democrats - senate - 1970

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

-The Australian Democrats congratulate Senator Scott on his election to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
-It seems from the announcement of membership of the committees that there is no nomination for membership from the minority party which terms itself the Australian Democrats. [More…]
I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the leader of the Australian Democrats in the Senate nominating Senator Mason to be a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]
I just want to state so that it is in the record that the Australian Democrats find themselves in some mild dilemma in regard to this Bill. [More…]
-On behalf of the Australian Democrats I endorse the remarks of Senator Carrick. [More…]
It is worthwhile keeping it there so that we can have a debate in which all the gentlemen on the other side can demonstrate that they are not democrats, that they are in fact totalitarian. [More…]
The Australian Democrats support the Opposition amendment but I did not think Senator Gietzelt went far enough. [More…]
The Australian Democrats will support the Opposition amendment but we wonder whether it goes far enough because this sort of clause, perhaps unwittingly, embraces the kind of activity which Senator Georges and his colleagues are undertaking in Queensland. [More…]
I understand that the Australian Democrats have a position which they would like to indicate on that basis also. [More…]
However, the Australian Democrats do not believe that the legislation, as it stands, accurately reflects that report and the public comment on it. [More…]
I simply wish to acknowledge the support that has been given the Bills by the Australian Democrats, and to thank them for it. [More…]
The Australian Democrats did not bring forward this Bill as a piece of politicking. [More…]
The policy of the Australian Democrats is for quarterly indexation of pensions. [More…]
I should like to associate the Australian Democrats and those people who voted for us with this motion about this remarkable man, Earl Mountbatten. [More…]
I confess that it is quite possible that I have misunderstood the situation because I am not a lawyer, but for the reasons I have outlined the Australian Democrats will support Senator Evans’s amendment. [More…]
I do not really believe and the Australian Democrats do not really believe that we have anything other than a responsibility to ratify the Covenant because, if nothing else, it is a forcible example that this country can exert in its own region and in the world. [More…]
Finally, I say on behalf of the Australian Democrats that if this cosmetic Bill- for it will be that if it does proceed without amendment and certainly it will proceed without substantial amendment- is to go through in its present weak and flabby form it might as well achieve its primary function, which is presumably a lead-up to the ratification. [More…]
The Australian Democrats support the amendment to the hilt and exhort and plead with honourable senators to support the amendment. [More…]
by leave- The Australian Democrats are very sympathetic with the purpose of the amendment moved by Senator Colston on behalf of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I wish to make some final comments on behalf of the Australian Democrats on the so called Human Rights Commission Bill because we believe that the point needs to be clearly made that the Australian public is being sold a pup. [More…]
I know that the Republican Party in America successfully copies a lot of what the Democrats have proposed. [More…]
Decisions which are sought to be made outside Parliament are decisions which democrats ought to regard as having no validity. [More…]
Senator Frank Church, one of the Idaho Democrats, has made statements showing his concern about this matter. [More…]
Those whom Senator Mulvihill and his colleagues; would describe as good social democrats; - the members of the Democratic Party - are always outside American interventionists, while the ironclad conservatives, whom they would despise, who provide the management qualities around which the wealth of the United States evolves - the Republicans - are inside Americans who do> not like committing themselves abroad. [More…]
They are the real democrats in Australia who can see both sides of the issue. [More…]
Please, will those great democrats. [More…]
Mr John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York, despite the fact that he lost the endorsement of his Party - the Republican Party - and was opposed by the party machines of both the Republicans and the Democrats, was re-elected as Mayor of New York in the mayoral elections towards the end of last year. [More…]
Many prominent Americans who were Republicans or Democrats have been big enough men to realise that a basis for a successful Vietnam policy has not been established. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite are democrats they will accept our challenge, grasp the nettle and go to the Australian people whom they are supposed to represent and whom we are supposed to represent. [More…]
I am not suggesting that the Government should go even that far but I am sure that it knows that the Christian Democrats in Latin America - 1 mention this for Senator Little’s benefit - have gone a lot further than parties which are left of the Labor Party have gone because a climate of fear was created. [More…]
It is one of the curiosities of present day politics in this country that the people who are patently democrats and who are leading the people of Papua and New Guinea to a decision on selfdetermination are the members and supporters of the Government and that the people who are adopting the role of the patriarchal, patronising, erstwhile colonialists are the members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I want these people to be given every assistance and I want them to be educated, but I do not think that we can turn them into functioning democrats overnight. [More…]
Those honourable senators who do not believe me are, 1 would suggest, not democrats. [More…]
I have mentioned these matters just to show the hard type of bargain the socialist democrats enforce. [More…]
It will be well remembered by many that the Suppression of Communism Act in South Africa, which has been responsible for the imprisonment and the suffering of many Democrats in that country, was based on the Communist Party Dissolution Act which was passed by the Australian Government in” 1950, only subsequently, to be repudiated by the High Court of Australia and by the people of Australia. [More…]
I am staggered that the alleged democrats on my right, whom I have heard plead in this place- [More…]
There is no need for anybody to apologise for those lads who find it necessary to act in the best traditions of Australia’s manhood and I believe that all democrats will wish them luck in the future. [More…]
1 have always preferred an honest conservative to a phony liberal and for that reason I think that the Republican administrations have had more intelligent, sensible attitudes to foreign affairs than have the Democrats who, despite their protestations of world peace, seem to have got themselves involved in more wars than the Republicans ever did. [More…]
1 have a copy of the minutes of a European conference on immigration held in central Europe in April and attended by christian socialists, social democrats and communist trade unionists. [More…]
He said: ‘If a Liberal man here went to a Conservative group in Britain or if a Labor man here went to the Social Democrats should he be debarred from the Public Service?’ [More…]
Surely, if we are democrats, we agree that anybody at any time should be allowed to change his mind about politics. [More…]
As democrats we have always subscribed to the referendum system with a view to obtaining the viewpoint of people on any controversial issue. [More…]
Yet these people of the Australian Labor Party who are supposed to be democrats and whoare allegedly anti-communist– [More…]
that the Swedish Social Democrats could not have held Government continually for 40 years without a break, but for the fact that they had a fair and honest system of election. [More…]
First past the post voting, the introduction of which is part of the long term program of the Government, is well worth looking at because those who advocate it have the infernal hide to stand here and claim that they are true democrats, that they are concerned- [More…]
Members of the Australian Labor Party have an infernal hide to claim that they are the great democrats. [More…]
As a matter of fact 1 wrote an article for one publication and in it drew a parallel with the reforms of the Roosevelt era in the United States of America in respect of ethnic groups and of how those people flocked to the Democrats and returned a long series of Roosevelt administrations. [More…]
If honourable .senators, opposite are the democrats they claim to be, would they not want to see both sides put? [More…]
I am sure that the Liberals, particularly Senator Hannan, will be happy when I say that the Mouvement Republicain Populaire, the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats have to be allied with all the parties of the Right in France. [More…]
It is an extraordinary thing that the so-called democrats are now drunk with power on being elected to office. [More…]
But I think it behoves any people who claim to be civil libertarians and who claim to be democrats to raise their voices against the sort of repression which I am convinced is occurring in the Soviet Union at present. [More…]
Being democrats, and having agreed among ourselves and having undertaken to do so, we will observe that decision. [More…]
He knows in his heart that at that time there were a few people, not in the lower Houses of the various parliaments but in Upper Houses- I refer particularly to those people who masquerade as democrats in the Upper House of Tasmania- who did not realise in a time of emergency that Tasmania had to get instant government. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that 17 Canadian members of Parliament and senators representing the 3 major parties in Canada- the Conservatives, the Liberals, and the New Democrats who are equivalent to the Australian Labor Party- have asked the Canadian Government to support a motion in the United Nations calling for humane treatment for and the ending of the torturing of and other indignities against all political prisoners in South Vietnam? [More…]
I believe they show only hypocrisy when they talk about Solzhenitsyn but have not a word to say about the treatment of the African National Congress in South Africa, the South African Congress of Trade Unions or about the Socialist Party or Christian Democrats in Spain or about Wilfred Burchett. [More…]
These democrats who ask us to consult the people of Australia about what they wish are by this very motion denying just that appeal to the people. [More…]
If the Opposition is so confident that these are outrageous proposals and that they will get the deserts which the Opposition claims are their due, why do not honourable senators opposite as democrats, who are anxious for us to go to the people, allow these matters to go to the people. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that all their indignation and all their claims to be great democrats are quite phoney. [More…]
Those people who call themselves democrats and those who are members of the Opposition are trying to prevent the Government from putting it to the people. [More…]
No democrat- I know that there is a vaunted claim by members of the Government that they are virtually the only democrats in Australiashould challenge any course of action which enables the people themselves to decide what are the merits of legislation. [More…]
These great democrats- Mr Whitlam and those whom he cites for his authority- who state that the Senate is trenching upon democratic rights when it interrupts the free flow of mischief by a government within its 3-year term completely falsify the situation because each House goes to the country for a decision by the people. [More…]
