democratically - senate - 1970

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

Where will this new move end and what can be done to identify these people and give some protection from unwarranted interference with democratically elected leaders? [More…]
As for what was said by Senator Poyser, it is a great tragedy that the leader of another country who was democratically elected has been overthrown by the military forces of his country and has taken his own life. [More…]
For this to have happened after a relatively short time would cause grave concern to everyone who hears that a democratically elected leader has been overthrown by illegal military forces. [More…]
As Mr Neruda was not only one of the greatest poets of the century and the holder of the Nobel Prize for literature but also a diplomat in the service of the Chilean Government and a supporter of the previous democratically elected Government of that country, will the Minister ask the Department of Foreign Affairs to make inquiries as to whether the allegation by the Chilean junta that he died of natural causes is in fact correct? [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States’ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign states formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources for their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
-That letter points out how over the years those office bearers have been very democratically elected. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that this Senate in Parliament assembled should help the Hungarian speaking community to regain confidence in the democratically elected Senate known for its conscientious and wise judgement in restoring peace and faith in democratic principles, which unfortunately are missing from the present management set-up of the Ethnic Radio broadcasters. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
So even though in theory you can democratically elect a council on the lines I have set out, in practice if the Director or his nominee desires not to implement any recommendations, those recommendations will not be implemented. [More…]
Yet honourable senators opposite have the audacity to say that we do not show much regard for members of the House of Assembly and that they are not democratically elected. [More…]
Does he use his own feelings or preferences, his own thoughts on a particular subject that concerns him and about which a law has been made by a democratically elected Government? [More…]
After all, the good of the community and its wishes are intended to be reflected in a democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
AH that the Government is doing is ensuring that the funds are not operated democratically for their contributors. [More…]
Is it not a fact that Prince Sihanouk was removed from office by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected Parliament of Cambodia? [More…]
Anything that I have won I have won democratically, honestly and decently, and that is something to be able to claim. [More…]
We warn you here and now that this is the sum total of what will occur finally if the sittings of this democratically elected Parliament are shortened and the use of force of numbers is continued to the stage when Parliament will not need to sit at all. [More…]
I believe that the Senate has been treated contemptuously in that an opinion reached by it democratically and after full debate, namely, that a referendum be taken of those involved in the industry to learn their wishes, has been ignored by the Government. [More…]
Will the Minister cause special investigations to be made into this incident with particular emphasis on the extent to which the outrage was politically motivated and the precautions that might be necessary to protect people who have been democratically elected to the Commonwealth Parliament? [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI am sure we all agree with Senator Bishop’s suggestion that this was a monstrous outrage, even against any person, lt is even more terrible when it happens to somebody who has been democratically elected to be a senator or to a person who has been democratically elected to any office in which he serves the community. [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that the proposed legislation will not become law unless it is requested after a democratically conducted poll among Australian pig producers? [More…]
This platform is formulated by a federal conference, democratically elected. [More…]
Ceylon is a member country of the Commonwealth of Nations and its Government is democratically elected. [More…]
I asked where they stood in relation to this matter and if, as was implied in the question asked by Senator Kane, the Commonwealth Government could interfere in the decisions of unions made democratically by the rank and file, why did it not or could it not equally interfere in the amalgamations of these great monolithic organisations, such as the banks and other companies that have amalgamated not only with organisations in this country but also with overseas organisations. [More…]
I am a democratically elected representative of the people of this country, and I believe that a parliamentarian ought not to be restricted in any way. [More…]
We were told that opposed to these commissars was our great and powerful ally, the United States of America, steadfastly determined to oppose Communism and to support democracy even if supporting democracy meant sending troops into the Dominican Republic to depose a democratically elected president. [More…]
