democratically - hofreps - 1970

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

For this gentleman to go to a foreign land and to rubbish his own land and its Government which was duly and democratically elected is to plumb the very depths of indecency. [More…]
We have democratically elected members of the Austraiian Labor Party in Parliament. [More…]
I am talking about his conduct in the House as a democratically elected person. [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…]
This Parliament must make itself democratically responsible for the wellbeing and safety of all its citizens. [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…]
To be in parliamentary opposition to a democratically elected government must at times be galling and frustrating. [More…]
This Government has been democratically elected on two occasions. [More…]
Parliament must be made to work smoothly, more often and democratically. [More…]
The Moratorium is really an attempt to coerce a democratically elected government by strikes by street violence and by so-called happenings. [More…]
I would rather that it be a more Socialist measure, and that its workings should conform more to the policies of a democratically elected government. [More…]
We on this side of the House, along with many influential sections of the wool industry, believe that the AWIC would be a much better organisation if it were elected democratically by the wool growers, in the same way as the Parliament is elected by the people, rather than being appointed in the way it is. [More…]
The recent Vietnam Moratorium Campaign was an illegal operation and a defiance of democratically enacted laws. [More…]
One of the difficulties confronting the Labor Party, because of the way it is treated by the media, is the manner in which its policy is thrashed out in public by people who are democratically elected by the Party’s organisations in the various States. [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…]
So that is perhaps why we have been faced with this farcical situation today, why the work of Parliament has been set aside for today; why the most serious processes of Parliament have been prostituted to try to provide a smokescreen over the actions of the Leader of the Opposition who, on his own admission, has gone out to advise young men to ignore the decisions of this Parliament, to flout the provisions of Acts democratically enacted by the Parliament for the nation’s defence, to scorn the law enforcement bodies and especially those in them honourably discharged from the Queen’s service and to advise the troops in the field in the face of the very enemy, to refuse to continue to fight. [More…]
As I have said in this chamber time and time again, it is not a democratically elected body representing the bona fide woolgrowers of Australia. [More…]
Even 300, 400 or 500 years ago universities were a little more democratically controlled although discipline then was perhaps a little more rigorous when one did break the rules. [More…]
The motion will give the House an opportunity democratically to establish whether in fact the improvements in social service benefits which are outlined generally in the motion should be effected by the Government. [More…]
But it is also true, as the Minister pointed out in his statement, that if a immunity believes that the circulation of certain material is objectionable to itself as a community, it has the right, through its democratically elected government to protect itself. [More…]
Let us always remember that we are members of a Parliament that is democratically elected to act in the best interests of the majority of all Australians. [More…]
We are now living in a modern world, a one-day world, a world of mass communications in which we are entitled democratically to look at and discuss prejudices throughout the world. [More…]
Further, are not the commercial terms laid down to the democratically elected Government of Ceylon more onerous than those extended to Malaysia and Singapore in normal arms and ammunition supply transactions and so stringent as to make it unlikely that Ceylon can fulfil them and so obtain any assistance from Australia? [More…]
The Government has not that right democratically. [More…]
The British legislation, our legislation and other Acts throughout the world pay greater regard to the public interest, to the interests of other people and to the creation of a system which is responsible to some democratically responsible body. [More…]
The alternative, which is certainly in accordance with my thinking, is to evolve a system which makes that privately imposed system, in the mixed economy type of situation that we have, the responsibility of democratically appointed bodies. [More…]
There must be some degree of orderliness in it, but it must be orderliness imposed by someone who is responsible to a democratically elected institution such as the Parliament, or some board or tribunal that is itself responsible. [More…]
In the first place they seek to usurp the role and the function of democratically elected government. [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…]
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…]
The unions must have responsible and democratically elected leaders representative of the people in the work force. [More…]
They have never been adequately investigated and they are not responsible to any democratically elected bodies. [More…]
I resent very strongly the action of the Postal Union in using this sort of tactic and I wish to register my protest in this democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnaminity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
Labor will reconstitute the AWIC and the Australian Wool Board on a democratically elected basis and have an investigation and an evaluation of wool promotion and research. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
That, the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
That, the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [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…]