Has anyone ever heard of the Christian Democrats of West Germany saying at any stage that they would abandon their scheme of national health insurance? [More…]
Of course they would notbecause the Christian Democrats, the conservative party in West Germany, introduced the compulsory national health insurance scheme. [More…]
They are Bills which have the support of the Christian Democrats of western Europe and the Conservatives of Great Britain. [More…]
I have seen members of a party move through country areas telling country people for decades how disadvantaged they are and at the same time, in a parallel fashion and as a result, they have drawn that countryside down to a position where it has been ridiculed by democrats. [More…]
Australian people truly representative government and to give practical expression to the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, which still echo down through the ages and linger in the minds of all democrats, namely: ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people ‘. [More…]
It is to guarantee to this nation that they are democrats and that they will act in accordance with the will of the majority of the people. [More…]
There is no obstructionism from the Senate if we are democrats and recognise that the voice of the people can be expressed in 2 chambers each elected on a democratic basis. [More…]
Here we have the Prime Minister claiming to have achieved an historic occasion, a Joint Sitting of both Houses, whereas the maudlin fact is that the Joint Sitting is necessary only because his electoral result left him in such doubt as to his differences with the Senate that it is necessary for us to come together and, as great democrats, submit the life of the Senate to this miserable majority of three. [More…]
It did not do so until it gained the seat for the Northern Territory, and then Opposition supporters suddenly became great democrats. [More…]
It still upholds the principle Mr Calwell spoke about- the German Social Democrats - [More…]
There are many people from those 3 countries who are now living as refugees and who are fine democrats. [More…]
Let us remember that the things that Senator Webster hates about discrimination in Australia and the things that Senator Coleman dislikes about Western Australian legislation are hated by all free men and all democrats. [More…]
This proposed constitutional vandalism demands that all democrats stand up and be counted. [More…]
In saying this he has joined those 2 great Australian democrats- Mr Bjelke-Petersen, the Premier of Queensland, and Mr Anthony, the Leader of the Australian Country Party- as apparently the only ones outside the New South Wales Cabinet to support the proposed actions of Mr Lewis. [More…]
O’Brien found that when the Nixon machine was working in top gear the Democrats were virtually blackmailed off the United States television channels because Spiro Agnew and the big business people threatened to apply sanctions on the big television networks if they gave the Democrats a semblance of fair play. [More…]
He quoted the Nixon ploy of: the issue of defence spending in terms of a hand (presumably McGovern’s knocking toy ships and aeroplanes off a table, or for that matter, of the 1964 ‘Daisy Girl’ spot used by the Democrats, which linked Barry Goldwater to the nuclear incineration of little girls. [More…]
Or, for that matter, of the 1964 ‘Daisy Girl’ spot used by the Democrats, which linked Barry Goldwater to the nuclear incineration of little girls. [More…]
One of the oldest and greatest Labor Parties in the world, the West German Social Democrats, has been seriously disrupted by infiltration from a super-militant youth group. [More…]
I did not understand that the Christian Democrats have disowned them. [More…]
The Christian Democrats, as I think Senator Gietzelt well knows, were people who initially supported President Allende into power and they were the people who, when they learned of the excesses in which President Allende was engaging, revised the initial views they held. [More…]
I cannot speak of what the Christian Democrats have done in recent years but I do know that this particular Chilean Radical Party which the Labor Party is sponsoring is a party which has been outlawed and banned and that it has engaged in activities designed to overthrow the Government which this present Australian Government recognises. [More…]
There was then a run-off election and the Christian Democrats voted for him. [More…]
It is interesting to note that not only the radical party but the other parties which were in popular unity are now being persecuted in Chile by the Facist regime- and I use the term quite deliberately and not in any loose sense- which includes the Christian Democratic Party of Chile, which is associated with the Italian, French and West German Christian Democrats, who have engaged in similar solidarity with the Chilean Christian Democrats as we have engaged with the Radical Party. [More…]
People who believe in the parliamentary system, whether they be Liberals, members of the Democratic Labor Party, members pf the National Country Party or members of the Labor Party- social democrats- argue, as we have always done, that changes can be made through the parliamentary system. [More…]
If Baits, like many silly Liberals, constantly equate social democracy with communism, they may suggest to the more ignorant social democrats that this is only right and proper. [More…]
I have seen the sheepish looks on some of these great democrats on the other side. [More…]
If the Opposition has its day of infamy and is successful in its current bid we will have a situation similar to that in Germany in the 1920s when the Social Democrats were hamstrung. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite are democrats they will accept our challenge, grasp the nettle and go to the Australian people whom they are supposed to represent and whom we are supposed to represent. [More…]
The result was that when Willi Brandt left office the social democrats remained in government. [More…]
I hope that in the near future in the peace talks that will take place the Australian people and their Parliament will give as much service to the cause of the Cypriots as has been given by senior United States Democrats such as Senator Egerton. [More…]
Some attempt should be made to see that our royal visitor is not subjected to the dangers to which she will be submitted if she parades with a person who is unacceptable to the majority of democrats in Australia. [More…]
In fact it was much milder than the worker participation scheme brought in by the Social Democrats in West Germany. [More…]
One should look back to what happened in Germany between 1919 and 1933 when the Social Democrats first got control of that country. [More…]
As was explained to me in West Germany, nowhere is the importance of social democrats to the continued viability of parliamentary democracy more in evidence than in Portugal today. [More…]
India, this great country, has been the example which democrats throughout the world have been able to quote to those who have said that it is only a few rich people in Sweden, New Zealand, Canada or Switzerland who can afford to have the parliamentary democratic system and that as long as there are real economic and communal difficulties democracy does not work. [More…]
It may be that social democrats like myself will have greater faith in the judiciary now that the High Court of Australia has people of the calibre of the former Attorney-General, Senator Murphy. [More…]
This is an example which ought to be heartening to democrats throughout the world. [More…]
But for so long as the PLO says that it will use this proposed Palestinian state only in order to destroy Israel, I think we have a commitment as one of the countries which was responsible for the formation of Israel and as fellow democrats to see that the Israelis are not placed in the position where they will be blackmailed into accepting negotiations or a settlement of this kind which can lead in a few years time only to their destruction. [More…]
I submit that the social democrats and the trade unionists were the first people to be put in gaol and to feel the oppression in those countries that I have mentioned. [More…]
If we can do this then the issues which still divide all free peoples whether they be conservatives, liberals or social democrats will become increasingly narrow and the gulf which separates us from the unfree slave societies all the more apparent. [More…]
I find it deplorable that, when we have white South Africans who are prepared to stand up within their own country, with all the risks that they suffer- people who are democrats, not revolutionaries, not looking for violent overthrow of the government, not like Mr Vorster, the idol of some of my colleagues on the Government benches who was interned during the war because of his membership of a Nazi organisation, the Ossewa Brandwag, which I am sure Senator Jessop would be able to translate as ‘the Sentinels of the Ox Wagon’- we have people here who denigrate them. [More…]
The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) goes back to a certain period in an attempt to show that the then political mercenaries, the Democratic Labor Party, might have been allied for a few fleeting moments with the Social Democrats. [More…]
He had arguments with the one remaining member of that Party, who has since abdicated from that Party and has joined the Democrats Party under the leadership of the honourable member for Hotham, Mr Chipp. [More…]
In one sentence, Mr Bjelke-Petersen has injured the rights democrats have fought for centuries to preserve. [More…]
I am honoured to be the first senator to represent the Australian Democrats and to be the first woman to do so. [More…]
On 10 December 1977 the Liberal Party of Australia polled for the House of Representatives 38.1 per cent of the national vote, the Australian Labor Party 39.7 per cent, the National Country Party 10 per cent and the Australian Democrats 9.4 per cent. [More…]
For the Senate the figures were Liberal-National Country Party 45.6 per cent, Australian Labor Party 36.9 per cent, and Australian Democrats 11.1 per cent. [More…]
The Labor Government, supported by Robin Millhouse, who is now leader of the Australian Democrats in South Australia, argued that the Liberal Movement of which Senator Steele Hall was a member when he was elected to the Senate no longer existed and that it had been taken over by the Australian Democrats. [More…]
The Australian Democrats was, in fact, a new Liberal Movement party. [More…]
The attitude of the Dunstan Government and of Robin Millhouse may have been correct if one can associate the formation of the Australian Democrats with a takeover of the Liberal Movement. [More…]
It could have elected a Labor Party member but to give the Premier his due his justification for the appointment was that he thought he was better expressing the wish of the electors at the time and the referendum decision to change the Constitution by putting someone from the Australian Democrats into the Senate. [More…]
We had discussions with the new Liberal Club, which is a breakaway group, and the Liberal Democrats in Japan. [More…]
It became obvious to me both as a senator and previously, when like Senator Mulvihill I was Assistant Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Labor Party, that the Liberal Party and the Country Party had financial resources which far outstripped the resources of parties such as the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats. [More…]
If we look at the State figures for South Australia we find that the Liberal Party, combined with the Country Party and the Australian Democrats, polled 46.5 per cent of the votes, whilst the Labor Party polled 53.8 per cent of the votes. [More…]
