discrimination - hofreps - 1970

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

Has his attention been drawn to the attacks made by the Leader of the Opposition on the integrity of the courts in New Guinea and alleging racial discrimination? [More…]
If so, does this discrimination comply with the Discrimination (Employment and Occupations) Recommendation of the International Labour Organisation. [More…]
Recommendation No.111 - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation),1958, I would draw the attention of the honourable member to the answer to question No. [More…]
Convention No.111 - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958 which Recommendation No.111 supplements. [More…]
If SO, will the Minister immediately exercise his powers under the Act to prescribe amended minimum income levels so that any discrimination against West Australian workers on minimum or near minimum rates can be avoided? [More…]
If so, does this mean that signatory countries are to remove wage discrimination against female employees. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister witnessed widespread protests against the Bolshoi Ballet or the Moscow Circus, especially in view of the cruel discrimination shown by Russia against religions, particularly the Jewish religion? [More…]
If so, do Dr Eggelston’s findings indicated gross discrimination against Aborigines in law enforcement? [More…]
Has he yet undertaken any steps to eliminate, as soon as possible, this racial discrimination; if so. [More…]
No ethnological discrimination is practised. [More…]
As stated, no discrimination is practised. [More…]
It was recognised that the existing Queensland legislation was designed to assist in protecting persons who, without guidance and assistance, could be subject to exploitation and that it was not, therefore, to be seen as discrimination against Aborigines. [More…]
General of the United Nations of her programme and activities undertaken during this International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (Hansard, 6th May 1971, page 2847); if so, what was the (a) date and (b) tenor of the information given. [More…]
On what dates, at what level, by what means and with what results have there been discussion with the Queensland and Western Australian governments since 3rd May 1971 (Hansard, page 2418) on the State laws whose provisions do not satisfy the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Ministers discussed a range of matters including the general organisation of the administration of Aboriginal affairs; arrangements for consultation of Aboriginal opinion; recent legislative and administrative action in relation to Aboriginal reserves; problems and needs in the fields of health, housing, education and employment; and progress in combating discrimination. [More…]
Was the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of alt forms of Racial Discrimination considered at the conference; if so, with what result. [More…]
Is the discrimination practised by Australia in this respect based on skin colour: if so, what are the details? [More…]
Does discrimination by other countries against Australian citizens on the basis of their colour meet with the approval of the Government; if not, why, does the Government apply discrimination against coloured citizens of New Zealand? [More…]
ls there any evidence to show that Aborigines are the subject of discrimination by licensees of some hotels and clubs in country areas of New South Wales. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs will know that petitions are circulating in New Zealand calling on the government of New Zealand to act against Australian discrimination against New Zealand citizens of non-European and nonMaori racial origin and that yesterday notice was given in the New Zealand Parliament of a question critical of the Australian Government. [More…]
I ask the Minister: What protests and representations has the Government received from the New Zealand Government regarding the continuing discrimination against New Zealand citizens of non-European and non-Maori racial origin in entry requirements by Australia? [More…]
It now merely supports an immigration policy which is administered with sympathy, understanding and tolerance, which shall include the avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]
I ask the Treasurer: What is the reason for what appears to be discrimination against a sector of the finance industry? [More…]
As to the second part of the question, I think the honourable gentleman should know or at least the House would know that on several occasions we have raised in the United Nations this question of discrimination on religious and other grounds and we have in particular drawn attention to the plight of Jewish people. [More…]
What action is proposed by the Minister to remove this discrimination. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he can say what would be the effect on Australia of an immigration policy confined solely to sponsorship by Australian residents of relatives and friends, without the exercise of discrimination. [More…]
Ill - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958. [More…]
Is it a fact that States’ Agents-General in London have complained to the Home Secretary regarding the discrimination against and treatment of Australians entering Great Britain by immigration officials. [More…]
I refer him to a number of resolutions adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 14 December 1972, dealing with decolonisation and racial discrimination, which Australia supported and voted for. [More…]
We will ask that there be an examination of union rules to ensure that where there is any relic of this discrimination against a person belonging to a union on the ground of race, the matter is brought to the notice of the union concerned. [More…]
In cases of discrimination covered by the convention, they would then attempt to resolve the matter using their good offices. [More…]
If so, to what extent does this discrimination occur, and in what form? [More…]
If there is no improper discrimination, will the Minister refute reports that Australia is engaging in such discrimination? [More…]
Is there any evidence of police discrimination against Aboriginal persons in this area and, if regular weekly harassment is taking place, have the reasons for it been established. [More…]
Is the Minister for Transport aware that the total Australian export shipment of oranges to New Zealand is at risk largely due to the discrimination exercised against Australian seamen by the New Zealand Seamen’s and Waterside Workers Union? [More…]
Why the discrimination? [More…]
He appointed Mr L. Shilton as consultant to investigate allegations of police discrimination and to make recommendations about relationships between Aboriginals and the police, but no study group was set up. [More…]
Will the Minister have the report investigated as a matter of urgency, and if there is any truth at all in the report will he have all vestiges of this abominable form of discrimination immediately removed? [More…]
In particular, could the Minister indicate whether there has been any discrimination in assistance given to country areas in Queensland? [More…]
In point of fact there will be no discrimination whatever between the Northern Territory and Western Australia. [More…]
I will not take up the time of the Committee for any period, because I know the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) wants to get on to the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
Existing sub-clause (3) provides that Part II of the Act which prohibits racial discrimination, shall not apply to distinctions, exclusions, restrictions or preferences between Australian citizens and persons who are not Australian citizens. [More…]
We can see no good reason why an act of discrimination against a person living in Australia who is not a naturalised Australian citizen should not attract the same provisions as acts of discrimination against persons who are Australian citizens. [More…]
There will be no discrimination or distinction in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Will the Minister for Housing and Construction indicate whether there is any form of discrimination in the manner in which accommodation is allocated in government hostels in Canberra or in other places in Australia? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]
As a result, the stage would ultimately be reached where it would be quite impracticable to determine just where discrimination should end. [More…]
National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation: Membership and Reports (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Did he determine the appointments of the members of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation on 30 June 1976. [More…]
In view of the great concern expressed by honourable members on both sides of the House on the implementation of certain recommendations of the Royal Commission on Petroleum, will the Minister comment on the findings of the Royal Commission that draw particular attention to price discrimination and the activities of ACTU-Solo? [More…]
The Government is at present considering submissions from interested parties in relation to this discrimination. [More…]
That this House should express its concern for the plight in Australia of lone fathers and the discrimination, hardship and injustice being experienced by thousands of lone fathers and their children: [More…]
That this House requests the Government to take appropriate action to establish one single category of lone parent pensions thereby eliminating the discrimination currently experienced under the present legislative and administrative structure; [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the third annual report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation 1975-76. [More…]
How many complaints have been considered by (a) the national and (b) each State Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation since 30 September1975. [More…]
I told the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on several occasions that the Australian Government considered racial discrimination and apartheid to be an offence to human dignity. [More…]
Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
I leave aside some of the contentious recommendations and ask the Prime Minister: What action does the Government propose to take on some of the recommendations which would be deemed to be worthwhile and non-contentious, such as those concerning child abuse, discrimination against women, migrants, the handicapped, adoption and a national family policy? [More…]
1 1 1 -Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958 (ratified on 15 June 1973). [More…]
As my first step in examining the possibility of providing a legislative basis for the National and State Employment Discrimination Committees, I am arranging for consultations, in the near future, with the employers and trade unions, through the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: movement on the possibility of providing a unified and coherent legislative basis for the National and State Employment Discrimination Committees established pursuant to International Labour Organisation Convention No. [More…]
Ill Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958, which Australia ratified in 1973 (Hansard, 23 February 1977, page 406 and 20 October 1977, page 2289). [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation for the year ended June 1 977. [More…]
It creates a right in the hands of any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in Queensland to protect himself against discrimination. [More…]
What is the Government doing to eliminate this discrimination in view of the fact that even noncontributory Australian pensions are paid to those who are eligible without regard to nationality or place of residence? [More…]
Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
Equality and discrimination, does the Government intend to (a) accept or (b) reject. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the cases of interference with telegrams by officers of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement which were cited by Ms Lorna Lippman in her paper ‘Discrimination Against Aborigines by the Queensland Government’ distributed at a seminar at Monash University on 25 September 1 977; if so, when and how. [More…]
Has he received a complaint from the Australian Lebanese Association about discrimination resulting from the Government’s International Civil Aviation Policy. [More…]
-Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations 1979. [More…]
If so, should the Commissioner for Community Relations investigate this matter to ensure that there is no discrimination on racial grounds? [More…]
1 ) Has the Commissioner for Community Relations who is a statutory officer appointed under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, received financial assistance, either direct or indirect, by way of air fares and accommodation from any organisation or person to enable him to travel (a) within Australia or (b) overseas, in the performance of his duties. [More…]
These resolutions do not contravene the Commonwealth’s anti-discrimination legislation (the Racial Discrimination Act 1975). [More…]
If, as was reported in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ of 12th January 1970, the honourable gentleman said that there was a policy of ‘glaring race discrimination in law in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea’ I say for my part that I know of no warrant for such a charge and that such a charge is utterly mischievous as well as being untrue. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman used a comparison of that case with a case involving some indigenous inhabitants who had been charged with violence as a basis for saying that a difference in treatment between the two cases represented discrimination, all I can say is that the remarks of the senior magistrate in Rabaul are a complete refutation of the charge of discrimination made by the honourable gentleman. [More…]
However, at least today’s discrimination on the grounds of race or colour is either formally disowned where it exists, or legally discouraged with varying degrees of conviction and success. [More…]
The Constitution prohibits discrimination in taxation matters between them. [More…]
They range from the aged and needy in our great cities to the hungry people of India; from the orphans in Vietnam to the victims of racial discrimination. [More…]
In the provision of these there is, increasingly, discrimination against those living in new suburbs. [More…]
I asked whether his attention had been drawn to attacks made by the Leader of the Opposition on the integrity of the courts in New Guinea and alleged racial discrimination. [More…]
At this moment the Leader of the Opposition rose to his feet and burst in, saying that the matters which I purported to state could not be authenticated, namely, that he had made attacks on the integrity of the courts and alleged racial discrimination. [More…]
Then the Speaker asked me whether I could vouch for the accuracy of the report; I take it, as I had mentioned no report, he meant the report of an attack on the integrity of the courts in New Guinea alleging racial discrimination. [More…]
So let us look closely, for instance, at the honourable member for Fremantle’s description, as a lie, of the charge that I had just made and which I swear to this House to be accurately based, namely, that the Leader of the Opposition had carried out an attack on the integrity of the courts in New Guinea by alleging racial discrimination. [More…]
In a personal explanation later I challenged the Leader of the Opposition to deny that he had personally and publicly attacked the integrity of the New Guinea courts by alleging that there was a policy of ‘glaring race discrimination in the law of the Territory’. [More…]
They are motivated perhaps more than any other people to assert the manhood of the people of New Guinea in the face of a policy of glaring race discrimination in law, economic opportunity and wages. [More…]
Let me quote the Leader of the Opposition’s words describing how he carried out what is an undeniable attack on the integrity of the courts by alleging racial discrimination. [More…]
In any situation, let alone one where racial tension has been inflamed to fever pitch by extremists, those words are a grave attack on the integrity of the courts on the basis of racial discrimination. [More…]
Last Thursday the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) added his voice spontaneously to the charges of racial discrimination in the courts. [More…]
I have tabled the Press release from the office of the Leader of the Opposition where, some days after these events, he referred to ‘glaring race discrimination in law’ in the Territory. [More…]
Because of what has transpired today, I believe that he stated this to imply that there was discrimination in the law in Rabaul. [More…]
I would respectfully suggest to the honourable member for Fremantle that he should withdraw the imputation of discrimination in the law in New Guinea. [More…]
He has taken every opportunity today, as has the honourable member for Fremantle to draw attention to discrimination in the courts. [More…]
that there was glaring race discrimination in the law in the Territory? [More…]
But we should not impose this sort of grossly unfair endurance and perserverance - this sort of self denial and, indeed, discrimination - upon people in this area. [More…]
When legislation was introduced for a married and single rate pension I moved an amendment on behalf of the Opposition that said it was discrimination of the worst type and that there should have been a base rate for all pensioners with people most deserving receiving special assistance. [More…]
Because of the discrimination between married and single pensioners that this Bill deals with today, the anomaly the Government is trying to remove is one of the many that exist in the legislation. [More…]
Discrimination of the worst kind, anomalies by the thousand and injustices that are multiplied many times have come from this change in making married and single rates. [More…]
The Government has now found that this discrimination occasionally has to be relieved. [More…]
There is do discrimination, as the honourable member for Lalor said, on ihe part of this Government in favour of the rich against the poor. [More…]
In other words, if we are to have discrimination in education, it should be in favour of the underprivileged. [More…]
This has been a government of discrimination - discrimination against migrants, discrimination against the farmer, discrimination against the worker, discrimination against the pensioner and discrimination in the matter of defence. [More…]
I would now like to discuss a matter which was raised by the honourable member for Wills, that is, the question of discrimination. [More…]
Already wide discriminations exist. [More…]
Further discussions took place this month with the States on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination at the Standing Committee of Commonwealth and State Officers on Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
The only discrimination which the Post Office is allowed in this connection is in relation to articles which are blasphemous, indecent, etc. [More…]
Is the Minister for External Affairs aware that the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, instructed by the General Assembly, has addressed letters to all member states requesting them to participate in activities for 1971 which the United Nations has designated International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination? [More…]
It is true that in the recent General Assembly there was a resolution by the United Nations on co-operation to avoid racial discrimination. [More…]
I suppose even the Prime Minister has had a member of the Communist Party in his audience on occasions but I should imagine that anybody with any discrimination might not attend the right honourable gentleman’s meetings at all. [More…]
If this is so why is there discrimination against deposits of a lesser amount? [More…]
If not - and I hope it is not so - why is there discrimination against persons securing finance through banking and other private institutions? [More…]
why is there discrimination against persons securing finance through banking and other private institutions? [More…]
They have been given grants without any strings attached and without any discrimination whatever. [More…]
There is no reason why there should be discrimination between young marrieds, widows, widowers or even divorced people with children, provided they need and want a home. [More…]
I hope those members on the other side who have legal1 experience - and I believe there are quite a number - will listen intently and appreciate the finesse with which successive South African governments have raised discrimination to a fine legislative art. [More…]
The whole structure of South African society is based upon discrimination between the different racial groups. [More…]
This kind of discrimination does not apply in other countries. [More…]
In other words, I believe that in this way we could avoid the need for discrimination, as the honourable member for Kingston rightly said, and the bringing about of a lowering of the status of the general practitioner. [More…]
This seems to me to be an extreme discrimination against those persons who do not live in capital cities and it appears to me that the scheme has only been drawn up to assist only those who live in capital1 cities or other urban areas. [More…]
What was the date and text of the United Nations General Assembly resolution on racial discrimination which he assured me on 7 April (Hansard, page 736) the Government would do all it could to implement. [More…]
I do so with the object of removing the discrimination against patients who use the services of an ophthalmologist where that service involves the prescription of spectacles. [More…]
T am told that the elimination of this discrimination would not cost more than Sim. [More…]
The Bill needs to be amended in the way suggested by the Labor Party to eliminate the discrimination where spectacles are prescribed and to provide encouragement, first of all, for the medical man. [More…]
The kind of discrimination and prejudice involved in this particular clause will not be an encouragement to them. [More…]
It is c’..’imcd by optometrists that unfair discrimination arises from the fact that subject to special conditions medical benefits are payable for consultations with ophthalmologists but not with optometrists. [More…]
The Commonwealth has sought to remove discrimination by a provision in the National Health Act under which consultations with medical practitioners in consequence of which spectacle lenses are prescribed are not eligible for Commonwealth benefits. [More…]
This is a ridiculous bar to apply against people, lt should not be tolerated in an enlightened civilised society because it is a discrimination against those who suffer ill health and. [More…]
Surely, if one accepts the word of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the Treasurer (Mr Bury) that we are a rich and lucky country, the discrimination that is directed against these people is most certainly worthy of the utmost criticism and condemnation. [More…]
There is a general provision in the taxation law which covers both men and women without discrimination as to sex. [More…]
One of the main reasons why country education is not comparable with city education and why the country student has only half the opportunity that the metropolitan student has to go to a university is that teachers in country areas suffer from discrimination. [More…]
What sort of selfish society do we live in which tolerates this sort of discrimination? [More…]
lt is discrimination to treat equals as unequals. [More…]
This measure sounds very good, Mr Speaker, and in fact it is good but nevertheless the procedure for which it provides creates discrimination. [More…]
It is not pointed discrimination or discrimination that one likes to see. [More…]
This sort of legislation creates unjustifiable discrimination. [More…]
What I refer to as discrimination is not something that people like to see or something which the Government wants to bring about in this measure. [More…]
But by the same token this Bill does bring about that sort of discrimination and creates a feeling of unjustness in the minds of people who cannot put their hands in their pockets to the same extent as other people. [More…]
There is no discrimination between the low income earner in the fluid milk sector and the low income earner in the manufacturing sector. [More…]
Is not the Australian Government’s action in these matters similar to the action of the South African Government which places race discrimination on entry into its country for sporting events, as did the Australian Government on that occasion? [More…]
lt is obvious that a bulk, non-discriminatory trade can be conducted at a lower cost than one which involves a measure of identification and discrimination and great diversity of buyers and sellers, such as apply, I am told, in the case of the Australian trade. [More…]