That, the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
That the Government go beyond the plea of the Prime Minister for magnanimity and compassion in the trial of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on charges of treason, and insist on the liberty of this openly and democratically elected leader. [More…]
Labor will reconstitute the AWIC and the Australian Wool Board on a democratically elected basis and have an investigation and evaluation of wool promotion and research. [More…]
We are likely to run things a little more democratically in some respects in Papua New Guinea. [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…]
Will the Government propose to the United Nations Assembly that the pitiful conditions of the nine million refugees now in West Bengal, and the situation in East Pakistan, pose a threat to peace and international security and that consequently the United Nations Organisation should endeavour to bring about a peaceful settlement that will meet the already democratically expressed wishes of the people of East Pakistan. [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…]
It is just possible, too, that there are people in the community who are not attached to any of the parties, lt is just possible that they take seriously the fact that the Parliament is the repository, or is supposed to be the repository, of the people’s rights and so they go past the member, they go past the Party and they go direct to the democratically elected Parliament of the nation sitting as a Parliament - to what has been called the grand constituency of all the people. [More…]
That is not the same situation, as is implied widely on the other side of the House, as electors petitioning through their democratically elected representatives to this institution, They are just not the same things. [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…]
If this is the reason, it may be politically expedient but it is certainly democratically contemptible. [More…]
Australia is prosperous, largely free democratically and strategically secure, and possessed of advantages which no other country has. [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…]
I am simply asking this House as a democratically elected body how it justifies allowing a sum of $1,200 per annum whilst it allows deductions of $364 for a wife, $208 for the first child and $156 for other children? [More…]
Governments are expected to govern democratically and mete out equal treatment to all sections of the community. [More…]
Does the Government have any proposal for contributor representation, democratically elected by the right of vote for all contributing members to funds, to be written into the regulations controlling these funds; if not, why not. [More…]
This Government, which has been democratically elected by the people of Australia, has come into office at a time when Australian finances are better than they have been for many years. [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…]
These are the people who still believe the ranting and raving of the Opposition about socialism, about peace and about having a democratically based party in power. [More…]
This legislation has been democratically put before the Parliament and it will be democratically defeated or passed. [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…]
Insofar as the shop steward is concerned, we have to realise that this individual is democratically elected. [More…]
It is a democratically decided platform which is freely available to all people and which was freely available before the people made their decision last December. [More…]
The requirement for the Minister for Urban and Regional Development to approve regional organisations is a discretion that will be exercised democratically and in the light of the Australian Government’s concern for the ordinary citizen. [More…]
This would prevent the implementation of measures which are necessary to ensure that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission operates effectively; that agreements made do in fact represent the wishes of the members of the organisations; and that organisations themselves are democratically controlled by their members. [More…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected - democratically elected - by their unions. [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…]
To my mind that is far more desirable and far more in accord with the precepts that this place democratically should hold dear. [More…]
The Parliament has been conducted democratically and in accordance with the highest traditions of this august House. [More…]
If it is found that these matters are being handled in that way and that no regard is being had to decisions of democratically elected local government, and if speculators can go their own merry way without getting approval from the local planning authorities, it is time that the Housing Commission and other authorities took up all land development. [More…]
The second is designed to amend the Constitution to ensure that members of the House of Representatives and members of the Parliament of the States are chosen directly and democratically by the people. [More…]
The Bill therefore, simply stated, is a Bill for an Act ‘to alter the Constitution so as to ensure that ‘the members of the House of Representatives and of the Parliaments of the States are chosen directly and democratically by the people’. [More…]
To that point I agree that that is a description of this Bill- and democratically by the People. [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…]
In the Title, omit the words ‘and democratically by the People’, substitute the words ‘by the People and that the criterion for determining the size of an electoral division shall be the number of the people within it’. [More…]
But I do say that the words ‘by the People and that the criterion for determining the size of an electoral division shall be the number of the people within it’ should be substituted for the words ‘and democratically by the People’. [More…]