The Labor Party won 27 seats, compared with 20 won by the Liberal Party, the Country Party and the Australian Democrats. [More…]
I look forward to greeting appropriately the other senators from the Australian Democrats when they arrive and will be interested to see how they perform in this chamber. [More…]
I wanted to make one or two comments, in opening, about the 1977 election, a subject in which the Australian Democrats are, of course, highly relevant. [More…]
These were not necessarily voters who were being motivated to vote for the Australian Democrats as a result of their disillusionment. [More…]
To be called fascist is an insult to all loyal Australians after 25 years of residence here; and that by a socialist party which has been described by one of its prophets, the great Stalin himself- on that occasion speaking of the Social Democrats- as ‘twin brothers of fascism’. [More…]
He then, in making a most extraordinary alleged quotation from Stalin, said that Stalin had claimed at some stage that social democrats and communists were brothers. [More…]
There was no more committed enemy of the social democrats and of the principles for which the Australian Labor Party stands than was Stalin himself. [More…]
Indeed, the only reference that I can remember about brothers- and it was certainly not the remark that Senator Lajovic, this latter-day Haldane, attributed to Stalin, that social democrats and communists are twin brothers- is the exchange that once took place between Otto Grotewohl. [More…]
Grotewohl said to Schumacher: Communists and Social Democrats are really brothers’, to which Schumacher replied: ‘Yes, like Cain and Abel’. [More…]
Representatives of the Australian Democrats are now with us and will be with us for a considerable number of years. [More…]
Senator JANINE HAINES (South Australia) It is with considerable regret that I rise today to extend my sympathies and those of the Australian Democrats to the widow and family of the late Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
But from what she said I gained the impression that she interpreted the results of the past general election as indicating to the Senate and to the people of Australia that the Australian Democrats had something significant to say about the Australian Constitution. [More…]
As I recall the Press discussion on the policies of the Australian Democrats at the last election, it was to the effect that the Australian Democrats had no policy, particularly in relation to matters such as constitutional reform. [More…]
One could scarcely say that Australian Democrats come here with a mandate- if one can use that expression- on the basis that they have shown an interest in constitutional reform, because that is not so. [More…]
But what I hope will happen is that in July when the Australian Democrats come here in their full glory- I do not wish to detract from Senator Haines at all- they will argue the case for a popular convention to consider constitutional issues and not just for a convention which is confined to the sort of grey bureaucrats of politics, such as the Minister and I. [More…]
I commend my suggestion to the Democrats as the desirable policy which they might adopt- perhaps the first they adopt. [More…]
Speaking at a public forum organised by the Territory Australian Democrats on Saturday, Mr Perron said: ‘There can be no dispute that our election victory was a mandate to institute the changes now imminent. [More…]
Australian Democrats Leader, Senator-elect Don Chipp today urged Territorians not to be ‘conned’ into statehood by Canberra. [More…]
The Democrats believe strongly in self-determination, but I, Chipp, as a national leader with 1 6 years of parliamentary experience holding 10 portfolios behind me, plead with Territorians not to accept it from Canberra until they have read the fine prim on funding, ‘ he said. [More…]
The Australian Democrats support the principle, but all of the six States and almost every local government authority I have seen in the past 12 months say it’s the sweetest con job in federal history.’ [More…]
Those meetings have been mounted by the Australian Labor Party, the Australian Democrats, various associations, chambers of industry and so on but not, unfortunately, by the Government. [More…]
All three recognised opposition parties, the ALP to the Left, the Democrats at the centre and the Progress Party to the Right, as well as representatives of the public servants, the biggest single group of employees and at least one major black organisation have demanded such a poll. [More…]
Mr President, on behalf of the Australian Democrats I extend to you our very sincere congratulations and my personal congratulations, if I may. [More…]
One is the presence of a new party, the Australian Democrats, and the other is that you still have an Independent senator. [More…]
I seek leave to make a statement concerning the leadership of the Australian Democrats in the Senate. [More…]
-I advise the Senate that I have had the honour to be elected parliamentary leader of the Australian Democrats and that Senator Colin Mason has been elected my Deputy Leader. [More…]
I wish to associate the Australian Democrats with this motion of condolence on the death of Pope Paul VI. [More…]
I feel confident that if debate were to encompass the new members of the Senate from the Australian Democrats and if in fact Senator Harradine were enjoined to vote on such an issue we could count upon an overwhelming viewpoint from this national Parliament. [More…]
That is why the Australian Democrats have taken a vote on this question. [More…]
We are confronted now with the advent to the Senate of two Australian Democrats. [More…]
In this case the Labor Party feels that it would be wrong if it were to prevent in any way the inclusion of the Australian Democrats in the committee system. [More…]
I would think, for example, that if the Australian Democrats were grouped with the sole independent senator probably, on a proportional basis, they would be entitled to one place on the legislative and general purpose standing committees. [More…]
I refer briefly to the remarks of Senator Chaney and Senator Georges that the Australian Democrats should have some modesty of aspiration in this regard. [More…]
1 could not see any sense of value in any claim by the Australian Democrats to be represented on many committees. [More…]
I feel that the Democrats’ participation in committee work should be restricted to work which can be done with some efficiency and preferably in an area of some interest and knowledge to the senator concerned. [More…]
We find that the number of votes received by the Australian Democrats equalled the votes of the National Country Party yet the Democrats were denied representation in the lower House whereas the Country Party has representation in that House. [More…]
This motion which has been put forward by the Australian Democrats may be dropped. [More…]
I was particularly gratified to hear the emphasis Senator Mason placed on the plight of the unemployed youth in our community, and I expect from his contribution that we will be able to look forward to support from Senator Mason and the Australian Democrats in this place for active and effective measures to come to terms with the problems of youth unemployment. [More…]
The Australian Democrats support the thrust of the Commonwealth Employment Service Bill. [More…]
I will not refer to that matter because my colleague, Senator Mason, in his maiden speech, referred to the way the Australian Democrats feel about unemployment. [More…]
Had he given notice of an amendment for the protection of private enterprise in this sector, he would have had the immediate support of the Australian Democrats. [More…]
One would have found Senator Missen and the Australian Democrats, as three members out of a total of 64 members in the Senate, supporting that amendment. [More…]
What concerns the Democrats in this Bill is clause 6 (a), which appears harmless but actually states that one of the functions ‘of the Commonwealth Employment Service is to assist persons seeking employment’. [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats Party are totally in favour of competition. [More…]
By stating that the Australian Democrats are firmly in favour of competition and that the best form of competition is for the Government to compete with private enterprise- or the other way around- which prevents collusive tendering amongst private enterprise I think I have put our situation. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are a private enterprise party- not a socialist party- as I thought the Liberal Party was. [More…]
One thing that disturbs the Australian Democrats is that there seems to be less and less regard for the small business person in Australia. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Australian Democrats are supporting it. [More…]
What we in the Australian Democrats have been saying for 1 2 or 1 8 months is that the home building industry is the classic industry to stimulate for this reason: It is notoriously quick to respond to stimulus; after the injection of money at the right interest rates, it responds very quickly. [More…]
The Bill is opposed not only by the Opposition and the Australian Democrats but also by almost every person and organisation concerned with this legislation since it was announced. [More…]
It looks relatively harmless, but the Australian Democrats do not believe that it is harmless. [More…]
The argument that has gone on is whether the subsidy arrangements which are proposed are appropriate and whether they will produce social effects of the kind that the Opposition and the Australian Democrats allege they will produce. [More…]
The Australian Democrats could scarcely oppose this Bill because to do so would be to inhibit a proper consideration of the very important matter that is its subject, and because we also believe that this whole area needs basic rethinking. [More…]
The Australian Democrats think this is quite basic. [More…]
There again, whilst I would not oppose the Bill, the whole direction of this area of public policy worries the Democrats. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe that one great error of government is to tend to monopolise the area of social services or, more accurately, to allow specialised public servants to do so. [More…]
As honourable senators might or might not know, the Australian Democrats in forming its policy in this area has tried to consult the community as widely as possible before our suggested policies are voted on by all our members in a secret written ballot. [More…]
Democrats throughout the history of the world have not fought, and bled and died to overthrow the divine right of kings simply to see us fall down before the divine right of experts. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe that yearly budgets are a disaster and that they are the very last thing that an economy and a society trying to look ahead to the problems that face us and the world need. [More…]
The Australian Democrats agree with the Victorian Employers Federation. [More…]
But the Democrats believe that this does not go far enough. [More…]
The Australian Democrats disagree with this system and we put forward two fundamental concepts. [More…]
The point the Democrats are making is that unless we have long term planning to remove party politics and point scoring from this sort of arrangement we will never solve those sorts of problems. [More…]
The Democrats believe that inflation and unemployment can be tackled simultaneously. [More…]
Whilst tremendous importance is placed publicly upon pure theory, in whatever field it may be, we as democrats and free people- regrettably there are relatively few free people thoughout the world today- have to beware lest we become the slaves of some ivory towered conceptions. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are not sure that Australians would be quite so ungenerous as to have only $1 assigned. [More…]
This motion is taken pretty much from the Australian Democrats draft policy on electoral and constitutional reform. [More…]