Even more we cannot tolerate the discrimination against patients in the community who have to have spectacles prescribed. [More…]
Another important point which we should realise is that even though the Government has denied Commonwealth benefits to the patients of either ophthalmologists or optometrists there is still operating a discrimination against optometrists, particularly in New South Wales. [More…]
This discrimination does not exist in every State but in New South Wales the major open funds, the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia and the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia, do provide fund benefits to patients of ophthalmologists but not to patients of optometrists. [More…]
I do not think they have any right to make this discrimination. [More…]
It is not a case of discrimination against one profession or another; it is a case of discrimination against one patient who chooses freely to go to an ophthalmologist rather than to an optometrist. [More…]
I am very concerned at the statement by the Minister, that even if the Senate’s requests in this respect were effected there would still be financial discrimination against the patients of optometrists. [More…]
This leads me to hope that in the review of the ancillary services that the Minister has promised to make he will bring to the Parliament a proposal which will grant equal financial benefits without discrimination as between the patients of ophthalmologists and optometrists in the matter of refraction. [More…]
As 1 look around I see many colleagues in the Labor Party who over the years have fought in this House for recognition of the claims of optometrists and to ensure that there is no discrimination between ophthalmologists and optometrists in the refraction task. [More…]
In particular, has he noted the reference therein to discrimination by victimisation against applicants for employment who have no ticket of leave or certificate of industrial innocence from a preceding employer? [More…]
The Commissioner said he was satisfied that there were good grounds for the employee’s dismissal and that no discrimination had been made against him on the ground that he was a shop steward. [More…]
667 (Hansard, 5th May 1970, page 1632) indicating that no such fare reimbursement is payable to an indigenous agreement worker in Papua and New Guinea, will he take steps to remove the present discrimination between indigenous and expatriate workers in the Territory. [More…]
Note carefully, that no discrimination is made between rehabilitation of our allies, the South Vietnamese, and rehabilitation of our enemies, the North Vietnamese. [More…]
There appears to be a distinct discrimination here between whether it is Government business taking place at midnight or whether it is business that members wish to raise on the adjournment debate. [More…]
Racial discrimination is no more evident in those countries than in most others. [More…]
The Communists are shrewd enough to recognise the appeal of racial discrimination as an emotional catch-cry. [More…]
They are not victims of racial discrimination. [More…]
Into whichever field the Government has gone it has introduced discrimination and double standards. [More…]
I understand that the subject to be discussed will be discrimination practised against people of a particular religion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I think our position has been made abundantly clear by the Government over and over again, that is, that we do not believe in discrimination of any kind practised in any country because of a person’s religious beliefs or because of his race. [More…]
It is several years - I think it was in 1967 - since that was last done, and many Commonwealth public servants, particularly those who retired a great number of years ago and whose superannuation is only small, are suffering from the same discrimination from which the pensioners suffer, excepting that in many cases they do not receive such concessions as rate concessions and concessions on the registration of motor vehicles that pensioners frequently receive. [More…]
This is the discrimination that exists in this section of society. [More…]
This is discrimination of the worst kind against the most deserving section of the community. [More…]
This is a severe discrimination between various contributors to that scheme and one can only agree that the Treasurer should have looked at this aspect before this stage. [More…]
Forty village chiefs were killed the first week and many arms were captured … To the Vietcong, terror was an act of discrimination. [More…]
If his insulting attacks upon countries such as South Africa mean racial discrimination, and if his foreign policy will be to insult countries in which he believes racial discrimination exists, he will suddenly run out of countries and he will be able to dispense altogether with the Department of External Affairs. [More…]
With these requirements in mind, the Australian Labor Party has pledged itself to undertake a wide ranging social welfare programme, not only aimed at rooting out poverty but also aimed at progressively removing the very real disadvantages of social discrimination and at establishing economic security for all in ill health, unemployment, invalidity, widowhood and age. [More…]
The discrimination between a single pensioner and married pensioners continues. [More…]
How do the Ministers and the Government justify this kind of discrimination? [More…]
The persuasive case, then, is that discrimination in Commonwealth aid ought to favour those areas of greatest need. [More…]
This in turn involves a plea for discrimination which favours need. [More…]
lt imposed a general import levy of 2.5 per cent which will affect the whole population without discrimination. [More…]
One of them is that social discrimination, which ought never to have been tolerated and which we ought to have tackled with great vigour at its very beginnings, developed in some areas. [More…]
Does the Government support the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Recommendation of the International Labour Organisation which recommended to all member governments that all persons, without discrimination, should enjoy equality of opportunity and treatment in respect of remuneration for work of equal value and that government agencies should apply nondiscriminatory employment policies in all their activities? [More…]
The Australian Government and a number of others considered that the adoption of a Recommendation would be the appropriate way of dealing with the subject of discrimination in employment and occupation and, therefore, abstained in the voting on the adoption of Convention No.111 - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958. [More…]
I can inform the honourable member that the general principles set down in the Convention relating to discrimination on the basis of sex, are substantially complied with as regards Commonwealth employees. [More…]
This sort of political discrimination disturbs me. [More…]
Legally therefore there is no discrimination between the alien and the Australian citizen. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a statement by the Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr N. Shelton, on 8 July 1970, that New Zealand had been trying for many years to have the principle accepted in its relations with Australia of no discrimination between natural born and naturalised persons. [More…]
If so, why does the Australian Government continue to insist on this discrimination. [More…]
Is the company required to obtain approval from the Administrator or his department before it is permitted to remove the present discrimination between wages paid to indigenous and nonindigenous workers. [More…]
What urgent financial and physical policies does the Minister intend to apply to overcome these fairly serious defects especially as they are capable of interpretation as evidence of racial disadvantage and even racial discrimination against a minority in our society? [More…]
In regard to the last part of his question may I say that I deplore racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
I deplore any attempts to exploit the feeling that there might be racial discrimination. [More…]
We need also to know whether there is any discrimination against Australian meat in comparison with other countries and also in comparison with United States domestic meat. [More…]
The question arises of whether there is any discrimination against Australian abattoirs. [More…]
On this basis there is need for much finer discrimination in decisions on where people will be treated - on whether their problems are social or psychiatric, demanding psychiatric clinical services. [More…]
Basic to this charter is the removal of discrimination between the physically ill and the mentally ill and the physically handicapped and the intellectually handicapped. [More…]
He has no intention of allowing anything that will embarrass the Government, as undoubtedly it would as a result of the quite unjustified treatment of and discrimination against our fighting men, to be released to the public. [More…]
It is discrimination of the worst kind against married pensioners and it is being continued by this Government. [More…]
Instead of making substantial payments to those who are in need and discontinuing its discrimination the Government grabs out of the air some amount. [More…]
How can we tolerate this kind of discrimination? [More…]
It is not direct discrimination in that nobody is doing it on purpose. [More…]
We think of the discrimination that prevails in the Australian countryside. [More…]
I hope that in the near future - and when we become the government - we will take up the point that the honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis) mentioned about racial discrimination. [More…]
I should like to see racial discrimination illegal in Australia. [More…]
Whilst there are such examples of inequality and discrimination the seeds of conflict are there. [More…]
I therefore ask: Why has this discrimination against New South Wales in respect of telephone services been allowed to continue? [More…]
Will the Minister immediately initiate the necessary action, including the allocation of the required finance, staff and resources, to restore justice to that State keeping in mind that this discrimination has been a continuing feature as exemplified by the fact that it existed when I first entered this Parliament in 1961? [More…]
We have to make a discrimination, whoever it does not suit. [More…]
What has been talked about is a positive programme of discrimination in favour of such areas. [More…]
Formally proclaim 1971 to be the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and observe it as such. [More…]
Issue, during the Year, special messages affirming this country’s faith in the dignity and worth of the human person and its dedication to the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Take steps to arrange a special meeting of the Parliament on 21st March 1971, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Sign and ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial discrimination. [More…]
Give moral and material assistance to peoples struggling against alt forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
Promote the widest and most intensive possible dissemination of United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Ratify or accede to, if it has not yet done so, other conventions having a bearing upon the elimination of racial discrimination, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Slavery Convention of 1956 on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, the ILO Convention of 1958 concerning Discrimination in respect of Employment and Occupation, the International Covenants on Human Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
Ensure that the curricula of schools under its control and of other educational institutions include teaching of the scientific facts about race, that invidious distinctions about peoples are not made in textbooks and in classrooms, that all material susceptible of leading to racial discrimination and prejudice is eliminated from textbooks and that instructors are taught the value of principles of equality and dignity of all men. [More…]
I wish to assure the honourable member that careful consideration is being given to a suitable programme to observe the year 1971 in Australia as International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Australia shares the concern of the United Nations at manifestations of racial discrimination and intolerance and has frequently made this clear. [More…]
It is this concern which led us in the United Nations General Assembly to vote in support of the resolution designating 1971 as International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
For example, Australia is a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Convention of 1956 on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery and the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education. [More…]
Australia has signed the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the question of its ratification is under consideration. [More…]
In this regard the honourable member may be interested to know that the United Nations Association of Australia, along with other interested non-governmental associations has set up a National Committee to plan the effective observance of the year, named the Australian Committee to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
While its programme is not yet finalised, I understand that it will include the dissemination of information about the relevant United Nations documents dealing with racial discrimination. [More…]
Equal remuneration without discrimination based on sex means ‘(a) that remuneration for the same work at piece-rates shall be calculated on the basis of the same unit of measurement; and (b) that remuneration for work at time-rates shall be the same for the same job’. [More…]
Can he say whether this discrimination applies in any other country. [More…]
Will the Government make representations to the New Zealand Government with a view to stopping this discrimination. [More…]
That in itself creates a great discrimination against many of them. [More…]
They are unable to understand the teacher and immediately there is discrimination. [More…]
If so, why does his Office tolerate this form of discrimination. [More…]
I am for moderation; for judgment in context; for an attempted appreciation of real as distinct from false sensitivity; for social responsibility by exercising discrimination: for the instructive against the vicarious; in favour of the uplifting rather than the hurtful; and for restricting the portrayal of ultimate degrees of explicit experience in favour of some appeal to the imagination. [More…]
I believe that things such as race discrimination, apartheid and some of the propaganda of the Nazi Party are in fact moral issues but I would be the last one to suppress them. [More…]
It is time to end this discrimination. [More…]
In particular there can be no excuse for this discrimination against migrants, such as those from Malta, who so frequently come to this country in advance of their dependants. [More…]
Again the same lack of discrimination applies in respect, of the Government’s subsidies - I again use the term advisedly - in the form of ‘research and development grants. [More…]
This deliberate discrimination against the Burdekin River scheme is one example of the mounting charges of bias and inefficiency that are being levelled against the Government. [More…]
It is a government of absolute, utter and disgraceful discrimination. [More…]
It achieved office on that note and it will continue to be a government of discrimination. [More…]
Does this mean that his efforts to end discrimination against Aboriginals in Queensland is to be abandoned? [More…]
There is a need for a programme of positive discrimination to help children in backward areas, in the less affluent areas and in the culturally deprived areas. [More…]
I could nol agree more because unless one exercises a great deal of imagination and certainly no discrimination one will not be tempted simply to unload Si, 400m. [More…]
South Australia has led the way in providing Aboriginals with land rights, and in the passage of legislation prohibiting discrimination. [More…]
The producers of Tasmania have had a raw deal from the Honey Board and on behalf of the Tasmanian Beekeepers Association I lodge the strongest protest possible at this unfair discrimination by both the Commonwealth Government and the Australian Honey Board against that Association. [More…]
international year against racial discrimination. [More…]
Formally proclaim 1971 to be the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and observe it as such; [More…]
Issue, during the Year, in the name of Heads of Suites or Governments, special messages reaffirming their faith in the dignity and worth of the human person and their dedication io the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: [More…]
Examine the possibility of holding a special meeting of their Parliament or National Assembly, or other appropriate body, on 21 March 1971, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: [More…]
Undertake all necessary measures in order to implement fully the principles contained in the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and in particular to undertake a review of their national legislation against the standards of the Declaration and to enact such laws and take any other measures in the field of legislation as may be necessary and appropriate for giving effect to the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination if the Stale concerned is a party to the Convention; [More…]
assistance to peoples struggling against all forms of racial discrimination; [More…]
Promote the widest and most intensive possible dissemination of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; [More…]
racial discrimination, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Slavery Convention of 1926 as amended, the Supplementary Convention of 1956 on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, the. [More…]
UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, the 1LO Convention of 1958 concerning Discrimination in respect of Employment and Occupation, the International Covenants on Human Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; [More…]
Ensure that the curricula of their schools and of other educational institutions include teaching of the scientific facts about race, that invidious distinctions about peoples are not made in textbooks and in classrooms, and that all material susceptible of leading to racial discrimination and prejudice be eliminated from textbooks; ensure teaching the instructors the value of principles of equality ‘ and dignity of all men; [More…]
In recent years discrimination appears to have consolidated on the pigmentation of the skin, on the colour of people. [More…]
If this were not so - in other words, if we were to exercise racial discrimination and say that young men who are training for a Naval career should not have available to them experience in our senior ship - we would lay ourselves open to an entirely different line of criticism. [More…]
There was no sign of discrimination against the ALP Premiers, lt was evident the Commonwealth was concerned to see the States are able to carry on effectively. [More…]
So far from there being any discrimination now, the work done by the Minister for Social Services was really worth while. [More…]
Every one of his recommendations has been carried into effect, in two cases with some modification and I believe this removes any claim of discrimination against the Australian Aboriginal. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the statement by the honourable member for Lalor that he and other demonstrators did everything, and more, that the 5 women did and that he was subject to cynical and corrupt discrimination in not being similarly dealt with? [More…]
Nothing that the Minister has said has suggested that there has not been discrimination in this matter, when 5 women whom somebody thought they could intimidate along with a lot of others were imprisoned for 14 days for the purpose of intimidating them and when, for some special reason or other - whether it be political or some kind of view that one can go too far - no action was taken against me. [More…]
What an enormous field of discrimination, choice and selection there is in the Government’s application of selective malice, as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) put it today. [More…]
It seems significant, however, that this debate on law and order was introduced during Easter week, which commemorated the life, work and teaching of a leading dissenter, a Man who stood out against racism, violence and discrimination against individuals. [More…]
I do not know whether the Government is standing over you, Mr Speaker, but it is quite obvious that someone is standing over you otherwise you would not be allowing the blatant discrimination that occurs in this Parliament against the Opposition, particularly at question time when we can see it at its worst. [More…]
The Opposition has moved this motion because it believes rightly - and certainly I would not have seconded the motion unless I believed it - that you, Mr Speaker, have time and time again exercised inexcusable bias and discrimination against the Opposition. [More…]
If the honourable member had been here longer I think that he would have known, perhaps better than he conveyed, the fact that there are those of us on this side of the House who have spoken, often with a lot of heat in the atmosphere, against this form of discrimination. [More…]
It involves discrimination against children as a result of the existence of an anomaly in the Social Services Act. [More…]
Furthermore, as I see it, the Department of Social Services is setting itself up as an illogical judge of the morals of the case with a resultant discrimination against the lady’s 2 children because of her de facto relationship. [More…]
Every day the story of their plight is being told, from the aged and needy in our great cities to the hungry people of India, from the orphans in East Pakistan - and there are some 27,000 known orphans from the cyclone- to the victims of racial discrimination. [More…]
The cricketers have completely overlooked the day to day change and current climate in South Africa and that firm support for the stand taken by the South African Cricket Association and their cricketers may be just the sort of pressure that needs to be exerted to end racial discrimination in cricket and permit South Africa to tour not only Australia but the rest of the cricketing nations of the world. [More…]
Another specious argument is that we should attack every form of injustice and discrimination that exists in every country in the world at the same time. [More…]
There is a difference between a government, sponsored, policy of discrimination, segregation, oppression and cruelty based on the colour of a man’s skin and discrimination against a man’s political views. [More…]
I suppose my opponents will now say that I condone political discrimination. [More…]
I just think that racial discrimination as practised by South Africa is worse. [More…]
It is a test case, confronting mankind with a choice: discrimination or brotherhood. [More…]
He then makes the point that the question of racial discrimination is a result of deliberate Government policy. [More…]
Firstly, it would confront all Australians, and especially those concerned with the administration of sport, with the question of our tacit acceptance of racial discrimination and political interference in sport. [More…]
There is room within any incomes policy for only one form of discrimination and that is discrimination in favour not of those sections of the work force which are already glutted with affluence but of those whom affluence has passed by. [More…]
Can the policy being followed lead to further charges of racial discrimination? [More…]
They reflect the divisions of wealth and class within our society and they are consolidated by a combination of governmental apathy and outright discrimination. [More…]
At the same time, the use by State governments of a subsidy system to assist parents and voluntary organisations to provide pre-school facilities results in the discrimination which characterises the later stages of education. [More…]
These men have suffered 3 years of unjustifiable discrimination at the hands of this Government because of its delay in making pay rises through . [More…]
On what dates, at what level, by what means and with what results have there been discussions with the Queensland and Western Australian Governments on the laws of their States which do not satisfy the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Hansard, 6th May 1970, page 1961 and 23rd September 1970, page 1583). [More…]
Discussions about legislation in Queensland and Western Australia have dealt specifically with provisions which discriminate against Aboriginal Australians rather than generally with laws which do not satisfy the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Furthermore, we have to face the situation posed by the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
