncertainty by submitting the whole matter to public scrutiny by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• In view of future cuts in the Defence Forces of Australia is the Government now contemplating converting important military bases into hostels for unemployed civilians? [More…]

• I would suggest the honourable senator refer the section of his question concerning the Army to my colleague the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Representations have been made to the Minister about the matter, but the Council has been advised that it would cost about $100m to resite the dockyard, which is a very important and necessary industrial complex for defence purposes. [More…]

• No doubt there will be further interviews between the Sydney City Council and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is there any purpose in the expenditure of taxpayers’ money for the purchasing of outdated, white cotton, boxer-style long-legged underpants as issued to members of our defence forces, especially when the members of the forces abhor the old-fashioned style and are forced to spend their own money to equip themselves with more modern and comfortable underpants? [More…]

• Mr President, I have here a set of these underpants which I would like to hand to the Minister so that he may investigate this matter and save the taxpayers’ money on something that is of no use to our defence forces. [More…]

• But the defence called character evidence on this occasion for mitigation of penalty. [More…]

• The Australian governmental delegation consisted of Mr F. J. Mahony, O.B.E., a Deputy Secretary of my Department, Mr W. Cutts, Australian High Commissioner to Malta, and Colonel P. Cameron from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Those who gave evidence for the defence gave character evidence. [More…]

• The whole of the evidence that was given for the defence was character evidence. [More…]

• Evidence was also elicited from witnesses brought by the defence. [More…]

• The honourable senator probably will remember that the Minister for Defence decided to investigate whether 5 Airfield Construction Squadron might be used for work overseas. [More…]

• pursued defence and foreign affairs policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity; [More…]

• The Government’s negative defence policy is fast producing a negative defence force. [More…]

• Morale in the defence forces is so low at the moment- it does not show any signs of improvement- that many servicemen, seeing no prospects of job satisfaction or advancement, are resigning their commissions or failing to re-enlist. [More…]

• The west coast of our continent is almost totally defenceless. [More…]

• I shall relate that to our defence expenditure. [More…]

• They have asked how we can rationalise an adequate defence purchase with aviation manpower requirements. [More…]

• At least in defence procurement we will not be conned by the Dynamics Corporation of America as the then Government was. [More…]

• I would indict the then Minister for Defence, now Athol Townley, who went overseas to do a job on the eve of an election. [More…]

• I go a little bit further as far as our defence is concerned. [More…]

• It is quite true that wherever our defence logistics are at the moment, they are geared to the general, peaceful attitude of our neighbours in the Pacific. [More…]

• The Labor Party has never said that it will strip our defence bare. [More…]

• All I hope is that when the defence experts on the Opposition side in batting order come into the debate later on they will answer this question in detail. [More…]

• I turn now to the subject of defence. [More…]

• I know that many listeners to the broadcasting of these proceedings are anxious about the subject of defence, particularly those who have served their country. [More…]

• In his policy speech the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, pledged that the Australian Labor Party would not reduce the defences of Australia if it were elected to office. [More…]

• In spite of the fact that Mr Whitlam promised not to reduce the defences of Australia he has done so to such an extent that today we do not have a worthwhile Army, Navy or Air Force. [More…]

• He said that before Mr Barnard became the Minister for Defence he told the cadets at a naval college that it is inevitable that the Navy will be the cornerstone of our defences for the rest of this century and that it is now the Navy’s turn to be a focal point of the defence policies for the next 10 years. [More…]

• They have said that the position of our defence forces today is one of complete hopelessness. [More…]

• The reason that those men are leaving the Army, the Navy and the Air Force is that they know the position is hopeless and that nothing will ever be achieved in the defence area with this Government. [More…]

• The result is that in a period when violence reigns throughout the world the Australian Government is reducing every form of defence that we have and is placing Australia in a situation where we are worse off in defence than we were in 1939. [More…]

• Mr Barnard has responsibility for the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our Defence Forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen a report by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots concerning the conflict of military and civil aircraft in which the Federation points out that there is a real danger of a collision between civil aircraft and some training military aircraft? [More…]

• Finally, what action is being taken by the Department of Defence to correct this situation so that we will not have an air disaster with perhaps over 100 people being killed? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence been drawn to the fact that 2 members of the Citizen Military Forces were electrocuted while assisting the citizens of Brisbane during the recent disastrous floods in that city? [More…]

• Will the Minister ascertain whether financial assistance can be provided to the respective widows and children as it appears that nothing is required to be paid because the deceased had volunteered for civil defence duties? [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt interjected and said that the painting did not cost anything near the amount of money- $360m I think it was- which Sir Robert Menzies used as a political gimmick, for the purchase of the F trouble-one aircraft, supposedly for the defence of this country because Indonesia was going to attack us. [More…]

• On the third mandate the Prime Minister and his Deputy Barnard) said: ‘Put us in and the defences of Australia will be preserved. [More…]

• We will ensure that the money spent on defence in Australia will not fall below 3.2 per cent to 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• In Australia where rural industry and the extractive industries are themselves not labour intensive, it is a vital necessity that we should supply sound secondary industries to provide employment and, more importantly, to provide a security for defence in the future. [More…]

• One of the first acts of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), having had a trip abroad on a VIP aircraft on the pretext that he was looking for fighter aircraft to purchase, knowing that his [More…]

• The Defence Minister has solved the problem. [More…]

• That was an interesting new socialist split, if ever there was one, in a man who is Chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• We have sufficient resources for our defence. [More…]

• They are there for any emergency which might arise, for instance in defence, and there are sufficient to keep the wheels of our industries turning. [More…]

• Naturally they were provided by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), who is in charge of the Defence forces in a kind of way. [More…]

• As we have seen in recent years, he has not shown a great deal of interest in the Defence forces. [More…]

• I will accept the denial by Senator Rae, but in justification of the defence of the officers of my Department because some one on the other side of the chamber, by way of interjection to the Government side, interjected and said while Senator O’Byrne was speaking that the delay occurred - [More…]

• Having heard that myself, I caused inquiries to be made and I stand here in defence of the officers of my Department, irrespective of who made the remark. [More…]

• I now rise in defence of the officers of my Department. [More…]

• However, if there be a scintilla of accusation against them I will stand here in defence of the officers of my Department. [More…]

• The only thing I can say in answer to the general question is that the Government is still committed to a policy, as stated, of building up, as far as possible, a capacity within Australia to produce defence requirements. [More…]

• The matter has been under consideration, of course, since the Government assumed power, more particularly because of the need to re-assess what the Government’s advisers said was necessary for the defence services. [More…]

• The extent to which we supply new equipment to our services and keep our defence capability in production is being examined. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence is likely to make a statement in the near future and because of the impending statement I do not think I should embark on a more specific answer. [More…]

• My colleague Senator Carrick mentioned the matter of defence, the amounts which had been cut from the Budget and the confusion which is now taking place in the armed Services. [More…]

• While the work was in the hands of local people- the local civil defence organisations and the local committees which were raising food, clothes and finance- the wheels of industry in the devastated areas were turning fairly smoothly. [More…]

• We have had in the Speech talk of reforms in defence. [More…]

• I wish to mention very briefly 3 matters which have been referred to in the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers), namely the attack on the constitutional rights and the responsibilities of those rights by the present administration, the rural industries and, finally, defence policy. [More…]

• The Government has no mandate to attack the rural industries, and certainly the only mandate the Government can claim in regard to defence policy is on the undertaking by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that defence spending would not be reduced. [More…]

• The last matter to which I turn is the Government ‘s defence policy. [More…]

• The Prime Minister undertook that defence expenditure would not fall below 3.2 per cent or 3.4 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) admits that the major responsibility of the Government- of any government- is the security of the nation. [More…]

• One cannot help but feel that the Government’s whole attitude to defence shows a frightening unreality. [More…]

• It cannot be denied that there has been a rundown in defence capacity. [More…]

• In the amendment the Opposition has listed its concern for the policies which the Government is pursuing in relation to defence and foreign affairs. [More…]

• I refer to defence and foreign affairs. [More…]

• I say that the defence policy of this Government has been nothing short of disastrous. [More…]

• Foreign policy obviously is wrapped up with defence. [More…]

• I believe that defence is more and more concerning the people of Australia. [More…]

• The rundown in our defence Services has occurred to such an extent that one fears for the ability, should the need arise, to retrieve a situation which has existed for some time and which would be indicative to other nations to whom we would look for assistance in time of difficulty. [More…]

• I think that as a matter of national self-respect and in order to earn the respect of those who in the past have been of great help to us we should show our preparedness to do our part in regard to the defence of our country. [More…]

• I am no expert on foreign affairs and defence, nor do I pretend to be, but I looked at the defence report and saw that the proposed expenditure for 1973-74, apart from expenditure on the FI 1 lc aircraft, was for 3 heavy landing craft and some small helicopters, and the next biggest item was for 358 5-ton trucks. [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 speak firstly in their defence and secondly in defence of the right of a government which has a mandate from the people to be able to ask the people to judge. [More…]

• It has no mandate to reduce our defence capacity to almost nil. [More…]

• (72) provides for a defence for a reseller who is able to establish that, although he failed to comply with the consumer standard provisions, he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained that the goods did not comply with those provisions. [More…]

• There are drafting changes in the cost justification defence in clause 49 (2) (a) and a reference to distribution costs is included. [More…]

• A ‘reasonable diligence’ defence is provided for resellers in respect of the product standard provisions (clauses 62 and 63). [More…]

• The defence recognizes that the primary responsibility under those provisions is to be borne by the manufacturer or first supplier of the goods, but it does not relieve the reseller of responsibility altogether. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence [More…]

• When we have raised the subject I have noticed honourable senators opposite line up in their ranks of defence because they have the vague idea that they are reacting against any semblance of socialism. [More…]

• Let me refer firstly to an important sector about which they have been campaigning for many months, that is the Labor Government’s failure to assist the defence forces. [More…]

• The expenditure, as shown on page 39 of Appropriation Bill (No 3), for the Department of Defence is $5 5. [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 to their dependants. [More…]

• If so, does the Minister realise what effect these changes will have on the ultimate future of our national security, bearing in the mind the increasing reliance of our defence system on the eletronics industry? [More…]

• I would therefore like to pay a tribute to the 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…]

• Indeed, both the Minister for Defence and I have some reservations on the treatment given by the working party to some of the issues raised in the report. [More…]

• However, in the interests of open government, the report is being tabled to enable honourable senators 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…]

• If the honourable senator wants to start talking about defence in the debate on this Bill, I would be happy to argue about it. [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our defence forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies. [More…]

• The alarming weakening of the Australian defence capability and capacity. [More…]

• The alarming weakening of the Australian defence capability and capacity. [More…]

• Nowhere is their cynicism and hypocrisy more apparent and more dangerous than in the field of defence. [More…]

• Since this Government assumed office our defence forces have been emasculated. [More…]

• These, Sir, are supposed to be Australia’s defence forces. [More…]

• Never before have so many senior Service officers written so much in criticism of an Australian Government’s handling of defence issues. [More…]

• In its defence re-organisation it has surrounded the servicemen by so many public servants that our highly trained and efficient Service personnel are being denied a voice in the defence planning and policy making decisions of the Services. [More…]

• It is not uncommon in the defence structure, as it now stands, for an experienced officer of colonel rank, who has either a university degree or an equivalent through normal Service training, who has had to sit for examinations for every promotion up to Major level, and who has then had to spend at least one year at a staff college, to have to submit his papers to a junior public servant. [More…]

• But the mistake that both the Minister for Defence and the Government have made is that they believe loyalty and morale can be bought. [More…]

• This Government believes that pay increases to our servicemen are all that is needed to guarantee a defence force. [More…]

• I say without hesitation that they will not accept pay-offs and allow the security and defence structure of this nation to collapse. [More…]

• Among many other problems, the discontent within the Services about the Public Service takeover of the defence structure must raise serious doubts about the future operational efficiency and general credibility of the national defence structure. [More…]

• This ‘Barnardisation’ of the Services, this defence run down which is destroying the morale and effectiveness of all 3 Services, is being presided over by that same Mr Barnard who in a major pre-election address said: [More…]

• Any government that showed it lacked interest in defence or sought to cut back sharply on defence or even dismantle part of the defence structure would not be the government of this country for very long. [More…]

• The lack of interest in the defence capability and capacity of this nation is based on a strategic assessment that there will be no threat to Australia for the next 10 to 15 years. [More…]

• This socalled assessment looks more and more like a political decision imposed on the armed forces by a Government that is determined to destroy our defence structure, and by a few civilian advisers who adhere to outmoded concepts of how military forces are to be used. [More…]

• This is what will happen to Australia under this Government’s no-defence policy. [More…]

• It is nonsense to suggest that we have to be invaded or threatened to need a capable defence force. [More…]

• The Government’s foreign and defence policy is not giving us a new flexibility as it claims. [More…]

• How can anyone, and especially a Minister for Defence with a dimunitive approach to Australia’s security, presume to predict 10 years ahead? [More…]

• As recently as a week ago, the Minister for Defence, in a futile pre-election trip to Western [More…]

• Australia, said he was worried about the defence of the Indian Ocean seaboard. [More…]

• He said the Department of Defence was keen to acquire an area of about 2,000 square miles stretching eastward from King Sound and south from the McLarty Range. [More…]

• He said that a base in the west formed part of his thinking about the continental defence of Australia. [More…]

• What an extraordinary statement for even Mr Barnard to make because if as he professes, he is concerned about the continental defence of Australia, and particularly the defence of the western seaboard, I ask why then is there no form of surveillance on any part of Australia’s coastline from Perth to Brisbane. [More…]

• I ask: Why has this man, who before Labor’s defeat at the polls on Saturday, was supposedly concerned that too little emphasis had been put on the defence of the western seaboard, perpetuated the situation in which the defence of Western Australia with a long and relatively uninhabited coastline, containing much if not most of this country’s natural wealth has rested on one Air Force base, a down graded naval base and one SAS unit? [More…]

• So there is little prospect of ground defence. [More…]

• Neither the Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence, nor the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee) has yet adequately described the difference between a scientific facility and a defence base. [More…]

• This Labor Government is prepared to risk the ANZUS Treaty despite the fact that the Prime Minister has said that this Treaty is still the basis of Australia ‘s defence. [More…]

• This Government deserves to be roundly condemned for allowing our defence forces to become, in only 16 months, demoralised and debilitated. [More…]

• It should be condemned for playing with basic defence treaties. [More…]

• The speech of the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) today was very much like his speech last week when he attacked the civil servants of the Commonwealth, including many of his own staff and many of the civilian complement that makes up the defence Services. [More…]

• New channels are open for direct representation to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) by any serviceman. [More…]

• For the first time the Minister for Defence has appeared before the squadrons, including 5 Airfield Construction Squadron about which Senator Withers spoke. [More…]

• The Defence Forces [More…]

• In addition, of course, as everybody knows, we have decided to increase the eligibility for Defence Services homes. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence said that the second year would be the year in which decisions would be made about what equipment would be purchased for the Services. [More…]

• I want to refer now to the important question of whether the Government got the right advice on strategic considerations from its defence experts. [More…]

• Soon after taking office the Minister for Defence called for a fundamental assessment of the strategic situation and outlook covering the next 15 years. [More…]

• It was the Defence Committee which reached the conclusions which have been quoted. [More…]

• Moreover, the procedure of making such an assessment as a basis for determining the defence program is one that has developed over a considerable period in the past. [More…]

• The Defence Committee expressed quite clearly the view that the present and likely trends identified do not indicate any likelihood of threat of direct attack on Australia in the period. [More…]

• Planning defence policies and spending very large sums on the development of the defence forces needs much more precision and an assessment on which the defence program is based must be carefully considered. [More…]

• Already there has been speculation in the Press about the types of equipment that will be acquired for our defence forces. [More…]

• To reiterate what I said earlier, the first year of the Government’s activity in the defence field was directed towards improving conditions. [More…]

• At present our defence forces are of a size and capability without precedent in Australian history- at a time when we are not involved in a substantial conflict. [More…]

• The reduction in the strengths of our defence forces last year needs to be put in its proper perspective. [More…]

• As everybody knows, we reduced the civilian complement, lt has been argued that we cut defence by cutting the number of civilians in the defence Services and, of course, we did, but the reduction in civilian strengths in 1973-74 ought to be put in its proper context. [More…]

• Between June 1963 and June 1973 the number of civilians in the defence group had grown by 14,392 from 36,909 to 5 1 ,30 1 . [More…]

• The pension arrangements under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme, which the previous Government refused to provide and messed about with for many months, made it possible for these officers to resign so they would have the opportunity early to take advantage of whatever there was in outside industry. [More…]

• Under the previous Government, officers were obliged to serve until they reached the prescribed age for retirement, otherwise they could not attract the benefits provided under the then Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Act. [More…]

• One of the effects of the recently introduced Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Act is that officers may now avail themselves of resettlement opportunities prior to reaching retiring age and qualify for payment of the pension. [More…]

• These figures, which incidently represent high historical rates, hardly reflect disillusionment with the defence forces as far at the Government can see. [More…]

• According to the calculations of the Strategic Studies Institute in London, Australia in 1971 devoted the same percentage of its gross national product to defence as did West Germany. [More…]

• We are presently spending double the amount which Indonesia, the Philippines and related countries in the area spend on defence. [More…]

• Let me refer now to some of the things that are on the defence procurement list. [More…]

• Other matters on the defence procurement list were 10 Westland cargo helicopters, the oceanographic ship, additional Oberon class submarines, the refit of Oberon class submarines, the modernisation of River class destroyers, extra gun mountings and the DDG ship improvement and refit program. [More…]

• He made those attacks upon a section of the Public Service which obviously includes civilians in the defence Services. [More…]

• Every serving man in the Navy, Army or Air Force, and civilian persons in the defence Services, receive an equivalent entitlement. [More…]

• In taking that attitude he attacks not only the Public Service but also the equivalent in the defence Services generally. [More…]

• As I have pointed out, the defence officers have got more power under the reorganisation than they had before. [More…]

• So we can expect that before the Senate rises for the Senate election, Senator Withers will be moving a similar motion relating to the defence Services. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence is trying to organise and is organising exercises with Britain, the United States of America and various other countries and that will be the pattern of our commitments. [More…]

• Nothing illustrates this more than the field of defence. [More…]

• If there is one electoral mandate the Government has not honoured it is that the Government clearly undertook not to reduce defence expenditure below the figure of between 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• I wish to speak very quickly this afternoon about the strategic assessments upon which the Government bases its decision to run down the Australian defence capacity. [More…]

• The Minister, assisting the Minister for Defence, used the words, I think, ‘the favourable strategic situation’. [More…]

• The Government based its defence policy on an assessment that the world was moving towards stability, that the situation in South East Asia was stabilising and that there was no discernible threat for a period of 10 or 15 years ahead. [More…]

• I challenge the wisdom of basing a defence policy on assumptions. [More…]

• I believe that for the Government to accept or to place the interpretation on the defence assessment which it has placed, that there is no foreseeable threat for 15 years ahead, is both naive and dangerous. [More…]

• The lessons of history clearly prove the folly of basing defence policies upon long term or even short term assessments. [More…]

• But even if it were true that there is no discernible threat for 10 or 15 years, now is the time to prepare defence planning for an eventuality which may occur in 10 or 15 years time- not in 10 years time or when the threat becomes discernible. [More…]

• Defence policies should not be based upon wishful thinking but rather on an assessment of the situation in the world which at present is one of flux and uncertainty. [More…]

• That the continued rundown of the Australian defence force, the erosion of our defence capacity and the deliberate understatement of Australia’s vulnerability in a volatile world, are detrimental to the long-term security and wellbeing of the Australian people. [More…]

• That the Senate, at its rising, adjourn until tomorrow at 10.59 a.m.- for the purpose of debating a matter of urgency, namely, the alarming weakening of the Australian defence capability and capacity. [More…]

• Soon after taking office the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) called for a fundamental assessment of Australia’s strategic situation and outlook over the next 15 years. [More…]

• Although we may not be able to look into the crystal ball and see what is likely to happen in the next 1 5 years, I feel that the attitude of, and the action taken by, the Government in regard to the defence of Australia are correct. [More…]

• After the so-called dangerous and realistic pre-election acknowledgement of the fact that Australia was one of the most secure nations in the world, the Red and yellow peril campaign could only be made credible if supported by heavy expenditure on defence. [More…]

• In the first weeks of that new Parliament in 1970, a shopping list for defence hardware costing many hundreds of millions of dollars was presented to the Parliament. [More…]

• The Department of Defence and the Services had been forced to bring forward the list at a moment’s notice without proper analysis and, indeed, with less consideration being given to it than the average family would give to the purchase of a new washing machine. [More…]

• The opponents of the Australian Labor Party knew that there was no threat, and they were spending the money, not primarily to acquire a defence capability, but merely to support and to give some semblance of credibility to the cheap attempt to use the politics of fear to divert the electorate ‘s attention away from our true foreign policy interests and our then social and economic problems. [More…]

• Senator Bishop, who represents the Minister for Defence in the Senate, has pointed out just what the Australian Government is doing in regard to defence. [More…]

• Senator Bishop has pointed out that the Minister for Defence will be making a statement in the very near future regarding what is to be done in respect to the Navy projects. [More…]

• I feel that they are a good aircraft and will be of benefit to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Senator Marriott says that the Minister for Defence made this statement concerning the DDL program in 1973. [More…]

• At least the Australian Government is trying to do something in regard to defence. [More…]

• But at least the Government is trying to build up our defences. [More…]

• We inherited run down defence forces. [More…]

• The only time that the strength of our defence forces reached any sort of capacity at all was when Australia became involved in the Vietnam war. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has stated that at the moment the enlistment figure for the Army only is in the vicinity of 3 1 ,000 men and that this figure will be made up by voluntary enlistment until 1 976 when it is expected that the enlistment figure will be approximately 34,000 men. [More…]

• It is all right to talk about the number of men in the defence forces, but it must be remembered that defence forces cost money. [More…]

• Although the expenditure for defence as given in the Defence Budget last year was less than it was in the previous year, the Government has, by its management of the defence of this country, been able to do what it promised to do in regard to the servicemen. [More…]

• On page 138, paragraph 340 of the report on defence reorganisation it is stated- it was mentioned by one of the Opposition speakers that - [More…]

• I am one of those who believe that a very strong defence force is vital to an island continent like Australia that is far removed from most of the major powers and certainly from the sources of vital supplies and assistance that we need in times of conflict. [More…]

• It has always been interesting to note the policy of the Australian Labor Party, when in Opposition, every time we endeavoured to build up our defence forces or every time we sent troops overseas to assist friends against imperialistic advances, particularly by the communist countries. [More…]

• They have always had a policy of isolation and lack of defence for this country. [More…]

• Of course, they believe that, if we run down our defence forces and portray a peaceful attitude to the world, no one will attack us and that we will always be safe. [More…]

• It is still one of isolation and of running down our defence structure. [More…]

• One can then ask the experts: ‘How long does it take to build up the armed Services or defence forces?’ [More…]

• It is clear that a threat or lack of a threat cannot properly be predicted for more than 3 years ahead, but it takes 10 years to build up the defence forces. [More…]

• Does it not really come down to the argument that it is essential to have strong defence forces all the time? [More…]

• If we are to have trained personnel ready it is essential to maintain at all times a strong defence force. [More…]

• This is happening despite the fact that when we were in government we initiated inquiries that produced reports containing recommendations to increase the pay of servicemen and to improve the conditions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• Labor’s Minister for Defence faced exactly the same problem that certain benefits had to be checked back to ascertain the eventual effect. [More…]

• At present members of the Government are having second thoughts about the cost of improvements to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• Are they to be nothing more than glorified civil defence forces? [More…]

• It is interesting that this part of their operations has been highlighted, because it seems to me that that is the role selected for our defence forces. [More…]

• The running down of our defence forces is concerning not only the servicemen who are dissatisfied and who are resigning but also those who are still in the forces. [More…]

• Of course we are interested in the defence of this country, and the Australian people are interested in the defence of this country, too. [More…]

• That is why they will support us in drawing attention to the running down of our defence forces. [More…]

• It will be interesting to hear the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence tell us whether he thinks that it is the most advanced aircraft in the world. [More…]

• This is the very reason why we entered into the deal- so that we could assist the American defence structure to build an aircraft that was better than anything else available at that time. [More…]

• I think that the cost must be worked out on the basis of the value of each individual aircraft to the defence of this nation. [More…]

• The important thing is what each aircraft is worth to Australia in terms of defence capability, not that the aircraft might have been dearer than some other aircraft that we could have bought. [More…]

• -Here we are once again discussing a matter of urgency, namely, the rundown or weakening of the Australian defence capability and capacity. [More…]

• Every time a debate on defence and matters associated with defence comes before this chamber we get the same tired, weary old performance from the same tired, weary old performers on the other side of the chamber. [More…]

• It should be a lively, imaginative, impressive and invigorating debate because if anything should interest us and promote our interest it ought to be what sort of defence we should mount in the interests of Australia. [More…]

• We go over and over defence and foreign affairs. [More…]

• No, it looks as though the time of the chamber is to be taken up again in a debate on defence and foreign affairs. [More…]

• Every time the Opposition gets the inspiration to raise a matter of urgency in this place, it is the same old subjectdefence and foreign affairs. [More…]

• So we come to the question of the rundown in the defence Services of Australia. [More…]

• What are the defence Services of a country? [More…]

• I do not accept, as the Opposition appears to believe, that the capacity of the defence system of a nation depends on the number of people in uniform. [More…]

• I imagine that it depends rather on a number of factors, all going into the general context of what constitutes the defence of a country. [More…]

• So we must have the equipment, the backup in the civilian component and the various resources which a country can muster to make up the total defence concept. [More…]

• But it is not merely a question of mounting numbers and being able to look at statistics across the board in relation to the total composition of the 3 branches of the armed Services; it is also a question of what a country can do in its own right, within its own resources and within the confines of its own boundaries to mount a total defence capacity. [More…]

• I imagine, and I am not alone in my belief about this, that while we certainly need manpower in the 3 branches of the defence Servicesthat goes without saying- we also need to muster, foster and develop resources to the maximum extent possible in the civilian community and particularly in the areas of industrial activity. [More…]

• What I said earlier about the interest in debates on defence and foreign affairs is borne out by the fact that as soon as a debate on these matters commences the chamber clears. [More…]

• One finds this great enthusiasm for a debate about the nation’s defence, but on every occasion the debate, instead of being one which carries the lively interest of all members in this chamber, succeeds, as far as I have been able to observe, in clearing the chamber. [More…]

• When one comes to look at the question of defence- I think this is the son of thing that must be perplexing the mind of every professional person in this area- one wonders what sort of a defence system is needed in Australia. [More…]

• In those days we were under the control of a conservative government and in a totally rundown defence situation. [More…]

• We mounted 3 branches of the defence Services, and they were second to none. [More…]

• As Senator Bishop indicated earlier in the debate, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has not been sitting down on this matter. [More…]

• Let me say, in passing, that we have no occasion to be ashamed of our record in relation to the defence of this nation. [More…]

• A moment or two ago I drew a great comment from the other side when I talked about the desperate situation of Australia’s defences in 1939. [More…]

• Everybody knows that within a short space of time, under the guidance, the direction and the control of a Labor government, the defences were strengthened. [More…]

• Somebody had to take the responsibility for the defence of this country. [More…]

• The Labor Party assumed that responsibility, and saw that the war was adequately prosecuted in the interests of the defence and preservation of the integrity of this nation. [More…]

• So we ought not to be thinking of defence in terms of numbers of men in uniform. [More…]

• I believe that this is a realistic appraisal of what I saw there: A vast defence capacity or vast armed Services capacity, and the resources of the nation inadequately developed. [More…]

• There is no time in the history of Australia when service in peace time has been more attractive to those serving in the defence forces. [More…]

• So the defence of Australia does not mean men in uniform but means a total capacity from within our resources to mount the defence of this nation. [More…]

• That is the course we will pursue, regardless of whatever is said in these dismal, dreary debates which we have from time to time, because we must follow the Opposition’s wishes, on the question of Australia’s defence capacity. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner the Senate was debating an adjournment motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) for the purpose of discussing a matter of urgency which expresses alarm at the reduction in the defences of Australia which has taken place since the present Government took office. [More…]

• The Australian Democratic Labor Party, which continually has drawn attention to this steady reduction in our defence forces, associates itself with the motion. [More…]

• We support it to the full because we believe that one of the most disturbing features of the tenure of office of the Whitlam Government has been the manner in which it has set to work to white ant and to reduce to complete ineffectiveness the defences of our country. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam attempted in his policy speech to suggest that defence after all was not very important. [More…]

• He said that in his view defence need not worry us for about 10 years, perhaps 15 years, but that in spite of that fact he would see to it that the defences of Australia were maintained as they should be. [More…]

• We are engaged in a treaty- the ANZUS Treaty- which we regard as the backbone of our defence arrangements. [More…]

• It is supposed to be a mutual defence treaty; not one where Australia seeks all the advantages and refuses to accept any of the responsibilities. [More…]

• I belong to a Party which always has been very defence conscious. [More…]

• In every election from the time our Party was established we have said that the defence and security of the country ought to be a primary issue. [More…]

• In the last election, regrettably, the attitude was taken up by people not only on the side of the Australian Labor Party but also by some people who previously were sitting on the then Government side that Australia could look forward to 10 years during which she need not do anything about defence. [More…]

• The attitude was then taken up in the election that defence was not an issue. [More…]

• There appears to be a complete lack of concern on the part of our Government, a dislike of the word ‘defence’, and a determination to reduce our defences to the degree that Australia will be unable to play its part in world affairs. [More…]

• I believe that in Australia we have to spend more money and produce self-reliant defences which will enable us to say to our treaty supporters or our treaty friends that we are in a position, and we will be in a position, to play our part if the time of responsibility comes. [More…]

• We do not have self-reliant defences now. [More…]

• I was a member of that committee for a considerable period and what impressed me was the number of men, experts in the field of defence, who came before us and said that the plans of the present Government to defend this country were completely inadequate and that should there be trouble Australia’s security would be gravely endangered. [More…]

• We have survived world wars over the generations but because of the advance of technology and the splitting of the atom- things have never been the same in the fields of defence and aggression since the day they successfully split the atom- we will not survive another world war involving the use of atomic weapons. [More…]

• Australia’s Foreign Minister (Senator Willesee) has just delivered an abject apology for the Government’s lack of any defence or foreign policy. [More…]

• One can sum up what he said by saying: ‘Atomic weapons are terrible things, therefore we do not need any defence or foreign policy’. [More…]

• The truth is that this Government is not interested in defence. [More…]

• This Government- and I will say this- has done a good deal to improve the conditions of service of men in the armed forces; but that has been its single, solitary contribution to defence. [More…]

• My recollection is that up to August last there had been 3 times as many resignations by Army officers as occurred in the whole of the previous year, the reason of course being that the Government not being interested in defence has conducted a policy by which Army officers can see that there is no future for them in the Service. [More…]

• Denis Warner, perhaps the most knowledgeable of all Australian comentators on defence and South-East Asian affairs, has pointed out in 3 articles in the Press the rock bottom to which Army morale has sunk; he did so not with pleasure but with great sadness. [More…]

• One would have thought that if the Government were genuinely interested in defence that when the Americans wanted to set up an installation as a very minor counter to the 20 Soviet ships- surface ships, that is; Lord knows how many submarines are operating in the Indian Ocean- it would have welcomed its friend. [More…]

• One would have thought that the Government would have been delighted that the United States proposed to set up defence facilities at Diego Garcia. [More…]

• Defence of course has to be associated with foreign policy. [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our Defence Forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies. [More…]

• In accordance with normal courtesy that the Senate from time to time extends to visitors to this Parliament, I wish to advise honourable senators of the fact that sitting in the President’s Gallery is Mr Maori Kiki who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence in the new nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Repatriation and Minister assisting the Minister for Defence aware that considerable unrest exists among members of the defence forces arising out of the failure to distribute the surplus funds of the Defences Forces Retirement Benefits Fund? [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 mobilization 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 re-vitalised 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 my colleague the Treasurer and other appropriate Ministers. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has already made a statement which appears in the Press confirming the purchase by Australia of the 2 frigates mentioned by the honourable senator. [More…]

• Defence would be making such a statement some time during April. [More…]

• The position is- and I think answers have already been given to Senator Drake-Brockman about this matter- that when we became the Government the question of whether the DDLs ought to be manufactured in Australia or in fact manufactured at all was a subject of consideration by the Defence Force Development Committee and by the Government. [More…]

• Because of the escalation of price from something like $339m to about $400m the Government, acting on advice from the Defence Force Development Committee, decided not to take up the options. [More…]

• The Government decided, because of what it then termed the urgency of determining defence equipment, to make the purchases mentioned, and about which a statement will be made later. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Because of the criticism of the Minister for Defence that the recent decision about procurement was for political purposes, I ask: Have the decisions on defence procurement been rushed forward as an election ploy? [More…]

• Three weeks ago Mr Barnard told the House of Representatives that a decision on defence equipment purchases would be announced in April. [More…]

• It is based on a recommendation put forward by the Defence Forces Development Committee. [More…]

• If it is a criminal or a quasi-criminal proceeding and a person is convicted, he then raises that as a defence in a subsequent action. [More…]

• I make no defence of the Government’s position in this matter because I believe that the immorality in the matters that we have been determining over the last several months lies not so much in the appointment of the Honourable Vincent Gair but in those 10 senators who were elected in 1967 and who have sought to sit in judgment upon a government that was elected in 1972. [More…]

• There was a bloke streaking past the defence area and 2 proper well-known streakers complained that it was unfair that the Minister for Defence was taking their credit away from them. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -Shortly, in reply to the honourable senator, I inform him that I shall be making, on behalf of the Minister for Defence, a statement about the options relating to the M60 and the Leopard. [More…]

• I seek the leave of the Senate to make a ministerial statement concerning Australian defence. [More…]

• The statement is now being made in the other place by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• 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 re-stating 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 five 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 Senate, of the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, the 3 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 [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 of 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 the maintenance of the capability of our 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 1 963 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 $8,000m in 1974 prices over the 5-year period 1974-79. [More…]

• Following further detailed investigation of this and other projects, the Government has taken decisions in respect of 3 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 antisubmarine 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 Plan will call for later definite decisions on further equipments. [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 Minister for 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 contribution 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 three external powers, Australia, Britain and New Zealand and they help Malaysia and Singapore in developing their air defence capability. [More…]

• Our defence aid and cooperation 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. [More…]

• 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 you 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 tranquillity. [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 give the taxpayer more value for his dollar. [More…]

• What I am submitting to this 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…]

• I hope that the Minister for Repatriation and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Senator Bishop), who is sitting at the table will not take what I have to say about the paper as a personal reflection upon himself because we all know that he has but delivered the paper on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) in another place. [More…]

• I suppose that the first thing that one could say about the paper is that it is really not a defence paper at all; it is but a part of the Government’s propaganda machine which is gearing up this week for the double dissolution which is to come. [More…]

• If a double dissolution had not been pending, there would have been no defence statement, just as there would have been no continuation of the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty and of all sorts of other things. [More…]

• I say without any disrespect to my friend the Minister for Repatriation and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence, who is sitting at the table, that the whole of this thing is a sham. [More…]

• When it talks about defence, in fact all it is talking about is a no-defence-at-all policy. [More…]

• We have heard this defence statement today and it is purely an election gimmick. [More…]

• It was taken because the Minister for Defence decided while in Opposition that the DDL was unsuitable. [More…]

• I will give some simple and clear illustrations of how phoney this defence statement is and to show that it is merely a piece of window dressing for the election. [More…]

• The Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence, went up there just before the State election and tried to pull off that 3-card trick on the media and the people. [More…]

• As for this latest arrangement about a Russian base in Australia, if the Government is interested in the defence of Australia why did it not reject such a suggestion out of hand? [More…]

• We have this utter nonsense in the so-called defence statement about the Government’s concern over the United States of America but the Government’s Ministers only 12, 13 or 14 months ago were calling the President of the United States and his people war criminals, butchers and all the rest of it. [More…]

• I desire to disagree on one point, with my leader, Senator Withers, so far as defence is concerned. [More…]

• I doubt that it will be longer than 24 hours but there is no fun in this defence statement presented in this chamber by the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) as the representative of the Minister of Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• I think it is a terribly alarming state of affairs that the defence of the country is the first ploy in a prepared political campaign. [More…]

• When this Government took office 18 months ago it is absolutely true to say- not one unbiased person would disagree- that the external and internal defences of this country, remembering that we were occupied, rightly or wrongly, in a war in Vietnam, were stronger than they had been in any period other than towards the end of the Second World War. [More…]

• They were to be built by Australian firms using Australian materials as much as possible and were for Australia’s defences. [More…]

• This Government, not wanting to spend money on defence, instituted another inquiry. [More…]

• One of the great reasons it did not want to spend money on defence was that it realised that it was an inefficient government. [More…]

• It decided that the easiest thing was to cut down on heavy defence expenditure. [More…]

• I feel sorry for Senator Bishop who represents the Minister for Defence in this chamber and is his assistant. [More…]

• Australian Government to weave its defence policy, particularly the construction of aircraft and anything to do with the Royal Australian Air Force, into such a pattern that the Australian aircraft industry could be given new life, could be sustained and could be ready to be an integral part of our defence if we needed greater production in time of war. [More…]

• Their future certainly does not lie in helping this Government to build up our defence services. [More…]

• If one was to give a true description of the statement made by the Minister for Defence one could put it in a few words, namely, that at heavy expense some time somewhere this Government might buy something in the way of hardware for our defence services. [More…]

• Our treaty partners, our friends of former years- particularly the Americans who helped save us from 1942-1945- must be saying: ‘What is to be our attitude to the new Australia under Labor which says on the eve of an election, having done nothing worth while for 18 months “We will spend $356m somewhere at some time on some type of hardware for the defence Services” ‘? [More…]

• One commentator writing about our defence Services said that the Government was so ashamed but so impressed with its lack of policy regarding the defence services and so ashamed of what it was doing by whittling them down that the Minister or any other member of the Government would not be game to stand up and make or have prepared by their dozens of writers a statement setting out fully, unequivocably and truthfully what comprises the Services as fighting Services. [More…]

• So one would have to go all through the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the auxiliary forces of defence to find the truth. [More…]

• I hope, but I know that it will not come true, that before election day there will be enough decency, enough sincerity and enough sense of responsibility on the part of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam)- and God alone knows he talks enough- or the Minister for Defence to come out and say precisely: ‘This is the state of the defence Services of Australia as at this time, after 18 months of our government. [More…]

• not believe that it will be done but I know from now until election day, in the weeks that lie ahead before we come back into government, that 1 will expose to the people of Australia the rottenness and the lack of policy of this Government, the lack of responsibility and the lack of ability to get up and say: Yes, Australia, in the matter of defence we think that we need no strength, we think that we need no equipment, we think that everything is safe and lovely- and we will just stay at home and waste money on the news media by advertising Parliament and such things.’ [More…]

• I believe that the statement of the Minister for Defence- not the statement of the Minister who represents him in this House, because I think that he is as sorrowful as I am over this matter- is a disgrace to the Australian Labor Government. [More…]

• The Senate is debating a document which purports to be a defence procurement statement. [More…]

• It is, in fact, on examination a document outlining a major deferral of defence procurement. [More…]

• The truth is that this is projected over 8 years and on a normal capitalisation of the defence forces this would represent a very serious reduction in the capital expenditure of the defence forces in the years ahead. [More…]

• It is, as my Leader has said, not in any way a particularisation of defence procurement. [More…]

• It says We will buy a particular kind of pilot frigate from America’- that being of course the hobby horse of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• In the middle of last year the Minister for Defence went overseas in a VIP jet along with his family and friends. [More…]

• The fact that one of the most gallant squadrons in the traditions of the RAAF- 77 Squadron at Williamtown- lies in mothballs is an eternal disgrace and a reflection upon the lack of defence policies of this Government. [More…]

• Where is any mention made of the most important thing in a modern defence system? [More…]

• I repeat that this defence procurement document gives no indication of specific procurements except for frigates. [More…]

• They have said in many arguments in this House that to enter into defence procurement for something without having specific documentation of the costs is outrageous. [More…]

• What kind of defence statement is it that fails to tell the people of Australia that the decision to reduce the regular Army from 9 battalions to 6 battalions was made in the face of strong arguments and strong resistance of the Chiefs of General Staff? [More…]

• It is notorious that the field force in Australia is so small at this moment as not to constitute an effective defence in immediacy. [More…]

• I want to talk now about the essentials of defence because the defence one has on a given day should be there for 2 main reasons. [More…]

• Firstly, it should be there in order to meet an immediate threat- maybe a small threat, but an immediate one and one that no one can predict- and be capable of undertaking an instant defence or mobile job, maybe in respect of help to the United Nations, our continental defence or some South East Asian role under some alliance. [More…]

• On neither of these bases do the defence forces of this country stand the test. [More…]

• The Minister has sadly repeated what is the greatest fallacy that can ever be inflicted on the Australian people in a strategic defence appraisal. [More…]

• He obviously has not read the authoritative Millar Committee report which, incidentally, I understand the Minister for Defence has adopted, because the strategic assessment in that report confounds this defence statement. [More…]

• In terms of the magnitude of his own egocentric defence, the defence capacity is enormous, but on other measurements it is vulnerable. [More…]

• Against the fact that the Millar Committee goes out of its way to warn that anything but the briefest forecasts are perilous this Government comes to us with a defence statement that talks in terms of 10 to 15 years of peace. [More…]

• Lead time is the time it takes to put together the vital elements of a defence force, how long it takes to train an infantry lieutenant, an infantry captain, a major or a colonel, how long it takes to put together the skills of a divisional group. [More…]

• The Russian Navy is backed up by an immense merchant navy, which is part of the defence forces of Russia, and an immense fishing fleet which also is part of the defence forces of Russia. [More…]

• The statement which has been made is a statement outlining the indefinite deferral of defence equipment procurement. [More…]

• The people of Australia should understand that those items of equipment in regard to which the Government is silent or in regard to which it confesses it will take no action, in fact are vital to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• This defence statement is outrageous. [More…]

• The defence statement which has been read to us this afternoon is a fair indication of the panic of this Government now that it has come to the realisation that within a few weeks it will have to face the Australian people and account for its activities over the last 14 or 15 months. [More…]

• One of the weakest links in this Government is its defence policy and, in particular, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• Naturally, because of this panic, the Government feels that it has to do some window-dressing to try to persuade the Australian people that belatedly it has decided to do something about defence. [More…]

• I suppose if we read the headlines this morning and if we read the statements which will come from the Minister and the Government in the next few days, on the surface one would assume that the Government intended to do something about the defences of this country. [More…]

• But if we have a close look at the statement before us, at what has been put in train in regard to equipment for our Services over the years and what has been projected for the future it will be obvious, as Senator Carrick has said, that this means a downgrading of equipment for our armed Services, not increased expenditure on our defences. [More…]

• How the devil are we to have a defence force in this country if our servicemen are completely dissatisfied? [More…]

• The ACS has been a very important part of the defence structure of this country. [More…]

• As I said last week when we were debating defence issues, the Australian Labor Party in government is consistent with the ALP in Opposition. [More…]

• It does not believe in strong defence in this country. [More…]

• Why waste money on defence?’ [More…]

• There is no doubt that the people of Queensland must be completely dissatisfied with the performance of this Government in relation to defence. [More…]

• It still can be used as a defence base. [More…]

• There is no question that the defence policy of this Government has been a disaster. [More…]

• One wonders who wrote this nonsense for the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• There is no indication in this so called defence statement- this non-defence statement by a non-Defence Minister- of any type of vessel which is capable of moving not only our forces but their equipment. [More…]

• This is the type of intelligent statement that we see right throughout this defence statement. [More…]

• As we go through this defence statement piece by piece we can see the gimmickry in it; we can see the whole falseness of it. [More…]

• The interest that this Government has in the defence of the western side of our continent was displayed when the Minister for. [More…]

• The Government’s contempt for the defence of our western seaboard is indicated also by the slow-down in the construction of the base at Cockburn Sound. [More…]

• We can go through this defence statement step by step to prove the insincerity of this Government. [More…]

• But if I were to read pages 27 to 34 of the report which carry the heading ‘Strategic Considerations’ they would make complete nonsense of the defence statement. [More…]

• There is just one other notable omission from this so-called defence statement. [More…]

• It is an item of defence equipment in regard to which there is an urgent need for the Government to make a decision. [More…]

• This is particularly so if the Government believes, as it states, that the defence forces should be prepared for continental war, that is, war within Australia. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Repatriation who is at the table will draw the attention of the Minister for Defence to the urgent need for a close support aircraft. [More…]

• As an independent senator, I hope to be able to talk on the matter of defence in an impartial way. [More…]

• In my opinion, that was purely an election gimmick by the former Government, just as this proposed expenditure on defence is an election gimmick by this Government. [More…]

• I notice that the considerations contained in the statement presented by the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop) on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) have been brought forward by the Chiefs of Staff of the 3 Services collectively. [More…]

• It has been indicated in the statement that even after the introduction of manpower economies which were announced last August, the manpower of the defence Services will still be 39 per cent above the 1 963 level. [More…]

• I believe that neither the previous Government nor this Government has anything to be proud about in its defence program and that we should not criticise either of them; rather, we should be prepared to accept that what they have tried to do is probably within the financial capability of Australia. [More…]

• Senator BISHOP (South Australia-Minister for Repatriation and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence)- Mr Deputy President, before I move that the debate be adjourned I should like to reply briefly to the point raised by Senator Wood. [More…]

• That was before their series of broken promises, like the promise on defence which has just been debated here. [More…]

• They promised that they would expend at least 3.5 per cent of the gross national product on defence, but they have got nowhere near 3 per cent yet. [More…]

• There is something of the order of 84,900 who are covered by membership of the Australian defence forces. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has already stated quite clearly that the Government will not be caught in the same way as the previous Government was caught over the purchase of the Fill aircraft. [More…]

• My question without notice is addressed to the Minister for Repatriation and Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In reply to my colleague, Senator Milliner, it occurs to me that Mr Snedden having been a former Federal Treasurer apparently believes that the way to deal with inflation and its effect is to reduce taxes and interest rates on the one hand and increase defence spending on the other and then hope that no one notices that social welfare spending has to be cut back. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, concerns the request by Russia to establish a defence intelligence monitoring system in Australia, which system will be masquerading as a scientific facility. [More…]

• Yesterday a defence statement was made and it was exposed as a phoney operation. [More…]

• Involved in the examination of this matter were people who know something about science, people trained in defence and in foreign affairs. [More…]

• It did not have an electoral mandate to reduce defence expenditure from 3.5 per cent to 2.8 per cent because the Prime Minister, in his policy speech, promised not to reduce expenditure below 3.5 per cent. [More…]

• 4m are sought for the Defence Services; $5. [More…]

• 7m of this amount 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…]

• pursued defence and foreign affairs policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity; and [More…]

• One of the great broken promises was in relation to defence policy. [More…]

• A Labor Government will allocate not less than 3.5 per cent of Australia ‘s gross national product for defence in each annual Budget. [More…]

• Defence expenditure in 1973-74 is estimated at 2.9 per cent. [More…]

• Let us have a look at defence. [More…]

• Today we heard the Minister for Repatriation (Senator Bishop), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), talking about what the Government has done for the defence of this country. [More…]

• He talks about how the Minister for Defence went to America and saved $30m. [More…]

• Let me remind the Minister that all Ministers for Defence in the previous Government indicated, when answering questions, that when the final cost of the Fill project was arrived at- and it could not be arrived at until the aircraft came to Australia- there had to be an accounting between the Australian authorities and the American authorities, and it was believed that that accounting would be in our favour. [More…]

• This great saving that the Minister for Defence obtained on his trip to America is the result of the difference in the 2 accounting systems. [More…]

• In this place I have listened to eloquent defences by the present Attorney-General and Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) of the right of the Senate to take action on money Bills. [More…]

• I pay tribute to him for that defence of the rights of the Senate, a defence of the rights of the Senate which did not please his leader in another place, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]

• The Prime Minister used that defence as the occasion for rebuking Senator Murphy because he said that the Constitution permitted us to do what we propose tonight. [More…]

• I repeat: This election must be fought on one issue- the issue of all power to Canberra, the issue of the defence of the rights of the States, the defence of the rights of the family and the defence of all the other rights which are essential in any community such as ours. [More…]

• We have had the experience of spiralling housing costs, over-expansion of the public sector, unnecessarily rapid growth- enormous growth- in the Public Service and, alarmingly, we have a lack of defence preparedness. [More…]

• We have a suggestion that more money should be spent on defence. [More…]

• He will give us a return to pork barrel politics, a demand for the restoration of all the bounties which, I suggest, is in great conflict with the propositions which are put forward by the junior partner, the Liberal Party, to give relief from taxation and at the same time to spend more money on defence. [More…]

• Since that Bill was introduced, rates of salary, pay and allowances, of both members of the defence force and civilian employees, have been extensively affected by a variety of new awards, determinations and related decisions. [More…]

• Of the total appropriations sought, $4 1.3m 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, re-engagement bonuses and other allowances for members of the force. [More…]

• The total amount sought in this Bill is $1,804,284,000 for the following services: (a) Civil Departmental Services, $1,156,869,000; (b) Defence Services, $587,415,000; (c) Advance to the Treasurer, $60m. [More…]

• 5m for Defence Service homes and $100m for expenditure under the Post and Telegraph Act. [More…]

• He 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…]

• These people were in constant touch with the Treasurer (Mr Crean) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) to arrange all the facilities that the Federal Government could provide in the way of relief for the people of Queensland. [More…]

• The fact is that the servicemen and civil defence workers went to homes and asked people to leave. [More…]

• That meant that the civil defence workers and Service personnel had to return again, and it was then that lives were lost. [More…]

• Because a state of emergency was not declared, the civil defence workers were powerless to compel people to leave their homes. [More…]

• At its annual meeting, usually in June each year, it determines the amount that can be borrowed by the Australian Governments during the ensuing financial year (except borrowings for defence purposes) on reasonable terms and conditions and divides this amount between the member Governments. [More…]

• Minister for Defence- the Hon. [More…]

• It considers that governments should take no part in anything except the defence of the country and what it calls the preservation of individual freedoms. [More…]

• The Governor-General’s Speech also made it quite clear that the Government proposes to continue its cavalier attitude towards the defence of our nation. [More…]

• One paragraph of it was devoted to defence. [More…]

• That paragraph claimed that the Government was creating ‘the most effective, mobile and professional defence force in Australia’s peace-time history’. [More…]

• The Government is indeed to be condemned for its failure to acknowledge the dangers of inflation and to take positive steps to relieve that inflation; its failure to acknowledge that there is rampant industrial unrest and to take steps to check that unrest and the divisions it is causing within our community; its continuing confrontation with the States and its dismissal of responsibility for Australia’s defence. [More…]

• pursued defence and foreign affairs policies which have seriously weakened our defence capacity; [More…]

• it has pursued and intends to pursue defence and foreign policies which are contrary to Australia’s international treaty obligations and which ignore or reject long established bonds with traditional and trusted allies; and further the Senate views with alarm- [More…]

• That has been put as an argument in defence of the existing federal structure in Australia. [More…]

• I wish to mention briefly our defence capability and capacity. [More…]

• Our defence has been weakened under this Government. [More…]

• The manpower in the defence forces in June 1973 numbered 74,000. [More…]

• Concerning defence it states: A Labor Government will transform Australia’s defences’. [More…]

• Here we have the Labor Party endorsing doctrinaire socialism as if the removal of the right of people to choose their own jobs is not a great loss of freedom and as if the destruction of a great electrical industry in Australia is not one of the most serious threats not only to employment but also to the security and defence of Australia. [More…]

• Is there a reference in the GovernorGeneral ‘s Speech to the virtual disbandment of our defence forces and the rejection of the recommendation of the Defence Chiefs of StaffSenator Milliner knows about this-that we should have one division of the Army with 9 battalions and the cutting back to 6 battalions as well as the abolition of one great Mirage fighter squadron? [More…]

• -I respond to the challenge by saying that a Liberal-Country Party Government of which I was proud to be a supporter made a very wise decision, as has been acknowledged by the Minister who represents in this chamber the Minister for Defence, in choosing to purchase 24 FI 1 1 aircraft for this country. [More…]

• They are of immense strategic value to the Royal Australian Air Force in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Thank God for them in terms of the defence of Australia. [More…]

• There is complete euphemism in terms of our defence situation. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence or the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Construction. [More…]

• Honourable senators may recall that when the Labor Government came to power the Minister for Defence set 3 priorities, in this order: Firstly, he said, in relation to the conditions of engagement of servicemen, that he would make sure that they received a rate of pay which was commensurate with what was being paid in outside industry. [More…]

• Secondly, having done that, he said that he would ensure that, in relation to pension rates, the defence forces retirement benefits scheme would be reviewed and improved. [More…]

• I would expect Major General Stretton, who now heads the national disaster organisation, to make representation to the Minister for Defence about the proposition which, on paper, seems to be a very good one. [More…]

• I certainly would be happy to work out some arrangement with the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I think people ought to respond if they have a defence to what is said and not to what they believe is the criticism to which they would like to respond. [More…]

• I refer to defence. [More…]

• When the then Governor-General opened Parliament in February 1973, just after Labor was elected to office, he devoted several early paragraphs of his opening Speech to defence. [More…]

• One year later, in February 1974, the Queen’s opening address discussed defence in 2 paragraphs in the middle of the Speech. [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. [More…]

• Some of the facts and figures proving the extent of the rundown of our defence capability and the erosion of the morale of the forces since Labor took office have already been cited in the debate. [More…]

• Whenever the Government’s defence policy has been questioned in this chamber, we have been told not only that there is no foreseeable threat to Australia within 10 or 15 years but also that the Services are better off now than ever before in the way of pay and conditions. [More…]

• I was very intrigued this morning with a question asked by Senator Missen of the PostmasterGeneral (Senator Bishop), who in this chamber represents the Minister for Defence, concerning housing at Air Force bases in Victoria. [More…]

• On 16 October 1970, the Minister for Defence informed the Parliament that the Government had decided to appoint this Committee of Inquiry into Financial Terms and Conditions of Service for Male and Female members of the Regular Armed Forces. [More…]

• I invited the Government and the Postmaster-General, who in this chamber represents the Minister for Defence, to explain to me why, at a time when conditions in the Services are far more attractive than they were previously, it has been found necessary not to raise the entrance standards for recruits into the Services but to lower them, and why so many of our senior experienced officers are leaving the Services. [More…]

• -The truth is that in the area of defence, as in many other areas, there is no excuse for Labor’s mismanagement. [More…]

• Many people in Western Australia, which is the State I represent, are incensed that the Government has chosen virtually to ignore defence requirements. [More…]

• I think it is a shocking thing, in view of what the previous Government did for the defence Services. [More…]

• He made some remarks about this Government’s policies towards defence matters. [More…]

• He gave the impression that this Government was not interested in defence, that there was something lacking in our concern for the security of this country. [More…]

• We all know that, with very few exceptions, throughout the world the percentages of gross national product being spent on defence are declining. [More…]

• Last year only 2 countries of those making up the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation group were spending a greater percentage of their gross domestic product on defence than Australia is spending. [More…]

• The important point is that this Government has shown an attitude of responsibility towards defence and the security of this nation second to none. [More…]

• However, I was not intending to speak on defence. [More…]

• The accused stated, as part of his defence, that he intended, before actually passing into the aircraft, to obtain the permission of the captain of the aircraft. [More…]

• -On behalf of the Minister for Manufacturing Industry I present for the information of honourable senators the 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…]

• I simply say to you, Mr Acting Deputy President -and, as I have the honour to address you now, I compliment you on your new position- that the defence rests on what I have said. [More…]

• -I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to an article which appears in the Australian’ of today’s date and which states that the Minister for Defence will be leaving Australia next week to visit Germany and that while there he will study the union concept in West Germany where trades unions are permitted to operate in its military organisations. [More…]

• Going on the number of these contractual arrangements which come to me for my approval for and on behalf of the ABC relating to the purchase of electronic equipment, bearing in mind the amount of electronic equipment required by the Post Office, the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and the Department of Defence and realising that the introduction of frequency modulation broadcasting is being considered, that cable television has yet to be introduced in Australia and that the Government has recently opened up the AM broadcasting spectrum, the Australian electronics industry has very little to fear so far as its future development is concerned. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation been drawn to the criticism that the extension of repatriation benefits to members of the defence forces has changed the whole concept of war service underlying repatriation? [More…]

• In fact, what the Government has done in regard to the increase in the eligibility of persons who may receive repatriation benefits has been to provide that members of the defence forces serving in time of peace are now entitled to the same benefits as those available to ex-servicemen who served in non-combat areas in time of war. [More…]

• On the contrary, what the Government has done is to extend the range of benefits to members of the defence forces serving in peace time. [More…]

• I speak in defence of a full-blooded, equal Senate for the purpose of the 6 federating States-meaning by that, their people. [More…]

• Let us remember the only point that I really rose to make: It does not strike me as being a great defence of democracy to suggest that one representative is enough for 30,000 voters in a territory and that 15 representatives are appropriate for the State from which one happens to come. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform the Senate of the position regarding new enlistments into the Australian Regular Army? [More…]

• -The latest information which I have from Mr Barnard is that enlistments in the Defence Forces generally have been running at a satisfactory level in most categories. [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 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…]

• Repeatedly throughout the intervening period the miners have had conferences with the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• It is the right of the miners in this case, having regard to the promises made to them by their local Federal representative, the Minister for Defence, who was then the Deputy Prime Minister, to get a decision on the matter. [More…]

• Mr Hayden ‘s figure excluded Defence personnel who had separate cover for medical care; it excluded Queenslanders; and it excluded those with pension entitlements. [More…]

• It includes figures derived from the 1973 Defence report. [More…]

• JOINT COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE [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…]

• 1 7 of the House of Representatives relating to the appointment of a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I need hardly stress the value and importance of the petroleum and mineral industries to the defence capacity of this country. [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…]

• I believe there is an enormous area for the involvement of taxpayers funds in this country- defence, education, welfare, economic incentive and so forth. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In view of the numerous statements made by relevant Ministers to the effect that everything in the defence set-up is rosy, particularly where it concerns the pay and conditions of service and the defence forces retirement benefits scheme, will the Minister state why it has been found necessary to embark on a high pressure and costly advertising campaign in order to attract recruits to the armed Services? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has asked recruiting officials to make sure that recruiting is carried out in an attractive way. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether it is a fact that a team of Royal Navy personnel will be testing a surface to air missile called ‘Seawolf at Woomera in the near future. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Three main questions have been submitted to the Minister for Defence for consideration. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and follows the question asked by Senator Brown relating to school cadet training. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• When the defence vote was cut last year it had some effect on the defence factories. [More…]

• As soon as that became evident the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, advised the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the unions concerned of the cuts and what might happen. [More…]

• I know that just recently I wrote to my colleague, the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, on the matter. [More…]

• Senator Drury might recall that the greater portion of those who resigned from the Services in May were people who were entitled for the first time to resign and take advantage of the improved defence forces retirement benefits scheme. [More…]

• The question asked by the honourable senator is one which the Defence Department has been looking at because there has been a phasing out of servicemen, to which the honourable senator specifically referred. [More…]

• In the first area a number of joint exercises have been conducted by the Department of Defence, using naval vessels and Air Force planes together with [More…]

• The second item is one by which people have a liability for tax for allowances and benefits received by members of the defence forces under the new pay code. [More…]

• There is one point in relation to the contributions under the Defence Forces and Parliamentary Retirement [More…]

• Following changes to the Defence Force and Parliamentary Retirement Benefits Schemes, members contributions under those schemes are paid directly into Consolidated Revenue. [More…]

• However, I suggest that the honourable senator should think twice before asking any government to use its defence Services to intervene in an industrial dispute because history has proved quite clearly that disastrous industrial consequences will result from intervention of this type. [More…]

• Senator Hall’s colleague from South Australia asked me whether I would recommend that the defence Services be used to lift the cargo of steel, and I said that I thought that efforts to resolve the dispute ought to be accelerated. [More…]

• The final suggestion by Senator Jessop was that we should use the defence Services and I said that certainly should not be considered in these circumstances because such action could have very complicated and wide effects. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of a telegram that was sent to the Minister for Defence in Canberra and to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Darwin? [More…]

• If there is some claim that has a religious connotation I will take that question up with the Minister for Defence to see what the position is and whether anything can be done to prevent a continuation of bombing of the island. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam also announced that the Australian defence services had been requested to provide whatever assistance could be given to alleviate the effects of the flood. [More…]

• Before 1962 only Aborigines entitled to vote in State elections and Aborigines who had served or were serving in the defence forces could vote in Federal elections. [More…]

• Senator Wright- this great custodian of morals, principles, justice and fair play, the upholder of the dignity of the Senate, the great statesman of Australia, the great man from the Island State who comes over here in defence of all that is fair and free- makes accusations, many of which are false, and will not permit a reply to be given to them. [More…]

• Replacement of the Hercules fleet has been under consideration since 1970 and the Department of Defence thinks that a second-hand Boeing 707 would be a good buy for its purposes. [More…]

• This is a matter which would be discussed in the budgetary context but the information that is supplied to me indicates that this is part of a defence effort. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Has any decision been made by the Minister for Defence in connection with the representations that were made to him regarding amenities and other matters at the Woodside Army camp during his recent inspection of it- an inspection on which I had the pleasure of accompanying him? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has given directions that any soldier rostered for duty on a weekend will be entitled to a mileage allowance if he uses his own private vehicle. [More…]

• I notice that the Government finally is starting to look at the question of defence personnel and is deciding whether they will be entitled to exemption. [More…]

• I say once again, in conclusion, that I wonder if the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation is prepared to say a word in defence of the Minister for Social Security. [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 Whitiam), 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…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided additional information, and I will read what he said. [More…]

• The Defence Force Development Committee, comprising the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff, the Service Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of the Defence Department, has for some time been considering the numbers and mix of aircraft, as between aircraft of the Hercules type and jet transports, to replace the Hercules CI 30 A transports which go out of Royal Australian Air Force service later in this decade. [More…]

• That is the information supplied by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Honourable senators will understand that the use of the word T in that answer refers to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I informed the Minister for Defence, the Honourable Lance Barnard, at that time. [More…]

• If the consumer sues under State law the trader will have a constitutional defence- the very defence about which I am talking. [More…]

• He will be able to say that his defence is that the State law is inconsistent with the Federal law. [More…]

• Such a guarantee would then constitute a defence by a retailer in any action for noncompliance with these provisions. [More…]

• Is not Andre Sakharov a man who thoughout the world is reputed for the sufferings he has undergone in defence of the civil liberties which he claims ought to be the right of the Russian people? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Defence arrange to table the manifests of the Royal Australian Air Force Squadron 34, the VIP squadron, from the day details were last given to the Parliament up until 31 July 1974? [More…]

• During the war many building trades unions refused to admit new members and charged exorbitant fees for issuing working permits to the employees attracted to the industry by defence construction. [More…]

• The only defence, I imagine, which such a company could raise would be: ‘ We were endeavouring to expand our business. [More…]

• The Opposition proposes to introduce the defence that a person reasonably believed that somebody had done something that he had never done at all. [More…]

• (2) (a) defence permits the supplier to allow a price concession to a customer who, say, collects all his goods at one place and undertakes his own distribution to outlets. [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our Defence Forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies, [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our defence forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies, [More…]

• I have received letters from the Prime Minister, the Leaders of the Opposition Parties in the House of Representatives and the Leaders of the Government and Opposition Parties in the Senate, in accordance with resolutions passed by both Houses, nominating members to serve on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence as follows: Senator Carrick, Senator Sim, Senator Drury, Senator Mcintosh, Senator Maunsell, Senator Primmer, Senator Wheeldon, Mr Berinson, Mr Coates, Mr Connolly, Mr Corbett, Mr Cross, Mr Dawkins, Dr Forbes, Mr Fry, Mr Giles, Mr Kerin, Dr Klugman, Mr Lucock, Mr Oldmeadow and Mr Peacock. [More…]

• That the senators nominated in accordance with the resolution of the Senate be appointed members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Of course the retailers would have a defence which is referred to in clause 85, that if the contravention was due to a mistake, to reliance on information supplied by another person or to the act or default of another person or to an accident or to some other cause beyond his control and he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the contravention that would meet the position of the retailers. [More…]

• So, we are already importing an onus on the defendant if he is to establish a defence under subclause 2. [More…]

• 1 ) 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 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 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 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…]

• Clause 85 provides a broadly stated defence. [More…]

• The Regulations and Ordinances Committee saw that a defence was available to the directors of that company if they could show that they took all reasonable precautions against committing the offence. [More…]

• The view of the Regulations and Ordinances Committee was that if all reasonable precautions had been taken the offence would never have occured and that therefore it was a defence which was meaningless. [More…]

• The member of the Commission who was called upon to produce it would have absolutely no defence. [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our Defence Forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies, [More…]

• Then, the Air Navigation Act provides that a Minister may delegate powers in relation to international airports, the cancellation or suspension of a licence, approval of nonscheduled flights on foreign carriers and of the use of defence aerodromes. [More…]

• It has been determined that law enforcement functions would be carried out by close co-operation between the defence forces and other departments with law enforcement functions, particularly the Department of Customs and Excise. [More…]

• The Australian Government, with the co-operation of the Department of Defence especially, took all reasonable steps within its legal limits to apprehend vessels which had in fact breached the declared fishing zone. [More…]

• That is a rather irrelevent comment to make, because our defence forces and reconnaissance people in this area, in the exercise of their duty, are not expected to use overt force. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: What loss of employment is projected at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory over the next 12 months? [More…]

• That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act relating to members of the Public Service and the defence forces who become candidates for election to the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory and similar bodies for other Territories and for related purposes. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence; [More…]

• The first is the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I know the argument that there is a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence but, with respect to that Committee, I do not think that it has ever produced to the Parliament the type of report which the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has produced. [More…]

• I do not believe that the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence can do or will do the work that the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence did. [More…]

• I understand that there is a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Surely they should have no doubt that if they have an interest in foreign affairs and defence matters they will be appointed to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Those of us who have sat on both the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- and indeed Senator Wheeldon who interjected will know that I have sat on both of those Committees- will know quite clearly that the great bulk of the work of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is taken up- and rightly- with meeting our ambassadors and others and informing ourselves. [More…]

• It will deny the right of the Senate vitally to submit references on perhaps the most important subject that the Senate should consider, and that is foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• The 2 committees which will not be re-established are the Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs and Defence and on Industry and Trade. [More…]

• If one examines the matters which were outstanding with the Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs and Defence on 10 April this year when the 28th Parliament terminated, one finds that they included the question of the adequacy of the Australian Army to perform its necessary part in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• In substance, the first part of the amendment really seeks to add to the list the other 2 committeesthe Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Standing Committee on Industry and Trade. [More…]

• I will be more charitable to him than he was to me and say that in relation to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee he has a very short memory. [More…]

• I do not say that he deliberately misrepresented the position to the Senate, but it appears from the Journals that on 23 July 1974 a message was received from the House of Representatives in which it was proposed that a joint committee be appointed to consider and report upon foreign affairs and defence generally and such matters as may be referred to the committee by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, by the Minister for Defence or by resolution of either House of the Parliament. [More…]

• It therefore appears that there is a committee of both Houses- to which this Senate has agreed- which should inquire into matters of foreign affairs and defence and that this Senate can refer any matter to be inquired into by that committee. [More…]

• It seems to us that there is a very strong case in relation to the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]

• As this Senate has concurred in a proposition that there should be established a body which can deal with matters of defence following upon a decision of either House, there are very strong reasons why there ought to be a joint House approach in matters relating to foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• For instance in regard to witnesses, very often there may be an important foreign affairs witness or defence specialist. [More…]

• I think it did not include defence at that stage. [More…]

• Did that Joint Committee include defence at that stage? [More…]

• Whatever else is done, we say that it would not assist the committee system if the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee were included in the motion. [More…]

• Senator Hall has indicated a view on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• We can do this simply by deciding whether there should be a Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]

• Let me say to Senator Murphy and to Senator Hall, who opposes the reestablishment of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the basis that we have a joint committee, that as one who served on both committees- indeed, I served for many years on the Joint Committee about whose ability even today to carry out proper investigations I will say a few words- the report on Japan was held to be of great significance overseas. [More…]

• I have been involved with sub-committees of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• When I took over the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee we had difficulties with our own Government. [More…]

• I think it has been demonstrated that at least the case for a joint system in regard to foreign affairs and defence has been made out. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence should be established and then to take the rest of the amendment in globo. [More…]

• To put the matter in simple terms, if it were divided and if there were a 30-30 vote Senator Withers would lose the portion of his amendment which deals with foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• I am certain that organisationally it is wasteful to have 2 committees dealing with the subject of foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• The allocation for the defence of Australia has been increased by just over 12 per cent. [More…]

• I have changed my mind on this matter on the basis of the totally inadequate presentation to the Senate and the explanation behind that presentation as to how the defence forces will be maintained when the rise in their salaries and wages bill must be far in excess of the total allocation for defence in the Budget. [More…]

• I do not know how on earth we are going to provide sufficient defence for Australia when we are not even allocating sufficient money to keep up with the increase in wages and salaries, let alone the rapidly escalating costs for every piece of hardware that is required for defence. [More…]

• But I want to issue my protest and say that if some risk is to be taken I will take it on the basis that we may have a little more expenditure on another committee because the Government certainly has not given a sufficient increase in expenditure to the defence forces as such. [More…]

• I noticed the other day that the Minister for Defence, who has been promoting this thinking, claimed at a meeting at Duntroon that the official view now did not preclude the development of threats to Australia within a 10 to 15 year period. [More…]

• Perhaps Mr Barnard is becoming aware of the realities of the situation and will do something about our defence forces. [More…]

• I do not believe that this in any way justified the Soviet Union believing that it could forcibly incorporate those 3 states inside the Soviet Union and I do not believe that it entitled the Soviet Union to occupy the eastern third of Poland and to take part conjointly with nazi Germany in a military attack upon Poland which was then, with whatever faults there may have been in the existing Polish Government, fighting alongside the democracies in defence of the world against nazism and fascism. [More…]

• I have sat under the chairmanship of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack on the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Of course, we must have a defence force to back up those agreements. [More…]

• His self-destroying speech plus the defence of the Minister would have been sufficient for this particular debate. [More…]

• We on this side of the chamber have lined up in defence of the Government, not on the question of politics but on the question of human rights. [More…]

• The decision, such as it was, was not related to trade or economics or defence or even to international aid. [More…]

• The last part of the honourable senator’s question concerned the Government’s interest in defence expenditure. [More…]

• The fact remains that this Government still spends more of the gross national product on defence than do the great majority of the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. [More…]

• I think that is a fairly good indication of this Government’s genuine concern for the defence capability of this country. [More…]

• The AttorneyGeneral ‘s Department, the Commonwealth Police and the Department of Defence are involved in the investigations. [More…]

• In recent months officers of the Department of Customs and Excise have, with the assistance of the defence forces, carried out extensive land, sea and air patrols in the northern areas. [More…]

• Members of the defence force are in the same position. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to enable officers or employees of the Australian Public Service and members of the defence force, who resign to contest elections for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, to be re-appointed or reemployed if they fail to gain election. [More…]

• Parts IV and V of the Bill relate to members of the defence force who resign to contest the elections. [More…]

• The amendments apply the provisions of the Defence (Parliamentary Candidates) Act and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act to those elections thus giving members of the defence force similar rights to public servants. [More…]

• He stated that the uranium deposits in Australia should be vigorously and promptly exploited for defence and industrial purposes. [More…]

• I do not believe that the United States of America is limited by the reference to defence as is this provision outside territories under Commonwealth control. [More…]

• Through the Commonwealth Government arrangements were made with the South Australia Mines Department to carry out this investigation, with the assistance of Commonwealth defence forces and other State and mining Commonwealth departments. [More…]

• All I am suggesting is that the security considerations of that Act could perhaps be better directed at this time- on social, economic and defence grounds- to the extremely dangerous fuel situation in which this country finds itself. [More…]

• They preserve the distinction to be found in the Act between the defence power, which is relevant to the power elsewhere than in the territory, and the territorial power. [More…]

• It should be noted that it is the existence of that very distinction in the Act which refutes any suggestion that the control provisions, including those relating to the making of regulations, are there solely for defence purposes. [More…]

• As a corollary, it should be noted also that, again consistent with the Act, the application of licences in the States can arise only in circumstances where it is necessary for the purpose of the defence of this country. [More…]

• He is chiding the Opposition in defence of his own accusations. [More…]

• As I suspected, the Minister’s defence of the Government in this matter does not reveal any policy whatsoever. [More…]

• I come back to the motion and the Government’s defence of the regulations. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether he can elaborate on his earlier response to a question concerning discussions between the Australian Government and the New South Wales Government on the vacation of the Moore Park Engineers Depot, which would allow for a merger of the Sydney Sports Ground and the Sydney Cricket Ground No. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the interim report of the Director of Defence Service Homes of Operations in relation to insurance and financial statements for the year ended 30 June 1974. [More…]

• I say that he was skilful in the sense that, from what I heard of his speech, he did not call the Government’s opponents union bashers in adopting the usual, typical defence that one hears from so many of the members of the Australian Labor Party and the union movement. [More…]

• This defence is used against those who criticise or involve themselves in union affairs from a right of centre political position. [More…]

• It is a somewhat weak defence to say: Hands off the union movement. [More…]

• On 14 August 1974 Senator Marriott asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question without notice regarding the tabling of manifests for the Royal Australian Air Force VIP aircraft from the day details were last given until 31 July 1974. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence: [More…]

• It is a clear matter of principle that persons in the Public Service and in the defence force ought to be able to stand as candidates in elections. [More…]

• Let us suppose that somebody were able to introduce a prohibition on these people standing as candidates in elections or that the law were not in the state that it is in now and they could not rejoin the Public Service or the defence force. [More…]

• In clauses 1 7 and 1 8, omit the words: ‘or a legislative or advisory body for another Territory prescribed for the purposes of section 7 of the Defence (Parliamentary Candidates) Act 1969-1974’. [More…]

• If adequate provision is not made it must be conceded that someone may, through inadvertence or by some change in attitude to these things, depart from the principle that we are accepting and by some kind of ordinance in a territory take away the right of public servants or those in the defence forces to stand for election and to be reinstated if they are unsuccessful. [More…]

• The Budget also provides for some short-term savings with long-term consequences in the area of defence. [More…]

• We all know the slight regard the Australian Labor Party has for our defence forces. [More…]

• So it was not really a great surprise to find that the smallest increase among the Federal Government’s major commitments went to defence. [More…]

• Although defence expenditure will increase by $ 164.6m, the total allocation is somewhat less than 2.5 per cent in real terms of the gross domestic product and well below the 3.2 to 3.5 per cent of gross national product promised by Mr Whitlam in 1972. [More…]

• 1 ) As announced by the Minister for Defence in the Parliament on 30 May 1 973, the Army ‘s organisation and career structure is based on an Army planning strength of 36,000. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware that Western Australians have been deeply concerned about the almost non-existent defence effort in the western part of this continent and that they will welcome any steps to correct that situation. [More…]

• In respect to any future planning, I think that I should ask the Minister for Defence to supply any additional information he can for the honourable senator. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• 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 [More…]

• During the time that he was in Parliament he held the posts of Minister for the Interior, Minister without Portfolio, Postmaster-General, Minister for Repatriation, Minister for Defence, Minister for Post-war Reconstruction and Australian Resident Minister in London. [More…]

• The Embassy has approached the Foreign Ministry, the secretary-general of the junta, the Ministry of Defence and the armed services intelligence organisation. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to the announcement that the Minister for Manufacturing Industry has requested a special committee to report on the possibility of” finding work for employees at defence factories. [More…]

• -Whilst I have some allied responsibility for this as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, in fact the responsibility in this area lies mainly with the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, Mr Enderby, who is represented in this chamber by the Minister for Agriculture, Senator Wriedt. [More…]

• Its growth over recent years owes much to Australian 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…]

• Let me be churlish and say that if there is any claim that the Labor Government might make towards Townsville, it is that it has very successfully reduced the defence installations of Townsville by withdrawing battalions of troops. [More…]

• It has taken key defence personnel from Townsville. [More…]

• Not only have the defence forces in Townsville been reduced, Townsville itself depends on the great wealth earned by the pastoral industry and the mining industry. [More…]

• It may happen that half a dozen honourable senators from either side who want to deal with, say, the defence estimates are. [More…]

• not in the chamber at the time when the defence estimates are called on because the estimates of the department being considered beforehand went through very quickly. [More…]

• The defence estimates will then go through very quickly also and we will be laughed at by the people and by the media because we allowed to go through with a twinkling of an eye and without discussion the very important defence estimates which involve thousands of millions of dollars. [More…]

• In self defence I say only that the record does not justify his statement. [More…]

• I referred earlier to the defence vote which I believe is being kept down to a deplorable level in view of the inflationary effects and the need even to maintain the payment of salaries to members of the defence forces. [More…]

• It is obvious that some defence cuts will be made. [More…]

• South Australia has within its borders one of the most important defence facilities in this country. [More…]

• I believe that it is under severe threat of being dismantled by this Government because of economies being made in the defence vote. [More…]

• The Government is using the defence vote as one part of its program to take the brunt of economies while it is increasing rapidly its appropriations for other parts of its expenditure program. [More…]

• The facts of life are that in 1973-74 the vote for the research and development section of the defence appropriation was $59.8m, which was an increase of $3m or 5.3 per cent. [More…]

• It would appear that there is a very deliberate attempt to run down one of the most important defence technology groupings in the southern hemisphere. [More…]

• They have to their credit quite a number of important defence mechanisms. [More…]

• I can say to the Minister for Agriculture that the members of this valuable assembly of staff at the Weapons Research Establishment are extremely concerned that they are taking the brunt of the economies in the defence vote because they are not front line operators. [More…]

• The Weapons Research Establishment group is very concerned about the viability of Australia’s Defence Scientific Service due to it being allowed to run down in an ad hoc manner by wastage. [More…]

• We consider that, from a national point of view, Australia ‘s defence organisation must remain viable to be ready to meet any likely demands upon it. [More…]

• He cuts the basis of the future development of Australia’s defence. [More…]

• The Government will reduce the basis not of next year’s defence but of the defence for which it says it is planning- in 1 5 years. [More…]

• If the Government means anything when it talks of its program for 15 years, which, I think, is the lead time which the Government mentions before there is any possible danger of aggression to Australia, it would maintain this vital defence development area for this country. [More…]

• It is as deplorable as the run down in South Australia of the scientific research section of our defence forces. [More…]

• No parrotting of the South Australian Government’s defence of a quite unsupportable situation by Senator McLaren can make it any better. [More…]

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• Queries have concerned whether the defence forces have sufficient patrol boats in the area. [More…]

• Proposals for acquisition of new patrol craft are being considered in the general defence planning. [More…]

• In addition the honourable senator probably will have read that Mr Barnard, the Minister for Defence, whilst overseas inspected a number of new types of pa1trol craft and will be considering what to do about them. [More…]

• As the Government’s previous assessment was of growing stability in the world and a no-threat situation for ten or fifteen years, will the Government now revise Australia’s defence policy in line with the Prime Minister’s new assessment of the world situation? [More…]

• It is a responsible Budget because we have allocated record amounts to the States for public housing, for the establishment of a new Australian housing corporation and for the further liberalising of loans for defence service homes. [More…]

• He also suggested that there is something wrong with the fall in defence expenditure. [More…]

• It has managed to make defence a dirty word. [More…]

• The amount of $ 1,300-odd million which is to be spent on defence is a decrease when we consider the increase by inflation- [More…]

• In many ways this Government has made defence a dirty word. [More…]

• Yesterday Senator Hall put it very well when he said that this wretched Government was deliberately ruining our defence capability. [More…]

• We are told by Mr Barnard’s crystal ball that for 15 years we will not need defence. [More…]

• What we will have left after 15 years, if defence is allowed to fall away, will be a position where we cannot defend ourselves. [More…]

• It should be remembered that this relaxation of tensions which has been brought about by our understanding with countries with different ideological attitudes- I am referring now to China on the one hand and Indonesia on the other- has meant that we have not had to be committed to excessive defence expenditure. [More…]

• That does not mean that we are not unaware of basic defence requirements. [More…]

• In fact, in some conservative circles there appears to be a deeply entrenched view that all private spending is innately desirable and that all public spending is inherently wastefulunless, of course, it is directed to what is somewhat euphemistically called defence. [More…]

• On the contrary, it talks vaguely of an alleged need to increase defence spending, sometimes by as much as one per cent of gross national product or about one per cent of gross national product, which amounts to about $500m. [More…]

• Mr Barnard, the member for Bass, the ex-Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence, for the first time to my knowledge in a long and loyal career went out from under the Prime Minister and said in front of his Tasmanian colleagues, I believe, that if Mr Whitlam had read the second page of the report he would have found that the figure was 900. [More…]

• They say that more money ought to be provided for defence, for child endowment and so on. [More…]

• We have tried to ensure that defence spending reaches the level that we have promised. [More…]

• In relation to defence spending, we have shown that we want to ensure that every serviceman receives about the same rate of pay as people in outside industry. [More…]

• We have heard people say that Labor has cut down on defence spending. [More…]

• Last night Senator Steele Hall said that we are cutting down on defence spending. [More…]

• On many occasions, because the increases were to be paid to defence personnel, we made sure that the payments were made. [More…]

• We have ensured that there are regular hearings in relation to defence pay. [More…]

• If we take into account all the increases in pay that we have made and the benefits that we have provided under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund we find that we have spent more than $300m in ensuring that servicemen receive pay and conditions commensurate with those awarded to people in outside industry. [More…]

• If we want a satisfactory defence force we have to ensure once and for all that servicemen are paid in the same way as their counterparts. [More…]

• The strange thing is that despite the criticism of honourable senators opposite, during the last Federal election campaign they never promised that anything more would be spent on defence. [More…]

• Whilst their defence spokesman and others in this chamber criticised the Government before the last election and whilst they have come back here and said that we ought to do certain things, none of them has promised to spend anything more on defence because they know that we are managing the defence Services properly. [More…]

• But they fell flat because they know that all the things that it is possible to do in the defence area we have done. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As rifle range activities embrace defence, sport and recreation aspects, and as some years ago clubs were favoured with issues of certain amounts of ammunition by the then Department of the Army, will consideration be given to reinstating this system of giving encouragement and assistance to these clubs? [More…]

• I undertake to refer the honourable senator’s request to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Housing and Construction, refers to a recent statement by the Minister for Housing and Construction that the Federal Government has purchased 271/2 hectares of land near Brisbane which will provide approximately 250 building sites for the erection of homes under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate nominating Senator Devitt to be a member of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in place of Senator Drury. [More…]

• That Senator Drury be discharged from attendance upon Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and that Senator Devitt, having been duly nominated in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of 17 September, be appointed to that Committee. [More…]

• That is my only defence. [More…]

• The Budget again showed how little regard this Government has for the defence forces. [More…]

• It had a mandate to continue defence expenditure at between 3.2 per cent and 3.5 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• I tell the honourable senator that we would not have allowed our defence forces to run down to the state they are in today. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has been going overseas and looking around, shopping for something for 1980 or some such date. [More…]

• Our defence research establishments are being deliberately allowed to run down at this time when the Prime Minister has admitted the dangers confronting the world. [More…]

• Never have our defence forces been in such a parlous state as they are today and with no prospect for any improvement. [More…]

• In the field of defence, I believe that once again this Government has abrogated its responsibility. [More…]

• Clearly there are industries that, for defence purposes, are necessary. [More…]

• Of course, defence is a non-event for a government which, having promised an amount of 3.2 per cent of gross national product, cut defence expenditure to 2.6 per cent, according to the Minister’s announcement last night. [More…]

• I discussed the matter with several members of the Indonesian Government -in particular with the Foreign Minister and Minister for Defence- when I was there earlier in the year. [More…]

• There has also been an extension of those benefits to people who served in Malaysia and Singapore and who were not in fact engaged in war but were engaged in various other duties on behalf of the Australian Defence Forces. [More…]

• I cannot speak in regard to the other security and defence intelligence organisations but if the honourable senator will put the question in notice no doubt the answers can be obtained from the appropriate Ministers. [More…]

• Is it correct that the Liberal Party’s new platform no longer pretends that the SEATO treaty has anything to do with Australia’s defence? [More…]

• He was away from the Senate for a time yesterday flirting with the unions on a matter which he said was of such importance that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) should have laid aside what he was doing in Canberra and travelled to Tasmania to attend this epoch making rally. [More…]

• Dealing with the merits of this Bill I want to quote from what was said by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) when it was debated in another place because I want to get back to the fundamentals of this Bill to indicate that Tasmania is receiving very just treatment indeed. [More…]

• In 1949 when the Liberal-Country Party Government came to power, Mr Duthie, the member for Wilmot, was the lone Labor member from Tasmania in the House of Representatives, and he sat there alone until the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) won the seat of Bass. [More…]

• It ignores the fact that Tasmania does not have big Australian Government department offices and that it does not have big defence establishments as some other States have. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What amount was paid out in service pensions under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme in 1971-72 and 1972-73. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• What contributions were paid by servicemen from each Service into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board Scheme in 197 1-72 and 1972-73. [More…]

• 1 ) The report by the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board on the results of the Fourth Quinquennial Investigation of the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Fund for the period 1 July 1964 to 30 June 1969, tabled in the Parliament on 26 October 1972, disclosed that in respect of the Pre 19S9 entrants there was an available surplus as at 30 June 1969 of approximately $14.9 million of which $3.1 million was attributable to pensioners; the report also disclosed that in respect of Post 19S9 entrants and pensioners there was a final net deficiency of $544,000. [More…]

• For the purpose of the investigation as at 30 June 1969 the Australian Government Actuary was required to assume that the Fund would continue in its then present form but with the introduction of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973, which received Royal Assent on 19 June 1973 with retrospective effect to 1 October 1972, the contribution and benefits arrangements changed. [More…]

• Under the provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1973 which also received Royal Assent on 19 June 1973 the moneys of the Fund are transferred to the Commonwealth and as the new Scheme is not funded, all benefits, irrespective of when members retired, are now payable from Consolidated Revenue. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence been made aware of a report in the Melbourne Sun’ that the rocket range at Woomera may fold? [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• This decision was made, as the honourable senator knows, in the context of the last options in relation to defence requirements. [More…]

• Because negotiations are at the present time being carried on between the Defence Department and the company concerned, I am unable to supply details of them. [More…]

• I address my question to the Postmaster-General representing the Minister for Defence in this House. [More…]

• In view of the Government’s decision outlined in the Minister’s statement today to follow up its economic squeeze of the weapons research establishment through reduced Budget allocations, with direct action taken to place the defence facility in a mothballed, run down condition after 1976, will the Minister ask his Government to have this matter re-examined by an independent investigatory authority which will consider among other matters: (a) the concern widely felt overseas at the developing instability due to resource availability and its financial implications; (b) the need for Australia to maintain a developing scientific defence capacity independent of international sources; and (c) the retention in Australia of highly qualified scientists who may be lost to this country if the weapons research establishment- one of the finest facilities of its kind in the world- is dismembered because the Government considers the purchase of ‘Blue Poles’ and glass birds as more important than this country ‘s security? [More…]

• In fact it depends largely on the negotiations between our Government, the Department of Defence and the United Kingdom authorities. [More…]

• That does not mean, of course, that the capability of Australian defence scientists and our defence abilities will be reduced. [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…]

• I direct a question to the Postmaster-General, partly in his capacity as Postmaster-General and partly in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The honourable senator will recall that in the previous reply of the Minister for Defence about Woomera, which I restated in the Senate, we pointed out that the future of Woomera still depends on the requirements of our partner in this venture, the United Kingdom. [More…]

• Until those requirements are determined it is not possible to say whether the Government ought to explore, or I should explore separately, some other venture in equipment which might replace the defence activity in the Woomera area. [More…]

• But I will try to find out from the Minister for Defence whether any negotiations between Australia and the United Kingdom will result in increased activity to the extent that the Government may have to change its policy. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has said that he will ensure that research and development areas of the defence forces are viable. [More…]

• I will try to find out from the Minister for Defence whether there is any reason to believe that something may come from the negotiations. [More…]

• I suppose the only defence which the Opposition has is to ask, as it has asked in the amendment, whether the unions will cooperate and whether the States will co-operate. [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 senators 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…]

• There has been some speculation in the Western Australian Press about what might happen if the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, decides to seek a location in the Yampi Peninsula for holding joint training exercises. [More…]

• I had the pleasure of going with him when I was Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As a result of that, a joint defence services working group has been set up to examine the position. [More…]

• However, I will ask the Minister for Defence whether he has any information additional to that which I have now supplied to the Senate. [More…]

• They are extreme circumstances and they are not any sort of defence. [More…]

• They are bound by the requirements of the law to parade before the court, in their own defence or in justification of their own position, some of the worst features of their married lives together. [More…]

• Other areas in which we in Australia can play a part include the search for better regional security so that the developing countries can spend less as costly defence expenditure. [More…]

• Of course already other Ministers have pointed out what might happen in relation to social services and defence, for example. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -Does the Minister representing the Minister for Defence recall informing the Senate in April last year of the progress made by teams from the Department of Defence and the Department of Air engaged in evaluating the Mirage aircraft replacement scheme? [More…]

• The honourable senator will know that since the Minister for Defence made that statement and I repeated it in the Senate the Government has considered what percentage of expenditure should be placed for defence needs. [More…]

• Everybody knows that at the present time pay, re-engagement bonuses and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund conditions are really no longer the issues they were when we came into government because hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in those areas. [More…]

• I think those in the Returned Services League ought to understand quite firmly- I think we can speak for any government of any political character- that if the Government thinks it needs the assistance of the Returned Services League to run the defence force or any kind of para-military force, it will ask for it. [More…]

• I have now been advised by the Minister for Minerals and Energy that in addition to the recent release from defence stocks of 1 50,000 gallons of distillate in Cairns to assist with the sugar harvest, in a further effort to help primary producers, the Army has greatly curtailed an exercise it planned to conduct in Queensland thereby making additional fuel supplies available. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present 3 reports prepared for the Department of Supply entitled: ‘Central Studies Establishment Annual Report 1973-74’, ‘Defence Standards Laboratories Annual Report 1973-74’, and Aeronautical Research Laboratories Annual Report 1973-74’. [More…]

• With the imposition of crippling taxation in order to maintain her existing defences. [More…]

• The only way in which Israel can get defence security initially is through some tacit agreement with the super powers which in turn have probably got to control some of the hotheads in the Arab fraternity. [More…]

• So it is quite impossible to understand what on earth Senator Button’s defence amounts to, except apparently an opportunity to attack Senator Greenwood. [More…]

• In 1947-48 the then Minister for Supply in Mr Atlee ‘s Government in the United Kingdom buried in the Defence vote the sum of 780m under a false heading. [More…]

• In his defence of the Committee ‘s criticism Senator Wriedt indicated to this side of the chamber that the future of estimates committees was in doubt. [More…]

• Senator Baume will have the defence of this side of the chamber because that sort of approach by Government senators is nothing more than intimidation and an endeavour in the form of an abusive reply to prevent a person from having the say to which is entitled in this chamber. [More…]

• In 6 cases the Postmaster-General’s Department was the client department while the Department of Defence and the Attorney-General’s Department were the client departments in the remaining 2 cases. [More…]

• There are no restrictions on the number of applications that may be lodged, nor on where the applicant may travel other than where Defence Establishment restrictions apply. [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our Defence Forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies, [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• I should like to pay tribute to the witnesses from the Department of Defence because some of the answers the Committee received to searching questions about the ramifications of the Navy dockyards were particularly revealing. [More…]

• In relation to organisation, the old Department of Supply became the Department of Manufacturing Industry and, with the exception of defence research and development, all those enterprises and factories which were formerly under the control of the Department of Supply and the defence departments are now the direct responsibility of the Minister for Manufacturing Industry. [More…]

• I rise in defence of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) in respect of what Senator Davidson has seen fit to accuse him of tonight. [More…]

• I never heard Senator Davidson coming to the defence of Mr Grassby during that campaign. [More…]

• But these same people were not prepared to speak out in his defence when organisations such as the League of Rights were conducting a very vindictive campaign against him in the electorate of Riverina to bring about his defeat because of the humane policies that man was implementing while he was Minister for Immigration. [More…]