Not long after the formation of the Australian Democrats we made a sort of straw poll of nearly 2,000 Australians. [More…]
They were not Australian Democrats. [More…]
We were intrigued by that, and subsequent inquiries by the Australian Democrats have indicated that there is a widespread feeling in the community that this question of funding should somehow be resolved, as it has been in many other countries. [More…]
The Australian Democrats’ idea of things is that we should maintain contact with the electorate and with its feelings on issues. [More…]
If changes were to be made to this very deceitful and dishonest Budget, they could have been made only with the support of the 26 solid votes of honourable senators of the Australian Labor Party and with a couple of votes from the honourable senators of the Australian Democrats, who, from the way in which they have asked questions and contributed to the discussion, could have been relied upon to support the changes. [More…]
In the same issue the Australian Democrats had this to say about the Budget: [More…]
The Darwin Branch of the Australian Democrats had described the Federal Budget as dull, unimaginative, and an admission of failure . [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats do not oppose the 1978 Budget, nor could we support Senator Gietzelt ‘s amendment. [More…]
The Australian Democrats will not then be blockers purely for the sake of blocking and we will honour in this Parliament the pledges that we made before we were elected to it. [More…]
So we of the Australian Democrats have no patience with doomsayers nor with the prejudices deriving from what we believe to be the 19th century ideologies of the Labor and Liberal Parties. [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats are pragmatists and we are proud of it. [More…]
It is because of the dangers of this two-party system, of adversaries battling from the two extremes of the economic spectrum, that the Australian Democrats were formed a year or ago by 8,000 ordinary Australians. [More…]
I suggest that that is the reason for the presence of a third party- the Australian Democrats. [More…]
The industrial relations policy of the Australian Democrats is based on taking the heat out of this confrontation, getting it out of the political field, getting it out of the legal field, getting the disputes away from publicity and at a place where the parties, together with a team of conciliators on whom they can mutually agree, can discuss their problems until a solution is reached. [More…]
We have many good trade unionists in the Australian Democrats and every day we welcome more as members. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe fundamentally in the necessity for a strong, honest and healthy trade union movement which benefits all workers- and I stress the words, ‘all workers’. [More…]
The Australian people, I suggest from the feedback we in the Australian Democrats are getting, are fed up to the back teeth with this situation and they will not tolerate it any further. [More…]
There are very many things about the Labor Party’s policies that are constructive- indeed, we in the Australian Democrats share so many of them- but which will never come to fruition. [More…]
Here are some of the points that the Australian Democrats would like to see the Labor Party take up with the union movement. [More…]
This is what the Australian Democrats mean by industrial democracy. [More…]
Another point that might be clarified with the unions- and here again I know I am speaking in the same way as many other people, but in fact the Australian Democrats I believe seven or eight months ago were among the first to bring up this point- is their apparent determination to keep tens of thousands of unemployed people permanently out of work by not reconsidering union attitudes towards permanent part time work and the abolition of weekend penalty rates. [More…]
We in the Australian Democrats agree absolutely with that. [More…]
The Australian Democrats agree with Mr Bob Hawke that the initial answer must be a conference of all elements in our economic and political scene. [More…]
I will turn for an example in some detail to what the Australian Democrats regard as an important possibility in view of the rapidly oncoming crisis in respect of our supplies of petrol. [More…]
It has a higher octane rating and even when it is used at an additive to petrol, which is what the Australian Democrats suggest should be researched first, it can reduce the need for lead additives and hence also the need for vehicle emission controls. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are great believers in consulting people. [More…]
I can assure Senator Mason that the Labor Party does not intend to take any advice from a new party such as the Australian Democrats which was formed by a person who was more or less eased out of the Liberal Party of Australia. [More…]
All the policies of the Australian Democrats have been formulated by Senator Chipp who was a Minister in a previous Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
Now the Australian Democrats have the audacity to come into this Senate and lecture members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Senator Chipp on behalf of the Australian Democrats today asked a question on this matter in regard to Victorian railway workers as though they are some son of unique group specially penalised by this legislation. [More…]
The Australian Democrats will be pleased to support it. [More…]
For that reason the Australian Democrats will support the amendment. [More…]
Has the Centre Party in Sweden been thrown out of office by the Social Democrats on a pro-uranium issue? [More…]
We are just like those good German policemen, good solid Liberals and Social Democrats who carried out their orders from Hitler after 1933- people who would never have voted Nazi in their lives and who said: ‘Isn’t it shocking. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would agree essentially with [More…]
Having said that, I wish to say that the Australian Democrats will not oppose this clause. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would agree entirely with the Labor Party on that point. [More…]
For the first time in debate in this place I disagree with my colleague from the Australian Democrats. [More…]
I think it ought to be put on record now that the Leader of the Australian Democrats (Senator Chipp) said just a few moments ago that the Australian Democrats are not going to oppose the clause. [More…]
Not only has the Government broken its promise but also the Leader of the Australian Democrats is going to break a promise here today on the first opportunity he has to oppose a provision of this Bill which he stood most solidly for in the policy speech of 1975. [More…]
I do not believe that the Australian Democrats will have trouble voting with us on this issue. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite went to the people in 1975 with a policy speech on social security which no doubt was devised by the present Leader of the Australian Democrats (Senator Chipp), and last year when Mr Fraser said that the Government would maintain twice-yearly increases. [More…]
Although I do not want to take up the time of the Committee by covering ground which has already been covered, I think it is worth stating the position of the Australian Democrats. [More…]
This seems to the Australian Democrats to be a quite fundamental attitude for any modern society that makes any small claim to being civilised. [More…]
I ought to add, too, that this policy of the Australian Democrats was adopted by our national membership in a secret ballot and that we are the only political movement in this country which does that. [More…]
I refer to the mounting concern which has come to be expressed by democrats around the world in recent years at the condition of civil liberty in West Germany. [More…]
Senator CHIPP (Victoria- Leader ofthe Australian Democrats)- Mr Acting Deputy President, I claim to have been misrepresented or misunderstood and under Standing Order 410 I seek leave to make an explanation. [More…]
That is the statement of an Australian Democrats member of the Legislative Assembly and a member of the committee which drew up the report which the Senate is now considering. [More…]
The answer I got was that the Independent senator and the Australian Democrats - [More…]
Yes, the Australian Democrats. [More…]
I do not know whether they are democrats, but that is another point. [More…]
I claim that if an Independent or a member of the Australian Democrats is entitled to travel facilities which permit his staff to go anywhere in Australia during the recess, back benchers on both sides should be entitled to the same facilities. [More…]
I, and no doubt the Australian Democrats, do not have the facilities that both major parties have. [More…]
Of course that benefit is not available to me as an Independent senator, nor to the members of the Australian Democrats. [More…]
I suppose that if there is a situation with a particular piece of legislation or a particular government policy which requires my staff member in Canberra- or the Australian Democrats’ staff member in Canberra- to investigate in, say, Perth because the legislation affects Perth, then I would rather see him go there than me, not that I have anything against Perth. [More…]
The whole thrust of my argument is that if Senator Harradine and the Australian Democrats are entitled to travel facilities throughout Australia for one of each of their staffs during recesses so too are back bench members of the Opposition and the Government. [More…]
If the Government recognises that those three people are entitled to two staff between them- that is one for Senator Harradine and one for the two Australian Democrats senators- and they are entitled to travel facilities during recesses, why cannot the back bench members also be entitled to those facilities for their staff? [More…]
For that reason the Australian Democrats say that the only long term solution of the problem is first to recognise that it is indeed long term, not just a temporary aberration, not just the result of Government policies- although they have contributed. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe that no solution can be found to this problem unless all parties get together. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe that manufacturing industry has to be assisted and protected. [More…]
The Australian Democrats recently conducted a survey of department stores. [More…]
We in the Australian Democrats are satisfied that the first requirement we have set down in our policy, that is the safe storage of nuclear wastes, has not yet been met although in some small ways some progress has been made. [More…]
That decision, interestingly enough, was the result of a referendum arising from a citizen’s initiative, a civilised aspect of government that the Australian Democrats believe ought to be introduced by the citizens of Australia, acting on their own behalf and in their own interests. [More…]
in reply- The Opposition, supported by the Australian Democrats, has used this Bill to amend the Atomic Energy Act as a vehicle to debate and to oppose the Government’s policy to permit the mining and export of uranium. [More…]
We were in fact supported by one Government senator, by the Australian Democrats senators and by the independent senator. [More…]
They were not accepted by the Australian Democrats senators. [More…]
I am not complaining about that because the Opposition has been remarkably kind to members of the Australian Democrats since we got into this Parliament. [More…]
In fact, more people voted for the Australian Democrats than for the National Country Party of Australia. [More…]
In my policy speech in 1977 it was announced that the Australian Democrats policy was clearly not for the restoration or maintenance of sixmonthly indexation of pensions but for quarterly indexation of all pensions. [More…]