I see no reason why a person who has been democratically elected to this chamber cannot appear in the chamber in suitable, neat attire. [More…]
As I have stated, it is accepted by the South Australian Parliament, which is democratically elected, just as this chamber is. [More…]
He called on young, spirited, democratically minded men to resist, physically if need be, the shocking, communist socialist laws of the Labor Government of that time which was proposing to nationalise banks. [More…]
Mr Giles of course was democratically, correct, except that those whom the law affected did not have a vote. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators that, first of all, ITT attempted to prevent the election of the Allende Government - although we do not like that type of government, nevertheless it was democratically elected - and, having failed to prevent that Government’s election ITT set out then to destroy the Chilean economy as a means of destroying that Government. [More…]
Will the Minister advise this representative of a communist dictatorship that this is a free country and that the question of Australian passports will be determined by its democratically elected government without communist assistance? [More…]
I know that there are many medical benefit funds which are democratically run and controlled by their members. [More…]
If the answer is in the affirmative, does he believe that the Fund operates democratically when the subscribers’ views were never obtained on the expenditure involved in this costly edifice? [More…]
Labour will re-constitute the AWIC and the Australian Wool Board on a democratically elected basis and have an investigation and evaluation of wool promotion and research. [More…]
The islanders have democratically elected councils. [More…]
and its overt financial support of a political party, because the union serves no useful purpose, because it is not run democratically- [More…]
On the one hand, the legitimate right to criticise and seek to change the Government’s defence policy by democratic process: on the other, the illicit claim to perform acts designed to destroy defence measures undertaken by the elected Government, responsible to a democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
Does the Minister not realise that the democratically elected Palm Island Aboriginal Council, not the Queensland Government, issues permits to visit Palm Island? [More…]
They are suggesting to us that the Attorney-General of a democratically elected government - a government democratically elected only last December - should not have available to him information in the possession of an office which was allegedly created for the protection of security in this country. [More…]
The mind boggles at the audacity of people who say that there is a police state in existence when a democratically elected Minister knows what the police are doing. [More…]
A police state is a state in which the police or quasi police organisations have authority over the democratically elected government. [More…]
The reverse of a police state is that society in which democratically elected officials have authority over the police. [More…]
They are complaining about the fact that the AttorneyGeneral of a democratically elected Labor Government should know what the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is doing. [More…]
I think the matter would be dealt with more democratically if the paragraph were deleted. [More…]
A democratically elected government of the United States of America, which has always been condemned, went to the aid– [More…]
The Committee believes that as long as governments are democratically elected and there is full parliamentary responsibility to the electors, the protection of personal rights will, in practice, be secure in Australia. [More…]
The Committee believes that as long as governments are democratically elected and there is full parliamentary responsibility to the electors, the protection of personal rights will, in practice, be secure in Australia. [More…]
The Senate can never be a House democratically elected by the people on a popular basis. [More…]
He, a man who has been elected democratically by the people and by his Party as its leader, has been reduced to nothing. [More…]
We are in the situation where a minority of doctors - not always democratically elected - are claiming as the heads of their respective organisations to be speaking on behalf of every doctor in Australia. [More…]
The President of that great country, a president who was elected democratically by the people, has been forced to take his own life because of the intervention of those who would not accept the decisions of the people who elected a person under the democratic system. [More…]
The intervention of the Central Intelligence Agency in matters involving murder and the overthrow of democratically elected governments should be considered in the same strain. [More…]
I have no doubt that everyone would be appalled that a democratically elected leader was overthrown and caused to commit suicide. [More…]
We seek the approval of the Parliament to allow the people of Australia to determine for themselves whether we, as the democratically elected Parliament of [More…]
But the gravamen of their objection to this Bill is that they oppose the Australian people being given the opportunity to express, by referendum, their opinion, as to whether or not the democratically elected Parliament of Australia should have constitutional power over prices. [More…]
Recently we have seen a democratically elected government in Chile destroyed. [More…]
