democratic - hofreps - 1970

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

Does Australia recognise East Berlin as a territory of the German Democratic Republic? [More…]
Is the Government’s professed military aim in Vietnam to foster democratic processes. [More…]
I wish to inform the House of the following appointments of senators and members to be members of the Joint Select Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation: Senator Maunsell has been appointed by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Devitt has been appointed by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and Senator Byrne has been appointed by the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in that House; Mr Jess, Mr Hamer and Mr Bonnett have been appointed by the Prime Minister and Mr Barnard and Mr Crean have been appointed by the Leader of the Opposition in this House. [More…]
On how many occasions in the (a) 1966 and (b) 1969 elections for the House of Representatives were candidates of the (i) Australian Labor Party, (ii) Australian Democratic Labor Party, (iii) Liberal Party of Australia and (iv) Australian Country Party on top of the ballot in each State. [More…]
The Prime Minister was reported as saying, over the weekend - and I will paraphrase bis remarks - that such political activities as demonstrations and the Moratorium were unnecessary and that we should rely on the ballot box as the democratic method. [More…]
What faith can we have in the ballot box or any other democratic process when the Government neglects such an emphatic public demand? [More…]
I ask him whether he has seen an instruction issued to peace marchers by one of the Moratorium organising groups, the Students for Democratic Action, which says: [More…]
Does he know that the members of that organisation subscribe to peaceful protests in this democratic society and would regard the destruction of buildings as a weak form of terrorism if that were their policy? [More…]
However, I think that we would all agree that it is not desirable, in the circumstances that the honourable member has mentioned, that pressure of this type should be brought to bear in a country such as Australia where democratic principles do apply. [More…]
We have encouraged the House of Assembly in democratic procedures, and we accept the wishes of the House of Assembly. [More…]
The person who by any test of democratic elections should hold the post of Prime Minister of Pakistan is being tried and if he is executed it will be extremely difficult for the Government of India to withstand the pressures for an invasion of East Pakistan. [More…]
What diplomatic and other steps has the Government taken to promote international awareness, discussion and acceptance of the principle of the democratic rule of law at supranational level. [More…]
The main thing that seemed to upset the honourable member for Grayndler and the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) was that the motion had been moved in the Senate by a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Will the Government also give an assurance that any money thus used to buy Democratic Labor Party support will be paid by the Liberal Party and not by taxpayers? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister inform Archbishop Loane that although Australia’s performance is not perfect it can safely be claimed that we have done better than almost any country in the Western world in attacking these twin problems which are indeed endemic to all democratic systems? [More…]
Did his predecessor refuse a democratic ballot for representation on the Australian Honey Board while approving compulsory secret ballots for trade unions. [More…]
Will he provide a costing of the election proposals put forward at those elections by the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
the Australian Democratic Labor Party in each of the last 5 elections. [More…]
Senator Byrne of the Democratic Labor Party said this: [More…]
What was the total number of appearances by Members who are members of the (a) Liberal Party, (b) Australian Country Party, (c) Australian Democratic Labor Party and (d) Australian Labor Party. [More…]
the Liberal Party, the Country Party, the Australian Labor Party, the Australia Party and the Democratic Labor Party, are budgeting through their Federal and State bodies for an expenditure of not less than Sim each. [More…]
I wonder whether he would reconcile for me the answer which he gave to that question when he said the Government alone would determine the defence policy’ with the statement made publicly a week or so ago that it was a democratic process for the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party to direct the policies of a Labor government, with particular reference to troop movements from Singapore. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s apparent acceptance of what he regards as the purported democratic direction of the Government by decisions of the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party, will he assure this House that in matters relating to defence the decisions taken by the Government will be determined by the Government alone? [More…]
I thank you, Mr Speaker, for the exercise qf this democratic process, . [More…]
paid under the act to the Leader of the second nonGovernment party in the Senate.I would add that the Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department has advised that Senator Gair and Senator DrakeBrockman can both be paid the additional salary and allowances under the act only because both the Democratic Labor Party and the Country Party have equal numbers of Senators. [More…]
What effect will a Liberal-Country Party gerrymander in New South Wales have on the democratic proposals of the Australian Government to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act in order to achieve electoral reform by giving, as far as practicable, every citizen a vote of equal value? [More…]
Does the Prime Minister not recognise that a continuation of this practice must denigrate the position of Parliament in the democratic system? [More…]
Until that time I had not read that article because I had not got beyond page 3 for laughing at the article I read there about the Democratic Labor Party takeover of the Country Party in Queensland. [More…]
Is it a fact that many members of the Opposition were elected to this House on Australian Democratic Labor Party preferences? [More…]
Will he give those members of the Opposition who depend so heavily on Democratic Labor Party preferences the opportunity to dissociate themselves publicly as well as privately from the remarks of the Leader of the Opposition? [More…]
As the last Australian Labor Government played such a prominent role in the establishment of Israel as an independent democratic state, will the present Labor Government use its best efforts to obtain a ceasefire and an end to the current hostilities? [More…]
The use of petitions is a democratic right of any citizen, but I should like to pay tribute to her for the manner in which she has gone out and worked so hard for something in which she believes. [More…]
This motion seeks to restrict the Committee stage to from 5.00 to 5.15, and the time for the remaining stages of the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill to 5.30. [More…]
First of all, there is the question of democratic elections. [More…]
When the Prime Minister speaks of the democratic process or of too many elections, that has a superficial attraction. [More…]
I do not know whether it is his view or whether Caucus forced him into it, but when he talks about too many elections or the democratic process who is going to disagree? [More…]
We are all concerned about the democratic process. [More…]
Official statistics are only available until the end of August 1973, and indicate that no shipments of galvanised corrugated iron were made in that period to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
However, I have been informed that, under Australia’s program of Special Aid to Indo-China, a shipment of 760 tons of galvanised corrugated iron has been recently made to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
I am unaware of the existence of any commercial contracts for the sale of galvanised corrugated iron to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
Before the debate on this Bill is resumed I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill, the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill, the Constitution Alteration (Local Government Bodies) Bill and the Constitution Alteration (Mode of Altering the Constitution) Bill as they are all associated measures. [More…]
Is the advocacy of the Prime Minister for the democratic elections referendum based on a genuine belief in the desirability of equality of electoral opportunity, or is it rather a hope that any change might perpetuate a Labor government? [More…]
I also inform the House that I have advised the Governor-General that in respect of the following proposed laws - Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) 1974, Constitutional Alteration (Mode of Altering the Constitution) 1974, Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) 1974, and Constitution Alteration (Local Government Bodies) 1974 - the conditions in the second paragraph of section 128 of the Constitution have been complied with. [More…]
That has been the experience throughout the democratic world not only in Australia but also in all comparable countries. [More…]
1 ) Did Mr Ramos Horta, Leader of the Timorese Social Democratic Association, visit Australia recently; if so, when. [More…]
The attacks on the democratic system which have been made by the Parties opposite, since they were denied what they look upon as their divine right to govern, would cause concern in some of the least democratic countries if they occurred. [More…]
A clear campaign is being mounted in this country in the State parliaments and in this Parliament to end democratic government for ever in Australia. [More…]
Reference remarks attributed yesterday’s debate on Darwin Reconstruction Bill that Opposition playing politics at expense suffering people Darwin following is text of motion moved yesterday in Assembly by Independent Member for Port Darwin Ron Withnall and supported by Independent Member for Nightcliff Dawn Lawrie and rest of Assembly quote this Assembly notes the statement of the House Leader concerning the passage of legislation in the Federal Parliament relating to the reconstruction of Darwin and expresses the opinion that the statement reflects the views of the people of the Territory and that it would not be in the interests of democratic government if the Bill was passed in haste without first having been made available for comment in the Territory end quote Request that Senate not proceed with Bill until next week to give sometime for expression public views. [More…]
1 ) The right honourable member is obviously referring to a speech entitled’Official Secrecy, Open Government and Making Democracy Democratic’ delivered by the present Minister for Labor and Immigration on 1 7 September 1 972. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister provide the House with any further information on the issue of the proper and democratic manner in which casual Senate vacancies are filled? [More…]
May refers to the degree to which the status of a Speaker is fundamental in the Australian system, or any Westminster democratic system. [More…]
The purpose of my amendment, which was seconded by the honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard), was to allow this Housethe people’s House; a democratic House- to express a point of view. [More…]
I explained that the Country Party, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Labor Party certainly will never give their preferences to a political party which supports the principle of socialism. [More…]
Then he was a member of the Queensland Labor Party, or the Democratic Labor Party, for a number of years. [More…]
I have been in touch with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and with the Provisional Revolutionary Government concerning the possibility of reprisals and urging magnanimity to their opponents over the years. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) is very good at advocating democratic processes but he is not such a good performer when he gets the opportunity to hold the reins of office, as has been the case in the past. [More…]
It would be easily rivalled by the riff-raff we have just heard from and it is a warning to the Liberal Party that the spokesman from the Democratic [More…]
That is the ultimate protection of our democratic system. [More…]
It marks the Government’s desire to undertake a program of constructive reform which will strengthen our democratic institutions and control by the people over the activities of government. [More…]
The rules of the more democratic unions had already provided for the direct vote of members for all offices. [More…]
-The honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) who has just finished speaking was, I understand, State President of the Democratic Labor Party in Western Australia. [More…]
I also ask him how far he has proceeded in honouring his undertaking to my colleague the honourable member for Prospect on 20 May last year that he would consider the possibility of introducing legislation to ensure that contributors to the funds have a democratic right to elect directors of the funds. [More…]
If the Australian Council has that authority it has it by the purest democratic means. [More…]
Regarding the attitudes of the countries referred to in the honourable member’s in question, the attention of the honourable member is drawn to the voting record on resolution 3366 (XXX) of the 30th United Nations General Assembly of 19 September 1975 (the text of which is available in the Parliamentary Library) in support of the admission of both the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of South Vietnam, to membership in the United Nations, when countries referred to by the honourable member voted in favour. [More…]
On what other occasions has he sent messages of congratulations to persons achieving positions of leadership in (a) foreign Communist parties and (b) foreign democratic parties. [More…]
-The danger to democratic government in this country that is posed by not informing the Parliament is greater than any danger which could exist to security organisations in this country by parliamentary surveillance. [More…]
The threat to the democratic process and the Australian economy by the actions of trade union leaders, particularly in the building industry. [More…]
1204 (Hansard, 1 December 1976, page 3085) that he was seeking information on the extent of democratic procedures in hospital and medical benefit organisations. [More…]
Did he assure me on 20 May 1976 (Hansard, page 2275) that he would consider introducing legislation to ensure to contributors of health insurance funds a democratic right to elect managing boards. [More…]
1) On 20 May 1976, 1 undertook to give consideration to the possibility of introducing legislation to ensure contributors do have a democratic right to elect directors to boards of health insurance funds. [More…]
In particular we nave noted the establishment of the democratic republic of East Timor. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the heroic stand being made by Noel Latham at Broken Hill against all those who would seek to trample his democratic right to work into the dust of the Silver City. [More…]
A halt must be called somewhere along the line, because what is happening to him could easily be the first step in the erosion of the democratic rights of all Australians, which are the same rights that thousands of Australians went away and fought for, and in support of which many were either killed or maimed. [More…]
On 20 May 1976,I undertook to give consideration to the possibility of introducing legislation to ensure contributors do have a democratic right to elect directors to boards of health insurance funds. [More…]
What progress has been made with the legislation to ensure that contributors to registered medical benefits and hospital benefits organisations have a democratic right to elect the directors of the organisations (Hansard, 20 May 1976, page 2275, 26 August 1976, page 601, 20 October 1976, page 2020, 1 December 1976, page 3085, 22 March 1 977, page 47 1 and 2 June 1 977, page 2522 ). [More…]
Australia has also been approached formally by the German Democratic Republic with a view to concluding an agreement for scientific and technical co-operation From time to time various other countries have raised with Australia the possibility of a scientific agreement but no draft agreements have been presented by either side for discussion. [More…]
The United States, The Soviet Union, France, Britain , The Federal Republic of Germany, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, The German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Poland. [More…]
Poland, Egypt, Hungary, Pakistan, Senegal, Bulgaria, Madagascar, Israel, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Austria, German Democratic Republic. [More…]
Which departments are represented on the working party established to examine proposals for legislation to ensure that contributors to registered medical benefits and hospital benefits organisations have a democratic right to elect the directors of the organisations. [More…]
I say that in the context of the debate we had in the Parliament as to whether the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly will have the desirable democratic autonomy that should be associated with that symbol. [More…]
Did that statement commit the Government to the introduction of democratic procedures in trade unions indicating that in his view it was imperative that the leadership should accurately reflect the views of their members. [More…]
(a) USSR, Mongolia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, China, German Democratic Republic, Sudan, Central African Empire, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Maldive Islands, Malta, Cameroon, Uganda, Senegal, Rwanda, Upper Volta, Guinea-Bissau, Nepal, Guyana, Laos, Jordan, Australia, Nigeria, Jamaica, Venezuela, Botswana, Austria, Switzerland, Vietnam, Algeria, Guinea, Cuba, Mali, South [More…]
Which countries formally recognise (a) The Federal Republic of Germany, (b) the Democratic Republic of Germany, (c) neither, and (d) both. [More…]
resolves to repeal the unanimity rule of the Security Council which allows a single nation to thwart the wishes of the rest of mankind and replace it with a more democratic procedure; [More…]
resolves to consult with other democratic nations in order to obtain their support for this objective. [More…]
It is traditional in a democratic system for members of the [More…]
The parties which contested the election were the Basotho National Party, Basotholand Congress Party, Marematlou Freedom Party and the United Democratic Party. [More…]
Mid- West Democratic Front [More…]
The other opposition party, the United Democratic Party, remained banned. [More…]
As I suggested the other day, the important point is that, both in the case of Weimar Germany and in the case of democratic Austria in the 1930s, the government was betrayed by its secret police. [More…]
In both of those cases forces within the secret agencies owed their loyalty either to an old regime or to bodies outside the democratic government. [More…]
The whole of our purpose in this debate is not to destroy the authority of democratic governments but to prevent those sorts of things from happening- to make sure that the secret agencies which we necessarily have to employ but which we regret employing are, in fact, responsible to the democratic government. [More…]
Our democratic viewpoints are inclined to be expressed in blacks and whites. [More…]
Nevertheless, even if the more professional critics of the democratic society are prepared to accept this assessment, there remains the problem of those who protest at being excessively remote from the seats of power and lacking in any influence upon the decision makers. [More…]
However, despite the opportunities for involvement, many are not involved, physically or mentally, with the democratic process. [More…]
Access to an effective education system therefore is vital to a democratic society. [More…]
All will depend for their effective implementation on the maintenance of representative institutions in what I believe is still one of the leading examples of a liberal democratic society. [More…]
These corporations, of which the IDC will be an Australian forerunner, have been used benevolently and fruitfully by democratic socialist governments in Italy. [More…]
In short, under a Labor Government, the IDC will be used for the democratic socialist purposes I outlined in my policy speech, and the Act which establishes this Corporation will be amended by us to secure those purposes. [More…]
in fact, no objections were ever raised inside the departments concerned, then the position is even worse and I would suggest that they use the method of a not excessively democratic organisation - the Roman Catholic Church during the last few centuries - and employ a devil’s advocate. [More…]
This is essential if we are to have an active democracy viable enough to stand up against anti-democratic pressures. [More…]
No democratic socialist, however, no member of the Australian Labor Party, could be content wilh a vision which merely envisaged the ever-growing production of goods, even if those goods were more equally shared. [More…]
And there is another way, the way of democratic and constructive method, of reason, education and responsibility, of the encouragement of racial, inter-racial and multiracial co-operation and of the denial of violence and force. [More…]
But the effect on his audience was that of a great man coming to support their movement when they were still at the bar of world opinion for having used violence on their own countrymen, their own revered leaders who had committed no other crime than that of trying to represent their people democratically. [More…]
That is a democratic procedure. [More…]
Of course, it was an abortive move in the sense thai the election for which the Prime Minister was preparing was vetoed by the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
The section then lists various countries and organisations including the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Vietcong. [More…]
The concept of democratic socialism on the other hand would apply the appropriate medication for the illness being treated. [More…]
My aims, in common with my colleagues, will be for the democratic socialisation of industry, distribution and exchange to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other antisocial features of those fields. [More…]
Sir, democracy is a faith, not a formula, and freedom in expressing intelligent opinions can only protect democracy and democratic government. [More…]
One of the great virtues of a democratic society is that there are no secrets; we give out the bad as well as the good. [More…]
This situation persisted through the course of the election campaign despite repeated efforts by the Democratic Labor Party to coerce the Prime Minister into an aggressive defence stance. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party says that we must have nine battalions. [More…]
I believe, too, in the partnership of the States and the Commonwealth in a democratic federation with a common objective of maintaining and developing the Australian nation. [More…]
1 deplore the fact that when my own political party, the Australian Labor Party, is kept out of power for so long by a government coalition of so-called Liberal Party, Australian Country Party aud Australian Democratic Labor Party interests using, let us admit it, so often fear and smear tactics, imputing a lack of patriotism and engaging, as we saw tonight, in other untruthful methods to gain their ends, the needs of the people suffer so. [More…]
Not only is there our tradition of a stronger caucus system with leadership involving the ordinary member far more than with our opponents in the process of decision making, but also ours is a mass party which is built on democratic principles. [More…]
I emphasise the need to improve the processes of our democratic system because I recognise the present dangerous gulf between a relatively small and unrepresentative Cabinet which wields almost total power and the rest of the Parliament - and indeed the people. [More…]
If in discussing the needs of Australians in this first year of the 1970s I have emphasised to this point economic subjects, this is not so much because this is the area of my particular training but mainly because I consider that maximum growth through sensible economic planning is the key to achieving that other worth while objective of those of us who believe in democratic socialism. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party, which has become the second string of the Liberal Party, manipulates this flaw in the electoral system of choosing for marginal seats candidates whose names begin with A or B, thus ensuring that those candidates are first on the ballot paper. [More…]
After all, the rightful election of a government is the most important single step in maintaining a democratic society. [More…]
The Democratic Socialisation of Industry, Production, Distribution and Exchange - to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other antisocial features in those fields - in accordance with the Principles of Action, Methods and Progressive Reforms set out in the Party Platform from time to time. [More…]
I return to the second paragraph of the Labor Party’s platform, headed ‘Interpretation of Democratic Socialisation’. [More…]
I remind the noisy honourable member opposite who persists in interjecting that the word ‘democratic’ before the word socialisation’ in the Party’s platform does not mean a thing. [More…]
Notwithstanding this, we have the word of Mr Joe Chamberlain that the word ‘democratic’ before the word ‘socialisation’ does not alter one iota the terms of Labor’s objective. [More…]
It is the essence of democratic government that State governments should have more responsibility than they have in relation to the raising of the moneys which they spend. [More…]
That the committee consist of eight Members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Prime Minister, six Members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, four Senators appointed by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, three Senators appointed by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and one Senator appointed by the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]
I believe that open inquiry is one of the fundamental requirements in the search for truth and in democratic behaviour. [More…]
Very few of the 60 or 70 parliaments associated with the InterParliamentary Union are democratic, open, deliberative and consultative assemblies in the way they should be. [More…]
Honourable members are a long way from being democratic in their operations. [More…]
If we look at a lot of the evidence that has been given about Vietnam we will see that a man who previously was the greatest hawk in the Democratic Government of the United States is now not only the greatest dove but is speaking in a way that is completely contrary to the attitude that he had taken in the previous government. [More…]
I ask: Now that the Minister is a convert to Democratic Socialism, is he planning to promote some other government or semi-government institutions? [More…]
The Minister is spokesman for the only democratic government in the world which would now dare depict the war in Vietnam and its origins exclusively in terms of external aggression. [More…]
Knowing how anxious the Prime Minister now is to ingratiate himself with the Democratic Labour Party, other nations place sig nificance on the statement by Senator Gair to the National Press Club last October that the Government should examine the possibility of a naval arrangement with South Africa for defence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
No democratic society can long survive half-alienated, and in the United States alienation is deepest among the very groups upon whose co-operation and dedication democratic society most depends - the young, the educated and the idealistic. [More…]
and (2) The Australian Government does not recognise the so-called German Democratic Republic, nor, therefore, any territorial claims it might make. [More…]
We regret what we did last night, but unless the Government changes its attitude towards this democratic institution and this democratically elected Opposition there will be more incidents like last night’s. [More…]
There is increasing evidence that the Labor Party in and out of Parliament is set on a course of defying the whole structure of democratic government. [More…]
Disruption and disorder in this Parliament was his policy and the policy of members of the Country Party when they sat in the corner of this chamber and did everything possible to stop the workings of the democratic government of that time. [More…]
But at the same time I could not let go unchallenged this great reform speech tonight which brought tears to my eyes, and I thought of this great man crying for a democratic institution and crying for approaches to be made to politics here when in his day he would have laughed at them if they had been brought up. [More…]
The Labor movement in this country will forever fight for the things that are democratic, be they demonstrations against Vietnam or injustices to those on the farms who are demonstrating today. [More…]
It would be, I think, fair to say that the man who established the Liberal Party, and who in fact created and led it with some distinction for a number of years, would be mortified to see the way that Party is traducing the democratic principles of the Parliament that he respected. [More…]
One of the principles of democratic procedure in the Parliament is that we are allowed to do precisely that. [More…]
But let them be honest enough to say that this is the proposition they want to put forward, because it will make it much simpler for all the elected members to return to their electorates where they can be doing useful work and not wasting the taxpayers’ money by sitting in this chamber just aborting the very work of the democratic processes of elected government. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind at ali that, after having been here for a short time, the whole fabric of democratic government, as I understand it, is being eroded consistently and effectively by the Government, which talks in pompous terms about law and order when it knows very well that the plain, simple, political fact is that, no matter what they do, no matter whether we behave or misbehave, it can still gag anything we want to say. [More…]
1 would suggest to the Government that it reassess and make a re-appraisal of what it considers to be the role of a democratic Parliament, particularly as it applies in this chamber. [More…]
That is how democratic it is. [More…]
Yet, this Government says that it is democratic. [More…]
I hope also that what I say will be heeded by people in places of political influence who, by virtue of that influence, may be able to persuade others not to embark upon or persist in a course of conduct calculated to damage the great interest we all have in maintaining a stable democratic society ruled by law. [More…]
In approaching this problem, one must first consider what conduct is permissible in a democratic society on the part of those who wish to see a change in Government policy or a change in the law. [More…]
Three years after he had won the largest majority of votes accorded a democratic leader, not only in the history of the United States but in the history of the world, he had to announce his abdication. [More…]
Yet in all these years of America’s agony at home and abroad, despite the near disruption of her society, despite demonstrations by the scores, despite the demoralisation of the world’s oldest and democracy’s largest organised political party, the Democratic Party of the United States, no responsible leader or organ has ever effectively charged that Communists were behind the dissenters or even significantly among them. [More…]
Demonstrations, peaceful demonstrations, are as legitimate and as necessary a part of the democratic processes as elections themselves. [More…]
Is it not true that if such a group as the Students for a Democratic Society should endeavour to blockade the street, as has been suggested, there will be panic? [More…]
In my view, we should ask questions about our so-called democratic society. [More…]
We must recognise that Parliament is only a part of a democratic society. [More…]
I understand that he has been in the Australian Democratic Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the Australian Country Party, but I do not think the Communist Party has been able to find room for him in the telephone box in which they meet in his electorate. [More…]
If the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party comes to an education or migrant meeting - although I deplore most of his politics - I will stand beside him. [More…]
That goes for anybody in this country no matter what his politics, Communist or non-Communist, Democratic Labor Party or Liberal-Country Party. [More…]
I believe that the challenge of a modern democratic society is this: The government has to be responsive and responsible to the governed. [More…]
In the long history of human endeavour we have been unable to resolve this democratic problem of making a society responsible to the will of its citizens. [More…]
The Attorney-General made a great play of the term ‘a democratic society’. [More…]
But how democratic is Australia? [More…]
How democratic is section 78 (2.) [More…]
Would you find that in a democratic society? [More…]
Are those provisions symbols and actions of a democratic government? [More…]
The answer is because the Conciliation and Arbitration Act includes some of the most undemocratic clauses on the statute books of any democratic country in the world. [More…]
Ours is not a democratic society. [More…]
It is not true that Australia is democratic in the sense in which we think of the word. [More…]
Is there any honourable member of the Country Party or Democratic Labor Party who will come to Melbourne on 8 th or 9th May and debate with us somewhere publicly the very issues that we are discussing here tonight? [More…]
So the Vietnam Moratorium is not only about the Vietnam war but it is about those things that make a democratic society tick - the right of freedom of association and the right of freedom of assembly. [More…]
He referred to: conduct calculated to damage the great interest we all have in maintaining a stable democratic society ruled by law’. [More…]
I accept - perhaps others do not, and I could not care less - the principles of free speech in a democratic society, but I am against the use of sincere people for political purposes. [More…]
It was the Secretary of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in that State - a Mr Martin Posa.I do not mind how much members of the Opposition laugh. [More…]
I know Martin Posa and I see no reason to disagree with that view because the Democratic Labor Party expressed it. [More…]
There is no substance or sense in the proposition - the Communist proposition - that is being peddled by the Opposition that there is something great and democratic in mob rule. [More…]
South Vietnam snuffing out the hope of freedom and of democratic independence in that country and extending the areas of Communist control closer to their country. [More…]
I believe that as a result the Parliament will become more democratic and less inhibited by procedures that are, in my opinion, outmoded. [More…]
I want it to be a democratic process; I want it to be a peaceful process; I want it to be an inoffensive process; and I want to be in Melbourne on 8th May to do everything I can to make it into these things. [More…]
I think the situation that we see arising here is one which sooner or later we must begin to develop - whether we are the government or honourable members opposite are the government - if this place is really to become a democratic institution. [More…]
The definition of democracy should be the genuine one used in democratic countries. [More…]
Democratic countries face grave problems. [More…]
Australia is a democratic country. [More…]
lt is democratic that Parliament should sit for the welfare, concern and care of the majority of our people. [More…]
We want to make it more democratic. [More…]
He would have renegotiated the AustralianUnited States base agreements so that - and here is his fairy tale - Australia would have been able to settle down in an almost Utopian situation where it could implement the democratic Socialist policies of the Australian Labour Party. [More…]
One of the important basic purposes of credit unions is to provide democratic processes and practices by which people can have a say in the regulation and deployment of their collective savings. [More…]
In small establishments, such as banks, electricity authorities or retail organisations, these processes and obligations are undertaken with the utmost seriousness and a democratic practice operates. [More…]
To require the credit unions to have a large amount of capital in excess of $50,000 obviously has the effect of defeating the basic democratic purpose of the movement. [More…]
As Dr Everingham (Labor, Queensland) pointed out in an unanswerable speech - unanswerable to anyone who knows the facts - if it is good manners, fair democratic action for farmers to march through the streets of Melbourne and protest, surely it is legitimate for people to abominate the undeclared war in Vietnam: the conscription of our young in one age group only by lottery: to see the lack of any equality of sacrifice by all Australians, surely it is legitimate for them to want a Moratorium or any attempt at peace by peaceful demonstration, without being branded Communist’. [More…]
It is part of the democratic process that we should have codes which are readily accessible to all citizens as distinct from relying increasingly on judge made laws which mean that citizens have to ask lawyers to tell them what the law probably is. [More…]
In any event, he has a right to make a free political choice within our democratic society, that is, to exercise certain liberties and freedoms which inherently belong to an individual within a democratic environment. [More…]
It is quite wrong and repugnant to anyone who holds democratic concepts that a man’s political beliefs should be used as the issue which allows him to be held to ransom for something which he greatly wants to achieve; that is, Australian citizenship. [More…]
As K found in all of Kafka’s writings, he was shuttled from minor official to minor official, always skirmishing on the periphery but never really quite reaching the heart of where the decisions were made, never quite reaching where he should be entitled to reach as a citizen within a democratic society, to put his case for his rights within a society. [More…]
He has the right to establish that he is an individual, that this is a democratic society and that no bureaucracy and no person has a right to take these privileges from any individual. [More…]
Where they are rejected there ought to be a tribunal to which these people can make a public appeal, so that they can exercise democratic rights, otherwise the expression is an empty slogan. [More…]
Frankly, from a Socialist point of view - and I claim to be a democratic Socialist - our scheme is not a radical scheme. [More…]
Even the Australian Democratic Labor Party expressed its support. [More…]
When they are articulated they are described as democratic Socialism, as if that were calculated to give them an air of respectability that they would otherwise lack. [More…]
Will he make an early announcement on Australia’s attitude to the proposed United Nations Charter reforms to be considered this year, including modification of the veto and other moves towards democratic control of international causes of war. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Is it a fact that members of the Ustashi, the Nazi Party, the Australian Democratic Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the Australian Country Party and the regimes of Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa and Saigon are united in their spontaneous support of the invasion of lndo-China by some of Australia’s allies? [More…]
In those circumstances and in that environment we will find democratic Socialism taking on the iron fist of authoritarianism. [More…]
This would undermine the fundamental principles of democratic society. [More…]
Progress is being made in this direction but the progress is being slowed down to this end by the very fact that some people are not prepared to back up the troops and those who are endeavouring to create a democratic society in South Vietnam in order to allow its people the expression of freedom. [More…]
Unfortunately, by lending their support and their names to these “Trojan” organisations within our ranks, they are bei’ng used as respectable fronts for sinister objectives, the ultimate overthrow of our democratic form of government, and ils replacement by a form of governments known for its absolute tyranny and totalitarianism’. [More…]
But I become outraged at the vindictive and baseless way in which so many members of the Government and supporters of the Democratic Labor Party have impugned the character of decent people in the Australian community because they are genuinely opposed to this disgraceful war in Indo-China. [More…]
This is a tyranny of the majority - a complete denial of the rights of the minority within a democratic society. [More…]
Will he protest on behalf of the Australian people to the President of the United States of America against the slaughter of 4 students at Kent University, Ohio, by National Guardsmen while the students were exercising their democratic right to dissent from American policy in Cambodia and Vietnam? [More…]
They are the Liberal Party, The Democratic Labor Party and the Country Party; and I will tell honourable members why. [More…]
We have, I do maintain, a democratic notion within our Party of which the Opposition is jealous because it is dictated to. [More…]
I know that in my electorate the silent majority of decent people who are well aware of what could happen in Australia if some of these people had their way will reject this insidious effort to undermine our role of preserving a democratic peace in South East Asia. [More…]
The Vietnam Moratorium campaign is an assault upon democratic processes, based on fraud and designed to promote widespread disruption and dislocation. [More…]
To show the nature of this so-called democratic government in South Vietnam, which this Government supports, let me refer to some particulars given in answer to a question which I directed on 27th September 1967 to the then Minister for External Affairs, Mr Hasluck. [More…]
They are, therefore, seeking to change Australian policies by demonstration and this is not part, and should not be part, of our democratic process. [More…]
In truth, the Moratorium Campaign is aimed at the heart of the democratic process. [More…]
But this again is not a part of the democratic process, and it should be noted that the honourable member for Lalor time and time again has advocated this breaking of laws. [More…]
The shadowy shadow Minister for Health who supports the Bill yet indulges in an orgy of selfjustification by paying lip service to the hopeless hypothesis which Labor hopes lo pass off as a health scheme proudly labels himself as a Democratic Socialist. [More…]
This Bill is based not on some high flown Democratic Socialist ideology - or whatever the honourable member for Oxley calls his Party’s alternative scheme - and not on some hideous hybrid mutation in the minds of those who would hopefully pluck for indiscriminate transplant here, aspects of overseas health schemes which appeal to them; it is based on the facts. [More…]
It is completely contradictory to the whole tradition of democracy and the law making procedure upon which the democratic process is based. [More…]
as I have pointed out, calling for a change in the Government’s policy not through the democratic procedures, not through an amendment to the law, not through peaceful demonstrations and not through letters to the editors of newspapers or any of the normal channels of communication which are used in a democratic country but through what is clearly admitted to be an open breaching of the law. [More…]
ls this the extent of my democratic rights? [More…]
Have any approaches been made to the Commonwealth Government by persons in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, South Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea or Taiwan or in communist countries for diplomatic, military or other help in defence of their democratic rights; if so, willi what result. [More…]
If approaches have been made, can he say whether the Governments of any of these countries, and which, have restricted democratic freedoms of political opponents not engaged in armed rebellion. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that that will be the democratic way in which this Government will formulate its policies; not as a result of marches in the streets. [More…]
He had referred in the previous paragraph to the democratic socialisation of corporations that existed throughout the world. [More…]
The only criticism was that it was too timid and that it was not the democratic socialism that the honourable member for Lalor would like. [More…]
I am speaking as one who accepts the general proposition that from a democratic point of view the Govern nent of South Vietnam is preferable to that of North Vietnam. [More…]
I suggest that very few - even on the Government side - would argue that the Thieu Government is democratic in our sense of the word. [More…]
When they are watching or participating in the jockeying for position regarding who will be the next leader of the Liberal Party I hope that they will give the highest priority to the question whether the contender has faith in or contempt for the democratic processes. [More…]
I would indeed be interested to hear the Minister indicate on what possible democratic basis he could advocate that sort of proposition. [More…]
I would express my opposition to him but I would do so according to the democratic principles of this country. [More…]
I hope that ere this day is out the Government will be out of office following the carriage of a resolution that stands for the very principle of democratic government. [More…]
If we value the democratic process - I think we do and I hope we do - and if we accept the benefits that flow from that process, this being the very reason for the existence of this House, we must fight to preserve these values because without values and without honour our society is empty. [More…]
I remember very well the way in which my predecessor was repudiated by the Prime Minister purely for the purpose of mollifying the opposition being received from the Democratic Labor Party and to gain the support of that Party in the last federal election. [More…]
On the basis of the first portions of both amendments I submit that under no rules of debate or any precedents that have been established in any democratic institution can the amendment moved by the honourable member for Casey be accepted as a proper amendment to the initial amendment moved by the honourable member for Dawson. [More…]
I believe that those honourable members opposite who wish this House to continue as a House of Parliament operating in a democracy in a democratic way should take note of what is contained in the first portions of the 2 amendments. [More…]
The Opposition has encouraged the Government in the setting up of this facility because, as it has said, this facility will help it in its democratic Socialistic activities. [More…]
In short, under a Labor government, the IDC will be used for the democratic Socialist purposes [More…]
I say that, in this instance, we have taken from the policy of the Australian Labor Party - and this was outlined by the Leader of the Labor Party in his policy speech for the last election - this democratic Socialist weapon and we are paving the way for the Labor Party to implement its policies on democratic Socialism. [More…]
The fact is that the Government is unable to interfere, even if it subscribed in every way to the claims of the nurses, because this is the whole process of our democratic system. [More…]
On this side of the House we believe that these aims of industrial development, hand in hand with desirable social changes and the preservation of the environment, can be achieved only by democratic socialism. [More…]
lt does not really get anywhere near solving all the problems the multi-national corporation brings to Australia; but it is a good start for a future democratic Socialist government. [More…]
Presumably he was referred to governments that have a faintly democratic Socialist flavour - what we might call Labor governments. [More…]
If so, will the Government consider the introduction of legislation to increase the size of the Senate by an additional two Senators for each Stale and thus provide opportunity for an increase m the size of the House of Representatives by twenty-four Members lo ensure continued adequate democratic representation for Our continuously growing population. [More…]
On the other hand only 7.7% said they would vote for the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
1 want to quote from another organ which 1 do not ordinarily quote as an organ of informed democratic opinion, but last year the ‘Daily Telegraph’ published an article headed: Danger from Melbourne’s Growing News Monopoly’, lt states: [More…]
During the second reading debate on this Bill there, the spokesman for that Party - which is the Australian Democratic Labor Party - had this to say in relation to the clause under consideration. [More…]
I propose to show the sheer hypocrisy of the arguments advanced by the members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Government and to the Australian Democratic Labor Parry which is represented only in the other place. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party did not initiate those ideas. [More…]
Senator Little continued, after indicating why members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party would not support the amendment, by saying this about Senator Poke who moved the amendment on behalf of the Opposition in the Senate: [More…]
The members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party voted with the Government against the ideas that Senator Little had expressed previously. [More…]
So, how can he understand a democratic institution in which policies flow from branch to conference to the parliamentary party and to the executive. [More…]
I made a remark on one previous occasion in this House to the effect that the great privilege of freedom of the Press is treated by the Press very lightly and I made the point that in authoritarian countries the difficulty is to suppress the truth but in our democratic countries the difficulty is to have the truth reported. [More…]
In the democratic communities there is deep questioning about the relevance and responsiveness of these institutions. [More…]
Trie plea everywhere is for more participation in the democratic process; let participation begin at home, right here, in the national Parliament. [More…]
Any change of forms of procedure for dealing with legislation must take account of this reality and must not in any way inhibit the political confrontation which is part of our democratic and constitutional process. [More…]
One of the greatest factors in our democratic system is that people can approach their member and that member is their voice on the Moor of this House in Canberra. [More…]
If this is the way democratic Parliament works then I have been in error for a number of years in believing that there is democracy in this chamber. [More…]
He became Leader of the Anti-Communist Labor Party in 1955 and subsequently he was appointed as the first Federal President of the Democratic Labor Party, a position he held from 1957 until his death. [More…]
I believe it is very clear that we would remove the causes of discontent in this country to a more marked extent than in any other way if we were to give the vote to people who are involved in this respect, if we were to involve them in the political, democratic process. [More…]
It does not matter how much scorn is heaped on this democratic process. [More…]
Have the German Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic applied for membership of (he United Nations and in ils special organisations. [More…]
The group consists of prominent Tolais and includes two doctors, two clergymen, a bank officer and public servants, lt has been made clear that the Government looks to a solution of the problems in the Gazelle by negotiation among the people themselves, a further test for local opinion to be held by genuinely democratic procedures at an appropriate time, lt was with this background that the group sought some Administration assistance in achieving their objectives. [More…]
If the administration of Papua and New Guinea is a democratic administration its intentions should be known. [More…]
Mountains scheme is a monument to democratic Socialism. [More…]
The Authority is not a monument to democratic Socialism; it is a monument to the drive and initiative of people who went out not to follow the old methods but to introduce new ones, to get new thinking and new concepts and to get the job done. [More…]
Is the Executive Committee elected by democratic procedures. [More…]
Although it is desirable that the Opposition should try to reduce the Government, it is still more useful as a democratic exercise that matters should be discussed. [More…]
Candidly, I do not think that in a democratic system we can do other than let the Executive take the initiative, but the Executive has to exercise its initiative with tolerance and without tyranny. [More…]
Certain wool growers were alarmed at the undemocratic manner in which the ban on the export of merinos was lifted at the suggestion of the Minister who said in this place that that was what the wool industry required. [More…]
The Government should arrange a proper democratic debate on this matter. [More…]
The basic philosophical issue for our democratic society is that there are rights for minorities, lt Ls no: a democracy that is run by a majority which believes that a decision made by the majority must at all times bc upheld, even whore it arises as a result of moral standards which become somewhat osified in a conservative environment because they have not been subjected to critical scrutiny as frequently and as intensively as should be desirable in a liberal society. [More…]
We have so-called democratic funds such as the Hospital Benefits Association of Victoria’ of which 4 of the 53 directors are elected by the contributors. [More…]
These funds are called democratic because, in this instance, 4 out of 53 directors are elected and the other 49 are not elected. [More…]
On the other hand, we have the so-called undemocratic organisations such as the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia and the Hospital Contributions Fund of Australia in which none of the directors are elected by the contributors. [More…]
If the contributors had a say this would bc all right, but as I have pointed out the funds are completely undemocratic. [More…]
The most democratic of them, the Hospital Benefits Association of Victoria, has 4 elected directors out of 53 directors. [More…]
This is a reasonable, humane and democratic request. [More…]
I further submit that he has been guilty of conduct which prejudices the relationships which in a democratic Parliament such as ours must prevail between a member and a Minister. [More…]
This Bill is the latest example of a process of buck-passing between the Commonwealth and the States which is eroding the foundations of democratic responsibility. [More…]
Even people on the other side for whose democratic attitudes I have no respect whatsoever have forced the Government to change its view. [More…]
I do not think it is beyond the democratic processes of the Government to break what I have just described as a meaningless chain of bureaucracy. [More…]
Those nations realise how important it is to build up the parliamentary democratic system and they look to other nations like ourselves to help them. [More…]
When a country has a weak parliament and when weak members of that parliament are not doing their jobs properly, the democratic system cannot operate properly. [More…]
What was seen at that meeting was the importance of involving youth in the affairs of society and the importance of seeing that parliament was able to incorporate the needs of youth without at the same time completely altering the parliamentary democratic system. [More…]
I would remind those honourable members, now that they have brought this matter up, that it is only in New South Wales that a democratic method of electing members is followed. [More…]
If they were to do that they would be exercising a democratic right and no issue could be really raised. [More…]
Is it not normal for parliamentary business to be conducted by debate, with expressions of opinion and perhaps wide differences, finishing up in a democratic way with a vote? [More…]
Yet the Government seeks to deny the Opposition the right to have a vote at this time on this vital issue of democratic representation. [More…]
If the Government has nothing to be afraid of and if it believes in more democratic representation for everybody what is wrong with a vote and what is wrong with the honourable member speaking? [More…]
But as a matter of ordinary democratic principle, they had no say in the decision. [More…]
It did seem to me that it was highly relevant to point out the democratic values which are involved in the motion of the honourable member for Dawson. [More…]
That the committee consist of three Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Prime Minister, two Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, one Senator to be appointed by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, one Senator to be appointed by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and one Senator to be appointed by the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]
The assumptions that these things will not occur have been made in so many democratic institutions which in the end have seen their demise because people have said: ‘It cannot happen here’. [More…]
It is a safeguard and ensures that the Parliament continues as a democratic institution. [More…]
If we do this then indeed the Parliament is in grave danger of very great reform because it will no longer exist as a democratic institution. [More…]
But at least now he has received justice and it came to him only through the democratic process. [More…]
So the democratic need for open discussion and exchange of views is almost impossible to achieve. [More…]
Tn the world at large there are very few totally democratic communities. [More…]
I have made many speeches to show that there are large areas of undemocratic practice in this community. [More…]
I believe that at this time the world needs examples of democratic political co-operation. [More…]
I hope it will dispose of the idea that we are just rubber stamps for an Executive which meets in some secret enclave somewhere and presses on from there, lt would give easier and more effective access to the deliberations of Parliament by a greater number of people who now just write to us in voluminous documentation of some case, lt is a very important feature of our democratic society that people should have access to the decision making and policy making processes. [More…]
We are always treated as perhaps less than equal by many people, with the equal sign in the democratic equation. [More…]
Yet the free world demands that South Vietnam, without long experience of democratic government behind it as there was in the case of the United Kingdom, establish a democracy. [More…]
The whole democratic system of government is based on the fact that although there are differences of opinion within a community, free elections are held, a government is elected by the majority and the laws that the Parliament passes prevail. [More…]
The constant theme of the Labor Party, whether by using the Parliament for such a debate as is provoked today or by inciting the people as is being done outside today, is violent opposition to democratic government - the rule of law and the authority of the Parliament. [More…]
I could summarise what I have to say in this sentence: Are we going to hand over responsibility to some other body, no matter how competent, how fair or how celebrated they may be in the public eye, just because we think that this is fairer and more democratic - and principally because they are not elected by the people of Australia? [More…]
It would be a good thing for this Parliament to operate in a democratic way through the Committee and for a diminution to take place in the personal rule which is starting to prevail in the Parliament. [More…]
in my electorate in speeches on radio and television I repeatedly have drawn attention to the drift in this young democratic country towards an immensely serious position - in fact, I believe, a disastrous crisis. [More…]
Too often discipline has become a dirty word and law, order and authority are despised, lt has been the breaking down of law and order, the loss of respect for leaders, for parents and for democratic institutions and the growth of the permissive society, of so-called sexual freedom, that have been the downfall of every great nation and every great empire in history. [More…]
In this very Parliament, which is the premier law making authority in the land, we witnessed not only blatant defiance of constitutional law and order and elected authority by one misguided individual, but we saw the leader of a once great democratic Party stand up and incite his Party to anarchy. [More…]
Fewer than 5% of the workers take the bread from the children’s mouths, cause industrial unrest, promote violence in our streets and seek to destroy our democratic way of life. [More…]
We would see the end of democratic freedom and the rise of Socialist dictatorships. [More…]
If the Government genuinely wishes to reduce the level of unrest which exists in our community and genuinely wishes to earn the respect of the people of Australia it should cease immediately its politicking with their feelings and try to determine the real cause of the unrest, seek solutions where they are able to be sought and come into this Parliament and tell the nation that it is tackling the problems of the nation in a responsible manner and a manner which is befitting of a government in a democratic country. [More…]
My remarks in this regard apply not only to those who have sought the comfort and protection of this House in spite of their policies; they are directed also to those people I see at the polling booths at election time who hand out cards supporting the Democratic Labor Party, the Liberal Party and the Country Party. [More…]
But when it comes to anybody concerned with a moratorium badge or an organisation such as the Students for a Democratic Society - the new elite and the new confreres of the Labor Party - they are in hook, line and sinker. [More…]
As democratic socialists we of the Australian Labor Party reject this objectionable philosophy of pandering to personal selfishness by ignoring the human want and qualitative needs of our society and environment. [More…]
This Government is an anti-family bunch of bunglers masquerading as a democratic government. [More…]
Since the Minister may have been alarmed by Mr Gregory’s intention to participate in the Vietnam Moratorium, although his major purpose was to play the campus circuit of university unions as the guest of those unions and the Wayside Chapel, I ask the Minister whether he is aware that Mr Gregory called off his plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention 2 years ago with the statement: [More…]
We are members of this so-called democratic society and we are entitled to know what the position is in our schools today, and if there is money to be found to rectify the situation then I think we ought to know about it. [More…]
I conclude with 2 quotations, from President Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, leaders of one of the very few democratic countries in the world. [More…]
On April 15, Dick Gregory called a news conference in Chicago to announce that he was dropping plans for demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention, because in view of the temper of the Negroes and the ‘ethnic’ groups there was no way to insure against civil violence on a scale heretofore unknown in this country. [More…]
Therefore, for all these reasons - to obviate the current lengthy and tedious speeches that we sometimes get; to create more variety; to present more points of view; to be democratic in the way we suggest; and to give each honourable member representing his constituents a much better opportunity to present his and their views in this House - I think the amendment ought to be carried. [More…]
Have student leaders, in particular members of Students For a Democratic Society, been singled out for discriminatory treatment in issuing the notices? [More…]
It is interesting also to note that this matter has been raised today by an honourable member who is said to be a member of the National Civic Council, an undercover member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party and to be whiteanting the Liberal Party ranks in the interests of another organisation. [More…]
The watch word of democratic freedom led only to insecurity, undiscipline, and at length to the downfall and destruction of all authority. [More…]
If it achieves its objectives, this country will not be the democratic country which we are all determined it should be. [More…]
Not so very many weeks ago I had occasion to hear an expression of the personal philosophy of some of those who belong to Students for a Democratic Society. [More…]
Of course, this system has been augmented by a recent decision taken in the Senate, where the numbers are now equal in some respects because the Opposition and the Democratic Labor Party find that by combining they can outvote the Government. [More…]
I believe that Parliament ought to be the central institution in a democratic system. [More…]
I think that this type of attitude is absolutely deplorable and, more shamefully, not only does this reflect the low regard in which these people hold members of Parliament but also it shows that they deserve condemnation because they have so much contempt for the democratic system under which this country works. [More…]
After it that Government said: ‘Democracy and democratic parliamentary government are now established in South Vietnam’. [More…]
any other practices or conditions which would indicate shortcomings in a democratic society. [More…]
The then Minister for External Affairs said that the Government of South Vietnam was in essential respects democratic. [More…]
He said there was legal provision for various democratic freedoms. [More…]
I would not accept it as a democratic government. [More…]
The Minister said that some real progress had been made towards the establishment of a democratic society in South Vietnam and that under the constitution in South Vietnam individuals have the right to a prompt and public trial. [More…]
1 149 and to my rational, sane request for a rational, sane description of how a democracy works, how one asseses it and how one finds out whether it is more democratic or less democratic than a Communist regime. [More…]
That is supposed to be an answer for a democratic Parliament and the forum of this land to enable it to find out whether we are committing war crimes. [More…]
military or other help in defence of their democratic rights? [More…]
Is the Government’s professed military aim in Vietnam to foster democratic processes? [More…]
If we can keep the peace on Cyprus long enough to allow the Greeks and Turks to get together again in the democratic parliamentary process that began 10 years ago we could very well save the peace of the Middle East. [More…]
Is the honourable member suggesting that we equate the victims of an armed conflict between 2 armies with the deliberate murder of women and children in an orphanage to prevent a democratic election? [More…]
First of all, he stood well and squarely across the road of the democratic and economic development of his country. [More…]
We are in Vietnam for a very specific and clear purpose, and that is to give these people the right to determine their own future by democratic vote according to Asian ideas of what democracy really means. [More…]
The Government does not care whether a country is democratic. [More…]
But the only mistake we can make is to say that judged through our eyes they have not got what we call a democratic system. [More…]
If any member of the Labor Party wishes to continue this debate I would like him to tell me of any other nation in Asia which is more democratic than South Vietnam is today. [More…]
A democratic system of government is the way in which all people and all dissident factions can be brought together. [More…]
I suggest that those people who are so enamoured of the democratic progress that is being made in South Vietnam start to read some publications on this subject. [More…]
He has a chapter in this book on the democratic elections of South Vietnam. [More…]
The North Vietnamese have democratic elections. [More…]
Administration of such a scheme would be assisted by the democratic participation of local regional advisory groups. [More…]
I am afraid that the Government in Victoria has departed from the accepted principles of democratic action and has set out to create violence tomorrow. [More…]
We owe them the privilege of being members of this democratic Parliament. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member that he should have another look at the figures for the Chisholm by-election and ask himself how the combined Australian Democratic Labor Party and Liberal vote, which represented approximately 61 per cent of the total votes cast in Chisholm 9 months ago, has dissipated to 53 per cent in a very short time. [More…]
In the United States there were race riots at Watts and Newark, racial murders, the burning of towns and portions of towns, massive civil disobedience and’ civil rights riots in Chicago at the Democratic Convention. [More…]
It permitted the First Secretary of the South Vietnam Embassy, Mr Luu Tuong Quang, to speak at the Democratic Club, University of Queensland, but denied entry to this country to a distinguished negro comic, Mr Dick Gregory. [More…]
In all fairness, in this democratic age, why is it that the Prime Minister can make such a decision as will affect so many people to their detriment and not have sufficient courage to say what is really intended? [More…]
There is no greater and better way to encourage Communism than to promote conditions of despair, misery and disillusionment with democratic political parties. [More…]
It the overwhelming problem of democratic capitalism in the 30s and even in the 50s was to bring the business cycle under social control, the challenge of the 60s- [More…]
Would he consider it even more serious to reject the authority of the commanders of Australia’s defence forces than to spread disaffection for democratic authorities among the body politic, as has been advocated? [More…]
Within the limits of this speech, the foregoing is an over simplified exposition naturally, but it is at the practical root, I believe, of the Government’s disinclination to impose target dates, and that accounts for its policy - which is correct, in my view, on both philosophical and pragmatic grounds - to expedite development throughout the Territory so that, when the people determine for home rule, there will be, first, some prospect of a national outlook; secondly, some prospect for cohesion against secession movements - there are at least 4 active in Bougainville, the Gazelle, the Highlands and Papua - and personal ambitions for leadership, but perhaps they can form together a federation; and, thirdly, some prospects of government under a democratic system rather than relapse into army or political dictatorship under some strong man, a few of whom can be seen today striving mightily with the cry. [More…]
As far as the residents and the Gazelle councillors were concerned here was the alternative Prime Minister of Australia giving Labor Party support for an organisation which had run against democratic government, beaten up influential leaders of the Tolai people, refused to pay taxes duly levied by the Gazelle Council and drained the Central Treasury, because of police actions, of money vitally needed for general development. [More…]
I suggested he should stand for election to the House of Assembly in 1972 because I believe, rightly directed within the democratic process, his talents could prove a valuable contribution to his country. [More…]
He has no room for conscience because he imagines that he and his Government and the forces behind it are so ultimately democratic that there is no need or room for conscience in Australia. [More…]
In my opinion there is no more important issue confronting this Parliament and this country because it is a question of the future of government, the future of authority and the future standing of a government in Australia, whether it be Liberal, Labor or anything else, which has been elected by democratic processes. [More…]
I suppose one could go through the history books and discover many instances of individuals who have advocated anarchy or mutiny or treason, but I would say that this surely must be the first time in history when, in a democratic country, the leader of a party which regards itself as close to being in a position to form a Government elected by democratic process has advocated a course of disobedience of and disregard for the law. [More…]
The Australian people have a long history of supporting and accepting the laws made by the democratically elected Government of the country. [More…]
The laws have not always been easy or pleasant laws for many of the people to accept but the Australian community has shown a responsibility towards the maintenance of the rule of law over the last 100 years, a record of respect for laws democratically arrived at I would say there is no better record to be found in the world than the record we have. [More…]
I am sure the Australian public will not have a bar of a political leader or a political party which has shown contempt for the law and the due processes of democratic government and has openly preached law breaking. [More…]
What we are witnessing today is a government that is prepared to design a system of spying and surveillance in modern, democratic Australia. [More…]
ls it possible for the law (not all hut some or one) passed by a democratic government to be unjust? [More…]
There are people who argue that a fairer and more democratic system should be devised and perhaps some system of proportional representation could be devised for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The first past the post system, which is advocated by honourable members opposite, is obviously unfair and undemocratic when one looks into it because minority groups in the community would virtually be disfranchised. [More…]
My argument based on this simple illustration is that if we are to have at some future time a change in the method of voting let us have a fair and democratic system and one which will truly give a proper reflection of the wishes of the people. [More…]
I was most interested in his statement that he wanted a fair democratic system for voting and his criticism of the first past the post system. [More…]
If we are going to argue that way about democratic processes we have at least to be consistent. [More…]
The preservation of our democratic system and balanced development of our nation. [More…]
As I say, it is a piece of national humiliation; if is selectively unjust and ought not to be tolerated by a democratic parliamentary system. [More…]
In one dispute my own union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, was fined a few thousand dollars because it refused to revoke a democratic decision to limit overtime to 12 hours. [More…]
The basic concept that all within a given local authority area are both taxed and represented is a fundamental democratic principle. [More…]
Political opposition to a particular war should be expressed through recognised democratic processes and should claim no special right of exemption from democratic decisions. [More…]
It wins Australian Democratic Labor Party preferences for the Government and I supect that that is now the Government’s real war aim. [More…]
This has been brought about because we have been free to pursue our policies and our democratic government without fear of threats. [More…]
Our policy is to support democratic countries to our north; to give them an opportunity to preserve their way of life. [More…]
For example, in the United Kingdom under the Labor Government it was found that between I I per cent and 14 per cent of households were at poverty level and it increased during the period that the Labor Government - the Democratic Socialists - had power. [More…]