To the Australian Democrats to break that promise is an act that is not to be commended. [More…]
My thoughts and those of the Australian Democrats on this matter are well known. [More…]
Having made that additional point which is pertinent to this debate, I repeat that we of the Australian Democrats pledge ourselves to support the Australian Labor Party in any moves it might want to make in conformity with the Standing Orders in an effort to force the Government in some way to honour the promise on which it won millions of votes in 1977. [More…]
We are supported by the Australian Democrats. [More…]
Has the Centre Party in Sweden been thrown out of office by the Social Democrats on a pre-uranium issue? [More…]
The Australian Democrats have, of course, had considerable feed-back from the Australian public on its disillusionments with parliaments. [More…]
That is one of the major reasons for the existence of the Australian Democrats in the first place. [More…]
I understand from Democrats offices throughout Australia that because of fairly widespread and increasing media and public interest in recent days in the subject there is already an accelerated pace in the addition of signatures to those petitions. [More…]
I think it certainly very democratic that honourable senators on both sides of the chamber, other than Australian Democrats senators, should present further petitions on this matter, and I confidently predict that that will be the case. [More…]
That is why the Democrats have persisted with this matter and why we will continue to persist with it. [More…]
I now make the point that it is just not members of the Democrats who are taking this petition around, but also a number of other organisations in the community. [More…]
Their members are actively interested and they are taking the petition about and getting signatures not because they support the Democrats but because they support the idea of citizen initiative. [More…]
I would only finally commend this matter to the Senate in the sense and spirit in which the Australian Democrats put it forward. [More…]
The concept of a total future plan covering a reasonable time span is one of the most important economic measures so far established as the economic policy of the Australian Democrats as a result of debate within our organisation. [More…]
It is not too much to say that the Australian Democrats, on reflection, feel that this is an essential ingredient of any economic strategy of value or promise for this country. [More…]
It is rather baffling to the Democrats why none of the old parties- most importantly the Australian Labor Party- has not brought forward a motion of this kind, discussed it and tried to justify it. [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats would agree with him absolutely. [More…]
I do not under-estimate the difficulties that would be involved in such a conference and this is why it has been placed by the Australian Democrats in a rather long time span. [More…]
We in the Australian Democrats believe that a good deal of careful planning should go into such a convention in consultation with those who will probably be involved, many of whom as we know are antagonistic to each other due to political colouring of so much of our social and economic life which results from the two-party system of which I have spoken before. [More…]
In other words, planning on the basis suggested by the Australian Democrats would be a continuous process, with continued consultation between the major forces in the economy and society. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe in enlightened private enterprise, and I stress the word enlightened’. [More…]
To the Australian Democrats it is fundamental that if there is to be regulation it is much better that it be self-regulation imposed as a result of co-operation and consultation with the rest of the community. [More…]
This is a matter which the Australian Democrats are considering closely and we certainly will be raising it in the near future. [More…]
Yet when one compares the facilities of the New South Wales Liberal Party with the New South Wales Labor Party it is rather indicative of the ALP’s plight and for that matter the present plight of the Australian Democrats in trying to compete today. [More…]
In short, parties like the Democrats, the ALP, independents like Senator Harradine, and the gone but not easily forgotten Democratic Labor Party have to rely on a handful of dedicated supporters while the major Government parties can hire small private armies to help in elections. [More…]
For example, Senator Chipp and Senator Mason might find it interesting that under a system similar to that recommended by the Houghton Committee, their party, the Australian Democrats, the newest party in Australian politics, would be eligible for a significant amount of state aid in the next election, having established that their party is a popular force and that it had considerable electoral support at the last election. [More…]
The Australian Democrats find the views of Senator Hamer on this subject very interesting and refreshing. [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats have not yet balloted it specifically because we have not got round to it, but I would be very surprised if our organisation and our people who are thinking about this area of constitutional and legal reform did not go along sufficiently with Senator Hamer almost to be induced to send him a membership form for the Australian Democrats. [More…]
Certainly I can assure the Senate that the Australian Democrats membership and our policy forming areas will look at this idea and see whether we can formulate policy on the matters that Senator Hamer raised. [More…]
At the outset I say that I am disturbed to learn that neither the Liberal Party, the National Country Party nor the Labor Party is prepared to support the Australian Democrats in this motion. [More…]
To those who read Hansard and to those who are listening to the broadcast of this debate, might I explain why the Australian Democrats believe that the reference of a matter as important as this to a Senate standing committee is so vital. [More…]
So the operative word in the motion I have moved tonight on behalf of the Australia Democrats concerning oil exploration in the Great Barrier Reef area is ‘ area ‘. [More…]
But he then went on to say- and this significant remark gives the Australian Democrats great concern: [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe that it would be catastrophic to allow drilling that distance from the Reef. [More…]
If the Prime Minister wants that technical knowledge to be obtained, why has he asked his Liberal senators not to agree to the motion moved by me tonight on behalf of the Australian Democrats? [More…]
As far as the Australian Democrats are concerned, we believe that the Great Barrier Reef belongs not only to Australia but also to the world. [More…]
That is why the Australian Democrats are even more deeply concerned about some of the more outrageous statements of Queensland Ministers concerning drilling on the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
In the light of those statements I do not think that the Australian Democrats, and those who support this motion, could be blamed for confessing utter confusion about the intentions of the Government or of the National Party on this question of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
His amendment is totally unacceptable to the Australian Democrats. [More…]
That editorial, more than anything else, eloquently sums up the position of the Australian Democrats and the reason that we ask the Senate to pass tonight this motion which seeks to refer this matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]
I shall speak to it only briefly in order to raise perhaps one question of importance to the Australian Democrats which Senator Chipp has not covered. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe - [More…]
I believe that we in the Australian Democrats have information and knowledge, as I think any perceptive person would have, which indicates that there is a wide degree of concern in relation to this matter in the Australian community. [More…]
We in the Australian Democrats believe that we have the Australian public squarely behind us on this issue. [More…]
Most Australian democrats are opposed to exploitation of the Reef area in this way. [More…]
As Senator Chipp has said, this matter is very close to the hearts of the Austraiian Democrats, as I believe it is close to the hearts of the Australian people. [More…]
I recognise the concern of Senator Chipp and the Australian Democrats. [More…]
That is why I have tried to by sympathetic with the intent of the Australian Democrats in moving this motion. [More…]
I sympathise with the general thrust of it and I hope that what I have suggested will go a long way towards satisfying the concern expressed by the Austraiian Democrats. [More…]
I know that the intentions of the Australian Democrats are honest but I believe that we have investigated the matter and already come to a conclusion. [More…]
It may be that Mr Nujoma ‘s comments relate to differences within SWAPO but I am unable to comment on whether the position of Mr Shipanga of the SWAPO Democrats is relevant. [More…]
A rude and dismissive response to Senator Mason’s proposal might be to say that this is just another example of that cheap, crude, two-bob populism which the Australian Democrats have made so peculiarly their own; their tendency to confront complex problems with slogans and simplistic solutions and to do so wallowing in the luxury of the knowledge that they will never be in the position of having to govern, and confront these problems, in their own right. [More…]
In fact, I have said quite the opposite, that is, that the Australian media has been impeccably fair to the Australian Democrats since its inception. [More…]
The Australian Democrats regard the lack of energy policy in this country as one of the most serious problems facing us. [More…]
Yet in the United States there are Democrats and Republicans who have changed from being hawks to doves in respect of that war. [More…]
I wish to speak briefly to this motion to deplore, on behalf of the Australian Democrats, a further step along a path the consequences of which we believe the Government has failed to consider in accordance with the facts. [More…]
It has frequently been put to me and to the Australian Democrats that we might as well sell our uranium because if we do not other people will sell their uranium. [More…]
We in the Australian Democrats say that this is a proper and responsible subject upon which the Government should consult the Australian people. [More…]
The Australian Democrats say: ‘Let the Australian people decide whether we export our uranium, and let them decide it soon’. [More…]
In view of the fact that Solarcal is estimated to provide 370,000 new jobs a year up to 1990, so halving the Californian unemployment rate, and in view of the Australian Democrats’ confidence that the Government is really sincere in its stated intention to reduce unemployment in our country by all reasonable means- [More…]
A good deal has been said in the Parliament recently about defence- the Australian Democrats feel, for good reason. [More…]
I hope that the Australian Democrats have made a case for a least some consideration of missile capability in this class of ship. [More…]
We in the Australian Democrats applaud this. [More…]
Finally, the Australian Democrats ask seriously that the Government at least consider adapting five of these Fremantle class vessels to a ship-to-ship missile capability, be they Exocet or Harpoon. [More…]
The Australian Democrats give general support to all of these Bills. [More…]
Therefore, the Australian Democrats support the purpose of the Bill but have the same concern as the Australian Labor Party about many provisions in it. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are anxious to speak to the report at this stage because it deals with a matter that is very close to our hearts as a political organisation and because we believe that certain matters should bc raised with the Government before this year’s Budget is framed. [More…]