The words ‘and democratically’ are emotive, highly argumentative and should be eliminated if there is to be a fair referendum. [More…]
Even though it may be faulty in logic, it is a fair description, but then it adds these words: and democratically by the People. [More…]
Firstly, it is an assertion that the Government was not elected democratically. [More…]
The Government is putting the proposition that it was not elected democratically. [More…]
Now it wants to amend the Constitution to make sure in the future it will be elected democratically. [More…]
It is also an assertion that there is not a single State Parliament that was elected democratically. [More…]
Therefore, I give notice that I will be moving at the Committee stage, if I am permitted to do so - there are only about 15 minutes left for the second reading debate, a division and then 7 minutes in Committee - to delete the words and democratically’ and add the following words: and that the criterion for determining the size of an electoral division shall be the number of people within it. [More…]
A Bill to ensure that the Members of the Parliaments (Australian or the States) are chosen directly and democratically.’ [More…]
They have sidestepped the real issue that is being debated in this House, that is, whether members of this House and of State Parliaments should be chosen directly and democratically by the people. [More…]
The first is that the authority to market the Australian wheat crop firmly belongs with the Australian Wheat Board which has 10 grower members who are democratically elected by the vote of the rank and file in 3 States. [More…]
I point out that from the time this Federal Labor Government was democratically elected by the people of Australia, the backward Premier of Queensland has done nothing but attack it and make statements saying that he would not support any measures which come from this Government. [More…]
Bills will be submitted to alter the Constitution to ensure that Senate elections are held at the same time as House of Representatives elections; to alter the Constitution to ensure that the members of the House of Representatives and of the Parliaments of the States are chosen directly and democratically by the people; to alter the Constitution to enable the Commonwealth to borrow money for, and to grant financial assistance to, local government bodies; to facilitate alterations to the Constitution and to allow electors in Territories, as well as electors in the States, to vote at referendums on proposed laws to alter the Constitution; and to alter the Constitution with respect to the interchange of powers between the Commonwealth Parliament and the State Parliaments. [More…]
To alter the Constitution so as to ensure that the members of the House of Representatives and of the Parliaments of the States are chosen directly and democratically by the people’. [More…]
The clear implication is that up till now the House of Representatives has not been elected democratically. [More…]
What right has the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) to be sitting at the table if he was not elected democratically? [More…]
I think it would be to the great good of democracy if he were removed, but the fact is that he was elected, one would assume, democratically. [More…]
The implication is that we were not elected democratically. [More…]
The Government is unable to ensure that the processes of a democratically elected Upper House are allowed to take their proper course. [More…]
Bills will be submitted to alter the Constitution to ensure that Senate elections are held at the same time as House of Representatives elections; to alter the Constitution to ensure that the members of the House of Representatives and of the Parliaments of the States are chosen directly and democratically by the people …. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Honourable members need to remember that there is no analogy between the Australian Senate - properly and democratically elected by all the people of Australia - and a hereditary House of Lords. [More…]
It is recommended the majority of members of Boards of Directors of all funds should be democratically elected by the contributors and that full public disclosure of accounts is made. [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…]
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…]
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…]
This is a new Parliament with 17 new members in this House - democratically elected by more than 500,000 people on 18 May - who will be denied the opportunity to debate this fantastically important issue. [More…]
I should like to remind him that this is a House of Parliament democratically elected and by this tactic the Government is denying the rights of every member of this House, including the 17 new ones, to talk about an issue that affects every Australian now living and every Australian to be born. [More…]
In this case a delegated officer can overrule the wishes of an elected State government or a democratically elected local government body. [More…]
I repeat that such an officer can override the wishes of a fully and democratically elected State government or local government body. [More…]
We know that we are afflicted in this country- I use the word ‘afflicted’ advisedly- by Upper Houses which are not democratically elected, which are not elected by the people, which flout the very principle about which Benjamin Franklin talked in his words that I read to the Parliament. [More…]
Today the Australian people have had revealed to them a series of spokesmen from the Opposition parties whose main goal during the whole of this Joint Sitting has been to deprive the Australian people of the right democratically to elect the Parliament of this country. [More…]
He said that the Senate is not elected democratically. [More…]
Not democratically elected? [More…]
Senator Murphy will be upset about being accused of not being elected democratically. [More…]