How this is to be achieved must remain one of the greatest challenges to democratic parliaments. [More…]
Only in the case of national security, important cases of the national interest, or where freedom of an individual’s privacy are involved, should actions be taken in secrecy in a democratic society. [More…]
In the great majority of cases, open and fair reporting leads to a more informed public opinion from which our representative democratic government system can function better, lt is an important element of democracy that a continuing striving for improvement in communication exists. [More…]
In the very limited time at my disposal in this debate I want to refer to a point which is of very great concern to all members of a democratic institution. [More…]
We finish up with the motto - this could well apply to honourable members opposite but not to any democratic institution such as the Australian Army - that they are required to live up to, namely, constant vigilance, eternal suspicion. [More…]
Yet the Minister for Defence claims it to bc a matter of democratic principle for our army to rely on a pool of conscripts. [More…]
The Condamine has water in it only once a year and then for only a very brief period, so it does not make great demands on one’s democratic values. [More…]
The Government has changed its policy through pressure from its own extreme right wing and the threat of the removal of support by the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Now, it seems to me utter hypocrisy for newspapers or any other commentator in Australia to commend the Democratic Labor Party for doing this. [More…]
Mow could the Democratic Labor Party have done it without the resolute stand taken by the vast majority of senators in Opposition, namely those from my own Party, the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I do not think anybody ought to be proud of legislation validating in retrospect what has already been collected in many cases, what has been sent in to State stamp duty offices in other cases under protest, and in still further cases what is awaiting the decision of this House as to whether it has to be sent in in the form of duties from 18th November, when the Hamersley case was first decided, to 30th September, the date decided by that other partner in the present Government coalition, namely the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Unlike the Australian Democratic Labor Party, we are not doing deals in any corridors. [More…]
I conclude by stating that I hope there will be a change of heart by the other Party in the coalition, the Australian Democratic Labor Party, and that its members will not allow us to tag on to them the responsibility which will be theirs for seeing that this tax is collected even up to 30th September. [More…]
He referred many, many times to Senator Gair and to the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I can only reflect while he was talking about this matter that he regretted that the Democratic Labor Party had sufficient influence apparently to make with the Government some arrangements which were of advantage to some of the people of Australia. [More…]
Secondly, the Government, having made its decision to go ahead with this legislation when it first came before this House, should not have succumbed to the political blackmail of the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate, whose main objective was to preserve the political life of the DLP representative in Queensland. [More…]
How can we help this self-motivating, self-generating programme about which some of my colleagues have spoken and in which Aboriginals can be involved in democratic processes in efforts to advance their own affairs? [More…]
This year, for political reasons, we saw that rump Party in the other place - the Australian Democratic Labor Party - elect to oppose it. [More…]
After all, the experience of its own people in office, of Democratic Socialist parties in office, makes it quite clear that the Opposition has a love of inflation which this Government has not had. [More…]
That is democratic responsibility. [More…]
In fact it is on a par with the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
If not, will action be taken to strengthen the ability of the Government to preserve those freedoms that we have long accepted in Australia as part of our freedom loving democratic way of life? [More…]
It is the question of access which 1 believe, irrespective of the present instance, is one of the challenges of a modern democratic society. [More…]
In that way it seems to us that there will be a greater trend to a democratic process. [More…]
As I understand it, the proposed changes to the legislation to alter the Council come about as a result of a request by students or other groups within the university to make the Council more democratic. [More…]
We live in a democracy and we pretend that we are educating people to live in that democracy, but we use anything but democratic procedures in order to arrange or run our educational processes. [More…]
If education means anything in a democratic society it ought to reach out and use the advice, the suggestions, the active participation and the interest of so many other people in the community. [More…]
It is important to remember that when Sir Allen Fairhall made this speech the Government was in full flight under pressure from the Democratic Labor Party from the Freeth doctrine of using a short spoon when supping with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Then he handed the microphone to Harry Van Moorst of the Students for a Democratic Society. [More…]
For how much longer will the Government spend lives in Vietnam in order to save Australian Democratic Labor Party preferences? [More…]
It states in its first sentence that its objective is ‘the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange.’ [More…]
This House of the Parliament is the most important centre in the democratic system of administration of this country - theoretically anyway. [More…]
I am afraid 1 have come to the conclusion that the only reason why this battalion was dispatched in the last week or so is that the Government is afraid of its Democratic Labor Party allies and that it wanted to guarantee continued support of DLP second preferences at election times. [More…]
He said: lt seems to me that a community organised on democratic lines is entitled to determine for itself, in accordance with its legislative processes, what values it regards as worthy of preservation. [More…]
Given the availability of democratic processes, there is no need for an objective definition of what is harmful. [More…]
What is important is that discussion has taken place on a question where subjective judgments only can be made, and this in a very real sense is a worth while example of democratic government. [More…]
It has provided an example of the proposition that democratic equality is not an equality of sameness but of difference. [More…]
Recorded Vote:In favour: Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussia, Cambodia, Canada, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo (Democratic Republic of), Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana., Greece, Guatemala, Guinea,. [More…]
Is it because the Opposition believes that South Vietnam is not worthy of some protection, not worthy of an opportunity to work out its own future and not worthy of an opportunity to have an independent viable democratic government? [More…]
It is no good having good crops, fine motor cars, excellent housing, congenial living or even a democratic government if we cannot protect those assets. [More…]
It was a case of the people of the north coast of New South Wales winning a significant democratic battle because they had a member in this Parliament who was prepared to speak for them and to play a vital part in developing this country. [More…]
How did the Government get its place as the government in the community in this democratic country? [More…]
May I turn to the Opposition because I believe here we have a system that is the very negation of a system of democratic government. [More…]
That Executive is controlled not by a democratic system, not by a system of universal franchise, not by a system of representative government; it is there because 60 per cent of the members are put up by the trade unions. [More…]
The Liberal Party relies on the support of 2 barnacle parties in order to govern - on the one hand, the bovine, bucolic Country Party and, on the other hand, the erratic, inconsistent and blackmailing Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
An election must take place or our democratic system will be further weakened. [More…]
; of others and of meeting the requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]
White collar crime is extensive and unless this Parliament studies the problem we will be weakening the strength of this democratic nation. [More…]
They seem to be more concerned about youths who want to demonstrate publicly, openly and honestly to express themselves in their own democratic procedure. [More…]
This is the position faced by people who want to demonstrate publicly in a democratic and open way against, in most cases, the war in Vietnam. [More…]
Surely we cannot continue for much longer to see a situation in which a party that receives a smaller percentage of votes in House of Representatives elections than does even the Democratic Labor Party wins 20-odd seats in this place. [More…]
By this means we might diminish the value of the votes of such groups as the United Farmers and Graziers Association, whose candidates stood for the first time in Western Australia during the recent elections, and the Democratic Labor Party whose candidates contest most seats throughout Australia. [More…]
I believe that the present system is not democratic but is a poor shadow of democratic voting. [More…]
The prestige and dignity of Parliament are vital to the maintenance of a democratic system of government, and at this early point of time I can assure the House that there will be no lack of. [More…]
Even if the Thieu regime were reformist or democratic, it has 2 insuperable disqualifications for genuine support in that country. [More…]
I gave the Prime Minister a chance to support the important principle of democratic government. [More…]
I think it is fitting this evening that I place on record some facts associated with the Country Party proposals to gerrymander the Queensland electoral boundaries, a gerrymander that will certainly destroy democratic government in Queensland for many years to come and will guarantee that the Country Party-Liberal Party coalition will remain in power for many years, lt will also guarantee that the Liberal Party, now the junior party in the coalition, will have no hope of replacing the Country Party as the senior coalition party. [More…]
No electoral system in a country which claims to be democratic can justify making one person’s vote only half as valuable as that of another person. [More…]
The Prime Minister has now gone on record as saying that he intends to shirk his responsibility - a responsibility, might I remind him, which is seen not only in the eyes of his fellow Australians but also in the eyes of many of our Asiatic neighbours who themselves are striving towards democratic forms of government and in the eyes of the whole world. [More…]
Surely honourable members on the Government back benches have the same interest as Opposition members to sec that they have the opportunity to utilise this most democratic and most important period of the day in this House. [More…]
It is an intrinsic right in the Parliament - one of the few acts of democratic government which remain and which are still permitted to members of the Opposition - that a member should be permitted to ask questions. [More…]
This statement expresses the basic principles of a democratic society, that there should be free elections and that those elections should reflect the will of the majority. [More…]
This Bill seeks to preserve the basis of democratic elections by ensuring that those elected individually or as a government shall reflect the wishes of the majority. [More…]
Its purpose is not designed for the advantages of any party or individual but, by an amendment of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, to provide for a truly democratic election to the House of Representatives. [More…]
Pending this review of the Act, the Opposition proposes these three major amendments as the basis on which a democratic vote may be registered by the people of Australia in the election of their government. [More…]
This makes a mockery of our pretensions to a truly democratic system. [More…]
In a democratic society there can be no justification for a country storekeeper, a rural worker or an office worker having more value in his vote than city persons in the same category have. [More…]
All people have equal democratic rights and they should be treated accordingly in electoral redistribution. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party represents a very practical example of the manipulation of the preferential voting system and the election of minority governments, lt claims to be a Labor Party, picks candidates where possible to be first on the ballot paper and allocates its preferences to non-Labor candidates. [More…]
This in fact indicates support for the ‘first past the post’ system where a democratic election would have given the people the candidate of their choice. [More…]
It is the simplest and most democratic method and gives to the elector the candidate of his choice without the complications of voting for candidates in order of preference in which the voter has no interest whatever. [More…]
‘First past the post’ voting is not the be all and end all of democratic elections, but by the introduction of one-vote-one-value and the introduction of this system it is reasonable to assume that governments elected will be those chosen by the majority and not, as Malcolm McKerras described this Government, as ‘a second preference government’. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party exploits this situation to the limit. [More…]
I feel that it is hardly necessary to elaborate on this proposal at great length as common sense dictates that the democratic practice to adopt is to draw for positions on the ballot paper. [More…]
This Bill represents major steps in Labor’s policy for the democratic reform of the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
Clearly, this is an attempt by the Labor Party to destroy the Democratic Labor Party, the Australia Party and any other small parties in the Australian system. [More…]
We see this position very much better if we consider the situation in Queensland at the moment where members of the Liberal Party, to their great credit, have crossed the floor of the Queensland Legislative Assembly to vote with the Australian Labor Party to secure a democratic redistribution in that State. [More…]
We want a democratic distribution of electors so that the people elect as the government the Party to which they give the majority of their votes. [More…]
The point at issue is that we want a more democratic society and a more democratic system of voting. [More…]
But we all know that in recent times certain political parties, notably the so-called Democratic Labor Party, have chosen candidates with names which would put them ahead of a Labor candidate on the ballot paper in order that voters’ preferences may have been directed towards Government candidates. [More…]
This Government was re-elected with the assistance of Democratic Labor Party preferences. [More…]
Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo and all are members of the current Agreement. [More…]
It is a vital and fundamental principle of a democratic society. [More…]
Civilian control of the armed forces is a sine quo non in a democratic way of life. [More…]
On 26th March the President made the statement that his aim was to restore parliamentary and democratic government to the elected representatives of East Pakistan and West Pakistan as soon as this proved practicable. [More…]
The buck-passing between the Commonwealth and the States has eroded the foundations of democratic responsibility end accountability. [More…]
What is wrong, from a democratic point of view, with the trade union slogan of ‘Let them all enjoy the same benefits’? [More…]
As is well known on this side of the House, before elections a bitter campaign of hate is always launched against China in an endeavour to side with the Democratic [More…]
I believe this has been the attitude of Mr Anthony in association with the third partner of the ramshackle coalition - the Australian Democratic Labor Party - which has prevented the implementation of that decision. [More…]
No restrictions may be placed on the exercise of this right other than those imposed in conformity with the law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, public order, the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
If the few anti-democratic violent minorities get away with it, then the rights of all legitimate dissenting minorities are endangered. [More…]
For it would be surprising if the necessary democratic emphases of today turned out to be the same as those of yesterday. [More…]
It thus safeguards our democratic institutions and enables them to continue to evolve creatively to the ultimate benefit of individuals, for to the liberal a person’s life is his most important possession and it is of the utmost significance how that life is lived. [More…]
I and of fundamental importance in a democratic country. [More…]
in the exercise of his rights everyone shall bc subject to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing recognition nf the rights of others and of meeting the requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]
There is little doubt that in Australia, as in other democratic . [More…]
countries, some of these threats to law and order and safety are the work of subversive elements who are adept at using democratic processes for their own ends. [More…]
Although the right of dissent is one of the features that distinguishes democratic countries such as Australia from oppressive dictatorships, there are some people in the community who abuse this democratic right. [More…]
There is no excuse for this in a community in which changes of the law can be brought about by peaceful processes through the channels of democratic government. [More…]
But I say again that I believe it is most reprehensible for any member of Parliament or anyone in a position of authority to influence younger people in particular to break the law when there are, as the article 1 just quoted states, democratic processes for obtaining this objective. [More…]
This is something which is very dear to any democratic country. [More…]
In fact, in my opinion it is the basis of the democratic system and the process of law as we know it in Australia today, and we certainly want to maintain the position which has existed over the years. [More…]
The whole process of law is something which we must at all times continue to observe, if we want freedom and a democratic system in this country. [More…]
Surely if we are to live under a democratic system we should have a law which will protect people’s property. [More…]
Under a democratic system we will [More…]
We .value our democratic system in Australia! [More…]
I believe that it is the Government’s .responsibility to ensure that our democratic, system is maintained. [More…]
I appreciate that differences of opinion are often expressed in this House between the Government and the Opposition as to the best method of maintaining our democratic system. [More…]
At least we should give them the democratic right to express their views. [More…]
From the point of view of the Opposition we are particularly concerned about people demonstrating for their democratic rights in respect of legislation for which there is no mandate, particularly from the trade union movement when demonstrating against injustice. [More…]
The honourable member for Ryan (Mr Drury) spoke about democratic processes. [More…]
What democratic processes? [More…]
Is he going to tell me that Queensland is democratic, with Premier Bjelke-Petersen running it the way he does and representing nobody as he does, or that Victoria is democratic with Sir Henry Bolte who cannot even get an absolute majority in his own electorate running that State? [More…]
I particularly will reject for myself and in any way I can those provisions of it which place upon the lower courts powers of imprisonment, which I do not think they ought to have, and which place in the hands of officials, whether it be the Attorney-General, a police sergeant or someone else, the right to decide whether a case will proceed or not and the right to decide on some of our fundamental and absolutely inalienable democratic rights. [More…]
I doubt whether there is any member of this House who would not agree that one of the fundamental democratic rights is that of dissent. [More…]
On the other hand, democratic authority is identifiable and often identified and responsible to an electorate. [More…]
We are faced with a fundamental difficulty in our democratic way of life. [More…]
But one of the weaknesses of this permissiveness and of the liberalism of our democratic way of life- certainly as expressed in this country - is that it does not crack down on those who are not playing the game. [More…]
It would be possible, under this legislation, for a diplomat from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to be offended if he were present or in the vicinity when the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) or the Leaders of the Democratic Labor Party next make an address at celebrations of ‘Captive Nations Week’. [More…]
These are the sorts of phrases used continually by such great democratic newspapers as ‘Pravda’ and ‘Izvetsia’. [More…]
When this Bill was debated in the Senate it was quite obvious that the Government would be defeated because the Democratic Labor Party objected to this period of 5 years. [More…]
The Government has said that if the period were 5 years the chances of a rural producer having to go to court were remote, but that now that the Democratic Labor Party has forced it to accept this amendment and make the period 3 years, it may not be able to be so lenient and an offender may have to go to court and take the consequences. [More…]
Now, because the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate was opposed to the 5 year period, this compromise period of 3 years has been selected. [More…]
In other words, there is an essence in this argument that someone, if I can put it in the vernacular of the Opposition, who is a bludger on his mates, someone who is a scab on a union - whether he be a Tasmanian or the original founder of the Democratic Labor Party of Australia or anything else is beside the point - someone whom the Opposition inherently should distrust should be caught before he, and again to use the vernacular of the Opposition, succeeds in bludging on his mates. [More…]
Honourable members opposite argued strongly that the period should be 5 years but, because the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate objected, they reduced it to 3 years. [More…]
When this Bill went to the Senate an amendment to the clause providing for that 5-year period was passed because the Australian Democratic Labor Party voted with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Amendments to this Act were rushed through Parliament in I960, as a matter of extreme urgency, to protect us from threats to our democratic way of life. [More…]
The only use that has been made of this Act has been to limit the democratic rights of our public servants. [More…]
When will the Government cease to provoke people of conscience who wish only to express themselves in what they believe to be a democratic manner in a democratic country? [More…]
We have used the terms ‘democracy’ and ‘democratic’ very loosely. [More…]
Every honourable member on the other side of the House should bear in mind that what distinguishes a democratic society is not the extent of public order. [More…]
What in fact distinguishes a democratic society is the freedom and tolerance that the society gives to individuals and groups to think as they see fit, to feel as they choose, to express their views as individuals, to organise together as groups in assemblies, to express their views in order to publicise those views and to change government thinking. [More…]
These are the characteristics of a democratic society. [More…]
What the Government has done in this Bill has been to say that there are two factors - the democratic rights of individuals and public order. [More…]
There can be no truth whatsoever in the claim which is often made by supporters of the Government, and which lies behind this sort of Bill, that a government is democratic purely by virtue of the fact that it happens to represent majority thinking. [More…]
But a democratic society cannot subordinate so grossly the rights - of individuals and minorities, as the Government does through this Bill. [More…]
Order and liberty are the basic elements in the democratic dichotomy and it is both wise and necessary to keep the balance under constant review. [More…]
Such an assembly, if a peaceful one that does not cause harm and danger to other people, must be the very essence of a democratic society, but there is no guarantee in this Bill in relation to such assemblies. [More…]
We want a situation in which we can listen to the minority point of view because 1 regard the right to express a minority point of view as of prime importance in a democratic society. [More…]
That incident itself was a form of demonstration against national service and involved the right of young people to express their opposition to government policy, a right which should be accorded to all people in any democratic country. [More…]
There are provisions in that Act which are a disgrace not only to this Government but also to this country and which would be a disgrace to any democratic society. [More…]
That is a most dangerous situation because it can be guaranteed that with powers like this it will be possible for agents provocateur, for members of the Democratic Labor Party, members of the Nazi Party and for other extremists of the right or, in other cases, extremists of the left, to cause violence. [More…]
Democratic Labour Party, members of the Nazi Party or members of any extremist right wing group whose aim is to destroy an assembly? [More…]
For too long we have reacted emotionally to massive campaigns depicting the downward thrust of China, of technicolour Democratic Labor Party and Government propaganda of the Red threat oozing over South East Asia and dripping on to Australia. [More…]
That was why the democratic procedure was finished. [More…]
even begin to assess Chinese policy, and the ridiculous debates in this House because the Government can get the preferences of the Democratic Labor Party by yak-yak-yak about Red China are a disgrace to this Parliament and would be unacceptable in a high school. [More…]
AH major political parties - the Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the Country Party and Democratic Labor Party - say they are opposed to these policies, but with the exception of the Labor Party none of them is prepared to make even a token gesture towards helping to change them. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister further: Is he aware that in South Africa there is practically 100 per cent freedom of the Press and religion, that passports for departure from the country are freely available, that there is a fair judiciary and that there are other signs of democratic freedom? [More…]
Only by including primary industry in the buoyant economy that is apparent in our metropolitan areas can we be sure of adhering to democratic principles and promoting national development. [More…]
Bill went to the Senate, the Australian Democratic Labor Party put forward the argument that the5year period provided was too long. [More…]
The Government now seeks to amend this Bill to provide for a period of 3 years, after the Democratic Labor Party and others in the Senate had jogged its memory about what happened in regard to the dried fruits legislation. [More…]
The other major tin exporting countries arc Malaysia, Bolivia, Thailand, Indonesia, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House wil give leadership to other citizens by declaring adherence to the general principle of working for a democratic legislative, judicial and executive authority, with constitutionally limited and adequate powers over armaments and disarmament, and over diversion of a proportion of war budgets to a world development fund. [More…]
I believe that one of the vital elements in a democratic community is intercommunication between citizen and citizen, between government and citizen and between citizen and government. [More…]
I am led to believe that senior authorities of the Berrima gaol were prepared to condone these actions by the prisoners if people exercised their democratic right as individuals to demonstrate outside the gaol. [More…]
They are not fit to be members of any parliament in any democratic society. [More…]
most responsible and highest institution within the democratic structure of this country. [More…]
We had to wait until the approval of the Australian Democratic Labor Party was secured. [More…]
At present on the notice paper we have the greatest list of executions since the French Revolution - 17 guillotines in one motion, an amazing proposition for any democratic Parliament. [More…]
Can honourable members imagine anything worse happening in a democratic parliament? [More…]
As the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner), the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) and honourable members on this side of the House have said so adequately, eloquently and continuously today, we are departing so serously from the traditions of general parliamentary government and democratic rights that, we are putting the Parliament itself in a hopeless position. [More…]
When I pause on occasions such as this and consider the operations of the majority of honourable members opposite and the thoughtless and discourteous way in which they proceed with their functions, I see how hopeless is the position of those people who do not live in democratic communities such as ours where there are some traditions. [More…]
As I listened to the speech of the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz), I had to think twice whether I was listening to the president of a benevolent society or to a Minister in a democratic Parliament. [More…]
Is it any wonder that today the notable honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) stood up in this Parliament and warned the Prime Minister: ‘You will be brought down if you do not let democratic procedures take their course.’ [More…]
Even those countries which are not notable for their devotion to democratic practices call their systems parliamentary. [More…]
When are those members on the other side of the House who take a stand for democratic and individual rights like the honourable member for Holt (Mr Reid), the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown), who pretends to have some legal background, and the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) who has mostly background, going to really deal with matters that are of significance right here and now? [More…]
Little did I ever think that I would see the Parliament run in this way by a government that says it is democratic. [More…]
It is also a recognition of the most important feature of restrictive trade practices, namely, somehow working out a system that makes business accountable in a democratic way. [More…]
It is clear that there will be a repetition of what happened yesterday when the Parliament sat through the early hours of the morning until 6.30 a.m. Noone could seriously suggest that this is the way a responsible Parliament should act in a so-called democratic institution. [More…]
But I think that the Government has not a democratic conception of education at all. [More…]
I do not believe that where prosecutions are not automatic but at a person’s discretion the democratic system is served. [More…]
Mr Speaker, trade unions in this country are an accepted part of our democratic fabric and they have a major role to play over the whole of the industrial relations scene. [More…]
The Minister’s statement is due to his temperamental failure to distinguish between violence and democratic processes. [More…]
It is part of the great democratic framework and structure of this nation. [More…]
lt is the ‘ practice which best suits the executive in our democratic parliamentary system. [More…]
I would just say about national service that I have arrived at the conclusion at this stage in my life, when I am safely beyond military age, that in the first instance no-one has the right to dispose of another’s life or freedom, that national service is the ultimate act of violence by the community against a minority of its own members and that that cannot be tolerated in a modern democratic society. [More…]
But there is the utter loneliness of the 20-year-old which is inflicted upon him by the community at large, by the Liberal Party voters in every electorate, by the Country Party voters in every electorate, by the Democratic Labor Party voters in every electorate and by honourable members opposite. [More…]
Why have honourable members opposite been so monolithic in their support when in the United States both Republicans and Democrats alike have opposed their Government’s policy, whether it be Democratic policy or Republican policy? [More…]
We do not increase our influence by taking that kind of action, but at least I feel 1 can say to this House 2 things: President Yahya Khan has publicly expressed his intention of transferring power, in an orderly way and in a stable environment, to democratic civilian institutions. [More…]
So following years of exploitation and the democratic election of a government, the Assembly was never convened. [More…]
These include countries such as Sweden and West Germany with governments of impeccable Democratic Socialist credentials. [More…]
It is a shocking judgment of a society that bases its legislation on a democratic principle. [More…]
The bench also pointed to the effect which recognition of selective objection could have on other men who agree with the particular objector at all points, but nevertheless would not seek exemption or assert their selective objection because they held themselves bound by democratic processes under which the Government has decided that the objections raised to the particular conflict should be overridden. [More…]
This situation is no longer tolerable in an Aus* tralian democratic society. [More…]
A. Santamaria and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Country Party or the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I think that the statement by the present Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) shows a certain soundness and objectiveness that was lacking in his recent statements about foreign affairs because he appeared to be drifting in the direction of the right wing Democratic Labor Party stance in Australian politics. [More…]
He was speaking to get Australian Democratic Labor Party preferences at the next election. [More…]
As the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) said this afternoon, honourable members opposite are living in fear of losing the preferences of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
These councils and conferences dictate policy to the Labor members of Parliament who therefore are denied the basic democratic right of representing in this Parliament al) the people. [More…]
Only yesterday, the Leader of the Opposition was bravely waging war on these outmoded, irrelevant and anti-democratic ideas on which his Party is based. [More…]
The honourable member appeared to suggest that this was an undemocratic practice. [More…]
I believe that it is an absolutely democratic practice. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) has decided that only those people who are prepared to support extreme right wing ideas will gain his support because the Liberal Party is such a democratic organisation that its members have absolutely no say in who will run the Party and no say in what policies will be finally formulated. [More…]
to unite as one and to make common effort to assist the People’s Liberation Army to put down the rebellion quickly, to consolidate national defence, to assert the interests of the people of all nationalities, to declare social order and to strive for the building of the new democratic and socialist Tibet’. [More…]
In submitting proposals to the Secretary-General regarding the review of the United Nations’ Charter, which are required before 1st July 1972, will the Government give consideration to the need to move for (a) negotiating an international exchange of press space and broadcasting time, (b) representation for China and Tibet separately (as for the Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Byelorussia) to encourage China to accept de facto representation for Taiwan, and separate representation for contending regimes in other divided countries, (c) universal suffrage in developing nations as a step towards democratic representation at the General Assembly or an associated House of Deputies and (d) growing legislative, judicial and executive powers for the United Nations as a pre-requisite for total disarmament, co-ordinated world development and control of the environment, subject to safeguards for national sovereignty in purely national matters? [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will give leadership to other citizens by declaring adherence to the general principle of working for a democratic legislative, judicial and executive authority, with constitutionally limited and adequate powers over armaments and disarmament and over diversion of a proportion of war budgets to a world development fund. [More…]
He knows that this is the situation so far as Ministers are concerned not only in this Parliament but also in practically every Parliament in the world which has a democratic system. [More…]
I want to see some balance brought into this Parliament if there is to be a democratic approach. [More…]
Under this socalled democratic procedure, how can we examine minutely the legislation before the House? [More…]
The Prime Minister’s decision to appoint Assistant Ministers is apparently to broaden the base of the establishment in the parliamentary Liberal Party to stifle his critics so that when the Liberal Party caucus comes to determine whether rank and file members of the Liberal Party should, in a democratic way, elect the Ministry and Cabinet any criticism of the Prime Minister will be stifled. [More…]
I hope that if that happens we - that, is the so-called allies - will use all our influence in any peace settlement to protect those democratic elements in South Vietnam from incarceration and/or execution. [More…]
South Africa is only very superficially an anti-Communist bulwark; on the contrary, it is one of the worse burdens we are carrying unnecessarily in an attempt to show the world that the democratic system is preferable to a totalitarian system. [More…]
They certainly have not paved the way for the election of a democratic government there. [More…]
No democratic government, however, can shoulder the burden of overseas military operations without heavily preponderant electoral support. [More…]
The answer to the first part of the question is that undoubtedly it is in Australia’s interest that the Indo-Chinese peninsula should be free, that each of the 4 countries there should be able to make up its mind as to what kind of government it wants and that the people of those countries also should have the democratic right to determine whom they want as a government in that context. [More…]
The buckpassing between the Commonwealth and the States under the guise of discussions on Commonwealth-State financial relations has eroded the foundations of democratic responsibility and accountability. [More…]
They are sick to death of strikes, demonstrations and the would-be Fascist dictators like Mr Hawke who are trying to take power out of the hands of this democratically elected Government. [More…]
It is the boasted policy of the extreme left and the Communists, many of whom control the largest industrial unions in this country - I am not calling them Communists, because they profess that they are Communists - to destroy a democratic society by promoting strikes, unemployment, hunger and misery. [More…]
What is more democratic than a compulsory secret ballot? [More…]
I am a strong supporter of democratically elected unions and nobody can tell me that employers would not exploit employees if we did not have unions. [More…]
But let us have democratic unions and not the farce which exists in so many areas today. [More…]
The unions must have responsible and democratically elected leaders representative of the people in the work force. [More…]
What sinister purpose has the Government in making this continual attack on our democratic framework? [More…]
With the overall trend of joint participation by Australian and overseas financial institutions, the hope of Australian control of our financial destiny will become even more remote unless the Government is prepared to take strong action to protect us as most democratic governments protect their people. [More…]
It is educationally sound that the Government should support variety and flexibility in schools, especially as that would allow the citizens the democratic right to choose the type of education they want their children to receive. [More…]
I believe this demand will never be satisfied, or avoided, whatever economic system is put into operation, unless you cast aside the democratic processes and impose a dictatorship of some form or another. [More…]
I move this motion because I believe that by continually using its numbers and its powers to gag debates so that statements can go unchallenged, the Government, and the Ministery especially, are deliberately depriving this nation of a proper democratic process of government through procedures. [More…]
They have never been adequately investigated and they are not responsible to any democratically elected bodies. [More…]
Intervention and stimulus by public power - not private power - are necessary in a democratic Australia. [More…]
Any members who are interested in Parliament and the survival of a democratic system; any members who think that the handing over of the function df Parliament to the media is not in the interests of the people of this country - I believe these matters to be not unimportant - will find the whole thing in a report of a select committee of the House of Commons in 1966 and the ensuing debate. [More…]
Albania; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentina; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Canada; Ceylon; China; Republic of Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Ecuador - all literate citizens; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic (East Germany); Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia; Netherlands; Nicaragua - literate or married persons; Poland; Rumania; United Kingdom; Uruguay; U.S.S.R.; Venezuela; Vietnam (North); Vietnam (South) and Yugoslavia. [More…]
For that reason, and taking that as a democratic guide, we should insist on our rights at every possible opportunity. [More…]
Spending at this level may well be the least the Government can do without feeling the lash of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Three of those countries are lead by Democratic Socialist governments. [More…]
The governments in both of these countries now are trying to adjust the economy and reduce unemployment by applying some democratic socialistic measures. [More…]
T believe that the Department should have a quick look at this new device because one thing that we value in our democracy is the privacy of our own homes and if spies can get at us by using this device we have no more privacy and a very important feature of our democratic life has been destroyed. [More…]
I believe it is a fundamental part of democratic society that we can communicate with one another quickly, efficiently and economically. [More…]
I did read a statement that Mr Ali Bhutto had informed President Yahya Khan that his party would not be prepared to accept an enforced solution which deprived the people of their right to- vote in a properly conducted democratic election. [More…]
In a democratic system the reaction is milder but still unpleasant. [More…]
The other 2 pressure groups controlling this Government are the Democratic Labor Party and the Australian Country Party. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party stopped the former Prime Minister from holding a House of Representatives election in 1968 when he had everyone keyed up for it, including his own party. [More…]
Yesterday or the day before the President of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria was involved with the Students for Democratic Society, who are against conscription and who appear to want only the complete wrecking of any defences in Australia. [More…]
time comes this stupid idea of conscription will long ago have been swept under the carpet where it belongs and forgotten in a country which claims to be democratic and which claims to be seeking in equality the good life for all its citizens. [More…]
When he contested a seat for the Australian Democratic Labor Party and found that Party could not win a seat in this House, he changed his political beliefs for those of the Australian Country Party so that he might find his way into this place. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray thai your honourable House will give leadership to other citizens by declaring adherence to the general principle of working for a democratic legislative, judicial and executive authority, with constitutionally, limited and adequate powers over armaments and disarmament, and over diversion of a proportion of war budgets to a world development fund. [More…]
I have met heads of villages and hamlets who have been elected on a number of occasions as a result of free democratic elections. [More…]
That is less than the Australian Democratic Labor Party receives. [More…]
He was a supporter of the Australian Democratic Labor Party when he first attended university and in his last year at school. [More…]
It is extremely important to remember that there are many people who are basically the most democratic people in our society, who are more concerned about democracy than almost anybody else, who do more for democracy to continue to exist in our society, but who are being turned off by our sort of society and by the actions of this Government. [More…]
We believe that it is a principle that ought to be accepted by any democratic government that if the right of conscientious objection is to be recognised there ought to be the opportunity for a person to express his objection to a particular war. [More…]
Surely this is a democratic process that has been accepted in other countries in relation to their conscientious objection provisions. [More…]
Some of the more interesting debates which took place at The Hague - from my point of view anyhow - were on the various concepts of democratic government and parliamentary democracy represented at that conference. [More…]
No doubt Press criticism of the Parliament is degrading and it is having a serious impact upon the confidence of the public in the democratic procedures of this Parliament. [More…]
As much as the majority parties in this Parliament may criticise it, the Australian Democratic Labor Party has brought about something that our founding fathers always thought would occur. [More…]
If one attends a meeting such as the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference in Malaysia which I recently attended, and if one takes part in a debate for example on a topic such as government and democracy or democratic institutions, and listens to the views of people from Africa, Asia and elsewhere as well as of those from the long established democracies of the British Commonwealth, one will come to a viewpoint fairly readily that we have here, however imperfect, a form of democracy which many people in the world would be exceedingly happy to emulate if in fact they could manage to do so. [More…]
We have our foot somewhere up the middle flight of stairs leading in the direction of knowing that we have a democratic institution, knowing that we are supposed to represent the people at large and, basically speaking, doing so from what would appear to be a reasonably equitable basis of representation. [More…]
I have democratic socialist principles and that seems to me to mean that we identify and accept that there arc 2 classes of people in the community. [More…]
It means: ‘Holding the place of, and acting for, a larger body of persons in the work of governing or legislating; pertaining to, or based upon, a system by which the people is thus represented’; and on this issue I believe we have to speak as representatives in the strict sense of the word because one of the democratic dilemmas is to get governments to respond. [More…]
It is not just a part of the Australian pattern of life; it is part of the democratic pattern throughout the world. [More…]
How could the Government appoint an all-party committee when the Opposition has shown such disregard for democratic principles in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
It is no good having all the good things we have - a democratic government, a democratic Parliament, good houses, motor cars and all the other things that make for good living - unless they can be protected, so the first priority must be defence. [More…]
In addition it is time that the Australian Government grasped the nettle, went to the United Nations and indicated that it is concerned with basic democratic principles and concerned with the need to give the people of East Pakistan the opportunity to govern themselves. [More…]
The preservation of our democratic system and balanced development of our nation. [More…]
Unlike the permissive Left which now seems to be taking a predominant position in the Labor Party, the right honourable member for Melbourne believes in democratic government, and he always did. [More…]
Unlike the new extreme Left, he does not believe in violence or in the breaking of the law; he believes in changing the law democratically. [More…]
Our policy would also preserve the democratic system of balanced development of our nation and our national and economic security. [More…]
I cannot conceive of anything more absurd in a democratic system than what happens to what are described as medical payments. [More…]
The principle of the higher the income, the greater the benefit seems to me to be the reverse of any kind of democratic standard. [More…]
I believe, however, that they are, because of our processess of democracy, debauching the democratic system as we know it. [More…]
Perhaps holding executive membership of the Australian Democratic Labor Party would not be common, but certainly dropping out from the priesthood and other institutions is very small peas as an allegation about somebody who is fully employed in the interests of his fellow working men. [More…]
I think one of the important things about the Tariff Board work here is to realise that the Board ought to be regarded as a part of a system of democratic government. [More…]
Under the 1962 Foreign Assistance Act - there is no foreign assistance for Australia but a lot of the countries were receiving assistance - the Americans define the following countries as Communist: Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Korea, North Vietnam, Outer Mongolia, the Polish Peoples Republic, Rumania, Tibet, Yugoslavia, Cuba and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Nevertheless he admitted that the Treasury had made quantitative forecasts of the probable level of unemployment in coming months; these forecasts are presumably not fit for the eyes and ears of this democratic nation. [More…]
However, the process of successfully matching so many young people possessing a wide range of abilities, personalities and job ambitions with employers who have an almost equally wide range of vacancies cannot be done overnight, at least not in a democratic community where people are not only free to choose employment but also free to refuse employment. [More…]
It is a necessity for a free and democratic society Privilege should be used only on rare occasions. [More…]
But I do not want to see this Parliament make a recommendation that will place too much restriction on editors of newspapers by requiring them to check on people who wish to print letters in the Press, because if there is one forum in our society that brings about more democratic discussion amongst the people and an expression of opinion from the people it is letters to the editor. [More…]
He maintained that this is a great democratic principle which allows certain people to put their views forward. [More…]
His latest gaffe was to attack a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States of America, Senator Edmund Muskie, for predicting what we all know in our hearts to be most likely to happen - the dominance of the North Vietnam regime in the administration of South Vietnam as soon as the outside troops leave that country. [More…]
The answer, of course, is that the Government is scared stiff of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But how much more serious, if the Australian Government really believes that communism in Asia is a threat to Australia, is the threat that the democratic government of India could collapse under the weight of the human and economic calamity which is created by the problems of East Pakistan and the flow of refugees from there into India? [More…]
The democratic form of government then becomes threatened. [More…]
Sheik Mujibur Rahman, to seek a political settlement, the resettlement of the refugees and the restoration of democratic government in East Pakistan. [More…]
It has become a popular sport throughout the world to decry the efforts of the Americans at a time when America appears to be bedevilled by self doubt and racked with self criticism, when the leadership of that country is attacked by elements seeking to destroy a system which by its democratic nature, allows such elements to exist, when there is a greater persuasion to retreat to an isolationist role than for many years. [More…]
The favourite theme of members opposite is that the South Vietnamese elections are rigged, that they are no longer democratic and that they will no longer support them. [More…]
But can members opposite tell me when the last democratic election took place in Mainland China? [More…]
They have not made any moves towards making public what will be an essential change in the United Nations Charter, to make the United Nations a legislative body capable of enforcing laws in those matters which cause disputes between nations and give it democratic elective representation instead of being a diplomats club, as it is at the present time, with no elective power. [More…]
Also, was he correctly reported as saying publicly on 3rd November that comments on Vietnam attributed to the leading contender for the Democratic Party presidential nomination constituted ‘one of those occasions when 1 am driven to despair’, and that Senator Muskie was less well informed on Vietnam than his Republican opponents? [More…]
Pakistan, a Commonwealth country, has deprived the people under its jurisdiction of the ordinary democratic rights to which people in Commonwealth countries ordinarily are accustomed. [More…]
In my view it is nonsensical for the Australian Government to continue with this highly dogmatic and ideological approach Which is also determined by fear of that minority in the Democratic Labor Party which dominates the foreign policy of this Government, lt is a luxury that this nation can no longer afford and it is time that Australia recognised that our interests, both diplomatically and economically, are best served by recognising the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
I am sure the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who is a great Red baiter and who is relying heavily on Democratic Labor Party votes at the next election, will flog this issue when he rises to speak tonight. [More…]
But I also congratulate the Government for being a tolerant, democratic and responsible Government and allowing a motion critical of the Government’s performance to be moved by one of its members. [More…]
If it is true that Government supporters have views on this matter and they can vote as they wish, what a splendid opportunity they have to exercise that tolerant and democratic process about which the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) spoke when he said that an honourable member was entitled to move such a motion as this. [More…]
I support the motion to suspend the Standing Orders because I cannot think of a greater insult to such a dedicated defender of wine growers and producers as the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) than being denied the right to express in this Parliament, in a most democratic way, where he stands by voting on the motion he moved. [More…]
What more democratic approach could there be to this problem? [More…]
In outandout hawkishness and callous disregard for human suffering the Australian Democratic Labor Party has even exceeded the Government. [More…]
The key to the future of Indo-China is North Vietnam and the relations of the rest of the world with North Vietnam, or the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as it calls itself. [More…]
Ruthlessly and ceaselessly, everything that has happened in Vietnam has been used to incite fear in Australia and to extract Democratic Labor Party preferences. [More…]
Yesterday the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party (Senator Gair) moved the following motion in the Senate: [More…]
This is a Democratic Labor Party motion. [More…]
But let me summarise by saying that it is regrettable to think that after 30,000 men have served there, many of whom were killed or injured, it has been left to the Australian Democratic Labor Party to bring forward a motion of gratitude which this Government could not amend or alter but which it blindly supports because it never even thought of it. [More…]
So I think that because of the great demands that are being made increasingly on the Commonwealth in the whole field of education, some of them justifiable, some of them less so, it will be incumbent upon the universities - I think they have recognised this already - to tighten up to the best of their ability, subject only the difficulties of the human condition and the manner in which we operate our democratic processes through committees and the like, the manner in which they spend their money, both salaries and other forms of expenditure, so that it is expended in the best and least wasteful possible ways. [More…]
We do have a freedom from caucus decisions but we use that freedom in a democratic way and in a way which gets results. [More…]
We want an open, democratic discussion so that this Government is free from any vice whatsoever. [More…]
Of course, this is more a question for the Minister for Labour and National Service, but in passing I must make the comment that it does seem to me to be a reversal of real democratic freedoms. [More…]
We are likely to run things a little more democratically in some respects in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The electoral system designed in the first instance foi Papua New Guinea is much more democratic than the one inflicted upon us here. [More…]
It is the only country in the socalled democratic world which permits a judge to fine an ordinary worker $1,000 or $500 a day for each day he is on strike. [More…]
Organised crime at the highest level is rarely penetrated because of the difficulties of enforcing law in a democratic and free society. [More…]
Opposition and the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party and Whips. [More…]
We allow journalists in the Press Gallery because it is part of our democratic tradition. [More…]
The western democratic parliamentary institution has not been built on such shallow grounds and it will not survive on such shallow grounds. [More…]
The first priority is defence; because what is the good of having anything in this country - a democratic government or parliament - if it cannot be protected? [More…]
If the matter were resolved by a majority vote of the House of Representatives - gathered, I would hope, as a democratic body, free of petty Party allegiances on such an important matter - to lift the ban, it would be incumbent on all of us to see to it that hz ban was lifted. [More…]
Government’s policy - is: Let us have this opportunity for debate and for a vote to be taken, because the Government has an undertaking from the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) that if all members of the Parliament, democratically assembled without regard to party, favour or pressure, come to a decision on this question concerning the export of merino rams, then a i of us on all sides of the Parliament will bc duty bound to see that the flow of merino exports is continued, if that is desired, or that it is halted, if that is desired. [More…]
What more democratic procedure could possibly be put forward? [More…]
I am sure that when the honourable member lor Eden-Monaro rose in his place he looked back over a quarter of a century of democratic practice, or lack of it, in this Parliament. [More…]
I know that if you were not in the Chair you would vote for a democratic expression of opinion. [More…]
Whichever way the vote goes I will pledge myself to implement the democratic decision of the House of Representatives on this controversial matter. [More…]
1 just want to place on record my disappointment at the collapse of parliamentary democracy - what there was of it, although it had the basis of a democratic system - in Cambodia. [More…]
This Government ought to be attempting to convince the Lon Nol Government that it must revert to the democratic procedures which were part of the Cambodian situation. [More…]
1 should also like to make special mention of members of the Press who in their own fashion contribute to the democratic processes of Parliament. [More…]
German Democratic Republic (East Germany), [More…]
Australian Democratic Labor Party: Cost of Election Proposals (Question No. [More…]
Did his Department cost the election proposals of the Australian Democratic Labor Party put forward at the 1970 Senate election; if so, will he give details of the costing. [More…]
That is not a solution for a humanitarian democratic society in 1972. [More…]
Can he say which countries afford diplomatic recognition to the German Democratic Republic. [More…]
What is the attitude of the Government to (a) the recognition of the German Democratic Republic and (b) the admission to the United Nations of (i) the German Democratic Republic and (ii) the Federal Republic of Germany. [More…]
Even the Democratic Labor Party, with such a predominance of Irish names among its membership, has been amazingly silent on the great issue of Ireland. [More…]
Lists are not available of countries which have performed acts of recognition as distinct from establishment of diplomatic relations with the German Democratic Republic. [More…]
It just so happens that there are certain people breaking these laws which are laws that the Leader of the Opposition also does not like, hut there are democratic processes in this country for changing the law. [More…]
This is the very thing that certain members of the Country Party are opposing in the hope that they will get the second preferences of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne Ports and the honourable member for Cunningham would like to use the investment allowance as a vehicle for democratic socialist planning. [More…]
The Labor Party would create industrial chaos and call it planning, or perhaps democratic socialism. [More…]
This is the democratic process in action. [More…]
Mujibur mentioned that the German Democratic Republic had taken 25 such people but the need is very great. [More…]
Then, when he was hard pressed in a certain election and the Democratic Labor Party indicated where preferences would go if there were science blocks, or something like that, there began a steady Commonwealth movement into the field of education. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: In view of the Government’s proclaimed concern for the observance of the law and in view of the fundamental importance of the Constitution in our democratic processes, will the right honourable gentleman act quickly, firstly, to have 18 to 20- year-old Western Australians enrolled for Federal elections under section 41 of the Constitution, and, secondly, to have a redistribution of House of Representatives electorates in Western Australia commenced immediately to give that State the additional seat to which it is entitled under section 24 of the Constitution? [More…]
The Government believes in a true democratic approach. [More…]
I think it is fair to suggest that the Government is again trying to capture the vote of the Democratic Labor Party that it needs so desperately to be re-elected to office. [More…]
Many have put the proposition that the Liberal-Country Party Government supports the Catholic education system for political purposes - to get the preferences of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, to get the votes of Catholics and so on. [More…]
I suggest to those Catholics in our community who consider their Catholicism to be the most important part of their makeup and who probably, in a significant proportion of cases, vote for the Australian Democratic Labor Party in States such as Victoria, that they talk to some of the Liberal members of Parliament, to the Liberal Ministers, to the Malcolm Frasers, the Robert Menzies, the Malcolm Mackays, the David Fairbairns, the Geoff Gilleses, the Tony Staleys and the Jim Forbeses about parochial schools, or Ireland, or the monarchy, or a truly independent Australia with a new flag and a new anthem and see how much they have in common with those people. [More…]
The restoration to democratic parliamentary control through a responsible Minister of many matters now only decided by reference to the (Public Service) Board, will be among the important results of setting up the proposed education commission. [More…]
So on the one hand the whole body is saying in a particular situation that this is a fairly democratic sort of operation. [More…]
There is certainly no democratic participation in our educational scheme. [More…]
In America, in Great Britain and in many other countries parents and the community at large are involved in the running of schools as part of a democratic society. [More…]
The Bill has not made any provision at all for proper and adequate democratic representation. [More…]
I make this kind of speech -I know that my colleagues support me - to register our protest at the interference with the rights of the next Government of this country in not letting it legislate properly in accordance with the accepted practice of all democratic parliaments. [More…]
The Australian Wool Industry Conference does not democratically represent the views of the wool industry throughout Australia, particularly the small family traditional wool producer. [More…]
The Government is arrogantly ignoring the rank and file wool growers who surely are entitled to express their opinion, through a democratic process, on a matter which affects them financially. [More…]
He does attempt, of course, to support this with a reference to the Australian Wool Industry Conference, which is neither a democratic nor an acceptable body to the overwhelming majority of wool growers. [More…]
What we are debating is a great decision which touches on the industry but on which the industry has been denied the opportunity to express itself in a democratic way. [More…]
Quite properly, the amendment proposed by the honourable member for Dawson on behalf of the Opposition merely asks that a democratic procedure be adopted. [More…]
This clear statement of a democratic procedure is rejected by the Minister. [More…]
In fact, the Government of South Vietnam is neither democratic no safe. [More…]
Subsequently, another amendment was moved by the Australian Labor Party, supported by the Australian Democratic Labor Party, and was carried. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) put his finger right on the matter when he said that in this Bill the Government has failed to provide the kind of control that ought to be provided, namely, that there should be 3 commissioners one of whom would represent the teaching service thus giving teachers a professional dignity and democratic participation in the service in which they work, one representating other interested sections of the community, and a third representative appointed by the Minister for Education and Science or the Government. [More…]
It would seem that after their deliberations they have reached the decision that the best way out for all concerned is the democratic process of holding a referendum to allow the beekeepers themselves to decide whom they want to be on the Australian Honey Board to represent them in the various States in which they reside. [More…]
The provisions of this Bill will strengthen the Board and give apiarists the chance to elect their own members to the Board by democratic ballot among those who qualify to vote - that is those who have more than 200 hives. [More…]
This does not sound many but it is the democratic process in action. [More…]
We claim to be a democratic community. [More…]
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentine; Austria; Barbados; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Cambodia; Canada; Ceylon; China: Costa Rica; Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Equador; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic; Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Japan; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (South); Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia: Netherlands; New Zealand; Nicaragua - literate or married persons; Poland; Romania; Sweden; Switzerland - males; Tanzania; Thailand - Thai nationals; Tunisia; Turkey; United Kingdom - British and citizens of Irish Republic living in United Kingdom; Uruquay; U.S.S.R.; Venezuela; Vietnam (South); Vietnam (North); Yugoslavia; Zambia. [More…]
Demonstrations are an important part of the democratic process. [More…]
Recently in South Australia there was an examination by a royal commis sion, the most thorough that has ever taken place in this country, in relation to demonstrations and the Royal Commissioner, Mr Justice Bright of the South Australian Supreme Court, pointed out by quoting Mr Justice Kerr in Wright v. McQualter that peaceful demonstration is an important part of the democratic process. [More…]
I know that the Victorian Government has accepted that royal commission report and that in both Victoria and South Australia demonstration has become an accepted part of the democratic process. [More…]
I am convinced that a vast injustice has been done to the people fighting with the forces of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam and what is called the provisional government of South [More…]
What has happened, of course, in recent times )s that he and the Leader of the Opposition have been regularly outdoing one another in delivering blows at the very foundations of our democratic system. [More…]
But the content and the context of the honourable member for Lalor’s latest call to the streets makes it terribly plain that he simply does not believe in our democratic system. [More…]
He is the most honest, democratic, sincere and capable man that I have ever known. [More…]
At least 1 am a democrat who believes that people count for more than cows, sheep or horses, and that numbers of people is the significant feature in democratic decisions. [More…]
One of the elements of our democratic way of life - one of the elements of our parliamentary system - has been the responsibility of members of the Ministry to the Parliament for the subject matter and for the legislation which a Minister brings before this Parliament. [More…]
able to take it over by democratic means and they resorted to assassination, subversion and destruction. [More…]
This is the Party whose Leader advised youth to break the law and to support violent demonstrations in the streets; one of whose leading members of this Party - a shadow Cabinet Minister - calls on the youth and the people of Australia to take to the streets and defy law and order in an attempt to destroy democratic government in this country. [More…]
Why did this democratic body not think of some of these objections itself? [More…]
As the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) mentioned earlier, if you go back as far as democratic history goes, you will find that this has been the right of the electors. [More…]
The power of the petition is recognised in the House of Commons and in all democratic parliaments. [More…]
We like to profess that we belong to a strong, vigorous democracy and that our democratic institution is one of the most enlightened in the world. [More…]
If petitions are becoming ineffective, as I believe they are, then I think it behoves this House to restore to the petition the kind of honour that it is thought to have in a democratic system. [More…]
He presented more or less a democratic point of view. [More…]
This evening during the course of this debate some members on the Government side have said that certain things that have been done and certain practices that have been followed by this Government indicate a breaking down of the democratic principles by which we should be operating the Standing Orders of this House. [More…]
From my observations since I have had the opportunity to represent the electorate of Bowman, one of the worst features of the breaking down of the democratic principles of this House has been the unfair way in which question time has operated against members of the Opposition. [More…]
So 13 Liberal Party backbenchers have had the opportunity to exceed the number of questions that have been available to members of the Labor Party - Her Majesty’s Opposition in this Parliament and the Party from which one might expect, in a democratic way, questions calling upon Ministers to account for and justify their actions. [More…]
When will members of the Labor Party learn that in very few instances in democratic society has the dead hand of socialism produced any results? [More…]
It is wrong in a democratic country to think that we can legislate on the great issues in this nation, appropriate millions of dollars and at the same time be intelligent and awake in the early hours of the morning. [More…]
Its duty in terms of its traditional approach to Vietnam has been clearly pointed out to it by the Democratic Labor Party and the Friends of Vietnam Association. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party has taken a position. [More…]
It is a fact that the attitude of the Democratic Labor Party is quite consistent with the attitude that was held by the Government. [More…]
The statements made by representatives of the Democratic Labor Party are consistent with the view that what is happening is aggression from the north. [More…]
If the normal explanation which sometimes is given by the Government’s ally, the Democratic Labor Party, which is that it was necessary for Australia to have token forces in Vietnam in order to encourage the United States to be there with significant forces, then such a motive is contemptible. [More…]
Honourable members will note, therefore, that this Bill pays particular attention to the provisions of the Act which aim at ensuring democratic processes and affect membership control in organisations registered under the Act. [More…]
The amendments to the Act can be classified under 6 main headings: Firstly, the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes, including the structure of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the separation of the conciliation and arbitration functions of the Commission, and appeals and references; secondly a strengthening of the sanctions provisions of the Act, including a review of all penalties provided by the Act; thirdly, the regulation of registered organisations established by the Act to ensure more effective democratic control of those organisations, including provisions as to secret ballots in relation to industrial bans and stoppages; fourthly the role of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in dealing with matters of particular significance to the economy of this country; fifthly, the amalgamation of organisations; and sixthly, a wide range of other provisions of the Act which are not without their own special importance to the operation of our system of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
The Bill contains provisions designed to assist in the democratic control of registered organisations by their members. [More…]
We believe quite firmly, however, that, before amalgamation takes place, every opportunity should be given to the members of the amalgamating organisations to express their views about that amalgamation in a democratic manner. [More…]
At least in a democratic society we have some responsibility to look after the needs of people. [More…]