It was a body quite different which destroyed the democratically elected government in Chile. [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 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…]
I find it more than a little whimsical that a Prime Minister and a political party pledged to a republic in Australia, and particularly a Prime Minister who has stated publicly and on record that he sees the monarchy- I use his words- as being outmoded and democratically irrelevant, should seek to use the monarchy for this purpose. [More…]
I believe this present Government should learn to live with the fact that it must be responsive to the will of a democratically elected chamber. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to hear argument from those who were democratically elected by the people to represent them here. [More…]
It is described by its short title as a democratic elections Bill and it purports to be a Bill by which a question will be submitted to the people of Australia by referendum to amend the Constitution whereby it is stated that the members of the House of Representatives and all the parliaments of the States shall be chosen directly and democratically by the people. [More…]
It was not elected democratically at all. [More…]
The purpose of the Constitution Alteration (Democratic Elections) Bill is 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…]
No democrat can object to a procedure whereby the people will make the decision if a conflict exists between 2 Houses equally entitled to claim that they are democratically elected. [More…]
He was not treated democratically or given a right of appeal. [More…]
Why should anybody challenge the action of a democratically elected chamber if the result of its action is to ensure that the verdict of the ultimate judges, namely the electors, is thereby secured? [More…]
When a democratically elected chamber does it, and when it will submit itself to the people to have its conduct judged, why should any democrat cavil at what is being done? [More…]
There is nothing in the Constitution to guarantee that all Parliaments must be elected directly and democratically by the people. [More…]
We have our right by virtue of election to have our say and to be heard, and it would be quite improper for the Senate to demand that these Bills be put through- guillotined through as happened in another place- without new members democratically elected having their say, being heard, and expressing their points of view. [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 one method that can be democratically used is to apply the same voting procedures to major union decisions as apply to the election of members of Parliament. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States’ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign states formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources of their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
The members of the Senate are perhaps more democratically elected because we come here by proportional representation vote. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States ‘ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign States formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources for their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
I asked Mr Hewitt to discuss with me the question of Palm Island at the time he visited this democratically elected council. [More…]
We know that there is a democratically elected Federal Conference consisting of delegates elected by the Party congress in each State, the Labor Premiers or the Labor Leaders of the Opposition in each State and also now the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, Senator Willesee and myself. [More…]
They do have councils democratically elected. [More…]
The position under Queensland law is that no person can enter, visit or reside on a reserve without a permit from the democratically elected council- not from any European or anybody of that nature- and the main purpose of the Bill is to maintain that condition on these reserves and settlements and on the islands. [More…]
The people elected to the councils are democratically elected, despite what Senator Keeffe says. [More…]
without new members democratically elected having their say - [More…]
As for this rather phoney argument that the vacancy at present occurring was democratically filled by a million electors and their will must continue, who did those electors elect? [More…]
If that happened the democratically elected Liberal government would be thrown out by the sheer accident and unprincipled conduct of the Labor governments in South Australia and Tasmania and democracy would be denied. [More…]
In addition to these considerations, we are also concerned that the citizens of Darwin and their leaders should have an opportunity to consider this measure- not only the citizens of Darwin but the people of the Northern Territory generally and particularly the members of the recently democratically elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
As for this rather phoney argument that the vacancy at present occurring was democratically filled by a million electors and their will must continue, who did those electors elect? [More…]
Section 1 5 of the Constitution, in committing the decision not to a political party, not to an Executive and not to an independent, but to the elected members of the State Parliament, I would have thought commits the responsibility to a body democratically elected and constitutionally indicated in that section. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite believe that some governments are not elected democratically, why do they no go to the United Nations to ensure that elections do take place democratically? [More…]