It appears that we will not be able to carry out our obligations in 1971 which the United Nations General Assembly has designated as International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
And, as I have stated already, there was the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination and the group of 1966 international convenants on human rights. [More…]
If that is not a clear case of discrimination 1 do not know what is. [More…]
But it is this continuing neglect by the Commonwealth Government of the State education system and its continuing concentration on private education - and within that section its discrimination in favour of the non-Catholic private sector - that are causing this continuing inequality in government schools. [More…]
Let us look at this Bill now and see where the discrimination lies. [More…]
If honourable members on the Liberal Party side cannot understand this discrimination, then they have thick skulls. [More…]
I think the main reason for this discrimination is the particular background from which honourable members opposite come. [More…]
In the independent schools - and let lis see the discrimination - what the Government is giving within a period of 4 years is an average of $73.82 for each student. [More…]
But compare that amount - and this is where honourable members have to see the discrimination - with the amount given to government schools. [More…]
Now, there is the discrimination in this area. [More…]
As the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) pointed out, if honourable members look at some of the States they will see particular examples of the discrimination, some of which are more flagrant than others. [More…]
What was the (a) date and (b) tenor of the information which Australia has given to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the programmes and activities undertaken during 1971, which the 1970 General Assembly designated as International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
What action has been taken on the Secretary-General’s suggestion that Australia should celebrate the Year by ratifying the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1966. [More…]
There is no discrimination against naturalised persons but it is necessary and proper, as I am sure all honourable members will understand, that inquiries be carried out. [More…]
He wants to divide and create discrimination amongst the Australian people and draw their minds away from the real issues of the day. [More…]
and (3) Dr Eggleston’s findings cannot, I believe, be said to indicate gross discrimination against Aborigines in law enforcement in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. [More…]
Some instances of discrimination on the grounds of race are cited and 1 certainly see these are a matter for concern; but the study also indicates some aspect in which Aborigines find themselves in a favoured position. [More…]
Are Aboriginal people excluded from hotels in Alice Springs, and some other towns of the Northern Territory; if so, what action can be taken to end this discrimination? [More…]
In each of these sections, in all parts of the nation, there are 2 groups which suffer particular discrimination, particular alienation: First the old, the widowed, the sick, the retarded - that enormous group of our fellow citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on the community: “.nd, the young, the school children. [More…]
The duty of a government is to be fair to all people, without discrimination. [More…]
Every Australian - I emphasise the words ‘every Australian’ - has a right to be fully and comprehensively educated without discrimination. [More…]
No.111 - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) 1958 [More…]
The discrimination between a single pensioner and married pensioners continues. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for External Territories been drawn to what was considered to be a strong attack last week by Mr Johnson, the Administrator of Papua New Guinea, on racial discrimination in European dominated clubs in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Will the Minister inform Mr Johnson that he is not expressing the policy of this Government and draw his attention to the fact that, amongst others, the Minister for Education and Science, the Minister for Defence, the Minister for the Army, the present Prime Minister and the previous Prime Minister are all prominent members of the Melbourne Club which also practises racial discrimination? [More…]
That is unfair discrimination which has a limiting effect on the establishment of new industries in country areas. [More…]
While appreciating the relief afforded by the proposed adjustments, it is a pity that the Government did not eliminate the discrimination between contributors and pensioners in respect of untaken units. [More…]
If honourable members do not vote for the amendment they will be showing blatant discrimination against sections of the work force living in country towns. [More…]
Ill - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958 (Hansard, 8th . [More…]
Firstly, this either reeks of discrimination or of privilege. [More…]
I think for honourable members on the Government side it would suggest discrimination against clergymen and others in religious services but from our side we suggest that there is a hint of privilege. [More…]
If it is not a matter of discrimination then it is a matter of privilege. [More…]
I think that the removal of this privilege or discrimination, whichever it is, will help her to find her true place and her true mission. [More…]
This is an odd sort of discrimination to practise against people who break a Commonwealth law in this way as against people who break other Commonwealth laws, because when the Commonwealth enacted the principal Act it did not take away from people sentenced under that Act their entitlement to remissions for good behaviour. [More…]
Is consideration being given to the elimination of this discrimination? [More…]
– My contribution to the consideration of the Treasury estimates deals with the discrimination to which our society subjects single women of various categories in obtaining finance for housing. [More…]
Of course, lending authorities may argue that there is no discrimination whatever against women who are the heads of households if they wish to obtain finance for housing. [More…]
If we break down these figures to the different kinds of tertiary education we find even further discrimination. [More…]
yet another instance of discrimination against Western Australia? [More…]
I wanted to make a brief reference to the fact that in this year, the year designated by the United Nations to combat racism and racial discrimination, the Government has done virtually nothing through our school system to try to eliminate one of the great blights upon our society- - racism. [More…]
Mr Deputy Chairman, this Government has a policy of utter discrimination so far as education is concerned. [More…]
The Government parasiticially draws on doctors alone to subsidise the pensioner medical service and maintains discrimination against mutual help in the form of friendly societies. [More…]
It can mean, as I think it does mean, that there is discrimination against Aborigines in the enforcement of Australia’s criminal law. [More…]
The supposition that there is discrimination between Aborigines and whites in the administration of justice has been tested by several academics and by the Opposition’s Aboriginal Affairs Committee, of which I am a member. [More…]
If so, will be take positive steps without delay to remove this discrimination against these educational institutions. [More…]
fact remains that there is discrimination in the payment of the subsidy, and this is an essential part of the Bill. [More…]
Why is there this discrimination against private buyers. [More…]
I suggest in this case that he read the Bill more closely, because he will find that there is no discrimination amongst the various wool growers. [More…]
Some critics have seen this as an example of discrimination or favouritism. [More…]
This Parliament is the proper place in which to seek to have this type of discrimination eliminated. [More…]
By this example he suggested that there was discrimination. [More…]
As I announced in a statement on 22nd March 1971 to mark the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, the Commonwealth made a specific grant of$12,000to assist the Australian Committee to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination with its programme in connection with the Year. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Immigration whether he has interpreted a recent statement of public interest referring to immigration which says: ‘the avoidance of any discrimination on any grounds of race or colour or nationality.’ [More…]
The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]
Remember that first come first served is a principle of absolutely no discrimination. [More…]
Others support a policy which might be described in this way: Avoid discrimination on any grounds of race, colour, skin or nationality. [More…]
Australia can no longer afford to be’ lumped with South Africa as a country basing its policy on racial discrimination. [More…]
The avoidance df discrimination on any grounds of race, colour of skin or nationality. [More…]
On the one hand he says that we should not have any discrimination against anybody for any reason you care to mention. [More…]
On the other hand he says that we should avoid all the social and economic problems which come from unnamed things like a lack of discrimination in social and similar matters. [More…]
While stating that its immigration policy shall be administered with the avoidance of discrimination on any ground of race, or colour or nationality, the same Labor Party Conference adopted a policy to advise Australian mothers to limit their families. [More…]
Will the Minister intercede with BHP to stop the freight levy or, alternatively, will he direct the Australian National Line to carry steel to all Tasmanian ports without discrimination in freight rates? [More…]
Those conditions will not br provided in country teachers colleges unless the Commonwealth Government intervenes and sends the Victorian Minister for Education or the Victorian Premier back to the planning room and back to the drawing board with a direction to produce a blueprint for teachers college education in Victoria which will eliminate this blatant discrimination against country areas. [More…]
A variety of reasons has been given for what I believe to be discrimination against provincial teachers colleges. [More…]
Furthermore, the discrimination is not something new. [More…]
Finally I repeat that I believe this to be a blatant case of discrimination against provincial teachers colleges. [More…]
Is there any evidence to show that Aborigines are the subject of discrimination by licensees of some hotels and clubs in country areas of New South Wales. [More…]
There is no evidence to indicate that Aborigines are subject to discrimination by licensees of hotels or clubs. [More…]
Why should this discrimination exist? [More…]
Further, is it correct, as claimed by Mr Bethune, that this discrimination by the Treasury is due to the greater per capita cost of the needs of smaller States compared with Sydney and Melbourne? [More…]
This year is the International Year against Racial Discrimination. [More…]
It is gross discrimination which would not be possible in any other country. [More…]
This situation obtains even though there is no discrimination against these migrants in the allocation of public housing. [More…]
There is now no case for discrimination against persons who purchase State housing authority homes so far as the home saving grant is concerned. [More…]
One is the one to which I referred concering the need to lift the value of the house which attracts a grant under the home savings grant scheme and the other is the need to eliminate the discrimination which, if this Bill is passed, unjustifiably will operate in respect of people who secure homes from State housing authorities. [More…]
If these are the guide lines administered by the Commonweath employment offices - 1 doubt that they are - is it not a system of discrimination against the unqualified man seeking employment? [More…]
Other kinds of discrimination should be removed and we think that the Labor Party policy would do much to remedy the situation. [More…]
So we have this sort of discrimination being built into the colleges and institutes. [More…]
I will agree with a lot of the things that the honourable member for Moreton said and that the discrimination should be removed. [More…]
The Labor Opposition is trying to remove that discrimination in the amendment that it has moved. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton is perpetuating some of the discrimination that he is complaining about. [More…]
He has the same responsibility if the powers that be decide, to serve in Vietnam or to go anywhere that the Government cares to send him, so in taking the stand that the honourable member for Moreton takes he is perpetuating the discrimination in a different direction, the discrimination that he says should be curtailed at this moment. [More…]
How does the Government justify its discrimination against someone who accepts the responsibility of flying into Vietnam, a Hercules aircraft, with all the value attached to that plane and all the dangers associated with such a mission? [More…]
Korean war, without any discrimination, then they will support the amendment which has been moved not for the purpose of scoring some political point but to provide a measure of justice to those who deserve this assistance. [More…]
The Opposition believes that there should be no discrimination against anybody who volunteered to serve his country whether in the Army, Navy. [More…]
What this Government has to do is amend the Act constructively and eradicate this blatant discrimination against servicemen, particularly those in the area about which I have been speaking, who have as much right to the provisions of the War Service Homes Act as many ex-servicemen who already have a loan or who are in the process of getting one. [More…]
At the moment there is a very great degree of discrimination in that area. [More…]
In the first year that we found it necessary, due to discrimination by the then Prime Minister Gorton against our State, to go to the Commonwealth Grants Commission we got an amount of S5m. [More…]
lt went to the Senate, and in the Senate there was a discrimination against members of the wage earning sector of the community who are equated with the Second Division and who historically have received the same increase as was awarded by the Arbitrator to the Second Division. [More…]
It follows therefore that the production and marketing of cigarettes is an entirely legal operation, and to ban their advertising on radio and television only would be ah act of discrimination against some media, to (he very great advantage of others. [More…]
What I am attempting to do is to put forward the argument that discrimination in respect of one section of the advertising media - because it is one over the which the Federal Government can exercise some controls - cannot bo justified. [More…]
fuel tax, as Section 51 (ii) of the Constitution prohibits discrimination between States , or parts ..of States in laws. [More…]
It reeks of injustice and discrimination. [More…]
The Communist Party of Australia last year in the Tribune’ forecast, when it referred to a mass anti-racist movement attacking apartheid and racial discrimination in both South Africa and Australia as being vital in the coming months, that this movement would be built up on militant mass action and would spread to support for the Gurindji and [More…]
It has condemned them to a ghetto existence of slum housing, job shortages, poor education and social discrimination. [More…]
1 want to speak on a matter which I believe involves a grave discrimination under the War Services Homes Act. [More…]
This discrimination came rather glaringly to my notice in a case which was presented to me in my office last week. [More…]
lt shows the discrimination that exists between a rural ex-serviceman and one who lives in a town or city. [More…]
All in all this is a shocking case of discrimination as between ex-servicemen who have fought side by side in the latest conflict in Vietnam. [More…]
I put it to the House and the Minister that this discrimination must be remedied. [More…]
I say that this is an outrageous discrimination and this Parliament through the Minister for Housing has to correct it. [More…]
If it stems even to some degree from deliberate discrimination, it is a major political scandal. [More…]
He wrote a letter saying that the Labor Party would continue to struggle against racial discrimination and was firmly committed to oppose any sports team sent to Australia, etc. [More…]
In my own electorate we see the same discrimination. [More…]
The Government already practises discrimination against non-insured hospital patients by allowing them only 80c a day Commonwealth bed subsidy, the amount set by the Chifley Labor Government in the 1940s. [More…]
What is wanted is a policy of positive discrimination - discrimination in favour of those who have little. [More…]
It recommends a programme of positive discrimination in favour of schools that have a high migrant intake. [More…]
Even such matters as birth control and racial discrimination must surely be tied up in any education system. [More…]
When I say this I refer to the hungry people of Bangla Desh and India, the victims of racial discrimination, and the orphans of the wars in Vietnam and Bangla Desh. [More…]
That the objectives of the Association be applied to all children irrespective of where they get their education and there be no discrimination where children are schooled across State borders. [More…]
When will the Government accept the recommendation made to the Commonwealth in 1968 by the State Health Ministers, who said that there was no justification for discrimination between the physically ill and the mentally ill in relation to health and welfare benefits? [More…]
I support the Government in its decision to rectify the restrictions and discrimination suffered by one very valuable section of our primary producers. [More…]
The section has been inoperative for some time and, in accordance with the Government’s policy of eliminating any potential source of racial discrimination, is being repealed. [More…]
I have never been able to work out why there is this discrimination against temporary employees, particularly in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
I have insisted that whatever is done in the future must be on a basis of equity and without any kind of discrimination. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party does believe in discrimination when dealing with Aborigines. [More…]
I wish to deal with the injustice and discrimination in relation to one aspect of grants to the States. [More…]
I regard these 2 grants and the discrimination they reflect as typical of the cockeyed priorities of this Government. [More…]
I want to highlight the discrimination against Bendigo High School and many schools like it in Victoria. [More…]
I welcome his agreement that in such matters as immigration, of which he was speaking, Australia should, to quote the words of my Party’s platform, avoid discrimination on grounds of race*. [More…]
I pass now to the question of racial discrimination. [More…]
For our part, the Government is well aware of the resentment and frustration felt by the great majority of independent African countries, which constitute almost onethird of the United Nations membership, about the continued application of policies of racial discrimination and minority rule in southern Africa. [More…]
It is important, therefore, that we should emphasise that the policies of apartheid, racial discrimination and limited franchise being followed by certain governments in southern Africa find no support in Australia. [More…]
The effect of flag discrimination on trade can be dramatic. [More…]
After negotiations took place and under threat of further discrimination, new agreements in conference line arrangements came into operation. [More…]
1 do not propose to take up the time of the House any further except to say that the Labor Party for a long time has suffered from electoral discrimination. [More…]
The Labor Party has, of course, had its troubles in this Parliament with the discrimination which the Act allows in favour of country electorates. [More…]
The whole approach of general revenue grants for the States has been one which has had a long term discrimination against Queensland. [More…]
Does he stand for this discrimination against Queensland? [More…]
I have already shown the ABC’s awareness of the need for discrimination. [More…]
Recently, because of the discrimination that exists in the clause we are discussing, the Minister saw fit to criticise the Waterside Workers Federation which had come to some form of agreement with its employers outside the court. [More…]
I believe there should be no discrimination and that all children should be given the same opportunity and consideration. [More…]
3669 which I placed on the Notice Paper on 17th August 1971, that the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination was briefly discussed at meetings of Commonwealth and State officials and Ministers in Cairns in April 1971. [More…]
I point out that every federation which attends an international conference always has the problem - whether it is dealing with laws concerning discrimination on the ground of race, whether it is dealing with an International Labour Organisation Convention, or some other matter - that when it gets home the States will have to implement part of what it has agreed to. [More…]
Within the radio and television industry there is further discrimination against country radio and television stations. [More…]
I would like to put it on record, even if it has been done before - I think it has - that there is a fundamental problem of discretion, discrimination and philosophy of education concerning these 2 groups of tertiary institutions - the colleges of advanced education and the universities. [More…]
Why the discrimination of salary. [More…]
I ask the leave of the House to incorporate in Hansard a schedule which sets out the discrimination at the 2 levels and shows the 1971-72 salary rates for NOPMs and assistants and the differential rates set in 1942. [More…]
We have drawn migrants from 50 countries, and there is a great range of discrimination practised between all of them. [More…]
Even today, those of us who have been concerned with migrant welfare and have achieved some assistance for family reunions, find that there is discrimination continuing in the matter of the issue of visas. [More…]
Of course, in other cases there is no trouble at all, and this constitutes discrimination. [More…]
I submit that this Bill follows the 20-year-old pattern of discrimination between one migrant and another which has been practised by the Government. [More…]
If the Government wants to discourage migration, all it has to do is to continue to practise some of the discrimination that it is practising at the present time. ] [More…]
I again say to the House that after pursuing a migration programme for 25 years we still have this discrimination in pensions. [More…]
We have discrimination in conditions of settlement. [More…]
We have discrimination even in naturalisation, which is undesirable, ft may be said that the law has not been invoked. [More…]
As I said before this is discrimination in its worst form, that we in Australia would be sitting in judgment on the private motives of those who may or may not choose to become naturalised. [More…]
Will the Minister take immediate action to increase this amount to a reasonable living standard to guarantee to all married pensioners an income that is at least equal to that paid to other pensioners so that there will be no discrimination against the younger wives? [More…]
It has not occurred in this case, but it is a good principle that there is no discrimination in this country. [More…]
As 1 have given an undertaking to restrict my comments on this Bill, I will come quite quickly to the point by saying that the people in the south east of South Australia were most disturbed quite recently, as the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) knows, because of the fact that South Australia was suffering from some form of discrimination as a result of a direct reduction in its acreage and the assistance provided for the planting and maintaining of the acreage which had been sought and agreed upon at a conference of the Australian Forestry Council in about March of last year. [More…]
The Minister for National Development has, in some way, rectified his earlier decision in regard to the matter of discrimination against South Australia. [More…]
I accept that, but the honourable member’s general comment, if I may say so, sounded as though he was stating that there was severe discrimination against the small companies. [More…]