Further, is it a fact that the only reason the action has been taken in this matter both in Victoria and Canberra is the heavy subscription of Ansett based funds to the Liberal Party and the Australian Democratic Labor Party? [More…]
One would have thought that today the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) in dealing with the administration of the Electoral Act would have covered the ramifications of the great democratic process envisaged in the Electoral Act. [More…]
This includes, of course, those persons engaged in the administration of the Commonwealth Electoral Office, whose responsibility it is from time to time to conduct the democratic process of elections. [More…]
The Government would not want that as it would affect the Austraiian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But we believe that certain legislative reforms are necessary to restore real democratic government. [More…]
It is one of the features of democratic government and one of the great comforts to any member of parliament or any candidate for election to parliament to know that the electoral system of this country is completely impartial and is run with the strictest attention .to the law of the land. [More…]
It is a rather peculiar form of behaviour for an allegedly democratic representative institution such as a government to refuse to tell the people or the representatives of the people the true nature of the structure of freight charges. [More…]
1 think we may have reached the stage at which he will withdraw Australian Democratic Labor Party preference votes from the Government parties. [More…]
A. Santamaria, whose vital involvement with the Democratic Labor Party is undoubted. [More…]
Is this policy not carried out by the Democratic Labor Party? [More…]
democratic) sponsoring of the entry of Communist China into the United Nations (whether or not we specifically recognise Red China diplomatically) would ease the acid attitude of Peking. [More…]
The parties represented were the Democratic Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the Australian Labor Party, the Australia Party and a party commonly known as the DOGS. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) or any other honourable member opposite, would not like to see the disintegration of the Democratic Labor Party; they would not like to see the extinction of the Australia Party or the Communist Party. [More…]
It destroys the true democratic processes of free voting. [More…]
At present the composition of the Senate is 5 Democratic Labor Party senators, 26 Liberal-Country Party senators, 26 Australian Labor Party senators and 3 independent senators. [More…]
I hope that it will outlaw the splinter parties that stand over governments and threaten to withdraw their second preferences from a government, as the Australian Democratic Labor Party has been doing for some years. [More…]
However, this Government’s philosophy rates very highly the freedom of individuals to decide for themselves, within the broad framework of our democratic society, matters concerning their own wellbeing. [More…]
Last year’s metal trades agreement produced a new stability to the industry until it was interrupted by the Government’s immoral financial support for Democratic Labor Party interference in the metal workers amalgamation. [More…]
I spoke earlier of the extent to which this Government over the years has strengthened the Act to ensure every opportunity for democratic control in organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Of course, it dances to the tune of the Democratic Labor Party, a vicious, perverted, unforgiving and unrelenting group of men who were formerly within our Party. [More…]
Everything had been done right and it looked as though this proposal was going to go through, until a few weeks ago when there was a bit of a bellow from the Democratic Labor Party about whether the Government would allow the amalgamation to take place. [More…]
Furthermore, the matter was brought to the attention of the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) and the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party (Senator Gair) on 16th March this year by the National Youth Council of Australia. [More…]
At present the composition of the Senate is 5 Democratic Labor Party senators, 26 Liberal-Country Party senators. [More…]
Albania; Andorra - all male heads of families; Argentina; Bolivia - married citizens; Brazil; Bulgaria; Burma; Canada; Ceylon; China; Republic of Czechoslovakia; Dominican Republic; Ecuador - all literate citizens; El Salvador; German Democratic Republic (East Germany); Guatemala; Honduras; Hungary; Indonesia; Israel; Jordan - male Transjordanians but not Bedouins; Korea (North); Liechtenstein; Mexico - married citizens; Mongolia; [More…]
A glance at the nations provided for a vote at 18 years of age gives a striking example of how far behind Australia lags in providing this democratic practice. [More…]
These are just a few which one would hardly describe as advanced democratic nations, yet this reform is an established fact in those countries, lt is a tragic fact that Australia, which once proudly led the world by giving equal, democratic vote to every man and woman, now drags at the heels of some of the much less advanced nations of the world. [More…]
Undoubtedly the case for votes for those of 18 years of age is supported by world opinion, by advanced nations and on the grounds of democratic rights. [More…]
Evidently the McMahon Government thinks they would break it and that is why the Prime Minister resists this desirable democratic reform. [More…]
The Prime Minister is working on the theory that it is better to deny them a vote and be certain that the majority will not vote against him in preference to giving them democratic justice, and a say in the election of their Government. [More…]
If the Government had acted democratically it would long ago have drawn up the uniform legislation with the States that the Minister spoke about covering all the rights that go with adulthood or the age of legal responsibility, such as the right to vote. [More…]
This process would have eliminated the additional costs of preparing separate rolls and at the same time it would have established a democratic right to vote for all 18-year-olds irrespective of State boundaries. [More…]
If this is the reason, it may be politically expedient but it is certainly democratically contemptible. [More…]
It is enlightened, responsible, just and democratic. [More…]
Such legislation would bring Australia into line with other nations large and small, and would enable us to maintain our place as a leader in the democratic world. [More…]
It is a great democratic process. [More…]
The Government is doing this because its political ally, the Democratic Labor Party of Australia, has demanded that it do so and this Government, being the sort of Government that it is, with its low level of political fortunes and fearing that it cannot afford to offend this political ally, has obeyed the whip. [More…]
The Government is saying: ‘We are immune from your judgment; we will make up the rules of your democratic organisation for you. [More…]
The Government claims that it is democratic. [More…]
I just want to say that it is the experience of democratic systems all over the world. [More…]
Not only members of this Party but also members of the’ Australian Democratic Labor Party and many of the Liberal Party back benchers were annoyed about it. [More…]
I will lay odds that members of the Democratic Labor Party would back down so fast they would most likely burn their backsides. [More…]
The people who are known to be active members of the National Civic Council, the Democratic Labor Party of Australia and the industrial group movement are known to be well versed in this sort of tactic. [More…]
Mr Polites went on to say: 1 believe this demand will never be satisfied or avoided whatever economic system is put into operation, unless you cast aside the democratic processes and impose a dictatorship of some form or another. [More…]
What Mr Polites was advocating was that if any wage justice exists in this country by way of some democratic system it should be replaced by a system of absolute dictatorship, a dictatorship controlled by a Liberal Government in collaboration with the Employers Federation, which could stop any further progress by unions towards obtaining a better deal for their members and, in turn, obtaining a fairer share of profits resulting from greater efforts of workers. [More…]
Section 92 refers to democratic control of their own organisation by unionists, assisted where appropriate by secret ballots and supervised where necessary by the industrial court. [More…]
If any person tells me, with their cerebral processes normal, that this legislation gives democratic control of their own organisation by unionists, then I will be prepared to argue the point. [More…]
The platform clearly sets out the industrial principles that should shape Liberal thinking- high wages, industrial organisation, conciliation and arbitration, profit sharing, the progressive increase of leisure and living standards, democratic control of unionists of their own affairs. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party played the, tune and the Minister danced to it. [More…]
This did not suit the Democratic Labor Party which gets most of its trade union support from the Clerks Union, a union most difficult to organise and one which compulsory unionism strongly favours. [More…]
Having said all that, he bent the knee-to and kissed the hand, if not worse, of the Democratic Labor Party before doing another shuffle. [More…]
At the behest of the Democratic Labor Party he has made it much harder for unions to amalgamate, in spite of what he had to say about the representatives of 15 small unions having been present at a conference in relation to one issue and his statement that that had occurred on many occasions in regard to his Department itself. [More…]
It is a sad case of the Democratic Labor Party tail wagging the Liberal Party dog. [More…]
Unless the Government does this, the amalgamated unions run the risk, after long delays, of being told that this amalgamation, which really sparked off the whole controversy following an attempt by the Government to reach a compromise with the Democratic Labor Party, will not be allowed to proceed. [More…]
As I see it, in the long run, that is mainly what democratic government is about. [More…]
Whether that is done in a democratic rather than a - to use that awful word - bureaucratic way depends to a great extent upon how we as parliamentarians enunciate these problems and respond to the opinions and the expertise that are available outside the Parliament for the solution of these problems. [More…]
I would have thought he would be concerned to ask me to take the initiative at a much earlier time when South Vietnam was endeavouring to defend itself so that it could have its own form of democratic government and when from the north it had an invasion of regiments of a regular army seeking to control it by force. [More…]
Those people who have authority in the Labor Party - and the honourable gentleman unfortunately, does not have that authority - always try to avoid this issue, and use terms like ‘democratic socialism* or some other term in order to put off the issue. [More…]
If somebody would come with me I would start a campaign in Toowoomba to let the people of his electorate know what he is doing to the parliamentary institution, which belongs to them and which he is reducing to a complete and absolute failure as a representative legislative democratic institution. [More…]
But what a wonderfully democratic Australian Labor Party this is. [More…]
There was no division between the Liberal Party, the Australian Country Party, the Australian Labor Party and the Democratic Labor Party on this matter in that Senate Committee. [More…]
To my way of thinking, that is a very important matter in the approach to a democratic way of life. [More…]
this Government’s philosophy rates very highly the freedom of individuals to decide for themselves, within the broad framework of our democratic society, matters concerning their own well-being. [More…]
I have a philosophy quite different from that of the Government - rates very highly the freedom of individuals to decide for themselves within the broad framework of our democratic society, matters concerning their own well being. [More…]
I say that the honourable member for Isaacs is perfectly entitled in a democratic Parliament to move an amendment. [More…]
If it is our desire to follow the democratic way of life I believe it is essential that Western democracies be united, and I include in that category Great Britain, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and those European and Asian countries which want democracy. [More…]
What we should be doing, surely, is recognising that there are democratic forces at work in Indonesia, and that they have been catered for by the present Indonesian Government. [More…]
We should also recognise, acknowledge and approve publicly that, after ail, there has been an election in Indonesia, that that election was conducted with candidates, that there were political parties involved, that there was a fairly hot contest in that election and that it was run along fairly democratic lines. [More…]
One also should say publicly that we recognise that the Indonesian Government has had the courage, in view of its recent history, to hold the election along generally democratic lines. [More…]
To the credit of that Government it does not pretend that the election was completely democratic, using the definition of ‘democratic’ that we would use in Australia. [More…]
What it has said is that now it has achieved a measure of stability, now that it has come through an election along generally democratic lines, it will continue at each subsequent election along those lines until there is a completely civilianised and democratic government in that country. [More…]
The second important lesson is that we must encourage governments in South East Asia to introduce more democratic reforms and to introduce them more quickly than has been done in the past. [More…]
I agree with him that we should not downgrade the efforts being made in countries such as Indonesia in their endeavours to attain what we would regard as a truly democratic state. [More…]
There are perhaps 14 or 15 democratic countries, even judged by the present Victorian or Queensland standards. [More…]
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam - North Vietnam to all of us - is one of the world’s most isolated countries. [More…]
How can we make this change more acceptable to a democratic Parliament such as this? [More…]
Knowing the democratic process perhaps more clearly than I did in the past, I think we ought to consider bringing about changes more slowly but surely inevitably in regard to existing industries. [More…]
Is there any way that the Government can assist the honourable member for Shortland to exercise his democratic right to make a statement in this House? [More…]
In 1955 the man who had opposed me joined the Democratic Labor Party immediately after his defeat. [More…]
At all times on these matters the Australian public can rest assured that the democratic processes will be carried out and that referendums will be conducted. [More…]
The Minister saw fit to criticise the type of industrial agreement that has just been negotiated and has been overwhelmingly endorsed by a democratic vote of the whole of the membership of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Has he appointed Mr N. V. Tennison, a parliamentary candidate for the Australian Democratic Labor Party in Queensland, as a public relations officer for his Department in Victoria. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister not accept the proposition that if political satire can be produced and shown by the British Broadcasting Corporation with great success, the Australian Broadcasting Commission should be afforded the same fundamental freedom in our democratic society? [More…]
I remind him that 3 Liberal senators, the Democratic Labor Party senators and the Independents in another place opposed the principles of this legislation. [More…]
Even the Democratic Labor Party members were roused from their reverie. [More…]
It is a most important Bill affecting the democratic processes in Australia. [More…]
Does the Government intend to deny the people the reforms necessary to bring the Commonwealth Electoral Act into line with modern-day thinking in all democratic countries? [More…]
The Opposition believes that this delay is another step in the Country Party’s well-known policy of denying all the principles applying to democratic elections. [More…]
The delay must be taken as an indication that it is intended, if at all possible, to gerrymander the Australian electorates to the advantage of the minority group - the Australian Country Party - and to prevent electoral reform and its effect on the democratic functions in Australia. [More…]
For those reasons, for the reasons stated by the Minister in his second reading speech which was made a long time ago, in March 1971, and also because the Labor Party wishes to take an opportunity to move amendments to this Bill in line with Labor Party policy to reform the Commonwealth Electoral Act to make our franchise more democratic, to extend the franchise to 18-year-olds and to ensure that the electoral system is run as honestly and efficiently as it may be run, I support the motion moved by the honourable member for Grayndler for the suspension of Standing Orders. [More…]
It is clear that the Government, under pressure from the Democratic Labor Party, was trying to make amalgamation more difficult. [More…]
This did not stop the Democratic Labor Party, because most of its support in the industrial movement comes from the Federated Clerks Union, which would be a difficult union to organise without compulsory unionsim. [More…]
We said that it was bad when it was proposed in this place and it has not been improved by the Democratic Labor Party, whose masters in the community insisted that certain amendments be carried. [More…]
My disquiet is not in any way alleviated by the fact that, when this amendment was moved by the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate, no explanation was given by the Minister in charge of the Bill in that chamber. [More…]
7, to which I think the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) specifically referred, this amendment is an amalgam of the amendments brought into the Senate not only by the Australian Democratic Labor Party but also by the Opposition and accepted by the Government. [More…]
Can he also say whether the European Parliament in document 1962/122 paragraph 25 specifies that member countries should have a democratic policy or a form of government based on political freedom. [More…]
The system of government which has enabled Brisbane to be changed from a large country town, not befitting the capital of the State, to a city which on today’s standards provides all the essentials of good living is surely one which in a democratic sense most honourable members, I am sure, would agree should be left as it is. [More…]
Because of the corruptness of the Queensland State Government, there exists in Queensland today the type of government which I am sure no democratic country in the world would wish to have inflicted upon it. [More…]
The Country Party, supported by its partner in crime, the Liberal Party - which polled 22 per cent of the vote for a total of 21 seats; nearly as many seats as its percentage of the total vote - is able to inflict its wishes on the democratically elected city administration i;i the Greater Brisbane area. [More…]
He completely dismisses the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member for Bowman, if he looks at the composition of the Senate, that in my time here I have seen the Australian Democratic Labor Party grow from 3 to 5 members. [More…]
It is no good our having these schemes, good farms, houses, motor cars and a democratic government if we cannot protect them. [More…]
It is something that has flowed down through the last 20 or 30 years, ad hoc sometimes, here and there, developed by Vietnam and sponsored and maintained by the terror of the preference votes of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
The view of the honourable member for Lalor of socialism envisages worker control - not participation - and he has said that the democratic process leading to this begins in the streets, on the farms and in the factories’. [More…]
Private property was smashed when arrogant employers ignored the democratic decisions of mass meetings. [More…]
But when the preferences of the Democratic Labor Party and all the other splinter parties were distributed we lost 13 of those 72 seats and finished with 59 members to 66 in this present Parliament. [More…]
and threatening but a responsible, evolutionary change by persuasion and legitimate democratic process. [More…]
On this side of the Parliament we have a democratic party system of election to the front bench and we have democratic decisions by all of the elected representatives on policy. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has a democratic and open method of deciding policy that is not recognised by the power drunk leaders on the other side of the House. [More…]
Nationalisation in these circumstances would be a very democratic procedure because it would be decentralising control by taking control out of the hands of the multi-national corporations and putting it on a national basis. [More…]
I have spoken to private members of the Liberal Party, the Country Party, my own Party and the Democratic Labor Party, and not one has disagreed with my contention that the distinction between the qualifications necessary for a Minister and the qualifications for private members and senators is discriminatory to the point of being ludicrous. [More…]
Out of this division came the right wing unions with a bias toward the Australian Democratic Labor Party and the militant wing unions, the left wing, with a bias toward the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
We regard democratic practice in the Trade Union Movement as essential to build the unity of the workers in their struggle for social progress. [More…]
The first concerns the difficulties of democratic governments in dealing with large scale lawlessness organised by tightly knit subversive minorities. [More…]
A democratic government is obliged, and rightly so, to abide by rules and regulations. [More…]
It has come about because even a band of archangels and geniuses could not properly operate a supposedly democratic organisation if it is not subject to the checks and balances on which any effective democratic system must depend. [More…]
there is not a natural democratic check, because most people very sensibly do not want to spend their spare time on such chores. [More…]
Let me make it clear that what is happening within the unions is an affront to all democratic parties, including the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Indeed, if elected to government, the Australian Labor Party would find the issue very divisive on account of its anti-democratic lunatic left which, mercifully, is only a small minority. [More…]
Despite the fact that the people behind the strikes are out to destroy or subvert the democratic majority within the ALP as much as they are out to confront arbitration and the Government, such is the influence on the Australian Labor Party of the lunatic Left - the Hartleys, the Browns, the Crawfords - ‘that the Labor Party is forced to side with them in public. [More…]
He seemed to be anxious to criticise the fact that on this side of the Parliament we pursue a democratic process, I take it that he contends that it is undesirable that on this side of the Parliament we follow the traditional practice of deciding our Party’s policy at the weekly Party meetings. [More…]
Whether it is Sir Frank Packer or the Prime Minister whose dictums the honourable member is prepared to accept I do not know, but honourable members on this side of the Parliament uphold the democratic processes. [More…]
Complementing the stimulation will be the improved living conditions of all Australians resulting from a stronger economy in which poverty will be largely reduced, the opportunities for employment markedly increased and the democratic right of every Australian to share in Australia’s growth escalated. [More…]
They are too lazy and they work too hard; they are police pimps and they run the Mafia; they are all Catholic Democratic Labor Party supporters and atheists trying to bring in the continental Sunday; they are illiterate and they win all the scholarships; they are mean and hoard all their money and at the same time they are mad gamblers; they lock up their wives and daughters and they make them walk the streets; and of course they bludge on our social services, cheat our workers compensation companies and worst of all they win nearly all the lotteries. [More…]
1 also like the proposition that is being put forward in the Senate at the moment by the Democratic Labor Party senators, for an additional curb by way of legislation to prevent manufacturers from increasing prices - a price limiting Bill. [More…]
It would be true to say that successive Liberal Party, Country Party and Democratic Labor Party coalition governments have used local government as a repository for tasks for which the Federal Government wishes to have no responsibility. [More…]
In the United States there are people such as Jane Fonda and even the Democratic presidential candidate McGovern, both of whom are saying to Hanoi and to the North Vietnamese: ‘Hang on long enough and it will be all right because we will undermine the very things that are happening’. [More…]
Sometimes the public are disadvantaged as well because there should be proper notice and sufficient time to enable the democratic process to run its full race and to go the full course. [More…]
The income tax ought to be the crown of the tax pattern of a democratic system of government. [More…]
The position in the Senate at the moment is that there are 26 members from the Government parties, 26 from the Australian Labor Party, 5 from the Australian Democratic Labor Party and 3 independents. [More…]
This situation has presented no problem to this stage because when it came to the crunch the Democratic Labor Party could always be relied upon to support the Government parties. [More…]
This situation is unfair in a democratic institution and it is unfair to the people generally, because we on this side are entitled to the facilities necessary in order to carry on the tasks of government and to put our case to the people. [More…]
But I can assure honourable members that there will be changes for the good, and a vibrant new Labor government, whenever the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) likes to face the people, will not only stimulate interest in this Parliament but also give the people a really democratic institution in which they will receive the results that they pray for and can get only under a Labor government. [More…]
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Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Byelorussian SSR, Canada, Republic of China, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Malta, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Poland, Swaziland, Sweden, Togo, Tunisia Ukraine SSR, USSR, UK, USA. [More…]
I for one regard it as incredible that the operations of the last 24 hours have happened in what ought to be one of the cornerstones of democratic government. [More…]
I look down the long history of it all - whether it be the times of Charles I or Eureka, whether it be the Nuremberg decree itself - the right of government by decree to issue an ultimatum in the dead of night and to enforce it in that clandestine way has been one of the hallmarks of absolutism and the total destruction of common sense, democratic government. [More…]
That would be a much more meaningful way of discharging democratic government in the community. [More…]
Local government authorities seem to be the best seat at which to aim if we are to try to improve democratic representation in the community. [More…]
I take the view that, under the Labor administration in South Australia, that State is degenerating into a banana republic, where the institutions that we expect to be the watchdogs of our hard-won democratic processes are under attack and are gradually being taken over. [More…]
I am satisfied that the series of governments we have had under Sir Robert Menzies, Mr Gorton and Mr McMahon - I leave out one Prime Minister - have favoured making some aspects of political freedom into crimes and, on the contrary, have proved sympathetic to certain criminal conduct provided that those who carry it out are anticommunist and are supported or believed they will be supported by Democratic Labor Party type and National Civic Council type leaders and supporters. [More…]
Foremost among them, I think, is the democratic process which has taken place about this matter. [More…]
That amendment was defeated in this House but when the Bill went to the other place a similar amendment was passed with the support of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
A further amendment was also moved at the Committee stage of the debate in the other place by the Democratic Labor Party, which reads: [More…]
I pay credit to those members on the government side and members of the Democratic Labour Party who voted with the Australian Labor Party in the Senate to give Queensland at least the S2. [More…]
During the course of the 1970 State elections in South Australia full page newspaper advertisements were placed by the Liberal Party’s great friend and political ally, the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
This is what I discovered: The Liberal and Country League advertisements had been prepared and placed by the Party’s traditional advertising agency, Martin Kinnear Clemenger Pty Ltd, in which company the largest shareholder is John Clemenger Pty Ltd which we all know is the agency used by the Democratic Labor Party in Victoria. [More…]
The account of the Democratic Labor Party which is even serviced by subscriptions from supporters of the honourable member, is served by John Clemenger Proprietary Limited which was formerly a wholly Australian-owned agency in which the American agency . [More…]
Of course, there can be no doubt where the Democratic Labor Party stands in this regard. [More…]
Clearly there is one standard that the United Nations applies in relation to the communist and other totalitarian countries and an entirely different standard it applies with regard to democratic and other noncommunist countries. [More…]
How can any of us in this place make comments about Vietnam and other South East Asian countries being undemocratic because their polling systems are open to outside direction when we in this country have an electoral system which is open to exactly the same thing. [More…]
If Australia pretends to stand up as an example of a true democratic country with an honest electoral system then we owe it to ourselves to do something about it. [More…]
The only other political party that exists in Canberra is the Australian Democratic Labor Party and as far as I know that Party had no point of view at all to express. [More…]
These papers were offered for inspection to the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party (Senator Gair). [More…]
Further on, when dealing with poker machines which, I think, are the most vicious kind of instrument ever perpetrated in a democratic society but which, nevertheless, are the backbone of marginal revenue in the State of New South Wales, the Commission said - and this seems to me to be a rather curious kind of suggestion: [More…]
The democratic process requires that we be given the opportunity of the maximum possible presentation of political policies to the electorate. [More…]
The categories of exclusion are not disputed because those documents are similarly available to the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Murphy), the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party (Senator Gair) and the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, and they have been available for some 4 weeks. [More…]
I have not heard even the most militaristic characters, even the members of the Democratic Labor Party or the Minister for the Navy (Dr Mackay), suggesting that there is an immediate threat of hordes descending upon us in the middle of the night. [More…]
The pace of change and mobility in mass cities and mass organisations in the mass cities have exacerbated the problems of the home, work, the community and government in contemporary society, lt is not without point that our democratic forms of organisation grew in quite different soil to that which exists today. [More…]
But the basic social and economic structures of communities have altered almost beyond belief and the democratic forms of government have sometimes been slow to respond. [More…]
In my judgment the democratic processes of Parliament could be made to work much more efficiently if only the Government were to dispense a little more justice all round, rather than to adopt the somewhat avaricious attitude it has shown over the years towards the Ministry and. [More…]
The Committee has tried to play the role designed for it in the democratic process by allowing each side to express a view about public works to be undertaken by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I congratulate the members of the Committee from the Australian Labor Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the Australian Country Party. [More…]
It is of no use having Dartmouth or Chowilla Dam or a democratic government or all those amenities which people long to have if we cannot protect them. [More…]
We may engage in heated debate at times and we have our moments of strife but above all there is respect for the institution as the safeguard of the freedom of the people and of our democratic way of life. [More…]
The members of the fourth estate, the Press, have perhaps redressed the balance by presenting us sometimes in rather more controversial context but nevertheless always performing a most necessary and valuable democratic function. [More…]
One of the things which we come close to tonight is the operation of the democratic system in a few weeks time and what has been said by those who have just spoken or will be said by those who are about to speak tonight will not change that democratic process. [More…]
1 have taken some figures out and, although it is very difficult to be conclusive about this matter, it seems that per head of population or by whatever comparison one makes, this Parliament passes more Bills than do most of the democratic parliaments in the world. [More…]
As those who have spoken have said, I believe that the Parliament must serve a function in our democracy and unless the Parliament meets this requirement the democratic system will cease to operate effectively. [More…]
This Government when in Opposition eneavoured to extend the democratic right of the franchise to the youth of Australia. [More…]
It preferred to deny this well recognised democratic right to an important section of the Australian community - the youth of this country - although the franchise for those 18 years and above is well recognised throughout the world. [More…]
We on this side of the House who were honoured to be members of the last Parliament know full well that the opportunity was taken by the people of Australia on the occasion of the last election to cast out the Liberal-Country Party coalition and to elect the Labor Party into office after 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule despite the gutter tactics that were used and despite the lies of the previous government and particularly those of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
In conclusion I should like to say that there is no doubt that the people of Australia on this occasion have made a decision which, on previous occasions, they have endeavoured to make but have failed to make because of the distribution of preferences from minority groups, particularly the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
In the latter part of his speech he referred to the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) certainly has one record - an unenviable one - to his credit, namely, that alone he has notched up the discovery of more Communists in Australia than the sum of all security agencies in the whole of the Western world, including such democratic republics, which he upholds, as South Africa and Rhodesia. [More…]
Equally, we will not stand by passively and watch the Prime Minister and the Government eroding our defence capacity, our relations with trusted and valued allies, our international reputation and our fundamental democratic institutions. [More…]
We are also of the view that the Singapore Government is anti-democratic and that Australian military association with Singapore is incompatable with Labor principles. [More…]
I believe the people of Australia recognise that it is a democratic process- [More…]
A democratic process! [More…]
Any action which may be taken as an eventual and probably far removed outcome of the information gathered by the 121st Signals Squadron can only be the result of the normal democratic processes of government in this country. [More…]
There will not be such a great loss of time because this is a democratic government. [More…]
But if the honourable gentleman wants me to spell out what T said publicly a few days ago then I will be glad to inform him that as the Australian Labor Party is democratically based - unlike the Opposition parties - every member of the Party has a right to determine policy which will be submitted to the Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
This is a democratic process. [More…]
To conclude the answer: The honourable member is well aware of the democratic processes that take place and I repeat what 1 have said, that the Government will make the decisions but when policy decisions are made by the Party then naturally they will be given due consideration by this Government. [More…]
This is the democratic process. [More…]
1 deem it a signal honour to be standing in this national Parliament, having arrived here through the medium of a democratic way of voting, and to express the loyalty of the people of McMillan to the Queen. [More…]
It is clear that there are elements within our midst desirous of deleting any reference to our ancestral mother country; they would sever the traditional ties of democratic government if given the opportunity. [More…]
The reason for my saying that is abundantly clear to those of us who have great credence in a democratic system of parliament. [More…]
If people are to determine their own destinies, which is what democracy is all about, then democratic practice must coincide with economic reality. [More…]
So much for the democratic theory of the socialist party. [More…]
Are we, for instance, a truly democratic society except perhaps by a fine balance? [More…]
Our democratic way of life has allowed us to develop an independence of thought, speech and action. [More…]
In a democratic system, disagreement and discussion are both inevitable and desirable. [More…]
But for more than any of these specific reasons, it must be supported as a step towards a more democratic society, a more equal society and a more just society. [More…]
Perhaps it could serve as an example and a precedent for other defence and foreign affairs subjects because this is an area where in a democratic country, it is certainly in the interests of the country if the contending political parties can arrive at bipartisan policies. [More…]
The only time that compulsory unionism was included in the Party’s platform was during the period when the element within the Labor Party which finally broke away to form what is now called the Democratic Labor Party had control of policy making. [More…]
I believe that the speech of the honourable member for Indi demonstrated a total incapacity to understand what the social objectives of a modern democratic society were. [More…]
I would first of all like to thank the electors of Evans for giving me and the Australian Labor Party a mandate to implement a policy to make Australia a truly great and democratic country. [More…]
In our hands rests the future success or failure of our course of democratic socialism. [More…]
We have, to a certain extent, ignored the misrepresentations instead of reacting positively and explaning to the people what a modern democratic socialist thinks, and how our policies fit in wilh that. [More…]
The Opposition makes much of the democratic structure of the Labor Party and this has been particularly so in the last few days. [More…]
Secondly, I say - because that speaks for itself - that such a concept is completely undemocratic because the program emerges from a body - in this case the Labor Party - which represents perhaps half or even less than half of the electorate. [More…]
How can it be said that it is democratic that a program that proceeds from half the people of Australia has the sanction of the whole of the people of Australia? [More…]
In fact, Parliament is the only democratic body in this nation, not the Conference of the Labor Party or any conference of the Liberal Party or any other conference. [More…]
The only democratic body in this country that stands for the whole of the people of Australia is this Parliament because it represents not half but all of the people. [More…]
Again, because it is the only body whose members are elected and can have their mandates withdrawn by all the people, so it is the Parliament which is the only democratic body. [More…]
When I listened to honourable members opposite telling us that the Labor Party is democratic and therefore it has a mandate from the people of Australia, this is manifest nonsense. [More…]
It is the only democratic body in this country. [More…]
Let us have no more nonsense along the lines that because the Labor Party is said to be democratic therefore it has a mandate from the people of Australia. [More…]
Whether it is democratic in its own organisation 1 do not know and cannot accept. [More…]
They are now making a contribution to the democratic process, and that is as it should be. [More…]
The honourable member for Bennelong claimed that he was denied the democratic right to speak in the House. [More…]
The Leader of the House referred to our lack of social justice in not lowering the voting age, yet in his second reading speech, by quoting the Prime Minister’s words, he showed clearly that it was Australia under Liberal-Country Party governments which enabled young people to attain the all-round maturity and competence which now makes them eligible, arid rightly so, to participate more, fully in the democratic process. [More…]
But for years we have seen the spectacle of leading members of this Parliament - those who now sit on the Government benches - advocating rule by demonstration, rule by violent protest and in fact the circumvention of the democratic processes by which a government is elected and given a mandate to carry out its policies and by which the people can change that government if its actions no longer appeal to the majority. [More…]
That system is only undemocratic when the other group, the group now represented by the Opposition, is in power’. [More…]
Nor will they fail to realise that it is only the Government which has changed, not the whole democratic process. [More…]
It will surely be one of history’s ironies that a government heavily influenced by the left wing forces should introduce a Bill which gave us ultimate proof of our young people’s faith in the democratic system and which indicated its acknowledgment that a LiberalCountry Party Government created the conditions necessary to give this responsibility to the young people throughout the country. [More…]
He said that youth was forced to move away from the normal democratic process and toward direct action when they did not have the vote. [More…]
It seems, from an analysis of these polls, to be well and truly rooted in the conservatism of the Democratic Labor Party and the Liberal and Country parties. [More…]
The simple fact is that this matter has been unfortunately interpreted in the past as politics at its lowest level; not politics as it should be and not politics in the sense that it is a democratic exercise of will or power to implement changes that are to the advantage of the great majority of members of our community, bringing into play a clash of ideas, a clash of ideologies and a clash of thoughts so that all people will benefit as they will by the passage of this legislation. [More…]
The list contains names of countries not only that are insignificant in terms of major influence in our sphere of the world but also that lay claim to having a democratic form of government. [More…]
There was a statement two or three months before that from the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party to this effect: Radical teachers were now being placed in positions where they could brainwash impressionable children. [More…]
Despite the education system evolved by the backward Liberal Party, the reactionary Country Party and the nonentity called the Democratic Labor Party, people today are far more advanced in their thinking than the previous Government ever was. [More…]
On the other hand his description of the Democratic Labor Party as a nonentity, I am sure, will go down fairly well across Australia. [More…]
No democratic government should do this sort of thing. [More…]
Free elections are basic to a democratic society. [More…]
At the same time, equality of political rights is inherent in a truly democratic State and these rights must be indisputably safeguarded by the legislature. [More…]
In all its forms, the device is thoroughly subversive of the democratic process. [More…]
The Electoral Act - the mirror of a nation’s democratic image before the world - is expected to proclaim equality and not privilege. [More…]
They will sup port this policy - undemocratic and biased as it is - for on it depends their survival individually and as a party. [More…]
They have fought tooth and nail against any reforms designed to maintain democratic elections in Australian Parliaments. [More…]
It gives to those who sit in this Parliament the opportunity to say whether they believe in these democratic principles and the equal rights of all electors, or whether they stand for manipulation of the Electoral Act to retain governments of their political colour irrespective of the vote of the Australian people. [More…]
This Act, if members of the Country Party who are interjejcting will be silent for the fleeting remainder of my speech, is a challenge to those who sit opposite to stand up and be counted on the fundamental democratic principle of one vote one value and majority rule. [More…]
I believe that the findings which apply in Sweden could well apply to the same set of circumstances that exist in Australia or in any other Western democratic country. [More…]
I think it is time that honourable gentlemen, particularly in the Opposition parties, realise that the public does not accept that the methods of voting which have applied at various stages in Australia until now are the acme of democratic perfection. [More…]
Perhaps it might get on a little better with, and I wish it well on its projected amalgamation with, the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
That the committee consist of eight Members of the House of Representatives nominated by the Prime Minister, four Members of the House of Representatives nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, two Members of the House of Representatives nominated by the Leader of the Australian Country Party in the House of (Representatives, four Senators nominated by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, two Senators nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, one Senator nominated by the Leader of the Australian Country Party in the Senate and one Senator nominated by the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]
In 1967, a question was asked in this Parliament - I think by a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party - about the use of so-called VIP aircraft. [More…]
We must never accept the proposition that we must get used to political terrorism, involving bombings, murder, intimidation and that democratic governments are powerless to suppress such activities. [More…]
We should not abandon our democratic principles of free speech, belief and association but I would hope that migrants are left with no misunderstanding of the disfavour with which the Government would view any activities which might reasonably give rise to objections by the present governments of their countries of origin. [More…]
It is the institution of Parliament that preserves our democratic system. [More…]
Only the most naive person could believe that the motivation of the Labor Party is that of objectivity or commitment to the democratic process. [More…]
It then becomes an issue of degree as to what lesser numbers for a noncity seat can be accepted without subverting the democratic process. [More…]
Can a vote value of .06 above their city cousins be seriously regarded as a gross democratic distortion? [More…]
Its self-righteous claims of concern for democratic principles are so much eyewash. [More…]
This Bill has very little to do with the democratic right of every Australian to be equally represented in this House. [More…]
We will be subject in this debate to a welter of words about the so-called democratic principle of one vote one value. [More…]
The law is to be changed so that the Labor Party can perpetuate itself in office at the cost of the democratic right of every elector to enjoy equality of representation. [More…]
In democratic procedures the Government, now the Australian Labor Party, has contested many elections. [More…]
The principle is more democratic and more sound. [More…]
Once one breaks with the principle that in a democratic society every man’s vote should be of equal value one runs into all kinds of anomalies and contradictions. [More…]
I accept the proposition and 1 believe that if we tell the people of Australia, as we are doing, about it they will accept this proposition that one man, one vote, one value is the only principle that any democratic society possibly can accommodate. [More…]
Many people have voted for the Democratic Labor Party or for the Australia Party. [More…]
People in any other country would consider that we had taken leave of our senses, lost our sense of perspective and lost all sense of reality if in our circumstances we asserted that to pay some limited regard to these factors was in some way perpetrating an intolerable outrage on the democratic rights of the vast majority of the population who live cheek by jowl in a handful of metropolitan cities. [More…]
elect Government are to be given their democratic rights, it is of immense importance that the electoral system is a fair one. [More…]
My attitude as an elected representative is that the electoral rights of people of Australia are paramount and these must receive proper consideration if we are to suggest that the electoral system of this nation is a democratic one. [More…]
It appears that they oppose the democratic belief that enrolments for divisions should be as nearly as possible equal. [More…]
They have a democratic right to electoral equality. [More…]
The crux of the Bill is concerned with a matter which is at the heart of the democratic parliamentary process, namely, that as far as possible the value of a man’s vote should be the same wherever he lives. [More…]
In an attempt to maintain the Liberal-Country Party alliance they have abandoned the basic democratic principle which is incorporated in this Bill. [More…]
We believe that it would be far more democratic if representation were on the basis of number of people in an electorate rather than numbers of voters. [More…]
We contend also that matters such as disabilities arising out of remoteness or distance, density or sparsity of population and the area of a division are totally out of place in any parliamentary system which purports to reflect democratic pr, nc, p es. [More…]
The Constitutional Review Committee in its recommendations was upholding a principle which is beyond dispute in any democratic system - the principle of equality of representation. [More…]
Whenever the matter of electoral redistribution has been under consideration, the Labor Party, as the Opposition, has moved appropriate amendments which attempted to give effect to the democratic findings of the Constitutional Review Committee. [More…]
There has been consistent adherence to a principle which we on the Government side hold to be inviolate in the total democratic process - that is, one vote one value. [More…]
Equality of political rights is inherent in any truly democratic system and these rights must be safeguarded by the legislature. [More…]
It is whether to support the democratic principle that is embodied in the Bill - one vote one value - or whether to continue to support the manipulations that exist in the present Electoral Act whereby one group in the community continues to be over-represented. [More…]
Free elections are basic to a democratic society. [More…]
This has been the case not only in this country but also in every country that aims to live under a system people like to call democratic. [More…]
Whilst our own situation has been to a certain extent free from the violence of many other countries in their aspirations to seek fair and democratic representation for their people, our own past shows that the political struggles to establish our own form of democracy have been a continuing political confrontation with the Establishment and the forces of privilege, and unfortunately this political fight for fair and democratic representation has not been finally won. [More…]
In every case they can frustrate the democratic wishes of the people as reflected in the franchise that exists in the State lower Houses, despite the fact that there are inequalities in these themselves. [More…]
So in every one of the States we find that the power of the upper House is far beyond what it should be in a democratic society. [More…]
In the upper House in South Australia, that is the Legislative Council, we have a clear example of the undemocratic procedure of upper Houses. [More…]
A further hurdle to democratic government is the fact that the number of electors in the 5 districts varies from 106,000 in one district, that is Central District No. [More…]
We on this side of the House firmly believe that one man’s vote is as good as anothers, and we will continue to press for reforms in the electoral system of our society so that we can say that our society is democratic in every sense ot the word. [More…]
Finally, we gained a great deal from exploring with our colleagues from all over the Commonwealth the different ways and means of improving the efficiency of our parlia mentary institutions and the different paths of our common goal - democratic government in the best interests of our peoples. [More…]
This legislation would make it impossible for a country member to service adequately his electorate and it would deny country electors the democratic rights to which they are entitled. [More…]
He wants to deny to the electors who live in these areas their democratic rights. [More…]
What the Minister has proposed is not democratic. [More…]
And it was a successful frustration of the democratic process, for in the elections of 1950 the Liberal and Country Party team won a majority of the votes, actually 49.7 per cent, but gained only 31 of tha 75 seats, whereas Labor polled but 46.5 per cent of the votes yet managed to get 42 of the seats. [More…]
They have a democratic government now and they are speaking in committee, which was rarely, if ever, the case in the last Parliament. [More…]
In Victoria - one cannot say that that is a really democratic State - the margin is down to 10 per cent. [More…]
Therefore, those who support a margin of 20 per cent and the removal of these barriers, which count trees, acres, horses and cows instead oi people, subscribe to a system of political gerrymandering that has no place in any democratic institution. [More…]
In the long run real democratic government, real equality of representation or real equality in the value of votes is achieved only by ensuring that all members of this Parliament have an equal opportunity to represent the people in their electorates. [More…]
Our democratic system allowed it to be voted into office. [More…]
The essential part of our democratic system is that it does allow any Party, large or small, any organisation or any individual to run for parliamentary office and have some confidence in the result. [More…]
It is most decidedly a challenge to those who sit in this place to stand up and be counted on whether Australia is to have continued democratic rule and opportunity or whether the will of any one Party is to dominate our legislature. [More…]
Factors that allow a party which gains 8 per cent of the votes to enjoy 16 per cent of the parliamentary representation have no place in an Electoral Act that should enshrine the basic democratic principle of one vote one value. [More…]
To persevere with an electoral distribution which denies the voters the right of determining which people or parties represent them in Parliament is a denial of democratic practice. [More…]
The Committee also considered that the device of creating substantial disparities in the number of enrolled voters and so securing for a political party greater representation than it should have is, to quote the words of the Committee, ‘in all its forms thoroughly subversive of the democratic process’. [More…]
In considering this Bill and more particularly clause 3 we have to ask ourselves what are the essential features of a democratic and equitable electoral system. [More…]
For example, I would not imagine that the Minister, despite his wide circle of friends, would include the Australian Democratic Labor Party amongst his and the Australian Labor Party’s most fervent supporters. [More…]
So there is no question that the present system is not consistent with democratic principles. [More…]
It is obvious from this Bill and the amendments to it that the Government is not happy to let our democratic way of life proceed. [More…]
Those people who would deny that concept are people who would deny the very basic tenet of democratic society. [More…]
We are not here to preside over the dilution of citizen rights in this community, and those people who say that as a matter of some almost divine right they should have more say than others are people who do not and cannot claim to have any sympathy with the democratic concept. [More…]
The weight of the argument was ultimately that there must be equality in the value of voting, otherwise the whole concept of democratic society crashed. [More…]
We are discussing what is the most democratic and most equitable way of ensuring that we have government by the people and that every citizen has an equal say. [More…]
However, the performance in this House today does not display any great civil liberties in respect of the rights of members of Parliament in a democratic institution where there should be freedom of expression. [More…]
In the ultimate, the greatest problem that a democratic community must face is the problem of equity in the distribution of the total resources that the economy is capable of generating. [More…]
It is true that some movement towards these aims has been accomplished in Queensland, obviously because of the influence of the Premier of that State, the honourable Joh Bjelke-Petersen and his Country Party colleagues, and in the Federal sphere due to the efforts of the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party which are aware, as they have always been, of the grave injustices caused by these savage duties which owe their existence to tradition and the vagaries of Federal-State relations. [More…]
We have had recently the most unprecedented action that has even been taken in Australian democratic history. [More…]
That was quite unprecedented and undemocratic; it was an action which we would hope would never again occur in Australia. [More…]
Who would not want to forget the wrangles going on between the Country Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the Liberal Party? [More…]
Why does not the honourable member stand up and have a go at those who destroy every democratic principle in Australia? [More…]
Indeed, it was the bitterness that arose from this that, on Dr Evatt’s own statement of 1955, was one of the prime causes for the attitude he adopted which led to the formation of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
The Labor Party’s objective now is democratic socialisation. [More…]
It was changed a bit because it was thought that this was somewhat unpopular so the Labor Party now calls it democratic socialisation’ - whatever that might mean. [More…]
I do not see what democratic means in this context - the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange. [More…]
They are: The removal of existing barriers to trade union amalgamation; the protection of organisations and their members from civil actions for tort in connection with industrial disputes; the removal of the Commission’s authority to ban strikes and the removal of all penal sanctions upon strikers; procedures to ensure that certain types of agreement are acceptable to members of organisations affected by them; provision for democratic control of unions and the fullest participation by union members in the affairs of their organisations; provision to enable action to be taken for the recovery of wages at law within a period of 6 years instead of the 12 months’ limitation that now applies; the removal of the various defects which have been shown to exist in the 1972 legislation; elimination of the power to award costs in proceedings before the courts, the Registrar or the Commission; and provision to overcome some of the problems created by the Moore v. Doyle case. [More…]
I know that these provisions were resisted by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition but they were forced on the government by the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party used every device at its disposal to thwart the amalgamation of the metal trade unions. [More…]
The Liberal Party now has the chance to demonstrate that it is free of the shackles of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
This Government will encourage the elimination of tendencies that prejudice democratic control of trade unions by assisting rank and file members to bring their grievances over alleged defects in rules and in abuse of rules, to the Commonwealth Industrial Court for examination and, where called for, correction. [More…]
The platform of the Australian Labor Party calls upon the Government to ensure a system of democratic control of all unions, allowing fullest participation by members in their affairs. [More…]
I have explained that we will remove those provisions which discourage amalgamation of unions; that we will protect organisations and their members from civil actions for tort in connection with industrial disputes; that we will remove completely from the Act the power to prohibit strikes or enforce penal sanctions against strikes and that we will build the framework for more democratic control of unions. [More…]
It is a combination of the Opposition parties and the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate which has resulted in these amendments and the Government bows to the inevitable on occasions. [More…]
This is a matter of immense importance for the democratic institution of the parliament and for the democratic continuation of our method of government. [More…]
It is not my intention to continue these remarks, save to repeat what I said to the honourable member for Griffith when he commenced his remarks, namely, that he should realise how fortunate he is to be saved once again by Democratic Labor Party preferences which returned him to this House. [More…]
1 do not think that the democratic process is encouraged by any government of any colour if it refuses to consider properly ideas of merit that come from an Opposition. [More…]
We fought for democracy in South Vietnam, and young Australians who were not given a democratic right in choosing to fight that cause died there. [More…]
We should continue our fight for a democratic South Vietnam by calling for the continued release of political prisoners. [More…]
Does he regard 31 hours of debate as an efficient means of dealing with a social question of very’ great importance to a very large section of the Australian community or should it rather be seen as a travesty of democratic parliamentary government? [More…]
This in itself is a democratic forward step. [More…]
At present, as honourable members know, the composition of the Senate is 26 Government senators, 26 Opposition senators, 5 Democratic Labor Party senators and 3 Independents. [More…]
The survivors in the Senate, that is the senators who have the long terms and remain in office after 30th June 1974, add up as follows: Fourteen Australian Labor Party senators, 12 senators from the Opposition, 2 senators from the Democratic Labor Party and 2 independent senators. [More…]
The Parliament is a great democratic institution. [More…]
This measure is totally inconsistent with the workings of the democratic institution - with the effective operation of this Parliament - and the Opposition believes it should be resisted. [More…]
In regard to Wednesday mornings, I think it is an important factor that 90 Bills are being introduced in this session of Parliament and, in fairness to the public and democratic rights, all of these require close attention and study clause by clause. [More…]
They should take a keen interest in the democratic process and should realise who are responsible for the delay in the passage of this legislation. [More…]
The inherent difficulties which are experienced by all governments in liberal democratic societies in regulating the economic behaviour of these private organisations - and particularly the less disciplined elements within them - must command particular attention: [More…]
However, we believe it is imperative that there be democratic participation in the amalgamation process. [More…]
History clearly demonstrates the need to have measures in the legislation to protect the democratic rights of union members. [More…]
We believe that this is entirely contrary to the Minister’s public posture that unions should be democratically controlled and that rank and file members should be provided with the maximum opportunity to express their views. [More…]
The Minister justified this proposal in terms of the preservation of democratic participation in the affairs of unions. [More…]
The Government is making a farce of our democratic procedure. [More…]
It is nonsense in this democratic society, this free economy, to suggest that workers who participate in a stoppage of work because little Mary Jones has been sacked out of turn are engaging in a conspiracy, and that a jam company for which she worked should be able to sue the workers individually and collectively through their union for damages. [More…]
It talked about open government, democratic government, but when what has been always recognised in this Parliament as one of the most important pieces of legislation is brought before, this House in the first Parliament under this Government, the gag is applied. [More…]
I also appreciate that any major change involving the amalgamation of unions should take place on a more democratic basis than is proposed under the Bill that we are considering. [More…]
He came into the trade union movement as the State Secretary of the Federal Clerks Union of Australia when he was only 22 years of age, and he is regarded by all sections of the trade union movement - whether they are communists, supporters of the Democratic Labor Party, Labor Party people, right, left or centre - as the most competent and one of the most capable men in the business. [More…]
If we want conciliation to work it has to be carried out in a democratic way - not in a bureaucratic way. [More…]
But outside a totalitarian dictatorship no government can suppress concerted stoppages of work and no democratic government should want to stop concerted stoppages of work by people who can no longer bear the burden of wage injustice. [More…]
My Party’s policy is directed to preserving our role in the free and democratic world. [More…]
Under our democratic system the people have a number of basic and inalienable rights. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that he will stand by his announced commitment to ensure a system of democratic control of all unions allowing fullest participation by members in their affairs? [More…]
The honourable member will be surprised or, perhaps, pleased to learn that none of the trade union officials who normally support the Democratic Labor Party point of view has sent me a telegram but there has been a fairly broad spectrum of points of view represented in the telegrams that I have received. [More…]
The basis of law in a democratic society is that its provisions must apply equally to all members of that society. [More…]
If that is the best we can offer, I say that we are bankrupt of true humanitarian values that should characterise any modern democratic society. [More…]
And because it is the basic right in a democratic society, all other rights and the exercise of our civil liberties rest on that fundamental proposition. [More…]
No society can do that and avoid further breakdowns of the democratic structure that recognises the equality of all its citizens. [More…]
It is contrary to the human rights and humane values which must be the fundamental concerns of a democratic society. [More…]
I believe that in a democratic society the emphasis must be placed on the rights - including the right to life and the right to fulfilment - of the individual. [More…]
If we are to have a systematic and comprehensive planning scheme such as operates in Canberra it is important that we make sure that democratic checks and controls are inserted into the system. [More…]
Now that an Australian delegation has gone to Communist China perhaps we could ask the members of that delegation to look at what happened in Tibet where religious persecution was accompanied by wholesale genocide, where the Dalai Lama, the religious leader of the country, is in exile and where that country is still being closed by its Chinese overlords to any visit by observers from democratic nations. [More…]
That is an important democratic principle that seems to be supported only by us on this side of the House. [More…]
Senators Carrick and Sim have been nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in that House, Senator Maunsell has been nominated by the Leader of the Australian Country Party in that House and Senator McManus has been nominated by the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in that House. [More…]
We know that the first plank in the Labor Party’s policy is the democratic socialisation of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and there is no question that the Pipeline Authority Bill is a vehicle for the socialisation program of this Government. [More…]
It is a democratic organisation which operates under a very restricted charter. [More…]
But this is our democratic system. [More…]
A method of debasing the influence of this democratic Parliament is the use of the Press conferences, which would circumvent much of the decision making and discussion on public issues that affect this country. [More…]
I was wondering why they jump to their feet during the adjournment debate and I suddenly recalled, of course, that soon we will hear of the marriage - whether it is shotgun or unhappy, I do not know - of the Australian Country Party and the Democratic Labor [More…]
The relevance of that is simply this: The prime objective of the Government, which my honourable friend leads and of which the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) is a distinguished member, is democratic socialisation. [More…]
It would appear then to be more democratic to have an even number elected each time for each Territory thus following the pattern of the major parties providing that each would have a representative in the Senate. [More…]
The only solid result to emerge from that election in Victoria is that the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Parity are a dying race. [More…]
1 am one of those who believe that none of those things have a place in a democratic society. [More…]
The argument is usually put as one whereby the system of local government, which is designed to administer small areas with direct and visible representation by councils, is one which is most amenable te our democratic tradition. [More…]
The Maud Report pointed out that local government is an essential part of democratic government. [More…]
It is the potential ability of local government to provide for the immediate access of directly elected representatives to a community which gives it this democratic quality once described by Harold Laski as *the genius of place’. [More…]
Maybe he has suddenly learnt about it from the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I believe we must expand the role of local government as the democratic body closest to the people. [More…]
In the same spirit, the Government has decided to establish diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the German Democratic Republic, Cyprus, Poland and the Vatican and to make informal contacts with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. [More…]
In the same spirit, the Government has decided to establish diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the German Democratic Republic, Cyprus, Poland and the Vatican, and to make informal contacts with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. [More…]
I remind the honourable gentleman that last night he said that the Government had decided to proceed with the establishment of diplomatic relations with Poland and the German Democratic Republic or, in other words, East Germany. [More…]
What instructions has the Prime Minister given for Australian action to end all foreign military presence in Poland and the German Democratic Republic in accordance with his Party’s policy? [More…]
Sport offers the most fundamentally democratic social order one could imagine; it ignores inherited prestige and offers an equal chance for all. [More…]
It can be the most marvellous leveller in a healthy, democratic community. [More…]
Inflation is a problem which is bedevilling the world at the moment, particularly the democratic section of it. [More…]
It seems to be the experience of every democratic country. [More…]
I think that that is good for the democratic process. [More…]
The people of Canberra were denied the opportunity of democratic representation in this place for a great deal of the time that they had a member here. [More…]
Are these eople Australians and are they going to enjoy the democratic advantages that other Australians enjoy? [More…]
If Jock Nelson bad continued as a member of this Parliament the honourable member for Mackellar knows very well that the democratic sentiments of the Government of 1968 would not have conferred voting rights upon him. [More…]
I think in this respect the ancestor of the honourable member for Mackellar, with his House of baronets proposal, was much more democratic than the honourable member. [More…]
The attainment of minimum standards of competence for life in the modern democratic industrial society; [More…]
We should consider when looking at this Bill that we are virtually considering the status and the remuneration of those men who are virtually in charge of the democratic concept in this country. [More…]
In my view, the Electoral Office is the custodian of the democratic concept. [More…]
We sincerely hope that this measure will raise the status and the salary of the electoral officers and, I stress, also their staff and will relate their working conditions to their importance so that they may operate successfully in a democratic electoral system. [More…]
It is a sad song to our friends and allies in the Western democratic world. [More…]
The style of the Government which caused the Anglican Primate of Australia last week to express fears for the future of our democratic traditions is an indication of the fears that are felt within Australia at the moment. [More…]
He is what might be called the innocent young bridegroom who is courting that dear old lady, the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Pacific neighbours prior to its recognition of (a) the People’s ‘Republic of China and (b) the Democratic Republic of Vietnam? [More…]
In both instances a number of Australian missions were instructed to inform in advance the governments to which they were accredited that Australia intended to open negotiations with the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam for mutual recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations. [More…]
If so, will he give an assurance that no public moneys will be granted to any school which denies its employees the democratic right to organise for the purpose of improving their employment conditions. [More…]
That is a real democratic vote. [More…]
It is a challenge to those who sit opposite to stand up and be counted on the fundamental democratic principle of one vote one value and majority rule. [More…]
