democrat - senate - 1970

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

At the same rime as they are doing this Prince Souvanna Phouma, who was a Social Democrat in the old French tradition and who was fighting his half brother Prince Souphanouvong, has said that he is still prepared to meet his half brother while the war continues on the Plain of Jars in an effort to negotiate for peace. [More…]
I advise him to examine the records of the visit to Australia of that great democrat Air Vice-Marshal Ky. [More…]
If the inhabitants of the Australian Capital Territory do not want to acknowledge what has been done by Liberal-Country Party governments and if they wish to persist in saying that Australia would be governed better by an Australian Labor Party government, I - and I think I am a fair democrat– am prepared to acknowledge their right to say so. [More…]
If any democrat were io allow such a challenge to succeed he would be helping to destroy the very basis of his democracy. [More…]
Those honourable senators who do not believe me are, 1 would suggest, not democrats. [More…]
I think I can always talk, my friends, just to get back to this one thought: unless the Governors of the state, I don’t give a hoot whether a Democrat or Republican is in this kind of a job, we are Americans, in the Federal Government, unless we can cooperate on the basis of understanding of the facts and progress steadily, surely and confidently in carrying out a program that we believe will establish the security of the United States, not only from a bomb, from some kind of destructive action of the enemy, but make sure that its surpluses are carried abroad and in return for those surpluses we get back goods that will allow those people to buy our surpluses; unless we have that kind of economic strength we are going to have to live a very different kind of life than we do. [More…]
Vice-President Agnew was the star performer in the campaign for law and order and he campaigned very vigorously against people such as Adlai Stevenson III, a former Marine Corps officer who was the Democratic Party candidate for United States senator from the State of Illinois; against Mr Tunney, the Democratic Party candidate for the Senate in California; and against many other eminent Americans who have been opposed to the Vietnam war and who have supported the civil rights movement in the United States. [More…]
The result of the law and order campaign in the United States was a repudiation of the policies which have become identified’ with the name of Vice-President Agnew, to such an extent that the Republican Party analysts have now concluded that, in those States where Agnew went with his law and order campaign, far from benefiting his own party he benefited the Democratic Party, so that even in the conservative State of Illinois the seat which had been held by the former Republican leader in the Senate, Senator Dirksen, was won by a liberal Democrat, the son of the former Democratic Party Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. [More…]
If a person uses the argument here to justify the strike of industrial power for some cause in which somebody believes then he must of course, if he is a democrat, support the right of others to do exactly the same thing for a cause which is near and dear to his heart. [More…]
Yet persistently, throughout the years that Prince Souvanna Phouma, a Social Democrat, has been in power in Laos, he has maintained that Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations. [More…]
It is a part of the democratic process in this country that minority parties have their say. [More…]
Any true democrat will acknowledge that. [More…]
As a matter of fact, he could even have gone back to the previous government in Chile which was more of a Christian Democrat character as distinct from a socialist government, although I know that there are degrees of socialism. [More…]
On 4th June 1971 - over a year ago - that distinguished democrat, Mr Whitlam, spoke to the ABC Staff Association. [More…]
I do not think that there is very much in those 6 points to which any democrat could take reasonable exception. [More…]
I think that Senator Byrne, as a democrat, should support me in this. [More…]
The picture becomes a little muddy when we consider the views of that great Queensland democrat, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, who, as we know, is under slightly more pressure from the activities of the League of Rights, who went to the extent of having this organisation investigated and who is on record as having said: [More…]
The same publication, in a further reference to the Attorney-General, quotes a question asked by another great democrat of this institution, Senator Little, who I am sorry to see is not in his seat. [More…]
As a democrat I concede to them the right - if 1 did not concede it to them they would take the advantage of saying it anyhow - to say what they wish. [More…]
We in the Democratic Labor Party have always been prepared to dish it out, but we take it and we take it without squealing. [More…]
I trust that in the interests of labour relations in this country the appointees will carry out their duties as well as members of the Democratic Labor Party who have been appointed to similar positions have carried out their duties in the past. [More…]
In Queensland the Country Party, led by this great democrat Bjelke-Petersen, can poll less than 20 per cent of the total vote and win 26 of the seats. [More…]
sent himself here as a democrat. [More…]
I have exchanged a good deal of correspondence with Senator Jackson who might be deemed a middle of the road Democrat from the State of Washington. [More…]
Surely any person who claims to be a democrat will agree that union officials ought to be elected only in properly supervised ballots, and that those ballots which are open to rigging ought to be properly supervised. [More…]
But he made the allegations that he did about Lee Kuan Yew and the state of affairs in the government of his country, and suggested that Lee Kuan Yew was no democrat. [More…]