• Proposed expenditure- Defence Research and Development Establishments, Department of Manufacturing Industry, Buildings, Works, Fittings and Furniture, $ 1 ,805,000- passed. [More…]

• That Judicial discretion which allows fault in Property Settlement and the usual false accusations necessitating defence in custody and access matters, as well as (a) and (b) above, will result in very much the same litigation in ancillary matters as under the present iniquitous Matrimonial Causes Act. [More…]

• That judicial discretion which allows fault in property settlement and the usual false accusations necessitating defence in custody and access matters, as well as (a) and (b) above, will result in very much the same litigation in ancillary matters as under the present iniquitous Matrimonial Causes Act. [More…]

• The most rapid, efficient and largest possible expansion of all branches of our Defence Forces, and greatest possible strengthening and extending of defence treaties and security arrangements with our traditional friends and allies, [More…]

• Senator Greenwood, rising to the defence of an ABC officer who was present and who was a little unwilling to provide this information, as reported at page 408 of the Hansard report of Senate Estimates Committee B of 1971, said: [More…]

• Suppose some honourable senator considering the defence estimates asked some departmental officer who came before a Committee for information of a highly confidential nature, the sort of information which might be considered to be of some advantage to potential enemies of this country. [More…]

• 1 ) Department of Defence holds 68 hectares of which it is proposed to re-develop 28 hectares with a frontage to Avoca Street for working and living accommodation for Army units in the south eastern metropolitan area of Sydney. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Minister for Defence promise a delegation of shipbuilding workers on 20 September 1972 that a series of small naval vessels would be built in Australia to patrol the Australian coast-line in a manner similar to that of the United States Coast Guard. [More…]

• A Memorandum of Arrangements has been signed with the United States Deputy Secretary of Defence which meets our firm intent to proceed with the purchase only if satisfactory technical, financial and contractual conditions can be negotiated. [More…]

• The five patrol boats transferred to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force were built in the late 1960’s specifically to undertake tasks in Papua New Guinea waters. [More…]

• Since these tasks will now be performed by the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, the five patrol boats need not be replaced. [More…]

• The question of the need for patrol craft is a matter which is under continuing study along with other Defence capabilities in the current cycle of the five year programing process. [More…]

• 1 refer the honourable senator to a statement made to the House of Representatives on 23 August 1973 in which the Minister for Defence announced that: [More…]

• cost and the timing of its introduction into service are also being considered alongside other defence capabilities in the current cycle of the five year programing process. [More…]

• The draft zoning regulations to control the land use surrounding the Avoca Street Defence property are Residential Al to the north and west of the propery and Residential B to the South of the property. [More…]

• In view of the size of the Defence area, a limited high rise building set back from the boundaries and properly landscaped, would not be out of character with the surrounding area. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Did the Minister for Defence meet a delegation of shipbuilding workers on 20 September 1972 and promise them that no Australian naval ships would be built outside Australia. [More…]

• It has a significant defence content. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt will close the debate when he speaks on these Bills but before he does so I wish to say a few words in defence of the Minister for Transport whom I represent here. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -I shall ask the Minister for Defence to provide a more precise answer to the first part of the honourable senator’s question than I can provide at present. [More…]

• In addition to the continuing normal patrol activity, the defence force remains ready to react to any need for special effort in any particular locality. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that the Army is occupying homes in the township of Woodside in South Australia when there are vacant homes in the Woodside Army camp area nearby? [More…]

• Smithfield where the defence Services are holding various homes- is that the homes are required for the operations there and for the personnel who are now stationed there. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In view of the reported high intake of Army recruits in the September quarter because of unemployment, has the Minister for Defence sought, by way of advertisement or statement, to attract recuits to the Services from the record number of retrenched workers? [More…]

• Are the high numbers of recruits an embarrassment to the Government in view of the low priority it places on defence? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present an exchange of notes between the Australian and United States governments providing for amendments to the agreement of 9 May 1963 relating to the establishment of a United States naval communication station in Australia, together with a statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) on those amendments. [More…]

• It was kind of you to forward us the Hansard pages of this Senator’s speech and we appreciate your reply, that is in defence of the trade union movement and of amalgamations in particular. [More…]

• I have put that request to the Minister for Defence and it is currently being considered. [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 Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1974. [More…]

• Honourable senators may recall that when I introduced the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill in May of last year, in my capacity as Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, 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 increases Bill. [More…]

• This Bill provides, therefore, for further interim increases this year, which will be payable with effect from and including the pension pay day of 4 July 1974.I am informed by my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) that legislation will be introduced next year to provide for future permanent methods of adjustment. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s continual boasting about the quality of pay and conditions in the Services, for which the previous Government was largely responsible, I ask: Does the unprecedented number of resignations of senior officers indicate that far from being a bed of roses something is seriously amiss with the defence establishment? [More…]

• Can Australia afford such a heavy loss of its military expertise, even at a time when the Government places low priority on defence needs? [More…]

• I will give the honourable senator the information I have in front of me but I think that after I have tendered it I should ask the Minister for Defence whether he would like to add anything to what I have said. [More…]

• As to the question of resignations generally, it is true that we have maintained that the attractions which the Labor Government has provided in the form of pay, defence forces retirement benefits, annual leave loadings, re-engagement bonuses and various other things have been factors which have helped to retain satisfaction among the Services. [More…]

• I have a report from the Minister for Defence on officer resignations in September. [More…]

• Twenty-two of the resignations were from officers who were eligible for a pension under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme. [More…]

• So in relation to the 2 Air Force officers, I think I should ask the Minister for Defence to reply to that question. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Housing: Will he agree that the sole basis of entitlement to benefits under the Defence Service Homes Act should be the former member’s service and that there should be no denial of benefits simply because an ex-serviceman has chosen not to marry. [More…]

• an entitlement be available under the Defence Service Homes Act to an otherwise qualified member who remains unmarried but who has purchased or acquired a home and lives therein. [More…]

• As honourable senators will remember, the Treasurer in his Budget Speech stated that he intended to amend the Defence Service Homes Act to remove this restriction which has been in the Act since it came into operation in 1919. [More…]

• Of course defence service homes loans are not available to those who have already bought a home although they can be made available for the repayment of certain mortgages. [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…]

• 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 senators 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…]

• Study of the site had proceeded on this basis under the direction of Clarke, Gazzard and Flower at a cost of $6,875 as set out below: -In September the community learned of the possibility that a Defence Services base would be established near the airstrip and the proposed location of the housing development. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -I present the report and transcript of evidence of the inquiry by the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence into the adequacy of the Australian Army to perform its necessary part in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Although we have focused our attention primarily on the Army we have been acutely aware that the Army’s part in our defence cannot be isolated from the overall effort which involves all 3 Services. [More…]

• The Committee has been conscious also of the need to view the Armed Services’ role in the defence of Australia in the much broader context of the social, economic and political determinants of national wellbeing. [More…]

• In the first the Committee considers Australia’s strategic situation together with other considerations and constraints relating to the practical problems of defence planning. [More…]

• We have aimed in this part to highlight the principal features which affect Australia’s defence policy and hence determine the scope of the overall defence effort required of the 3 Armed Services within the context of our total national capacity- in other words, to formulate our views concerning the nation’s overall defence requirements. [More…]

• I join with him in offering the appreciation of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to Colonel Warr our special adviser, and to the Senate secretariat, Mr Hocking and Mr Livermore who worked so well during the course of this important inquiry. [More…]

• I am particularly concerned about our national attitude towards defence. [More…]

• I would draw the Senate’s attention to the Committee’s views regarding Australia’s overall defence requirements. [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…]

• The evidence taken from the Department of Defence related to the lack of control in the administration of a cleaning contract which resulted in a number of underpayments and overpayments to the contractor. [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…]

• As was outlined in the second reading speech, it seeks to increase the pension of those who have retired under either the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act or the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973-1974. [More…]

• The Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, known as the Jess Committee, recommended that there be automatic annual adjustments based on average weekly earnings. [More…]

• I know that a letter has been sent to the Minister for Defence asking that a committee be set up with the following terms of reference: [More…]

• Senator Maunsell was a member of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, as was Senator Devitt, which, I think it is fair to say, under the guidance of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) quickly adopted the Jess report and introduced the improvements in this area as quickly as possible. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has already invited Mr Bonnett and the Opposition parties to make suggestions in relation to this proposal. [More…]

• In reply to a question from Mr Bonnett the Minister for Defence said: [More…]

• As 1 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…]

• I say again that I question the amount that the user has to pay because the facilities are a public utility, and further, the aviation industry has particular significance in the defence policy of Australia and to some extent should be regarded as having a very important defence potential. [More…]

• My Department has no record of such experiments having taken place although no doubt such records would in any event be kept by the Department of Defence and not by the Department of Repatriation and Compensation. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -On 14 November last the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, announced that this meeting would take place. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter- [More…]

• -The Defence Service Homes Bill 1974 seeks to amend the main Act, the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1973, in 6 main characteristics. [More…]

• all former members of the forces with an honourable discharge should be entitled to defence service loans’. [More…]

• However, the simple fact is that any measure that relates to housing today, whether special housing under the Defence Services Homes Act or any other measure, must take into account the conditions of housing that exist. [More…]

• Because of shortages, because of difficulties, people who are seeking defence service homes face the same frustrations in many ways as does anyone else. [More…]

• It is remarkable that last year we found an anomaly so far as it related to women exmembers of the defence forces. [More…]

• They had chosen to build or buy a home and had chosen to enter into the financial commitments resulting from such a decision, and whereas they saw fellow ex-serving members of the forces entitled to the benefits of the War Services Homes Act, and the Defence Services Homes Act, as it has been more recently named, the beneficial provisions of the Act were not available to them. [More…]

• But the Government has acknowledged that it is happening and it has decided that ex-servicemen who qualify for defence service home loans will not be disadvantaged by the situation which affects every other section of the Australian community. [More…]

• I hope that persons who, for some reason such as outstanding service or for having conducted themselves as one would expect people to do, get promoted in their jobs do not find themselves in the situation of losing the benefits of the defence service homes scheme and paying a greatly increased price for a home at a substantially elevated interest rate. [More…]

• Perhaps it is not such a direct acknowledgment, but it is an acknowledgment nevertheless in terms of the fact that the legislation provides, in relation to the leasehold and general land tenure situation, for a relaxation of the availability of the assistance and the benefits under the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]

• The fact that there is a need to increase the amount of money lent on defence service homes is possibly contributed to by inflation, but the Bill provides for the normal increase in the amount of loan, which the previous Government found it essential to do in 1971 when it increased the permissible loan from the War Service Homes Fund from $7,000 to $8,000. [More…]

• It is well known, I think, by lawyers in this chamber that very often claims of illegality on the basis that people have not obeyed regulations is a pretty unmeritorious defence where parties have entered into contracts and agreements and acted on them for years and then one endeavours to get out of the contract on the basis of some illegality which he suggests voids the whole contract. [More…]

• But if in fact in litigation the defence of illegality has been raised by way of blackmail or by way of bargaining without any real suggestion of moral wrong on the part of the litigant, I suggest this Parliament should not, by its legislation, give some favoured position so far as the litigants are concerned. [More…]

• It will have before it the circumstances of how the defence arises, how the parties have acted, how long they have proceeded and whether or not they should proceed. [More…]

• Why should we pick out the date 3 December and say that if people had put in some defence before that date they must be protected? [More…]

• The Minister for Housing and Construction has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) Current Ministerial directions under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-73 are as follows: [More…]

• 1 ) Subject to section 20 (4) of the Defence Service Homes Act, that assistance shall not be granted under the Act to discharge an existing mortgage, charge or encumbrance already existing on the applicant’s holding, except where the mortgage, charge or encumbrance was arranged with the prior approval of the Director of Defence Service Homes, or in special cases of serious financial hardship. [More…]

• In the case of a widow, pensioner, superannuant and other such person on a low income where the Director of Defence Service Homes or his delegate is satisfied that the applicant would experience hardship if he were required to pay in full the amount of the instalments based on a repayment term of 32 years; [More…]

• On 3 1 October 1974, Senator Drake-Brockman asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, a question without notice, relating to the replacement programme for the RAAF Winjeel training aircraft. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has supplied the following additional information in answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• On 3 1 October 1 974, Senator Maunsell asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, a question, without notice, relating to the replacement of the RAAF Neptune aircraft. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has supplied the following additional information in reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation: Now that under the Administrative Arrangements Order made on 12 June 1974 the provisions of the insurance of homes under the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1973 will be administered by the Department of Repatriation and Compensation, will he inform the Senate whether in future inquiries concerning insurance of homes, payment of insurance premiums and of claims will be made through his Department or through the Department of Housing and Construction to which monthly loan repayments are made? [More…]

• In an effort to consolidate the insurance activities of the Australian Government, the responsibility for defence service homes insurance has been transferred from the Department of Housing and Construction to the Department of Repatriation and Compensation. [More…]

• So I am now the Minister responsible for defence service homes insurance, whereas the Minister for Housing and Construction was previously. [More…]

• In order to complete the administrative arrangements, an amendment to the Defence Service Homes Act is required, and in view of the large amount of legislation which we have had before both Houses of the Parliament during this sessional period it has not been practicable to introduce such an amendment to the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]

• So although I am now the Minister responsible for defence service homes insurance, the Director of Defence Service Homes is still the public servant who is responsible for the whole of the previous functions of the Defence Service Homes Act, including defence service homes insurance. [More…]

• In view of that, if anybody has any application or request to make regarding defence service homes insurance it should be addressed, as it was in the past, to the Assistant Director, Defence Service Homes, care of the Department of Housing and Construction in each of the State capitals or, if the veteran who is concerned is within the Australian Capital Territory, to the regional office of the Defence Service Homes Division in Canberra. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 50b (3) of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918-1 973, 1 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…]

• The matters presently reserved to Australia are defence, foreign relations and certain matters specified by proclamation under the [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 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…]

• 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…]

• He was not the only war time leader but he was the war time leader who had to assume the awful responsibility, that great and crushing responsibility, of conducting this country through a war after his predecessor in office failed, when the defence system of this country was in such a shambles that it had to be revived, resurrected, re-made, so that we could mount the defence of this country. [More…]

• The decision by the Minister for Defence in relation to an inquiry into the Services cannot be simplified by referring to the one sector of psychology. [More…]

• I do not remember any of you honourable senators opposite being terribly excited or rushing to the defence of the Taxation officers at that stage. [More…]

• -I bring up a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• In the light of this discretionary power, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has considered three references in this category, namely: [More…]

• The role of ANZUK as a result of change in Australia ‘s defence establishment in South East Asia ‘; and has resolved not to proceed with them. [More…]

• -On 20 November 1974 Senator Drake-Brockman asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, a question without notice relating to patrols by maritime reconnaissance squadrons in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided me with the following information: [More…]

• There is an additional expenditure of $ 15m in 1974-75 under the Defence Service Homes Scheme; an additional expenditure of $ 14m in 1974-75 for housing in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory; an increase from $5m to $ 1 0m in the yearly expenditure under the Dwellings for Aged Pensioners Scheme; an increase in the capital subsidy under the Aged Persons’ Homes Act to $4 for $1 from the previous $2 for $1; and, of course, an additional $75m to be allocated to the States for welfare housing- $50m to be distributed through the home builders’ account and $25m for the State Housing authority building programs; and a further $8m has been allocated specifically to Queensland. [More…]

• The Bill authorises a technique to borrow money for defence purposes so that to the extent necessary- it is not stated- defence outlays for the balance of the year can be charged to loan funds and a deficit avoided in the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• I am sure that Senator McLaren is rearing to say something in defence of his lame duck State [More…]

• and (4) Australian Defence personnel and equipment were made available to assist in control of locust infestations in Queensland in April and May 1974. [More…]

• The Australian Government agreed to provide up to 100 men and such spray equipment as was available from defence resources, subject to the Queensland Government agreeing to meet any additional direct costs involved. [More…]

• -While the responsibility for answers on this subject really rests with Senator Cavanagh, I am able to say that because of the attention that has been directed to the defence aspects of this matter inquiries have been made. [More…]

• Let me say in addition, speaking on behalf of the Minister for Defence, that there is no such transmitting facility of any sort at North West Cape. [More…]

• In essence the defence of the mining company appeared to be that applied anti-pollution measures would be much higher than the ill-fated Rum Jungle techniques. [More…]

• Whilst I welcome all this legislation, I say quite respectfully to my own Government that a promise was given to me as Chairman of the Senate Estimates Committee F that defence forces would be available- the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal Australian Navy- for use in patrol work on offshore wildlife sanctuaries. [More…]

• Maybe it is only because he recognises that he has not got much of a defence to those points. [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 ex-servicemen, in much the same way as homes are provided to ex-servicemen under the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]

• A principal and continuing concern of the Corporation will be the administration of the Defence Service Homes Act and from its commencement will direct considerable attention to this matter and will take over the functions, assets and liabilities of the Director of Defence Service Homes. [More…]

• The Bill provides for the Corporation to operate the Defence Service Homes Scheme from the date the Act comes into operation. [More…]

• Initially this will be the amount of $2 5 m which has been specifically included in the Budget for the purposes of the Corporation together with those assets taken over from the Director of Defence Service Homes. [More…]

• The previous Minister held the opinion that he had a defence to make against charges made against him before the Joint Committee on Public Accounts. [More…]

• It is a Bill which ensures that the areas of control which previously were retained by Australia, namely, foreign affairs, defence and, putting it shortly, the judicial system will be matters which on proclamation will be vested in the House of Assembly of the Territory of New Guinea. [More…]

• I saw the statement of the Minister for Science, Mr Morrison, and the statement of the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard. [More…]

• They said that when in due course independence comes to New Guinea then in some way, undefined, unspecified and with no indication as to what the future holds, the defence of that area will be Australia’s responsibility. [More…]

• I would hope that Australia would accept the responsibility for the defence of Papua New Guinea when it becomes independent. [More…]

• I hope that Australia would do this not only for the defence of that country but also because it is in Australia’s interests that we should do so. [More…]

• I believe that it is about time this Government gave some concern and consideration to what those defence arrangements will be. [More…]

• It is high time that Australia spelt out what its role ought to be with regard to defence and sought the cooperation of what is already a self-governing country with a view to determining the arrangements for the future. [More…]

• Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pensions Increases) Bill 1974 [More…]

• Defence Service Homes Bill 1 974 [More…]

• Election Candidates (Public Service and Defence Force) Bill 1974 [More…]

• Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pensions Increases) Bill 1974 [More…]

• Defence Service Homes Bill 1 974 [More…]

• Election Candidates (Public Service and Defence Force) Bill 1974 [More…]

• Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pensions Increases) Bill 1974 [More…]

• Defence Service Homes Bill 1 974 [More…]

• Election Candidates (Public Service and Defence Force) Bill 1974 [More…]

• Did the publication, Australian Foreign Affairs Record, state in its August 1974 edition that the Saudi Arabian Budget expenditure on its Ministry of Defence and Aviation had risen from $1.9 billion in 1973-74 to $3.1 billion in 1974-75? [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that twice in Australia’s history all communications, defence and civil, have been destroyed in Darwin, the first occasion being on 1 9 February 1942 and the second on Christmas Day last year. [More…]

• In view of the serious weakness that this exposes in the communications system and in Australian security, is the Government making any investigation- I ask this in no partisan fashion for it reflects apparently on past governments as well- to determine why defence and civil communications have not been weather proofed and bomb proofed so that neither cyclones nor enemy action can destroy them? [More…]

• Finally, would not the mobile facilities existing in the defence forces have enabled a more ready opening of communications? [More…]

• I know that Mr Barnard, the Minister for Defence, who is responsible for the Natural Disasters Organisation, expressed very great concern about the possibility of this happening again. [More…]

• Section 51 of the Defence Act provides for call out of the military forces in aid to the civil authorities in certain circumstances. [More…]

• No element of the Defence Force has ever been called out in Australia in aid of the civil authorities. [More…]

• A number of training courses for officers include some lectures and instruction in the theoretical aspects and principles of assistance by the Defence Force to the civil authorities. [More…]

• Limited training in respect of aid to the civil power is conducted by elements of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (which at this time remains part of the Australian Defence Force). [More…]

• It will be recalled that the Papua New Guinea Government has announced that one of the responsibilities of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force after independence will be ‘to be able to assist the police in the maintenance of public order and security as a last resort if the police cannot reasonably be expected to cope. ‘ [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to the recent statement by the Minister for Defence that the Government had decided to purchase the German Leopard tank to replace the Centurions. [More…]

• We went through the Darwin committee which was established, through the Red Cross and through the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It speaks of reductions in government spending at the same time as Opposition members, including front benchers, travel around Australia advocating more money for the States, more money for defence, subsidies galore and tax concessions galore. [More…]

• Yet I found tonight that the Leader of the Opposition in this place (Senator Withers) justified his tacit defence of the Premier of New South Wales by saying that his actions were no worse than the actions of the Labor Party. [More…]

• Those Liberals who sprang to the defence of the convention and custom which we arc defending tonight should receive great praise from their side of politics. [More…]

• There can be no defence. [More…]

• Will the Minister discuss with his colleague, the Minister for Defence, the desirability of stationing one of these vessels in a position to cover Bass Strait and the Bass Strait islands in view of the rapidly increasing traffic using Bass Straight for both commercial and private purposes, and the hazards to be encountered in these waters from time to time, as evidenced by the quite frequent rescues of fishing and other vessels using Bass Strait? [More…]

• As the honourable senator pointed out, the Government has taken some policy initiatives in this area in the past 2 years, but I will have to refer the question to my colleague, the Minister for Defence, for a detailed answer. [More…]

• They do not support the defence of Mr Lewis that was put up here last night by the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]

• The aspect of last night’s debate which sickened me most was the apologia that was delivered by Senator Scott- I regret he is not in the chamberin defence of the action of Mr Lewis. [More…]

• -Senator Martin will not divert me from my defence of former Senator Murphy. [More…]

• It extended from probate actions to the defence of persons charged with murder. [More…]

• -As I am sure the Senate would be aware, an all-party parliamentary committee- the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- has been inquiring into the proposed establishment of an Omega base in Australia. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate requesting that Senator Devitt be discharged from further attendance on the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and nominating Senator Drury to be a member in his place. [More…]

• That Senator Devitt be discharged from attendance upon the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and that Senator Drury, having been duly nominated in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of 17 September 1 974, be appointed to the Committee. [More…]

• Credit should also go to the local civil defence organisation. [More…]

• The local civil defence organisation was the only organisation that was partly geared to cover a natural disaster of this type in those days. [More…]

• I know how effectively the Department of Defence operated. [More…]

• With the capacity of our defence forces and other bodies, it ought to have been possible to relay messages much faster. [More…]

• On the other hand I applaud the heroism and the great qualities of the people who contributed, including the defence forces and the people on the Hercules aircraft. [More…]

• To what extent do those who involve themselves in the protests, who whip up the hysteria, understand the Australian Government’s approach to the defence potential of Darwin? [More…]

• The first person to act was the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]

• I must come to the defence of the Minister. [More…]

• I agree with Senator Hall’s statement about wanting to come to the defence of the Minister for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It does not help the argument for Senator Steele Hall, in defence of his position, supporting that authoritarian decision, to engage in personal abuse. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence been drawn to recent publicity about the success of the Royal Australian Air Force Central Band resulting particularly from recordings of wartime songs? [More…]

• Will the Minister discuss with the Minister for Defence whether new arrangements might apply in future to allow reasonable royalties to be set aside for RAAF welfare projects or related Services projects? [More…]

• The Defence of Government Schools body advocates that the Labor Party policy of doing away with expenditure for private schools should be supported. [More…]

• What would be the position with trade unions or DOGS- the Defence of Government Schools organisation? [More…]

• Is there anything better than a democratic system in which a politician, whether he be Prime Minister Whitlam or the Right Honourable Bill Snedden, can go to a meeting of a party such as DOGS- Defence of Government Schools- or of parents and citizens and stand up on a rostrum and answer questions. [More…]

• He quoted the Nixon ploy of: the issue of defence spending in terms of a hand (presumably McGovern’s knocking toy ships and aeroplanes off a table, or for that matter, of the 1964 ‘Daisy Girl’ spot used by the Democrats, which linked Barry Goldwater to the nuclear incineration of little girls. [More…]

• A defence is provided. [More…]

• From the time I was elected to the national Parliament- twenty-two years ago at the end of this month- I refused to accept what was then the conventional wisdom that the sole or chief concerns of the national Parliament should be foreign affairs, defence, the annual Budget and the level of the major social welfare payments. [More…]

• Of course we also welcome the denial by the Indonesian Defence Minister- I think only yesterday- that there was any intention on the part of Indonesia to move militarily into this area. [More…]

• Nevertheless the Australian Government will need to maintain a proper surveillance and this is being attended to through discussions with the defence forces and the Western Australian Government. [More…]

• Maybe he has been adverting to more serious matters but when he chooses to let the Senate have a little homily on the matter of consistency we would like to hear him in defence of the sentiments he espoused 16 years ago but about which he is curiously silent today. [More…]

• These records are kept by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, said only recently that some 400 Australian servicemen were subject to experiments with mustard gas in the Second World War. [More…]

• There are records apparently in the possession of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Indonesian Ambassador called on the Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday and reiterated the statement which was made two or three days ago by the Indonesian Defence Ministry. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Has the Minister for Defence received assessments from overseas sources and/or his own strategic advisers causing him to revise his opinion that Australia will not face a threat to its security for 15 years? [More…]

• Has the Minister specifically asked his defence experts for a re-assessment in the light of increased Soviet naval presence in the Indian Ocean? [More…]

• As far as I am aware, there has been no change in the analysis or assessment which has been given to the Minister for Defence, even having regard to some of the things which Senator Maunsell remembers. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I will request the Minister for Defence to ask the organisations concerned whether consideration should be given in the future in that connection. [More…]

• My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, arises out of a recent newspaper report of a proposal to re-equip the Royal Australian Navy with new fast patrol vessels to replace the obsolete Attack class vessels now in use? [More…]

• Mr Barnard, the Minister for Defence, told me this morning that he expects the report soon. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [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…]

• But at present we do not see it as a major constructor, lt 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…]

• 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…]

• 5m is being provided for the purchase for Defence purposes of the Leyland site at Waterloo in Sydney. [More…]

• In the course of the next few days communications were received from the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who at that time was overseas, and visits were made by the Acting Prime Minister, Dr Cairns, the Minister for transport, Mr Jones, and the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, who spent several days in Tasmania consulting with the Tasmanian Government. [More…]

• Through the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, it acted quickly. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Defence Services are called upon to provide a wide range of emergency relief equipment from their own stores in times of natural disasters? [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether those stores are so used and, if so, how they are replenished and whether the cost is met from the defence vote or a special appropriation? [More…]

• I believe that Senator Wright’s basic proposition really stemmed from a defence of what might be called a prices and incomes policy. [More…]

• They have formed the Chile Defence Committee from among the Chilean communists coming to this country. [More…]

• I even fooled an Army major into giving me top secret details about meetings the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, was having on the purchase of German Leopard tanks for the Army. [More…]

• Is the Government now reappraising its views on defence and foreign relations in Australia’s region as a result of current events in Indo-China? [More…]

• If so, when will the results of such a reappraisal of the Government’s foreign affairs and defence thinking be made known to this Parliament? [More…]

• The United States Defence Secretary, Mr 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 Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) and the Minister for Defence ( Mr Barnard ). [More…]

• Ninthly, it could threaten the current preferential benefits of existing and past members of the defence forces. [More…]

• Ought it not to do what the defence service homes organisation has done in the past, even though it may well have had the implied power to do otherwise, and have houses constructed by tender by builders who obey all the laws of the State and local governments? [More…]

• Firstly, will he assure us that nothing contained in the Bill will do anything to alter the preference which has applied in the past in respect of interest rates charged to ex-service men and women for defence service homes? [More…]

• It was a Labor government- the Whitlam Government- which recently substantially increased the additional rates of interest on defence service homes by making the interest rate for extra borrowing in the defence service homes area much higher, much sharper. [More…]

• The Opposition and certainly the people of Australia are entitled to an assurance that the preferential rate of some 3% per cent for defence service homes will be preserved. [More…]

• b) for the purpose of the provision of housing for mem- - bers and former members of the Defence Force and for other persons who have participated in the defence of Australia; . [More…]

• We have increased the maximum loan under the defence service homes scheme from $9,000 to $15,000. [More…]

• b) 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…]

• It will take over the responsibilities of the Director of Defence Service Homes whose construction program will be continued without diminution. [More…]

• It is an essential arm of our defence activities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate as to whether there is a policy to ensure that employees of sensitive defence and security establishments are Australian citizens. [More…]

• The Department of Defence, in conjunction with my own Department and the State authorities in Western Australia, is continually maintaining a watch on those vessels, many of which are subsistence vessels and not commercial vessels in the normal sense. [More…]

• I would think that the past performance of my Department, in conjunction with the Department of Defence and the Western Australian authorities indicates that we have maintained a reasonably adequate patrol and surveillance of their activities. [More…]

• -I ask the PostmasterGeneral in his capacity as representative of the Minister for Defence: Has his attention been drawn to a newspaper report on Tuesday which stated that the Minister has decided to obtain a new class of patrol boat? [More…]

• The Defence Forces Development Committee has examined the question of acquiring a new class of patrol craft and has agreed that phase 1, which it calls ‘Project Definition’ should be started as soon as possible. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it true that the Department of Defence has taken action to curtail travel on commercial airlines by servicemen, such travel having previously been approved as necessary for the performance of their duties? [More…]

• I will try to get the information from the Minister for Defence this week. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, no doubt in an attempt to draw attention away from the shameful and disastrous foreign and defence policies of this Government and the falsity of his claim that the South-East Asian region was becoming more stable- undoubtedly to justify the disastrous defence policies which the Government has followed- spent most of his time dealing with past policies. [More…]

• When Senator Withers was very briefly introducing his motion he said that the Opposition badly wanted access to secret defence documents. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition should be the last people in the world to talk about trying to get access to defence secrets. [More…]

• They talk about not getting information of value concerning defence secrets. [More…]

• The situation in South Vietnam today is a strong reminder of the dangerous foreign and defence policies of this Government. [More…]

• The amazing point is that while the Government is dragging this nation into a state of isolation it is also running down the defence forces of this country which I understand and assume would be most important if the Government wanted to carry out a policy of this kind. [More…]

• Of course, the Government has used this to justify the running down of the defences of Australia. [More…]

• Honourable senators should not forget that defence and foreign policy run hand in hand. [More…]

• We cannot have a policy which says that we will be isolated and that we do not want to have any alliances with other countries but will still maintain the defence of Australia if the defence forces are not built up. [More…]

• I call upon the Government to exercise itself in the fields of diplomacy and defence and also in particular in the field of economic and international aid. [More…]

• It has left us with no defence capability to cope with situations that could arise. [More…]

• We know that it was wrong identification also for the way that they conducted the defence for William Leslie Davidson was darn right appalling. [More…]

• Prepared to tell the truth; yet he was not called by Prosecution or Defence. [More…]

• The magistrate said that there was a contradiction between the defence witnesses and the jury found that Davidson was one of the assailants. [More…]

• The statement was made that counsel for the defence would not call a number of other witnesses. [More…]

• It is a matter mainly for the Department of Defence. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform me why the naval vessel HMAS ‘Banks’, which sailed from Port Adelaide on 3 March ibr Sydney on exercises, was diverted at Portland in Victoria to King Island where she met another naval vessel? [More…]

• Is it a fact that HMAS ‘Banks’ and the other naval vessel were sent there to be a backdrop for the Minister for Defence at a garden fete and that the original naval exercise to Sydney by HMAS ‘Banks’ was abandoned as a result? [More…]

• -Yesterday Senator Martin asked me a question concerning restriction on air travel in defence departments. [More…]

• As a result of a review of defence expenditure to the end of February, in the light of appropriations, it was decided that defence travel should be restricted to conserve expenditure and it was left to each Service to determine to how best economies could be achieved. [More…]

• Senator Rae was entitled to his own defence and he is entitled to say what he likes, and I am entitled to defend myself as well. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question which arises out of a question asked on the last sitting day about a visit of naval vessels to King Island. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that it was I who made the representations to the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, as I very frequently do in instances of this kind, for naval vessels to be made available to visit King Island on that occasion, the occasion of the show- it was the annual show, not a garden fete- and that the application was made to the Minister at the specific request, which was made to me, of an official of the King Island Show Committee and very prominent member of the King Island community? [More…]

• Senator Devitt now asks me whether I knew that he made the request to the Minister for Defence for a vessel to visit King Island. [More…]

• I know that when 1 was the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence I received numerous requests from members to have such functions held. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation give any information on details of the proposed eligibility for service pensions to ex-members of the defence forces of the British Commonwealth countries and the approximate date when the benefits will apply? [More…]

• Defence service homes insurance which covers many hundreds of thousands of policies relating to defence service homes is one of the most substantial insurance undertakings in Australia. [More…]

• I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Defence to the recent report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Citizen Military Forces which is known as the Millar report. [More…]

• I think that all of us, if we are honest with ourselves, know that it is a case of who lowers his defence and whether he will be clocked by the Opposition. [More…]

• Perhaps I can digress for a moment to relate to the Senate that numbered among the officials whom I had on my staff at that time were the present Australian Minister for Defence, the Attorney-General of Tasmania, a senior officer of the Education Department of Tasmania and a senior health inspector in the State of Tasmania. [More…]

• We do not often see the electoral officer having to come out and make public statements in defence of his officers and I was very pleased that on this occasion Mr Ley saw fit to do that. [More…]

• Taken in association with the reported heightening of communist military activities in northern Malaysia and the recent indications that the Philippines Government may contemplate looking away from America for future defence security, will the Minister agree that there are indications of growing instability in the Asian region of which we are part? [More…]

• -The Department of Defence may have some knowledge of the deployments. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Recently the Opposition spokesman on defence matters, Mr Killen, criticised the Government decision to give patrol boats and aircraft to Indonesia. [More…]

• -The Defence Service Homes Division is administered not by me but by the Minister for Housing and Construction. [More…]

• Defence [More…]

• 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…]

• He made such an ass of himself that Senator Wright found it necessary to come to his defence. [More…]

• Firstly, in defence of the departmental officers in relation to the figures of 26 000 and 260 000 they remind me that the amendment as moved by the Opposition in the House of Representatives stipulated 26 000 square kilometres. [More…]

• His incredible story is a weapon that must now be used by elected politicians, by Parliament, by the Government in Canberra, for defence against these extremists. [More…]

• I have listened with interest, for approximately 40 minutes, to the pathetic defence by 2 members of the Australian Labor Party to a challenge to members of the Labor Party to explain certain conduct on their part which I had felt was never going to be answered. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Did the Minister observe a reference in last week’s Press concerning the replacement of the long-range reconnaissance aircraft currently in service? [More…]

• That is not really a good defence. [More…]

• I should say, in defence of the Government’s positionindeed, in defence of the Opposition’s amendment which I will support- that from the beginning of this matter I believed that members of both sides, until we were informed otherwise by Senator Hall a few minutes ago, have approached the matter with the greatest desire to be fair to Senator Webster and to be fair to anyone else who might be concerned in this matter. [More…]

• In fairness to Mr Hills- I do not know about Mr Brown- he was saying that if there had been a register and Senator Webster had disclosed his interests in the J. J. Webster company, that disclosure in fact would have been a defence in the case that he will have to face in the High Court. [More…]

• We know that you have never even sought a defence service homes loan. [More…]

• There is an amount of $152m for defence, $70m of which is to be paid to Papua New Guinea to purchase from Australia the defence assets that are there. [More…]

• Money is allocated for handicapped children; the purchase of a taxation office site in the city of Sydney; some construction cost rises for the National Capital Development Commission; a civil works program of $8.8m; Post Office expenditure of $ 127m; expenditure on defence service homes of $15m; and expenditure on the South Australian Railways of $26m. [More…]

• They consciously surrendered a number of sovereign powers, including control of customs and excise duties and other functions of national significance including defence, immigration, currency and coinage. [More…]

• The Bill provides, however, that it is a defence in any compensation proceedings if the person can prove that he took reasonable steps to inform the Commission of his intention to commence work which subsequently damaged a telecommunications installation. [More…]

• Not one honourable senator has suggested that the defence quota in these Bills should be reduced, or that we should reduce the money paid to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Accounts, or to education areas, or to foreign affairs whether in areas of food assistance or aid to other countries. [More…]

• and (4) Australian Defence personnel and equipment were made available to assist in control of locust infestations in Queensland in April and May 1974. [More…]

• The Australian Government agreed to provide up to 100 men and such spray equipment as was available from defence resources, subject to the Queensland Government agreeing to meet any additional direct costs involved. [More…]

• With regard to aviation material, areas to be covered should include design, manufacturing, communication, propulsion, navigation, medicine and meteorology in both the Defence Services and air transport. [More…]

• Having read the cables and the communications between the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Saigon Government and the Government of North Vietnam I can only come to the conclusion that the Opposition parties have no policy, have no explanation and have no defence for their long standing involvement in that war. [More…]

• It implies significant US air losses even if no full air war is joined, and it seems likely that it would eventually require an extensive and costly effort against the whole air defence system of North Vietnam. [More…]

• In his defence today the Prime Minister said that the cables and letters could not be looked at in isolation. [More…]

• His sole defence was that the words attributed to him had been taken out of context. [More…]

• I believe that to anyone who is interested in the merits of this issue a reading of the debate will indicate whether his defence can be fairly substantiated. [More…]

• It was not a defence of Senator Willesee and it was not an explanation of the case which every member of the Opposition who spoke had pointed to, which is that Senator Willesee had told the Senate that what Mr Peacock had alleged was in those cables was untrue. [More…]

• Under section 5 1 and other sections of the Constitution there is a claim that for migrants, for defence Services and for a few other things incidental to the various powers of the Commonwealth we can supply legal aid, but legal aid generally to the ordinary citizenry for State purposes must be channelled, under the Constitution, by section 96. [More…]

• Civil expenditure is shown at $38.03m and defence expenditure at $ 17.68m, a total of $55.7 lm. [More…]

• I think it should be said in defence of the Minister that the hearing was on 15 April, which is almost a month ago but, as we know, much of the information which is sought both in the Estimates Committees and in questions which are placed on the notice paper requires a large amount of consideration both by the Minister himself where policy matters are involved and by departmental officers where factual material needs to be gathered. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has supplied the following information. [More…]

• Thirdly there are considerations of defence security in respect of the classified trials and equipment on the range, and physical security of equipment at the posts beside the road which are unfenced and frequently unattended when not is use for particular trials. [More…]

• It also authorises an increase in the war and defence widows ‘ pension rate. [More…]

• War and Defence Widows [More…]

• The war and defence widows’ pension rate is payable where a veteran’s death is related to his service or where he was receiving at the time of his death, or would have been entitled to receive, a special (TPI) rate disability pension. [More…]

• His quite wrong, unfair, ill-informed criticism of the Senate was concerned only with an Appropriation Bill and money to be appropriated for defence service homes. [More…]

• I think honourable senators will recall that some educational group in South Australia- I do not think it was the Council for the Defence of Government Schools- obtained quite an extraordinarly high vote. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• You will remember, Mr President, and honourable senators will remember, that last year the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, contracted to buy 2 patrol frigates from the United States of America at a price of about $ 1 87m. [More…]

• Inquiries were instituted; offers of assistance were made; defence personnel were organised to assist in relation to the underwater search and other matters. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) responded. [More…]

• Has the Commonwealth been asked to provide one either from defence services or from elsewhere? [More…]

• I have heard some Tasmanians say: ‘If this is all he can do for his home State of Tasmania, I do not know what would be the situation for the defence of Australia if we had a war’. [More…]

• However, we are not talking about defence at the moment. [More…]

• I want to proceed straight away to the last part of the speech of Senator Townley because I think it was extremely unworthy of him to repeat, without particulars, vague allegations against the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, whose record in this matter I suggest on examination indicates that, in less than 24 hours of the occurrence of this tragedy late on a Sunday night, he was in Hobart and after hours of discussion with the Tasmanian Premier had already reached agreement on the contribution by the Commonwealth to the rectification of the consequences of the disaster and he has maintained that position of liaison Minister between the Australian Government and the Tasmanian Government since that time. [More…]

• I suggest that no one, not even Senator Townley in a political climate, could suggest one thing that should have been done by the Minister for Defence that has in fact not been done. [More…]

• When one reads scurrilous attacks made upon Mr Barnard in another place and adds to that what was said this afternoon by Senator Townley, the destruction of the argument that the Minister for Defence was not acting properly in this matter becomes extremely easy when the facts are examined. [More…]

• On Monday 6 January, the Minister for Defence agreed with the Tasmanian Premier to provide whatever Bailey bridging was required for the construction of a temporary crossing of the Derwent in the vicinity of Dowsing Point. [More…]

• I have been shown a letter from the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Les Johnson) to the Minister for Defence which states that work was put in hand on 5 April to remove the depots and completion of that part of the works necessary for relocation of the depot is expected by the end of this month. [More…]

• If suggestions are going to be made, such as were made by Senator Townley, to the discredit of the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, trie obligation is on those who make the charges to particularise them. [More…]

• I ask Senator Townley to state, when he first gets the opportunity, in what manner the Minister for Defence has failed properly to carry out his duties in relation to this disaster. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has arranged, and the Department of Defence is carrying out the arrangement, that whenever the Tasmanian Government says through the Department of Public Works that it wants a particular amount of footage of Bailey bridging delivered on the site, it will be delivered there. [More…]

• I repeat that Senator Townley, instead of making political speeches and criticising the Minister for Defence by means of third hand unparticularised allegations, should ask the Commission and the joint task force whether he can appear before them. [More…]

• Can the Minister tell me whether there is any difference between the benefits enjoyed by men who served with any of the defence forces during the last war and those enjoyed by women who served in any of the women’s auxiliary services during that period? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that the Minister for Defence and spokesman for his Department recently announced consideration of the construction or purchase of a logistic supply ship as if this were some new defence procurement initiative? [More…]

• In respect of the first part, I am not aware that the Minister for Defence has been saying, although I know that the Press has been saying, that there has been a selection of long range maritime patrol aircraft. [More…]

• That is what the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence is all about- watching situations not only from year to year but also from day to day. [More…]

• Apart from domestic price and cost trends, trends abroad are also very relevant, particularly as regards funds requirements for payments under defence and other procurement programs. [More…]

• Also, more funds for emergency relief and development might be required because of unpredictable events; Service Housing- a possible carry over into 1975-76 of building projects would mean that Supply funds would be inadequate; Defence Financial Assistance Papua New Guinea- because of unknown factors at the time of preparation of Supply Bill (No. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• What significance does the Government place on the role of the Army Reserve, the former Citizen Military Forces, in Australia’s defence structure? [More…]

• It was the Minister for Defence who decided that there ought to be an inquiry into the CMF, now known as the Army Reserve. [More…]

• I will ask the Minister for Defence whether he can add to the reply I have given. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of a report which appeared in the ‘Sunday Mail’ in Adelaide on 2 February and which indicated that the Minister for Defence would, as a matter of urgency, make a statement to the Parliament relating to the entire operations involving the use of poison gases, including experiments, trials, transportation and destruction of stocks of mustard, phosgene and lewisite gases during World War II? [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…]

• Apart from domestic price and cost trends, trends abroad are also very relevant, particularly as regards funds requirements for payments under defence and other procurement programs. [More…]

• Are we talking about a rolling program of expenditure under our defence planning? [More…]

• Apart from domestic price and cost trends, trends abroad are also very relevant, particularly as regards funds requirements for payments under Defence and other procurement programs. [More…]

• What does it foreshadow with regard to funds requirements under defence and other procurement programs? [More…]

• It simply means that it is extremely difficult to contemplate the cost factors involved in the procurement programs which the defence services place overseas. [More…]

• Of course, the Government and the Department of Defence have a continuing procurement program, the costs of which, as we know, escalate very rapidly. [More…]

• -On Tuesday, 20 May, Senator Rae directed a question to me as Minister representing the Minister for Defence relating to the announcement which the Minister had made about consideration being given to a logistic supply ship and whether this was in any way different from what had been announced in 1 970 by Mr Malcolm Fraser when he was Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I understand from the Minister that the proposed ship is very different from the one which Mr Fraser referred to on 10 March 1970, but about which the Government at that time did absolutely nothing except to set up a committee which had not reported to Mr Fraser, Mr Gorton, or Mr Fairbairn, who followed in quick succession as Ministers for Defence. [More…]

• The announcement by the Minister about the construction of the ship is an example of the Government’s action to take positive decisions in relation to defence procurement. [More…]

• But they say in defence: You did that when you were in Opposition’. [More…]

• I think that President Kennedy, a President of stature, indicated in his revelations that Presidents of the United States of America have had occasion to keep their defence chiefs on a tight leash, in the same way as Prime Ministers of Australia have had to do. [More…]

• I say quite candidly that the independent attitude and firmness displayed by the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, supported of course by his Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, were examples of mature operations in the diplomatic field. [More…]

• Without unnecessarily rubbing salt into anybody’s wounds, I say that the negotiations for this agreement have been typical of the top level forms of diplomacy that were practised by John Curtin and Dr Evatt are now practised by Edward Gough Whitlam and his Defence Minister Lance Barnard. [More…]

• He said the Defence Minister, Mr Barnard would renegotiate the agreement with the US in a few months. [More…]

• Australians should be thankful that we are so linked in the United States defence system. [More…]

• After some experience of how the Government looks after the defence of Australia is should not be so baffling to anybody. [More…]

• We do not object to that situation, having regard to the role which this installation plays in the defence of the free world of which America is the spearhead. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence give any further information as to the situation regarding the future of the Woomera rocket range in South Australia? [More…]

• Last October the Minister for Defence announced that the Woomera range would be run down and placed on a care and maintenance basis. [More…]

• I present the report and transcript of evidence from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into the Omega navigational installation. [More…]

• However, I would like to come to the defence of the Distribution Commissioners in Queensland. [More…]

• Yet in its defence it is asserting the use of maps which, whether taken separately or in toto, are in defiance of that principle. [More…]

• I suggest that his slurs on the mapmakers and his irrelevant comments on the bad practices of my Party in the past are no defence against gerrymanders of today. [More…]

• He pointed out that it is based on the defence power given under placitum (xxix) of section 5 1 of the Constitution, and he expressed certain reservations. [More…]

• Taken in association with the reported heightening of communist military activities in northern Malaysia and the recent indications that the Philippines Government may contemplate looking away from America for future defence security, will the Minister agree that there are indications of growing instability in the Asian region of which we are part? [More…]

• The defence service homes scheme is administered by the Minister for Housing and Construction, who is limited by an Act of previous governments. [More…]

• One of the conditions of defence service home loan eligibility is that the applicant has served in a theatre of war, although I think there has been some extension of eligibility since this Government has come to power. [More…]

• Does the Defence Service Homes Act require that the applicant for a loan under this Act must be in occupation of the home in question at the time of settlement? [More…]

• Under the Defence Service Homes Act a loan is made available for a home used as a residence. [More…]

• Should such persons be given defence service homes for some purpose other than their own occupancy? [More…]

• I believe that the Defence Service Homes Act is continuously under review for the purpose of determining what improvements can be made to it. [More…]

• These items are now mainly purchased by the Australian Government Stores and Tender Board, the staff of which, together with the purchasing and associated staff of the Department of Manufacturing Industry, who currently undertake defence purchasing, will form the nucleus of the Purchasing Commission. [More…]

• In other areas- and I refer particularly to departments and authorities requiring specialised equipment in such fields as defence, telecommunications, transport and health- the departments or authorities will continue to be in a position to define their requirements and specifications and to undertake, by arrangement with the Commission, such activities as the inspection and storage of their goods. [More…]

• It grew up within the capitalist system as a defence mechanism. [More…]

• This Government is powerless to act in defence of the general community. [More…]

• Their one defence seems to be that it has not proceeded through the formalities yet. [More…]

• If that is their defence, let them get up and say it is wrong. [More…]

• But if the practice went on day after day and month after month the capacity of that publican to raise this defence would, as a matter of practice, be eroded. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The need for a second buy of Leopard battle tanks is now being examined by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Were HMAS ‘Banks’ and the other naval vessel sent to King Island to be a back drop for the Minister for Defence at a pastoral fete; if so, was the original naval exercise abandoned as a consequence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence did not attend the Pastoral, Horticultural and Agricultural Show. [More…]

• -Brockman asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• On 4 March 1975 Senator Drake-Brockman asked me as Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question without notice relating to a request by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for trained officers of the Society to be sent with the initial task force to areas devastated by natural disasters. [More…]

• I have now received advice from the Minister for Defence on the matter: [More…]

• On 6 March 1975 Senator Sheil asked me as Minister representing the Minister for Defence, a question without notice relating to Defence Service Stores provided in time of natural disasters. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has supplied the following information in reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Normally the cost of replenishing stores provided by all three Services in times of natural disasters is met from the Defence Vote, which is supplemented as necessary for these purposes. [More…]

• 3) 1974-75 provided additional funds to the Defence Vote to cover expenditure in 1 974-75 by the Services as a result of Cyclone Tracy. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Defence explain why the flying hour costs of operating VIP aircraft, based on figures which he supplied to me yesterday in reply to a question on notice, have increased only marginally since 1972? [More…]

• -I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I understand that the Minister for Defence has announced that the Government is selecting the new version of the Orion aircraft. [More…]

• In addition the Labor Government has secured agreement from the United States Government that if industry were unable to provide up to 25 per cent of the value of contract of work to Australian industry, the Department of Defence would use its offices to raise Australian industry participation to this level. [More…]

• This Government has made increasing amounts of money available under the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Minister satisfied with the ability of the defence forces to establish communication quickly and effectively under adverse field conditions such as existed under Cyclone Tracy, or has the Cyclone demonstrated inadequacy in material and capacity to respond, which will require urgent attention and rectification. [More…]

• In general the defence forces demonstrated an adequate capability to establish communications under adverse conditions. [More…]

• The whole question of survival capability of Defence communications installations in Northern Australia is currently being studied. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• -In response to the request of the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt), I would observe to him that the Opposition feels that this Bill and the 2 Bills which succeed it, the Superannuation Act Amendment Bill and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Bill, are of great importance and we are justified in expecting the Minister to read his second reading speech on each Bill. [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 Chairman of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority and of the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Board. [More…]

• At present, Australian Government insurance activities include insurance in respect of defence service homes provided within the Defence Service Homes Act; mortgage loans insurance in respect of low cost housing provided by the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation under the Housing Loans Insurance Act; 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 is of the view that insurance presently provided under the Defence Service Homes Act would be brought under the AGIC. [More…]

• The Bill as presented to the Parliament, however, does not specifically include this aspect at present, for as honourable senators are aware, the defence service homes scheme is being transferred to the Australian Housing Corporation and substantial changes are occurring. [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…]

• Then our old colleague, Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, a former President of this Senate, a man who is somewhat out of date, entered the debate in defence of an attack by the military junta upon an elected parliament, and this seems to me to be quite improper in this debate. [More…]

• It ought to be looked at as a companion Bill to the Ombudsman Bill which was introduced into the other place but which is being linked, for the purposes of debate, with the Defence Force Ombudsman Bill and not this measure. [More…]

• Instead of confining itself to defence, public order, the criminal law, and a few other general matters, the modern state also provides elaborate social services and undertakes the regulation of much of the daily business of mankind. [More…]

• The first is that such disclosure might prejudice the security, defence or international relations of Australia. [More…]

• At present no body exists which could perform this supervisory function in the legislation- and by legislation I mean not only this Bill which we are considering but also the Bill to establish an Australian ombudsman and the Bill to establish a defence forces ombudsman which are yet to come into this chamber. [More…]

• by reason that it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of Australia; [More…]

• The first ground, which is set out in paragraph (a) of sub-clause (2), is: by reason that it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of Australia. [More…]

• It is a matter on which the Department of Defence in particular feels very strongly and it is the reason why it is included in the Bill. [More…]

• For example, he will be the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Foreign Affairs or, in the case of confidential material supplied to the Department of Social Security, that Minister. [More…]

• The effect of that amendment would be to delete the paragraph which would empower the Minister to give a certificate under clause 28(2) for reasons other than those set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) of that sub-clause, namely security, defence, international relations and the disclosure of Cabinet proceedings. [More…]

• I do not think anyone questions that there must be cases of that character and we think that the provisions contained in the legislation which enable the Minister- or, as we would have it, the Attorney-General- to prevent matters being disclosed if it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of Australia or would involve the disclosure of deliberations or decisions of the Cabinet or a committee of the Cabinet are sufficiently wide to cover these grave circumstances. [More…]

• by reason that it would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of Australia; [More…]

• Either the Crown or the defence can issue a subpoena to a person to attend. [More…]

• Mr Acting Deputy President, there are 3 Bills on the notice paper- the Superannuation Bill 1975, the Superannuation Act Amendment Bill 1975 and the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Bill 1975. [More…]

• I think it is important to state that point because that was the whole premise upon which the Opposition’s defence and argument were based this evening. [More…]

• In recent weeks Mr Darby has approached a number of officers in the Department of Foreign Affairs, in the Australian Development Assistance Agency, in my office and in the Defence Department, as well, apparently, as the honourable senator, concerning his desire to send this team to various pans of Asia. [More…]

• For those who would be able to qualify it would lift the maximum pension available from the scheme closer to the maximum pension available under the defence forces retirement benefits scheme of 76.5 per cent of the final salary after 40 years of contributory service. [More…]

• Today I have examined a document that came with a report of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Minister for Defence depart from Launceston Airport on the morning of 30 April 1 975 in a BAC (111) VIP aircraft. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• So that claims by the Opposition that the Whitiam Government has neglected the welfare of members of the defence forces can be tested, will the Minister inform the Senate of the benefits which have become available to Australian servicemen since this Government came to office? [More…]

• I think everybody now recognises that the new pay arrangements which were set up by the last Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, were exceedingly satisfactory. [More…]

• For the first time there is an independent committee of reference for all defence pay matters. [More…]

• Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]

• In addition we have provided, for the first time, a new eligibility for serving servicemen for defence homes and for repatriation benefits. [More…]

• We have also prepared legislation, which should have been dealt with by the Parliament, to create a defence force ombudsman. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the many Press reports of a statement by LieutenantColonel K. Newman claiming that he had resigned from the Army in protest at conditions in that branch of the armed Services and in protest at the policies of the former Minister for Defence? [More…]

• On 3 June 1975 he withdrew his resignation and applied for a transfer to the Army Reserve in accordance with the provisions of the Defence (Parliamentary Candidates) Act 1969. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, follows on a question asked by Senator Grimes. [More…]

• He made application to resign in protest against the way in which he alleged that Mr Barnard was running the defence Services. [More…]

• Then he no doubt thought how better would it be to defeat the new Labor candidate than to argue about defence, so he decided to take up new options. [More…]

• It appears that what Mr Cheesman is complaining about may well be defence forces retirement benefits payments. [More…]

• I do not know why the payments have been terminated; they are the responsibility of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• 1 ) That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter for urgent examination: [More…]

• The real thing that has triggered off the resignation is the failure of Mr Barnard in his Defence portfolio. [More…]

• I am sure we all realise that under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund legislation introduced by the former Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, Lieutentant-Colonel Newman would receive a lump sum of about $23,500, if he wished it, plus approximately $5000 a year which would have been a help if he was defeated in the election and retired to the farm that he already owns in Tasmania and would have been a very healthy addition to his parliamentary salary if he was elected. [More…]

• Newman in fact has not resigned from the Army but has taken advantage of the provisions of the Defence (Parliamentary Candidates) Act 1965. [More…]

• These gentlemen opposite who are always screaming for us to table documents rose to his defence and divided the Senate on the question of whether he should be required to table the document. [More…]

• He was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Primary Industry and Secondary Industry and Trade, a member of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the Library Committee, the Joint Standing Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and the Select Committee on the Canberra Abattoir. [More…]

• I feel I can do no better in opening this debate than to quote the opening words of the Special Report of the Senate Select Committee on National Service in the Defence Force. [More…]

• In 1 95 1 the then Acting Prime Minister, the then Mr Fadden, took similar action to prevent the Chiefs of Staff from attending before a Senate Select Committee on National Service in the Defence Force. [More…]

• One thing which is particularly interesting about the claim for privilege in relation to the VIP aircraft matter, about which Senator Wright was very eloquent- I will remind him of his words a little later- was that it was not some matter of the defence of the country, it was not some large matter of public interest about which one would have expected that there should be any concealment. [More…]

• Senator Greenwood, I suggest not quite as honestly as one would have expected from a man who proposes to be a Simon Pure, referred to a previous case when the Senate Select Committee on National Service in the Defence Force, which was comprised solely of the Labor Party members, invited various officers of the armed Services to appear before the Senate. [More…]

• But we hear no mention of that just as we hear no defence of the great white father, Sir Robert Menzies, when his words are quoted to support our stand against the stand that has been taken by the Opposition in these proceedings. [More…]

• Now, a witness may be a relatively junior man in the service and yet have come into possession of secret information of great importance, say a defence secret, in respect of which a claim for privilege certainly would be allowed if it were made. [More…]

• Even the Minister, who gave this spirited defence of his Government’s blanket prohibition yesterday, could not say that it had not done anything wrong. [More…]

• I would like to read one or two paragraphs from the Special Report of the Senate Select Committee on National Service in the Defence Force, the members of which were all Australian Labor Party senators. [More…]

• There is no evidence or implication in Defence records that any servicemen died as a result of mustard gas tests conducted in Australia during World War II. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable senator that the Minister for Defence is anxious to see these activities taking place and the use of Woomera to the greatest possible extent. [More…]

• We believe in particular areas, such as the defence purchasing requirements, that it could be extremely dangerous. [More…]

• Other colleagues of mine have a particular interest in the defence procurement situation. [More…]

• On page 66 of the Scott report a large chapter deals with defence, but one particular sentence springs clearly to mind. [More…]

• That is the Scott Committee- gave the most careful consideration to the whole subject before it decided to recommend that the purchase of all defence requirements above the tender threshold- [More…]

• In other words this operation will purchase the whole of the defence requirements, including destroyers, aircraft, weapons, tanks and what you will. [More…]

• What amazes me is that although the various departments- I think the Department of Defence was mentioned- must have their own experts to decide on their requirements, the departments will still need those experts if this commission is established. [More…]

• If the honourable senator has been following Press reports with the closeness with which I know he usually follows the major events of the day, he will have observed that the Government has been more active in defence of wage indexation than I think could be said of any previous government in relation to wages policy. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, refers to recent announcements concerning major defence equipment purchases of aircraft, frigates and tanks. [More…]

• In addition I understand that recently the Minister for Defence, Mr Morrison, has made reciprocal arrangements with the United Kingdom Government in relation to possible purchases. [More…]

• In response to possible Australian defence purchases in the United States, the United States Government decided to set up an arrangement whereby the United States Defence Department and industry, in circumstances in which the United States Government could not meet orders for offset components, would allow Australian industry to bid for the work. [More…]

• Sixthly, in the case of Defence procurement there could be objections on security grounds. [More…]

• Finally the management of complex projects would be made more difficult, as Defence has argued, and that the lines of communication need to be shortened and improved. [More…]

• There is much to be said for the Department of Defence viewpoint that the user has to live with the product and that this factor may be more important in the case of defence than in perhaps any other area. [More…]

• The Department of Defence has suggested an approach whereby some of the objections to placing defence purchasing under the Department of Defence can be met. [More…]

• That is the Scott Committee- gave the most careful consideration to the whole subject before it decided to recommend that the purchase of all defence requirements above the tender threshhold should not bc excluded from the scope of its recommendations. [More…]

• The purchasing agent or Purchasing Commission in this context will designate to the Department of Defence through the procurement authority the type of equipment that has to be used. [More…]

• This will not be done upon the basis of the user’s requirements and the efficiency of the equipment which the defence people would want for their services, but simply on the basis that the Commission thinks it would be good for Australian industry if a piece of equipment were used which was produced in Australia with no acknowledgement as to its efficacy or its use. [More…]

• Therefore the defence people have to have some more control over the procurement of their equipment. [More…]

• The Contract Board remained part of the Department of Defence until 1939 when the supply and production activities of that Department were transferred to the newlycreated Department of Supply and Development. [More…]

• Yet the lessons in government and the lessons for the Department of Defence and for those who were involved- whether they liked it or not- in the war of 1939-1945 were a searing experience in the context of equipment. [More…]

• As it was found out after the war the Contract Board which was taken away from the Department of Defence was not able to handle the procurement requirements of the defence forces from 1939 to 1945. [More…]

• It was then reinserted into the area of the Department of Supply where the defence people at least had a close liaison. [More…]

• The Department of Supply was charged with the procurement, technology, development, engineering know-how and a great deal of the design of equipment used for the defence forces in war time. [More…]

• It is proposed to go back over the tracks and to set up a vast bureaucracy for the control of defence force procurement. [More…]

• Honourable senators who care to look at the Defence Force Re-organisation Bill which is in another place at present will find that the whole of the requirement for the defence force will be embodied in civilian control inside the Department of Defence. [More…]

• That civilian control obviously will be responsible to a civilian secretary of defence and will be under the control of a Defence Minister who will be under pressure from the Chairman of the Purchasing Commission, as a purchaser, laying down its own specifications to say that that is the equipment that the defence Services have to take. [More…]

• Either we abolish the defence forces altogether on the basis that the United Nations will look after us, and then we can disband the defence Services, or we are to have a defence force which is maintained at the highest level with the equipment that is desirable for those people in the defence forces and that means sailors, soldiers and airmen who are charged with the defence of this country. [More…]

• On that basis alone- the proposed taking over of the defence procurement- I will not countenance any further discussion on this Bill. [More…]

• It is part of the proper role of government as it is part of our internal defence against fires, floods, famines, cyclones, plagues and earthquakes. [More…]

• From his spirited defence of the overseas companies we must assume that he received money from them. [More…]

• When Senator Cotton stood to open the debate on this Bill for the Opposition early this afternoon, he put forward the defence of the Opposition in the Senate for deferring this legislation since the beginning of June. [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…]

• The Commonwealth Banking Corporation introduced on 1 February a House Insurance Scheme with rates more favourable than those set by any insurer other than the Defence Service Homes Insurance scheme, while the latter scheme provides wider cover than other insurers, as flood victims in Brisbane have come to realise. [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, the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, announcedon 19 December 1972- the intention of the Government to move towards integrating defence management 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 four existing departments. [More…]

• In December 1973, Mr Barnard 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 re-distribute, 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 holdersthe 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 it is accepted that further changes to the defence organisation may be required from time to time. [More…]

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• 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, and 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 force- the aggregates and the common policies- which the 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 senators’ 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…]

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• 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 pf 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 sixteen 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…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence relates to the Government’s decision to abolish school cadet training. [More…]

• Would the Minister not agree that such training is an integral part of our national defence preparedness and that it has the other tangible national advantages of character moulding, self discipline and the development of a spirit of comradeship and citizenship. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence, Mr Morrison, after receiving information from his advisers and considering the report from Professor Millar, recommended to the Government -and the recommendation was accepted- that the cadet force should be disbanded for a number of reasons. [More…]

• On the advice of that group, it was decided that the members of the Services and the money could be better used in the other defence services generally. [More…]

• It was decided that the $ 10m should be used in the general revenue for defence and that the 500 members of the Services could be better used in other areas. [More…]

• The Government has introduced into the other House 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 the Attorney-General 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…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to establish the office of Defence Force Ombudsman and to define his powers and functions. [More…]

• As may be expected, the provisions contained in the Defence Force Ombudsman Bill follow very closely those in the Ombudsman Bill which establishes the office of the Australian Ombudsman. [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 senators will appreciate that the relationship between those in command and those under command in a disciplined 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. [More…]

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• 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 Ombudsman 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 senators will recall that in November 1973 the Prime Minister 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…]

• 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 consequences in terms of the Government’s objectives for defence, environmental protection or regional development. [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…]

• It accepts that with changes that have taken place in our region in recent years it may be necessary for the defence forces to be reorganised. [More…]

• This is a specialised field and all we as members of Parliament can do is seek to find out what is the most appropriate form of reorganisation of the defence forces suitable to Australia. [More…]

• The Bill is a complex Bill and is concerned with defence administration. [More…]

• This is not unusual for this Government but one would have thought that when major changes are to be made to the defence force structure the approval of the Parliament should have been sought prior to these changes having been made. [More…]

• The major proposal of the Bill is to provide a joint administration of the armed services of the defence force between the Secretary of the Department of Defence and the Chief of the Defence Force Staff. [More…]

• There is to be a separation of command and administration and it is this that has caused the greatest disquiet among those who specialise in defence matters. [More…]

• Another aspect of the Bill concerns the chief of the Defence force staff having command of the defence forces. [More…]

• Is he the commander in chief, or is the chief of the Defence Force Staff, or is the Minister? [More…]

• The Tange Report on the Re-organisation of the Defence Group of Departments has not been debated in this chamber and there has been very little public debate on the impact of the Government’s proposed changes. [More…]

• A great variety of matters has been given to the civilian side of the authority at the disposal of the Defence Department. [More…]

• It is for this reason that, although the Opposition will not oppose the motion for the second reading of the Bill, I intend to move after the second reading stage, in accordance with standing order 196a, that the Bill be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I have the feeling- it is no more than a feeling- that this Bill basically was hurried along and brought into the Parliament as a farewell present to the previous Minister for Defence, the former honourable member for Bass, Mr Barnard. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that Mr Barnard played a very large part in the defence reorganisation. [More…]

• In the passage of time, since the proposition was first put forward, there have been a number of inquiries directed towards the adoption of the idea of the Defence Force being under a single administration. [More…]

• As Senator Withers has said, it is a proposal to bring a type of joint aministration under the direction, first of all, of the Secretary of the Department of Defence acting in collaboration with the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]

• I am just wondering how he would produce a situation like that under his proposal that the Bill should be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• On 19 December 1972 the Minister for Defence announced the Government’s intentions concerning the reorganisation of the defence group of departments. [More…]

• Firstly, there is ultimately to be a single Department of Defence comprehending the staffs in the Department of Defence and the Service departments and, if so decided after further study, parts of the former Department of Supply, which is an integrated part of the defence system of this country. [More…]

• I wish to emphasise this because the right to conduct a military type of activity within this new Defence Force will be the responsibility of the professionals in the defence Service. [More…]

• The reorganisation is to improve the presentation to Parliament of the nature and cost of the various defence functions. [More…]

• When the departments are merged the functions of Service boards will be modified to accord with the redistribution of responsibilities, to ensure more efficient linkage among the elements concerned and to strengthen central control of resources allocated to defence. [More…]

• Organisational and administrative arrangements that will give effect to the Government’s intentions which I have outlined were proposed, as I said earlier, in the report on the reorganisation of the defence group of departments in November 1973- the Tange report. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence announced the general acceptance by the Government, subject to certain necessary legislative changes, of the recommendations in the report. [More…]

• The main features of the legislation are specific recognition of the Minister’s general control and administration of the defence force. [More…]

• The Minister will give directions to the Chief of Defence Force Staff, the Secretary and the Chiefs of Staff, in respect of matters for which they will be responsible; creation of an office of Chief of Defence Force Staff, responsible directly to the Minister for Defence for command of the defence force. [More…]

• The Chief of Defence Force Staff will also be Chief Military Adviser to the Minister. [More…]

• Another feature of this legislation will be the creation of an office of Chief of Defence Force Staff, responsible directly to the Minister for Defence for command of the defence force. [More…]

• The Chief of Defence Force Staff will also be Chief Military Adviser to the Minister; provision for Chiefs of Staff of the Navy, Army and Air Force, to exercise command of their respective services under the Chief of Defence Force Staff, administration of the Defence Force to be the joint responsibility of the Chief of Defence Force Staff and the Secretary of the Department of Defence, except in relation to matters coming within the command vested in the Chief of Defence Force Staff of 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 Staff; the Chief of Defence Force Staff and Chiefs of Staff to have direct access to the Minister- something which has not been possible in the past- in relation to their professional military responsibilities. [More…]

• Here I pause to say that, in the course of the inquiry conducted by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence into the running of the affairs of the Army, great emphasis was placed on the fear amongst the professional soldiers in the defence forces of the intrusion of the civilian element as authorities having access to the Minister and taking precedence over the professional officers in the defence Services. [More…]

• I am delighted to see, as I said earlier, that the Minister has been responsive to this and has built into this legislation the necessary safeguards which will protect and preserve the position of the professional officer in the defence force. [More…]

• It will clearly distinguish between the functions of those people and the functions to be exercised by the civilian element in the defence system. [More…]

• Finally, the defence research and development activities will be transferred to the Department of Defence from the Department of Manufacturing Industry. [More…]

• It is expected that these changes will lead to significant improvements in defence administration in the years ahead. [More…]

• The major advantages can be summarised as follows: Firstly, the changes will improve both ministerial supervision and the presentation to Parliament of the nature and cost of the various defence functions. [More…]

• Secondly, the military power of command is clearly defined with, for the first time, a clear line of command for the defence force, under the Minister, from the Chief of Defence Force Staff through the Chiefs of each Service. [More…]

• Thirdly, a single Department of Defence will enable improvements in administration, particularly in force structure planning, resource allocation, financial management and the management of civilian personnel. [More…]

• This is a substantial improvement in the systema system which existed under the previous Government despite the recommendations that were made to it over the years and despite the acknowledged fact that reorganisation of the defence structure of this country into a single defence force was most desirable from the point of view of the efficient functioning of the defence force and having proper regard to the necessary economies to be effected in matters of this kind. [More…]

• That is not to say, of course, that there are to be cut-backs in the equipment available to the defence force or in any way a limitation on the necessary functions of the defence force. [More…]

• Quite obviously, where we formerly had 5 departments looking after the affairs of the defence forces, there must be, of necessity, economies to be gained from bringing the defence force into a single unitary structure. [More…]

• The role of the Secretary of the Department of Defence is very important indeed. [More…]

• I can recall- it is embodied within the report of the Senate Committee- the problems and apprehensions of people in relation not only to the functions of the Secretary of the Department of Defence but also the civilian element in the Department of Defence which appeared to be gaining an ascendant position over the professionals in the Services who had devoted their lives to the 3 arms of the Services and who feared that the interference by the civilian element- it is always possible, I suppose, in peace time- would greatly undermine their authority and diminish the effectiveness of the highly trained officers in the defence forces. [More…]

• It endeavours to strike a proper and reasonable balance between the functions of the 2 elements- the civilian element and the defence force element- so that we get a totally, wholly integrated, smoothly functioning system, which has not been the case in the years since the Second World War. [More…]

• Also, it is believed that the reorganisation of the defence force along the lines proposed in this Bill will enable a much more speedy transition from a peace time to a war time situation than is currently possible. [More…]

• If we have to build a defence potential in the event of an attack upon this country and get into a state of defence preparedness, it stands to reason that this can be done with far greater ease and speed and in a much more beneficial way if we have a single unitary defence force than if we have to gather together the threads of 5 departments. [More…]

• I think it is important to realise that this is the function and the role that the Secretary of the Department of Defence would be fulfilling. [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 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 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…]

• In other words, the professionals in the defence Services have direct access to the Minister as distinct from the situation in the past. [More…]

• The Chiefs of Staff of the 3 arms of the defence Services will have this access similarly for the first time. [More…]

• Department of Defence, including the preparation of policy advice and recommendations to the Minister will flow from this. [More…]

• For example, since December 1973 Service positions in the Central Defence Organisation have increased from some 130 to 490, of which some 340 have already been filled. [More…]

• To ensure the necessary close co-operation, provision is made for two-hatted arrangements whereby senior Service officers in key areas, such as material and supply, will be responsible both to their Service chiefs and to their functional heads in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• So the Bill spells out quite clearly changes in the structure of the Defence Force which have been urged upon the governments of this country over the years- at least for the past 17 years. [More…]

• The Labor Government upon resuming office in 1 972 undertook to bring about a consolidation of the defence services of this country under a single defence force and, having agreed upon that step, proceeded to put the proposition into effect. [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…]

• As I mentioned earlier, the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence reported very strongly on the aspects of growing disagreement between the civilian and Service elements in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It was a matter which was causing increasing concern to those people involved who were ensuring an adequate defence force in this country. [More…]

• It was acknowledged that the problem that was growing had to be cut off and that there had to be a proper rationalisation of the functions of the two elements in the defence force. [More…]

• Naturally it is accepted that further changes to the defence organisation may be required from time to time. [More…]

• The question of the role of the GovernorGeneral as the Commander-in-Chief of the Army was raised in the discussions of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence also. [More…]

• They have been examined by the very Committee to which Senator Withers suggested we should refer this matter- the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• What has been attempted in this Bill- the restructuring of the defence force of the country into two elements, the civilian and the Service sectors- has been largely achieved. [More…]

• The civilian and the Service elements in the defence force as it now is are in substantial agreement on the roles that will be performed and on the necessity for the restructuring. [More…]

• -This Bill that we have before the Senate does make radical changes in our defence structure. [More…]

• The first is the move towards the integration of the three arms of the defence forces. [More…]

• Secondly, it gives greater power to the civilian component of the Department of Defence and to its Minister. [More…]

• From my knowledge of the Morshead report and of other commitments that the Liberal-Country Party Government was heading towards, I doubt very much whether it ever envisaged vesting the power proposed to be vested in the Public Service in relation to the defence structure or the power that the Minister is to exercise over the defence chiefs. [More…]

• It is necessary that the government of the day, as the custodian of the people’s money and the people’s interests, decide the amount that should be given to a defence structure and decide what the requirements of the defence forces should be at any given time. [More…]

• But having done that and having made that decision in consultation with the experts in the Department of Defence, particularly the senior Service personnel, I believe that it should then leave it to the experienced personnel to decide how best the money allocated is to be spent in the interests of our defence. [More…]

• Certainly we have to coordinate the three arms of the defence forces into an efficient fighting force, but in doing so we must not destroy the particular expertise that has been developed by years of training. [More…]

• Senator Poyser is not even interested in the defence of his own country. [More…]

• Defence comes second to him if not lower than that. [More…]

• Honourable senators on this side of the House regard defence as being of primary importance to this country. [More…]

• In fact if one has a look through this Bill one can see where some sections of the civilian component of the Department of Defence can even tell the Services how they should operate or give them instructions as to how they should operate in the field of battle. [More…]

• No wonder there is so much disquiet amongst the senior officers of our defence forces. [More…]

• Nothing can have a worse effect on a defence structure than for the confidence and morale of the fighting forces to be lowered, but that is what is happening today. [More…]

• The role of the defence forces in peace time is twofold. [More…]

• A defence force is almost useless - [More…]

• Any defence force must have consistency in its directives and objectives from those in command and there must be forward planning with the assurance that any equipment that may be envisaged or planned will be available in the future. [More…]

• Unfortunately one of the things that our defence personnel are very concerned about in this respect is the power to be vested in the Minister because any defence planning could be at the whim of the government of the day and any future plans could be scrapped. [More…]

• I believe, therefore, that we must take notice of the concern that has been expressed by members of the defence forces. [More…]

• If we are to have an effective defence force the morale of the defence force has to be taken into consideration. [More…]

• The defence force has to have confidence in this leadership. [More…]

• Because there is so much concern being expressed in this area, I believe that the Senate should send this Bill to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and allow the people on both sides of the argument to give evidence and explain to the Committee exactly what they believe is right or wrong and where they believe improvements can be made. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence been drawn to Press comments that resignations from the armed forces are on the increase? [More…]

• If so, will the Minister inform the Senate of the current position in relation to officer resignations from the defence forces? [More…]

• It should be remembered that under the highly favourable defence forces retirement benefits scheme introduced by this Government two-thirds of the officers who left the Services in the past year were eligible for pensions. [More…]

• I might add that the strength of the defence forces has been increasing steadily. [More…]

• At a time of rapid movement in the defence area the Budget effectively cuts back on defence. [More…]

• Defence spending falls from 9. [More…]

• Speaking about defence, I mention what this Government did when it was elected. [More…]

• Of course there was an exodus of officers from the defence services. [More…]

• After all, probably all honourable senators read the other day that the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) has been in dispute with British manufacturers about wiring in respect of certain submarines. [More…]

• I do not know what the Opposition seeks in regard to defence. [More…]

• It may be, as Mr Barnard pointed out when he was Minister for Defence, that by delaying our procurements a little we will be able to satisfy our requirements through a better form of shopping in Europe. [More…]

• The Department of Defence, with our defences run right down, spent $2.5m on advertising for recruits. [More…]

• He criticsed this Government for keeping defence spending down to 2.9 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]

• The Fraser reply, so called, was irreconcilable with the claims made and the promises and assurances given by many of his colleagues in statements that there should be more money for the States, that there must be more money for defence. [More…]

• I notice that he did not cover even the additional $10m that would be required to continue the cadet corps, even though his own shadow Defence Minister had given an undertaking that very day that a future Liberal-National Country Party government would continue the cadet corps. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence been drawn to recent Press reports concerning engine failure and the subsequent grounding of the F 1 1 1 aircraft of the United States Air Force? [More…]

• -The Defence Force Re-organization Bill 1 975 is the culmination of discussions over the years with the various sections of the defence forces. [More…]

• Not only has it been discussed over the past 3 years since the Labor Government has been in office; there also was talk about a reorganisation of the defence forces in 1958. [More…]

• There are 2 beliefs within the Australian Labor Party on defence policy. [More…]

• If one reads a statement on the re-organisation of the defence group of departments made by the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, on 4 December 1973 this fact is borne out. [More…]

• The defence of this country is too important a matter to bc administered by a demonstrably inefficient grouping of organisations whose objectives are not always the same, whose functions are sometimes duplicated and whose very existence as separate bureaucracies bedevils great affairs with unnecessary conflicts. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that this statement was made on 4 December 1973 - the separate Departments of Navy, Army and Air ceased to exist and a new Department of Defence was created. [More…]

• Within the framework of the Department of Defence the 3 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 3 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…]

• I believe that defence should not be treated as a sacred cow for which the public should pay but show no other interest. [More…]

• Defence, since it is as much a part of our community as any other activity, should involve all Australians in the same way as any other community activity and should not be used for political expediency. [More…]

• Those involved in providing defence needs should be regarded by our community as equal to those involved in any other occupation. [More…]

• For these reasons the Government rejects excessive scare campaigns and foreign adventurism as the basis of defence policy and as an excuse for defence action. [More…]

• Providing adequate defence should be like any other government responsibility. [More…]

• Because defence is an integral part of Australian life, decisions on defence which reflect our relations with other nations should not be made against the background of Australia’s basic interest. [More…]

• We should not reject alliances or downgrade friends but should be prepared to assert our requirements where necessary by developing independence and self reliance in defence policy. [More…]

• Within that policy the Australian Government has introduced the legislation that is now before the Senate for the re-organisation of the Department of Defence so that the individual Service departments- Army, Navy and Air Force- are eliminated. [More…]

• When the re-organisation is completed the Australian defence system, I believe, will be one of the most efficient in the world. [More…]

• When I began my speech I said that it had taken about 3 years for this Bill to come before the Parliament and that some years ago, in 1958, it was recommended that the defence forces should be integrated into one department. [More…]

• The authority of the Department of Defence, which should be clear and commanding, has come to be regarded as uncertain in various particulars. [More…]

• The Bill thus represents a sound attack on the main difficulty which has plagued our defence management for almost 20 years- that of a Service voice fragmented by bickering and poor organisation- while preserving separate Service identities. [More…]

• The Opposition has proposed that the Bill be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and that a report be brought down by 20 November. [More…]

• However, the decision will 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…]

• I have made this decision on the recommendations of the Army who have assured me that the cost-effectiveness of cadet training cannot be justified from the viewpoint of its contribution to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• The Army School Cadets were conceived as a military activity; the only justification for continued funding by the Defence Department is their military value. [More…]

• The Defence Force Development Committee- the most authoritative source of advice available to a Minister for Defence on Defence capability matters- has formally advised that abolition of the School Cadets would have no adverse effects on capabilities but would release Service manpower for other purposes. [More…]

• These comments were endorsed by the Chief of the General Staff and the Military Board: the cost and effectiveness of cadet training cannot be justified from the viewpoint of its contribution to the defence of Australia ‘. [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 61 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 Australian 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 Australian waters. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence will be announcing shortly the letting of a contract for electronic systems to be fitted into two HS-748 aircraft which were acquired for this among other purposes. [More…]

• The responses to our invitation to register interest are now being examined closely and the Minister for Defence expects shortly to let tenders for project definition studies that will enable us to decide on the precise type and characteristics of the new patrol boats which we should construct. [More…]

• Tenders have been called for the submission of a design for a new ship and the Minister for Defence expects to make a decision on the particular design next year. [More…]

• Finally in the maritime area, I am pleased to report that earlier this month the Minister for Defence inspected the guided missile frigate project in the United States and discussed its progress with the United States Secretary of Defense and his officials. [More…]

• For many years, Army has had to make do with an air defence capability based on the Bofors gun. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has decided that this capability, which dates back to World War II, will be updated by the introduction of the Rapier surface-to-air guided weapon system. [More…]

• The choice of an air defence missile system for the Army has been a lengthy and arduous process but the Minister for Defence is now satisfied that the selection of Rapier is right in the Australian context. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence will be announcing the type and numbers of the new aircraft later this year. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence is ensuring that the scope for participation of Australian industry in the projects under consideration is being fully explored, so that industry can make a positive contribution to employment. [More…]

• There will be local involvement in production work for the medium-range 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 shall ask the permission of the Senate to have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• Mr President, 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…]

• Defence Facilities [More…]

• The Government is cognisant of the need to develop defence infrastructure at this time, particularly since so much defence activity continues to take place from sub-standard accommodation including temporary structures built during the Second World War. [More…]

• This building will accommodate people now working at Albert Park and thus assist in the plan to vacate that portion of Albert Park occupied by defence activities and to return the park to the people of Melbourne. [More…]

• In all defence facilities programs very close attention is now paid to environment considerations to ensure as far as possible that solutions found are acceptable to all parties with genuine concern. [More…]

• Perhaps there is some truth in what he had to say in regard to the continental defence of Australia. [More…]

• One of the tragedies which I see in relation to the Defence Force Reorganization Bill is the proposal by the Opposition to refer the matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• As Senator Drury has already mentioned in his speech, the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee is already up to its ears in work, having just completed one reference, starting on another and having a further one on the notice paper. [More…]

• The proposal before the chamber is to give effect to the reorganisation of the higher management of the defence forces and the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Prior to that, as every honourable senator would know, the defence establishment was made up of 5 departmentsDefence, Navy, Army, Air Force and Supply. [More…]

• As a result of a series of steps taken since 1972 the activities of those departments have been wound down and integrated into one Department, namely the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Department of Supply became the Department of Manufacturing Industry, with its defence science functions being transferred to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• One of the arguments- I suppose the main argument- in favour of the proposals of the Government is that the proposed organisation provides a complete and integrated framework within which all matters related to defence can be considered and implemented. [More…]

• The changes will improve both ministerial supervision and the presentation to Parliament of the nature and cost of the various defence functions. [More…]

• The military power of command is clearly defined with, for the first time, a clear line of command for the defence force under the Minister from the Chief of Defence Force Staff through the chiefs of each Service. [More…]

• A single Department of Defence will enable improvements in administration, particularly in force structure planning, resources allocation, financial management and the management of civilian personnel. [More…]

• The Department of Defence, presuming that the Bill is carried, will in future contain all the factors essential for policy making, support for the armed services and their running at the highest level. [More…]

• The matter of intelligence received a passing reference in the hearings of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence when the reference on the Australian Army was before it. [More…]

• Using defence analysts this part of the Department will be responsible for long range considerations concerning possible threats to Australia. [More…]

• One certainly hopes that such a branch will be staffed with level-headed citizens who can prevent us from being involved in any future Vietnams where our defence forces were used in the past in an offensive rather than a defensive role. [More…]

• This will give the Department of Defence a central direction and control over very necessary logistic functions responsible for provisioning, equipping and movement of the armed forces and a multitude of like facilities. [More…]

• The new organisation proposed in this Bill has been criticised on the ground that it gives too much control to the Secretary of the Department, but I believe that a close look at the Department’s makeup will allay any such criticism in that the Secretary and the Chief of Defence Force Staff will jointly control the Department, thus, as it were, rendering unto Caesar all things that are Caesar’s and unto others all things that belong to them. [More…]

• The Chief of Defence Force Staff will not only work directly with the Secretary in the running of the Department but he will also be the principal military adviser to the Government and to the Minister and will have a significant influence on the formulation of defence policy in conjunction with the Secretary and the various branches of the Department. [More…]

• I believe it has been discussed in the circles that understand the basics of our military forces and that over the years those people have, after much discussion and consultation, come to a conclusion that it is time that the command and the top echelon of our defence establishment should be restructured. [More…]

• Were this country unfortunate enough to be involved in a war in the future- I know we all hope that will never be but we are aware of the historyI believe that the type of department that is being established under this Bill will lead to a better performance throughout the ranks of our defence forces. [More…]

• We have already made it clear that our own forces are for the defence of Australia and are not to be used to prop up decadent regimes in the area. [More…]

• The Senate is debating the Defence Force Re-Organization Bill 1975. [More…]

• Now this Government says that the Defence Force ReOrganization Bill 1 975, a Bill which goes to the heart of the security of the Australian people, is not important enough to refer to a committee. [More…]

• I think all of us would regard Dr T. B. Millar, Professorial Fellow in International Relations at the Australian National University and Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, as one of the most responsible and influential Australians in the field of defence. [More…]

• I have regretfully come to believe that despite the greatly increased service input into the Defence Department the proposed reorganisation is a mistake of unprecedented magnitudefar beyond that of the short lived pentropic division and with far greater implications for the defence and security of Australia, whereas the previous organisation was clumsy and time consuming the proposed one is guaranteed in vital aspects to be immensely unwieldy and frustration making in peace and potentially disastrous in war. [More…]

• We are not asking for a delay that will hold up anything in the defence organisation. [More…]

• Nobody in the Government has suggested that what we intend will imperil or threaten in any way the normal conduct of the defences of this country in the several months that are necessary to bring in a report. [More…]

• Defence will continue. [More…]

• This Bill is not in any way imperative to defence. [More…]

• Have we thought of the implications of the abolition of the Departments of the Army, Navy and Air, the partial dismantling of the Department of Supply and the future reorganisation into the one great Department of Defence? [More…]

• It asserts that it creates the office of the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]

• In the Minister’s words that officer shall have power of command of the Defence Force. [More…]

• Victor Smith say, then basically the general structure of the Bill is fallacious because when one comes to the next step in the Bill, that is, administration, one finds what is called happily a diarchy, a sort of Siamese twin control, whereby administration, which is undefined, is to be a parallel job, a twin job divided between the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and the Secretary of the Department, with some qualifications. [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…]

• 1 ) The Governor-General may delegate to the Chief of Defence Force Staff or to an officer of the Army any of his powers under sections 10 and 10b to appoint and promote Officers of the Army. [More…]

• The Committee is extremely unhappy about the serious lack of co-operation, goodwill and rapport between uniformed service personnel and civilian public servants within the Department of Defence. [More…]

• There is also a clear need to define precisely the tasks of the Department of Defence in relation to the armed forces and the role of the Secretary in particular. [More…]

• I turn now to the Defence Force ReOrganization Bill, in the light of the criticism of Dr Millar, in the light of the statements of the various senior Service officers and in the light of the unanimous report of the Senate Committee. [More…]

• As a result of its examination of the Defence Department, the Panel found that effective civilian control is impaired by a generally excessive centralisation of decision-making authority at the level of the Secretary of Defence. [More…]

• Will it explain to us this fundamental: How does it propose that the Chief of Defence Force Staff shall have command when so much of the basis of his command is shared at least, or in fact overruled at least, by the Public Service, by civilians? [More…]

• What this has done is to give a priority to the Secretary of the Department whose powers interweave with the whole of the powers of command of the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]

• Surely the basis of what we seek is that the control of the defence system, the control of the military forces, shall first of all lie in the sovereignty of this Parliament and, secondly, that it shall be executed through the Minister for Defence, a parliamentarian, a political figure, who represents the triumph of the civilian power and the parliamentary system over the military. [More…]

• Can the Minister seriously say that he can explain this part of the second reading speech of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) in the other place: [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…]

• Unless it is defined, do we really commit the Defence Force of Australia to the ambiguity of that wording? [More…]

• It of course applauds the execution of power over the Defence Force through the Minister, through the Executive Government, through the Parliament. [More…]

• This is being done, as I have said, at a time of the greatest potential instability in our region in the post-war years and at a time when, for even continental defence or for peacekeeping purposes, it may be vitally necessary with immediacy to put small peacekeeping forces into action. [More…]

• Nobody has suggested that the deferment of the Bill for a few months will have any impact at all on the whole defence system. [More…]

• Let no one believe that suddenly at heart the Government has discovered defence and that it is going to grapple defence to its bosom, as the Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) said today in relation to defence procurement. [More…]

• When we left office between 29 per cent and 30 per cent of the total defence budget was spent on the procurement of equipment. [More…]

• Last year the Government, which suddenly says that we had neglected procurement and that it has not, had expenditure on the procurement of equipment running at 1 9 per cent of the defence budget. [More…]

• The percentage of the total defence budget spent on the procurement of equipment has dropped from 29 per cent to 19 per cent in the space of 2 years, and this has been allowed to happen by a government that asks us to put trust in it, a government which says things and then does the opposite. [More…]

• The Committee is extremely unhappy about the serious lack of co-operation, goodwill and rapport between uniform Service personnel and civilian public servants within the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I entirely support my Leader and the Opposition in our advocacy that this Bill should be deferred and referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• He said that the Opposition would not oppose the Bill but that at another stage it would move to have the Bill referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The title of this Bill is ‘ A Bill for an Act to amend the Defence Act 1903-73, and other Acts, for purposes related to the reorganization of the Defence Force, and for other purposes’. [More…]

• As a result of that the Government saw fit to ask Sir Arthur Tange, the Secretary of the Department of Defence, to make a report. [More…]

• When it was suggested that this matter be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I took it upon myself to analyse the Bill carefully and also, as far as I could, to traverse the suggestions made in the Tange report. [More…]

• Unfortunately it was not until the closing period of this morning’s session that I was handed a copy of the report by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Australian Army. [More…]

• Clause 7 of the Bill seeks to insert in the Defence Act new sections 8, 9, 9a and 9b. [More…]

• In providing in the proposed new section 9 for command to be exercised by a Chief of Defence Force Staff or by Chiefs of Staff it has been expressly provided that such command is subject to section 68 of the Constitution, which vests command in chief in the GovernorGeneral as the Queen’s representative. [More…]

• For the first time a clear single line of command has been established by the proposed new section 9, which creates an Office of Chief of Defence Force Staff with command of the defence force, and also provides for each Chief of Staff, under the Chief of the Defence Force Staff, to command his arm of the force. [More…]

• The principle of having a single chain of command for the defence force that is clearly set out in the legislation has not been seriously challenged and must be welcomed by all who are concerned with the operational responsibilities of the armed Services. [More…]

• The proposed new section 9a links the Chief of Defence Force Staff and the Secretary of the Department in the overall administration of the defence force. [More…]

• This is the provision that has given rise to much of the criticism of the reorganisation In the defence organisation that is being replaced, the administration of the Services was shared under the Service Ministers by the members of the Service Boards, including the Secretary of the Service departments. [More…]

• Above the single Service departments, the old Department of Defence, with little or no direct military input, occupied a position that the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, stated in the Parliament to be ‘one of complete authority’. [More…]

• Under the new defence organisation there will be a very substantial part in policy formulation and advice played by the numerous senior Service officers who are being given responsibilities within the reorganised Department of Defence. [More…]

• Even more significant, the proposed new section 9a restricts the powers of the Secretary of the Department under section 25 (2) of the Public Service Act by specifically providing that the administration of the defence force should be the joint responsibility, under the Minister, of the Secretary and the CDFS. [More…]

• The process of abolishing Service Ministers and the separate Service departments and the restructuring of a new Department of Defence to provide one integrated administrative support to the Armed Services has been proceeding since the end of 1972, when the then Minister for Defence assumed all the portfolios within the defence group of departments. [More…]

• The restructuring of the new unified Department of Defence has been proceeding progressively. [More…]

• That legislation is now before the Senate and, having regard to the clarity and simplicity of the issues involved, no good reason is seen by me as to why the Bill should be referred for study by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• As I see it, there is nothing in this Bill that is not in the best interests of the defence of Australia. [More…]