We certainly agree with what the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) said concerning the need for this Parliament to operate in an effective and democratic fashion. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the Leader of the House, having completed an extensive overseas trip to examine the operation of democratic institutions of government, is not prepared to give this House some evidence of his newly acquired enlightenment. [More…]
So, with the centralist policies denying State parliaments their right we will find that the whole function of the democratic parliamentary system in Australia will be further foreshortened. [More…]
In any democratic situation - at any rate, in areas which founded their system of Government on the British system - there is another factor to be considered, that is, what we on this side of the House are for the time being, namely, Her Majesty’s Opposition. [More…]
If it does not do that, the democratic process, to which I believe this country over many years owes a great deal, can be brought into disrepute. [More…]
What we want is a certain amount of give and take to make sure that the democratic process is allowed a fair crack of the whip. [More…]
This is surely what the principle of democratic government is kil about. [More…]
With one party courting the Democratic Labor Party, things are really desperate. [More…]
That the committee consist of three Members of the House of Representatives nominated by the Prime Minister, one Member of the House of Representatives nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives, one Member of tha House of Representatives nominated by the Leader of the Australian Country Party in the House of Representatives, two Senators nominated by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, one Senator nominated by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and one Senator nominated by the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]
I believe it is one of the most significant representative institutions in the world because of the very structure of our system which is basically democratic and representative of all the citizens and yet which stands in a community which is generally concerned with Presidents, royalties and everybody else. [More…]
Moreover, members of the public themselves are deprived of the democratic participating opportunities which properly ought to characterise our approach to governmental affairs. [More…]
We do not even have adequate committee rooms of small sizes to enable the democratic participation of parliamentarians to take place, let alone substantial meeting places. [More…]
The new and permanent Parliament House must be a monumental and prestige building, standing as an impressive symbol of Australia’s unity and proudly reflecting the Nation’s progress and its faith in a democratic way of life. [More…]
No one can have faith in a democratic way of life or in the parliamentary institution if in the face of all our contentions and declared desire to achieve a new parliament house we lack of competency to agree and take a decision. [More…]
Australia is becoming a nation riddled by political gerrymanders in certain States and the worst of these are in New South Wales and Queensland where there is blatant unashamed gerrymandering of electoral boundaries in order to not ensure democratic control but the continuation of Liberal Party-Country Party minority government. [More…]
The Minister has introduced legislation to establish democratic principles. [More…]
The democratic concept in our society is very fragile. [More…]
My view is that those who truly believe in democratic government will consider this Bill on the ground of principle, not in a narrow and cynical way concerned only with grabbing political power or with the obsession to maintain disproportionate representation. [More…]
It was to be the grand depository of the democratic principle of the Government. [More…]
The dilution of the votes of some citizensor some class of citizens cannot be justified within the concepts of democratic government, and it will not be tolerated by this Government. [More…]
The heart of the matter we are considering is the democratic right of all Australian voters to enjoy equality of representation in this House. [More…]
To my mind, more than any other aspect of our Constitution, the monarchy applies fundamentally to the protection of the democratic style which we have inherited. [More…]
I have written to Mr Dickie to try to clarify these questions of the use of English and to make clear to him that the system is principally based upon the assumption that in a democratic society people are entitled to deal directly with the government responsible for the facilities which it supplies to them. [More…]
The point is that the same democratic principles that govern the administration of this nation should govern the administration of these boards and in particular, of course, the Wine Board. [More…]
I personally believe that because of the democratic nature of my Party that objection could be well and truly met on this side of the House. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party in Queensland - in Brisbane anyway - is distributing a paper called “The Democrat’. [More…]
the Democratic Labor Party in 1972) had decided 23 of the 38 Liberal seats in the House of Representatives including half of the ‘Shadow Cabinet’ (Snedden, Lynch, Fraser, Chipp, Bowen and Killen). [More…]
Just before the 1972 election, in my electorate of Lilley a vicious campaign was waged by the National Civic Council, the Democratic Labor Party, the Liberals and pseudoLiberals - cum-DLP-supporters who stooped to every undesirable tactic to instil fear into the minds of people about the future education of their children. [More…]
I believe that it can be justified in the sense that it is a per capita saving to the government system and is providing a democratic choice to parents. [More…]
The Country Party is so desperate for political power that it is trying to marry that dear old girl, the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
In other words, members of the Country Party want loaded votes and, to tell you the truth, having a good look at the Country Party, how could they win except under an undemocratic political system? [More…]
Notwithstanding the Democratic Labor Party, the Country Party and the toadies who sit opposite and call themselves Liberals, we will introduce legislation that will produce equality of voting. [More…]
People will ultimately awaken to the fact that we must have equality of yoting in any country if we are to have a democratic system. [More…]
It is living on rigged electoral boundaries, on undemocratic proposals. [More…]
It is basic to the democratic processes that people in the country as well as in the cities should be informed. [More…]
Provision will be made to strengthen further the democratic processes in relation to union elections by providing that all full time federal officers in an organisation must be elected by direct vote of the members of the organisation and that the only federal officers who can be elected by the collegiate system shall be part time officers of an organisation’s federal management committee, provided that the officers of the management committee itself are elected by direct vote of the rank and file. [More…]
The Australian Government is a democratic socialist government with a commitment to developing an egalitarian society in which all sections of the community can participate in the decision-making process. [More…]
The Australian Assistance Plan is an attempt to bring together these threads - planning, regionalism, true democratic participation, community development and regular critical evaluation of the performance of programs to ensure their continued relevance and satisfactory operation. [More…]
Australian politics to the degree it has in the United Kingdom or Europe or most democratic countries. [More…]
The latest evidence of this, of course, is the Country Party’s flirtation with the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
It is the Budget of a democratic socialist party. [More…]
We have just listened to the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh) who, at the beginning of his remarks, described himself as a democratic socialist. [More…]
He proceeded to tell us of all the advantages of democratic socialism, which I would say is simply gobbledegook for totalitarianism - power from the top down. [More…]
As far as the Prime Minister is concerned - and this is democratic socialism - no one in this country must be permitted ever to read anything about southern Africa or in particular Rhodesia. [More…]
Perhaps the members of the Press gallery should have a look at what happened to the Press in Ceylon under democratic socialism. [More…]
This is an example of doctrinaire democratic socialism which we hear about and which seems to be forcing the Labor Party into trying to introduce this scheme. [More…]
Another disturbing characteristic is that they have used the Democratic Labor Party and the Catholic Church organisation, through the likes of Mr Santamaria, to prop up the parents and friends organisations under the ruse that unless per capita grants go to GPS schools they will not go to the Catholic parochial schools either. [More…]
They are an attack on individual rights in a democratic society. [More…]
It is typical of the actions of Liberal Party and Country Party members who sit in the Senate with their Democratic Labor Party colleagues that they have stalled for so long this proposition that today is supported by the honourable member for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Prime Minister - and this should be known by everyone - complimented New Zealand on its outstanding democratic system - one Parliament, no states; one House, no bicameral system or House of review- [More…]
New relationships have been established with countries such as the People’s Republic of China and the German Democratic Republic. [More…]
It would destroy our whole democratic concept. [More…]
You were not particularly democratic. [More…]
It is surprising that the Minister can talk about democratic control when it is not very long ago that we had a 2-man government. [More…]
In a democratic system there is no other way whereby industries can determine where the. [More…]
The only way in a democratic system by which the producer can know what is needed in the economy is for him to receive the market signals. [More…]
I am sorry that the system works like this but I do not think that anybody in this House would deny that in a democratic system that is the only way in which producers of goods will receive the signals to increase or decrease production. [More…]
The Australian Parliament is the only democratic body in the industrially developed world which does not have power to regulate prices. [More…]
The establishment of the Social Welfare Commission is a further demonstration of the Government’s commitment to introduce democratic participation into national government. [More…]
The great difficulty the Government faces is that it cannot guarantee to implement its policy because the Australian Democratic Labor Party in another place has indicated that it will not have a bar of the Bill at all. [More…]
The then honourable member for Lilley certainly must have worked very quietly towards it because we never heard very much from that gentleman except words of praise for his friends in the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
It is utterly wrong in this democratic system to have a situation in which a Minister can personally appoint members to an inspectorate of this kind or appoint members to any police force. [More…]
I would hope that the Minister would recognise the fundamental importance and the fundamental significance of this amendment to the basic democratic system which we seek to preserve and which I hope he would seek to preserve. [More…]
Doubtless the Minister would argue that this is an extension of the democratic rights of the ordinary unionist. [More…]
Sure it sounds fine and democratic to return to seek rank and file support or agreement for a negotiation. [More…]
There are many unions and unionists who, having democratically elected their officials, are prepared to support them through to a conclusion on any difficult negotiation. [More…]
I think this is a fundamental democratic concept. [More…]
I would say that it is a fundamental democratic socialist concept that people deal directly with the governments to whom they look for assistance or whose laws rule them. [More…]
I am not arguing for any abstract democratic principle; I am saying that this sort of development is highly desirable because tensions and misunderstandings in the environment of aged persons homes will inevitably arise otherwise to the discomfort and the unhappiness of the residents and also to the discomfort and concern of management committees. [More…]
ls this in line with the principles of democratic practice in modern society? [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, in accordance with its democratic practices, has endeavoured to remedy this situation by giving representation in both Houses to the Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Legislation to that effect has been introduced, and I hope that common sense and the desire to give in both Houses democratic representation to the Territories will receive the support of honourable members opposite when the legislation is presented again. [More…]
It has done a very mangy deal with the Australian Democratic Labor Party and it is terrified of the unions. [More…]
He also did not know Caucus’s mind, the Australian Democratic Labor Party’s mind or Mr Hawke’s mind. [More…]
When he stands in this Parliament and says to this Government that it is a mangy deal because the senators who represent the Democratic Labor Party have agreed to support this proposition, one can only gather that he is speaking from past experience. [More…]
It is almost impossible to believe that the congenial and lovable Fred Daly quite suddenly becomes a diabolical character who will gag a debate in a split second and deprive honourable members of the normal democratic rights they have to express their points of view. [More…]
To avoid this, they hold these little Press conferences, make Press releases and so on in an effort to sidestep the democratic processes. [More…]
In the new Parliament 22 Liberal members and 6 Country Party members hold their seats on Democratic Labor Party preferences. [More…]
I have not described the Australian Democratic Labor Party as a whore or z harlot. [More…]
He was elected with the preferences of the Democratic Labor Party, and to that extent he must dance to their tune. [More…]
The Leader of the House knows about the Democratic Labor Party I suppose. [More…]
This opposition to the idea that the people of the Australian Capital Territory, essentially the people of Canberra, should have some democratic representation in this Parliament comes from the Country Party, the [More…]
Liberal Party and also from that group called the Australian Democratic Labor Party; the members of those Parties are the people who oppose that democratic representation. [More…]
Members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party vote as a party, whether they come from Tasmania or Queensland; they are Australians. [More…]
It would appear then to be more democratic to have an even number elected each time for each Territory thus following the pattern of the major parties providing that each would have a representative in the Senate. [More…]
Surely if the people want 2 Liberals, 2 Labor members or 2 Democratic Labor Party members and they vote that way they are entitled to have them. [More…]
If members oppos ite really believed in democratic representation for these 2 Territories they would support this legislation. [More…]
I hope it will see the light with respect to this legislation, pass it and give effect to a democratic move designed to give to these 2 Territories the increased representation to which they are entitled. [More…]
In this country today, the task which confronts a social democratic Government, dedicated to the eradication of inequality while not debasing standards, is herculean. [More…]
They have been particularly fair whether printing material for the Country Party, which is one of the parties in our country which receives 8 per cent of the votes and therefore should be acknowledged, or the Democratic Labor Party which is also a party in our country which receives almost 8 per cent of the vote - [More…]
The Labor Party is a democratic party. [More…]
Then in accordance with all the democratic practices of government the Ministers submit their proposals and participate in the deliberations. [More…]
It seems to me that to be able to call upon reserves from within the community generally and the support of actions or the investigation of actions, is a necessary part of the democratic governmental process. [More…]
That report culminated from an inquiry set up in 1970 in the Senate at the behest of Australian Labor PaTty senators who at that time, with the co-operation of the Democratic Labor Party, had control in that place. [More…]
First, most schools lack sufficient resources, both human and material, to provide educational experiences appropriate to the young in a modern democratic industrial society. [More…]
The freedom of choice of individuals and students is a basic right in our democratic society, as is the basic right of all children to equal opportunity and equality of education. [More…]
So I think that this Government has established its bona fides as a democratic government - because it has been consulting with the clients, consulting with the practitioners and seeking advice from wherever it could get it. [More…]
by leave - As honourable mem bers will be aware, I have recently returned from a series of trade discussions in Japan, in the Republic of Korea, in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and in the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was a particularly important one, I think, as the first visit by an Australian Minister ever to that country and as the first ever official Australian mission. [More…]
In the detailed discussions on trade matters with the Ministers of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, we considered the question of trade representation in our 2 countries. [More…]
I can understand the position of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; in its position I probably would take a similar attitude. [More…]
It was necessary, in order to travel to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to pass through China where I was able to renew contacts, particularly with the Chinese Minister for Foreign Trade, Minister Poi Hsiang-kuo, and with the Foreign Minister, Chi Peng Fei. [More…]
In short, under a Labor government the Industry Development Corporation will be used for the democratic socialist purposes I outlined in my policy speech and the Act which establishes this Corporation will be amended by us to secure those purposes. [More…]
Let us remember that we live in a democratic society. [More…]
When we talk about government control in a democratic society we are not talking about something remote from ordinary people. [More…]
He knows full well that he never sought reform to bring about democratic practices until he sat in opposition. [More…]
No wonder the Democratic Labor Party gave them away. [More…]
The responsibility lies with the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), but he is a man who is intent on using this Parliament as a forum for his own grandiose pretensions and not as a house of legislative review, as its democratic functions are prescribed under the Constitution. [More…]
That is democratic government. [More…]
Political policy in a democratic community does not depend upon purely economic considerations. [More…]
It will be a major bureaucratic organisation operating outside direct democratic responsibility to the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
A body being given such wide powers, being outside the direct democratic control of the electoral process must be placed in the position where people are able to comprehend the purposes of the reports brought forward and the reasons why significant changes - and no doubt there will be significant changes - are being suggested in particular industries. [More…]
Under our democratic system, fortunately, it will be done peacefully. [More…]
This House has not been able to operate according to its prescribed constitutional and democratic functions as a forum of legislative review. [More…]
But the Australian people will not be fooled by the anti-democratic procedures which have been adopted. [More…]
We do so because this system is most conducive to the progress and well-being of Australia and most conducive to the democratic protection of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
The historic visit of an Australian Minister to the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea opened new trade possibilities. [More…]
This is both the peril and advantage of our democratic system. [More…]
They abused the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) when he effected a Government decision to establish diplomatic relations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the German Democratic [More…]
I hope that members of this Parliament will exercise their democratic rights and determine that the new parliament house should be built on Capital Hill. [More…]
Iraq is a (fine democratic place! [More…]
The honourable member for Angas laughs but he knows that the science blocks grants were the medium used by the Liberal Party to retain the preferences of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
If members opposite want to discriminate I suggest that they do the Politics I course again - that is, if they have even done it - because they will learn that if people have wealth the democratic way of coping with that situation is to tax them on that wealth. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that most democratic countries withdrew. [More…]
The number of seats it wins in this house depends on the allocation of Democratic Labor party preferences. [More…]
So it is no wonder there are those who would attempt to deny the democratic wishes of the Australian people. [More…]
I say in regard to his challenge to the Government to hold an election that it is quite pleasing to see that the Democratic Labor Party in its political wisdom is too astute to fall for the stunt of the hollow challenge of the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) to call for a double dissolution. [More…]
Nobody knows for certain because their Leader, who has been preoccupied with trying to arrange a marriage of convenience with the Democratic Labor Party, has not had the courage to say whether he is for or against the recognition of China. [More…]
In fact, the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate took an opportunity to consult with the officials of the Department and spent several hours doing so. [More…]
The notion that social levels should reflect differences in innate ability rather than differences in family was part of the democratic revolution which accompanied industrialisation. [More…]
In the case of the German Democratic Republic, approximately 500,000 tons of wheat can be sold each year for 6 years, probably without any trouble, and a similar quantity of other grains also can be sold. [More…]
This action by the Liberal-Country Party and Democratic Labor Party Opposition in rejecting this Bill is contrary to all principles previously upheld for the development of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Australia is a democratic society. [More…]
It is a shameful reminder of the existing inadequacy of our democratic society. [More…]
I do not trust them whether they be members of the Liberal Party, the Country Party, the Australian ‘Labor Party, the Democratic Labor Party or the Communist Party; when it comes to obtaining votes all parties are the same. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Services and Property will recognise the truth of what I have said - that it is up to the Government of the day, the Parliament or the electoral officer to provide this service to the aged, the sick and the needy and to take the matter out of the hands of the political parties because they are the ones who are presently exploiting what is surely meant to be a democratic process. [More…]
Let me go further and remind the honourable member for Griffith of the blatant misuse of the privilege of allowing people to vote by post that was carried out during the last election campaign by his friend, the dishonourable - I mean the honourable - member for Lilley in the days of the last Parliament, Kevin Cairns, the great architect of virtue, the Democratic Labor Party member of the last Parliament who sat in this chamber. [More…]
I do not have time to talk about choice of doctors, which I wanted to discuss, but I shall refer to a pamphlet that is being distributed by one of these democratic organisations known as the Voluntary Health Insurance Association of Australia. [More…]
It must be, otherwise it would not be distributing literature which purports to represent a democratic and just point of view to the Australian people but which, in essence, is an exercise in deception as it misleads, confuses and frightens people. [More…]
I ask honourable members opposite to consider this, for that is the view that this Association which they support puts forward - this democratic association, of which the Medical Benefits Fund is a member, and of which the board of 24 members- [More…]
I talk next about the effect of the media on the democratic process. [More…]
Every democratic country has similar divisions to those embraced by the Department of Media. [More…]
They moved an amendment which I had to accept because, as is known, they had the Democratic Labor Party, which is the Country Party’s sleeping partner, sewn up in another place. [More…]
That in relation to the proceedings on the following Bills, so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the Leader of the House making one declaration of urgency and moving one motion for the allotment of time in respect of all the Bills: The Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill 1974, the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill 1974 and the Constitution Alteration (Local Government Bodies) Bill 1974. [More…]
It says that the people should not be allowed even to consider them at a referendum - perhaps one of the most democratic ways of deciding things in a democratic society. [More…]
The first is the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill. [More…]
Nothing could be more important than the democratic processes of Australia and nothing could be more important and indeed urgent than that the people of Australia should be entitled to consider these propositions. [More…]
Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill 1974: [More…]
The Minister for Secondary Industry (Dr J. F. Cairns) said in regard to a previous motion that a referendum is the most democratic form of getting decisions. [More…]
This proposal - that which is called the simultaneous elections proposal - should be rejected on 2 grounds: firstly, because it is unnecessary; and secondly, because its adoption would be dangerous in constitutional and democratic terms. [More…]
But I believe that we are deceiving ourselves if we think that because of voting fatigue the Australian people will surrender any part of the democratic tradition of this country. [More…]
They do not wish to surrender any part of that democratic status. [More…]
We believe also that, if approved, the proposals will represent a great step forward in the democratic process, with consequent benefit to the Parliament, the people and Australia. [More…]
So it is utter nonsense for the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) to say that this is something to foster and to further the democratic exercise of the will of the people. [More…]
The democratic will of the people can be exercised as the Constitution is now framed and those who are in government at any time can exercise any of those 3 options which are available to them. [More…]
I believe that when a Senate election takes place at the time of a House of Representatives election the very nature of this chamber, the nature of the election of government, the nature of policies that originate in this chamber and the machinations of power that those who abuse it in the Labor Party seek, are likely to distort the democratic process, and particularly the democratic process that applies to the election of senators. [More…]
For that reason, I see it as being quite undemocratic and against the maintenance of a bicameral system that this piece of legislation should be either passed by this House or accepted by the Australian electorate. [More…]
It will find that Australians have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that separate Senate elections, should they be a part of the democratic process and they still are, provide some benefits. [More…]
When one considers the Nazi Party one has to take the view that it is hardly in the same accord or category of organisations as would be called political parties because it rests almost entirely on a principle of violence, racism, anti-semitism, the repudiation of all democratic principles, the fuehrer principle and the negation of everything which the democratic principles reflect and for which this Parliament, for example, stands. [More…]
That is, the Prime Minister - will no longer have the pretence of representing the free democratic majority of people of this free and independent country of ours. [More…]
It is, in the Committe’s opinion, more in accord with democratic principle and the develop ments since Federation that it should be sufficient to obtain separate majorities in at least one half of the number of States. [More…]
The Committee’s proposal would not disturb the federal fabric of the Constitution, inherent in Section 128, but its proposal would serve to lay more emphasis on constitutional change by the democratic process of majority vote than there at present exists. [More…]
I believe that this change will bring the constitutional provisions more into accord with the spirit of the founders in 1901; more into accord with today’s mood of national awareness; and more into accord with democratic principles and processes. [More…]
This Bill will join the three proposals for alteration of the Constitution at present before the House - the proposals for simultaneous elections of the Senate and the House of Representatives, for democratic electorates, and for powers in relation to local government finances. [More…]
We believe that the two changes to section 128 of the Constitution contained in this Bill will put referendums on a more democratic basis and make it more possible for the Constitution to reflect more accurately, in contemporary terms, the spirit and the fact of Australia as one united nation. [More…]
I do not believe that the words ‘and democratically’ should be included in the long title because they carry a very clear inference that the elections until now have not been carried out democratically. [More…]
A curious result of this is that the Government is alleging that it was not democratically elected and that by the amendment of the Constitution there will be henceforth democratic elections. [More…]
What we do now is to distribute electoral boundaries on the basis of the number of electors because we believe that is the proper and democratic way to do it. [More…]
I do not believe that it is a democratic proposition to determine electorates on the basis of people. [More…]
The concept of equality is the distinguishing feature of a democratic society. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party candidate who was defeated got 48 per cent of the primary votes and the Liberal Party candidate polled 24 per cent, with the Democratic Labor Party candidate getting 8 per cent and the Independent candidate 6 per cent. [More…]
One way of judging whether we have a fair and democratic electoral system is to relate the percentage of votes won by a party to the seats gained by it at an election. [More…]
These figures show why the 20 per cent rural weighting of electorates must be retained at all costs - a measure which the Senate recently rejected for a second time but which this democratic Government voted for and so did the honourable member for Mackellar in one of his brighter moments. [More…]
In other words, by the method of dividing a State into two unequal zones, electors in these zones are given different values for the vote which they cast in a system which is supposedly democratic. [More…]
Proof is easy to come by, and events in the world of today are clear testimony to the fact that administering the government of each and every democratic country raises intractable problems and is better in the hands and minds of many representatives of the people than in the vanity of the few. [More…]
Last year, referring to Labor Party policy on democratic socialism, he said that it would be intolerable if a Labor Government were to use the alibi of the Constitution to excuse failure- to achieve its socialist objective. [More…]
The reason for the proposed referendum is that the Labor Party wants to achieve its purposes for ulterior reasons contrary to the best interests of the democratic system of Government in this country. [More…]
Supporters of the Government believe that this is the democratic right of the people of Australia. [More…]
I submit that this, in turn, will lead to the conduct of truly democratic elections by applying the principle of one vote one value. [More…]
The result of this election illustrates the detrimental effect to democratic elections that the political racketeers achieved in Queensland. [More…]
In democratic Queensland, where the Country Party is in control of the coalition, the Country Party gained 181,288 votes - less than 20 per cent of the total vote - and won 26 seats. [More…]
If anywhere in this country there is need for democratic electoral reform, surely it must be in Queensland. [More…]
The Federal secretary of the Democratic Labor Party, Senator Kane, has called for a new national force in Australian politics led by the Leader of the Country Party, Mr Anthony. [More…]
If this legislation is passed, if the Constitution is altered and then legislation is passed pursuant to that power, it will be to the great disadvantage of the people of Australia who want the services, and it will be to the great disadvantage also of those people of Australia who see our Constitution as a bulwark which is essential for the protection of our standards, our way of life and our democratic centralisation of power in Canberra. [More…]
The word ‘privilege’ arises out of the need for members of this Parliament, who are elected to represent the public of Australia in a democratic form, to be able to conduct the affairs of the nation in this Parliament fearlessly. [More…]
We should also be accepting those migrants who are prepared to preserve our democratic way of life. [More…]
It would seem that the Liberal-Country Party Coalition with the help of the Australian Democratic Labor Party is going to throw this proposal out when a harnessing of savings is sorely needed. [More…]
Is it a fact that spokesmen for the Liberal and Australian Country Parties and the Australian Democratic Labor Party have decided that the answer to the present second rate pensioner medical service, which they uncritically supported during the previous Government’s term of office, is to enrol pensioners in the subsidised health benefits plan? [More…]
It is, in the Committee’s opinion, more in accord with democratic principle and the developments since Federation that it should be sufficient to obtain separate majorities in at least one half of the number of States. [More…]
It would be an indictment of our democratic system of government to allow this discrimination to continue on the basis of geography. [More…]
This would not only mean that the referendum result would be more democratic, it would also give a better national reflection of the views of the Australian people. [More…]
To a great many residents who come here from other States, it is a shock to learn that they are denied a basic democratic right, once they cross the artificial frontier. [More…]
We agree completely with the remarks of Government supporters that it is a fundamental democratic principle that all electors should have the right to vote in a referendum. [More…]
My point is that even then, under no real threat, the founding fathers provided for a majority of the States in a referendum as a sensible way to provide for democratic dealings between what would be regarded as equal members in a partnership who had decided for certain important and overriding reasons to come together to form a federal union but for other purposes to retain their separate existence. [More…]
We are, in fact, talcing a major democratic step in placing these ballot papers before the citizens of Australia and asking them to make judgment upon the questions. [More…]
In other words, if honourable members read Quick and Garran and understand the constitutional principles and the realities of a federal and democratic system that guided the fathers of the Constitution, they must come to the conclusion that before a referendum is put to the Australian people they must be informed of exactly what is involved in the proposed change. [More…]
It is, in the Committee’s opinion, more in accord with democratic principle and the developments since Federation that it should be sufficient to obtain separate majorities in at least one-half of the number of States. [More…]
It upgraded the top position on the staff of the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Requested by, the former Leader of the Democratic Labor Party: One Research Officer position for the Leader’s staff; one extra Steno-Secretary position for the Leader’s staff. [More…]
One of the great features of a democratic system of government is that there is in the Parliament an Opposition, and the duty of that Opposition is to present an alternative to the proposals put forward by the Government, to criticise those proposals and to present the point of view of the sections of the community and the electors that Opposition members have the privilege to represent. [More…]
The figures relating to the Gosford electorate were: Mr Brooks, Liberal, received 10,319 votes or 52.4 per cent of the vote; Mr Dunbar, Democratic Labor Party received 637 votes or 3.2 per cent of the vote; and Mr McGowan, Australian Labor Party, received 8,744 votes or 44.4 per cent of the vote. [More…]
The true situation is that there was a march and it was organised by the Liberal Party and the Democratic Labor Party combined. [More…]
All our talk of millions of extra dollars should not be allowed to hide the fact that what we are really aiming at is a cultural, social and economic revolution in our society with a new respect for the rights of every individual, not just an elite, to have the opportunity of living a personally satisfying life as a member of a genuinely democratic community. [More…]
The Senate is proposing to refer the Australian Industry Development Corporation Bill and the National Investment Fund Bill to the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control for inquiry and report I believe the Democratic Labor Party senators are genuine in their attitude. [More…]
I feel that the Democratic Labor Party was genuine about this but I wish I could feel that the Opposition as a whole was genuine, too. [More…]
Further, the vote is not a democratic process because the points outlined are being forced on the people as white superstructures. [More…]
What the Opposition parties have succeeded in doing is not bringing about a mere delay but, by their persuasive arguments and of course by the numbers that they could mount in the other place, bring pressure to bear in the most democratic way possible to have legislation properly amended. [More…]
It was said that that Bill would make elections democratic. [More…]
The clear implication was that this Government was elected undemocratically. [More…]
The Authority also said that from experience in our type of democratic society, planning control can arrest the rate of such development but cannot prevent it when land is in private ownership. [More…]
In the finish the question of equity or balance between the two is the greatest single social economic question that faces a democratic society. [More…]
It is a democratic choice, but it is a choice that ought to be exercised sensibly. [More…]
It is, in the Committee’s opinion, more in accord with democratic principle and the developments since [More…]
Just as the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) showed a proper spirit of the workings of a democratic parliament by accepting about 25 amendments that had been moved by our colleagues in the Senate and by accepting the deletion of another 20 clauses from the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, so too should the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen). [More…]
All the Government needs to do is to give the people of Australia at a referendum’ which he described in the same speech as perhaps one of the most democratic ways of deciding things in a democratic society’ - the opportunity to consider three propositions. [More…]
Nothing could be more important than the democratic processes in Australia and nothing could be more important and indeed urgent than that the people of Australia should be entitled to consider these propositions. [More…]
Members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party would go for the song Matchmaker’. [More…]
The position of the Opposition, and its allies in the AMA, the private funds, the Australian Democratic Labor Party and the private hospitals is that there is nothing wrong with the present scheme which a further reckless infusion of public money would not fix. [More…]
Only recently many Queenslanders were dismayed at the ruthlessness with which the Bjelke-Petersen Government - apparently the honourable member for Darling Downs thinks that great democratic government in Queensland is a wonderful government - bludgeoned through the State Assembly a resolution opposing the conferral of powers sought by this Federal Government under section 128 of the Constitution. [More…]
The honourable member may support the Bill which has been introduced in another place by the Democratic Labor Party, by which it is proposed that the Australian Government subsidise private insurance contributions of families on incomes up to $69.50 a week and single persons up to $30 a week. [More…]
There are 5 doctors in the ranks of the Australian Labor Government and none in the Liberal Party, the Country Party or the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
People in Australia, living in a democratic society, have had the choice provided by a dual hospital system - public hospitals and private hospitals run mainly by religious organisations. [More…]
In fact the amendments in relation to the identification of people on the Commission were moved by the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate and we supported them. [More…]
I have seen in the year that is behind us many moves which could be interpreted in that way - moves which on the surface seem fair and reasonable and attractive enough but when they are put together into a pattern seem to move towards this funda mental Government objective of destroying the Australian States, destroying every other form of democratic government and centralising everything here in Canberra in one House of Parliament so that the man who obtained the Prime Ministership by some quirk or chance of fate will be able to perpetuate his power, be able to over-ride everything in the Constitution and have complete control of the whole Australian economy, social structure, family life and everything else that one can imagine. [More…]
Sometimes the reports that we read of our speeches are not what we would have written if we had been writing them, but I think all of us would say that the job done by the Press is absolutely essential to the democratic process so that what happens here can, through the judgment and interpretative pen of the Press, reach all the Australian people. [More…]
From an examination of the functions of the Branch which consisted of three persons, it seemed clear to me that certain of its activities amounted to political surveillance and were therefore incompatible with the democratic principles of this country. [More…]
Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections). [More…]
On 4 December 1973 the Senate referred to the Senate Standing Commitee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill, rejected the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill, rejected the Constitution Alteration (Local Government Bodies) Bill and amended the Constitution Alteration (Mode of Altering the Constitution) Bill, amendments which were rejected by this House. [More…]
What about this wonderful democratic principle that everyone over 18 years of age will have a vote? [More…]
The wording was designed deliberately to deceive the people into voting on the basis that they want democratic elections. [More…]
Let us consider next the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill 1974 (No. [More…]
I ask honourable members on the opposite side who sit behind the Leader of the Opposition to examine the figures for Queensland to see whether there are not gerrymanders and whether there is no necessity for democratic elections. [More…]
So do not let us talk about democratic elections. [More…]
I was talking about this so-called democratic structure. [More…]
I think the time is overdue that the people of Australia should see all houses of parliament elected in a democratic way. [More…]
This cognate debate covers the Constitution Alteration (Simultaneous Elections) Bill, the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill, the Constitution Alteration (Local Government Bodies) Bill and the Constitution Alteration (Mode of Altering the Constitution) Bill. [More…]
We have pledged ourselves to this reform and we are seeking to make this reform in our democratic way. [More…]
Firstly I would like to deal with the Bill which has a very curious reference in its title to democratic elections - the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill. [More…]
That is what the proposal is all about, no matter what fancy language the Prime Minister might use about democratic principles. [More…]
The Government hopes that the Australian people, through ignorance of what they are doing, will become accomplices in the Labor Party’s plans to seriously damage the democratic processes. [More…]
If this proposal is put into effect we will see the Labor Party gaining enormous advantage at the cost of sound and democratic electoral principles. [More…]
What a revelation of the Labor Party’s professed respect and manifest contempt for democratic principles. [More…]
Now that they have lost control of this House the Liberal and Country Parties and their Democratic Labor Party running mates - the wedding mate of the Country Party - are abusing the power of the Senate to frustrate the popular will. [More…]
It is inherent in our democratic process that such an issue, involving an amendment of the Constitution, can be decided only by the people and I express the hope that this House will adopt a responsible attitude in allowing the early passage of the Bill. [More…]
I now turn to the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill 1974. [More…]
The word democratic’ frightens every Country Party member in this House. [More…]
These measures will place democratic institutions in Australia on a firmer foundation and will forestall the possibility of democracy being usurped by totalitarian parties of the right or the left. [More…]
Do honourable members opposite oppose that democratic move? [More…]
The method by which a Constitution can be changed is, therefore, of great democratic importance. [More…]
This is obviously more democratic. [More…]
It is time this fundamental democratic right was given to them. [More…]
I ask all those honourable members opposite who do not trust the Australian people and say that they should not be given a vote on these great democratic proposals to stand and be counted. [More…]
The Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill is equally deceptive. [More…]
It represents a departure from democratic theory. [More…]
At the second reading stage of the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill the Leader of the Opposition, the right honourable Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony), the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) and the honourable member for Moreton spoke, and in the Committee stage of that Bill the Leader of the Opposition spoke. [More…]
In the other chamber, which is controlled by the Liberal and Country parties, the Australian Democratic Labor Party and a few Independents - not the newly elected Government - the legislation was thrown back and tonight and this afternoon we hear these great protectors of liberty now saying that this Parliament is being destroyed. [More…]
Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill 1974- [More…]
The Government is unable to ensure that the processes of a democratically elected Upper House are allowed to take their proper course. [More…]
So it tries - and this is the only way in which it can do it - to steamroll the measure through this House, thereby denying any effective democratic discussion on what are very fundamental constitutional issues to the Australian people. [More…]
We have the Australian Country Party and the Democratic [More…]
It asks: Are you in favour of the democratic election of Parliament? [More…]
Of course we are all in favour of the democratic election of Parliament. [More…]
We believe - and we have said for the last 10 years, since the United States Supreme Court, the Warren Court, first laid down this interpretation - that it ought to be put in the Constitution so that elected persons can no longer disregard this proper democratic principle. [More…]
It is, in the Committee’s opinion, more in accord with democratic principle and the developments since Federation that it should be sufficient to obtain separate majorities in at least onehalf of the number of States. [More…]
Firstly we have discussed the grossly misnamed Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill. [More…]
I make it clear that the Opposition parties intend to ensure that the Parliament performs its constitutional and democratic functions. [More…]
The consequence of the interpretation of the statistics presented to us by the Leader of the House is that this chamber has in fact not been able to exercise that which I have just stated to be its democratic responsibility. [More…]
This again proves the democratic nature of sport. [More…]
We want to make sure that our policy of catering for the needs of the various associations and organisations and for the recreational needs of the urban and rural areas upholds this democratic principle. [More…]
However, such action could well be a safety valve in our democratic system providing it is kept within certain limits and does not infringe the rights and safety of other citizens. [More…]
The second part of the paragraph contained in the Speech from which I have just quoted to the House refers to democratic elections. [More…]
Accordingly, it is to be expected, I suppose, that the Country Party in particular, the most conservative organisation in Australia - I am reminded by a colleague that it is a reactionary party and that is quite the right description - is now joining with the Australian Democratic Labor Party, of all parties, and the National Civic Council. [More…]
It will campaign - I say this for the benefit of the people and to assist the Country Party - in the Senate election in May under the name of Country Party, except in Queensland where it will run a joint ticket with the Australian Democratic Labor Party under the name of the National Alliance. [More…]
I understand that in respect of the 1974 Senate election, on 10 March the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party announced that they would be running a joint ticket under the name of the National Alliance. [More…]
Increasingly in all the countries of the European Economic Community, in Scandinavia and throughout the Englishspeaking democracies, there is a mood of disillusionment and cynicism about members of parliament, the institution of parliament and the democratic process itself. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party has no time for the Labor Party either. [More…]
I would like to talk on many other matters, but I do want to say that the people of Queensland are sick and tired of a government which is trying to take away their rights and which loses no opportunity to denigrate their Premier and their Government and to impose a system that is not democratic but is the very antithesis of democracy. [More…]
The honourable member who said this neglected to mention that the Labor Premier of the time is no longer a member of the Labor Party but is in fact a member of the Democratic Labor Party - and that last Saturday, next Saturday or the Saturday after that he did or will marry into the Country Party. [More…]
That is a democratic proposition. [More…]
If one member represents 15 times the number of electors represented by another member who has equal voting on the floor of the Parliament, the Parliament is not democratically elected. [More…]
One can rationalise that in any way one likes by using percentages, but the facts are that if the system is to be democratic every person who is above the age at which a vote is allowed and is an Australian citizen or a British subject is entitled to vote, and any diminution of that right to have a full vote in the election of a parliament is a denial of democratic principle. [More…]
I submit that this surely is good government; this is truly democratic government. [More…]
But, as we all know, wiser counsel prevailed in the Australian Country Party and the Australian Democratic Labor Party and the Bills were eventually passed. [More…]
They support the proposition put by the Australian Democratic Labor Party in the Senate in relation to health insurance funds at a cost of $ 1,400m in one year. [More…]
If it does we will forever end the cry that undemocratic elections have taken place and governments which have no right to govern are in office. [More…]
In Western Australia the differential between the largest and the smallest seat in the upper House is 15 to one - a range of 85,000 votes down to 5,000, and that is a greater differential than any democratic system can stand. [More…]
Fortunately the pressures of public opinion have forced a change in that State and a democratic system will replace the present archaic and undemocratic upper House in that State. [More…]
The other proposals are to allow an interchange of powers between the Commonwealth Parliament and the State parliaments and to ensure that members of the House of Representatives and members of the parliaments of the States are chosen directly and democratically by the people. [More…]
Apparently they agree that the people of Australia should have the democratic right to elect representatives to the Federal Parliament and to the State parliaments on the basis of electors or population rather than as has been the case in the past, on the basis of gerrymandered boundaries. [More…]
Who but the present Opposition would oppose the Bills by which we propose to change the Constitution or attempt to deny to the people of Australia the benefits and democratic rights to which they are entitled. [More…]
As a matter of self-preservation, they will try to oppose these great measures which will bring our electoral laws to the point where they are democratic and constitutionally correct. [More…]
The way to democratic government is not sectional rule from one area of the Australian people. [More…]
I cannot think of anything that gives me more sorrow than to see the democratic process and parliamentary process so denied to the people of Australia as it has been recently on a great series of debates, which I will not bore the House by mentioning because they are well known to all honourable members. [More…]
The honourable gentleman asks me about the Bill to ensure that there are democratic elections in the House of Representatives and in every State Parliament. [More…]
It is a provision by which the Warren Court has transformed the democratic process in the United States. [More…]
Accordingly the people will be given the opportunity to see that the Australian Constitution should be as democratic as the Supreme Court of the United States insists that the American Constitution should be. [More…]
It has been a government that even now is denying the democratic process through the assertion of a series of referenda, each of which is designed in total to deny an opportunity of electoral change in the near future. [More…]
Not once in the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government’s 23 years in office was this democratic offer extended to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
This profoundly democratic principle has given the British people inspiration, individualism and direction for over 600 years. [More…]
When the Labor Party was defeated in 1970 the Hall Government realised that while the Liberals held power by this unfair and undemocratic system they could not hold up their heads in South Australia. [More…]
Not so long ago they accepted an alteration to the Legislative Council which should give us a fairer democratic system in South Australia and which should reflect the wishes of the South Australian people. [More…]
The firm said that it would not have mattered what we did; members of the business community are so strongly engrained in their prejudice against a democratic socialist party that even if they were quadrupling their profits they would not have liked us. [More…]
The number one objective of the Australian Labor Party is to achieve the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange - in other words, government ownership of industry, production, distribution and exchange or, in simpler terms, of everybody and everything. [More…]
On a matter like this we ought to be reasonable enough to accept the fact that though the Government’s program is not entirely in line with everything that the Opposition did when it was in government, and if it can be shown that the program being put forward by the Govern ment is the program which was contained in the Government’s printed platform when it went to the electorate, then unless there is a very compelling reason for doing otherwise, the Opposition ought to be democratic enough to say: ‘You have a mandate to do it. [More…]
The title of the third Bill includes the words ‘Democratic Elections’. [More…]
I would have thought that not even the Liberal Party or the Country Party would now cavil at the use of the word ‘democratic’. [More…]
The fact is that this Parliament and all the mainland State parliaments are not elected by democratic means. [More…]
I can tell honourable members that all the time the people of Perth can be given to stimulate their interest and to afford them opportunities to engage in a democratic participation undoubtedly will be warmly welcomed by them. [More…]
I regard this as a very important democratic component of the entire argument. [More…]
I believe that the Committee will preside over an inquiry which will be extremely democratic in nature - in fact, unprecedented in that regard. [More…]
We also want to know how often the same results occur, and whether parties or leaders have replaced one another by democratic process. [More…]
Unless the country is very small, the more secondary elections there are, and the more power the winners gain by election, the more democratic we assume the society. [More…]
Although this control may -be carefully hedged about with legal restrictions, only in a few states with long and continuous democratic conditions of democratic abstinence, such as Great Britain, are we reassured by legal guarantees of impartiality. [More…]
Fiji has an admirable democratic government. [More…]
It is not likely tobe very democratic, either. [More…]
For many years now we have heard from members of the Opposition as they then were but who are now members of the Government that the important principle in any democratic situation should be the principle of one vote-one value. [More…]
If one looks at the way boundaries will be drawn under these proposals which stupidly enough are labelled a ‘referendum for democratic elections’ one will find that the result will be biased away from the principle of one vote- one value. [More…]
Let us couple that situation with the referendum for so-called democratic elections. [More…]
On the other hand, the referendum for so-called democratic elections will base electorates on total populace including those below 18 years of age which will give a biased result in some inner city suburbs. [More…]
On such occasions we remember and reflect on the traditional and strong ties which Australia has with France, our common values, our democratic way of life, our respect for and our affinities with the civilisation and cultural heritage that is France. [More…]
For long Georges Pompidou was largely the figure who ensured the survival of the De Gaulle Government during a period in France when the forces for the complete disunity of democratic government in France were at their greatest strength. [More…]
If one examines recent history and what is happening abroad and one looks, for instance, at Conservative or Labour governments in the United Kingdom or Democratic or Republican administrations in the USA one sees that the ruling rate of interest has been rising. [More…]
If in the Senate all members of the Liberal Party, the Australian Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party oppose the Appropriation Bills they will fail to pass. [More…]
We will tell the people that there is nothing to be ashamed of in profit - normal legitimate business profit; that the profit of enterprise is the source of all forward movement and is the basis of any democratic society. [More…]
The Senate, dominated by the Opposition and its acolytes in the Democratic Labor Party, sold out not to the public interest but to minority privileged interests in the community - to the Australian Medical Association, the Society of General Practitioners of Australia, and to the health insurance funds which are over stuffed with reserves which belong to the contributors [More…]
-We intend to demonstrate to the Australian public that it does not have a universal health insurance scheme because of the intransigence, because of the political opportunism of the Opposition and its camp followers in the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]
One proposal - that of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, which I understand has some attractions for the Opposition - would cost an additional $180m at least, which represents nearly a 2 per cent increase in taxation. [More…]
I repeat again that the Democratic Labor Party seems to have some vague suggestions about how this can be done. [More…]
States House - the Liberal Party, the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party took it on themselves to disown what was agreed to by the leader of every State government in Australia. [More…]
Clearly the term ‘one vote, one value’ has no precise meaning, lt is jargon which is wheeled out to raise to the surface the proper ideals that people have for a more democratic system, to gain . [More…]
If a general election for this House is held without the passage of the interim measure proposed by this Bill, the people of the nation’s capital will be denied any form of democratic representation. [More…]
Rather than deprive the people of the Territory of any democratic representation whatsoever in the next Parliament, the Government is by this Bill seeking to adopt the Committee’s original proposals as the basis for returning 2 members for the Territory, should this be necessary. [More…]
Opposition members have already had a democratic chance to weigh up the pros and cons of the legislation, debate them in the Parliament and put them to the people. [More…]
It is tragic that the only way in which we can give any time to Opposition speakers on these Bills is to ensure that we do not in fact exercise our democratic right to divide this chamber. [More…]
That is a democratic ideal. [More…]
They quoted those great democratic institutions - the private banks, the insurance companies– [More…]
Never in the history of the Australian Parliament extending over 73 years has any Opposition threatened to withhold Supply from a democratically elected Australian Government. [More…]
With cynical contempt for the will of the people, with total disregard for the traditions of the Westminster parliamentary system, the Opposition has put itself on a collision course with stable government and with all Australians who uphold the democratic parlia- mentary process. [More…]
With the aid of the universally discredited Australian Democratic Labor Party the Opposition has already set out to mutilate, sabotage and frustrate the Australian Government’s legislative program. [More…]
Because the Prime Minister knew that he could not gain control of the Senate by democratic means - by the popular vote of all the people of Australia - he sought to buy a House of Parliament. [More…]
If an amendment was acceptable to me and to the Government of which I am a member - only one member in that Government where we have democratic decision making processes - of course I would accept it. [More…]
The Government has not attempted to deal constructively with the health care problems facing this nation but it is trying to force the people of Australia into a corner so that private hospitals, freedom of choice and the things that we have come to expect as being essential to a democratic society will end in domination by Canberra. [More…]
2 of the Opposition parties health scheme which originally proposed that there should be democratic elections for the directors of these funds. [More…]
So the Liberal Party favours the present situation in which the directors of funds are not democratically elected by the contributors but continue to be nominated by people who represent basically not consumer groups but hospital organisations and the Australian Medical Association and so on. [More…]
Never have I heard described in a more eloquent way than tonight the brutality of numbers and the nakedness of ambition and lust for power by members of the Liberal Party, the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
We are told that it is the appointment itself to which the honourable members opposite - the Liberal Party, the Country Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the multiplicity of parties opposite - object. [More…]
Yet there are people who sit in the other place who were elected years ago and who seek to bring down this Government for reasons which the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) mentioned are completely contrary to every democratic process. [More…]
Prime Minister Whitlam has not only promoted an age old enemy and one of the bitterest enemies he could have had in the Australian political system but he has promoted this age old enemy in order to destroy the normal democratic processes of this country. [More…]
I do not want to delay the House any longer on these events which led to this crisis in the democratic process of this country where the Prime Minister by his action and his colleagues by their actions brought us to a situation in which it was necessary for us to put the question to the Australian people. [More…]
Since when has it been part of democratic theory that a government should be put into power and never touched by the Parliament? [More…]
When was it democratic theory that a government has a guaranteed life of 3 years? [More…]
When was it democratic theory that the people should have no opportunity, when the Parliament gave them that opportunity, to have another look at a government which had been elected democratically? [More…]
Far from this being the case, it is the very heart of democratic theory that a parliament should make a government look down the barrel of a gun. [More…]
We are extraordinarily fortunate that this is a country which has a democratically elected lower House and a democratically elected upper House, that it has no House of Lords and that there is an opportunity for the people, where there is a basic and real impasse in the government of the country, to be given another chance to have a say. [More…]
Real government, democratic government and stable government in Australia cannot exist under circumstances where persons not responsible and not required to go to the electorate are able to dismiss a government at any time. [More…]
The democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exhange . [More…]
I am not saying that there is not a need in this respect, but I am saying that this is shabby treatment of a Committee which in the past has set a standard in the operation of the democratic process of which the House and the Parliament has every reason to be proud. [More…]
As indicated at (6) the Zanzibar authorities are now seeking to stabilise their society on the basis of democratic government and due processes of law. [More…]
The role of the Speaker has developed through history from the status of the Crown’s nominee to its present function which is characterised by an impartial commitment to the process of democratic government. [More…]
He must have a deep seated reverence for the institution of Parliament, an under-, standing of what lies behind the outward ceremony and a faith in democratic government. [More…]
That reflects the democratic tradition of the Australian Labor Party and is a departure from the authoritarian system in force on the other side. [More…]
Mr Cope in his words and deeds in the former Parliament showed his respect for that democratic tradition. [More…]
The unruly elements that have come to the fore in this House in an endeavour to frustrate the very democratic processes that they now profess to support have been very firmly put in their places by my good colleague and friend Mr Scholes, and I have no doubt that after his appointment to this high and important office today he will again deal with those elements in the firm, fair and just way in which he has dealt with them in the past. [More…]
Free elections are basic to a democratic society. [More…]
Anything else would be a denial of the most fundamental right which a democratic nation allows its citizens. [More…]
It is interesting to see that he has now become a democratic temporarily. [More…]
The longer he is in Opposition the more steadfast a democratic he will be. [More…]
The story has been sold successfully that the only democratic system is to have electorates with equal numbers of voters. [More…]
No one is suggesting that there ought to be or that there is need for such a wide variation in enrolments in Australia as apply to those other countries, but the figures I have quoted illustrate the way in which other countries of similar tradition to our own and with no less attachment to democratic principles than we have, apply their electoral laws. [More…]
I hope that they will agree that our present system is the best that is available for the workings of a sound democratic parliament. [More…]
If it does not, of course we can hold a joint meeting of both Houses at which we would have an absolute majority and we would then be able to pass the legislation and get on and ensure proper parliamentary elections and decent democratic procedures in this Parliament at least. [More…]
But I do suggest that members who were influential on the side of the Liberal Party, either inside the parliamentary party or more likely in the Senate, and in the departed Australian Democratic Labor Party, received a significant amount of those consultant’s fees for advice on how best to defeat the Labor Party’s health scheme. [More…]
In the Senate the Opposition has swapped 5 Democratic Labor Party members for one Steel Hall and it still does not think it has lost the election. [More…]
They were the product of the democratic process of the Party, developed over years and at grass-roots level by hundreds of involved men and women of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Although the reason for the election on the last occasion was surprising, those who have seen the results and participated in the election will agree that so far as Senator McManus and the Democratic Labor Party are concerned it was the wrong time, the wrong election and the wrong result. [More…]
Anybody who knows anything about constitutional practice and precedent - the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is a Queen’s Counsel, after all - knows that mandates are not a part of our electoral or democratic system. [More…]
The sole variation is an alteration in the composition of the Committee so as to take account of the demise of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
That, of course, is how the democratic process should work. [More…]
They are a disgrace to any democratic government. [More…]
The possibility of rational democratic government tends to become buried in administrative anarchy by the pressure of work on individual Ministers. [More…]
has been spared the poor government of the older cities it does not really matter whether we have undemocratic government and that a benevolent dictatorship by public servants and Ministers who are not responsible to the local electorate is the best of all possible worlds! [More…]
I suggest that the very fact that this attitude is abroad is a timely warning that people can become conditioned to domination by non-elected bureaucrats and technocrats to the extent that they are willing to forgo their democratic right to self-government and to evade the acceptance of responsibility for their own government through elected representatives. [More…]
He brought a great deal of disrepute on the whole of the United States democratic process. [More…]
Again in 1972 he advised my Government and took responsibility for setting up an extended, more rational and more democratic system for the funding and development of the arts than had ever been attempted previously. [More…]
Those organisations elect in a truly democratic fashion representation upon each of the national bodies. [More…]
I am, however, informed by a person who was at that time vitally associated with Democratic Labor Party exSenator Condon Byrne, that when he requested extra assistance during this period it was refused. [More…]
It is interesting to note that, wallowing in his accustomed mire, the honourable member for Griffith received a complaint net from Senator Byrne but from ‘a person who was at that time vitally associated with the Democratic Labor Party senator’, to use his words. [More…]
Quite obviously, as has been said, no one raised his voice in objection to the fact that a certain senator was allocated the office in Brisbane that was previously occupied by the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Last financial year $3 1.09m could have been appropriated for public transport but of course the Senate, at the instigation of the Liberal and Country Parties, assisted by the Democratic Labor Party, withheld Supply and created a double dissolution situation. [More…]
He started to tell us about all the undemocratic things that this Bill tries to do, versus the very democratic things in the Act which was brought in the year before last by the Government of which he was a member. [More…]
It relates to the silly provision that was put into the Act under pressure from the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Australia has discussed its intended recognition of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with the governments of a number of countries including the Republic of Korea, Japan and the United States. [More…]
I shall be issuing an explanatory statement at such time as I announce the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. [More…]
Not only do they cut right across the democratic process of taxation with representation and responsibility, but also the administrative work to send detailed programs to Canberra, to have them checked and approved and possibly argued about and then actual performance checked against the program, is an unwieldly and long and inefficient process. [More…]
In the service of my electorate and my country, I share with him a deep respect for the institution of Parliament and for the democratic traditions which this country has been fortunate enough to inherit. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party, the Party which maintained the Opposition in power for a generation, was utterly destroyed. [More…]
Sure, we share the problem of inflation with every developed country, every democratic country, and a number of countries which are neither developed nor democratic. [More…]
Country Party on 12, the Democratic Labor Party on 3 and independents on one occasion. [More…]
Australia is supposed to be a civilised democratic country, not some banana republic or totalitarian dictatorship. [More…]
Let it be understood that this Joint Sitting is a last resort, a means provided by the Constitution to enable the popular will- the democratic process- ultimately to prevail over the tactics of blind obstruction. [More…]