Some $226m, rather more than half our aid in that year, went to Papua New Guinea, and the’ Australian Democrats agree that we ought to fulfil absolutely our obligation to assist Papua New Guinea to prosperous nationhood. [More…]
I regret in more ways than one that it falls to the lot of the Australian Democrats to be the sole dissenting voice in this matter. [More…]
The Australian Democrats understand also that during the intervening period of more than a decade no major funds are going to be spent on the maintenance of this building. [More…]
It is on these grounds that the Australian Democrats oppose the new and permanent parliament house. [More…]
The Australian Democrats have already had considerable feedback from the public on this matter. [More…]
I give fair notice that we Australian Democrats will maintain our opposition if this project- in our view, a quixotic and unrealistic one- is persisted with. [More…]
The government did not do this because the Liberals and the Democrats which comprised part of the conservative coalition baled out and decided that they wanted to keep the stations. [More…]
Following consultation with the Opposition, the Australian Democrats and Senator Harradine, I seek leave to propose a motion to discharge Orders of the Day from the Notice Paper. [More…]
The Australian Democrats concur with that view and with the exception of paragraph (j) of Senator Button’s amendment to the second reading stage of the Bill, the Australian Democrats would largely concur with the views of the Opposition and will be voting with the Opposition on most of the amendments it puts. [More…]
The Australian Democrats take it that the Prime Minister was sincere in his statement yesterday that he wants an urgent review of airport security. [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats do not agree entirely with the view expressed by Senator Evans on behalf of the Labor Party about clause 8, especially sub-clause (2) of clause 8. [More…]
The Australian Democrats suggest to the Government that it can strengthen this Bill by amending it to read that ‘the DirectorGeneral is subject to the direction of the Minister’, which seems to us to be a reasonable point of view. [More…]
The Australian Democrats’ argument is that if you leave it the way it is you are making it non-specific. [More…]
The Australian Democrats, to whom such things are brought, have many cases on our records where people have felt- perhaps wrongly, perhaps unjustifiably- that they have not pursued their rights adequately because they felt they were unhappy about it, that they could be pressured and that somehow they must not run foul of the police. [More…]
The Australian Democrats ask that the Government consider this very human situation where it is legislating for one man to have tremendous responsibility and authority and not providing any safeguards whatsoever. [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats extend our sympathy to his wife and children. [More…]
I support the motion moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Carrick) and supported by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt), the Leader of the National Country Party (Senator Webster) and Senator Chipp as spokesman for the Australian Democrats. [More…]
To the Australian Democrats, that is like waving a red rag at a bull. [More…]
The Australian Democrats senators had indicated their desire to proceed but I had not indicated agreement. [More…]
The Australian Democrats support the Labor Party’s attempt to salvage some rags of sense and honesty from the Committee stage of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Bill. [More…]
I believe that from the point of view of the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats there might have been a general bipartisan view of this Bill. [More…]
The Australian Democrats want an honest, useful and effective security organisation in this country. [More…]
The Australian Democrats support the initiative of the Labor Party in that direction. [More…]
Rather than the Attorney-General making critical comments about the motivation of the Opposition and about the contribution of the Australian Democrats to this debate, I believe he should have looked more closely at what we are trying to do and should accept this responsibility. [More…]
The Australian Democrats, like the other parties, would like to extend our condolences to Sir Charles’s family. [More…]
I think this is a major breakthrough, a philosophy that the Australian Democrats have been advocating since our formation. [More…]
It is a sympathy which the Australian Democrats would share because, in our own small way, we have tried so far to make contact with Aboriginal people. [More…]
Obviously now the Australian Democrats are going to support not their own policies but those of the Liberal Party. [More…]
The Australian Democrats take this opportunity to condemn the Government for its economic policies, the lack of long term planning and the ‘incredibility’- if I could use that word- of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I will speak to those three points in turn and explain why the Australian Democrats express condemnation of the Government’s economic policies. [More…]
I have mentioned before and I mention again how disturbed the Australian Democrats are about the obsession this Government and the Treasury of this nation have towards the monetarists. [More…]
For that reason the Australian Democrats believe that to cut back on expenditure at this stage is going totally and absolutely in the wrong direction. [More…]
For several reasons, the Australian Democrats choose the housing industry. [More…]
As Senator Chipp has already said, the Australian Democrats approve, and in his speech today - [More…]
-The Australian Democrats are concerned about the Great Barrier Reef in relation to this question of oil drilling. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are concerned because there are those in our community who are trying to appeal to the Australian society on several dishonest levels. [More…]
The Australian Democrats commend the Government for the action it is beginning to take in this regard, particularly the action concerning the use of alcohol supplements to fuel. [More…]
That brings me to my second point: Is it really worth it in cold economic terms- not aesthetically, not morally, although naturally the Australian Democrats support those values above all in this matter, but in sheer money terms? [More…]
The policy of the Australian Conservation Foundation, supported by the Australian Democrats, is that the entire continental shelf waters, from the Queensland coast to the outer extremities of the reef, are an intimately associated natural system. [More…]
Hence the Australian Democrats find the Prime Minister’s assurances very welcome. [More…]
It is a matter of reassurance to the Australian Democrats that the Prime Minister has given the guarantee he has against the remotest possibility - [More…]
It does not advance the case of the Australian Democrats at all for its members to patronise us in that way. [More…]
Surely that is what we all, including the Democrats, want. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are particularly interested in the fact that certain plutonium at Maralinga is stored in salt in steel drums and covered by only a steel plate and a metre or so of soil. [More…]
Senator Chipp is claiming that the Australian Democrats perhaps will win the fourth seat in South Australia. [More…]
Labor will win three seats, the Democrats will win the fourth and the Liberal Party will win the other one. [More…]
A number of Government senators and members of the House of Representatives, as well as the Opposition, the independent senator and the Australian Democrats, have spoken out against the change from six-monthly to once-a-year indexation of pensions. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are extremely keen about this move. [More…]
As a warning shot, house Democrats on Tuesday voted among themselves by almost two to one to block the president’s plan to begin lifting price controls at the end of this month. [More…]
Besides the Democrats, 66 Republicans supported the bill with the moderate Illinois congressman, Mr John Anderson, at their head. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are on neither side. [More…]
I believe that the Australian Democrats are inclined to support the Labor Party’s attitude in this debate and will signify that to this chamber. [More…]
We of the Australian Democrats have the gravest doubts about the viability of the nuclear power industry. [More…]
In the foreseeable future, the Australian Democrats see few glimmerings of improvement on the horizon; rather, with incidents such as occurred at Harrisburg, we see more problems ahead for the nuclear industry. [More…]
The concern of the Australian Democrats is with the policy of the Government. [More…]
That is what the Australian Democrats mean in this case about Government policy. [More…]
Because of that, the Australian Democrats would like to see the Atomic Energy Commission transformed into an energy department so that the expert people it employs who are not specialist particles physicists can devote their efforts to other sources of energy that, although we have made some important startsand I must give the Government credit for that- we are still substantially neglecting in this country. [More…]
The Australian Democrats do not wish to go against government legislation unthinkingly or without any consideration, but we believe that the Government has got itself into a jam in this area. [More…]
The Australian Democrats for those reasons support the amendment. [More…]
The opposition to this measure, which is apparent from the speeches of Labor senators and Senator Mason, who spoke on behalf of the Australian Democrats, seems to come about because of a misunderstanding of the nature of this Bill. [More…]
In the view of the Australian Democrats the Commonwealth Government Employees (Retirement and Redeployment) Amendment Bill 1979 could have been a good Bill. [More…]
In other words, this Bill can be applauded because it is a beginning to certain things that the Australian Democrats, at lest, have been saying for 18 months. [More…]
So the Australian Democrats agree basically with some of the principles in this Bill, certainly voluntary early retirement, which we think could well be extended to the rest of the community. [More…]
The Australian Democrats feel a particular concern, as others do, about clause 7 (1) (b) (iii). [More…]
The Australian Democrats oppose this clause. [More…]
The Australian Democrats support the concept of this Bill. [More…]
At this stage the Australian Democrats will probably vote against the few other Labor amendments; but let me say, without scoring a point, that we in our party are in a unique position in matters such as this. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would totally support this proposed new clause if it ended after the first sentence. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are worried about the security of uranium oxide, which Australia proposes shortly to export in larger quantities. [More…]
The section of the agreement which worries the Australian Democrats is that which states: [More…]
The Australian Democrats find that to be a source of concern far beyond that of the actual export of uranium. [More…]
For what it is worth, the Australian Democrats support the thrust of the Bill and will support the second reading. [More…]
Although Senator Chipp, on behalf of the Australian Democrats, has been critical in many respects as I understand what he said the Democrats do intend to support the Government senators in giving this Bill a second reading, even though at the Committee stage there may be some opposition to some of its provisions. [More…]