• It is a good thing to know that people are interested in defence; it is very necessary. [More…]

• But on the mode of the defence and in the promulgation of legislation, it is necessary that there should be a heart to heart discussion, not on party lines, but on independent lines in the best interests of this nation. [More…]

• I believe that this Bill is of far too technical a nature and of too great importance to the defence Services to be used as any propaganda base in this debate. [More…]

• Over the years the Liberal Party in government or in opposition has taken a great deal of interest in the issue of defence. [More…]

• Yet today we have what is apparently very strongly held views of general opposition to some aspects of this change- not to the concept because Opposition speakers have not claimed any opposition to the general concept of integration of the defence forces- and a strongly maintained claim of opposition to some rather vague matters of detail. [More…]

• Let me just mention in passing in this brief address that I will make to the subject, the several complaints that have been made to me and which no doubt are very genuinely held by people who have been deeply involved in the past in Australia’s defence organisation. [More…]

• As I understand the organisation, the Minister for Defence has a Minister assisting him. [More…]

• I suppose that anyone could imagine some conflict here where in some ways there is left unspecified the line of demarcation between the Secretary of the Department and the supremo in the name of the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]

• I believe that here again the Minister’s clear authority to direct is such that it would be his responsibility to ensure that the defence forces were run efficiently and were not bedevilled by personality clashes or claims for parallel authority or identical authority by the Supremo of the Services and the Secretary of the Department. [More…]

• There has been no disclaimer- of course, there cannot be any disclaimer- that the Parliament through Cabinet, through the Ministry, must be supreme in the authority finally given to our defence Services. [More…]

• The various criticisms that have been made- I have said that they have been made by some very well meaning and very well versed peopleseem to me to centre on the fact that the Opposition is worried about the diarchy, the Secretary of the Department of Defence and the Supremo of the Services. [More…]

• The Opposition worries about the single Minister and it worries about the lack of a defence council. [More…]

• It seems to me that the matter of the 2 somewhat equal persons in charge of our defence forces, the matter of the single Minister and a number of other subsidiary, if vague, criticisms could be met to a large degree if there were a defence council, because it would formalise more the position of the chiefs of staff in their relationship with the Minister. [More…]

• Without doubt, they could go to their Minister through the Chief of Defence Force Staff, but no doubt they would feel a little upgraded and a little more secure in their Service leadership position if they were a member of a defence council. [More…]

• Of all the objections or defections that the Opposition has seen in the minor part of this legislationagain I say to the Senate that it approves the conceptthe thing that impresses me most is the criticism concerning the lack of a defence council. [More…]

• I am a little impressed, therefore, with the view that a defence council, if formed, would have a public relations stance and yet provide a more secure participation in the hierarchy of defence by the chiefs of staff. [More…]

• One spokesman for the Opposition in the lower House has outlined his vision of a defence council. [More…]

• He has suggested that the council be made up- I do not wish to misquote him but I believe this is so- of the 3 chiefs of staff, the Secretary of the Department of Defence and the Minister, who I have no doubt would be the chairman. [More…]

• I suggest the Chief of Defence Force Staff could be added to that list. [More…]

• If the defence council had 5 members comprising the 3 chiefs of staff, the Chief of Defence Force Staff, who is their higher command, the Secretary of the Department and the Minister as chairman, we would have an excellent defence council. [More…]

• I can do no more than compliment everybody, including those on the other side as well as the Government supporters, who have talked about the provisions of the Bill, although it is true, as Senator Bunton and Senator Steele Hall have said, that much of the debate ranged around the two different political opinions on the way the defence forces are being run. [More…]

• We established new pay procedures and after we had done that we set about making important purchases to make the new Defence Force viable, up to date and sophisticated. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, as my colleagues have pointed out, the matter went before the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• On being elected as the Minister for Defence, Mr [More…]

• Barnard announced on 19 December 1972 the Government’s intention concerning the reorganisation of the defence groups. [More…]

• The single Department of Defence will enable improvements in administration . [More…]

• The Government’s policy on reorganisation of the Defence group of Departments is to merge into the Department of Defence the 3 Service departments. [More…]

• We also propose to reassess the place in the defence structure of the procurement and production activities . [More…]

• It is appropriate for me, while referring in the Parliament to the question of defence reorganisation to advise the Senate that I now intend to table with the agreement of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), for the information of members, the two reports of the Advisory Committee of officials led by Sir Leslie Morshead which were completed in 1957. [More…]

• You will see that all the Committee’s recommendations centre around the amalgamation of the Departments of Supply and Defence Production on one hand and the 3 Service Departments and the Department of Defence on the other. [More…]

• More importantly, Dr Forbes, who was then the shadow Minister for Defence said in the debate that he supported the principles of reorganisation. [More…]

• The Opposition fully supports the integration of defence group departments, and I place that on record. [More…]

• We regard 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…]

• The definition of command is contained in the Joint Service Glossary of Terms which has been with the defence forces since Federation. [More…]

• Section 51 (vi) of the Constitution provides that ‘the Parliament shall have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to the naval and military defence of the Commonwealth and of the several States, and the control of the forces to execute and maintain the laws of the Commonwealth’. [More…]

• The proposed new section 9 contained in clause 7 of the Defence Force Re-organization Bill provides for the Governor-General to appoint an officer of an arm of the Defence Force to be Chief of Defence Force Staff and vests command of the Defence Force in the Chief of Defence [More…]

• This command is expressed to be subject to the control and administration of the Defence Force vested in the Minister and also to the command in chief vested in the Governor-General (sub-section 9 (5)). [More…]

• Section 68 of the Constitution has never been regarded as a bar to Parliament, in pursuance of its power under section 51 (VI) of the Constitution, making laws investing officers and other authorities with practical command over the Defence Force, any part thereof or the members of any part of that Force or regulating the manner in which those powers are to be exercised- so long at any rate, as no attempt is made to derogate from the formal supreme command vested in the Governor-General by section 68 of the Constitution. [More…]

• The Opposition’s shadow Minister for Defence, Dr Forbes, . [More…]

• The payment of salaries of defence personnel as outlined in Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]

• Discussions were held yesterday between Dr Santos, the Australian Prime Minister and also the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I am not responsible for defence service homes or the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]

• I believe that the debate last Thursday ended with a reference to a defence council. [More…]

• I think most of the criticisms that I could discern, which could be distilled to any recognisable form, would be satisfied to a large measure by the emergence of a defence council. [More…]

• I suggested that during the weekend the Opposition, if it were interested in the criticisms that had been made, might be able to evaluate the effectiveness of a defence council as a way of bringing together in a more formal manner various areas of defence and thereby still the criticisms that some areas of the defence forces may be subjugated to others without being able to meet with others and put forward their views. [More…]

• As I understand that some discussion has taken place on this question, 1 ask the PostmasterGeneral (Senator Bishop) whether he can offer the Committee anything by way of the provision of a defence council. [More…]

• I understand that a meeting similar to a defence council has in fact been in progress during the term of office of the present Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) and of former Ministers for Defence. [More…]

• Can the PostmasterGeneral indicate whether there might be some formalisation of a defence council? [More…]

• Honourable senators may have noted that in paragraphs 325 and 326 of his report Sir Arthur Tange referred to a recommendation that he had made to the Chiefs of Staff about the setting up of a possible defence council. [More…]

• In both Great Britain and Canada defence councils formally exist but are not used to any significant extent. [More…]

• In New Zealand the Defence Council as such appears to exercise in fact only limited authority. [More…]

• The question of a defence council in Australia was considered in the development of the new organisational proposals. [More…]

• For many years section 28 of the Defence Act has contained the following provision: [More…]

• The Governor-General may constitute a Council of Defence, which shall have such powers and functions as are prescribed. [More…]

• However, Council of Defence Regulations do exist. [More…]

• It seems basically to be a form of War Cabinet for consideration of major defence issues. [More…]

• A council of defence under the existing section 28 ( 1) of the Defence Act could be set up with functions and membership more closely related to the defence council which is currently being advocated by a number of people who have contributed to the debate on the organisational proposals. [More…]

• I have an outline of the possible membership and functions of such a council of defence. [More…]

• It should be understood, however, that in view of the Attorney-General’s Department it would not be valid to provide for the membership by regulation as section 28 (1) of the Defence Act contemplates that the GovernorGeneral would make such appointments by an executive act and not by exercising his power to make regulations. [More…]

• Section 28(1) of the Defence Act provides: [More…]

• The Governor-General may constitute a Council of Defence, which shall have such powers and functions as are prescribed. [More…]

• The Government proposes to repeal the existing Council of Defence Regulations and to reconstitute the Council of Defence with the following membership: The Minister; the Minister appointed to assist the Minister for Defence; the Secretary to the Department of Defence; the Chief of Defence Force Staff; the Chief of Naval Staff; the Chief of the General Staff; and the Chief of the Air Staff. [More…]

• The Regulations will provide that the function of the Council will be to enable the Minister, in consultation with the other members of the Council, to consider matters relating to the control and administration of the Defence Force and the respective arms of the Defence Force. [More…]

• I believe that the commitment now of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) to the establishment of a Council of Defence that will meet at least four times yearly in some measure meets the criticisms that have been put to me personally by people interested in the defence forces and in some measure meets the criticisms that have been put here generally by the Opposition. [More…]

• I should think that the commitment to the establishment of a Council of Defence is at least one step further towards meeting the criticisms that have been made. [More…]

• These comprise loans raised overseas for the specific purposes of financing purchases of aircraft for Government airlines and for defence purchases. [More…]

• No new drawings under credit arrangements for defence purchases are planned for 1975-76. [More…]

• Under that clause, the moneys borrowed would be applied only for the expenses of borrowing and for services specified under the heading of the ‘ Department of Defence ‘ in the Supply Act (No. [More…]

• Section 51 (vi) of the Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power to make laws with respect to the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Clause 3(8) of the Financial Agreement states inter alia ‘Loans for Defence purposes approved by the Parliament of the Commonwealth shall not be included in the Commonwealth’s loan programme or be otherwise subject to this Agreement’. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that during the debate on the Defence Force Re-Organization Bill I quoted the salaries of Service officers and of civilian staff. [More…]

• Defence (Mr Morrison), said- and I take it.that this is holy writ- that I should have realised that the figures in the Budget were based on . [More…]

• Or does it intend to cut the number of servicemen and civilians in the defence forces? [More…]

• One area in which we have been badly maligned is defence. [More…]

• For 23 years our opponents talked about the defence of Australia. [More…]

• That had nothing to do with the defence of Australia. [More…]

• What does this Budget do for the defence of Australia? [More…]

• The defence of Australia requires tanks. [More…]

• For all these years our opponents have talked about defence, but have they ever bought an anti-aircraft weapon? [More…]

• The Opposition parties have talked for years about the defence of [More…]

• I think at some time or other the people of this nation will make a decision about who is playing with defence, who is playing with the rural industries, who is playing with health and who is playing with education, as against who is being completely honest about those things. [More…]

• I would suggest that more than 20 per cent of the facilities of civil aviation would be more properly attributable to defence. [More…]

• All the aircraft and aircraft facilites are a defence asset and could be used and indeed where necessary have been used for defence purposes. [More…]

• I suggest that a substantial percentage of civil aviation facilities are attributable to defence and to development. [More…]

• It is certainly time that a clear definition was made of costs attributable to defence and development and costs which are properly attributable to civil aviation. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, relates to the proceedings arising from allegations about the theft of weapons from the Holsworthy military establishment in New South Wales that was said to have involved 3 Army personnel. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence, Mr Morrison, currently receives regularly reports on the physical security of all units. [More…]

• The defence forces are really taking whatever security measures they can take to make sure that those things will not happen again. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the question: [More…]

• These activities cover the broad spectrum of professional learning associated with continental defence in a variety of settings. [More…]

• There are marked variations in terrain, climate and vegetation on the Australian continent, and it therefore follows that the study of its defence should embrace operations under all of these conditions, without bias to any particular one. [More…]

• Senator Webster always gets upset and flies to their defence if anybody who might have Country Party or landed gentry interests is exposed. [More…]

• I have had a jaundiced view about this whole process since 1965 when I wrote a report for the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Senate might recall that in the public arena certain retired senior officers have voiced the opinion that while in some cases the cadet corps were suitable for youth training, they did not think that the money should come from the defence vote. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence been drawn to Press criticism of the carriage of some Service personnel in a Royal Australian Air Force Hercules to take part in a football carnival in Sydney at the end of August? [More…]

• Such flights are included in the total number of approved flying hours for the financial year and therefore do not add to overall defence costs. [More…]

• Other subsidies amounting to $1.6m which have been made by the Government, as honourable senators will know, are for mail to and from members of the defence forces who are overseas in specified areas, for free postage of electoral office mail, for concessions on mail posted from the Darwin area, and for the free redirection of pensioners’ mail for the first month, which will cost the Government over $100,000. [More…]

• Perhaps I should conclude by mentioning what we have done in the defence area. [More…]

• It grew up within the capitalism system as a defence mechanism. [More…]

• How much say would we have, particularly when this Government has run down our defence forces to brooding impotence? [More…]

• It should concentrate upon its proper roles of defence and the maintenance of our laws and rights instead of neglecting our defence and attacking our laws and individual rights. [More…]

• Defence and law, which are the only 2 things that the Government has neglected. [More…]

• -Whilst my colleague the Minister for Manufacturing Industry is primarily responsible for the project, including manufacture and sales of the aircraft, the Department of Defence has been and will continue to be the sponsor of the project because the aircraft meets a military need and, at the same time, keeps in being essential aircraft industry competence, skills and technology. [More…]

• It is a fact that the anchor of the Endeavour was found near Cooktown during the Christmas period some 4 years ago- 1971- and that after a time it was moved to the Materials Research Laboratories in Melbourne, which were then known as the Defence Standards Laboratories, where the necessary conservation and restoration work has been carried out. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from Senator Wheeldon requesting his discharge from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate nominating Senator Gietzelt to be a member of the Committee. [More…]

• That Senator Wheeldon be discharged from attendance on the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and that Senator Gietzelt be appointed a member of that Committee. [More…]

• Very little indeed, particularly when this Government has run down our defence forces. [More…]

• It should concentrate on its proper roles of defence and the maintenance of law and our rights, instead of neglecting our defence and attacking our laws and our individual rights. [More…]

• Senator Sheil said that it was defence and law. [More…]

• The Workers Party advocates that Government power should be gradually reduced till the Government is responsible only for the defence of Australia (non-existent at present), for the protection of honest Australians against criminals (at present the police are handicapped by unnecessary laws which restrict individual freedom), and the maintenance of a legal system to protect individual liberty and the rights of individuals. [More…]

• The war lobby which is led by some people in this place demands increased defence expenditure, the rural lobby demands subsidies and bounties, and in the same breath people are demanding cuts in Government expenditure. [More…]

• How much Defence expenditure is authorised in Supply Act (No. [More…]

• Could a table be prepared for the years 1969-70 to 1975-76 showing Consolidated Revenue Fund expenditures, Consolidated Revenue Fund receipts, the amount of Defence expenditure transferred from CRF to Loan Fund, other net transactions of the Loan Fund and net transactions of the Trust Fund. [More…]

• Can moneys currently in the Loan Fund and which were raised for other purposes bc drawn on to meet Defence expenditures? [More…]

• Arc there any resolutions of the Loan Council relating to Defence loans? [More…]

• What credits are, or would be, available in the Loan Fund which can be used for Defence purposes? [More…]

• Does the ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ require consultation with the States concerning borrowing for Defence purposes? [More…]

• Has any previous Loan Bill been unlimited in amount (save to the extent of appropriations for defence expenditure)? [More…]

• I note from their report that they recommended that defence expenditures should be excluded from what might be called ‘capital works and services’ and should be treated as ordinary annual services of the Government. [More…]

• I think one would have to study this fairly carefully because when one looks at Appropriation Bills Nos 1 and 2 and studies the Defence Department’s own estimates one finds all sorts of strange items that appear to be ordinary annual services. [More…]

• However, the total defence expenditure appears in Appropriation Bill No. [More…]

• How much Defence expenditure is authorised in Supply Act(No. [More…]

• Could a table be prepared for the years 1969-70 to 1975-76 showing Consolidated Revenue Fund expenditures, Consolidated Revenue Fund receipts, the amount of Defence expenditure transferred from CRF to Loan Fund, other net transactions of the Loan Fund and net transactions of the Trust Fund. [More…]

• Can moneys currently in the Loan Fund and which were raised for other purposes be drawn on to meet Defence expenditures? [More…]

• Are there any resolutions of the Loan Council relating to Defence loans? [More…]

• Fund which can be used for Defence purposes? [More…]

• Does the ‘Gentlemens Agreement’ require consultation with the States concerning borrowing for Defence purposes? [More…]

• Have any previous Loan Bills been unlimited in amount (save to the extent of appropriations for Defence expenditure)? [More…]

• A Loan Act of the type proposed cannot be retrospective in its effect; it can only apply to Defence spending from the date on which the Act receives Royal Assent. [More…]

• The Bill aims to meet a prospective deficit in the CRF by transferring Defence expenditures from that Fund to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• This compares with total proposed appropriations for 1975-76 under the heading Department of Defence of $1,71 lm. [More…]

• A large proportion of Defence expenditure will, therefore, need to be charged to Loan Fund. [More…]

• Given that the effect of the Act cannot be retrospective it needs to be enacted at an early date to permit charging of Defence expenditure to Loan Fund to commence. [More…]

• Early introduction of a Loan Act is not unusual where a need to charge a substantial proportion of Defence expenditure to Loan Fund is anticipated. [More…]

• The figures set put above imply that a proportion of Defence expenditure authorized in Supply Act (No. [More…]

• How much Defence expenditure is authorized in Supply Act (No. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘Department of Defence’ Supply Act (No. [More…]

• Could a table be prepared for the years 1969-70 to 1975-76 showing Consolidated Revenue Fund expenditures, Consolidated Revenue Fund receipts, the amount of Defence expenditure transferred from CRF to Loan Fund, other net transactions of the Loan Fund and net transactions of the Trust Fund? [More…]

• Can moneys currently in the Loan Fund and which were raised for other purposes be drawn on to meet Defence expenditures? [More…]

• Are there any resolutions of the Loan Council relating to Defence Loans? [More…]

• What credits are, or would be, available in the Loan Fund which can be used for Defence purposes? [More…]

• No funds are available, under existing legislation, for expenditure from the Loan Fund for defence purposes. [More…]

• Does the ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement’ require consultation with the States concerning borrowing for Defence purposes? [More…]

• Have any previous Loan Bills been unlimited in amount (save to the extent of appropriations for Defence expenditure)? [More…]

• The amounts borrowed will be applied to expenditures specified under the heading ‘Department of Defence’ in other Acts appropriating funds for that purpose. [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 1975-76 after the enactment of this Bill and which have received Parliamentary authorization in 1975-76 Supply and Appropriation Acts; and [More…]

• As stated in the Second Reading Speech on this Bill, it is not possible to be completely precise as to the amount of Defence expenditure which it is proposed be charged to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• In order to give Senator James McClelland some time to obtain that information- if it is possible to obtain it at such short notice- I should like to come to the defence of the waterside workers in Australia against the attacks made by Senator Greenwood and Senator Wright. [More…]

• In the course of these discussions Mr Dixon informed me of recent statements Mr Clunies Ross had made to members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence who had just visited Cocos. [More…]

• Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) (10.4)- Mr Acting Deputy President, I seek your indulgence to rise to my feet because the essence of the paper which has been presented to the Senate by the Special Minister of State (Senator Douglas McClelland) deals with a matter which has been referred by the Senate to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, namely, ‘The role and involvement of Australia and the United Nations in the affairs of sovereign Australian Territories’ which was set down on 3 December 1974.I am fortified in seeking your indulgence in this matter, Mr Acting Deputy President, because the Special Minister of State, who has just resumed his seat, referred to matters that have engaged the attention of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Senator Primmer has mentioned to me that the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is going to report on this matter. [More…]

• I refer particularly to the negotiations of the Minister for Defence, Mr Morrison. [More…]

• -I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Does the Defence Service Homes Act require that the applicant for a loan under this Act must be in occupation of the home in question at the time of settlement? [More…]

• On 28 May 1 975, in a question without notice, you asked whether the Defence Service Homes Act requires the recipient of a loan under the Act to be in occupation of the home at the time of settlement. [More…]

• You also asked whether this meant that a minister of religion who is required to occupy a home provided by his church is thus excluded from obtaining a Defence Service home. [More…]

• The provisions of the Defence Service Homes Act specifically preclude the granting of assistance under the Act unless the Australian Housing Corporation is satisfied that the dwelling-house, the subject of the application, is intended to be used as a home for the applicant and his dependants. [More…]

• In conformity with the legislative requirements it is not possible for Defence Service Homes assistance to be approved unless the Corporation is satisfied that the applicant will occupy the home at the time of settlement or shortly thereafter. [More…]

• Approval to proceed with the acquisition of a home with temporary finance in the circumstances mentioned is subject to settlement within 5 years and to the condition that a Defence Service Homes loan to discharge the bridging finance will not be available until the applicant takes permanent occupation of the home, and then only if the policy in operation at the time permits such assistance to be granted. [More…]

• The services of 6 medical personnel of the defence forces were provided to assist the ICRC medical teams. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen recent Press comment which suggests that the Government is reluctant to encourage servicemen’s associations or unions being formed? [More…]

• As the basic aims of the naval and air cadets are similar to those of the Army Cadet Corps, Mr Morrison asked the Defence Force Development Committeethe most authoritative source of advice available to the Minister on defence capability matters- to review the value to the defence of Australia of retaining the Naval Reserve Cadets and the Air Training Corps. [More…]

• Like Army cadets, Navy and Air cadet organisations were established as military activities and their only justification for continued funding by the Department of Defence would be their military value. [More…]

• The Committee advised Mr Morrison that ‘abolition of the Naval Reserve Cadets and the Air Training Corps would similarly’- that is, to the Army Cadet Corpshave no adverse effect on defence capability’. [More…]

• The Government has decided that defence support of the Naval Reserve Cadets and the Air Training Corps will also be withdrawn as they do not contribute to Australia ‘s defence preparedness and indeed are diverting resources from higher priority activities. [More…]

• -I present the report and transcript of evidence from the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into the United Nations involvement with Australia ‘s territories. [More…]

• Although the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee’s interest was not confined solely to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Committee did make a 6-day visit to the Territory in June to assess the validity and balance of the Committee of Twenty-four’s recommendations, and to gain first-hand knowledge of conditions experienced by the Islanders. [More…]

• Indeed the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee favours a form of free association between the Islands and Australia, and believes that Australia should encourage the Cocos Islanders to consider the merits of such a choice. [More…]

• In view of the ordinance now before the Senate relating to the acquisition of land on Cocos, and in view of speculation concerning the islands generally, I believe that the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee’s report has come at a propitious time and will be of benefit to all members of parliament. [More…]

• Speaking for myself and, I hope, on behalf of other members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I think it proper that we should acknowledge the competence, the capacity and the fairness with which Senator Primmer chaired the Committee of the Senate in the area in which we are involved. [More…]

• Does the Defence Service Homes Act require that the applicant for a loan under this Act must be in occupation of the home in question at the time of settlement? [More…]

• On 28 May 1975, in a question without notice, you asked whether the Defence Service Homes Act requires the recipient of a loan under the Act to be in occupation of the home at the time of settlement. [More…]

• You also asked whether this meant that a minister of religion who is required to occupy a home provided by his church is thus excluded from obtaining a Defence Service home. [More…]

• The provisions of the Defence Service Homes Act specifically preclude the granting of assistance under the Act unless the Australian Housing Corporation is satisfied that the dwelling-house, the subject of the application, is intended to be used as a home for the applicant and his dependants. [More…]

• In conformity with the legislative requirements it is not possible for Defence Service Homes assistance to be approved unless the Corporation is satisfied that the applicant will occupy the home at the time of settlement or shortly thereafter. [More…]

• Approval to proceed with the acquisition of a home with temporary finance in the circumstances mentioned is subject to settlement within 5 years and to the condition that a Defence Service Homes loan to discharge the bridging finance will not be available until the applicant takes permanent occupation of the home, and then only if the policy in operation at the time permits such assistance to be granted. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask it in the light of reports that it is the intention of the Department of Defence to acquire land at Bindoon in Western Australia. [More…]

• Will the Minister say whether it is in fact the intention of the Department of Defence to acquire that land? [More…]

• -The Department of Defence proposes to acquire an additional 2400 hectares of land at Bindoon in Western Australia adjacent to the existent Bindoon training area, lt will enable the site to be established as a permanent training area reasonably accessible from Perth for the present and foreseeable infantry weapons and tank manoeuvre training of Army units in the Perth area. [More…]

• The winding down of defence procurement has had the effect of reducing employment opportunity in the small arms factory. [More…]

• When the Premier of the day, Mr Tom Playford, sued to compel the Commonwealth to honour its agreement he was met by 2 defences. [More…]

• The first defence was that it was only an agreement to make an agreement and, secondly, that the High Court had no jurisdiction because it was a non-justiciable matter. [More…]

• The Loan Bill 1975, which is before the chamber for consideration, is a machinery Bill which is required to secure the authority to borrow amounts for the financing of defence expenditure that will need to be charged to the Loan Fund during 1975-76. [More…]

• It has tried again to imply that the Bill seeks to authorise additional defence expenditure. [More…]

• This Bill will simply allow the Government to reallocate from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund part of the expenditures of the Department of Defence which have already been authorised in Supply Act (No. [More…]

• The Supply Bill which contained this defence expenditure was passed by this Parliament and this is now only a machinery measure to make available finance that is not available at the present time in the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• 1) 1975-76, and that amendment will permit defence expenditure specified in this Bill to be charged to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• A Loan Act of the type proposed cannot be retrospective in its effect; it can only apply to Defence spending from the date on which the Act receives Royal Assent. [More…]

• The Bill aims to meet a prospective deficit in the CRF by transferring Defence expenditures from that Fund to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• This compares with total proposed appropriations for 1975-76 under the heading Department of Defence of $1,71 1 m. A large proportion of Defence expenditure will, therefore, need to be charged to Loan Fund. [More…]

• Given that the effect of the Act cannot be retrospective it needs to be enacted at an early date to permit charging of Defence expenditure to Loan Fund to commence. [More…]

• Early introduction of a Loan Act is not unusual where a need to charge a substantial proportion of Defence expenditure to Loan Fund is anticipated. [More…]

• The figures set out above imply that a proportion of Defence expenditure authorized in Supply Act (No. [More…]

• The Loan Bill was a machinery measure seeking temporary moneys to be transferred from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund to meet Defence expenditure. [More…]

• It makes provision for temporary financing of defence expenditures. [More…]

• For defence, indeed. [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…]

• That allows the Government to go on the bond market to raise loans for defence. [More…]

• As Senator Wright quite properly reminds me, the Financial Agreement allowed this procedure for the authentic purpose of raising money for defence. [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…]

• In other words, Mr Hayden said that what we are going to do is to find what the deficit is and then pretend that it is a defence expenditure and say: We will use the device that we can use and bypass the Loan Council’, and I quote his actual words. [More…]

• To me they are utterly outrageous because what they say, on the face of it, and continue to say is that the Government proposes an openended method, at least up to $1,71 lm, which is the total amount of the defence expenditure allowed, to finance the Budget. [More…]

• The total moneys raised for defence purposes under this device in those 12 years were $ 1,062m. [More…]

• In the 2 years 1974-75 and 1975-76 the Government proposes to raise for defence purposes $2, 108m or more, if Mr Hayden is right. [More…]

• It is instructive, when we are dealing with the raising of loans to fulfil Loan Council borrowing programs for the States, as well as this so-called defence loan, to look at what happened. [More…]

• I asked the PostmasterGeneral (Senator Bishop) how the salaries of the defence forces were calculated and whether they allowed for any escalation. [More…]

• Let me also refer to Senator Martin’s defence of the Queensland Premier. [More…]

• It is proposed to legalise homosexual acts between consenting males over 1 8 years of age and it will be a defence if the accused believes that the other person was 1 8 years of age. [More…]

• To me Mr Bjelke-Petersen must be held responsible for having accepted such slim evidence against a man without hearing what that man had to say in his defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister represent ing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• An OTH-radar system for Australian defence would be a very costly item, needing to be carefully phased into the equipment acquisition program. [More…]

• asked the Minister represent ing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 5 ) What costing have Defence authorities provided to the Government specifying additional training costs which the Army will with this decision have to bear over the next 20 years. [More…]

• Australia shall have the defence forces she needs- finely equipped, highly professional, highly mobile and highly respected ‘. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• See the Minister for Defence’s announcement in the Hansard p. 483-4, House of Representatives of 26 August 1975. [More…]

• The decision to disband the Army Cadet Corps will have no adverse effect on Defence capabilities but will free some 330 Regular Army personnel- for higher priority activities. [More…]

• It is the Government’s objective that every dollar which is spent in the Defence vote is used to the utmost benefit of Australia’s defence preparedness and it was on this basis the Government’s decision was made. [More…]

• The release of highly proficient Regular Army personnel for more important activities will increase defence capability. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that a small number of totally and permanently incapacitated repatriation pensioners are ineligible for defence service home loans because they did not serve in a theatre of war? [More…]

• On 28 May 1975 you asked a question without notice in which you stated that there were a small number of totally and permanently incapacitated pensioners who are ineligible for a Defence Services Homes loan because they did not serve in a theatre of war. [More…]

• Whilst it is true that the entitlement conditions under the Repatriation Act and the Defence Services Homes Act differ, it is not considered that there is any real anomaly when the true nature and purpose of a repatriation pension is examined and compared with the benefit granted under the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]

• Defence Services Homes loan is a benefit granted on the basis of a prescribed period of qualifying service without regard to whether the ex-serviceman has an accepted war caused disability. [More…]

• There are, of course, certain benefits granted under the Repatriation Act which, like some forms of qualifying war service under the Defence Service Homes Act, depend upon service in an operational area. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• (South AustraliaMinister for Police and Customs)- I present an interim statement on operations, other than the Defence Service Homes scheme, relating to the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975 for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• According to Australian defence authorities, what number of Soviet ships known to be carrying out naval work have been present in the Indian Ocean in each of the last ten years. [More…]

• According to American defence and other authorities, what number of Soviet ships known to be carrying out naval work have been present in the Indian Ocean in each of the last ten years. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Secondly, will the Minister for Defence give favourable consideration to allowing the Kambalda-Kalgoorlie unit of the Citizen Military Force to train and be available for bush fire fighting duties in the area during this summer? [More…]

• It has been the policy of the defence Services to become involved more than usual in the cases of floods and bush fires that have affected civilians over recent years. [More…]

• Is the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence aware of the concern expressed by the national President of the Exservices Action Association, Mr Hunter, relating to the storage and disposal of poison gas weapons used for experimental purposes during World War II? [More…]

• In view of the public controversy that has occurred since this matter was raised, will the Minister table in the Senate as a matter of urgency all defence and Commonwealth police documents and reports pertaining to this important subject so that honourable senators can be informed on it? [More…]

• The matter is presently under consideration by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• When the Minister for Defence has determined the matter and has given a reply I will let the honourable senator have it. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the Minister for Defence has said that he is asking for more details on locations to check against the records. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The trend that we were all worried about most was that officers eligible for the defence force retirement benefits were resigning. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister Assisting the Minister of Defence, concerns Australian industry participation in defence equipment purchases. [More…]

• It is no excuse at all to cite the evil of another as defence of your own sins. [More…]

• -Of course, the whole tenor of Senator Carrick ‘s address was a defence of a system which gives unequal rights of voting. [More…]

• As many honourable senators would be forgiven for losing some of the details of this measure, because of the length of time for which it has been before the Senate for consideration, perhaps I should indicate that the Bill itself is titled ‘A Bill for an Act to Authorise the Raising and Expending of Moneys for Defence Purposes’. [More…]

• It is in fact a technical Bill- I believe that we all have acknowledged the fact that it is a technical Bill- which is designed to enable the legitimate parliamentary financing of a defence program. [More…]

• Whilst it is normal to finance defence expenditure and the procurement of defence equipment from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, surely it is acknowledged by all of us that at the end of this year the Consolidated Revenue Fund will be substantially overdrawn. [More…]

• The Consolidated Revenue Fund will not be sufficient in itself to cover the cost of the services which it is required to cover and to meet the expenses involved in the procurement of equipment generally for the purposes of the defence Services. [More…]

• But, because of the fact, as I said before, that the Consolidated Revenue Fund of itself would not have in it a sufficient amount to finance the purchases of defence equipment and for the services of the defence forces, it is necessary to ensure under this Bill that funds are available to carry out those purposes. [More…]

• This is a machinery provision to ensure that funds will be available for the procurement of the sort of equipment and for the servicing of the needs of the defence forces throughout the year. [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…]

• The Bill does not authorise additional defence expenditures. [More…]

• Which ought to bear the charge which is for this defence purpose- to the Loan Fund part of the expenditures of the Department of Defence already authorised in the Supply Act (No. [More…]

• 1 ) 1 975-76, to permit defence expenditure specified in that Bill to be charged to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• 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…]

• Under that clause, the moneys borrowed would be applied only for the expenses of borrowing and for services specified under the heading of the ‘Department of Defence’ in the Supply Act (No. [More…]

• Section 5 1 ( vi) of the Constitution provides that the Parliament shall have power to make laws with respect to the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Clause 3 (8) of the Financial Agreement states inter alia ‘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…]

• That question was clarified for me in the statement which was made that, in fact, defence expenditure would normally be expected to be charged to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• But, as I have said, because of the fact that it is anticipated that the Consolidated Revenue Fund will be over-expended, some other means must be found to finance the defence program. [More…]

• If, in fact, the Parliament failed to pass this measure into law I can only anticipate that there would be a serious deficiency in the sufficiency of the funds available to carry out the defence program of the Government. [More…]

• That is the position as I understand it, because, as I said earlier in my speech, it is common practice for defence expenditure I can quite understand this- to be financed from revenue rather than by committing for the repayment of loans the additional cost loading as a result of the meeting of the interest as well as the sinking fund on moneys borrowed for a particular purpose. [More…]

• I do not think that it will be prepared to vote against this measure, which in fact deals with the sensitive area of enabling the Government to get on with its defence program. [More…]

• Quite recently- on 28 August 1975- the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) made a statement in which he detailed the defence program. [More…]

• The document from which I am about to quote is a ministerial statement by the PostmasterGeneral, Senator the Honourable R. Bishop, who is the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence, on Australia’s defence. [More…]

• 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 SI, 800m- represents a proper and just acknowledgement of the importance of maintaining a meaningful defence capability . [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 longrange maritime patrol aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force and S3 Leopard tanks for the Army. [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…]

• I do not think that anybody would question the fact that it is a legitimate and proper function of the Government to be upgrading the equipment available to the 3 branches of the defence Services. [More…]

• But it is well known that the cost of equipment for the defence Services anywhere in the world is fantastically high. [More…]

• It is the responsibility and the bounden duty of a government to ensure that once the program for re-equipment of the defence Services has been adopted the next thing to do is to ensure by all means that there is an availability of finance to carry out those purposes. [More…]

• In relation to the re-equipment of the arms of the defence Services- particularly in regard to the forces in those armed Services- I wish to quote from that part of his statement at which the Postmaster-General said: [More…]

• I think it is worth noting that this is the situation in the defence forces at the present time, despite the attempts of the Opposition from time to time to accuse the Government of disinterest in the defence forces. [More…]

• Nothing could more conclusively prove the validity of the Government’s policy of a justly rewarded all-volunteer Defence Force. [More…]

• In regard to the question of manpower, a further defence Press release became available to the Parliament on Monday, 29 September 1975. [More…]

• It is headed, ‘Defence Force Employment Statistics- August 1975 ‘. [More…]

• Figures released today by the Minister for Defence, Mr Bill Morrison, show that officer resignations from the Australian Defence Force in the four months to the end of August were 25 per cent lower than in the same period last year. [More…]

• Of course, that was something that became available to the members of the defence forces upon the election of this Government and the implementation of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]

• We gave a categorical assurance to the defence Services that upon attaining office we would implement the recommendations of the Committee on the defence forces retirement benefits fund- the Jess Report as it was known. [More…]

• I am pleased to note the present trend, as I am sure other honourable senators who have any concern for the welfare of the defence Services will be. [More…]

• We know that this Bill enables the Government to raise funds without obtaining Loan Council approval and also that moneys raised for defence purposes can be used only for defence purposes. [More…]

• But as I understand it, the Government will also be amending the Appropriation Bill so that some proportion of the defence bill- this $1,7 lim- could be funded by loans raised by the Government on the money market and no doubt used to finance the Budget. [More…]

• Let us add them all up- the increased expenditure on defence arrangements and federalism and the implementation of the Mathews Committee report on company tax and personal tax. [More…]

• -Mr President, yesterday Senator Missen asked me a question without notice relating to recruiting for the defence force. [More…]

• I gave him some information, but I now have additional information from the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In a situation of parity with authorised manning levels, controls have to be applied to recruiting input to ensure that the authorised ceilings for defence force manpower generally are not exceeded. [More…]

• I have insisted that when Australian embassies find that a person who has accepted Australian citizenship is in trouble they should go to their defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The amount sought under this Bill from the Loan Fund will be used, as it were, to reduce the expenditure side of the Consolidated Revenue Fund by transferring part of defence expenditure to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• The amount sought for expenditure on defence at present is $ 1 ,790m although it could rise if the Government sought extra defence appropriations in the supplementary appropriation Bills next year. [More…]

• The plan at present is for the Government to transfer $1,152,123,000 of defence expenditure to the Loan Fund by means of this Loan Bill. [More…]

• In fact, the Bill authorises any amount of transfer- any amount of loan raising under this Bill for the gap- provided it does not exceed the total amount set down for expenditure on defence. [More…]

• Of course, this manoeuvre is possible because clause 3(8) of the financial agreement allows the Government to borrow for defence purposes without seeking the approval of the Loan Council. [More…]

• If we also look at how the Loan Bill has been applied in previous years, we will see that under Liberal-Country Party governments our total raisings for defence purposes using the device of the Loan Fund was $ 1,062m. [More…]

• Let me point out that if the balancing item required for the Consolidated Revenue Fund exceeds the total amount available for expenditure under the Defence appropriation this Bill will not have served its purpose. [More…]

• Possibly Senator Button might be prepared to interject at this stage to offer some reason in defence of the Minister. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and concerns the recent passage of the Defence Force Re-organisation Bill, which provided for the reorganisation and integration of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of any unrest within the defence forces following suggestions that this measure is the forerunner to integration of the Services themselves along the lines of the pattern adopted by Canada? [More…]

• I think honourable senators will recall that the Prime Minister and the former Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, made it very clear that there was no intention to unify the defence forces in the way in which Canada had done, I read that today Mr Bruce White, who had 49 years in the Public Service, and a great deal to do with the current reorganisation, has commented that in his view the proposal to follow the Canadian pattern would be bad. [More…]

• I note also that, according to recent policy statements made by the Minister for Defence, there is no clear intention by the Opposition to make any attempt to disturb what is a progressive move. [More…]

• Sixthly, I had pointed out that although this Bill authorises only the application of loan moneys for purposes related to defence expenditure, the Appropriation Bills now before us contain provision for expenditure of up to $ 1,790m on defence and so the Government could conceivably, using the mechanism of this Bill, apply any amount of money up to almost $ 1,800m for the purposes of balancing the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• Once again I draw the attention of the Senate to clause 3 of the Bill which, in defining the amount of money which may be borrowed, expresses it in terms of the size of the deficit in the Consolidated Revenue Fund- not as a definite amount of money but as an amount which represents the difference between receipts into that fund and expenditures from it, limited of course, to the amount that can be applied for defence expenditure. [More…]

• The Treasurer was quite correct in introducing the Bill in the other place and the speakers on the Government side in this place, subsequent to its being introduced here, were quite right in describing this piece of legislation as a machinery measure for a very simple expedient of financing defence expenditure as provided for in the 1975-76 Budget. [More…]

• The Budget documents show that two-thirds of the funds for defence expenditure are provided for in this Bill. [More…]

• The purpose of the loan is to finance defence expenditure, which represents 8.8 per cent of Budget expenditure this year. [More…]

• How can anyone argue rationally and logically that the Government’s endeavours to finance its defence expenditure through the stratagem of a Loan Bill represents irresponsibility and a stratagem which is different from that adopted in past years? [More…]

• In the large number of answers that Senator Wriedt provided to questions asked by Senator Cotton and in the answers to another lot of questions placed on the notice paper by the Opposition in which all the queries were raised, one still finds that honourable senators opposite reject the explanations and the defence that the Government and its economic advisers have provided and they have taken the stand in respect of this legislation that the Government is acting improperly and irrationally. [More…]

• Whilst I can say that he raised some doubt about the capacity of the Government to raise this sort of money- I think Senator Walsh pointed out in his contribution yesterday the success which the Government had met in the last loan borrowings- I have no doubt that the Australian people would respond to the launching of this Loan Bill for the purpose particularly of financing the Government’s defence expenditure, or two-thirds of it. [More…]

• Under normal circumstances a Loan Bill such as the one we have before us would be brought before the Parliament to raise minor amounts of money to be applied to such purposes as defence expenditure. [More…]

• But we are faced with a situation in which the Government is looking for unlimited borrowing, as is suggested under the terms of the Bill- although it must be limited to about $ 1 ,800m, because that is the total of the defence expenditure. [More…]

• Mr Daly was able to point out in a debate on the Appropriation Bill 1971 that in less than 4 years Australia had had 3 Prime Ministers, 4 Ministers for Defence, 5 Ministers for Foreign Affairs and 3 Treasurers. [More…]

• As Senator McAuliffe stated on an earlier occasion when the Bill was being debated, the remarkable thing is that it is being debated at all, for it is a routine, machinery Bill to secure authority to borrow sums of money for financing the defence expenditure which will be charged to the Loan Fund during 1975-76. [More…]

• As Senator James McClelland said, it is a Bill which some weeks ago was introduced into the Australian Senate and was described by the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Senator Wriedt) as being a machinery measure 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 year 1975-76. [More…]

• This Bill will authorise borrowings for defence purposes so that defence expenditure can be charged to the Loan Fund rather than to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• We recognise that the Loan Act permits defence expenditure in specific appropriations in a particular financial year to be transferred to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• I accept that the Loan Act does permit that defence expenditure. [More…]

• I understood that the Government required the passage of this Bill so that as soon as possible it could start charging defence expenditure in a way that allowed it to use the processes which exist under this Bill. [More…]

• The total proposed appropriations for 1975-76 under the heading of Department of Defence are $1,7 lim. [More…]

• This compares with an estimated need of $1,1 52m of defence expenditure to be charged to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• We understand that by about the end of October this year the Government will have spent almost $600m on defence under the Supply Act (No. [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…]

• It is for that reason that I hope that when there is some response later today to this Bill more perspective will be given to the consequences of the use of this Loan Bill for defence purposes and the matters that are so important to the management of the Australian economy. [More…]

• It is a Bill merely seeking the authority of the Parliament for the raising and expending of moneys by the Government for defence purposes, and it is described simply as the Loan Bill 1975. [More…]

• As my colleagues have pointed out, the Bill authorises borrowings for defence purposes so that defence spending can be transferred out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund in order to avoid a potential Consolidated Revenue Fund deficit. [More…]

• The Bill does not authorise defence expenditure over and above those that are already approved by Cabinet for inclusion in the Budget and the use of the device of a loan Bill, which I emphasise is in accordance with long established usage and precedent, is simply a preferred alternative to obtaining authorisation from the Loan Council for borrowings to fund the deficit. [More…]

• Possible alternative ways of meeting the prospective Consolidated Revenue Fund deficit, such as by obtaining authority to charge expenditure other than defence expenditure to the Loan Fund, would require legislation and also Loan Council approval under the provisions of the Financial Agreement. [More…]

• It can apply only to defence spending and only from the date on which the Act receives royal assent. [More…]

• It can apply only to defence spending and only from the date on which the Act receives royal assent. [More…]

• In any event it should be clear to anyone that the use of the proceeds of any borrowings under the authority of an Act when it came into force would be restricted to expenditures under the defence appropriations that are approved by Parliament. [More…]

• How could any Opposition, having undergone the traumatic experience of seeing the constitutional processes distorted for one reason or another, approach the problem of the defence Loan Bill? [More…]

• It is known and quite obviously manifest that the reason the Government is anxious to raise money under this procedure is that it failed on the temporary purposes side of the equation and has to go to the defence side of the equation. [More…]

• One way is to ask for a loan which has to be funded finally, and that is the purpose of the defence Loan Bill which I shall examine in more detail in a moment. [More…]

• One of the methods of government financing, of course, is a loan Bill by which any government can seek the approval of Parliament to borrow money for defence purposes. [More…]

• In reality it is for temporary purposes because what happens is that the ordinary annual services of the government under defence are financed out of loans, and this takes the pressure off the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• It is also true to say that the government, having borrowed money for defence purposes, may not expend money in excess of the appropriation which Parliament authorises in order to allow the Bill to go through. [More…]

• Notwithstanding anything that has been said today in this chamber, the facts are that, to the maximum of my knowledge and researches, previous governments have always informed the Senate of the amounts of money they intended to borrow for loan defence purposes. [More…]

• Opposition is that this is a defence Loan Bill that does not specify any quantity of money. [More…]

• I turn to the 1971 Loan (Defence) Bill, of which Senator Douglas McClelland, in an oratorical and rhetorical way, says this 1975 Bill is a copy. [More…]

• I have referred to the Records office, and the only loan Bill of that description passed in 1971 became the Loan (Defence) Act 1971, Act No. [More…]

• 103 of 1 97 1 , which was cited as an Act to approve the raising by way of loan of moneys in the currency of the United States of America and to authorise the expending of those moneys for defence purposes and for purposes connected therewith. [More…]

• So by no stretch of the imagination can that Loan (Defence) Act 1971 be described as being the same as the Bill that we have in front of us at the present time. [More…]

• Every Bill that I have come across in the context of authorising the raising and spending of money for defence purposes has carried within it a clause stating what is the amount of money to be raised. [More…]

• Section 3 of the 1 973 Loan Act to authorise the raising and expending of money for defence purposesby this present Government- states: [More…]

• The Bill does not authorise additional defence expenditures. [More…]

• It will simply allow us to re-allocate 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 the defence expenditure specified in that Bill to be charged to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• So by some backtracking process we come to the position that what the Government is attempting to borrow is something not in excess of approximately $1,1 50m as I recollect from the ordinary annual services of the Government that relate to defence and can be properly applied to it. [More…]

• I am now relating the problem of tacking to this loan defence Bill. [More…]

• I hope that honourable senators will mark that, because the loan defence Bill is brought into the Senate first, it has an implied tack on it, the Senate cannot amend it but if the Senate does pass it the Government will then amend the Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]

• If you will pass this loan defence Bill we will undertake to move an amendment to Supply Bill No. [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…]

• 1) under the defence expenditure for the current year. [More…]

• The purpose of the borrowing on that occasion was for defence purposes. [More…]

• He gets authorisation under this Bill to make up out of the Loan Fund what cannot be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the defence expenditure which is contained in the Estimates. [More…]

• It is a Bill which seeks to borrow money for defence purposes. [More…]

• This Bill has nothing to do with the approval or the rejection of expenditure for defence purposes. [More…]

• This is not a method that has been introduced by this Government; it is a procedure that was adopted by previous governmentsthat is, Liberal-Country Party governmentsquite legitimately for the purpose of transferring or debiting certain defence appropriations to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform me of the projects being undertaken at the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury? [More…]

• As of yesterday there were good prospects of a high work load at the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, because of various major projects which have already been included in the Defence Report tabled a few days ago. [More…]

• Because of the increased work at the Weapons Research Establishment and among private firms in the adjoining district in connection with the Rapier missile system, it is expected that the Establishment will have a continuing role of advising the defence forces on equipment already in service and on proposed weapons acquisitions. [More…]

• We have been told in a serious examination which this chamber conducted into the Defence loan Bill that there would be little overseas borrowingpractically none. [More…]

• The defence Loan Bill was examined very carefully in the Senate, and after a long examination Senator Carrick ‘s questions seemed to prove clearly the point which the Opposition had been making. [More…]

• An amendment moved yesterday to the defence Loan Bill was carried by 29 votes to 28. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen Press reports to the effect that one result of the Opposition’s refusal to pass the Appropriation Bills will be that the defences of Australia will grind to a halt? [More…]

• Can he indicate what steps can be taken to ensure that this country is not left defenceless? [More…]

• During a gruelling examination, which took over 2 hours I think, of the funds appropriated for the defence Services they made sure that those funds were identified in respect of every Service- the Royal Australian Air Force, the Army and the Navy. [More…]

• It is clear that, because of the Opposition’s action in blocking supply, after 30 November- that is the date I have been given- there will be no money for the defence Services. [More…]

• Of course, not only the defence departments but also every other department will be affected. [More…]

• The Minister assisting the Minister for Defence spoke about the harm to the country if we had no defences. [More…]

• providing a defence against prosecution where a candidate unwittingly makes a donation to a club or association etc. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam, as Prime Minister, in his enthusiasm and because of political necessity, appointed Mr Lance Barnard- not, I think, his deputy at that time but the Minister for Defence and therefore the senior Australian Labor Party man in Tasmania- to be the liaison officer or Minister between the Australian Government, the State Government and the Tasman Bridge Reconstruction Commission. [More…]

• The second was the Bell Bay Railway Agreement which was described- it was not really refuted- by the former Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, as the worst agreement, so far as any State was concerned, in the history of Federation. [More…]

• Let any member of the Opposition specify any particular way in which the Australian Government, the Department of Defence or any Minister has been responsible for delay with respect to the construction of that bridge. [More…]

• During January of this year, at the request of the Minister for Defence, Army engineers examined the feasibility of providing a light floating bridge to provide emergency river crossing facilities. [More…]

• There is even a defence element involved in Australia maintaining its self sufficiency in pharmaceuticals. [More…]

• But in defence of the Premier - [More…]

• The position is that when Mr Barnard was Minister for Defence he explored the availability and efficiency of a joint services training base at Yampi Sound in Western Australia. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, when the 1971 Budget was being debated- that was on 16 September- it was pointed out that in the 4 years preceding that date Australia had had 3 Prime Ministers, 4 Ministers for Defence, 5 Ministers for Foreign Affairs and 3 Treasurers. [More…]

• Since March there had been 3 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, 3 Ministers for Defence, 3 Ministers for Health, 3 Ministers for Education and Science, 3 Attorneys-General, 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…]

• Honourable senators opposite well known without my going over it again that after 30 November the whole of the organisation, administration, work and construction of the defence facilities of the Commonwealth will come to a halt. [More…]

• So far so good for him, but if the whole economy comes to a stop and there is a crisis- a defence situation, or a problem in Senator Cavanagh ‘s portfolio in regard to supplying police to airports- who is going to squeal then? [More…]

• The defence forces will be sitting on their tails and not able to move around the country or sail naval vessels. [More…]

• There was an election in 1963 and the then Government sent its Minister for Defence, Mr Townley, to the United States of America to sign an agreement for Fill aircraft which had no escape clause- nothing like that obtained by the British Government. [More…]

• It was only after that Defence Minister died years later that we gol any indication of just what the agreement was. [More…]

• I remind people of the number of Prime Ministers, Ministers for Health, Ministers for Defence and all of these things which Senator James McClelland pointed out here today. [More…]

• Increases in the war and defence widows ‘ pension rate provide a further example of the concern shown by the Labor Government for dependants of veterans. [More…]

• As I announced last August, the Government has agreed to further improvements in disability and service pension rates and war and defence widows’ pensions from the autumn of 1976. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence been drawn to the loss of a Royal Australian Navy Sea King helicopter near Jervis Bay earlier this week? [More…]

• The President rejected the defence citation of paragraph (4) of Article 1 1 7 on grounds that Nazor remained a member of the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood after 23 November 1973 and continued to work for it. [More…]

• At the request of the prosecution and defence lawyers, and at the behest of Mr Nazor’s own family, the trial was closed to the Press and public. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Researches and studies are presently being carried out by the Navy and by a defence group. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, when this matter first became the subject of public debate I was rather surprised to hear Senator Greenwood in particular and the Opposition generally arguing in defence of a senior member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions- that is the trade union movementnamely, Mr Souter. [More…]

• There seemed to me to be a ring of insincerity about the defence of Harold Souter. [More…]

• What is the Government expected to do insofar as these defence appropriations are concerned? [More…]

• Deductions for residents of zone A and zone B and members of the defence forces serving overseas will be replaced by rebates equal to at least 40 per cent of the deductions formerly allowable. [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…]

• Loan Acts, including the Act proposed by this Bill, do not authorise any expenditures over and above those authorised in Appropriation Acts passed by the Parliamentthey simply re-allocate 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 Liberal Country Party governments, that defence expenditures are chosen to be transferred to and financed from the Loan Fund. [More…]

• Borrowings for defence purposes are specifically exempted from the provisions of the Financial Agreement relating to control by the 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 1 1 m 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…]

• There has been a number of important initiatives, including the setting up of the Natural Disasters Organisation and the high level coordination of the defence forces in these areas. [More…]

• Certainly no damage has been caused or problem created within the defence services. [More…]

• In the last week or so the Minister for Defence, Mr Morrison, has been advised that retention rates within the Services generally might have to be looked at because of the $1,000 bonuses which our Government provided for servicemen. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the plane is not as satisfactory as it ought to be and it is much more expensive than this country can afford with the amount of defence that it is able to maintain. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• This was done on the advice of its advisers that the amount of $llm which was spent on the cadet corps should be spent in the defence area. [More…]

• As everybody knows, the schools did not maintain the cadet corps; in fact, the defence Service did. [More…]

• All that Mr Killen has gone on record as saying in the newspapers and in his defence policy is that the Opposition will encourage schools maintaining cadet corps. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 14 (2) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-73, I 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…]

• I would point out in virtual self defence that these expressions are not used in their literal sense. [More…]

• At those times the people always used phrases, such as they claimed to be acting in the interests of the people; they were responding to the call of the nation; or they were acting in defence of the best interests of the people and in defence of democracy. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Postmaster-General, representing the Minister for Defence, and relates to a recent Press announcement by the Minister for Defence concerning the invitation to a number of Australian and overseas shipbuilders to tender for the supply of patrol craft for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• Senator Drury has mentioned that Mr Morrison, the Minister for Defence, has announced already that a total of 1 1 local and overseas companies were invited to tender for the project. [More…]

• I refer to the Minister for Defence, Mr Morrison, who has apparently caught the [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing i;he Minister for Defence: When did the Government receive the Industries Assistance Commission’s report on its inquiry into the Australian aircraft industry, and when will the report be tabled in Parliament? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As I indicated in the Parliament, it is Government policy to allow greater use of the Defence Force in natural disasters. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of a differential of up to 25 per cent in rates of pay for men and women in the Australian defence forces? [More…]

• Has the Department of Labor and Immigration been involved in any studies of the usefulness or work value of women in the defence forces? [More…]

• I will refer the matter to my colleague the Minister for Defence and I will have my Department make an intensive study of the facts as alleged by the honourable senator. [More…]

• They are prepared to hold up the business of this country, to jeopardise the economy of the country, to jeopardise the defence of the country and to jeopardise the whole democratic structure of this country, all because of some information or alleged information which is obtained in these ludicrous documents including statements about flashing lights, London times, and the Prime Minister, the Governor-General and the Governor of the Reserve Bank all standing by. [More…]

• As I have said before 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; the reconstruction of Darwin. [More…]

• This has in fact been experimented with in the case of education, roads and defence. [More…]

• defence). [More…]

• for capital expenditure, for defence and redemption of bonds. [More…]

• However, this excludes borrowings for defence or temporary purposes or for conversion, renewal or redemption of existing debt. [More…]

• Loan programs are supposed to include funding of revenue deficits but the Commonwealth can evade this by the mechanism used in the Loan Acts whereby, to avoid a deficit in CRF, part of defence expenditure is transferred from CRF to Loan Fund. [More…]

• Loan raising to cover this expenditure then bypasses the Loan Council, although the economic effects would have been the same if some other expenditures rather than defence had been transferred. [More…]

• Borrowings for defence purposes are specifically exempted from the provisions of the Financial Agreement relating to control by the Loan Council. [More…]

• It should be realised that the defence investment at Lavarack Barracks is more than $60m at current day values. [More…]

• It may also be of interest to make mention of the extent of defence activity and involvement in the Townsville area. [More…]

• I ask the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence: Has there been any build up in our armed forces this year? [More…]

• -As Senator Rae well knows, the position in relation to defence targets has been explained many times, as has what I consider to be one of the greatest achievements of the Australian Labor Government- the introduction of a new relationship between the pay scale and the improved defence forces retirement benefits; also the reorganisation and integration of the Defence Department, which Senator Rae’s Party opposed in this place but which fortunately was approved with the assistance of other honourable senators. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has explained already the sort of problems which will arise as a result of the actions of the Opposition. [More…]

• Senator Rae should be more conscious of the immediate effects of his action in preventing the defence forces of Australia from operating satisfactorily in situations which might be called ‘critical ‘ at the present time. [More…]

• I think that in respect of the general tenor of the targets of the defence forces I should get the figures, which are on record, from the Minister for Defence, Mr Morrison. [More…]

• At the present time the organisation of the defence forces is more efficiently based than at any time in the post-war years. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is he aware of a report in the Australian of Thursday, 6 November 1975, which contains an allegation by the New South Wales Minister for Culture, Sport and Recreation that Sir Arthur Tange, the Permanent Head of the Department of Defence, had misled the Government by recommending that school cadets be disbanded? [More…]

• I note that the report refers to Sir Arthur Tange as the former head of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Mr Morrison, in a statement to the Parliament on 26 August, pointed out that the recommendation to the Government to abolish school cadets had come from the Defence Force Development Committee which represents the most authoritative source of advice on defence matters to the Minister. [More…]

• He said it should not be the responsibility of the Services to maintain cadets and drain defence expenditure. [More…]

• It is the view of the Chief of the General Staff and the Military Board that the $ 1 1 m-plus allocated to cadet training can be more effectively used for the defence of Australia in other fields. [More…]

• In relation to allegations that Sir Arthur Tange had misled the Government, I repeat that the advice to the Minister from the Defence Force Development Committee was unanimous and included the views of all its members, namely, the chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Admiral Sir Victor Smith, the 3 Chiefs of Staff- Vice Admiral Stevenson, Lietenant-General Hassett and Air Marshal Rowland- and the secretary of the Department of the Defence, Sir Arthur Tange. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, follows on reports to me from servicemen that they have been warned that they might be sent on leave without pay within a month. [More…]

• I ask the Minister very simply: Was this information passed to servicemen after discussion with and with the specific approval of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, or is the action in fact contrary to views on the need for continuity of defence which have been expressed already by the Commander-in-Chief to senior members of the Government? [More…]

• I do not know why senators on the other side keep asking questions about the uncertainty of defence pay. [More…]

• As the honourable senator knows, there is a great deal of speculation not only in the defence forces but also in every other department as to what might happen if the Opposition continues to do what it is doing, that is, obstruct the Government [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence been drawn to an article in today’s Australian in which Senator Jessop accused the Government of needlessly withholding funds to create uncertainty? [More…]

• In particular, has the Minister noted that Senator Jessop alleged that the Army and the Department of Defence have claimed that September accounts cannot be paid? [More…]

• According to the article in the Australian this morning, Senator Jessop allegedly referred to misleading statements, Ministers creating uncertainty about matters, and claims about funds for the Army and the defence services. [More…]

• No instructions have been given to the Army or to the Department of Defence to cease paying any accounts properly presented for payment. [More…]

• Mr Karidis, whom I have stated I have more confidence in than Mr Khemlani, has made a public statement in the Press which would have been libellous if it did not attract the defence of truth. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether he is aware that next month the Royal Air Force will hand over control of the air base on the Maldive Islands to an independent government. [More…]

• by leave- I make this statement on behalf of my friend and colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• Senators will be aware that in our pre-election Defence Policy’ we said that we would give priority to a review of the previous Government’s cancellation of the light destroyer- DDLprogram. [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…]

• In this regard we will be supported by the United States Department of Defence and I have directed that my Department make every effort to increase the scope of participation. [More…]

• In the proposed budget for fiscal year 1977 presented to Congress on 21 January 1976, the United States Department of Defence has sought funds for a further 8 follow-ships. [More…]

• The review which was promised by the Government in one of its wordy defence policy statements put out when it was in opposition has in fact supplemented and confirmed what Mr Barnard did when he was Minister for Defence and what Mr Morrison did when he was the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• by leave- I make this statement on behalf of my friend and colleague the Honourable D. J. Killen, Minister for Defence. [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…]

• On Malayan independence in 1957, 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…]

• Although it is not an industry as such, defence is a subject which is close to the heart of many people in the Northern Territory particularly those in the Top End. [More…]

• Until now, with the election of this Government, it appeared that our defences were eroding away. [More…]

• We, the people at the Top End of Australia, in the outback, feel that we need a strong defence system. [More…]

• At a time when we are looking towards the updating and modernisation of our naval, military and air forces, which as I have said have been allowed to deteriorate, it would serve us well to consider seriously the advantages of the establishment of defence facilities along our northern coastline. [More…]

• The defence of our northern coastline, which runs many thousands of miles, could have a multitude of advantages for our present national defence services. [More…]

• Briefly the establishment of defence installations in the north now would enable acclimatisation of those who would be engaged in any future action. [More…]

• Also, by setting up defence facilities yet another form of development would be created, at the same time ensuring greater protection for Australia and its wealthy inland resources. [More…]

• The Governor-General’s apologists, including a man, Mr President, who sat yesterday in the Chair that you now occupy- I refer to Sir Garfield Barwick- and who played a particularly shabby role in last year’s coup, have given a public defence of the Governor-General’s actions. [More…]

• The suggestion behind all of those defences is that in the given situation of last year the Governor-General had one option only, and he took it. [More…]

• At 1 1 a.m. on that day His Excellency the Governor-General was laying a wreath at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in remembrance of Armistice Day and in remembrance of men and women of this country who had given their all in defence of the principle of the right of democratic government. [More…]

• These were things that Mr Barnard and Mr Morrison as former Defence Ministers had done. [More…]

• They said when they went to the hustings, ‘We will have a new defence policy. [More…]

• In a statement made today the Government has stated exactly what the Labor Government and Lance Barnard decided to do; all the things which have now had the seal of approval placed upon them were developed by a Labor Defence Minister. [More…]

• Despite the fact that previous LiberalNational Country Party coalition governments always talked about the concern for defence, we were the first government ever to give support to Returned Services League claims as soon as we came to power. [More…]

• Tonight I intend to take this opportunity to discuss the controversy over the Indian Ocean- a controversy which has been aroused recently by emotional, extravagant and somewhat naive comments from the so-called Opposition spokesman on defence, Mr Beazley. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Senator Bonner was transported to Warwick and other centres in Queensland by a defence force helicopter on Saturday, 14 February 1976? [More…]

• As I understand the procedures with the defence forces, if a member of Parliament approaches the defence forces they are almost invariably prepared to co-operate with him. [More…]

• I do not know what Senator Bonner did but I would imagine he showed enough initiative, as a Liberal senator would, to approach the defence forces and ask for a lift. [More…]

• There is no need, as I see it in this sort of situation, for the defence forces to ring around and ask people whether they want a ride. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence apropos of the answer he has just given. [More…]

• -I will ask the Minister for Defence if such a thing is available. [More…]

• I have never had any trouble when I have made a reasonable and sensible request, but then maybe I am trusted by the defence Services. [More…]

• Defence is as much a part of the machinery of security as is a fire brigade or a police force. [More…]

• Senator Sim dealt with the defence concept and the general idea was that he hitched his wagon to the United States’ star. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, who I appreciate as a fair and honest man, has denied that this lobbying does go on. [More…]

• I do not want to be accused of tedious repetition by mentioning at length the inflation, the high interest rates, the unemployment, the Budget deficits, the rural recession, the defence run-down and the blunders of the tariff decisions that virtually wrecked our textile, footwear and electronics industries and some of our clothing industries and created more unemployment. [More…]

• In every case of victimisation in Australia, a defence offered by the employer is misconduct by the individual. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of reported statements by the shadow Minister for Defence, Mr Beazleywhich must be a sick joke- that the North West Cape Communications Base and Pine Gap have been established for the purpose of guiding nuclear weapons on to Soviet territory? [More…]

• I remind him that one of the present Ministers of his own Party- I refer to Mr Killen, the Minister for Defence- is on record as having said, after the appointment by the Premier of Queensland of a non-Labor senator to this chamber to replace Senator Milliner, that the Senate was a ‘tainted House’. [More…]

• The country will have a defence force in its own right and will be trading with the Republic of South Africa. [More…]

• This Association, with Indonesia an influential member, is likely to become increasingly important for the economic growth and mutual defence of the region. [More…]

• While such fields as defence, foreign affairs and some areas of national resources and trade are logically handled nationally, I feel that the Commonwealth should reduce its interest in such fields as health, housing, education and the environment. [More…]

• Because of that I will have an interest in defence matters which come before this chamber, especially matters that concern Army Reserve personnel. [More…]

• I do not come here, I believe, as a person who was once a part time member of the defence forces. [More…]

• But that State’s rights depend on a defence of the rights of this House. [More…]

• On the other hand, all services which are provided by governments and not sold in the market place are innately undesirable and should be kept at the barest minimum with one exception, of course, and that is in what is euphemistically called defence. [More…]

• I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, by remarking that I am fully aware that at times it is imperative that each of the 3 services carry out exercises by night. [More…]

• Finally, will the Minister take up this matter with the Minister for Defence to ensure that any complaints from people in the Amberley district in relation to exercise Summer Rain are taken into consideration when future exercises are planned? [More…]

• Whether they have written directly to the Minister for Defence I know not. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has provided me with the following information: [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence; [More…]

• The committees that Senator Withers has suggested should be established are the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, the Education and the Arts Committee, the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, the Social Welfare Committee, the Trade and Commerce Committee, the National Resources Committee and the Science and the Environment Committee. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence; [More…]

• For example, there is a report to come from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in relation to Vietnamese refugees which has not been completed. [More…]

• There were twice the number of members from the House of Representatives as there were senators on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• We are not debating whether the existing joint committees, such as the Joint Statutory Committees on Public Works and Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, should be disbanded in favour of entirely separate Senate committees. [More…]

• I think Senator Withers, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, said that there could not be a duplication of committees but the Senate was responsible for duplication, particularly with regard the committee dealing with defence. [More…]

• It would be ludicrous to have the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence both considering the matter, for example, of Indonesia. [More…]

• Both Committees would call experts from the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence and other public officials. [More…]

• The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence have been singled out. [More…]

• Over those 10 years it has been a great mystery to me what the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has ever done. [More…]

• But I do know that the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has brought in a number of reports, all of which have been of enormous interest. [More…]

• I have a report in which the present Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, when he was Minister for Defence in the previous LiberalCountry Party Government, was critical in a public way of the activities of the Joint Intelligence Organisation over its refusal to report properly the decision of that Government in respect of a civil aid program in South Vietnam. [More…]

• This morning I received a telegram from the Fraser Island Defence Organisation which implies that certain agreements that were made some time ago have not been kept by the Dillingham mining company. [More…]

• The telegram was sent to me by Mr John Sinclair, representing the Fraser Island Defence Organisation. [More…]

• Will he telephone the Queensland Minister for Mines or- to get back to the action taken by Robert Kennedy- is it possible for him to send in Federal authorities to see how truthful are the allegations that have been made by the Fraser Island Defence Organisation? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence or to the appropriate Minister. [More…]

• I shall refer the question to the Minister for Defence. [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 the limit of $700m 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…]

• While 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) 1 976 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…]

• We have only to think of the problems that we have as regards defence to realise the benefits of having trained pilots available to take part in any war that may break out. [More…]

• He said that for future defence needs this field was a good training ground for persons who learn to fly in aero clubs and similar organisations. [More…]

• While 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…]

• There is to be a transfer of $470m from the National Welfare Fund and a transfer of up to $700m- a defined amount of money- to the Loan Fund for defence purposes. [More…]

• Defence expenditure up to $700m- a defined amount and no more- will be transferred to the Loan Fund and the balance required for the Consolidated Revenue Fund will be financed through the Loan Council in consultation with the States, using the proper procedures. [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…]

• It was even suggested by Senator Carrick and Senator Baume in the debate 6 months ago that the Labor Government’s Loan Bill was an open ended Bill, designed that way to enable it to bypass the Loan Council and the States and to raise moneys on the international market for purposes other than defence. [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…]

• If Senators Carrick and Baume had known what they were talking about they would have known that the Loan Bill 1975, as is the case with the Loan Bill 1976, was for defence purposes and referred only to defence outlays authorised by Parliament in Appropriation Bills in 1975-76 for a total of $660.69 lm. [More…]

• Have any previous Loan Bills been unlimited in amount (save to the extent of appropriations for Defence expenditure)? [More…]

• The amounts borrowed will be applied to expenditure specified under the heading ‘Department of Defence’ in other Acts appropriating funds for that purpose. [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 1975-76 after the enactment of this Bill and which have received Parliamentary authorisation in 1975-76 Supply and Appropriation Acts; and [More…]

• The only reason that the end of the first Bill has been closed is that the sum of $ 700m is the sum which can be devoted only to defence expenditure. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government is raising money without any reference to the Loan Council by using the relevant section of the Constitution which enables raising loans to meet future obligations for the defence of Australia. [More…]

• So, 1 find myself for the very first time in my parliamentary life- I have been in the Senate for some 18 years- forced into a situation where I shall not retract from the observations I made in October last year on the Loan (Defence) Bill. [More…]

• We have done a lot of work in the Senate in this area of the loan raising measure which is normally called the Defence Loan Bill. [More…]

• The Loan Bill 1976 permits up to $700m of this deficit to be met by transferring defence expenditures to the Loan Fund where they will be financed by borrowings. [More…]

• Of course, if Senator Mulvihill wishes to use a military helicopter he should approach the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• As an example, collective defence of property is better than individual defence. [More…]

• We are to put a bigger proportion of our gross national product into war preparationswarships, thermo-nuclear power, submarines, armaments and the smartening up of our defence forces generally. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government, representing the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• It refers to the recent discussions between Mr Fraser and the New Zealand Prime Minister and to reports in the Press at the time that new and significant joint defence procurement arrangements would result from those discussions. [More…]

• Did the 2 governments canvass and approve new joint equipment procurement policies, including the manufacture of defence hardware? [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• 18 from the House of Representatives requesting the concurrence of the Senate in the appointment of a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• 18 of the House of Representatives relating to the appointment of a Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present copies of the directives that set out the responsibilities to the Minister for Defence of senior Service and civilian officers of the Defence organisation and relationships between various areas of responsibility of these 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…]

• The list of reports was circulated and unless I have a different list from other honourable senators it shows reports by the Minister for Administrative Services, the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Education, the Minister for Science and the Minister for the Capital Territory. [More…]

• But the only concern of the Service is putting up the best defence for accused persons and obtaining their acquittal if possible. [More…]

• In his Press release Mr Hunt announced that a charge of $10 was to be made for hearing aids provided by the Government, except for those supplied to repatriation beneficiaries and members of the Defence Force. [More…]

• The National Acoustic Laboratories, another Health Department body, supplies aids to pensioners and young people under the age of 21 as well as to Repatriation beneficiaries and Defence Force members. [More…]

• It is rather remarkable that honourable senators opposite always rush to the defence of their friends. [More…]

• If all the people they defend are as objective as they claim them to be why do they rush to their defence all the time. [More…]

• Therefore I think they are entitled to at least some defence from me. [More…]

• I mention that there was a difference this time because after that speech a spokesman for the West, for the first time, spoke out in defence of the achievements of the West. [More…]

• I simply conclude on the note on which I began: As far as item 4 is concerned I believe that a lot of these acquisitions which were justly needed for defence purposes and which have become outmoded could form the nucleus of the empire of the National Parks and Wildlife Service that was formed last year. [More…]

• Regulation 2 of the amendments of the Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations, as contained in Statutory Rules 1976 No. [More…]

• 3), and made under the Defence Act 1903-1975. the Naval Defence Act 1910-1975 and the Air Force Act 1923-1975. [More…]

• 7, and made under the Defence Act 1903-1975. [More…]

• 37, and made under the Defence Act 1903-1975, be disallowed. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As aircraft designs for possible replacement are already well known in the Defence Department, what new activity and information can be expected from such a mission? [More…]

• I am further advised that subsequently in August 1973 Mr Barnard, the then Minister for Defence, announced a reduction of the Tactical Fighter Force from 4 squadrons to three. [More…]

• Because of this, revised timing for the Mirage replacement is under review within the Department of Defence, and I understand that the Minister may be able to provide further information on timing within the context of the 1976-77 Budget. [More…]

• -What sort of defence does the smiling Senator Button offer by way of interjection? [More…]

• Today I am approving applications for assistance for the purchase of defence service homes and the maximum amount is $15,000. [More…]

• Australia will be represented at his funeral by senior representatives in London of the Australian defence forces. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In my briefing notes I am informed that the Minister for Defence regrets the delay in having this matter finalised. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that in January when he announced that he had asked the Department of Defence to draw up a plan for a new system of Service cadets, the Minister said that he would welcome suggestions from organisations. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to today’s newspaper report of an interview with the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, in which he is reported as having said: [More…]

• One of my initiatives was the creation of the Defence Council. [More…]

• Does the Minister not recall that in the concluding stages of the debate on the Defence Force Re-organisation Bill 1 975, in answer to questions raised by various honourable senators, I announced on behalf of the then Minister for Defence, Mr Morrison, that the Government proposed to reconstitute the Council of Defence with the following membership: The Minister for Defence, the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence, the Secretary of the Department of Defence, the Chief of Defence Force Staff, the Chief of Naval Staff, the Chief of the General Staff and the Chief of Air Staff. [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether he would be good enough to draw the attention of the Minister for Defence to this matter so that a statement which appears to be misleading may be corrected as this was, as I have said, a commitment by the then Government which preceded the adoption of the Bill. [More…]

• -I recall that there was a very lengthy debate on the legislation relating to defence re-organisation. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for consideration and report on or before 1 September 1976 the following matter-Australia and the Indian Ocean Region. [More…]

• In suggesting the date of 1 September, I am conscious of the previous report which was prepared in 1971 by a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which I chaired. [More…]

• I understand that the Opposition intends to move an amendment that this reference be sent to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• However, as the proposer of that reference to the Joint Committee in 1970, may I say that had there been a Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, that reference would never have gone to the Joint Committee. [More…]

• I believe that it is a proper reference for the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee to undertake to update a report which was finally published in 1971 after many frustrations. [More…]

• The situation in which this Parliament finds itself in relation to foreign affairs and defence committees is somewhat ludicrous. [More…]

• It is ludicrous that 2 chambers of a parliament sitting virtually jointly, within a few yards of one another, should each require a committee to investigate matters pertaining to foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• That is one reason why we believe that there is a need for rationalisation and a need for this reference to go to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• As Senator Sim has pointed out, the previous report in relation to the Indian Ocean was brought down by a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Where are people in the Labor Party who are prepared to come out and raise one solitary voice in favour of truth and justice in the defence of one man and do something to preserve the integrity of the Party? [More…]

• Its activities have been deemed inimical to Indian national interests and its members can be detained under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act and the Defence of India Rules. [More…]

• Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- Mr Armitage, Mr Beazley, Mr Brown, Mr Bryant, Mr Fry, Mr Garland, Mr Hamer, Mr Jacobi, Dr Klugman, Mr Neil, Mr Ian Robinson, Mr Shipton, Mr Short and Mr Sullivan. [More…]

• Some honourable senators will recall the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence contained in a report on Japan which it released several years ago when it dealt at some length with the widening of contact between Australia and Japan. [More…]

• At page 74 of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence it is stated in respect of this matter. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence expressed the belief that the future stability of Australia-Japan relations must be based, as I said previously, on cultural and social factors as well as upon this close economic relationship. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence brought down an excellent report in, I think, January 1 973. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Where weapons are manufactured in Australia, safety and functioning tests are carried out to a routine schedule which is developed by the Army Quality Assurance Service taking into consideration the similar schedules developed in the country of origin and the peculiar requirements of the Australian Defence environment. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that the first Tasmania Military Tattoo has just finished and that it was an outstanding success? [More…]

• Will the Minister assure the Senate and those now considering the planning of future Tasmanian military tattoos that the participation and assistance of the Commonwealth defence forces will continue to be made available? [More…]

• In 1972 the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence brought down its report on Japan. [More…]

• In 1971 there was an important development in the establishment of a ministerial committee to review each year all aspects of the bilateral relationship between the 2 countries, Equally importantly in 1 97 1 the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of this Senate was established and its first reference was one word- Japan. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt was followed by Senator Sim who, if I may say so, earned quite a reputation for himself in the Senate because of his involvement in the production of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Japan. [More…]

• Of course other Ministers, such the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, depart from that principle by suggesting that in giving recognition to areas of need we were creating some sort of a soft society. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable Senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• $6,750,000 has been appropriated in 1975-76 for defence co-operation with Indonesia. [More…]

• The Australian Ambassador in Jakarta has received firm assurances from the Indonesian authorities that no arms or equipment provided by Australia under defence cooperation have been or will be used in East Timor. [More…]

• All defence material supplied by Australia to other countries, including Indonesia, is subject to the condition that it shall not be transferred to third countries without the prior approval of the Australian Government. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [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 or TPI rate disability pension. [More…]

• It is accompanied by the Superannuation Amendment Bill 1976 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill 1976, 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 decisions made by the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority. [More…]

• He then flies to Australia, has a Press conference in Sydney, comes to Canberra and talks to officers of the Department of Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• Did the President of the Fraser Island Defence Organisation, Mr Sinclair, allege that D.M. [More…]

• In the circumstances and having regard to the inadequate explanation and information given to the people of Australia about the 5 deaths, will the Government take steps to recall Mr Woolcott, our ambassador in Jakarta, so that a proper inquiry can be conducted in Australia, not by a Foreign Affairs group but by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence or by the Senate itself? [More…]

• Evidence was taken from the Department of Defence relating to the purchase, on behalf of the Department of the Army, of 6 1 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 1 14 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…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter: The implications for Australia’s foreign policy and national security of proposals for a new international economic order. [More…]

• I understand that the Opposition will move an amendment proposing that this matter be referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It would seem that such an amendment might suggest that it is inappropriate that such a subject be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It is a vitally important subject to which I think the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence ought to direct its attention. [More…]

• I simply say that I believe the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is competent to deal with this subject. [More…]

• We hold the belief that unnecessary duplication occurs in references to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was set up some years ago. [More…]

• It was established as one of the standing committees of the Senate for the specific reason that the Parliamentary Joint Committee of Foreign Affairs and Defence is an amorphous committee of substantial numbers. [More…]

• There are a lot of other reasons why the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was set up. [More…]

• I suppose I am not being out of the way or in any way impugning the obligations which rest upon me as Chairman of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence by saying that the Committee is already fully occupied with references which have come to it from various interested members of the parties comprising this Parliament. [More…]

• I could carry on these arguments to a far greater degree but I think they sustain the right and the belief of honourable senators on the Government side that this reference should go to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Set out in Table 1 are details of Other Ranks reengagement rate for each rank in the Defence Force in 1972 and 1 975. [More…]

• Wastage rate for rank is the percentage of rank strength wasting from the Defence Force. [More…]

• Australia-New Zealand Defence Procurement Senator Withers-On 18 March 1976 (Hansard, page 618) Senator Bishop asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence, a question without notice concerning possible new defence procurement arrangements with New Zealand following upon recent discussions between Mr Fraser and the [More…]

• I am advised that the discussions on this matter centred around the desirability of developing further the defence cooperation already existing between Australia and New Zealand. [More…]

• The Australian and New Zealand Governments in 1969 agreed in a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate closely in defence supply matters with the objective of increasing regional self-reliance in respect of the logistic support for the Defence Forces of both countries. [More…]

• Much value is seen in the practice of common selection teams and agreement was reached in principle that both countries will seek to maximise common equipment purchases and to sustain local defence factories as much as possible. [More…]

• An Australian/New Zealand Consultations Committee on Defence Co-operation was formed in 1973 and a meeting of this Committee will be held later in the year to give further consideration to the way by which the principal objectives of defence co-operation might be achieved. [More…]

• In regard to the effect of any new arrangements on the recent recommendations of the Industries Assistance Commission on the Aerospace Industry, the Senator will know that the Government is yet to consider the recommendations of the Industries Assistance Commission, and in so doing it will take into account the continuing development of defence co-operation with New Zealand. [More…]

• Of the moneys in the Fund as at 30 September 1972-$160,866,000 at book value-transferred to the Commonwealth under the terms of the amending Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act No. [More…]

• I will wait with bated breath to see whether the Minister for Education comes to her defence. [More…]

• Will it be in defence expenditure? [More…]

• Heavens above, something like 9 per cent of Commonwealth revenue is allocated for defence. [More…]

• We can take out of that 9 per cent for defence expenditure, take out the other debts and requirements for past borrowings, take out the amount given to public instrumentalities with which the Australian Government is associated and take out the public service salaries. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Will the Government be letting out for tender the security patrolling of other defence establishments. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• In situations where military personnel are not available for security patrolling of a particular Defence establishment, civilian security patrol services may be employed. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• What, according to Australian and allied defence authorities, is the number of Soviet ships known to be carrying out naval work and which have been present in the Indian Ocean in each of the last ten years. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of the proposed removal of No. [More…]

• It would appear from the question that not only is the Minister for Defence involved but also my colleague the Minister for [More…]

• I undertake to pass on the question to my colleagues in the other place, the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Transport, and obtain for Senator Messner a joint answer, I would hope, from both the Ministers. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• To what extent will that increase in personnel and operational staff assist the defence forces and local community interests in South Australia? [More…]

• I say to Senator Bishop what I said to Senator Messner: I shall obtain that information for him from the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Transport who are both involved. [More…]

• I do not have that information available but I shall seek it from the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• One of the reasons for my visit was that, as Mr Dickson had told me, Mr Clunies Ross had proposed to our Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that the Government should finance the acquisition, with fair compensation, of all his Cocos assets and operations on behalf of the Cocos community. [More…]

• Shortly after I presented my ministerial statement, the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence presented a report to the Senate as a result of its inquiries into the subject. [More…]

• That was a recommendation to this Senate by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and explains in simple terms why the Labor Government introduced the regulation. [More…]

• Mr President, I should have mentioned earlier that if the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton) is agreeable, we could have a cognate debate on this, the Superannuation Amendment Bill and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Admendment Bill. [More…]

• The matters affect the Minister for Repatriation in respect of his Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Amendment Bill. [More…]

• The figure, I think, for 1975-76 is $l,908m which is larger than the defence vote and, I think, almost as large as the Medibank vote. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• If the honourable senator cares to give details of who the person is, when he was recruited, where he served and under whom he served, none of which I know because I have not read any Press report about this matter- as honourable senators know, I do not read Press reports- or if the honourable senator cares to write to me or to the Minister for Defence and put down his allegations, I am quite certain that they will be investigated. [More…]

• I think that reference ought to be made to the fact that in April and May of last year the leaders of the UDT movement, who hitherto had supported the independence movement, came to Australia, visited Canberra, spoke to officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence and to others, then went to Jakarta, subsequently broke the coalition and, a few short months after that in July of that year took steps to wage a coup in Dili. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that on 7 October 1975, as a result of a request by Mr Fry and myself, Mr Renouf, the head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that when Senator Sir Magnus Cormack recently had this matter on the agenda of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee he asked the witnesses what desk in the Department dealt with Timor. [More…]

• In fact, it follows the pattern which has been synonomous with the attitude taken by the Department of Foreign Affairs and perhaps within sections of the Department of Defence over the last year or so. [More…]

• The Department of Foreign Affairs would not comment on Senator Gietzelt ‘s allegations in the Senate and referred all inquiries to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• A Defence Department spokesman said last night that to the best of his knowledge, there was no truth in Senator Gietzelt ‘s allegations. [More…]

• Of course, in terms of defence there is a measure of commonality. [More…]

• For the Timorese a tiny island has the problem defencewise of restriction of room to move. [More…]

• On the other hand Australia, being vast, has the problem defencewise of extreme distance, with all the problems that brings in the defence of our continent. [More…]

• It is rather interesting to look back now and to realise that last spring the Labor Caucus Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, having some interest and concern about the developing situation in East Timor, asked the Indonesian Ambassador to address it one evening about the matter. [More…]

• Such action will alienate Australian friendship with Indonesia as was suggested to you by the Labor Party Caucus Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee some weeks ago. [More…]

• On 7 October last year the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence invited the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs to address us. [More…]

• Whichever door it be, this situation is occurring 600 miles from our shores, and our own Department of Foreign Affairs could not give the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence any information of a factual nature. [More…]

• When any government in this country, regardless of its political colour, can receive the deceptive information that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence received on that morning in October, it is little wonder that this country has gone to war mistakenly many times. [More…]

• Senator WOOD (Queensland)-This notice of motion relates to 2 sets of regulations which provide for the payment of allowances to members of the defence force and which are retrospective for more than 2 years. [More…]

• In accordance with the undertaking given to the Senate in its 25th report, the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances required the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) to give detailed explanations of the reasons for the retrospectivity. [More…]

• Whether it be in the field of tertiary education, primary or secondary education, defence or elsewhere, governments have to make decisions about priorities. [More…]

• We understand that we may come here screaming about what the Government has done to welfare payments, to defence or to something else. [More…]

• We have to be very careful of that reaction, and the only real defence that those of us who care about education are going to have against it is if we have properly thought out, debated and researched the area. [More…]

• On the point of order, I wish to add only that when I take the floor in defence of a deceased colleague who has been defamed, I am entitled to refer to the defamer in phrases not incommensurate with the language that he used against my colleague. [More…]

• Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) (11.33)- I claim with your kindness and courtesy, Mr President, a priority in relation to this matter because, although there are a number of honourable senators who wish to enter into this adjournment debate in defence of the late Senator Sir Shane Paltridge, at least in common with Senator Wright, for example, and Senator [More…]

• In the public gaze and without the privilege of Parliamenttherefore he is not entitled to the protection of Parliament- he defamed a man who is not able to defend himself and whose defence must be left to those who lived with him. [More…]

• But in fairness to Senator Sim, I think he should be made aware of the fact that the reason I interjected during his speech and that of Senator Withers was the broad remarks made by Senator Sir Magnus Cormack about the collective defence by this Senate. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Will the Minister seek an assurance from his colleague the Minister for Defence in the House of Representatives that the RAAF will not undertake this activity in that area? [More…]

• I must hasten to add that the United Farmers and Graziers are well aware of the need for defence and are in no way opposing this move provided protection is given for animal and poultry breeders in South Australia. [More…]

• I said then that I would refer the questions to my colleague, the Minister for Defence, in another place. [More…]

• It is always refreshing when Senator Wood comes to the defence of his own State. [More…]

• The Opposition will not be opposing the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1976, which I think is probably a good thing because one would need to be an actuary to understand the implications of the Bill. [More…]

• We all recognise the need for a proper scheme of this nature to be implemented for retired members of the defence force. [More…]

• I join in the debate on the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1976 to mention a few matters. [More…]

• The Bill is related particularly to those people who retired from the armed Services prior to 1 October 1972 when the new Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits scheme came into operation. [More…]

• As Senator Devitt will remember, the report of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation recommended a new scheme for new recruits. [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…]

• In response to that matter raised by the honourable member for the Northern Territory, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in his reply, which is reported at page 1 862 of Hansard, said: [More…]

• I should like to know also whether the circumstances of the representations I have made over a period of 3 years and which are still in train- the matter is before the current Minister for Defence but I have dealt with 3 Ministers for Defence to date without receiving any satisfaction- are being considered. [More…]

• In a letter dated 20 July 1973, which was written as a consequence of a letter sent by the former member of the defence forces to whom I have referred, the Secretary of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority, Mr R. J. Perriman, said: [More…]

• The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973, which received Royal Assent on 19 June 1973 and applies to all who were members of the Defence Force as at 1 October 1 972 provides for extended widows benefits. [More…]

• There is provision in the new Act for payment of widows benefit in the case where a recipient member marries after the date of his retirement; however, these provisions apply only to those who were members of the Defence Force on 1 October 1972. [More…]

• As you retired on 28 February 1 970, your pension is payable under the provisions of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1 948-7 1 as amended from dme to time. [More…]

• I regret to inform you therefore, that in the event of your marriage, your widow would have no entitlement under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1 948- 1 973. [More…]

• I immediately conveyed all that information to the then Minister for Defence, the Honourable Lance Barnard, on 25 July 1973 and Mr Barnard’s private secretary replied to me on 1 August. [More…]

• I wrote to the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on 16 February incorporating the whole of the file to which I have just referred to bring him up to date, and I pointed out: [More…]

• ’s case, as I understand it, was primarily concerned with the provisions which cancel the DFRB pension of a widow on her remarriage and exclude an ex-serviceman’s widow from eligibility for benefits where the marriage was contracted after his retirement from the Defence Force. [More…]

• These matters were listed for examination in the course of a general review of the DFRB reversionary benefits structure initiated by the then Minister for Defence, Mr Lance Barnard. [More…]

• But I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to take this matter to the Minister for Defence in the hope that he may be able to give us some satisfactory reply in due course. [More…]

• I had not intended to speak on the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill even though I was a member of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Committee which sat some years ago and which evaluated a substantial quantity of evidence. [More…]

• We had to bring together the provisions of 2 schemes, namely, the pre- 1949 and the post- 1949 defence forces retirement benefits schemes. [More…]

• I am quite convinced that there are provisions in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act which are superior to the provisions embodied in the Superannuation Act. [More…]

• Those of us who had been former members on that Committee made some representations to the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, who had been a member of the Committee in the days when it had sat. [More…]

• in reply- I thank all honourable senators for the unanimous support they have given the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill. [More…]

• I draw the attention of Senators Maunsell and Devitt to a statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund which he made when he tabled the report which was tabled in the Senate on 28 April 1976 by Senator Greenwood. [More…]

• I shall invite my colleague, the Minister for Defence, to study the case and shall direct his attention to the concern expressed by the honourable senator in respect of the constituent involved. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The only reference to West New Guinea in the entire collection of the 1961 and 1962 issues of Federation News was one paragraph within an item in the 1961 ALP Conference policy decision on foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• the Secretary, Department of Defence, the Secretary, Department of the Navy, the Secretary, Department of the Army, or the Secretary, Department of Air, for the purpose of the administration of any law ofthe Commonwealth relating to payments in respect of dependants of members of the Defence Force; or [More…]

• 1 ) The property was acquired by compulsory process on 7 May 1942 for defence purposes. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Department of Defence investigating allegations that Public Servants and civilians have been buying cheap liquor from Defence establishments; if so, what form has this inquiry taken. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• and (2) Following newspaper allegations that public servants and civilians were illegally buying liquor from Defence establishments in Canberra, the Department of Defence investigated the allegations and reported to me; the investigation was undertaken through normal Service and Departmental channels. [More…]

• Under the regulations of the Australian Services Canteens Organisation, civilian members of the Department of Defence and their dependants are legally entitled to use ASCO facilities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Is the report by Jack Percival in the Sydney SunHerald of 2 May 1976, that senior Royal Australian Air Force equipment officers have warned the Defence Department of signs of metal fatigue in the Mirage aircraft operated by the force, correct; if so, what effect is metal fatigue having on the current operation of the Mirage aircraft, and what will be the long-term effect. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister presently representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I know the Government is looking at the whole defence situation very carefully. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Defence will be making a statement to the Parliament, if not this week then certainly next week. [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…]

• by leave- I make this statement on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• 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 Senate 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 five-year period- and the acquisitions will create additional financial commitments carried forward into the later 1980s. [More…]

• The Government reached its view that an expenditure of S 12,000m is needed to give the country a credible defence capacity after receiving reports from its advisers. [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 five-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 1 975-76. [More…]

• The Government’s defence advisers are deeply involved in determining what priorities and what options should be included by the Government within the fiveyear 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 the Minister has 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, the Minister has 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 the 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 air fields and related support facilities, and in accommodation and educational and training facilities. [More…]

• The Minister expects soon to announce what further works are necessary in order to increase the defence capability of this important Naval base. [More…]