The Australian Government has made very clear its disapproval of the military overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean Government of President Allende in 1973, as well as its disapproval of the treatment of opponents of the present Chilean Government. [More…]
He does not have the opportunity to decide democratically whether he will stay at work. [More…]
It is interesting to note, as Senator Button has said, that despite the allegedly spontaneous demonstrations which have been taking place throughout Australia the democratically elected executives of both organisations have at no stage expressed opposition to the establishment of an [More…]
In fact, even if the point were to be made that the armed forces did have the right which by some curious source of misinformation Senator Sir Magnus Cormack relies upon, even if the armed forces had that authority, I should have thought that the honourable senator would have been well aware of the fact that the Chief of the Chilean General Staff, General Gonzalez Prats, opposed the coup which took place against the democratically elected government and fled the country and was subsequently murdered. [More…]
But how does he refer to the democratically elected representatives of the Israeli people? [More…]
We have made no secret of the fact that a democratically elected government in Chile was overthrown. [More…]
The Senate and the Government can now see the frustrations, day after day, of the legislative programs of a democratically elected and progressive government. [More…]
So in fact both Houses of the Parliament, completely democratically, have the right to disallow any such proposal regarding the Australian Government Insurance Corporation. [More…]
If the Government were pouring vast sums of money into an unprofitable enterprise then it would be answerable at the elections in a way in which the directors in Zurich, Amsterdam, London and New York of insurance companies that are operating in Australia are not responsible to their policy holders when they use their funds to defeat a democratically elected Australian government. [More…]
I do not believe that it is relevant to advertise for the defeat of a democratically elected government or proposals on which that Government was elected. [More…]
I should think that in due course they will be found out and the majority of people will go to those doctors whom they know to conduct themselves responsibly and to regard the care of their patients as being the primary object in life and not the making of money or the sabotaging of a democratically elected government’s policy. [More…]
We exist in this chamber- a completely democratically elected chamberwith 2 adjuncts of appointees which add to the reason, in the proper political democratic sense, for the Parliament to face the people. [More…]
If the Parliament feels that the country is in such a state that the people should again have the right of decision, then constitutionally and democratically I cannot see anything wrong with that. [More…]
It is a democratically elected House but he seems to be overlooking the compact of federation in its Constitution and in the way in which it represents the people of Australia. [More…]
Therefore the issue that will be fought is the right to obstruct the people’s democratically elected House. [More…]
Moreover the Senate is as democratically elected as is the House of Representatives. [More…]
Where there are 2 democratically representative chambers, each elected at the same time but existing in constant conflict, why should the people not be given the opportunity to resolve that conflict? [More…]
I have seen them vote for motions to bring down a democratically elected government, while people on this side have argued that democracy should be preserved. [More…]
Senator Wright started by saying that the Premier will not tell him that the democratically elected Parliament or House has no right to refuse supply. [More…]
Of course, the principle of Parliament is this: The power of the purse, the power to tax the people and to control the taxes of the people should lie within the Parliament and should lie within the power of the elected people of the Parliament- not that it should lie in the Commons or the lower House, but that it should lie within the hands of those who are democratically elected, whether in the lower House or whether in the upper House. [More…]
I remind the Senate- I need not do so- that the Senate is as democratically elected in a general franchise of all the people of Australia as is the House of Representatives. [More…]
I remind them that there are specifically elected wholly and democratically by the people of Australia some 30 Liberal and National Country Party senators on the Opposition benches, not nominated in any way - [More…]
They are the figures today and by the mandate of the people the Senate Opposition can, all of its members fully and democratically elected representatives, negative any legislation that is brought forward by this Government. [More…]
We in the Senate are democratically elected by the people of the States. [More…]
-When this debate, which drones on and on like many in this place, is extended further into the population of this country, it will be about whether an Upper House, not elected on the same democratic basis as the Lower House in this country, should refuse Supply, therefore throwing out a democratically elected government. [More…]