This is a Government which deals with a wage structure on the basis that people who are closest to it will be supported, on the basis of discrimination and - I would tend to think- of hypocrisy. [More…]
There is a certain amount of discrimination against the older worker in Australia. [More…]
The effect of this discrimination, and the age at which it may be experienced, varies according to occupation, industry, locality and the skill required; it is however not possible to specify its extent. [More…]
Generally speaking, semi-skilled and unskilled workers and some categories of executives are likely to suffer most from this discrimination. [More…]
However, in order to avoid discrimination between patients in the allied fields of optometry and ophthalmology in cases where spectacle lenses are prescribed, the Act specifically excludes the payment of Commonwealth benefits for attendances by medical practitioners which result in the prescription of spectacles. [More…]
Works of art are largely exempt from Customs duty and the Government proposes that the sales tax discrimination against imported works should also be removed. [More…]
Of course, the situation is aggravated where the depressed are a different racial group, such as negroes or Puerto Ricans, subject to discrimination, but it is bad without that. [More…]
The extent of the disadvantage and, indeed, discrimination to which this gives rise is illustrated by a table extracted from the statistics of the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
I believe there is discrimination against country based industries. [More…]
I do not think that any Minister in the House could say that what I have said tonight is not true with regard to discrimination between Ministers and private members and senators. [More…]
The deprivation, discrimination and repression of Aborigines in the Australian society, whether they are fringe dwelling urban residents or living in rural communities, stand as a monument to the selfish and cruel indifference of this wealthy community of ours. [More…]
ls he able to say whether the legislation of Queensland and Western Australia yet satisfies the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Hansard, 13th September 1971, page 1220). [More…]
On what date and in what terms did Australia give the information to the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the programmes and activities undertaken during 1971, which the 1970 General Assembly designated as International Year for action to combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (Hansard, 13th September 1971, page 1220). [More…]
However, the legislation still does not fully satisfy the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
I rise tonight on behalf of a group of young Australians who feel cheated by their country because of an incredible piece of discrimination against them. [More…]
I ask that a full statement be made by the Minister as to the reasons for this discrimination. [More…]
Why has this repressive discrimination been applied against a low status group who are most unlikely to be able to defend: their position or demand redress. [More…]
Are there any proposals to apply the same sort of repressive discrimination and arbitrary punitive measures against middle class householders drawing on unemployment benefits; if not, why have the low status people been specially separated. [More…]
The problem is definitely a Commonwealth one and there ought to be Commonwealth discrimination in favour of those States because of their particular disabilities. [More…]
This section of the Bill is part of the whole pattern of this Government’s discrimination against State schools. [More…]
The proposed granting of a mere $13.34m to all the State school pupils in Australia is an act of overwhelming discrimination against them. [More…]
It is the continual discrimination that this Government shows to pupils at government schools that disturbs me most of all. [More…]
I regard it as an act of discrimination against under privileged children like these that while such huge grants are being paid out to schools such as the Methodist Ladies College at Kew, which is receiving over $500,000, and to Xavier Colleges, which are receiving over $250,000 - to children who do not need a cent from the Commonwealth Government - we have these under privileged children attending the White Hills Primary School who are receiving nothing from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
This is part of the whole process of flagrant discrimination against those in need and, in particular, those at state schools. [More…]
How can the Minister or his Government possibly justify such discrimination? [More…]
Why is there discrimination? [More…]
What is the discrimination that the Government has applied to those who served this country in Vietnam? [More…]
This discrimination exists. [More…]
Why is there this discrimination? [More…]
Discrimination is still in evidence against credit unions compared with other lending authorities. [More…]
What peculiar philosophical values lie behind this wicked sort of discrimination and repression against literally more than 100,000 workers who in no way, in the overwhelming majority of cases, sought to be in this unfortunate position and whose personal tragedy at the moment is a result of all that the Government is doing. [More…]
We have had more than enough evidence produced in this place and in other places to show the socioeconomic discrimination which works so oppressively and so terribly against people from low and moderate income earning families that they literally cannot break through the barriers of social and economic discrimination into higher education. [More…]
They are prepared to go out to work but this Government has decided to hobble them and as a result we find another area of discrimination and deprivation. [More…]
What is the reason for that kind of discrimination? [More…]
So, we find enormous discrimination between the pensioners of our country and the recipients of social service benefits generally. [More…]
We have taken a new attitude to nationality so that there is now no discrimination against aliens who have qualified for pensions by residence; the residential qualification period has been reduced from 20 years to 10 years. [More…]
It is a wonder that the Women’s Liberation Movement has not taken up this matter because it shows discrimination against women. [More…]
The biggest discrimination is made against estates that are comprised largely of one asset, usually a farming property. [More…]
The positive discrimination in favour of Aborigines through the provision of special scholarships is another area in this vein. [More…]
I want to draw attention to what I regard as a policy of discrimination against country students in comparison with city students. [More…]
Looking at the new Commonwealth secondary scholarships scheme, the fact that for the first time since 1965 a means test has now been introduced into this scheme is in itself a condemnation of a consistent policy of discrimination in favour of the children from more affluent families. [More…]
To oppose this principle is to oppose the right of choice and is to stand on the side of restriction and discrimination. [More…]
Recently an example of this type of discrimination was brought to my attention by the Family Planning Association of South Australia, which runs a clinic in an Adelaide suburb. [More…]
I say without hesitation that I believe most Australians are strongly opposed to the admission of people from other countries without any exercise of discrimination. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party at its Launceston conference last year made a radical departure from its traditional immigration policy by proposing to abolish all forms of discrimination. [More…]
The longstanding bi-partisan policy on immigration has unfortunately been abandoned officially by the Australian Labor Party, and its chief spokesman for many years on immigration matters, the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly), has been unceremoniously dropped because he does not agree with the proposed removal of all forms of discrimination. [More…]
The essential fact that the Australian people need to realise is that a Labor government would admit migrants from anywhere at all without discrimination and, therefore, regardless of their ability to be successfully assimilated. [More…]
It constitutes in my opinion a policy of systematic and deliberate discrimination against the nation’s 2 million children who go to government State primary and secondary schools. [More…]
In my opinion it is a system of massive and wholesale discrimination that the Minister is supporting. [More…]
The parents would not favour a per capita system to perpetuate their discrimination. [More…]
That is where the discrimination lies. [More…]
This discrimination shows up again in the statistics of the Taxation Department. [More…]
But where people have been able to cater for the needs of their children for years and have built up capital assets, we urge the Government not to make the discrimination worse. [More…]
They do not need discrimination or exploitation on a vote-catching basis that the only Party interested in this will be the Liberal-Country Party coalition. [More…]
This Government’s record in the past has caused most of this discrimination. [More…]
The unjust discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union is another instance of this double morality, because it is apparently ignored by the United Nations. [More…]
I repeat what I said: The unjust discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union is just another instance of this double morality, because apparently it is ignored by the United Nations. [More…]
If not, why not and why is there this discrimination? [More…]
Magistrates have protested, as I have done, but the Government has done nothing to overcome the effects of that decision handed down by the High Court as long ago as 1962. lt is time that people in the Australian Capital Territory ceased to suffer from this type of discrimination. [More…]
At that time the discrimination was in relation to subsidy; it is now in relation to the proposals we have before us. [More…]
When the Government can cast doubts about the continued operation of, for example, the Economic Wool Producers and when it can continue to practise discrimination against independent wool buyers, the Opposition takes this as a measure of the Government’s dedication to this particular system of handling wool. [More…]
I would say that this is a piece of active discrimination. [More…]
We are saying that we want to have a new system, but there should not be active discrimination against other forms of selling. [More…]
We posed the question and we pose it again: Why should there be some discrimination against orga nisations like the Economic Wool Producers and people like Mr James of Cleckheaton Ltd, a company which is now involved in the Riverina in wool production as well as using wool in manufactures? [More…]
Fancy the honourable member for Riverina talking about discrimination. [More…]
Although this legislation applies to a relatively small number of persons, Mr Speaker, as approximately 760 Torres Strait Islanders and 40 mainland Aborigi nals served during World War II in the Torres Strait Light Infantry Forces, it is nevertheless important as another move in the Federal Government’s avowed intention to remove the last remnants of racial discrimination from the statute books. [More…]
If not, why not and why is there this discrimination? [More…]
That was discrimination in favour of New South Wales. [More…]
This is discrimination which I do not believe a Labor government would practise, because we on this side of the House believe in the scientifically and independently assessed way of distributing finance. [More…]
If the Commonwealth does not intend to extend the principle to all States, does that failure constitute a clear violation of the Constitution in that it is a blatant discrimination between States in the distribution of Commonwealth controlled funds? [More…]
The significance of the States in this situation is a significance which occurs in every federal system which has to enter into international negotiations, whether it be for a convention against racial discrimination, an International Labour Organisation convention or any other convention. [More…]
Queensland has not yet brought its laws into conformity with the requirements of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The United Nations General Assembly resolved that 1968 should be the International Year on Human Rights, and 1971 should be the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Government just does not seem to comprehend the blatant discrimination in its approach to transport policy. [More…]
In the time available remaining to me I have a few words to say about another aspect of this discrimination against Tasmanian transport services, and that is the Bell Bay link. [More…]
It would appear that such women suffer from discrimination which often is not earned. [More…]
Ill - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958, steps have been taken in recent years, with the co-operation of the States, employers and unions concerned, to repeal or amend legislation and awards which discriminated in employment and occupation on the basis of race or colour. [More…]
The Convention also deals, of course, with discrimination of other kinds and thu) and other Issues relating to ratification are being discussed with the States and in the National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister protest to the British Prime Minister about the blatant discrimination against Australian nationals seeking employment in the United Kingdom? [More…]
The Opposition endorses these Bills which remove the last vestiges of discrimination on racial grounds from the operation of the legislation giving benefits to exservicemen. [More…]
This discrimination has been removed and a number of the Islanders will benefit. [More…]
As I said at the outset - I suppose one can always learn something new in this Parliament - I had no knowledge of the discrimination that applied in relation to those from this area served in the armed forces during the Second World War, But at least the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) and the Government have now accepted that there should not be any racial discrimination and the Bill which we now have before us provides for this. [More…]
1 am sure that all Australians would accept the principle that laws should not be enacted on the basis of discrimination one way or the other. [More…]
I make it quite clear to the Minister that if this was not the situation it would be one further example of discrimination being perpetuated. [More…]
I can never accept the discrimination in this respect. [More…]
It is not racial discrimination but discrimination in relation to what is availale to ex-servicemen in the form of an appeal and what is available to ex-seamen in the form of an appeal. [More…]
There is no discrimination in the law regarding liability of a father to contribute to the support of his children. [More…]
107 - Indigenous and Tribal Populations, 1957 and No, 111 - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958 and the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, if so, when and with what result [More…]
The Aboriginal Affairs Council has discussed at recent annual meetings such matters as policies on land for Aborigines, discriminatory legislation and legislation prohibiting discrimination on racial grounds, which are relevant to, for example, the International Labour Organisation Convention No. [More…]
107, Indigenous and Tribal Populations 1957, and the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Did Australia advise the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 27th October 1971, in the course of the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, that active consideration was being given by the Commonwealth and State Governments to the removal of the few remaining elements of legislation which may not be compatible with the provisions of the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
My Government intends to ratify the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination and other international agreements dealing with human rights. [More…]
These include the ILO Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948; the ILO Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949; the ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951; the ILO Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958; the international Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966). [More…]
It is worth noting some of the more objectionable forms of discrimination which will be eliminated by this Bill. [More…]
The Bill which I now introduce to the House is designed to make changes to the Migration Act which are necessary as part of the Government’s policy to remove all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
With a view to ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination it is necessary that this legislative provision, which is discriminatory on racial grounds, be removed. [More…]
The action of the Government in making the repeal of these discriminatory provisions one of its first legislative acts is a token of our determination to banish racial discrimination within our community and is also a step towards building on equal terms the family of the nation in citizenship. [More…]
It will also at long last enable us to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
These measures represent the basic steps in the development of a national welfare policy, freed of discrimination by sex, age or economic condition - a welfare programme which is a real response to our national conscience and which should be a basic condition in any civilised community that has a respect for its own citizens. [More…]
This Government says one thing and claims to stand for one set of principles, but in practice it is seen to be a government prepared to adopt a double standard, a policy of discrimination, a policy which in the industrial area would seek to confer on some major industrial benefits but which it would seek simultaneously not to confer on others. [More…]
The incidence of poverty and discrimination; the relationship between all forms of government, and the removal of unprincipled pressure groups are all vital issues for consideration. [More…]
call administrative discrimination. [More…]
My Government will launch an attack on that kind of discrimination. [More…]
It is typical, yet still shameful, that the discrimination against unemployed people should have been blatantly enforced by the defeated government. [More…]
So far Labor has provided, firstly, some immediate relief to pensioners as a first step towards a whole new deal, and secondly, for the removal of discrimination against long term unemployed workers and junior workers. [More…]
It disturbs me that the political pull of outer suburban areas may prompt discrimination against electorates such as my own. [More…]
A study of the proposed increases reveals what I would consider to be discrimination against the more genuine person who needs assistance when he is unemployed. [More…]
This discrimination that exists at present between A and B class widows will be eliminated. [More…]
We are unhappy about such practices and especially the disincentives and the discrimination which are inherent in them. [More…]
We should not accept regional discrimination for or against particular regions within States arty more than the Constitution allows us to accept discrimination as between States. [More…]
Racial discrimination in all its forms is to be deplored. [More…]
I think the record shows that prior to his election to this House the honourable member did take a strong stand against racial discrimination. [More…]
When I say that it deals with the last relic of discrimination in Commonwealth legislation, I remind honourable members of the long haul it has been to remove all the discriminatory legislation in Australia. [More…]
As my colleague, the honourable member for Flinders, pointed out, a great proportion of this discriminatory legislation was not based upon discrimination on racial grounds originally, but was part of the protective mantle which it was believed necessary to place around the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Constitution itself restricted the role of this Parliament concerning Aborigines; we have now removed that discrimination. [More…]
However, there are still lingering areas of what I call administrative discrimination. [More…]
This state of affairs can only occur because some form of discrimination, not necessarily conscious in the administration of the law in the courts but in the way the police operate and in the way the community accepts its duties in these matters, affects Aboriginal people more than it affects nonAboriginal people. [More…]
It is true that the legal system, established initially by the previous Government and now to be developed further by the present Government, is aimed at removing that kind of discrimination. [More…]
I hope that in a few minutes we will pass through all stages this Bill, the provisions of which when enacted will wipe from the national statute book the last piece of racial discrimination that exists in our national laws. [More…]
This legislation also enables us as a nation to go to the United Nations - the supreme international forum - with a view to ratifying the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
I say on behalf of the Government that on this night of 13th March the important point is that we have excised the last of these discriminations and also we have. [More…]
This Bill is a token of our dedication in that direction and of the endeavours that will be pursued in this session of the Parliament to ensure that there will be no discrimination between citizens; that there will be one citizenship; that there will be one criterion; that there will be one allegiance. [More…]
Tonight the Aboriginal people, emerging with a new pride and a new independence, may take satisfaction from the fact that this last piece of discrimination on the national statute book has been removed. [More…]
I return now to the topic of discrimination. [More…]
To retain the sales tax on contraceptives is an unjustified discrimination and penalty against Australian women wishing to practice responsible methods of family planning. [More…]
The Bill is designed to make contraceptives cheaper and to remove the discrimination against free choice exercised by women. [More…]
I take it that the charge to be laid against the new Government is that by leaving this tax on it was practising sexual discrimination in reverse. [More…]
Real consideration for people as human beings, each with his or her contribution to make to society on a free and equal basis and unhindered by past discrimination, should be a basic aim in our society. [More…]
I would like to know why there is discrimination. [More…]
I do not want to grind that point any further because I wish to refer to another small matter in respect of which, if the government of the day is not very careful, the same error of discrimination against some sections of the industry could be perpetrated. [More…]
We need to educate the Australian people as far as racial discrimination is concerned. [More…]
The members of this House, as well as the public of Australia, are entitled to assume that the Prime Minister had this principle in his mind when he spoke to the public during the election campaign and made his promise to all Commonwealth public servants without discrimination. [More…]
The action of the Government has the most insidious implications for industrial relations in this country, lt is discrimination of the worst kind by a government which in other areas preens its feathers of pride under a banner of non-discrimination. [More…]
Public servants know that the reason why they are now all to receive an additional week’s leave without discrimination and without preferring one category of public servant to another is a direct result of the actions of the Opposition Parties. [More…]
As the President of the Liberal Party in Queensland for the time being he knows, as well as anybody else, how much his Party has suffered from the discrimination in Queensland of electoral boundaries which are gerrymandered in favour of the Country Party. [More…]
Right through the Minister’s speech he kept making statements such as ‘we should not accept regional discrimination’, ‘the principle of substantial equality of representation between electoral divisions was almost eliminated’ and ‘every worthwhile authority supports the case for one vote one value and equality of electorates’. [More…]
The speech sent a shock wave through the foreign shipping industry and produced reports in the British Press that Australia intended to practise flag discrimination. [More…]
If this is true, it would be an extreme example of cargo discrimination which is completely contrary to the liberal shipping policy which we and the shipowners of Europe and Japan have been advocating.’ [More…]
In particular, I wish to remove any grounds for discrimination in matters of citizenship and employment against migrants or any section of any migrant community. [More…]