• The Minister has 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…]

• 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…]

• But notwithstanding that, a government does have enormous problems in providing sufficient finance for defence at the present time because of the enormously complicated and expensive nature of the equipment. [More…]

• I take exception to some of the remarks contained in this defence statement, particularly those which suggest that the Labor Government regarded defence as of secondary importance. [More…]

• In the first of the 5 years dealt with in the document, we are told that defence spending will increase by $300m a year. [More…]

• It is quite misleading to suggest that these problems which have arisen in relation to financing defence arose only in the 3-year term of the Labor Government. [More…]

• The Defence Act empowers the making of regulations relating to the formation and management of rifle clubs. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has obtained the opinion ofthe Attorney-General on the amendments, and has given an undertaking that the provisions relating to liquor will be amended so as to make it clear that the exemption from State laws applies only to canteens conducted in connection with rifle shoots. [More…]

• A further $8 5.1m 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. [More…]

• 3m for other defence services. [More…]

• 4), the Treasurer’s fiscal policy statement which I gave in the Senate, the defence statement and other statements made by other Ministers. [More…]

• He said that the Australian Government could acquire land allegedly for defence purposes and then could claim that it wanted to use the land for something else. [More…]

• Mr Killen is on record as having spoken about the failures of the Labor Government in defence matters. [More…]

• That is one essential defence matter. [More…]

• Mr Killen made a very improper attack upon the Labor Government in his defence statement yesterday. [More…]

• Defence preparedness under Labor was given a low priority. [More…]

• Apathy to defence problems was a distinguishing feature of the Labor administration. [More…]

• Let me remind all honourable senators that when Mr Barnard was made Minister for Defence he set in train actions which resulted in the following: The complete reorganisation of the Services, increases in pay and a new method of calculating pay for every serviceman, including the members of the Civilian Military Force. [More…]

• In 1972, as soon as Barnard became Minister for Defence, he instructed that there be an examination for the reorganisation of the Services. [More…]

• It meant a great reform in making sure that each arm of the Service works intelligently within an integrated defence service. [More…]

• Nobody who understands the position can say that what was done by the Australian Labor Party in the area of defence was not constructive. [More…]

• I took part in some of those matters because during most of the time I was the Assistant Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The only answer which the Minister has given for this part of the program is to say that there will be a study by the Defence (Industrial) Committee. [More…]

• 4), which covers largely the capital works area; the economic policy statement which was introduced in the Senate last Thursday evening and took something like 1 Vi hours to read; the legislative measures that come out of that statement, such as the education proposals and the general area of health and Medibank; and the statement on defence policy. [More…]

• Senator Carrick dealt at length with the general proposals dealing with education, Senator Guilfoyle dealt with the proposals in relation to health and Medibank and Senator Withers put down a statement on defence. [More…]

• Equally, we want to protect and as far as possible to increase the major areas of government activity, including spending on pensions, family allowances, education and defence. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Committee to the report prepared by Senate Estimates Committee A following consideration of the estimates for the Departments of Administrative Services, the Parliament, Prime Minister and Cabinet, National Resources, Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Having dealt with that matter, I now wish to refer to other matters that are within the purview of the Departments of Administrative Services, the Parliament, Prime Minister and Cabinet, National Resources, Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• In January this year the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) announced that he 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…]

• This was a heavy charge on the defence vote in terms of the very limited contribution made by cadets to defence preparedness, including the community goodwill they created and interest in the Services by way of recruiting. [More…]

• Features of future Commonwealth financial assistance are: Provision of appropriate military uniform; 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 [More…]

• Air Force of 141 regular servicemen and some 20 Department of Defence civilian staff to supervise and provide assistance in the running of cadets; Commonwealth compensation cover; and payment of annual allowance 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 Forces. [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…]

• The previous Labor Government was forced to abandon the previous scheme on a recommendation by the defence Services so that they could use better the $12m or $ 13m which was provided for school cadet corps. [More…]

• When I asked for a manifest of the VIP flights to be tabled in the Senate, I found that it had to come from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• So I left my questions until Estimates Committee A came to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• When we got to the Department of Defence and I tried to pose the question, the Ministerincharge told me that I should have raised the question under the appropriations for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]

• As I understand it, a vote is given to the Defence Department for the cost of running what is generally termed the VIP fleet. [More…]

• The vote in the Defence estimates is for the maintenance of that squadron. [More…]

• When I raised this in relation to the Department of Defence, the appropriation for which was considered by the Estimates Committee in question, I was told that I should have asked about it during consideration of the estimates for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]

• I seek that information under division 230- Australian Defence Force, and specifically under subdivision 1, item 03- Permanent Air Force, for which $9,518,000 is sought. [More…]

• Let me say again with respect to the vote for the Department of Defence, having looked at it quickly I thought that a separate and absolute vote was provided for the operations of the VIP flight. [More…]

• Mr Temporary Chairman, I refer to division 230- Australian Defence Force, subdivision 1, line 03 -Permanent Air Force, for which an additional appropriation of $9,5 1 8,000 is being sought. [More…]

• Of course, it is difficult for any reasonable person to follow the procedures where expenditure under the Prime Minister’s Department perhaps should have appeared under the Department of Construction, or expenditure under the Department of Construction perhaps should have appeared under the vote for the Department of Defence. [More…]

• As to the claim that this Bill brought forward by the current Government contains an automatic defence, ipso facto it includes all of the tariff policies of the previous Government, that is a piece of total hallucination. [More…]

• Defence force personnel will be eligible for relief from the levy on the same lines as is proposed for repatriation beneficiaries. [More…]

• Thirdly, as these wharfage facilities are outmoded and without land backed berths, which incidently the report considers are warranted economically will the Government take firm action to upgrade the port to cope with future cargo, whether it be for the development of Northern Territory industries or for defence? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What do Australia’s Defence Authorities regard as the present optimum number of servicemen and women necessary for the (a) Navy, (b) Army and (c) Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• What areas in the Defence Force are most urgently in need of recruits. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Resource requirements for the Australian Defence Force are determined by the Government under the Five Year Rolling Program process. [More…]

• 2 ) At the end of March 1 976 the total strength of the Permanent Defence Force was: [More…]

• Of the applications received under the Defence Service Homes Act, or similar legislation, in the past five years how many applications were in each of the following categories: (a) World War I, (b) World War II, (c) Korea, (d) Vietnam, and (e) Permanent Services- ‘Not War Zone’. [More…]

• 9026-The Defence Services Homes Act was amended in May 1973 to provide assistance to full-time serving members of the Forces and certain national servicemen. [More…]

• How many applications for Defence Forces Homes Loans over the previous five years have been subject to second mortgages. [More…]

• Of the applications received under the Defence Service Homes Act or similar legislation in the past five years how many applications were in each of the following categories, (a) totally and permanently incapacitated, (b) Service, and (c) other. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What stage have the negotiations reached between the Department of Defence and striking unionists at the Sydney Carden Island Naval Dockyard. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• More material and information are still coming in on the whole question of shipbuilding, ship repair, docks and the defence aspect. [More…]

• It seems strange to me that at this time the Government has announced that defence spending will increase in 1975-76 to a total of $2,200m. [More…]

• I am not questioning the necessity for strong defences; however I am questioning the timing when it is telling the public to exercise self restraint but simultaneously is introducing this Medibank levy and allocating large amounts to defence. [More…]

• The rich are the ones who should pay most to meet the general cost of keeping the nation in good health just the same as they are now obliged to meet a greater share per dollar earned than the poor need for the cost of defence, roads, schools and other items of public expenditure. [More…]

• I got a letter back which confirmed that the girl had been brought up and interviewed and that the sole defence was that she had not selected any particular time. [More…]

• I am not one of those who is airy-fairy about defence or security. [More…]

• -It seems rather contradictory that one moment the Leader of the Opposition is saying in his first question, in effect, that because the Prime Minister makes a statement on foreign affairs and defence, this will affect our commercial relations, including the sale of beef, with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and then in the question he has asked just now he is saying in effect, as I was trying to say, that the sale of beef is a matter of commercial arrangements between the Australian Meat Board and the U.S.S.R. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As this extra area of territorial waters is highly desirable in regard to the control of fishing, defence and other off-shore surveillance requirements and as our ships and aircraft are few in number and obviously re-equipping is required in order to carry out the Government’s intention, what action is contemplated by the Government to build up an air and sea reconnaissance service, particularly in respect of our thousands of miles of northern coastline which has been neglected considerably in recent years? [More…]

• -The honourable senator will know, if he has read the statement I put down in the Senate last week on behalf of the Minister for Defence, that there is a program to spend $ 12,000m in real terms over the next 5 years. [More…]

• I understand that the Minister for Defence hopes to table a White Paper during the Budget session. [More…]

• The Department of Foreign Affairs would not comment on Senator Gietzelt ‘s allegations in the Senate and referred all inquiries to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Department of Defence authorities said that there was no radio transmitter at Shoalhaven. [More…]

• They lost 50 000 of their own people in the defence of our country. [More…]

• I presume it is covered by the omnibus heading of ‘Salaries and Payments in the Nature of Salary to the Defence Forces’- unless, of course, the Government has no intention of its modified scheme of cadet training becoming operative before the end of November. [More…]

• He declared that the Federal Government should reallocate to the building industry some of the $ 12,000m which it planned to spend on defence over the next 5 years. [More…]

• I suggest that, in the long term, the capacity of this Government or of any government to operate in the enormously important areas of defence, social security, education or local government, across the whole canvas, is directly related to its capacity to control inflation. [More…]

• It ought to recognise that in the final analysis victory depends upon unionists imbued with that spirit of defence of true trade unionism, with the resource capacity to oppose those with other major resource capacities whose involvement in the trade union movement is to subvert it and to pervert it. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Is a similar publication produced for other sections of the Defence Force; if so, (a) what are the publications concerned, (b) how often are they published, and (c) what is the cost of publication and distribution. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Department of Defence investigated possible savings in freight charges by using ‘free freight’ available on service vessels and aircraft; if so, what has been the outcome of such assessments. [More…]

• What plans are in hand to increase the use of ‘free freight’ transport of stores and equipment by the Defence Forces using its own ships and planes on routine flights or patrols. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The Department of Defence recognises the need to use military vehicles wherever possible for transporting military cargo both as a means of training for operational tasks and as an economic measure. [More…]

• Defence policy is that maximum use will be made of military vehicles for the transport of military cargo consistent with the operational nature and role of the road vehicle, ship or aircraft [More…]

• The Defence Forces have established transport coordination agencies to ensure that maximum use is made of available space on military ships and aircraft on routine flights or patrols. [More…]

• On 28 April 1976 the report of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board was tabled 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…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is awaiting a further report from the Board. [More…]

• The allocation arrangements will be determined by the Minister for Defence after receiving advice from the Actuary. [More…]

• In conclusion I should mention that the Chairman of the DFRB Board had informed the Minister for Defence that every attempt will be made to have all the formalities completed in time for the payments to be made before the end of the year. [More…]

• The Committee of the Whole was specifically dealing with Division 230, Australian Defence Force, sub-division 1, item 03- Permanent Air Force- for which an amount of $9,5 1 8,000 was sought. [More…]

• Expenditure for the operations of aircraft of 34 Squadron is met from various Defence appropriation items incl using pay, stores, rations, and others. [More…]

• The legislation was introduced after I went to Cocos and, unfortunately and regrettably, after Mr Clunies Ross had retracted or withdrawn from statements that had been made to me by Mr Dickson and to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence by Mr Clunies Ross himself. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence went to Cocos in June of last year. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence more as a Government committee than as a parliamentary committee. [More…]

• Indeed, the all-Party Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- Senator Sir Magnus Cormack was a member of that Committee- made recommendations in paragraphs 53 and 54 of its report under the heading ‘Economic Viability of Cocos’ that some action should be taken to acquire land on Cocos on just and reasonable terms. [More…]

• It involves also the stewardship of the subsequent Defence Minister, Mr Barnard, and two Administrative Affairs Ministers, Mr Daly and the present occupant, Senator Withers. [More…]

• I come now to the next era involving former Minister for Defence Lance Barnard, and Senator Withers’ predecessor, the honourable F. M. Daly. [More…]

• I am sure Senator Baume has read his defence journal relating to military strategy. [More…]

• I would like to know whether the proposal is on Senator Withers’ desk or whether the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), a Queenslander, has been pressured by Mr Newman, a former Army officer, to hold the line. [More…]

• At about that time the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was engaged in pursuing the following reference which the Senate had handed down to it on 3 December 1 974: [More…]

• I think some honourable senators on the Committee would already know that there was quite some discussion as to whether that Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee should go to Cocos (Keeling) Islands to have a look at the situation for itself. [More…]

• Ultimately the decision was made that it would; but I point out that some attempts did appear to have been made within the bureaucracy to curtail the visit by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to these islands, for what purpose I am not quite sure. [More…]

• It is noted that paragraph 33 of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, entitled United Nations involvement with Australia’s Territories, states: [More…]

• Here was a man who had stated to us as members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that he was prepared to talk with the Government. [More…]

• One which comes readily to my mind is one which I quoted to Senator Primmer, who was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence at the time and before we went to Cocos (Keeling) Islands. [More…]

• That report was virtually the same as the one prepared by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• -The Prime Minister announced in, I think, February of this year that the Australian Housing Corporation would be abolished and that the Government was looking at the best way of administering the defence service homes scheme, which was really the only main function of the Corporation at that time. [More…]

• That the time for the presentation of the report from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australia and the Indian Ocean Region be extended and that the Committee now report on or before 30 November 1976. [More…]

• It was written by John Stackhouse, the defence correspondent. [More…]

• In most cases where the defence argument is used it is generally deployed to preserve protected jobs that are woefully uneconomic under present conditions. [More…]

• The Government is begging its responsibility to set out for the industry a statement of what sectors it wants to see preserved for basic defence supply and back-up and the extent to which its capacity will be used during a period of low threat. [More…]

• Without doubt Senator Cotton, as Minister for Industry and Commerce, deserves some credit for aiding the ultimate defence benefit, which is securing a strong industrial capability by helping to reallocate resources which are being inefficiently used. [More…]

• This should include applying the same criteria of efficiency to the Government’s own industrial empire, propped up in the name of defence. [More…]

• The shipbuilding industry in South Australia- I mentioned only Whyalla previously- was created by a private entrepreneur, Essington Lewis, as a facility for defence purposes. [More…]

• The Labor Party has always said that the defence industries, including the shipbuilding industry, must be maintained in Australia. [More…]

• Government supporters always talk to the Labor Party about the need to support Australia’s defence capability. [More…]

• Do not tell me that that shipbuilding capacity is not as essential for ordinary trade purposes as it is for defence purposes. [More…]

• The Leopard tanks that our defence forces will be using in the future often will need to be carried on the railways. [More…]

• We recognise industry, in particular our shipbuilding, aircraft, vehicle manufacturing, weapons, machine tool, electronics and telecommunications industries as a fourth arm of defence. [More…]

• Urgent action is required to minimise our dependence on other nations for the supply of defence equipment. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate requesting that Senator Durack be discharged from further attendance on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and nominating Senator Young to be a member in his place. [More…]

• That Senator Durack be discharged from attendance on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and that Senator Young be appointed to the Committee. [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…]

• In defence we have increased our expenditure by some 18 per cent on last year’s expenditure. [More…]

• Defence expenditure is up 1 8 per cent, but that is just a start of a 5-year program in which we believe there will be a most significant increase in the morale and capacity of the Australian soldier, sailor and airman and indeed a significant increase in the mobility and fire power of our defensive equipment so that we can have and promote a realistic defence of this continent which of itself will create a measure of confidence among our friends and allies, a measure of confidence which we sadly need. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Administrative Services, concerns the 140 Department of Defence houses situated at Tindal in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In view of the shortage of accommodation in Katherine, the high cost of new houses and the relatively low cost of renovating the Defence houses, will the Minister review his decision so as to ensure that people now living in sub-standard homes can be provided with more appropriate accommodation? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [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 Commonwealth-State relations, or of disclosure of deliberations of Cabinet or of the Northern Territory Executive Council. [More…]

• Clause 14 of the Bill also provides that his access to premises may be restricted where this would prejudice national security or defence. [More…]

• I refer also to a number of other significant areas of increase- social security and defence- and all the elements in the Budget towards stability and growth for the Australian wool industry. [More…]

• Senator Sim, who is Chairman of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, said that the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean does not constitute a direct threat to Australia although it is a matter of strategic concern. [More…]

• He completely disagreed with his Prime Minister who gave this as one of his reasons for the build-up of defence in the Indian Ocean, in view of the changed relationship with Communist China. [More…]

• Senator Sim, as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, should know the facts. [More…]

• Should we accept the findings of a parliamentary select committee or should we accept the findings in a report by a public servant, the Defence Ombudsman, who made a casual inquiry and who apologised in his report for his inability to make a thorough inquiry because the report was wanted by May? [More…]

• Do we say that Senator Baume, Senator Bonner and Senator Rae are inferior to the Ombudsman of the Department of Defence? [More…]

• We have voted for an increase of 1 8 per cent in defence estimates. [More…]

• They mentioned only in passing the rnining sector, defence and social welfare. [More…]

• That is where the defence rests. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, refers to the fairly recent promotions of some female officers in the Australian defence forces to senior posts. [More…]

• As some of these officers are now posted to senior established positions previously considered to be exclusively for male officers, will the Minister request the Minister for Defence to consider a special review of salary scales applicable to these officers which are less than those applicable to male officers and to consider any similar situation or anomaly affecting other servicewomen? [More…]

• Hand in hand with the development of our natural resources and with the healthy growth rate of our population we have a responsibility to Australians of the future to provide an adequate defence system. [More…]

• Insufficient funds have been made available to provide an adequate defence system. [More…]

• Property for defence has been denied and funds have been frittered away on a welfare system which has gone a long way towards undermining the strength of our Australian character and producing, as the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has said, the soft Australian. [More…]

• A strong country is a healthy country, and it is with satisfaction and relief that we see the present Government determined to restore and maintain an adequate defence capability, one that will once again command respect in this part of the world. [More…]

• I was discussing the defence of Australia as it relates to the Budget. [More…]

• I hope that the recognition that has now been given by the Government to the upgrading of the defence of Australia will give a much needed boost to the morale of the Australian Defence Force. [More…]

• In the last few years we have seen many resignations from the Defence Force; many valuable men have been lost to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Very few defence facilities have been provided in the north. [More…]

• Therefore once again I compliment the Government on renewing the defence facilities of Australia. [More…]

• I refer to the matter of differential pay rates in the Australian defence forces, which I raised in this House on 5 November last year. [More…]

• In view of the policy of equal pay in the defence forces recommended in 1971, can the Minister give an assurance that this matter will receive urgent consideration? [More…]

• However I shall pass on to him Senator Missen ‘s question about the discrepancy, which does appear to be revealed in the question, between the pay of male and female members of the defence forces. [More…]

• contribute specifically to the improvement and development of Australia ‘s defence system? [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the Minister for Foreign Affairs recently said that the presence of Russian vessels in the Indian Ocean constituted a threat to Australia and that Senator Sim, Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, said that it is not a threat to Australia? [More…]

• Although the Bill is strictly a matter of accounting, as one will realise from past practice the transfer of the sum of $ 1,600m on the defence loan account is a significant factor when related to the figure of $1,43 5m which is the anticipated deficit in the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• This Bill transfers money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund to finance authorised Defence expenditure. [More…]

• It permits defence expenditures to be charged to the Loan Fund rather than to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• We have now reverted to the old situation where the only national interest the Federal Government has is defence. [More…]

• We should be building ships in this country, as Senator Cavanagh jogged my memory, because that is our first line of defence. [More…]

• He was railroaded out of his Party for joining an organisation which was interested in the defence of Australia. [More…]

• This Bill, therefore, will expedite the administration of justice without favour to the defence or to the prosecution. [More…]

• Indeed, I have heard of comments from both defence counsel and prosecutors indicating that the procedure whereby oral confessions are recorded by mechanical means with adequate safeguards, or, alternatively recorded in front of a third party and signed by all present, would prevent the wastage of court time which occurs when a prisoner who has confessed to police takes it upon himself to deny this fact at his trial. [More…]

• In the Budget recently announced $4m was cut off the ABC budget for the next financial year, which led the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sir Henry Bland, in his only public defence of the Australian Broadcasting Commission since he got that job, to say that the cuts left the ABC pretty close to the bone. [More…]

• Everybody knows the Prime Minister was my minister in Defence. [More…]

• Department of Defence it was in such an administrative shambles that it took Sir Arthur Tange 12 months to clean it up. [More…]

• In less than 4 years Australia has had 3 Prime Ministers, 4 Ministers for Defence, S 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 Attorneys-General, 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…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 gives a functional breakdown of actual 1974-75 and 1975-76 outlays and estimated 1976-77 outlays on the defence function. [More…]

• As such the civilian manpower costs shown do not include amounts for civilian manpower associated with Defence Science and Technology and the Natural Disasters Organisation. [More…]

• These amounts are included under the categories for ‘Defence Science and Technology Establishments’ and ‘Natural Disasters, Civil Defence and Other’. [More…]

• The provisions in the Defence Budget Estimates 1976-77 for salaries and allowances for both civilian and Service manpower are based on actual wage and salary levels up to the time of presenting the Budget Speech 1976. [More…]

• The Defence Budget Estimates for 1976-77 cannot be compared with actual expenditure 1975-76 to obtain an indication of projected wage and salary increases during 1976-77. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations: Is he aware of the valuable work being undertaken by the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations in educating training supervisors by utilising the staff and facilities of certain government defence factories at present operating below capacity? [More…]

• The activities belong partly to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It was considered that such a person ought to have a defence, for example, something to the effect that the breach he committed did not disturb the planning of the city. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Can the Government inform the Senate whether any discussions have been held between Australia and the United States of America on the proposed utilisation of the Learmonth air force base in Western Australia? [More…]

• I ask: Does this mean that those public servants from the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the Department of Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs who have been before the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in recent months to give evidence on the Indian Ocean reference have withheld information from that Committee? [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of public concern being expressed at reports that funds for the provision of buses for naval reserve cadet units will soon be reduced? [More…]

• Such people will thus be given an exemption comparable to that provided for repatriation beneficiaries and members of the defence forces. [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 pensioners health benefits will, like people covered by repatriation and Defence Force arrangements, be freed from the levy. [More…]

• Departures have consisted of defence force officers returning to their Services at the completion of their normal periods of duty. [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for inquiry and report: The need for an increased Australian commitment toward development in the South Pacific. [More…]

• If so, did Professor Manning Clark assert that the Governor-General and his beneficiaries can expect little mercy from historians of the people; that we can judge what happens to historians in the people’s democracies of today; that historians would not be given the paper to write his defence, let alone the opportunity to publish it; and that the people’s historians judge their opponents harshly. [More…]

• Mr Hayden-we cannot quite figure out these days whether he is shadowing Defence, Treasury, Health or any other departmentreferred to private hospitals as surgical mills. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I see no reason why health services should be separated and dealt with differently from the provision of funds from Consolidated Revenue for defence, for schooling, and one could go on ad nauseam. [More…]

• Page 4 of the booklet contains 3 headings: ‘A Pensioner’, ‘A Low Income Earner’ and A Defence Force Member or a Repatriation Beneficiary’. [More…]

• This is the same provision as applies for repatriation beneficiaries and defence personnel under the new Medibank arrangements. [More…]

• This evening we have witnessed a classical defence mechanism of projection from previous speakers. [More…]

• We agree that members of the defence forces and relatives or otherwise associated members of the defence forces should be excluded from the levy. [More…]

• We do not see why the members of the defence forces, and the repatriation pensioners should be specifically excluded from the levy in the legislation and pensioners who hold pensioner health benefit cards should have to be excluded under the regulations in the legislation. [More…]

• This is the defence tonight. [More…]

• But, if one may judge from what happens to historians in the People’s democracies today, that historian would not be given the paper on which to write his defence, let alone the opportunity to publish it. [More…]

• Does anybody say that what I said was not a statement of truth when I said that he went to a meeting and shared a platform in defence of Mr Whitlam and against Sir John Kerr? [More…]

• There is no defence for the Labor Party to say that because someone is a specialist and highly qualified in a particular field he must be immune from valid criticism in other fields. [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 am sure that Senator Knight will rise in great and strong defence of Senator Carrick during the course of this debate. [More…]

• compliment Senator Ryan who has made a restrained, dignified and quite worthy defence of one of Australia’s finest academics and historians, Professor Manning Clark. [More…]

• If so, did Professor Manning Clark assert that the Governor-General and his beneficiaries can expect little mercy from historians of the people; that we can judge what happens to historians in the people’s democracies of today; that historian would not be given the paper to write his defence, let alone the opportunity to publish it; and that the people ‘s historians judge their opponents harshly. [More…]

• I believe that the defence that has been put up on his behalf here tonight has carried on the best traditions of the Senate of defending a man who is not here to defend himself. [More…]

• I commend the honourable senator for her defence of this very great man. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer tothe honourable senator’s question: [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 by the Executive Council today. [More…]

• I was a member of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of this Parliament during the Omega hearings. [More…]

• The Omega stations will not be able to transmit any messages; therefore they are not of any defence significance. [More…]

• We ought to be looking at whether or not he is able to call his defence witnesses freely. [More…]

• In view of these statements, I ask the Minister the following question: How does he reconcile his view that ‘there is no military significance’ attached to Omega with the United States Navy reports and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Defence Ministry reports which give a high strategic value to the Omega system in coordinating nuclear strikes? [More…]

• The main thrust of evidence before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of this Parliament was against the honourable senator’s first premise which was that both the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics regard Omega as being essential for nuclear strikes. [More…]

• I have told the Senate before that what the United States Secretary for Defence, Tug Wilson, said was right for General Motors-Holden was not even right for a Republican president. [More…]

• The Bureau of Customs is further developing its patrol activity in northern regions in co-operation with the Defence Services and where necessary by private charter. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• How many journalists were employed in the Department of Defence, and in commissions and statutory bodies under the Minister’s control, at 1 September 1976. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• A D Notice is a communication issued to the media on the authority of the Defence Press and Broadcasting Committee. [More…]

• The Committee is chaired by the Minister for Defence and consists of a majority of media members. [More…]

• D Notices outline subjects which bear upon defence or national security. [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for Defence agree with the statement made by the Deputy Premier of New South Wales on 10 October 1976 to the effect that a viable shipbuilding industry is vital to Australia’s defence capabilities? [More…]

• As the Deputy Premier of New South Wales has all of a sudden discovered some defence need- I do not know how long after the original Industries Assistance Commission report came down- as a matter of courtesy I shall ask my colleague, Mr Killen, what he thinks of the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• With regard to Army cadets, section 35 of the Defence Force Reorganization Act 1975, which amended the governing provisions of the Defence Act 1903, was brought into force on 24 September 1976. [More…]

• Part V of the Defence Act 1 903 confers special powers to make regulations regarding Army cadets, and Part V of the Naval Defence Act 1910 contains corresponding provisions regarding Navy cadets. [More…]

• The common aim of the Australian Services ‘ cadet scheme is, by predominantly voluntary effort, better to equip young people for community life by fostering initiative, leadership, discipline and loyalty through training programs also designed to stimulate an interest in a particular arm of the Defence Force. [More…]

• The defence rests accordingly. [More…]

• For some years now interested departments together with representatives of the defence Services have examined ways of improving routine surveillance and specific surveillance in relation to particular activities, for example, surveillance associated with a particular smuggling operation. [More…]

• If that is so, is the Government willing to take the following initiatives to counter the deceit of the Jakarta generals and support fully the right of self determination of the East Timorese people: Firstly, authorise communication with East Timor through Telecom and provide a licence for a radio to operate from Darwin; secondly, call for a moratorium on defence aid to Indonesia until all Indonesian troops have been withdrawn from East Timor; thirdly, urge the Indonesian Government to allow Australian observers to go to East Timor; fourthly, fully support the right of self determination for the East Timorese in the United Nations during the current session; fifthly, refuse to send further aid to the Indonesian Red Cross and continue to press for the involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross; and finally and importantly, release all details of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor held by the Australian intelligence agencies? [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Carrick as Minister representing the Minister for Environment and refer to the action I took last Thursday in furnishing him with a telegram from the Fraser Island Defence Organisation which implied that the existing mining agreement was being breached and which the Minister undertook to check with both the Minister for National Resources and the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs seen a statement in this morning’s Canberra Times by the national secretary of the Returned Services League, Mr Bill Keys, that the Cabinet has a proposal to increase the interest rates on defence service home loans. [More…]

• The benefits of that legislation were extended to all servicemen, including those serving in the defence Services but who may not have had war service. [More…]

• Of course, my portfolio now includes the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• As the senator would know, I only recently assumed the administration of the defence service homes scheme, and naturally I have been considering the matter, particularly some of the problems relating to it. [More…]

• As the Senate would know, it is the intention of the Government to abolish that corporation and to place the administrative arrangements for administering the defence service homes scheme within my department. [More…]

• I should like to remind honourable senators 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…]

• These initiatives, as honourable senators are aware, were very much welcomed by leading veterans’ organisations, 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 rise this evening with a rather unusual request- a request to Ministers in this place and in the other place, in particular to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers), the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard), the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott), the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), to provide answers to 2 1 questions that I have placed on notice in relation to Cedar Bay. [More…]

• The reply of the Minister was not definitive, nor was the reply of the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, to a rather facetious question asked by Mr Katter on 7 October. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Parliament of the details of Government plans to increase interest rates on defence service homes loans? [More…]

• Will serving soldiers still be qualified to apply at the appropriate time for defence service homes loans? [More…]

• There are no Government plans to increase interest rates on defence service homes loans. [More…]

• As I said yesterday, there are difficulties and problems associated with the defence service homes loans scheme because of the long waiting period involved. [More…]

• The position is that I, having assumed responsibility for the defence service homes loans scheme, am reviewing the whole scheme thoroughly. [More…]

• Following on what the Minister has just said, is it not a fact that the defence service homes division is going bankrupt, whereas previously under the Labor Government it was a profitable section of the Department of Housing and Construction? [More…]

• I received a verbal assurance from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that something would be done about getting information for me. [More…]

• The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack), who is in charge of the debate and whom I commend for a temperate contribution to the debate, said that the Queensland police sought the cooperation of the Commonwealth, namely the Department of Defence and the Bureau of Customs, which I understand now forms part of the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs; and certain Commonwealth facilities were provided. [More…]

• This can be done in one institution because they are 3 arms of the one defence force. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence confirm that the South Australian Premier has announced that he will not allow cadets in South Australian state schools? [More…]

• I refer to the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 as amended, section 55 (4) of which stipulates that where a male pensioner marries after his retirement, pension shall not upon the death of the pensioner be payable to the widow or in respect of any child of the marriage. [More…]

• In the course of the debate on the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1976 in the House of Representatives on 4 May 1976 this provision was adverted to by Mr Calder, the honourable member for the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I make a point to the Minister concerning members of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund who join as married serving men, whose wives subsequently die, who marry again and who leave the Services. [More…]

• Then the honourable member went on to point out that he had not been a member of the committee of inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]

• The point he raised was that he was concerned- and I repeat I have been pursuing this over 3 years- that the second wife of a member of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund was denied the pension rights that would have been payable to the first wife. [More…]

• The Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers), who represents the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in this place, in his reply on 6 May to my submission undertook to convey my views to the Minister. [More…]

• as I understand it, was primarily concerned with the provisions which cancelled the DFRB pension of a widow on her remarriage and exclude an ex-serviceman’s widow from eligibility for benefits where the marriage was contracted after his retirement from the Defence Force. [More…]

• As I indicated during the debate in the House of Representatives on the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits (Pension Increases) Bill 1976 I have issued instructions to my Department to prepare appropriate amendments to the Defence Force retirement benefits legislation so that in future members of the Service schemes are placed in comparable circumstances with members of the Commonwealth Public Service schemes where a recipient spouse remarries. [More…]

• The second is that the Minister referred to preparing appropriate amendments to the defence force retirement benefits legislation so that in the future members of the Services are placed in a comparable position with public servants. [More…]

• The answer given to me sometimes by my own Ministers was that these public servants were without defence. [More…]

• It has often been said by Ministers in defence of their public servants that they are defenceless and that in some way they ought to be protected from comment made under privilege. [More…]

• Let me take one example, that of an episode of a program known as Case for the Defence which was to appear on Channel 9 in Sydney. [More…]

• A Sydney production house, Reg Grundy Productions Pty Ltd, a long-standing television producer in this country, let out to another firm the job of technically producing a production of Case for the Defence. [More…]

• Additional documentary evidence can then be presented to prove that he cannot put up such a defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• With reference to the raid carried out by Queensland State Police and Federal narcotics agents on the community of Cedar Bay in north Queensland on Sunday 29 August 1976, (a) on whose instructions did HMAS Bayonet take part in the raid, (b) who requested the presence of HMAS Bayonet, (c) what was the name and rank of each crew member of HMAS Bayonet at the time of the raid, (d) what part did HMAS Bayonet and the crew play in the raid and (e) were any other officials from the Department of Defence or the armed services involved in the raid; if so, who were they and what pan did they play. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon nonce: [More…]

• Has an internal inquiry taken place into the use of defence facilities and personnel during the police raid on the community of Cedar Bay on Sunday, 29 August 1976; if so, what were the findings of the inquiry. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware that there has been a good deal of concern over the use of members of the Defence Forces in the recent raid at Cedar Bay in Queensland? [More…]

• Will the Minister give an assurance that members of the Defence Forces will not in future be utilised in civil actions? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) Members of the Defence Force were not directly involved in the police operations ashore in the vicinity of Cedar Bay on the night of 28/29 August 1976. [More…]

• As the Defence Force is often employed with statutory authority in support of civil administration, for example, fisheries surveillance and protection duties, such an assurance cannot be given and would be inappropriate. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Have reports emanating from the National Congress of the Returned Services League of Australia urged the Government to (a) build a nuclear reactor so that it can manufacture nuclear weapons, (b) reintroduce conscription to raise the strength of the Army to 38 000 men, and (c) double defence expenditure so that not less than 5 per cent of gross domestic product is spent on defence; if so, has a reply been made on behalf of the Government. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Government’s policy on Defence will be set out in the White Paper which will be tabled in the Parliament as promised earlier. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Why did the Department of Defence decide upon which berth in Melbourne was suitable for allocation to the USS Truxtun without consultation with Melbourne port authorities and with the Victorian Government, as was alleged in an article in Nation Review dated 2 October 1976. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Minister further aware that the Commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces, Brigadier-General Ted Diro, was informed by Indonesian authorities in Jakarta that they considered both the Bougainville Secessionist Movement and the Papua Independence Movement to be communist influenced? [More…]

• For the Department of Defence we voted $ 1,801m; $ 1,202m was spent by the present Government which was in office for the greater proportion of that year. [More…]

• What was said today in the debate about Tasmania and what Senator Sir Magnus Cormack described as the general economic conditions which preceded the war years ought to remind us that in this country today employment certainly has been reduced by the effects of inflation, but we might still support essential industries such as the defence industries by telling departments to relax their targets to ensure that training can be made available to young people. [More…]

• I thought he might like to know that in the Department that I currently administer I have a responsibility for defence factories, where, as he would know as well as I would know, the work load is extremely low. [More…]

• No, division 250 refers to defence premises. [More…]

• It is of vital importance to the defence of this country. [More…]

• We hear a lot about defence from senators opposite, but they are taking away 1 method of defending this country by leaving us with no railway line from Larrimah to Darwin. [More…]

• Is it a fact, as alleged by Major-General Stretton and as reported in today’s Press, that authorities in Darwin knew about the cyclone 1 1 hours before it struck, that no warning was sent to the Minister for the Northern Territory, that no one informed the National Disasters Organisation, and that no one informed the defence forces? [More…]

• Proposed expenditure- Department of Defence, $1,838,405,000-passed [More…]

• Housing for Servicemen- Advances to the States (Defence) [More…]

• Finally, in respect of the Tarcoola-Alice Springs connection I have no doubt that apart from the Territory people and the South Australian people and the Department of Transport, our defence people are very mindful of the necessity of making sure that the connection is established. [More…]

• This hospital was taken over by the Department of Health from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• This hospital services the people who are operating the defence and space communications station, the people on the pastoral properties in the area, the people in the village, the families of the staff operating the defence facility, Commonwealth railways personnel and anyone travelling through the district. [More…]

• I am surprised that a senator who often gets up in this place and talks about the need for defence and for Australia to have a defence capacity should now suggest what he did about Woomera. [More…]

• The people who represent the Defence Services and the Department of Administrative Services ought to have available a competent health component to run the area if there is a new use for the base. [More…]

• I wish to advise that the Woomera hospital has not yet been taken over by the Department of Health from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• This matter is still under consideration and that is the reason why the Health estimates on this project are frozen and why the funds continue to be used under the Defence estimates at present. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to the White Paper on Australian Defence tabled in the Senate last Thursday. [More…]

• Does this mean that Senator Wood, whose feelings on metrication are well known and who is the senior senator from the home State of the Minister for Defence, has more influence over that Minister than does his ministerial colleague, the Minister for Science, Senator Webster, or does it mean that the Minister for Defence insidiously is trying to restore furlongs to the racetrack? [More…]

• -I really must give the White Paper on Australian Defence urgent study because not only has Senator Sim asked me a difficult question about it but also my colleague, Senator Thomas, has. [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Defence might have something to add. [More…]

• Major-General Alan Stretton, the author of Furious Days, has criticised the communications systems in Darwin at the time of cyclone Tracy when various defence and other communications establishments suffered such extensive damage that communications from Darwin were cut off for several hours. [More…]

• What action has been taken to ensure that now and in the future communications, whether civil or defence, will be constructed so as to be able to transmit to the rest of Australia despite any cyclone or attack? [More…]

• This information deals with the defence aerials, not the Post Office aerials. [More…]

• It is expected that these will not suffer from the disabilities of the previous defence equipment. [More…]

• I ask of either the Minister representing the Minister for Overseas Trade or the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question which refers to the situation at Port Pirie. [More…]

• I put up some defence for someone who I thought would be named and who had been named. [More…]

• It is happening in respect of the Department of Defence and in other areas, where the Government is hiding things under all sorts of other headings. [More…]

• I feel a bit of sympathy for the Department of Defence which is still using miles. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that 435 officers resigned from the Australian armed forces between December last and the end of August this year? [More…]

• In view of the fact that there remains an unfilled capacity in the manpower establishments of the 3 branches of the armed Services, as recently announced by the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, and having regard to the urgent need to provide employment for the thousands of additional school leavers shortly to join those now on the labour market, and accepting, as I am sure we do, the need to develop to the highest level the latent skills of our young people, will the Minister press for the widening of the availability of apprentices in the armed Services, using the excellent facilities available in armed Services training establishments? [More…]

• I think that the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which is chaired by our colleague in this place Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, did a great deal of work on this subject. [More…]

• Sometime in October counsel for the defence sought an adjournment of the case because it was thought that there would be an amendment to the Act which might invalidate the court’s finding that the Act was oppressive, unreasonable or unjust. [More…]

• So the time of the Senate has been taken up in hearing a case put for the defence of these men. [More…]

• Further reduce the Defence capacity of Northern Australia. [More…]

• I understand that Mr Lobato, who claims to be the Minister for Defence in Fretilin, has contacted the Australian Embassy in Peking with a view to obtaining a visa to visit Australia for the purpose of discussing officially with Ministers of the Australian Government military and political matters. [More…]

• Provision will be made for the distribution of the surplus in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund to pensioners and Bills providing funds to Queensland and New South Wales for flood mitigation and weir construction should also be dealt with. [More…]

• The exact day and time will be decided in consultations between the Government and the Opposition., I also hope a day can be set aside for a debate on the Defence White Paper. [More…]

• When Mr Barnard was Minister for Defence and Mr Daly was also a Minister they both gave me fairly solid assurances that in 12 months, once they got the process under way, the whole structure would be broken up. [More…]

• The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence Report on Dual Nationality has been tabled in Parliament and the Chairman of the Joint Committee has asked the Ministers concerned to consider the Report and to table a paper informing the Senate of the Government’s observations and intentions with respect to the recommendations in the Report. [More…]

• On 10 November the Australian carried an advertisement for the Australian defence forces offering 9750 career opportunities to young people next year. [More…]

• I ask: When will this Government make available a similar number of career opportunities in peaceful pursuits, especially as the Minister for Defence has difficulty in finding opportunities for equality of employment in his Department because of the combatant nature of much of that employment? [More…]

• I do not know whether this question should properly be directed at me, in relation to the Government’s policy on employment opportunities, or whether it should be directed at the Minister for Defence, in criticism of the fact that he is endeavouring to recruit for the defence forces. [More…]

• The question, insofar as it refers to a newspaper advertisement for recruitment for the defence forces, is one which would be part and parcel of the regular recruitment policy. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence advises me that he has read the book and the official reports on the subject. [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 [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 existence 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 and the present staff will continue in employment under the new Corporation. [More…]

• I asked a question this morning about the amount of money that was being spent in providing 10 000 jobs for youngsters in the defence forces next year. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence tell the Parliament the type of situation which is envisaged by the following statement on page 33 of the Defence Paper put down by the Minister for Defence recently? [More…]

• 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…]

• Hopefully, using the Minister’s word, a day will be able to be set aside for the debate on the White Paper on Defence. [More…]

• Does not the honourable senator wish to distribute money amongst the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Fund contributors? [More…]

• It will be a defence to a parking prosecution if the vehicle was stolen or not in the control of the owner. [More…]

• But in the 24 years that this Act has been in operation no attempt has been made by successive governments to fulfil the obligations of this Act; that is, to define what is properly attributable to civil aviation and what is properly attributable to defence, development and other purposes. [More…]

• I would have thought that in the 24 years of operation of this legislation some attempt would have been made by the former Department of Civil Aviation and the now Department of Transport to try to define clearly what is properly attributable to civil aviation and what is properly attributable to defence, development and the other community services provided by airlines. [More…]

• I mentioned before that I noticed that Sir Reginald Ansett suggested that perhaps 30 per cent was attributable to defence and these other purposes. [More…]

• There must be some decision as to that reasonable amount and, in accordance with the Act, what is properly attributable to other factors such as defence. [More…]

• I think my colleague the Opposition’s defence spokesman, the honourable member for Oxley and the former Treasurer, Mr Hayden, dispatched the Bill to the Senate with a speech which consisted of about half a dozen lines. [More…]

• The Bill provides for certain procedures to be adopted in order to distribute a surplus that exists in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a paper prepared by Major-General Stretton, dated 14 April 1975, concerning relief operations in Darwin, together with a statement by the Minister for Defence relating to that paper. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Are the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Defence, the Department of the Capital Territory, the Department of Post and Telecommunications and the Department of Finance involved? [More…]

• ’s Liberal Senator, John Knight, said yesterday a recently defeated amendment to the Ci vfl Air Defence Carriers Liability Act allowed for an increase in compensation from $45,000 to $67,000. [More…]

• call for a moratorium on defence aid to Indonesia until all Indonesian troops have been withdrawn from East Timor; [More…]

• The Government could not agree to the suspension of the program of defence cooperation with Indonesia. [More…]

• The Treasurer in his Budget Speech on 17 August 1976, announced that the outlays from the Budget on overseas aid, excluding defence co-operation, would increase to $400m in 1976-77 and that this would be an increase of 14.6 per cent over 1975-76 expenditure. [More…]

• I present the report and transcript of evidence of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into Australia and the refugee problem. [More…]

• In many ways it has been one of the most difficult references that the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has had to deal with, but it dealt with it in a spirit of humanitarianism, believing in the need to face up to the world situation and the part Australia must play, but above all to see that these unfortunate people when they come to this country for refuge are treated in a humanitarian manner which appreciates their problems. [More…]

• -by leave-I thank Senator Sim for his remarks about my chairmanship of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and I reciprocate by saying that Senator Sim as chairman of that committee in the latter part of the reference did an excellent job in bringing about the ultimate report. [More…]

• In his defence of that great free enterprise organisation, Ansett Transport Industries Limited, the Minister said that that company does not dominate the local flying scene and that it provides services superior to any other airline in the world. [More…]

• I also draw to the attention of the Minister the somewhat restrictive defence that is accorded under clause 17 (2) of this Bill compared with section 17(3) of the Western Australian Act. [More…]

• It is a defence to a prosecution of a person for an offence against sub-section ( 1 ) if the person proves - [More…]

• The Minister might note that under the Western Australian Act it is a defence to a prosecution for an offence under this section to show- not to prove but to show- that the accused knew or had reasonable cause to believe that due notice had been given to the Director by some other person and had been acknowledged by the Director. [More…]

• It is a defence to a prosecution of a person for an offence against sub-section ( 1 ) if the person proves . [More…]

• But really, where a statutory defence is given to a person who is charged with an offence, naturally the onus of proof shifts. [More…]

• The onus shifts to the defendant to prove the statutory defence. [More…]

• It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence under this section to show that the accused knew - [More…]

• I suggest to the Minister that the words ‘or had reasonable cause to believe’ are of some significance in a defence to any prosecution that might be taken against an accused person. [More…]

• It is a defence to a prosecution of a person for an offence against sub-section ( 1 ) if the person proves - [More…]

• 1 ) The portfolio responsibility of the Minister for Foreign Affairs covers civil aid projects only (administration of military projects and training falls within the portfolio responsibility of the Minister for Defence). [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact, as alleged by Major-General Alan Stretton, (a) that the authorities in Darwin knew about Cyclone Tracy for 1 1 hours before it struck; (b) that no warning was sent to the Minister for the Northern Territory; (c) that no one informed the National Disaster Organisation; and (d) that no one informed the defence forces. [More…]

• I am also informed that the records show that the defence forces received similar notifications. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Between December 1975 and August 1976 inclusive, 430 male officers resigned from the Defence Force (Navy 69, Army 164 and Air Force 197). [More…]

• Male officer wastage (including resignations) from the Services is discussed in some detail in Chapter 5 of the Government’s White Paper on Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That was the foundation recommendation of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• -The Senate is now debating the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill, which, in the words of the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack) in his second reading speech, has as its prime purpose the reconstitution of the Australian Housing Corporation in accordance with the Government’s announced policy to change its name, nature and function so that its sole responsibility will be the administration of the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]

• The Bill has the positive function of re-establishing the Defence Service Homes Scheme in the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, but it also has the negative function of destroying the Australian Housing [More…]

• We support the retention of the Defence Service Homes Scheme. [More…]

• The ex-servicemen and eligible people still will be entitled to defence service homes at the same interest rate and under the same conditions as they have in the past. [More…]

• I merely ask the Minister whether he can tell us what is happening concerning the situation under the Defence Service Homes Scheme of de facto widows of deceased eligible ex-servicemen. [More…]

• We shall ask how this Bill is going to affect defence service homes and how it is going to carry out the functions for which it provides. [More…]

• I am in total agreement with what the Labor Party shadow Minister, Senator Grimes, has had to say in regard to the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill. [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 of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]

• When the Defence Service Homes legislation was originally enacted to provide homes for members of the Forces who served in the 1914-18 War, the principle adopted was that benefits would be limited to persons who were enlisted for service in Forces raised for active service overseas. [More…]

• I want the Government to explain to me why it does not have the guts in this day and age, when it is abolishing the Australian Housing Corporation and replacing it with the Defence Service Homes Corporation, to cater for those women. [More…]

• Honourable senators will know that in December 1972 Mr Whitlam and the then Minister for Defence put forward a number of amendments. [More…]

• One of them had the effect of extending the scheme to include all persons serving in the defence forces after 7 December 1972 with 3 years continuous service. [More…]

• So we are now talking about women as well as men who have served in the defence forces in peacetime as being eligible for a benefit which is not available to women who served in wartime. [More…]

• Women who have served continuously for 3 years in the defence Services can at this point in time have a loan made available to them if they are married or are about to marry or have dependants. [More…]

• May I say, for the benefit of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, that in 1944 women comprised two-thirds of the defence forces serving in Australia. [More…]

• I hope that the Defence Service Homes Corporation will bring before this Parliament in the very near future a Bill for an allocation of land so that a housing project, a block of units perhaps, could be established for the aged amongst those exservice women and, if necessary, for their husbands who may not necessarily have contributed in the war effort. [More…]

• I hope this will be one of the first areas to come before the Parliament from the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]

• This legislation seeks to abolish the Australian Housing Corporation as set up by the Labor Government last year and to replace it with a corporation to be known as the Defence Service Homes Corporation to continue the administration of the defence service homes scheme under the old Act. [More…]

• The Australian Housing Corporation, for most of its life, has simply administered the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• When the Corporation was set up by the Labor Government, it was given the responsibility of administering the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• As I say, for most of its life, its sole responsibility has been the administration of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• This Bill simply seeks to amend that Act in such a way as to bring it into accord with the actual situation and to have the defence service homes scheme become the dominant feature of this legislation. [More…]

• The Bill is not one which alters in any way the terms and conditions of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• Therefore I think that most of the comment that has been made in relation to the defence service homes scheme in this debate has been quite irrelevant. [More…]

• As I have said, this Bill is not concerned with the terms and conditions of the defence services homes scheme; it is simply concerned with the administration of that scheme. [More…]

• It may provide for the housing needs of members of the defence Services, but not, for instance, of members of the police forces. [More…]

• Those are the reasons why the Government is now proceeding to disband that Corporation and to replace it with the Defence Service Homes Corporation which, of course, has been a longstanding responsibility of the Parliament and the national government and which the Government certainly will continue to maintain. [More…]

• Senator Coleman raised a matter concerning discrimination against women in relation to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• I point out that there is no question of discrimination against women because the defence service homes scheme always has been confined to persons who have served on active service outside Australia or on a ship at war. [More…]

• That is a basic feature of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• Senator Coleman has misconceived the nature of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• A Minister for Defence who was very adventurous could emulate the late President Roosevelt and declare the area a defence area and never use it. [More…]

• The defence of the person involved was that the Customs people had used a female decoy. [More…]

• This means that certain things can be denied to the Ombudsman and that the Attorney-General can furnish to the Ombudsman a certificate saying that he shall not investigate a particular area because of its relation to security, defence, international relations or certain other matters, including the deliberations of the Cabinet. [More…]

• The Federal Government’s proposals have not yet been released, but it seems that they will be even more restrictive than the States in relation to jurisdiction over Ministers (removing most opportunity to comment indirectly on their decisions), will adopt a general criterion narrower than wrong’, and will give the Government extensive power to exclude the Ombudsman from investigating any conduct which it certifies as relating to Australia’s security, international relations or defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, probably in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In view of further claims that these dumps present a health hazard, will the Minister ask his colleague in the other place, either the Minister for Defence or the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, to make a public statement on the matter in order to dispel the concern that has been expressed? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, and it refers to the loss of 12 Navy trackers. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Can he give the Senate any information about temporary and long term arrangements which will be set up by the Department of Defence to provide what is considered by the defence Services to be adequate surveillance of fishing waters and also to continue anti-submarine activities? [More…]

• Civil Defence and Emergency Services [More…]

• In considering the representations received from Aboriginal people and others since the Bill was introduced, the Government has had the benefit of a most comprehensive report prepared by the Defence Force Ombudsman, Mr D. O. Hay. [More…]

• I ask: Was Mr Toohey a Press officer for Mr Barnard when he was Minister for Defence? [More…]

• When did Mr Toohey obtain the documents on defence matters from which he quotes? [More…]

• -I am staggered how honourable senators on the Labor Opposition benches seem to be rushing to Mr Toohey ‘s defence. [More…]

• It concerns the excellent report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the plight and circumstances of Vietnamese and other refugees. [More…]

• The Board has not carried out any inspections of the Nowra base, but it has advised the Department of Defence of its willingness to assist the Naval Board of Inquiry which has been established to look into the recent fire. [More…]

• The Board will be requesting a full report of the findings of the Naval Board of Inquiry and, in accordance with its normal practice, will study and comment on the report, making any necessary recommendations to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 14 of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948, 1 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 sub-section 2 of section 16 of the Defence Forces 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 the Defence Forces Retirement [More…]

• Those people were with us through thick and thin during that great war of defence against the Japanese. [More…]

• The incredible facts are that the section of Timor which is now known as being part of Indonesia was that section which collaborated with the Japanese against the interests of the defence of Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What has been the total civilian employment in the Department of Defence in each year since 1 970. [More…]

• If so, (a) how many persons will be affected; (b) in which areas of the Department will civilian starring cuts be made; (c) have the cuts resulted from a comprehensive review of the Department’s civilian staffing requirements and, if so, what are the details; (d) what effect will the civilian staffing cut-back have on the operations and effectiveness of (i) the Department of Defence and (ii) the Armed Services; and (e) will service personnel be required to perform duties currently undertaken by civilian employees as a result of these new arrangements and, if so, what are the details. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence inform the House what action has been taken or is being taken to provide for automatic adjustments to the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme, known as DFRDB pensions? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In proceedings for an offence against sub-section (2) or (4) it is a defence if the person charged proves- [More…]

• Sub-clause (3) provides a defence against proceedings which may be instituted under this clause. [More…]

• It is in use by Commonwealth authorities, the Department of 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 Prime Minister’s attitude, and I am sure that Senator Walters will appreciate this, is further illustrated when at the beginning of this month in a pathetic defence of his own position in relation to the ABC the Prime Minister accused the Commission of cutting drama and public affairs programs instead of making cuts elsewhere. [More…]

• It is rather remarkable that honourable senators opposite always rush to the defence of their friends. [More…]

• If all the people they defend are as objective as they claim them to be why do they rush to their defence all the time. [More…]

• I refer simply to one aspect and that is the interim report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the humanitarian aspects of the Lebanon crisis. [More…]

• Secondly, even if I am the only one to do so I must come to the defence of Sir Henry Bland. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs follows a question which I raised in the Senate the other day concerning the very fine report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Australia and the Refugee Problem. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement on behalf of the Minister for Defence relating to amendments to defence forces retirement benefits legislation. [More…]

• A person has a defence if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the article was not the one referred to in the Gazette. [More…]

• It was constantly claimed in defence of the Broadcasting Control Board that it had fallen down on its job to police that requirement because of some weakness in the powers conferred on the Board. [More…]

• If defence force retirement benefits payments for superannuants from the defence forces can be indexed in full, the cost to a producer can be indexed in full for 1978 and 1979 to take account of inflation. [More…]

• Departures have consisted of defence force officers returning to their Services at the completion of their normal periods of duty. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Munitions Supply Division- Control of munitions production in departmental establishments and in industry; co-ordination of the management of the munitions establishments; arranging related design and development in collaboration with the Defence Scientific Service and other Government organisations. [More…]

• Aircraft, Guided Weapons and Electronic Supply Division- Control of aircraft, guided weapons and electronics production in departmental establishments and in industry; co-ordination of the management of the aircraft factories; arranging related design and development in collaboration with the Defence Scientific Service and other Government organisations. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The resolution also failed to take account of the the inherent right, recognised in the Charter of individual or collective self-defence and of the consideration that the military presence of an administering power may well be justified by obligations relating to the maintenance of international peace and security as well as local defence. [More…]

• Of these investigations how many documents supposedly leaked from (a) Departmene of Prime Minister and Cabinet; (b) Department of Defence; (c) Department of Treasury; (d) Depanment of Foreign Affairs; (e) Department of Social Security; (f) Depanment of Health; (g) Attorney-General’s Department; (h) Department of Consumer Affairs. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has directed that an inquiry be conducted into all aspects of the material buried at Maralinga as a consequence ofthe tests conducted under the auspices of the Memorandum of Arrangements between the United Kingdom and Australian Governments. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• Apprentices, trainee technical officers and trainee draftsmen are employed in Commonwealth departments under the Public Service Act Apprentices are also employed under the Supply and Development and Naval Defence Acts, and also under the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations Group Scheme of Apprentice Training, which is a project to encourage more apprentice training within industry. [More…]

• Prior to 1976-77, trainee technical officers and trainee draftsmen were also employed under the Naval Defence Act, but these have now been transferred to Public Service Act employment. [More…]

• 300 places are available for apprentices in the 1976-77 financial year under the Supply and Development and Naval Defence Acts. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate as the representative of the Minister for Defence, refers to questionnaires and notices sent to members in Adelaide of the Weapons Research Establishment of the Department of Defence concerning employment either at Salisbury or Woomera, and to a newspaper report that 300 people are to be sacked during the year. [More…]

• If it is correct, will he take up with the Minister for Defence the question of requesting a stay in the notices sent to employees, officers and other skilled men? [More…]

• As for the suggestions made by the honourable senator, I shall pass them on to my colleague the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Has the Australian Government made overtures to the British Government in regard to the latter ‘s responsibility for long term safety measures to protect 8000 tonnes of radioactive waste left over from earlier weapons experiments in Australia which, I understand, is buried in several sites around the continent? [More…]

• It may be useful to the honourable senator if I point out, firstly, that the Minister for Defence has detailed the main facts of this matter in a letter to Mr Uren dated 4 February and, secondly, that no government has ever pretended that Maralinga is not a contaminated area. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and relates to allegations in the United States of America, particularly in the Washington Post, that sub-standard parts have been sold to foreign military forces which use United States parts in their helicopter fleets. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he has any information for the Senate which would confirm or deny that any of these sub-standard parts were used by our defence forces and were responsible for 2 Royal Australian Navy Sea King helicopter crashes in recent times. [More…]

• If not, will the Defence Department take some action to institute an inquiry into the matter? [More…]

• There are a number of elements which have to be satisfied before the magistrate can exercise jurisdiction and they include the agreement of both the prosecution and the defence and the exercise of discretion by the magistrate. [More…]

• The other matter that has been raised is in relation to the defence that is provided for in clause 9 of the Crimes (Internationally Protected Persons) Bill. [More…]

• Under that clause, 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 the offence is alleged to be committed is an internationally protected person. [More…]

• It was suggested by Mr Lionel Bowen on behalf of the Opposition in another place that that defence places too solid an obligation on the defence of an accused person. [More…]

• However, the fact of the matter is that it has been decided by the High Court of Australia that in relation to a special charge of assault against a policeman it was not any defence to say that the accused did not know even that the victim was a policeman, much less for him to say that he had no reason to know. [More…]

• In fact, the provisions of clause 9 of the Bill give an additional defence to a person and are not actually restricting rights as was perhaps suggested in another place. [More…]

• The Crimes (Internationally Protected Persons) Bill and the amendments to the extradition Acts provide that in respect of a person for whom an application for extradition has been made, it is not a defence to state that the crime against an internationally protected person was of a political character. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• to (4) It is customary for the Governor-General to have an Aide-de-Camp at the rank of Flight Lieutenant or equivalent from each arm of the Australian Defence Force and for the State Governors to have one Aide-de-Camp from the Australian Defence Force or the British Forces, except in South Australia where there are two Aides-de-Camp. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• 1) Can the Minister inform the Parliament what type of situation is envisaged in the statement on page 33 of the Defence paper put down by the Minister for Defence recently, viz. [More…]

• : ‘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 Citizen 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 Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As stated in the White Paper our assessments of the international situation have not revealed any present likelihood of our being called upon to deploy additional forces in support of our allies or other defence associates. [More…]

• In essence, the Small Arms Factory is an important part of our Defence support capability, and as such there is no intention of closing it down or of phasing-out small arms manufacture at the factory. [More…]

• While it is true that the workload arising from small arms manufacture has been fluctuating downwards, it has gradually been replaced by other suitable defence demands, usually of a more immediate nature, and by non-defence work. [More…]

• That priority should not necessarily be given to areas of high voting population but the highest consideration should be given to decentralisation, defence and development, having in mind the fair and just policy of giving all Australians, a minimum road standard before providing luxury highways to the city dwellers. [More…]

• The Senate has before it a statement by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on the Government’s views on defence. [More…]

• As always when we debate any matter involving defence, there is a tendency to confuse a defence debate with a foreign affairs debate. [More…]

• Nevertheless, there are specific aspects of a defence paper which do not necessarily impinge on foreign affairs. [More…]

• I will be dealing mainly with the more specific defence aspect of this paper and my colleagues in the Opposition will be dealing in more depth with the foreign affairs implications. [More…]

• The document provides the basis for debate on Australia’s defence policies and, as such, should be regarded seriously although, as I intended to point out later, I believe that the Minister and the Department have been too circumspect about some of the vital issues surrounding Australia’s defence policy. [More…]

• Unfortunately, Australia’s defence policy has never been subjected to what should have been a widespread public debate, and incidents such as the Nowra fire, the Voyager disaster, the rapid increase in costs in producing the FI 1 1 and other peacetime incidents have not enhanced the image of Australia’s defence forces. [More…]

• It is worth stating initially that the Australian Labor Partythat is my Party, the Opposition Party- has a very firm commitment to a strong balanced Australian defence force capable of ensuring our territorial security, the security of our overseas trade, and our peaceful development as an independent nation. [More…]

• The Labor Government, of course, was beset by problems similar to those of any government in that defence involves large expenditures on sophisticated equipment and there are always strong competing needs from every other sector of the Australian economy. [More…]

• Any substantial increase in defence expenditure is regarded suspiciously by the civilian community as sacrificing much needed social welfare, while any reduction in the absolute amount of defence expenditure or its proportion of the gross domestic product is interpreted as running down Australia’s defence capability. [More…]

• In addition, there is continual pressure not only from within Australia but from outside to reduce defence expenditure as a contributing factor to the lessening of the arms race. [More…]

• Within those restraints, it is extraordinarily difficult for a Defence White Paper and its financial implications to prove acceptable to all sections of the community. [More…]

• Thirdly, it indicates that Australia might be forced politically to re-assess its defence arrangements with the United States. [More…]

• The possibility is more likely if the United States President is able to achieve an effective reduction in the United States defence expenditure. [More…]

• It may be highly unlikely at present but for defence purposes we need to consider and assess the possibility of governments to the near north of Australia in the future not being disposed in a friendly way towards our country. [More…]

• The White Paper does not contemplate these possibilities and I am sure that none of us hope that they would ever arise but in the assessment of a defence policy and strategy for the Government these options must be considered. [More…]

• The White Paper has given inadequate attention to this area and has not discussed how best Australia might continue its involvement in the defence area. [More…]

• The strategic situation is important because its assessment has such a bearing on the equipment procurement and the manpower recruitment in our defence programs and our deployment programs. [More…]

• Thirdly, I refer to the organisational structure of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• In the House of Representatives my colleague Mr Hayden, who is our shadow spokesman in that House on this subject, dealt adequately with the question of financing our defence expenditure. [More…]

• The equipment and organisation of a coast guard service would be closely linked with the defence forces and in time of war or national emergency presumably would come under their jurisdiction. [More…]

• While the White Paper refers to increasing sophistication in defence equipment it has not drawn out the implications for the financing of the purchase of new equipment. [More…]

• As costs continue to increase rapidly and defence equipment and associated technology becomes more sophisticated, the current financial provisions may be totally inadequate. [More…]

• The final point I wish to make ralates to the organisational structure of the Department of Defence and the forces themselves. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party initiated substantial changes to the structure of the Defence Department and the present Government has had an opportunity to assess the effectiveness of those changes. [More…]

• I share the reservations of my colleague, Mr Hayden, in the House of Representatives, about the financial aspects of the whole paper and would like to see the matter referred to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Trying to meet the enormous cost of defence equipment is a real headache for any government. [More…]

• At end of motion, add ‘, and that it be referred to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence so that the strategic and 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 Senate and that such report be available to the Parliament no later than the end of May’. [More…]

• White Paper on defence. [More…]

• If the motion of Senator Wriedt is agreed to and the matter is put on the Senate notice paper to be referred to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, it will be wiped off the notice paper the moment the Parliament is prorogued. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt recognised a matter that disturbs the Australian people in a substantial degree, namely, that we do have a defence problem. [More…]

• In the 18 or 19 years that I have been a senator it has always been my attitude that there should be no real quarrels between the Opposition and the Government of the day, whatever their complexion, on the matter of defence for the sole and simple reason that any true Australian must be concerned to see that the integrity of his own homeland is maintained. [More…]

• I noted as I read the White Paper that it is in essence a citizens guide to the Australian defence problem, short of a nuclear holocaust. [More…]

• Elizabeth, Queen of England, to be able to discern what were the problems in relation to the defence of England because of the preparations for the invasions of England by the Great Armada. [More…]

• The strategical situation in relation to the defence of Australia can alter with great speed. [More…]

• But in Parliament where we have to get down to the real nitty-gritty of defence problems or strategical problems in our area, what is meant by north-east Asia is quite clear. [More…]

• That is the problem that surrounds governmentwhether it be the Whitlam Government or the present Fraser Government- in dealing with the Australian defence situation. [More…]

• I submit that that is not the basis upon which we should conduct foreign policy or defence policy. [More…]

• In this world as it is we have defence problems in Australia. [More…]

• The defence problems we have in Australia relate to that old problem that confronts the defence planners and the Government, that the strategical assessment of a defence problem is based upon that fundamental problem that strategy always poses, namely, that it presents the option of difficulties. [More…]

• The problem exists as to whether we can become on the one hand a Fortress Australia- I think that unfortunately I was the author of that phrase- or have a forward defence plan which is now being abandoned. [More…]

• Perhaps in this context we should examine seriously whether we should leave 2 squadrons of Mirage aircraft in Butterworth because once we abandon the forward defence policy we should automatically withdraw the Royal Australian Air Force presence from Butterworth and bring it back to Australia. [More…]

• The whole of this defence paper is based on a money problem, as Senator Wriedt has said. [More…]

• What the White Paper suggests in rather imprecise terms, or carefully guarded terms, is that we have abandoned the forward defence concept for Australia. [More…]

• We have the problem of the defence of this continental island of Australia and we cannot live without being able to discharge our exports and earn money. [More…]

• I do not believe that the war of the future in Australia’s defence will be anything like the war from 1942-1945- the Japanese war. [More…]

• It is very glib to fight wars and make defence postures on paper. [More…]

• The harsh realities of the defence of the country are involved in what the Americans call logisticsa term which everyone uses this day. [More…]

• But the interesting thing about that exercise was that in the Australian defence efforts which Kangaroo II demonstrated were some serious deficiencies. [More…]

• Finally, we had one brigade group that had been gathered together to represent the Australian defence effort. [More…]

• I felt heartened to think that I was seeing another generation of young Australians, both officers and other ranks, who were accepting the obligations of defence and citizenship of this country. [More…]

• I said: ‘But if this were reality and not an exercise, what tonnage would be required to support the defence effort that this exercise represents?’ [More…]

• The defence of Australia is an extraordinarily difficult problem. [More…]

• The White Paper makes it clear that the priority goes on naval and maritime defence. [More…]

• It makes the air defence structure the second priority or gives it equal priority to naval defence. [More…]

• In the final analysis, the defence of a country rests on that unfortunate man, the infantryman, who moves on to the enemy’s area on his flat feet- as Senator Bishop did on another occasion at another time. [More…]

• It is the Army that is the poor relation of the Australian defence structure at the moment. [More…]

• There is hardly a defence force left in Great Britain as a result of its economic condition; the armed forces there have been reduced to almost nothing. [More…]

• -Mr President, I am sure that we are all distressed to learn that Senator Sir Magnus Cormack finds the White Paper which his Government has produced on defence to be unsatisfactory. [More…]

• As Senator Wriedt has said, when we are debating defence, there are 2 matters which must be considered. [More…]

• One is the technical aspects of defence itself. [More…]

• The other concerns the foreign policy ramifications of defence. [More…]

• It is interesting when one reads the White Paper which we now have before us to find that this idea apparently has been quite blithely abandoned- one might even say abandoned in a cavalier fashion if it were not for the fact that the Minister for Defence has such a round head. [More…]

• The authors of the White Paper on defence go on and turn to the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• Now you read it in a White Paper from the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence brought down a report on this matter. [More…]

• It will be completely entitled to do it because it would be in self defence that they would be doing it. [More…]

• If this White Paper were meant to be some sort of examination in depth of the defence problems which face this country at present I would have hoped that there might have been some consideration given to the dramatic change which has taken place in Indonesian foreign policy. [More…]

• But when we are looking at the issues which confront Australian defence, instead of talking about what might have happened in Peking we ought to be looking at what actually has happened. [More…]

• That territory is not even mentioned in this defence White Paper. [More…]

• The best means Australia has of defence is not by buying arms, not by buying cruisers, not by talking about having atomic bombs, but by its foreign policy. [More…]

• That is our best means of defence. [More…]

• The only way in which we can secure our defence is by our foreign policy, by taking steps to see that the super powers are not in the Indian Ocean, whatever may happen with Indonesia. [More…]

• That is the surest path to peace and the defence of Australia. [More…]

• I support the White Paper on defence. [More…]

• Of course, I do not think that that has any great relevance at all to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• It is perfectly obvious that if this world ever gets to the point where there is a conflagration between the super powers- that description is not only used in the defence White Paper but also it is commonly used in the Daily Mirror and the Press around Australia- then Australia’s hopes of survival lie purely and simply in its capacity over the years to impress its more powerful allies that it is a place which is worth saving. [More…]

• Earlier tonight in this debate Senator Wriedt spoke with, I felt, a general acceptance of the responsibility of the White Paper on defence. [More…]

• But I think it is a point of view which has to be looked at in the context of defence itself. [More…]

• Defence is an extraordinarily sensitive area. [More…]

• If, indeed, there is an area of criticism about the lack of detail, I believe it is because defence, whether it be in Australia or in any other country, is a sensitive subject which one does not shout from the housetops. [More…]

• The extraordinarily important thing is that we recognise the matters which have number one priority in the context of Australian defence and go to the very limit of our financial capacity to bring those things about as quickly as possible. [More…]

• I believe that the Paper is important, and probably a measure of congratulations is due to the Government and to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) for having brought down this responsible analysis of the possible commitments of Australia in relation to defence and her capacity to meet them. [More…]

• Our economy certainly is a restraining influence on our capacity to build up our defence forces. [More…]

• The concept of forward defence has been mentioned once or twice tonight. [More…]

• Indeed, as we find ourselves today in this part of the world, we can see forward defence only in terms of going to the aid of our immediate neighbours. [More…]

• Through the passage of time, and because of the circumstances that have occurred in South-East Asia in particular in the last 10 or 15 years, we have a situation in which forward defence does not make the sort of sense that it did traditionally during the first 50 or 60 years of Australian Federation. [More…]

• During those years Australians fought on many occasions- in Korea, in the Middle East, in western Europe, in South Africa and in other areas- and they did it as a measure of forward defence. [More…]

• It may even go so far as to help to create a form of national enthusiasm, a national enthusiasm not for war but for an understanding of Australia’s circumstances from the point of view of security, defence and our connections with our friends and allies here and in other places around the world. [More…]

• If this Paper through discussion has a capacity to arouse the nation to some sort of enthusiasm to understand and take action in defence and security areas then certainly it has served a worthwhile part. [More…]

• It has been made clear in the Budget and in this Paper that financially we are committed to a $12 billion five-year rolling program in defence which is a significant step forward and has within it the basis of a continuing development of our defence capacity. [More…]

• This Paper also has made reference to the necessity for review and the necessity for flexibility in a defence and security policy, and how essential that is. [More…]

• Because the world is shrinking through communications and technological change there are likely to confront us problems that we never dreamed of 3 or 4 years ago and consequently the need for review and flexibility is an absolutely basic need in a defence policy. [More…]

• Though we have in large measure moved away from forward defence we must have a relative capacity and a determination to move to the aid of people who are close to us, people who are our neighbours and friends, should they be menaced from some direction. [More…]

• I draw the attention of honourable senators to the fact that unless we are capable of establishing and are determined to establish a responsible defence pattern and a responsible level of selfreliance we cannot expect greater friends and allies and mightier powers to come to our succour should there ever be- and God forbid that there ever will be- a massive conflagration around the world. [More…]

• We have an absolute responsibility to build the most effective defence capacity with a view to the jobs that it may have to do, not only in connection with low scale attack but also because we must appear to be and in fact be responsible in the eyes of other nations which perhaps believe largely in the same things and attitudes as we do. [More…]

• Consequently I suggest that the obvious and natural need for defence in the foreseeable future of this land must lie in a top priority being given to maritime and air strength strike and reconnaissance capacity. [More…]

• I draw my remarks to a close by saying once again that I believe this paper on defence, if it has done anything- I am sure it has- has proved to be a responsible approach to an extraordinarily important problem. [More…]

• I hopeperhaps this is more important than anythingthat it has generated amongst Australians a responsible discussion on the defence circumstance of this country, a determination for self-reliance, a determination to reproduce a national pride, a national determination in defence and, hopefully, across the board. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has observed that the White Paper endeavours to lay the base for mature debate upon Australia’s new role in the world and also at the same time to encourage the development of a bipartisan approach to defence matters. [More…]

• The Opposition agrees that defence planning and our national defence posture should be an area for bipartisan effort. [More…]

• I should mention that as a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I have been agreeably surprised in the period that I have been a senator at the bipartisan approach that has been shown. [More…]

• I think one comment must be made after saying that in order to put the background of this White Paper into proper perspective, and that is simply that this White Paper was commissioned especially by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcom Fraser) who insisted on a more realistic assessment of our nation’s defence needs. [More…]

• But it in no way differs substantially from the documentary submissions put to Labor Defence Ministers Lance Barnard and Bill Morrison. [More…]

• In short, the basis for Labor’s defence programs of 1973 to 1975 have been shown to be realistic and quite sound, as was acknowledged by Senator Sir Magnus Cormack here tonight. [More…]

• I am also pleased to be able to say that this White Paper has finally done away with the forward defence concept. [More…]

• It seems to offer reasonable recommendations for future defence planning. [More…]

• Recent purchases of defence equipment by the Government have included some $8m spent on acquiring the Australian Trader for the purposes of turning it into a training ship, and some $25m for the purchase of blind-fire radar tracking equipment and support material. [More…]

• When one looks at the outlays of public moneys on this scale it is essential that we examine Australia’s defence needs. [More…]

• It has been put to me on more than one occasion, and it has also been mentioned in the Senate of the United States of America by a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee of the U.S. Senate, Senator John Culver, that in evidence taken by the U.S. Committee it was shown that the U.S. had not criticised the Soviet’s buildup in Berbera as might have been expected for the simple reason that it did not want a public outcry until it had completed the facilities at Diego Garcia. [More…]

• Both major political groupings in this country have realised the need for greater independence and self-reliance in defence planning. [More…]

• However, even though our security may be ultimately dependent on U.S. support we owe it to ourselves to be able to mount a national defence effort that would maximise the risks and costs of any aggression. [More…]

• I think it should be realised also that as far as defence planning is concerned a number of contingencies may arise in which Australia’s territorial integrity may be violated, although our security may not be put at fundamental risk. [More…]

• Some of these contingencies have been illustrated by a conservative defence commentator Brigadier F. V. Speed in an article entitled Australia: Defence Planners Teaser which was published in July 1976 in the Army Quarterly and Defence Journal. [More…]

• In this article Brigadier Speed draws attention to some potential problems in our defence operation. [More…]

• Another problem that has been mentioned by Senator Scott tonight-it was raised also by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which dealt with a reference concerning the Indian Ocean region- is that of terrorism. [More…]

• As part of the Commonwealth of Australia they demand that Australia’s defence forces be of such a capability as is required to ensure their defence in time of threat. [More…]

• These are the enormous demands placed on Australia’s defence forces by simple geographical circumstances. [More…]

• This has been amply demonstrated by the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which dealt with the Indian Ocean region. [More…]

• Firstly, there was the obsession with Soviet military strength that characterises the thinking of both the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• I would like to quote from the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence when we dealt with this matter. [More…]

• Our defence preparedness is a part of this effort. [More…]

• This defence White Paper that we are discussing tonight goes a fair way towards establishing those prerequisites for Australia to assume the role of an independent and capable power prepared to undertake its responsibilities both at a regional and at an international level. [More…]

• I support the amendment to refer this matter to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is to be commended on this most comprehensive defence statement. [More…]

• I think it is the most comprehensive defence statement ever presented to the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• In the past, defence has been treated by the Parliament as of rather small moment. [More…]

• The fact that governments have not seen fit to present comprehensive defence statements is, I think, more the fault of Parliament than of governments. [More…]

• I also must observe that often in the past defence statements have been based upon attitudes and ideology, rather than realistic assessments. [More…]

• We are dealing with defence in a manner in which it should be dealt with. [More…]

• Whether one agrees with all the assessments made in this White Paper, it does avoid the mistakes which sometimes occurred in the past of ideological comment, because in the final analysis what we are talking about when we speak of defence is the security of the nation. [More…]

• For a foreign policy to be effective it requires a defence POliCY to support it. [More…]

• There has not been enough appreciation of the role that military forces play in international relations and the credibility that strong defence forces give a country’s diplomacy. [More…]

• This defence White Paper covers 4 elements of defence assessment: Intelligence, strategic policy, force structure and development and management. [More…]

• I do not make them as a criticism, but as a constructive attempt to further develop and improve defence debate in the Parliament and in the country. [More…]

• The defence White Paper says that our assessments ‘depict a regional situation with reasonable prospects of stability, although’- and here the qualification is- ‘with many imponderables and uncertainties’. [More…]

• I say this not to be critical; I hope to be constructive as a means of seeking an improvement in our defence debates. [More…]

• Now that the Parliament is taking a greater interest, I trust, in defence matters, I hope governments will be encouraged to provide the Parliament with full information as to their thinking. [More…]

• It seems to me, those points being made, that the defence requirements as laid down in the White Paper are sensible. [More…]

• Very sensibly, the White Paper recognises that these are the defence requirements in the near future. [More…]

• I suppose that the critical issue that faces our defence planners and which is not dealt with at great length in this paper is the mix of weapons which will be required. [More…]

• I think that this is one of the most valuable moves that has occurred in the field of defence for some time. [More…]

• It would seem to me, particularly as the White Paper rightly places considerable stress upon the need for self-reliance- which I am sure is the wisest and only policy- that we should have been given some indication of the Government’s thinking regarding these weapons many of which, as I understand them, could be of tremendous value as they would increase our defence capacity considerably. [More…]

• I think that it augers well for future defence statements, which I hope will deal comprehensively with the subject. [More…]

• We can then expect the debate on defence in the Parliament and the country to develop further. [More…]

• I rise in this debate to discuss the White Paper on defence which my colleague, Senator Sim, has just discussed. [More…]

• Firstly, I would like to say that in a very basic way the discussion of defence policy in [More…]

• If there were anything on which I could agree with Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, it would be his comment that there would be a possibility of there being a bipartisan policy in relation to defence in Australia if people were prepared to grasp the nettle. [More…]

• All of this was said in an attempt to introduce a notion of threat in Australia’s defence policy. [More…]

• What Senator Sir Magnus Cormack did earlier in this debate- he has been followed by, I think, more realistic men in the Liberal Party- was to try to introduce the notion of threat into Australia’s defence policy. [More…]

• I will come back to Senator Sir Magnus Cormack ‘s comments on this subject and to his threat theory because I want to put the point that it is symptomatic of the Liberal Party’s attitude to a defence policy over a period of about 20 years, but before doing so I want to discuss some other issues. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that the people of Australia whatever Senator Withers likes to say by way of interjection, turned to the Australian Labor Party in 1941 and 1945 because they felt that the Australian Labor Party was fair dinkum about the defence of Australia and, whatever his service in the Army Services Corps or wherever he may have happened to be, Senator Withers Party of later adoption was rejected at the time of the Second World War. [More…]

• Whichever country it was, throughout that period there was a notion of threat in Australian foreign policy and we were induced to spend money on defence to meet that threat. [More…]

• From reviewing the political history of that period we all know that the Liberal Party, in Government, took assiduous steps to identify the threat to Australia in order to justify defence expenditure. [More…]

• All these threats were apparent throughout the 1960s as justification for defence expenditure in Australia. [More…]

• In the context of this debate Senator Sir Magnus Cormack ‘s position is completely consistent with everything the Liberal Party has said about defence in the past 20 years because always there has been a bogy, always there has been somebody supposedly threatening Australia. [More…]

• This is the reality of this whole Australian defence debate. [More…]

• Throughout 20 years of Australian history the only relevant facts in Australian defence debates which have concerned the Australian people have been threats from all sorts of mythical people, whether they be the Chinese of 10 years ago or the Russians of one year ago, as mentioned by Malcolm Fraser, or this faceless Asian man that Senator Sir Magnus Cormack met 3 months ago. [More…]

• One thing that ought to be put to rest about defence policy in Australia is that throughout the last 30 years of Australian history there has been one period of real warthe Second World War. [More…]

• In that war the Australian people turned to the Labor Party because they believed it was fair dinkum about the defence of Australia. [More…]

• They were concerned about a fair dinkum defence of Australia. [More…]

• It was only after the Vietnam war that we found people like Malcolm Fraser, the western district grazier with all his prejudices and class concepts, attempting to raise- contrary to his own Defence Minister and Foreign Minister- the concept of a threat from the Soviet Union. [More…]

• I say this: The Labor Government between 1972 and 1975 grappled with the realities of defence expenditure. [More…]

• Let us look in real terms at this claim of the Liberal-National Country Parties being the great defenders of Australia Quite apart from their sordid involvement in Vietnam, in 1968-69, $30m was spent on defence. [More…]

• In 1969-70, $53m was spent on defence. [More…]

• In 1970-71, $153m was spent on defence. [More…]

• In 1971- 72, $24m was spent on defence and in 1972- 73, when the period of Labor Government started, $84m was spent on defence. [More…]

• That makes a total of $344m spent on defence. [More…]

• From 1973 to 1976 the total spent on defence was $7 16m. [More…]

• That, in real terms, represents the Labor Party’s commitment to defence and something which the Liberal Party, characteristically, chooses to ignore. [More…]

• That represents the determination of the Australian Labor Party in relation to the defence of Australia in real terms. [More…]

• We cannot talk about defence in the abstract terms in which Liberal Governments have talked about it over many years. [More…]

• -The final point I wish to make is that we cannot discuss this issue of defence realistically unless we look at the infrastructure of Australian defence. [More…]

• We are in a situation where we keep debating whether we have so many minesweepers or so many destroyers and so on without looking at the fundamental question of the nature of Australian society, its defence capacity and the unity of the Australian people. [More…]

• It is no good talking about our defence capacity unless we look at Australia’s defence industries. [More…]

• In the 23 years of Liberal Government prior to the Labor Government of 1972, Australian defence industries were run down. [More…]

• Every honourable senator knows that the aircraft industry, the ship building industry and the situation of the Army in terms of defence capacity were run down. [More…]

• We must do so if we are to establish a viable defence position. [More…]

• Finally, I refer to one or two foreign policy aspects of Australian defence policy. [More…]

• I read from the Australian Defence Reporter, a sordid little trade magazine dealing with defence in which Mr Malcolm Booker has an article. [More…]

• Mr Malcolm Booker in that article is making a comment about the realism of Australia’s foreign policy and the relationship between defence policy and foreign policy. [More…]

• Mr Booker is simply saying that we lack the capacity to defend Australia and that the notions in the White Paper are unreal if we consider the defence of Australia in terms of our ambitions and aspirations for the defence of the continental shelf, for preservation of peace in the area and so on. [More…]

• There really need be no difference between the parties in Australia on this question of defence. [More…]

• That is an old Liberal Party trick which we must ignore in our realistic assessment of Australia’s foreign policy and defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and concerns the general question of repatriation benefits and the benefits accruing to repatriation beneficiaries and servicemen under the defence service homes plan. [More…]

• I speak about the increasing interest rates for occupants of defence service homes and the recent report to the Government suggesting that there should be rationalisation of [More…]

• -Senator Bishop has raised 2 quite different matters, one dealing with interest rates on defence service homes which I will deal with quickly. [More…]

• I was asked a question by the honourable senator and I think by Senator Keeffe at the end of last year on this subject and I said then, as I say again now, that the Government has no plans to increase interest rates on defence service homes. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Budget outlay in 1972-73 on what might be called the total welfare and defence sector represented 44 per cent of total outlays. [More…]

• During the period for which we were in office we raised the standard social security pension by 94 per cent, we raised the war and defence widows pensions by 94 per cent and we increased- just to mention one field with which I happened to be personally connected- the pensions for totally and permanently incapacitated veterans of the armed forces by 54 per cent. [More…]

• Finally, under amended section 45D of the Trade Practices Amendment Act there will be power to impose a fine of $50,000 on individuals who have the temerity to strike or impose black bans in defence of their standard of living. [More…]

• In 1944 two-thirds of the defence forces serving in Australia were women. [More…]

• There has been no loss in the defence service homes section of the repatriation provisions. [More…]

• The Bill itself is concerned no doubt with the Department of Health, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence as well as the Commonwealth police forces. [More…]

• Australia was not accepted as a party to this agreement because America was doubtful of Australia’s security in its defence establishment. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether he can give the Senate some clarification of the reasons for the delay in correcting anomalies in the Defence Forces Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973, particularly the no-detriment provisions? [More…]

• I understand that my colleague in the other place, Mr Killen, either has introduced or is about to introduce some legislation to amend both Acts relating to defence forces retirement and death benefits. [More…]

• I have had this question checked with the Department of Defence and I am advised that the Australian Government does not hold biological weapons or toxic substances which would have to be destroyed under the provisions of the Bill. [More…]

• However, as I can make this statement only on behalf of the Commonwealth Government and with the knowledge of information supplied by the Department of Defence, what would be the position in regard to private companies - [More…]

• No tests on bacteriological agents have been carried out by defence agencies. [More…]

• to a defence standards laboratory outside Ingham revealed that there were certain articles of clothing that were to be used as protection in biological warfare situations, although there was no test of a biological nature. [More…]

• I have already related in this chamber- I think I did so on 24 February of last year- some details of a meeting which the foreign affairs and defence committee of Caucus of the then Government had with the Indonesian Ambassador at the conclusion of which every member of the Government’s committee was of the opinion that the Indonesian Ambassador was a liar. [More…]

• I am sure that all of us have, especially now that the new building for the Department of Defence has been found to be bugged. [More…]

• Whereas Lord Graham as Minister for External Affairs and Defence has said: ‘International Communism is our enemy, all this talk of political advancement and majority rule is no more than a smoke screen in the early skirmishes of an assault upon the whole of Africa … it is even more difficult to see this enemy because it is not merely attacking us, but on a broad front is attacking the whole world order, its standards, its law and order, its moralities, its churches, its patriotisms, its philosophies, and even much of its learning . [More…]

• Your petitioners humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled, will accordingly observe common justice and proper humanity by inviting duly authorised representatives of the present Rhodesian government to Australia to do what they have not been allowed to do before, present their case fully and publicly so that this can be examined and tested without interference, and so that the eventual impact on Australia’s own security and defence alliances can be gauged with better accuracy. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the following documents relating to defence arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea: [More…]

• 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…]

• Honourable senators will recall that the Right Honourable the Prime Minister of Australia and the Right Honourable Michael Somare issued a joint statement in Port Moresby on 1 1 February which made mention of defence arrangements formally negotiated and agreed between Sir Maori Kiki and the Minister for Defence of the governments of Papua New Guinea and Australia respectively. [More…]

• The agreements then reached fulfil the Government’s intention, as set out in the White Paper on Australian Defence that I presented to the Senate in November last year, to formalise defence arrangements with Papua New Guinea in the near future. [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 Senate 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 2 countries continuing support and co-operation in defence matters with Australia, not by any formal defence treaty but by mutually acceptable arrangements between the 2 governments and by frequent consultations. [More…]

• Honourable senators will note that under the arrangements, Australia will continue to assist in the development of the Papua New Guinea defence force through the defence co-operation program. [More…]

• I commend the Australia-Papua New Guinea defence arrangements to the Senate. [More…]

• It moves them into attack or defence. [More…]

• The purpose of this 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 senators will recall that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) made brief reference in another place 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 Force 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 pensions 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 October 1 972. [More…]

• the amendments to section 25 of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act is proceeding for introduction as quickly as possible in to the Parliament. [More…]

• In relation to other aspects, the honourable senator will of course be aware of the matters covered by my colleague, the Minister for Defence, in response to various questions. [More…]

• The program provides, in any event, that after disposal of the first 2 Bills on the notice paper today, namely, the Customs Tariff Validation Bill and the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill, the 4 constitutional Bills will be disposed of not later than 5 p.m. tomorrow. [More…]

• -The Opposition does not oppose the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill. [More…]

• -We on the Opposition side in this Chamber and in the Parliament welcome these amendments to the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973 because they bring about a long awaited alteration to the Act which was anomalous inasmuch as there was certain delay in the introduction of pensions as other pensions were adjusted. [More…]

• It was intended also to provide in this Bill benefical 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 thier transer to the DFRDB scheme in October 1972. [More…]

• Therefore, on the basis of economy and the saving of manpower there is no defence against this Bill which seeks to provide for simultaneous elections. [More…]

• That is the proposal on simultaneous elections that we are discussing- was aimed at undermining the Senate, the main defence line of the States in Federal Parliament. [More…]

• I think that the events during the recent conference of the Australian Union of Students should sound a warning note to all of us that the university campus, which is where one would expect there to be complete unanimity on the defence of such fundamental democratic principles as freedom of thought and freedom of expression, is not the place where one now finds it. [More…]

• It was only because of the far-sightedness of postwar Prime Minister Ben Chifley that we used defence powers to create the Snowy Mountains project. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Has the Minister any knowledge of the use of 4 ex-Royal Australian Air Force Sabre jets that were given to Malaysia by Australia and are now in East Timor in use by the Indonesian Air Force? [More…]

• Has action been taken on a suggestion contained in a submission published in the Aircraft Owners and Pilots’ Association magazine of June 1976 that there is ‘potential within GA ranks for a co-operative effort with the Department of Defence to maintain a large number of pilots in a state of defence-preparedness’. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• I refer to reports of proposals made by the Australian Department of Defence to the Indonesian Government for the holding of joint naval exercises in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• No longer can we fall back on the advantages, skills and techniques of that industry to keep up our defence support. [More…]

• The defence contractors have been saying publicly that this is the circumstance. [More…]

• Not only are they concerned about the electronic industry, but they are concerned also about manufacturing defence capability too. [More…]

• There has been no attempt to recognise the defence aspects of shipbuilding. [More…]

• It is not even carrying out the charge of ensuring that industry in Australia will have a continuing defence capability. [More…]

• Think of government factories; think of defence contractors and the electronics industries. [More…]

• Given the Government’s existing commitment to heavy increases in defence expenditure, it is highly improbable- it is virtually impossible- that that will be done. [More…]

• Certainly if there are further significant cuts in Government expenditure in areas other than defence, the consequence of that will be even higher unemployment. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I believe the prize for the most ostrich-like defence must go to Mr Eric Robinson who claimed that unemployment figures were largely a myth. [More…]

• He was Minister for National Development from 1964 to 1969, Minister for Education and Science in 1971 and Minister for Defence in 1971-72. [More…]

• But it suits the Leader of the Opposition to say this because he has no other defence to fall back on. [More…]

• -Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware of the United States law which prohibits a country from using American military equipment for operations not based on legitimate self defence? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and concerns the garment which has succeeded the humble greatcoat worn in the Army. [More…]

• -My colleague, the Minister for Defence, in the other place, advises me that ‘coats, men’s field, olive green’, are provided on the same conditions for all ranks of the Australian Army during field training and combat operations. [More…]

• For the benefit, defence and future of Australia we should be increasing quite rapidly as Australia can support a much larger population. [More…]

• I refer once again to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• I think it is most timely now to bring up this point once again because the White Paper on defence was debated some little time ago. [More…]

• This Paper has placed great importance on mobility for the future defence of Australia. [More…]

• I give Australia some 20 years before it will be in defence trouble. [More…]

• There can be no such things as mobility in defence unless we have national highways throughout the top of Australia. [More…]

• Ever since then there has been a paper chase of reports on the development of the Darwin Harbour which is most vital to the development of the north and for the defence of the north. [More…]

• Darwin still has not the proper harbour facilities and the wharfage that are required for the development and the defence of the north. [More…]

• Senator Kilgariff, the last speaker, spoke on the defence White Paper. [More…]

• I think that the defence White Paper put down by the Government was a realistic assessment of the present position. [More…]

• He has been rebuffed by his parliamentary colleagues on the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• In the recent White Paper on defence, to which Senator Kilgariff referred tonight, what in fact this Government did and what Mr Malcolm Fraser did was to ask for a realistic reassessment of Australia’s defence needs. [More…]

• This reassessment was going to be used for defence planning for the next 5 years and for the development of a rolling program for defence equipment to be based on this 5 year program. [More…]