The system is the institutions in this country and the major institution in Australia is the democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
If the democratically elected Parliament comes together it should not be deprived of the opportunity of exposing what has happened and what has not happened. [More…]
We need more amalgamations on both sides of the industrial fence and a greater centralisation of authority in the hands of persons elected to carry out the democratically ascertained views of the members. [More…]
I do not know whether there is substance in them, but it is true that the Liberal Party at the last election obtained up to $2m to $3m from unknown sources in an endeavour to defeat the democratically elected Government. [More…]
I rise to make my maiden speech fully conscious of the important task I have been given as the democratically elected representative of the people of Riverina. [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…]
We see the influence of international imperialism within the orbit of NATO which finds great difficulties within itself in recognising the independent nonaligned policy pursued by the former President of the democratically elected government, Archbishop Makarios, who in my opinion should be reinstated in his position in Cyprus to lead that country along the path of non-alignment and non-aggression and to follow his peace-loving policies, instead of allowing Cyprus to fall into the hands of warmongering forces within the ranks of NATO so that it can be made a military base and further jeopardise the peace of the world. [More…]
That is not good enough in this day and age when we are dealing with responsible and democratically elected governments which have their own responsibilities in their own States. [More…]
-After listening to the previous speaker, the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh), I can state that unless one was very familiar with the situation in Queensland one could almost believe that the Government of Queensland was democratically elected. [More…]
It seems that daily the device of raising a matter of public importance is used by the Opposition to delay the business of the House and to frustrate the will of this freely and democratically elected Government. [More…]
They are acting very democratically, I must say. [More…]
To state that there will be interference with the democratically run medical funds is completely untrue. [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 of the relationship between the House of Representatives and the Senate which they applaud and which leads to the situation that exists in this country today, the properly democratically elected Government cannot at any time govern for more than 6 months with any assurance of continuity. [More…]
It is difficult to know why all the members of the Opposition are so keen to do everything possible to try to destroy and to sabotage the actions of a democratically elected government. [More…]
Everybody knows what happened in Chile and the crucial role played by the organised medical profession in that country to bring down the democratically elected government. [More…]
In these circumstances, everything possible must be done to maximise the decision-making powers of the boards and the Council and the position of administrative figures should be that of enablers, and implementers of democratically arrived at decisions. [More…]
We want an organisation that has a strong co-ordinating role, an organisation that is free to develop an overall arts policy, an organisation that represents the interests of artists via the democratically elected chairmen and, at the same time, an organisation that has the administrative ability to handle properly its dealings with the boards and negotiate with the States. [More…]
There also is a close relationship between this question and the degree of independence which these committees must be given under their democratically elected chairmen because, as with any large organisation of this nature, we are running a real risk of the octopus syndrome- the heart hes in the middle, the tentacles go out in all directions to the various areas of the arts, but ultimately they are all directed back towards the centre and the administrative section of the centre grows and grows in accordance with the best Parkinsonian principles. [More…]
If International Women’s Year leads the way democratically, shaking us a” UP and prodding those who resist change, to lay the guidelines for dialogue for other needy areas both locally and internationally, it will be worthwhile. [More…]
They also want to run their own countrieseven if not always democratically- and so they are nationalists. [More…]
We now face the position where members of this Parliament, particularly some in the Opposition in the Senate, who would probably have their seats declared vacant for contravention of the Act, are deciding whether or not they will throw out a democratically elected Government. [More…]
Any ad hoc committee that is established in this country which is not democratically elected and where the people elected to the Committee do not have to face the ballot box a danger always exists. [More…]
It is a tragedy and a disgrace that the fate of a democratically elected government should depend on the whim of an individual who is controlled by vested interests including the Press barons. [More…]
One is the honourable course to follow- to retreat from his incredibly dangerous position and make a clear declaration that he will allow the democratically elected Government of Australia to get on with the business of governing free from the threat of Senate obstruction. [More…]
The rights of democratically elected governments to govern must be established- now. [More…]
This is the first time that a democratically elected Prime Minister has sought to continue in government when the Parliament has denied him money. [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…]
Honourable members opposite normally speak about the Senate as being democratically elected. [More…]
In 2 half terms the Senate is democratically elected. [More…]