If the so-called democratic elections referendum was passed it would allow electorates to be based not on the number of voters but on the number of people. [More…]
What had been a reasonable discretion allowed to the Commissioners became a direction to them to do what is neither reasonable nor democratic. [More…]
It gives to those who sit in this Parliament at this historic Joint Sitting of this Parliament the opportunity to stand up and be counted, to say whether they believe in these democratic principles and, above all, in the supreme principle of one vote one value. [More…]
The proposal was put in propaganda terms to be very democratic because the numbers in electorates would be closer. [More…]
Fortunately the people of Australia were not hoodwinked, even by the name of the referendum proposal which described it as a democratic amendment to the Constitution. [More…]
Equality of political rights is inherent in a truly democratic state. [More…]
Equality of political rights is a matter that must be guaranteed under the law in a democratic society. [More…]
The Labor Party could not care less about the democratic rights of Australian citizens to enjoy equality of representation in this Parliament. [More…]
Free elections are basic to a democratic society. [More…]
The Opposition Parties have undermined the basic democratic principles of elections. [More…]
Having taken the proposal for the Joint Sitting once to the High Court, it has even said it is going to take it there again and so deny the people their democratic rights. [More…]
This Bill gives to this historic Joint Meeting of the Australian Parliament the opportunity to give expression to the democratic principle that a person ‘s vote is of equal value no matter where he is domiciled and whatever his class, creed or occupation. [More…]
The Bill gives expression to the democratic principles of equal rights for all people, as opposed to the manipulation of the electoral system for the benefit of political parties. [More…]
Its endorsement now by this Joint Session would, we believe, place at risk the very basis of the democratic process which this Parliament is to uphold. [More…]
The Government, both in its attempts to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act and in its unsuccessful proposals to amend the Commonwealth Constitution, has exhibited a total disregard for the principles of the democratic process. [More…]
In the fourth paragraph, when he was talking about the referendum concerning democratic elections, he said: This represents a fundamental departure from the principle of one vote one value- the only right and proper principle on which to base electoral redistribution. [More…]
They can then service their constituents and not come into this House with a weighted vote which goes against every principle of democratic elections which we hold dear in Australia. [More…]
The combined vote of the Country Party, the Liberal Party and the Democratic Labor Party over Australia, is very much less than 50 per cent of the total. [More…]
In fact of the total votes polled, the Australian Labor Party polled about 250,000 more than the combined votes of the Liberal Party, the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
It is a most important part of our democratic structure that governments should be elected on the basis of one person one vote. [More…]
In every single case that has been before the United States Supreme Court it has made the same decision- that the democratic concept will not tolerate the gerrymandering of politicians. [More…]
The democratic state has inherent in its concept that all citizens will have an equal voice. [More…]
I believe that every person who believes in the democratic concept will vote for it. [More…]
It has been reelected on a fair and democratic basis and it has been re-elected with a job to do. [More…]
He would wish to be able to denigrate the Senate in carrying out its constitutional function which has just been reinforced by the people of Australia in a fully democratic vote. [More…]
We are regarded as one of the stable nations of the world because all previous governments in this country have respected our democratic institution, our electoral boundaries and our electoral system. [More…]
This is a simple democratic measure. [More…]
Representation of the people in the national Parliament lies at the heart of democratic government. [More…]
There is no obstructionism from the Senate if we are democrats and recognise that the voice of the people can be expressed in 2 chambers each elected on a democratic basis. [More…]
To interpose into the Senate representatives of the Territories is to break the Federal contact and to deny to the States the opportunity through equal electorates to ensure that by an equally democratic base there is a voice which can be put alongside the voice of the people not divided into States as electorates. [More…]
In 1970, the then Leader of the Opposition- the present Prime Minister- tried again, out of a recognition of the pretty fundamental and basic fact that a large number of people in the Northern Territory and in the Australian Capital Territory are without their democratic rights. [More…]
In order to stop the passage of our measures, every action must be invoked to prevent the democratic rights of the people being enacted. [More…]
As the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said the other day, the real crisis in this country at the moment is the threat to democratic order. [More…]
It cares nothing for democratic reform. [More…]
Are they not really saying that what they are after is domination of a chamber which, for the time being, they see as frustrating them in their attempts to distort completely the democratic processes in our community. [More…]
What utter nonsense it is to hear the honourable member for Canberra and Minister for Manufacturing Industry comment on the Statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that the real crisis is the threat to democratic order. [More…]
I believe that it does not enhance the opportunities for democratic government in this country. [More…]
They have been denied this democratic right for 63 years. [More…]
That Bill will have to go through the normal democratic processes of Government, the media, and public opinion, which finally determines our actions in this place. [More…]
Obviously, despite what their Party thought of the merits of this Bill, the Country Party senators were persuaded by Senator Withers to join his squalid conspiracy against democratic government. [More…]
Of course it has been obstructionist, and it is quite clear that it will continue to be so to the detriment of democratic government in this country. [More…]
If ever there was a Bill which gave people the opportunity to show where they stood on basic democratic matters and on matters of discrimination, this is it. [More…]
We have seen the members of the Opposition come forward with a whole range of rather spurious, irrational, illogical and quite undemocratic propositions and arguments which reflect little credit on their intelligence or their integrity. [More…]
I believe that this Bill merely provides for the anticipated normal progress and development of a democratic society- a society which seeks to avoid discrimination against any section of its people. [More…]
Yet today, in the country which Lord Bryce, I think it was, in 1911 said was the most democratic in the world, we have listened to the representatives of the Liberal Party and the Country Party denouncing the proposal as a parliamentary plot. [More…]
Participation is the very essence of the democratic contract. [More…]
They did this, not because of any democratic principle, but because all they believe in is the gerrymander. [More…]
But, after all, in many respects the members on the Opposition side are quite correct in loathing democratic government. [More…]
Their loathing of democratic government is not just some mere quirk, some mere eccentricity on their part. [More…]
The reason they loathe democratic government is that they know that ultimately with democratic government the obsolete ideas and the selfish interests which they represent in this place will be swept away. [More…]
We support democratic government because we believe that this country should be governed by the people . [More…]
We believe that democratic government is the only form of government which the Australian people are entitled to have. [More…]
Democratic government is a goal for which we shall continue to struggle despite all of the opposition of the moth-eaten, moss-backed reactionaries sitting on the left of the Chairman of this Joint Sitting. [More…]
From 1949 to 1968 when both of those seats were held by the Australian Labor Party the Opposition did not believe in democratic principles. [More…]
The reason has nothing to do with democracy or democratic principles, because if ever there was a bunch of politicians in this country lacking in principle it is those on the other side of the chamber. [More…]
Only a few months ago it supported the legislation but now suddenly we find that the legislation is against all democratic principles. [More…]
There was derisory laughter when Senator James McClelland called for the abolition of the Senate and then said that while it exists it should be democratic. [More…]
By bludgeoning through the Parliament such wide ranging powers, without consultation with the State governments or the industry, in a Bill with such wide ramifications the Government is making a sham of the democratic process. [More…]
This proposal offends the principles of democratic rights which we believe are so precious to a democratic society, and mean so very much to the spirit and the life of this country. [More…]
That is described as blugeoning legislation through this Parliament by the sheer weight of numbers but it is an example of the democratic process working more thoroughly and at greater length than I think it has ever done in this nation. [More…]
But in a country with a democratic system of government- although one has some doubt about this when one has regard to Government policies- this can be achieved only through the recognised process of extensive consultation with the industries involved. [More…]
We believe in the community interest-an interest arrived at in a democratic way. [More…]
I make the point that this is democratic socialism and we are proud of it. [More…]
There is room for both public and private participation in aU spheres so long as it is clearly understood that democratic socialism means that the private sphere must work within national indicative planning guidelines. [More…]
The system in Australia is the democratic process, the Parliamentary process, and if that is to blame we need a debate about it here. [More…]
The system is the institutions in this country and the major institution in Australia is the democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
Local government bodies ought to recognise now, if they had not done so before, just how important it is that the Senate be as it is and not controlled by the Labor centralists and socialists of this nation who are trying to destroy our democratic system through a process of anarchy. [More…]
The cause of democratic socialism throughout the world has lost one of its pillars of strength and sources of inspiration. [More…]
Personally, I have a lot more faith in the ability of democratic governments to survive those forebodings and I hope that with a little co-operation and understanding of the basic problems those events will not overwhelm the Western world. [More…]
Surely it is not necessary to destroy an important human principle that is essential to a free and democratic society. [More…]
Depending on the findings that the committee of inquiry hands down and how this House accepts those findings, there could arise a ludicrous situation which would be against the democratic process. [More…]
When he stands for election as a member of Parliament, as part of the democratic process, this man can be blackguarded and pilloried by mean minded candidates who happen to be standing against him. [More…]
These disadvantages would react against the democratic process and against the capacity of the democratic machine of all major political parties to nominate candidates for election to Parliament. [More…]
When in government he insisted on holding this portfolio for his Government for the sole purpose of avoiding democratic elections and majority rule. [More…]
I believe that the Australian people agree that a simplified voting method is essential in the interests of democratic elections, and that is precisely what the Labor Party is endeavouring to do, both by means of redistribution and the simplification of the voting method. [More…]
I would venture to say that today’s protest outside Parliament House in Western Australia would be impossible under the terms of the Bill which suspends our proud West Australian heritage, our democratic constitution in that State. [More…]
All Australians should interest themselves in what is happening in Western Australia because they could be the next to lose their democratic rights. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party had the balance of power in the Senate and it was prepared to take the popular stand. [More…]
Senators of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
It could be said that some people in the rural community are only willing to uphold the concept of democratic government when it produces the results they desire. [More…]
The Embassy at Peking is leased from the Government of the People’s Republic of China and action is in hand to secure premises on lease from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
2) 1973 and twice in the House and twice in the Senate in debates on the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill1974. [More…]
Senators of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Some responsible commentators have warned the citizens of democratic countries that raging rates of inflation such as we are experiencing now may ultimately threaten our system of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
Great patience and wisdom are needed if we are to render our democratic processes viable in the years ahead. [More…]
It shows that the Australian Labor Party is a very democratic party when the Prime Minister and the Treasurer have opted out. [More…]
It is important that all honourable members realise the important steps that are being taken at this time by the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) who is responsible for electoral matters and for the administration of this very important part of our democratic way of life. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is a democratic Party, and the people who elected its members know that we go into this Parliament and work hard at policy making. [More…]
It is about time that honourable members opposite took action against the dreary, dull questions asked on behalf of the Opposition by the Leader of the Opposition and demanded the democratic right of back benchers to ask questions without notice. [More…]
The other matter with which the honourable member for Griffith and other Opposition members must deal is how they will assert their rights through the democratic processes available to them. [More…]
I take it that his Party has a Caucus procedure and that in that Caucus he does have some democratic rights. [More…]
Strong democratic governments that are able to employ unpopular means to achieve what is necessary and appropriate for their economies are the ones which will win the respect of the world and be the first to put their nations back on to a sound and rational level. [More…]
I am here, like many other honourable members on both sides of the House, to fight to keep Australia free and democratic, I am here to fight for, because I believe in, a free enterprise system where hard work and thrift stand the best chance of being adequately rewarded, and I am here to fight specifically for the needs of the people in the Riverina. [More…]
In normal times, scepticism towards governments on the part of the media serves the best interests of a democratic society. [More…]
Another area in which there has been myth making which has eroded the confidence of the people in the democratic processes- that, in fact is what has happened- is an area in which there has not actually been an attack on this Government. [More…]
There have been scandalous attacks on democratic government as a principle. [More…]
I am rather fascinated by his comments though they are the ordinary sort of comments we hear regarding Caucus and the democratic structure of this body. [More…]
Then they generally shut up except when they throw abuse at us because of our democratic tendencies. [More…]
He went on to say that what he found lacking in the Labour Party was that it was in a far weaker position because it was democratic. [More…]
It is the most fundamentally democratic. [More…]
Everyone knows that the Labor Party is democratic and that it is the most democratic party because it has the Caucus system. [More…]
It is not democratic. [More…]
After 23 years of security a small number of Australians apparently forgot that in the Labor platform, with high priority, is the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange. [More…]
This Budget, in its clearest political form, is an outright bid by this so-called social democratic Government, which is the term used by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) at the United [More…]
The Government intends to apply ruthlessly, no matter what the human and economic costs may be, its avowed aim, as set out in the Australian Labor Party’s platform, of ‘the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange’. [More…]
I do not blame the Treasury for poor advice because the basic problem with inflation, whatever the colour of the government- whether it be the conservative Government in Japan or the Heath Government in England which made a dash for free enterprise and had to bail out RollsRoyce in a liberal democratic society they are all in trouble because they cannot find politically acceptable cures or even palliatives. [More…]
The passing of the Democratic Labor Party, the syphoning off of the right wing vote in Victoria to the Liberal Party and the resurgence of support which the Labor Party has been given, have evened up the stocks of political parties in Australia so that the Australian electorate is very finely balanced. [More…]
This follows a statement made by the Minister for Manufacturing Industry (Mr Enderby) some 10 days ago in which he said that the Labor Party is fundamentally democratic. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, can you tell me, or can anyone on the Government side tell me, the difference between the Senate, a democratically elected body of people, rejecting something and the Caucus rejecting Cabinet decisions? [More…]
A Caucus meeting is a democratic meeting of all those who have been elected both to the Senate and to the House of Representatives and each member has an equal say. [More…]
It is democratic. [More…]
organisations and in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to the exclusion of State jurisdictions, and to the prejudice of the opportunity for workers in a State to have that degree of democratic say in their affairs which they presently have under the State jurisdictions by which they now operate. [More…]
Parliament, on the other hand, is one of our oldest democratic institutions. [More…]
I come to the second proposition I would assert, that is that I can see nothing wrong with the democratic test of the feeling of the House by putting this matter to the vote. [More…]
After all, this is the traditional and democratic way to test the views of the Parliament. [More…]
My concern is that proper democratic processes should be carried out. [More…]
In my opinion this constitutes the greatest danger that could possibly exist to democratic government in this country. [More…]
They are seeking to establish, under the guise of a democratic parliament, a principle whereby there is an elected dictatorship. [More…]
If that is denied the democratic system does not exist and cannot exist. [More…]
It is primarily for this reason that I believe the interests of Parliament, as an essential part of the democratic process, will be best served by opening up the process to the scrutiny of the community by such action as televising parliamentary sessions with careful consideration being given to those sessions selected for viewing. [More…]
It is a matter of the rights of people; it is a matter of bringing people back into the democratic process. [More…]
I object on behalf of the electors of Darling Downs to the appointment of people like Mr Grassby to a plum job, newly created, with negligible responsibility and doubtful value, after he has been floored by the democratic count in an election campaign. [More…]
This office symbolises the real distinction between the type of government that we enjoy in the Westminster parliamentary system and the alternative methods of democratic government around the world. [More…]
Over the past 12 months we have seen the incredible agony and travail of the greatest illustration in the Western world of the alternative system of democratic government. [More…]
The real difference between the 2 systems of democratic government in the world is in the nature of the powers, privileges, responsibilities and weaknesses of the head of government, in our case the Prime Minister. [More…]
They illustrate that although there are many weaknesses in the parliamentary system of government, some of which were spoken about this afternoon in the debate on the estimates for the Parliament, the parliamentary system of government based on a party system- I make no apology for supporting a party system of government, and I do not have any undying allegiance to a 2 party system of government as many of those who sit opposite have- contains flexible, responsive checks and balances carried through into the chamber of Parliament which other systems of democratic government throughout the world do not have. [More…]
I know that this matter has been raised in the Parliament on a number of occasions but when one takes into account the fact that a political party such as the Australian Labor Party has been out of office from 1949 to 1972 for all sorts of reasons, including the actions of and collaboration between the Australian Democratic Labor Party and the present Opposition Parties, one must concede that it only stands to reason that a Prime Minister coming into office after such a period would want to have serving under him a mixture of people he has worked with previously and people to whom he has been introduced after he has taken up his new post. [More…]
We recognise that in many other countries the democratic institution does not apply, but nevertheless it does not follow that we would ignore them or abhor their regime. [More…]
The right honourable member is obviously referring to a speech entitled ‘Official Secrecy, Open Government and Making Democracy Democratic’ delivered by the present Minister for Labor and Immigration on 1 7 September 1 972. [More…]
Other members of IUCN are governmental and nongovernmental organisations in the following countries: Angola, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Denmark, Ecuador, Ethopia, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Greece, Iceland, Indonesia, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Khmer Republic, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Luxemburg, Malagasy Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands. [More…]
I believe that one thing which has to happen in most Western democratic industrialised systems is that those on low levels of income must have their standards raised relatively and that, unless there is an increase in the total size of the national income, if there is an increase going to those on lower levels, obviously there must be some sacrifice on the part of those at higher levels. [More…]
But an ombudsman is, I believe, an essential part of our democratic process today. [More…]
In a democratic way it is being discussed by citizens around the country. [More…]
There is a tendency not to air issues which should be aired in any democratic society. [More…]
Before the Australian Government announced recognition of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, did the Government of the Republic of Korea ask that the Aus.tralian Government attempt to persuade a number of other countries to recognise the Republic of Korea. [More…]
Was the Government of the Republic of Korea informed of Australia’s approaches and the outcome in each before being informed by the Australian Goverment of the final decision to recognise the Democratic People ‘s Republic of Korea. [More…]
The Government of the Republic of Korea told the Australian Government in January 1974 that it hoped Australia would not recognise the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea until at least some of the DPRK’s traditional friends recognised the ROK. [More…]
It is this symbol of mateship which distinguishes Australians as a unique breed of people, whose splendid record of share and share alike, of coming to the help, without question, of neighbours and friends in trouble, which has earned for us the high reputation we hold as a truly democratic people. [More…]
I do not know what the purpose of the campaign is- whether it is designed to bring about some lack of confidence in the general democratic process- but it is a sustained campaign of vilification by what is fundamentally a lazy group of incompetent people in the Canberra Press Gallery. [More…]
The 2 main parties- the Democratic Union and the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor- have independence as their objective. [More…]
We can do all that is required for the welfare of the people of the Communist countries, ourselves and other democratic countries by promoting trade which is an important aspect of our relationship with other countries. [More…]
It is part of the price we should be prepared to pay if we are to ask other nations to join with us in our protection and in the protection of democratic life throughout the world. [More…]
At last an Australian Government is not under pressure from extreme reactionary pressure groups such as the Democratic Labor Party, the National Civic Council and the rest, and an Australian Government is prepared to initiate policies which it considers are in the best interests of Australia and particularly of the future generations of Australians. [More…]
In contrast to the Opposition which clearly is set to divide country and city because it wishes to maintain its shrinking power base- to demonstrate the lengths it will go to maintain that shrinking power base I need only mention that it would decimate the democratic principle of one vote one value- and vilify our policies for the rural sector, quite conveniently forgetting to point out the millions of dollars that are injected into the rural area through the several programs of the Government, and in particular the combined and integrated programs of the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, the Government, through the Minister, has undertaken detailed negotiations with the State governments and local governments. [More…]
1 ) The right honourable member is obviously referring to a speech entitled “Official Secrecy, Open Government and Making Democracy Democratic” delivered by the present Minister for Labor and Immigration on 17 September 1972. [More…]
Because arrangements had been made according to the formula of balance for the admission of the five new States (Federal Republic of Germany, German Democratic Republic, Iran, Peru and Zaire) to the CCD before the Australian application was submitted, it was not possible to secure membership of the CCD for Australia this year. [More…]
I can assure them that under the democratic proposals of the present Whitlam Government such a state of affairs will never happen in the Federal arena where people will have to get the majority of the votes to get the results that are necessary in any democracy, and that is democratic majority rule. [More…]
It always seems to me rather odd that when one brings in the concept of consultation and the fulfilment of democratic processes, members of the LiberalCountry Party Opposition are the first to oppose it. [More…]
What we are seeking is a broadening of the democratic process. [More…]
I know that my colleague the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) will be only too anxious to support the broadening of democratic processes. [More…]
The requirements of a mixed economy in a democratic society are never simple, never easy. [More…]
Three of the visitors, members of the joint North Vietnam/PRG delegation which visited Australia in May 1973, travelled on North Vietnamese passports issued by the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam. [More…]
However, this intended modification to the existing exhaustive preferential voting system is also aimed at allowing electors the maximum degree of choice in exercising their democratic voting rights. [More…]
It is hoped that the new deposit requirements will keep this proliferation of candidates within reasonable proportions, without going so far as to deprive serious intending candidates of their legitimate democratic rights to present themselves for election to public office. [More…]
I accept democratic socialism but the honourable member for Boothby did not use the term in that way; he used it in a pejorative sense and I do not think that it adds to proper argument and debate in this Parliament. [More…]
We do so because this system is most conducive to the progress and the well-being of Australia, and most conducive to the democratic protection of the freedom of the individual. [More…]
When one rises in the House, as I frequently do, to speak on these matters with the sole objective of preserving our cherished democratic system, one finds opposition from members opposite, such as the opposition which has been raised by the honourable member for Parramatta. [More…]
There should be more of us disclosing the things which ultimately, if they are not disclosed and not acted upon, will bring about the downfall of the democratic system. [More…]
It questioned how a correct and democratic decision could be made without full consultation with representatives of the Albury ratepayers. [More…]
As a redistribution has not taken place since 1968 and the previous Government sidestepped its obligation, this Government sees no reason to follow that example and in accordance with the practice to bring in democratic voting the Government has introduced the proposals for a redistribution of electorates. [More…]
This is consistent with the policies that are adopted by democratic countries in every part of the world. [More…]
As such” government policies are constrained by the activities of the rest of the world and by the desire of the overwhelming majority of Australians to live within the present democratic free enterprise framework. [More…]
If the Australian people are to continue to live in a democratic society it is fundamental that all areas of the media, in particular television and films as well as the Press, should be allowed to remain free from ministerial guidance. [More…]
It is a democratic power, and the rights of the Minister who is responsible through this Parliament to the Australian people should be safeguarded. [More…]
If this Parliament loses the control and hands over complete power to any statutory corporation we are denying the democratic rights of this Parliament, and that is why I have moved the amendment. [More…]
I am ashamed that a man who says that he is a social democrat should be supporting these countries of which only one- the Lebanon- is remotely democratic. [More…]
As Bob Hawke said: ‘How bloody democratic can you get?’ [More…]
A democratic socialist party runs the country and has done since 1948- since freedom. [More…]
Mr Hartley and Mr Arafat say: ‘We want a free, democratic, secular state of Palestine.’ [More…]
Secular like Algeria or democratic like Iraq?’ [More…]
Whichever way one looks at it, I do not know how any person who calls himself a democratic socialist could possibly support people who have proven on the one hand that they do not practise any of the principles that we of the democratic socialist movement throughout the world or in a democratic country like Australia profess to support. [More…]
If in fact we are not prepared to exercise or to allow people to exercise their democratic rights and to exercise the control and the direction of the funds that are at their disposal, we are not doing the right thing by our people. [More…]
Is that not the democratic method of operation? [More…]
Is that what honourable members on the Government side feel about democratic government? [More…]
That was not very democratic. [More…]
It is extremely democratic; my colleague is quite right there. [More…]
Did the Minister say that he is still a democratic socialist but that he had to wait temporarily until the system could be changed? [More…]
Of course I am a democratic socialist. [More…]
I hope that the day will come when we will have a system of democratic socialism in Australia. [More…]
It is true that I said that we could not introduce democratic socialism immediately. [More…]
I said that we will have to wait indefinitely because I could not imagine that it would be possible in the present climate to get the necessary referendum carried to give the Australian Parliament the power to introduce democratic socialism. [More…]
This is what they are opposing because the Democratic Labor Party is starting to lose its influence- the Party that used to endorse everybody whose name began with ‘A’. [More…]
In his protesting too much I think the honourable member reveals why the Government is pressing this Bill through with indecent haste- that is, that the system, as the honourable member for Port Adelaide pointed out, works against certain Labor electorates with the percentage of informal votes, and what is being dressed up in the cause of a very democratic and just procedure is really something that Labor wants to alter in some ways because it can see some advantage to itself in these alterations. [More…]
I thought that the right to vote was one of the democratic rights of every Australian. [More…]
I believe every democratic Australian should insist on his right to record a vote irrespective of what country he is in. [More…]
One reads about the Labour Party in Britain and Parties in some other countries saying that compulsory voting is not democratic. [More…]
Optional preferential voting is less democratic for 2 very good reasons. [More…]
It is less democratic for a second very good reason. [More…]
This means that the system is less democratic because there is very rarely, if ever, a 50 per cent vote for the government there. [More…]
If the Government wants the most democratic system I think the inverse preferential system is easily the most democratic. [More…]
Honourable members should not laugh at this suggestion because this is accepted by a large number of organisations as the most democratic system. [More…]
All of them say it is far more democratic than first past the post voting, so let us not hear any nonsense about first past the post, disguised as optional preferential, voting being considered more democratic. [More…]
The best way to be completely democratic and to cut out any advantage which somebody might gain because of his name is to have a circular paper. [More…]
No other country, no other civilised democratic nation would accept such a stupid position. [More…]
I believe also that reduction of the informal vote is desirable because it will significantly reduce the time taken in counting the ballot papers, in counting the votes, in determining the result of an election, and that is important in a democratic society. [More…]
-I thought that we were interested not only in taxpayers but also in achieving democratic results. [More…]
So it might be significant for them to think again about what is proposed here and to see how democratic the proposals really are. [More…]
It is singularly undemocratic and it is something that we seek to abolish in the amendment proposed to this Act. [More…]
They should have the opportunity once again to cast a democratic vote without the surveillance of party scrutineers and without the watchful eye of the Liberal Party canvassers. [More…]
Certainly it has been happening in Victoria with respect to the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I use the obvious example of the 2 parties which had substantial minority votes in the last election- the Australian Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But the facts are that people are disadvantaged and are placed under stress by electoral laws which require them to undertake a too complicated system of voting, especially in Senate elections, and I believe that these amendments will assist greatly in simplifying the system so that all people will have their democratic right to vote, and vote formally, and will not have it taken away from them on a mere pointless technicality. [More…]
If optional preferential voting is what the Labor Party calls a democratic vote, all I can say is that it is horribly like democratic socialism. [More…]
The word ‘democratic’ is used, but for what purpose I am not too sure. [More…]
I certainly support the postponement of the consideration of the Bill so that we on this side of the House can have a thorough look at it and get some indication from the Minister and officers of the Department as to whether some of the things I have mentioned would be worth looking at and keeping in mind so that those people who find themselves in embarrassing situations will certainly not be penalised in this true democratic system that we have at present. [More…]
What is wrong with that democratic proposal? [More…]
Only by imposing on the people the most undemocratic proposals, be they on voting hours, electoral procedures or postal voting, will electoral changes be implemented by honourable members opposite. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) sincerely believe that the Queensland method of regimenting postal votes is democratic in State and Federal politics in Queensland? [More…]
Registration of political parties follows an electoral reform in practically all democratic countries. [More…]
The introduction of mobile polling booths will bring to people who are sick, aged and infirm the opportunity to cast democratic votes. [More…]
What can be more democratic than drawing for positions on the ballot paper? [More…]
In these proposals tonight we bring forward measures which we believe are designed to give the people of Australia a more democratic electoral system. [More…]
We categorise it for what it is- an endeavour to hold up the democratic process of this country and a classic example to the people of Australia of members of the Opposition who are too lazy to read a Bill and who voted against their own proposals because they did not know what to do on the issues. [More…]
This Bill, the Urban and Regional (Financial Assistance) Bill 1974, is only a short Bill with some 1 1 clauses but it represents a milestone in the development of our democratic system of 3-tier co-operative federalism. [More…]
It was a typical Country Party compromise where deals had to be done with the Liberals and the Democratic Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]
In doing this perhaps the Government has passed on its philosophies and concepts to the Papua New Guinea Government which it has applied in developing its concepts and attitudes towards the role of a defence force in a democratic country. [More…]
One would hardly believe that we are talking in a Westminster style democratic parliament when one reads this section from the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]
I would have imagined that that is the democratic process in line with the Australian Constitution. [More…]
How democratic can one get? [More…]
They are acting very democratically, I must say. [More…]
Then the doctors held their democratic meeting from which they excluded anyone who did not agree with them, including me, and I am on the committee for the health centre. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member in most of what he said but I think that all members, old and new, should be tied by the democratic principles of the Parliament, and not just the old members of the Parliament who forced a double dissolution. [More…]
I come specifically to the proposition dealt with by the honourable member for Hotham, that in some way there will be some sort of dictatorial interference with the hospital and medical funds which are, to use his words, at present highly democratic organisations. [More…]
This is a message which went from the Department of the Northern Territory to Australian Democratic Labor Party senators. [More…]
They annihilated the Australian Democratic Labor Party senators who collaborated in this abuse of democracy. [More…]
The Australian Meat Board does not cavil at it; in fact, it is a democratic idea which is, I believe, welcomed by the Meat Board because it allows a larger number of people to have various types of expertise to be put forward and selected. [More…]
I see obstruction by the Senate not just in terms of the Bills which your Opposition Parties have defeated or emasculated but in the wider sense of deliberately interfering with the process of Government and threatening Australia’s democratic future. [More…]
This is a plague on the life cycle of Parliaments which will wreak havoc on our democratic institutions. [More…]
To countenance another mid-term election, let alone to want to see it, is to place great strains on our democratic future. [More…]
When he and his Ministers spend their whole time conniving in these cynical, contemptuous and degrading, dirty tricks such as this exercise in this measure, it degrades the Parliament and the democratic process. [More…]
They foolishly said that there ought to be free and democratic elections in South Vietnam, and to this day they are still fighting over the meaning of the words. [More…]
I refer to the Democratic Labour Party in particular, but its supporters are no longer with us so we ought not to worry about them. [More…]
It is fortunate that there are many trade union officials today who welcome democratic controls and processes. [More…]
This proposed legislation follows an examination of the methods adopted in other democratic countries which have taken steps to reform their electoral procedures in these areas. [More…]
However, the wilful misuse of paragraph (b) could mean that the democratic elected rights of the people of the Northern Territory, in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, could see themselves without any responsibility to make laws for the order and good government of the Territory. [More…]
I believe that the clause could be redrawn in a form which would ask but not instruct the Legislative Assembly to reconsider the appropriateness of a Territory law in view of the Commission’s functions and activities and recommend that the Territory consider either repeal or amendment, so as to help the Commission but in no way impinging on the democratic rights of the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
We seek to preserve the democratic rights of the citizens who will be affected by the operations of this Bill. [More…]
Of course the Government acknowledges the need for democratic processes. [More…]
I say unequivocally that my concern in Darwin, as primary as the responsibilities I have in regard to housing and reconstruction matters, is to ensure that democratic rather than demagogic processes come to bear. [More…]
The third reading of the Bill could be postponed until these people had come to Canberra and, in an ordinary democratic manner, had expressed their point of view. [More…]
But decisions are made in a democratic country and public opinion is moulded on the anvil of discussion and is the aggregate of composite opinion. [More…]
A clear campaign is being mounted in this country in the State parliaments and in this Parliament to end democratic government for ever in Australia. [More…]
Make no mistake- the rule book has been torn up; the democratic system which we hold so dear to us, will be torn down. [More…]
If the double dissolution had not occurred the person appointed to fill Senator Gair’s vacancy in the Senate would have been a member of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I believe the Austraiian Labor Party is not entirely a socialist party, but it does stand for policy reform or change based on a social, democratic approach. [More…]
If we are to suggest that only conservative politicians have good judgment we are saying that the nation is not entitled to democratic government at all, in or outside of the courts. [More…]
Surely it is its right in a democratic society so to do. [More…]
I for my part conclude where I began: This Bill represents a clear, savage and emphatic blow against the whole structure of democratic society in this country. [More…]
Steps have already been taken in various parts of the world to protect the democratic system from serious abuse in electoral funding. [More…]
Scandals have rocked the democratic world in recent years. [More…]
Although that has not occurred in Australia, does anyone say that the Australian democratic institution is stronger and better protected than was that of the United States prior to 1972? [More…]
Limitation of expenditure is good for the democratic concept. [More…]
It is possible to spend sums of money in such proportions so as to deny totally the democratic process. [More…]
If the Press is freely available to one political party and denied to another, as happens in some areas of Australia, if unlimited funds to purchase television time are available to one candidate and not available to another, a democratic expression of the electorate is not possible. [More…]
But they will be of advantage to the electoral system and to the democratic process itself. [More…]
This requirement is not something which does not exist anywhere else; it is a provision in almost every democratically elected Parliament with which we would like to compare ourselves. [More…]
Because I anticipated the tactics that would be employed, as is my right in a democratic society, I took counter measures to ensure that money did not win Griffith for the Australian Labor Party and that people made their judgment on the qualities of the candidates and the policies of the parties. [More…]
In the United States of America the trade union movement can in some years support the Republicans and in other years the Democratic Party. [More…]
Furthermore, I believe that as a citizen of Australia it is my right to give to the Australian Labor Party, the Australian Country Party, the Democratic Labor Party, the Australia Party, the Liberal Party of Australia and even the Communist Party. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party used them back in the mid-1960s when it showed Chinese soldiers marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. [More…]
So I would remind the honourable member for Bennelong that, rather than preceding the debacle called Watergate and all its attendant impact on democratic elections, the restrictions followed the abuses and were a direct result of those abuses. [More…]
But I say to the Australian people that this legislation represents a forward step in line with thinking in democratic countries which seek to keep politics free of the implications and imputations which go with money power poured into party funds. [More…]
Above all else, we can take the great democratic step forward in this country and keep in line with other great democracies which have realised how necessary this requirement is. [More…]
I do not know whether the Liberal Party still has a commitment to try to ensure the election of Democratic Labor Party senators to the Senate. [More…]
Notwithstanding the fact that he was floored for the political full count by the honourable Joh Bjelke-Petersen in the recent Queensland State elections- I liked the remarks of the honourable member for Corio when he said that they were democratic elections, and I thank him for that admission and for the accuracy of his political comment and that he was defeated by a majority of 3.75 million votes to 3.5 million votes on 18 May last, on his own admission, on the self same referendum issues he now seeks to introduce the proposal again. [More…]
In effect the people told him last May, at democratic elections, that they did not trust him, that there is to be a brake on him and that they want an overseer of the works he tries to carry out. [More…]
Pressure is being exerted on our present fundamental democratic principles. [More…]
I endorse the remarks of the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Sullivan) who by interjection said that to try to do away with the State’s House, which is the preserver of the democratic rights of the States and through the States the citizens who live in them, was a most despicable act of the Prime Minister. [More…]
We submit that it is both unnecessary and unwanted and we ask the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to accept the democratic vote of the Australian people, who told him in no uncertain manner that they do not want a bar of this type of legislation and they will not stand his meddling in the affairs of substance in a way which interferes with their basic rights. [More…]
All we want to see is that those union members have a democratic right to say what their trade unions are going to do. [More…]
I have yet to understand, let alone hear from the Minister, any good reason why the ordinary rules of democracy should not prevail in this situation, more particularly because so often we hear, and properly so, within the trade union movement in Australia the assertion that unionism is one of the most democratic organisations within Australian society. [More…]
I have some advantage in speaking on this matter because for a number of years I was a member of the Australian Labor Party at a time when it was a privilege to be a part of a party which was intensely Australian and whose loyalties were in the right position, adjusted to the betterment of this nation, to the quality of life of this nation but more particularly to democratic principles whereby individual members of that organisation had some say in matters affecting it. [More…]
The motion is purely a political allegation that the Australian Labor Party is not a democratic institution. [More…]
We say that we are the most democratic of all institutions. [More…]
It says that we believe in democracy, we believe in freedom of speech and we believe in the democratic institution of Parliament. [More…]
We poll particularly well in getting democratic support. [More…]
Let us make it clear that if we want to give this Parliament some honesty and some credibility in the Australian way of life we should show it to be a democratic institution. [More…]
I think it is a very important part of the democratic process that we do not have any governmental organisation which is dependent upon the taxpayers funds not being responsible to this Parliament as the representative of the people. [More…]
In fact, art not only must be represented by massive expenditure but also it should reflect essential, democratic government policy through its expert bodies to give a lead in providing the Australian public with a stimulating variety of the performing and other arts suited to all tastes. [More…]
But we also want to ensure, secondly, a just and democratic determination of the future of the people of East Timor, through a free act of self- determination. [More…]
As I understand it there are 2 major parties, Fretilin and the UDT, which is the Democratic Union of Timor, which have come together and formed a common program for independence which, in effect, brings the political forces with a following suggested to be as high as 95 per cent of politically concerned Timorese under one leadership. [More…]
This clause would allow the total negation of the normal democratic process. [More…]
This, of course, is the right of any concerned group in a democratic society. [More…]
There may be other alternatives, such as the various measures that the honourable member for Bennelong has suggested, but I put it to honourable members that given the safeguards and given the fact that the power now exists we are only subjecting the exercising of the power to democratic controls. [More…]
Oddly enough the West German Government also is of the social democratic type. [More…]
The Opposition is totally undemocratic in all its procedures. [More…]
They use their forces now in another place to make absolutely sure that we cannot conduct proper democratic elections in Australia. [More…]
The principles they hold dearundemocratic practices, McCarthyism and character assassination- have no place in our Austraiian Parliament. [More…]
It is the duty of a Speaker to uphold the traditions of the parliament, to maintain a balance between the government and the opposition and to make sure that the opposition is not disadvantaged in any way, for to disadvantage the opposition is to cripple the democratic parliamentary system. [More…]
In this Parliament we are upholding the principles of a democratic state. [More…]
Of course there have to be limitations in a democratic state. [More…]
I believe if we look at the real world this Bill takes all these general concepts about the role of a state in a democratic society into account. [More…]
For the Leader of the Opposition there is no question of democratic principle. [More…]
Mr Speaker, few people have done more to subvert the democratic processes of this Parliament than has the Prime Minister. [More…]
Yet this Prime Minister is the man who has the hide to go on national television and preach about the need to uphold tradition, and to protect the customs and conventions of our democratic system. [More…]
And when the attack and the destruction extend to the very heart of our democratic institution- this Parliament-then it is time to stop the rot. [More…]
The four of you did it by walking out of the chamber and refusing to have any part of the sordid plot the Prime Minister was leading- an act of treachery against the then Speaker, an act of treachery against this Parliament and an act of treachery against our democratic system. [More…]
This is a matter of the gravest moment because it goes to the very heart of our democratic system. [More…]
It is true, as the Prime Minister keeps telling us, that democracy and the democratic institutions are under threat. [More…]
To do so would be to deny the very democratic basis of our government system. [More…]
What we are proposing in this Bill will be a far more democratic process than the legislative examples I have quoted. [More…]
West Germany does have social democratic government but someone argued about how left wing it was. [More…]
The Treasurer knows perfectly well, and all those who advise him know perfectly well, that it is absolutely impossible to maintain any democratic society if there is a rate of inflation of more than 20 per cent. [More…]
These things have been destroyed because this Government and this Prime Minister are too busy prattling about elections and conventions which they do not observe anyhow, strangling the democratic parliamentary institution, manipulating Senate vacancies and piling up a lot of Socialist Bills in a double dissolution frenzy. [More…]
Those 4 members of the Labor Party- 3 Ministers and you, Mr Speaker- deserve credit for their efforts to maintain the standards of democratic government which should be associated with our national Parliament. [More…]
I ask: If it is fair for the Government, in respect to sporting contests with South Africa, to deny contact because it disagrees with the process by which the teams are chosen why does the Government not deny contact with the government of any country which is chosen by other than a democratic process? [More…]
In accordance with democratic processes, it must necessarily be a matter of the majority decision. [More…]
Despite what some people might think or ov to me Australia is still recognised as a true democratic Christian country. [More…]
1 ) It is assumed that the report referred to is the Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on ‘Human Rights and Scientific and Technological Developments; uses of electronics which may affect the rights of the person and the limits which should be placed on such uses in a democratic society’, dated 31 January 1974, and presented to the Thirtieth Session of the Commission on Human Rights. [More…]
This apparently is a reference to a speech entitled Official Secrecy, Open Government and Making Democracy Democratic’ delivered by the present Minister for Labor and Immigration on 1 7 September 1 972. [More…]
I have spoken to the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government. [More…]
I am absolutely staggered that anybody who pretends to comprehend Indo-China would come back with the old Democratic Labor Party statement, the League of Rights statement, the point of view that has been held by reactionary forces in Australia and throughout the world, that old tired cliche about people voting with their feet. [More…]
As I said before, it is obvious that this arrangement which was spelt out in detail on the basis that there be free and democratic elections in Vietnam meant nothing unless the type of elections to be held was spelt out. [More…]
The whole idea was to organise free and democratic elections for the whole of South Vietnam. [More…]
I have looked through the Bill itself and found that there are so many clauses of it that are distasteful to me and that would be distasteful to anyone who believes in a democratic system of government that I must express to the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Enderby) my displeasure with it and my disbelief that a man who parades as one who likes a democratic system of government and who believes in people themselves would want to introduce a measure of this kind. [More…]
I say this to those gentlemen who talk about a democratic society: Ask the oppressed peoples who sometimes have to survive in a democratic society; ask the Aborigines about a democratic society; ask those who are getting angry at being denied their rights. [More…]
The continued existence of this legislation is an affront to the selfrespect of the Australian nation as one of the democratic countries of the world. [More…]
It is not necessary to glorify war in order that people may acknowledge with gratitude the sacrifices which have been made in war and which have enabled Australia to remain a free and democratic country. [More…]
It is worth noting that any democratic government governs by consent and not by force. [More…]
It has received threats from breakaway groups like the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
If we in any way interfere with that natural democratic process I do not think we will be eliminating confusion; I think we will be creating it. [More…]
It is increasing the informal vote and in that way negating the real democratic approach that there should be in this country whereby people know precisely for whom they are voting. [More…]
The burdens placed on the democratic system by this clause, I think, are completely unwarranted. [More…]
It is a democratic right and a constitutional right. [More…]
or ‘Who is the Democratic Labor Party candidate? [More…]
No election, apart from those at the height of the Australian Democratic Labor Party’s popularity when it split away from the Labor Party, has been determined by those events. [More…]
No democratic government or government that respects the democratic system itself or the right of each person to vote could possibly support that principle. [More…]
After all, this system should be as open as possible as part of our democratic system. [More…]
We believe in the democratic process- and I believe that if one could talk individually to members of this House one would find that they really believe in that process- and we will support this clause as it is a provision which is long overdue. [More…]
It is because the Labor Party believes this to be the most democratic method of choosing a ministry. [More…]
As the Minister for Services and Property, (Mr Daly) pointed out when he first introduced the Bill, it is designed to give the people a more democratic and efficient electoral system. [More…]
It will strengthen the democratic principle by allowing voters to allot preferences only for candidates they wish to elect while still permitting them to cast their preferences for every candidate if they so desire. [More…]
The change involves no derogation from voters’ democratic rights; in fact, it will enhance them. [More…]
Not that there is anything inherently sinister in first-past-the-post voting; This is the system used in Britain and most other democratic countries. [More…]
Without going through all the countries which require or permit the party affiliations of candidates to be placed on the ballot paper, it is enough to point out that they include Austria, all the Scandinavian countries, West Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain and the United States of America- not a bad democratic line-up. [More…]
In my electorate of Watson, which I represented for 14 years, in 1961 a Miss Nappa was the Australian Democratic Labor Party candidate. [More…]
We believe that it militates against the operation of the democratic vote and we reject it. [More…]
-When one studies this clause I think one can say with a lot of confidence that it is the most undemocratic clause in the Bill. [More…]
That is one of the reasons why I believe that this is a most undemocratic system. [More…]
It will never get Liberal Party preferences, it never gets Country Party preferences, it never gets Democratic Labor Party preferences and now even the Australia Party has given it away. [More…]
It is a retrograde step in terms of the democratic development of this nation to pass off this responsibility to a statutory body which moves out of the scope of parliamentary debate. [More…]
Honourable members would know that this Parliament, as a democratic institution, has powers of inquisition, and in that respect the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances has asked the Bureau to appear before it to explain the reasons for the questions that are being asked. [More…]
One could not get any more democratic process or anything fairer than that. [More…]
One of the reasons that I voted for your party in the last 2 Federal elections was that the ALP policy seemed to offer some hope that environmental issues within the community would be resolved by democratic- and ultimately by legalprocess. [More…]
I hope that we Liberals and our coalition partners, as soon as we return to the Treasury Benches, will make it our first concern to ensure democratic control through the Arbitration Commission and the Commonwealth Electoral Office of all trade union elections and major administrative decisions before strikes occur or serious restrictive action is taken against the national interest. [More…]
Only Trudeau was ahead of Cairns in seeing where the greater economic and social threat to our mixed economies, our democratic systems, lay. [More…]
-There was a time when people in this country regarded the democratic system as one under which they were able to choose between two clearly delineated bodies of policy, between two clearly delineated sets of proposals. [More…]
In relation to the ministerial power of direction of the Commission, and reviewing the Bill as a whole, there is potential for a most dangerous concentration of political power, free of customary democratic checks and balances and quite contrary to the whole concept of federalism. [More…]
This occurred directly as the result of the loss of support suffered by the Liberal-Country Party coalition in the 1969 elections and the threatened withdrawal of the support of the Australian Democratic Labor Party unless the government showed a tougher line on defence. [More…]
We come now to the next interesting document, a letter from the Deputy Prime Minister dated 13 February to Mr Nien, Charged ‘Affaires of the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
Accordingly, I ask leave to have incorporated in Hansard, firstly, my letter of 13 March 1975 to His Excellency Nguyen Van Thieu, then President of the Republic of Vietnam; secondly, my letter of the same date to His Excellency Nguyen Duy Trinh, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; thirdly, a cable dated 2 April from the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Australian Ambassador in Saigon, Mr Price, entitled ‘Vietnam Representations’; and, fourthly, a cablegram of the same date from the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Australian Ambassador in Hanoi, Mr Wilson, entitled ‘Vietnam Representations’. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member for Evans that in many progressive democratic countries there is legislation providing for the disclosure of campaign funds notably, of course, Canada, the United States of America and certain European countries. [More…]
We come now to the next interesting document, a letter from the Deputy Prime Minister dated 13 February to Mr Nien, Charge d Affaires of the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam …. [More…]
What we are faced with is the problems that have occurred with the development of our legal system and the development of our parliamentary democratic system. [More…]
One of the reasons that I voted for your party in the last 2 Federal Elections was that the ALP policy seemed to offer some hope that environmental issues within the community would be resolved by democratic- and ultimately by legalprocess. [More…]
Those organisations which have put their money into fighting the passage of this Bill have every democratic right to fight against it. [More…]
The Government by this measure is ensuring the complete social destruction of Australians and making a mockery of democratic government. [More…]
Apparently an industry- its employees or its shareholdersprepared to stand up and protest about a Government program with which it disagrees is somehow engaged in a sinister plot to pervert the democratic process. [More…]
The public should know that every electoral reform brought down by this Government, even for drawing for positions on the ballot paper, is looked upon as a sinister attack on the democratic voting system. [More…]
They could have asked themselves: Is this redistribution fair and equitable and in accordance with democratic principle? [More…]
I tell the Liberal Party quite frankly that until it stands up for the democratic principles which it put in its submissions to the Distribution Commissioners but which it runs away from in this House it can only expect to see the Liberal Party vote in Queensland declining in the future. [More…]
They could have asked themselves: is this redistribution fair and equitable and in accordance with democratic principle? [More…]
He spoke about an undemocratic advantage being given to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
This great democratic National Country Party, or whatever it calls itself for the time being, had such a great interest in the matter that it said the redistribution was crook even before the Commissioners were appointed. [More…]
The people will have their democratic rights, but they will be unable to exercise them. [More…]
There was no supportive argument because his observations- selective and manipulative as they are- clash with the basic democratic principles. [More…]
I can only support the proposal, having been requested to restore the democratic principle and basic tenet of one vote one value. [More…]
It would reflect discredit on the Opposition members in this House who would like to deliver a fatal body blow to one of the basic principles of democratic parliamentary representation: one vote one value. [More…]
I believe it is democratic for me to be here and I will fight to keep my seat. [More…]
I am glad to see that they have of late managed to shake off the Democratic Labor Party, but they are still very much subject to National Country Party pressure and most decisions that they make on issues and in regard to this redistribution have to fit in with National Country Party plans, sometimes to the embarrassment of the Liberal Party as we found during the last election when the Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony) raised the issue of the price of petrol. [More…]
Once the Government achieves a total stranglehold on the country, there is no way in the world that we will ever get back to sane and democratic government in Australia. [More…]
Equality of political rights is inherent in a truly democratic state. [More…]
What an undemocratic, unfair, twisted attitude! [More…]
Every democratic country in the world that I know of, except Australia, makes provision for the representation of remote regions. [More…]
Every democratic country except Australia provides for considerably smaller numbers of voters in large, scattered electorates than in tiny, compact city electorates- and that includes Britain, the mother of parliaments, where a tolerance of several hundred per cent is provided, Canada and the United States of America. [More…]
Over the past few weeks, redistribution proposals based on this simple democratic principle have been laid before this House. [More…]
The time is overdue for change -a change to a more democratic electoral system which would not disfranchise such a large number of voters. [More…]
It is basic to our democratic society. [More…]
We see in this process of policy making the whole ethos of democratic government coming to a head. [More…]
Opposition backbenchers who see that man, the Leader of the Opposition, ready to knife the next rebel in the back are resentful of our democratic process. [More…]
Suffice to say that we on this side of the House can well understand the chagrin of the National Country Party in regard to the democratic decision of the Caucus to reaffirm the policy of the Government to set the floor price of wool at 250c a kilo. [More…]
Recently, scientific representatives of the German Democratic Republic who visited us stated their amazement at the quality of these deposits, their quantity and the ease of their recovery. [More…]
Even that could not be spent in the first financial year because of the democratic process we have to go through of acting through the States, local government, national trusts and other conservation groups. [More…]
The democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange- to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in those fields- in accordance with the principles of action, methods, and progressive reforms set out in this platform. [More…]
Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield called for the immediate repeal of winter daylight saving and said that it had failed as an energy conservation measure. [More…]
The enrolments in these electorates- if I might make passing reference to them- are so malapportioned as to make the present basis of election undemocratic. [More…]
They are now exercising a delaying tactic to prevent democratic elections throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]
They were rejected by the Senate by the combined vote of the Australian Labor Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I remind the House again that the action of the Senate in rejecting the redistribution proposals for Queensland came about as a result of an initiative from the Labor Party, supported by the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
And above all, it denies to the Australian people- Liberal voters every bit as much as Labor voters- the basic democratic right of equal representation. [More…]
But today, the Prime Minister, faced with electoral disaster at the hands of a disillusioned and hurt electorate, came into this debate and threw away his belief in a fair and truly democratic electoral system in a desperate effort to hang on in office. [More…]
It is not democratic to have virtually equal numbers of voters in all electorates when electorates vary so much. [More…]
It has allowed the Country Party to do this and it allowed the Democratic Labor Party to do it. [More…]
I believe that they are forced to admit that in a democratic electoral system there must be some big electorates. [More…]
It is a great surprise to me to see the members of the Opposition arguing for a situation which I believe is tending to denigrate the whole democratic system. [More…]
People both on the extreme right and on the extreme left in Australian politics would seem to be trying to drag down the democratic process and to make it as inefficient as possible for their own similar but at the same time disparate purposes. [More…]
That Party has always desired to cut out the influence of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Now it has been presented to the Australian people as a free speech issue; but should terrorists who have attacked and slaughtered innocent civilians be granted the right of free speech, especially when their speech and their actions are aimed at the destruction of a democratic state which we sponsored and support? [More…]
Then it had to square off the position with the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I, frankly, do not think much of the democratic system when the Minister finds it necessary to make his own selection. [More…]
I have written to the Foreign Ministers of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam in these terms. [More…]
He was always a very fair and impartial man and he ensured that the best democratic traditions of the Australian Labor Party were upheld. [More…]
The basic charge is this: By his actions he has called into question the very integrity of Australia’s democratic institutions. [More…]
It is a conspiracy which has placed Australia’s economy and its international financial standing at serious risk, a conspiracy which has involved gross ministerial incompetence, the taint of scandal, and a conspiracy which has in the process threatened the democratic system in this country. [More…]
The result is that there is now agreement that the events which led to the ministerial changes have been properly responded to, but I do not believe that the House can easily press on to other issues without fairly acknowledging the valuable and honourable role of the honourable member for Lalor to this institution over many years and his honourable and unyielding commitment to the issues of personal rights, civil liberties and the freedoms of a democratic society. [More…]
In other words, voting for the Legislative Council was under restrictive franchise and most undemocratic. [More…]
I believe the optional preferential system of voting is one of the most democratic advances which this country can endorse. [More…]
They should follow the example of South Australians, introduce an optional preferential system in accordance with what has been presented to the Australian Parliament by the present Government, and in that way we would get the democratic results that have come on this occasion to the South Australian Upper House. [More…]
Nevertheless I simply point out at the beginning that the right of one to make a donation is a part of our democratic process. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party used to show Chinese soldiers marching across the Sydney Harbour Bridge. [More…]
Without a doubt it has always been the Country Party tail- I am not quite sure what that Party now calls itself; I think the latest is the National Country Party which is a consortium of the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party- that has wagged the dog. [More…]
I could go back to 1962 when we warned the LiberalCountry Party Government as it was thenbefore the Country Party changed its name to the National Country Party and amalgamated with the Democratic Labor Party- that unless it took action on this issue it would get the same reactions as were occurring in Canada. [More…]
I finalise on this point, and I think the honourable member for Cowper and his friends in the consortium of the Country Party and the Democratic Labor Party now called the National Country Party should take note of it: In 1958 the Labor Opposition started warning the then government of the effects of its policies of deliberately encouraging the takeover of Australian industry by overseas interests. [More…]
I was glad to hear the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) point out that under a democratic system any person who occupies the position of Minister for Defence has an authority from the elected representatives of the people through this Parliament. [More…]
The honourable member for Kennedy seemed to think that just because he did not happen to be the Minister for Defence, any powers given to the Minister were completely undemocratic or completely against the Services. [More…]
Certainly there is no law of which I am aware which dictates that any person or any citizen living in this land should be prevented from enjoying to the full his democratic rights. [More…]
Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Labor Party and President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, along with union delegates from other democratic countries, moved an amendment requiring that all those seeking admission to the ILO should agree to abide by the rules and principles of the ILO. [More…]