• What did we see when the Senate looked at this White Paper on defence? [More…]

• We saw a White Paper very similar to the White Papers that were brought in by Lance Barnard and Bill Morrison when they were Labor Ministers for Defence in a Labor government. [More…]

• In the White Paper presented by the Fraser Government the forward defence concept was out; the stationing of Australian troops overseas was out; and, in fact, the realistic assessment that was put down was that Australia faced no direct threat at this time. [More…]

• -My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, refers to 2 aspects of the Woomera Rocket Range. [More…]

• Will he also ask the Minister for Defence to consider my previous question about delaying some of the redundancy decisions because about 300 people are expected to be affected? [More…]

• I state, firstly, that the Campaign Against Racial Exploitation- as part of the no ties with apartheid campaign- has sought the opportunity to meet the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to put its point of view. [More…]

• I say 2 things about defence because it has been mentioned this morning. [More…]

• They are not related to the full defence area but they will indicate an attitude which is in existence at present in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• There is a good deal of concern locally that some defence establishments are being patrolled by civilian security companies. [More…]

• Senator Kilgariff said that for the benefit of defence and the future of Australia we should be increasing rapidly because Australia can support a much larger population. [More…]

• We the undersigned, being members of the Parliament of Australia concerned with basic human rights, applaud the actions taken by you in relation to your defence of prisoners of conscience in the U.S.S.R. and the advocates of freedom of expression, as well as your comments on the recent tragic events in Uganda. [More…]

• To do so would be in effect to allow further atrocities to continue and if the Government parties in the party room have decided not to accept this motion or to send it to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, let them have on their consciences the fact that every day that we fail to take up this challenge, every day that we fail to deal with this issue, people are suffering, people are being killed, and people who look to Australia to assist them will regret the day that they placed their faith in Australia. [More…]

• A select committee would enable honourable senators to approach the issue purposefully without the concern for priorities that will inhibit the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee pursuing such a reference. [More…]

• The Board has not carried out any inspections of the Nowra base but it advised the Department of Defence after the fire had occurred, after the horse had bolted, of its willingness to assist the Naval Board of Inquiry established to look into that recent fire. [More…]

• I do not think that I need say much more about that as my views on the Indian Ocean I think are known and also the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence dealt at great length with the problems of the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• Again, I do not want to deal with it now because, as honourable senators know, the subject of the South Pacific has been referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which will shortly commence hearing evidence. [More…]

• No doubt many people will say and many critics of Carter have said that he is damaging America’s interests by pursuing this human rights issue; that on the one hand he is damaging relations with the Soviet Union and, on the other hand, he is damaging relations with countries such as South Africa and even, in some more extreme cases, with Rhodesia- countries which apparently are essential to the American military defence. [More…]

• If we believe the democracy is a system which ought to be defended -400 Australians were killed in Vietnam, allegedly in defence of democracy- we should say that it is not something which ought to be thought of only when a war is actually started, but is also a policy which ought to be actively pursued at all times. [More…]

• I suppose in a discussion on foreign affairs, as in the discussion that occurred some time ago on defence, there has to be ultimately- and the sooner the better- a real measure of agreement between the major entities on the Australian political scene. [More…]

• It is pertinent to note that in very recent times the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has investigated and reported on the Vietnamese refugee situation, is investigating and about to report on the Middle East, and has investigated and reported on the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• Only if we have a continuing and developing economic and social policy and only if we have a realistic and responsible view regarding our own defence can we be of real value in the context of the immediate region in which we live and the world in general. [More…]

• That is the first objective of an Australian defence plan and the developments at Cockburn Sound and other places around our coastline must be viewed not as elements of confrontation or of massive militarisation of the Indian Ocean but in the context of Australian continental defence and our right and responsibility to defend our trade lines and to see that incursions into this country are made so difficult that they will not be attempted. [More…]

• I believe that the hearings and report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which looked at this question of the Indian Ocean have created an increasing awareness on the part of some Government supporters who previously were so much anti-Soviet it did not matter. [More…]

• But still this Government at that time was clamouring, through the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence ( Mr Killen), for an upgrading of the American presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I do not know whether he has read the evidence given to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, lt is quite likely that in his position as a Minister, and we all know and appreciate the work load with which Ministers are confronted, he read the majority report which the Committee brought down two or three years ago but has never bothered to look at the minority report. [More…]

• Even then the American Department of Defense was contemplating a defence navigation satellite system. [More…]

• The shallowness of the thinking of the Department of Transport, the main government department to put forward a case for Omega, is proved by the fact that at the very time that Department was putting forward its case the American Department of Defence was preparing to launch satellites for a defence navigation satellite system around the world. [More…]

• The advocates for Omega, in their defence, argued that Omega was not sufficiently accurate for that purpose. [More…]

• the adviser to the Committee, advised the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that some of his earlier evidence was astray and that he now believed that the Omega system was quite capable of relaying a signal to a submarine at a depth of 1000 feet. [More…]

• This had been hotly denied during the inquiry by Mr Crouchley, the people from the Department of Transport, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence and every other advocate of Omega. [More…]

• That is because President Garter and Mr Callaghan have adopted a more realistic approach to and enlightened position on the need for the Indian Ocean to be a zone of peace, free from military presence, different from the Indian Ocean with which the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) seem to be so obsessed. [More…]

• I wish now to deal very briefly with SinoSoviet relations because in the first few months of this Government’s Administration- or maadminstration- a continual outpouring of statements from the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence warned us of the danger of the Soviet military threat. [More…]

• Defence went so far as to state in most categorical terms that the Soviet Union posed a direct military threat to Australia. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence rejected the notion of the Prime Minister that a Soviet naval presence in the Indian Ocean constituted a threat to Australia. [More…]

• I served on the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that dealt with the reference of Australia and the refugee problem. [More…]

• A reference on this matter has been given to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence would certainly have been able to get a lot of comment from Mr Chamoun. [More…]

• Reference has already been made to the report on the refugee problem made by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• They could involve a wide range of Commonwealth departments’ such as the Department of Overseas Trade, the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Department of Defence, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Primary Industry, the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of Science, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and Radio Australia and the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Minister investigated allegations of Australian Defence Department vehicles contaminated during atomic testing at Maralinga being disposed of in totally unacceptable ways. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Treasurer, refers to Defence Force Retirement Benefits disability pensions. [More…]

• I offer some defence for the integrity of 3 prominent and worthy South Australians whose character has been deliberately and systematically defamed in a speech by a member of the Ministry. [More…]

• I shall quote what he said to make clear to the Senate the basis of my protest in defence of these men. [More…]

• As a South Australian senator I wish to congratulate Senator Hall and to give him my most wholehearted support for his remarks earlier this evening in defence of the South Australia Electoral Boundaries Commissioners against the unwarranted and despicable- to use [More…]

• I think he deserves a pat on the back from many people for having the courage to stand and say what he said tonight in defence of the South Australian Electoral Boundaries commissioners. [More…]

• My concern is heightened by the activities of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which, not very long ago, had a very close look at the question of refugees and in particular refugees from South Vietnam. [More…]

• It was suggested that we should be acting on the report of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee on refugees from South Vietnam. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which recently inquired into and reported on the plight and circumstances of the Vietnamese refugees and whose report was tabled in Parliament on 1 December 1976, made extensive recommendations on the need for closer co-operation and co-ordination of the various government and voluntary organisations active in the field of refugee welfare. [More…]

• Will Senator Cotton, who is in charge of the chamber at the moment, use his endeavours to bring this report into the House for debate as early as possible so that honourable senators may give some expression of opinion in defence of people who I believe, on what has just been said, have been not fairly treated. [More…]

• Obviously, that defence is going to come from the Opposition side of the chamber. [More…]

• I think the 2 people concerned need some sort of defence while this subject matter is to be debated. [More…]

• If defence forces retirement benefits payments for superannuants from defence forces can be indexed in full, the cost to a producer can be indexed in full for 1978 and 1979 to take account of inflation. [More…]

• When the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was appointed, that was something new that was happening. [More…]

• He said America’s ‘historical birthright’ justified its defence of human rights. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence mentioned some of their needs in its report of last December. [More…]

• Leave out all words after ‘That’, insert ‘there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Tasmanian Minister calls this policy the Bass Strait line and says that the Federal Government has refined its defence policy to exclude Tasmania. [More…]

• Can the Minister give an assurance that this statement is not only untrue but positively mischievous and that the Australian continental defence strategy automatically includes this most important island State? [More…]

• Does that estimate coincide with the estimate given by the Opposition spokesman on defence? [More…]

• -I think the Opposition spokesman on defence is Mr Hayden. [More…]

• -I wonder whether the Minister representing the Minister for Defence can indicate the procedure involved in the berthing of the Royal yacht Britannia at Newcastle recently by sea cadets, having regard to the customary practice of using members of the Firemen and Deckhands Union for such operations? [More…]

• Canberra Airport is owned by the Department of Defence and civil aviation has a permissive occupancy. [More…]

• Is it not true that since I last asked a question on this subject speculation has continued and in fact has been widened to include not only the field of social welfare but also education and defence? [More…]

• Has not this speculation been widened by speeches made by the Treasurer and the Prime Minister, such as the speech the Prime Minister made to his electorate yesterday when he said that expenditure would have to be cut and that the fields of social welfare, education and defence seemed the most likely areas for cuts to be made? [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…]

• We have demands for defence, welfare, the Aboriginal people, national roads and so on. [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…]

• There has been a record on the part of the Timorese concerning the defence of Australians in East Timor. [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 . [More…]

• That provision, of course, requires the Minister to make a specific determination in those cases which may well arise where we believe that the defence of that country should permit recruitment. [More…]

• One would hope that that will not arise, but if there were such circumstances then the Bill does provide the power by a declaration and statement, which will be known, that it is the belief of the Government that the defence of the particular country is something that should permit recruitment. [More…]

• Sub-clause (2) of clause 9 in general gives the Attorney-General the power to state that it is in the interests of the defence or the 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. [More…]

• He said that there should not be a power vested in the Attorney-General by instrument to declare that it is in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia to permit recruitment in Australia. [More…]

• I put forward the proposition that there should be an appropriate provision that clause 6 shall not apply to any person who enters a foreign country or engages in the hostile activities prohibited for the purpose of the suppression of terrorism or the defence of victims of international or national terrorism. [More…]

• Under subclause (2) of clause 9 he has to make his decisions in the interests of the defence of Australia or in regard to the international relations of [More…]

• That is to say, if a foray is mounted by the Australian Government for that purpose, I think that it would be in the course of duty to the Commonwealth in relation to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• Leave out all the words after ‘That’, insert ‘there bc referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence the following matter: [More…]

• All we are asking is that an investigation be carried out by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence We are asking for an investigation to be carried out and for the allegations to be looked at but not only as far as the Australian people are concerned. [More…]

• Australia’s concern about Timor in the past- I am talking now of at least 25 or 30 years ago- was primarily as an element in the defence of Australia- During the Second World War the Australian and Dutch troops fought a vigorous and courageous campaign against the Japanese in this area. [More…]

• From the point of view of defence, trade and transport, most of them can be fairly described as coming within an extended Australian zone . [More…]

• If properly placed within the zone of Australian security it would become a bastion of our defence. ‘ [More…]

• The importance of Timor to Australia in terms of defence ploys has been fairly well discussed over a period of at least three-quarters of a century. [More…]

• Canberra’s worst fears were not only confirmed but rapidly elevated into strategic doctrine- believed in by both Australian political parties and held tenaciously until 1952, when it could no longer prevail against the realities of the nuclear age- that Timor, particularly Portuguese Timor, was crucial to the defence of Australia, [More…]

• From the point of view of defence, trade and transport, most of them can be fairly described as coming within an extended Australian zone. ‘ [More…]

• He added that while ‘we envisage the restoration of full French sovereignty … we also regard it as essential that in relation to defence, air transport and trade, there should be a very close and intimate relationship between Australia and New Caledonia’. [More…]

• If properly placed within the zone of Australian security, it would become a bastion of defence. [More…]

• On October 1 1 the British High Commissioner in Canberra, Sir Ronald Cross, wrote to Mr Curtin stating that Dr Salazar had requested the British Ambassador in Lisbon to inform the Commonwealth Government that ‘the Portuguese Government accepted with pleasure the idea of discussing the problems relating to a common defence against possible future aggression and to the possible development of economic relations between Timor and Australia . [More…]

• In point of fact Evatt obviously shared Spender’s view that Portuguese Timor was an essential element in Australia’s north-western defence, as the war had demonstrated, but how in looming times of peace could it be tied into an Australian defensive system? [More…]

• give us all the facilities that were required in respect to defence, communications or trade provided Portugal’s sovereignty was respected. [More…]

• ‘The Portuguese failed us completely in the arrangements made for the defence of Timor . [More…]

• with the Azores Agreement we acquiesced in recognition of Portuguese sovereignty but this was on distinct understanding that there should be conversations between Portugal and Australia with a view to defence and economic arrangements respecting Portuguese Timor. [More…]

• There would be complete lack of justice and frankness if these conversations were postponed indefinitely instead of being taken up immediately … as you will be aware … it is our view that Portuguese vacillation and timidity in the face of Japanese aggression have shown them to be unfit to be entrusted with the defence of territory so important to the security of this area. [More…]

• In considering the proposed reference of the matter of East Timor to a senate select committee, or to the Senate Standing Committe on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I think we have to ask ourselves what such a reference would achieve. [More…]

• The recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence with respect to refugees ought to be implemented urgently. [More…]

• But I do not believe that a select committee or the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence will obtain that information. [More…]

• I believe there are good reasons for the inquiries which are proposed either by a select committee or by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I cannot support the proposal for a select committee or a reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence at this stage because I do not believe either would achieve certain things which I think are desirable- a proper act of self-determination, Australian aid to East Timor, assistance to refugees and the re-uniting of families. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) What holiday resorts are provided Tor Australian Defence personnel throughout Australia and overseas. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Some holiday resorts provided for Australian defence personnel in Australia are conducted as State registered public companies or co-operatives. [More…]

• Services operated holiday resorts provided for Australian Defence Force personnel throughout Australia are: [More…]

• Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party’s Defence Committee, concluded that it was probable that Prince Sihanouk was living in Phnom Penh. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Treasurer: Has the Minister noted the Press release issued by Mr Viner, as Minister Assisting the Treasurer, in which he indicates that Cabinet has decided to introduce amendments to the income tax laws so that all pensions paid in future under the superannuation scheme for members of the defence forces will be liable to taxation? [More…]

• Some weeks ago in an interim report from the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which has been inquiring into matters relating to the Middle East, some unfavourable mention was made of radio station 3CR in Melbourne, a so-called community radio station. [More…]

• I would think that the Defence Services Academy which is foreshadowed would be another such institution. [More…]

• For that reason from about 1953, as I recall it, until 1 963 or so the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was not a committee on foreign affairs as we understand it today or the equivalent in the Senate- the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• As a result of this enlargement, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence began to gather some sort of quality and character. [More…]

• The function of this motion is for the Parliament to try to exert its function in foreign affairs and defence and to make the Parliament the judge either one way or the other. [More…]

• I suggest that if this motion is carried and the matter goes to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- I hope the motion is not carried- it is inevitable and almost mandatory that that Committee will then have to investigate the cause of the situation with which we are now confronted. [More…]

• He said that baldly and boldly in the face of the fact that we have not only a Senate Select Committee dealing with foreign affairs and defence but also a Joint Parliamentary Committee. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 10 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Other Thai Army personnel have been trained since financial year 1972-73 under the Defence Co-operation Program; before that they were trained under the SEATO Aid Program administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• The level of military aid to Thailand since the provision of assistance has been a Defence responsibility is as follows: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The defence has already been put in and the Commonwealth will uphold the validity of the legislation. [More…]

• Lord Graham as Minister of External Affairs and Defence had said: ‘International communism is our enemy, all this talk of political advancement and majority rule is no more than a smokescreen in the early skirmishes of an assault upon the whole of Africa . [More…]

• It is urgent that the Senate and the House Representatives in the Parliament assembled, will observe common justice and proper humanity by inviting only authorised representatives of the present Government of Rhodesia to Australia, to do what they have been deprived to do previously, present their case fully and publicly so that this can be examined and tested, without interference, and so that the eventual impact on Australia’s own security and defence alliances can be gauged with better accuracy. [More…]

• Is there a defence ordinance which gives big pay increases to the academics of the defence Services retrospective to June of last year? [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• He will recall Australian Labor Party defence spokesmen in 1972 referring to the then Government’s announcement of the acceptance of the 24 F 1 1 1 aircraft as compounding a calamitous affair. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it not a fact that military decorations given by the United States of America and by former South Vietnam to Australian servicemen while on active duty in the Vietnam war are not to be worn officially by the recipients? [More…]

• Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority 1975-76 [More…]

• The claims coincide with recent information given to the Financial Review in Canberra that the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, was briefed by a senior Australian defence official on 8 November 197S, about allegations from the CIA that the then Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, was jeopardising the security of the American bases in Australia. [More…]

• I refer to reports in the Australian Financial Review that a meeting was held on 8 November 1975 between the GovernorGeneral and a senior Department of Defence official. [More…]

• I would like the Minister representing the Minister for Defence to inform the Senate who is responsible for approving an advertisement currently being shown on commercial television aimed at seducing young men to join the Australian Army by suggesting a number of totally unrealistic enticements to Army life, in particular by a most blatant and offensive piece of visual sexism which suggests that the army provides its soldiers with the use of beautiful young women. [More…]

• I understand that there have been discussions with the Minister for Defence who holds the view that this should not be done and he favours the alternative route. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the joint defence facility at Pine Gap near Alice Springs is under the control of the Australian Government and that all movement of personnel, either United States or Australian personnel, is regulated by the Australian Department of Defence? [More…]

• Defence [More…]

• My question is directed to Senator Withers in his capacity as Minister representing the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Are messages from the Pine Gap installation transmitted through the Defence signals establishment in Albert Park Barracks in Melbourne? [More…]

• Is there a United States installation in the Defence signals barracks in Melbourne and is it manned by members of an organisation known as SUSLO? [More…]

• As honourable senators realise, I represent the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate in his capacity as Minister representing the Prime Minister and as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and follows my previous questions to him about the possibility of the Government increasing interest rates on defence service homes. [More…]

• It also follows closely upon the very extensive publicity given to the claim that some interdepartmental committees and Government agencies have before them proposals which not only will increase interest rates but also may result in handing over to State agencies some of the functions of the present defence service homes organisation and the possibility of land holdings for those purposes in my State and other States being sold. [More…]

• I say again now, that the Government has no plans to increase interest rates on defence service homes. [More…]

• I reiterate that the Government does not have any plans to increase the interest rate on defence service homes. [More…]

• I can say categorically that the Defence Service Homes Corporation, which is now under the aegis of my Department, is not placing any plans of this sort before any Government committee and is not placing before any Government committee or before the Cabinet any proposals to increase interest rates. [More…]

• There is also a defence content involved. [More…]

• By the authority vested in it by resolutions of both Houses of the Parliament, the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee 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- this sub-committee 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…]

• In conclusion, on behalf of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, I commend the Chairmen and members of the three subcommittees for the valuable contribution they are making to Parliament’s knowledge of important Foreign Affairs and Defence matters. [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…]

• If I started to discuss defence Service homes I am sure that Senator Bishop would be in the picture. [More…]

• -To the extent that accommodation is not required for staff of Australian Government departments and authorities and for members of the defence forces located at defence headquarters, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has approved the admission of casual guests at non-subsidised tariff rates. [More…]

• As pan 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…]

• 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…]

• Let me go back to the era when Mr Barnard was the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I take just these few minutes to pay tribute to the constitution of this chamber which provides as it does for protection of the representation here of the small States and which provides as it does for its defence in case of need for matters to be referred to the people where the small States have the decisive right of defeating any such assault. [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…]

• Our final 3 conclusions are these: That the Stuart Highway is essential to the success of tourism, defence, commerce and industry. [More…]

• Is the future of our relationships with our neighbours in the near north to be left to the grey figures behind the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the Central Intelligence Agency and other cloak and dagger bodies, as well as the Department of Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs? [More…]

• At the end of January 1977, total Commonwealth Government employment, in each State, including employees of statutory authorities and excluding members of the defence forces, was, in round figures, as follows: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The advertisement was approved by the Director-General of Recruiting, who is the Defence Depanment officer responsible for Defence Force recruiting promotional material. [More…]

• The off duty activities shown are indicative of normal civilian activities still available to those in the Defence Force, the majority of whom are under 30 years of age. [More…]

• I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, by saying that naturally I do not expect the Minister to reveal treaty details. [More…]

• When Senator Sibraa ‘s colleagues were in government, I imagine that not only the Prime Minister but also the Minister for Defence- I forget whether there was more than one of those- would have been fully briefed on the matter. [More…]

• I think the problem of the restructuring of industry and developing a manpower policy for this country will be so enormous in the next couple of decades that we in this Parliament should be thinking about making a decision to cut defence expenditure drastically and to redirect those resources to the restructuring of industries. [More…]

• In relation to this matter I turn to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘Australia and the Refugee Problem’. [More…]

• I was delighted to see you, Mr President, come to the defence of the Clerk of the Senate when a despicable accusation was made against him, namely, that he in some way was engaged in a political operation so far as the No case was concerned. [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…]

• Senate Estimates Committee A dealt with the estimates for the Parliament, the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of National Resources, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It is clear that there is such an organisation operating, as there is in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDSenators Bishop, Sibraa and Wheeldon are the Australian Labor Party members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Because of the urgency of the matter under consideration by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, we agreed to accept the proposal of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack. [More…]

• We pay substantial pensions by way of superannuation to public servants and members of the Defence Force. [More…]

• They make a decision to retire from the Defence Force or from the Public Service and go onto superannuation. [More…]

• Within this Parliament we possibly have people who are on full defence pensions and who are also engaged either as research assistants or secretaries to committees and receive substantial salaries. [More…]

• Senator Sir MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) (3.57)- I intrude into the debate merely to make an observation in the context of the argument advanced by Senator Georges when he referred to members of the defence forces. [More…]

• Members of the defence forces are not in the same situation as the average run of government employee. [More…]

• He opts at that age, when he still has an earning capacity, to take the benefits that accrue to him from the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Fund and then seek to pursue further an incomeearning career. [More…]

• I merely rise at this juncture to make clear to the Committee that Senator Georges’ argument is not valid in the context of defence force members who retire at a certain age. [More…]

• I note also there are more elaborate provisions in respect of the ability of the Attorney-General to give a certificate in respect of matters which he regards as undesirable to disclose and that freedom from disclosure is something which is allowed to be put to the Tribunal where it would prejudice security, defence or international relations or would disclose proceedings in cabinet. [More…]

• If we look also at the related defence implications of railways, most of us would agree that we must support them as much as we can. [More…]

• It will not matter how the Minister may tend in his defence to juggle these figures or in some way to make them seem something which is justifiable. [More…]

• It is extremely careful in the procedures it follows and it is extremely aware of the proper recourse to law and to defence that should be available to anyone who is accused. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 March, 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) How many (a) Class 8, (b) Class 9, (c) Class 10, and (d) Class 1 1, Third Division Public Servants were there in the Defence group of departments at 30 June 1972. [More…]

• (c) Level Three, (d ) Level Four, (e ) Level Five, and ( f) Level Six Second Division Public Servants were there in the Defence group of departments at 30 June 1972. [More…]

• How many military officers of the rank of Major or equivalent, and df each rank above, were working in the Defence group of departments at 30 June 1972. [More…]

• Exceptions to this definition are made for expenditure on defence, the whole of which is treated as current, and expenditure on roads, all of which is classified as capital. [More…]

• Lord Graham as Minister of External Affairs and Defence has said: ‘International communism is our enemy, all this talk of political advancement and majority rule is no more than a smokescreen in the early skirmishes of an assault upon the whole of Africa . [More…]

• It is urgent that the Senate and the House of Representatives in the Parliament assembled, will observe common justice and proper humanity by inviting only authorised representatives of the present Government of Rhodesia to Australia, to do what they have been deprived to do previously, present their case fully and publicly so that this can be examined and tested, without interference, and so that the eventual impact on Australia ‘s own security and defence alliances can be gauged with better accuracy. [More…]

• This situation occurs at Garden Island in our defence establishment. [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…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence I feel that this is one of the most important reports on the question of foreign affairs that has been presented to the Parliament by this Committee. [More…]

• I do not want that to be taken as some criticism of the Liberal Party, which is the major Government party in this Parliament, but as evidence of the fact that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has been an example of how members of this Parliament can work together sensibly and rationally to examine some of the problems that face this country. [More…]

• This means that in a factory if an employee in concert with another employee- only two of them- were to engage in conduct which constituted a breach of proposed new section 45D the organisation and not the 2 employees would be responsible and would be prosecuted in accordance with the Act unless a defence could be put up that the organisation took all reasonable steps to prevent the participant from engaging in that conduct. [More…]

• If it can show that it has taken reasonable steps to prevent the action of 2 people it is a complete defence. [More…]

• So how in the name of providence could it plead the only defence available under this section; that it took reasonable steps, when it took no steps? [More…]

• If the organisation knew nothing about the action, ignorance is no defence in law, so that defence cannot be put up. [More…]

• Justice must be done to organisations as well as to individuals, but the Government believes that the way in which it has gone about it in providing a defence to an organisation- that it takes reasonable steps to prevent the conduct from occurring- is fair and it would have to be decided on the facts of every case. [More…]

• If 2 members act, without the knowledge of the union, in a manner that brings them in breach of proposed section 45d the union’s only defence- and the Minister agrees with this- is that it took reasonable steps to prevent such an occurrence. [More…]

• In that case the union would have no defence and, therefore, the union and every member of the organisation would be guilty. [More…]

• As I said before, the Commission, as a body concerned with the public interest in business transactions, has really engaged, I suppose, in some quite spirited defence of its activities and operations. [More…]

• But if we turn to clause 5 1, the clause dealing with defence to a charge of violating consumer protection provisions, we find that the defence is considerably weakened and thus the position of the consumer has been considerably weakened. [More…]

• At this point I would like to read out the original provisions regarding defence and the new amended provisions introduced by the Government, to demonstrate how they have been weakened. [More…]

• The original defence with regard to consumer protection acts was that the contravention in respect of which the proceeding was instituted was due to a mistake, to reliance on information supplied by another person, to the act or default of another person, to an accident or some other cause beyond the control of the defendant or that the defendant took reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to avoid the contravention. [More…]

• That very satisfactory form of defence has been weakened to this: [More…]

• The defence regarding the mistake or reliance on information supplied by another person is reduced to this concept of ‘reasonable’, which I think is much weaker than the previous obligation whereby the defendant was required to show that he had taken reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence. [More…]

• So although the terms of the consumer protection provisions are widened, the defence is weakened. [More…]

• With great respect, Mr Temporary Chairman, I agree with you, but I must remind you that I have to reply in defence of my colleague Senator McLaren to the intemperate and excessive language used by Senator Hall in his vitriolic attack against my distinguished and revered colleague. [More…]

• Three ministers of the newly formed government of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri (Minister of Political Affairs), Rogerio Lobato (Minister of Defence), and Jose Ramos Horta (Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information), leave East Timor in anticipation of an invasion. [More…]

• Civil Defence and Emergency Services [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) What are the names of all firms which have contracted for defence work at Pine Gap, Narrungar and Tranet Station 1 12 since 1967, including contractors engaged solely by the United States Department of Defence. [More…]

• Is Narrungar one of the two ground stations which receive, process and transmit satellite mission data for the United States Department of Defence program 647. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• Why do Defence and Foreign Affairs lists of Central Intelligence Agency agents differ, as in the case of Richard Stallings. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The Minister for Defence did not make the statement on 14 September 1976 or at any other time that is attributed to him by the honourable senator, or any similar statement. [More…]

• A simple check open to the honourable senator, would show that the quotation he used was from a newspaper commentary on statements both by the present Minister for Defence and by the Leader of the Opposition when Prime Minister. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Thomson Ramo Wooldridge Corporation is engaged in high energy laser technology and the Survivable Satellite program as stated in the Defence Marketing Services Intelligence Report. [More…]

• If such activities were being carried out at Australian defence bases, would such bases become prime nuclear war targets, endangering the lives of Australians. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Government stands by the practice of all previous Australian Governments neither to confirm nor deny speculation or assertion regarding the Joint Australian/United States Defence Space Communications Station at Narrungar and the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap. [More…]

• However, regarding (5) the honourable senator might refer to statements made by Ministers in the former Labor Government declaring their satisfaction that the operations of joint Australian/United States defence facilities in Australia were consistent with Australian interests. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The Government stands by the practice of all previous Governments neither to confirm nor to deny speculation or assertion regarding the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap. [More…]

• However, the Minister for Defence made a statement on 2 June regarding this Facility, to which the honourable senator’s attention is invited. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (l), (2) and (3) The Government has nothing to add to the statement made by the Prime Minister on 24 May concerning allegations about CIA activity in Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1 977: [More…]

• 1 ) Is it a fact that the inner bunker system and monitoring equipment of the defence system at Pine Gap can be reached only by United States Defence Department personnel having the highest security clearance. [More…]

• Could the United States be using the defence base at Pine Gap for projects without the Australian Government’s knowledge. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The Government stands by the practice of all previous Governments neither to confirm nor deny specuation or assertion about the Joint Defence Space Research Facility at Pine Gap. [More…]

• However, the Minister for Defence made a statement on 2 June regarding this Facility, to which the honourable senator ‘s attention is invited. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1 977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• Why did Richard Stalling ‘s name not appear on the Defence list of Central Intelligence Agency agents. [More…]

• Was Ed McHale, a United States Labor Attache in Melbourne, from November 1973 until January 1 976, on the Defence or Foreign Affairs list of Central Intelligence Agency agents. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The Government has nothing to add to the statement by the Prime Minister on 24 May concerning allegations about CIA activity in Australia. [More…]

• and (5) The honourable senator is referred to statements by Ministers of the former Labor Government regarding these matters, for example by the former Minister for Defence on 9 January 1 974. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, who represents the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I am attracted by that recommendation of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which states that the shipbuilding industry should be considered as a defence need. [More…]

• I certainly have not seen the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• All I can say is that naturally the Government will read the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence with interest. [More…]

• D.S.C., M.P., and Senator Bishop- Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively of the Subcommitteeand their fellows for their efforts in bringing this report to the whole Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and, through that Committee, to the Parliament. [More…]

• The first criterion is what we have described as a low level scenario defence of the situation and the second is a high level scenario of the defence situation. [More…]

• In other words, and more plainly, the Government must make strategic decisions in advance on defence preparations based upon those assessments. [More…]

• I want firstly to thank him, because he chairs the full Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the Chairman of the Sub-committee and members of the Sub-committee who spent more than 12 months in their investigations and studies, the results of which are now in one document. [More…]

• My personal general conclusion resulting from the recommendations and conclusions of the Committee is that there is an urgent need to do something about industrial support within Australia if we are to meet defence needs. [More…]

• In 1970 during the debate on the Supply Bills a motion was passed relating to the urgent need to maintain a defence capacity. [More…]

• It repeals the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act 1976. [More…]

• It also provides for amendments to the Defence Services Homes Act 1 9 1 8 to enable the defence service homes scheme to be administered under the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]

• The Bill provides that the staff employed under the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act will be employed under the Public Service Act. [More…]

• A Defence Service Homes Trust Account is to be established for the payment of the Corporation’s capital and interest payments. [More…]

• Normally, this Bill would have given the Parliament an opportunity to debate a very controversial matter- the provision of defence service homes. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• Does this inspection and surveillance include those aircraft that supply the Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap, Alice Springs. [More…]

• Does the Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap employ both American and Australian citizens. [More…]

• Does Pine Gap come under the jurisdiction of the Australian Government through the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• DEFENCE AND WORKS DIVISION [More…]

• Policy matters relating to defence, including the cost and policy implications of defence proposals, the Five Year Defence Program, Services pay and conditions matters and defence works, property acquisitions and related programs; [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 March 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Lump sum payments are made annually by the Department of Defence to the University of Melbourne for expenditure in the Physics and Aeronautical Science Departments of the RAAF Academy at Point Cook. [More…]

• The Department of Defence also contributes financially to research activities in Universities or other post-secondary institutions not directly associated with the Defence Force. [More…]

• There are currently five such projects to which the total allocation of Defence funds over several years is $147,329. [More…]

• Defence, Education, Science and Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Prime Minister announced that a separate repatriation system would be maintained, and that responsibility for defence service homes, for war graves, and responsibility for the repatriation system would now be vested in a new Department of Veterans ‘Affairs. [More…]

• It refers also to the recommendations contained in a report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [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 these 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…]

• I speak in response to the motion of the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) that the Senate take note of the paper which he has presented on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• The report presented to the Senate on behalf of the Minister for Defence relates to the conclusions of the Board of Inquiry into the fire at the Naval Air Station at Nowra on 4 December 1976. [More…]

• I am given to understand that the Minister for Defence is making a somewhat similar statement in his own name in another place. [More…]

• My colleague the honourable member for Oxley, the Honourable Bill Hayden, as the Labor Party spokesman on defence will be responding in the House of Representatives to what the Minister says there. [More…]

• The base at Nowra is an important defence establishment. [More…]

• In a defence establishment of this size and importance it is amazing that the advice of the Fire Board, which is charged with the responsibility of giving advice on how to protect these establishments, has never been sought by the Department of Defence on what action should be taken in the event of a calamity of this nature. [More…]

• The Minister went on to say that the Board had not carried out any inspections at the Nowra base but had advised the Department of Defence of its willingness to assist the Naval Board of Inquiry which had been established to look into the recent fire. [More…]

• In other words, not only had there been no request by the Department of Defence to the Fire Board to carry out an inspection but also in all the many years of operation of the Fire Board no inspection of that valuable Commonwealth establishment had been made by the Fire Board. [More…]

• In taking note of what the Minister has said on behalf of the Minister for Defence I suggest to him that he and his Department should be presenting this report to the Fire Board and ensuring on behalf of the Australian taxpayers that more and better use is made in future of the knowledge that lies within the purview of the Fire Board regarding the protection of Commonwealth property. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 April 1977: [More…]

• How many persons have had their Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority invalidity classification changed from Class B to Class C in the years 1974-75, 1975-76 and 1976-77. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I am advised by the Chairman of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority that reclassification of persons in receipt of Class B invalidity benefit to Class C under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1 948 and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1 973 during the years mentioned are as follows: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice on 25 May 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1977: [More…]

• Has the Department of Defence decided to defer an evaluation program for the replacement of the Mirage aircraft for the RAAF. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Following the announcements in the White Paper on Australian Defence in November 1976 (Chapter 4, paras 88 and 91, page 24) Requests for Proposals were forwarded to eleven manufacturers in the United States of America and Europe inviting proposals for the provision of a new tactical fighter aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]

• The detailed investigations mentioned in the Defence White Paper are proceeding but they have been affected by a number of factors including the late submission of proposals by the United States companies, due to a U.S. legislative requirement that such proposals be submitted through the U.S. Department of Defense, and the lack of detailed information provided by some of the prospective suppliers. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 May 1977: [More…]

• With reference to the Defence Report 1976 in which it is stated that the ‘main areas’ in which Australian Defence Force elements have been deployed overseas during the year are Malaysia, Singapore and Papua New Guinea (a) what units and numbers were involved in each of these 3 cases and for what period and (b) in which other areas overseas were elements of the Australian Defence Force deployed during 1976. [More…]

• That, contrary to the accepted principle that the primary duty of an archival institution is to look to the physical and moral defence of archives in its care, the Australian Government has so neglected to care for its archives in the Australian Capital Territory that they are in considerable physical danger. [More…]

• The Leader of the Government in the Senate has taken up the defence, possibly on her behalf. [More…]

• I believe that she deserved a better defence than she was given this afternoon. [More…]

• Section 15a of the Ordinance empowered an investigating officer to require information and documents from persons, and refusal or failure to comply with such a requirement would be an offence, the only defences being incapacity to comply or the defence that the requirement was not reasonable for the purposes of the Ordinance. [More…]

• The Minister has now agreed to put the defence of reasonable excuse into this provision, although it should be noted that provisions similar to the one now in the Ordinance have been passed by the Parliament in various Acts. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority; the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Board; the Australian Services Canteens Organisation; the RAN Central Canteens Board; the RAN Relief Trust Fund; the RAAF Veterans Residence Trust; the RAAF Welfare Trust Fund; the Australian Military Forces Relief Trust Fund and the Services Canteens Trust Fund. [More…]

• Neither the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority nor the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Board is a funded scheme and no banking is involved. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 May 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• However, as announced in the Defence White Paper presented in November 1976 examination has commenced of a follow-on destroyer program and approval has been given for the acquisition of some IS patrol craft of which 13 or 14 are to be built in Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 June 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator ‘s question: [More…]

• Has the Minister undertaken any review of procedures within the Department of Transport since the severe criticism of the administration of the Department by an aviation and defence correspondent John Stackhouse on the PM program of May 1977; if so, what are the details. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Fifthly, if so, does this not mean that Australian defence forces are taking part on one side of an armed conflict at a time when no state of war exists between this nation and any other, as happened in Vietnam? [More…]

• I have never heard of any suggestion that it was shot down but I shall take that up with the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As to the other assertions in the honourable senator’s question, I shall have them checked by both my colleagues the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• There have been defence reactor deaths and we must concede that, but the first reactors were experimental and were defence reactors. [More…]

• The problem was with the Defence and research reactors, not in commercial power generators. [More…]

• But it never even breached the first line of defence. [More…]

• The Indians used the defence reactor. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• He will recall that on Tuesday I asked questions about the future of the Whyalla and Newcastle shipyards and the recommendation by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that there should be a special group to inquire into the possibility of a package deal which was recommended by the Committee and which was later supported by senators of the Liberal Party and the Australian Labor Party in a letter to the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Is a member of the Department of Defence on that committee? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Has the Government given consideration to the reforming of the Royal Australian Air Force Construction Squadron to permit existing airstrips to be maintained at a reasonable operational level, to construct new airstrips where necessary and, at the same time, to provide a pool of highly trained personnel for the construction of future defence projects in the north? [More…]

• -I think the honourable senator would know from his reading of the White Paper on defence that the Government is very conscious that there ought to be proper surveillance in our northern areas. [More…]

• The honourable senator would know that the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence some time ago made a personal inspection of the northern coast of Western Austrafia looking at possible places at which to establish a base in that region. [More…]

• I have no direct knowledge of what my colleague the Minister for Defence may have in mind with regard to the re-formation of such a squadron. [More…]

• the Naval Defence Act . [More…]

• The ACTU officers, day by day, are being called in to settle disputes even in areas of defence and elsewhere. [More…]

• in reply- Could I say something firstly in defence of the Postal Commission. [More…]

• Therefore I think it is fair to say in defence of the Commission that it has not set out to do all the things that Senator Bishop alleged it has been doing. [More…]

• I am saying, in defence of the Postal Commission, that its members were Labor Party appointees. [More…]

• We were given one hour 30 minutes to debate defence forces retirement benefits legislation which affected every serviceman. [More…]

• This new legislation will override the provisions in the Naval Defence Act, the Supply and Development Act and all the provisions in those pieces of legislation which have been laid down to regulate conditions between master and servant. [More…]

• Might I say in defence of public servants that I was once a public servant. [More…]

• However, I suppose that is understandable in that the Labor Party is the political wing of industrial labour and it is committed, whether it wants to be or not, to a position of defence, regardless of the most reasonable aspect that can be put upon legislation that comes before the Parliament. [More…]

• There is already a Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of which I am a member is presently looking at Australia’s aid in the South Pacific region. [More…]

• The first one was the interim report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘The Lebanon Crisis- Humanitarian Aspects’. [More…]

• The other was the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘Australia and the Refugee Problem’. [More…]

• Together with other members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I visited the refugee camp at Wacol in Brisbane. [More…]

• This matter was raised at the Sub-Committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that dealt with the Indian Ocean region. [More…]

• Lord Graham as Minister of External Affairs and Defence has said: ‘International communism is our enemy, all this talk of political advancement and the majority rule is no more than a smokescreen in the early skirmishes of an assault upon the whole of Africa . [More…]

• It is urgent that the Senate and the House of Representatives in the Parliament assembled, will observe natural justice and proper humanity by inviting only authorised representatives of the present Rhodesian Parliament to Australia, to do what they have been deprived of doing previously, present their case fully and publicly so that this can be examined and tested, without interference, and so that the eventual impact on Australia ‘s own security and defence alliances can be gauged with better accuracy. [More…]

• Having in mind the fact that the Government recognised the necessity of providing improved radio communications for the people of the outback and for defence purposes, and so had planned to upgrade radio transmitter facilities in the Northern Territory by procuring and setting up two short wave transmitters at Cox Peninsula, can the Minister advise whether Telecom Australia has decided that these transmitters will not be provided for the people of the Territory and the outback but will be redirected to Shepparton, where, whilst they may be of some advantage in the more highly populated areas of Australia, they will be of little advantage to the people of the outback and the Northern Territory? [More…]

• The recent establishment here of two new varieties of aphid demonstrates how easily this could happen and it is considered our quarantine laws, vigilance and defence against these things are proving insufficient. [More…]

• I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, by saying that perhaps he has heard that the wreck of an aircraft which crashed in 1937 near Waratah in Tasmania- I think it was a Hawker Demon A 18, which was reputedly one of the world’s best fighter planes of the 1930s- was lifted out of the bush and taken to Hobart, will be flown or may already have been flown to Melbourne for restoration and is then destined, I believe, for a Royal Australian Air Force museum at Point Cook. [More…]

• As the aircraft was resident in Tasmania for some 40 years and was obviously quite content in Tasmanian bush until disturbed, could the Minister ask the Minister for Defence to have the aircraft, once restored, returned to Tasmania and exhibited either in Hobart Airport or Launceston Airport instead of being isolated at Point Cook? [More…]

• I will pass on the honourable senator’s suggestion to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of the statement made by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development that the Army should have a greater commitment in the State of Tasmania? [More…]

• 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…]

• In fairness to my own party, the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, who is now our Ambassador to the Scandinavian countries, in a declaration used the words ‘in a reasonable time’. [More…]

• Probably in the first decade of this country when Australia was a fledgeling nation it needed this land for the creation of its navy and other defence forces. [More…]

• United States Central Intelligence Agency: Attendance of Officers of Department of Defence at Courses (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 30 May 1977: [More…]

• How many officers of the Department of Defence have attended courses at the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters at Langley, Virginia, United States of America, in the past ten years. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister may recall that when he was the Minister in charge of this portfolio I asked him questions about the future of the defence service homes scheme in relation to serving servicemen and others and to which he replied that, I think, there would be literally no alterations to the provisions. [More…]

• I now ask the Minister: Is it a fact that the conditions and eligibility requirements under this scheme have been quite drastically changed and that the future of land holdings which are at present held by the Defence Service Homes Corporation is in some doubt because of a Government direction that these are likely to be sold? [More…]

• Senator Bishop referred to questions that he has asked me over some period- I think commencing about this time last year- concerning speculation about changes to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• The Government considered all matters in relation to the defence service homes scheme in the Budget context and it made some changes to the scheme, some of which have been referred to by Senator Bishop in his question this afternoon. [More…]

• That has never been the major feature of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to state whether Australian military aid can be used for such offensive purposes, or is our aid program geared to the defence needs of Indonesia? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry, although it has defence overtones. [More…]

• He is a member of the ALP’s foreign affairs and defence committee. [More…]

• We saw a perfect illustration of that here tonight when we saw Senator Walters and Senator Archer come to Senator Harradine ‘s defence. [More…]

• The present waiting period of 1 1 months for defence service homes loans was introduced by the previous Labor Government on 1 August 1975. [More…]

• Of course, to eliminate the waiting period would require a very considerable increase in the Budget appropriation for the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• I think we should be very appreciative to the Minister for Defence for making ohe of the training flights available. [More…]

• The implementation by the Government of the recommendation made by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, in its Interim Report on Industrial Support for Defence Needs and Allied Matters tabled on 3 June 1977, that an expert group should be set up to examine and report upon the cost and practicability of the shipbuilding proposals outlined by the Committee, and particularly those in regard to the Whyalla and Newcastle shipyards.’ [More…]

• The implementation by the Government of the recommendation made by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, in its Interim Report on Industrial Support for Defence Needs and Allied Matters tabled on 3 June 1977, that an expert group should be set up to examine and report upon the cost and practicability of the shipbuilding proposals outlined by the Committee, and particularly those in regard to the Whyalla and Newcastle shipyards.’ [More…]

• The purpose of the motion is to bring before the Senate an important recommendation of an important Committee of this Parliament, namely, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Although we have not had a debate, in this chamber for many months on the problems of the shipbuilding industry in Australia and although there has not been one in the other place for, I think, 12 months, everybody is aware of the serious position which has arisen in Australia in relation to our shipbuilding capacity and more particularly, as a result of this report, in respect of our defence capability. [More…]

• The Committee of which I was a member, together with other members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, felt that the matters involved were so important that it appointed a subcommittee to make a report to the full Committee on industrial support needs for defence purposes. [More…]

• One is the defence implications. [More…]

• The Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, whose membership I have outlined, has put forward a unaminous recommendation. [More…]

• We believe that recommendation 7.89 of the Foreign Affairs and Defence report should be proceeded with in order to examine more closely the points raised by the Committee to establish the economic feasibility of the package deal proposed in recommendation 7.88 of the report. [More…]

• Important elements of the community and members and senators of this Parliament are concerned about defence capability. [More…]

• Our evaluations have made it clear, however, that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to protect that industry’s future in Australia would have been well beyond the level that could be justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• Most importantly, it would in turn maintain for defence purposes the capacity that we should have, because this country should not be left in a position where it was unprepared for a situation that could arise overnight. [More…]

• The shipyard got its first fillip from what was needed in the steel industry and what was needed for defence purposes. [More…]

• We know that the Department of Defence and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) are looking at the matter. [More…]

• I consider that the Committee’s recommendation accords with that of the Department of Defence because it is very close to the recommendations which the Department put to the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]

• It of course highlights the serious situation which will confront this country if in addition to losing that defence capacity which is required in the opinion of an important body, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- this view was supported by everybody on the Committee, including the Chairman, Senator Sir Magnus Cormack- we forgo our obligations of servicing and the surveillance of the wider zones for which we will be accepting responsibility in the near future. [More…]

• The Committee which developed the policy is presently considering the replies of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• They, in conjunction with an appreciation of the defence aspect, seem to me to offer a new starting point, a new hope, for the Australian shipbuilding industry. [More…]

• I think that the straw to which the Whyalla council was clinging was the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, to which Senator Bishop has referred. [More…]

• Senator Bishop said, the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence suggested that because of their importance to the defence of Australia, the Newcastle works and the BHP works at Whyalla should be upgraded, which of course would cost an additional $ 100m for each shipyard, a total of $200m, quite apart from any thought at all of subsidy. [More…]

• Mr Dunstan wrote to the Prime Minister on 15 June and referred to the recommendations on shipbuilding by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I am writing in reply to your letter of 15 June in which you requested that the recommendations on shipbuilding of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence be implemented and also in response to earlier correspondence between our Governments regarding shipbuilding. [More…]

• In coming to this position we have weighed most carefully the views put forward by your Government and the Government of New South Wales, and by other parties including in particular the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the union movement, and local government and other organisations and individuals in Newcastle and Whyalla. [More…]

• Our evaluations have made it clear, however, that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to protect that industry’s future in Australia would have been well beyond the level that could be justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• All these aspects have been given very careful consideration, together with the fact that in Australia we already have a capacity to build ships through the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Department of Defence maintains the Williamstown naval dockyard which has a shipbuilding capability to produce ships of destroyer size. [More…]

• The letter from the Prime Minister to the Premier of South Australia referred to the fact that the Government had given serious consideration to the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It indicates the matters that the Government has considered and states that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in an interim report, the Hamer Report- that is the report to which Senator Bishop referredconcluded that the existing large ship construction industry should be retained. [More…]

• The Government has carefully considered this aspect of the report and its evaluations made it clear that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to retain the industry would be higher than could be justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• Our evaluations have made it clear, however, that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to protect that industry’s future in Australia would have been well beyond the level that could be justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• Today he has come into this place and-I gather from the speech that he has made- indicated that he has no intention of supporting the motion of urgency which has been so ably put forward by Senator Bishop and which is supported by the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The implementation by the Government of the recommendation made by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, in its Interim Report on Industrial Support for Defence Needs and Allied Matters tabled on 3 June 1977, that an expert group should be set up to examine and report upon the cost and practicability of the shipbuilding proposals outlined by the Committee, and particularly those in regard to the Whyalla and Newcastle shipyards.’ [More…]

• I should like to elaborate on the recommendation which was brought down by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• All we are asking the Government to do is to set up an expert committee as is recommended in the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• As the motion states, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of which I am a member, indicated in its interim report on industrial support for defence needs and allied matters the importance of shipbuilding and ship repair facilities to Australia’s defence needs. [More…]

• A confidential report handed to the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, last night, is strongly critical of local capacity to meet military needs. [More…]

• The report on the capability of industry to meet defence needs was compiled by the Chairman of BHP, Sir Ian McLennan, and a group of senior industrialists. [More…]

• The report says the capability of industry to cater for defence needs is not keeping pace with changing requirements for equipment and technology. [More…]

• I am sure that all members of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence would agree with that statement by the Chairman of Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. On 12 October 1976 I asked the following question in this chamber; [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for Defence agree with the statement made by the Deputy Premier of New South Wales - [More…]

• Mr Jack Ferguson; on 10 October 1976 to the effect that a viable shipbuilding industry is vital to Australia’s defence capabilities? [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Defence referred that question to Mr Killen. [More…]

• In his reply he virtually disagreed with everything that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is now saying. [More…]

• I wish now to deal with the defence needs. [More…]

• One of the previous speakers in the debate- I think it was Senator Jessop- said in fact that the Department of Defence had the equipment to take over this task. [More…]

• Senator Sir Magnus Cormack would remember, as the Committee looked at this aspect, that a lot of this equipment- was found to be hopelessly outdated and to need replacing, whether it be by the Department of Defence or by any other body. [More…]

• I took note earlier of the point made by Senator Sir Magnus Cormack concerning the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The point that Senator Steele Hall seems to misunderstand completely is that the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee agreed, despite the strategic guidelines, that the industry should be rationalised, that the existing ship construction facilities at Whyalla should be retained and that there should be an injection of capital at both yards on a shared basis, the sharing being between the Commonwealth and the New South Wales Governments in the case of Newcastle, and between the Commonwealth and South Australian Governments and BHP in the case of Whyalla. [More…]

• Let us look at the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to which Senator Bishop has so gloatingly referred. [More…]

• We also know, if we are to take the defence argument, that there is no ‘future for that sort of craft in terms of assisting the defence effort. [More…]

• When one again considers the defence aspect, one notes that today’s demand in the naval sphere is not for huge dreadnoughts of 40,000 to 50,000 tons but is for light ships. [More…]

• The point has to be made that, no matter what happens, if we are to retain the Whyalla operations for building ships for defence and naval purposes obviously the industry there needs to be significantly restructured so that it is capable of building smaller vessels. [More…]

• The point here is that there is no statement in this report which indicates that there should be the need to keep a shipbuilding industry which manufactures large ships for defence needs. [More…]

• The view of the Government, which of course has been based on detailed defence analyses that have since become available, is that there is not a likelihood that there will be a very great number of high level conflict scenarios. [More…]

• In coming to this position we have weighed most carefully the views put forward by the South Australian and New South Wales Governments and by other parties including in particular the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, the union movement, and local government and other organisations and individuals in Whyalla and Newcastle . [More…]

• He said: ‘If you want to know what the defence policy is on roads, it is that we do not build roads in these remote areas because the enemy may use them if they invade us’. [More…]

• As a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that is looking at some of the problems in the South Pacific at the moment- Senator Scott who is in the chamber is a member of that Committee- I have seen some of the problems that are caused by nations being given equal opportunity to operate their own international airlines. [More…]

• I suggest to Senator Sibraa that he should direct his attention to a very good document, namely, the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Omega facility. [More…]

• It was said in the speech last night that he is a member of the Australian Labor Party Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]

• -On 16 August 1977 (Hansard, page 11) and 19 August (Hansard, page 346) Senator Bishop asked me questions without notice regarding shipbuilding and the proposals of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• On 1 1 August I conveyed to the New South Wales and South Australian Premiers and the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, the Government’s decision to accept the recommendations of the Industries Assistance Commission not to vary the rates of assistance for shipbuilding, as payable under the legislation introduced by the previous Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• In coming to this position the Government took carefully into account the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, as well as the views put forward by the South Australian and New South Wales Governments, the union movement and other organisations and individuals in Whyalla and Newcastle. [More…]

• The Government’s evaluations show conclusively, however, that the cost to the community oi” the assistance needed to protect the future of the shipbuilding industry would be well beyond the level that could tie justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• It is urgent that the Senate and the House of Representatives in the Parliament assembled, will observe common justice and proper humanity by inviting only authorised representatives of the present Government of Rhodesia to Australia, to do what they have been deprived to do previously, present their case fully and publicly so that this can be examined and tested, without interference and so that the eventual impact on Australia’s own security and defence alliances can be gauged with better accuracy. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, refers to previous questions I have asked the Minister about the proposal that trials be held at Woomera to see to what extent the range might be suitable for the Services in relation to their particular trials and the facilities available to them at that place. [More…]

• Concerning the staff, I am advised that surplus personnel at Salisbury and Woomera have now been identified and advised, using criteria agreed between the Department of Defence, the Public Service Board and the peak councils of the unions concerned. [More…]

• The Department of Defence, with the local Public Service inspector and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, are providing help to these people in their search for new employment. [More…]

• As to the future of the Woomera village, I am advised that the village and supporting facilities will continue for the foreseeable future to provide facilities primarily for the joint defence space communication station and also to the employees of the joint project during the run-down process and at the care and maintenance level. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received letters from the Prime Minister nominating Mr J. R. Martyr to fill the vacancy on the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and nominating Mr B. D. Simon to fill the vacancy on the Joint Standing Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House caused by the resignation of the Hon. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• approximately 95 performed a variety of administrative tasks for the Chief of Defence Force Staff conference and the Chief of the General Staff annual exercise, conducted in Canberra. [More…]

• Lord Graham as Minister of External Affiairs and Defence has said: [More…]

• On 18 August 1977 Senator Primmer asked me the following questions as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Fifthly, if so, does this not mean that Australian defence forces are taking part on one side of an armed conflict at a time when no state of war exists between this nation and any other, as happened in Vietnam? [More…]

• -The point which is clearly painful to Senator Martin is quite different in the present context because what the Schools Commission has done has been quite clearly to make a stand on the principles upon which it was established- a stand on which it is in diametrical conflict with this Government which, as I said before, has indulged itself in the sorts of remarks which have been made consistently by the Minister for Education in recent weeks in defence of the Government’s position. [More…]

• In defence of his failure to secure adequate funding for the rolling triennium, the Minister has said that the States can move in and make up the necessary funds for the government sector of schools. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question ( 1 and 2) An Australian Army Pilatus Porter aircraft was holed by one round of small arms ammunition near Warok in Irian Jaya, on 7 August. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and/or to the Minister representing the Treasurer. [More…]

• I preface the question by reminding the Minister that the costing of defence projects is increasing due to inflation and that the longer those projects are delayed, the greater the costing. [More…]

• Is it a fact that officers of the Department of Defence use an inflation rate of 2 per cent a month compounding for projects that are delayed? [More…]

• What is the explanation for the use of the higher inflation rate figure in costings for delayed projects undertaken by the Department of Defence? [More…]

• If the inflation factor used by the Department of Defence is not 2 per cent a month compounding, what in fact is the correct factor? [More…]

• -The question undoubtedly involves a combination of defence costing and areas of Treasury assessment. [More…]

• But he is entitled to an answer to the question and I will obtain that from the Treasury and the Department of Defence if such information is available. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• does this not mean that Australian defence forces are taking part on one side of an armed conflict at a time when no state of war exists between this nation and any other . [More…]

• I do not know whether the Minister for Defence or the Department of Defence thinks honourable senators are fairly naive or dumb. [More…]

• If they are, does this not mean that the Australian defence forces are supplying some of the wherewithal on one side of an armed conflict? [More…]

• -I do not know whether the Department of Defence thinks the honourable senator is naive or stupid. [More…]

• Labor Ministers for Defence must have looked at it and been satisfied that it was being put to proper purposes. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the Department of Defence does in fact work on an inflation rate of 24 per cent on delayed orders? [More…]

• If I remember correctly, I undertook to ask for the answer to Senator Keeffe ‘s supposition about the Department of Defence assumptions. [More…]

• Is the Government now aware that the Prime Minister’s failure yesterday to make a clear, precise statement in defence of the Australian dollar has caused further speculative outflows and a weakening of the dollar against other major currencies? [More…]

• One is that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of this Parliament, of which I was a member, found that Omega was a most valuable commercial aid to navigation and that the allegations about its defence or aggressive characteristics were proven wrong. [More…]

• My question is directed either to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations or to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -I wanted to get the question right because I thought for a moment that the honourable senator was asking whether the defence forces were, in fact, running a commercial service. [More…]

• I will certainly ask my colleague, the Minister for Defence, to give me an early reply. [More…]

• The Minister for Transport invited him, as a former senior Army commander, to give an explanation of what this country needed today in relation to roads for defence purposes. [More…]

• His rejoinder was that one does not need roads so much for defence purposes in 1977 as there are other methods of” transporting troops and equipment to remote areas of this country. [More…]

• I do not think I need to say much more, except to reiterate what I have said about the importance of the Stuart Highway as a national highway, as a defence highway and as a national commercial road. [More…]

• 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 percent 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 1980s 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 shorter 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, along 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 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…]

• 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 extra-ordinarily simplistic approach to Australia’s defence problems. [More…]

• The cost of the flight while initially a charge to Defence appropriations was recovered from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]

• I direct a question which refers to two aspects concerning Woomera, to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I will ask my colleague, the Minister for Defence, in the other place whether I can have that information as a matter of urgency. [More…]

• The Government is acutely aware of the need for Australia to maintain a highly sophisticated and developing electronics industry not only for defence, of course, but also for the progress of development. [More…]

• It is, I think, a tribute to the industry that it has developed so rapidly over the years; indeed, that it can maintain such sophistication in the defence sphere as, for instance, in the very high electronics of, say, the FI 1 1 and other kinds of aircraft. [More…]

• The Department of Health initially accepted the responsibility for this additional surveillance and the Department of Defence has assumed financial responsibility, using DC3 aircraft and subsequently Tracker aircraft stationed at Darwin. [More…]

• By that time, with the war clouds, there was a belated injection of capital into the metal trades of course largely in relation to defence. [More…]

• The defence allocation is $2.4 billion. [More…]

• It is very clear that not only are prisoners being tried in Thailand under very bad circumstances which give no opportunity for a proper defence, but also the prisoners themselves who are kept confined are suffering considerably. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of recent criticisms- I think they were initiated in his own State- of Commonwealth Government tendering procedures relating to defence purchases? [More…]

• The successful tenderer was the lowest tenderer for the type of boat the Defence Department considered necessary for Navy requirements. [More…]

• if Senator Walsh believes what he said here, he will be willing to say the same things outside so that others who are not here to defend themselves can avail themselves of the ordinary process of defence outside. [More…]

• Firstly, I would have thought that Senator Carrick would have been well aware of the fact that truth is not necessarily an effective legal defence in an action for defamation. [More…]

• Senator Walsh should be thanked for what he has exposed here in relation to the proposed actions of the Prime Minister, who goes around the country dropping little syllables here and there- Mr Nixon does it; Mr Anthony does it; and I think one of the other Cabinet Minister did it the other day in a certain place, I think it was the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen- trying to put the people on edge by hinting that there may be an election in the offing in the very near future. [More…]

• Senator Durack, in his defence of the high unemployment figures today, was saying: ‘Oh, you cannot blame the present Government because the situation was a world-wide phenomenon’. [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, lt 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, 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…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) Was a treaty signed in 1967 additional to and relating to the same matter as the 1966 treaty between Australia and the United States of America for the establishment of a Joint Space Defence Research Facility. [More…]

• Was a further defence agreement between Australia and America signed in 1969. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1) to (4) No treaty or agreement has been concluded in relation to the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, other than the 1966 agreement (No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 September 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• Question ( 1 )-a list of premises leased for use by civil and defence departments has been supplied to Senate Estimates Committee ‘A’. [More…]

• These schedules do not include residential premises leased for civil and defence departments. [More…]

• Comprises capital expenditure on ferry and bus terminals, the operating costs of landing barges provided by the Defence Force and assistance for the operation of ferry and additional bus services. [More…]

• It enables the government of the day to effect certain transfers or debit what is known as the Loan Fund of the Commonwealth accounts for purposes of defence expenditure without increasing overall those defence appropriations rather than deducting that expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [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 . [More…]

• In practice he knows, and we know, that this is done by transferring some Defence expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund where the finance is obtained from borrowings. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill, therefore, is to authorise borrowings in order that Defence expenditure may be met from the Loan Fund rather than from the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• As the borrowings are necessary for defence purposes, no Loan Council approvals are necessary. [More…]

• It does not authorise any defence expenditure additional to the expenditure included in the Budget. [More…]

• There is a limit on the amount of defence expenditure charged to the $1,1 00m, but allowing for a margin of safety. [More…]

• The Bill authorises the transfer of defence expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund only in respect of expenditure incurred after the Loan Bill is passed. [More…]

• For 1976-77, what was the amount of defence expenditure transferred from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund; what were the other net transactions of the Loan Fund and net transactions of the Trust Fund? [More…]

• Can monies currently in the Loan Fund, and which were raised for other purposes, be drawn on to meet defence expenditures? [More…]

• Are there any resolutions of the Loan Council relating to defence loans? [More…]

• What credits are, or would be, available in the Loan Fund which can be used for defence puposes? [More…]

• They included the development of a Navy supply centre and Army workshop facility at the defence establishment at Zetland in New South Wales; sleeping accommodation for the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps at Puckapunyal in Victoria; the consolidation into Bankstown of the Bankstown and Lidcombe government aircraft plants; modernisation of facilities, stage 2, H.M.A. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -The honourable senator puts forward a very interesting suggestion which will certainly take up with my colleague the Minister for Defence, but I think that my colleague the Minister for Science is in charge of Landsat. [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…]

• Within a few days, we heard the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, repudiating those statements. [More…]

• I know there are many problems for people in rural areas but I think too little is said and too little defence is offered of the need for improvements in city life. [More…]

• For example, the pro- portion of the total Budget allocated for defence as declined from 17.1 per cent in 1967-68 to 8.8 per cent, which is the estimated expenditure in the current year. [More…]

• Although Australia’s Defence Co-operation program ($25.9 million in 1977-78) represents an extension of our own defence effort, it also supplements the Government’s overseas economic aid programs to the extent that it releases for development purposes resources that recipient Governments would otherwise have set aside for defence purposes. [More…]

• At what stage does this Government cut off defence aid to an aggressor? [More…]

• In about 1971 a former Minister for Defence, now the Right Honourable Sir John Gorton, tendered his resignation from the McMahon Ministry because of his disagreement with attitudes adopted by that Government. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I must say that I am somewhat disappointed with the defence by Senator Durack in this matter. [More…]

• The fact is that unless big industries flourish- and many of them live off defence undertakings and our mercantile marine- and unless we keep dockyards open, we are not going to have a reservoir of trained apprentices or be able to absorb the journeymen who came from other areas. [More…]

• Australian military assistance to South Vietnam was not at any time in response to a request for defence aid from South Vietnam as a Protocol State to SEATO as a Treaty organisation. [More…]

• Although successive Australian Governments sought publicly to justify their actions as being ‘in the context of or flowing from’ Australia’s membership of SEATO and the theory of the Protocol State or on the ground that military assistance under SEATO could be on a bilateral as well as a collective basis, the commitment was in fact made as a projection of the forward defence policy to which they were committed. [More…]

• These suggestions were discussed by representatives of the Departments of External Affairs, Defence, Navy, Army and Air on 14 December. [More…]

• Whatever the defence interests of Australia and the defence interests of our friends and allies may be there is no reasonable ground for suspecting for one moment that the economic interests of, for example, the United States of America and Australia will necessarily coincide at any time and will, in fact, be anything other than in direct conflict with each other on particular matters. [More…]

• Accordingly, the Government has decided that there should be a special committee of Ministers comprising the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Treasurer, the Leader of the House, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Defence and the AttorneyGeneral to set overall policy and oversee the work of the intelligence community. [More…]

• Be that as it may, the other three Ministers mentioned are the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), who traditionally have been associated with the assessment of intelligence information, and the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) who is, of course, the Minister responsible for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. [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…]

• What His Honour is there saying in more polite terms is that intelligence assessment in the past has been too much in the hands of the foreign affairs- defence establishments in this country, as it has been in most countries of a similar kind, and that as a result of that assessment being in the hands of those two departments, both of which have vested interest of one kind or another in a particular view or interpretation of international events, the intelligence assessment process in this country has suffered. [More…]

• Another effect of the present sharing of control by the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs is that other departments and agencies who, in other circumstances, might better see the need to use intelligence, do not do so. [More…]

• What we now find in the actual legislation is, instead of one Office of National Assessments which would be responsible for assessing intelligence in relation to defence matters, foreign affairs matters and economic matters, a Director-General who is provided with two Boards with which he is to consult. [More…]

• The representatives on it are from the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Defence, a member of the defence force and a member of the Australian Public Service with expertise in economics. [More…]

• Instead of carrying out the recommendation of Mr Justice Hope, as it is obviously spelt out, we have a Director-General placed in the bizarre position of hovering like a well trained waiter between tables one of which is occupied by experts in the assessment of intelligence from the departments of Foreign Affairs and Defence and the other occupied by the experts on the Economic Assessments Board. [More…]

• I repeat what Senator Button said: The National Assessment Board will be dominated by officers from the hierarchy of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Public Service Board and the Defence Forces who may in fact not be disposed to anything other than a rigid and traditional interpretation of international events. [More…]

• We are setting up an Office of National Assessments whose members that we know of will be predominantly from the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Defence and who must, because of their seniority, have played a considerable part in the problems that we got ourselves into in the past. [More…]

• The views that made me suspect at one time I still hold, and the action that I would have taken in 1948 when I was not allowed on a defence project I would take today under the same circumstances and conditions. [More…]

• While listening to Senator Sir Magnus Cormack I realised that while there is a need for the defence of Australia and the physical security of Australia, this Bill goes beyond that. [More…]

• the Chief of Defence Force Staff; [More…]

• the Chief of Staff of an arm of the Defence Force; [More…]

• an officer of the Department of Defence; [More…]

• a member of the Defence Force; and [More…]

• 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…]

• Honourable senators will see that that subclause is concerned mostly with defence. [More…]

• The defence chiefs will make an assessment on matters of political interest to Australia. [More…]

• Clause 6 states that the Board must have on it an officer of the Public Service, not being an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs or the Department of Defence, who has expertise in economics. [More…]

• Subject to sub-section (2), and to compliance with any conditions, requirements or procedures from time to time specified by the Minister, the Director-General is entitled to full access of all information relating to international matters that are of political, strategic or economic significance to Australia, being information in the possession of any Department, Commonwealth authority or arm of the Defence Force. [More…]

• I am concerned about whether there are strict laws of secrecy under the Atomic Energy Act and the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act. [More…]

• It may be alleged that someone who is in receipt of a social security payment is giving information to a foreign power on Australia’s defence and that he has a huge amount of money in the bank. [More…]

• With the transfer of powers to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, is it the intention of the Federal Government to retain responsibility for upgrading and redevelopment of the port, in view of defence requirements and the many other developments taking place in the area? [More…]

• In regard to the Fort Hill wharf I am unable to say whether the Commonwealth interest will be to retain it as a defence responsibility, but I shall have the Minister’s attention drawn to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: As a preliminary inquiry by Royal Australian Air Force experts has revealed that a bird may have caused the recent crash of an FI 1 1 aircraft in northern New South Wales, can he advise whether any progress has been made towards developing a more suitable, and tougher, windscreen or other protection for these and other aircraft under the Minister’s control? [More…]

• The Welfare Defence Movement, an organisation of social welfare bodies established in a sort of self-protection association, said on 1 S July: [More…]

• The Welfare Defence Movement in New South Wales strongly protests at proposed and actual cuts to welfare spending in the following areas: [More…]

• The Welfare Defence Movement, consisting of welfare recipients, welfare agencies, welfare workers, trade unions and concerned others, has arisen in response to the federal government’s cuts to health and welfare spending, which have occurred over the past year and which we anticipate in the next budgetary period. [More…]

• I call on the Government to think about the Northern Territory, our northern gateway; to think about the problems of defence in the Northern Territory; to think about the pastoral industry; and to think of tourism, which could be one of the greatest money spinners in the Northern Territory and which could return a tremendous amount to the Federal Budget. [More…]

• At that stage it was not clear whether Mr Hamer ‘s defence of the Commission was deliberate or simply based on his own ignorance of the facts. [More…]

• The land concerned was purchased by the Whitlam Government allegedly for the construction of defence service homes. [More…]

• That the terms of the matter referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on 23 September 1 976, as varied, be amended to read as follows: [More…]

• We know that the transfer of the funds for defence expenditure to the Loan Fund cannot be accomplished until such time as this Bill passes through the Senate. [More…]

• They are free to do that at any time they wish, and we can enter upon a debate in defence of AUS if we wish; but one thing to which I object, and to which I have objected at Question Time, is the attempt by certain senators to disadvantage AUS Student Travel Service and prevent it from trading out of its difficulty by arrangement. [More…]

• Is the upshot of this situation that some small businesses have failed as a result of entering into Government contracts, particularly in the defence area? [More…]

• I would like to inform the Senate of the advice thereon that I have since received from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• This year, after the Council considered the report in March it was ready for sending to the Department of Defence (Army) on 28 April. [More…]

• This does not seem to be confined, I might add, to the report on the Royal Military College or the Department of the Army in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• First, let me say something in defence of Bob Hawke. [More…]

• With due respect, I suggest that retired public servants and people who emanate from the defence forces are inclined to have confined attitudes. [More…]

• I feel also that there could be an intention to appoint somebody from the defence force or retired public servants, but as members of the old boy network they could be inclined to cover up some situation. [More…]

• I quote that in defence of Elizabeth Reid, a great Australian who was maligned by insinuations in this Senate. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 September 1977: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and relates to action that he himself took some months ago in respect of the proposed sale of land held by the Defence Service Homes Corporation, when the Government decided to reduce the general benefits under that legislation to servicemen and others. [More…]

• Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence should have embarked upon an inquiry which is selective. [More…]

• -by leaveBriefly, I applaud what the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is doing in taking up this particular reference. [More…]

• -by leave- I join with Senator Georges in expressing concern about the selective attitude taken by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which is chaired by Senator Cormack. [More…]

• Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, as Chairman of the Committee, has sought leave of the Senate to make a statement regarding the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]

• -by leaveSenator Sir Magnus Cormack sought leave to make a statement relating to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Subcommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union under the business heading of presentation of papers. [More…]

• It is perhaps a very ambitious project on the part of the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to aspire to go to the Soviet Union, if that is what the Committee hopes to do. [More…]

• -by leave-I believe that the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is treading on rather dangerous ground in this area. [More…]

• Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Members of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, which is a joint committee composed of members drawn from all parties of both Houses of Parliament, have considered this matter. [More…]

• That was done through the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which brought down. [More…]

• I suggest that the letter should read that the officially released findings show no attempt was made to misrepresent the role of these navigation systems by Norwegian officials because information that has come to me recently suggests that a very different role has been played by the Norwegian officials, the Norwegian Defence [More…]

• I intrude into the matter that I have raised to say that that was something that was vehemently denied by officials from the Department of Transport, the Department of Defence and all the other people in this country who came before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence during its inquiry. [More…]

• Also, in a note of 14 October, Bureauchief Graver refers to a telephone conversation he had with acting Bureauchief Bergesen in the Defence Department, and stated amongst other things- [More…]

• On the committee’s meeting on 22 October, a representative of the Defence Staff gave a testimony on the military uses, and concluded that the Omega system was of great importance to the Polaris submarines. [More…]

• That question was raised during the inquiry of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence into the uses of Omega. [More…]

• The Schei report also reveals that a senior Defence Department official recognised that Omega would ‘place a considerable stress on our relations- that is the Norwegians ‘ relations- with the Soviet Union’. [More…]

• This is revealed in the previously mentioned note of October 14th 1964 by Bureau Chief Graver, referring to a telephone conversation he had with Acting Bureau Chief Bergesen in the Defence Department. [More…]

• Also, in a note of December 1st 1969 to the Deputy Director Vibe, in the Foreign Department, Lieutenant Colonel Torp of the Defence Staff Intelligence Service said- [More…]

• While representatives of the Defence staff clearly stated that Omega would be used by Polaris submarines, there was also at that time an official denial from the US on the grounds that it was not accurate enough. [More…]

• But the Defence Minister’s memorandum to the Cabinet on 14 April 1970 mentioned only the American denial and this decided the issue for the Foreign Department and the Cabinet. [More…]

• The report, in my opinion, documents active collaboration between American defence officials and Norwegian civil servants to misrepresent the purpose of the navigation systems, that is Omega and Loran C. On several occasions there were tactical discussions going on between American and Norwegian officials to decide how these military matters could best be presented so that they would be approved by the Parliament. [More…]

• When the Omega case was being considered in Norway in 1971 there was not a single representative in the Norwegian Parliament who asked any question or made any criticism, even though it was evident to them surely that the installation was to be financed by the United States Defence Department. [More…]

• These not only provide the Department with a reliable intercept capacity but also, in conjunction with defence and charter aircraft, are carrying out extensive patrol activity in the area mentioned by Senator Kilgariff. [More…]

• I present a report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on an inquiry into industrial support for defence needs and allied matters, together with the transcript of evidence. [More…]

• It seems to me that one important message which comes from the report is that although we have a reservoir of great professional skills and competence in the defence, scientific and technological services, particularly in the Weapons Research Establishment in my own State, we are becoming more and more dependent on overseas sources. [More…]

• I would like to say something in defence of the three New South Wales distribution commissioners. [More…]

• I think it is proper to say in defence of the three distribution commissioners that whilst some people here may disagree with their judgments I do not think they ought to have improper motives imputed to them in coming to those judgments. [More…]

• The Defence Service Homes Corporation [More…]

• The banker for the Repatriation Commission and the Defence Service Homes Corporation is the Reserve Bank of Australia. [More…]

• Up to 30 June 1977 the Defence Service Homes Corporation operated through accounts with the Commonwealth Trading Bank of Australia. [More…]

• As from1 July 1977 these accounts are being maintained only for the transitional purposes set out in section 14 of the Defence Service Homes Amendment Act 1977. [More…]

• The Defence Service Homes Corporation conducts the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme on a business basis. [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence in a position to confirm or deny reports that Australian military aircraft and personnel from the Special Air Service stationed at Butterworth are being used by the Malaysian Government in support of Gurkha mercenaries on the Thai-Malaysian border? [More…]

• He made those statements in regard to shipping in the Indian Ocean and his own Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) had to repudiate what he said. [More…]

• The information I have is that the manifests are being collated in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I understand that on 4 October Senator Mulvihill put down a reference for the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence concerning all aspects of the current Australian passport system. [More…]

• A member of the Defence Force who served on special service is eligible for repatriation benefits in respect of any period during which he was outside Australia and he or his unit was allotted for special duty in a special area. [More…]

• Is it to be foreign affairs, defence, or economic traveller abroad? [More…]

• Since the question implies that the activities of the Omega navigation aid could have bad or sinister qualities, I repeat that the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of this Parliament indicated that Omega is a useful and valuable commercial and peacetime navigation aid, that it is not a military weapon of any kind, that it is not capable of sending or carrying signals of its own or of receiving them, but that it is simply a time phase device which enables by triangulation the fixing of the location of a vehicle, be it aircraft or ship, anywhere in the world provided that throughout the world there are eight stations, each operating on its own, not all of them on the same allied territory, and all of them capable of turning off their time phase signal from Omega. [More…]

• That was the defence reorganisation Bill which Senator Withers said he would amend. [More…]

• With a three-minute bell call for a division, if the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) could gallop over from Russell in that time he is a better man than I am. [More…]

• Recently at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence we had our Ambassador to Sweden, Mr Barnard, before us. [More…]

• Leaving the estimates for the Department of Administrative Services and going to the estimates for other departments in Group A, I am very interested in an item of expenditure under the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It would be interesting to know what expenditure has not been completed by the Department of Defence in relation to the Darwin Reconstruction Commission. [More…]

• The only information I can give the honourable senator is information contained on page 143 of the explanatory notes of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The authorisation of $9.046m represents the balance of works to be carried out by the Darwin Reconstruction Commission for the Department of Defence before the Commission ceases its program. [More…]

• I do not blame the Minister for Administrative Services for this because it is the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) who is responsible. [More…]

• The defence mechanism was that with the open floor space offices, wide partitioning was needed. [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Transport aware of a report, known as the Schei report, made to the Norwegian Parliament relating to the Omega navigation installation in that country and that the report finds that the Norwegian Parliament was deliberately deceived by its own defence and intelligence organisation on the true purpose of Omega? [More…]

• If the inferences drawn from it are as stated by Senator 0 ‘Byrne, I must say that all available scientific evidence throughout the world and specifically the best scientific evidence that could be brought to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence would refute those inferences. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Administrative Services in both that capacity and in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister will also be aware that the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee in recent reports, and most recently in respect of the electronics industry, has drawn attention to Australia’s alarming dependence upon overseas sources for a number of defence requirements and skills. [More…]

• What consideration has been given to those recommendations of the Joint Committee and to what extent can the policy that he referred to on Tuesday be extended to include defence equipments so as to ensure that defence industrial capacity is adequate for Australia ‘s needs? [More…]

• It would be wise for us to frown upon such a conference, and we should not allow ourselves to be placed in a position where young radical protesters have to take a stand on our behalf in the defence of freedom of expression and communication. [More…]

• Because the Schei inquiry had of necessity to examine defence files, which of course were secret, in order to determine beyond all doubt that no officials had acted improperly, the inquiry’s report had to be classified secret. [More…]

• But the real damage to both AUSST and Qantas was done in the debate by Senator Georges (Queensland, ALP) speaking in their defence. [More…]

• I was not speaking previously in defence of Qantas, I was merely making a few remarks that I thought were pertinent. [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 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 long-established 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…]

• On 26 October, as recorded in Hansard at page 1767, Senator Bishop asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, a question without notice concerning the disposal of land that will not be required for Defence Service Homes purposes. [More…]

• He asked if any Defence Services Homes land in South Australia has yet been sold and if consideration has been given to compensating persons on the waiting list by using some of the proceeds of land sales. [More…]

• No land that will be surplus to the requirements of the Defence Service Homes Corporation in South Australia or elsewhere has yet been sold. [More…]

• Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill (No. [More…]

• Airline Equipment (Loan Guarantee) Bill 1977 Environment (Financial Assistance) Bill 1977 Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) BUI (No. [More…]

• -On 15 September 1977 (Hansard, page 832) Senator Keeffe asked me, as Minister representing the Treasurer, a question without notice concerning the rate of inflation and the inflation factor used in the costing of defence projects that are delayed. [More…]

• I am advised that officers of the Department of Defence do not apply 2 per cent a month compounding or any other standard inflation formula in the costing of delayed projects; rather, project cost estimates are adjusted on an individual basis having regard to pricing information specific to each project. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 October 1977: [More…]

• 1) Is the Minister aware of widespread public disquiet at reports circulating which have suggested that the Defence Department has wasted taxpayers money in its Defence Equipment Procurement Program. [More…]

• Will the Minister indicate whether or not he intends to take steps to ensure that the Defence Department Procurement Program, especially the new five year rolling program emphasises the importance of minimising costs to the taxpayer. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), (2 ) and ( 3 ) During my term as Minister for Defence, I have announced the acquisition of a number of defence equipment items ranging from light trucks for Army, CI 30 aircraft for Air Force, to patrol craft for the RAN. [More…]

• In some instances, an initially higher cost solution may be recommended because of long-term benefits for defence industry in Australia, or perhaps because of expected lower operating and maintenance costs during the life of the equipment [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 November 1977: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The RAAF presence at Butterworth is pursuant to the Five Power Communique of 16 April 1971, which related only to the external defence of Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]

• I will also represent the Ministers for Trade and Resources, Foreign Affairs, Defence and Special Trade Representations, The other portfolios will be represented in this chamber as follows: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I have a degree of knowledge about the matter, but I think it would be far better if I were to ask my colleague, the Minister for Defence, whether he can provide me with detailed answers to the questions raised or whether he is going to present to the Parliament a statement on the position of the Department of Defence in respect of this whole matter. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence: [More…]

• Perhaps this is because there is a greater awareness in the community of the trade offs that are made in a Budget contextmore assistance can only be accorded at the expense of expenditure on the environment, health, social welfare, defence … or through higher taxes. [More…]

• Three- Canal boats are absolutely essential to the defence of the United States. [More…]

• There was a concern for employment, for the effects on associated industries and for defence. [More…]

• One might well be forgiven for thinking that we have just been listening to debates in the Legislative Assembly of South Australia as we listened to the last and recent desperate defence of the Dunstan Government. [More…]

• Senator Cavanagh, who spoke after Senator Haines, proceeded with a somewhat turgid defence of the decision to appoint Senator Haines and in somewhat of a shame-faced way spoke of Mr Millhouse ‘s views on the Constitution. [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…]

• One of the other priorities referred to in the Speech was to protect and enhance the rights and civil liberties of every Australian’, whilst another was ‘to secure the defence of our nation and act as a positive force for world peace’. [More…]

• I know that Mr Killen, the Minister for Defence, is having trouble watching the coastline, but if a patrol boat happens to be anywhere around that area perhaps it might keep an eye out to see what sort of drilling is being done. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, who is a very normal sort of man who has had experience in war and in peace, recently said that we could not carry out proper surveillance unless we had a lot of expensive aeroplanes with which to do it. [More…]

• The problem of adequate surveillance of Australia’s coastline was thrown into the ‘too hard/too expensive’ basket yesterday by the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen. [More…]

• Many defence organisations have said that the Grumman Hawkeye early warning aircraft carry sufficient equipment to be able to detect planes coming in and are able to do an air to sea surveillance as well. [More…]

• I ask my question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The sixth and final argument often used against tariff cuts relates to the area of strategic industries such as defence, and I agree that perhaps there are some industries that need to be maintained against the event of a future conflict. [More…]

• I refer to the defence of Australia. [More…]

• With a defence budget at present of less than $2.5 billion, which is low, its effectiveness will be further reduced by the necessary surveillance of the 200 mile limit. [More…]

• I would say that Australia’s defence forces have, since the last war, been given low priority. [More…]

• The principle of using our defence forces has changed. [More…]

• In reading the Pacific Defence Reporter of February 1978 I was struck by an article entitled ‘New Military Technologies for the Defence of Australia’. [More…]

• From these two new basic elements of Australia’s national security policy- i.e., Defence of Australia rather than Forward Defence and self-reliance- flow a number of important new strategic considerations. [More…]

• First, Australia’s defence forces are now to be based principally in Australia. [More…]

• Second, self-reliance involves the development of an indigenous defence infrastructure- defence industry, logistic support, etc. [More…]

• Today most of our defence forces and equipment is positioned in the eastern seaboard, the southern part of the continent, and apparently no further north than Townsville. [More…]

• In the north there is what can be described only as a smattering of defence units, a few patrol boats, a few aircraft and little Army. [More…]

• The defence of the north has always been a matter of frustration for the people of the north, I would say from 1824 when Fort Dundas was established. [More…]

• The Darwin bombing need not have happened and the number of deaths need not have happened because the Japanese armada which was approaching Darwin at Garden Point, an island in the direction of Timor, sent a warning to the defence forces in Darwin but it was ignored. [More…]

• One can understand the frustration there during that period when the people of the north were so aware of the necessity for defence and there came about the incredible principle of the Brisbane Line. [More…]

• Once again it was said that we must protect the north and bring in the defence forces because the north coast is undefended; but then that was forgotten too. [More…]

• The time has surely come when the importance of surveillance and the defence of the north are put into proper perspective and to combat the considerable distances involved defence forces, customs emergency services, police and people of the north are joined together to defend this country, not only in the event of an attack by a hostile country but also to prevent the introduction of disease and, probably the most important of all at present, to prevent more drugs coming into Australia through our northern coast. [More…]

• One had sympathy for the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) when he said he had ‘Buckley’s’ chance of obtaining sufficient funds from Treasury to provide adequate equipment to defend this vast area. [More…]

• Nevertheless I am more optimistic and believe that if Australia realises the potential danger that lies in the weakness of our defence, funding will be sufficient. [More…]

• Surely this must be the basis on which we should build our defence. [More…]

• Despite what the Minister for Defence has said about the expense and the economics of increasing surveillance in the area, what can the Senate be told about activities at present? [More…]

• As I listened to Senator McLaren my only feeling was that his speech was in the form of a defence of his State Premier. [More…]

• I differ from Mr Killen on this matter; I see the Department of Defence as having a distinct responsibility in this area. [More…]

• Mr Killen has made the point that the defence forces are not the police forces. [More…]

• If we have illegal entry to our land, if we have illegal intrusion, we need our defence forces to protect us from it. [More…]

• I would suggest that it would be economically sound to use the defence forces to carry out this most important task. [More…]

• This was formerly attached to the Department of Defence. [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…]

• 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…]

• I rise to point out that there is no provision in the message before us, to which we have heard the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) move support, for independent senators or senators from parties other than the Government parties and the official Opposition party to be represented on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I cannot see any provision in the messages whereby Senator Haines and I can go to a meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence or the Joint Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House, express our viewpoints and participate in the working of the Parliament in respect of those committees. [More…]

• As Senator Georges suggests, whether there should be some reappraisal which would permit independents or senators who are not members of the major parties to become part of these committees on Foreign Affairs and Defence is another matter. [More…]

• The composition of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, for instance, is to be eight members of the House of Representatives from the Government side, six from the Opposition side, four senators nominated by the Government side and three senators nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. [More…]

• I assume that it is the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence about which Senator Harradine is concerned. [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; Mr 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 Prime Minister and Cabinet, Trade and Resources, Defence, Administrative Services, Social Security and Finance, and the Australian Statistician. [More…]

• The committee comprised Sir Arthur Tange, the Secretary to the Department of Defence; Mr R. W. Cole, the Secretary to the Department of Finance; Mr S. Burt the Deputy Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade; Mr R. J. Cameron, the Australian Statistician; Mr P. J. Lanigan, the Director-General of the Department of Social Security, and Mr G. J. Yeend, the Acting Secretary to the Department of the Prime [More…]

• Lord Graham as Minister of External Affairs and Defence has said: ‘International Communism is our enemy, all this talk of political advancement and majority rule is no more than a smokescreen in the early skirmishes of an assault upon the whole of Africa . [More…]

• It is urgent that the Senate and the House of Representatives in the Parliament assembled, will observe common justice and proper humanity by inviting only authorised representatives of the present government of Rhodesia to Australia, to do what they have been deprived to do previously, present their case fully and publicly so that this can be examined and tested, without interference, and so that the eventual impact on Australia ‘s own security and defence alliances can be gauged with better accuracy. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen a report of evidence given to the national Royal Commission Into Drugs that surveillance of the northern Australian coastline was completely inadequate, that police had no aircraft in the Territory and just one launch which was not suited to open sea duties and rarely left Darwin harbour? [More…]

• In view of these circumstances, what justification is there for the Royal Australian Air Force keeping its squadron of Orion aircraft at Edinburgh in South Australia when they could be used on search and surveillance operations in northern Australia and when Australia ‘s northern defences are in such a scandalous state of neglect? [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence is along the lines of the question asked by Senator Douglas McClelland on the so-called problem of guarding Australia’s coastline. [More…]

• -The information I have in my brief is as follows: The allocation of Service aircraft for civilian surveillance duties is related to the realistically assessed needs of the relevant civil law enforcement authorities for such surveillance, while concurrently ensuring that the requirement to maintain military preparedness for Australia’s defence is not undermined. [More…]

• I am further advised that the Service aircraft made available to meet civilian surveillance needs have been chosen and acquired against defence requirements. [More…]

• That declaration is made by an instrument signed by the Minister and published in the Gazette declaring 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. [More…]

• All that has been said in the course of the debate by the proponents of the Bill absolutely reinforces the situation that if I were to hive off tonight, enter Rhodesia and offer my services to the Smith Government for the purposes of the defence of the country of Rhodesia, I presume I would be committing an offence against this Bill. [More…]

• The point is that the Government is making it criminal, with penalties of $10,000 or 14 years imprisonment, for me or anybody else, even a conscious soldier, to go to the aid of people who are acting in self-defence in an individual way to extricate their colleagues from the murderous plans of a foreign government. [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 . [More…]

• I am concerned about the right of a Minister to designate a ‘specified armed force’ which should receive his approval in the interests of the defence or international relations of Australia. [More…]

• We do not permit our defence forces to be raised except in accordance with the law. [More…]

• It seems to me to be completely anomalous that a specified armed force of no particular description or composition could have the blessing of the Minister, even if it were limited to interests of defence. [More…]

• Why, for example, do we see the decline in defence and defence related industries within Australia? [More…]

• Why can we not act as the energy resource base, the educational resource base and the defence resource base for those countries? [More…]

• Surely that would overcome some of the problems of our defences. [More…]

• If we were to provide defence hardware for the forces of the ASEAN countries, surely those countries would not bite the hand that fed them. [More…]

• Exemption item 135 applies to a motor vehicle for use in the personal transportation of a person who has served in the Defence Force and as a result of such service has lost a leg or both arms, or is in receipt of a special pension in respect of blindness, total and permanent incapacity, or tuberculosis. [More…]

• There are a number of distinguished exservicemen in this Parliament who, as a result of their service in the forces, properly have qualified under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]

• whether off-shore law enforcement functions are best performed by the Defence Force or some other organisation; [More…]

• how such a force could contribute to Australia’s defence as well as law enforcement; and [More…]

• how the establishment of such a force could contribute to Australian defence and defence-related industries. [More…]

• There is growing community apprehension that Australia’s off-shore law enforcement arrangements are cost-ineffective, politically undersirable, administratively questionable and a drain on the scarce defence resources of Australia. [More…]

• Indeed, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) last week, in answer to a question in the House of Representatives, expressed himself as being totally dissatisfied with the current situation. [More…]

• Principal amongst those who have assisted are the Parliamentary Library, the Defence, Science and Technology group and the Law and Government group, whose work on this particular matter has in my view been outstanding. [More…]

• It was not adopted, the Government deciding to make better use of the existing personnel and equipment of the Australian Defence Forces to perform surveillance and sovereignty enforcement. [More…]

• During 1975 the Department of Defence conducted trials using light aircraft such as the RAAF’s ‘Winjeel’ trainer and the Army’s Kiowa ‘ helicopter for specific coastal surveillance tasks. [More…]

• In October, 1977 the Minister for Defence announced the beginning of a program of aerial surveillance of the coast between Broome and Darwin to be carried out for an initial 6 months period. [More…]

• The Defence Forces operate their equipment in the surveillance and sovereignty enforcement role on behalf of these bodies and are not responsible for any legal or administrative actions which may follow their activities. [More…]

• One important matter for such a select committee to examine is the adequacy or otherwise of the existing statutory provisions relating to responsibilities which would be assumed by a coastguard authority or similar organisation, irrespective of whether it is part of the defence forces. [More…]

• Members of the defence forces are officers under the definition of ‘officer’ in the Fisheries Act. [More…]

• This has been due to a number of factors, amongst which have been an increase in the visible external pressures, such as fishing, a sharper focusing on Australia’s continental boundaries due to a change in defence concepts and the likely assumption of new responsibilities arising from changed laws governing the international usage of the oceans. [More…]

• The significant exception is seen in the attitude adopted by the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen. [More…]

• Whilst this is sufficient to detect targets of defence interests, that is, strategic surveillance, such as destroyers, such a mission would not locate targets of interest to civil law enforcement agencies, such as trawlers, as the aircraft’s radar would be unable to detect vessels displacing less than 2,000 tonnes. [More…]

• That is why we hear defence spokesmen seriously cite the need to operate an obviously ridiculous number of aircraft as a justification for not performing what is seen as an undefined task. [More…]