This representative of the ABC said: ‘Now, is that not very undemocratic?’ [More…]
It should appeal to the heart of any democrat that he is given the opportunity, through the safety of these plush red seats, to issue a protest and a challenge that may well result in benefit to courageous people many thousands of miles away. [More…]
Senator Wright, the great democrat, tried to say that the Prime Minister had ratted on undertakings. [More…]
Senator Greenwood, the great democrat who has refused the Leader of our Party leave to do something in the Senate on more than one occasion, will keep. [More…]
He was a left wing social democrat closely associated with the Independent Labor Party in Great Britain. [More…]
I believe that while all of us welcome the relaxation in tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A., we should be very cautious lest a consequence of such a relaxation could be a division of spoils between 2 super powers with neither of which democratic people have a great deal in common. [More…]
This is something to which any democrat must be opposed. [More…]
Being a democrat I always had thought that these decisions were to be taken by the duly elected government but apparently that is a thought which does not commend itself to honourable gentlemen opposite. [More…]
Any man who votes against allowing the people to vote on the proposition which the elected Government wishes to put to them can hardly claim to be a democrat. [More…]
Those people who call themselves democrats and those who are members of the Opposition are trying to prevent the Government from putting it to the people. [More…]
Even the democrat on the other side of the House, Senator Wood, would find it hard in his own mind to deny us the right to go to the people. [More…]
No democrat can object to a procedure whereby the people will make the decision if a conflict exists between 2 Houses equally entitled to claim that they are democratically elected. [More…]
No democrat- I know that there is a vaunted claim by members of the Government that they are virtually the only democrats in Australiashould challenge any course of action which enables the people themselves to decide what are the merits of legislation. [More…]
They are the ethics that are paraded by the Opposition as those of a great democrat. [More…]
When a democratically elected chamber does it, and when it will submit itself to the people to have its conduct judged, why should any democrat cavil at what is being done? [More…]
Some attacks were made on the role of the Senate by none other than the great selfproclaimed democrat, the Prime Minister. [More…]
It has been reelected on a fair and democratic basis and it has been re-elected with a job to do. [More…]
In many respects Norman Kirk can be regarded as a man who was a model social democrat, a man who stood for parliamentary democracy, for orderly processes of law at the same time coupled with the alleviation of the conditions of the people of his country and of other countries with which his country came into association, not by warlike, aggressive or belligerent actions but by cooperation and by entering into a peaceful social contract. [More…]
In the words of Mr Whitlam, this is the first social democrat government of Australia. [More…]
-Senator Withers, with all the erudition which befits the Leader of the Liberal Party in the Senate, said ‘I thought you were a democratic socialist’, which, of course, is the same thing. [More…]
The terms ‘social democrat’ and ‘democratic socialist’ are the same. [More…]
I assure Senator Withers that the words ‘social democrat’ and ‘democratic socialist’ have precisely the same meaning. [More…]
So this great democrat who bemoans the failure of the Constitutional Convention because his view as an Opposition member was not acceptable to the rest of the Senate and who has helped increase instability in Australian politics for years to come, is now trying to find an excuse. [More…]
Senator Baume adopted the very respectable and proper view that it is the democratic right of an elected government to implement its policies. [More…]
As a true individual democrat Senator Baume put forward that point of view in the Senate and I think the whole chamber should be reminded of it. [More…]
It may seem odd that a radical social democrat party such as ours should appeal so unashamedly to the precedent. [More…]
It was the statement of a democrat in the great Liberal Party tradition, as the Party once was or was claimed to be in the days of Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
When in a democracy should a democrat cavil at the people’s judgment? [More…]
It is disappointing to me that the members of a party, which for some extraordinary reason calls itself the Liberal Party, in this House will follow the instructions of this group and will obey the call of those who attempt to defeat this democratically elected government. [More…]
Those of us who were reactivated politically, if that is the word, in the 1960s by the gross distortions of view which were presented then, who saw this country dragged through the shambles of Vietnam and who saw that everyone who professed to be a social democrat or a democratic socialist was labelled a communist by people such as Senators Carrick and Greenwood, were dismayed with what we saw and heard. [More…]
Why, in a democracy, should any democrat cavil at the people’s judgment? [More…]
It may be pertinent to mention that right throughout the debate there were presentin the chamber Mr Martyr, the honourable member for Swan, who was the secretary of the Democratic Labor Party in Western Australia in 14 years, and the other fanatical democrat, Mr Wentworth. [More…]
Thomas Paine, the great American democrat, said: [More…]
-Senator Walters, with great respect, I do not think you would know the difference between a Democrat and a Geeveston Fanny. [More…]
When you get on your feet, perhaps you can tell us the difference between a Democrat and a Geeveston Fanny. [More…]
As regards the difference between a Democrat and a Geeveston Fanny, I will tell Senator Wriedt because obviously he does not know. [More…]