As Senator Steele Hall and others have said, the question will be: Should an Upper House in this country throw out a democratically elected government in a Lower House? [More…]
It is disappointing to me that the members of a party, which for some extraordinary reason calls itself the Liberal Party, in this House will follow the instructions of this group and will obey the call of those who attempt to defeat this democratically elected government. [More…]
-Mal Fraser, the Leader of the minority Party in the House of Representatives, has, at the behest of Mr Anthony, instructed the Liberal-Country Party Opposition to block Supply and to try to force the democratically elected Government to the polls. [More…]
When the Senate uses its executive powers to dictate to a democratically elected government, then we can say that the principles embodied in a free constitution are irrevocably lost. [More…]
Those conventions which we all understand and know about in the Senate deliberately set out to provide for periods of stability of government on a democratically elected basis. [More…]
It may be all right for Senator James McClelland to say, as I remember him saying yesterday, that the Senate is not a democratically elected House; but it is a democratically elected House. [More…]
In Chile and other countries around the world his ilk have used the CIA and guns to overthrow democratically elected governments. [More…]
They follow an endless sequence of manoeuvres which the Opposition has pursued in order to remove a democratically elected Government from office. [More…]
They have declined because the Australian people realise that so enthusiastic, so neglectful, and so insensitive is the Opposition to the feelings of the Australian people and the democratically expressed will of the overwhelming majority of the Australian people that it is prepared to come at anything in order to get back on to the Treasury bench. [More…]
Then they will see just what the Australian people think of those who would be prepared to prostitute Parliament by presenting this piffle as an excuse for not allowing a democratically elected government to carry out the business of the country. [More…]
We heard the gospel according to the minority and honourable senators opposite were in a minority in the House that matters, the democratically elected House of Representatives, at the time of the coup on 11 November. [More…]
We now learn that General Schneider, a personal friend of the democratically elected President of Chile, President Allende who was Chief of the General Staff in Chile and also a constitutionalist, was murdered following his abduction by agents paid and encouraged by the CIA. [More…]
At the risk of encouraging or inviting criticism from the Government I propose to deal with some facets of those events when a democratically elected Government, twice preferred and twice elected within 18 months, was summarily dismissed by the Governor-General. [More…]
We the members of the National Congress of the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders, assembled at Canberra, Australia this 10th day of March 1 976, do hereby, as the democratically elected representatives of our people, solemnly and unanimously resolve that we claim for our people the following inalienable rights:- the right to natural justice, the right to self determination as a separate and distinct people, with our own laws and customs, languages culture and heritage, living in our ancient home-land and with the right to a full voice in and influence on our own affairs, the right to be free from the racial oppression and discrimination imposed upon us by the uninvited European people who have invaded our country and imposed their own laws and way of life upon us, the right to preserve in perpetuity for our people the surviving tribal lands reserves and sacred sites in all Australian states and territories, the right to fair and just compensation to our scattered tribes, our detribalised and urban people, for the lands seized from our forefathers, and for the inhuman and violent treatment of our people. [More…]
We the members of the National Congress of the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders, assembled at Canberra, Australia this 10th day of March 1976, do hereby, as the democratically elected representatives of our people, solemnly and unanimously resolve that we claim for our people the following inalienable rights: the right to natural justice, the right to self determination as a separate and distinct people, with our own laws and customs, languages culture and heritage, living in our ancient home-land and with the right to a full voice in and influence on our own affairs, the right to be free from the racial oppression and discrimination imposed upon us by the uninvited European people who have invaded our country and imposed their own laws and way of life upon us, the right to preserve in perpetuity for our people the surviving tribal lands reserves and sacred sites in all Australian states and territories, the right to fair and just compensation to our scattered tribes, our detribalised and urban people, for the lands seized from our forefathers, and for the inhuman and violent treatment of our people. [More…]
Mr Whitlam would commit himself to visit Iraq officially in his capacity of the real and democratically elected Prime Minister of Australia and would cement the relationship on a strong and permanent relationship between the 2 countries. [More…]