• I refer to what was stated in the paper prepared by Derek Woolner, a legislative research specialist of the Defence Science and Technology Group of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• It may have been only the reaction to media coverage which prompted Defence Minister Killen to reply, in answer to a question about whether he considered 15 patrol boats enough for present purposes, in the following terms: [More…]

• Now I can give an assurance that in terms of clear defence surveillance that the country is being adequately looked after but in terms of civil surveillance well you are looking at an entirely different problem. [More…]

• Further, if it implies that civil surveillance is not the responsibility of the Australian defence forces this represents a new de facto policy position of the Government which must further detract from the effectiveness of deterrents since it leaves no prime agency with the responsibility for performing civil surveillance tasks. [More…]

• But Denis James Killen is also the Minister for Defence and it is defence personnel and equipment that have been involved so far in the surveillance of the existing 12-mile zone and our vast shoreline. [More…]

• I take the view that this is not a defence responsibility’, he says. [More…]

• People regard fishing, illegal immigration, drug running and introduction of unwanted disease as representing a defence function. [More…]

• That is not a defence function, it is a police function ‘. [More…]

• Mr Killen edges towards favouring a civilian coastguard service to monitor the 200-mile economic zone, but he has not made up his mind on whether such a coastguard should ultimately be under the aegis- in an emergency- of the nation’s defence command. [More…]

• I am not pre-empting any decision that the Senate committee may come down with as to whether the organisation should be under the aegis of the defence forces. [More…]

• But to those who suggest that it should be under the aegis of the defence forces I put two propositions. [More…]

• Secondly, it would be a drain on the resources of the defence forces of this country. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the Minister for Defence wants to get shot of the essentially civilian role of off-shore law enforcement and have it taken out of his budget? [More…]

• If we are to have a coastal surveillance organisation similar to the United States Coastguard, whether or not it is under the aegis of the armed forces, its funding should come from sources other than the defence appropriation. [More…]

• Not only would they cover the cost of operations and thus avoid a drain on the Defence budget but also those vesels which are licensed to enter the EEZ themselves would have a vested interest in detecting illegal fishing in the EEZ. [More…]

• The second reason I put to those who believe that coastal surveillance ought to be under the aegis of the defence forces is this: My attitude- I am sure that the bulk of Australians who are interested in civil liberties and other important aspects would have the same attitude- is that the defence forces should not go to the aid of the civil power except in absolute emergencies. [More…]

• In Australia the defence forces go to the aid of the civil power. [More…]

• But certainly the defence forces should not go to the aid of the civil power as a matter of course. [More…]

• A grave diplomatic problem arose because of the involvement of the defence forces in that situation. [More…]

• I refer the honourable senator to an article in Russi of June 1977 which stated that the involvement of the defence forces created problems. [More…]

• My proposition seeks also to establish a committee to inquire into and report on how such a force could contribute to Australia’s defence and defence related industries. [More…]

• I have a great deal of material to show that the hardware required by such a coastguard could be obtained within Australia and could be of inestimable value to Australian defence and defence related industries. [More…]

• We have to ask ourselves: Is the current method of maritime sovereignty enforcement inefficient, wasteful and a drain on Australia’s defence capability? [More…]

• Are the Navy patrols and aerial surveillance equipment, with specialised defence sophistication, being wastefully under-utilised in the essential civil task involved in the fisheries patrols in Australian law enforcement off-shore? [More…]

• Would a coastguard be part of the defence forces or would it be separate? [More…]

• immediately order the establishment of a maritime command of the defence forces to undertake surveillance of the Australian coast and its territorial seas; [More…]

• We also will have the very real problem of defence involved in looking after thus area. [More…]

• We need positive Government action and we need steps taken to stop the bureaucratic bickering which is taking place now in private, in public and in the Press between various departments and various divisions of the defence forces. [More…]

• We need a positive Government statement of policy so that people, departments and divisions of our defence forces know what our policy is and so that they can move ahead and plan for the future. [More…]

• We believe that this is an appropriate function for the defence forces of this country. [More…]

• In general it may be politically undesirable for the defence forces of the country to take part in what is essentially a civil function; but, in fact, the surveillance of our 200-mile limit will be both a civil function and a military function. [More…]

• There is always a danger, when a division of the defence forces such as the Navy or the Air Force is given a surveillance function, that too much of the present defence budget will be hived off into this area and that will limit the funding of other functions of those defence forces. [More…]

• It is just as likely that even if we hived off that funding and separated it from the defence budget there would be a tendency for government to reduce the defence budget by that amount. [More…]

• But it must not, even at the behest of a Minister or a Government Department, take part in investigating the private lives of individuals except in a matter bearing on the Defence of the Realm as a whole. [More…]

• Lord Denning ‘s comment is reported again elsewhere in a similar situation, again dealing with the defence of the realm. [More…]

• This case raised the issue of whether an accused is entitled to an acquittal if he believed the victim was consenting, notwithstanding that his belief was unreasonable, or whether he had to show reasonable grounds in order to rely on a defence of mistaken belief. [More…]

• The House of Lords, by a three-two majority, held that a mistaken belief in the consent of the victim would constitute a defence even if there was no reasonable basis for it. [More…]

• I know of no other case in which unreasonable belief about a certain matter is a defence. [More…]

• I think that acceptance by the House of Lords that any belief, reasonable or unreasonable, is a defence brings into focus the whole question of consent and the area where the law must be changed. [More…]

• One of the real problems associated with this case is that it appeared to give a completely new dimension to a possible defence based on drunkenness. [More…]

• Previously it had been established in a number of leading cases that in a crime such as rape, which does not have a specific intention included in its definition, self-induced drunkenness can only provide a defence if it renders the person temporarily insane in a legal sense. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the decision in Cogan’s Case appears, at first sight, to provide a back door way of allowing drunkenness as a defence in rape, in situations where the accused, through intoxication, is unable to appreciate that the victim is not consenting. [More…]

• This extension of the defence of drunkenness would be significant in rape, as many offenders are affected by alcohol at the time of the offence. [More…]

• Again, because the British law still constitutes the basis of decisions which are made in Australian courts, I draw the attention of the Senate to that comment with respect to drunkenness as a defence, which has been so clearly commented on the report of the Royal Commission. [More…]

• Indeed, subsequent to the House of Lords making its decision in the Morgan case, there was a case in which drunkenness was successfully used as a defence. [More…]

• The Cogan case introduces the possibility of the defence of drunkenness in rape cases. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that last year- I think it was in September- the Minister for Defence made a statement indicating the future prospects of Woomera and stating that experimental exercises were being conducted by the Army and other Services. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing both the Acting Minister for Trade and Resources and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to a report in the Melbourne Age of 21 February relating to allegations by Mr Keith Souter that section 4 ( 1 ) of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 could be invoked to make the mining of uranium a defence project rather than a strict engineering project. [More…]

• Is it a fact that section 4 ( 1 ) of that Act makes it an offence to boycott or encourage the prevention or obstruction of any approved defence project? [More…]

• Is it proposed to invoke the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act? [More…]

• I suggest to the honourable senator that he ought to look at the actual definition of ‘approved defence project’ which, according to my photostat copy of the relevant part of that Act, appears in section 3. [More…]

• All I can say to the honourable senator is that, as far as I am aware, there is certainly no proposal to invoke the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act in respect of uranium mining. [More…]

• Virtually living dangerously, from a legal point of view- and there is an interesting analogy here- he used the defence powers although it was debatable whether they still applied, since the war had ended. [More…]

• We have the Department of Health, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Department of Construction, the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, the Department of the Northern Territory and the Department of the Capital Territory, the National Capital Development Commission, the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Primary Industry, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the Department of Finance, the Commonwealth Grants Commission, the Department of Defence, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the River Murray Commission, the Snowy Mountains Council, the Australian Water Resources Council and the Commonwealth Consultative Committee on Water Resources. [More…]

• I now pose another question to the same Minister in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following information: [More…]

• The Defence Department is currently investigating the circumstances under which Woomera could be used by the Australian Services. [More…]

• It is the door to Asia and the front line of our defence. [More…]

• There is a variety of tracking equipment in Australia, some attached to the Department of Defence and some with in my own Department. [More…]

• My understanding is that the Department of Defence probably would have been tracking the satellite for some three months prior to its landing in Canada. [More…]

• The purpose of the legislation is to ensure that those areas which are defined as naval waters and in which naval operations take place are afforded proper protection and that the authorities are able to make certain that no activities take place which could be interpreted as hostile or detrimental to the defence forces. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the need to ensure that proper protection is afforded to the defence forces, I feel certain I speak for all members of the Parliament when I say that we would not wish to see things done which perhaps unreasonably impose on the rights of the individual. [More…]

• We know that in all matters relating to defence certain rights must be foregone. [More…]

• When the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence (Mr McLeay) replied to the honourable member for Corio, Mr Scholes, on this matter in the other place, as I read his speech, he defined the division in this proposed new section to mean that an exempt vessel, that is, the naval forces of a specified country, would refer to the naval vessel of a friendly country. [More…]

• The honourable senator mentioned that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) had referred to the use of the term ‘friendly vessels’. [More…]

• I am still of the quaint opinion, in spite of my experience- might I say it is a continuing experience- that the prosecutor is present in the court to protect the offender and to bring forward any material which came to his notice which might be in support of and could be used in the defence of the offender, that as a prosecutor - [More…]

• I suggest that the terms of reference were wide enough to encompass all the matters which Senator Robertson foreshadowed including defence, tourism and other matters with regard to the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I have heard about the need to have a pass system in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The executive, through the Prime Minister, was insisting on exaggerated methods of defence of this place. [More…]

• What financial gain is expected ultimately to accrue to the Government, pursuant to the 1977 Budget decision to sell land for Defence Service Homes at market value instead of at capital cost, as before. [More…]

• It is too early to predict the level of receipts that will be obtained by the Defence Service Homes Corporation from the sale of land at current market values. [More…]

• -This matter properly resides with the Minister for Defence whom I also represent in this chamber. [More…]

• I understand that the Department of Defence is still considering which is the best option to recommend to the Government. [More…]

• I happen to have been the Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for the last two years. [More…]

• Madam Deputy President, we are becoming more and more aware of the defence and surveillance needs of the north. [More…]

• Surely one positive way of overcoming some of the difficulties in the surveillance and defence of our scantily populated northern coastline and the outback is to encourage people back into the outback. [More…]

• Mr Ellicott ‘s remarks and Senator Guilfoyle ‘s qualified defence of them show that this Government is a babe in the woods when it comes to industrial matters. [More…]

• On 16 November last the Prime Minister announced that the Government intended to transfer approximately 500 public servants and defence Service positions from Melbourne to Canberra in the 1 978-79 year and that further contingents, totalling about 500 positions, would move to Canberra in the subsequent two years. [More…]

• The units to be transferred in 1978-79, and the respective numbers of positions, are as follows: 195 positions from the Department of Defence; 164 positions from the Department of Transport; 50 positions from the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations; and 75 positions from the Department of Construction. [More…]

• As to the problems of fishing and surveillance, I shall take up the matters with my colleagues, the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair, and the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, respectively. [More…]

• Yesterday the Minister representing the Minister for Construction in answer to a question informed me that in accordance with the Prime Minister’s announcement on the transfer of public servants to Canberra, 500 positions from the Department of Defence, the Department of Transport, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Construction would be relocated in Canberra. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Departments-Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, Attorney-General’s, Business and Consumer Affairs, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Health, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Development, Northern Territory, Postal and Telecommunications, Primary Industry, Productivity, Science, Social Security, Trade and Resources, Transport, Treasury, Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]

• Australian Wheat Board, Capital Territory Health Commission, Commonwealth Banking Corporation, Commonwealth Police, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Commonwealth Teaching Service, Darwin Reconstruction Commission, Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefit Authority, Defence Service Homes Corporation, Health Insurance Commission, National Capital Development Commission, National Library, Northern Territory Police, Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, Office of the Governor-General, Office of the Insurance Commissioner, Office of the Public Service Board, Pipeline Authority, Qantas, Reserve Bank of Australia, Tax Agents Board, Telecom Australia, Trade Practices Commission, Trans Australia Airlines. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question dealing with Australian industrial participation in the contract for the German Leopard tank. [More…]

• What steps were taken by the Government to ensure that the local defence industry, not just government factories, were given early and guaranteed access to sub-contracts? [More…]

• What subcontracts, if any, have the local defence industry and/or Australian Government factories obtained in relation to that tank? [More…]

• Because of our concern over lack of progress and the belief that the offset approach by Krauss-Maffei was inappropriate, the Department of Defence arranged for a KM representative to be brought to Australia last November and again in February this year to meet and discuss with industry the development of suitable bid packages for both the Leopard 1 and Leopard 2 tanks. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• To render my question intelligible, it will be necessary for me to quote briefly from a letter from the Minister for Defence which was addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, and conveyed to him an answer to a question which I had asked back in May 1976. [More…]

• As I mentioned in the Parliament on 4 May 1 976, 1 issued instructions to my Department to prepare amendments to the Defence Force legislation so that in future members of the Services schemes are placed in comparable circumstances with members of the Commonwealth Public Service superannuation schemes where a recipient spouse remarries. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence wound up by saying: [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that cadets in the Naval Reserve in Western Australia have been planning a training camp for May and that such camps, in the past, received a subsidy from the Commonwealth? [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has advised me that a camp for Naval Reserve cadets is to be held at Garden Island, Western Australia, at the end of this month. [More…]

• The lawyers who represent the Greek community also are uncertain and suggest that this method of charging individuals may make defence difficult and more confusing for the defendants and their representatives. [More…]

• -Yesterday Senator Brown asked me a question about Defence Force Retirement Benefits legislation. [More…]

• The answer with which I was supplied by the Minister for Defence is as follows: [More…]

• The necessary amendments to the principal DFRB Act were incorporated in the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Act (No. [More…]

• The Opposition should bear that in mind because, if such a coastguard is to be an appendage of the defence forces, it is most unlikely that that instruction role would be performed by the Maritime College. [More…]

• If Senator Rae accuses me of paranoia in making these statements, let me ask him: Does he deny that Russian fishing fleets have a well established record of surveillance and defence information gathering? [More…]

• If he does, tomorrow I will read to him in the Senate chamber, if I have a chance to do so, the well documented fact that Russian fishing fleets operate as an arm of the Russian defence force in the case of intelligence gathering. [More…]

• Those being discriminated against are past or serving members of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• The matter to which I refer is associated with the Defence Service Homes scheme. [More…]

• The Defence Service Homes scheme now accounts for about 9 per cent of net Commonwealth expenditure on housing programs. [More…]

• Associated with the Defence Service Homes scheme is a special insurance scheme. [More…]

• It is called the Defence Service Homes Insurance scheme. [More…]

• This scheme is a co-operative one and is financed completely by Defence Service Homes purchasers and borrowers. [More…]

• The latest report on the Defence Service Homes scheme outlines the insurance premiums as follows: The premium for the first $2,000 of cover is $18.90 plus $1.30 for each subsequent $2,000 of cover or part thereof. [More…]

• I believe that those who are administering the scheme should remember that defence personnel who qualify for homes under this scheme and subsequently for insurance for the homes that they obtain did not fight just for Queensland. [More…]

• If that is the case, that argument- if the Senate will excuse the fact that there is no pun intended- will not wash because the houses in Brisbane affected by this flood were built on a flood plain area although personnel of the Defence Service Homes scheme knew that this was a flood plain area. [More…]

• In the report of the Defence Service Homes scheme which I mentioned earlier there is a reference to reinsurance. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and again relates to the German manufactured Leopard tanks which are being supplied to Australia. [More…]

• Did de Havilland Australia make an offer to the Department of Defence for the production of practice shot with a delay time of only nine months and did the Department of Defence reject a proposal in offset arrangements that Vickers-Ruwolt manufacture 3,000 sets of tank track with assembly at the Department of Productivity factory at Lithgow? [More…]

• That is as I am advised by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• De Havillands Australia did make an offer for the production of practice shot projectiles only, to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Vickers-Ruwolt made a series of proposals to the Department of Defence, the latest being in August 1 977, for the manufacture of tank track sets with the partial involvement of the Department of Productivity Lithgow factory. [More…]

• The impassioned defence of new federalism we have just heard came from Senator Carrick, who is the architect of that policy. [More…]

• He gave us an impassioned, bombastic and highly innaccurate defence of past actions by the Liberal Party but it did not clear up that question. [More…]

• I say that in no defence of this clause because standard clauses already in use could have defects, of course. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As to the first question, the Atomic Energy Act 1953- that is the existing Act- already makes provision for the Australian Atomic Energy Commission to mine uranium for the purpose of ensuring the provision of uranium for the defence of the Commonwealth or for any other purpose of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• -I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I preface it by reminding him that following the devastation caused to Army aircraft located in Oakey in Queensland late in March when about $lm damage was done by a freak storm, the Minister for Defence promised that an inquiry would be held. [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate and the people of Australia that our regrettably small number of defence aircraft will be suitably and sensibly protected in the future? [More…]

• All I would say is that if the honourable senator casts her mind back, she would know that when a Service inquiry was held into the destruction of naval aircraft at Nowra, my colleague the Minister for Defence made a statement and, from memory, that report was tabled in the Parliament. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has supplied me with the following information: [More…]

• Australian Defence Force personnel are returning to Irian Jaya for the final stages of Operation Cenderawasih, a joint survey and mapping project designed to provide accurate maps of Irian Jaya. [More…]

• I present the report and the transcript of evidence from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australia and the South Pacific. [More…]

• The members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence have welcomed the new initiatives by Australia to improve its image and they hope that its efforts and contributions are maintained with a genuine desire to be a worthwhile neighbour in the South Pacific region. [More…]

• I think the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Senator Sim, has said all that needs to be said, but I should like to confirm some of the points which he made. [More…]

• I have risen principally to speak about the Senate and the work of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Department of Defence played its part also. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services. [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 March 1978: [More…]

• What tenders have been called by the Department of Defence since 1 January 1976, [More…]

• What tenders have been accepted by the Department of Defence since 1 January 1976. [More…]

• Did any of the firms, or their agents or consultants at the time of submitting the tender, employ persons previously employed by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Did any of the firms or their agents or consultants, after submitting a tender or having accepted a tender, employ any person who was previously an employee of the Department of Defence; if so, which firms and who were the persons concerned. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• and (2) During the period 1 January 1976 to 28 February 1978 the Department of Defence placed 17,561 Procurement Demands on the Department of Administrative Services at a total estimated value of $629m. [More…]

• Although it becomes apparent from time to time that former members of the Services and former members of the Department have joined firms which have an interest in the supply of defence equipment, there is no means of establishing and maintaining an accurate record. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 4 April 1 978: [More…]

• What countries operate joint defence research installations in Australia. [More…]

• Has the United States established defence research installations in Australia which are not jointly operated with Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 4 April 1 978: [More…]

• 1 ) How many joint defence research installations within Australia has the United States established jointly with Australia. [More…]

• Does the Australian Government have access to intelligence output from all United States defence research installations in Australia; if not, which installations withhold intelligence output from Australia. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• It is called the Joint Defence Space Research Facility (JDSRF). [More…]

• Defence research. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Navy’s proposals will then be examined by the normal machinery of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services: [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services: [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• One of the areas of concern is how the sale of Australian land to foreigners is likely to affect Australia’s defence. [More…]

• I therefore ask: Has the Government given any consideration to the possible defence implications of the Iwasaki project? [More…]

• As to whether there are defence implications in a Japanese national being allowed to build a tourist resort on the coast of Queensland, I will make inquiries from my colleague the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I should like to know whether that gentleman and some of his colleagues on the other side of the chamber would be as vocal in their defence of some other national group as they are of the Greek national group. [More…]

• The United States of America Defence Department called tenders for the supply of a large transport aircraft. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services. [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Did the statement made yesterday by the Minister for Defence concerning the purchase of two Boeing aircraft for the VIP fleet, in which he said it was ‘a decision of the Government’, mean that it was a decision by Cabinet or by the Prime Minister personally? [More…]

• I direct a further question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Surely the Minister, who in this place represents the Minister for Defence, should be able to give us some justification for this decision and expenditure. [More…]

• Subject to time restraints this morning I will be putting down the statement of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I would have thought that anybody who had read the statement which the Minister for Defence made to the Parliament yesterday would have seen the justification. [More…]

• Does the Minister realise that the statement made yesterday by the Minister for Defence contains no reference to the aircraft being provided for any such purpose; that, in fact, apart from the security angle- which I do not think anybody particularly disagrees with- he said that the remaining option for the Government was to acquire aircraft capable of long-range, over-water flights. [More…]

• Defence Force Academy, A.C.T. [More…]

• The Committee carried out an inspection of the existing Defence Colleges on 27 April 1978 and conducted public hearings at Parliament House on Friday, 28 April 1978, Monday, 1 -May and on the morning of Tuesday, 2 May 1978. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services. [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Administrative Services in his dual capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• I refer to reports that contracts have been let in the United States for the establishment of a ground station for the United States defence satellite communications system. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Administrative Services and Minister representing the Minister for Defence and relates to the regulations governing the award of the National Medal. [More…]

• These regulations list as eligible members of the Defence Force, the Australian Police Force, the Australian Fire Service and the Australian Ambulance Service. [More…]

• Again speaking from memory, I recall that representations have been made to my colleague, the Minister for Defence, about this matter. [More…]

• It appears that it has taken from 27 October 1977 until 8 May 1 978 for the Financial Review to come across this item and then speculate that some horrendous defence installation is about to be built at the same place. [More…]

• by leave- On behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), 1 present a statement relating to accommodation for married servicemen. [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/concessions to compensate servicemen for housing related disabilities that are not compensated for by other schemesthis 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 Commonwealthowned 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…]

• Defence Force to be deployed readily across Australia. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Expenditure has recommended not only the discontinuation 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 costs; prevent frequent rent increases to some Service tenants. [More…]

• The Defence Group Rent Scheme, incorporating 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 a 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…]

• by leave- On behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), I present a statement relating to the purchase of aircraft for No. [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 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…]

• If that is so, we are in a very parlous state, not only from the point of view of development of this country but also from the point of view of the defence of this country. [More…]

• There would also be serious implications for Australia’s defence. [More…]

• It would leave a large length of the coastline of Australia without sufficient population for a reasonable defence barrier. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [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 such terrorism. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Administrative Services in his capacity as Minister representing both the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• I refer to questions that I asked him on Monday and on Tuesday regarding the establishment of a defence communications satellite ground station at North- West Cape. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, concerns the purchase of Boeing 727 aircraft for No. [More…]

• Is it correct that the Minister for Defence stated last Thursday that the aircraft proposed to be purchased for No. [More…]

• -I am unaware of what the Minister for Defence said but, as I understand it, one of the reasons for purchasing the Boeing 727 aircraft was that they would be able to be linked in to the whole of the domestic system which uses the same type of aircraft. [More…]

• I will seek that information from the Minister for Defence, and I will also seek for the honourable senator information as to the estimate of cost. [More…]

• I address to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question relating to coastal surveillance and defence operational capability in northern Australia. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that in a recent response the Minister for Defence expressed the opinion that the needs for surveillance were changing and that the Government had agreed that they should be reassessed and consequently had set up a committee consisting of the heads of the relevant departments. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, or to the Minister representing either the Minister for Defence or the Prime Minister. [More…]

• Defence. [More…]

• I shall make inquiries in the first place of my colleague the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I have some advice from the Minister for Defence which is as follows: [More…]

• It seems to me that that is a harsh and tyrannical penalty to be imposed on a land council or those associated with the defence of the rights of Aboriginals in the land rights movement. [More…]

• The implications of the amendments to Atomic Energy Act and Approved Defence Projects Act for civil liberties are frightening and without precedent. [More…]

• It has tacked this commercial purpose or objective on to the principal Act, that is the Atomic Energy Act of 1953, which incorporates all the sweeping defence powers which the Commonwealth can assert for itself. [More…]

• In making that statement Senator Durack clearly rejected the use of the Atomic Energy Act for any purpose other than defence purposes. [More…]

• Twenty-one of the Liberal Party and National Country Party senators who in 1974 disallowed regulations made under the Atomic Energy Act of 1953 on the grounds inter alia that it was quite improper to use an Act which was primarily a defence Act, or associated with the defence powers of the Commonwealth, for commercial purposes, presumably will all support a Bill which will do precisely that. [More…]

• it is not necessary to show that he was guilty of a particular act tending to show an intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth and, notwithstanding that no such act is proved against him, he may be convicted if, from the circumstances of the case, his conduct, or his known character as proved, it appears that he acted with intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth . [More…]

• What that says is this: You do not have to prove that anyone acted to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth; you just have to think that he acted as if he might have wanted to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth.The penalty for that crime under this principal Act is up to 20 years imprisonment. [More…]

• For the reasons I have stated with regard to the Atomic Energy Amendment Bill, it is quite clear that the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill should be rejected by the Senate, particularly in view of the fact that three and a half years ago Liberal and National Country Party senators rejected regulations made under the Act on the grounds that it was improper to use an Act rooted in the defence powers of the Commonwealth for commercial purposes, and the regulations were disallowed. [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act 1953, which we are amending by this Bill, gave the Minister power to exercise control over nuclear materials but only in connection with defence or with a Territory. [More…]

• Section 47 (a), which deals with proof of intent in relation to those three elements that I have just mentioned, states: it is not necessary to show that he was guilty of a particular act tending to show an intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth and, notwithstanding that no such act is proved against him, he may be convicted if, from the circumstances of the case, his conduct, or his known character as proved, it appears that he acted with intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth; [More…]

• A person can be convicted in relation to offences under sections 44, 45 and 46 if it appears from his conduct or his known character as proved that he acted to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• If this were required for the security of Australia’s defence there might be some justification for it but this Act will no longer be used just for the security of Australia or for any of its territories as it once was. [More…]

• it shall be deemed, unless the contrary is proved, to have been so dealt with with intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• That part of section 47 places the onus of disproving intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth on the defendant. [More…]

• The Bill is amending an Act which is related to the defence power of this country. [More…]

• The Government’s dishonesty lies in the fact that the legislation extends the defence power into commerce and into external affairs. [More…]

• The first reason is that the Atomic Energy Act, which dates from 1953, contains specific provisions based on the defence power which will offer the Government a means of intimidating and suppressing public opposition to uranium mining. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators again that the Atomic Energy Act is based on the defence power. [More…]

• But if one looks at this situation of civil liberties in relation to defence legislation and legislation of that kind, one sees history of consistency going back through Labor Party attitudes to this type of legislation which was very well illustrated, I think, by the late Dr Evatt when he introduced the Approved Defence Projects Protection Bill in 1947. [More…]

• When the Bill is examined, it will be seen that scope for advancing opinions of that character in regard to defence projects - [More…]

• He was referring to defence projects and not commercial projects such as we are dealing with now- will remain. [More…]

• Although freedom of information is vital, the Parliament cannot, and will not, tolerate attempts to prevent the carrying into execution of carefully-planned defence projects. [More…]

• That was stated in relation to defence protection legislation. [More…]

• Secondly, the Bill adopts a recommendation of the Fox report by extending the power of the Minister to exercise control not only for defence purposes but also for all proper constitutional purposes. [More…]

• Previously, the Act had limited the power to defence purposes only. [More…]

• I see that we are expanding our constitutional base from the defence area into the area of power relating to trade and, of course, to external affairs. [More…]

• Before numerous dogs can be kept in these enclosures, kennels have to be built and a fence around the perimeter of the whole area (as a second line of defence, which all breeds require if kept in any numbers). [More…]

• The defence rests on that note. [More…]

• What action has the Government taken in relation to recommendations 17 to 23, and particularly recommendation 2 1 of the report on the Middle East of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence? [More…]

• Because I am aware that section 21 of the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence fundamentally has an impact upon national development, and therefore upon my responsibility, 1 have a standing brief on this matter. [More…]

• 1 relates to certain Defence Force financial regulations which the Committee considers confer an undue degree of discretion upon the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in connection with payment of allowances. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, in correspondence with the Committee, has agreed to further consider the regulations, and accordingly at the end of my statement I will be moving that this notice of motion be postponed. [More…]

• 2 relates to certain Defence Force (Salaries) Regulations which the Committee regards as unfairly discriminating between individuals and setting a dangerous principle of remuneration. [More…]

• At the end of my statement 1 intend to postpone this notice of motion, but I would ask Senator Withers, the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, to draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that the notice of motion must be disposed of within three sitting days after today. [More…]

• In particular, there were clauses making persons liable for absolute offences where the defence of reasonable excuse clearly should have been provided, exempting the Commission from legal liability in certain circumstances, and placing the onus of proof upon the accused in criminal prosecutions. [More…]

• It is not necessary to show that he was guilty of a particular act tending to show an intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth and, notwithstanding that no such act is proved against him, he may be convicted if, from the circumstances of the case, his conduct, or his known character as proved, it appears that he acted with intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth; [More…]

• How does the defence of the Commonwealth relate to an ordinary commercial mining operation? [More…]

• The Atomic Energy Act provisions already include those set out in the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1 947 which provides for a fine of up to $10,000 and 12 months gaol. [More…]

• It means that any aspect of the nuclear fuel cycle in Australia, including uranium mining, would in future be treated as though it were for the defence of the country. [More…]

• In addition, under section 60 of the substantive legislation, the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1947 applies to the Commission’s activities as though they were approved defence projects. [More…]

• If the bill is passed, these provisions would apply to international and interstate trade and commerce, as well as defence activities. [More…]

• It would mean that any part of the nuclear fuel cycle in Australia, including uranium mining and export for electricity generation, would bc conducted as though it were for national defence purposes. [More…]

• The implications of the amendments to Atomic Energy Act and Approved Defence Projects Act for civil liberties are frightening and without precedent. [More…]

• Then reference is made to the Atomic Energy Act which, as you know, Madam Acting Deputy President, is based upon only two powers, defence and territories. [More…]

• It may be doubted whether a power relative to mining in the states which is limited legislatively to reliance on ‘defence purposes’ is adequate. [More…]

• We see uranium as a highly strategic material, the supply of which involves not only questions concerning the hazards and problems we have been discussing, and trade considerations, but also foreign policy and defence considerations. [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…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: What action has the Government taken on recommendation 25 of the report, tabled in June 1977, of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, on its Middle East reference, which urged the Government to avoid transferring foreign quarrels to Australia by taking more stringent steps to deny entry to people who had participated in, or had called for, acts of terrorism abroad? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and refers to the recent statements, which no doubt he has seen, which indicate that Mr Killen now accepts that information about the modifications to the North West Cape facility- a joint facility- were not known to the Government or apparently to senior defence officials. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to say whether that information is correct and, if it is, what action has been taken in regard to the failure to advise not only the Department of Defence but also the Government about the post changes? [More…]

• The aircraft was authorised for the Deputy Prime Minister by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• His inclusion in the party was authorised by the Minister for Defence in accordance with the rules for the use of VIP aircraft which provide: [More…]

• But where in this place has there been a defence of Senator Bonner? [More…]

• I come to the defence of Senator Bonner by saying that the person who stated that is himself a liar. [More…]

• It has been interesting to find out what is the justification for using the Atomic Energy Act 1953- an Act largely of a defence nature- which set up the Atomic Energy Commission and which places very great power in the hands of the executive Government. [More…]

• Finally he drew attention to the security provisions of Part IV of the Atomic Energy Act, some of which seem extreme in the current context but which were doubtless enacted with defence considerations in mind. [More…]

• Whilst that may be very essential in the case of a specific defence or security purpose, it is hard to see how it is applicable and suitable in the case of a normal commercial venture. [More…]

• Furthermore, the Atomic Energy Act itself imports in its terms the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act of 1947. [More…]

• Section 60 applies to and is 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…]

• He took the view that I have taken in respect of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act and its implications in regard to commercial activities. [More…]

• And the question remains: why did the Government reject the Fox recommendation and use an Act which may have been appropriate to guard defence secrets at Woomera but which is much less pertinent to commercial development? [More…]

• Defence (Army, Navy and Air) [More…]

• -On 10 May 1978 (Hansard, page 1546) Senator Bishop asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question, without notice, concerning coastal surveillance and defence operational capability in Northern Australia. [More…]

• In addition to defence, coastal surveillance meets a number of important civil requirements, particularly fishing, immigration, health and customs. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -To the best of my knowledge no members of the Australian Defence Force are in Rhodesia. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, concerns the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]

• -I understand that the matter of the appointment of a full time Defence Force Ombudsman is presently under study by my colleague, the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I do not know what are the latest figures but I recall that over a period of, I think, 18 months when Mr Hay was Defence Ombudsman he dealt with five complaints. [More…]

• So one could hardly imagine that the defence forces are in a state of ferment. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 14(1) of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948, 1 present the fourth 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 December 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 1973, 1 present the fifth 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 1 948, other than Part III of the Act, for the year ended 30 June 1977. [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…]

• 1 do not want to go over it again because the debate tends to develop into a defence of Senator Cavanagh. [More…]

• Therefore all that the Minister has said is no defence to compelling Aboriginals to give up their lands. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]

• How many civilian personnel, by category, were in the Departments of Defence, Army, Navy and Air as at 30 June 1946, 30 June 1962 and 1 January 1978. [More…]

• How many service and civilian personnel, by rank and category, were directly employed within the Defence Group on computer programming and associated services as at 1 January 1978. [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…]

• Equally they will know that a series of heads of power from defence to trade and commerce right throughout the situation was sought. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister able to say whether any research and development is being carried out in Australia into this type of missile, which I see as both a stimulus to our electronics industry and imperative to our defence, particularly if we are to defend ourselves against possible invasion by many airborne or seaborne craft? [More…]

• On a prosecution of a person under paragraph (a) of section 44, 45, 46 it is not necessary to show that he was guilty of a particular act tending to show an intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth and, notwithstanding that no such act is proved against him, he may be convicted if, from the circumstances of the case, his conduct or known character as proved, it appears that he acted with intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Further, the use of section 44 of the Atomic Energy Act which relates to communication of restricted information with intent to prejudice defence, contravenes Articles 18, 19 and 21 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, which deal with freedom of speech and assembly. [More…]

• Further, section 60 which applies to the application of the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act 1 947 to any works carried out by the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and therefore including Ranger, effectively prevents any speechwriting or strike action in opposition to works undertaken by the Commission. [More…]

• The terms of section 60 of the Atomic Energy Act make it clear that the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act provisions apply to any works of the Commission without the need for the gazettal which is otherwise required by section 3 of the Act. [More…]

• My Government has made it clear and my instructions are quite clear that under no circumstances will the Government use coercive powers, which in that Act are largely contained for defence purposes, for breaches of what might be an ordinary commercial undertaking. [More…]

• The Defence Force Retirement Benefits scheme falls into the same category. [More…]

• But a girl employed for 1 5 years in the administration of the defence forces retirement benefits scheme can go out at about 39 or 40 years of age on a fat pension. [More…]

• We cannot entirely overlook the defence question and the strategic importance of copper. [More…]

• Today we had from Senator Withers and from Senator Missen what I suggest is a most hypocritical attempt at a defence of Senator Withers’ conduct in this place. [More…]

• Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Ukraine are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom minded Australian. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Government plans to dismiss over 1,000 permanent employees and 2,000 casual employees of the Australian Services Canteens Organisation to allow defence forces staff to operate canteens on a part-time basis? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it a fact that a joint working party has submitted a report concerning a merit promotion system for research scientists within the Australian Defence Scientific Service? [More…]

• On 14 July 1977 the Public Service Board agreed to an examination of the defence science area to see whether a form of merit promotion similar to that practised in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or the Atomic Energy Commission should be applied to defence scientists. [More…]

• A group comprised of a staff member of the Public Service Board and two members of the Department of Defence reported in February 1978. [More…]

• The Public Service Board and the Department of Defence are currently considering the further aspects raised by the Board. [More…]

• Is it correct that the proposed Casey UniversityAustralian Defence Force Academy will have an initial enrolment of 1,250 students? [More…]

• This is a matter for the Minister of Defence; it comes directly under his portfolio. [More…]

• Whilst I have taken part in Cabinet discussions in the formulation of this policy I should not reply directly on behalf of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• With the indulgence of Senator Withers, who wears the other cloak representing the Minister for Defence, I will seek the information for Senator James McClelland. [More…]

• In answer to that charge, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who represents the responsible Minister in this place, offered three defences. [More…]

• The third defence he offered was simply to say that this Government never interferes. [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 airportable, but were subsequently found to have insufficient clearance to fit in aircraft intended to carry them. [More…]

• The Committee notes also that the differences in rules and regulations for the 75,000 Defence Force personnel may justify the establishment of a separate system for the Defence Force rather than its inclusion in MANDATA. [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 senators 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 borrowing for the purpose of financing defence expenditures to a limit of $1,1 00m, 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 [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…]

• The judge was M. Ignotas, and the defence lawyers were G. Gavronskis, P. Kudaba, V. Zabela, A. Sarka, and A. Urbasevicius. [More…]

• It provides for a number of entrenched clauses in the new constitution in such key areas as the judiciary, public service and police and defence forces. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these decorations and medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services: [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• -I think that at all times the idea to establish an Australian Defence Force Academy was regarded as being a matter for the Department of Defence and the Minister for Defence rather than for the Ministry of Education. [More…]

• From my recollection, certainly the Tertiary Education Commission in 1977 would not have had any reason to contemplate whether or not there ought to be a Casey Defence Force Academy because it had not been suggested to the Commission that there might be one. [More…]

• I think that the narrow answer to the honourable senator’s question is that the establishment of this institution is a matter for the Department of Defence and for the Minister for Defence and not one for the Minister for Education in terms of the institution. [More…]

• -It is true that the Casey Defence Force Academy will be a tertiary institution of university type. [More…]

• I take it that what the honourable senator who interjects means is that the Australian Labor Party is opposed to having a Defence Force academy. [More…]

• I pick my words carefully for the reason that a Defence Force academy of university type has characteristics that are not totally related to the ordinary non-military university. [More…]

• I therefore ask: Is it a fact that funds for the operation and maintenance of the proposed Casey university will not be provided through the Tertiary Education Commission but through a separate defence vote? [More…]

• As I said, the Casey University- Australian Defence Force Academy, as its name suggests, is a military academy. [More…]

• The Casey Defence Force Academy will be erected on or close to the grounds of Duntroon. [More…]

• The persons at that Academy will be members of the defence forces. [More…]

• It will be related wholly to the Defence Force. [More…]

• As such, it is logical that it should come under the Defence Force budget. [More…]

• It may well be that the Tertiary Education Commission will be given some kind of review or oversight of aspects of the Casey Defence Force Academy. [More…]

• I have been informed by the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence that a decision has been taken to run down and eventually close ASCO. [More…]

• -by leave- As there might not be an opportunity at a later stage to make reference to Senator Sir Magnus Cormack ‘s leadership of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I am sure that honourable senators present today would like to have the opportunity to make comments about that. [More…]

• I have served with him, as it happened perhaps coincidentally, on a great number of committees but particularly, as my colleague Senator Bishop has said, on the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• by leave- I join Senator Bishop and Senator Wheeldon in paying tribute to the chairmanship of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I particularly congratulate him on his performance as Chairman of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It has been deeply pleasing to me to hear the tributes which have been paid so spontaneously this morning to Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, and which have emanated in this instance from his service on the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The background to the Loan Amendment Bill 1977 is that the Loan Act of 1977 provides authority for borrowings for the purpose of financing defence expenditures from the Loan Fund in 1 977-78 to a limit of $ 1,100m. [More…]

• I say in answer to Senator Georges that the Bill does not authorise any defence expenditure over and above that approved and appropriated by the Parliament in the Appropriation Acts. [More…]

• I think a general question was raised as to why authority was needed to transfer a further $300m of defence expenditure to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• Under such legislation authority is given to borrow money for defence purposes and to reallocate defence expenditure from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Loan Fund. [More…]

• The response is that the amount has been calculated by deducting from the latest estimate of defence expenditure, for which appropriations of the Consolidated Revenue Fund have been approved by Parliament, the amount of expenditure charged against those appropriations before the enactment of Loan Act 1977. [More…]

• The amount of defence expenditure since that date which may, under the provisions of the Loan Act 1977 be transferred to the Loan Fund, is $ 1,100m. [More…]

• On present estimates we believe that we will have charged almost $ 1, 100m of defence expenditure to the Loan Fund by the end of May 1978. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle mentioned the Government’s proprietary being at risk if proper provision were not made in the Loan Fund for the transfer of defence expenditure. [More…]

• It was a stupid question because I saw the word ‘defence’ in ‘loan amendment for the purposes of raising moneys for defence purposes’. [More…]

• Perhaps he will recall that in the Loan Council agreement the words ‘for defence purposes’ are used. [More…]

• The Defence expenditure does not come forward evenly from month to month and I am advised that $300m for what could be a monthly requirement at this stage is not unusual. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to amend the Loan Act 1977 to increase amounts which may be borrowed for defence purposes to meet a prospective increase in the Consolidated Revenue Fund deficit for this year. [More…]

• The normal procedure is to transfer some defence expenditure to the Loan Fund as defence expenditure is used, simply because that avoids the necessity to go to the Loan Council. [More…]

• Five-power Meeting on Defence [More…]

• Civil Defence Conference [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services: [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• The Committee has carefully considered that evidence including the arguments raised in defence of the traditional privilege afforded the Crown. [More…]

• However, this is an innovation and, in defence of it, it should be said that there is a tendency now for younger people to enter parliamentary life and because they are younger they have younger families and more direct family responsibilities than do older members. [More…]

• As I walked there a colleague told me that there were to be additions to the Defence Force Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]

• The great advantage that could accrue would be an actuarial analysis of the present position in relation to the Public Service, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and commercial insurance. [More…]

• There has been some considerable delay in receiving answers from the Public Service Board and the Department of Defence to matters that were raised as long ago as early May. [More…]

• Indeed, the answers from the Department of Defence arrived here at only 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon when, if I recall correctly, Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]

• I mentioned that whilst the Appropriation Bill was before the Senate well before 1 June, it was not until about 3 p.m. on 1 June- yesterday- that the answers were provided to the Committee by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Bearing in mind that the last day of sitting of Senate Estimates Committee A was 8 May, it appears to me to be a rather lengthy time for the Department of Defence to take before giving its answers. [More…]

• From a perusal of the table set out at page 10 of the answers supplied by the Department of Defence, it is evident that in Canberra and Darwin rents paid by servicemen have not increased since June 1 977, that is, the commencement of this financial year, but will increase by 9.6 per cent in July of this year, that is, the commencement of the next financial year. [More…]

• One of the matters he raised was the delay in the receipt of information required from the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I understand that the Department of Defence was the last department to be heard by the Senate Estimates Committee on 8 May and that the Committee reported on 9 May. [More…]

• I think it would be accepted that the Department of Defence is a large and widely dispersed organisation and that replies to questions of the nature that were asked by the Senate Estimates Committee required clearance at numerous levels throughout the Department. [More…]

• I am sure that when matters are raised in the future the Department of Defence will expedite any replies and requests. [More…]

• Has the Government considered the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, in its report on Australia and the Refugee Problem, that: (a) an Australian refugee policy council be established to assist the Government in the formulation of an Australian policy on all aspects of refugee resettlement; and ( b ) a standing interdepartmental committee on refugees be established. [More…]

• 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 ‘ to assist the Government to formulate an Australian policy on all aspects of refugee resettlement and to review and continually assess its implementation and effectiveness. [More…]

• The other matter I wish to raise is concerned with the Australian Capital Territory and has some reference to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Certain restrictions are also imposed in relation to specific subject matters in defence, supply, and atomic energy legislation. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate in his capacity either as Minister representing the Minister for Defence or Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• No such defence has been forthcoming from the Government in recent times. [More…]

• Thus the Bill contains provisions to protect personal privacy and confidential commercial information, vital national interests such as security and defence, and the conduct of government activities for which confidentiality is essential. [More…]

• These are the areas of defence, national security, international relations and Commonwealth-State relations, the relations between Ministers themselves, and between Ministers and their departmental advisers. [More…]

• For example, a technical study relating to a new defence project would remain secret where publication would be prejudicial to defence. [More…]

• His defence of his statements last night was very weak, to say the least. [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…]

• For instance, it refers to the disclosure of information which would, in the opinion of the Minister, be contrary to the public interest by reason that it would prejudice security, defence or international relations of the Commonwealth or relations between the Commonwealth and any State. [More…]

• Material affecting security or defence intelligence are obvious matters in which such delays and protections by the Minister might occur. [More…]

• As the honourable senator would know, sub-clause (3) (a) refers to the disclosure of information that would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I would say to the honourable senator that if his amendment were carried and the grounds for deletion were set forth, that of itself would lead to the exposure of what were the security, defence or international relations implications. [More…]

• It would be a terrible blow to them to think that, after their defence of this institution for 28 years, an honourable senator should propound such a thing. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• He specialises in foreign affairs and defence. [More…]

• I have shared common interests in defence and foreign affairs with Senator DrakeBrockman. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 May 1978: [More…]

• How many persons employed by the Department of Defence in the Australian Capital Territory in a civilian capacity are former servicemen drawing, or who have drawn, full retirement benefits. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The majority of civilian PROs have served with the Australian Defence Forces. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 May 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence had provided the following answer to the honourable senator ‘s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 May 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Consideration has been given to the matters raised in these petitions but the Government does not propose to change the earlier decision to institute an Australian award to recognise long and diligent service in the Defence Force and other uniformed services. [More…]

• What premiums have been received and what claim payments have been made under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme for each State and Territory for each year since 1956. [More…]

• Is there any other regional basis other than State and Territory, for which statistics are available for the amount of premium paid and claim payments made under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme; if so (a) what are those regions and (b) what are the details for those regions when the Questions in ( 1 ) and (2) are applied to those regions. [More…]

• During the years 1956-57-1976-77 the premiums received and claim payments made under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme, for each State and Territory are as set out in the following table: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) How many Defence Force personnel, and at what rank have been trained to interpreter standards in what Asian languages during the past two years. [More…]

• ) How many Defence Force attaches and in what overseas posts in Asia are qualified interpreters. [More…]

• What steps, if any, are being taken to increase the number of qualified interpreters in the Defence Force. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) Defence Force personnel of all three Services, shown by Army equivalent ranks, who have been trained in Asian languages to interpreter standard in 1 976-77 are: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 June 1978: [More…]

• Does the Government plan to dismiss more than 1,000 permanent employees and 2,000 casual employees of the Australian Services Canteens Organisation to allow Defence Froces staff to operate canteens on a part time basis; if so, what are the reasons for this decision, and what actions does the Government plan to take to ensure that all the workers displaced by the decision are able to find alternative employment. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Special Trade Representations; Senator Durack will represent the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence and will continue to represent the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs; Senator Webster will represent the Minister for Home Affairs. [More…]

• H. Maggs, Department of Defence [More…]

• Brigadier D. J. McMillen, Department of Defence [More…]

• 1 ) What are the details of orders which are the subject of the $ 164m offset arrangements detailed in the 1977 Defence Report. [More…]

• 1 ) The figure of $ 1 64m given in the 1 977 Defence Report is made up of orders for work as set out below. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether it is a fact that some 400 Army apprentices in all States of Australia are being apprenticed to private builders for their final two years of practical training? [More…]

• What checks are kept on the building firms involved to ensure that apprentices are not simply being used as a form of cheap labour, and does this scheme result in apprenticeships that could have been taken up by young people, who are presently unemployed, being handed over to the defence forces? [More…]

• I have a wide range of interests including defence, foreign affairs, social welfare, industrial relations and transport. [More…]

• McClelland made a contribution in defence of the proposal. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that prior to the deliberations of the Privileges Committee it appeared as though one was entering a defence establishment or some such building because of the number of police officers and other officers on duty at the doors. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 May 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) How many vacancies for the positions advertised by the Department of Defence in the Age, dated 29 April 1978, inviting applicants to train as Electronics Technicians in the Air Force which stated female vacancies had already been filled were open to women and to men. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Department of Defence [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1978: [More…]

• Did the Acting Minister for Defence state, on 13 January 1 977, that six Tracker aircraft had been selected, before the Nowra fire, for the Fleet Air Arm. [More…]

• Did the Defence Department state on 7 April 1977. that the Fleet Air Arm had received only five operational aircraft, which would not require major overhaul for about twelve months. [More…]

• Are the effects on the level of public debate considered when the Minister or his Department issue statements relating to technical matters of defence significance. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 May 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 30 May 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• There is no special appropriation of funds in the Defence vote for commercial air charter. [More…]

• No funds are provided from within Defence appropriations for the charter of commercial aircraft for civil coastal surveillance. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 8 June 1 978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Committee of Reference for Defence Force Pay that salary differences between all male and female members of the Defence Force be abolished. [More…]

• In reply to a question from Mr John Noel, who asked whether or not Papua New Guinea should seek to enter into a defence treaty relationship with Australia before it is too late, Mr Somare said that he would rather not have Papua New Guinea enter into a treaty relationship with Australia, given the special understanding between the two nations. [More…]

• What would be the present Government’s attitude if the Government of Papua New Guinea approached Australia with the request for a formal defence pact? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In the light of these representations and the views expressed by many staff members of ASCO that the Government’s action will mean greatly reduced services to defence personnel and a substantially increased cost to the Federal Government, will the Minister seek a review of the decision? [More…]

• It is a very poor defence for the Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, who himself is a very selfsatisfied and smug person and a very arrogant man, to attack Peter Morris, the shadow Minister for Transport, for drawing to his attention and to the attention of the people of Australia the state of affairs which not only is present but also is continuing to be aggravated by the Government’s policy. [More…]

• The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has also given it special consideration. [More…]

• One other point that was raised was in relation to the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that dealt with dual citizenship. [More…]

• Any honourable senator who has bothered to look at the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the South Pacific will have seen a map which outlines the 200-mile zone. [More…]

• The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in chapter 4 of its report dealt with the fishing implications of territorial boundaries. [More…]

• I want to speak on the two reports which we are considering cognately, namely, the report from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence of Australia and the South Pacific and the official report of the Australian Parliamentary delegation to the South Pacific. [More…]

• I was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and also a member of the Parliamentary delegation which visited the South Pacific in June and July 1977. [More…]

• 1 make the point that part of the purpose of participating in the Parliamentary delegation to the South Pacific in mid- 1 977 was related to my involvement with the Senate Standing Committee of Foreign Affairs and Defence in the inquiry which that Committee was then conducting into Australia and the South Pacific. [More…]

• There is a growing recognition which I believe, as I will point out later, is reflected in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, that the South Pacific countries must be treated as neighbours on a basis of equality. [More…]

• The report of the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee has been and will be dealt with by others and I shall refer to it only briefly. [More…]

• It was nice to hear his report, but it was not a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence; it was a report from a separate delegation. [More…]

• For example, I was on the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which reported on Australia and the Middle East. [More…]

• I am sure that members of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee would not expect to go to the Middle East. [More…]

• Therefore the Senate is very grateful for the opportunity of discussing this report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee has now finished taking evidence on a further reference, and here we are just debating the report that was put down some months ago. [More…]

• I thank those speakers, particularly the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and Senator Davidson who have spoken tonight. [More…]

• I pay tribute to the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Senator Primmer and Senator Mcintosh referred to the problems committees such as the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee have because of their inability to travel. [More…]

• We have developed on the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence an understanding, co-operation and friendship which does help in preparing such reports for the benefit, I trust, not only of the Parliament but also of many outside the Parliament, including people in other countries who perhaps read them more than they are read in Australia and who are more interested in them than is the case in Australia. [More…]

• Tonight the Senate has a choice of listening to me speak on the report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence or the next subject on the Notice Paper which is a report of the Public Accounts Committee. [More…]

• As we are now approaching the time at which we adjourn perhaps I can spend some time on the report of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence under the chairmanship of Senator Sim came down with the opposite conclusion- that there was no threat. [More…]

• I agree that the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee is important and that it ought to receive the flexibility referred to by Senator Primmer and subsequently supported by Senator Sim. [More…]

• I now refer to the operations of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Perhaps we should alter the words Defence and Foreign Affairs’ to ‘Peace and Foreign Affairs’, particularly with regard to the Senate Committee. [More…]

• It seems to me that peace is the best sort of understanding and the best sort of defence. [More…]

• We ought to accept that peace, understanding and communication between nations is the best way in which we can support our own defence. [More…]

• I think that the record of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is one which will be enhanced by trust. [More…]

• I refer the honourable senator to the statement ofthe Minister for Defence on 5 May 1978 which outlined the reasons why aircraft with the capabilities of 727s were considered necessary for the VIP fleet. [More…]

• The Australian Housing Corporation Annual Report 1974-75 is solely concerned with the activities of the Defence Service Homes Scheme in that year. [More…]

• Consequently, the Committee approached the body currently responsible for administering the scheme, the Defence Service Homes Corporation, to seek the reasons for the delay. [More…]

• Firstly, the Defence Service Homes Scheme had to operate under two different accounting standards in 1974-75 because the Australian Housing Corporation Act was enacted one week before the end of that year. [More…]

• This practice would prevent the recurrence of some of the problems which occurred with the Defence Service Homes Scheme in 1 974-75. [More…]

• The reporting requirements in the Act under which the Defence Service Homes Scheme operates provides that the Minister present the report and financial statements in an approved form, together with the Auditor-General’s report, within 15 sitting days of their receipt. [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, sub-clause 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…]

• The Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory requesting that Senator Archer be discharged and nominating Senators Colston and Teague to be members; The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence requesting that Senator Scott be discharged and nominating Senators Kilgariff, Martin and Sibraa to be members; The Joint Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House requesting that Senator Mcintosh be discharged and nominating Senator Evans to be a member. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognizes the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services: [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognized by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• The Government’s pathetic defence of its policy suggests that, sometime in the years ahead, we are likely to see some revival in the building industry. [More…]

• The women who served in the defence forces in the last war so far have been denied Defence Force loans to build houses, and I emphasise the word ‘loans’. [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…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services: [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• One of the papers to be tabled is from the Minister for Defence ( Mr Killen). [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Carrick) to make this document available at least to the members of Senate Estimates Committee A, which will deal with the Estimates for the Department of Defence and the appropriation for the Governor-General. [More…]

• It seeks to authorise the borrowing of finance for defence purposes to meet a prospective increase in the Consolidated Revenue Fund deficit for 1977-78. [More…]

• The normal procedure, as set out in the second reading speech of the Minister for Science (Senator Webster) is to transfer some defence expenditure to the Loan Fund as defence expenditure is used simply because that avoids the necessity of going to the Loan Council. [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…]

• As Senator Wriedt has pointed out, the Bill is a machinery measure required to secure authority to borrow amounts for the financing of defence expenditure, which then needs to be charged to the Loan Fund during 1978-79. [More…]

• The Bill will authorise borrowings for defence purposes so that defence expenditure can be charged to the Loan Fund rather than to the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• The Bill before the House seeks authority to borrow amounts for the financing of defence expenditure during 1 975-76. [More…]

• It is for that reason that I hope that when there is some response later today to this Bill more perspective will be given to the consequences of the use of this Loan Bill for defence purposes and the matters that are so important to the management of the Australian economy. [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 termfrom 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…]

• The Government is hanging that, as is traditional, I admit, on the constitutional defence powers. [More…]

• I state in passing that I deplore the fact that, expressed as a proportion of total Budget outlays, expenditure on defence this year is reduced from the expenditure last year, which in turn was reduced from the expenditure for the year before. [More…]

• In a situation of grave uncertainty in this part of the world, and indeed world wide, it is most disconcerting to see the Government reducing the defence outlay as a proportion of the total Budget outlays. [More…]

• It is aimed at financing the defence expenditure through the traditional approach. [More…]

• For 1977-78, what was the amount of defence expenditure transferred from Consolidated Revenue Funds to the Loan Fund? [More…]

• Are there any resolutions of the Loan Council relating to Defence loans? [More…]

• 3.What credits are, or would be, available in the Loan Fund which can be used for Defence purposes? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, relates to a very dangerous situation which has arisen in an area in Western Australia that was occupied by the Army during the last war. [More…]

• Further, we find that the estimates for the Department of Trade and Resources, the Department of the Special Trade Representative and the Department of Defence are to be taken away from Estimates Committee A. [More…]

• It is a question of establishing incentives for people to want to get out there and get involved in the business of exploration, discover the new oil wells which would supply Australia with its own oil in order to ensure that Australia will be able to succeed in the future, have its own source from a defence standpoint and to keep oil prices within the parity level. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

• How much reinsurance has been received by each State under the reinsurance cover of the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme in each year since reinsurance cover had been taken out. [More…]

• 1 ) In what years since 19S6 has there been an excess of payments over premiums paid in Queensland under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme. [More…]

• In reply to a question from Mr John Noel, who asked whether or not Papua New Guinea should seek to enter into a defence treaty relationship with Australia before it is too late, Mr Somare said that he would rather not have Papua New Guinea enter into a treaty relationship with Australia, given the special understanding between the two nations. [More…]

• What would be the present Government’s attitude if the Government of Papua New Guinea approached Australia with the request for a formal defence pact? [More…]

• The Prime Ministers of Australia and Papua New Guinea made a joint statement on defence in Port Moresby on 1 1 February 1977. [More…]

• In that joint statement both Prime Ministers expressed their satisfaction and confidence that it appropriately reflected the desire of their Governments to maintain and develop the close and co-operative defence relationship between their two countries. [More…]

• There has been no request to Australia from the Government of Papua New Guinea for a formal defence pact and it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the hypothetical question concerning this matter which has been put. [More…]

• The position remains as set out in the joint statement on defence of 1 1 February 1977. [More…]

• These conditions are the withdrawal of US military forces from Taiwan, the abrogation of the USTaiwan Defence Treaty and the withdrawal of the US Embassy from Taipei. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and refer to an article in the Sunday Independent of 27 August 1978 over which appears the heading, ‘Red spy plane flies over the coast of Western Australia’. [More…]

• Clearly, the Senate was set up originally for the first of the upper House purposes I outlinedthe defence of the rights and privileges of the previously independent colonies. [More…]

• I ask whether the attention of the Minister concerned has been drawn to a report in the Melbourne Age of 1 September that the Federal Government approval for the Iwasaki tourist project was given despite strong objection by the Department of Foreign Affairs and the express reservations of the Departments of Defence, Industry and Commerce, Transport, Primary Industry and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]

• A joint committee on defence recommended that the Australian shipbuilding industry be retained. [More…]

• An efficient maritime industry is essential not only for the defence of this country but also generally for an island continent, and it is absolutely necessary to meet our transport needs. [More…]

• I will ask my colleague the Minister for Defence and get an answer. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has advised me as follows: The USS Midway visited Fremantle between 17 and 23 October 1977. [More…]

• It does seem a pity that the sub-committee of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was not given a wider reference in relation to human rights than the single reference of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]

• Other departments to express reservations were Defence, . [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• He will be aware, of course, of the Government’s intentions, which were announced in the Defence White Paper of November 1976, to upgrade surveillance facilities throughout the north of Australia. [More…]

• The Department of Defence and the Department of Construction currently are conducting a series of studies to determine the most suitable location for a patrol boat base in Darwin as a basis for subsequent consideration and decision by the Ministers concerned. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The Government intends to proceed with the establishment of Casey University-Australian Defence Force Academy as soon as practicable, subject to a favourable resolution by the House of Representatives following the presentation of the report of the Standing Committee on Public Works and to the enactment of the required legislation. [More…]

• The Development Council for Casey UniversityAustralian Defence Force Academy was established in 1 97S. [More…]

• The Minister, however, cannot use that argument as a defence of Government policy. [More…]

• 1 under the heading ‘Defence Co-operation’ the Government lists expenditure of $6. [More…]

• 9m for assistance to Indonesia allegedly to strengthen its own and the region’s defence capabilities at a time when that country, in my opinion, is engaged in bloody warfare against indigenous people in lands acquired by dubious means in West Irian and by blatant military invasion in East Timor. [More…]

• Leaving aside what may have been done in Australia, other countries feel that for defence purposes alone it is necessary to maintain fairly high subsidies in shipbuilding. [More…]

• This is a Government that always prates about defence preparedness. [More…]

• People can talk to me until they are blue in the face but they will not convince me that in three to five years there will not be the emergence of nationalism in one of the Asian countries- I shall not stipulate a particular country- and then belatedly a powerful Defence Minister will prevail on the Government to try to pick up the pieces at Whyalla and Newcastle. [More…]

• Defence preparation is always costly, but facilities should not be dismantled to the extent to which the Government has done so. [More…]

• Government side will be prepared to come to her defence. [More…]

• I trust that someone on the Government side will come to the defence of the Minister and remind the Cabinet that it has a responsibility to the Minister just as the Minister has a responsibility to the Senate. [More…]

• May I mention first, since it comes readily to mind, the situation of the Weapons Research Establishment and the defence industries which, since this Liberal Government has been in power, have been whittled down bit by bit. [More…]

• Not only did the Australian Labor Party support the Whyalla shipyards being kept in business but also an important joint committee of this parliament, the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, decided by unanimous vote to recommend that Newcastle and Whyalla because of their defence complement should be kept going. [More…]

• He claimed that it was costing too much to keep the shipyards going, and was not very much concerned about defence. [More…]

• Tariffs have a role also in enabling a vital defence industry to survive, and also an industry which, although not itself economic, has spin-offs which enable other industries which are economic to exist. [More…]

• I have in front of me a transcript of the court proceedings, including an extraordinary submission presented by the defence. [More…]

• The defence argued, among other things, that it was ludicrous to suggest that Crichton-Browne, because he had shares in a company which was set up to speculate in Poseidon shares, had breached section 8 of the Mining Act. [More…]

• In pursuing this alleged absurdity, the defence counsel’s submission drew attention to the position of a person who was a policy holder in the Australian Mutual Provident Society. [More…]

• The defence counsel said: [More…]

• It is rather remarkable that the defence counsel could have claimed that holding a policy with the AMP, which holds shares in mining companies, was analogous to a person being an initial shareholder in a company at the time it was incorporated, holding almost 25 per cent of the shares in that company himself and his relatives holding another 37 per cent or 38 per cent of the shares in that company, it being a proprietary company with at the time only eight shareholders in total, and the prosecuting counsel did not even see fit in his closing remarks to draw attention to that fact. [More…]

• The defence went on to present an alleged genealogy of the Western Australian Mining Act, which the defence counsel said was derived originally from the Mining Act of New South Wales. [More…]

• The defence counsel said: [More…]

• The defence counsel went on to argue, that although the charge was laid under the Western Australian Mining Act, the New South Wales Mining Act precluded people who were registrars, wardens or surveyors from holding shares in mining tenements but that it was not a substantive offence in itself and was not considered to be a misdemeanour or a crime. [More…]

• The defence went on to argue that a misdemeanour was committed only if the warden adjudicated on a matter within his jurisdiction, that is, in the mining area under his control. [More…]

• Essentially the defence argued that the words in section 8 of the Western Australian Mining Act did not mean what they said or, if they did mean what they said, it was intended that they should mean something else. [More…]

• And again the prosecuting counsel did not see fit to draw attention to that rather absurd assertion by the defence which in effect said that Mr Crichton-Browne was not guilty of any offence under the Mining Act of New South Wales and even though the charge was laid under the Mining Act of Western Australia he should be discharged from custody on the ground that he had not breached the Mining Act of New South Wales. [More…]

• The defence went on to cite Barwick ‘s judgment in the Webster case as a precedent and that, I think, is appropriate because, as the Attorney-General said at the time, if Barwick ‘s precedent was accepted nobody would ever be convicted of anything. [More…]

• Senator Walsh’s complaint was that the State Government employed the prosecutor and that a serious defence was dismissed in some 1 9 lines. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 September: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Mr Prai is the self-styled ‘De facto President of West Papua’, and Mr Ondawame is his self-styled ‘Minister for Defence’. [More…]

• I believe it is time for the Government, as part of its examination of the economy and as part of its responsibility to our near South East Asian neighbours, to have research carried out, in Treasury, trade, employment and other areas, into the feasibility of an extended South East Asia Pacific community with common economic, trade and defence policies. [More…]

• We should be introducing an effective system of defence which is based on the initiatives and co-operation of our own people and our own industries. [More…]

• The Government’s defence was that it would not comment on Budget rumours, but only days before it had not hesitated to kill rumours about the reintroduction of broadcasting and television licence fees. [More…]

• In the event of a major catastrophe occurring in one of Australia’s major cities or provincial areas such as the crash of a satellite or even a minor nuclear accident, is the Government satisfied that our civic and military defence mechanisms could cope with the consequences? [More…]

• What attracted the attention of the Committee at that time, however, was that the ordinance reversed the normal onus of proof to the extent that it made this offence, in the first instance, quite absolute and only then did it set out certain defences upon which the defendant could rely; for example, the defence that travelling in the reserved lane was necessary in order to avoid a collision. [More…]

• It could be remedied and the rights of defendants could be preserved to a much greater extent simply by amending another ordinance, the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance, so as to allow a defendant in these circumstances to file a notice on oath of any such defence on which he proposed to rely and so that the prosecution could, before actually proceeding to take the matter to trial, in fact consider the terms of the defence in question and not put the defendant at risk of having to rely on such a defence in order to extricate himself at trial. [More…]

• Members of the Opposition were concerned that a Minister of the Crown- a senior Minister at that- was under attack and that no one on the Government side was prepared to come to her 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 Australians; 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 to current radios and television services and the terrestrial communications system. [More…]

• I make my first accusation- I think that that is the correct word to use- in respect of the Australian Government and the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Australian people are being told less than they ought to know about the joint United States of America-Australia defence-space research facility at Pine Gap. [More…]

• It appears that it is due to the fact that the United States of America, which owns the area even though it is supposed to be a joint United States-Australian facility, is probably either not telling the Department of Defence and the Australian Government precisely what is going on at Pine Gap or is misleading them. [More…]

• I refer now to a communication that was released in January 1967 by the then Minister for Defence, Mr Allen Fairhall. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, Mr Allen Fairhall, announced on December 1 1 that the Australian and United States Governments had agreed to establish a joint United StatesAustralian Defence-Space Research Facility in the vicinity of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. [More…]

• This facility, the Minister said, would be operated by the Australian Defence Department and the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defence. [More…]

• I was told that I could not go into it- that it was a closed defence area. [More…]

• Some time after that, the then Minister for Defence- I think he was the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser)- said that I could go into the area if I wanted. [More…]

• If a seventh radome has been built, certainly there has been no public announcement of it by the Australian Government, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) or by his Department. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, his Department and the Government ought to take a serious look at the whole operation at Pine Gap and make a clear cut public statement admitting that it is a possible nuclear target or even a target for conventional weapons should an air armada come in from the north of Australia or from any other pan of Australia. [More…]

• If it is a defence operation with which this country is deeply involved, there ought to be no secret about it. [More…]

• Archives and records of a highly secret or confidential nature relating to matters of defence, security or international relations. [More…]

• This applies to ministerial certificates of exemption because of prejudice to defence, security or international relations, breach of government to government confidences and prejudice to Commonwealth-State relations. [More…]

• Thirdly, if a Minister thinks that disclosure of a document would prejudice national security, defence, international relations or what are described as relations between the Commonwealth and any State, he can, as the Bill now stands, conclusively determine that it should remain secret. [More…]

• These defence, security and foreign affairs gateways are in themselves bad enough. [More…]

• But it does not take much imagination to anticipate that officials applying the defence and national security exemptions in the Bill will in practice be very likely to take over much, if not all, of the existing guideline apparatus. [More…]

• May I first remind honourable senators of the important place the defence service homes scheme holds in the array of Commonwealth programs of assistance to various sections of the community. [More…]

• The principal purpose of the Bill now before the Senate 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 1 7 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 provides for the incorporation in the Defence Service Homes Act of the features of three long-standing ministerial directions and makes two other major amendments to the existing defence service homes arrangements. [More…]

• Legal doubts have arisen as to the effectiveness of certain long-standing 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, affected the eligibility of persons for a defence service homes loan. [More…]

• The first of the additional major amendments to which I referred relates to the defence service homes insurance scheme. [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 11 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 major amendment 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…]

• I admire that very much because mothers of Australia are people who need defence on occasions from some of the things that would happen to them if there were not people in this place who were prepared to speak up for them. [More…]

• I have made my point of view clear on that and I would have thought that that would have made as clear as possible my attitude towards Australian mothers and the fact that in certain situations they do need defence. [More…]

• My question is addressed to Senator Carrick as Minister for Education and also as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I ask: In view of a recent answer to me that it was the intention of the Government to proceed with the establishment of Casey University, will the establishment of the university be solely a matter for the Minister for Defence and the Department of Defence? [More…]

• I further ask: Has the attention of the Minister been drawn to an article in the journal of the Australian Naval Institute of August 1978 in which there is very strong criticism of the proposal to isolate defence personnel in a single purpose institution and strong applause for the Navy’s present policy of sending its young undergraduates to existing universities? [More…]

• I am asked whether this is solely the responsibility of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• To the extent that the Australian Defence Force Academy will come directly under the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Defence in another place, the answer is yes. [More…]

• I think Senator Button will know that over the years the argument as to whether there ought to be a combined defence force academy or other separate institutions has waxed and waned. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Foreign Affairs and refers to new information that has come to light about a plutonium deposit at Maralinga. [More…]

• -I think that in another place both the Minister for Defence and the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs will be contributing information at length on this matter and I refer Senator Bishop to that. [More…]

• I am mindful of the fact that the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence set up a sub-committee on territorial boundaries which did have a brief look at the fishing industry in terms of foreign vessels fishing in Australian waters, but I am informed by some members of that Committee that they did not go into the Australian fishing industry in any great depth. [More…]

• Is the existence of such a facility for production and maintenance vital to Australia’s defence needs. [More…]

• In terms of defence significance, the Department of Defence has indicated that a major program involving building of large ships is only envisaged as arising during a large-scale and protracted conflict. [More…]

• It is relevant to note that two major inquiries into Shipbuilding, namely those by the Tariff Board in 1971 and the Industries Assistance Commissin in 1976, have found the construction of large merchant ships is not of primary defence importance. [More…]

• Considerations of defence, including those also put forward by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in its October 1 977 report, were weighed most carefully before the Government arrived at the conclusion that the cost to the community of the assistance needed to protect the industry’s future in Australia was well beyond that justified on economic, social and defence grounds. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1978: [More…]

• How many persons from the Department of Defence and any other Department were involved with assessing possible available aircraft after the date closed for registration of interest. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK- The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• An overseas mission of 8 officers comprising 3 members of the RAAF, 1 official from each of the Departments of Defence, Administrative Services and Transport and a representative from both Trans-Australia Airlines and Ansett Airlines visited the United States. [More…]

• The Government is firmly on record in promoting the human rights standards as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in the defence of the integrity of the rights of the individual. [More…]

• The defence of one ‘s country is not of course a matter that can be taken lightly. [More…]

• By way of comparison the Soviet Union spends of the order of 11-13 per cent of GNP on defence against 6 per cent by the United States. [More…]

• Surely this level of expenditure cannot be justified as a response to legitimate defence requirements? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [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 Government. [More…]

• -Will the Minister representing the Minister for Defence tell the Senate of all the locations in South Australia where uranium by-products and other radioactive materials have been buried? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the individual who championed the Fraser Island cause, Mr John Sinclair, has been placed under significant political pressure by the Queensland Government for the action he has taken as President of the Fraser Island Defence Organisation? [More…]

• I also inform the Senate that, pursuant to the resolutions agreed to by both Houses, the Prime Minister has nominated Mr Lusher to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the place of Mr Thomson. [More…]

• on the Australian Services Canteens Organisation, together with the text of a statement by the Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence. [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…]

• Did a report in the Age, 1 September 1978, state that Federal Government approval for the Iwasaki tourist project was given despite the strong objections of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and the expressed reservations of the Departments of Defence, Industry and Commerce, Transport, Primary Industry and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 September 1978: [More…]

• Will the Minister include in the valuable monthly statistics on Australian Defence force employment, the total number of public servants employed in the Defence Department, prepared on the same basis as those for the Defence force, but in the following categories: (a) the numbers and classifications of public servants; (b) numbers of other workers; (c) the location of such people; for example, defence, central, army bases, and naval dockyards; and (d) their broad duties; for example, personnel administration, defence science and technology, finance, procurement and quality assurance, strategic assessment, force development, professional and technical officers, and tradespeople. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The terms and conditions of employment and factors which affect recruitment, retention and wastage of Service personnel and civilian staff of the Department of Defence vary in significant ways. [More…]

• The annual Defence report also includes details of the allocation of Defence civilian manpower by broad functional classification as at the end of the year under review. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 September 1978: [More…]

• Were women officers in the Defence forces granted equal pay on 1 9 May 1 978, and was it decided that equal pay would be back-dated to 5 January 1978. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• To assist in the defence of Rhodesia against threatened disruption by communist terrorists so that an orderly and peaceful general election may take place. [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Carrick as Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs and as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Australian military assistance to the countries of Indo-China is being given or is contemplated and no Australian Defence Force personnel are serving in the countries. [More…]

• I would say in defence of this principle that that would be a price worth paying if we had to pay it. [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Defence and the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs will recall that on Tuesday, 10 October I raised a number of questions relating to radioactive material at Maralinga. [More…]

• Senator Rae asked a number of questions regarding the presence, the nature of the presence, the armament and the nature of the armament of Cuban defence forces or military forces on the African continent. [More…]

• In June, units of the PNG Defence Force were sent briefly to the border area in PNG to ensure that OPM elements were not making use of PNG territory. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence a question concerning the FI 1 1 fighter bomber. [More…]

• Rather I am inclined to the view- I would like the Minister for Science (Senator Webster) to remark on this matter- that an Australian research and development corporation should be established which had access to promising discoveries made in government laboratories, such as the CSIRO or defence laboratories, and which also had access to tertiary education establishment laboratories and research establishments as well as to industrial research and development, provided industry is prepared to offer to the corporation a part interest in the discovery in return for development funds. [More…]

• About one-third of our research activity went into the defence area- about 30 per cent. [More…]

• In other countries, perhaps the USA, government defence contracts, for example, have been the cornerstone of industrial viability for large numbers of firms and also for the capacity of those organisations to remain innovative and competitive. [More…]

• Many of the defence innovations in some countries have been applied for nondefence purposes. [More…]

• Yet in this country we have an almost complete separation of research in the defence area. [More…]

• We have our defence scientific establishment and our industrial and academic research bodies. [More…]

• As a matter of policy we need to designate several equipment areas in the defence field for Australian procurement. [More…]

• Queensland- 1975 Not applicable; 1976 (i) C. and N. Tubman; (ii) C. and N. Tubman; 1977 (i) Watkins Ltd; (ii) James Sheppard; (iii) C. and N. Tubman; (iv) Department of Defence (Army Office); (v) Department of Defence (Army Office). [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 September 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senior’s question: [More…]

• Did Colonel Leaver have discussions with the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen; and, if so, why? [More…]

• -My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence is prompted by anxiety amongst Gympie and Maryborough residents about rumours that there will be a movement, on a permanent basis, of significant numbers of defence personnel to the Gympie or Maryborough areas. [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…]

• It submits its defence- it is not on oath- which may or may not be true. [More…]

• The Minister for Social Security apparently knows of no such Act or she would bring it to her defence. [More…]

• If we correctly see ‘the language as the only element which bound the Slovene nation together over generations ‘ then we can understand that the defence of his language is inherent to the Slovene. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I would like to know whether the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) was informed because I understand that there is an obligation by the United States of America to supply the Australian Government with full and timely information about strategic and operational developments relative to the station. [More…]

• The most recent list of American defence and scientific installations in Australia was provided by the Prime Minister in answer to a question on notice in the House on 2 November 1976’3’. [More…]

• Joint Defence Space Research Facility, Alice Springs, commonly known as Pine Gap; [More…]

• Joint Defence Space Communications Station, Woomera, commonly known as Nurrungar [More…]

• These reportedly include joint operations of NSA with the Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), operated under the secret UK USA Agreement of 1947, at Albert Park in Melbourne, Darwin, HMAS Harman near Canberra, Pearce Air Force Base near Perth, and Toowoomba; an NSA facility at the US [More…]

• These installations cover a wide range of American interests’ in Australia- ranging from strategic intelligence, strategic support, regional defence to civilian co-operation. [More…]

• Some, like North West Cape, Pine Gap, and Nurrungar, have direct strategic and defence significance; others, such as the USAF Detachment 421 at Alice Springs perform intelligence functions; even those NASA stations wholly committed to the civilian space program have important ‘goodwill’ and co-operation implications. [More…]

• North West Cape is presently one of the most important links in the US global defence network. [More…]

• Officially known as the USAFs Space and Missile Systems Organisation (SAMSO) Detachment 2, Nurrungar provides a real-time data link between the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD), the Strategic Air Command (SAC) and the National Military Command System on the one hand, and the satellite early-warning system on the other hand. [More…]

• Although certain senior military officers within the Department of Defence ( including the Australian Deputy Commander at North West Cape) had been informed of the new development, the first the Australian Government and the Parliament knew of it was a report in the Australian Financial Review of 8 May. [More…]

• to maintain the present eligibility of members of the Defence Services for housing finance from the Defence Service Home Corporation; [More…]

• to permit Parliament to maintain adequate scrutiny of the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme; [More…]

• Over the same period the allocation of funds for defence service homes has declined by 62 per cent. [More…]

• It is a matter of regret that in the area of war service homes- defence service homes is the term now used- with only one exception, regressive steps have been taken. [More…]

• The Opposition notes that clause 3 of the Bill amends the principal Act so that de facto spouses of not less than three years standing are to be treated on the same basis as legal spouses for the purpose of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• To that degree the Opposition supports the Government and applauds the inclusion of this amendment in the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill 1 978. [More…]

• For example, clause 4 amends the principal Act so that the period of peacetime service necessary to qualify for a defence service loan is increased from three years to six years. [More…]

• A person who commenced full time service in the defence forces on or after 17 August 1977 will become eligible for a loan on completion of six years’ full time service subject to the important qualification of a commitment to complete further full time service. [More…]

• Yet the Government has had the audacity to suggest in its material and speeches on this Bill that this measure ‘is consistent with, and will strengthen, the prevailing conditions of service for the defence forces’. [More…]

• To me it is incomprehensible that the conditions of service will be strengthened by doubling the period of service required for eligibility for a loan under the defence service homes scheme and further requiring that a serviceman must make still another commitment to full time service. [More…]

• This measure will only worsen not strengthen conditions of service and discourage enlistment in the defence forces. [More…]

• Furthermore, the provision that defence personnel must make a commitment at the end of six years to render further full time service discriminates between the different branches of a service. [More…]

• I urge Government senators, who obviously will be supporting this Bill, to give us some reasons why there should be a policy of differentiation between the various arms of the defence forces. [More…]

• He or she can serve for six years and one day and immediately become eligible for a defence service home loan. [More…]

• Naval personnel are only required to serve in excess of six years to become eligible for consideration for a defence service loan. [More…]

• Proposed new section 27a provides for the payment of fees by applicants, the amount of fee to be determined by the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]

• The introduction of this fee, as we see it, is further evidence of the Government’s contradictory approach to its general role of providing concessions for the Services and its contradictory approach to the defence service homes scheme in particular. [More…]

• On the one hand we have the Government saying that the purpose of the scheme in providing loans at concessional rates to defence service personnel is to encourage enlistment in the armed forces. [More…]

• Such a measure puts the defence service homes scheme in line with the practice of other lending institutions. [More…]

• It seems to us to deny the whole purpose of the scheme, that is, to provide concessions for defence service personnel to encourage enlistment. [More…]

• The defence service homes scheme since its inception has been set apart from other lending institutions by its very nature which, in 1918 and all the subsequent years in which the legislation has been amended, was to provide concessions for war service or service in the armed forces. [More…]

• If one were to follow to its logical conclusion the idea of putting the defence service homes scheme on a par with other lending institutions one would have to abolish the concessional interest rate that is provided under the scheme. [More…]

• This clause proposes the introduction of a preference system for those servicemen and women who have had war service and provides, for the first time in the history of the defence service homes scheme, specific authority for imposing a waiting period. [More…]

• When one considers that about one-third of a million exservicemen and women have taken advantage of this scheme as part compensation for their sacrifices that were made in the defence of this country, one would imagine that it would be one of the areas in which there would be no attempt made to introduce legislation which would reduce concessions to such people. [More…]

• If, under a defence service homes mortgage, the applicant obtained $12,000 at 3.75 per cent, it would cost him $450 in interest. [More…]

• That would be the cost if he used all of the advantages of the defence service homes provisions. [More…]

• At the defence services homes rate this represents an interest remission of $887.50, when compared with the cost involved in taking out an ordinary commercial housing loan at 10.5 per cent. [More…]

• But if such an applicant had taken out only one mortgage, a first mortgage for $30,000, through any bank or building society at 10.5 per cent he would have paid $3,150, or approximately $600 more than he would pay by taking advantage of the defence service homes provisions. [More…]

• The Defence Service Homes Corporation need do no more than consider an applicant’s eligibility and, if satisfied, provide him with a certificate thereof. [More…]

• The lending authority could then apply to the Defence Service Homes Corporation for the $15,000, or whatever figure was involved, and make repayments twice yearly. [More…]

• It would involve no fiddling around of any sort in the Defence Service Homes Corporation. [More…]

• The defence service homes scheme is a cheap scheme. [More…]

• These points are typical of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]

• But for the majority of people who are engaged in business enterprises of one sort or another and who have a defence service home it is inconvenient to have this compulsory insurance. [More…]

• We are debating the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill 1978. [More…]

• to maintain the present eligibility of members of the Defence Services for housing finance from the Defence Service Homes Corporation; [More…]

• to permit Parliament to maintain adequate scrutiny of the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme; [More…]

• The Defence Service Homes Scheme came into operation in March 1919 after the enabling legislation was passed in 1918 as outlined by the previous speaker, Senator Archer. [More…]

• Although it is now called the defence service homes scheme it was called the war service homes scheme until 1973. [More…]

• In 1973 there was a major change when servicemen who had served for three years became eligible for a defence service homes scheme benefit. [More…]

• Finally there was an objective of using the scheme as a means of attracting and retaining persons in the defence Services. [More…]

• At the moment the person eligible for a defence Service home loan can borrow up to $15,000 under the scheme. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill that we are discussing today is to amend the Defence Service Homes Act in a number of ways. [More…]

• 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 continuous full time “service subject to a commitment to render full time service. [More…]

• Senator Gietzelt spoke at length on this and pointed out how this change takes away the eligibility of some members of the defence forces. [More…]

• The second proposal in the Bill is to allow the Defence Service Homes Corporation to give a measure of preference in the allocation of loans. [More…]

• With regard to this proposal it is interesting to note that the report on the defence service homes scheme from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure at paragraph 107 (D) stated: [More…]

• The fourth proposal is that there be a recognition for purposes of the Defence Service Homes Act of de facto relationships. [More…]

• Honourable senators would not need reminding that associated with the defence service homes scheme is a special insurance scheme. [More…]

• This scheme is called the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]

• I have outlined before in this place when discussing the defence service homes insurance scheme how from 1 September 1977 a loading was applied to insurance premiums in Queensland. [More…]

• It is worth reminding the Senate that Queensland is the only State in which a loading has been applied to insurance premiums under the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]

• Those who determine policy for the insurance scheme conveniently forget that defence service personnel who qualify for homes under this scheme and consequently qualify for insurance on their homes did not enlist to defend Queensland only. [More…]

• The defence service homes insurance scheme is a cooperative scheme. [More…]

• Figures are available which show what premiums have been received and what claim payments have been made under the defence service homes scheme for each State and Territory. [More…]

• The figures available show that from 1 966-67 to 1 974-75 there was an excess of payments over premiums paid in Queensland under the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]

• With regard to those floods, I believe that the defence service homes scheme should bear part of the blame for the losses incurred. [More…]

• When houses purchased under the scheme were built on those flood plains it should have been acknowledged that severe flooding would eventually occur and that the defence service homes insurance scheme would suffer considerable loss. [More…]

• People in Queensland who are insured under the defence service homes insurance scheme will not accept the discrimination which is being directed towards them. [More…]

• That will be a sorry state of affairs for a scheme which has had a long history and which has served defence service personnel so well over the years since its inception just after the close of the First World War. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, relates to the construction in the United States of America of three patrol frigates for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• The United States Department of Defence fully expects that 50 FFGs will be built over the next decade. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether it is a fact that there is deadly uranium dust mixed with topsoil at Maralinga in South Australia and whether this is being blown to other populated areas of Australia. [More…]

• These include branches of engineering and especially engineering metrology, equipment for the defence forces, and aspects of civil aviation governed by international codes. [More…]

• Secondly, in view of the fact that the cost of the first two vessels is now approximately $500m, why is the Department of Defence unable to provide up to date estimates of the costs? [More…]

• The Department of Defence and the Crown Solicitor’s Office are continuing to monitor the situation. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for National Development or the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Last week Mr Newman with a party of United Kingdom and Australian defence scientists inspected the Maralinga site and met officials and Ministers of the South Australian Government. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In view of the importance of this offset manufacturing to the future of Australia’s aircraft industry and defence production capability for the next decade, what steps is the Government taking to ensure that these offset contracts are not lost to the country? [More…]

• I should like to comment on Australia ‘s defence situation and in particular on the statement made recently in the House of Representatives by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• After all, defence is one of the major items of government expenditure involving more than $2 billion this year, which represents about 2.16 per cent of the gross domestic product. [More…]

• Finally, in the early 1970s, we again changed to the defence of continental Australia. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence in that Government advanced the proposition that our strategic frontier was our coastline- a strategic doctrine the like of which has not been heard since the death of King Ethelred ‘the Unready’. [More…]

• The present Government understands the importance of defence in depth and the way in which the control of our northern approaches is vital to our strategic security. [More…]

• For many years a major role of the Navy has been the defence of merchant shipping against submarine attack. [More…]

• I am not satisfied that such a clear concept is available to defence planners. [More…]

• This is a phrase one often hears bandied about in defence planning circles. [More…]

• It has been argued that this is a method of maintaining the state of the art in our Defence Force. [More…]

• Between the two World Wars it maintained a small core tank defence force. [More…]

• I refer to the role of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and what he is trying to do. [More…]

• But the Defence Department is widely regarded by the Defence Force as being a disaster area. [More…]

• The Defence Force is always critical of defence headquarters. [More…]

• Nevertheless, there is a very deep-seated feeling- it concerns me- that the Defence Department, as at present structured, is not really responsive to the needs and problems of the Defence Force. [More…]

• But I think that the Defence Department, as at present structured, is beyond the effective political control of anyone. [More…]

• I am sorry that Senator Bishop, who was the Minister assisting the Minister for Defence, has left the Senate chamber. [More…]

• The Secretary of the Department, in evidence given before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, admitted that the Department was not designed for war. [More…]

• My real worry about the Defence Department is that I get a strong feeling that many people in it do not really believe that the Defence Department controls a Defence Force that might have to fight and that their decisions might affect the lives of the people concerned and even the security of the country. [More…]

• It seems that many of them- this may be unfair but I have this very strong feeling- are more concerned in the status of the Defence Department on the pecking order in Canberra rather than its efficiency as a method of controlling the Defence Force of this country. [More…]

• That is a feeling which I have and which I know is widely shared throughout the Defence Force. [More…]

• I would like to say at the outset, in answer to an earlier interjection, that I am strongly in favour of a single defence department. [More…]

• The scheme was produced by direction of a Liberal Minister for Defence and was introduced by a Labor Minister for Defence and has been in force now for some years. [More…]

• In essence the scheme involved a Public Service takeover of the Defence Force. [More…]

• When I was talking earlier about strategic policy and the central nature of our strategic policy to our Defence Force and our defence preparations, I did not make the point then but I would like to make it now that when one looks at who is responsible for strategic policy one goes down through four layers of public servants- Secretary, Deputy Secretary, First Assistant Secretary, Assistant Secretary- before one reaches the first professional service man. [More…]

• There is another very damaging effect of the Defence Department as it is now; it is ludicrously over-ranked. [More…]

• This scheme for the amalgamation of the three separate service departments into the Defence Department was produced by an extraordinary document. [More…]

• It is worse than that because not only are the people over-ranked at defence headquarters but also it reflects right through the structure of the service. [More…]

• It is desirable that for a man in defence headquarters who is a sailor he should go to sea sometimes; if he is a soldier he should see some other soldiers: and if he is an airman he should fly. [More…]

• Firstly, at the top we need a proper defence council, statutorily established and presided over by the Minister. [More…]

• The various sections of the Defence Department should be responsible to individual members of the defence council who predominantly should be professional servicemen. [More…]

• As I suggested, we need a reduction in rank throughout the whole structure of the Defence Department, I also think the chiefs of staff of the Navy, Army and Air Force and the chief of the Defence Force staff are misnamed. [More…]

• Finally, we need better political control of the Defence Department. [More…]

• I think that somehow- perhaps by the use of parliamentary secretaries- we have to increase the scope of political control because our activities in defence may be of crucial importance to the future of this country. [More…]

• Defence is the first duty of a government and I would like to see us performing it with more efficiency. [More…]

• This is especially true of Telecom, Australia Post and the Overseas Telecommunications Commission, whose projected expenditures represent a sum equal to that allocated for defence this financial year. [More…]

• Expenditure on defence is rigorously analysed. [More…]

• The defence allocation is analysed and examined in great detail by the Estimates committees. [More…]

• It has now embarked upon a capital program that is in many ways equal to that being currently considered by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Department of Defence, in deciding upon a replacement for its 100 Mirage fighters, will commit the Australian taxpayer to an investment of between $ 1,700m and $2,000m. [More…]

• Although the ARE 1 1 program is comparable in cost to the decision which the Department of Defence must make over a fighter replacement, there has been no debate in the Parliament on the ARE 1 1 program. [More…]

• We are spending something like $ 1,000m on defence. [More…]

• During the year 1 977-78 the premiums received and claim payments made under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme, for each State and Territory are set out in the following tables: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs aware that an additional premium of 20 per cent is payable by Queensland residents insured under the defence service homes insurance scheme but that an additional premium is not payable in any other part of Australia? [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and in part concerns also the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, refers to the allowances and concessions presently available to members of the Australian forces serving overseas. [More…]

• It thinks it would be a defence in Canberra if the accused could show that he came within the Menhennitt rules. [More…]

• It is important to note that the judge did not set out the grounds of defence for a doctor. [More…]

• Everyone assumes that the doctor is the only person who could have that defence because he would be the person with the knowledge of whether a pregnancy was damaging to a woman’s health or mental condition. [More…]

• A capable Queen ‘s Counsel could well comply with the Menhennitt rules and establish a defence against a charge of abortion. [More…]

• Therefore if the rules apply in the Australian Capital Territory this defence to the carrying out a legal abortion in the Territory need not of necessity apply to a doctor only. [More…]

• I know that the field outside the medical profession could be very restricted, but someone else could establish a defence on these grounds. [More…]

• What I am saying is that if a person is charged under the Act his only defence is the Menhennitt rules and the Menhennitt rules do not say that he has to be a registered medical practitioner. [More…]

• Therefore someone can have a defence. [More…]

• So at present a doctor or anyone else who can establish a defence can conduct an abortion anywhere in Canberra. [More…]

• Concerning cost estimates for the ships, the total project estimates presented to Parliament on 24 October 1978 by the Minister for Defence in his Defence Review statement were $4 14m in January 1977 prices for the first two ships and $186m in August 1977 prices for the third ship. [More…]

• These estimates are subject to day to day review and control by the Defence Department in Canberra and by Australian personnel who are placed in the United States Navy FFG project office in the United States. [More…]

• In his Defence Review statement of 24 October 1978, the Minister also said: [More…]

• The United States Government, as a matter of routine, investigates the financial soundness of all bidders on major defence contracts and makes several such investigations of the ship builders involved when awarding FFG contracts. [More…]

• The objective was clearly to obtain self-sufficiency to an extent where our defence needs were looked after and to ensure the future employment of Australians. [More…]

• The defence White [More…]

• There are aspects of the estimates of Departments of Foreign Affairs and Defence on which, if evidence is not given in camera, we will not receive the best information. [More…]

• I was a member of the old Senate Estimates Committee A, which dealt with the Departments of Administrative Services, the Parliament, Prime Minister and Cabinet, National Resources, Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• This meant I had to make a choice between sitting on the committee which dealt with Foreign Affairs and sitting on that which dealt with Defence. [More…]