This is the House of the Parliament which is elected by popular franchise and which is more democratically representative of the 2 Houses. [More…]
I mention this to give a clear indication of the insupportability of any assertion that the Senate is a democratically representative House. [More…]
In Australia the Senate is a democratically elected House, elected by the same people who elect the House of Representatives. [More…]
The election of democratically minded Labor men will make unions progressive and trustworthy again. [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…]
His actions have been endorsed by the people of Australia, voting democratically, in the most overwhelming manner possible. [More…]
One important lesson is that democratically elected governments are the servants of the people and that the individual is the most important element in a democracy. [More…]
Even today the overwhelming majority of Australians who supported or even opposed the Whitlam-led Labor Government are stunned and dumbfounded at the role the people’s House plays in financial matters and at that power being usurped by the undemocratically elected members of the other chamber. [More…]
Some might say that the members of the other chamber who took on themselves this power to block the supply of finance which is necessary to run the various government departments of this great country were democratically elected but when one remembers the appointments of Senator Field of Queensland and Senator Bunton of New South Wales it is hard to understand how anyone could come to that conclusion. [More…]
If they were not the choice of the people of those States, how could it be claimed that they were democratically elected? [More…]
Does the Australian Government continue to recognise the anti-democratic military junta which overthrew the democratically elected Allende Government of Chile; if so, why? [More…]
The time is approaching when the Australian public will have to think very seriously about how much more it is going to take of the trade unions trying to run this country instead of its being run by the democratically elected government. [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…]
It is the same function regardless of whether we are talking about a democratically elected body delivering it or a body of self-appointed do-gooders. [More…]
In view of the sudden and violent coup d’etat which has resulted in the overthrow of Thailand’s democratically elected Government, is the Minister aware that many Thai students now in Australia are deeply concerned that their lives or safety might be endangered if they were forced to return to Thailand? [More…]
The sole reference by the Government to this major upheaval in Thailand -one of our closest neighbours, one of the few democratically elected governments in Asia, and formerly an ally of the Liberal-Country Party Government in the Vietnam War- the only reference by this Government has been a facetious question by the member for Kennedy to the Minister for Defence designed to elicit a crude and tasteless joke at the expense of the people of Thailand. [More…]
Twenty years ago in Hungary the people of that country tried democratically to change a system. [More…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected- democratically elected- by their unions. [More…]
Apparently the present Prime Minister had forgotten his comment of 2 years previously as to the considerable length to which the Labor Government was going to ensure that union officials were properly and democratically elected. [More…]
In particular, it is determined to remove the person democratically elected by the staff of the ABC- Mr Marius Webb. [More…]
We took our stand on 11 November on a simple issue: Is a government with a majority in a democratically elected House of Representatives to be allowed to govern, or is it not? [More…]
Of those referred to in part (7), how many fled their country following the violent overthrow of the democratically elected Allende Government in 1 974. [More…]
The only authority which has a mandate to make policy on the export of uranium is the democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
Despite with the sleight of hand men, the manipulators of truth on the other side, may say, its leadership is democratically elected. [More…]
The fact that the Marxist orientated government was democratically elected whereas the present group of ruling thugs was not, does not concern him or any of the sabre-rattling individuals on that side of the House. [More…]
-I cannot see the relevance of that interjection from my friend because the man has been democratically elected to the Parliament by the people. [More…]
By and large I believe and hope that the people of Australia will accept this referendum proposal because it gives effect to the democratically cast vote of an elector. [More…]
This situation is not only democratically defensible but is a democratic and a known democratic system. [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…]
The councillors are democratically elected and they are saying to the Government: ‘What you are doing is atrocious’. [More…]
That is the opinion of those democratically elected conservative councillors in my area where, fortunately, the people have the good sense to return Australian Labor Party members in both the State and Federal Parliaments. [More…]
They believe that they have some divine right to be able to tell the Australian people what it is they should or should not have without having the responsibility of going to the polls every 3 years as a democratically elected government must do. [More…]
That remark was too significant to ignore because it indicated that there had been a conspiracy to remove the democratically elected officials of the South Ausralian branch of the AWU. [More…]
So here we had the Ambassador of the United States threatening a Minister of State of a friendly country with interference in its internal affairs should its democratically elected government ever receive a mandate to take over the investments of American private corporations. [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…]