In the previous Parliament the delegation had been 3 members of the Labor Party, one member of the Liberal Party, one member of the Country Party and one member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Because of the information that I had acquired about the process of getting oil from coal, I made a private trip overseas to West Germany and to the German Democratic Republic. [More…]
Obtaining oil from coal is part of a total energy concept in the German Democratic Republic. [More…]
Without authority I proposed to the Minister of Science and Technology and to the Foreign Minister in the German Democratic Republic that it might be possible to form a consortium. [More…]
This is being considered by the German Democratic Republic. [More…]
The German Democratic Republic is anxious to be a successful tenderer for the provision of the equipment and technical know-how. [More…]
The keenness of the Ministers of the German Democratic Republic to trade was kindled, but it was equally matched by [More…]
I pressed the German Democratic Republic to consider taking some of the great quantities of beef which are available in Australia, as well as our minerals. [More…]
Whilst I was in the German Democratic Republic I was hosted as an official representative of this Parliament. [More…]
The national organisations of the Australia Party, the National Country Party, the Liberal Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party, and one State executive of the Democratic Labor Party, have worked closely with the conference organisers. [More…]
None seems prepared to test its claims to lead the country through any conventional form of democratic process. [More…]
It is true that at the last election in Portugal the people showed at the ballot box that they wanted a democratic socialist government, such as there is in Scandinavia, Western Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, New Zealand and Australia. [More…]
Throughout the period leading up to the events which have followed the show of force by the Timorese Democratic Union on 10 August the Government has been very much aware of the difficulties which were likely to accompany the decolonisation process in Portuguese Timor. [More…]
We present this measure- an eminently democratic and nonpartisan reform- as a single Bill in the hope that the issue will not be clouded by irrelevant argument but will be dealt with by this Parliament responsibly recognising the merits of the system from the public and electoral points of view. [More…]
2) 1975, this is a non-partisan reform which is designed to introduce a system of voting which provides for the maximum flexibility and democratic freedom of choice for the voters while maintaining the essential elements of a full preferential system, should the voters choose to indicate preferences for all candidates in the election. [More…]
The 1974 Senate elections in New South Wales, when there were 73 candidates, and to a lesser extent the 1 974 Senate elections in certain other States, gave a clear indication of what might happen in the future unless a sufficient deterrent is introduced to operate against frivolous candidature or candidature designed to infringe upon, or obstruct, the democratic process of election. [More…]
The 5 main provisions to which I have referred, together with the minor amendments previously supported by the Opposition, will lead to improved voting facilities for electors, will remedy defects in our electoral practices, and create a more democratic and efficient electoral system. [More…]
The preservation of the security of Australia as a free and democratic nation and the welfare of the Australian people, promoted through a sound economic policy with justice to all sections, are the paramount responsibilities of this national Parliament. [More…]
I am raising the great democratic principle of freedom of speech. [More…]
Would the Minister undertake to say to them that they must not talk about East Timor, that they must not have an attitude to the UDT- the Timor Democratic Union- and Fretilin or in regard to self-determination of East Timor, its incorporation into Indonesia or its remaining a colony of Portugal? [More…]
Would the Government say that the people of the Baltic States ought not to have complained about the recognition by Australia of the de jure incorporation of the 3 brave democratic States of the Baltic into the Russian monolith? [More…]
Every free and democratic country that wants investment to grow realises the complementary nature between investment and savings. [More…]
It also welcomes statements such as those by the Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Mr Pham Van Dong, at the opening of the Fifth National Assembly in Hanoi in June 1975, that North Vietnam too seeks friendship and co-operation with other countries in South-East Asia. [More…]
It puts the Liberal and Country Parties on the line as betraying every principle of democratic government that we have ever heard of in this country. [More…]
Ultimately we may see at a vital time in the Senate a majority changed by votes brought about by the actions of the Leader of the National Country Party in this place and the Leader of the National Country Party in Queensland, and a docile Liberal Party leadership which will not stand up and be counted on a great moral and democratic issue such as this. [More…]
It wanted to introduce and experiment in social democratic reform, but it had no research and no back-up. [More…]
It is simply the modern method of debasing the currency in order to give to the ruler, be he a monarch or be it a democratic government, more of the people ‘s wealth and income to finance the ruler’s expenditure. [More…]
The view that industrial agreements should be the only legal agreements which are binding on one party and not the other is contrary to our philosophy, contrary to law and contrary to the democratic system. [More…]
This situation has presented no problem to this stage because the Democratic Labor Party could always be relied upon to support the Government parties. [More…]
Let us have a look at the democratic process by which the members of these Parliaments are elected in their totality. [More…]
-The point to which I was coming is that because a democratic system does not operate in New South Wales we now have sitting in the other chamber of this Parliament a person who does not reflect the result of the voting pattern expressed by the people of New South Wales at the last Senate election. [More…]
With those 2 other tiers of government in this country the Federal Parliament can make an important contribution to the continuing progress of the democratic form of Government in Australia. [More…]
Every member of this House should give very serious consideration to something which is of vital importance to our country and to future generations- the maintaining of our system and of our democratic way of life. [More…]
Honourable members on both sides of the chamber know that in only a very few countries in Europe does the democratic parliamentary tradition have a very firm basis. [More…]
I suppose that a lot of what goes on here is tedious and boring, but that is part of the substance of democratic institutions. [More…]
This is not my understanding of a democratic system. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition and the Opposition generally are deliberately trying to destroy the trust which should exist between the Public Service, the Parliament and the elected government; in other words, the democratic system. [More…]
No nation can be really great and really democratic and take its place in the world as an enlightened community if it has within its borders substantial numbers of people who are living in depressed circumstances. [More…]
I would like to conceal our national shame by pointing out that earlier when there was a Labor Federal government- a National Democratic Party Government as they would know it- in the late 1940s, it was able to secure free hospitalisation throughout Australia. [More…]
Another election in this year- that is 3 elections in less than 3 years- would be an outrageous misuse of democratic privileges. [More…]
This transgression of the traditional democratic process has taken place in many areas. [More…]
If the Government wants its program the people of Australia will agree provided the legal process is observed and the democratic process is carried out. [More…]
We argued that all those things they hated could be corrected through the democratic process. [More…]
There have been many examples of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam acting independently of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
The admission which has just been made demonstrates that there is no suggestion of a democratic reason for the suspension of Standing Orders but specifically an intention to change the legislation to the electoral advantage of the Labor Party. [More…]
Did the Liberal-Country Party of the day in a petulant reaction to the then Opposition, the Labor Party, and the Democratic Labor Party defeating its proposals in the Senate run off and bring the proposals back in the form of legislation and hold a double dissolution threat over the then Opposition? [More…]
Every time the Opposition criticises legislation or responsibly uses its majority in another place it is accused of obstructionism and of frustrating the democratic will of the Australian community. [More…]
What perhaps some members of the House may not know is that if the proposals submitted to the Distribution Commissioners by the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales- this Party which is so committed to democratic government, which is so committed to one vote one value, which is so committed to electoral justice- were accepted by the Commissioners they would, on the same votes cast in May 1 974, give to the Labor Party in New South Wales 29 seats and not 25 seats and would give to the joint Opposition Parties 16 seats and not 20 seats. [More…]
The Government flies in the face of principles which are accepted in virtually every democratic country. [More…]
Every democratic country of which I know makes allowances for the special difficulties of providing adequate representation in large, remote, sparsely settled electorates because they know that it is the fair, just and democratic thing to do. [More…]
It certainly has no real respect for the democratic rights of the Australian people, especially those who live outside the great cities. [More…]
The Minister is no more interested in achieving equality of representation than he is in maintaining a fair and democratic voting system. [More…]
Above all, because the Senate has a system of proportional representation- a system which the honourable member for Port Adelaide knows very well- the result is always likely to be close and one which is very democratic. [More…]
As the honourable member for Port Adelaide said, they have torn up the rule book, conventions and the democratic principles of this country. [More…]
What a remarkable coincidence under a democratic voting system. [More…]
They could have asked themselves: is this redistribution fair and equitable and in accordance with democratic principle? [More…]
If one believes that the Constitution should be changed, that for instance education should be directed by the Commonwealth, there is machinery by way of a democratic referendum of the people to change the Constitution. [More…]
There are people in the Labor movement and outside the Labor movement- Trotskyites and Maoists- who do not believe in the democratic system. [More…]
The point I was trying to make last night is that we were able to convince the great majority of people who took to the streets that the answer was to work through the democratic process. [More…]
In 1974, when the Opposition decided to try to cut short our elected term of office by half, those people were boiling with anger but once again they gave the democratic process a go. [More…]
It may be our worry but it will also be your worry because there will be no way in the world they will listen to us when we say: ‘Work through the democratic process’. [More…]
If this democratic process is wrecked once and for all- that is what the Opposition is bringing down upon Australia- it will give the people no other alternative but to take to the streets and to violence. [More…]
It is not only the social democratic governments, such as that in Australia, which have it, but it is also governments comprised of parties which would be comparable to those parties sitting opposite which have it. [More…]
In fact, social democratic governments in general, as in Germany, have been able to keep unemployment lower and conservative governments, such as the United States or others in Western Europe, have higher unemployment. [More…]
The Jess Committee, which was established under the Gorton Government, comprised members of the Senate and this House who were members of all political parties, including the Australian Democratic Labor Party which was represented in the Senate at the time. [More…]
His style of operation is unworthy of the democratic, decent way of life that is expected of politicians in this country. [More…]
Now, of course, he links up with the National Party Queensland Premier, who in recent times has used his influence on the Leader of the Opposition and who by his very actions in the appointment of a senator to replace my late colleague, Senator Bert Milliner, seeks to destroy our democratic system of parliamentary elections whereby the people can determine the party that will govern them for a period of 3 years. [More…]
Once you start white-anting away at the foundations, as the Opposition has been doing since 1972- whiteanting the foundations of our democratic systemit is a hop, step and jump before the system crumbles. [More…]
A democratic system at any time hangs by a very fragile thread. [More…]
Of course, if such an action is taken, it will set an extraordinary precedent- a precedent that will destroy democratic government in Australia. [More…]
Now we find that a great number of them in difficult circumstances are being deprived of their democratic entitlement to vote at federal elections. [More…]
What he has done effectively is to deprive people in our democratic society of a basic right in times of wet weather. [More…]
I tell honourable members opposite that the Australian Labor Party is the one democratic party in this country. [More…]
How many former members of the (a) Liberal, (b) National Country Party or (c) Democratic Labor Party were appointed to an office of profit by the Australian Government between 1949 and 2 December 1972. [More…]
Labor’s stated objective is to change Australia from a capitalist, free enterprise, democratic society to a socialist state. [More…]
When we consider that this unique and tremendous power is in the hands of 3 main groups in this country it becomes more and more obvious that a Department of the Media dedicated to encouraging the communication and dissemination of a wide variety of opinions is essential to our democratic way of life. [More…]
We should not seek to inhibit the right of people to express their views, whether in newspapers, on radio or on television, no matter how unconventional, no matter how undemocratic, no matter how much they oppose or offend our established beliefs and customs. [More…]
If we do not have enough faith in the good commonsense of our people, if we are not firmly enough convinced that our democratic way of life can withstand attacks from the more extremist positions, then we are standing on extremely shaky ground. [More…]
Councils should see the regional concept for its real democratic value- an opportunity for local government to make its own decisions on a local level, an opportunity to solve local problems- [More…]
Insofar as there is any power associated with them, it is responsible power for which they are accountable in a democratic way. [More…]
We believe in a democratic accountability of power. [More…]
That is the section which provides the system whereby subject to laws of this sort being passed by the Parliament or in the event of those laws in some circumstances not even being passed by the Senate a proposal can be put to the people by way of referendum and that is therefore democratic action. [More…]
I suppose it is part of their democratic right to vote in such a manner. [More…]
I invite any subsequent speakers from the Government side in this debate to challenge that approach as being other than a reasonable approach to a democratic system of election in a single member constituency. [More…]
That may be a desirable political objective but it is not necessarily consonant with a democratic voting system to reduce the influence of minority parties. [More…]
Why should we not have in a democratic society an ability for a party to grow from a small nucleus to perhaps something really worthwhile? [More…]
It certainly advantages the Labor, Liberal and National Country Parties, but it does not advantage the Australia Party, the Democratic Labor Party or a whole host of other smaller parties which believe that they should have a right to contest certain electorates to try to push forward views that they think are necessary to better society. [More…]
infamous days of the late 1950s and 1960s the Democratic Labor Party of Australia, when it was contesting elections, went out of its way at both Federal and State elections to have on ballot papers the names of people whose names began with either A, B or C. In a Federal election that lifted the Party’s percentage of the national vote to such an extent that it thought it was a decent, acceptable and some sort of major political party. [More…]
His Party, of course, has been even worse than the Liberal Party in promoting breaches of parliamentary and democratic conventions. [More…]
The many amendments to these Bills- particularly to this Bill- seek to assist in the democratic procedure of conducting elections. [More…]
The obvious proposal which comes from the honourable member is that the more voting is facilitated, the more people are able to vote, the easier it becomes to cast a vote, the fewer informal votes there are, the more this will assist the Government That may well be true, but it is also true that to facilitate the expression of opinion by electors is basic to the democratic concept. [More…]
It is just as logical for me to say that what he is putting forward is that he is seeking to make it harder, that he is seeking to subvert the democratic process, that he does not really want an expression of majority rule, that he wants a manipulated result whereby the Opposition parties can scramble back into government. [More…]
I do this because yesterday in the Senate, because of a political decision against all precedent and principle, democratic government in Australia has been threatened. [More…]
The House of Representatives is not only the national chamber; it is the democratic chamber; it is the grand depository and embodiment of the liberal principles of government which pervade the entire constitutional fabric. [More…]
Now the Leader of the Opposition shows that he is prepared to rock and perhaps even threaten the very foundation of our democratic system in pursuit of his ambition. [More…]
In a democracy we rely on the fact that the people who elect members to Parliament expect their members to honour the democratic rules of a constitution. [More…]
Honourable members opposite would not expect us, as a democratic government, to say: ‘We will have an election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The election will be a contest between foreign dollars and Australian votes, the votes of men and women who want to keep Australia Australian and who want parliamentary democracy to remain democratic. [More…]
It begins with the proposition that the Office, employing solicitors and bringing into being a solicitor and client relationship between the solicitor or the lawyer employed in the Office and client, with complete independence, should at the same time, consistent with proper democratic principles, I would have thought, be accountable ultimately to the Parliament. [More…]
It would prostitute the democratic processes by rejection of the Appropriation Bills. [More…]
All these attempts to bypass decency, tradition, fair play and convention are nothing less than prostitution of our democratic processes. [More…]
The reduction of an ultimate constitutional sanction- if indeed it should ever be used at all- to the level of a routine political tactic is a debasing of our constitutional system and the democratic values it is supposed to protect. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the House recognise that the democratic system under which we live is precious. [More…]
The House will be aware of the report cited in the Jakarta newspaper Kompas of 20 October that advancing Democratic Union of Timor- UDT- and Apodeti forces had come across the remains of 4 male Europeans in the Balibo area. [More…]
People came from political parties right across the board- the Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the Communist Party. [More…]
Very simply, it is a struggle to protect our Australian way of life, to protect our democratic parliamentary system and to maintain stability in government. [More…]
Once we start whiteanting away at the foundations of the democratic system, as the Opposition has been doing since 1972, it is one hop, step and a jump before the system collapses. [More…]
A democratic system at any time hangs by a very fragile thread. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Withers, constantly bleats that the Senate is a democratically elected House and that it has certain powers. [More…]
The mere act of casting a vote does not necessarily make the Senate a democratic House, and it is not. [More…]
I reject that proposition not only as a supporter of the present Ministry but also as a supporter of the Parliament, a democratic, responsible Parliament. [More…]
He fights to perpetuate not a democratic system, for he has contemptuously ground it under foot when ever it suited him. [More…]
In the same way in which Queensland, which got its separation and independence in 1859, had a more democratic constitution than New South Wales, which attained its constitution in 1852, so it was that the Australian Constitution does not precisely enshrine the principle of the exclusive responsibility of the Lower House in the way in which that principle subsequently developed in Great Britain. [More…]
That proposition would have to commend itself at any time, given the contrast between the nature of the House of Representatives on the one side as the House of the people- the House where the Government is formed, the democratic House- and the Senate on the other side, being the acknowledged undemocratic House within the Australian parliamentary system. [More…]
It could have indicated that he was an Australian Democratic Labor Party candidate on 2 occasions, that he stood against endorsed ALP candidates, that he is a millionaire and that he made money during the service station boom in the 1950s from getting franchises for land through oil companiesthe same sorts of interests as the Leader of the National Country Party represents. [More…]
The next thing I mentioned was that he had been a Democratic Labor Party candidate on a number of occasions. [More…]
Would that he were more responsible, less ambitious and not indifferent to the great strains and stresses which he has suddenly and selfishly cast upon our democratic institutions of parliamentary government. [More…]
It is absurd to suggest that the Senate is as democratic as is this House. [More…]
Every responsible, commonsense member, whether he be a Government member or an Opposition member, knows that violence to settle political disputes in this country is abhorrent to any party that believes in democratic practice. [More…]
We believe it is not just a question of survival of this Government; it is a question of survival of our whole democratic system of government. [More…]
Whether it is a communist country or a democratic socialist country like our own, like all the Scandinavian countries, like the Federal Republic of Germany, like Austria where Chancellor Kreisky has just been re-elected: or whether it is a country with a conservative government, like France or Italy, this same problem of inflation- a world problem- has affected them. [More…]
One big area in which there is a difference between the conservative governments in the countries which I visited and the democratic socialist governments in the countries which I visited is in the protection of the needy people from the effects of inflation. [More…]
The House of Representatives is not only the national chamber; it is also the democratic chamber; it is the grand depository and embodiment of the liberal principles of government which pervade the entire constitutional fabric. [More…]
On each occasion that the Prime Minister makes the assertion that the Senate lacks the power to defer a money Bill he demonstrates completely his failure to understand the rights and privileges of people in a democratic society. [More…]
The Constitution can survive only while the people of Australia remain the ultimate jury in this democratic society of ours. [More…]
One thing is perfectly clear: Like the Democratic Labor Party, the Country Party is on the way out. [More…]
In favour: (93)- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Democratic Yemen, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libyan Arab Republic, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia. [More…]
He seeks to shortcircuit the democratic process and diminishes respect for the institution of Parliament. [More…]
In turn this leads to a distortion of democratic representation in the other House- in the Senate. [More…]
He did not honestly explain, of course, that in respect of the passage of those 139 Bills the ALP Opposition was the minority Party with the Democratic Labor Party holding the balance of power. [More…]
As we have a federal system, regardless of how we would draw up the Constitution if we were drawing it afresh today, it is important that we recognise that it is a system with its own checks and balances, a system which with goodwill can work, a system in which the ultimate control is that of the democratic constituents, who can determine from their own assessment of how money is spent and how money is raised how the government of the day- local, State or Federal- is carrying out its responsibilities. [More…]
In his obsession to cling to power at all costs, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is willing to defy all constitutional processes, to wreck democratic institutions and deliberately to inflict unnecessary hardship on the community. [More…]
It is unquestionably a democratic chamber, one whose basis of repesentation marks its special purpose in our system. [More…]
My Party, in collusion with the Australian Democratic Labour Party, was considering rejecting the Bill in the Senate. [More…]
I have noticed that Aboriginal people who are exposed to what we describe as our sophisticated democratic processes show a capacity to catch on very quickly indeed. [More…]
The whole fabric of democratic society in Australia would be undermined if the Senate Opposition succeeded in its objective. [More…]
This is essential at a time when the democratic parliamentary system is under strong challenge in various parts of the world. [More…]
Honourable members should consider this whole issue as a matter of basic principle, which is fundamental for the promotion and preservation of the democratic system. [More…]
Because the Prime Minister of this nation is arrogantly defying a fundamental principle of democratic parliamentary government- the principle that a government denied funds by Parliament should resign and go to the people. [More…]
He would have succeeded in doing so had not the Australian Democratic Labor Party decided not to vote with the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In fact, it will destroy the bulwark that stands against betrayal of the electorate and will destroy the vital democratic principle that government can be held accountable to the people. [More…]
If the Government runs out of money it will be because of the Prime Minister’s obstinate defiance of the processes of our democratic system. [More…]
It is democratic, but now the Prime Minister is making out that it is an evil violation of democracy. [More…]
This man of principle who sees our great democratic processes as a threat to his power, in an effort to save himself financially will drag this nation to the brink of chaos. [More…]
The issue is the power of this House and its ability to govern in a democratic system. [More…]
To do so is to bring the fabric of government- democratic government, popular government, responsible government- into disrepute and disarray. [More…]
That is His Excellency- to find a democratic and constitutional solution to the current crisis which will permit the people of Australia to decide as soon as possible what should be the outcome of the deadlock which developed over supply between the two Houses of Parliament and between the Government and the Opposition parties. [More…]
During the events of 1 1 November- momentous for the Parliament, for the strength and vitality of our democratic institutions, for Australia’s reputation in the worldthe honourable member for Corio emerged as a true and valiant defender of the rights of Parliament. [More…]
You have been in every political party in Australia, including the Communist Party and the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I have always respected certain journalists, and I wish to pay a tribute to Mr Cranston, a forthright journalist, and I wish to pay a tribute to the Canberra Times and to a man named Cavanough for disclosing something that attacks the very roots of our democratic system, and that is graft in politics. [More…]
I was not cynical like many people in this Parliament and outside the parliamentary process who just have no faith whatsoever in Parliament and the democratic system. [More…]
My faith in the parliamentary process and the democratic system was finally shattered by the events prior to and leading up to 1 1 November. [More…]
These are disgraceful things for those who believe in the parliamentary process and the democratic system. [More…]
It is regrettable to see, I believe, and bad for the democratic institution that there is a tendency for the talent of the Party opposite to be represented continually in swinging seats so that when the judgment of the people goes against not necessarily the policy of those men in swinging seats but against the policies of the tired war horses who remain we see, I am afraid, a decimation of talent. [More…]
All the talk in the world about democracy will not make the Parliament or the country democratic. [More…]
If confidence is to be restored in the institution of Parliament and the traditional democratic processes, all the facts should be revealed. [More…]
The Governor-General of this country, in any reasonable, democratic, commensense historical interpretation of the Constitution, has no right to make decisions on his own. [More…]
That little speech was made only 9 months after the 1969 elections, and if the Australian Democratic Labor Party, which was then represented in the Senate, had decided to combine forces with the Australian Labor Party Opposition that year and throw out the Budget, in Mr Whitlam ‘s own words, the Government of that day would have had no alternative but to face the people. [More…]
They resented his blatent flaunting of democratic principles. [More…]
It is enough to say now that every act of this Government must be judged in the light of its record- a record of constitutional violence, of obstruction, of contempt for democratic principles. [More…]
The honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) who is interjecting would do better to look after his Democratic Labor Party mates in Western Australia. [More…]
Money has poured into the Italian Christian Democratic Party. [More…]
The problems created by a security service are some of the most difficult to be faced in any democratic society. [More…]
It is hard in this day and age, when tradition and principle are trampled on with wanton aggression, to place much faith in democratic forms and rules. [More…]
I am confident that you will carry out and exercise that responsibility in the best traditions of those offices that you hold and to preserve the democratic government system under which we live. [More…]
He wishes to participate in his government; he wishes to make sure that the democratic system under which he is governed is a system that enables him to express his views and opinions and to have those views respected by a government which can carry them out. [More…]
I do not know much about the internal workings of the offices of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union but I think it would take a high degree of charity to regard them as anything like the implementation of a proper system of democratic elections. [More…]
It is extremely unlikely that that union’s election of office bearers is conducted on any democratic principles at all. [More…]
Until they have that say we cannot describe the election of those office bearers as a democratic process. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition might well be thankful that his dismissal and overwhelming rejection by the Australian population gave him the time and the frame of mind perhaps to embroider the myth of a social democratic government brought to an untimely end. [More…]
These are the people who try to portray themselves as the great respecters of parliamentary democracy and democratic institutions. [More…]
The architects of this destruction of our democratic institutions are none other than the Press barons of this country. [More…]
The net result of this maniacal Press exercise of power was the dismissal of the democratically elected Labor Government by the Governor-General. [More…]
A new Government was subsequently elected by what we call a democratic election. [More…]
The question I pose is this: Is it really a true exercise of the democratic process when the Press and the media of this country can exercise so much power over the thoughts and actions of people, that the people become as mere putty in the hands of three or four Press barons? [More…]
The forces of ultra conservatism- the extreme right- are as great a threat to the democratic parliamentary institution as are those forces of the extreme left. [More…]
Every fundamental democratic right in Australia has been perverted. [More…]
It does not need great perception to see the potential tragedy of East Timor fulfilled there a dozen times over, with totalitarian economic sinkholes ruled by Soviet catspaws threatening the stability and democratic institutions of their more stable and developing neighbours, both black and white. [More…]
Provided that we do not lose courage in ourselves and the things we have fought for for so long, and provided that we can continue to have faith in our democratic institutions, we shall realise the ideals in which the Liberal Party has always and will always put its trust. [More…]
It was a perfectly democratic system of election. [More…]
I believe it is a serious error on the part of democratic governments to allow the forces of public information to remain under monopoly control in the highly centralised situation such as we find in Australia at the present moment. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has always been a notably democratic, outgoing, free-wheeling organisation which encourages discussion. [More…]
But at least its democratic structure, with the Caucus system and the tentacles which reach into the rest of the community, allows people to participate in it. [More…]
He represents an area that ordinarily has been associated with some of the democratic trends in Australian political history. [More…]
I think that in a modern, democratic and mature society such as ours is or ought to be one House of Parliament with proper protective devices should be adquate. [More…]
It may well be that in a democratic society with a popularly elected Parliament, with both Houses elected on adult suffrage, the issues which were before the Parliament may not have had the right of carriage. [More…]
A government with the slightest respect for free institutions and the rights of members of the Parliament, a government with an ounce of sensitivity to the public’s anxiety on this matter, would at least feel obliged to explain and justify this gross departure from democratic practice, this gross abuse of the law enforcement agencies of the Crown. [More…]
It is not only my colleagues on this side of the House who were members of the Twenty-ninth Parliament and their defeated comrades who resent the dismissal of the Labor Government, every one of us in the Labor movement and every one of the electors who voted for us in times of great economic distress feels an immense rage and despair at the Tories’ fiddling with a parliamentary system that we as democratic socialists held dear and believed could provide a vehicle for social reform. [More…]
I welcome United States use of our facilities- not because I wish to be servile to the United States but because it is in Australia’s national interest and because our 2 countries have democratic and pioneering traditions in common. [More…]
Wider access to all forms of tertiary education, both for school leavers and for those who left school some years earlier, should be encouraged in any genuinely democratic society. [More…]
In certain circumstances there is much to commend the universal provision of such welfare benefits; it is in accord, in my opinion, with the best interests of a democratic society. [More…]
The quality of the democratic process is enhanced to the degree that decisions are based on proper examination of the issues, to the extent that those affected by governmental decisions can be consulted and have a chance to be heard before decisions are taken. [More…]
There are 3 areas in particular in which we have an opportunity to strengthen the democratic process in Australia. [More…]
This is a duty that used to be regarded as fundamental to responsible democratic government. [More…]
This is fundamental to the functioning of our democratic parliamentary institutions. [More…]
Although we share common interests- we are both rich, industrialised, democratic and relatively, in the case of Australia, underdeveloped- we will have our disagreements. [More…]
One can say that both in the Liberal Democratic Party Government of Japan and in this Government there is a weighty rural voice which will, to a certain extent, modify and change the policies and the attitudes of the Governments to each other. [More…]
No government today can regard the future with equanimity- certainly no parliament of a democratic country such as Australia, with its enormous potential to give not only to its own people but also to the world and especially to South East Asia the area which is of such vital importance to the future of our own nation. [More…]
Such public discussion of government policies is welcome to this Government, both as a contribution to the solution of national problems, and as a means of revitalising the democratic processes which are so important to us. [More…]
The Liberal Party platform sets out quite clearly that freedom of expression in the Press, radio and television and freedom from governmental and political interference are fundamental to Liberal beliefs and essential to democratic government. [More…]
Firstly, inherent in the whole of the Governor-General’s Speech is the danger that the vile and anti-democratic occurrences of November 1975 could be repeated at any time in the future should the situation that existed in the Senate at that time exist again. [More…]
We on this side of the House are terribly concerned that the absence of such a comment in this matter means an absence of regard for the very fabric of our democratic forms. [More…]
Surely, if nearly 50 per cent of the people in a democratic country are not only hopeful but also adamant that another constitutional crisis will not occur, then it is reasonable that a government should acknowledge and dispel such fears. [More…]
They welcomed the then Australian Government’s support for the principle that everybody in the world has an equal right, that government should be on a democratic basis and everybody ought to be entitled to participate in that Government. [More…]
Democratic processes cannot be run on that basis. [More…]
History, I am certain, will lay the blame squarely at their door for the damage that they have done to our democratic system. [More…]
The sometimes insidious, sometimes blatant anti-democratic actions of the Labor Government over 3 years should be of great concern to all Australians and must never be forgotten. [More…]
It is the duty of all of us in the coalition parties and all truly democratic people continually to remind Australians of what Labor was attempting to do to and in Australia. [More…]
A major example of its antidemocratic actions was the 2 1 Bills rejected over a period by a small but wise majority of the Senate. [More…]
The Senate’s action in rejecting this legislation started a chain of events which led to the annihilation of the Labor Government at a democratic election. [More…]
Democratic government and democratic freedom as we know them would have been history. [More…]
In essence, it would have been a major threat to civil liberties, a blatant attack on another basicfactor of our democratic society. [More…]
In a last desperate attempt to cover up the bungling and try to evade the real issues the then Prime Minister attempted to confuse the country with the pretence that holding a democratic election represented a threat to democracy. [More…]
Let us face it: What can be more democratic than having an election for both Houses of Parliament? [More…]
Fretilin declared unilateral independence for East Timor, which it calls the Democratic Republic of East Timor, on 28 November. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, the Democratic Labor Party or the National Civic Council? [More…]
My information is that although there is some communist infiltration into Fretilin it is, basically, a strong nationalistic movement comprising people who are determined to gain their independence in an ordinary democratic way. [More…]
I find it very sad that an elected member of this House, representing the independent democratic people of Australia, should deny that same independence, that some democratic right, to our neighbours in Portuguese East Timor, which is only 300 miles from Darwin. [More…]
I do not agree with the politics of the honourable member for Swan- I know he is a former Democratic Labor Party candidate- but that does not give me the right to liquidate him because I do not agree with him. [More…]
The democratic system of this country has reached a very low level if people can be appointed to the Senate by State governments and then have the power to block the supply of finance approved by this House of Representatives a House in which each member is elected by the wishes and the votes of the people of Australia. [More…]
The Governor-General failed to inform the nation why that singular power held by the House of Representatives was allowed to be sidetracked and subverted by an undemocratically elected Senate, a hostile Senate that constitutionally has no power to initiate money Bills or even to amend money Bills. [More…]
Democratic processes were never meant to be run on this basis. [More…]
I remind all political parties that if they wish to have a democratic system in this country the means of achieving power is important. [More…]
Whatever his motivation was for doing what he did on 11 November last, there can be no doubt that he struck a crippling blow at the faith many Australians have in our democratic and parliamentary system. [More…]
We of the Labor Party believe proudly that if a principle is involved- we do believe in a principle of democratic socialism- there are other areas that we have to consider in order to keep people employed and not have a band of unemployed who are treated in this way when their state of unemployment is no fault of their own. [More…]
I think he has been closely associated with the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
I hope that by our efforts and by the publicity that will be generated from the effort we have taken in the Russian situation and other projects that we will undertake in relation to similar situations throughout the world will bring about in genuinely democratic countries and amongst their parliamentarians the same degree of interest as has been fostered in this cause in this Parliament. [More…]
In Canada, for instance, the House Leader of the minority Liberal Government in 1 974 said that the legislation introduced in Canada gave Canada ‘one of the most democratic and open electoral systems in the world’. [More…]
We all saw the advertisements in the late 1950s and early 1960s by the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
When laws are abused or ignored by the people who make them, the whole democratic system is brought into disrepute. [More…]
We will not entertain a Bill of this character, which represents, on the one hand, a singular invasion of the rights of individuals and, on the other hand, the establishment of gross paraphernalia to police it, where the provisions are plainly in contrast to the genuine instinct of a democratic society. [More…]
Australia prides itself on being a democratic nation where everybody has an equal opportunity. [More…]
Oppositions are good for the operation of democratic government. [More…]
This is particularly evident when one considers some of the demographic trends in countries such as the German Democratic Republic which has one of the most heavily industrialised bases in the world. [More…]
There is a view that the imposition of any particular form of election by legislation is in itself some interference with the democratic process. [More…]
The Government’s programs will continue to improve and to provide for the people of this nation, particularly the people of New South Wales, a better way of life, a way of life that they themselves can control, a way of life that will not be directed from Canberra, a way of life that will allow them to exercise their freedom and the democratic right that all thinking people value. [More…]
That democratic right will be demonstrated in the forthcoming election in New South Wales, when the Willis Government will be returned with an outstanding majority. [More…]
There is equivalent legislation in most other democratic countries. [More…]
But it was only one of the weapons that could be used in the democratic process. [More…]
It means nothing more than the rejection of the democratic process in the Parliament. [More…]
I also pledge myself to actively support and advocate at all times the Party’s objective- the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields. [More…]
The members of the Labor Party have never satisfactorily explained how they reconcile that with the democratic process as such. [More…]
Except for the inclusion of the word ‘democratic’ in the pledge- does it really mean what it says- it is very plain. [More…]
I believe that other forces must be involved if the democratic process is to function. [More…]
They certainly should not rely solely on the ballot box every 3 years if they want to have a proper, democratic society. [More…]
Would the Minister agree that peaceful and orderly gatherings of this nature are a true exercise of the democratic process and in marked contrast to the rowdy and violent demonstrations seen in front of this Parliament last year? [More…]
There is a rather comforting democratic theory that Parliament has the power to control the public purse. [More…]
Maybe in the long run there has to be more scrutiny by Parliament as such of policy if its democratic theory of control of the public purse is to have any meaning. [More…]
The quality of the democratic process is enhanced to the degree that decisions are based on proper examination of the issues, to the extent that those affected by governmental decisions can be consulted and have a chance to be heard before decisions are taken. [More…]
In the main they were unions that confidently predicted that they would be able to get from this Government the right to continue with an anti-democratic control of their unions. [More…]
I pay tribute to the very fine work carried out by Mr Joe Riordan in opposing this insidious attempt by NCC agents to persuade Senator James McClelland to defy Labor Party policy and the platform of the Australian Labor Party to bring in this anti-democratic system of controlling union officials. [More…]
The collegiate system is undemocratic. [More…]
But, of course, by the same rule it will lose votes for the Government now that those who voted for it in the belief that they were going to get the democratic direct voice of the rank and file know that they are going to get only an indirect voice and that handfuls of men calling themselves the management committees of unions will elect each other to the most important full time positions at the federal level. [More…]
In my view, this would not cut across our policy proposals in relation to democratic control and supervised ballots and would be in accordance with the policy in connection with fundamental changes to the rules of an organisation. [More…]
Nothing that the Government says again at an election will ever be believed by those people who on this occasion were silly enough to believe that when the Government said it believed in democratic control of trade unions it did believe in it, because the reintroduction of the collegiate system proves beyond all doubt that it does not believe in union democracy. [More…]
Of course, that is his right and his entitlement in a democratic country. [More…]
For efficient operation of democratic government in any country there has to be some sort of active and effective Opposition. [More…]
I said that Parliament was an important weapon but it was only one weapon that could be used in the democratic process. [More…]
But it was only one of the weapons that could be used in the democratic process. [More…]
Parliament was an important weapon in this regard, but it was only one of the weapons that could be used in the democratic process. [More…]
That newspaper said that he was talking about ‘anti-democratic revolution’ and was advocating the first step towards a totalitarian regime. [More…]
Was he saying that between each 3- yearly democratic election we should gather in little groups or big groups, that we should go into the streets, that we should preach violence and revolution, and that we should white-ant - [More…]
I said Parliament was an important weapon but it was only one weapon that could be used in the democratic process. [More…]
I made the point that for at least the two Fridays before the 13th December, trade unionists and progressive people should have marched on the centre of capital cities, sat down and discussed rationally how a democratic government could have been sacked in the manner it was. [More…]
I said that part of the democratic process might need to be only a letter to the editor, a protest to one’s politician, a demonstration or protest to one’s local council on the re-zoning by that council of an area from low density to high density. [More…]
In a democratic society people must be involved and must challenge and rechallenge policy proposals. [More…]
The authority and responsibility which this BUI bestows on the Territory ‘s Legislative Assembly reflects the Government’s confidence in the democratic process and its commitment to the Federal system of government. [More…]
Let me state again on behalf of the Australian Labor Party that, although we promote public enterprise, like other social democrats and democratic socialists everywhere in the world we see this promotion in the context of a mixed economy of private as well as public enterprise. [More…]
Pending a satisfactory process of selfdetermination the Government has recognised neither the so-called Democratic Republic of East Timor nor the so-called Provisional Government of East Timor. [More…]
I will give consideration to the possibility of introducing legislation to ensure that contributors do have a democratic right to elect directors to national health funds. [More…]
The Scandinavians owe their great harmony to their long line of social democratic governments. [More…]
It is our view that in the interests of a democratic nation, it is important that power be distributed, that there be checks and balances. [More…]
We can claim with full justification that our legislation on religious cults comes out as the most humane and democratic in the world. [More…]
I am aware of the fact that the only nation in the Western world which has in any way insulated itself from the slumps, peaks and troughs is Sweden, a country which has a public sector comprising 50 per cent of the work force as against our 30 per cent- a country which thanks to 30 years of a socialist democratic government is collecting the necessary statistics on which to base proper economic policies. [More…]
It was an evolving and democratic process based on involvement in the decision making process. [More…]
It cannot possibly be said that there is a democratic system of control of unions when there is a little circle of friends- a cosy little club- which meet together as a council, which for the. [More…]
The two largest political parties in the world at this very moment are preparing for a collegiate system of voting at the Democratic Convention and at the Republican Convention. [More…]
Australia’s basic interest is in survival as a free and democratic country, a country that can work effectively towards a world in which all people can live in self-respect. [More…]
The aspects of the international situation that give rise to concern are: Firstly, the continued readiness of some states to pursue their interests by the use of force- by the growing influence on the international scene of countries opposed to the freedom and respect for the individual person on which our own democratic system is based. [More…]
In August 1969 the then Liberal Minister for External Affairs Mr Freeth, candidly acknowledged the realities of Soviet naval power and was vilified by his colleagues and the Australian Democratic Labor Party for his pains. [More…]
-I ask for leave of the House to present the report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Austria, Belgium, the European Communities, the European Parliament, Council of Europe, Federal Republic of Germany, Poland and the German Democratic Republic, between 9 and 28 June 1975. [More…]
German Democratic Republic: 50 10 blankets. [More…]
I would hope that as a result of my mentioning this in the House today it may be drawn to the attention of the appropriate Ministers to see whether they can persuade the Cabinet that if a point is important enough to lead to banning- which should be the very last step in a democratic society- then there must be some intermediate or additional point where rational arguments are used to try to prevent people from doing certain things which are considered to be wrong either in their own interests or in the interests of the society. [More…]
We have a number of laws in our normal democratic institutions to prevent crime. [More…]
That was a very democratic thing to do. [More…]
The forces of reaction have severely damaged the spirit of our democratic system- they have shown themselves to be totally unscrupulous, untruthful and unethical in their determination to impede the movement for reform in Australia. [More…]
Neither side, whether it be in the cleavage between Russia and China or in the cleavage between the communists and the democratic world, dare resort to the kind of force that could destroy both it and the people it attacks. [More…]
What the Halfpennys and the Carmichaels are doing is abusing the privileges of the democratic system so that they can destroy that system. [More…]
Most Australians were hoping that a Budget would be brought down that would in some way dim the memory of the blot on the history of our democratic way of life- a Budget that would in some way justify the sacking of a duly elected government. [More…]
The present Prime Minister would do well to try to emulate the fine democratic examples set by Don Dunstan and Neville Wran. [More…]
‘They- the rulers and the interests behind them- have regained power not only by capitalising on the mistakes of the Labour Government, but by systematically twisting the democratic processes to their own ends. [More…]
On 12 August 1974 the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 356(1974) recommending the admission of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau to membership of the United Nations and on 18 August 1975 it adopted similar resolutions, also unanimously, in respect of the Republic of Cape Verde (372 (1975)), the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe (373 (1975)), and the People’s Republic of Mozambique (374 (1975)). [More…]
Albania-(late 1973); Australia-(September 1973); Britain-(December 1975); Bulgaria-(September 1973); Cambodia- (January 1974)t; Colombia- (May 1974); Cuba- (September 1973)t; Czechoslovakia- (September 1973); Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea- (September 1973)t; Democratic Peoples Republic of VietNam (October 1973); German Democratic Republic(September 1973); Hungary-(September 1973); India(October 1974); Italy-(September 1973); Mexico(November 1974); Peoples Republic of the Congo-(late 1973); Poland-(October 1973); Portugal-(April 1975); Provisional Revolutionary Government of Viet-Nam- (October 1973); Sweden-(December 1973); U.S.S.R.(September 1973); Yugoslavia-(September 1973); ZambiaOctober 1973)*. [More…]
I do hope, unlike many honourable members in this House, that the people will in fact involve themselves in the democratic processes of this nation. [More…]
Candidly, I believe that the whole of democratic government in the finish is about equity and fair sharing. [More…]
But the faith of the public in Australia’s democratic system has been undermined by this Government. [More…]
I have not the slightest doubt that the Democratic Labor Party would have got something. [More…]
It is a budget that will wreak on the economy the damage that this Government has already so successfully wrought on the democratic institutions of this nation. [More…]
more and more Australians have become worried about the future of our democratic institutions. [More…]
For a long time our sorts of societies, that is, Western democratic societies, have accepted the principle that those services that are seen as a necessity- services that in short we recognise as social services, such as unemployment and sickness benefits, social welfare payments of all sorts and so on- are not paid for by imposing a fiat rate tax on everybody in the same way as the contributions to the voluntary funds. [More…]
He has embodied and represented the hopes, not only of the United States Government but also of all democratic governments for a relaxation of racial tensions. [More…]
We in the Australian Labor Party, in common with all social democrats or democratic socialistsindeed, in common with many conservatives, too, in other parts of the world- reject that concept. [More…]
The Liberal Democratic Government of Japan comes readily to mind. [More…]
Only by the process of a Joint Sitting following a double dissolution of both Houses of Parliament was this debauchery of democratic processes reefed away from its protagonists- the coalition parties. [More…]
One could not get a more democratic set-up than we have in South Australia. [More…]
Political policy in a democratic community does not depend upon purely economic considerations. [More…]
Each of these 3 legacies I have mentioned of Australian rule- a sound administration, the maintenance of law and order through civil courts and the civil police, and a workable, democratic Parliament- will, with our continued support of Papua New Guinea, help guarantee her stability and that of the surrounding region until well into the future. [More…]
The shallow contribution we have just heard from the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr), the former secretary of the Democratic Labor Party in Western Australia, who now sits in this place as a Liberal, a self-appointed extremistalthough I must confess that I think there are many sitting around him who are in the same camp- with his emphasis on force, on blood and iron I think was one of the expressions he used, changes nothing. [More…]
If the situation should emerge in the future that the majority of Australians want the powers of his office clarified, reduced or even increased, let it be decided by the correct democratic means- that is, informed debate and consequent referenda proposals. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will adopt the more democratic electoral system we have in Canberra for the Northern Territory. [More…]
I think that a comparison of the Australian Capital Territory operation and the Northern Territory operation provides a good demonstration of the difficulties of singlemember constituencies in trying to arrive at a democratically elected structure. [More…]
We would then not have the present situation of the defaulters themselves virtually appointing a trustee, running a set of circumstances called a democratic meeting and leaving people not at all happy with the results, not even being able to vote in the way they would like to vote. [More…]
The seed that we sow today in our democratic society will bear fruit tomorrow in whatever society we may then have. [More…]
We think that in order to safeguard a free, democratic country it is essential that the legislative responsibilitythe power to make law- should be divided among a number of authorities. [More…]
I do so on the basic principle that it represents a more democratic approach. [More…]
By having a democratic approach to this matter it can be taken back to the rank and file, to the grass roots of local government elections, and this will give this proposed body greater strength. [More…]
Let us determine this matter in a democratic way. [More…]
I ask the Committee to support the rational and democratic proposition which has been put forward by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
We trebled the funds for grants and we set up the machinery to disburse them in the most democratic and efficient manner. [More…]
The democratic experiment in Thailand has hardly had a chance to work. [More…]
They were feeling their way into a democratic system. [More…]
I hope that a restoration of proper democracy can take place very quickly otherwise I fear, as I am sure will any honourable member who thinks about it, that the opportunity for a restoration of democratic government will be gone for ever. [More…]
Too few democratic governments survive in the world. [More…]
It seemed to me, at the time we visited the country, that Thailand had a democratic form of government with a real chance of success in confronting real problems. [More…]
It is also the view expressed in the Democratic Party’s platform which was published even later on 13 July. [More…]
The Democratic Party’s platform, which echoes a certain degree of commonality of view in the United States of America, stated: [More…]
-by leave-I present the report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Austria, Belgium, the European Communities, the European Parliament, Council of Europe, Federal Republic of Germany, Poland and the German Democratic Republic, between 9 and 28 June 1975, in substitution for the report presented on 3 June 1976. [More…]
It is very interesting to note that there is greater equality of income distribution in Australia than there is in most of the communist countries in Eastern Europe, and they are countries where there have been great sacrifices of individual liberties in pursuit of an egalitarianism which cannot be matched by that achieved in a democratic system such as our own. [More…]
I think that where socialists are in command of government there is a far greater intrusion of politics into scientific programs than in countries which are generally accepted by definition as democratic nations. [More…]
The capacity to communicate across the continent and throughout society is very important in a democratic society. [More…]
The bases of this Government’s policies are our rejection of the use of force as a proper means of solving international problems; our belief in the democratic process and the rights of people to determine their own institutions; and our deep concern for the welfare of the underprivileged anywhere in the world. [More…]
But the peace concept had little chance of surviving when the situation was legalised to the extent that there were to be full and democratic elections in South Vietnam. [More…]
All the Presidents since 1968 have been from the Republican Party and during all that time- I cannot recall the exact details- they have faced both a Senate and a House of Representatives controlled by the Democratic Party. [More…]
If the Republican Party nominee were to win the presidency, I believe the net result of this would be a Republican President and a Democratic House of Representatives and Senate. [More…]
But he is now the endorsed Democratic Party candidate and I put to honourable memberseven those who normally would feel a greater affinity towards the Republican side of politics in the United States as I suppose most honourable members on the Government side do- that the most essential impact of American politics, so far as Australia is concerned, will take place if we have an effective United States in foreign affairs. [More…]
The community of Australia is interested in these affairs and in this democratic institution. [More…]
It is part of the democratic process. [More…]
All members of the Parliament are, I am sure, committed to democratic control of trade unions and employer organisations. [More…]
The cornerstone of democratic control is membership participation. [More…]
The fact is, however, that direct election is not, in all situations, a guarantee of proper democratic control. [More…]
Twenty years ago in Hungary the people of that country tried democratically to change a system. [More…]
The people of Australia were given that democratic right to vote. [More…]
I ask: Will the Prime Minister assure the House that the Government accepts the Commission’s recommendations that there should be ample time for public consideration of the report and for debate upon it and that no decision should be taken on the report until there has been an opportunity for the usual democratic processes to function, including parliamentary debate? [More…]
But they do not have, nor should they have, any God-given right, or even a right conferred by the Leader of the Opposition, to usurp the democratic process and to take away the proper role of Parliament. [More…]
I ask: On what other occasions has the Prime Minister sent messages of congratulation to persons achieving positions of leadership in, firstly, foreign communist parties and, secondly, foreign democratic parties? [More…]
There is, of course, a very real tendency for the ruling classes in many of these countries, regardless of whether they be there by the democratic process or by force of arms, to take the view that having achieved power, the object of the exercise is to maintain it regardless of how the people under them are expected to live. [More…]
It does so because it believes that they run counter to the effective and democratic operation and control of organisations. [More…]
I believe, Mr Atwell, that we were opposed to Labor in any of its forms, be it Democratic Labor, Socialist Labor or communist cum Labor and if I am wrong in my acceptance of this belief would you please inform me. [More…]
In our opinion, it does not accord in any way with the principle of democratic control of unions. [More…]
What this Government is doing now is reversing that legislation and allowing the undemocratic appointment procedure to be continued. [More…]
What a contrast this creates with the Government’s assertions during last year’s election campaign that it would provide for the democratic control of unions. [More…]
This Government’s action in moving to retain that system makes a mockery of its high sounding rhetoric about its determination to ensure democratic control of unions. [More…]
I believe that this Bill, as framed by the Minister, does provide that framework within which the rank and file worker can exercise his democratic vote, where he can control his union and where the small States and workers from the small States are given an adequate representation without being dominated by the bulk of membership from the larger States. [More…]
That union -certainly in Victoria and I believe also federally- is not the most democratic organisation in Australia. [More…]
All members of the Parliament are, I am sure, committed to democratic control of trade unions and employer organisations. [More…]
The cornerstone of democratic control is membership participation. [More…]
The fact is, however, that direct election is not, in all situations, a guarantee of proper democratic control. [More…]
The contents of this Bill revolve purely and simply around the whole question of whether there is to be democratic election of people in trade unions. [More…]
I make the point that no one system of union elections, whether it be by direct ballot of all members or by a collegiate system, in itself guarantees democratic control of that union. [More…]
A collegiate system with adequate safeguards contained in it would allow such unions to have a more democratic system of election of union officials than would a direct system. [More…]
The honourable member for St George made great play about the collegiate system being very democratic. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth: That whereas the Democratic control of organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is essential to a sound system of industrial relations; and whereas Democratic control can only be guaranteed by the opportunity for all rank and file members of organisations to vote in elections for all officials and all Committees of Management and whereas some forces within the Trade Union movement are attempting to deny rank and file members the right to vote in all Union elections;- [More…]
He left the Democratic Labor Party 6 months before the last election. [More…]
The political position of those 2 trade union secretaries is closer to the Liberal and National Country Parties and the Australian Democratic Labor Party than it is to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
There cannot be a more sensible and more democratic system for those trade unions which prefer that method of operation. [More…]
It is quite plain to us on this side of the House what is necessary to guarantee a proper, democratic system in the trade union movement, and that is what we have done. [More…]
That was perpetrated by members of the Democratic Labor Party, a former member of which now sits on the Government benches. [More…]
That was a democratic process. [More…]
That is as democratic a process as one will see. [More…]
First, it gives me great pleasure, having spoken the week before last in support of the Democratic Party candidate for the American presidency, to say that it appears at this stage that - [More…]
I think that the key global elements of that agenda, using the terminology of the Carter team- do not ask me to spell it all out extensively in the time available for questions without notice, or in any order of priorityare, firstly, a cooler hard-headed approach to the Soviet Union; secondly, a stress on reducing the proliferation of nuclear weapons; thirdly, the building up of core alliances with democratic countries, which Mr Carter describes as a democratic concert and in which he includes quite specifically, Australia; fourthly, greater stress, to use his terminology, on global issues, and in particular the north-south dialogue; and finally, and this is by no means unimportant, the belief that there is a need to get a firm domestic base for his foreign policies by making these policies reflect, as he puts it, the moral values of the American people. [More…]
So far as Australia is concerned, both the stress on the democratic concert and the stress on the global problems are important and are likely to give us salients in our discussions with the United States. [More…]
I believe I am correct in saying that all political parties represented in this House would agree that diversity of opinion is an essential prerequisite of a democratic society. [More…]
If the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) subscribes to the principle of freedom of speech, why is he bringing forward a Bill designed to exclude certain sections and interest groups in the community from their democratic right to have access to one particular form of media outlet? [More…]
Honourable members opposite would socialise with their unification the human and the physical resources of this country because they believe it is the trendy democratic socialist thing to do. [More…]
But not even the great German democratic socialist, Willie Brandt, for whom the Leader of the Opposition has such great respect, supports this outdated and inept view of centralism. [More…]
The ALP would be better advised to follow the role that its trendy democratic socialist trendy friends in Germany have adopted. [More…]
Our friend, the former State secretary of the Austraiian Democratic Labor Party up until 3 years ago ought to know about the DLP in Western Australia. [More…]
The way to end the argument is not the traditional Democratic Labor Party way of saying that people should not have the right to speak. [More…]
Let me remind the Leader of the Opposition and his colleagues behind him that the Liberal Party platform sets out quite clearly that freedom of expression in the Press, radio and television and freedom from governmental and political interference are fundamental to Liberal beliefs and essential to democratic government. [More…]
We therefore recommend that no decision be taken in relation to the foregoing matters until a reasonable time has elapsed and there has been an opportunity for the usual democratic processes to function, including, in this respect, parliamentary debate. [More…]
He would have tried to force a double dissolution if he had been able to obtain concurrence in his proposed action from the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
This is a serious situation, and I believe that to an extent the seriousness is compounded by the fact that this kind of action, selectively directed against the media, can impose a kind of censorship in Australia which is utterly alien to our democratic system of government and it ought not to be tolerated. [More…]
So if I speak on Grievance Day it is not because we grieve for the Labor Government or grieve for ourselves, but because we grieve for the hopes of millions of Australians who supported us, millions who believed that the system of government we profess to uphold offered them some hope, some fair chance of participation in the democratic process. [More…]
We grieve for the damage done to the democratic system and for the lost faith of those who believed in it. [More…]
The first is that the Labor Government on 1 1 November was not without Supply; the second is that whatever the force of convention in these matters, the view that the Senate is a democratic House comparable with the House of Representatives can never be sustained. [More…]
It will continue until we return to honesty and decency in government; until the rules of our democratic system are restored and upheld; until the Australian people reelect a government that stands once again for progress, humanity and justice, a Labor Government. [More…]
Let me make it very clear that from the point of view of democracy the Whitlam Government was denied its democratic right to remain in office for 3 years. [More…]
Federalism should not be an end in itself but a means to a greater end, namely the maximisation of opportunities of democratic participation and accountability. [More…]
I do not have to argue whether it would be better or not; I merely say that on democratic grounds in May 1967 in the one referendum in the whole history of this country which one could say was really carried, because it was carried in every polling place, the Australian people expressed the opinion that the national Parliament was the proper Parliament to handle Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
Rogerio Lobarto, the Minister for National Defence, and Mari Alkatiri, the Minister for Political Affairs, of the Democratic Republic of East Timor have been refused entry visas into Australia. [More…]
Arab Republic of Egypt (Cairo), Republic of the Argentine (Buenos Aires), Republic of Austria (Vienna), Bahrain, Belgium- Mission to the European Economic Community (Brussels), United States of Brazil (Sao Paulo), Britain (London and Manchester), Canada (Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver), People’s Republic of China (Peking), Fiji (Suva), Republic of France (Paris), German Democratic Republic (Berlin), Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn and Hamburg), Hellenic Republic (Athens), Hong Kong, India (New Delhi), Republic of Indonesia (Jakarta), Iran (Tehran), Iraq (Baghdad), Israel (Tel Aviv), Republic of Italy (Rome and Milan), Japan (Tokyo and Osaka), Kenya (Nairobi), Republic of Korea (Seoul), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Republic of Mexico (Mexico City), Kingdom ofthe Netherlands (The Hague), New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch), Nigeria (Lagos), Pakistan (Karachi), Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby), Peru (Lima), Republic of the Philippines (Manila), Poland (Warsaw), Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Singapore, Republic of South Africa (Johannesburg), Spain (Madrid), Sweden (Stockholm), Switzerland (Berne and Geneva), Thailand (Bangkok), Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain), Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Moscow), United States of America (Washington, New York, Chicago and San Francisco), Yugoslavia (Belgrade). [More…]