In this case we are supporting the principle of discrimination against the majority in favour of the few. [More…]
Excise, in referring to the discrimination displayed by the new Government in removing completely, by regulation in the (first couple of weeks of its coming to power, the excise on wine. [More…]
The guiding principle for the Government in the vitally important matter of the grant of Australian citizenship is that there should not be discrimination between different groups of settlers seeking to join the family of the nation. [More…]
It will end a situation of active discrimination against enthusiastic Commonwealth of Nations applicants for Australian citizenship who have been denied the same welcome as has long been afforded others. [More…]
The Government has dedicated itself to enhancing still further the significance and repute of the title Australian citizen’; and in this Bill we ask this House to endorse a charter for the grant of that title, without discrimination, to all of our settlers who seek it and are worthy of it. [More…]
I feel there should be no discrimination between the sexes as far as this concession is concerned and I ask the Government to extend the Bill’s provisions to include these male members. [More…]
As the legislation now stands there is discrimination against those people who desire to spend their later years overseas rather than in this country. [More…]
It is sufficient to say that it has had a major role in promoting the acceptance and application of human rights in such areas as abolishing forced labour, promoting freedom of association and removing discrimination in employment. [More…]
Ill - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), adopted in 1958. [More…]
Of the other 2 amendments adopted in 1964, one provided for the suspension from participation in the International Labour Conference of any ILO member State which had been found by the United Nations to be flagrantly and persistently pursuing by its legislation a declared policy of racial discrimination such as apartheid and the other for the expulsion from the ILO or suspension from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership of the ILO of any member which the United Nations had suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of membership. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Government proposes to ratify them to demonstrate Australia’s firm opposition to all forms of racial discrimination such as apartheid. [More…]
But in this Bill there is discrimination and, I believe that proposed new section 146a is another clause which is designed to destroy arbitration in the way we understand it. [More…]
It gives to employees a degree of protection which they do not have at the moment and prevents discrimination against them because of their activities on behalf of their colleagues. [More…]
But all he has done this evening has been to challenge a legitimate clause that in fact tidies up the discrimination that has existed for quite some time under previous governments. [More…]
Such is the discrimination against which we fight, will continue to fight and hopefully will see eliminated from the legislation of this Parliament in this session. [More…]
On the one hand, the Government alleges a desire to remove discrimination in various pieces of legislation, particularly the immigration program; on the other hand, it continues legislation, particularly in the immigration area, which in fact perpetuates a number of those provisions which the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) could well have removed if he was prepared to take upon himself the burden of undoing any sense of preferment “which is currently enjoyed by British citizens. [More…]
The Opposition parties believe this to be not so much a matter of discrimination as a simple fact of the differing bases upon which integration can take place in Australia. [More…]
I believe that it observes not only the machinery of wise and impartial legislative procedures but also the necessary and contingent provisions for an Australian citizenship which, through the evolutionary processes of our history, indicate a course of action free from discrimination. [More…]
In using the word ‘discrimination’ it would be unfair and unjust to accuse ourselves of deliberate prejudice. [More…]
Try as one may, one cannot find a word other than ‘discrimination’ to describe and assess the process briefly mentioned. [More…]
It will end a situation of active discrimination against e’nthusiastic Commonwealth of Nations applicants for Australian citizenship who have been denied the same welcome as has long been afforded others. [More…]
It conjures up a picture of thousands of would-be British migrants deterred from coming to Australia because they will face this fearful discrimination. [More…]
Since when did people who are placed in a privileged position object because there was discrimination in their favour? [More…]
He coins emotive phrases such as ‘the family of the nation’, whatever that means, and ‘absence of discrimination’, with which people in a vague sort of way can identify themselves, but which mean very little unless their consequences are spelled out. [More…]
I refer to the cessation of advertising in the United Kingdom, the trumpeting abroad of higher standards - mostly phoney - the publicity given to absence of discrimination in selection and admission, and the general impression in Britain that the present Government is anti-British. [More…]
In office its supporters consistently applied a principle of discrimination that is perhaps better described as the equality of liberalism, that is, that everyone was equal as long as a select and favoured few were more equal than anyone else. [More…]
Under the previous Government discrimination did not cease when the immigrant was naturalised; it continued beyond the date of the ceremony. [More…]
I must compliment the Minister on the fact that he has taken steps to attack the discrimination that exists in the various States by the establishment of various task forces to look at the problems involved. [More…]
The immigration policy of the Government seeks to rid the nation of the inconsistencies, inequalities and discrimination that we believe should no longer be allowed to exist when we are seeking to bring people from various countries and to welcome them as citizens in their own right in Australia. [More…]
We are doing away with the inequalities and the discrimination that have existed for far too many years in this country. [More…]
The point is - the Minister has lost sight of this - that the previous Government was not practising discrimination against nonUnited Kingdom migrants because it applied a different time factor for qualifying for naturalisation to the non-British migrant. [More…]
The Opposition opposes the abolition of discriminations. [More…]
It has said, in effect, today that it wishes to retain the past where racial discrimination was the factor which dominated our citizenship laws. [More…]
The discriminations were primitive. [More…]
The Bill simply proposes that all discrimination be eliminated from the requirements for the grant of Australian citizenship to migrants. [More…]
The Government now puts to the House in the form of the present Australian Citizenship Bill that it is time we progressed still further towards reality by ending the artificial discriminations in the present Act. [More…]
I appeal to all members of the Parliament to build national unity, end discrimination and promote a proud independence for Australia. [More…]
I leave this information to show there is no discrimination: The number of deferred applications in the honourable member’s electorate is 137. [More…]
No person shall be liable to any penally, disadvantage, handicap, discrimination or proceedings of any kind whatsoever by reason of that person failing or declining to participate in a termination of pregnancy, and evidence of such failing or declining to act shall not be admissible in any proceedings or otherwise taken into account. [More…]
I believe that this is discrimination of the worst type. [More…]
Under the pretence of being a humane solution to genuine human problems it seeks the law’s seal on the systematic discrimination against one group of the human family, the innocent and defenceless. [More…]
Such concern would be to find why people are pressured towards abortion; how unwed mothers might have proper care and hospital attention to give natural birth to their children; the procedures of adoption; the provision of government subsidised day care and after school centres for children of working parents; payment of equal tax rebates for dependants, rather than the present system of concessional deductions; increased welfare benefits for deserted and/ or unmarried mothers; removal of legislative discrimination and positive action to suppress social and commercial discrimination against unwed mothers, de facto wives and illegitimate children. [More…]
I think that the former Minister, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) summed up the gulf remarkably well in relation to my desire to abolish discrimination. [More…]
What is wrong with discrimination when there are valid overwhelming reasons to discriminate? [More…]
Ill which strikes at discrimination on grounds of sex, politics, religion or colour. [More…]
We are still consulting about the other Convention relating to discrimination. [More…]
100 which is designed to prevent discrimination on grounds of sex. [More…]
1 have talked with them myself and again I found - not so much now to my surprise, because I had overcome the first surprise earlier - a healthy response and understanding on the part of the State Ministers for the need to ratify this Convention relating to discrimination on the grounds of sex. [More…]
Superannuated people will receive extra benefits because soon they will be freed from the rather unfair discrimination that has applied against them through the means test on age pensions. [More…]
The particular legislation I have in mind is in the racial discrimination field, where it would appear to be necessary for us to use the external affairs power in order to override offensive State legislation. [More…]
Sixthly, no company discrimination against people or towns is wanted. [More…]
We are determined to do our best to prevent such unfair social discrimination. [More…]
There is severe discrimination against Queensland. [More…]
Queensland is suffering severely from what I would regard as discrimination against worthwhile projects in that State and the sooner the Commonwealth Government is defeated to allow the State to make the progress it can make, and is entitled to make, the better it will be for everyone in Queensland. [More…]
Ill - abolishing discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
The ratification means that Australia is at last joining with the other responsible members of the international community in affirming opposition to discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
It testifies to the Australian Government’s determination to remove discrimination in employment and occupation from the Australian scene, not simply by removing cases of blatant discrimination but also by taking positive action to promote real equality of opportunity in employment. [More…]
Discrimination is an anti-social offence. [More…]
To practise discrimination is to practice injustice, intolerance and all of the things against which a Christian nation ought to turn its back. [More…]
To ignore discrimination is to ignore injustice. [More…]
Discrimination in employment and occupation must have an adverse effect on the overall productivity of the work force. [More…]
I have seen examples in this Parliament of the discrimination that comes from blind prejudice where certain members of the Parliament have stood in this place and made speeches based upon blind prejudice accusing upright, decent Australians of being enemies of the State and agents of a foreign power, based purely upon political hatred and political prejudice.. [More…]
It is not always easy to determine whether particular action constitutes discrimination; it is very difficult indeed. [More…]
I anticipate that the pursuit of the policy of non-discrimination in employment and occupation will throw light on such cases. [More…]
This convention is a declaration of intent, a declaration of a government’s policy, in this case in respect to discrimination on grounds of politics, religion, race, nationality or sex in employment or in employment opportunities. [More…]
The convention requires ratifying countries, first to declare a national policy designed to promote, equality of opportunity and treatment in respect of employment and occupation with a view to eliminating any discrimination in respect thereof, and, secondly, to pursue the policy enunciated in accordance with the range of action specified in the convention. [More…]
For the purpose of the convention, discrimination’ includes any distinction, exclusion or preference made on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of oppportunity or treatment in employment or occupation. [More…]
I would like to emphasise at the outset that this statement and the ILO convention are concerned only with discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
Of course, discrimination can occur in a much wider range than simply in the employment field. [More…]
However, this convention is not concerned with these kinds of discrimination. [More…]
Any distinction, exclusion or preference in employment based on the inherent requirements of a particular job or special measures of protection or assistance provided for in other ILO conventions or recommendations are not deemed to be discrimination within the meaning of this convention No. [More…]
Measures affecting individuals justifiably suspected of, or engaged in, activities prejudicial to the security of the state are not deemed to be discrimination under the convention, provided that the individual concerned shall have the right of appeal to a competent body established in accordance with national practice. [More…]
So I want to make it clear that when we talk about discrimination in employment we are referring to discrimination of that kind where the nation discriminates for its own protection. [More…]
We say that where discrimination is practised for the purposes of safeguarding the nation’s security, that discrimination has to be justified. [More…]
In its workers education manual, Fighting Discrimination in Employment and Occupation’, the International Labour Office has pointed out that legislating against discrimination does not necessarily remove discrimination. [More…]
We need more than penal sanctions against discrimination. [More…]
What we really need is education - to educate the public to resent and to turn their backs on discrimination and to reject discrimination not because they fear penalties for discrimination but because of a deep sense of the injustice which is entailed in discrimination. [More…]
These are, course, long term tasks requiring the creation of a climate in which discrimination will wither away by reason of the fact that people in our society will have become enlightened enough to want to see an end to discrimination. [More…]
Moreover, where there is legislation to outlaw discrimination, the obtaining of convictions can present difficulties and the number of convictions can give the impression that an anti-discriminatory policy is working whereas indicators relating to the relative employment positions of various groups can show at the same time that very little real change is occurring. [More…]
Should that need arise, my Government will not hesitate to legislate to prevent discrimination. [More…]
One thing, I am sure, on which the Parliament is united to a man is the elimination of discrimination in this field. [More…]
Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland), I shall be seeking the support of the media, particularly of newspaper proprietors, in publicising the policy and the avenues open to people who consider they are victims of discrimination. [More…]
In relation to discrimination on the basis of sex, action taken in the Commonwealth and State jurisdictions has brought legislation, awards and administrative practices into closer conformity with the convention. [More…]
An examination of the Commonwealth Public Service Act and Regulations and administrative instructions is currently under way with a view to removing any remaining traces of discrimination against women in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Any instances of sex discrimination in awards will be taken up with the unions and employers concerned. [More…]
I am sorry to say that there is within this Capital Territory now a discrimination against women in the engagement of apprentices. [More…]
There, may be some cases in practice where there is discrimination on grounds of political opinion, national extraction or social origin within the terms of the convention. [More…]
There may be and there probably are some cases of discrimination in practice, but there is none in theory, or if there are any such cases in theory they will be removed as soon as we are able to identify them. [More…]
The Government has control over the CES and it will exercise that control to ensure and to guarantee that there is no discrimination at the level of the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
Committees on Discrimination in Employment [More…]
The Government will establish machinery at the national and State levels to deal with allegations of discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
The National Committee on Discrimination in Employment will be organised on a tripartite basis and comprise an independent chairman and other representatives appointed by the Government plus one representative of employers and one of the trade unions. [More…]
The pleasing thing I am able to say is that the Government is going to set the first example by cutting through all forms of discrimination that are based upon a person’s politics, religion, sex, race or nationality. [More…]
They will be appointed because this Convention gives effect to a policy of no discrimination on the grounds of politics, race, religion, nationality or sex. [More…]
The main functions of the Committee will be to consider allegations of discrimination in employment referred to it by State committees, to interpret the requirements of the national policy, to promote equality of opportunity in employment and to advise the Government on the necessary action to ensure full compliance with the policy. [More…]
So honourable members from both sides of the Parliament will be able to become involved in this laudable objective of removing completely from this part of the globe discrimination in employment. [More…]
As I have already mentioned, the National Committee will be” asked to advise the Government on forms of discrimination not covered by the ILO Convention itself - for example, discrimination on the ground of age, which is considered to require action in Australia. [More…]
The ILO convention is concerned with specific grounds of discrimination in employment, but it makes provision for extension after consultation with representative employer and worker organisations and with other appropriate bodies, into other areas where abolition of discrimination might be pursued, for example, discrimination in employment on the ground of age. [More…]
The Government therefore proposes that it will be open to the Committee machinery to receive and investigate cases alleging discrimination in employment on grounds beyond those listed in the convention. [More…]
The Government is not content just to eliminate discrimination on those grounds specifically referred to in the convention. [More…]
We are determined to go beyond the requirements of the convention, to move into areas of discrimination not mentioned by the convention at all - al] areas of discrimination no matter upon what ground the discrimination is based. [More…]
The National Committee will then be in a position to advise the Government on other forms of discrimination in employment and occupation considered to require action in Australia. [More…]
One important result of the operation of the National Committee will be that for the very first time it will be possible to make an informed estimate about the extent to which discrimination in employment and occupation exists in Australia. [More…]
Whether this objective is achieved will depend on whether people bring examples of discrimination in employment and occupation to the Committee’s attention. [More…]
The main function of the State committees will be to consider allegations of breaches of the national policy relating to discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
These women are those who are not at present eligible for a widow’s pension under the Social Services Act and who, with their children, have been subject to discrimination in the level of assistance available to them in the past. [More…]
I repeat that we aim to end these anomalies, but the important thing about this Bill is that it is a clear demonstration of this Government’s determination to bring an end as quickly as it can to the discrimination that existed against women and, in this case, certain classes of women such as unmarried mothers, deserted wives or wives who have been separated for other reasons. [More…]
This form of discrimination, which has been practised in the past, involves undesirable moral overtones. [More…]
This Bill will remove such discrimination. [More…]
As I previously mentioned, it will place all supporting mothers with children in the same position as widows with children and will remove the unjustifiable discrimination which has hitherto existed. [More…]
I was much impressed earlier today to hear the very sincere words from the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) when he was talking about the International Labour Organisation convention and the need to abolish all kinds of discrimination. [More…]
I wanted to say how impressed I was particularly with the point he made that the Government intended to do something about discrimination against age. [More…]
We have the Government putting through the House last week a Bill which contained a most blatant kind of discrimination on the grounds of age. [More…]
I pointed out that it was only last week - I think that I am in order in referring to what happened last week - that the Government passed through the House a Bill which contained the most blatant discrimination against age. [More…]
Yet, we have this unhappy, well meaning and sincere Minister coming into the House and making a statement that the Government, amongst other things, intends to abolish all sorts of discrimination against age in relation to employment. [More…]
The point I wish to make is that by looking to legislation to cover special areas of need there is the extreme danger that in endeavouring to remove discrimination, as it is put, against particular groups with special needs we will in fact create a massive discrimination against those who form the normal groupings within the community. [More…]
This discrimination between the different family groupings within the community is likely to cause severe difficulty for the future generations of the community. [More…]
I see no reason for the blatant discrimination between Australian companies and Lloyds. [More…]
The International Labour Organisation Convention is concerned that the existence of maternity benefits should not result in discrimination against women in employment. [More…]
On 20 March, on the occasion of the inter- national day for the elimination of racial discrimination, I reaffirmed our intention to ratify the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination as soon as the necessary legislative and other measures could be completed. [More…]
As the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) stated in the House on Tuesday, we are ratifying a number of other International Labour Organisation conventions as soon as possible, in particular those dealing with equal remuneration - drawn up in 1951 - and with discrimination in the fields of employment and occupation - drawn up in 1958. [More…]
This is unfair discrimination against an aged couple. [More…]
This provision is designed to ensure that a maternity protection scheme should not make the employment of females more expensive for the employer than the employment of males, so giving cause for discrimination against female labour. [More…]
The Opposition does not regard the question of maternity leave solely as an industrial benefit, because to consider the proposition in that way is to introduce an element of positive discrimination in favour of working women who raise a family. [More…]
Yet women’s child bearing functions undoubtedly have served as the basis of restrictions and discrimination. [More…]
This Bill represents a significant step towards the removal of a very grave aspect of discrimination against women in employment. [More…]
The ILO Convention is designed to overcome discrimination against married women in employment who have families, and this legislation certainly does that. [More…]
It removes from the Commonwealth Public Service a selective and camouflaged discrimination which has no place in the Australian way of life. [More…]