A Democrat is red all over and very good for cooking. [More…]
Larry O’Brien, a leading Democrat campaign director not merely for the late President Kennedy but also in the unsuccessful Democrat campaigns, in the Nixon era pointed out how in the United States of America the National Broadcasting Corporation and the Colombia Network- in the United States of America there is no government agency to strike a balance- had prostituted that country’s political television shows in favour of the artful dodger, Richard Milhous Nixon. [More…]
Here is the man who poses as a democrat. [More…]
Here is this democrat who introduced this legislation in the House in 1973. [More…]
But what did this great democrat of a Minister in the previous Government do to that principle of democracy? [More…]
That is the situation, virtually as a result of the action of that great democrat and defender of rank and file control, Mr Cameron. [More…]
As a social democrat, I have never been happy about some facets of the leadership in Burma. [More…]
We might have a National Democrat government under Mr Chipp or a Wentworth government, in a few years time. [More…]
Anybody who is aware of the history of that period would know that Stalin’s slogan was: Scratch a social democrat and find a social fascist’. [More…]
It was Stalin who organised the campaign by the German Communist Party in collusion with the German Nazi Party to bring down the social democratic government in Prussia in 1931. [More…]
There was no more committed enemy of the social democrats and of the principles for which the Australian Labor Party stands than was Stalin himself. [More…]
Indeed, the only reference that I can remember about brothers- and it was certainly not the remark that Senator Lajovic, this latter-day Haldane, attributed to Stalin, that social democrats and communists are twin brothers- is the exchange that once took place between Otto Grotewohl. [More…]
the leader of the socalled Socialist Unity Party, the communist party of East Germany and Kurt Schumacher, the great socialist social democratic leader in West Germany. [More…]
Grotewohl said to Schumacher: Communists and Social Democrats are really brothers’, to which Schumacher replied: ‘Yes, like Cain and Abel’. [More…]
The legislation was sponsored by Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a Democrat from Texas- where the cattle industry is almost a religion. [More…]
I am sure that he will support the States, being the great democrat that he is. [More…]
I am very proud to say that a person of the Aboriginal race who is an Australian Democrat is in Canberra at this moment acting on behalf of the Aurukun Shire Council. [More…]
I would like to mention first- I think it is important- that this is an expression of Australian Democrat policy rather than my own view exclusively. [More…]
It is small wonder that any government- even a Democrat government, if there were one under these circumstances- is afraid to say to society: ‘Look, unless we do these things now, at this cost, we will be in bad trouble in 10 years from now’. [More…]
As a democrat I believe that the parliament’s authority is given by the people of Australia. [More…]
Every senator on this side, as on the other side, has a right to be here, be they Liberal, Democrat, Independent or Labor, because every senator has gained a sufficient proportion of support from the Australian people: [More…]
The then shadow Minister for Social Security and for a short time the caretaker Minister for Social Security, who is now an Australian Democrat senator in this place, promised, on behalf of the Government- he has said repeatedly since then that he had the support of both the Liberal and National Country Parties- that pensions would be automatically and immediately indexed to the consumer price index twice yearly and that pensions would be taken out of politics. [More…]
I am conscious that standing here, the youngest person to address this chamber for over six decades, I do so in several capacities: Firstly, as an individual- unique I hope, and if not yet worth cloning, at least worth listening to; secondly, as a democrat who believes that to govern is to serve; thirdly, as a member of a unique chamber; and, finally, as a Liberal. [More…]
As a democrat I regret the imperfections of our political system which are within our power to remedy. [More…]
While speaking as a democrat, I wish to pause to comment upon the role of the Press in our system of government. [More…]
So I plead with those people in government to realise that excessive secrecy, far from advancing the democratic processes, is in fact potentially destructive of them. [More…]
We have many good trade unionists in the Australian Democrats and every day we welcome more as members. [More…]
Nothing pleases me more than to see ex-activists of the Liberal Party and Labor Party working together amicably and constructively in so many Democrat branches because in that process we have a microcosm of a future Australia which operates through the politics of cooperation rather than the present politics which in spite of words to the contrary continue in practice to be confrontative [More…]
I would like to take up the point of area ownership a little further because I believe it is a fundamentally new idea which has come from Australian Democrat policy. [More…]
As an Australian Democrat member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, I urge you to vote against Senator Ryan’s disallowance motion against the Termination of Pregnancy Ordinance 1978. [More…]
I reinforce my point by saying that this was indicated by a secret written ballot conducted of 6,000 Australian Democrat members last year to determine our policy on uranium. [More…]
I am not complaining about that because the Opposition has been remarkably kind to members of the Australian Democrats since we got into this Parliament. [More…]
I am just raising in passing the fact that Senator Mason and I, as the two Australian Democrat senators in this chamber, represent about one million voters. [More…]
In fact, more people voted for the Australian Democrats than for the National Country Party of Australia. [More…]