Notwithstanding that, the Australian Democrats will vote with the Government on this matter for the very reasons espoused by Senator Rae and which I stated yesterday. [More…]
Therefore, the Australian Democrats oppose the motion. [More…]
The Australian Democrats will not have a bar of stockpiling uranium at Roxby Downs. [More…]
I believe, the Democrats believe, that going to nuclear power and exporting our uranium is the ultimate insanity. [More…]
The policy of the Australian Democrats is that key life saving drugs should be free, but we could not support the principle involved in the Australian Labor Party amendment, that all medical prescriptions should be free, even to people who are disadvantaged. [More…]
At this stage I will foreshadow a submission from the Australian Democrats policy group in this area- a group which includes doctors and pharmacists- to the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) which might suggest streamlined methods by which this major item of some $345,000 a year could be very much reduced. [More…]
We in the Australian Democrats do not respect those in the profession who do blatantly rip off the community. [More…]
We in the Australian Democrats will be waiting very anxiously for some sort of report from the Government on just what it is doing to control that appalling, atrocious situation, which by the way of course is leading substantially to the lowered public opinion of the medical profession. [More…]
The words of Senator Peter Baume and others on the subject of our hypocrisy and lack of positive action in such matters are very much shared by the Australian Democrats. [More…]
I can pledge the active support of the Australian Democrats to any government that makes an honest effort to alter those hypocritical attitudes of government itself. [More…]
The Australian Democrats oppose the Bill. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would like the opportunity to second this amendment- if it were necessary to do so- because we certainly support it, very much for the valid reasons that have already been stated at some length by Senator Grimes. [More…]
Certainly, the Australian Democrats believe that in a society which permits inflation- I believe I use that word ‘permits’ advisedly- the principle which maintains a parity of financial reward or compensation to all sections of the society is necessary as well as being equitable. [More…]
In 1977, at the general election, Mr Paul Baker was the Australian Democrats candidate for the seat of Paterson in New South Wales. [More…]
He had certain literature printed for him, including a free newspaper which was headed: ‘Introducing Paul Baker, Australian Democrats Candidate for Paterson. [More…]
In that four page newspaper Mr Baker introduced himself and the policies of the Australian Democrats, made some comments about the defeat of communism- there is an article in the newspaper entitled: ‘This is how close we are to Communism ‘-and exposed the appalling record of the Australian Labor Party when it was in government. [More…]
Provided on the back of the newspaper was an elaborate how-to-vote chart which promoted Mr Baker as the candidate for the seat of Paterson and promoted the Australian Democrats candidates for the Senate election. [More…]
That how-to-vote chart was headed on one side: How to vote Don Chipp and the Australian Democrats and make your second preference Labor’. [More…]
On the other side it was headed: ‘How to vote Don Chipp and the Australian Democrats and make your second preference LiberalNCP.’ [More…]
However, Mr Baker declined to pay for the material which was published with his authorisation and on his behalf as a candidate and which promoted both him and the Australian Democrats. [More…]
As a result, this company, to whom a debt of $1,300 is a substantial debt, a potentially crippling debt, on 4 June 1 979 wrote to Senator D. L. Chipp, the Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Democrats, at Parliament House. [More…]
It drew Senator Chipp ‘s attention to the fact that the company had printed two newspapers for the Australian Democrats candidate in Paterson, Mr Paul Baker, and that the amount which he owed the company was $1,375.95. [More…]
It appealed to Senator Chipp, as Leader of the Australian Democrats, as to whether that party was prepared to honour the obligations entered into by a candidate who stood under the banner of that party. [More…]
Although Mr Baker stood as an Australian Democrat candidate in 1977, the Australian Democrats are not liable for debts incurred by him. [More…]
I believe there is a moral obligation on the Australian Democrats, as a political organisation and as a political party, to honour a debt incurred in terms of material prepared not only for the promotion of Mr Baker as a candidate but for the promotion of Senator Mason, who gathered together the 6.6 per cent of the votes that he received in the electorate of Paterson, in amassing the total of votes which brought him, as an Australian Democrat, into this Senate. [More…]
Frankly, they cannot afford to carry a debt of $ 1 ,300, which it appears that the Australian Democrats are not prepared to honour. [More…]
Given the fact that the Australian Democrats as a party have not seen fit to honour a commitment or to assist my constituents to maintain a reasonable position in terms of electoral expenses incurred on their behalf, I use this occasion to make a public appeal to the Australian Democrats to understand that this debt was incurred in terms of the election of people to this place and to see that this account is promptly and properly settled with people who are entitled to receive payments for services rendered. [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Administrative Services whether it is a fact that certain threats from the Leader of the Australian Democrats were reported to the effect that following the next elections the Democrats will challenge honourable senators taking their place in this chamber on the matter of electoral expenses if his personal requests on public funding are not met. [More…]
Finally, is this approach by the Australian Democrats the most appropriate way of exercising a party’s voice in this chamber on the matter of public funding of political parties? [More…]
It relates also to all members of the Australian Democrats who are members of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
The Australian Democrats will support the motion put forward by Senator Wriedt in this matter, but we will support it with some reluctance. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would argue against that. [More…]
It is a pity that senators from the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats cannot find time to come into the chamber occasionally. [More…]
Beyond that, I want to speak briefly about the Australian Democrats’ concern for the whole area of conservation and the Government’s attitude to it. [More…]
The Australian Democrats feel it is wrong and unfair that the attitude should be taken that these are groups of people who, for some weird reason, are concerned about the environment; that it is something they own or which is to their benefit and therefore they had better get out and raise some money to protect it. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian Democrats I would implore the Government to look very carefully at, firstly, altering this policy which has come in this year of dollar for dollar grants and, secondly, to improve and increase the amount of funding available for this important area and to look sympathetically at requests for relatively small $5,000 to $7,000 special purpose grants. [More…]
In general, the Australian Democrats approve of the basic sentiments expressed by the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) in this statement providedSenator Wriedt made this point- that those sentiments are supported by concrete facts; in other words, provided that the plan which emerges for the Great Barrier Reef is one which is definite and not merely, as so much of this statement is, an utterance of generalities. [More…]
The Minister’s statement that the public will be extensively consulted is very welcome to the Australian Democrats. [More…]
I believe that that suspicion is what has created the persistence with which certainly the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Democrats continue to attack this matter. [More…]
It has been constantly abhorred by the Australian Democrats. [More…]
The fact that it was a lie was proven because the votes for a candidate for the Australian Democrats- a minority party- were counted and he was elected. [More…]
I understand that the action taken by the Australian Labor Party, the Liberal Party and the Australian Democrats in Tasmania has frightened some politicians. [More…]
After the jumbo jet incident in Sydney, Senator Mason of the Australian Democrats asked a question in this place on 5 April. [More…]
The Australian Democrats naturally oppose this motion. [More…]
Let it be said very clearly- I am glad that the Australian Democrats take the same view and I hope that the independent senator will do likewisethat the issues are too big for us to be shovelling legislation of this nature through the Senate tonight. [More…]
For that reason, the Australian Democrats could not possibly support this Bill. [More…]
We have heard also the opinions of the Australian Democrats expressed by their leader Senator Don Chipp. [More…]
The Australian Democrats support the Australian Labor Party’s amendment for the obvious reason that if the Government in these days of continuing cost increases, is to provide the same facilities and assistance as it has in the past, it will have to increase any subsidy or benefit to an organisation which it wishes to assist. [More…]
I find it most disappointing, and the Australian Democrats find it most disappointing, that in the meantime nothing has happened. [More…]
It is this group of homeless young that we have to consider most of all, and that is the group that certainly concerns the Australian Democrats most at this time. [More…]
Rather than being State employees, or going out wandering around doing up national parks on some sort of lower salary, the Australian Democrats would rather see a contract with a group for certain work or some group of activity. [More…]
The Australian Democrats have no basic objection to what the Bill is doing, namely, extending indefinitely provisions of the three year program. [More…]
On July 1 9th Senator Don Chipp, Leader of the Australian Democrats had a letter published in the ‘National Farmer’ (circulation nearly 200,000). [More…]
I wish to notify Mr Osmond, and am pleased to tell the National Farmer’ again, that the Australian Democrats are totally committed to the equalisation of petrol in country areas; rationalising telephone charges, basing them on time rather than distance; reducing the sales tax on goods transported to rural areas, and introducing orderly marketing for all primary products. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe it is immoral for farmers to be working for a negative wage. [More…]
In 1 980, it is likely that the Australian Democrats will gain the balance of power in the Senate. [More…]
His explanation for having said that the Democrats, whom he expects will hold the balance of power after 1980, will introduce private member’s Bills to do three things appears to be that, from the Bills that he proposes to introduce, the sections that actually appropriate the money will be omitted and therefore the Bills will not be disqualified by virtue of section 53 of the Constitution. [More…]
What he is really saying is that the Democrats propose to introduce meaningless Bills as some sort of a political stunt by which they hope to secure support within the country, without delivering the goods that they have promised to deliver. [More…]
The Australian Democrats welcome certain points of the Social Services Amendment Bill 1979 and would agree with the amendments put by the Labor Party. [More…]