This Bill is a milestone in my view in the drive against discrimination. [More…]
It must be gratifying to all those who for so many years have fought and struggled against discrimination against female employees to know that on this occasion this legislation will pass through this Parliament without opposition and that it will have support, in varying degrees of vigour, from all members on both sides of this Parliament. [More…]
I would recommend to the Minister that he study the anomaly I have just mentioned and make adjustments because in my opinion there has certainly been a discrimination against the serviceman’s widow. [More…]
Clause 25 could be interpreted as imposing discrimination between these groups of members. [More…]
As I understand the reverend brother’s comments, he appears to regard the report as discriminating concerning Catholics and he has announced that action will be taken in the High Court of Australia to prevent this discrimination. [More…]
As for discrimination concerning Catholics, the late Government’s policy, taken at the secondary level which applies to Nudgee College, allowing for $104 per capita a year, to rise by 10 per cent to $114 and then to rise by another 10 per cent to $125 - the rises for the primary level would be similar - in 2 years Catholic schools would have received over $80m. [More…]
One of the main reasons for this amendment was to prevent this kind of discrimination. [More…]
Another reason for it was to prevent a different kind of discrimination, that is, the charging of different prices to different producers for the use of a pipeline which should be available to all. [More…]
I do not know where the discrimination will be because the producers who supported the Liberal Party under a Liberal government will have access to the pipeline - anyone else will be left behind. [More…]
What funds have been made available, since 2 December 1972, to religious or other agencies, such as the United Nations, for the specific purpose of combatting racial discrimination in foreign countries. [More…]
Are these the only countries in the region where racial discrimination occurs; if not, which other countries in the region practise racial discrimination, and does the Government intend making funds available for use in these countries. [More…]
Which countries in the region do not practise racial discrimination. [More…]
Is there any discrimination on ethnic or racial grounds when determining entry policy. [More…]
103- Maternity Protection (Revised), 1952, is concerned with ensuring that the existence of maternity benefits should not result in discrimination against women in employment. [More…]
I believe that there would have been too great a discrimination in favour of one area if the Aboriginal study grant scheme had been extended to cover the full area of secondary education and special provision for isolated children had not been made at the same time. [More…]
In other words it seeks to achieve not complete equality but reduction by half of the current disproportionate discrimination. [More…]
It is grossly unfair discrimination to give some electors more say than others, and the insidious part of it is that because people in similar income groups tend to live in the same sort of area, unequal representation leads inevitably to discrimination based on income. [More…]
It is in this area that we have seen a sense of discrimination. [More…]
Perhaps the supreme piece of hypocrisy in the speech by the Leader of the Opposition was the reference to discrimination against the rural community and his charge that this Government discourages decentralisation. [More…]
But I do wish to talk tonight on the basic philosophy - where it is discernible - of the Government on the one hand and on the other hand to talk about that section of the Opposition’s amendment which refers to discrimination against the rural community. [More…]
Just a few days ago a group of young Australian women at the Barham High School, which is right on the Murray River - there were about a dozen of them - wrote to me to protest against discrimination. [More…]
The discrimination that they protested about was that a few yards away is an area which has tertiary institutions that they would like to attend. [More…]
Members of the Opposition accepted the great principle of wiping discrimination but allowed the whole thing to be held up because of a gaggle of words involving a term which is hurtful and which has no legal significance, but which indeed would lend hurt to 1 million people in our country who have not yet applied for citizenship. [More…]
We had a Bill in this House not so long ago, which went to the Senate, designed to wipe out discrimination in citizenship. [More…]
The callous discrimination shown against country people who, if they wish to retain their district newspaper, will be forced to pay exorbitant rates. [More…]
As recently as this morning the Minister for Education in the New South Wales Government, representing the Minister for Labour and Industry in the New South Wales Government, was heard to complain that my action in freezing petrol prices was some kind of discrimination and that if something was not done about it he would have to take appropriate action. [More…]
One bullet has already been fired by the gross discrimination against a group of schools, many of which it has been possible to clearly demonstrate are in great need. [More…]
Despite the election undertaking of Mr Beazley that all children whether at state or private schools would be equally the concern of the Labor Government, Labor, without a whimper from the Minister for Education, has blindly followed the Karmel recommendation of discrimination against the independent schools in certain classifications. [More…]
I ask: Are such actions contrary to the policy of the Australian Government to banish discrimination? [More…]
When a case was brought to my attention and it was proved that the person had been refused the opportunity to sit for the entrance examination because he was not a native born Australian I immediately issued instructions that he was to be permitted to sit for the examination and that this discrimination in future should be removed. [More…]
It is a budget of discrimination. [More…]
What sort of discrimination is it against country people? [More…]
It ranges from taxation of old age pensioners to sociological and economic discrimination against Australians in country areas to promotion of greater inflation and reduction in our defence effort. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s stated policy I was anxious that the principle of equal pay be implemented so that female employees of the Australian National Airlines Commission were no longer subjected to wage discrimination based on sex. [More…]
I believe that the wage rates now being paid by the Commission to its clerical employees meet the concept of equal pay in that they remove the element of discrimination in wage rates which formerly existed. [More…]
This is a beautiful example of racial discrimination, one which we are hoping to bring to an end. [More…]
The purpose of the Australian Citizenship Bill is to wipe out racial and other discriminations in the granting of Australian citizenship. [More…]
The Senate is aware that this Bill wipes out discrimination. [More…]
There appears to be particular emphasis on discrimination against the rural sector of our community, regardless of what a previous speaker said in favour of the metropolitan areas. [More…]
But I ask the Government: Why in its assesment of educational deficiency has it turned a full circle and imposed a system of discrimination? [More…]
The 5c excise on petrol will affect all Australian citizens but an extra 2c per gallon represents discrimination against those people who are living further from metropolitan areas. [More…]
Whatever its environmental implications, does not the Minister agree that the altering of section 75 and section 76 of the Income Tax Assessment Act is a form of discrimination against Pitt Street farmers? [More…]
It is discrimination against them and a positive discrimination in favour of the preservation of some of our natural areas. [More…]
The inquiry should give serious consideration to the complete elimination of discrimination against persons who are cruelly and callously classified as illegitimate. [More…]
But at the same time I believe that there is a certain amount of discrimination in some of the issues. [More…]
That discrimination should be brought out at this time. [More…]
I commence by having a look at the various rates, because I believe there is a form of discrimination here. [More…]
If it ever does try to do so, the application of Government pressure or granting of privilege by tariff discrimination, as is proposed by the Government, would be improper, as we all know. [More…]
But when we talk about discrimination, I think it is just as well to examine just what we mean when we talk about country people. [More…]
All we heard about was discrimination. [More…]
But we saw evidence of discrimination in the House last week when the Australian Citizenship Bill was before the House. [More…]
It denies the sense of discrimination which the Minister seeks to introduce. [More…]
The Minister expressed in his speech his concern that some discrimination was used as to the complete use of the centres. [More…]
This is outrageous discrimination against country areas. [More…]
Measures which assist particular industries constitute forms of economic discrimination which, at least in the short term, can be to considerable advantage to the industries assisted and to the disadvantage to those who pay for the assistance, namely, other industries, consumers, or taxpayers. [More…]
I have already mentioned the discrimination which appears in this Bill against senators coming from the Territories. [More…]
What is the reason for that discrimination? [More…]
The magnitude of the problem that confronts us, and that confronts us ever more urgently, can be seen nowhere more clearly than in the discrimination even Australian girls presently suffer. [More…]
Labor Party practises a form of discrimination against country people by giving preference to metropolitan areas and to the cities. [More…]
From the discussions that I have had with the Minister and from early reports, I have been informed that rather than rural areas receiving less per capita through the Australian Assistance Plan, any discrimination will probably be in thenfavour. [More…]
The Government has foreshadowed an Act of Parliament to outlaw racial discrimination. [More…]
However, I am sure that the Minister would agree that laws alone cannot hope to eliminate racial discrimination although they can serve to prevent its most disturbing manifestations. [More…]
Racism and racial discrimination are the products of ignorance and misconception. [More…]
It seems to me that we should embark on a program of positive discrimination in favour of Aborigines in this generation in order that they may have equality in the next generation. [More…]
I believe that such a program can be sold to the Australian people, that it is a reasonable and fair program for us to be putting forward, and that we members of this Parliament, irrespective of our political differences, should unite to convince the Australian people as a whole that it is necessary to spend money at this time, and even more in the future, to bring about positive discrimination in this generation in order that there may be equality of opportunity in the next. [More…]
The ‘Deputy Leader of the Opposition mentioned the police and race discrimination. [More…]
In the field of human rights, or civil liberties if honourable members wish to call it that, the International Labour Organisation conventions on human rights, race and discrimination have been ratified. [More…]
If one looks at the columns of the newspapers one will see reports claiming discrimination against Aborigines because they are not being allowed to drink as freely as does everybody else. [More…]
Yet when one examines the cases one finds usually - not always, but usually - that this claim of discrimination has been raised against the publican because he has refused to serve Aborigines who have had perhaps a little too much to drink. [More…]
If the Government is prepared to provide education in government schools for the children of wealthy parents without any discrimination as far as wealth is concerned then why should there be discrimination in relation to independent schools to which the Government pays only part of the costs? [More…]
If so, it is a blatant discrimination against the parents of those children who go to independent schools. [More…]
Two areas are causing discrimination and are departures from established practice and desirable aims. [More…]
We maintain that this arbitrary decision of this Government is discrimination of the highest order. [More…]
The report makes the bland statement that there has been a purposeful and premeditated policy of racial discrimination. [More…]
National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupations. [More…]
But sexuality and identity are so profoundly connected, and so profoundly important, that homosexuals in a dominant heterosexual society live under unique and potentially crippling psychological pressure, In Australia, they a,ISo have to cope with legal, social, and institutional discrimination. [More…]
Rather, this motion supports the decriminalising of homosexuality - the removal of sexually selective legal discrimination. [More…]
Social pressures, police harassment, housing difficulties, and job discrimination exacerbate the intense pressures constantly felt by homosexuals in Australia. [More…]
The spirit of this report is the objective to overcome that form of discrimination and to develop and evolve properly based policies. [More…]
Commonwealth and State Public Service Boards and private industry carefully re-examine their policies regarding the employment of handicapped persons, remove any discrimination against their employment and place more handicapped people in appropriate positions.’ [More…]
It caused discrimination between the primary and secondary areas of Australia. [More…]
There will be now no discrimination from one industry to another, there will be complete reports on industries and the Government can choose either to accept the recommendations from the Commission or to reject them. [More…]
It is to see that adequate assistance goes to all industries in Australia and that there is not discrimination between the primary and secondary area or indeed between the small secondary manufacturing area and the large secondary interests with which the Australian Country Party has identified itself in the past. [More…]
as one of the growing medium sized powers Australia can declare its loyalty and march in the front rows of the nations opposed to racial discrimination and international violence. [More…]
I have yet to hear a pronouncement from the United Nations about discrimination by, say, black countries. [More…]
There has been no complaint about Africanisation policies in Africa, presumably because that is black discrimination against white. [More…]
I believe that those governments are attacked not because they happen to be white supremist governments, as has been stated, but on the ground of discrimination in the cause of promoting international communism. [More…]
How can anyone from Communist China support resolutions attacking any nation on the ground of discrimination, when one remembers what she did to the Tibetans? [More…]
Discrimination occurs on an ethnic basis there between the Hamitics and the Moslems. [More…]
Who can possibly give credence to any resolutions promoted by Iraq on discrimination? [More…]
There is no racial discrimination in the Ivory Coast. [More…]
I am saying that it is immoral but to me it is not as bad as discrimination on the basis of the colour of one’s skin. [More…]
This shows the Government’s total discrimination against a section of the community. [More…]
I would like to give some examples of the ineffectiveness of this Committee, which was set up to deal with the new independence of former colonial countries and which is supposed to deplore any form of discrimination. [More…]
I would like to go through some other examples of Australian and United Nations non-concern about discrimination. [More…]
This is a discrimination against people living outside the metropolitan areas and I believe it is completely wrong and should be tidied up as quickly as possible. [More…]
There will be a positive discrimination in their favour. [More…]
The ILO Convention No.111 on Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) has been ratified and we have established National and State Committees to eliminate improper discrimination and promote real equality of opportunity in employment and occupation. [More…]
Price discrimination is dealt with in clause 49. [More…]
It is very important to look at price discrimination and see what the prescription would mean. [More…]
I come to clause 49, which deals with price discrimination. [More…]
It imposes wide prohibitions on price discrimination. [More…]
Robinson-Patman provisions concerning price discrimination. [More…]
Indeed, the general thrust of the prices discrimination provisions runs counter to these anti-inflation, keeppricesdown concepts. [More…]
Indeed, if one has a look at the prices discrimination provisions one sees that they will require the supplying of goods on the same terms and conditions to all outlets, with some exceptions. [More…]
I believe that it is necessary that we have legislation which covers the significant areas affected by this Bill, namely, monopolisation, exclusive dealing, resale price maintenance, price discrimination, mergers and the field of consumer protection. [More…]
But I believe that because of the character of changes involved in this legislation, the failure to provide exemptions in significant areas such as monopolisation, in particular, but in prices discrimination too, and the degree to which there is inadequate time provided for us or for members of the business community to scrutinise the legislation, it denies the very competition and stimulus for competition which ostensibly is the purpose for its introduction. [More…]
Price discrimination is banned. [More…]
Of this I am sure: There are some schemes of price discrimination, including confidential discounts, that are advantageous to consumers due, amongst other things, to reduction in price because of the size of the contract and the cost to manufacturers due to economies of scale and, in many cases, the reliability of purchasers. [More…]
Price discrimination to retailers and manufacturers of this kind could well be anti-inflationary. [More…]
I have also mentioned the reasons why the clause relating to pricing agreements needs much more careful study and how some types of price discrimination are of advantage to the consumer. [More…]
Quite clearly if the same supplier charges different prices, given the same circumstances in regard to suppliers, there will be discrimination against those purchasers who purchase the article at a higher level than somebody else in the spectrum of the purchasing group. [More…]
There are of course the other provisions relating to monopolisation in clause 46 and those relating to price discrimination in clause 49. [More…]
By contrast, this present legislation will prohibit the following practices: contracts, combinations in conspiracies in restraint of trade, monopolisation, exclusive dealing, resale price maintenance, price discrimination and anti-competitive mergers. [More…]
So much for discrimination. [More…]
enter into any transaction that to his knowledge would result in his receiving the benefit of a discrimination that is prohibited by that subsection. [More…]
enter into any transaction that to his knowledge would result in his receiving the benefit of such a discrimination, if the discrimination is of a kind that is prohibited by this section. [More…]
Perhaps this is an opportune time to say that in considering these clauses which deal with price discrimination, mergers and certain other practices which are dealt with in the Trade Practices Bill - it of course really could be called the Anti Restrictive Trade Practices Bill - the Government recognises, and I certainly recognise, that the vast majority of businesses in Australia are conducted by extremely well meaning, responsible, civic minded men and women who are wholly devoted to their duties and to the weight of the task which they shoulder in trying to administer their businesses so that they can fit in with changing circumstances in Australia. [More…]
I turn now to clause 49, which imposes wide prohibitions on price discrimination. [More…]
Unlike other practices prohibited by the Bill, there is no provision for authorisations or clearances for price discrimination. [More…]
To establish price discrimination under clause 49 it will be necessary to show 2 sales by the same seller to 2 different purchasers of goods or services of like grade and quality. [More…]
As does its United States counterpart, clause 49 prohibits direct or indirect discrimination not simply with respect to price but also in relation to the provision of services or facilities in respect of those goods, and the making of payments for services or facilities provided in respect of the goods. [More…]
This includes discrimination relating to the manner and dates of delivery, after-sales service, co-operative advertising, promotional allowances and year-end rebates. [More…]
Before price discrimination is prohibited it must be shown that it will or may either substantially lessen competition or tend to result in a person being in a position substantially to control a market for goods and services. [More…]
Enacted in 1936 to tighten and supplement the price-discrimination prohibition in Section 2 of the Clayton Act, the RobinsonPatman Act was intended to curb price discrimination that unduly favours national over local sellers and to protect independent merchants from unfair competition from large buyers obtaining the benefits of price discrimination. [More…]
The price- discrimination prohibition has discouraged types of price differentials which might have improved competition by lessening the rigidity of oligopoly pricing or by encouraging new entry. [More…]
Simply price discrimination that occurs in a number of instances in trading in Australia and throughout the world. [More…]
I rise at this moment to discuss clause 49 of the Bill, relating to pricing arrangements or what is more familiarly called price discrimination. [More…]
I made it clear when I spoke in this place yesterday that I did not like the provisions of sub-clause (4) which relates to restrictive practices - that is, contracts, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade, monopolisation, exclusive dealing, resale price maintenance, price discrimination, mergers and matters of a similar kind. [More…]
Sub-section (1) does not apply in relation to a discrimination in relation to prices if - [More…]
the discrimination makes only reasonable allowance for differences in the cost of manufacture, sale or delivery resulting from the differing methods by which or quantities in which the goods are sold or delivered to the purchasers; [More…]
Proposed sub-section (3) provides that the onus of proof in showing that sub-section (1) does not apply in relation to discrimination by reason of sub-section (2) is on the party asserting that sub-section (1) does not apply. [More…]
It says: the discrimination makes only reasonable allowance for differences in the cost of manufacture, sale or delivery resulting from the differing methods by which or quantities in which the goods are sold or delivered to the purchasers; [More…]
It is a fact of businesslife within Australia that price discrimination does exist on a very wide scale and as one of the previous speakers said, one has only to look at the food industry to see the massive diminution in retailing that has taken place and the tremendous growth in sales per head over the last 20 years in this country. [More…]
If on the other hand manufacturers, importers, distributors or wholesalers are able to have a particular vague area of discrimination this legislation will have been of no avail at all. [More…]
We should not accept regional discrimination for or against particular regions within States any more than the Constitution allows us to accept discrimination as between States. [More…]
There is no discrimination against Queensland. [More…]
Because I was absent overseas at the time I did not have an opportunity in any of the debates on the various Bills implementing the Government’s Budget decisions to make my protest at what I regard as a most vicious kind of discrimination in which the Government has indulged against the people who live in country areas. [More…]
I raise a matter of discrimination against women on the basis that they are women. [More…]
The circumstances of this discrimination go back many years and could be laid at the feet of previous Liberal governments as much as at the feet of the present Government. [More…]
I regret that so far the Government has not been able to do anything about it, particularly as it has taken some steps forward in other matters of discrimination against women. [More…]