-This democratically elected Government has made a decision regarding uranium. [More…]
Everyone is aware that there is a violent minority within Australia which is opposing uranium development regardless of a decision of a democratically elected government which has examined the Ranger reports with great scrupulousness and care and has overwhelmingly followed the recommendations of Mr Justice Fox and his fellow commissioners. [More…]
They have prepared the ground for a more democratically elected parliament, a parliament more nearly reflecting the principle of equal representation than any previous parliament. [More…]
He is prepared to put down organised labour in the community, the trade unions in the community which have leaders who are democratically elected, irrespective of their political views. [More…]
The second group of proposals to which I referred concerned the fostering of democratically run organisations. [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…]
The sins of the trade union officials were that they stood up for the union members they represented and carried out the duties of the democratically elected positions they occupied. [More…]
The Government is committed to the devolution of power from this democratically constituted Parliament to gerrymandered and malapportioned parliaments around the country. [More…]
In what ways are these giant combines to be made accountable and democratically responsible to the Australian people? [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…]
Australia is one of fewer than 20 countries in the entire world which still have democratically elected governments. [More…]
It is a phenomenon, moreover, which presents governments of all democratically based nations with a continuing, and not easily soluble paradox. [More…]
The people of the Northern Territory, in common with other citizens of our federal Commonwealth, have the right- indeed the duty- to control their own affairs through a democratically elected legislature. [More…]
I know that on this side when we mark down the party line democratically we all toe it. [More…]
Apparently its legal advice on this occasion was not quite as sound as that given in 1975 when it succeeded in throwing out a democratically elected government. [More…]
Australia has been praised as a country in which, according to the leaders of the governments of Germany and other industrial nations, a democratically elected government, with massive majority support at the last election, has been able to invoke an austerity program in the long term interests of this nation. [More…]
As members of this Parliament and the Australian populace will remember, the democratically elected government was tossed out on 11 November 1975 by the choice of the then Governor-General. [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…]
This can be achieved, we maintain, by giving real power to a democratically elected local assembly. [More…]
There are still people at Aurukun, Mornington Island and all the other State settlements in Queensland who are suffering under the heel of an apartheid-type rule and dictatorship which was imposed on them without consultation with them or their democratically chosen leaders or representatives. [More…]
But I am concerned that we should ensure that there are adequate safeguards, guidelines, parameters within which that force can operate- parameters that are not to limit it in the discharge of its duties, but parameters that are to limit its capacity, the capacity of any individual member of the force, the capacity of its Commissioner, the capacity of its ministerial head, to abuse the powers in a way which could erode the authority of a democratically elected Parliament and destroy the possibility of that Parliament being democratically elected again in the future. [More…]
He wrote: lt would in my view be perfectly possible to establish a police system for the whole of Australia, comprising operationally autonomous police forces and a national investigative agency democratically controlled in equal partnership, by central and State governments and the police themselves, not a jot less sensitive to the need to preserve civil liberty or the differing requirements of widely separated States but able to achieve uniformity of standards in manpower, training, leadership, specialist services, operational techniques, interchange and improved accountability, all at present unlikely of attainment. [More…]
However, the parliamentary delegation ought to include Botswana in its tour as it is perhaps the other democratically elected country in Africa. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that the recommended legislation is being prepared and that no further dilution, equivocation or delay will be tolerated in awarding control of (a) traditional land, (b) appointment of administrators, (c) the setting of funding priorities and (d) the type, style and structure of community administration to democratically chosen representatives of the indigenous community concerned in each case. [More…]
Governments have a social responsibility to intervene in order to control democratically the direction and pattern of economic development. [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…]
A person may be democratically elected by any trade union, right wing, left wing, centre or whatever it may be, but the Government is giving itself the power over the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, over the judicial review of the deregistration processes which are now in order, to bring about total confrontation with the trade union movement in this country. [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…]
We believe it is necessary to make it clear by stating quite clearly the authority of the democratically elected Executive to have access to the information provided by ASIO with the specific exceptions listed in the Bill and in our own provision. [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…]