By deliberately altering the composition of one of the Houses of the national Parliament from that which the Australian electors set in 1974, a democratically elected government was eventually dismissed from office. [More…]
I believe it would be more fitting for it to look closely at some of the local government organisations to see how democratically they are run. [More…]
We have to introduce some form of democratically elected political assembly which, perhaps initially should be an advisory body to the Administrator but which eventually should be fitted to deal with the internal affairs of the islands. [More…]
A continuous and sustained campaign was maintained against that Government which was twice democratically elected by the Australian people in 18 months. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that the comments which the Governor-General was forced to make arose from a situation which he created by dismissing a democratically elected government on 1 1 November last year and that the dismissal arose from the obstruction in this place of the Opposition at that time? [More…]
As I said in the short time in which I had to speak on the Budget debate, the main ground for the conduct of the then Opposition during the 1972-75 period in pursuing a course designed to destroy a government which had been democratically elected twice within 18 months was its claim: Elect us and we will correct unemployment, inflation and a great range of other things’. [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…]
Can the Minister explain what legal rights trade unionists have in dictating their political beliefs- or more likely those of their irresponsible leaders- to the community of Australia or against the democratically elected Government of Australia? [More…]
I posed this suggestion in the hope that Senator Carrick, to make this Bill work much better and more democratically, might speak to his State colleagues in South Australia and point out how a lot of people there are being deprived of their democratic right to stand for council or to elect to the local government a person of their choice. [More…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected- democratically elected- by their unions. [More…]
They will be able to maintain their current leadership, which is not a democratically elected leadership. [More…]
The present leadership, which I repeat is not a democratically elected leadership, will be entrenched by the legislation before us. [More…]
Only the organisation itself may exercise a choice; the rank and file members are stuck with what their non-democratically elected representative officials may decide. [More…]
Senator Ryan claimed that the Government had assisted the executive of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, which had not been democratically elected, to stay in power. [More…]
Everyone has expressed a desire for democratically controlled elections. [More…]
We, as a legislature, as a parliament and as parties, can offer the opportunity for the union movement to regulate fairly and to react democratically in the election of its officers. [More…]
I also find it hard to understand why the Government resists the idea of giving properly and democratically elected school boards a small amount of financial autonomy when both sides of the chamber have been happy to give to the private school sector almost complete autonomy in the handling of large amounts of government funds. [More…]
If I may say so in passing, it is interesting, when one hears remarks about who is running the country and about the shocking malfeasances of trade unions in organising demonstrations against policies of the present Government, to note that there was certainly no objection from members of the present Government when they were in Opposition to the use of policy holders’ money by insurance companies and to the time that was taken by employees of insurance companies, which again was a burden on the policy holders of those companies and allegedly mutual life assurance societies, in demonstrations throughout Australia against the Labor Government which was then in office, having been twice democratically elected on a program of introducing legislation similar to that which we introduced. [More…]
The other thing that has always interested me is why the Australian Labor Party should continue with its wish for the abolition of the Senate when, by its own admission, the Senate is the only democratically elected house of parliament in Australia. [More…]
Apparently, the members of the ALP thought that they came to power undemocratically in 1972 and that their colleagues in a number of States also had come to power undemocratically. [More…]
As I say, on their own admission, this was the only chamber in the Australian parliaments which had been elected democratically. [More…]
Can he assure the Senate that control of the Australian Union of Students is vested by democratically impeccable procedures free of intimidation, threats and violence? [More…]
Governments that win office on gerrymandered boundaries cannot be said to be really democratically elected governments. [More…]
Here is a knowledgeable man suggesting that if we are to have only one House we should do away with the democratically elected House. [More…]
I close by saying that I put forward my views in the firm belief that this proposal is compatible with the future strength of the Senate and indeed will strengthen the Senate in the future as it will help to ensure that the Senate remains democratically acceptable to the people. [More…]