To allow for discrimination against citizens on the basis of their wealth, colour, creed or race would outrage the ethical standards of our community. [More…]
The only reason for a continuation of the present discrimination in respect of electoral representation is the cynical wish to obtain -and retain improper minority control of certain electorates. [More…]
There is no room for electoral discrimination in this country. [More…]
It would be an indictment of our democratic system of government to allow this discrimination to continue on the basis of geography. [More…]
It is high time this anomalous discrimination perpetuated under Liberal-Country Party governments ended. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that racial ill-will is becoming increasingly evident in our society and that this has been caused by financial discrimination in favour of our Aboriginal people? [More…]
I wish to mention this aspect of the Bill tonight because I maintain that it is the worst example of sectional discrimination ever visited on any one industry in the history of Australia. [More…]
It is the worst example of sectional discrimination ever visited on any single industry by any Treasurer as far as I can tell in the history of the federation of the Australian States. [More…]
I do not believe that I would be booed today because this legislation, if I might say so again, on 6 points is the worst bit of discrimination in my memory that has ever been brought to bear on the wine industry. [More…]
Let me make it clear that I have recently received messages from representatives of the industry that they realise that there was a discrimination in their favour in the old section 3U, that they recognise that this discrimination could not continue and that they realise that in no way is .mis removal of the discrimination and the payment of the deferred tax over 5 years to be construed as a substitution for the repealed wine tax. [More…]
In fact some believe that the removal of this discrimination will make wine making companies less attractive for takeover. [More…]
This amendment is one of the steps taken by the Government since coming to office in its endeavour to eliminate possibilities of discrimination and promote opportunity for those women wishing to contribute to the economic prosperity of Australia as members of the work force. [More…]
It is an act of discrimination and prejudice. [More…]
I turn to the words of an old friend who told me that the common denominator of religious faiths was the belief in the brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind and that those professing religious affiliations cannot show a better attitude to others than by application of brotherly love in positive discrimination on a needs basis to children who must overcome financial, social and even family background problems, among their own, other religions and non-believers. [More…]
Both Mr Dunstan and Mr Hudson, on the one side, and the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the honourable member for Richmond (Mr Anthony), on the other side, as well as many other people, would agree that discrimination between children has got less and less and that the gap has been closed to a greater and greater extent. [More…]
May I say also that the Commonwealth accepts the principle of a positive program of discrimination in favour of the Aboriginal people in this generation in order that there might be equal opportunity in the next. [More…]
We challenge the Government, in this debate, to demonstrate its overall program to deal with inflation; how powers over prices and incomes would be incorporated into that program; that prices and incomes powers would have only a temporary role within that program; that discrimination against particular groups in the community and action against individual freedom of choice are not its intention; and to state that it will take a responsible lead by reducing the extravagant growth in public sector spending. [More…]
But, as the previous Minister responsible for the operation of the tariff system, I must say that I am critical of the crude way in which this across the board reduction was made, without any discrimination being applied. [More…]
I believe that the nondiscrimination will act unfairly and unjustly on certain industries. [More…]
Also, the decision had all the indications that it had been made hastily and crudely, because there was no consideration or discrimination in respect of special preference tariffs that are provided under the New Zealand-Australia Free Trade Agreement and less developed countries which are allowed to bring in certain commodities at a much reduced or concessional rates. [More…]
The predatory virus can strike without discrimination. [More…]
The killer diseases of cancer and of the heart can cripple without warning or discrimination. [More…]
Because I am concerned about allegations, which appear to have some foundation, of police discrimination against Aboriginals in Redfern, I discussed these reports with Mr Maddison, the New South Wales Minister for Justice, on 9 November. [More…]
If so, did the Minister discuss such matters as the discrimination by the Arab Muslims in the North towards the negroid Christians in the South. [More…]
Is the Government going to have discrimination with Aborigines owning title to minerals, v/hen no one else owns such a title? [More…]
One of the principal amendments to the Public Service is to remove from the Act any discriminatory terms applying as between males and females so that any inferred discrimination against females by specific reference to them is to be deleted from the Act. [More…]
It supports the removal from legislation of this kind of any language which might infer that there is discrimination, or which not only might infer discrimnation but also would allow in the administration of the Act discrimination to come about in practice. [More…]
Having said that, it is as well to remember that although legislation might not, in its terms, authorise any discrimination, the way in which a service such as the Public Service is administered could well lead in practice to discrimination. [More…]
Some groups in Australia would like to see not only any language removed which in its terms is discriminatory, but also provisions inserted into an Act of this kind positively preventing discrimination. [More…]
As long as the Minister in charge of the Bill is prepared to acknowledge to the House that the Government will keep a close watch on all the administrative practices within the Public Service to remove any element of discrimination, it is not necessary - certainly at the moment - to go so far as to put in this positive prohibition against discrimination. [More…]
It is in line with its own policy and it hopes that, this having now been achieved in a legislative fashion, it will run right through the Public Service and any element of discrimination will be eliminated. [More…]
Without moving too far from the subject of discrimination between males and females, it is as well to remind the House that, within the Public Service, discrimination can apply in other directions. [More…]
We do not find any legislative prescription dealing with discrimination against handicapped persons, but people who are so unfortunate as to suffer from conditions such as epilepsy find themselves in a difficult position, not only in private industry but also within the Public Service. [More…]
I have written to the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) about this, and I hope the matter can be taken further within the Public Service so that in practice discrimination, whether against women or handicapped persons of any kind, can be eliminated altogether. [More…]
The honourable member commended the Government on the removal of the discrimination between male and female employees. [More…]
It removes discrimination against women, as has been indicated. [More…]
What is his attitude to Captain Gregson’s observations regarding the discrimination that female members of the Services suffer in regard to pay and limited posting and promotion opportunities. [More…]
What steps has he taken to ensure that discrimination on a sexual basis is eliminated from the Armed Forces. [More…]
It will work to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination, apartheid and colonialism. [More…]
The rights of the individual citizen will be the subject of a group of proposed laws on human rights and the prevention of racial discrimination. [More…]
This was that there be no discrimination between States in any designation by the Commonwealth. [More…]
It is also proposed to remove from the Constitution explicit provisions for discrimination on the grounds of race. [More…]
This was that there be no discrimination between States in any designation by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Efforts have been made to eliminate discrimination, particularly in the field of employ- ment, in the Government’s own service and in employment generally, whether discrimination be based on race, colour, sex or any other matter. [More…]
It is a case of: Yes, we have no discrimination; yes, we are not prepared to open the doors; yes, we will increase our intake; yes, we will decrease our intake. [More…]
The tragedy is not only that the Australian Labor Party members of Parliament who are supposed to represent, protect and advance the interests of their electorates have, through neglect or inability, failed; the tragedy is that the policies of this divisive Labor Government introduce a very alarming note of economic and social discrimination into the administration of the nation. [More…]
That would seem to be a discrimination against the use of these facilities. [More…]
If the report is correct, I also think that it is a discrimination against rural areas because in many senses technical colleges are not widely spread throughout rural communities as they are, for example, in Melbourne. [More…]
But it has been put to me - 1 ask the Minister whether it is true - that there could be some discrimination against courses conducted by the technical secondary schools in Victoria out of school hours, very often at night, and for which in the past fees have been charged. [More…]
If this is so, in areas which have no technical colleges and areas which have no technical training facilities and secondary school facilities are used for this purpose, out of normal school hours, there might be a discrimination against people attending a technical course at a secondary school. [More…]
It would certainly not be the Minister’s intention to have any element of discrimination in this area. [More…]
The tragedy of the Labor Government’s high interest policy is that specifically it is a policy of discrimination against the small man and the average man. [More…]
If the Government is limiting migrant intake, how does the Government justify the claim that there is no discrimination? [More…]
He claims that there is no discrimination, but I have had somebody approaching me about an assisted passage. [More…]
There is therefore discrimination against assisted passages from Canada. [More…]
Is there discrimination in the spending on advertising? [More…]
What is the distribution of assisted passages between countries, or is there discrimination in these particular matters? [More…]
As far as the past is concerned - it seemed to me that the new initiatives were being questioned - I should like to draw attention to the fact that the initiatives we have taken and the reforms we have made have been designed above all to abolish discrimination. [More…]
idea, or wishing to suspend the easy visa system or wishing in fact to bring back discrimination, is out of touch with the majority of the Australian people and certainly does not represent the bulk of his colleagues because I have representations almost daily on behalf of the constituents of his colleagues, urging tolerance and urging that in fact as much as possible there should be if not an open door a friendly door, a good neighbour policy. [More…]
We abolished all the discriminations in citizenship but we had some extraordinarily interesting cases on file. [More…]
This was discrimination of the worst kind. [More…]
Ti was that kind of policy and that kind of discrimination that we set out to abolish, and we have done it. [More…]
But on behalf of the Government I must say that we have abolished discriminations, but above all we have set out to preserve the aspirations as well as the rights of migrants. [More…]
The Government is trying to organise Australian public opinion towards a more enlightened attitude to racial discrimination. [More…]
They are deliberately setting out to whip up and capitalise upon this latent element within the community - which they believe is still there and which they hope is still there, because if it is not their exercise today will have been wasted - so that they can score some petty political point from the Government in regard to the very humane, sen sible and rational attitude it has taken towards the question of racial discrimination. [More…]
We propose now to send this mission to all of the countries in the South East Asian region and to South America and the Pacific region and have it lay down the criteria which will need to be followed by the resident tradesmen technical advisers in those countries in order that there will be no semblance of discrimination between people wishing to come to Australia from those countries and those who come from other countries. [More…]
It is unfortunate that this afternoon the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) must raise the question of racial discrimination in such an important discussion as this. [More…]
The Minister said earlier that he was abolishing discrimination. [More…]
Without seeking to embarrass the honourable member for Kooyong, I must say 1 am sure that his genuine ideas on non-discrimination would be much closer to the Australian Labor Party’s policy than would the attitude and policies of the present Liberal Party spokesman on immigration, the honourable member for Wannon. [More…]
They are simply an extension of the policy that we have stipulated clearly in our platform, namely, the avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]
It is only since this Government came into office that in the eyes of the world, more particularly in the eyes of the Asiatic nations, Australia has been genuinely regarded as a country which will accept people without discrimination and as equals. [More…]
It is terribly important for the future of this nation that Australia should be seen to accept these people as equals and not to persist with the sayings of the previous Government in falsely claiming that it had no policy of discrimination against these people. [More…]
But there was no discrimination whatsoever. [More…]
There has been no discrimination one way or the other against rural industry or any other industry. [More…]
There is no discrimination against rural industries. [More…]
Can the Minister also say (a) whether there is any evidence of ethnic, racial or religious discrimination between those of Hamitic origin in the south and those of Moslem origin in Eritrea and (b) whether hostilities have resulted in the death of over 100,000 persons over the last 4 years. [More…]
He stands for racial discrimination. [More…]
He stands for racial discrimination. [More…]
Of course what upsets the Liberals today is that the Government has wiped out this policy of discrimination. [More…]
If his reported statements are true he wants an immediate restoration of racist discrimination such as existed for the past 23 years. [More…]
I further call upon the Opposition in this Parliament and particularly the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), who at one time was the minister of State for Immigration, to tell us in this Parliament what their reaction is to the advice that has been given to this Government, to the national Parliament and to the nation by the Queensland Minister for Justice, Mr Knox - that we should return to the past, that we should discriminate, that we should repeal all the things that have been done to abolish discrimination and put it all back again. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has a responsibility to say where he stands, and I have given him a very courteous invitation to express himself because a senior member of the Liberal Party has called for a return to discrimination, a return to racism and a return to past policies. [More…]
The report suggests the ending of a powerful and probably unconscious discrimination against the handicapped in technical and further education. [More…]
Is racial, religious or ethnic discrimination practised in Tanzania; if so, what are the details. [More…]
The Tanzanian Government has not practised religious and racial discrimination. [More…]
This has been largely a reaction to Tanzania’s egalitarian policies applied without discrimination to African and non-African alike. [More…]
Legislation will be re-introduced to permit Australia to ratify the 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which came into force in January 1969. [More…]
Legislation will also be introduced to supersede certain provisions of the Queensland Aborigines Act and Torres Strait Islanders Act which are contrary to the principles embodied in the Racial Discrimination Convention and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
One expects him to be a man of that character because in 1967 he was elected by the people of Corio, an area renowned for sound judgment, discernment and discrimination. [More…]
In brief, the Bill prohibits the following practices: Contracts, arrangements and understandings in restraint of trade or commerce: monopolisation; exclusive dealing; resale price maintenance; price discrimination; anticompetitive mergers. [More…]
The practice of price discrimination is defined in clause 49, which has been redrafted since the earlier Bill was before this House. [More…]
In particular, the clause is now expressly limited to discrimination that is of magnitude or of a recurring or systematic character. [More…]
The prohibition of the practice applies where such discrimination is likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market for goods, and the clause makes it clear that that market must be one in which the parties to the discriminatory dealing supply goods. [More…]
The Government hopes it will have a significant jurisdiction in defining civil liberties under the Human Rights and Racial Discrimination Bills which the Parliament will also be considering. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Discrimination and Equal Opportunity’ we say: [More…]
There should be no discrimination of employment on the grounds of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin. [More…]
The Opposition is opposed to discrimination in employment wherever it occurs and in all its forms. [More…]
Where there are unnecessary trade union bans, these involve discrimination. [More…]
The Parties seek full equality of opportunity for all and complete freedom from discrimination. [More…]
Discrimination in occupation on the basis of sex is inconsistent with human dignity and incompatible with present day aspirations and ideals. [More…]
The Liberal Party and the Country Party recognise that the foundation of all discrimination is discrimination of attitude and of mind. [More…]
We will use example, encouragement, administration and, where appropriate, specific legislation to overcome such discrimination. [More…]
Removing any remaining legal discrimination in employment and ensuring that selection and promotion is on the basis of merit. [More…]
It is discrimination, as the honourable member for Wimmera says. [More…]
I look forward to the time when we have legislation prohibiting all forms of sexual discrimination as well as racial discrimination. [More…]
I have spent a short time discussing the discrimination against one very large section of the Australian society. [More…]
I want now to turn to another form of discrimination which has existed for many years in Australia. [More…]
It is a gross injustice that their lifetimes of dedication and effort should now be negated by the incredible discrimination directed towards them by the Labor Government. [More…]
He warned that any Australian Ministers of State, public servants or Government workers would be sacked immediately if they sought to promote discrimination on the grounds of race, colour or creed. [More…]
All I say is that I do not want to see discrimination in this country. [More…]
It is all very well to say that we will have no discrimination; we will open the doors to all and sundry. [More…]
But then, of course, sooner or later there will be discrimination. [More…]
There has to be discrimination. [More…]
If it is the Opposition’s policy to allow pensioners to wait more than 12 months for an increase in pensions, that is its business, but we certainly will not tolerate that sort of discrimination. [More…]
Can he say that the other Parts of the Bill, particularly Part IV, which deals with resale price maintenance and price discrimination, are not in the interests of the consumer? [More…]
Yet there is a basic contradiction in this clause because it is dealing with price discrimination. [More…]
The opinion that that provision conflicts with the encouragement of competition has been expressed by a number of learned people - by the report of the Attorney-General’s National Committee which studied the anti-trust laws in the United States of America in 1955, by the Neal report more recently in 1969 and by C. D. Edwards, a noted authority on price discrimination laws. [More…]
Why those provisions were never made applicable to the monopolisation provision and the price discrimination provision in clauses 46 and 49 I cannot understand. [More…]
Clause 49 of this Bill deals with the prohibition of price discrimination as between purchasers of goods of like grade and quality. [More…]
It is true that the sharp decline in the number of food retailers could not be attributed solely to the restrictive trade practices of suppliers but trade abuses such as boycotting, price discrimination, hidden discounts, hidden co-operative advertising allowances, resale price maintenance and exclusive dealing operated to the severe detriment of independent retailers. [More…]
Clause 49 of the Bill expressly prohibits discrimination in relation to: [More…]
There are economies of scale to be derived from differing means of delivery of goods, differing destinations and large drops as compared with small drops but these ought not to be used as a screen for price discrimination as between purchasers of like goods. [More…]
A corporation is prohibited from practising price discrimination and a would-be purchaser is prohibited from attempting to obtain discriminatory prices. [More…]
the provision of services or facilities in respect of the goods; or “ (h) such other acts, things or provisions as may ties provided in respect of the goods, if the discrimination is of such magnitude or is of such a recurring or systematic character that it is likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market for goods, being a market in which the corporation supplies, or those persons supply, goods. [More…]
Sub-section (1) does not apply in relation to a discrimination if - [More…]
the discrimination makes only reasonable allowance for differences in the cost or likely cost of manufacture, distribution, sale or delivery resulting from the differing places to which, methods by which or quantities in which the goods are supplied to the purchasers; or [More…]
the discrimination is constituted by the doing of an act in good faith to meet a price or benefit offered by a competitor of the supplier. [More…]
It takes the view that the behaviour of price discrimination is generally, in those circumstances, so much against the public interest that to delete the words ‘directly or indirectly’ and to substitute for them ‘knowingly’ would so weaken the legislation as to be a bad thing for Australian consumers and people seeking to obtain the benefits of the legislation the Government has introduced. [More…]
The purpose of these amendments is to enable authorisations to be obtained in relation to matters under clause 46 dealing with monopolies and clause 49 dealing with price discrimination. [More…]
The final amendment seeks to insert a new clause 93a, again to enable clearances to be obtained in respect of conduct which might offend clause 49 relating to price discrimination. [More…]
This provision constitutes a substantial amendment and will considerably allay fears in the business community of a marauding enterprise operating in the marketplace without discrimination or co-operation. [More…]
On the other hand, if compulsory mobilisation of life insurance funds is intended and if preferential tax concessions are granted to any investment bond scheme, for example, then obviously an additional distortion in the capital market has been created and discrimination would occur between borrowers on this market. [More…]
We have done more in relation to pensions than has ever been done before and that, of course, must be our first responsibility, to put real purchasing power into these people’s pockets and not to have them suffer the burden of economic discrimination as part of economic recessionary measures which past Liberal-Country Party governments implemented. [More…]