Given the complexity of modern democratic government, and the comparatively short term which Commonwealth governments are allowed between elections, it is crucial that there should be more orderly and effective scheduling of Government business through the various stages of research, objective setting and policy formulation, program design and the evaluation of program effectiveness. [More…]
Honourable members of this Parliament represent one of the few parliamentary institutions in the world that is basically democratic in its processes and democratic in its elections. [More…]
Up to 3 years ago the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) was State secretary of the Democratic Labor Party in Western Australia, Mr Santamaria ‘s party. [More…]
Finally, of course, in 1956, at the appropriate time- I point out that I know that branch very well; I lived only 4 miles from it and therefore I know its history- that branch split and joined the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
Then he went to the Democratic Labor Party and now he in the Liberal Party. [More…]
I think it undesirable that any person in a democratic society be denied that basic right. [More…]
We live in a democratic system but it is our way of life that these people are hell bent to destroy. [More…]
The forces which are advocating this course of action are working against our democratic way of life in Australia. [More…]
Articles in the Western Press have reported the construction of a new barrier on the border between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). [More…]
I would regard that as one of the democratic operations which a society such as ours ought to accept. [More…]
What about the millions of people in Australia who do not belong to trade unions but who dutifully live by the democratic system which they understand and which they respect? [More…]
May I remind those who wish to destroy our democratic system of government that a democracy must exist on a consensus. [More…]
A government cannot effectively carry out what is required of it by the law and by the traditions of the parliamentary system if a small group of people are encouraged to believe that they can usurp power outside the democratic process. [More…]
How could anyone believe that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is democratic when 1.1 per cent of the membership of approximately 180 000 can elect the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary? [More…]
I question their right to speak when so many of them have not been elected by an acceptable democratic process. [More…]
In favour Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Yemen, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Holy See, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Republic, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia. [More…]
No democratic socialist could argue otherwise. [More…]
I believe most of them and most Australians are fed up with the disruptive tactics of a few who are not supporters of the democratic system in this country in many cases. [More…]
A. D., as Ambassador to the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria; and to Tunisia [More…]
Carter’s appointment of his Cabinet has been criticised by some but it does appear to be a significant attempt to draw together the full coalition of interests within the Democratic Party. [More…]
In a democratic society no one should, in our view, be able to hold power indefinitely without being subject to automatic re-appraisal. [More…]
It is that this Bill strikes at a basic democratic aspect of our government and our Parliament in the handing over of power from the Parliament to public servants- at the handing over of power from elected people, people who are subject to recall, to people who are appointed. [More…]
I think the Coombs arrangements would have been much more desirable and much more democratic. [More…]
However, and unhappily- I think unhappily for good democratic government- we have allowed the position to become a total authority, particularly on the other side. [More…]
In a democratic country such as ours where voting is compulsory everybody is political. [More…]
What is involved is a basic democratic right. [More…]
The honourable member for Chifley, from the fancies of his mind, claimed that I had been a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
None of the Bills deals with the structure of State legislatures, although in respect to democratic safeguards their constitutions except possibly South Australia and in one respect- terms of office- N.S.W. [More…]
It is a necessary part of our democratic way. [More…]
In 1974 the Australian Labor Party Government submitted that question along with 3 others- the mode of altering the Constitution to which I referred a moment ago, democratic elections and local government questionsto the people at the same time. [More…]
I appeal to all voting Australians to support this move to see that their fellow citizens in the Territories are given the right to vote in referenda so that they can exercise the same democratic rights as all other voting citizens and express their points of view of issues which concern them as much as they concern other citizens of the Commonwealth. [More…]
For example, in the case of a Labor Party senator changing his Party affiliations, as did many Labor Party members in previous years who joined other parties such as the Democratic Labor Party, we would be courting a dangerous situation if we had to ensure that a casual vacancy was filled by a person of the Party to which the departing senator belonged at the time of the election. [More…]
We live under the most undemocratic constitutional document probably in existence. [More…]
I believe that our Constitution is the most undemocratic constitutional document. [More…]
I invite honourable members opposite to go to the Library and find some other person anywhere in a democratic society who has that authority. [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Party’s formidable campaign defeated the referendum. [More…]
Trade unions are democratic organisations, not like the political party to which the honourable member belongs and not like the other functions with which he associates. [More…]
If the Government is going to take that right away from people- the Government is making a very strong attack on that in this Bill- it will strike at the very basis of a free and democratic society. [More…]
The honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) talked at great length about the trade unions being democratic. [More…]
Surely, with a complex Bill such as this, that is the least we should expect under a democratic system of government. [More…]
There are magnitudes of power and minitudes of power and some difficulties in a democratic system. [More…]
The democratic process also requires that the [More…]
Those sorts of things are proper compensation, but no single member can get up here and argue that that is a democratic principle. [More…]
That sort of situation in a democratic country such as Australia should not be tolerated. [More…]
The basis of this electoral legislation is the heart of the democratic process. [More…]
It can be effective and democratic only if it ensures a fair, open and representative system which translates the genuine wishes of electors into parliamentary voices. [More…]
Right here and now, I state clearly that the amendments proposed in this Bill are such that the process will be democratic. [More…]
I think it is necessary to remind honourable members opposite of the meaning of the word ‘democratic’. [More…]
Surely this legislation which has been brought forth is in fact democratic. [More…]
All I can say to that is that our system is democratic and, in this Jubilee year, might I say that I hope it will endure as a system of consititutional monarchy for a long time. [More…]
But it will survive only if we maintain and enhance its democratic values at a time when democratic values and the things which accompany them such as human rights and civil liberties are disappearing extremely quickly around the globe. [More…]
From memory, only about 25 of the 140-odd individual independent nations of the world are exceptionally democratic with independent parliaments and with judiciaries. [More…]
There are 115 or so regimes which need a strong democratic example such as we have in Australia. [More…]
This Bill helps to give to this country a strong democratic representation in this place. [More…]
It ought to be one of the simplest things in the world to draw up a democratic process that is acceptable to all the people on both sides of this House. [More…]
What happens if there should be an autocratic, authoritarian government which decides that it will lose the next election, whips through a redistribution and stops what we call the democratic process. [More…]
It has been done in Western Australia, Victoria and most of the other States barring Tasmania, which has the one truly democratic State Legislative Assembly because it has a proportional representation system. [More…]
All I ask in this democratic country is that if a party obtains the majority vote, it be in government. [More…]
It first went to the people and some Democratic Labor Party and independent senators conducted a quite dishonest campaign amongst the people of Australia, saying that the Government was trying to increase the numbers of members of Parliament. [More…]
Not the least of the kind remarks he made was the comment that Tasmania is a truly democratic State. [More…]
It is in the spirit, not only of being a Liberal but also as one who believes in the democratic process, that I congratulate the Government on the introduction of these electoral measures. [More…]
They are, in my submission, good legislation, fair legislation and, above all, democratic legislation. [More…]
But I hope that men of goodwill on both sides of this House will have come to the conclusion that the sorts of amendment proposals which are now before the chamber are fair and appropriate in the democratic parliamentary system that we have in this country in 1977. [More…]
The sooner we can get electoral redistribution away from the political scene and out of the hands of politicians so that the public will see that it is not being done for the purpose of gerrymandering or arranging electoral advantage, but that it is for the purpose of achieving fair and democratic representation for all Australians, the sooner the standing of this Parliament will be greatly enhanced in the eyes of the community. [More…]
In my respectful submission, it contemporises population movements in Australia with the electorate and with the democratic process. [More…]
At the same time, equality of political rights is inherent in a truly democratic State . [More…]
Using a rough rule of thumb, I do not believe that that variation from the quota is so bad that people could say that Tasmania received such fair or preferential treatment that it distorts the democratic process. [More…]
I want the honourable member for Sydney to know that I welcome the democratic process. [More…]
I say to the honourable member for Sydney that I am not frightened of the democratic process and I will not directly involve myself in what boundaries are applicable when the House of Representatives next goes to the people. [More…]
Overall the 3 Bills are fair, just and, above all, democratic. [More…]
At the same rime equality of political rights is inherent in a true democratic state and the electoral system must not be used to benefit a particular Party and disadvantage the people. [More…]
My view about that is to this effect: In a democratic state the reservation of this power to a GovernorGeneral who has shown that he does not operate on the advice of his Ministers is a reservation of power which this Parliament should not allow. [More…]
It is as plain as a pikestaff that if we have to reach that situation where an election at large is held we will see a first-class shemozzle in this country which will make a mockery of the democratic processes. [More…]
We have heard ad nauseam in the 2 1 years I have been a member of this place the case made out by the Country Party against proper democratic political representation. [More…]
This Bill is again another mangling of the many efforts to try to make Australian political representation democratic. [More…]
We recognise the fact that we are cornered inside the Constitution and can only, as near as practicable, make redistributions democratic inside each State. [More…]
We do not gain anything for the Parliament by suggesting otherwise, or by suggesting that we should have some principle which departs from the democratic principle. [More…]
Obviously it is unthinkable that in a democracy we should not put into our legislation the basic steps by which the democratic process will come into operation. [More…]
To this end it recommended that no decision be taken in relation to its other recommendations until a reasonable time has elapsed and there has been an opportunity for the usual democratic processes to function, including, in this respect, parliamentary debate. [More…]
The Constitution is undemocratic. [More…]
It is contrary to democratic principles on which a country such as Australia should be able to say its Constitution rests. [More…]
We are failing the Australian people because we are not giving them the opportunity of stable government or government of a democratic institutional nature. [More…]
I am happy to see that provision as a democratic protective device. [More…]
I briefly remind honourable members of the democratic threats that lie within the Constitution. [More…]
Until we resolve the question of the supremacy and the power of this Parliament there can be no continuing stability in our democratic institutions. [More…]
This arrangement will not help the democratic process in this Parliament either. [More…]
We had a situation in which the 2 Houses of Congress were quite strongly controlled by the Democratic Party. [More…]
If China and the Soviet Union had a common policy, as they did up till about 1958, 1 think that it would be extremely difficult for the United States and for countries associated with the United Statesthe democratic countries of the world- to stand up to pressure from the 2 communist super powers. [More…]
One of the points I would like to make in connection with Indonesia is this: There seems to be the feeling among people whose general attitudes in Australian politics I strongly support that the alternative to the present type of government in Indonesia is in the broadest sense a left type of government, whether we consider it hopefully from our point of view a social democratic type of government, a socialist government or even a government controlled by the Communist Party of Indonesia. [More…]
The present right wing military Government in Indonesia is one which obviously does not hold the democratic attitudes that we would expect in any Australian government. [More…]
Reports of mass, indiscriminate killings have now come to Australia from Fretilin, which alleged that the Indonesians were ‘massacring’ the population and from Chinese sources, including from Taiwan, which claimed that the Chinese minority in East Timor bore the brunt of much of the indiscriminate killing in the territory from Timor Democratic Union- UDT- refugees in Portugal, many of whom claim actually to have witnessed atrocities of a disturbing kind. [More…]
In August 1968, when the Dubcek Government in Prague appeared to be engaged in policies inconsistent with the policies of Moscow, the result was that Warsaw Pact forces, including those of the U.S.S.R., by invasion of Czechoslovakia, caused a change in personnel in the government in Prague and caused a change in the minds of those who felt that they might indulge in policies more consistent with democratic freedom. [More…]
As Bob Hawke has said: ‘How bloody democratic can you get?’ [More…]
One cannot say that democracy is the same in all of those countries which profess to be democratic. [More…]
So long as we remain committed to the mainstream of western democratic ideals we can never underestimate our power to have influence and effect in that alliance. [More…]
He told us that in the States there are circumstances which he would regard as undemocratic. [More…]
Historically speaking, I think there is little doubt that State governments, whether non-Labor or Labor, have left something to be desired when it comes to creating democratic electoral systems. [More…]
This situation is not only democratically defensible but is a democratic and a known democratic system. [More…]
The Don Dunstan Government has created a situation which is, on the face of it, democratic, but which, on close examination, turns out to be as undemocratic as one could get. [More…]
There is nothing in any way democratic about that sort of proposition. [More…]
The Government certainly believes in the basic democratic proposition that one vote equals one value. [More…]
The approach of the Government is entirely fair and democratic. [More…]
Our approach takes account of distance but does not treat the demands of distance as an excuse to introduce an unfair or undemocratic electoral system. [More…]
Labor’s move would at one stroke have made democratic elections impossible in Australia. [More…]
Labor sought at that time to enshrine itself in office at the expense of our democratic electoral system. [More…]
Nothing in democratic theory has ever supported Labor’s approach. [More…]
No respectable democratic theorist has ever put the sort of proposition that led the recent Labor Government to seek to change the Constitution to bring about that result. [More…]
Members of the Opposition have the hide to come into this House and talk about electoral gerrymanders when in their time in office they sought to destroy the very democratic basis of the electoral system which-we heard the words from the honourable member for Port Adelaide- is based on the proposition that one vote has one value. [More…]
Down through the years the Australian electoral system at the national level has been regarded as fair, just and democratic. [More…]
A National Country Party has perfected this outrage on democratic principles. [More…]
In 1974 the Australian people were given an opportunity by this Parliament to establish certain basic democratic principles about the conduct of elections and about the definition of electorate boundaries in this country. [More…]
The propositions for democratic elections in that 1974 Constitution alteration proposal were very simple. [More…]
The Minister has sought to set up some sort of diversionary tactic by arguing with mild emotion that there is something inherently wrong and anti-democratic in having electorates which represent people. [More…]
They have shirked their responsibilities to minority groups who have rights also in a democratic community. [More…]
Of course it is a plot to destroy a number of Liberal seats as part of the punitive raid against the Liberal Party because it is to contest seats quite properly according to democratic practices and principles held by National Party people. [More…]
It was our Constitution which forced the Governor-General to take the decision he took- to allow every free man and woman of sane mind an opportunity to decide that issue by way of a democratic election. [More…]
These regulations reflect the Government’s firm belief that an informed membership is essential to the democratic control of industrial organisations. [More…]
Members can participate fully in the affairs of their organisation only if they are fully informed about them so that they are able to act in a constructive and democratic way. [More…]
The regulations are a further step in implementing our policy of encouraging representative industrial organisation, composed of members who are informed about their affairs and operating democratically to further the legitimate industrial interests of all those who might benefit. [More…]
I refer to 3 countries- Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic and Hungary. [More…]
The German Democratic Republic has halted a slide in the birth rate which has been going on for some decades and Hungary, under the advice of Professor Sauvy who is quoted with some approbation in this report to which I referred and with whom I have spoken in Paris about this, has increased her birth rate from 14.7 to 18.4 per thousand. [More…]
It is a simple matter of economics that if we as democratic people ignore the plight of those who are less fortunate than ourselves someone else will take our place and fill the vacuum. [More…]
His attachment to democratic principle is of course well known. [More…]
Let us contrast that kind of behaviour from a Minister for Administrative Services with the principled support for the propositions by the Labor Party which does not seek such short term political advantage but which exhibits in this House and in the other place a constant attachment to democratic principles. [More…]
Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Sudan, Turkey, United States. [More…]
Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Chad, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, Ghana, India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kuwait, Netherland, Oman, Qatar, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, Yugoslavia. [More…]
Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Finland, Iran, Japan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Switzerland, Tunisia, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, Yugoslavia. [More…]
The people of the Territories have been able to exercise their democratic rights and elect people to this Parliament to represent them. [More…]
We are spending millions of dollars on presenting a case suggesting that the people of the Territories are to get democratic rights but these rights perhaps will be denied by judicial interpretation. [More…]
What about the lack of democratic principles applying to representation within those States? [More…]
They seek to use that sort of ‘democratic’ principle to say by way of interpretation that other Australians will not have any representation and, not only that, but also no right at all to vote. [More…]
-It is with pleasure that I follow the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) who has put forward arguments defending democratic representation for the Territories. [More…]
I believe in the democratic system and, therefore, I believe in the role of the High Court and in the right of people to test propositions before that Court. [More…]
Those people came to Australia because they understood that it was a democratic country, that it was a country that would go ahead and would look after the rights of individuals. [More…]
How strange it must now seem to those tens of thousands of people in Canberra to find that other Australians are telling them that those democratic principles which we held out to them before they decided to come to Australia do not really operate if they live in Canberra. [More…]
A Yes vote in the coming referendum would give the people in the Territories the same democratic rights as have other people in Australia. [More…]
I find it really hard to believe that, after responsible government has been in existence for so long in this country and after the democratic battles of the past, which went on for so long in this country and in other countries, we now have to start all over again and start fighting for the same basic democratic rights involving something like 300 000 Australian citizens. [More…]
All democrats in this House- I think there are one or two on the other side as well- should be prepared to stand up for the basic democratic principle of freedom of association which is under attack by this left wing group of academics and their associates. [More…]
Those amendments, it will be recalled, were designed to encourage greater participation by individual members in union elections and, therefore, more democratic control of those organisations. [More…]
-As a democratic socialist all my thinking life, to me there are 2 depressing aspects of some who call themselves socialists. [More…]
I conclude by saying that this venom is brought about by the frustration of honourable members on the other side of the House at the introduction of full democratic government in South Australia. [More…]
Labor has always seen the need for a healthy private sector working in harmony with democratic governments and an enlightened trade union movement. [More…]
Labor has always seen the need for a healthy private sector working in harmony with democratic governments and an enlightened trade union movement. [More…]
Labor also needs funds to enable it to play an effective part in a democratic two-party system, at election time and between elections. [More…]
It has always been the view of this Government and of these parties that democratic opposition must operate within the parliamentary forum in the proper democratic manner. [More…]
We believe very strongly that the proper democratic forum- that is, the election of people at elections- is the way in which to see who ought to govern and the nature of the opposition itself. [More…]
The suspension of Standing Orders in these circumstances to allow this procedure is important to the democratic process. [More…]
I suggest that that statement is most likely the narrowest interpretation of the rights of individuals in a democratic society ever made by any person supposedly holding a responsible office. [More…]
In a democratic society governments are elected and, depending upon their maintenance of a majority in the Parliament, they govern. [More…]
That is a right which must exist and one which the democratic process is dependent upon. [More…]
He said that it has always been the view of his Government and the Government Parties that democratic opposition must operate within the parliamentary forum in the proper democratic manner, that his Government does not believe that politics ought to be taken to the streets, as do quite a number of people on the Opposition benches of the House and as they practised on a previous occasion, and that the Government believes very strongly that the proper democratic forum- that is, the election of people at elections- is the way in which to see who ought to govern and the nature of the opposition itself. [More…]
It is a serious question the consequences of which would be the total destruction of the democratic way of life that we at least believe we enjoy. [More…]
The people involved with it say that this country cannot progress in a democratic fashion with the present Liberal Party, National Country Party and Labor Party in the Parliament. [More…]
These people are denied a democratic right accorded to other Australians and they should no longer be denied that right. [More…]
To ignore the evidence would be to condone, and in the long run to encourage, a threat to civil liberties in this country which no democratic government could tolerate. [More…]
The West Point shopping centre in Blacktown, an area where people earn their living; where they work for their living, unlike some of the people represented by the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr), unlike some of the people from the Democratic Labour Party. [More…]
For God ‘s sake, Mr Deputy Speaker, first of all get rid of the Democratic Labor Party out of your own Party. [More…]
On the whole those who have supported these political strikes have shown themselves to be the enemies of democratic processes. [More…]
These people have no desire to make the present democratic system work. [More…]
Political strikes constitute an attack on both the institution of trade unions as well as the democratic method of government. [More…]
It is a step that must be taken to defend our liberal democratic institutions. [More…]
We think that is a very important democratic way of saying that the Parliament itself is not going to be supreme in all of its actions and where there are administrative determinations and decisions, as there have to be in the normal course of events, rights will be given to people in certain circumstances to say as citizens that they object to those determinations and decisions. [More…]
In the near future, when the legislation is passed, Australia will be in the forefront of democratic countries in regard to administrative appeals or reviews. [More…]
Mr Agee told the Australian Broadcasting Commission that he had no doubt that an Australian social democratic government ‘which shows a certain independence’ would be undermined by the CIA. [More…]
The hitherto politically fettered fist of legislative power must smash these criminal exploiters of our society, these uppity gangsters who make puppets of our judiciary and our parliaments and who are riding high on a national crime wave which may very soon engulf us so thoroughly that we will never again be able to argue effectively that great democratic philosophy that the greatest good for the greatest number must prevail in the end. [More…]
I firmly believe that it is the right of every student and every person living in this democratic society to be able to pursue beliefs and interests providing they do not affect the interests of others. [More…]
In the budget for this financial year the AUS has declared its support for the creation of a socialist Australian society in terms of democratic institutions. [More…]
This need is recognised by all people who hold moderate democratic views, both Labor and Liberal. [More…]
So I guess there is very little hope that the South Australian Government will initiate any reforms in South Australia to ensure that AUS becomes more democratic and more representative of the great bulk of students. [More…]
While I am on my feet, I should like to say to the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) that he acknowledges that one of the fundamental rights in our community today is the protection of the individual, and I am sure he will agree with me that one of the fundamentals of our democratic system is the right of free choice. [More…]
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and other Matter, 1972: Afghanistan, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, German Democratic Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Jordan, Kenya, Libyan Arab Republic, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Yugoslavia, Zaire. [More…]
I am surprised by the Government’s attitude because I regard the Minister as being reasonably democratic in most things. [More…]
However, he has not applied such a democratic process in respect of this matter. [More…]
If the Western economies do not find a solution, they will not for very long survive as democratic communities. [More…]
I believe that despite this sort of zeal for what is called private enterprise versus public enterprise- if that is the termincreasingly the sort of things that are demanded in a democratic society call for relatively more expenditure at the public level and relatively less expenditure in the other arena. [More…]
The publication and distribution of a booklet entitled The Little Red Book for Social Change describing methods of attacking the democratic Australian society by violence and sabotage and enclosing target lists of prominent persons and premises in Australia. [More…]
By all means, we should discuss matters of public importance in the Parliament which can be dealt with on a democratic basis. [More…]
I think that in a democratic system the Opposition has an obligation to try to improve the running of government. [More…]
Australia has a moral responsibility to continue to support the survival of Israel- a small state with a democratic tradition. [More…]
One of the matters of particular concern about which the article comments is the long radioactive life of the nuclear waste left after the plutonium has been burned in the reactor and the dangers to a free democratic society posed by the substantial presence of plutonium, which is also the raw material for nuclear weapons. [More…]
This is a very charming proposition but I would like to point out that the only people who could be influenced by such moral suasion are people in countries which are governed by the democratic process where the voice of the people can be heard. [More…]
It increases independence from fossil fuels of a rival group of, say, totalitarian nations over democratic nations. [More…]
Will the Government acknowledge the presence of the States and their unique place in Australia’s democratic system (a) by changing the phrase to read ‘This Australian note is legal tender throughout the Commonwealth and its territories’ or something appropriately similar and (b) by a more prominent display of the words ‘Commonwealth of Australia ‘ standing alone as at present. [More…]
Did he say in answer to a question on 26 April 1977 that it has always been the view of his Government and of the Government Parties that democratic opposition must operate within the parliamentary forum in the proper democratic manner, that his Government does not believe that politics ought to be taken to the streets, as do quite a number of people on the Opposition benches of the House and as they practised on a previous occasion, and that the Government believes very strongly that the proper democratic forum- that is, the election of people at elections-is the way in which to see who ought to govern and the nature of the opposition itself. [More…]
Into which of the following classifications would the remaining non-democratic nations fall: (a) military junta, (b) non-military dictatorship, (c) limited democratic with the franchise being restricted to a limited number of electors of (d) others. [More…]
Throughout all this we have created the one truly democratic state in the Middle East. [More…]
The Palestine Liberation Organisation’s demand that there should be a ‘democratic secular state’ of Palestine incorporating Israel is guaranteed to bring a horse-laugh in Israel. [More…]
When the PLO was asked which of the 21 Arab countries it thought would be the model for a democratic secular state it used to say Lebanon, and we know what has happened to Lebanon. [More…]
Israelis are proud of their democratic institutions, but if they pursue a course which involves the annexation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip- an annexation of over one million people added to the 500,000 Arabs presently within the original 1967 borders of Israel- Israel would have a population of 3 million Jews and 2 million to 2]A million Arabs. [More…]
-The Opposition considers the method by which the Government has introduced this legislation and is seeking to pass it to be quite foreign to the proper practices in a democratic parliament. [More…]
I happen to believe that we live in a democratic society. [More…]
I warn the Government that not only has it ignored the Parliament in a way that ill befits any Government in any democratic country, it has also ignored the will of the people. [More…]
There is no way in a democratic community that a democratically elected government can bring about confrontation which is a much vaunted word used by members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Always in Western democratic economies the difficulty is to get full employment or near full employment without pressure of inflation at the same time. [More…]
Conference- Broadcasting in a Democratic Society [More…]
The London Club now has 14 members- the US, the USSR, the UK., France, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. [More…]
The democratic processes of this country are still extant. [More…]
The opposition in Germany has become so important that the Social Democratic Government will soon announce a moratorium on nuclear power station construction. [More…]
A referendum is only an abdication by this House of its democratic responsibility. [More…]
How does the Government expect individuals to contribute to the cost of schools, hospitals, roads, railways, harbours and the rest of the infrastructure needed to enable a democratic society to develop? [More…]
This timing is unsuited to a threeyear democratic electoral cycle. [More…]
As I see them they are: Firstly, it allows a concentration of the limited resources available to any government in a democratic society on those in genuine need; secondly, it allows the average citizen greater ability to spend his money in the way in which he decides rather than have it taken away from him through increased taxation to pay for arrangements created by government and controlled by government; thirdly, it produces greater efficiency and accountability in the health care sector because of the recognition that the rate of increase in Government expenditure and in the percentage of gross national product expended on health cannot continue at its present rate and the recognition that there must be inefficiencies in our health care delivery due to this rapid expansion. [More…]
We therefore recommend that no decision be taken in relation to the foregoing matters until a reasonable time has elapsed and there has been an opportunity for the usual democratic processes to function, including in this respect, parliamentary debate. [More…]
The democratic processes have been applied to the uranium debate. [More…]
The democratic processes have been at work and the Government has made its decision after taking all of these interests into account. [More…]
But, instead, what the Fraser Government has decided to do is to rush into a decision just three months after the publication of the second Fox report and thereby to sacrifice the democratic rights of the Australian people on this vitally important issue. [More…]
The Prime Minister and his Government are so keen to please the multinational uranium producers that they are not willing to allow the Australian people the chance to exercise their democratic rights to decide on the future of uranium mining, because of the risk of the Australian people deciding on a moratorium. [More…]
This country, and every other country of a democratic nature, has political opponents causing opposition to the selling of uranium and the use or nuclear power stations. [More…]
Whilst we know that through our democratic processes we give our people the right to reject decisions, and that might well happen in some areas, we know that the authoritarian countries, the communist countries and the dictatorships are going to go ahead. [More…]
Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, United States of America. [More…]
Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Finland, Iran, Japan, Kuwait, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Senegal, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen Arab Republic, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, Yugoslavia. [More…]
The proposals are designed to encourage and facilitate active and effective citizen participation in the democratic processes of lawmaking and administration while at the same time recognising the importance of the continuing role of the Commonwealth Parliament and the Government in maintaining the standing and importance of Canberra as the national capital and seat of government of Australia. [More…]
The allocation reflects the rights and responsibilities of democratic participation in local territorial affairs and safeguards the national interest in the seat of government and the national capital. [More…]
The right to make democratic decisions in territorial affairs will entail responsibility to contribute a proper share of resources to the level of standards and services in Canberra. [More…]
A very important democratic process affecting every State public works. [More…]
The Administrator and the Town Clerk usurped the functions of their office and acted contrary to all democratic principles when they carpeted Latham at the Council Chambers and put pressure on him to resign on the basis that if he did so voluntarily the Council would pay him full compensation. [More…]
Let me tell those men now in case they already do not know that their powers flow only from the provisions of the Local Government Act, which would never countenance their despicable behaviour in their miserable attempts to erode the democratic rights of this individual. [More…]
They are the same democratic rights as thousands of Australians went away for, fought for and died for. [More…]
The comment went on: working in harmony with democratic governments and an enlightened trade union movement. [More…]
After almost a century of democratic vote recording the Labor Party would, in one stroke, remove the secrecy from the ballot box. [More…]
The legislation which the Labor Party is promoting strikes at the very core of the democratic nature of the Australian people. [More…]
That would be a democratic way of doing things. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Does the Government have any information about the recent announcement that the President of the self proclaimed Democratic Republic of East Timor, Francisco Xavier Do Amaral, has been deposed, expelled and imprisoned, together with several colleagues, allegedly for collaboration with Indonesian authorities? [More…]
-The democratic process in this country stands inperilled by the actions of arrogant trade union bosses. [More…]
The average Australian fully realises that the democratic process has to take its proper course. [More…]
It is the democratic process that determines these matters, and governments determine these matters. [More…]
The threat to the democratic process and the Australian economy by the actions of Trade Union leaders, particularly in the building industry. [More…]
The matter that seems to attract the attention of the honourable member for St George is the threat to the democratic process and, by implication, the threat to the Australian economy. [More…]
If he is looking at the threat to the democratic process in Australia he should be looking to the Government he supports. [More…]
This is causing great harm and doing great injury to the democratic processes of our country and to its financial stability. [More…]
The honourable member also supports a government that has gone out of its way to bring in the most undemocratic industrial legislation in the Western world. [More…]
Like my friend the honourable member for Isaacs, I believe that Parliament is still the best form of government yet devised for the democratic system. [More…]
The suggestion that in some way the representation involved in great areas, particularly rural districts, needs to be offset by damaging the democratic principle of one man, one vote, one value relates to another responsibility of the Department of Administrative Services, and that is the facilities made available to members of parliament. [More…]
I think it is quite inappropriate that we should attack the basic democratic principle because of the inconvenience of spending more money to provide adequate representation to people who live in physically remote areas. [More…]
It has been said by some people that secrecy itself is not sinister or incompatible with democratic government providing the aim is to ensure that the security of the nation is maintained. [More…]
The peace accords were drawn up on the basis that there would be full, free, democratic and independent elections in Vietnam. [More…]
The road to independence for the democratic Republic of East Timor will be long and hard. [More…]
Unless that dictatorship changes its ways and acts in a proper and democratic way,’ the result will be that a communist regime will take over in that country because that will be the alternative to the oppression which is taking place now of a people who have enjoyed freedom possibly for longer than any country in Asia. [More…]
Mr Noel Latham has the democratic right to work in the dust of the silver city of Broken Hill. [More…]
The Labor Party is in a dilemma because, on the one hand, its organisational strength comes from the union movement and, on the other hand, its essential weakness, its democratic weakness, is that it is linked with the union movement. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House tonight to the heroic stand being made by Noel Latham at Broken Hill against those who seek to trample his democratic right to work into the dust of the Silver City. [More…]
A halt must be called somewhere along the line because what is happening to him could easily be the first step in the erosion of the democratic rights of all Australians, which are the rights that thousands of Australians went away, fought for and were either killed or maimed in supporting. [More…]
As further evidence of the jackboot dictatorship that would smash our democratic freedom I quote to the House the contents of a document distributed in Broken Hill by militant union officials. [More…]
All these different qualities are brought to this country by the migrants and will help us develop as a unique, democratic society based on the widest degree of understanding of our fellow man. [More…]
Beyond that, and to speak about less tangible but perhaps fundamentally more important aspects, small business fosters a spirit of independence and initiative, so important in our liberal, democratic society. [More…]
I say that this is excellent democratic socialist activity, and the Opposition welcomes the Government’s conversion to this cause. [More…]
Even countries such as France and Japan, which have not had democratic socialist governments for many, many years, have planning agencies such as the ones which we envisage. [More…]
Shortly after the Whitlam Government received the political count from the Australian people exercising their democratic rights at a free election, the Fraser-Anthony Government, in an honest endeavour to repair what in many cases was irreparable damage to Australian primary producers, as a matter of urgency extended the subsidy at the rate of $78.74 per tonne nitrogen in order to allow a close examination of the whole area. [More…]
Secondly, there are measures designed to further promote the democratic control of industrial organisations. [More…]
Democratic Control of Organisations [More…]
The Government talks about the democratic right of union members to control the policies and affairs of their unions and blames the communists for forcing members to go on strike against their will. [More…]
When the SEC introduced an objectionable roster system without consulting the workers concerned, the rank and file, by democratic vote, decided to strike again. [More…]
The decisions were reached at a democratically conducted meeting of members which 2,300 members attended and by vote decided to support the actions that were taken. [More…]
When they were betrayed by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on Tuesday this week for the fourth time in less than four years, the rank and file, by democratic vote, voted on Tuesday to go on strike again. [More…]
For years and years now General Secretary Frank Mitchell and President Edgar Williams have been responsible for allowing one of the finest unions in Australia to detenorate into a disgraceful shambles with some of the worst awards in Australia and an utter comtempt for the democratic rights of the union membership. [More…]
(0 to encourage the democratic control of organisations so registered and the full participation by members of such organisation in the affairs of the Organisation. ‘ [More…]
The part I refer to is paragraph (0 which says that the chief objects of the Act shall be to encourage the democratic control of organisations so registered and the full participation by members of such organisations in the affairs of the organisation. [More…]
This is the extraordinary gentleman who claims to have the title of a democratic leader. [More…]
However, they have now been circumscribed so that the discretion of the Distribution Commissioners is exercised in a way which does not apply to any other democratic country in the world. [More…]
I said earlier that the Commissioner’s discretion is circumscribed to a greater extent than occurs in any other country which can claim to have a democratic tradition such as ours. [More…]
Further, the Federal Government is failing in its obligation to encourage Aborigines to enrol and exercise their democratic rights. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party campaigned against us and defeated us, to out shame. [More…]
Any intrusion into the people’s rights means that the democratic principles are not sustained. [More…]
The sustaining of the democratic principles has been on the basis that the occupant of the office has always acceded to the wishes of a Prime Minister. [More…]
The fact that the Prime Minister might have given wrong advice in no way detracts from the democratic principles that he has to be answerable for that advice. [More…]
Every time a decision is made on a personal basis or deemed to be the prerogative of the occupant it is in our view an interference with the normal democratic rights that should prevail in any democracy. [More…]
It is a severe negation of a democratic constitution for Australia. [More…]
What we are saying is that this legislation provides the Australian people with an excellent opportunity to have a look not only at this office but also at every aspect of democratic government in Australia. [More…]
In our view, if a solid case is made out on a democratic principle there is no justification at all for an occupant of this office to exercise any powers relating to this Parliament. [More…]
That is not a normal democratic process. [More…]
Any intrusion or action is a denial of democratic rights. [More…]
What we want is a system that is democratic and workable, that is beholden only to the people of Australia. [More…]
The German Democratic Republic- that is East Germany- produces about 240 million tonnes, which is six times the amount that Australia produces. [More…]
Of course there will be a divergence of view but there must be a continuing sensitivity to the political climate, the political view, to ensure that our political establishment can be provided with the opportunity to go about its business without any undue stress or pressure from instrumentalities or devices which may be established which would subvert the functioning of democratic parliament. [More…]
It is really going against what one would call a democratic proposal in terms of having an inquiry if the Tribunal is able to say to anybody who wishes to appear before it and who wishes to object to a licence being granted or wishes to raise certain issues which he or she feels are in the public interest: ‘We have determined that you have not a pecuniary interest and therefore you will not be entitled to appear at these proceedings’. [More…]
This Bill which permits the Tribunal to say: ‘You have not a pecuniary interest, so you will not have the right to appear’ virtually deprives a person of the normal democratic right to appear. [More…]
In the normal democratic process it would be appropriate that any member of Parliament should be entitled to know the decision and also to take part in a discussion as to that situation as the whole Bill relates to advice to the Minister as to what sort of licence he should grant. [More…]
Under clause 10, if we remove the right of a person who is deemed to have an interest and if we leave that to the Tribunal, we are negating the normal democratic process. [More…]
I submit that is not the right way to interpret the approved redistributions which are supposed to make for democratic voting in this country. [More…]
There was immediately a chorus from Democratic Labor Party quarters that this recommendation had emanated from Cabinet and that the Government was trying to produce control of Catholic schools, deciding whom the schools could enrol and whom the could not. [More…]
If there had been an election for Cabinet by the democratic means which the Labor Party follows in the selection of Cabinet, most of them would have been in the Cabinet and some of the no-hopers who are front benchers now would be back where they belong. [More…]
As access to the storage of information raises the question of individual freedom in a democratic society, can these invasions of privacy be restrained by Government order. [More…]
Above all he must have a deep-seated reverence for the institution of Parliament, a sincere respect for its traditions derived from a deeper understanding of what lies behind the outward ceremony, and an unshakable faith in democratic government. [More…]
That independence on the part of the Speaker is absolutely essential if the rights of the members of this Parliament are to be protected and, more importantly, if there is to be respect for the independence and the importance of this institution within our democratic system. [More…]
Brown), I think I ought to remind the House that we are here today debating who is to chair one of the more useful democratic institutions still left in this society. [More…]
He said that the occupant of the Chair had to have great respect for democratic government. [More…]
I remind honourable members that when we make the decision about who is to chair this House, the Speaker takes the Chair in one of the more vulnerable legislative institutions in the democratic world. [More…]
He brings to it the experience of belonging to a democratic political party which at least ensures that we will not be trampled on. [More…]
The great disadvantage that my friend the right honourable member for Bruce brings to the candidature is the fact that he is a pan of one of the more undemocratic parliamentary parties in what is termed the Western world. [More…]
The community is better for having had such men prepared to contribute that sort of service on behalf of the community and on behalf of the democratic institutions which we all seek to serve. [More…]
With that trust and the leadership necessary to honour it rests the very faith of this nation in its politicians, in the democratic Westminster style of government, in the Constitution and in the essential nature of our present decision-making process. [More…]
House, by rejecting cheap political point scoring and the cheap jibe, this House as a whole can assist the Government, itself, the democratic processes and the nation. [More…]
That is a dangerous statement to make; a very dangerous statement to make in any democratic country. [More…]
There is no other democratic system in the world in which the Parliament or the Congress allows an outside body to determine the salary of its Speaker. [More…]
I hope the Government will approach those three years with that principle pre-eminently in mind because throughout the world democratic party systems are going through a time of very great crisis. [More…]
In the first place, he reflected that the number of electors who are opting to vote for the major parties in all the countries of the democratic West is decreasing. [More…]
The second point among a number of others which he made is important, that is, for the good of the democratic system there has to be instituted a continuity of policy quite beyond governments and quite beyond parties- a continuity of policy that an electorate will support, no matter which parties are elected to government or which private members are elected to government. [More…]
One does not have to be a fan of Charles Dickens to understand that and one does not have to read Hard Times to realise that democratic electorates, whether in Great Britain or in Australia, will reject any party that does not seek to say: ‘ We will give you a fair go ‘. [More…]
Such persons should understand that this Parliament is the fundamental institution and one of the most important traditions of our democratic community in Australia. [More…]
When a person in some way helps or joins a political party he is helping the democratic process in this country. [More…]
It is good for people to want to join a political party of their choice and, through the democratic process, to try to give the public a choice of parties. [More…]
It is necessary to realise that apart from questions of espionage, the security services ought to be concerned only with political activities which do not follow normal democratic processes. [More…]
The measures which have been announced today strike the balance between the need to respond decisively to the threat of terrorism and the imperative of preserving Australia’s character as an open society and the democratic freedoms we all hold paramount. [More…]
I believe that one of the strengths in our society’s sustaining its democratic nature is by the way in which power and authority are dispersed in smaller areas within the overall structure of our system. [More…]
All of these things need to be clarified, but in clarifying them we should be guided by a basic concern about democratic rights and about civil liberties in our community. [More…]
We cannot have confidence in the security and independence of democratic institutions of government if there is to be this unbounded power which presumably can be infected in its use by certain blandishments and approaches. [More…]
The present Opposition tries to turn democracy on its head and say how undemocratic it is to give the people of Australia a vote. [More…]
I would have thought that is the one supreme moment when people are most democratic. [More…]
The Labor Party has pursued this vigorous and personal vendetta not because he did anything wrong but because of its own bitterness and resentment at being denied the chance to carry through its plans to smash our democratic system and the principles and traditions by which we govern this country. [More…]
As a new member of this the people’s House, I want to make it clear that it is my view that there can not be any consensus about the democratic process in Australia until the issues raised by the tactics and actions of successive leaders of the Liberal and National Country Party Oppositions in 1974 and 1975 are resolved. [More…]
The tendency present in conservative governments towards the ‘blame the victim’ syndrome, constant denigration of the unemployed and union bashing simply distracts attention from the fundamental problem which faces national democracies such as Australia to establish effective democratic control over national resources and their utilisation. [More…]
the most democratic system. [More…]
In his 1975 policy speech Mr Fraser referred to the need to create more democratic structures in the trade union movement and to reduce and make more accessible and responsible the government bureaucracy. [More…]
In what ways are these giant combines to be made accountable and democratically responsible to the Australian people? [More…]
The Labor Party is committed to the introduction of economic planning of the utilisation of Australia’s physical and human resources on a democratic basis. [More…]
No one could possibly argue that major insurance companies, banks, finance companies and multinational combines operate democratically or even that they are subject to the restraints of market forces, as the Prime Minister has suggested. [More…]
The task ahead is to convert that reality to democratic socialism. [More…]
Today over most of northern Europe democratic socialism is the dominant and governing political force. [More…]
The triumph of socialism in Europe reflects the growing conviction that a humane and democratic socialism offers the only way forward from the economic and cultural malaise that now grips the capitalist world. [More…]
They deliberately use points of order as a means of stopping us from having our democratic rights as members of this Parliament and putting our case before the Parliament. [More…]
It raises the question of the effectiveness of this Parliament and its place in our democratic system of government. [More…]
One could properly assume that he has a very positive view of the role that this House could and should have in the parliamentary process and in the process of democratic government. [More…]
I believe that the parliamentary aspect of democratic government should be dignified. [More…]
If we could look again at the proper functions of this House- its legislative and control functions- and adapt our procedures to accommodate these functions properly, perhaps this chamber would become more than a place for permanent political campaigning and would again take its rightful place in our democratic system of government. [More…]
As consciousness grows within the Labor movement and the Australian people about the consequences to them of decisions now been taken by the power elite, no amount of propaganda, manipulation or repression will be able to prevent this conservative coalition giving way to a more democratic, more just, more equitable and more independent and self-reliant society. [More…]
However, I make the point that the right of the Governor-General, and thus the government, to make such a proclamation which could affect persons who believe they are legitimately carrying out activities which they are entitled to perform in a democratic society should also be accompanied by very definite and clear guidelines or requirements as to when and how such a declaration may be made and how the areas may be defined. [More…]
First of all the honourable member- I think I quote him fairly accurately- referred to the need to protect in a democratic way the rights of people carrying out functions, presumably in these waters. [More…]
We must recognise and provide for the growing demands of individuals and community groups to be heard and to participate meaningfully in the democratic process. [More…]
At a time when democratic institutions around the world, and particularly what should be the most fundamental democratic institution of all, namely Parliament, are coming under increasing pressure, it is vital that we have a strong and effective parliamentary opposition. [More…]
Australia is one of fewer than 20 countries in the entire world which still have democratically elected governments. [More…]
If we want to preserve our basic democratic freedoms, we are going to have to work for them. [More…]
The terrorists can never win in a constitutional democracy, provided that the leaders of democracies stick to their lastthat is, behave according to the democratic mode of behaviour Never break its unspoken rules themselves and treat terrorists as criminals. [More…]
What democratic leaders must never do is to break the rules themselves and give the impression, however inadvertently perhaps, that because a bomb has gone off- a bomb about which nothing at all seems to be known as to its provenance- it is permissible to declare a local state of seige and thereafter cash in politically on that word terrorism . [More…]
His analysis of the vices of a democratic parliament that always tries to be over-popular, and hang the cost, also is relevant to the remarks I intend to make. [More…]
If they undertake this sort of behaviour, if they breach all the conventions and if they tear up the normal principles of democratic behaviour, they destroy the democractic process. [More…]
Had the Government given careful consideration to the civil liberties and democratic rights and freedoms of the Australian people in this matter it would have rejected outright the substance of the recommendations of the Hope report. [More…]
Social stability will ensure political stability and the survival of our liberal democratic system. [More…]
The Fraser Government exploits democratic forms such as secret ballots, universal suffrage and general elections, but its spirit is essentially anti-democratic, hierarchical and authoritarian, without that respect for minority opinion, compassion for the weak and capacity to take the long view which is the essence of the democratic spirit. [More…]
Fascism was completely democratic in form, relying as it did on universal suffrage. [More…]
It was essentially a product, or perversion, of democratic procedures such as general elections, universal suffrage, universal literacy, large-scale advertising campaigns, referenda and mass parties. [More…]
It is no accident that the 1920s- the high water mark of democratic forms in Europe- saw the rise of fascist parties in Italy, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Rumania and the Baltic States- all of them based on mass parties and universal suffrage. [More…]
To take a more recent example, there can be little doubt that successive Ulster Unionist governments in Northern Ireland elected to the Stormont Parliament were elected according to democratic forms and that they represented the fears, prejudices and hatreds of a majority of the Ulster Protestants. [More…]
What the Ulster Unionist governments lacked, and what, I suggest, the Fraser Government in Australia lacks, is a sense of the democratic spirit. [More…]
The difficulty of re-allocating resources in a period of slumpflation or stagnation or during stationary stages in the economy is too great for democratic governments to contemplate. [More…]
Nothing could be more democratic than having this matter referred to a parliamentary committee for examination. [More…]
Nothing could be more democratic than this Parliament’s deciding whether the work goes ahead. [More…]
Such hospitals are less and less subject to the establishment of overall health planning priorities and are using their considerable resources in ways which are not always in conformity with any proper democratic processes. [More…]
The problem that we face in relation to health costs in this country is that we have allowed a monster to be created that may not be subject to control by democratic processes. [More…]
The basic problem is that the whole structure- the interlocking connections between the doctors, the funds, the investment private hospitals and the control over the admission policies of large hospitals by the medical technocratsis an empire that is unable to insulate itself from democratic control and responsibility. [More…]
A few years ago when Australia first entered the overseas market for live sheep, our industries had to do so in the democratic way. [More…]
The Opposition wants a reasonable, normal, legitimate, democratic delay to allow the National Aboriginal Conference, which is meeting in Canberra for the very purpose, to give this kind of advice to the Government. [More…]
It is alleged, therefore, that he has been party to a conspiracy to try to determine the course of the democratic procedures in this Parliament. [More…]
It puts up with a thing that calls itself the National Country Party and another that calls itself the Democratic Party which perhaps has no relationship with democracy or anything else. [More…]
This will mean more support for buses, and less for road construction; more responsibility for planning transport to meet local needs should be devolved to local government since the most practical and democratic approach to co-ordination is local; greater emphasis should be placed on getting value for money, both in the financial regimes for the public sector industries and in the framework for decision-taking on particular schemes and services; there should be a more systematic and open involvement of people, Parliament, transport operators and unions in the continuing debate on transport and the formulation of policy; and this should be promoted by the [More…]
The spirit of independence and initiative fostered by small business is an essential element of our democratic society. [More…]
Those countries have a capacity to override the democratic processes. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the Australian Labor Party is not participating in a democratic process. [More…]
It is a political doctrine which has as its main theme the destruction of the Western World’s democratic systems and the subsequent implementation of its own doctrinaire systems. [More…]
The Government does not care that the Marcos regime, with which it is making bilateral arrangements, has already demonstrated total disregard not only for the protests of people of the Philippines who live near the reactor site but also for the democratic and constitutional rights of the entire population of that nation. [More…]
Normal democratic rights such as freedom from arbitrary arrest, unwarranted search and seizure, and the presumption of innocence are thrown out the window. [More…]
What would be feasible, however, is a simple amendment to the law to provide for a right of appeal to a court, which amendment would not only safeguard Latham’s democratic rights but also the rights of others who may find themselves on the receiving end of union muscle. [More…]
Surely then the New South Wales Government exists to protect the democratic rights of its citizens. [More…]
This is a fight by all men and women of peace and goodwill and by all those who stand for the democratic way of life against any duly elected representative of the people who pays lip service only to the very principles for which the flower of this nation died. [More…]
Yet this sort of shameful interference with the democratic rights of Aboriginal citizens to enrol and to vote goes on with impunity. [More…]
We feel that it is dangerous and smacks of totalitarian procedures rather than democratic procedures. [More…]
Surely, if we have a completely democratic approach to any problem, the citizens have their rights. [More…]
We are living under a democratic system. [More…]
One of the few responsibilities we have under a democratic system is to pay for that system. [More…]
Without that democratic system the society in which we live would crumble. [More…]
It is difficult to gauge the morality of a nation, even though nations and their citizens must have a moral conscience if they are to survive; but no democratic nation can be run merely on the basis of the moral judgment of the government or the parliament of the day. [More…]
In other words, democratic nations can operate only on the principle of the rule of law. [More…]
The United States is the largest, most powerful and most influential leader of all the democratic nations. [More…]
When we speak of the need for the protection of human rights in Australia, we are speaking about enshrining minimum rights- minimum democratic rights, minimum legal process rights, minimum prohibition of anti-discrimination, minimum rights of freedom of speech, thought and religion and freedom of assembly and association, and you have not got it in Queensland. [More…]
Italy has been deprived of one of its greatest political leaders, one who in recent times sought through the democratic processes to build a consensus which is fundamental to the maintenance of democracy. [More…]
None of these countries can boast of supporting democratic freedoms or even the most basic human rights. [More…]
The interesting point is that countries like Russia and the German Democratic Republic support the Third World and the underdeveloped world in this sort of argument. [More…]
It seems to me that it is a very dangerous thing for a democratic community to move in the direction in which this Government is taking us. [More…]
It is a symbol of class government, of property government, and it ought not to be acceptable within a democratic community. [More…]
In fact, the most vigorous of the States-righters, far from having an electorate of their own which is distinct from the electorate which elects honourable members to this House, are in fact elected by exactly the same people, but under a much less democratic system. [More…]
I believe it to be a fact that on 15 April of this year in New York it was intended that there would be a meeting between an Indonesian General and Jose Ramos Horta, who is the representative of the Democratic Republic of East Timor at the United Nations. [More…]
(8)1 want further to submit that in the longterm future integrity of the Democratic Republic of East Timor could be well safe-guarded by the making of treaties between the Republic, Indonesia, Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
parliamentary colleagues will remember him for his abiding belief in our great democratic principles, in the central role of Parliament and in the rule of law. [More…]
He knew that, inherent in our democratic system, in our parliamentary way of life and in our common law, it was necessary to recognise the monarch if we were to preserve that system. [More…]
We should be mobilising all those nations which are similar to ours- there are probably 40 or 50 of them, some of them with dictators at the helm, some of them with democratic governmentsand we should be using every pressure upon those nations to stop the arms trade. [More…]
Such behaviour does the standing of the Parliament no good in the public eye and, after all, the Parliament serves the democratic purpose of representing the public. [More…]
It is absolutely necessary that the enormous range of powers that are available to the viceregal representative in this country are clearly denned and adequately circumscribed not only so that the democratic system can function but so that the confidence of the people in this community can be re-established. [More…]
Both countries have a high stake in the security and prosperity of other economically advanced democratic powers in the world; in the continuation of the process of detente between the super-powers; in maintaining an open and nondiscriminatory regime in international trade; in encouraging a continuing United States presence in the Asia-Pacific region to the extent necessary to maintain a sound balance in that region; in opposing any attempt by the Soviet Union- or any other major power- to establish hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region; and in encouraging China to continue to play a constructive role in regional affairs. [More…]
Firstly, we have the State President complaining about the use of the word ‘socialism’, but then we are told quite clearly that the objective of the Labor Party is to achieve the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange. [More…]
To proceed in that way shows a contempt for the Parliament and for the democratic process. [More…]
Thus we have the democratic principle that a government should be responsible not only for spending the taxpayers’ income but also for raising additional funds through a surcharge. [More…]
The Opposition’s platform provides for statehood for the Northern Territory after a plebescite, which is normal democratic procedure. [More…]
That is a normal democratic society. [More…]
That again is contrary to democratic principle. [More…]
We should always apply the democratic principle that the elected representatives should have the support of the parliament. [More…]
We believe in one vote, one value, as do most democratic parliaments in the world. [More…]
How long would it be before it moved to close down any group of Australian citizens who wanted to exercise their democratic right to stand up and say: ‘We are opposed to the government of the country of our origin ‘? [More…]
The Government has been conscious of diverse attitudes and has, in its deliberations, tried to find that consensus from which democratic government draws its strength. [More…]
It is important, if we are to have an effective and democratic Parliament, that consideration should be given particularly to matters of General Business or to Grievance Day debates on a Thursday and that those debates never be done away with. [More…]
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. [More…]
It is now well known in every democratic country that the Russian authorities saw fit to sentence Orlov to the maximum penalty for his so-called unconstitutional behaviour. [More…]
Amnesty International, International Commission of Jurists, International Association of Democratic Lawyers [More…]
He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and of Oxford University, is a barrister, Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1963 to 1966, founder of the Pakistan People’s Party and a democratic socialist who said that his policies were ‘along the lines of the British Labour Party and Willy Brandt’. [More…]
I do not think that is fair and reasonable or democratic. [More…]
I do not know of anybody in the democratic world who works as hard as the Australian parliamentarian. [More…]
El Salvador, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Holy See, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Pakistan. [More…]
The problem with democratic processes is that they often come up with the wrong result. [More…]
They fought and died to keep Australia a free and democratic country, and part of that freedom and that democratic process is the right to decide what sort of immigration policy we should have and what sort of criteria should be administered. [More…]
An Opposition is entitled to function within the democratic process. [More…]
Although this country follows democratic forms and practices, I suspect that the concept of hierarchy is closer to the Australian way of life than the concept of equality. [More…]
What was meant by full, free and democratic elections in Vietnam? [More…]
Nobody in Vietnam, in either the north or the south, at that stage, even though there was a truce, was prepared to agree on what full, free and democratic elections meant. [More…]
Australia was not invited to participate in the peace discussions even though we had committed our troops to fight in Vietnam, but I would have thought that at that stage any Australian, irrespective of his political persuasions, would have said that ‘full, free and democratic elections’ meant that everybody over a certain age had the right to vote; that they would have some identity with the geographic area in which they lived; that the elected representatives would meet in an assembly; that a constitution would be drawn up providing for elections on a set basis; and that the representatives would select the leader. [More…]