• The result of all this was that I ended up on Committee F which dealt with the Departments of Defence, Business and Consumer Affairs and Finance and the Postal and Telecommunications Department. [More…]

• Previously Committee A had dealt with departments which had many similar interests, lt considered Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Administrative Services. [More…]

• The latter included a number of areas such as Overseas Property, which has links with both Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I would suggest that one Estimates committee deal with the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Defence, Administrative Services and Veterans’ Affairs, and perhaps- if that were not enough- the Department of the Special Trade Representative. [More…]

• To this end a joint Commonwealth/State committee, including a Defence representative, was established to determine further action to be taken to locate and dispose of unexploded ammunition in the Warnbro Sound area. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: 22 applicants did undergo psychological and physical tests on Army premises on 23/24 September 1978, as pan of a selection procedure for ‘Operation Drake ‘. [More…]

• Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Lithuania are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom-minded person in Australia. [More…]

• That the Senate notes with concern the lack of action by the Australian Government to relieve Australian citizens of the disadvantages of dual nationality, particularly as experienced in visiting former homelands, and urges the Government speedily to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on dual nationality, tabled in the Senate on 14 October 1976. [More…]

• If no officers are exempt, has the Attorney-General authorised any officers of the Department of Defence to tap telephone conversations of Department of Defence employees at their place of work or their private residence? [More…]

• Do they have access to the Department of Defence? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I have been advised that it is obligatory for a member of the Australian Defence Forces to obtain ministerial approval through normal service channels before he may be permitted to serve with a foreign power. [More…]

• Northern surveillance is merely one cog in a large engine of surveillance and defence. [More…]

• Many exservicemen who in the past have stuck solidly to Liberal governments, because they have held the misguided belief that Liberal governments are the only governments that care about defence in this country and the only governments that are prepared to do anything for ex-servicemen, are going to have a change of heart at the next election. [More…]

• The Special, Intermediate and General Rate disability pensions and the war and defence widow pensions have been automatically adjusted each Spring and Autumn in line with movements in the Consumer Price Index. [More…]

• One of the most glaring things that has happened has been the determination by the Government to sell all those plots of land which were accumulated to supply defence service homes. [More…]

• Honourable senators will remember that the Labor Government extended the eligibility of servicemen for defence service homes. [More…]

• It might decide that the revenues from the sales will be used to assist the purchase of defence service homes. [More…]

• As Senator Bishop has raised the matter of defence service homes I will add a few words. [More…]

• My attention has been drawn to a defence service homes village at Karawarra, a suburb of Perth in Western Australia. [More…]

• I have just received a copy of the War Pensions Bill that was introduced by Senator Pearce, the Minister for Defence, into the Senate on 17 December 1914. [More…]

• Will the Government consider opening tenders for the supply of uniforms to our defence forces to manufacturers other than the Australian Government Clothing Factory in an effort to reduce costs? [More…]

• However, it is true that the defence forces do give priority to the Australian Government Clothing Factory. [More…]

• Buildings and Works (Defence)- proposed expenditure $67,400,000-agreed to. [More…]

• Repairs and Maintenance (Defence)proposed expenditure $52,000,000- agreed to. [More…]

• I am mindful that within part of the Minister’s jurisdiction he is getting rid of the land which was held for defence service homes. [More…]

• Can the Minister give me any idea of any naval defence establishments within 10 miles of Sydney where the naval ratings’ billets are inferior to those of members of the WRANS? [More…]

• Plenty has been said about the need of the road for defence purposes and as a link with Woomera. [More…]

• Firstly, there is the matter of defence, where a road link is absolutely vital. [More…]

• Darwin was established as an administrative centre and partly as a defence centre- but basically as an administrative centre. [More…]

• One has to look to the development and defence of the north. [More…]

• The north is far too important to the people of the south, whether in terms of defence or the development of the gigantic mineral resources of that region. [More…]

• As I have indicated, and as Senator Robertson has also indicated, because of the defence needs of the north and the unreliability of shipping there must be a backstop- if the road from the south is to be a backdrop- as a means of transferring goods and troops, if necessary, to the north in the shortest time possible. [More…]

• We know from studying general transport matters- defence experts have given some support to this argument- that what is needed in Australia is a rebirth of the railway system. [More…]

• I take this opportunity on the defence estimates to draw to the attention of honourable senators a matter which I have raised on two or three occasions over the past week or so. [More…]

• In that month the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, announced that the Government intended to acquire the two vessels at an estimated cost of $ 187m- for the two of them. [More…]

• The Navy claimed at the time that this arrangement was a significant development in purchasing defence equipment in that it safeguarded Australia’s interests by recognising the possibility of unforeseen financial and technical risks with procedures to cope with them. [More…]

• At the time it was claimed by the Defence Department, and in particular the Navy, that this arrangement avoided the kind of financial difficulties into which we got on previous occasions, especially with the FI 1 1. [More…]

• Subsequently the Defence Department recommended the purchase of a third FFG, which was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) just before the last election. [More…]

• As to the question of cost escalation, the position was set out in the statement made by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) on 24 October. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has said that part of the reason is due to currency changes, of course. [More…]

• Mr Caruana sought an early discharge for domestic reasons and the real basis of his complaint is that when he sought to transfer his entitlement under the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Fund to the appropriate superannuation scheme because he is an employee of a Commonwealth establishment, the Garden Island Dockyard, he was told in a letter that he had failed to meet a particular deadline. [More…]

• I am simply asking that the two pieces of correspondence from the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority be incorporated in Hansard and then the Minister can refer it to either the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) or to the Treasurer (Mr Howard). [More…]

• -My appraisal of the defence estimates is not an echo of the recurrent and perhaps often valid criticism of the lack of preparedness on the part of our defence forces to meet an emergency. [More…]

• I find that there is almost a complete lack of internal departmental controls over public expenditure and the Auditor-General’s recent reports on the Department of Defence show that this Department is a very guilty offender. [More…]

• On the other hand, I must express a degree of gratitude to the officials of the Department of Defence for their frank answers and their written answers to our requests. [More…]

• The limited resources- less than 9 per cent of Budget allocations- must mean that we should derive full value for the dollars expended on defence, particularly the money directed to the uniformed sections, rather than favour an administrative elite of armchair civilians. [More…]

• In correspondence with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), as a result of certain statements made in the defence estimates, he reminded me that the Australian ratio of civilians to servicemen is half that of the United Kingdom and 20 per cent below that of the United States of America. [More…]

• The Department of Defence is one of the 12 departments and organisations which is labouring on with the Mandata computer exercise of the Public Service Board. [More…]

• The figures reveal a certain tardiness in the management of the stockholding of military vehicles or defence vehicles. [More…]

• I look forward to an early examination of the Department of Defence by the Auditor-General’s Office in conducting an efficiency audit. [More…]

• I believe that the Defence Department has a lot to learn in regard to the management of its resources and its accountability. [More…]

• The defence advisers have indicated to me that they are unable to equate some of the figures that he gave. [More…]

• Senator Mulvihill raised a question which I am advised is more a matter for the Department of Finance than for the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The responsibility has fallen upon the staff to take action, not in defence of their rights but in defence of the institution and to seek to continue to provide the Australian people with an adequate television and radio network. [More…]

• Central Studies Establishment, Department of Defence, ACT [More…]

• Natural Disasters Organization, Department of Defence, ACT [More…]

• Manpower & Requirements Branch, Department of Defence, ACT [More…]

• Directorate of Survey- Army, Department of Defence, ACT [More…]

• RAN Research Laboratories, Department of Defence, NSW [More…]

• Directorate of Aircraft Engineering, Department of Defence, NSW [More…]

• Central Studies Establishment, Department of Defence, ACT [More…]

• Joint Training Scheme- Department of Defence, ACT [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to the recently released New Zealand Defence White Paper and in particular to the reference to the importance and growing effectiveness of Australian-New Zealand defence co-operation? [More…]

• The Government has noted the defence review in New Zealand and has noted in particular how closely the strategic concepts of both countries are related. [More…]

• In recent years there have been increased efforts on both sides to strengthen the close defence co-operation which has traditionally existed between us. [More…]

• Indeed, in March 1976 Prime Minister Muldoon and Mr Fraser agreed on the need to develop and improve defence cooperation between New Zealand and Australia. [More…]

• The two Defence Ministers met in April 1977 and most recently in August of this year to review progress in defence co-operation matters. [More…]

• The Committee considered that this regulation unduly trespassed upon the rights and liberties of the citizen by not providing the defence of reasonable excuse or some other similar safeguard in relation to the offences under the regulation. [More…]

• The IAC suggested- and I gather that the Government has endorsed the notion- that a somewhat higher level of protection can be justified for these industries because they have some defence significance. [More…]

• Whatever merit that argument may have in the context of the matters under discussion, I have observed in the past that defence or a defence argument is frequently the last refuge of the high protectionist when a particular level of protection cannot be justified or rationalised on any other ground. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 48 of the Australian Housing Corporation Act 197S 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 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…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the interim report of the Defence Service Homes Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]

• The activities of the Defence Services Homes scheme, since the end ofthe 1974-75 financial year, have not yet been reported to the Parliament. [More…]

• That the Senate adopt the recommendation ofthe Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations that a new section be added to the Defence Service Homes Corporation Act 1 976 to provide that if a report, with accounts in a form approved by the Department of Finance, and/or the Auditor-General’s report, is not ready for presentation to the Parliament within 9 months of the end of the previous financial year, then the Minister should, within 1 5 sitting days, present an interim report to the Parliament on the Corporation’s activities, together with informal financial statements, and an explanation for the unavailability of the unaudited accounts. [More…]

• Committee also heard evidence from officers of the Department of Defence, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, the Australian wheat Board and the Superannuation Board. [More…]

• This has applied to every Bill relating to expenditure, except Bills for expenditure on defence, which has been before the Senate. [More…]

• In this regard two things must be said in defence ofthe airlines. [More…]

• I recall that in answer to a question in the Senate on 27 September I confirmed that the two Organisasi Papua Merdeka dissidents to whom Senator Missen refers- Jacob Prai, the self-styled de facto president of West Papua, and Otto Ondawame his so-called minister for defence- were arrested by the Papua New Guinean authorities on 27 September and were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment as illegal immigrants. [More…]

• Dare I suggest that some of these industries in time, if they are not essential for defence, should be exposed to competition? [More…]

• Like defence, it is a matter on which we should have a bipartisan policy. [More…]

• While looking at the future responsibilities of government, one particular area stands out and that is defence. [More…]

• The defence of this country is the responsibility of the Australian people. [More…]

• I do not believe that defence is at an adequate level at present. [More…]

• To avoid raising taxes, it will also take a change in priorities in the Budget allocation, some self-denial to enable a transfer of funds to the defence vote. [More…]

• One of the most commendable developments in relation to defence has been the emergence of some signs of bipartisan policy on the part of the major parties. [More…]

• Repairs and Maintenance; Minor New Works, and The operation of engineering services such as water supply, sewerage, air conditioning, steam raising plants and hot water in hospitals, defence and other large establishments. [More…]

• Under Air Navigation Regulation 82 the Secretary to the Department of Transport may determine the conditions of use of aerodromes operated by the Commonwealth and under Section 1 8 ofthe Air Navigation Act the Secretary has power to authorise the use of by civil aircraft of joint-user (Defence) aerodromes in accordance with such conditions as he specifies. [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 1973I 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 1978. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the Government’s response to the report by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence relating to industrial support for defence needs and allied matters. [More…]

• This would ensure that members may serve, for example, with the Defence Reserve. [More…]

• That clause also provides that it is a defence if the conduct 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…]

• It is also a defence if the defendant proves that the dominant purpose for which he engaged in the conduct was to preserve or further a business carried on by him. [More…]

• We say that no amendment can save the basic impropriety of using an Act which was formulated in the early 1950s to deal with a completely different defence situation, namely, the exploitation of the Rum Jungle deposits in order to aid the nuclear weapons programs of our allies. [More…]

• Under Part IV of the Act, the conveying of information concerning the composition of the ore body, if not otherwise published, is assumed to be prejudicial to the defence of the Commonwealth, as it is the conveying of restricted information. [More…]

• Paragraph (a) of section 47 of this Act concerns the prosecution of a person who relays this information, and states: it is not necessary to show that he was guilty of a particular act tending to show an intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth and, notwithstanding that no such act is proved against him, he may be convicted if, from the circumstances of the case, his conduct, or his known character as proved, it appears that he acted with intent to prejudice the defence of the Commonwealth; [More…]

• It may be, too, that under section 60 of this Act, the whole Ranger project has become an Approved Defence Project because of the contribution by the Atomic Energy Commission of working capital for the project. [More…]

• If that is the case, and there is a very respectable argument that it is the case, then the project comes under the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act of 1947. [More…]

• So, under the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act, ordinary civil rights of protest, whether by withdrawal of labour- after all we are not yet a conscripted slave society- or by normal peaceful practical measures of dissent, such as circulating a pamphlet, marching in a street or giving a speech- all these non-violent means of protest which ought to be positively encouraged in a demoracy- may lead one to be convicted. [More…]

• So, quite an extraordinary and undue discretion is given to the Attorney-General to decide on what basis a prosecution will take place under the Approved Defence Projects Protection Act. [More…]

• I must say in defence of the Government at this stage that certainly it could well have considered an impost on wine. [More…]

• -I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• In the light of the Government’s refusal to commit extra funds to develop Australian based defence industries, will he assure the Senate that there will be no reduction in government spending on defence support industries within Australia during the next two years? [More…]

• I speak purely from my own recollection, having been, incidentally, a member of both the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Its membership includes top industrialists whose job is to advise the government of the day upon the feasibility of manufacturing defence hardware in Australia. [More…]

• My understanding is that it is not intended to reduce the Australian content of defence manufacturers. [More…]

• It is now about 18 months since the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence brought down its report. [More…]

• I also point out that there is another very important report that is usually tabled in the Parliament on the eve of each parliamentary recess, and that is the VIP flight manifests provided by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It was very interesting to go through the honourable senator’s list of what he called legitimate union activities which would not serve as a defence for unionists. [More…]

• I do not want to go into what would be a fairly arid, technical, legal debate about defences; but some of the activities which he said would not provide defences and would be prohibited by this new section were of interest. [More…]

• -On 11 October 1978 (Hansard, page 1 195) Senator Gietzelt asked me a question, without notice, concerning radioactive waste and referred to an earlier answer, given by Senator Withers in December 1976 on behalf of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• On 1 1 October 1978 the Minister for Defence made a comprehensive statement to the Parliament on Maralinga which, inter alia, detailed the studies and other work conducted by the Government on this topic since December 1976 [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 August 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 12 September 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Defence Force: Vehicles Involved in Accidents (Question No. [More…]

• 771) Senator Button asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 September 1978: [More…]

• Are statistics available to indicate how many vehicles driven by Defence personnel of the Royal Australian Navy, but not owned by the Department, were involved in accidents in 1975; if not, when will they be available and what is the cause of the delay. [More…]

• Defence Department Personnel in the United States (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]

• How many Defence Department personnel currently work in the Austraiian Embassy in Washington. [More…]

• What other Australian Defence personnel are currently working in the United States and where are they located. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• There are 75 permanently established positions in the Australian Embassy, Washington for Australia-based Defence personnel. [More…]

• Defence: ‘D’-notice System (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Defence Press and Broadcasting Committee which administers the system is made up of thirteen senior representatives of Australia’s major media organisations, and five Government officials. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence is the Chairman of the Committee. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1978: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Chief Defence Force Staff normally authorises such use at the request of the responsible Police Commissioner or his representative. [More…]

• However, in immediate, pressing and unexpected circumstances a local Service Commander is empowered to authorise the use of Defence Force assets and personnel if delay would significantly prejudice an important law enforcement operation. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]

• How many such officers were employed by the Departments of Defence, Navy, Army and Air Force, and the section of the Department of Supply later transferred to his Department, in 1972. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As at 31 October 1978 the following positions were held by First and Second Division public servants in the Department of Defence: [More…]

• Second Division 1 x Chief Defence Scientist Level 6 3 x Deputy Secretary Level 6 1 x Chief of Supply and Support Level 5 1 x Executive Controller Level 5 S x Chief Superintendent Level 4 2 x Controller Level 4 2 x Director Level 4 9 x First Assistant Secretary Level 4 1 x Defence Science Attache Level 3 1 x Director General Level 3 3 x First Assistant Secretary 3 1 x Superintendent Level 3 20 x Superintending Scientist Level 3 2 x Assistant Director Level 2 32 x Assistant Secretary Level 2 1 x Deputy Director Level 2 2 x Regional Secretary Level 2 1 x Senior Assistant Secretary Level 2 2 x Superintendent Level 2 1 x Director General Level 2 S x Assistant Director Level 1 23 x Assistant Secretary Level 1 1 x Chief Superintendent Level 1 1 x Director Level 1 Total-122 [More…]

• As at 30 June 1972 there were 93 First and Second Division Officers employed by the Departments of Defence, Navy, Army and Air Force, and that section of the Department of Supply which later transferred to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Did Lieutenant-Colonel Leaver have discussions with the Minister for Defence Mr Killen; if so, why. [More…]

• The strategic basis for the acquisition of FFG’s remains substantially the same as outlined by the then Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) when he announced the intention to procure FFG’s in April 1974. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 November 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 November 1978: [More…]

• Did “The Defence Review’, 24 October 1978, refer to a project cost for three patrol frigates which included sailaway costs plus helicopters, missiles, ammunition, training spares, support and the work-up of the ships. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 November 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 November 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 9 November 1978: [More…]

• Are any officers exempt from the provisions of the Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act 1960; if not, has the Attorney-General authorised any officers of the Defence Department to tap telephone conversations of Defence Department employees at their place of work or at their private residence. [More…]

• What officers are charged with policing and enforcing the Act, and do they have access to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Act does not permit me to authorise officers of the Defence Department to intercept calls. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to a report that the term of office of the Secretary to the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, has been extended under section 86 of the Public Service Act for a further 12 months after he reaches the mandatory retiring age of 65 years. [More…]

• I will refer the question to the Prime Minister and to the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Will the Government, as a matter of policy, urgently consider adaptation of these ships to missile capability so that they can play a role which is more commensurate with their cost in Australia ‘s future defence? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether the Federal Government, through the Department of Defence, consults with State governments and local authorities when roads and railways are being built or upgraded to ensure that what is being done is optimised for defence needs. [More…]

• There is a body called the Defence Movements Coordination Committee- the DMCC- which has initiated discussions in committee with representatives of the various departments and, of course, it has in mind relationships between the States and the Commonwealth in terms of coordination. [More…]

• Defence representation on some existing national transport planning committees is being actively sought. [More…]

• I present the report and the transcript of evidence from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Australian representation overseas- the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• -by leave-I should like to take a few moments to touch on one or two items on which the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, Senator Sim, has not touched. [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 do note the defence available in clause 7- that a person may not come within the terms of the Act if the offence with which he is charged is not an offence in the country of his nationality. [More…]

• I am wondering whether laws relating to the possession and use of drugs are the most likely ones to fall within this defence. [More…]

• I am wondering whether the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) might give some indication of the type or scope of actions to which this defence might be thought to be applicable. [More…]

• I refer, for instance, to defence. [More…]

• How many tenders have been received for the purchase of 22 houses at the Karawarra Defence Service Home Village, Western Australia. [More…]

• Those who have the courage to speak out in defence of national and human rights in Lithuania are dealt with by the Moscow government in a manner which is abhorrent to every freedom- minded person in Australia. [More…]

• The term ‘retirement benefit’ which the honourable senator mentioned as an alternative could have some problems inasmuch as there are retirement benefits, such as, for instance, the Defence Force retirement benefit, and there are people who retire on grounds other than age. [More…]

• My recollection is that the allocation for this year was an amount of $95,000 which the Department of Science and the Environment would make available to the Department of Defence for its part in this matter. [More…]

• When one looks at other areas of involvement, such as education, health, defence and communications, one can see that the Government’s program is quite immense. [More…]

• Changes and adjustments will continually be made in this area, just as they will be made in areas such as defence and education. [More…]

• In view of the importance of this offset manufacturing to the future of Australia’s aircraft industry and defence production capability for the next decade, what steps is the Government taking to ensure that these offset contracts are not lost to the country. [More…]

• The Government recognises offset work such as this to be of major importance to the aircraft industry as a source of workload and technology contributing to our overall defence production capability. [More…]

• Offset work will continue to be sought from overseas companies supplying Australia with major equipment such as, in the aircraft field, civil aircraft for the airlines and military aircraft for Defence. [More…]

• In view of the decision by the United States to abrogate its treaty with Taiwan and the recent statement by Admiral Zumwalt, a United States Admiral, in Australia that signalled a clear warning to this country that we have to rely more on our own efforts for defence, has the Government considered the possible implications for United States commitments to the ANZUS Treaty? [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Has the Government decided to construct a patrol boat base in Darwin to facilitate servicing, maintenance, victualling, and so on of the vessels involved in the surveillance and defence of our northern coast? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to the answer of the Minister for Defence in regard to radioactive waste materials in South Australia, in which he stated: [More…]

• It is important to obtain such an assessment if we are to ensure 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…]

• In view of recent events and in anticipation of the outcome of the strategic review, the Government has already taken decisions involving a greater rate of defence expenditure than in the last Budget. [More…]

• In the past three years greater emphasis has been given to the 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- the FFG ‘s- which are to enter service progressively from 1981; construction in Australia of the 6,000-tonne amphibious heavylift ship, HMAS Tobruk; construction in Australia of 14 patrol boats; 12 C130H Hercules medium transport aircraft, which have already entered service; modification of four FI 1 1C 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 percent of total defence outlays, compared with expenditure of 4.8 percent 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 some pressure on some areas of the defence infrastructure, the proposed acquisitions will enhance the operational effectiveness of the defence forces. [More…]

• Decisions on defence taken by this Government over the past three years very often have been difficult to follow. [More…]

• For reasons that were not clear at the time the Government decided to drum up the defence debate and trumpeted its new five-year plan to upgrade the defence forces. [More…]

• Indeed, we had the humiliating spectacle of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) having to come into the Parliament and back down on most of the Government’s commitments. [More…]

• The Prime Minister’s statement refers to certain defence procurement. [More…]

• Some of them, as Senator Peter Baume acknowledged in his rather half-hearted defence of the Government’s position, are aimed at reducing costs and increasing the resources available for legal aid expenditure and otherssupposedly at least- are aimed at increasing the number of people eligible to receive aid. [More…]

• I have not touched at all on our appalling lack of any cohesive defence policy. [More…]

• The lack of it is the chief cause of our economic ills, our massive and growing unemployment, our ugly and uncontrolled urban sprawls, our disgraceful record in one of the world’s largest geographic land masses and one of the most lightly populated countries with one of the world’s highest rate of urbanisation, our failure to provide adequately for our own defence and the growing and ominous social and economic disproportion within our own people. [More…]

• In 1975 the Committee, rather than become involved with the complexities of the law of the onus of proof, accepted an undertaking from the then Attorney-General that prosecution procedures in the Territory would be amended so as to make it less likely that a defendant would be put to the trouble and expense of establishing a statutory defence before the courts. [More…]

• a proper defence, despite an assurance from the appropriate Minister that regulations would not be operative until such time as a decision had been taken. [More…]

• For instance, Defence and Foreign Affairs, which are closely related subjects, last year were examined by different Estimates committees because the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) were represented here by different Ministers. [More…]

• The Department of Defence is associated with the precautionary arrangements announced by the Minister for Administrative Services. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 48 of the Australian Housing Corporation Act 1975 and section 50b of the Defence Service Homes Act 1918, 1 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…]

• Surely the time has come when we must realise that if we are to reach a healthy situation in this regard we must improve our defence capability. [More…]

• I wish to make some remarks on the related topic of defence. [More…]

• In general terms, the Prime Minister’s review of the defence situation was extraordinarily deceptive, since the depletion of capital expenditure which he claimed occurred under a Labor government was a result of action taken in a period in which he was Minister for Defence and defence expenditure was reduced on a votebuying basis. [More…]

• The capital expenditure which represents 12.9 per cent of total defence outlays this year, is almost entirely a result of orders initiated under previous Labor governments. [More…]

• The modification of the FI 1 1Cs was announced by the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• However, in October 1 975 the Labor Minister for Defence announced that the FI 1 ls would be given in-flight refuelling capacity and stand-off weapon capability. [More…]

• Any senators who have been on committees inquiring into defence and foreign affairs matters over the years I suggest would have met Dr Robert O’Neill. [More…]

• Certainly he has been a recurring witness- for want of a better term- and has presented a large number of submissions to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in the years I have been in this Parliament. [More…]

• Yes and I think the Americans would try and do that but of course the bases are hooked into an American Defence Command System directly so they would know almost instantaneously from Washington. [More…]

• If we as a nation are going to build a rampart of that sort in the world and rely on it for stability, for any form of defence or protection, then I think we are truly fooling ourselves. [More…]

• It must take into account the supreme importance of defence capacity. [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…]

• Senator Sibraa and Senator Kilgariff pointed to the need to review some of the current defence situations which must be closely related to foreign affairs. [More…]

• The defence area as we all know has deteriorated alarmingly since Labor left office. [More…]

• Nothing has been done about recommendations from our own Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee about the need to reorganise defence industrial support and many other recommendations which were made. [More…]

• must be contingent on firm assurances of adequate levels of suitable workload; that the local industry should be closely involved in decisions as to what is a suitable workload; that high technology engine and avionics work should form a substantial pan of that workload; and that the reciprocal purchase of Australian defence products should be actively pursued as a very effective form of offset. [More…]

• The Labor Party has an extremely good record in the defence area. [More…]

• No government can speak in the strong way that Mr Peacock has spoken unless it has a satisfactory defence basis. [More…]

• Not only do we not have the equipment; we are getting the equipment on long periods of loans and finance, but we have not got adequate workshop capacity within our own country to make essential equipment to keep the defence forces going. [More…]

• In relation to the Middle East and Iran a number of important recommendations were made by that very worthwhile report of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee on the Middle East- much welcomed 12 months ago. [More…]

• More recently, the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has drawn attention to the number of obstacles that are placed in the way of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• In contrast to the very strong position taken up on the Minister’s statement, there has been a general weakening of the basis of the country’s defence and foreign affairs structure. [More…]

• All I say in relation to that is that we in Australia should not base our strategic thinking only on ANZUS or assume that our security and defence is firm because of ANZUS. [More…]

• As we now look outwards at a potentially major crisis in our own region, then we must question some of the assumptions that have been at the base of our strategic, defence and foreign policy thinking in recent years. [More…]

• I do not want to canvass the many complex issues and implications in regard to our security outlook, Australian defence policies, or in relation to reserve forces in Australia, but I think they have very significant implications which perhaps can be pursued in the course of another debate in this place. [More…]

• Indeed, in 1971 when the present Prime Minister resigned from the Gorton Government as Minister for Defence he accepted that fact and believed it. [More…]

• My question is addressed to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Leader of the Government in the Senate and also in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to the tragic and all-too-frequent instances of injury or loss of life due to alcohol-linked driving accidents and, perhaps on a slightly less sombre note, to the fitness and fatness of some Australians, including Defence personnel and even some people in ministerial offices. [More…]

• In the interests of physical fitness and public safety, will the Minister for Defence assist in promoting the introduction of such alternative beers into Service canteens and other outlets under his control? [More…]

• He is an ex-member of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence follows from a question I asked here last Tuesday week. [More…]

• The departments which will be co-ordinating the arrangements include my own Department of Science and the Environment and the Department of Defence which also incorporates the Natural Disasters Organisation. [More…]

• My major concern both in the area of financial expenditure as well as efficient audits is with the Department of Defence. [More…]

• It is clear that all sections of the defence forces probably are holding large amounts of obsolete stock. [More…]

• Because of political limitations on defence and expenditure and the necessity to obtain the most cost-effective results, the Department of Defence should be subjected to more stringent auditing procedures than any other Department. [More…]

• I think it is reasonable to restate the view that it has been unreasonable to unduly protect the Department of Defence where it is involved in security areas of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• For example, I have been led to understand that the present total staff of the Auditor-General’s Office is less than the staff employed in the computer section alone of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• In view of the decision by the United States to abrogate its treaty with Taiwan and the recent statement by Admiral Zumwalt, a United States Admiral, in Australia that signalled a clear warning to this country that we have to rely more on our own efforts for defence, has the Government considered the possible implications for United States commitments to the ANZUS Treaty? [More…]

• That was followed a year or so ago by the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, making an even stronger attack on the Soviet Union and speaking of the dangers of its presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]

• I remind the Prime Minister, the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Minister for Foreign Affairs that if in an attempt to ingratiate themselves with China they offend or play to the paranoia or the fear that is in the Russian mind they will do a great disservice to this country. [More…]

• Time does not permit me to deal with every other incident that has taken place in foreign affairs since then, but a somewhat similar situation developed in the Chinese revolution, which was consummated in 1949 when the Chinese people liberated their country from the forces of Chiang Kai-shek, who had at certain stages of that country’s history collaborated with the Japanese in defence of the feudal system that operated there. [More…]

• It is surprising to me that China should come to the defence of Chinese merchants in Ho Chi Minh City who were refugees from the regime in China and who subsequently, when they left Vietnam, went not back to China but to France and, as most of them did, to Taiwan. [More…]

• That Compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• My question is directed to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I refer to the Minister’s answer to a question in the Senate last year in which the Minster told the Senate that there were 75 Australian Defence Department officers in Washington and to the fact that the estimates of the Department of Foreign Affairs refer to 93 Defence officers stationed in Washington. [More…]

• Further, will he undertake to inform the Senate of the actual number of Defence Department officials stationed in Washington and provide a summary of the duties of the military personnel stationed there? [More…]

• My question, directed to the Leader of the Government in his own capacity and in his capacity as representing the Minister for Defence is about the storage and preservation of machine tools and jigs at the Australian Government’s engine works at Port Melbourne. [More…]

• I appreciate that it is sometimes more economic to purchase equipment overseas to the detriment of some Australian industries thought to be of value for defence purposes, for example, diesel engines. [More…]

• Has the Defence Industry Committee identified the tools and jigs at this works that may have defence significance? [More…]

• As a means of improving the defence production capability, will the Minister give consideration to the establishment of a reserve storage of machine tools and jigs which could be used in time of crises to convert Australian industry rapidly to war production? [More…]

• I am unable to say whether the Defence Industry Committee has made a study of the matter. [More…]

• I will certainly refer the question of retaining the signficant tools and machinery which may have defence importance to the Minister responsible. [More…]

• Knowing that the National Training Council is seeking information from overseas, I ask the Minister Will he direct the attention of the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs to the need to lift those staff ceilings to ensure that where there is a staff requirement for extra apprentices they will be taken on by those authorities which I have mentioned as well as by the Royal Australian Air Force and the civilian area of the Department of Defence? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the varying role of a Customs officer, has a member of the Defence Forces the required background to carry out the role of such a Customs official? [More…]

• However, in practice, for Customs tasks defence force vehicles and personnel are used principally in a surveillance role. [More…]

• Defence force patrols engaged on surveillance activities are provided with guidance by the civil authorities in dealing with situations which may arise. [More…]

• When enforcement action is necessary and a defence vehicle is being used, Customs officers are put on board and they exercise their powers under the Act directly. [More…]

• For this reason, special training has not been considered necessary by the civil authorities for defence force personnel. [More…]

• I would stress that defence force patrol boats and their crews are not required to carry out Customs duties in port. [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 Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act. [More…]

• The provisions of the two Acts- the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act and the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act- deal with the classification and reclassification of former members of the Defence Force who have retired on the ground of invalidity or of 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 Forces Retirement [More…]

• We must try to establish, for instance, the relative value of student assistance schemes as compared, say, with additional assistance for the physically handicapped or indeed in competition with additional expenditure for defence or the arts or any other of the expenditure areas with which the Government is faced. [More…]

• The new fighter should have high performance capabilities not only in its principal roles of air defence and air combat, but also in airtosurface roles. [More…]

• The Department of Defence, working closely with the Department of Productivity has explained to contending manufacturers the need for arrangements that place a continuing program of relevant work in Australian industry at reasonable cost. [More…]

• A team led by Mr G. J. Churcher, a senior officer of the Department of Defence, having substantial aircraft production experience, responsible for industry matters, will go abroad in mid-April. [More…]

• After both teams return to Australia, there will be a necessary period of consolidation and assessment of information by the RAAF and the Department of Defence in concert. [More…]

• The Government is determined that this important and costly demerit of our Defence Force will be the product of meticulous, timely and thoroughly professional evaluation. [More…]

• I received a letter from Mr McLeay, the Acting Minister for Defence, on 8 February 1 979. [More…]

• You may wish to bear in mind, however, that a substantial proportion of the operating time of the aircraft is expected to be in Defence applications. [More…]

• What defence applications? [More…]

• Acting Minister for Defence Parliament House Canberra, ACT 2600 8 February 1979 [More…]

• Communications between the Government, the Department of Defence and the Air Force contain material which by common practice is confidential to the Government. [More…]

• Furthermore, the aircraft have a range of defence applications. [More…]

• You may wish to bear in mind, however, that a substantial proportion of the operating time of the aircraft is expected to be in Defence applications. [More…]

• The letter hopes that the ILO ‘will take measures to avoid involving the organisation in a dubious political campaign and which could gravely prejudice the activity of the organisation in the effective defence of the interests and rights of workers’. [More…]

• The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence SubCommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union which was chaired by Senator John Wheeldon had before it on 14 April 1978 a person named Leonid Plyushch. [More…]

• It is in that context that I believe we are paying tribute to a man who, whilst he was here for only a very short time, indicated to the Senate and to the Australian community generally that he was prepared to act in defence of principles rather than of party, and that is a virtue which is all too often in short supply in party politics in Australia. [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• by leave- Honourable senators 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…]

• -Last year I told the Senate- perhaps with slight exaggeration but not much- that the Departments of Defence as reorganised in 1975, was a disaster area. [More…]

• First, we have to decide what we want a defence department to do. [More…]

• One must have such a department, or departments, because this is the only practical mechanism through which, under our system, political control of the Defence Force can be exercised. [More…]

• This political control of the Defence Force- subservience to the elected Government- is not in dispute in this country. [More…]

• Whilst I am on the subject of the political control of the Department of Defence, I should make the point that the present Minister for Defence (Mr Kiilen) is grossly overloaded. [More…]

• Perhaps one could be assigned responsibility for each armed service, and another could be responsible for defence production. [More…]

• I have argued previously the desirability of having Parliamentary Secretaries who could provide political supervision without requiring an expensive department of their own, and certainly the Minister for Defence deserves extra support. [More…]

• The second requirement of a defence department is that it should provide professional advice to the Government, which must decide ultimately the strategic risks that face Australia and the resultant needs for personnel, organisation and equipment of the various arms of the Defence Force and- an area that is often not given sufficient weight- of the necessary logistic backup, including defence industry. [More…]

• The third requirement of a defence department is that it provide for effective operational and administrative control of the Defence Force, that is, the three armed services. [More…]

• The fourth requirement is that a Defence department should have the confidence of servicemen. [More…]

• We must always remember that the Defence Department is not only a Defence Force headquarters but also a great department of State. [More…]

• Indeed, it would be as inappropriate to appoint a public servant to a controlling- and 1 mean dominant- position in the Defence Department as it would be to appoint a retired general with no diplomatic experience as the head of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• There is no doubt that the defence organisation which existed before 1975 did not meet the requirements that I have stated. [More…]

• Over the service boards was the rather amorphous Department of Defence, almost entirely public service in nature, but with the enormous power which resides in the body which presents to Cabinet the case of the individual service’s financial requirements for manpower and equipment. [More…]

• In the pre- 1975 defence structure, the three completely separated services, which were co-ordinated feebly by a Public Servicedominated Department of Defence, sometimes seemed more concerned with fighting each other than with fighting a potential enemy. [More…]

• The problem, of course, was not helped by the fact that the defence vote was, in money terms, for long periods held static during a time of rapid inflation. [More…]

• By 1975 a re-organisation which would create a much stronger and more effective defence department was clearly necessary. [More…]

• The 1975 re-organisation was achieved as a result of a report that had been prepared by public servants, who recommended a single defence department. [More…]

• To look at the good side first, it set up an operational commander of the defence force, that is, of all three armed services. [More…]

• The choice of title for the commander of the defence force- Chief of Defence Force Staff- was a curious one. [More…]

• I do not know whether the intention was to downgrade him, but as commander of the Defence Force, that is what he should be called. [More…]

• His function is, to use the words of the Act, to command the Defence Force subject to, and in accordance with, any directions of the Minister. [More…]

• The administration of the Defence Force is the joint responsibility of the Secretary of the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]

• Before I leave the subject of the Chief of Defence Force Staff, there is one other aspect on which I should like to touch. [More…]

• Since the 1 975 reorganisation there have been three chiefs of defence force staff. [More…]

• Such short tenures inevitably diminish the influence of a chief of defence force staff. [More…]

• I think that the rotation requirement should not apply to the defence force commander. [More…]

• If we have a good defence force commander we should stick to him. [More…]

• Of course, it varies with the individual, but we must not wreck our defence organisation because it is Buggins’s turn to be defence force commander. [More…]

• Basically, what I am saying is that if we have a good man as defence force commander we should stick to him. [More…]

• He is responsible to the defence force commander. [More…]

• One significant point that must be made is that the involvement of the three service commanders or their representatives in nearly all aspects of forward planning in the Defence Department, although it is hallowed by tradition, cuts right across the functional organisation of the Defence Department. [More…]

• It helps to create inefficiency and the proliferation of the committees which are the bane of the Defence Department. [More…]

• If we could create a professional, functionally organised defence department, the service commanders could with great advantage concentrate on the efficient running of their Services and leave the Defence Department to do the long-range planning. [More…]

• I hope that in any significant military operation involving more than one service-almost all significant military operations will involve more than one service- a single commander will be appointed for the operation, responsible to the defence force commander. [More…]

• Here there is plenty of scope for tidying up, a task which I hope the defence force commander will soon tackle. [More…]

• It will have to be imposed by the defence force commander. [More…]

• What about the rest of the Defence Department structure, other than the operational control of the Defence Force? [More…]

• The present Secretary has said that the Defence Department is not structured for war. [More…]

• Any prudent government has a defence organisation which is ready for war at any time. [More…]

• Looking at the Defence Department in this light, what is its structure? [More…]

• The divisions under the Secretary admittedly have the responsibility of advising and informing the Chief of Defence Force Staff as appropriate and as required- I use the words of an official document- but the effective power rests with the Secretary. [More…]

• The second deputy secretary is responsible to the Secretary for the Strategic and International Policy Division which includes defence representation abroad, the Force Development and Analysis Division, the Programs and Budgets Division, the Natural Disaster Organisation and the three service chiefs of materiel. [More…]

• They sometimes work in their own service and sometimes in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• When they work in the Department of Defence they are responsible to the second deputy secretary. [More…]

• The third deputy secretary is responsible to the Secretary for the Defence Industry and Materiel Policy Division, the Defence Facilities Division, the Defence Communications System Division and the Management and General Services Division. [More…]

• On the same level is the Chief Defence Scientist who is responsible to the Secretary for, iter alia, the Military Studies and Operational Analysis Division and the Computing Services Division. [More…]

• The Defence Department now has a total of 1 18 First and Second Division public servants- by far the most of any department in the whole Public Service. [More…]

• There are 31,377 public servants in the Defence Department. [More…]

• On the contrary, the role of public servants is to support the Defence Force by releasing trained professional servicemen for roles which they can best perform. [More…]

• Of the 31,000-odd public servants nearly 5,000 are working for defence science, 5,600 are in the naval dockyards and nearly 10,000 are in the Services’ supply organisations. [More…]

• Although I have no doubt that economies could be achieved in this type of support, particularly in the naval dockyards whose productivity is appalling and whose likely reliability in a defence crisis is worse, it is not these positions about which I am talking. [More…]

• What I am worried about is the areas where public servants without appropriate experience or qualifications effectively dictate defence policy. [More…]

• The shortage of professional skills in the Defence Department inevitably causes a proliferation of committees. [More…]

• I heard the figure the other day of nearly 200 committees in the Defence Department. [More…]

• Committees used to be the bane of the old Defence structure. [More…]

• Our Defence Department is becoming notorious for the way in which problems are passed to and fro and up and down between committees and for its reluctance or inability to make decisions. [More…]

• Someone recently rather rudely compared the Defence Department to a constipated cow into which one feeds a hell of a lot of grass at one end and nothing comes out the other end. [More…]

• While on the subject of numbers, I should make it clear that it is not only in public servants that the Defence Department is overstaffed. [More…]

• In the Defence organisation in Canberra there are now 27 generals, admirals or air marshals; 56 brigadiers or their equivalents; and 131 full colonels. [More…]

• All this is for a Defence Force of only 70,000. [More…]

• Think of it- a defence headquarters with 27 generals and 56 brigadiers. [More…]

• The nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise, has more fighters and strike aircraft than our entire defence Force in Australia yet it is commanded by a captain. [More…]

• What is needed urgently is to bring the rank structure at Defence headquarters into a more reasonable balance with the size of our forces. [More…]

• President you may be thinking that surely I am exaggerating and surely the Defence Department cannot be that bad. [More…]

• My reply is that history is littered with examples of defence departments, war offices and admiralties which became grossly bloated and incompetent in peacetime. [More…]

• There is no one in the present Public Service, nor is there likely to be in the future, who is remotely qualified to understand, let along direct, such a varied range of activities, nor would one be likely to find someone in the Defence Force. [More…]

• The span of interest in the Defence Department is far wider than that of any other Government department. [More…]

• The only way one could get the necessary informed input at the top decision making level is to have a board, perhaps called the defence council, of, say, five or six members, predominantly professional servicemen. [More…]

• This defence council should be organised on functional lines and be statutorily responsible for all the business of the Department with some particular members having exclusive responsibilities- the obvious ones being the Chief of Defence Force Staff for command of the Defence Force and the Secretary for the statutory financial responsibility. [More…]

• This is the type of management structure recommended by Lord Mountbatten for the British Ministry of Defence. [More…]

• With regard to the title of this body, perhaps I should mention that there is at the moment an informal group called the defence council or council of defence. [More…]

• This group comprises the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Administrative Services, the Secretary of the Department and the four chiefs of staff. [More…]

• The present Minister for Defence deserves great praise for setting up this group. [More…]

• The title ‘defence council’ would be better given to the top Defence management body which I have proposed. [More…]

• A reformed Defence Department should be predominantly manned by professional servicemen, certainly in the key decision-making positions. [More…]

• The Public Service should perform its proper role of supporting, not directing, the professionals in the defence field. [More…]

• The Defence Force always has to watch the balance between operational and non-operational appointments. [More…]

• Financial management is clearly an area where the skills of the Public Service could be harnessed to the support of the Defence Force. [More…]

• There will, of course, be other key positions which would not normally be filled by servicemen- scientific and defence production posts, for example. [More…]

• I believe that for these posts we must be prepared to consider recruiting on a contract basis suitable people from outside both the Defence Force and the Public Service. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence must be the chairman of the Defence Council which I propose. [More…]

• His deputy should be the Defence Force commander. [More…]

• A similar arrangement should apply to the Defence Committee, which brings together the permanent heads of other departments to consider appropriate defence problems in a wider context. [More…]

• I mention the position of the Defence Force commander because it is important that the Government receives proper professional defence inputs at the highest level. [More…]

• The advisers to the Cabinet Defence Committee comprise six public servants and not a single professional serviceman. [More…]

• What else needs to be done in a reformed Defence Department? [More…]

• This is the normal procedure in the Defence Force, as it is in any properly run administration. [More…]

• We must do away with the extraordinary network of Defence Department committees which are superb vehicles for procrastination and lowest common denominator compromises but are disastrous for incisive administration. [More…]

• The size of the Defence Department also should be radically reduced. [More…]

• In the Defence Department’s central organisation, according to the 1978 Defence Report, there are now 5,270 people. [More…]

• I think that the target should be to reduce the central defence organisation to not more than half its present size- preferably smaller- and to have a lean and efficient Defence Department. [More…]

• The service rank structure and the equivalent Public Service levels in the Defence Department must also be brought into reasonable balance with the size and rank structure of our operational Defence Force. [More…]

• This certainly will have to be looked at when the defence structure is overhauled. [More…]

• Finally, the prestige of the Defence Department, in the view of operational servicemen, must be radically raised. [More…]

• I must say that I have never known a time when respect for the Defence Department was so low. [More…]

• How are we to achieve reform of the Defence Department? [More…]

• What we need is a major external review of the whole structure, by someone outside both the Public Service and the Defence Force, with no axe to grind or empire to build, to implement the sort of principles I have outlined. [More…]

• It is a tragedy that such a mess was made by the Whitlam Governmentand continued by us- of the very desirable process of integrating the higher defence organisation. [More…]

• A modern version might well be: ‘Give mine enemy a structure like the Australian Defence Department’. [More…]

• The honourable senator also directed part of his speech to an attempted defence of the funding of sport in Australia by the manufacturers or distributors of certain addictive drugs, particularly alcohol and tobacco. [More…]

• He said that if sporting bodies cannot get money from anywhere else why should they not take money from those who will come to their defence and support their particular sporting activities. [More…]

• He came to her defence and in so doing put himself in a position in which he had to resign from the police force. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle ‘s defence then, as is her defence now, was to state that the rates were higher than the rates in some of the States. [More…]

• Department of Administrative Services- 13; Department of Business and Consumer Affairs- 1 1; Department of Defence- 1. [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• Many other questions were raised by the Greek Welfare Workers’ Group and the Redfern Legal Centre which has been involved in the defence of many of these cases. [More…]

• A right of reply, a right to be heard in their own defence, is something which the victims of the government mismanagement of the Sydney social security affair, which we are discussing today, have so far not had. [More…]

• The Government has concluded that the installation of a GSC-39V(1) satellite ground terminal- formerly 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…]

• On 25 May last year the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) stated in respect of the replacement terminal then envisaged that it: [More…]

• would not have any facilities to control the allocation of Satellite Communications capacity to users of the Defence Satellite Communication system [More…]

• -Leader of the Opposition)- The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Carrick) has just put down a statement on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) dealing with the installation of a replacement satellite ground terminal at the Harold E. Holt Naval Communication Station at North West Cape in Western Australia. [More…]

• The statement totally overlooks the background to the installation of this terminal which included the embarrassing disclosures that the Australian Government was not being informed about what was going on at North West Cape and that the Defence Department was concealing information from the Minister. [More…]

• Based on thoroughly incorrect briefs, Senator Withers, who was then acting on behalf of the Minister for Defence, provided a series of answers all of which proved to be incorrect. [More…]

• Naturally, the Defence Minister decided in a rather embarrassing position for him to bluster his way through. [More…]

• At that time, the then Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, and the United States Defence Secretary Schlesinger, stated that the Australian Government would have full and timely information about strategic and operational developments relevant to the station. [More…]

• The Americans claimed that Australian defence experts had been informed that the new terminal would be installed. [More…]

• At the time the issue was being debated a series of Press reports indicated that the new system being constructed at North West Cape will substantially upgrade the United States defence satellite communications system. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence insists that his original information is correct. [More…]

• Although the Minister for Defence believes that the changes to the base are merely technical upgradings, that view was not shared by Lieutenant-General Lee Paschall, Director of the Defense Communications Agency, in giving testimony to the American Senate Armed Services Committee in 1977. [More…]

• Sir Mervyn Brogan of the Australian Veterans’ and Defence Services Council sent a telegram to the Government requesting that it defer for one month parliamentary consideration of what he calls a complex repatriation amendment Bill pending further representations. [More…]

• The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Mr Adermann) has specifically asked me to say that after considering representations from Sir Mervyn Brogan, the Chairman of the Australian Veterans and Defence Services Council, he accepts the view that, wherever appropriate and practicable, the medical member of the Repatriation Review Tribunal in proceedings on assessment decisions should have specialist qualifications relevant to the incapacity of the applicant. [More…]

• No one can understand the role of the Security Service in the Profumo affair unless he realises the cardinal principle that their operations are to be used for one purpose, and one purpose only, the Defence of the Realm. [More…]

• That test, the defence of the realm, is one that stands the test of time. [More…]

• There are matters of defence of the realm. [More…]

• I am satisfied that a security intelligence service should exist and continue as an important part of the measures taken by government for the defence and security of Australia, and that in performing its functions, it should provide the Australian Government in appropriate cases, with its security assessment about certain people. [More…]

• There is no difficulty about the main purpose of a security force- defence of the nation against its non-military enemies. [More…]

• The Security Service is part of the Defence Forces of the country. [More…]

• Its task is the Defence of the Realm as a whole, from external and internal dangers arising from attempts at espionage and sabotage or from actions of persons and organisations whether directed from within or without the country, which may be judged to be subversive of the State. [More…]

• No inquiry is to be carried out on behalf of any Government Department unless you are satisfied that an important public interest bearing on the Defence of the Realm, as defined in paragraph 2, is at stake. [More…]

• I think it is important to understand that although relationships with Great Britain or the United States might be an important and significant part of the work of ASIO they are in fact subsidiary to the protection of Australian interests and the extent to which one gets information from overseas or the extent to which one provides information to people overseas can be judged only by the criteria of what is necessary in the defence of Australia and in the defence of Australian citizens. [More…]

• I believe that the reporting procedures and the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) announced in the House of Representatives on 5 May 1977 the establishment of a special committee of Ministers comprising the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Treasurer, the Leader of the House, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Defence and the Attorney-General to set overall policy and oversee the work of the intelligence community is yet another important step in reinforcing the concept of ministerial responsibility and accountability for security matters. [More…]

• I doubt that John Milton, who after all spent most of his life in security services- he was paid for most of his active working life as the secretary to the Council of State during Cromwell ‘s Protectorate and his immediate superior, John Thurloe, was the chief spymaster of the Commonwealthwould have recognised the organisation in its present form but he would have recognised, and indeed all people engaged in security operations would recognise, the continuing central point for which a security system ought to exist: The defence of the realm. [More…]

• At present we see the definition of security, and in particular the definition of that element of security described as subversion, as wide enough to encompass certain presently quite legal forms of industrial action, namely those affecting perhaps only indirectly aspects of the operation of the defence forces. [More…]

• Mr Justice Hope declared in his report that a security organisation fulfilling its proper role is entitled to the confidence and respect of the nation as is the Defence Force. [More…]

• A good deal has been said in the Parliament recently about defence- the Australian Democrats feel, for good reason. [More…]

• It is worth clarifying our defence thinking from a fairly primal point of view. [More…]

• In fact, our defence preparedness compared with that of other middle power countries is lamentably poor, especially when we consider that Israel, with only 3lA million people- in spite of the wars in which that nation has been involved- has a tremendous capability not only to defend itself but also to manufacture weapons on its own soil. [More…]

• I am criticising the Government because the whole question of defence policy is a mess. [More…]

• In this regard I would like to draw attention to an article on regional maritime forces by A. W. Grazebrook in the March edition of the Pacific Defence Reporter. [More…]

• Again in the March 1978 edition of the Pacific Defence Reporter, the writer commented: [More…]

• When one sees Sweden and even Indonesia and other countries such as Egypt planning shipyards in which they can build these vessels for themselves, one would think that our own defence people would consider doing the same thing. [More…]

• I suspect that it is then that the true extent of the humbug that is so often talked in defence of family trusts will be starkly revealed. [More…]

• That Compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• This matter was referred to in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in 1973. [More…]

• I ask whether there is any regulation or convention which would inhibit or preclude a former Chairman of the parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on his retirement from Parliament from accepting a job lobbying on behalf of an armaments manufacturer Government and departmental contacts he established as Committee Chairman. [More…]

• These questions were asked by Senator Colston about the defence service homes insurance scheme. [More…]

• As a consequence, the Defence Service Homes Scheme was administered during the financial year by two different bodies under legislation providing for a different accounting standard for each body. [More…]

• The Government has noted the conclusion by the Committee that, where the accounting system of an organisation such as that administering the Defence Service Homes Scheme is to be changed, the change should, wherever possible, be made at the start of a financial year. [More…]

• A major cause of concern to the Standing Committee was that although interim reports and informal financial statements for the years 1975-76 and 1976-77 were prepared by the Defence Service Homes Corporation these were not presented to Parliament by the Minister. [More…]

• The Standing Committee recommended that a new section be added to the Defence Service Homes Act to provide for interim reporting to the Parliament where an annual report, with financial statements in a form approved by the Minister for Finance, is not ready for tabling within 9 months of the end of the financial year. [More…]

• The Committee considered this would ensure that Parliament would be kept informed of Defence Service Homes activities on an up-to-date basis. [More…]

• Final reports and audited financial statements of operations under the Defence Service Homes Scheme during 1975-76 and 1976-77 were tabled by the Acting Minister for Veterans’ Affairs on 21 November 1978. [More…]

• However, the problems which arose in connection with reports for the period 1974-75 and 1976-77 have been resolved, and the Defence Service Homes Corporation has resumed the practice of earlier years of reporting on an interim basis where audited financial statements are not available. [More…]

• As this practice meets the basic objective of the Standing Committee’s recommendation the Government has decided not to amend the Defence Service Homes Act as proposed by the Committee. [More…]

• Having said that, I should mention that the Government has noted the view expressed in the Standing Committee’s First Report on Statutory Authorities of the Commonwealth that its recommendation in respect of the Defence Service Homes Act should be applied universally through a proposed Annual Reports Act. [More…]

• I have obtained some figures which lead me to understand that a report was presented by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on 1 June 1978 on the subject Australia, Antarctica and the Law of the Sea. [More…]

• 2) to raise a matter which I have raised before in the Parliament and which I believe indicates a dereliction of duty on the part of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), and to bring the Senate up to date on what I believe to be a very serious problem involving the procurement program for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• On 24 October of last year the Minister for Defence, in his defence review, provided certain information to the Parliament about the cost of three patrol frigates, or, as they are commonly known, FFGs. [More…]

• Because of my concern about the cost of these vessels and the shipbuilder’s liquidity problems, I asked the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Carrick), representing the Minister for Defence, a series of questions during the second and third weeks of November. [More…]

• In any event, they provided much more information than had previously been given by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• He referred to the undertaking of the Minister for Defence to update the information on costs and he went on to say that it was expected that the results of the review would be available by the end of the year. [More…]

• For the first two FFGs, the latest costs provided by the Minister for Defence were those available in January 1977, that is, more than two years ago. [More…]

• It is now more than four months since the Minister for Defence told us that he would update the cost of these patrol frigates. [More…]

• I raised the matter in the Senate when we were discussing the Defence estimates last November. [More…]

• The FFG has a capability for conducting prolonged, independent patrol and surveillance operations in situations of relatively low level of threat and combined with other forces, would provide a valuable contribution to both the defence and offensive capabilities of such forces in higher level situations. [More…]

• For this reason the Americans are developing a close-in weapon system which offers some hope of defence against these missiles. [More…]

• I say to the Government that unless it is prepared to tell the Australian people just what has happened in the case of these contracts, it is falling down lamentably in its defence program. [More…]

• The honourable senators who have spoken in this debate have spoken well in defence of the various interests that they have. [More…]

• That could be levelled against the Committee for Defence of Government Schools- DOGS. [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That Compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• Senator Webster also indulged in a spirited defence of the Hamer Government, describing Mr Hamer as ‘a man without peer’ in respect of integrity and honesty. [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 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’s examining proposed works of selected statutory authorities in the future, a review of some aspects of the non-reference of defence works to the committee and a comment concerning changes to works proposed that have occurred after the Committee’s report to Parliament. [More…]

• Of course, the Government will make much play of the establishment of the Security Appeals Tribunal, which will hear appeals from applicants for government jobs, citizenship, defence contracts and passports who have received adverse security assessments from ASIO. [More…]

• The then Minister for Defence, in reply to a question, said that as far as the Department knew that weapon had been stolen from an Army barracks in South Australia. [More…]

• It has also been stated that the total amount that is expected to be paid is $ 14.575m, which was mentioned in the Press statement of the Minister for Defence on 13 December 1978. [More…]

• These expenditures will be met through separately identified appropriations of the Department of Defence but will be additional to the funds that the Department would have received. [More…]

• A further major consideration was the use of Special Purpose Aircraft for the defence force. [More…]

• The Defence tasks will include 24 return flights a year to Butterworth in Malaysia. [More…]

• These flights, for the moving of personnel to and from the Australian base there, will replace all Defence force charters which have been costing $lm a year. [More…]

• So there are these sound grounds for the Government’s decision to purchase the Boeing 707s: the crucial need for security; a valuable defence asset. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement relating to defence policy and to move a motion that the Senate take note of the statement. [More…]

• I said last October that, in the present fiscal situation, we could no longer proceed with all the objectives in the 1976 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 [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…]

• May 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…]

• 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 [More…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• 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 policy has insisted, nevertheless, that the manpower expenditure rates must continue to come down. [More…]

• The fact is that 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 civiliansPublic 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 61 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 1 8 per cent for capital equipment and facilities, including 1 4 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…]

• The statement that has been put down by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Chaney) on behalf of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) is a lengthy, 38-page document and is one to which Parliament has been looking forward for some time. [More…]

• The Opposition has always taken the view that the defence and security of this country is a very important matter that deserves careful consideration. [More…]

• We take the view that there should be increasing consultation between the Government and the Opposition on matters of defence, for the reason that the sophistication of defence equipment and the very long lead times involved in the consideration of and planning for the purchase of equipment and the training of manpower mean that the decisions of one government can affect a subsequent government, very often one of a different political colour. [More…]

• When the White Paper on defence was tabled in 1976, the Opposition welcomed the statement of a five-year objective. [More…]

• We were heartened by the attitude adopted by the Minister for Defence in seeking intelligent and public discussion of defence matters. [More…]

• That is in contrast to those- amongst whom I hope that the Opposition would be included- who want to see sensible and rational discussion about defence planning and expenditure. [More…]

• Minister for Defence by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• There is little doubt in my mind that the detailed concentration on the problems associated with the Royal Australian Navy and the purchase of equipment for that section of the defence forces is an unnecessary and blatant attack on a very intelligent and informative speech which was made in this chamber by Senator Hamer last week. [More…]

• We do not agree with all that Senator Hamer said, but it is our view that he did attempt to discuss quite rationally and openly matters associated with the organisation of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• In some ways we do share Senator Hamer ‘s concern about the way in which the management structure of the defence forces is moving. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence cannot escape the fact that, in times of financial stringency, not only does the equipment have to be cost effective, but also the entire management structure of a department which has control over so many assets has to be as efficient as possible. [More…]

• It was surprising, therefore, that the Department of Defence sought to exclude itself from the provisions of the recent Audit Amendment Bill. [More…]

• The arguments which the Department used in seeking exemption contrast considerably with the defence of the departmental structure contained in the statement before us. [More…]

• We cannot ignore the fact that on a number of occasions it has been clear that the Minister has not been completely and adequately informed by his Department about important matters of defence policy. [More…]

• The Minister claimed in his statement that he meets on a once-monthly basis with the Defence Council and receives a report which he described as follows: [More…]

• If I did not know the Minister for Defence and if I were an outsider reading his statement, I could only assume that the control of Australia’s defence forces was in the hands of a gambler. [More…]

• Unfortunately, the Minister’s statement is somewhat haphazard in its assessment of the objectives of the 1976 White Paper on defence. [More…]

• Does this mean that the Casey defence university, which many of us feel is an unwarranted extravagance, will now be deferred or dropped because obviously it would not come within the definition which the Minister has used. [More…]

• Again, the Opposition believes that our defence capabilities should be under continuous review and should be the subject of frequent intelligence assessments rather than of one-off exercises when something extraordinary happens. [More…]

• Yet in the context of Australian defence she represents for several years to come an important defence asset. [More…]

• I am personally distressed by the prejudice that I sometimes hear expressed towards defence administrators. [More…]

• I share Senator Hamer ‘s view that it is a sad reflection on the organisation of the defence forces that the Government is unable to find an immediate, effective replacement for Sir Arthur Tange. [More…]

• In an area as important as defence, as with the organisation of any government department or any company, there should be always in training at least one successor to the secretary or the managing director. [More…]

• The other night Senator Hamer gave some very interesting figures that I will not repeat but which are themselves indicative of the very high proportion of senior public servants who are in the Department of Defence- a higher proportion apparently than is in other departments. [More…]

• Sufficient to say that there are many areas of defence policy which the Government needs to re-examine, especially in the light of the rapidity with which events have been changing. [More…]

• It appears to me that the document deals largely with issues which have been current in the defence area, that is, the general criticism of maybe the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the defence Services themselves. [More…]

• I think these criticisms have been generated not only by the recent Hamer remarks but also to some extent by the general situation of reduced activity in the industrial support area which was the subject of investigation by a subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• It seems to me that this report which is generally valid and acceptable in the wide sense, must have stirred a number of sensitive souls in the defence area who did not acknowledge the competence of a group of parliamentarians to look into the question of defence. [More…]

• You, Mr Acting Deputy President, might remember that one of the recommendations of that defence sub-committee - and the subcommittee’s recommendations were later adopted by the full Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- dealt with the question of shipbuilding capacity within Australia. [More…]

• The committee was concerned about what it saw as the lack of defence support in the industrial area. [More…]

• It said that what has been achieved already in other countries- a package deal- would be possible if the unions and the management were asked to get together to make an arrangement as to productivity gains, which gains have since been achieved in Newcastle, and that there was a basis for getting a defence capability together. [More…]

• So there we have community groups which resent the action of a government in an area of defence capability which they consider important. [More…]

• Let me put forward what is obviously a basis of complaint by those people who criticise various activities in the defence area. [More…]

• The second most important factor is the general view today of what we might call the defence industries. [More…]

• Not one defence industry in this country is satisfied with the works program that it is getting from the Government-that is, the amount of equipment which we are making in this country- or with the way in which the Department of Defence machinery and the Minister are arranging to supply the necessary weaponry for the country, either within Australia or outside it. [More…]

• I also say it quite seriously as a former Assistant Minister for Defence who knows something about the operations of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I do not share the general discontent about the Secretary to the Department of Defence or about the method of reorganisation which the Labor Party introduced. [More…]

• What I am saying is that now the debate is not about the important items of defence equipment that we have to buy, whether it be aircraft, ships or the style of weaponry for the Army, but about discontent within an industry which sees that throughout the country not enough work is being put into Australian factories, which work could and ought to be put into Australian factories. [More…]

• Largely because of agitation within this Parliament, over the years we have certainly achieved an increase in the amount of work which could be called defence work because our factories have been competent and active in getting such work. [More…]

• But the Australian industry wants more and steady work and it wants to believe that the Department of Defence and the Government are on its side. [More…]

• Hardly any industries connected with defence in Australia are satisfied with the sorts of positions they are occupying in the defence basis of Australia at present. [More…]

• When one reads their statements one understands the practicabilities of the situation and one can also understand the notions advanced by people who are not satisfied that the strategic assessments of the Department of Defence are adequate. [More…]

• Having not seen the statement for long but realising that governments and Ministers are prone to run for defence from all sorts of critics, I accept that the defence reorganisation was a very good thing. [More…]

• Since that time the basic organisation has proved to be successful, but it does not respond in those circumstances in which, year after year, governments make its planning difficult because budgetary considerations come into the requirements of the defence forces on every occasion. [More…]

• I would think that a department of defence has to be satisfied that within a long economic time frame allocations from the national purse have to be fairly substantial and consecutive and not interrupted by budgetary planning. [More…]

• We know that since the Fraser Government came into power every department has been upset by these financial cuts that come off the cuff and the Department of Defence is one of those departments. [More…]

• The platform of the Australian Labor Party for many years has stated and affirmed that there must be a substantial competence within this country for defence production and defence capability. [More…]

• I hope that when the debate on the statement takes place in the Senate we will have a greater opportunity to discuss the implications of the statement and perhaps to review in a more direct sense the views that the Minister for Defence has put to the Parliament for its guidance. [More…]

• I wish to make a few remarks about this defence statement and also to support the remarks that were made earlier by Senator Harradine. [More…]

• Senator Bishop and I are both members of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Only the other day, we heard the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in a statement to the Parliament list a number of purchases of defence equipment supposedly initiated by this Government. [More…]

• The list that he read out contained only minor augmentations of defence equipment or slight increases in particular items. [More…]

• The modification of the F111C aircraft was announced by the present Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• However, in October 1975 the present Minister for Defence announced that the FI 1 ls would be given an inflight refuelling capacity and stand-off weapon capability; but in three years all that was achieved was the provision for reconnaissance pods. [More…]

• Increasing concern has been expressed that, even though there is widespread unemployment and also a strategic need, the Government has not made any serious attempts to improve Australia’s defence industry structure- a matter about which Senator Bishop spoke. [More…]

• Mr Fraser and the Minister for Defence have been attempting to portray themselves as the champions of Australia’s defence needs. [More…]

• I also wish to make a few remarks about a subject that was written about in the Australian newspaper recently under the heading ‘Our US defence staff are missing’. [More…]

• It is perhaps ironic, as part of the inconsistency of the Minister for Defence, that the Government is presently maintaining in the United States of America, what could only be described as a small army of defence officials supposedly responsible for the review of defence purchases and equipment. [More…]

• In all, according to the figures of the Minister for Defence, there are 75 Defence Department officials in Washington- 19 at the equivalent rank of major and 17 at the equivalent rank of lieutenant-colonel. [More…]

• At a time when the Minister for Defence has had a number of overseas tours reviewing possible purchases in Great Britain and Europe, it seems strange that is is necessary to have such a large contingent for this purpose in the United States employed full time. [More…]

• I said that this situation was ironic in view of the mothballing of the Leopard tanks and other areas in which expenditure perhaps would better meet the present defence needs of Australia. [More…]

• However, the situation can only be described as ludicrous when it is realised that, while the Minister maintains that only 75 defence officials are stationed in Washington, the estimates for the Department of Foreign Affairs and officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs maintain that there are 93 personnel there- 70 uniformed officers and 23 civilians. [More…]

• Secondly, it seems to me that either figure- that is, the 75 which the Defence Department officials assert or the 93 on which the Foreign Affairs Department is equally adamant- is a tremendously large number of staff to be responsible for purchasing equipment when the Government is actually ordering some equipment to remain unused because of expenditure pruning in defence and is failing in a number of important areas such as the development of a defence industrial self-sufficiency. [More…]

• It would seem that the Minister and departmental staff are capable of initiating defence equipment expenditure where no full time staff is stationed overseas. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence or the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who represents him in the Senate, should undertake a review of this matter urgently and tell us how many Defence Department staff we have stationed in Washington. [More…]

• If the security guards put up a defence it makes the situation more difficult when there is that state of mind. [More…]

• Under the Labor Government’s Defence Force Projects Act, no one could go onto defence projects without permission and a security clearance. [More…]

• We built dockyards, military buildings and defence buildings, despite the fact that the Department was headed by someone who could not get a security clearance. [More…]

• To add insult to injury, the police force that polices the defence establishment was headed by this security risk to Australia. [More…]

• As I said in my opening remarks, penalties do not provide protection against acts of terrorism; nor do they provide protection for those supplying to the Government information that is necessary for the proper defence and protection of the country. [More…]

• Of the numerous CIA allegations Marchetti made from information he received from one Stallings, who was mentioned in the last elections, and Boyce and from his personal experience, the main ones are as follows: The installation of a super bug at Pine Gap which can monitor any telephone and telex messages in or out of Australia; the funding of the LiberalNational Country Party by the CIA since 1967; that Australia’s intelligence agencies knew of CIA activities in Australia; interference in Australia’s unions by the CIA; and CIA deception of Australia over the Pine Gap defence base. [More…]

• That the Senate notes with concern the lack of action by the Australian Government to relieve Australian citizens of the disadvantages of dual nationality, particularly as experienced in visiting former homelands, and urges the Government speedily to implement the recommendations contained in the Report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on Dual Nationality, tabled in the Senate on 14 October 1976. [More…]

• The report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, presented to this Parliament on 14 October 1976- two and a half years ago- recommended that Australia should initiate action within the United Nations to renew efforts to resolve nationality problems. [More…]

• The report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is an excellent one, and I fully support all the recommendations. [More…]

• Following correspondence between the Department of Foreign Affairs and me and other members of parliament and following the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, those hints for travellers were made more specific. [More…]

• I advert to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which, as far back as October 1 976, recommended: [More…]

• I believe that Senator Tate is correct in bringing this matter before the Senate and asking the Government to take some action on the conclusions and the recommendations of the 1976 report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which looked into the matter. [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 1 976 report on dual nationality that consideration be given to deleting ‘Place of Birth’ from Australian passports. [More…]

• Are we prepared to leave somebody else to determine the qualifications of such persons to operate allegedly in the defence of the security of this country? [More…]

• Is that regarded as proper in the defence of a principle? [More…]

• Those of us who are in the radical movement surrender to no one our defence of the principles of liberty and freedom, of the right of assembly or of any of the principles that are embodied in the platform of the Liberal Party. [More…]

• It is a potential threat to democratic principles and free government, yet we would delude ourselves if we should forget that secrecy was for a time virtually our only defence. [More…]

• Subclause (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…]

• A number of honourable senators on this side of the Senate, who are members of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence found the reporting from the Office of National Assessments to be very good, to be a no-nonsense type of reporting and better than some of the stuff that we have had in the past. [More…]

• It will therefore be impossible for him or her to prepare any real defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The following statutory bodies established by legislation administered by the Minister for Defence have a responsibility to report through the Minister to Parliament: [More…]

• Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Authority (DFRDBA). [More…]

• (a) In respect of the DFRDBA, Section 16 ( 1 )and (2) of the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act 1973, which states: 16(1) The Authority shall, at such time and in respect of such periods as the Minister directs, furnish to the Minister reports dealing with the general administration and working of this Act and (except in respect of any period commencing before1 October 1 972 ) of the previous Act (other than Part III of the Act). [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 21 February 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator ‘s question: [More…]

• The general practice in the Department of Defence has been for officers to report or record conversations with persons outside the Department. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 February 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]

• what other requests to use public parks in such a manner have been made by defence establishments to local government authorities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 March 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 March 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matterof urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That Compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 197 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• Is the Government concerned that the extraordinary subsidy currently given in respect of defence service homes loans is now quite out of perspective and socially inequitable? [More…]

• 137 Defence Review- Paper. [More…]

• 155 Housing Corporation- Annual Report 1975-76, and Defence Service Homes Corporation- Annual Report 1976- 77 and Interim Annual Report 1977-78-Papers. [More…]

• 1 73 Defence Service Homes- Paper. [More…]

• 209 Housing Corporation- Annual Report 1975-76, and Defence Service Homes Corporation- Annual Report 1976- 77-Papers. [More…]

• The first part treats subversion as: activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions. [More…]

• The second barrel states that the activities involve: the carrying out of other activities by or for the Commonwealth for the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• The paragraph states: activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions- [More…]

• It would extend, in my submission, to activity which simply takes the form which, it might be thought, would reduce the morale of a defence organisation by pointing to conspicuous deficiencies in its organisation, structure and the way it is administered. [More…]

• I would go so far as to say that if this provision is to be given its face value, Senator Hamer ‘s speech in this chamber just a couple of weeks ago, in which he revealed in an extremely lucid and penetrating way just what a ramshackle structure Australia’s Defence Force has and that in a way that must have given considerable comfort to those people, perhaps overseas, who are interested in hearing such an analysis and in taking such a viewpoint- is that kind of attack on the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), on the Army, on the Defence Force, which represents a paradigm of subversion. [More…]

• Such activity would visibly and obviously be directed at dissuading people from joining the defence forces and, as such, would amount clearly to an obstruction of, a hindrance to or an interference with the Army, Navy and Air Force in the pursuance of their respective functions as these terms have been defined and applied over the years, and as they appear in other legislation. [More…]

• All kinds of industrial actions, for example, the withdrawal of workers’ services in the supply or distribution of goods, might take the form, or be perceived as taking the form, of interfering with the efficient conduct by the defence forces of their operations. [More…]

• A further point relates to the second half of paragraph (b), which is concerned with the carrying out of other activities by or for the Commonwealth for the purposes of the security or defence of the Commonwealth; in other words, hindering, obstructing or interfering with the carrying out of any other activities for the purposes of security. [More…]

• That was a very general proposition by Mr Justice Hope and this particular limb of clause 5 ( 1 ) (b), which lends a little more particularity to Mr Justice Hope’s recommendation, is simply saying that the powers of the or- the activities of persons which are directed- I emphasise the word ‘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 purpose of the security or defence thereof. [More…]

• The Government believes that activities of that kind, directed against the proper performance of the functions of the Defence Force, should certainly be the subject of surveillance by a security organisation. [More…]

• We are simply saying that if there are activities the purpose of which is to interfere with and obstruct the performance by the Defence Force of its functions, they are activities which could be regarded as coming within a charter of an organisation concerned with the security of Australia. [More…]

• But to leave out of the charter of an organisation of this kind an ability to keep under surveillance activities which may be designed very directly to obstruct and hinder the Defence Force in the performance of its functions would, in the opinion of the Government, be unrealistic. [More…]

• I have privilege in this place but had I been an outsider doing that I could be said, under this clause, to be interfering with the Navy in the exercise of not so much the defence of the Commonwealth but its other activities. [More…]

• There may be activities which are highly obstructive to the Defence Force. [More…]

• Bear in mind that this clause relates to purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• It even restricts the activities of the Defence Force. [More…]

• But insofar as interfering with the purposes of security or the defence of the Commonwealth is concerned, any activities, be they legal or illegal- and many of them may be highly objectionable and may be intended to develop, perhaps later, into illegal activities- may well be activities which ought to be under surveillance and ought to be considered as subversive by this organisation. [More…]

• Clause 5(1 )(b) refers to a person who is engaged in ‘activities directed to obstructing, hindering or interfering with the performance by the Defence Force of its functions’. [More…]

• If the Transport Workers Union of Australia, as part of industrial action specifically designed to bring pressure on the Government, held up the delivery of, amongst other things, pieces of machinery to the naval dockyard in Sydney, would this amount to a significant interference with the functioning of the Defence Force? [More…]

• In this case we are dealing with activities which are directed at obstructing the defence forces in the performance of their functions. [More…]

• A close examination of clause 5 ( 1) (b) will show not only that it is related to what may happen with respect to the defence forces but also that it has a wider definition. [More…]

• If the words ‘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’ are left out we have a much wider definition than has been suggested in the debate today, certainly that part of it which was entered into rather reluctantly by the Attorney-General. [More…]

• I read into that the fact that the very situation that was raised by Senator Sibraa in his question could apply to an entirely different situation, that it is not necessarily related to a Defence Force consideration. [More…]

• It is not related just to Defence Force activity. [More…]

• If we are concerned only with activities that hinder, obstruct or interfere with the performance of the defence forces, we ought to say just that and not go on to say ‘or activities by or for the Commonwealth for the purpose of security’ because that is a definition which seems to me, as a layman, to have very serious and wider implications than perhaps those drafting the legislation had in mind when they put in that provision to deal with specific questions relating to defence. [More…]

• I am pleased that Senator Hamer has come into the chamber, having regard to what Senator Evans said earlier about the type of statement that he could conceivably make at the National Press Club which would bring him into some area of surveillance because his activities could hinder, obstruct or interfere with the performance of the defence forces. [More…]

• In certain circumstances this clause may apply to lawful activities, but those activities must have certain purposes and end results and must be directed to obstructing the Defence Force in the performance of its functions. [More…]

• The Defence Force, when performing its functions, could deal with matters which come within the definition of subversion under this clause. [More…]

• Senator Button recognised that the activities of the armed forces should not be held up and that no one should unlawfully hinder the performance of the Defence Force. [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees)Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees ) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted and [More…]

• That Compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees ) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That Compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence able to tell the Senate how many Royal Australian Air Force personnel will be trained to fly the VIP Boeing 707 aircraft? [More…]

• Further, as it is difficult to uncover the actual cost of operating VIP aircraft, will the Minister ask the Minister for Defence to separate the accounts relating to VIP aircraft, detailing such things as running, maintenance, training and in-flight catering costs, from the rest of the RAAF’s accounts so that the taxpayers can know exactly how much the VIP aircraft are costing them? [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence seen reports in the Press this week alleging that consideration of the purchase of the Mirage 2000 for the Tactical Fighter Force project is linked to France’s opening up the European Economic Community restrictions on the entry of Australian agricultural products? [More…]

• The decision as to the replacement fighters, when it is finally made, will be made first of all on the expert and objective advice of our defence advisers, that is, our Service advisers, of course including the Chief of Air Staff who will have one overall consideration: To gain for Australia the best possible hardware that can be achieved. [More…]

• Having responsibility in the community for law and order, security, defence and so on, the Government felt that if a dispute arose between the Director-General and the Government as to whether a particular organisation should be the subject of surveillance, the Government’s will and opinion should prevail over the DirectorGeneral’s opinion. [More…]

• Senator Elstob was making the point that an approved defence project Act provides that no prescribed person can enter an approved defence project. [More…]

• But who tells the person looking after an approved defence project that someone is a proscribed person? [More…]

• People may well consider that they have a duty to disclose such information but according to this clause such people would have no defence. [More…]

• I think it is generally conceded that any freedom of information legislation would preserve secrets relating to defence, security and so on. [More…]

• Such a qualification may encourage some people to chance their arm in revealing information because they feel that they can get away with it under a defence of that sort. [More…]

• After his discharge in 1942 he served in the Volunteer Defence Corps until 1945. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it a fact that the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration did not investigate the Department of Defence on the grounds that at the time- 1975- the Department was in the throes of reorganisation? [More…]

• Did the Royal Commission recommend that a review of the Department of Defence be conducted by an independent body after several years of experience of the new organisation? [More…]

• The first part was: Did the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration omit to investigate the Department of Defence? [More…]

• The Commission also concluded that there was so much that was distinctive about the administration of defence and military affairs that, if it were to deal with it, a more detailed and comprehensive study than would be possible in reasonable time would be necessary. [More…]

• The Commission recommended that, after a few years of experience of the present pattern of defence administration, an independent body be appointed to undertake a thorough study of the effectiveness of structural arrangements and their possible relevance to other fields of Government responsibility. [More…]

• As to the final parts of the question, in as much as the Commission did not set out to investigate the organisation and structures of particular departments, it does not necessarily follow that an independent inquiry analagous to the Commission would be the most suitable way of examining the command of administration aspects of the Australian Defence Force and working relations between it, the Department of Defence and the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• -Mr President, I present the 65th report from the Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, relating to regulations under the Superannuation Act and certain Defence Force financial regulations. [More…]

• This report deals with a number of regulations under the Superannuation Act and the various Acts relating to the Defence Force which are retrospective for two years or more. [More…]

• In relation to the regulations concerning the Defence Force, the Committee reports that, while there were exceptional circumstances contributing to the retrospectivity of the regulations in question, there were some delays which appear to the Committee to have been unjustified. [More…]

• What we might call the big three manufacturers which were supposed to give us a motor industry which would give tremendous exports, assist our defence industry and so on have not lived up substantially to any of these claims. [More…]

• I suggest to the Government that it should look urgently at the situation at the Holsworthy defence establishment, the Bankstown aerodrome and the Lucas Heights establishment because Government supporters, through a lack of administration and a lack of concern, have been responsible for the problems confronting the oyster farmers of the Georges River of New South Wales and the pollution of Botany Bay, as instanced in the answer given to me today in response to Question No. [More…]

• Holsworthy Defence Establishments [More…]

• On behalf of the Department of Defence, the Department of Housing and Construction operates three sewerage treatment works which discharge into the Georges River. [More…]

• The plants are located at Holsworthy/East Hills, Moorebank and Ingleburn and serve the Holsworthy Defence establishments. [More…]

• 1 ) What are the current insurance rates under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme in each State and Territory. [More…]

• and (2) There is no single premium rate per unit of cover for homes insured under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme. [More…]

• What arc the receipts and payments for(a) the Northern Territory: and (b) the Australian Capital Territory, in relation to the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme for the periods for which the information has been available. [More…]

• and (2) Financial records of the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme for the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory arc not maintained separately. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of reports that the Soviet Union has gained access to secret information regarding the operation of American defence installations in Australia? [More…]

• We heard nothing of substance in defence of the federalism policy or in answer to what Senator Wriedt had to say. [More…]

• As we took evidence throughout the country, and as we talked to constitutional authorities, we were very firmly of the view that the evidence established clearly that the Commonwealth had what we called a coalescence of power in a number of fields, including taxation, defence, foreign affairs, fisheries and quarantine, which gave it sufficient legislative competence to lay down and enforce a national approach through legislation alone. [More…]

• I would like to make a few brief comments regarding the report and relate it briefly to the report of Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on overseas representation, Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• They not only affect foreign policy but also have a direct effect upon defence policy. [More…]

• The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence in its report dealt with the normal way of dealing with interdepartmental arrangements- by the setting up of interdepartmental committees. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 February 1979 : [More…]

• Are trainee technicians required to enlist for a specific period of employment with the defence forces. [More…]

• How many males and females who were trained as technicians by the defence forces left the defence forces: (a) after 1 year’s service; (b) after 2 years’ service; (c) after 3 years’ service; (d) after 4 years’ service; (e) after 5 years’ service; (f) after 6 years’ service; (g) after 7 years’ service; (h) after 8 years’ service; (i) after 9 years’ service; and (j) after 10 years’ service. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 March 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and defence forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapactiy and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• Part of Senator Webster’s defence of his position was to say: ‘If you read all the correspondence in a variety of ways, if you read the Hansard in a variety of ways, if you add a bit of extra material which I am about to reveal today, and if you put it altogether, then really there is no substance at all in the charge’. [More…]

• His second defence was to say that Senator Wriedt is a thief in the night and that he relied on stolen documents. [More…]

• 5m is sought for the Department of Defence for replacement equipment and stores and a further $48. [More…]

• This amount represents an addition to that which otherwise would have been decided upon by the Government for defence purposes. [More…]

• One such suggestion was put by the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence in 1978, the honourable Louis Mona, at a cost of approximately $3m. [More…]

• The Minister’s defence, admirable as it was, does not dissipate the anxiety felt throughout the community and by senators in this chamber about the Government’s intentions with regard to social security and low income families in the next Budget. [More…]

• What would be the position of a minister of religion who goes on to a defence establishment such as a warship and who demonstrates against the use of nuclear power? [More…]

• He spoke about somebody who could be the subject of an ASIO opinion and who wanted to go onto a defence establishment. [More…]

• He said that ASIO would give information to the defence authorities about the person. [More…]

• In my speech on the second reading of this Bill, I told honourable senators how I had been told that I could not go onto a certain part of an Australian defence establishment because of a security assessment which I never knew had been made. [More…]

• He put that as an argument in defence of Senator Webster’s answers last Thursday. [More…]

• To fill the special categories there would be a number of public servants, defence people, representatives of ethnic communities and Commonwealth contractors. [More…]

• Do we then proceed in an appeal against an assessment to hear the prosecutor who is the person who made the assessment without hearing the defence of the individual and without his knowing, firstly, of the assessment and, secondly, that the Appeals Tribunal is hearing an appeal against that assessment? [More…]

• In sub-clause (l)(a) the first such category is material which would be contrary to the public interest by reason of the fact that it would prejudice security or the defence or international relations of Australia. [More…]

• In other words, if the Attorney-General certifies that the material is sensitive for the first two of the reasons that I mentioned- namely, that it would prejudice security or the defence or international relations of [More…]

• In paragraph 1 (a) we deal with material which is certified by the Attorney-General to be against the public interest by reason that it would prejudice security or the defence or international relations of Australia. [More…]

• Government policy, as indicated in the freedom of information legislation and in this and similar legislation, has been to protect absolutely documents of the character of those set out in clause 57 ( 1 ) (a) and (b)- in particular, of course, defence secrets, Cabinet documents and that type of document. [More…]

• Honourable senators know as well as I do that when a security check is made of a person employed, for example, by the Minister for Defence, the person concerned is checked through the referees which that person has given. [More…]

• Senator Evans interjected to ask what would happen if some low ranking clerk in the Department of Defence with a twitchy wrist stamped the words ‘secret’ or ‘confidential ‘ on any piece of paper that came across his desk. [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted; and [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1971 should be increased as a matter of urgency in the view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted: and [More…]

• He will recall that during his defence to a charge that he had misled the Senate, he relied on a letter from Mr Groom to Mr Newman which dealt with the Capricornia section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]

• The letters exchanged between Mr Newman and me have all been thoroughly read by me, and they were read by me last week before I presented the defence. [More…]

• So the defence rests on that particular case. [More…]

• The Petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth: That in order to: - facilitate the development of the North of Australia - provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa - facilitate better defence of Northern Australia - provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets - boost tourism [More…]

• That compensation benefits payable to injured Australian Government employees and Defence Forces personnel under the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act 1 97 1 should be increased as a matter of urgency in view of the financial plight of recipients, particularly those suffering long term incapacity and because of the significant increase in the cost of living which has occurred since compensation payments were last adjusted: and [More…]

• It arises from a question which was asked in the House of Representatives yesterday by the honourable member for Moore, Mr Hyde, and directed to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• 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…]

• The point I am making is that we do not want a repetition of what happened in this Parliament 12 months ago when Senator Button, I believe, asked about the increased installation facilities at North West Cape and in the other place the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) berated the United States Government for not telling him about it. [More…]

• A system which can enhance Australia’s defence communications, its aeronautical and maritime communications, its public telecommunications both national and international, its broadcasting services, which can offer high potential for improvements in the delivery of health care services, in education, in helping our Aboriginal settlements and the people of the remote outback, offers advantages which cannot be measured solely in financial terms. [More…]

• It will be used for health, welfare, education, defence, communications and transport. [More…]

• As I have said, it should be capable of use in the fields of health, welfare, education, defence, ordinary communications, transport and so forth. [More…]

• There is a comic side to all this- the mental picture of His Honour sensing in the pages of a weekly paper a threat to the very foundations of the Commonwealth, and leaping fearlessly to their defence. [More…]

• Defence Act 1903-s. 5a. [More…]

• Defence (Re-establishment) Act 1965- s. 5. [More…]

• Defence Service Homes Act 1 9 1 8- s. 4aa. [More…]

• Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952- s. 3. [More…]

• Defence (Transitional Provisions) Act 1946- s. 5. [More…]

• Defence Transition ( Residual Provisions ) Act 1 952- s. 4. [More…]

• Defence (Visiting Forces) Act 1963- s. 7. [More…]

• Naval Defence Act 1910- s. 5a. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• When challenged on a previous motion of no confidence in him about his misleading of the Senate, he provided further misleading information in his defence. [More…]

• The Opposition now charges that the defence raised by Senator Webster to those earlier charges was totally spurious and that he, on that occasion, compounded the felony by misleading the Senate in a far more substantial way. [More…]

• But if there was any substance in his defence, it came at the end of his speech and seemed to be included almost as an afterthought. [More…]

• But, when we look at the substance of Senator Webster’s defence it is clear that that defence is not sustainable. [More…]

• For this defence to be acceptable, Senator Webster had to establish three issues: Firstly, he had to demonstrate that the renewal of the permits could no longer affect the proclamation of the section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]

• Because this is clearly a critical factor in Senator Webster’s defence. [More…]

• When I asked him a further question about the Groom letter, which I remind the Senate was the letter on which Senator Webster had relied in his defence, he asked me to define the letter about which I was speaking. [More…]

• As it was critical to his defence, there should have been no doubt about his ability to answer the question. [More…]

• The third issue which Senator Webster had to establish in his defence on that day was that only the constitutional issue stood in the way of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [More…]

• We are left with this simple proposition: If Senator Webster did not know of the existence of that letter on 3 May, he misled the Senate on 8 May by relying on that letter to establish his defence. [More…]

• However, one of his ministerial colleagues felt obliged to rush to his defence. [More…]

• On 8 May Senator Durack put forward a most remarkable defence of Senator Webster. [More…]

• Yet he stood up in this chamber and proffered a spurious defence knowing it to be false. [More…]

• In dealing firstly with what Senator Webster, the Minister for Science and the Environment, is now pleased to call his case, I should make clear that it is not a defence to the Opposition’s charges for a Minister in this chamber to say: ‘I am ignorant’. [More…]

• When he is now charged with misleading the Senate he relies on the defence: ‘Well, I am really ignorant’. [More…]

• In doing so, he tables or reads in his defence letters which show quite clearly that it is not the only issue; that there are others and that one of these is the question of oil drilling. [More…]

• He pulls that out of the bundle as part of a very selective production of documents in his own defence. [More…]

• That is the third defence. [More…]

• The first defence is: There are constitutional issues involved’. [More…]

• The second defence is: ‘I do not really know what the Barrier Reef is and if we fudge the boundaries enough nobody will know what we are talking about’. [More…]

• This is an interesting example of putting up a defence. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Defence any information on the development of Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam as a Russian naval base? [More…]

• The Minister for Defence will shortly be answering a question on notice in another place giving further details. [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take immediate steps to remove the discrimination directed at certain Queensland residents whose property is insured under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 September 1978: [More…]

• 5 ) How many motor vehicle accidents, in each year from 1967 to 1978. which involved defence personnel in each branch of the Service and which resulted in death or injury were the result of negligence attributed to alcoholic consumption by the drivers concerned. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 March 1 979: [More…]

• 1 ) How many permanently established positions has the Australian Department of Defence had in Washington and elsewhere on the United States mainland in each year from 1967 to 1977. [More…]

• Arc the 75 full time and 29 temporary Defence Department positions in Washington, referred to in the Minister’s answer to Senate Question No. [More…]

• -The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Fourteen of these were Department of Defence civilian positions and 52 were Service positions (5 Navy. [More…]

• That in order to: - facilitate the development of the North of Australia - provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa - facilitate better defence of Northern Australia - provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets - boost tourism [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I imagine that the answer to this question lies somewhere between the responsibility of the Minister for Transport in his civil function in respect of airport terminals and perhaps the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• This is where I found the heated and vigorous defence of the Leader of the Government (Senator Carrick) so surprising because I believe Senator Carrick ‘s defence of these visits lays bare the injustice of the priorities in social expenditure pursued by this Government. [More…]

• I shall quote from the report that I wrote to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence when 1 came back from the conference. [More…]

• American Defence Installations in Australia (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 3 May 1979: [More…]

• Has the Soviet Union gained access to secret information regarding the operation of American defence installations in Australia; if so: (a) does the information which the Soviet Union now holds render the bases virtually ineffective; and (b) will this alter in any way the Government’s present longterm attitude to the presence of the bases. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -Some weeks ago the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) made a major statement in this Parliament on Australia’s defence policies. [More…]

• For the first time that 1 can remember he set out a clear list of Australia’s strategic goals and related the present and planned composition of the Defence Force to those strategic goals. [More…]

• This is a major contribution to the informed debate on defence policy for which the Minister has called. [More…]

• In this performance the Representatives was carrying out perhaps all too faithfully its representative function for there is no doubt that community complacency about defence is disturbingly high. [More…]

• It is surely the responsibility of this national Parliament to keep defence in the forefront of its mind for effective national defence is the first duty of every government and we forget that at our peril. [More…]

• I note with disappointment that this is, as far as I can determine, the first time anyone in either House of this Parliament has spoken on this defence statement. [More…]

• The strategic situation is surveyed by the Defence Committee for the Government and stated in a document produced every few years called Australian Strategic and Defence Policy Objectives’. [More…]

• The intelligence assessment on which the threats are based and the defence forces required should, of course, be in separate documents and should not be allowed to clutter up the clarity of our strategic appreciations. [More…]

• The likelihood of a global nuclear war is slight although it is significantly greater than the Department of Defence seems to think. [More…]

• In the 1 976 Defence White Paper it was stated that given the enormous risks from military conflict, on all rational considerations the restraints on the use of force between the two super powers and the framework of their co-operation should endure. [More…]

• This aspect was part of a major study of the defence industry by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• But so far as the composition of our Defence Force is concerned, the threat of global nuclear war should have no effect. [More…]

• I believe that the contingency is so remote and our possible contribution so negligible that it would be unjustified to design any of our defence resources specifically for this role. [More…]

• This, too, seems to be a role in which the diversion in our defence effort would be unjustified. [More…]

• For these reasons I do not believe that any special diversion of our defence effort to preparations for this kind of warfare would be justified although, of course, if the unexpected did occur and if such a conflict did break out, the forces provided for other purposes would have to do what they could. [More…]

• So far I have deprecated the necessity for defence preparations to meet three of our strategic requirements. [More…]

• I should like to turn now to two areas where defence preparations are appropriate. [More…]