The Government probably will adjourn this debate at the end of my speech because this is an Australian Democrat initiative. [More…]
At the present time Senator Georges is doing a job in Queensland that he or any democrat could be proud of doing. [More…]
Attractive though it is maybe, for any democrat to favour the idea of the people making the decisions, the fact is that it is just no longer possible, if indeed it ever was possible, for the people to be aware of all the factors that are necessary to sensibly determine an issue. [More…]
The success of that policy in Sweden under a social democrat government is shown by the fact that that Government has been much better able to withstand the recession that has hit all the Western world countries over the past three or four years. [More…]
It is not the Australian Democrat view that Australia should indulge in foreign adventurism or that we should involve ourselves extensively in a network of alliances that might attract unfavourable attention to us in time of war; but it is certainly the Australian Democrat view, and I suggest the view of the citizens of this country, that we should be in a position to defend ourselves. [More…]
I know that at times, as a democrat, I find phone tapping and kindred things repugnant. [More…]
Bhutto was described by General Zia as a social democrat. [More…]
At no time had any arrangement been made in discussion with either of the two Australian Democrat senators to allow Senator Chipp to proceed to make an immediate second reading speech on his private member’s Bill. [More…]
The Australian Democrats senators had indicated their desire to proceed but I had not indicated agreement. [More…]
I had not intended to rise again on the Bills, but since Senator Keeffe has chosen to make an unspecific statement concerning Australian Democrat policy in this regard, I feel that I should stress to him and to other honourable senators that the relevant point of Australian Democrat policy is very basic to our Party: It is that this country is a multi-racial society and that, within reason, all Australians should share the same privileges and responsibilities. [More…]
The president took this action, which was deeply resented in Alaska, after Alaska’s Democrat in the upper chamber. [More…]
Indiana Democrat John Brademas saw another reason for the vote, urged along by persuasive conservationist lobbying: ‘There is a feeling of protecting the great natural legacy of Alaska. [More…]
In Sweden the Social Democrat Government lost office when its conservative Opposition embraced an anti-nuclear policy . [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I say that a democrat does not have any satisfaction in having to curb self-expression. [More…]
Although Mr Baker stood as an Australian Democrat candidate in 1977, the Australian Democrats are not liable for debts incurred by him. [More…]
The letter of Senator Chipp ‘s Assistant Private Secretary clearly indicates that Mr Baker was recognised as an Australian Democrat candidate. [More…]
I believe there is a moral obligation on the Australian Democrats, as a political organisation and as a political party, to honour a debt incurred in terms of material prepared not only for the promotion of Mr Baker as a candidate but for the promotion of Senator Mason, who gathered together the 6.6 per cent of the votes that he received in the electorate of Paterson, in amassing the total of votes which brought him, as an Australian Democrat, into this Senate. [More…]
My constituents, who run the Regency Press as a small private concern, accepted the account of Mr Baker; they printed the material in good faith, in the belief that the Australian Democrat candidate would honour this account. [More…]
Frankly, they cannot afford to carry a debt of $ 1 ,300, which it appears that the Australian Democrats are not prepared to honour. [More…]
In view of these economic factors, will the Government now use its influence to persuade the Government of South Australia to support the recently expressed policy of the Australian Democrat Legislative Councillor, Mr Lance Milne, to mine copper, gold and rare earths at Roxby Downs and to return the uranium ore to the ground as mine fill, as is being done elsewhere in the world? [More…]
I wonder how that great liberal democrat the Ayatollah Khomeini and his team would have dealt with the situation. [More…]
I refer to a paper headed ‘Democrat Deceit ‘ which states: [More…]
His explanation for having said that the Democrats, whom he expects will hold the balance of power after 1980, will introduce private member’s Bills to do three things appears to be that, from the Bills that he proposes to introduce, the sections that actually appropriate the money will be omitted and therefore the Bills will not be disqualified by virtue of section 53 of the Constitution. [More…]
What he is really saying is that the Democrats propose to introduce meaningless Bills as some sort of a political stunt by which they hope to secure support within the country, without delivering the goods that they have promised to deliver. [More…]
If that is what Senator Chipp is saying, I think the description ‘Democrat deceit’ was appropriate. [More…]
From the Australian Democrat’s point of view we plead with the Government to recognise this as a possible watershed iri Australian government and allow the recommendations to proceed. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, of course, that great democrat, Mr Everingham, being the Chief Minister, is now able virtually to run the place without any interference at all from the Federal Parliament or the Federal Government. [More…]
Firstly, one Australian Democrat vote last night- I think Senator Chipp said that there could have been only one Democrat vote because Senator Mason was sickwould not have affected the outcome of the division and, secondly, no honourable senator can properly blame any other honourable senator for his failure to vote in this place when this is occasioned by his going home to bed before the Senate adjourns. [More…]