My views and those of the Australian Democrats are well known on that issue. [More…]
I enter this debate simply to say that all that we have heard from the Minister for Science and the Environment (Senator Webster) and what is in the minds of Senator Robertson and the Deputy Leader of the Australian Democrats (Senator Mason) simply justifies Senator Webster’s forming an alliance with the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. [More…]
First, the Government appreciates the view that the Australian Democrats have expressed and understands that those honourable senators will vote with it on this matter. [More…]
The Australian Democrats say that the whole situation is a national disgrace. [More…]
-by leave- The Australian Democrats have great pleasure in congratulating the Committee, especially its Chairman, Senator Missen, on the achievement of this report and the work it has done. [More…]
In the Australian Democrats this question of exemptions naturally is very close to our hearts. [More…]
Copies of the original interim report have been made available on a confidential basis to the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) and to the Leader of the Australian Democrats (Senator Chipp). [More…]
In conclusion, the Australian Democrats would not oppose this move if the integrity, the autonomy and the cohesiveness of the Federal Narcotics Bureau could be moved into the Australian Federal Police as a unit, with all its intelligence, its training and its back-up, and kept as a unit under the control of this magnificent man, Sir Colin Woods. [More…]
Despite the fact that the German Social Democratic Party, the fraternal party of my own Party, the Australian Labor Party, is illegal in East Germany, despite the fact that the parties which correspond to any of the other parties in Australia, whether the Liberal Party, the National Country Party or the Australian Democrats, are illegal within East Germany and are unable to function within East Germany and despite the fact that in West Germany all of the political parties are legal apart from those which actually advocate the policies of the former National Socialist Party, I do not believe that there is any doubt that many people throughout the world believe that somehow or other East Germany is more democratic than West Germany. [More…]
I will not spend a lot of time discussing the Australian Democrats’ objections to this motion. [More…]
The point I did want to make is that we in the Australian Democrats since we have been in this place- I think I can speak for Senator Chipp as well as myself when I say that we are perfectly qualified, perhaps by past experience, to pad out our speeches to our full speaking time- have made an attempt in most cases to use only a little of the speaking time allowed and just to say what we have to say and no more. [More…]
Senator Mason of the Australian Democrats said earlier that many people outside the Parliament were worried about a notice of motion that he has on the Notice Paper. [More…]
In this struggle, I have always felt that we lacked a clearly defined charter which set out unambiguously the rights which we democrats guarantee to our people. [More…]
The Australian Democrats will be reluctantly supporting the Government in respect of this motion. [More…]
That is the view of the Australian Democrats on the question. [More…]
The Australian Democrats concur with almost everything those honourable senators said. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are very disappointed with the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
In fact, the adopted policy of the Australian Democrats is for the introduction of a Bill of rights. [More…]
The Australian Democrats join Senator Missen in rejecting the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill unless it is substantially altered. [More…]
I believe the merit of Senator Missen ‘s proposal, which is in similar terms to the proposal put forward by the Labor Party and endorsed by the Australian Democrats, is that it may, along with the similar clauses in the Racial Discrimination Act and the proposed similar clause in former Senator Murphy’s Bill on Human rights, build up a practice whereby this Parliament is involved in the process of telling the international community that we will be bound in some particular manner. [More…]
That is why I say that the Australian Democrats will be supporting the Government on this motion. [More…]
The view of the Australian Democrats is that the Minister has not done either of these things and, with great respect to Opposition members, they have not produced evidence that she has. [More…]
But, again with respect to Senator Grimes and Senator Gietzelt, the Australian Democrats do not believe that the Opposition has sustained that case. [More…]
In conclusion I will just reiterate that the Australian Democrats, for the reasons I have stated, find absolutely no evidence produced by the Australian Labor Party that Senator the Hon. [More…]
The Australian Democrats also support the proposed amendment. [More…]
The Australian Democrats are delighted with that. [More…]
Again the Australian Democrats applaud the moderation of this view. [More…]
The Australian Democrats suggest that these matters have to be resolved in one way or another before we go into this sort of dangerous technology. [More…]
The Australian Democrats view on nuclear energy is well enough known. [More…]
Finally, the Australian Democrats look forward to reading this report in detail. [More…]
The Australian Democrats basically but conditionally support this Bill. [More…]
For reasons which I will deal with in the Committee stage- I will not take up time with them now- the Australian Democrats do not propose to support the Australian Labor Party’s amendments. [More…]
When I said that the Australian Democrats’ support of this Bill is conditional, I meant that it is conditional on the understanding, which we believe we can reasonably assume, that neither the Minister nor the Government intends to bring forward further amendments in the near future to this Bill which might in any way limit the powers of the Northern Land Council to exercise a proper right of veto or otherwise over the question of the proceeding of Pancontinental Mining Ltd at Jabiluka. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would like to put in on this subject a few words not unlike some of the comments that Senator Evans has made on behalf of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Australian Democrats feel that it is quite unnecessary to have this extravagant Taj Mahal. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would suggest that this is very much an argument against clause 17, to which we thoroughly object in almost every particular. [More…]
I believe that the Australian Democrats have made two points which we feel are relevant and to the point. [More…]
by leave- Certain news reports this morning have stated that the Australian Democrats failed to vote on a clause of the Human Rights Commission Bill last evening. [More…]
I apologise to the Senate, but would respectfully ask that in future the Government might pay the Australian Democrats and the Australian Labor Party the courtesy of informing us if the rules and times of sitting are to be changed. [More…]
1 ) 1979-80 is that we of the Australian Democrats do not want this session to end without a reiteration of our view on unemployment. [More…]
The Australian Democrats have some positive suggestions to make on ways to overcome this which particularly concerns the appropriation of public revenue. [More…]
Definite proposals which the Australian Democrats would put forward- hard, practical and pragmatic proposals which could be carried out tomorrow and should have been implemented a month or a year ago because they are being carried out overseas- are these: Removal of sales tax, which of course has happened, on solar heating devices. [More…]
We of the Democrats want something practical done. [More…]
It can be organised and got together by the Democrats if the Liberal-National Country Party is too lazy to doit. [More…]
That too makes a point that the Australian Democrats would make. [More…]
The Australian Democrats believe we have a duty to do that sort of thing. [More…]
The Australian Democrats say that it would be possible for us to get to M 15 within two to three years if we started now. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would see those disincentives as involving high annual taxation on such vehicles, on a sliding scale, in addition to a fairly hot supertax at the time of first sale, so that if one wants to have a car like that one will have to pay through the nose for it. [More…]
The Australian Democrats suggest also in this package that there should be a major public relations and advertising campaign based on the Life. [More…]
That is the philosphy of the Australian Democrats. [More…]
There are degrees even of Leftism; there are Trotskyites, other types of left, social democrats- a whole gamut. [More…]
This matter arises as a result of an article by Tony O’Leary in yesterday evening’s Sydney Sun which quotes Senator Peter Baume as referring to the Australian Democrats rather quaintly as a ‘damp squib’. [More…]
The attitude of the Australian Democrats towards the Bill changed when several Liberal senators made a statement last weekend to the effect that they had withdrawn their significant and important amendments and that these amendments, which we would have supported, were no longer achievable. [More…]
However, this outcry does come about when a Democrats senator is absent for only a few hours even as a result of illness. [More…]
Although the Australian Democrats number only two of the 64 senators in this place, at one stage - [More…]
So there will be a second opportunity for members of the Liberal Party, for members of the Country Party and for members of the Australian Democrats, who voted with the Government in the vote which has just taken place and abdicated not only all responsibility to review actions of the Government but also abdicated the right to know the facts upon which they could base such a review of actions of the Government. [More…]
An opportunity will recur tomorrow for all members of the Liberal Party, all members of the Country Party and all members of the Australian Democrats to decide whether this so-called House of review will assert its right to know what are the facts in order that it may, should it choose to do so, review them. [More…]
Those are the main points that the Australian Democrats wish to make and we commend them to the Institute. [More…]
The view of the Australian Democrats is not unlike the view expressed by Senator Grimes. [More…]
It would be very much in accord with the policy of the Australian Democrats if it did so. [More…]
This is part of the Australian Democrats’ policy on education, and we would like to see the Government consider a tiny amendment which would include within the objectives of the Institute some relevance to education, and particularly the kind of education which would be recognised in this Bill as having multicultural backgrounds. [More…]
Having said that and having fought this long battle and lost ignominiously, I pledge the support of the Australian Democrats to the Australian Federal Police in their war against organised crime in this country and I wish them good luck. [More…]
in reply- I thank the Opposition and the Australian Democrats for their speedy consideration of what is, as they have conceded, essentially a technical Bill which simply tidies up the legislation which refers to the Commonwealth Police, changes the references to the Australian Federal Police and deals with some basically industrial matters about which there is no dispute within the Parliament. [More…]
Needless to say, the Australian Federal Police represents the amalgamation of the previous forces and it is the job of the new force to improve Federal policing in Australia in a way in which I believe the Government, the Opposition and the Australian Democrats would all wish. [More…]