• The first is the defence of our territorial integrity. [More…]

• One of the most foolish strategic statements ever heard was that made by a former Labor Minister for Defence to the effect that our strategic frontier is our coastline. [More…]

• But it is an option that should be open to the Government and the Defence Force must have the necessary capability. [More…]

• We would have to increase sharply our defence preparations. [More…]

• We should ensure that our defence infrastructure and Defence Force are maintained in a state in which we could achieve the necessary expansion of our defences in the available time if this crisis arose. [More…]

• The problems are only partially to do with defence. [More…]

• The Defence Force should undertake the whole task. [More…]

• At the same time, it should be recognised that equipment acquired by the Defence Force for this purpose, which has no wartime value and operations conducted for this purpose which have no training value, should not be funded from the Defence vote. [More…]

• Secondly, we are spending too little of our available defence resources on new capital equipment. [More…]

• I said that 12.9 per cent of the defence vote is spent on capital equipment. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that, as a result of the increased defence expenditure announced recently by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), this figure wil rise still further, for it is still very low. [More…]

• Previously I have commented on the need to restrain the number of public servants in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• In recent years their salaries have represented 13 to 16 per cent of total defence costs, and are estimated to be $343m this year. [More…]

• We must also watch very carefully Defence Force manpower costs to which some 35 per cent of the vote is devoted. [More…]

• It will be difficult to exercise control over this, but the Government must be prepared to approve concepts which might limit the complexity of the environment in which our Defence Force might have to operate. [More…]

• We must put first things first, and for our Defence Force the first thing is to be able to cope with the things that it might have to do on its own. [More…]

• Periodically, the Department of Defence produces a paper called ‘The Defence Force Capability Guidance Paper’. [More…]

• This is, of course, highly classified, but as a basis for argument I should like to put forward my views on what the Defence Force capability should be. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the principles that I have advanced, what sort of Defence Force would we require? [More…]

• A tank force based in Victoria is not learning anything about the defence of northern Australia. [More…]

• According to a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, we can expect only one immediately available infantry battalion out of a total strength of 32,000 men. [More…]

• Perhaps a combined approach from the Department of Defence and the Department of Science might produce a vessel which would meet the Antarctic Division’s requirements and would also be available in a defence emergency. [More…]

• The ship’s magnificent anti-submarine equipment, which is designed for the defence of North Atlantic convoys, and the Harpoon long range anti-ship missile are not very relevant to the type of operation about which I am talking. [More…]

• I do not disagree with the decision to save money in that way, but I think the Department of Defence was wrong in the way it kept prime contractors tendering up to the last minute, involving a considerable amount of their resources in tendering for a project which was subsequently cancelled. [More…]

• I must say that the Navy is wasting its time if it puts forward a replacement for the Melbourne as necessary for the defence of merchant ships against submarines. [More…]

• I am glad to see that the Department of Defence apparently accepts this point in its planning. [More…]

• I do not want to develop the requirements for control of our exclusive economic zone, for most of them have little or nothing to do with defence- control of fishing, illegal immigration or smuggling for instance. [More…]

• For many of these, diplomacy will be more important than the Defence Force. [More…]

• As I said before, although I think the Defence Force would be the most suitable body to carry out the Government’s policy in these matters and that the Defence Force must contribute what it can to this task this should not be at the expense of the training of the Defence Force for its prime role- the defence of the country- but it can contribute a lot. [More…]

• The Defence Force is intended for a role that is on the whole, very different, and the use of its complex equipment for such relatively simple tasks might not be cost effective. [More…]

• But if it is necessary to provide additional relatively simple equipment- ships or aircraft- which would not have a real defence value although they should be operated by the Defence Force, the funds should not come from the Defence vote. [More…]

• We would be deceiving ourselves and the public, if we allowed our Defence vote to be whittled away for non-defence purposes. [More…]

• Our Defence vote is low enough, in all conscience. [More…]

• At the moment we are spending 2.7 per cent of our gross domestic product on defence. [More…]

• Even with the recent increases announced by the Prime Minister- very welcome though they are- our defence expenditure will not rise noticeably above 2.7 per cent of GDP. [More…]

• Of course, the restraints that I have proposed for public servants and in regular Army strength would release more funds for capital equipment and defence infrastructure- perhaps $200m a year- but this will not be enough. [More…]

• Before I finish, I want to say something about our defence organisation at the top. [More…]

• Perhaps it could be summarised best by saying that the Department of Defence is not so much a command or administrative headquarters, as an enormous debating society. [More…]

• If we are not to have a substantial increase in defence spending- and one cannot be overoptimistic about this in the near future- we must see that we do get value for our valuable defence dollar. [More…]

• I want to come to the defence of the ABC, whose funds have been cheerfully pared back by this Government until it has reached the stage where it has virtually no capital to produce the high quality television shows and radio shows that it was producing only three or four years ago and had been producing for some years prior to that. [More…]

• As I recall, the defence offered was that the dismissal occurred not because the individual would not do what the union requested but because other unions would not work with him and the duties of the Council could not be carried out. [More…]

• That in order to: - facilitate the development of the North of Australia; - provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice-versa; - facilitate better defence of Northern Australia; - provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets; - boost tourism [More…]

• I point out that this country forced death upon some people close to our shores when it refused to go to their defence and accept them here with the same compassion with which we have accepted Vietnamese refugees. [More…]

• The examination of these proposals is currently being carried out by the Department with the assistance of the Department of Defence and the Shipbuilding Division of the Department of Industry and Commerce. [More…]

• The examination of these proposals is currently being carried out by the Department with the assistance of the Department of Defence and the Shipbuilding Division of the Department of Industry and Commerce. [More…]

• The Department of Defence is attending later; perhaps 1 can raise the matter then. [More…]

• I was advised that the aircraft originally suggested to the Department of Transport or to the Department of Defence were long range Boeing 727-100 series aircraft which could have been serviced by the commercial airlines, Ansett Airlines of Australia or Trans-Australia Airlines. [More…]

• One could speak on the developmental needs and the defence needs and point out that this road is absolutely essential. [More…]

• Those questions do not relate specifically to the Department of Transport, but to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• If further information is required, I will be pleased to see that it is provided by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Stuart Highway should be considered as a defence road. [More…]

• Unless it is an allweather road it cannot be used for defence purposes. [More…]

• Although in the near future there will be a good railway, for the defence of this nation there should be a good road in case that railway is knocked out. [More…]

• I wish to raise an item under Divisions 230 to 234 in the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Senator Sibraa raised the matter of the Boeing 707 aircraft in the consideration of the estimates of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• On that occasion I was told that these aircraft are not part of the VIP fleet, that, in fact, they were purchased for defence purposes. [More…]

• The primary purpose of the 707 is for Defence purposes. [More…]

• They will be stationed at Richmond and will be used for VIP travel only when they are not being used for Defence purposes. [More…]

• What I want to know from the Defence Department is this: What other purposes will these aircraft serve, apart from taking personnel to Butterworth two or three times a year? [More…]

• It is all very well for the honourable senators to laugh, but the answer that I was provided with was to the effect that these planes were purchased for defence purposes. [More…]

• I am intruding into Defence territory but I think the question was asked recently in a Senate Estimates Committee hearing. [More…]

• While the officers from the Department of Defence are here, I ask: What is the real purpose of the 707 aircraft? [More…]

• Are they to be armed as defence aircraft and, if they are going to be used occasionally by the Prime Minister for VIP travel, will their costs be charged against the Prime Minister’s Department at the same rate at which the previous Prime Minister chartered equivalent planes from Qantas Airways Ltd for his overseas trips? [More…]

• I would be consistent unless I asked these questions of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• So they are not going to be much good to the Government for defence. [More…]

• The Minister said that 80 per cent of their use would relate to defence. [More…]

• I also asked the Minister whether the aircraft are to be chartered by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from the Department of Defence when they are required for VIP duties? [More…]

• If this is so, what rate will the Department of Defence charge the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for the use of these aircraft? [More…]

• With regard to cost sharing or the rates that have to be established between the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Defence, these matters are at present under consideration and no figures can be given at this stage. [More…]

• I will refer the detailed questions to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), seek the information and see that the Senate is advised accordingly. [More…]

• Again, this matter can be the subject of consideration by the Department of Defence and a detailed answer can be given when I provide other information. [More…]

• It seems to me that by permanently changing the configuration of these aircraft we are limiting their use as troop carriers and that the cost of using them in that way- for defence purposes- will be excessive. [More…]

• I wish to know whether we have imposed upon the Air Force two aircraft that cannot be used properly for defence purposes, merely to satisfy the desires and the megalomania of the Prime Minister? [More…]

• I point out that when Senate Estimates Committee F met 34 officers from the Department of Defence were in attendance. [More…]

• This morning we do not have in attendance the Air Force officers or other members of the Department of Defence who would be able to deal with the very specific and detailed questions that have been raised. [More…]

• She stated that either 24 or 34 officers from the Department of Defence were present when Estimates Committee F was looking at the estimates for the Department of Defence. [More…]

• So, it would have been physically impossible for many honourable senators who wanted to pursue some of these matters concerning the Department of Defence to do so as they were attending hearings of other committees. [More…]

• Therefore, I would advise the Minister to have the appropriate members of the Department of Defence here to give us the answers because the taxpayers of Australia, not just honourable senators on this side of the chamber, want to know why the Prime Minister is wasting their money by indulging himself in the purchase of these aircraft for his own use. [More…]

• We have been told that the aircraft will be used 80 per cent of the time for defence purposes. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Yesterday in another place the Prime Minister gave figures purporting to be the costs of converting the two Boeing 707 aircraft for use in the VIP fleet and for defence purposes. [More…]

• Can the Minister supply the Senate with the continuing costs of the refit that will be necessary each time the aeroplanes are converted from defence to VIP use? [More…]

• -Mr President, on behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I present the report on the Torres Strait Treaty. [More…]

• -by leave-When the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Torres Strait boundary was presented in December 1976 it was stated that there would be many further developments in the area in the near future, for, at that time, Australia and Papua New Guinea were still continuing their negotiations on the question of a boundary- or border- between the two countries. [More…]

• In accordance with the provisions of the Public Works Committee Act 1 969, 1 present the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Works relating to the following proposed work: Defence Force Academy, Australian Capital Territory. [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, the Darling Downs Institute and the Royal Australian Navy College with a single academy which 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…]

• In so doing I want to retrace briefly the history of the Casey University, the Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]

• In 1974 Mr Barnard, as Minister for Defence in the Labor Government, indicated that in his view further planning on this issue was necessary. [More…]

• Indeed, I appreciate that in his case there is a problem of competing bailiwicks, as it were, because the Casey University proposal comes within the province of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• This is perhaps another example of the defence lobby pushing a pet project of its creation at the expense of other areas of government endeavour and administration. [More…]

• The priorities are bizarre when we consider that we are allocating $52m to capital expenditure on all the universities and colleges in Australia whilst we indulge in this sort of expenditure for a project which has been criticised by defence personnel and educational personnel and on cost benefit grounds. [More…]

• We would hope that he would have available more money for expenditure on legitimate tertiary education institutions; that money will no longer be wasted by this Government on this absurd Dr Strangelove academy which the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister have been pursuing; that the money will be allocated more appropriately in the course of the education budget to enable Senator Carrick to fulfill some of the promises he has made in the past about education; and that the country will not suffer in any sense by the abandonment of this pet project. [More…]

• What happened today was that, in defence of Senator Webster, who was caught out in a conflict with the responsible Minister, pressure was brought to bear on Mr Newman for him to accept full responsibility. [More…]

• Mr President, at the outset I would like to say that I would hate to be in a court of law with Senator Lewis as my defence lawyer. [More…]

• He could not even get me out of a charge of riding a bike without a light, judging by the defence that he has put up today. [More…]

• The other intriguing thing is that we find Senator Lewis speaking here in a spirited defence of Senator Webster. [More…]

• Of course, the Government has to make a defence; but, as I said earlier, the last person whom I would want to defend me in the courts in relation to any misdemeanour would be Senator Lewis. [More…]

• In less than four years Australia has had three Prime Ministers, four Ministers for Defence, five Ministers for Foreign Affairs and three Treasurers. [More…]

• Since March we have had three Ministers for Foreign Affairs, three Ministers for Defence, three Ministers for Health, three Ministers for Education and Science, three Attorneys-General, two Treasurers, two Ministers for Labour and National Service, two Ministers for Immigration, two Ministers for the Navy, two Ministers for Housing, two Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and two Ministers for Supply. [More…]

• Of this total, it is expected that about 20 percent will be used for VIP tasks, 20 per cent for crew conversion and combination training and the remaining 60 per cent for Defence tasks, lt is expected at this stage that the only VIP overseas task this year requiring use of a B707 will be in respect of the Prime Minister’s visit to Nigeria and Zambia at the time of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. [More…]

• Present plans envisage four general categories of Defence tasks: changeover of personnel and dependents at Butterworth (as many as 40 return flights each year conveying 2,500 passengers); movement of Defence personnel (mainly Army) on overseas exercises; movement of Defence personnel within Australia; and other personnel or cargo tasks. [More…]

• The Defence tasks so far planned for the B707s in the financial year 1979-80 include the movement of Army personnel on international exercises. [More…]

• The exercises involve personnel ofthe defence forces of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• There arc other international exercises with the defence forces of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and others in which the R.A.A.F. [More…]

• For the financial year 1979-80, tasks already planned include about 20 Butterworth flights, about 12 flights in support of overseas exercises ( to Singapore, Hong Kong, Hawaii and New Zealand), and about 10 flights in support of the Military Tattoo being staged by the Defence Force for the Western Australian Sesquicentennial Anniversary. [More…]

• The total hours involved in those Defence tasks already planned amount to about three-quarters of the annual authorisation. [More…]

• I also refer the honourable senator to the statement by the Minister for Defence on 13 December 1978, in which mention is made of the many other factors taken into consideration by the Government in deciding to purchase the aircraft. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and /or the Minister representing the Acting Minister for Social Security, refers to a report about unemployed citizens who join the Australian Army Reserve. [More…]

• The Minister will have seen recently a very useful advertisement, supported by the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, and Mr Hawke, who advocated encouragement by government agencies and employers to young people to join the Reserve and pointed out the tax-free advantages. [More…]

• If the Minister has not seen the article, will he inquire into it and confer with the Minister for Defence and with Senator Guilfoyle, if necessary, to see what can be done to correct this position? [More…]

• I have not had the benefit of the opportunity to look at the Canberra Times today, but if detriments are emerging, certainly they ought to be brought to the attention of the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Department of National Defence [More…]

• The petition of the undersigned respectfully showeth: That in order to: - facilitate the development of the North of Australia - provide un all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa - facilitate better defence of Northern Australia - provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets - boost tourism [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is the Queensland facility monitored by representatives of the defence Services or the Department of Science and the Environment? [More…]

• -Of course, all those who know what the Omega system is- including all members of this Parliament’s Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and all those who read its report- would know that the whole of Senator Keeffe ‘s question is based on a completely fundamental error. [More…]

• As anyone who knows anything about defence matters would know, it would be silly to rely on Omega signals for defence, because an ordinary electrical storm can alter the signal and a nuclear flare can alter the signal. [More…]

• It is clear that all scientists say that Omega has no defence significance at all. [More…]

• As I understand it, and as Senator Primmer might understand it from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, it would be completely wrongly based in that area, because the Australian station had to be placed as far south as reasonably possible to get the correct triangulation. [More…]

• Back in 1976, in a report on Australia and the refugee problem, the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence had this to say at page 98, paragraph 7.40: [More…]

• The same Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, in its report on Australian representation overseas, had this to say at page 20, under the heading ‘Language training’, when referring to the Department of Foreign Affairs: [More…]

• I am sure that members of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence will agree with that section of the article which states: [More…]

• As I said, that has come out time and time again in hearings of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of which I have been a member for some six or seven years now. [More…]

• I daresay that Senator Chaney will use that as a defence of the Western Australian Government, if he is to defend it. [More…]

• The defence organisation also needs to take a fresh, hard look at its relationship with industry. [More…]

• Effective defence is as much a matter of industrial and economic strength as it is of military hardware and men under arms. [More…]

• But interaction of defence research and development with industry has been and is, with a few exceptions, poor. [More…]

• Among these recommendations are proposals: That incentive grants be free of tax; that Government departments maximise the contracting of research and procurement to Australian industry; that the influence of science and technology on social development be studied systematically; that staff mobility be encouraged; that relationships between government instrumentalities- particularly CSIRO and Defence- tertiary education institutions and industry be revised; and that patent laws and agreements be reviewed in depth. [More…]

• The Opposition says that no amendment can save the basic impropriety of using an Act which was formulated in the early 1 950s to deal with a completely different defence situation. [More…]

• Honourable senators will know that that defence situation revolved around the exploitation of the Rum Jungle deposits, in order to aid the nuclear weapons programs of our allies. [More…]

• The Opposition states categorically that those sorts of provisions hanging in the air which are potentially available to a government to erode our civil and political liberties and which are understandable in the defence context of the early 1950s have no place in the development of this Ranger uranium resource. [More…]

• It is not good enough for the Government month after month, session after session, to ask honourable senators to pass amendments to deal with the obvious gaps within the legislation which was devised for a totally different, defence oriented exploitation of our uranium resources at Rum Jungle. [More…]

• As a member of the Sub-committee on Southern Africa of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence I have been very interested in this matter. [More…]

• Members of the Defence Force do not get a golden handshake. [More…]

• The Defence Force Retirement Benefits Scheme is designed to allow for the very early retirement of Service officers and to compensate them for the positions they might have reached outside the Defence Force if they had not joined it in the first place. [More…]

• 1 standing in my name relating to the Defence Service Homes Insurance scheme. [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take immediate steps to remove the discrimination directed at certain Queensland residents whose property is insured under the Defence Service Homes Insurance scheme. [More…]

• This matter refers to a special loading which was placed on Defence Service Homes Insurance scheme premiums in Queensland. [More…]

• I believe that part of it could also be directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• At the moment discussions are under way between the Department of Defence and the Department of Transport to determine the best way in which civilian facilities can be upgraded without interfering with the plans of the Department of Defence for the further development of the airport. [More…]

• In a sense, if an answer in those terms is advanced by the Government the Government really will be hoist with its own petard in its defence of this legislation. [More…]

• The only point that the Opposition wishes to make in further defence of its attitude and the attitude of the Public Service unions on this clause is in answer to the numerous assertions by various Government senators that there is really no difference between these procedures and the procedures which presently apply in relation to promotion appeals. [More…]

• I refer to the Defence services. [More…]

• easily accessible from the point of view of a national rail linkage in the light of future defence considerations. [More…]

• He touched on the major reasons including defence, tourism, the development of the mining industry, the cattle industry and so on. [More…]

• The Government has a responsibility for defence. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that in the statement by Mr Thomas, to which I referred, he talked about the financing of his scheme of Austrail and related it to defence in this way. [More…]

• Call it defence. [More…]

• Remember that a peacetime infrastructure geared to war is every bit as important to defence as conventional armaments which rapidly obsolesce in any case. [More…]

• The Government has a responsibility for defence. [More…]

• That in order to: facilitate the development of the North of Australia provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa facilitate better defence of Northern Australia provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets boost tourism - [More…]

• But I suggest that for the future development and defence of the North this would be money well spent. [More…]

• It will also assist with the defence of Australia. [More…]

• As Senator Hamer would know, the various United States defence services have their own security. [More…]

• I am not knocking defence intelligence as such but, like the trade union movement, the more you have the more friction occurs about who will get the limelight. [More…]

• Secondly, as there are two areas in which the Commonwealth uses substantial amounts of aviation fuel- namely, defence and coastal surveillance- are the cutbacks in supplies being experienced by the commercial operators being shared by defence and coastal surveillance operations? [More…]

• I will refer them respectively to the Minister for National Development and the Minister for Defence and I will endeavour to obtain early answers for the honourable senator. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and concerns the increasingly inadequate case being made out for the establishment of the Casey UniversityAustralian Defence Force Academy- for the training of defence personnel. [More…]

• Moreover, does the Minister acknowledge the educational and personal advantages which would flow from defence trainees’ inter-mixing on an integrated campus with students from other professions in the course of their studies? [More…]

• Nevertheless, since it is a matter that concerns the Minister for Defence and the Government I will draw the honourable senator’s question to the attention of the Minister. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Finally, would not such a base strengthen Australia ‘s defences? [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that we do have an interest in the deterrent role of the United States in keeping peace in the world by having effective defence installations throughout the world. [More…]

• Its use by the Defence Forces is very slight as they use either Greenbank or Enoggera. [More…]

• Another part of the question related to supplies for defence operations. [More…]

• I am advised that the general shortage of Avgas is not presently affecting Defence Force operations as defence stock holdings are sufficient to meet current operational requirements. [More…]

• The section will also provide carriers with a defence to a prosecution if the vessel was forced into Australia due to stress or 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…]

• More importantly, the Government required a police protective security function to continue for such areas as defence, munitions and other security risk government installations, embassies and official residences. [More…]

• I wish to take the occasion of this first reading debate to speak on the defence needs of this country. [More…]

• Throughout out history Australia has been sheltered from the responsibility of providing for its own defence. [More…]

• As the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) has frequently said, peace in our region could be shattered without warning by an assassin’s bullet. [More…]

• The responsibility for coping with the defence consequences of these changes is ours and ours alone. [More…]

• What army commander would want to become involved in taking the big southern cities which, if they were defended by a wellmotivated defence force, could be as expensive an exercise as Stalingrad? [More…]

• Our defence requirements, therefore, are to protect our extended economic zone- and our fishing and seabed rights- to prevent migration occurring by force and not in accordance with our wishes and to deny occupation of any resource areas to invading forces. [More…]

• The biggest problems we face in providing this defence is that people either believe that it is beyond us or that there simply is no threat. [More…]

• Defence capacity cannot be considered solely in terms of arms or manpower. [More…]

• The defence of this country involves three interrelated areas- the development of the actual Defence Force, the maintenance of a sound economy and the development of regional stability through our foreign policy. [More…]

• What are our assets from a defence point of view? [More…]

• Here I must pay tribute to the Minister for Defence, Mr Jim Killen- probably the best Defence Minister this country has had- who has fought valiantly in Government for a higher priority for his portfolio. [More…]

• This year we will spend $2, 500m on defence. [More…]

• We spend 2.7 per cent of our gross domestic product on defence which is one of the lowest percentages in the world. [More…]

• I therefore welcome recent statements of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that defence spending will be increased by 2 per cent in real terms in the coming Budget. [More…]

• It is very much part of our defence to have stable governments in the region and to see that they have a capacity to defend themselves. [More…]

• She has an immense defence force; she has roads, railways, telecommunications; and above all she has people, both white and black, who are pro- West. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 March 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 May 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) Do the respective medical services of the Army, Navy, and Air Force conduct surveys amongst defence personnel, designed to detect alcoholism, drug addiction or associated problems; if so, what have been the result of such surveys; if not, what was the incidence of (a) alcoholism; and (b) drug addiction, detected by Medical officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force during each year from 1 965 to 1 978. [More…]

• What program has (a) the Department of Defence, or (b) individual arms of the services, instituted to deal with problems such as alcoholism and drug addiction. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 May 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 6 June 1 979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The estimated costs to be borne by the Australian taxpayer through Defence Force participation in the Parmelia Yacht Race amount to a total of $ 127,520. [More…]

• That in order to: facilitate the development of the North of Australia; provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa; facilitate better defence of Northern Australia; provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets; boost tourism. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I will refer it to the Minister for Defence and ask him to give it consideration and to comment on it. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators 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…]

• I also present the text of a statement by the Minister for Defence relating to the reports. [More…]

• Civil defence and emergency services; [More…]

• (The Commonwealth still administers Commonwealth property requirements, such as defence, transport, and telecommunications). [More…]

• (The Commonwealth still administers Commonwealth Survey requirements, such as defence, transport, and telecommunications). [More…]

• Is Australia completely dependent on imported computers; if so, will the Minister consider taking any measures comparable to those taken by the Brazilian Government to encourage the development of a computer manufacturing industry in Australia, thereby enhancing Australia’s selfreliance in the field of defence, as well as providing business and employment opportunities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 29 May 1979: [More…]

• Does Regulation R.2 10A ( 1 ) of the Army Law Manual prohibit Service personnel from joining or actively participating in political parties; if so: (a ) does this regulation infringe the civil liberties of Service personnel, and especially the right to freedom of association guaranteed by the United Nations; (b) does any similar regulation apply to: (i) members of the Commonwealth Public Service working in Defence establishments; or (ii) members of the Army Reserve; (c) does the Report of the 1973 Working Party on the [More…]

• Defence Force Disciplinary Code deal with this matter; and (d ) will the Minister consider amending the regulation. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Essentially, members of the Defence Force will be able to join political parties and participate in their activities, provided that a member engaging in such activity does not use his rank or uniform, prejudice the performance of his duties, affect the functioning of the Defence Force, or identify the Defence Force with any political activity, lt will not be permissible to conduct political activities on Service establishments or ships. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 4 June 1 979: [More…]

• What is the continuing cost of the refit that will be necessary each time the two Boeing 707 aircraft recently purchased by the Government are converted from Defence to VIP use. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• There are no continuing costs for material in the refit that will be necessary each dme the B707s are converted from Defence to special purpose use. [More…]

• Defence Force: Trainee Technicians (Question-No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 22 May 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) Will the Minister explain how the defence forces have arrived at the conclusion that female trainee technicians have a lower retention rate than males in view of answers given to Senate Questions Nos. [More…]

• Is it possible to establish the viability of employing women as trainee technicians in the defence forces when last year there were only 7 women employed compared with 4381 men. [More…]

• Why has the number of women employed as trainee technicians in the defence forces fallen from 19 in I97S to 7 in 1978, while the number of men has increased from 3S98 to 438 1 during the same period. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Facilitate better defence of Northern Australia. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• On 31 May last, as a result of a statement by the Prime Minister that the two Boeing 707 aircraft bought by the Government for his use when travelling overseas would be used by the defence forces when not being used for this special purpose, I asked for the continuing cost of the necessary refit. [More…]

• Will the salaries, allowances and other expenses of the personnel be paid by the Department of Defence or by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet? [More…]

• On the recent trip to Africa were the costs of crew and maintenance en route covered by the Prime Minister’s Department or by the Defence Department? [More…]

• Is it usual to have the costs of a Prime Minister’s use of RAAF aircraft and personnel covered in the Defence vote or is there a separate vote to cover these matters? [More…]

• I should say that in relation to the security provisions of the 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 that debate. [More…]

• Senator Carrick has just presented a specious, partly irrelevant and certainly misrepresented defence of the Government’s high tax policies. [More…]

• Only by avoiding the issue can the Government put up any defence at all. [More…]

• I rise to speak in defence of the Fraser Government in order to set right some of the statements that have been made today, not only in this debate in respect of the Government’s taxation measures but also during Question Time. [More…]

• Some on the conservative side have suggested that, if we dared to exercise any parliamentary scrutiny of these matters, the American Government would fold up its relationship with us and no longer have anything to do with this country’s defence or the defence of its own interests. [More…]

• During the parliamentary recess I received a letter from Mr Killen, the Minister for Defence, setting out some answers to many of the questions that I asked of Senator Guilfoyle during the Committee stage of the debate on Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]

• I rose to speak tonight to have this letter from Mr Killen, the Minister for Defence, incorporated in Hansard to give an opportunity to many of my colleagues to analyse that answer and also to analyse other answers that have been given on the same question to other members of Parliament to see how they tie in. [More…]

• I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a letter dated 3 1 July 1979, addressed to me, and signed by D. J. Killen, Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Minister for Defence Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 [More…]

• Are the aircraft to be chartered by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from the Department of Defence when they are required for VIP duties? [More…]

• The annual operating costs of special purpose aircraft are shared between the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Department of Defence in accordance with an arrangement agreed by Government in 1967. [More…]

• Under this arrangement, aircraft flying costs, including fuel, oil, tyres, oxygen, spares, servicing of aircraft by contractors and aircraft handling costs at civil airports, are shared proportionately according to hours flown in special purpose and Defence roles. [More…]

• All other costs, apart from the cost of rations, are borne by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Facilitate better defence of Northern Australia. [More…]

• expresses its concern at the fact that the discharge of effluent into the Georges River in Sydney from certain Commonwealth Government establishments, namely, the Holsworthy Defence Establishments and the Bankstown Aerodrome, does not comply with the requirements of the New South Wales Clean Waters Act, as disclosed in the Minister’s reply to Senate Question No. [More…]

• The Minister for Science (Senator Webster), representing the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, on 1 May this year, just prior to the Parliament going into recess, replied on behalf of the Department of Defence in relation to the Holsworthy Defence establishments. [More…]

• Honourable senators, particularly my friends Senator Mulvihill and Senator Mason representing the State of New South Wales, will know as well as I do the number of people who are in or are connected with the Holsworthy Defence Establishment on the Georges River. [More…]

• Holsworthy Defence Establishments [More…]

• On behalf of the Department of Defence, the Department of Housing and Construction operates three sewerage treatment works which discharge into the Georges River. [More…]

• The plants are located at Holsworthy/East Hills, Moorebank and Ingleburn and serve the Holsworthy Defence establishments. [More…]

• The Act was implemented, but the three treatment works serving the Holsworthy Defence Establishments continue to discharge into the Georges River. [More…]

• That is the case so far as the Holsworthy defence establishment is concerned. [More…]

• That is the report so far as the Holsworthy defence establishment and the tests carried out by the Department of Housing and Construction are concerned. [More…]

• We have a clear admission from the Minister for Science and the Environment that the Holsworthy defence establishment and the Bankstown aerodrome are contributing to the discharge of effluent and polluted material into the Georges River. [More…]

• Wales health authorities on standards and procedures that are necessary to satisfy the requirements of importers of Sydney rock oysters, it should be giving some advice also to the Department of Defence with regard to the Holsworthy defence establishment and to the Federal Department of Transport with regard to Bankstown aerodrome. [More…]

• From the reply that was given to me by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) on 1 May of this year to a question which 1 had placed on the Notice Paper on 24 October last year, it was obvious that the Holsworthy defence establishments, Federal Department of Defence establishments, and the Bankstown aerodrome- a responsibility of the Federal Department of Transport- were contributing substantially to the pollution of the Georges River. [More…]

• Inquiries had to be made of the Department of Administrative Services, the Department of Transport, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Department of Defence and the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]

• Holsworthy Defence Establishments [More…]

• On behalf of the Department of Defence, the Department of Housing and Construction operates three sewerage treatment works which discharge into the Georges River. [More…]

• The plants are located at Holsworthy/East Hills, Moorebank and Ingleburn and serve the Holsworthy Defence establishments. [More…]

• I think that it is timely that we are debating the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that dealt with the topic of Australian representation overseas in the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• Only ‘insiders’ can judge the extent to which Renoufs account of his late department’s ‘crisis’ is justified, but the February 1979 Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, - [More…]

• If we had received a reply on this report perhaps the Minister and the Department would have been able to say: ‘Yes, the Department and the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence looked at this; they looked at the problems and we are doing something about it’. [More…]

• In pursuit of the bipartisan spirit which is reflected in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I agree with the thrust of what Senator Sibraa has said. [More…]

• I think the basis of that sort of judgment on Mr Renoufs part refers to an assumption that was shared clearly by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, that is, that the Department of Foreign Affairs must have authority to co-ordinate all aspects of Australia’s external policy and must be adequately equipped to do that. [More…]

• In saying that I suggest that the questions raised in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the matters of recruitment, career structures and morale within the Department offer a rather more serious and genuine comment and adopt a rather more constructive approach to those issues and perhaps are more constructive on how those problems might be overcome. [More…]

• I thank my colleagues on the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence for their co-operation and for the work which went into this report. [More…]

• That in order to: facilitate the development of the North of Australia provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa facilitate better defence of Northern Australia provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets boost tourism [More…]

• Is it the Government’s intention to deny to the defence counsel in this case access to this computerised transcript? [More…]

• Will the Attorney-General agree that denial to the defence of access to this crucial aid to the conduct of this case would be contrary to accepted principles of criminal law which require that so far as possible the Crown not enjoy any unfair or unequal advantage over the defence? [More…]

• I am aware that a question has arisen in relation to the provision of the same facility to the defence, as Senator Evans has said. [More…]

• However, I must say that neither the Crown Solicitor nor the Deputy Crown Solicitor in Sydney, the latter having the specific conduct of the prosecution on behalf of the police, has received from the defence any formal request for that facility. [More…]

• However, I think it is fair to say that there are real difficulties in making the specific facility available to the defence because of the way in which the prosecution is using it and the way in which the defence may wish to use it. [More…]

• In other words, there may be some difficulty in maintaining confidentiality in both the prosecution and the defence. [More…]

• The matter is being looked at, but I think that I would need to know more about the attitude of the defence before I go into the matter any further. [More…]

• Again, I am prepared to look at the cost-benefit analysis of such use from the point of view of the defence, as I have looked at it in relation to the prosecution. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, is about a report that the yacht Anaconda II will be sailed as the Federal Government’s entry in the Parmelia Yacht Race commemorating Western Australia’s 150th anniversary. [More…]

• I am advised that the Government has approved a Defence Force entry in the Parmelia Yacht Race from Plymouth in England to Perth which is being staged as part of the anniversary celebrations. [More…]

• By arrangement with the owner, Mr J. Grubic, the yacht Anaconda II will be the Defence Force entry with a crew selected from Army, Navy and Air Force aspirants. [More…]

• Terms and conditions governing the loan of Anaconda II to the Defence Force for the Parmelia Race have been documented in a formal agreement between the Commonwealth and the owner. [More…]

• The financial arrangements are that the defence budget is to absorb all costs of the Defence Force participation subject to the owner’s providing approximately $20,000 for expenses overseas and $10,000 from the crew members. [More…]

• The cost of the Commonwealth contribution, aside from normal salaries and allowances, has been estimated at $127,520, but final costings are to be agreed upon by the Ministers for Finance and Defence. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware of media reports of the controversy surrounding logging operations at Terania Creek in northern New South Wales and in particular a report in yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald? [More…]

• The Defence Force was not involved in any way in the operation carried out by the New South Wales Government at Terania Creek. [More…]

• My question is not whether the Department of Defence will take my yacht on the same terms as Mr Grubic’s; rather it is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry and refers to the replacement for the position of Chairman of the Australian Wool Corporation following the unfortunate death of Mr Maiden. [More…]

• Only a few nights ago the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, said that he had made arrangements with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the shipbuilding unions for this new ship to be build for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]

• Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence put such a proposition to Mr Fraser our friend who sits on the other side of the chamberthe honourable senator who was in the Navysupported that proposition. [More…]

• 157 March 1971 “Rolling Stone “Australian 28 July 1977 “Nuclear accidents in the last 2-3 years” 12 September 1978 Defence, Science and Technology Group Legislative. [More…]

• Therefore, there is probably more waste in the medical area than most other places, except for certain other holy cows like defence and security. [More…]

• The more important of these measures involved the assurance of the lives of children under the age of ten years (Life Assurance Companies Act 1905), the exemption of persons from service on the grounds of conscientious beliefs (Defence (No. [More…]

• I hope that the attitude of these two men could be absorbed to some extent in the rest of our community and that our migration policy could be based more on humanitarian grounds than, as in the past, on economic or defence criteria. [More…]

• I received from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) a document entitled ‘Rules for the Use of RAAF VIP Aircraft for VIP and VIP Party Travel’. [More…]

• It is the current one; I have the personal assurance of the Minister for Defence on that. [More…]

• It is subject to approval by the Minister for Defence and in certain cases the Minister for Defence can seek a waiver of those conditions- in cases of urgency when there are air strikes or for really desperate personal reasons- from the Prime Minister. [More…]

• We all know that the Labor Government did away with that ministry and amalgamated a number of ministries into the Ministry of Defence. [More…]

• We went to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), the Minister responsible for the operation of VIP flights, and obtained a document headed ‘Rules for the Use of RAAF VIP Aircraft for VIP and VIP Party Travel’. [More…]

• Regarding the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, there were two very important reports on Australia and the South Pacific and Australian representation overseas, one of them going back to February 1978, neither of which has been the subject of a ministerial statement. [More…]

• When will the Federal Government, in liaison with the Northern Territory Government (a) make an evaluation of the proposed North-South railway from Alice Springs to Darwin, to determine its social, defence and economic implications; and (b) survey the intended route so that a transport service corridor may be reserved for future construction, particularly in view of the number of petitions on the subject presented in the Senate between 22 May and 21 August 1979. [More…]

• The proposed substitution of the National Medal for these Decorations and Medals varies the principle of selective recognition of efficient voluntary service in the citizen forces in that it recognises the period of service only and embraces also full time service as well in the defence forces as in the police, fire brigade and ambulance services: [More…]

• The Reserve Forces of Australia have been recognised by the present Government as a valuable- and costeffective component of the Defence Forces. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• It has provided increased funds for defence, $2 15m in export incentives and $32m for industrial research. [More…]

• I refer, of course, to the need again to start up the Whyalla shipyard, based upon a proposition which was put to the Government by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Only in the last few days the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, has reached an agreement with the ACTU and the trade unions concerned in respect of a request to build the new Royal Australian Navy ship in Australia. [More…]

• What have they done with the defence homes land. [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Department of Productivity had discussions with the Department of Defence and manufacturers of aircraft and electronic components about participation in the offset-AIP program in connection with the possible aircraft to be ordered for the Tactical Fighter Force replacement. [More…]

• 1 ) There have been extensive discussions between my Department, the Department of Defence and industry on Offset-AIP programs against the Tactical Fighter Force aircraft requirement. [More…]

• I am advised that the Department of Defence has also held discussions with the electronics industry on participation in the TFF project, particularly in relation to upgrading Australian industry capability in the avionics area to meet Defence needs. [More…]

• These are being considered within the Department of my colleague the Minister for Defence who will make an announcement at the appropriate time. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 August 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Australia has a number of information and technology exchange agreements with advanced overseas countries which enable the Department of Defence and the Services and through them, industry, to remain abreast of international technology developments relevant to Australia’s Defence needs. [More…]

• The progressive development of the Defence Force as a whole is undertaken on the basis that capabilities we have and plan at any time will form the core ‘ for an expanding force. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 August 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 23 August 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) The Department of Defence are not aware of any stability problems associated with the fitting of masthead radar on the Royal New Zealand Navy’s Lake Class patrol boats. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Is it true that Navy oil storage tanks at Windsor, Brisbane, have been sold and are to be dismantled? [More…]

• What effect will it have on our ability to meet a defence crisis? [More…]

• I am not aware of any such action on the part of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I am aware that the Government and the Department of Defence are taking effective measures to ensure that throughout Australia there is substantial storage and maintenance of oil for our defence needs. [More…]

• Nor does one enter into any area of defence by saying that we have done these things. [More…]

• There are two arguments that one quite often hears in defence of these tax avoidance arrangements. [More…]

• I ask a question of either the Minister representing the Minister for Administrative Services or the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Further postponements have occurred due to nonavailability of witnesses, illness of the judge and absence of defence lawyers. [More…]

• Those regulations provide the mechanism by which exports of defence equipment from Australia are controlled to ensure that they are in conformity with Australia’s international obligations, such as arms embargoes against Rhodesia and South Africa and Australia ‘s foreign policy and strategic interests. [More…]

• Also, in more recent times, the Committee was obliged to meet because of the vast amount of evidence that had to be given, and the decision that had to be made, in regard to the Australian Defence Force Academy. [More…]

• They include Defence Force employeesagain, people whose work is often hazardous and often performed in an environment in which a serious injury could occur. [More…]

• Firstly, the Bill falls far short ofthe level of benefits which injured Australian Government employees and defence personnel are entitled to expect. [More…]

• This is an increase which the Opposition believes is niggardly and no way for the Government to treat dependants of its employees and members of Defence Force. [More…]

• As I close my remarks, I refer just very briefly to the expenditure in the area of defence because that is an area of which Australians have, in some measure, become knockers. [More…]

• The area of defence is a very favourite area for the knockers to operate in. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that in the defence area in this Budget it has been possible to raise expenditure by some $28 1 m or 2.6 per cent in real terms. [More…]

• This is a significant contribution at a time when the object of the Government is to lower taxation, lessen the size of the government, the size of the state, it has been fit and able to increase its effort in the defence area. [More…]

• It is worth noting that Australia’s defence forces are, outside those of the super powers, certainly the equivalent of defence forces in any area of this area of the world. [More…]

• Today, more and more money and a greater part of the defence vote are being spent- and so it should be- on sophisticated equipment. [More…]

• In regard to defence, Australia is establishing a capacity both from the point of view of trained manpower and from the point of view of defence equipment which registers it as a responsible country in this part of the world. [More…]

• What we need in that area- as we do in the area of this Budget and the socioeconomic circumstances in which we live- is a determination to make it work; a determination that the defence forces and defence capacity that we have are something on which we can certainly improve but something of which we can be responsibly proud. [More…]

• With him was the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• They were both pondering- the Prime Minister on what was going to happen to him during the rest of the life of this Parliament, and the Minister for Defence on why he had not got the top job in New York. [More…]

• The defendants who were arrested on 29 May are all members of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted, which is known in Czechoslovakia as VONS. [More…]

• Secondly, one notes the activities that have been engaged in to frustrate the defence. [More…]

• He was expelled because of his courageous defence of another spokesman. [More…]

• Will the Minister support an urgent reference to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the question of this dependence on private charterers, some foreign-owned, for Australia’s surveillance operations, given the failure to establish an Australian coastguard service? [More…]

• As far as the matters of the quarantine team, the reference to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and any reconsideration to the stationing of a helicopter are concerned, I will refer those to the responsible minister and ask him to give them consideration. [More…]

• As stated in that article, at a meeting between the Prime Minister and the United States Ambassador, Mr Philip Alston junior, on 7 February 1979 at Parliament House, Canberra, did the Prime Minister make a threat that if Australia did not receive Washington’s support on agriculture in the multilateral trade negotiations the future of the United States defence facilities in Australia could be jeopardised? [More…]

• Only last week we heard that for defence surveillance off the north coast of Western Australia the Australian Department of Transport has chartered an aircraft owned by a Hong Kong firm. [More…]

• I leave out of account for those purposes all the rest of the spy organisations such as the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the Defence Signals Directorate, the Office of National Assessments and so on in respect of which different considerations apply. [More…]

• We do not know the extent to which, if at all, elsewhere in the Department of Defence, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet or goodness knows where else other moneys are being used to finance covert intelligence gathering and processing operations of one kind or another. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The apprehension of Taiwanese fishermen is undertaken by Department of Defence officers or Department of Primary Industry officers. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether about 50 military aircraft involved in the forthcoming Kangaroo III defence exercise will be using avgas? [More…]

• I understand that a symposium on the management of mass burns casualties was sponsored jointly by the Departments of Defence and Health and was held at the Australian Counter Disaster College, Mt Macedon in Victoria, in June of this year. [More…]

• No doubt Senator Mcintosh, who is a respected colleague of mine on the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, because of his interest in that very subject must be aware that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) has made a number of statements on this issue. [More…]

• In defence of himself, he said: [More…]

• The first point I welcome in the Budget is the increase in the defence allocation, which is increased by $279m or 2.6 per cent in real terms over last year. [More…]

• This is a most necessary move because the percentage of our gross domestic product spent on defence is far less than that in most comparable countries. [More…]

• Furthermore, the progressive increase in defence spending in this and future Budgets will allow greater participation of Australian industry. [More…]

• On those sentiments, the defence rests. [More…]

• I wish to clear up the point raised in a question I asked last Tuesday about whether there were any threats made by the Prime Minister about American defence facilities in Australia. [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…]

• that if Australia did not receive treatment in the MTN which he regarded as adequate, the future of the US defence facilities in Australia could be jeopardised. [More…]

• As none of the reports tabled since that time by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has been responded to, will the Minister agree that that Committee’s work and recommendations are being deliberately ignored? [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister representing the Minister for Defence (Senator Carrick) I seek leave to make a statement relating to the termination of the Turana Target Aircraft Project. [More…]

• I wish to inform the Senate that the Minister for Defence has accepted the advice of his Department to terminate the Turana target aircraft project. [More…]

• They are an absolutely indispensable feature of defence science activity. [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 by the Loan Fund. [More…]

• The Bill authorises borrowings 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 1 980. [More…]

• However, it must be said that since this Government has come into office, it has demonstrated its opposition to the expansion of the Australian international shipping industry, for a whole variety of reasons which I do not want to canvass, other than to say that the Australian Labor Party believes that the establishment and maintenance of a secure shipping industry are vital not only for economic reasons and our own domestic economy, but also from the point of view of defence. [More…]

• I have read a copy of the document which Senator Martin said she was able to obtain from the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen. [More…]

• I again dispute that the Prime Minister has that right, having checked the document which was tabled in this chamber on 6 March 1973 by the then Minister Assisting the Minister for Defence, Senator Bishop. [More…]

• Such matters will be handled by the Minister for Defence in consultation with the Prime Minister. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 2 September 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 2 September 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 13 September 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• They conveniently forgot that the Loan Bill provides revenue for defence expenditure when the consolidated revenue fund is unable to meet that expenditure. [More…]

• The Bill also allows some defence expenditure to be transferred to the loan fund as a means of avoiding approval of the Loan Council. [More…]

• In regard to the Loan Bill I believe that the ability of the Government to meet its payments, as demanded by its commitments to defence and social security, have not been or are not being met out of general revenue received by the Government through ordinary taxation measures. [More…]

• If we are to maintain a decent defence force- which I believe we do not have at this present moment- and if we are to meet the challenges that will face us in the 1980s then we of course have to ensure that we have enough money for that purpose. [More…]

• The deficit in this Budget is $2, 193m and in the traditional style provision is being made to finance for defence purposes a sum of $ 1,800m, of which some $ 1,604m will be required for Consolidated Revenue purposes. [More…]

• During the course of the debate on the Loan Bill to authorise the borrowing and expending of money for defence purposes, an honourable senator from Tasmania, Senator Harradine, borrowed the time of the Senate to use it as a forum under parliamentary privilege for his own defence purposes inasmuch as he said that there has been a concerted attempt by a back bencher- he named me- to vilify and assassinate the characters of members of the trade union movement. [More…]

• For 1978-79 what was the amount of defence expenditure transferred from the Consolidated Revenue fund to the loan fund? [More…]

• Are there any resolutions of Loan Council relating to defence loans? [More…]

• What credits are, or would be, available in the loan fund which can be used for defence expenditure? [More…]

• I remind the Minister that the Loan Bill which is being debated in the chamber is a machinery measure which provides for loan funds to be raised specifically to meet defence expenditure because there are insufficient funds in Consolidated Revenue. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: In 1975, when the Loan Bill which sought to appropriate an amount of $ 1 ,502m was introduced into the Parliament correctly in accordance with finance regulations prescribed by the Audit Act in order to make funds available for defence expenditure because there were insufficient funds in Consolidated Revenue that year and was before the Senate, why did he and the other holders of ministerial rank today say that the legislation was a ploy and was an attempt by the Whitlam Labor Government to jack up the deficit with which it would be confronted? [More…]

• The device used is that the borrowings are for defence purposes. [More…]

• As Senator McAuliffe will know, under the 1927 Loan Council financial agreement and the gentlemen’s agreements as such borrowings for defence purposes traditionally do not need the approval of other members of the Loan Council. [More…]

• Do I understand from that that this year the real deficit of the Government will be $3,404m, of which all but $ 1,604m will be covered by revenue received, and that an extra expenditure of $ 1,800m for defence purposes will come from loans? [More…]

• The wording defence expenditure’ is simply the device that is used by all governments to borrow money without the need to go to the Loan Council. [More…]

• Someone commented to me the other day that the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) had had a bad month: His new planes were falling out of the sky, his submarines would not submerge, the radar and the Skyhawks had tumbled off the Melbourne, his race horses could not win and the lizards he backed at Cunnamulla had got the message from the Government and were running around in circles. [More…]

• I ask Senator Carrick whether the $ 196m difference referred to in order to play safe, as compared with the actual shortage in the Consolidated Revenue Fund is designed to cover these misadventures of the Minister for Defence? [More…]

• We are merely endeavouring to emphasise the difference in the position which the Leader of the Opposition has taken on this occasion and the position which the Government took when it had before it a loan Bill, which is a device or a means of raising defence money. [More…]

• I am particularly interested in the fact that this Bill refers somewhere to defence. [More…]

• I was attracted to what he was saying about the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, and the fact that his portfolio had become a disaster. [More…]

• that is the $ 1,800m- under section 3 shall be applied only Tor the expenses of borrowing and for services specified under the heading DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE’ . [More…]

• If the Minister cannot supply this information now, and that is something which is readily understood because the Minister representing the Minister for Defence possibly cannot supply it, should we, without knowledge of what is the surplus overhanging, give the Government power to raise it? [More…]

• Surveillance patrols over the Great Barrier Reef are carried out by Defence Force units and by chartered civil ships and aircraft. [More…]

• Combined operations co-ordinated by the Australian Coastal Surveillance Centre involving Defence Force and civilian units have resulted in the apprehension of ten clam boats this year to date. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 27 September 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) Will approximately 50 military aircraft involved in the forthcoming Kangaroo III defence exercise be using Avgas; if so, how much. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Insofar as the Defence Force is concerned the position is satisfactory. [More…]

• Since the additional usage of Avgas by the Defence Force in connection with the exercise, over and above their normal usage, is an insignificant component of national consumption of this fuel, the actions suggested in the question are not considered necessary. [More…]

• Present national stockholdings of Avgas do not indicate a need for any severe Defence Force curtailment of current levels of Avgas consumption. [More…]

• When speaking to the National Press Club on Wednesday, 10 October, the Chief Minister for the Northern Territory, Mr Paul Everingham, suggested that the defence establishment, particularly the engineering and service corps, could provide an enormous boost to Aboriginal communities in the Territory by raising a force of approximately 1,000 Aborigines, principally to educate them in trades et cetera, which would enable them to participate more in local government-type activities. [More…]

• I will refer it to my colleague, the Minister for Defence, to see whether an additional effort can be made in the areas under his jurisdiction. [More…]

• The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence recommended in its 1976 report on dual nationality that consideration be given to deleting this requirement. [More…]

• Recently, the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence conducted an inquiry into the operations of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• I referred earlier to the inquiry undertaken by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Without going over that in detail, I would simply like to emphasise that the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee did see a very real need for the development of a career consular service and a need for more effective training and support facilities for our consular services provided to Australians around the world. [More…]

• The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence recommended that the deletion of this provision as to place of birth ought to be considered and the Government established an interdepartmental committee to examine that question. [More…]

• It has taken some three years for the Government to ponder the report on dual nationality from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, in its report- I think Senator Knight referred to that report and I have no doubt that my colleague, Senator Sibraa, referred to it also- drew attention to the need for us to strengthen our consular service because of the great increase in travel. [More…]

• As Senator Tate indicated, a recommendation on that was made by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, of which I was a member. [More…]

• Along with them I was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence that held an inquiry into the Department of Foreign Affairs and dealt with some of the problems of our consular service. [More…]

• The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, in its report on dual nationality, looked at a problem that has been talked about today. [More…]

• As a member of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee I support the amendment which would delete the place of birth on the passport and insert the place of residence. [More…]

• Foreign Affairs and Defence stated in its recommendations: [More…]

• The recommendation in the report on dual nationality from the Joint Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defence that place of birth be deleted from Australian passports and be substituted by place of residence has been given a great deal of consideration by an interdepartmental committee and by the Government. [More…]

• the Chief of the Defence Force Staff and the Chiefs of the Australian Naval, General and Air Staffs, when proceeding overseas on official business [More…]

• -The report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which is before the Senate tonight was presented to the Parliament on 31 May 1979. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to support the recommendations which have been brought down by the Sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The Sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence was responsible for what I consider to be a fairly thorough investigation of the problems involved and was responsible for bringing down acceptable recommendations. [More…]

• In our statistics, unlike the Americans and some others, we specifically exclude the amount allocated to research and development for defence. [More…]

• Australia’s R and D expenditure is not artifically inflated by large defence commitments, as is frequently the case elsewhere, yet still amounted to 1.3 per cent of GDP in 1973-74 … a figure above the OECD level in absolute terms or on a per capita basis. [More…]

• In the Department of Aboriginal Affairs there is the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; in the Department of Administrative Services there is a commission of inquiry into drugs; the Attorney-General’s Department conducts criminology research and family studies; the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs has the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence; the Department of the Capital Territory has a nature conservation committee; the Department of Defence has a defence science and technology organisation; the Department of Education has the Curriculum Development Centre and the Education Research and Development Committee; the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs has the National Training Council; the Department of Foreign Affairs has all of our international agreements; the Department of Health has the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, the National Acoustics Laboratories, and the Australian Dental Standards Laboratory, et cetera; the Department of Home Affairs has the National Library of Australia; the Department of Housing and Construction has the Australian Housing Research Council; the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the population study; the Department of Industrial Relations has the Trade Union Training Authority; the Department of Industry and Commerce has the Australian Manufacturing Council; the Department of National Development has the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Water Resources Council; the Postal and Telecommunications [More…]

• There are complex questions of law where courts have found that the onus has been put on the defendant in many prosecutions to prove certain things, and it certainly is the view of the Committee that the law should be clear as to whatever may be the requirement of a person to establish a defence. [More…]

• Statutory defences, of course, are often made available to defendants. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the ore body of the Western Mining Corporation’s copper and uranium field at Olympic Dam on Roxby Downs sheep station in South Australia extends for more than 30 kilometres inside the security zone defined by the United States and Australian defence authorities? [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the company has approached the Department of Defence with the object of moving the northern boundary to enable free access of drilling crews and to facilitate the development of this huge project? [More…]

• The joint defence space communications station is outside the Woomera prohibited area. [More…]

• Early in 1977 it came to the notice of the Department of Defence that significant deposits of copper, uranium and gold had been discovered by the Western Mining Corporation at Olympic Dam close to the eastern boundary of the prohibited area some 80 kilometres from Woomera village. [More…]

• You have never stood in this place and made an intelligent speech in defence of your Government’s policy. [More…]

• We need the best means to prevent breaches in out quarantine defences. [More…]

• The best defence is to increase to 100 per cent, if possible, the chance of people committing breaches being detected. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and follows reports in the Australian Financial Review of both today and yesterday about Brigadier David McMillen, who was recently appointed as the Australian representative of Ford Aerospace, which is a joint front-runner to supply any prospective Australian satellite. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• As the office of Defence Force Ombudsman is, I understand, currently vacant, when will legislation to establish a Defence Force Ombudsman be introduced? [More…]

• When is it expected that a person will be permanently appointed to this office which is of such importance to the Defence Force? [More…]

• Will the Minister confirm the Government’s continuing commitment to providing such an avenue of appeal for Australia’s Defence Force personnel? [More…]

• The background to this matter is that a Bill providing for the appointment of a Defence Force Ombudsman was passed in the House of Representatives in 1975. [More…]

• Pending the legislation, Mr D. O. Hay was appointed under administrative arrangements as Defence Force Ombudsman-designate. [More…]

• Since 1976 the office of Defence Force Ombudsman has continued to operate under an executive director on the interim basis authorised by the Minister in 1975. [More…]

• A Department of Defence proposal dealing with the establishment of a Defence Force Ombudsman is currently being examined by the Administrative Review Council, and the Council will report to the Attorney-General in due course. [More…]

• The Department of Defence proposal will progress further when the Administrative Review Council’s recommendations are known. [More…]

• In the meantime, the office of Defence Force Ombudsman will continue to operate on the interim basis authorised by the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I acknowledge the importance of the question and the importance with which the matter is regarded by the Defence Force. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence: Are full time Army officers commanding medical units permitted to engage in private practice for remuneration at night or weekends and, if so, under what conditions? [More…]

• In defence, it is argued by the Minister that there has to be a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health and welfare of the community. [More…]

• Their defence of the unions was absolute: it permitted no qualification . [More…]

• Their defence of the unions was absolute: it permitted no qualification and no restraint on union behaviour. [More…]

• How illustrative it is of the justitification of the case the Government mounts in defence of this legislation that it has responded in this way. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether it is a fact that the Government is considering the reintroduction of national service. [More…]

• 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…]

• I do not think that there is any defence to that action. [More…]

• This was revealed by the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, so it is not a fictitious figure. [More…]

• The $3,498 cost of the return flight from Canberra was revealed in Federal Parliament by the Defence Minister, Mr Killen. [More…]

• In view of questions (2) and (3) it has been assumed that the information requested in question ( 1 ) refers to the total number of contracts received by Australian firms as a result of major Australian defence equipment orders placed overseas since January 1976. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 September 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Department of Defence reached agreement with Vickers Cockatoo dockyard to build a replacement vessel for HMAS Supply. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As the Minister for Defence announced in his statement to the House of Representatives on 23 August 1979, a delegation of officials of the ACTU Shipbuilding Committee has assured him of their full support in maintaining good industrial relations at VCD and in assisting the company to acquire the additional skilled workers for this task. [More…]

• He will see the matters referred to and the defence provided in that proposed new section. [More…]

• United States Defence Facilities in Australia (Question No. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister state at a meeting with the United States Ambassador, Mr Phillip Alston, Jnr, at Parliament House, Canberra, on 7 February 1979, as reported in the publication Inside Canberra, that if Australia did not receive Washington’s support on agriculture in the multi-lateral trade negotiations, the future of the United States defence facilities in Australia could be jeopardised. [More…]

• Minister, a question without notice concerning American defence facilities in Australia. [More…]

• Part of the responsibility lies with the defence planners who concoct amazing theories to justify rapid expansion of weapons programs. [More…]

• Recent pressures to build up forces in the United States of America and in Europe have arisen because of the decrying by senior defence planners of the credibility of the United States nuclear umbrella. [More…]

• Looking at the global picture, we see that global defence expenditure is running at over $350 billion a year. [More…]

• The drain on any country’s national resources due to defence needs is colossal. [More…]

• All this requires thorough examination, and my Government has recently informed the Secretary-General that we are willing to submit our Defence Budget for analysis as part of a pilot project on military budgets. [More…]

• A sudden expansion of arms, an unexpected concentration of military forces, the growth in a country’s military capacity in excess of perceived defence needs- all these produce suspicion and counteraction. [More…]

• In the speeches I have quoted, Eisenhower provides the final answer to any militarist who tries to argue that wars are still inevitable and may be useful; or that armaments are a source of security, influence or prestige; or that defence should have priority over aid to the poor. [More…]

• President Carter was quoted in Aviation Week and Space Technology of 26 February this year, somewhat the same period, as saying that SALT II would allow the United States to pursue all the defence programs it believed it may eventually need. [More…]

• In 1970, Third World countries spent something like $3,000m on defence, or on arms. [More…]

• Global defence expenditure at the moment is about $350 billion a year-$350,000m a year. [More…]

• It is worth looking at what the defence expenditures are. [More…]

• The highest figure is that for Israel, which spends 24.5 per cent of its GDP on defence; Saudi Arabia spends 15 per cent. [More…]

• Away from the Middle East, the two highest spenders on defence are the Soviet Union, which is spending between 1 1 per cent and 14 per cent of its GDP on defence, and the [More…]

• It is most notable to someone looking through the list of expenditures on defence that the high spenders are the communist countries. [More…]

• Which governments sponsor and have within their defence agencies teams of salesmen who go out into developing countries and encourage them to spend billions of dollars on those armaments, on those types of expenditures, on that infrastructure, rather than on the needs of their people? [More…]

• He obviously does not know that our own Department of Productivity sells $22m worth of arms to more than 26 countries around the world, to say nothing of what private Australian firms sell and to say nothing of the so-called defence co-operation gifts. [More…]

• It must have effective defence forces. [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 incapacitatedpension, intermediate rate and general rate pensions as well as the war and defence widows’ pensions and service pensions. [More…]

• If we have to take $10m off the defence budget, let that be an acceptable proposition if it will feed the underprivileged. [More…]

• It should be possible for Australia to: establish and maintain on the Australian mainland basic transit camps for the housing and processing of 200,000 refugees each year; mobilise the Defence Force to search for, rescue and transport to Australia those refugees who have been able to leave the Indo-China States; accept the offer of those church groups which propose to resettle some thousands of refugees in Australia. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Defence verify the authenticity of documents which have been widely reported today and which purport to be the Army service record of a prominent member of a political party in New South Wales? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the public relations unit of the Department of Defence is freely offering verbally the same details of service on the basis that they are public information? [More…]

• Allied veterans will not be eligible to receive tax concessions, defence service home loans or repatriation and medical treatment benefits. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) In converting the Boeing 707 aircraft from special purpose use to defence use (or vice versa), no costs are involved particular to the conversion other than the normal pay of the RAAF personnel employed. [More…]

• The Department of Defence, as their employer, will pay the salaries and allowances and will meet other expenses of its employees. [More…]

• The costs of all RAAF special purpose flights are met initially by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Reimbursement of the costs of special purpose flights by the Prime Minister is usually made by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from Appropriation Division 504/01 and credited to the Defence appropriation item against which the expenditure was incurred. [More…]

• It should be possible for Australia to: -establish and maintain on the Australian mainland basic transit camps for the housing and processing of 200,000 refugees each year; -mobilise the Defence Force to search for, rescue and transport to Australia those refugees who have been able to leave the Indo-China States; -accept the offer of those church groups which propose to resettle some thousands of refugees in Australia. [More…]

• That in order to: facilitate the development of the North of Australia; provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa; facilitate better defence of Northern Australia; provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets; boost tourism; [More…]

• As Australia has considerable responsibility towards these near neighbours, will the Government take action by, firstly, offering the Indonesian Government defence force equipment and personnel such as transport, helicopters, medical teams and engineers to deliver essential food supplies and equipment for agriculture, the reconstruction of roads and so on; and, secondly, offering taxation deduction incentives to give added encouragement to the Australian community to donate to such funds as the Catholic Refugee Fund, Lions International and Australian Red Cross, which are taking the initiative in raising funds and forwarding essential supplies to Timor? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Defence whether he can say that there is any truth in a report that the Minister for Defence has rebuked a senior Army officer in his Department for releasing details of a former Citizen Military Forces soldier’s service record for the purpose of the record being used against him in the Sydney North Shore Liberal Party war. [More…]

• If he is not in a position to comment on that matter, does he approve or otherwise of the Defence Department’s releasing such information relating to the former ex-serviceman? [More…]

• With respect to security, defence and international relations, secrecy classifications should be clarified and made consistent with those that are applicable in other areas of government and there should be implemented a system of automatic declassification of documents. [More…]

• of the nine exemptions provided for under the Bill only those relating to defence, security and international relations; protecting the financial and property interests of the government; law enforcement; privacy; and commercial or financial information, should be retained- and most of those with some modification. [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 Department of Defence ‘s handling of rental charges on Royal Australian Navy pipelines at Fremantle. [More…]

• The Committee has commented on the Department of Defence’s response to the difficulty of introducing procedures to ensure adequate commitment control. [More…]

• Senato Chipp certainly conducted a very spirited defence of the Federal Narcotics Bureau and condemned the changes which are proposed in relation to crime and drug trafficking in our country. [More…]

• But Senator Chipp obviously fails to appreciate that he based his defence on a situation which may have existed when he was the Minister for Customs and Excise some eight or nine years ago. [More…]

• I believe that Australian Defence Force engineers can go in with bulldozers to improve the roads, and I also believe that Australia can open its heart, as it is beginning to do now, and provide agricultural equipment for the purpose of bringing about agricultural production once again and helping the Timorese people to get on their feet. [More…]

• That in order to: facilitate the development of the North of Australia; provide an all-weather rapid land transport system from north to south and vice versa; facilitate better defence of Northern Australia; provide improved transport for primary and mining products to southern markets; boost tourism; [More…]

• It should be possible for Australia to: - establish and maintain on the Australian mainland basic transit camps for the housing and processing of 200,000 refugees each year; - mobilise the Defence Force to search for, rescue and transport to Australia those refugees who have been able to leave the Indo-China States; - accept the offer of those church groups which propose to resettle some thousands of refugees in Australia. [More…]

• The only thing that was extraordinary was that not one then Government supporter had anything to say in defence, justification or promulgation of the legislation either in this chamber or in the other place. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence (Mr Killen)- well known as the froth and bubble man of the Government- was even more outraged in the debate in Parliament on 27 September when he said: [More…]

• At somewhat greater length Senator Bonner came to the defence of a member of my Department, a Mr Kyle, who had been talked about in the Queensland Parliament, I think, on 18 October. [More…]

• Senator Bonner made a number of remarks in defence of Mr Kyle who is known to me. [More…]

• Obviously defence powers and matters of that sort come to mind. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• The Minister no doubt will recall that in recent months the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, in answers to questions stated that experimental service trials involving personnel and equipment would be held at Woomera with the idea of enhancing and increasing the usage of the area. [More…]

• I will seek the information from the Minister for Defence and see whether I can get a reply for Senator Bishop. [More…]

• -I present the report and transcript of the evidence from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]

• The report which is being tabled today in both Houses of the Australian Parliament is the result of an inquiry which took over two years which was undertaken by a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• The inquiry began in 1 977, initially with a decision by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to inquire into the following matters: [More…]

• -Before the suspension of the sitting of the Senate, I was dealing with some of the objections which were raised in the minority report of Mr Armitage, Dr Blewett and Mr Scholes, concerning the nature of the inquiry conducted by the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union of the Joint Committee of Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• They included: The Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, the Latvian Relief Society of Australia, the Ukranian Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Victorian Division, the Latvian Federation of Australia and New Zealand, the Russian Orthodox Brotherhood of Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. [More…]

• Defence Amendment Bill 1979 [More…]

• The 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 1910 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 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…]

• Naval Defence Amendment Bill 1979 [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…]

• 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 1 903 by the Defence Amendment Bill. [More…]

• Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill (No. [More…]

• The primary purpose of this Bill is to rationalise in a beneficial way the provisions of the DFRB and DFRDB 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…]

• Clause IS (2) creates a system of conclusive certificates which the AttorneyGeneral may sign, denying the Commission access to documents on grounds of security, defence, international relations; which may ‘prejudice relations’ between Commonwealth and a State; which may disclose deliberations or decisions of Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee; or which may otherwise be privileged injudicial proceedings. [More…]

• We have heard today from Senator Wheeldon about the report from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Soviet Union, which is obviously an excellent and most interesting report. [More…]

• It provides foundations on which to base the defence of human personality against all tyrannies and against all forms of totalitarianism. [More…]

• In any case, I certainly do not intend that I or any judicial inquiry should deal with the facts of evidence or interfere with the course of justice as it affects the prosecution or defence. [More…]

• It is amazing that on the very day that this Bill was introduced, Senator Wheeldon, on behalf of an Australian parliamentary committee, was able to criticise the breach of human rights within the Soviet Union which his committee, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, concluded had occurred. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 1 8 October 1979: [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1979: [More…]

• Does not the Defence Department need to know exactly how the Fremantle design specifications accommodate the detailed criteria set out in my Question No. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence: [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and relates to the investigation conducted in 1976 by Mr Duke Bonnett, M.P., into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1973. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that claimants under the former Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme continue to live in a manner and at a standard which comparably is far below what is enjoyed under the contemporary Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme? [More…]

• Such is the extent of the downgrading of this principle by the present Government that, on 7 November last, the Treasurer (Mr Howard), in his defence of Mr Fife during debate on a censure motion moved against Mr Fife, attacked the Australian Labor [More…]

• Some of the comments that have been made by honourable senators in the Senate, by others outside the Senate and in the media appear to quote somewhat loosely from either defence counsel briefs or some other sources with regard to statements and allegations that are being made. [More…]

• When we look at the defence which the Minister put forward today we can say that she is endeavouring to defend herself and her Department by suggesting that the actions that were taken were not in her area of responsibility. [More…]

• That is the Minister’s defence. [More…]

• The policies are the means by which government funding goes to education, social security and defence, and a large part of other national and community needs. [More…]

• I was pleased that he quoted Paul Everingham, the Chief Minister, in his defence of land rights. [More…]

• Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act, Section 99- Decisions of the Authority. [More…]

• I could leave the defence of the Council, its integrity and its actions, to be dealt with by Senator Rae, who honourable senators will have noticed vehemently interjected and contradicted Senator Puplick ‘s outline of the activity and the interpretations of that activity of the Council in dealing with the very question of concern, legitimate concern, about conscientious objection against compulsory membership of the student association. [More…]

• The defence facilities that the airline service and the whole of the aviation facilities provide are also enormous. [More…]

• The airfields, aircraft and the skilled personnel we have in the country to operate and to service them give us a very important addition to our Defence Force. [More…]

• Already, the Department of Defence uses it quite considerably during activities in the area. [More…]

• Perhaps some should go to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• There is some argument that defence aircraft allow commercial aircraft to use some of their fields and vice versa, so there may be a balancing effect there. [More…]

• He has certainly raised on prior occasions a number of the matters which he has brought forward today; for example, the defence element in these matters. [More…]

• The first three Bills- that is, the Defence Amendment Bill 1979, the Naval Defence Amendment Bill 1979 and the Air Force Amendment Bill 1 979- provide for formal determinations of increases in salaries and allowances for members of the Defence Force by way of ministerial determinations as notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. [More…]

• These Bills are significant inasmuch as the Minister for Defence will now have a capacity to determine conditions and salaries for members of the forces. [More…]

• The legislation has been occasioned by the need to improve or to streamline the effect of decisions which affect members of the Defence Force. [More…]

• Many members of the Defence Force have been disadvantaged as a result of that. [More…]

• Those comments are the only ones I wish to make in respect of the Defence Amendment Bill, the Naval Defence Amendment Bill and the Air Force Amendment Bill. [More…]

• The fourth Bill being considered in this cognate debate is the Defence Force (Retirement and Death Benefits Amendments) Bill (No. [More…]

• It introduces changes that will benefit a number of pensioners who have lost their right under the existing Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Act to seek reclassification to higher grades. [More…]

• In terms of the actual drafting of this clause, we would say that it should not be the burden of the prosecution to prove that information which has been used in an insider trading context is generally available but rather that the burden should lie on the defence to establish that fact. [More…]

• The amendment, moved by Senator Evans- somewhat surprisingly, as he admits- proposes that there should be a reversal of the burden of proof and that a person should establish as his defence, to the satisfaction of the court, that information to which the prosecution relates was generally available to the public. [More…]

• The defence rested its case on two grounds: Firstly that the Western Australian Act was derived from a New South Wales Act and the comparable section of that Act was worded differently. [More…]

• Therefore the defence argued that because the Act was derived from the New South Wales Act and in that section the New South Wales Act said something different, the Western Australian Act really meant the same thing that the New South Wales Act said and not the words that were actually written into it. [More…]

• The defence claimed that the Act meant the same as the words written into the New South Wales Act instead of the words that were actually written. [More…]

• The second ground of the defence, supplementary to the first, was that obviously the Act was not meant to be applied to a person like Mr Crichton-Browne otherwise it would disqualify registrars or wardens from having a life assurance policy with the Australian Mutual Provident Society because AMP held shares in mining companies. [More…]

• In other words, the second ground of defence proposed that holding a life assurance policy with the AMP was inseparable from being the major shareholder in a company established to speculate in the shares of mining companies. [More…]

• But the prosecution in the CrichtonBrowne case offered no rebuttal to the defence. [More…]

• 1 ) How many lawyers: (a) for the prosecution and (b) for the defence, are being paid directly by the AttorneyGeneral’s Department, in respect of the alleged Greek frauds in New South Wales. [More…]

• As to the lawyers for the defence who are being paid directly by the Attorney-General’s Department in respect of these alleged frauds, I refer the honourable senator to the answer given by me to Question No. [More…]

• the total costs paid by the Commonwealth up to and including 29 August 1979 for the provision of legal services for the prosecution and the defence were $520,593.36; and [More…]

• -I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Defence to an answer provided by him on 8 June this year to a question on notice from Senator Button concerning the incidence of alcoholism and drug addiction in the defence forces, in which the Minister for Defence stated: [More…]

• In view of the conflict between the Minister’s answer and the evidence presented by the Department of Defence to the Royal Commission inquiring into drugs, will the Minister investigate who was responsible for misleading the Senate on 8 June this year? [More…]

• I read somewhere, probably in a defence journal, of evidence concerning this matter which I think Air Vice-Marshal Jordan gave to that Royal Commission, or gave even more recently. [More…]

• 1 will draw the attention of the Minister for Defence to the suggestion by Senator Wriedt that there is a conflict and will seek the Minister’s reply. [More…]

• The Joint Committee is continuing with its work on two other references on southern Africa and on defence. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, on Thursday a report entitled Australian Defence Procurement’ will be tabled. [More…]

• Further attention also needs to be given to the preparation of control and eradication programs that involve veterinarians, police, civil defence organisations, primary producers and others. [More…]

• When the 1978/79 Additional Estimates were prepared by the Department of Defence VIP hours were assessed on the basis of the pattern of flying between the first and second halves of the year would be the same as occurred in the previous year. [More…]

• Obviously he was referring to the servicing of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• I do not want to be unfair to Mr Scholes but I must say that I have never heard from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence or any of its subcommittees, despite the pressures of staff, any comment which could be construed in any way as criticism of the staff of those committees. [More…]

• There is a problem but, as I said at the outset, the Senate officers have always responded to any request of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence. [More…]

• Of this total, it is expected that about 20 per cent will be used for VIP tasks, 20 per cent for crew conversion and combination training and the remaining 60 per cent for Defence tasks. [More…]

• Present plans envisage four general categories of Defence tasks: changeover of personnel and dependents at Butterworth (as many as 40 return flights each year conveying 2,500 passengers); movement of Defence personnel (mainly Army) on overseas exercises; movement of Defence personnel within Australia; and other personnel or cargo tasks. [More…]

• The Defence tasks so far planned for the B707’s in the financial year 1979-80 include the movement of Army personnel on international exercises. [More…]

• The exercises involve personnel of the defence forces of the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States. [More…]

• There are other international exercises with the defence forces of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and others in which the RAAF B707s could be used for personnel movement. [More…]

• For the financial year 1979-80, tasks already planned include about 20 Butterworth flights, about 12 flights in support of overseas exercises (to Singapore, Hong Kong, Hawaii and New Zealand), and about 10 flights in support of the Military Tattoo being staged by the Defence Force for the Western Australian Sesquicentennial Anniversary. [More…]

• The total hours involved in those Defence tasks already planned amount to about three-quarters of the annual authorisation. [More…]

• I also refer the honourable senator to the statement by the Minister for Defence on 13 December 1978, in which mention is made of the many other factors taken into consideration by the Government in deciding to purchase the aircraft. [More…]

• I would also like to incorporate in Hansard some replies I received on 3 1 July this year from Mr Killen, the Minister for Defence, to questions I asked of Senator Guilfoyle. [More…]

• Minister for Defence Parliament House Canberra, ACT 2600 31 July 1979 [More…]

• In February 1979, the Acting Minister for Defence advised you that the annual costs of operating and maintaining the aircraft (including personnel costs) were estimated at $4.500m. [More…]

• The use of the aircraft, for the movement of personnel and families to and from Butterworth, in lieu of commercial chaner, is estimated to reduce Defence outlay in travel by approximately $0.800m a year. [More…]

• I hope that the Department of Defence will not now use that philosophy in relation to its VIP fleet. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) To establish an appropriate basis for expansion the Defence Force uses the equipment it possesses at any time to maintain or enhance a variety of skills and development of tactics, exercising at levels of activity which vary according to the lead time of the skills involved. [More…]

• Our aim in devoting attention to training in peace-time is that, should changing strategic circumstances require expansion of the Defence Force, we will have available a core of officers and men with executive and supervisory skills to train incoming personnel. [More…]

• We use our equipment not only to maintain operational skills, including command and control, but also to develop management and support skills, including support from domestic industry which would have an important role in any period of Defence Force expansion. [More…]

• While there are limits on the capacity of our present Defence Force to deploy and sustain military operations, the Government is advised and believes that there are no important additional capabilities required now to meet presently foreseen needs. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that the HMAS Melbourne is crawling with cockroaches from stem to stern- indeed, from port to starboard? [More…]

• Because the aged HMAS Melbourne already spends long periods out of service which will increase as time goes on, is it a fact that the Department of Defence is unwilling to see her tied up alongside to be fumigated against these pests? [More…]

• Having said that, I will treat the question as a serious one and ask the Minister for Defence to look at it. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that McDougall Airlines, which operates coastal surveillance between Cairns and Broome under sub-contract to Executive Air Services, was one of the air charter companies named in the debate on drugs in the Queensland Parliament last night as being possibly involved in the drug trade? [More…]

• Does the Department of Defence check owners, companies and crew members before contracts are awarded? [More…]

• -Yesterday Senator Wriedt asked me whether the Minister for Defence was aware that in 1977 Air Vice-Marshal Jordan, to whom Senator Wriedt attributed the position of Director-General of Health Services, gave the Williams Royal Commission detailed statistics of cases of drug addiction in the three Services between 1975 and 1977. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt went on to allege that there was a conflict between the Defence Minister’s answer to a question by Senator Button and the evidence presented to the Royal Commission by the Department of Defence. [More…]

• He went on further to advance a suggestion either that the Minister for Defence was unaware of what was going on in his Department or, alternatively, that there had been attempts by the Minister to mislead the Parliament. [More…]

• I am now advised by the Minister for Defence as follows: It is a fact that in December 1977 Air Vice-Marshal Jordan, who was Assistant Chief of Defence Force Staff and not Director-General of Health Services, provided the Royal Commission with evidence on matters specified in the Royal Commissioner’s letters patent insofar as they related to the responsibilities of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence further advises that the answers to Senator Wriedt ‘s questions are: [More…]

• In answering a question in June 1979, the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, quoted the cost of a flight by a BACIII aircraft from Canberra to Mount Gambier at $3,498. [More…]

• He admitted that the Minister for Defence, Mr Killen, was the one who triggered off the Press release that the cost was $3,498. [More…]

• Is it the Minister for Defence, who is in charge of VIP aircraft, or the Prime Minister, who uses them? [More…]

• I want to raise a separate matter concerning the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I hope the Minister for Science and the Environment will be able to provide me with information through his colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) at an appropriate time. [More…]

• I would not have raised this matter had it not been for an answer I received from the Minister for Defence following a question which I asked yesterday. [More…]

• On 8 June this year Senator Button addressed a question to the Minister for Defence concerning the incidence of alcoholism and drug addiction in the defence forces, to which the Minister for Defence stated in reply: [More…]

• Yesterday I asked Senator Carrick, representing the Minister for Defence, whether he was aware that in 1977 Air Vice-Marshal Jordan gave the Williams Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drugs detailed statistics of cases of drug addiction in the three armed Services between 1975 and 1977. [More…]

• I wonder whether the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) can inform us what is the anticipated target by the Defence Service for new homes and to what extent that target has been met. [More…]

• I think everyone knows that the Department of Defence has reported to its successive Minister for many years that accommodation has been of a low standard and has not met the requirements and needs of servicemen. [More…]

• The principal department, which is the Department of Defence, has stated that it is right up to date with its program. [More…]

• I ask the honourable senator to wait until we deal with Group F, which deals with the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I understand those to be statements which represent a threat towards TAA, that if it purchases the Airbus, Boeing will withdraw the present projects, the Australian industry participation projects at the Government factory and another private factory associated with transport and defence. [More…]

• As Senator Kilgariff knows, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence is anxious to see that there should be a continuing work support for the defence factories and for the private factories which do that work. [More…]

• He said: ‘It has nothing to do with the Department of Defence; the Department of Transport handles that’. [More…]

• That shows not only incompetency on the part of the Commonwealth Police in this matter but also the impossibility of an adequate defence. [More…]

• If a defendant has to trace back his defence against a claim of a breach of law, for a period of six years when the only thing that the police can prove is for a period of two years he has an unfair burden placed upon him. [More…]

• We still have to deal with the estimates for the Department of Defence, the Department of National Development, the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs and the Postal and Telecommunications Department. [More…]

• Consideration of the Defence estimates is a very urgent matter, as we have been told by Government members time and time again. [More…]

• They accused the Opposition when it was in government of not making enough money available for Defence. [More…]

• I wish to ask a question in relation to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• I have some further questions to bowl up to the Leader of the Government (Senator Carrick) and the officers of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• There have been prolonged negotiations, going back to the time when Mr Barnard was the Minister for Defence, about vacating the Moore Park engineers depot in Sydney and moving that depot inland. [More…]

• I marry this matter with that of a defence, publication relating to the gradual phasing out of Fort Denison and other areas on the Sydney Harbour foreshore for the creation of a national park. [More…]

• I must say that if some of those areas had not been occupied for defence purpose, Hooker and company would have had sky high developments on all the land surrounding Sydney harbour. [More…]

• I give full credit to the Department of Defence in that regard although if Neils Neilsen, the Minister for Lands in 1912, had had his way, he would have had all the Harbour foreshores in their virgin state to a depth of one mile. [More…]

• Some progress has been made in respect of expenditure but what is the present position in respect of the Defence Department’s attempts to improve the standard of housing and to meet the needs of servicemen. [More…]

• For example, a Senate Estimates committee looks only at part of the total of the Defence expenditure, and when I requested a reconciliation between the amount examined by Estimates Committee F and the total of the Budget appropriation, the reconciliation ran into something like one and three-quarter pages. [More…]

• I think it is important, when people have an interest in defence matters, that they be provided with a reconciliation at the front of the estimates so that they can go fairly quickly to the other departments such as Construction, Productivity, Attorney-General ‘s, National Development, Administrative Services and so on to get the complete picture. [More…]

• I request that this type of presentation become a regular feature not only of the Defence Department documents but also of the documents presented by other departments, reconciling the figures for the department under investigation with the total of the Budget appropriation. [More…]

• -Finally, I wish to thank the Department of Defence for its very detailed explanations during the hearings of Senate Estimates Committee F. We go into the matters fairly thoroughly, and I wish to thank the Department for the depth of its answers and its written explanations. [More…]

• It seems utterly absurd and ridiculous that we should be considering the important matter of $2, 500m worth of defence expenditure at this hour of the morning. [More…]

• The defence matter I want to raise is one I have raised a number of times in the Senate by way of questions to the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• In the spirit of the subject matter that we are debating, the by-word of defence being awake and ever watchful’, I enter this debate very briefly by asking where in the estimates for the Department of Defence is the provision for the payments of the contracts for the three overseas firms which are currently working on designs for a new aircraft carrier. [More…]

• Senator Watson has made suggestions for improvements in the presentation of the accounting, and I will refer them to the Minister for Defence ( Mr Killen ) for consideration. [More…]

• I think a number of statements have been made by the Minister for Defence in another place but, if they are not fully in answer to the honourable senator’s question, I will add further information on that. [More…]

• It concerns the question of the use of drugs in the Defence Force. [More…]

• As I indicated earlier, I would not have raised it had it not been for the answer that I received through Senator Carrick today from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• The matter arose from a question that was originally asked by Senator Button earlier this year in which he sought some information concerning the incidence of alcoholism and drug addiction in the Defence Force. [More…]

• Well, there is nothing that the Defence Department could give us in this area which the narcotics bureau couldn’t give us because you passed everything of a drug nature on to the bureau, is that what you say? [More…]

• Now, the next thing is the illegal use and misuse of drugs in the Defence Force and you have provided certain statistical data in relation to that and I propose. [More…]

• Perhaps we could say it is statistical data and comments on the illegal use and misuse of drugs in the Defence Force and just to describe it more fully for you- that could be entitled as an exhibit. [More…]

• 1 ) The development of civil facilities on Darwin airport, which is a Defence aerodrome, has been constrained by the RAAF’s long term planning for Darwin. [More…]

• The Department of Defence has recently proposed that all civil facilities should be relocated in the area north of the main runway by the mid 1980s. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 25 October 1979: [More…]

• When will plans be revealed for the implementation of long range weapons systems which would enable the Royal Australian Air Force FI 1 ls to attack well-defended targets with a probability of success commensurate with the aircraft’s high cost, as promised in the Liberal-National Country Party’s defence policy of 1 975 and mentioned again in the Defence Statement of 29 March 1979. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Home Affairs: Is it a fact that it is now nearly 30 years since Australian forces became involved in the Malayan emergency, 14 years since Australian forces were involved in the confrontation operations in the defence of Malaysia and 1 7 years since the first Australian advisers were sent to Vietnam? [More…]

• Commonwealth sex discrimination legislation should cover both direct and indirect discrimination in the areas of employment, education, accommodation, access to goods, services and facilities, credit, insurance and superannuation, sport, recreation and clubs, the Defence Forces and Government contracts, and should apply to the Australian Capital Territory and to Government administration. [More…]

• -I present the report and transcript of evidence from the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on its inquiry into Australian defence procurement. [More…]

• 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 agreement with the strategic assessment as set out in the 1 976 Defence White Paper and subsequently updated and restated by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen). [More…]

• These centre around 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 that 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 work loads; acceptance of apparent cost disadvantages where these are not excessive; improved communication between industry and the Department of Defence; and, importantly, the Government and the Department sticking to decisions previously announced. [More…]

• We recommend that these capabilities be introduced over a 10-year period and make the point that this will require a bipartisan approach to defence. [More…]

• 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 decisionmaking system of the Department of Defence. [More…]

• According to standard Department of Defence procedures, it can take up to eight years from the issuance of a major equipment proposal and rarely takes less than three or four years. [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 should be transferred to the Department of Defence. [More…]

• Our two consultants, Commodore Ken Gray and Gary Brown of the Parliamentary Library, 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 Brown combined to provide most valuable assistance to the Sub-committee. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence, the Hon. [More…]

• John McLeay, never hesitated to make every possible facility available to the Sub-committee to assist our inquiries and, as a result of Mr Killen ‘s cooperation, Department of Defence witnesses of the highest possible calibre appeared before the Sub-committee. [More…]

• I have to inform the Senate that the sub-committee expresses concern about remarks made in the House of Representatives on 26 October 1 978 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 criticisms which had been levelled at the Department of Defence by witnesses who appeared before the Sub-committee at public hearings and which, in some cases, had received Press publicity. [More…]

• The Sub-committee considers that, to a lesser degree, the Minister for Defence also overreacted to such criticisms. [More…]

• We are pleased to note that, as further evidence was received and evaluated, a 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…]

• The Minister for Defence responded in detail to the previous report of the Committee in this chamber in November 1978 on defence industry. [More…]

• I look forward to comment by the Minister for Defence in debate in the Parliament after he has had an opportunity to consider the matters raised in the report. [More…]

• As a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I support Senator Bishop in commending the report to honourable senators. [More…]

• Defence procurement is a complex and highly technical subject, but it is also very important. [More…]

• The 1 976 White Paper on defence identified the need for a five-year program of $2.3 billion, at January 1976 prices, for ships, aircraft, armour and other equipments and plant ‘to strengthen defence and correct existing shortcomings and imbalances’. [More…]

• The subsequent reductions in actual allocations to defence have meant that the shortcomings and imbalances perceived in 1 976 have been perpetuated. [More…]

• Unless a dynamic, continuing and sustained long-term program of re-equipment is authorised the total capacity of the Defence Force and its capacity to expand will be eroded. [More…]

• Australia is separated from its oversea 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…]

• Because of Australia’s relatively high technology, resource and economic potential and its potential to maintain sizable, modern defence forces, there is an important role for it to play in providing stability within its area of strategic environment- the South Pacific, the southern and eastern Indian Ocean, and the island chain to our north. [More…]

• This has promoted complacency, allowing successive governments to defer equipment acquisition decisions and leading to a marked reduction in defence preparedness. [More…]

• The limited deterrent capability of the present Defence Force could encourage a potential enemy to chance its arm and to cause Australia to engage in a massive rearmament program at a time not of its own choice. [More…]

• Because of the uncertain assurances of long-term security provided by the Department of Defence core-force approach for determining the Defence Force requirements, the Committee has considered five optional approaches. [More…]

• We recommend that the Government subject these to detailed assessment to determine which would be the most effective for defining the Defence Force requirements. [More…]

• This is not a defence of the Portuguese, but a reminder that colonisation by a regime of the same colour is not necessarily any better than white colonisation. [More…]

• The question may also involve the Minister representing the Minister for National Development and the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate as the Minister representing the Prime Minister rather than as the Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• I will direct the attention of my colleague, the Minister for Defence, to the substance of Senator Mason’s question and seek any response that he may wish to give. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this permission was refused by the Minister for Defence on the sole ground that that journalist was a woman? [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Defence aware that the 160-odd Centurion tanks of the Armoured Corps have now been placed in storage, having been replaced by the Leopards? [More…]

• Such a move would be of considerable value both to Australian industry and our national defence. [More…]

• I will ask the Minister for Defence to have a study made and let Senator MacGibbon know. [More…]

• In situations involving teachers- this appeared to be a disciplinary procedure- one could demand adherence to the procedures outlined by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation and the International Labour Organisation that every teacher should enjoy equitable safeguards at each stage of any disciplinary procedure and, in particular, the right to be informed in writing of the allegations and the grounds for them; the right to full access to the evidence in the case; the right to defend himself and to be defended by a representative of his choice; adequate time being given to the teacher for the preparation of his defence; the right to be informed in writing of the decisions reached and the reasons for them; and the right of appeal to clearly designated competent authorities or bodies. [More…]

• The club’s defence was successful but costs of only $9 were awarded against Scott Bonnar. [More…]

• Its composition and terms of reference have varied with time but currently it comprises the Departments of Science and the Environment, Defence, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Attorney-General, Finance, and Industry and Commerce. [More…]

• The long-term defence relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea was formalised in a Joint Statement issued by both Prime Ministers on 1 1 February 1977. [More…]

• Under this Australia provides defence assistance on an on-going basis to Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence visited Papua New Guinea from 7- 1 0 August this year at the invitation of his counterpart, Mr Duwabane. [More…]

• At the conclusion of the visit a Joint Statement was released reaffirming, amongst other things, the importance of the defence relationship between Australia and [More…]

• Papua New Guinea and expressing the Minister’s satisfaction with the content and direction of the defence cooperation program. [More…]

• A more intensive but unsuccessful search was mounted using Defence resources together with chartered aircraft and vessels to search the area from Koolan Island to Cape Leveque, including Adele Island and numerous islands within the King Sound area. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The diversion of Defence Force assets to establish a helicopter service dedicated to civilian needs, whether in Darwin or elsewhere, would not be consistent with Government policy. [More…]

• Inquiry into Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 14 November 1979: [More…]

• Did the Government direct a Mr Bonnett to inquire into pension arrangements for beneficiaries under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948; if so: (a) when; (b) what was the nature of the inquiry; (c) when did the Government receive Mr Bonnett ‘s report; (d) what were the main findings of his report; (e) did his report recommend that pre- 1972 members were disadvantaged and that the commutation and pension of those members should be made comparable to those of members who retired after 1 October 1972; and (0 what action is proposed to adopt Mr Bonnett ‘s recommendations, and when is any such action to be taken. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• and (b) The position is that in August, 1976 the Government agreed to Mr Bonnett ‘s suggestion that he personally conduct an inquiry into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Scheme with the following terms of reference: to establish, first, whether there are any anomalies, inequities or injustices suffered by beneficiaries under the Defence Forces Retirements Benefits Act of 1948-1973 who retired prior to October 1 1972. and secondly, what measures should be taken to correct the anomalies, inequities or injustices, if any, revealed by such enquiry. [More…]

• See Statement by Minister for Defence in the House of Representatives on 20 November 1979. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 2 1 November 1979: [More…]

• The application was opposed by some defence Counsel. [More…]

• Apparently that reasoning has now been discarded so far as the first portion of the amendment is concerned and it is now relied upon as a defence for not agreeing to the second portion of the proposed amendment which incidentally was not proposed by the Labor movement. [More…]

• We are pleased that the objection to our original proposal that the names and qualifications of members of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee be published in the ‘Gazette’ is no longer considered by the Government tobe a valid defence as to why these names should be kept top secret. [More…]

• Mr Chairman, when we were last considering this Bill at the second reading stage- I think it was at about 4.50 p.m. last Thursday, just prior to my motion being put and subsequently defeated that the Bill be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence- it was suggested that we might come back today with some amendments to the Bill. [More…]

• In its assessment of foreign investment proposals, the Board considers all relevant aspects, including such policy aspects as defence implications. [More…]

• -I have been asked whether in fact a retired Chairman of the parliamentary Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee is debarred by any convention or regulation from taking up particular enterprises outside this Parliament. [More…]