Further, with proportional representation, I believe there can be no doubt that this House is the most democratically elected House of Parliament in Australia. [More…]
They are prepared to see the labour force represented in the Parliament, but they are not prepared to let a Labor government- a properly and democratically elected Labor governmentexercise power in the Parliament. [More…]
He and his colleagues made a grab for power and would not allow a democratically elected government to conclude its 3-year term of office. [More…]
A year after he left the Senate in 1962 he was appointed Chairman of the Sydney County Council and he occupied that important position until 1965- some 2 years, when he achieved one of his lifelong ambitions to be democratically elected by the people of Sydney as its Lord Mayor. [More…]
I hope that in the ensuing few weeks a responsible decision, properly and democratically arrived at, will be reached and that any action to be taken by the Minister for the Capital Territory, the Legislative Assembly, the Capital Territory Health Commission and the Australian Capital Territory hospitals will be based on such a democratically and responsibly reached decision. [More…]
We are the representatives of the people, yet honourable senators who sit opposite decided that a democratically elected Labor government should not be allowed to maintain office because they did not like that Government’s policies. [More…]
So, those two Premiers will not even abide by a democratic decision of a democratically constituted Constitutional Convention. [More…]
He was democratically elected by the students. [More…]
That is a right which I think the democratically elected local governing authority ought to have. [More…]
When a person was democratically appointed to another place- which the Liberals had done on quite a few occasions- what did we find? [More…]
When the Labor Party was going to lose the numbers in this place after being democratically elected, a person in Queensland went to the depths of despair because he did not want a Labor government in Canberra. [More…]
As Senator Hall has rightly pointed out- it now looks almost certain because of the way the present Government has got the country into an economic mess, with rising unemployment which is the worst since the last Depression- even if Mr Fraser holds an election in December and is the loser he will still ride roughshod over the democratically elected government because he will have the numbers in this place. [More…]
The second group of proposals to which I referred concerned the fostering of democratically run organisations. [More…]
We hope that because they are different they accurately and democratically reflect the community of Australia, our country. [More…]
As a first step, acting on behalf of my Government, I asked all vice-chancellors and principals of colleges to look at the rules that the universities and colleges, as self-governing organisations, have for running the collection and application of student fees, to see, firstly, that they were democratically levied and, secondly, that the funds collected were not used for improper purposes. [More…]
This unusual and unprecedented step- I am now being formal and reading from a speechcontravenes democratically accepted principles. [More…]
It is a phenomenon, moreover, which presents governments of all democratically based nations with a continuing, and not easily soluble, paradox. [More…]
I trust that these motions convey to you the true feelings of the citizens of this area and that the wishes of the majority of the average Australian is democratically maintained. [More…]
I trust that these motions convey to you the true feelings of the citizens of this area and that the wishes of the majority of the average Australian is democratically maintained. [More…]
Nonetheless, we are in agreement upon the essential importance of the Senate of constitutional change and on the need for greater knowledge and deep understanding of it, and on the need for a democratically elected convention. [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…]
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 think that anybody who read the second reading speech and studies the Bill could see the difference between the approach taken by the private enterprise side of government and that which the democratically - [More…]
The restrictions on us, as democratically elected people, in seeking information from Ministers and public servants are so finite as to make work on a committee almost useless. [More…]
Of course, such an instance was in 1975 when he interfered with the proper purpose of a duly and democratically elected government. [More…]
When the leading Opposition party in Australia says that if it gets back into government it will repudiate the arrangements which the lawfully and democratically elected government has entered into and the trading arrangements which have been entered into as a result of government decisions, of course that will be most damaging to Australia’s reputation as a reliable trading partner in the international sphere. [More…]
If we want to achieve the situation in which that democratically elected and representative Assembly’s recommendations may be implemented, there are various means by which that can be done. [More…]
In conclusion let me say that I think every one of these recommendations- Senator Hamer said that there were 51- carry a great deal of common sense, but surely the whole point is that the question was investigated and adjudged by the democratically elected members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I think that the Legislative Assembly has acted very properly and very democratically to try to come to that decision. [More…]