I am dwelling on this subject because it became apparent when I was there that whilst this proposal was put forward and welcomed by the people of the north, it was not spelt out in discussions at the Paris Peace Accords except in the ambiguous statement that there should be full, free and democratic elections in Vietnam. [More…]
I say to our Minister, who is well intentioned and who said that he would put further information before this House, that we want to know what are the particular proposals that would guarantee a democratic government in Namibia. [More…]
It is an area which we know does not utilise the democratic processes of which we have had the benefit. [More…]
I think that the Minister himself, through his Department, could at least indicate what is meant by democratic elections, the basis upon which they should be conducted, what effect they will have from the point of view of the Constitution, what sort of people will be controlling the country following the elections and how the transition is to be evolved. [More…]
I hope that in dealing with those that an all party parliamentary committee will work on the basis that we live in a plural democratic community in which there are some sections that hold, as a result of deeply ingrained religious belief, that no divorce in any circumstances is permissible; others believe that divorce on certain limited grounds is permissible, and there are those citizens who have no religious belief at all. [More…]
There are many pressures which contribute to the cause of family break-ups but to attach the responsibility of ascertaining the cause of family break-ups to a parliamentary committee that has the responsibility of trying to make more effective what has been an important piece of social legislation, of ironing out the very specific references that have already been referred to the Attorney-General and of producing a piece of legislation which will be relevant to a plural democratic community so that the problems of divorce, maintenance and custody can be resolved in a way which is sensible and rational is to confuse the issue. [More…]
It is not considered to be a true socialist country, simply a Western European democratic socialist state. [More…]
It appears almost as if it is deliberately attempting to wreck our most cherished possessions- democratic government and the very institution of parliament. [More…]
I do not think that we can have a democratic society if major social decisions and major economic decisions are made by people who do not live in Australia and who do not answer to us in any way. [More…]
Because of the bluetongue situation in Australia, the following countries have total bans imposed on the importation of ruminants from Australia: UK, Ireland, USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, German Democratic Republic, Canada, Argentina, Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China, New Zealand, Fiji and Western Samoa. [More…]
The time is overdue for Australia to enact stringent financial disclosure laws as a means of re-establishing public faith in the democratic process. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have expressed a willingness in the past to smash conventions and to seize power, but they are not prepared to take any action to bring our democratic institutions into the twentieth century. [More…]
Only last week I had the privilege to be in Berlin as the guest of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Germany. [More…]
We in this country have to be grateful for the fact that we have had a continuation of democratic governments. [More…]
By many it is regarded as a plaything of politicians of doubtful worth, and its importance as the constitutional, democratic instrument of the people themselves is not well enough understood. [More…]
I am very pleased to see the substantial increase in funds allocated to the office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman which is there to assist in the democratic process. [More…]
The fact is of course that we are pursuing the matter of selfgovernment, but we have decided to be democratic about it. [More…]
I suspect that if we do not make the substantial progress with this bloc that we should, the United States, Europe, Japan and ASEAN will probably give us away and, if that happens, we could be in very serious trouble in maintaining the independence of this country and keeping Australia a free and democratic nation in this part of the world. [More…]
It is only when one meets with people who basically ought to share one ‘s concerns and one’s attitudes especially representatives at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, where the pretence at least is that these people are parliamentarians and people who have a basically democratic attitude or when one participates in the debate and listens to the debate at such conferences that one realises that we share very little with a large number of participants at such world meetings. [More…]
We have to remember that few countries outside of Western Europe are democratic countries in our sense of the word. [More…]
Only one country in South America Venezuela has a democratic form of government. [More…]
Similarly in Africa, from the evidence that is available to us, only Gambia and possibly Botswana have what we would call a democratic form of government. [More…]
Democratic Kampuchea seemed to many in the West a uniquely atrocious experiment in human engineering conducted, in Hanoi ‘s words, by ‘infantile communists ‘ who pursued ‘a consistent policy of national hatred’ and were deliberately turning young Kampucheans into medieval butchers’ to indulge in ‘savage repressions’ and ‘bloody massacres’. [More…]
It is a very dangerous and disastrous situation when Government Ministers are not informed by the so-called elite, who have no responsibility to the democratic process. [More…]
In other words, the committee considers that our free democratic way of life is horrible. [More…]
I think it only democratic that a member who represents an area should not be put in the position of being told, as we are sometimes, of a news report in some newspaper way out in the bush. [More…]
I do not think that is democratic. [More…]
We shall no longer be able to hold our heads high in the international arena, as citizens of a free and democratic country, if we go along with agreements such as this and do not take the action which all of the people of this country would applaud, the Jewish people of this country in particular. [More…]
It has always been regarded as a democratic right and an obligation of people to govern themselves, and I hope that the people of Canberra will see it in that light. [More…]
We have all heard how Mr Hayden purports to be a moderate democratic socialist. [More…]
It would have been truly democratic Australian justice, and I think the general injustice for those who feel they have to educate their children privately has gone on for far too long. [More…]
It is essential to our democratic fabric, not just our foreign relations, that foreign policy reflect domestic opinion. [More…]
It should take action on the basis of what we are about as a democratic nation. [More…]
Australia is unquestionably the leading Western industrialised democratic country in terms of its policy and program on the most critical issue that the Third World wants, namely, the Common Fund, which is fundamental to the integrated program of commodities that Third World countries have put forward. [More…]
However, we are deeply concerned that UNESCO should not become the vehicle of viewpoints which mar the objectivity of the organisation and seek to weaken a fundamental and basic tenet of democratic practice and liberal thought. [More…]
This follows the democratic principle that the government responsible for spending public funds must also be responsible for raising them. [More…]
For too long the federal system we have had has cut across the democratic principle of responsible government. [More…]
Does the honourable gentleman believe that the Government of the Philippines is a democratic government? [More…]
It is disgraceful that an element of the Labor Party obviously does not wish them to succeed in their aim to become more democratic. [More…]
Three miles: Australia; The Bahamas; Bahrain; Barbados; Belgium; Bermuda; Chile; Denmark; German Democratic Republic; Federal Republic of [More…]
Twelve miles: Algeria; Bangladesh; Bulgaria; Burma; Canada; China; Colombia; Comoro; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Cuba; Cyprus; Dominican Republic; Egypt; Equatorial Guinea; Ethiopia; Fiji; France; Grenada; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Kampuchea; Kenya; Democratic Republic of Korea; Republic of Korea; Kuwait; Libya; Malaysia; Maldives; Malta; Mauritius’; Mexico; Monaco; Morocco; Mozambique; Nauru; New Zealand; Oman; Pakistan; Papua New Guinea; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Saudi Arabia; Seychelles; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Surinam; Syria; Thailand; Togo; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Ukrainian SSR; USSR; Venezuela; Vietnam; Western Samoa; Yemen Arab Republic; People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen; Zaire. [More…]
More than twelve miles: Albania (15 miles); Angola (20 miles); Argentina (200 miles); Benin (200 miles); Brazil (200 miles); Cameroon (50 miles); Cape Verde (100 miles); Congo (200 miles); Ecuador (200 miles); El Salvador (200 miles); Gabon ( 100 miles); Gambia (50 miles); Ghana (200 miles); Guinea (200 miles); Guinea-Bissau (150 miles); Liberia (200 miles); Malagasy Republic* (50 miles); Mauritania (30 miles); Nigeria* (30 miles); Panama (200 miles); Peru (200 miles); Senegal (150 miles); Sierra Leone* (200 miles); Democratic Republic of Somali (200 miles); Tanzania (50 miles); Uruguay (200 miles). [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is accurate when he says that there is very little that the Commonwealth can do in the democratic system that we have if the Australian people want to stand up and in a widespread way revolt against any sort of lack of fair play. [More…]
I do not intend to deliver a sermon on the struggles of our forbears to establish and hold our democratic system of government. [More…]
There can be few people in Australia who would prefer a totalitarian system of government to the democratic system of government, with all its faults, failings and frustrations, which we follow in Australia. [More…]
Parliament and to recognise the importance that our Parliament plays in our democratic system. [More…]
What representations have been made using these contacts to further democratic procedures and respect for human rights in these countries and to foster international discussions and cultural exchanges with them? [More…]
1 ) Normal diplomatic relations with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (formerly the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (formerly the Kingdom of Laos) have continued uninterrupted over the last five years. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister inform the House of the Government’s attitude towards the Soviet Union’s attempts to deny the rights and liberties of those of its citizens wishing to exercise the democratic rights of free expression and peaceful dissent? [More…]
The consequences of such a proposal for the nature of the democratic system are even more alarming. [More…]
I could imagine nothing that would be so designed to destroy any of the responsibility of the people for their own democratic system. [More…]
The Opposition would import its own Trojan horse into the Australian democratic system. [More…]
It is very significant that between 1969 and 1977 we had six elections and this has affected the democratic fabric. [More…]
We need stability and we must have proper respect for democratic principles. [More…]
The most important aspect of the motion is combining stability with basic democratic principles. [More…]
The power to reject or block Supply is not consistent with the role of a genuine House of review, as well as with normal democratic principles. [More…]
To our sorrow we heard that the armed forces in Chile had overthrown the democratic government of President Allende and had imposed a military dictatorship. [More…]
Over the weekend I read also comments by Kissinger on the process of democratic government and where possibly we are heading. [More…]
He made the point that the democratic process is leading to tactical short term policy formation and that these short term policies are leading to incompetent government. [More…]
Governments generally, particularly democratic governments, might reasonably take arguments where they lead and endeavour to follow those arguments through in order to provide consistent reasoned government for their people. [More…]
The major motion was that the Russian Government was denying the rights and liberties of those of its citizens who wished to exercise their democratic rights of free expression and peaceful dissent. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser also supported the stand stated in your telegram and has obligingly amended the Act to repeal those democratic procedures which I put through the House of Representatives in 1 973. [More…]
That Platform pledged that ‘Labor will also ensure a system of democratic control of all unions, allowing the fullest participation by members in their union affairs, a system of participatory democracy’. [More…]
deplores and condemns the actions of the Soviet Government, most recently demonstrated in the trial and conviction of Orlov and Ginsberg, in denying the rights and liberties of those of its citizens who wish to exercise their democratic rights of freedom of expression and peaceful dissent. [More…]
I say in passing that I hope the Grants Commission, in determining grants in the future, will not give such dispersal of police services any added weight because of the Government’s periodic calling in of police from outlying areas to Brisbane to prevent people undertaking their democratic rights to march in protest through that city. [More…]
The cost of administering this undemocratic law is enormous. [More…]
I sincerely hope that the Grants Commission will not in any way recommend that the Commonwealth subsidise such blatantly undemocratic behaviour by the Queensland Government. [More…]
It is the democratic right of every State in Australia encouraged by the Federalism policy of this Government that the States have the right to select their own priorities. [More…]
Australia recognised the Government of Democratic Kampuchea on 17 April 197S but has not yet established diplomatic relations with it. [More…]
If so, did the official or officials actually intend to refer to the boundary between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic? [More…]
and (2) The Oder-Neisse line constitutes the recognised boundary between the Polish Peoples Republic and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). [More…]
That the government announce the expenditure of a minimum of 3.5 per cent of the gross domestic product on defence and a willingness to expend further if necessary to maintain Australia’s primary interest of survival as a democratic nation. [More…]
So that it could control the outcome of the election it established a purely bogus political party, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance. [More…]
Obviously what happened then was that the newspapers were used to disseminate heavily prejudiced propaganda in support of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, which of course, I ought to mention, although it is unnecessary, was exclusively pro-South African Government in its outlook- a political party which was fabricated around conservative white and conservative black interests. [More…]
It strikes at the basis of parliament as a democratic institution. [More…]
and (2) The Government’s policy is designed to provide for the democratic control of industrial organisations by their members, including giving every member of an organisation a full and equal opportunity to influence policy within his organisation, so that union management will reflect the real needs and aspirations of the rank and file membership. [More…]
In the kind of world we are living in, it is all the more important for nations of goodwill, which have learnt the art of compromise through thenown democratic processes, which are committed to consensus and reconciliation rather than confrontation, to carry those principles into international affairs. [More…]
I will speak on that matter in greater detail at some later date when I hope to tell the House of some of the experiences and discussions I have had with leaders from all shades of politics, but at the moment I would just like to say that I think it is terribly important to have peace in that part of the world and for the new government, when it comes to power in Namibia, to be a moderate and democratic government which will allow various points of view and racial groups to integrate in a democratic society. [More…]
I think that includes us- which have learnt the art of compromise through their own democratic processes . [More…]
It is those democratic processes and the art of compromise to which I am merely addressing my comments. [More…]
We on this side of the House are asking whether there was confrontation between the Minister for Finance and the Prime Minister or did the Minister for Finance, who is now the subject of substantial public speculation on the basis of his resignation, find himself involved in the Prime Minister’s concept of democratic processes. [More…]
When we look at the history of the Fraser Government we find that democratic processes do not fare very well at the hands of the Government. [More…]
More importantly, we must all accept that the Prime Minister of Australia has abandoned the most fundamental principle of our democratic system of government at the cost of any shred of credibility and respect that may have been lingering around him. [More…]
When I was in Vietnam in 1973 to try to talk about democratic elections the person who opposed this concept most was President Thieu. [More…]
However, I draw the attention of the House to the position of Thailand which is subject to strong pressure to assist in the Chinese resupply of the Democratic Kampuchean forces. [More…]
The second basic point I make is that to my mind all people prefer democratic forms of government. [More…]
Wherever there is a dispute between democratic and undemocratic forces, I shall always support the former- the democratic forces. [More…]
There is a clear-cut difference that one is obviously more democratic than the other. [More…]
I am not one of those people who say that aid should not be cancelled in the case of aggressive countries or countries behaving in an extremely anti-democratic manner. [More…]
Decisions taken by the democratic countries to cancel foreign aid or not to send teams to the Olympic Games may well be correct. [More…]
I believe that it should be the aim of this Government to try to encourage other democratic countries to act together in concert if we decide, as I think we have all decided to a large extent, that we are not prepared to support military intervention to defend democracy. [More…]
It was the only democratic country which had the power to do anything about the situation. [More…]
How else can we deal with undemocratic countries which are agressive? [More…]
The only way in which the democratic countries, the so-called Western European countries, which have a fair amount of money and economic clout, can deal with these undemocratic countries is to use economic sanctions. [More…]
They should be used against all the undemocratic countries, whether they be Rhodesia, South Africa, or the other countries I have mentioned. [More…]
-The statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) is essentially superficial and he did not set the context in which the statement was made, that Australia is a democratic island in an authoritarian ocean and we are a wealthy enclave in an area which has had an extremely poor economic base but which is now rising rapidly. [More…]
Responsible democratic governments respond to pressure, and where that pressure arises out of general feeling rightly so. [More…]
The aim of democratic socialists or social democrats- honourable members can refer to me in either of those terms- is to make our society freer, fairer and more enterprising and to recognise that enterprise does not have to be solely in the private sector any more than it should be solely in the public sector. [More…]
Another question is: How do we expand the democratic institutions of the world? [More…]
I believe that there is more security in democratic nations than in undemocratic nations. [More…]
Clearly the local authority is a proper democratic body to handle such matters. [More…]
The article, by Mr Brian Chapman, a South Australian graduate student from the University of Oregon, points out that good health through physical culture is enshrined in the German Democratic Republic’s Constitution and is backed up by legislation through the Youth Act 1974. [More…]
We should be leading in the mobilisation of the democratic forces of the world to establish a United Nations body, not the stronghold of IS 1 officialdoms, but the voice of the people of the world, through a constituent assembly, perhaps along the lines of the soon-to-be-elected Parliament of Europe. [More…]
It is no way to run one of the most important, deliberative, democratic assemblies in the world. [More…]
That will be a serious matter, not only for Australia but for the rest of the world because, as I said earlier, this Parliament is one of the few remaining democratic deliberative assemblies. [More…]
Considering the way in which the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) runs this place, the word ‘democratic’ should be used in inverted commas. [More…]
To fight this trade, and fight it within a democratic framework and within the rule of law, the Government needs special powers; powers that are not commonly accorded to law enforcement. [More…]
The second basic point I make is that to my mind all people prefer democratic forms of government. [More…]
Wherever there is a dispute between democratic and undemocratic forces, I shall always support the former- the democratic forces. [More…]
Some may suggest that the democratic process has within it the seeds of its own destruction, a fatal weakness centering on its very liberalism, a weakness because of its insistence on allowing and encouraging debate and dissent, a weakness exemplified internally by a failure to deal with small groups holding the nation to ransom and externally by hesitancy in opposing anti-democratic forces and an inability to sustain long term resistence in the event of conflict. [More…]
We need a democratic tax system which serves the people and the nation, instead of a system devised by elitists to benefit the few to the disadvantage of the many. [More…]
One could well understand circumstances where that kind of payment might entrench existing parties in power, very much at the expense of the democratic position and those who might wish to establish new parties. [More…]
The Labor Opposition portrays itself as a moderate socialist democratic party. [More…]
In many countries at least reasonable regimes- I will not say democratic regimes- have existed. [More…]
I regard that concentration of power as a threat to the maintenance of the democratic traditions of this nation. [More…]
The House of Represenatative is the only allmale lower House in any democratic national parliament throughout the world. [More…]
The people of South Australia went through a fully democratic process to determine their abortion laws. [More…]
If we pass the Lusher motion we are saying that that is an inappropriate law, even though it was passed by those completely proper democratic processes. [More…]
We are saying that we do not regard that law as proper and that we are not going to fund many of the abortions which are legally correct under the democratic processes of South Australia. [More…]
We live in a pluralist and democratic community and ultimately we should never forget that religious freedom in this community rests upon the doctrine of the separation of the Church from the state. [More…]
It seems to me that it would be regarded as a very serious deficiency in the democratic process for the statements of shadow Ministers not to be treated significantly. [More…]
I think there are about 151 governments represented at the United Nations but only about 20 would be called representative and democratic. [More…]
With a little bit of luck the undemocratic government in Uganda has gone by the board following great hardship and misery. [More…]
Honourable members will forgive my cynicism, scepticism or pessimismcall it what they will- for thinking that this is a wonderful place for high aspirations, for democratic parliamentary participation and for very low achievement. [More…]
Parliament House, the centre of the nation’s capital and the seat of our democratic government, surely should be the symbol to Australians, along with the flag and the national song. [More…]
Sir Bernard has told me that he has never belonged to the Democratic Labor Party and has never belonged to the National Civic Council. [More…]
In having a look at them we find, at a rough calculation, that no more than 22 could be called democratically elected parliaments. [More…]
In the 22 countries that I refer to as democratic I even include countries which are run something akin to the way in which Queensland is being run where, under the electoral system my Party could not win an election in a million years. [More…]
With regard to the Middle East the oil bloc was taking effect and we saw what are commonly called democratic or Western bloc countries voting or abstaining because of the fact that they had to import their oil from the Middle East. [More…]
Albania 7, Algeria 6, Australia 1, Austria 1, Belgium 1, Brazil 4, Bulgaria 7, Canada 1, Costa Rica 1, Cuba 7, Cyprus 4, Czechoslovakia 7, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 7, Denmark 1, Egypt S, Finland 2, France 1, Gabon 6, German Democratic Republic 7, Germany (Federal Republic of) I, Greece 2, Haiti 7, Hungary 6, Iceland 1, India 2, Indonesia S, Iran 6 (at the time), Ireland 1, Israel 2, Italy 2, Ivory Coast 6, Japan 2, Jordan 6, Kenya 5, Lebanon 4, Liberia 6, Luxembourg 1, Madagascar 5, Malawi 7, Malaysia 3, Mexico 4, Monaco, Mongolia 7, Morocco 4, Nepal 6, Netherlands 1, New Zealand 1, Nicaragua 5, Norway 1, Panama S, Paraguay 3, Poland 6, Portugal 2, Republic of Korea S, Romania 7, Senegal S, Sierra Leone 3, Singapore 3, Spain 2, Sri Lanka 2, Sudan 6, Sweden 1, Switzerland 1, Syrian Arab Republic 3, Thailand 6, Tunisia 6, Turkey 2, United Arab Emirates 3, United Kingdom 1, United Republic of Cameroon 6, United States of America 1, USSR 7, Venezuela 1, Yugoslavia 6, Zaire 7, Zambia 3. [More…]
Albania is given seven points, Algeria six, Bulgaria seven, Cuba seven, Czechoslovakia seven, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea seven, Egypt five, Gabon six, the Democratic Republic of Germany seven, Haiti seven and so on. [More…]
Some may say that that trip confirmed my prejudices more than anything I would have seen at the conference where all people pretend to be democratic. [More…]
The train to West Berlin travels through East Germany, the so-called German Democratic Republic. [More…]
The dogs are placed underneath the rear of the train and they proceed to the engine, with the guards walking alongside, to make sure that nobody is hanging on underneath to get out of the Democratic Republic. [More…]
A mirror is pushed underneath the buses to make sure that nobody leaves the German Democratic Republic. [More…]
Chile, South Africa and Israel are not the only undemocratic countries. [More…]
There are plenty of other undemocratic countries. [More…]
I am not suggesting that some of the countries referred to are not undemocratic. [More…]
The countries that I have referred to are not the only ones that are not undemocratic. [More…]
The 1979 meeting is to be held in Prague, the 1980 meeting in Berlin in the German Democratic Republic and the 1981 meeting in Havana, Cuba. [More…]
It is not possible to differentiate in the statistics between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. [More…]
There is no other proper democratic course of action; yet the Opposition is using crocodile tears and extravagant words to suggest that the Government is overstepping the mark in this matter. [More…]
We want to see democratic self-government. [More…]
After all, we are here as members of a representative assembly elected by democratic processes. [More…]
The legislation ensures that the Assembly will be able to exercise its democratic function in making abundantly clear the wishes of Norfolk Islanders. [More…]
The democratic participation of youth in national decision making is an inalienable right of all strata of youth and should be an ongoing process which reflects their aspirations in pursuit of national goals. [More…]
That is a situation in relation to which, in Australian democratic parliamentary practice, one would have to look to Queensland for an example. [More…]
We are taking this decision tonight at a time when there is a great tendency to demean parliament, where there is often mockery through the media and a disparagement of democratic processes. [More…]
Norfolk Island would be free to make its own laws in a far more democratic way under the Opposition ‘s proposal. [More…]
They wanted to have a democratic participation in deciding their own affairs. [More…]
Firstly, I believe that a democratic society ignores the right of privacy at its peril. [More…]
It is interesting to note that most, if not all, of those countries have had social democratic governments which have spurred on this valuable work. [More…]
However, surely the whole function of the democratic process depends on giving people the opportunity to misbehave. [More…]
Let us face it: Elections are the actual exercise of a democratic process and should not be interfered with by this kind of paternalism. [More…]
For my own part, I believe that the loss of the Vietnam war was one of the most significant and detrimental events, as far as the democratic countries are concerned, in this century. [More…]
People in Australia want the country to develop as a free enterprise, democratic community in which both compassion and competence are delivered to the people by the Government. [More…]
Is that not democratic?’ [More…]
That would be democratic if the Senate respected the views of the Government in the House of Representatives, the Lower House, but that is not the way in which it has behaved in the past. [More…]
I do not see that one needs to extend this kind of mock democratic process to these lengths when other statutory bodies of the Commonwealth do not need to have the approval ofParliament for their equipment, construction or any other thing. [More…]
The Minister will recall that it was the Labor Government which, in 1974, extended recognition to, and established diplomatic relations with, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. [More…]
It is gratifying that the present Government has not withdrawn that recognition although relations with the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea are in a state of suspense. [More…]
We take the view that Australia should keep open the prospect of restoring relations with the Democratic People’s [More…]
Mr Justice Hope pointed out that the justification for the existence of a security organization in a democratic country should be reflected in its charter and, in particular, its functions as set out in that charter. [More…]
It will equip ASIO with the powers essential for those tasks and at the same time provide safeguards for the rights of individuals and the continuation of our democratic institutions. [More…]
That was the first time there was some democratic approach to this issue. [More…]
That this House expresses its grave concern and regret that Queensland is approaching the status of a one party state, that members of the Parliament have been denied basic democratic rights in accordance with Westminster principles of parliamentary democracy and that Queensland Opposition members have been denied balanced facilities, resources and speaking time, and accordingly the House should initiate action designed to established a Bill of Rights describing and protecting basic political and human rights of all Australians - [More…]
Nonetheless, it is part of the democratic process to provide the Opposition with the opportunity to debate issues. [More…]
In the democratic world this will require more tolerant attitudes than are presently obvious. [More…]
In an energy hungry world, we are selling those resources not to the developing countries, not to the countries that have not yet established industrial bases, but we are exporting those resources more and more rapidly simply to reinforce the power of the United States, Japan and the western European countries, and a few islands of very antidemocratic regimes. [More…]
This great concentration of power in fewer and fewer hands is subject to less and less democratic control. [More…]
The challenge to traditional democratic socialism has been expressed in a number of deeply dispiriting doctrines. [More…]
Although Mr Fraser ‘s practice has been rather erratic this sort of approach strikes directly at the conventional democratic socialist notion that equality and equity can only be assured by a stronger public sector. [More…]
I have in many ways considerable respect for the Minister but in a democratic country such as ours there surely comes a point when any Minister with selfrespect, with concern for the department which he manages- in this case for the objectives of an adequate national health scheme- must say to his colleagues in the Cabinet ‘I can go no farther with emasculating, cutting and jettisoning schemes. ‘ [More…]
Wherever inflation has been allowed to rip along it has led not just to the destruction or diminution of the value of the currency but inevitably it has meant the destruction of democratic institutions. [More…]
It was a consideration of those circumstances and a consideration of the whole array of democratic institutions in this country that prompted the Treasurer and the Government to put down the statement of last Thursday. [More…]
This was an excellent democratic, statesmanlike initiative. [More…]
The policy speeches of 1975 and 1977 remain living documents of the kind of Australia these government parties support, the kind of Australia that we will work for- a liberal democratic society of free independent people with a pride in being able to do things for themselves, with a government that established circumstances which enables individuals and corporations to work out their own future in their own way. [More…]
This afternoon when discussing this sort of legislation I expressed concern about the danger for a free democratic society arising from the accumulation of vast amounts of information in the hands of institutions and departments set up with the authority of this Parliament. [More…]
In a modern democratic state it is important that Ministers be protected from circumstances in which they can be called upon to supply such information. [More…]
Equally, people of a democratic state need to be protected from the misuse of that information by its supply in circumstances where the evidence that appears on its surface to call in question the character of a person cannot be substantiated. [More…]
It was created essentially because in a democratic community and under our system of law, over a period of time certain relationships attached to individuals in this community have been regarded as sacrosanct and as the subject of privilege. [More…]
We are going to adopt the procedures that are more relevant to 1984 than they are to a democratic plural society in Australia in 1979. [More…]
Keeping in mind the instant diplomatic recognition of the governments of Afghanistan, Iran and Uganda which have taken power recently without the advantage of democratic elections, I believe Zimbabwe-Rhodesia has a strong case for international recognition, bearing in mind the 64 per cent poll. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a statement of President Carter that human rights constituted the soul of American foreign policy and that the United States of America would demonstrate its affinity with democratic nations through its allocation of assistance funds and will not hesitate to convey its outrage- nor will it pretend that its relations are unaffected- if human rights violations persist in Cambodia, Chile, Uganda, South Africa, Nicaragua, Ethiopia and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Its personnel has changed a good deal and that is the normal situation of elected institutions in democratic societies. [More…]
It is a battling reversion to form by the Liberal Party of Australia which internally was starting to make slight and tentative steps towards being democratic. [More…]
In a very democratic way last year the Government put to the people of the Australian Capital Territory whether they wanted self-government or whether they wanted the existing arrangements to continue. [More…]
The Government is like a puppet at the end of the Ansett string because when Ansett slings as much to a political Party as he has to yours, Mr Deputy Speaker, to the Liberal Party and the National Country Party and to the Australian Democratic Labor Party - [More…]
These are the people who will subvert every parliamentary and democratic institution in the country. [More…]
That is a view which has no place in a democratic system. [More…]
A police force discharging the duties assigned to the AFP- indeed, any police force in a genuinely democratic society- will not enjoy public confidence and trust unless it is accountable, and moreover, is seen to wish to be accountable. [More…]
In the course of that visit one came into close contact with many parliamentary people from around the world, but the real drive amongst people such as ourselves was to try to establish a wider-ranging contact amongst the democratic forces of the world. [More…]
We are satisfied that the common roll elections were held in a free and fair manner, openly and in accord with usual democratic practices, particularly considering that they were the first universal franchise elections to be conducted in Zimbabwe Rhodesia. [More…]
I think it was much closer to being a democratic election than an election in Queensland. [More…]
Let him forget about the Boeings and other things that he is now giving to himself, and talk about facilities for a democratic Opposition. [More…]
Therefore, the Australian Capital Territory has a House of Assembly, which I believe has probably put back the democratic process locally by a number of years. [More…]
Fortunately, we in Australia, a democratic society, are free to judge such matters. [More…]
Both countries are having elections and in both cases nuclear power generation is going to be the subject of a democratic process- the people agree with it or otherwise. [More…]
While rejecting the validity of existing constitutional arrangements which allow a white minority to control the levers of power, he accepted that a democratic constitution was not incompatible with special provisions for the white minority in the form of reserves seats ‘even out of proportion to the numbers involved’, as he himself said. [More…]
Confirmed that they were wholly committed to genuine black majority rule for the people of Zimbabwe; recognised, in this context, that the internal settlement constitution is defective in certain important respects; fully accepted that it is the constitutional responsibility of the British Government to grant legal independence to Zimbabwe on the basis of majority rule; recognised that the search for a lasting settlement must involve all parties to the conflict; were deeply conscious of the urgent need to achieve such a settlement and bring peace to the people of Zimbabwe and their neighbours; accepted that independence on the basis of majority rule requires the adoption of a democratic constitution including appropriate safeguards for minorities; acknowledged that the government formed under such an independent constitution must be chosen through free and fair elections, properly supervised under British Government authority, and with Commonwealth observers; and welcomed the British Government’s indication that an appropriate procedure for advancing towards these objectives would be for it to call a constitutional conference to which all parties would be invited. [More…]
Even though one might see some half truth in that, the implications for the political system under which we are elected to represent the people- that is to say, the democratic system- are very alarming. [More…]
Lord Mountbatten stood for all the very things which we in this Parliament would hold dear- a democratic system, the right to say what we think and what we believe and the right to fight for that through the democratic process, and was the kind of person who should have been held on a pinnacle by all of us. [More…]
What has been happening for some time in the Liberal Party of New South Wales has not only caused public concern but also presents an open attack on the democratic tradition of Australia, deceiving the members of the Party and the nation, and we are conscience bound to inform our readers of the activities of the Ethnic Council of the Liberal Party of New South Wales. [More…]
No democratic government has ever been able to spend its way out of its unemployment problems. [More…]
This sort of approach strikes directly at the conventional democratic socialist notion that equality and equity can only be assured by a stronger public sector. [More…]
There was the Garland affair, the Robinson affair and the Withers affair, all scandals sufficient to bring down the government in any other democratic country in the Western World. [More…]
Thus, the right to strike constitutes a fundamental freedom in a democratic society. [More…]
If it is not checked, then it will threaten our democratic system itself . [More…]
If democratic countries such as Australia are to cope with these problems they must take the people into their confidence. [More…]
This sort of approach strikes directly at the conventional democratic socialist notion that equality and equity can only be assured by a stronger public sector. [More…]
No democratic government on the face of this earth has found a popular way in which to defeat inflation, to reduce the [More…]
If one examines the News one finds that the responsibilities of a free Press in a democratic society have been abandoned in South Australia. [More…]
However, the News has abandoned the responsibilities of a free Press in a democratic society. [More…]
With the News in South Australia we simply have two perverts- the editor and the proprietor perverting the democratic process in the State of South Australia. [More…]
Labor has clearly endorsed political strikes in adopting this plank, and has indicated its contempt for the democratic parliamentary process. [More…]
The Labor Party has also given a commitment to recognise ‘the rights of unions to regulate their own affairs in a democratic way free from Government and judicial interference’. [More…]
Those rules must be designed with the aim of preserving a democratic society in which people can go about their legitimate business free from unwarranted interference. [More…]
As such, they are an affront to our democratic process and a deliberate attempt to undermine the effective functioning of our economy. [More…]
The recognition of the rights of unions to regulate their own affairs in a democratic way, free - [More…]
The ALP platform provides for the right of” workers to ‘organise in democratic trade unions’- no one objects to that- ‘and to collectively bargain and to exercise the right to strike in the course of such activities immune from any pains and penalties directed against unions and unionists’. [More…]
The Labor Party has also given a commitment to recognise ‘the rights of unions to regulate their own affairs in a democratic way free from government and judicial interference’. [More…]
I do not suggest it was not a democratic decision. [More…]
Whereas the report in various places urges us not to be patronising and claims, in referring to human rights, that we should not impose our democratic values on other countries, the fact is that it rather patronisingly suggests that we should not expect our neighbours to respect human dignity. [More…]
It just would not be true to say that all unions would act in a democratic way, free from judicial interference. [More…]
Taking the full extent of the continuum, on one end is the totalitarian state where secret police are an essential instrument of coercion and control, and at the other end is an ideal democratic state which is fully confident about its internal situation and which needs no protection against its own citizens. [More…]
Therefore, those who wish to preserve an open and democratic society need to be peculiarly aware of, and concerned about, the secret arm of government. [More…]
It may be that paradoxically it is necessary that we have a secret arm of government to preserve an open and democratic society, but that should never render us complacent about the supervision, accountability and responsibility of that organisation. [More…]
History should warn us that the so-called guardians of the democratic way of life often becomes its gravediggers. [More…]
These agencies have been used by at least one American President to deny American citizens their democratic rights, and in fact used by him to corrupt the electoral process which is surely at the heart of the democratic system. [More…]
There are limitations upon what a security organisation should do in a democratic society. [More…]
Again, we know that ASIO in this country has leaked material to the Press in order to help to corrupt the democratic process itself. [More…]
We need to ensure that, as in other democratic societies, the secret agencies of government do not contaminate the democratic process. [More…]
All of these situations which I have just mentioned- the Weimar, Salisbury and the ASIO responsibility to the CIA- deny the responsibility of the intelligence agency to the democratically elected government of the day. [More…]
Thus in seeking to avoid what I call the Nixon perversion, there is a real danger of allowing an autonomy to the intelligence agency which is equally subversive of democratic interests. [More…]
It can be rightfully and truthfully said that they reflect the democratic process. [More…]
Perhaps the real situation is as described by Benn and Peters at page 2 13 of Social Principles of the Democratic State wherein they wrote: lt is a paradox of freedom, that we must set a constraint to catch a constraint. [More…]
As it is, we have a long way to go before we can say that we have a genuine democratic system in this country. [More…]
This Bill will put the Organisation beyond the Parliament and beyond democratic control. [More…]
The problem with the first group is that it may become despairing about the possibility of society solving its difficulties, may adopt a paranoically threatening view of the external world and may look to a security service rather than a well informed, vigorous and sceptical democratic system to maintain stability. [More…]
Let me give honourable members a horrific example from a democratic country of how an essentially paranoid view about secrecy can create general hysteria and distort and pervert the traditional norms of law and justice. [More…]
Because a country is democratic, must everything be known? [More…]
There can be no fair justification in a free and democratic society such as ours for that sort of restraint. [More…]
Members of the ethnic community- this would be the case with the rest of Australia if subjected to a similar experienceresent the efforts by the Government to try to condition them to accept political propaganda which is slanted in a way that tends to favour the Government and they resent the enormous dilution of essential facts which should become commonplace information through any public broadcast or television service in a free and democratic society. [More…]
There must be criticism of all the functioning bodies serving a democratic system and, although a degree of secrecy must be respected for our security agencies, that secrecy must be kept at the minimal practical level. [More…]
The emotionalism which has been associated with so much of the objection to constructive critics in the past in my view has been couched out of concern to protect our security agency from any sort of criticism rather than a genuine concern about establishing or maintaining the minimal level of secrecy consistent with the democratic rights of the community and, on the other hand, an appropriately effective functioning of a security service. [More…]
This practice is regarded as basic in various parts of the democratic world and should be regarded as basic in Australia. [More…]
All these countries do not have the same political or democratic outlook that we have as a nation. [More…]
In other democratic nations- or supposedly democratic nations- the degree of sacrifice is far greater than phone tap or search warrant powers. [More…]
It is hope arising above expectations to expect Australia irrespective of its political leadership or democratic consequences to remain aloof from world affairs, the consequences of world trade and our own defence requirements throughout the world. [More…]
It is terribly important for all of us to realise that the distinction between democratic countries and non-democatic countries is relatively narrow. [More…]
The most important differentiation between democratic countries and undemocratic and totalitarian countries is that in democratic countries people have a right to disagree with the governments in those countries and the right to organise to remove those governments. [More…]
In other words, they are not prepared to rely on persuasion, propaganda, rational argument, voting, meetings, marches or whatever else is considered to be part of the democratic way of life. [More…]
The important thing is that it ought to be plain to the people who run our intelligence organisations that they are under parliamentary supervision, that the people in general believe in the democratic process, that we do not want ASIO to interfere with what we consider to be legal though perhaps extremely unpopular political movements and that we have to protect the civil liberties of individuals in this society although they may be people who hold the most unpopular views. [More…]
What distinguishes a democratic society from an undemocratic society is the protection of the right to disagree- to disagree with the vast majority of the people. [More…]
The central issue is the relative priority to be given to the power of two institutions: First, the democratic Parliament, the method of operation of which is open and subject to intensive scrutiny by the Press and by the public; and secondly, a bureaucratic secret organisation the method of operation of which is unknown and is not subject to any scrutiny at all. [More…]
By the organisation itself or by a democratic and responsible community? [More…]
This is the difference between an organisation that is essentially frozen inside its castle and an organisation which is not frozen, such as this Parliament, which is subject to democratic pressures. [More…]
They are exempt from any form of democratic scrutiny. [More…]
If we do believe in the democratic system- we all know it has been under very great threat in recent years- I hope we will not do something that weakens the strength of democratic institutions by our own act. [More…]
He has no respect for the civil rights of persons and no respect for the legal rights of citizens in a democratic society. [More…]
A financial accountability therefore is vitally important in ensuring that a security agency stays within the bounds of a democratic society. [More…]
Unfortunately the experience of democratic societies of security organisations has not been good. [More…]
I believe we are discussing one of the fundamental issues of democratic society. [More…]
The 1979 elections were contested by the People’s National Party, Popular Front Party, United National Convention, Action Congress Party, Third Force Party and Social Democratic Front. [More…]
That is part of the normal democratic process. [More…]
The point again is that that puts in an extremely subjective judgment, because the word ‘ultimately’ might mean 100 years, 150 years or 200 years, and that could lead to such an extraordinarily cautious or repressive view being taken of what is legitimate or illegitimate behaviour that we will find ASIO’s powers being extended in a way which I think is quite objectionable in a democratic community like ours. [More…]
Surely within the context of a democratic society that is their right. [More…]
It is a creature of the Australian democratic body politik. [More…]
It certainly does not- as has been suggested by honourable members opposite in this debate- prevent people from going out into the community and advocating a different form of democratic government. [More…]
I am referring to an historic situation where it was the considered view of the people who now comprise this Government that that sort of action was undermining the whole democratic system and there was no way that such action by a citizen would not fall within this definition. [More…]
I would have thought that in a democratic society the Parliament was responsible for and required to provide that protection. [More…]
The dilemma of this clause is that it imposes a responsibility on the Director-General which means that he does have seriously to consider whether he is going to waste the time and funds of his organisation by placing officers of security in buildings in Brisbane to take photographs of people who are exercising their democratic rights. [More…]
Whether one likes street marches or not, that argument is really part of the ongoing democratic argument in our community and in my view ought to be excluded from security surveillance. [More…]
I think we have to be very realistic in our consideration of this matter because there are certain elements within the trade union movement- and I hasten to add, before anybody from the Opposition side jumps on me, that they are extreme minority elementswhich would not be democratic in their intentions. [More…]
What sort of a democratic parliamentary institution are we if we really are abdicating our rights and saying to somebody else: ‘You take them. [More…]
I think we ought to be trying in this case to ensure that this legislation will in fact carry out the functions of enhancing security and of ensuring that the security organisations in Australia are able to carry out their functions and that the people of Australia will have confidence that they are carrying out those functions in a manner which the people of a democratic society are entitled to expect. [More…]
The ability to establish a security file on a matter which is deemed to be subversive but which is not illegal would seem to be an extension of the inroads into the legal rights of citizens which should not be tolerated in a democratic society. [More…]
I have not bothered to consider the KGB in this debate because I believed that the Committee was debating the role of a secret agency or a security agency in a democratic society. [More…]
However, having listened to this debate all afternoon, I am beginning to suspect that many honourable members on the Government side do not have a very full or clear appreciation of democratic values. [More…]
1 ) How many persons are employed in Canberra by the Embassies of (a) Afghanistan; (b) Bulgaria; (c) Burma; (d) China; (e) Czechoslovakia; (f) Finland; (g) the German Democratic Republic; (h) Hungary; (i) Mongolia; (j) Poland; (k) Romania; (I) the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and (m) Vietnam. [More…]
The German Democratic Republic- Number of persons employed: home-based- 9, locally engaged- nil, total- 9. [More…]
German Democratic Republic, Ambassador- 1 counsellor, 1 third secretary and 3 attaches. [More…]
German Democratic Republic- Number of persons employed: [More…]
German Democratic Republic- Occupational designations and duties [More…]
Your contribution clearly should be viewed not as an act of altruistic generosity but as a sound and very essential investment in the protection of your commercial future as well as our basic democratic life style. [More…]
We social democrats or democratic socialists- in other words, we members of the Labor Party- believe that people do best if they operate in a mixed economy, that is, a private business sector operating in partnership with a government sector, in which the operation of market forces is controlled by the government either through legal rules or through direct intervention. [More…]
Democratic socialists will decide these issues in a pragmatic way on the merits of each case. [More…]
The challenge to traditional democratic socialism has been expressed in a number of deeply dispiriting doctrines. [More…]
This sort of approach strikes directly at the conventional democratic socialist notion that equality and equity can only be assured by a stronger public sector. [More…]
An important section of the resolutions that the honourable member for St George pointed out is that an ALP government would recognise the rights of unions to regulate their own affairs in a democratic way free from government and judicial interference. [More…]
A parliament comprised of political neuters, which no doubt many honourable members on the government side would like, and in which only one point of view was put and there were a whole number of people who were absolutely safe, sitting round without an idea in their heads- and this is no doubt what honourable members opposite would likewould not be part of the democratic community. [More…]
Of course we know that the current Leader of the Australian Democrats is Leader of the Democrats and there is an effective, viable minority party in the form of a democratic party, because of the behaviour of the Prime Minister and the way that the former Minister, Senator Chipp, left the Government coalition parties as a protest. [More…]
No one in this House or in this nation should lose sight of one of the resolutions of the Australian Labor Party conference at Adelaide earlier this year to the effect that an Australian Labor Party government would recognise the rights of unions to regulate their affairs in a democratic way free from government and judicial interference. [More…]
Their purpose and their basic work is to look after their members, to negotiate on their behalf, to put forward proposals for consideration, to make requests and to do the kinds of things in a democratic society that are expected for the betterment of the workers’ lot. [More…]
The recognition of the rights of unions to regulate their own affairs in a democratic way free from government and judicial interference and at the same time expanding the role of the Industrial Registrar in advising on matters relating to rules so that unions will have access to information and independent advice which will allow them - [More…]
It is interesting to note that at the ALP conference in Adelaide the person who I suppose will soon become a member of this House, Mr Bob Hawke, endeavoured to establish what would have been a democratic process for the union movement in Australia. [More…]
Mr Hawke said that he wanted a contract referendum policy- a democratic policy. [More…]
Are decisions of the United Nations arrived at by including the votes of the leaders of countries who rule by the sword rather than by popular democratic vote? [More…]
They were drawn up on the basis of having full, free democratic elections in Vietnam and they were never allowed to operate. [More…]
If such legislation is allowed to persist in this country which means that people can be incarcerated or fined simply because they have expressed their democratic rights it will lead to a very fascist-like domination of the trade union movement and many other movements. [More…]
The Prime Minister should also state that, on the basis of ordinary democratic rights, they are entitled to hold a meeting and should not be refused those rights because somebody grabs hold of a law and says: Look, you have to get permission but we will not give you permission; so if there is a meeting, you will be arrested’. [More…]
No restrictions may be placed on the exercise of this right other than those imposed in conformity with the law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, public order … the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. [More…]
There has been democratic debate there. [More…]
The last point I mention is the way in which the smokescreen has been thrown up to divert attention from the left wing and Labor-inspired activities of people who seek to abuse the democratic rights of others in this country by false and fake assemblies. [More…]
If we are to work seriously towards an equitable and efficient system of democratic government in Australia, it is essential that we try to achieve a mutual respect and co-operation amongst the three levels of government. [More…]
Again, we get back to my point about the cynical abuse of the democratic process, of promising something to win an election and then conveniently discovering that circumstances will not allow its implementation ‘at this point of time’, to use one of the phrases the Prime Minister uses so cynically and so often. [More…]
South Africans, ultimately cannot hold out against what must occur; that is, rule by the majority of the people; one man, one vote; a democratic society as much as we have. [More…]
The South Africans must aim at an objective of a democratic society. [More…]
I would hope that in some way the South Africans would work step by step- even if it took 20 years- at least to bring about a just democratic society. [More…]
His contempt for democratic processes is very evident in the current public brawl with the Queensland Liberal Party over the issue of the next Senate elections. [More…]
This practice is regarded as basic in various pans of the democratic world and should be regarded as basic in Australia. [More…]
However, the amendment does involve taking the democratic operations of the Parliament on trust. [More…]
This practice is regarded as basic in various parts of the democratic world and should be regarded as basic in Australia. [More…]
This practice is regarded as basic in various parts of the democratic world and should be regarded as basic in Australia. [More…]
When we on the Opposition side ask ‘Who determines the reasons of state that overturn the fundamental principle on which a democratic society is based?’ [More…]
The Government is very silly and very trite if it believes that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, despite its antidemocratic track record, is going to be a better judge of national security and the people’s democratic rights than those who have been elected to serve the national interest. [More…]
That is the way it ought to be in any democratic society. [More…]
The Hoover problem is the creation of an independent agency which is too independent of the democratic authorities in society. [More…]
It is my view that the way in which clause 8 has been phrased opens up this society to the danger that ASIO will effectively escape democratic control. [More…]
Our amendment tries to strengthen effective democratic control first of all by inserting a general access provision in the form of proposed sub-clause (3). [More…]
What the Opposition is trying to do is to give to the democratically elected Executive general access to the information of ASIO, subject to the limitations about specific individuals. [More…]
Unless that is done, Ministers of the Crown and their colleagues, leading figures either in Government or Opposition, might be subjected to ASIO’s surveillance without the knowledge of any member of the democratically elected Executive. [More…]
I ask members on both sides of the Committee to take this clause very seriously because it remains the only major clause which allows some form of democratic control through the Executive over ASIO operations. [More…]
But it will not stop the charade that goes on; it will not stop the Speaker putting on his robes and the Parliament continuing all of the ceremony; it will not stop the talk about our democratic system when Parliament is opened. [More…]
Of course it is not part of the dialectical process of argument, debate, voting, open power struggles more or less openly resolved, that are characteristic of a democratic system. [More…]
I think we have more to fear from our own manipulation or perversion of the democratic process than from any external threat. [More…]
In other words Australia has far more to fear from our own self-induced destruction of the democratic process than from external threat or the thought of spies with sinister beards and bombs in their pockets who come amongst us in our community. [More…]
The implication that in order to preserve democracy in this country it is necessary to disregard democratic safeguards I find not only an odious argument but actually a stupid argument. [More…]
A democratic security service in Australia is a contradiction in terms. [More…]
I think that the very secrecy of its workings means that it gets more and more remote from what is going on in the democratic mainstream in Australia. [More…]
If a Minister is not answerable in this place, we lose any pretence of democratic control through the Parliament about what is going on in ASIO. [More…]
There is much more evidence to suggest that security organisations in fact have contributed to the undermining of the democratic system in a variety of countries than they have actually assisted in preserving it. [More…]
If the answer is no, how does the Minister justify in a so-called democratic society the denial of such information not to the Parliament but to the elected Executive? [More…]
We are going to stand up here and solemnly declare that we who are the direct representatives of this democratic society are going to allow ourselves to be treated as inferior to public servants- in effect the faceless people who are nameless and who constitute the Public Service- called ASIO. [More…]
We would like to see the honourable member exhibiting the democratic trends that are just emerging slightly in relation to this Bill, instead of the Australian Labor Party settling the position behind closed doors. [More…]
It is depressing that the Australian Press has given no information whatever on the election results in Japan, one of the very few countries with a democratic constitution and democratic behaviour. [More…]
This Government is not a democratic government. [More…]
So they should, as this is a democratic country. [More…]
How does the Government expect to maintain the democratic forces in this country if it is to deny to an Opposition the chance to move amendments. [More…]
This is a democratic country. [More…]
There is abundant evidence, I think, that there is a great deal of collusion between the great international systems and that ASIO, MI6, the KGB and the Central Intelligence Agency have more in common with each other than with the democratic system in our own country. [More…]
Law making by these methods is antipathetic to the best procedures open to be pursued in a democratic socity. [More…]
1 be given to the work of the Parliament because ultimately the democratic system cannot work without the Parliament. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party senators supported him and the conservative government of the day was forced to accept a motion in the Senate. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of the actions of the South Korean Government in using its central intelligence agency once again to harass its main opposition, the New Democratic Party, this time to overthrow the party’s leadership and prompt the withdrawal of the opposition from the Parliament? [More…]
It is a fact that earlier this month the Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the New Democratic Party was expelled from the Republic of Korea National Assembly by a vote of the Government parties for his allegedly anti-nationalist attitude in calling on the United States to withdraw its support for the Government of the Republic of Korea and for publicly suggesting that the United States should exert direct and public pressure on President Park. [More…]
The challenge to traditional democratic socialism has been expressed in a number of deeply dispiriting doctrines. [More…]
This sort of approach strikes directly at the conventional democratic socialist notion that equality and equity can only be assured by a stronger public sector. [More…]
The great challenge of these times for a democratic society such as ours is the challenge to democratic institutions. [More…]
But one remembers the rather hysterical campaign that the organisation ran when the referendum was held in New South Wales to consider whether there should be a democratic election of the New South Wales Upper House. [More…]
Being a rather secret organisation, it was not all that interested in having democratic elections in the New South Wales Upper House. [More…]
We are not talking about a desire to have sophisticated propaganda units, but of the need for the Opposition to give some sense of fairness to the democratic process, to have adequate resources for research and to inform and assist the Opposition in an analysis of the Government’s policies. [More…]
We should seek to get the best out of members of parliament for the benefit of the parliament and our democratic system of government. [More…]
This is a matter that has worried other parliaments and other people who are concerned for the process of government in countries where the system of government is democratic and, particularly, where the Westminster system of democracy is operating. [More…]
A related and important objection is that the Estimates committees de-politicise our activities, minimising the critical attacking political function that is an essential part of the democratic system of government. [More…]
It has been a debate which has enabled honourable members to consider the Estimates in a democratic way. [More…]
It is inadequate; it is undemocratic and it is giving greater power to the Executive. [More…]
It is also undisputed, however, that material success alone does not guarantee community satisfaction and the deficiencies of the previous Government of the Republic of Korea in representing what we would generally regard as basic democratic rights have been the cause of a great deal of dissatisfaction in the Republic of Korea. [More…]
In recording our sadness at the manner of the late President’s death we also feel a need to observe that perhaps the new government might find it timely to initiate a program aimed at establishing broadly and comprehensively the democratic rights of the people ofKorea including the basic rights of the members of its National Assembly under a new constitution to reinforce the impressive material gains which have been made in its economy. [More…]
The Australian Federal Police- indeed, any police force in a genuinely democratic societywill not enjoy public confidence and trust unless it is accountable, and moreover, is seen to wish to be accountable. [More…]
Clearly, the local authority is a proper democratic body to handle such matters. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) for joining the philosophy of democratic socialism and establishing for us this evening that the biggest influences on centralism and dehumanising the economic system under which we live are to be found not in the public sector but in the private sector. [More…]
Perhaps there is a tendency for policy makers in democratic systems to listen to the highly organised and highly articulate welfare groups, which leads mainly to income transfers being made from middle income earners to other middle income earners. [More…]
I can well understand the feeling of people who have been forced to flee from their homelands because of persecution of themselves or thenfamilies and who have risked their lives in order to seek for themselves and their families a new, secure and democratic future. [More…]
The challenge to traditional democratic socialism has been expressed in a number of deeply dispiriting doctrines. [More…]
This sort of approach strikes directly at the conventional democratic socialist notion that equality and equity can only be assured by a stronger public sector. [More…]
It is essential to the democratic process. [More…]
This case attacks the very roots of our democratic system. [More…]
The democratic movement in the Soviet Union has received some severe setbacks in recent years. [More…]
Certainly, no person who believes in democratic rights and civil liberties or who feels that it is the right of an individual to practise religion, politics or such other acceptable social activities as he sees as being within his interests, thinks that those rights should be denied. [More…]
Such regimes are not limited to the Soviet Union but many do not profess to be libertarian or democratic. [More…]
It was not taken by a group of Western democratic conservative governments. [More…]
Australia but we were biased in favour of freedom, in favour of a pluralist type society and in favour of a democratic society. [More…]
I think that it is important to have democratic freedom in the Soviet Union. [More…]
If people had democratic freedoms, the nationality questions would be resolved in a democratic manner inside the United Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I have no argument whatsoever with the Opposition ‘s democratic responsibilities in advancing its own policy but I believe that I have a very real responsibility to warn the Australian people that if Labor proceeds to re-introduce a Medibank-type arrangement it will return this country to the great health cost explosion which occurred when Labor was last in Government. [More…]
That is their choice in this democratic society. [More…]
Parliament and its members by their very nature must expect comment or criticism- it is of the substance of our democratic system. [More…]
It did begin as a seemingly academic institution but its democratic structure has encouraged Aboriginal participation and involvement in crucial community needs. [More…]
Then we had the conflict between Fretilin and the Timorese Democratic Union which was an excuse for the Indonesians to take over the country. [More…]
The sad thing about it is that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), when Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, implied that really most of the losses had occurred during the civil war between the Fretilin and the Democratic Union of Timor. [More…]
The Parliament has its place as a place for free speech and free debate in the interests of the democratic institutions of our country. [More…]
But the courts of this country, in the administration of justice as we know it, have equal importance in our democratic processes. [More…]
I believe that is what democratic socialism is all about. [More…]
The way in which the term ‘orderly’ is used sometimes reminds me of some states that have never held an election in their history yet manage to use the word ‘democratic’. [More…]
‘Democratic’ is a nice word as long as it is not too precisely defined. [More…]
implied that really most of the losses had occurred during the civil war between the Fretilin and the Democratic Union of Timor. [More…]
A report by the International Committee of the Red Cross proves that only 1,500 people died in the civil war between the Fretilin and the Democratic Union of Timor. [More…]
As much as possible in serving the needs of a civilian society, we must maintain a commitment which philosophically is consistent with the standards of a civilian society- not of a paramilitary society or of a militaristic society- in a pluralistic democratic system. [More…]
After all, since World War II the characteristic of all nationsboth democratic and undemocratic nations- has been that public expenditures have come to operate an increasing proportion of the expenditures, the revenues and the flows of finance within any community. [More…]
My recollection is that Mr C. B. Byrne, then a distinguished senator from Queensland, represented the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But let us be under no illusion that the kinds of powers are a threat to the whole democratic way of life which we encourage in this society. [More…]
However, action taken to restore, or perhaps to endow, the public with faith in the democratic process is essential. [More…]
Agreement has now been reached on an independence constitution, and on arrangements for the transitional period leading to the holding of free and fully democratic elections in Rhodesia. [More…]
In other days I have participated- successfully too- in the marshalling of student ideas and energies towards the democratic process. [More…]
They cannot exercise it individually and, therefore, they must have a system of entrusting the sovereignty to others; and that is the democratic parliamentary system in which we are elected, by a group of people in Australia, to come here and speak for them and represent them. [More…]
to (5) The Australian Government continues to recognise the Pol Pot regime of Democratic Kampuchea. [More…]