Surely this democratically elected chamber should not have restrictions placed on it from which the High Court- that non-elected bench of justices- has managed to escape. [More…]
Tomorrow at these important and vital party meetings members will be given the opportunity democratically to make the decision on this controversial matter which has been discussed at the very highest level. [More…]
When an event happens that threatens the very power of this democratically elected institution- the Parliament- they do not even notice that it has occurred. [More…]
I do not care what a majority of the democratically elected representatives of the people say by way of vote. [More…]
Certainly, those people have the ability to make representations to the relevant Minister or to the Prime Minister or to members of parliament; but if the Senate publicly called for representations and submissions and conducted inquiries in the open, with access for the Press while a decision was being reached, our affairs would be conducted far more democratically and sensibly. [More…]
It removed the democratically elected government in Iran and installed one of the most barbaric dictatorships to be found anywhere in the world- the dictatorship of that cowardly cur, the Shah of Persia, a man who flew around in aeroplanes apparently with gold taps and gold baths; the man who, according to some reports, in conjunction with his family has been able to ship $ 17,000m worth of assets out of the country. [More…]
The inference I draw from those paragraphs is not only that the organisation was incompetent but also that it was quite obvious that those in charge of it had to have their arms twisted up their backs before they would give Mr Justice Hope the information he sought under his charter- a charter from the democratically elected government of the day. [More…]
One of the problems is that I do not think that a number of the parliaments represented would qualify as democratic parliaments or democratically elected parliaments. [More…]
I wonder how much of the agitation against Sir John Kerr in 1975- he was hounded and cried down at universities and at various demonstrations in Australia- was contributed to by the subversion of Labor Party members because of their description of Sir John Kerr’s dismissal of a lawfully, democratically elected government? [More…]
It is a retrograde step, in what is supposed to be a democratic system, that the rights of a properly and democratically elected body to make decisions with regard to local community organisations should have been taken away arbitrarily and placed in the hands of the Minister himself. [More…]
No doubt the Minister for the Capital Territory wants the advice of the House of Assembly, as the properly and democratically elected voice of the people in the Territory. [More…]
This would make the democratically elected Minister accountable for police actions. [More…]
It is impossible to escape the conclusion that Australia and other nations are withholding recognition, not because of a careful analysis of the merits of the case but because they do not wish to run counter to the views of the front-line states, the Organisation of African Unity, some members of the Commonwealth, and some members of the Third World- a number of which are far less democratically governed than is ZimbabweRhodesia. [More…]
He has not the right, as a democratically-elected senator, to say what he believes about Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. [More…]
I remind some of those judges that, in fact, they are in contempt of Parliament, which is an even higher offence, if they ignore the wishes of democratically elected people. [More…]
They are refusing to contribute their fair share to the revenues of elected government for its programs, democratically arrived at, and they are creating gross unfairness between various sectors in the community. [More…]
There is a need to do these things properly and democratically, so that everyone who desires to speak for or against a project will have an opportunity to do so. [More…]
This is not to be part of the Opposition policy because if it were, there would have to be government interference to ensure that they were democratically constructed. [More…]
That statement adds to my confusion, apprehension and disenchantment of this place as a forum for democratically elected senators to express a view verbally and in a vote. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
There were the old fashioned Parliament men, if I can so describe them, like Jim Killen, who were against what they perceived to be an encroachment by the judiciary on the rights, prerogatives and preserves of the democratically elected representatives of the Parliament. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
It is not arrayed merely against the student associations on the various campuses- associations democratically elected, associations not captured by the Australian Liberal Students Federation, to which I will come in a moment and which is behind this legislation. [More…]
These wishes can and ought to be democratically ascertained. [More…]
On campus after campus these wishes have been democratically ascertained. [More…]
But if it is moribund and decaying it is because of disaffiliations by student bodies throughout Australia at democratically-conducted referenda and voting. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]