We will be getting away from these areas of discrimination. [More…]
The Minister talked about his desire to avoid economic discrimination. [More…]
There can be no doubt that since coming to office this Government has sought consistently to remove all forms of discrimination from our laws, whether it be discrimination against women, Aborigines, migrants or in the various other forms that it appears in our statutes. [More…]
This Government, in a very forthright way, has acted to remove discrimination from our laws. [More…]
The legislation that is before us seeks to remove possibly the worst form of discrimination that exists in the Federal electoral laws of this nation. [More…]
The form of discrimination to which I refer allows over-representation to exist in this Parliament. [More…]
This Bill seeks to remove from our electoral laws this discrimination which has been tolerated and sponsored to a great extent by members from the other side of this chamber. [More…]
If ever there was a Bill which gave people the opportunity to show where they stood on basic democratic matters and on matters of discrimination, this is it. [More…]
They are merely conservative and devious devices in order to deny adequate representation and to perpetuate discrimination against citizens who pay their taxes in the same way as everybody else and who live under the same laws as everybody else. [More…]
I believe that this Bill merely provides for the anticipated normal progress and development of a democratic society- a society which seeks to avoid discrimination against any section of its people. [More…]
They are absolutely fed up with the discrimination, and I suggest that it should end once and for all here tonight. [More…]
Yet this seems to be the argument which has been put forward by spokesmen for vested interests in the community trying to give some sort of cloak of respectability to this absolutely dreadful inequity and discrimination against lower income earners. [More…]
Are we in the hands of a government which, for economic reasons, after having created this monopoly of health care, will plunge into discrimination against certain groups, against services which will be provided and against ancillary services? [More…]
It asserts powers to take over mineral projects and unrestrained discrimination in its favour against private mines found and developed by high risk private capital. [More…]
the making of payments for services or facilities provided in respect of the goods, if the discrimination is of such magnitude or is of such a recurring or systematic character that it is likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market for goods, being a market in which the corporation supplies, or those persons supply, goods. [More…]
The following are among the matters dealt with by the amendments: The commencement provision is changed to provide a 4-month staging in period for the price discrimination provision and to make the prohibition of price fixing agreements effective from the date of commencement of the legislation. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education been directed to criticism of the Australian Government in respect of nongovernment schools and charges of discrimination which should be answered? [More…]
Clearly, the representations of the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett), whom I understand was principally responsible for the introduction of the discrimination in favour of country lines, were successful in respect of the area about which he was concerned at the expense of areas such as those represented by me and the honourable member for McPherson (Mr Robinson), whom I know would readily agree with me about the problems confronting people in the fringe metropolitan areas in obtaining telephone services. [More…]
I am sure that all the men in this House will be pleased to see that this amending legislation also gets rid of the discrimination single men have suffered under the previous defence service homes legislation. [More…]
At a public meeting of 240 members of the rural community last Friday night certain policies were put forward as being essential to alleviate the discrimination currently being exercised against country people. [More…]
This discrimination will persist even if it be decided to exempt incomes up to $5000, $7000, $ 10,000, or whatever, from the surcharge. [More…]
With the introduction of our universal health insurance scheme there will be no need for this sense of discrimination and sense of injustice in that the pensioner medical service is available for some retired people but not for all. [More…]
I myself raised at the highest level when I was in Washington the question of discrimination against Australian beef exports, which in quantity and quality are the greatest in the world. [More…]
When that is brought forward the newly elected Legislative Assembly will be able to examine it along with the Trades and Labour Council, and I hope that before the end of the year we will be able to overcome this discrimination against these workers. [More…]
Here again there is a discrimination in interest rates. [More…]
One of the things that is going to heighten the sense of discrimination in some parents of children at private schools as a result of the Government’s decision is that whereas $150 might in some cases be sufficient to provide for the cost of excursions and books and extras, if parents have only one or two children at a public school, that $150 is going to go like that even if a child attends the cheapest and most frugal independent school in the outer western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
The honourable member for Bennelong also talked about discrimination against handicapped children and the boarding schools that are necessary to accommodate isolated children. [More…]
Mr Speaker, one of the more objectionable forms of discrimination in the Social Services Act is the treatment accorded de facto wives of unemployment and sickness beneficiaries. [More…]
It is proposed henceforth that additional benefit be paid in respect of de facto wives of unemployment and sickness beneficiaries on a basis similar to that for de facto wives of pensioners, thus removing an unfair discrimination which now exists. [More…]
I think this could be supported as an interim measure for 2 reasons: Firstly, it is logical in these days of women’s lib that we should not have discrimination against men. [More…]
Further, there is absolutely no discrimination, in the treatment given, between our own international airline and any other international airline, or between any international airlines. [More…]
A basic tenet of NEAT is that there is no discrimination on the grounds of sex, nor is level of income in itself one of the criteria on which an application for training is considered. [More…]
The honourable member mentioned that while he was in China he noticed that there was no discrimination between first class and second class airline passengers. [More…]
When I was there I observed very closely the discrimination that existed between first class and second class passengers, so much so that I made reference to it to the Chinese who were accompanying the Australian delegation on that occasion. [More…]
But we do not intend to allow the people who depend on social security benefits to suffer the discrimination and the denial which was the hallmark of LiberalCountry Party administration of this important area of public responsibility. [More…]
I point out that the honourable member for Mackellar, who talks about the need for a supporting fathers’ allowance, is the man who maintained discrimination against Class B and Class C widows who were receiving about $2.75 a week less in pension payments than Class A widows when he was Minister for Social Services. [More…]
That discrimination was eliminated immediately we assumed office. [More…]
It should also immediately stop the discrimination in overdraft rates forced by the Government on the banking system. [More…]
The immediate past Minister for Immigration recently said that any Australian Minister, public servant or government worker would be sacked on the spot if he sought to promote discrimination on the grounds of race, colour or creed. [More…]
The easiest way to avoid discrimination is to prevent that, too. [More…]
Today we talk on one hand of a homogeneous population and anti-discrimination on the other. [More…]
I am concerned at any form of discrimination, as are members from both sides of this chamber, particularly on racial grounds. [More…]
It is gradually being taken away for 2 very definite reasons: first, the reduction in the number of migrants; and second, the broadened policy based on non-discrimination and an ability to occupy a position in an industry with little thought for the long term future. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party, Mr Ian Sinclair speaking in Mackay today said that the Labor Government was deliberately holding back on the publication of a top secret report which would detail further courses of discrimination and vandalism the Labor Government would take against rural Australia. [More…]
So there is discrimination here. [More…]
If this is the case it might be a good idea for this discrimination to be eliminated. [More…]
Some concern has been expressed at the Bill in the sense that it may involve a discrimination against individual stations or even individual programs. [More…]
Government members have frequently talked about discrimination and the lack of discrimination and about how they want to treat everybody equally. [More…]
Frankly, I can completely go along with his next remark in the newspaper article that it ‘stinks’ because I think that this country could do without this sort of discrimination. [More…]
National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (Question No. [More…]
1 ) When was the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation established. [More…]
The National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation was established in June 1 973. [More…]
The main functions of the National Committee are to consider allegations of discrimination in employment and occupation referred to it by the six State Committees, to interpret the requirements of the national policy, to advise the Government on the action necessary to ensure full compliance with the policy, and to develop a national education and publicity program designed to promote equality of opportunity in employment and occupation. [More…]
The list of priorities to which the honourable member refers is applied without discrimination to women and men alike. [More…]
The types of assistance offered to all who seek training under NEAT are applied without discrimination as to sex. [More…]
One is forced to ask whether there is discrimination against such shires because of their size. [More…]
This amendment will remove all discrimination in the Defence Service Homes Act against single persons, thus giving full recognition to the principle that defence service homes benefits are granted not only as a measure of repatriation, but also as a reward for service. [More…]
1 ) expresses its belief that there should be no discrimination of any kind attached to an ex-nuptial child and that the word ‘illegitimate’ which has been used to date to describe children born out of wedlock is totally inapproriate and should be removed from all Commonwealth legislation and from common usage, and [More…]
To be described as illegitimate is a gross discrimination and unfairness in itself. [More…]
This Government is very proud of what it has managed to achieve in the short time that it has been in office in terms of doing away with discrimination- where it has had a measure of success- because discrimination exists in a whole range of areas, as the honourable member for Hotham pointed out when he directed his remarks to the ex-nuptial child. [More…]
If one looks at the same subject of Aboriginal welfare and the determination of this Government to remove all forms of discrimination from its legislation, that also gives support to the disadvantaged. [More…]
It has announced its intentions in regard to a general form of anti-discrimination legislation based upon the United Nations measures with which we are all familiar. [More…]
It has done its best with the city of Newcastle to remove the discrimination which exists against Aborigines. [More…]
But if one takes account of the fact that our young people in the community today are growing up with a far greater degree of honesty than perhaps people of my generation and of older generations had, one sees the reason for the lack of understanding by them of why these forms of discrimination are allowed to persist. [More…]
The difficulty is that although legislators like ourselves, can remove the form of the discrimination as it exists in the legislation and can even outlaw the discrimination in some cases or try to outlaw it, the community attitudes themselves are very difficult to erase. [More…]
1 ) expresses its belief that there should be no discrimination of any kind attached to an ex-nuptial child and that the word illegitimate which has been used to date to describe children born out of wedlock is totally inappropriate and should be removed from all Commonwealth legislation and from common usage, and [More…]
It is a case of doing away with a form of discrimination, if it could have been classified as such. [More…]
It demonstrates a piecemeal approach where in some instances people are wrongly discriminated against and in others there is discrimination in their favour. [More…]
Measures for avoiding or relieving unemployment are available to both men- and women without discrimination. [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that in Territories administered by the Australian Government women do not suffer discrimination in this or in any other form? [More…]
I regret that people drink the stuff, but while it is legal and while it is their right I shall use any influence I can to see that there is no case for discrimination in this Territory or throughout Australia. [More…]
We acknowledge that discrimination did exist against single men and widowers. [More…]
The point I am trying to make is that every time we introduce a new interest rate into the interest structure we only add to the jungle and to the discrimination. [More…]
An example is the savage punitive discrimination in unemployment benefits where a man with a wife and children got much less if he was drawing unemployment benefits than he would have obtained if he was receiving a pension of one form or another. [More…]
We keep drawing attention to the cost of building, the increasing deposit gap, the discrimination against people who are earning in excess of $ 1 50 a week and up to about $200 a week and the impossibility of that sort of person being able to buy a house. [More…]
I assure the honourable gentleman that there is no discrimination at all against Aborigines. [More…]
I would be the very first to take appropriate action to prevent it if any evidence were produced to suggest that there is discrimination. [More…]
We did great things for young women by abolishing discrimination in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The honourable member raised the question of discrimination. [More…]
Certain achievements this year have been especially symbolic of our whole philosophyour legislation against racial discrimination, our work for women, our vigorous and successful policies for environmental protection, and our 30 per cent increase in our foreign aid program. [More…]
Advise on the implementation of the national policy to eliminate discrimination and to promote equality of opportunity in employment and occupation. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister sighted a copy of the report on racial discrimination prepared by social work students at Sydney University and submitted to the Attorney-General which alleges that 1 7 out of 25 estate agents surveyed between March and May 1 974 would not rent homes to Aborigines. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Bill now before the Senate provides that such discrimination will be expressly declared unlawful by virtue of clause 12 and civil proceedings may be brought against estate agents refusing to rent homes because of the applicants being Aborigines. [More…]
Among the Bills which he introduced and which are still before the Parliament are such significant and major pieces of legislation as the Corporation and Securities Industry Bill, the Family Law Bill, the Racial Discrimination Bill and the Superior Court of Australia Bill. [More…]
The elimination of racial discrimination has been one of the major preoccupations of the international community since the Second World War. [More…]
The Declaration and subsequent instruments provide, for example, that all are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection ofthe law. [More…]
Everyone has the right to just conditions of work without discrimination and to protection from forced or compulsory labour. [More…]
The International Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination (1965), which was signed on behalf of Australia by the then Minister for External Affairs, Mr Hasluck, on 13 October 1966, and to which 81 countries have subscribed, requires countries to prohibit racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee equality before the law without distinction as to race. [More…]
The United Nations has supplemented these instruments with numerous resolutions, conferences and programs designed to promote the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]
For example, the Proclamation of Teheran issued by the International Conference on Human Rights in 1968 observed that the implementation of the principle of non-discrimination, embodied in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration and other instruments, constituted a most urgent task of mankind. [More…]
It further stated that gross denials of human rights arising from discrimination on grounds of race outraged the conscience of mankind. [More…]
Subsequently, the United Nations designated 1971 as the international Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, and vigorous programs for the year were conducted throughout the world, including Australia. [More…]
On 6 December 1971, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution urging further ratifications of the Racial Discrimination Convention and this resolution was carried by 101 voting in favour (including Australia), none against and five abstentions. [More…]
On 10 December 1973, the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination was inaugurated by the United Nations. [More…]
The program proposed by the United Nations for action on the national level during the decade includes the introduction of legislation, where appropriate, to prevent racial discrimination. [More…]
Against this background, it has been the conscious policy of both Liberal and Labor Governments to eliminate all legislation in Australia that contains elements of racial discrimination. [More…]
There is legal discrimination still in some Australian States against Aborigines, but my Government has told those States that those laws will be repealed by those States within two years, or if they are not, we will move in and repeal them. [More…]
He regarded the measure as one for the protection of the Aboriginal people and not one of discrimination. [More…]
Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination’, as part ofthe United Nations program for the year that I have mentioned. [More…]
In its report of its activities of the year, the Committee stated that during the year it had repeatedly urged the Australian and State governments to repeal all legislation of a discriminatory nature and to take all necessary steps to ratify the Racial Discrimination Convention. [More…]
You may be assured, however, that the Government is continuing its efforts to end all forms of racial discrimination in Australia. ‘ [More…]
I draw honourable members attention to the policy platforms of the Liberal Party and the Labor Party on the issue of discrimination against Aboriginals. [More…]
The 1972 platform of the Labor Party included the proposal that the Australian Parliament should legislate against all forms of discrimination as part of a program to provide equal rights and opportunities for all persons. [More…]
The Federal platform of the Liberal Party, as approved by the Federal Council in October 1974, includes proposals for the implementation and enforcement of legislation to promote equality of rights between all Australian citizens and to remove any form of discrimination against Aboriginals. [More…]
As no action has been taken by the Queensland Government on these matters, provisions were included in the Racial Discrimination Bill 1973 to supersede the Queensland law that authorised the management of the property of Aboriginals and Islanders without their consent. [More…]
In relation to that I suggest that legislation not unlike the Age Discrimination Act of the United States of America should be introduced. [More…]
Antidiscrimination measures are being introduced to counter racial discrimination and every other form of discrimination that the Government or Mr Grassby can think of at this time. [More…]
We should be contemplating seriously the introduction of anti-discrimination laws to stop people from being kept out of a job because of their age? [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to make racial discrimination unlawful in Australia and to provide an effective means of combating racial prejudice in our country. [More…]
My predecessor, Senator Murphy as he then was, introduced a Racial Discrimination Bill into the Senate for the first time on 2 1 November 1973. [More…]
The Bill introduces into Australian law for the first time the obligations contained in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Legislation has a vital role to play in the elimination of racial discrimination and the enactment of this Bill is a fundamental step, a condition precedent, it could be said, that must be taken if Australia is to ratify the Convention. [More…]
The common law provides few effective remedies against discrimination in the exercise of human rights, whether it is based on race or colour or on any other grounds. [More…]
The proscribing of racial discrimination in legislative form will require legal sanctions. [More…]
These will also make people more aware of the evils, the undesirable and unsociable consequences of discrimination- the hurtful consequences of discrimination- and make them more obvious and conspicuous. [More…]
The fact that racial discrimination is unlawful will make it easier for people to resist social pressures that result in discrimination. [More…]
In making racial discrimination unlawful, the Bm follows the definition used in the Convention. [More…]
The BUI Will thus make it unlawful for a person to do an act involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin which impairs the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]
It also deals in detail with racial discrimination so far as it concerns access to places and facilities. [More…]
The creation of practical and effective legal remedies against discrimination is an important objective of the Bill. [More…]
In addition, the Bill establishes formal administrative machinery for the examination of complaints of racial discrimination on a systematic basis and for the settlement of complaints by conciliation. [More…]
The Bill also for this reason recognises that an emphasis on mediation and conciliation is a more satisfactory way of tackling individual instances of racial discrimination and the tensions that are associated with individual disputes A Commissioner for Community Relations will be established as an independent statutory authority to undertake these tasks. [More…]
The Bill recognises the importance of developing programs of education and research and other programs to combat racial discrimination and to promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups. [More…]
Overseas experience has shown that the success of legislation dealing with racial discrimination depends very much on the effectiveness of programs of this kind. [More…]
Both governmental and community-based programs to combat racial discrimination are necessary. [More…]
Under the Bill, the Commissioner will have the function of conducting and fostering programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination, and a Community Relations Council will be established with an advisory role. [More…]
Australia will be required by Article 7 of the Convention to conduct programs of this kind to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
It will provide the basis upon which Australia can comply with the obligations imposed by the Convention on Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The Bill is based on the view that laws proscribing discrimination are vital, but not in themselves alone can they be sufficient. [More…]
The educative role is at least as significant and the Bill recognises that there must also be effective and systematic enforcement of rights and the promotion of education and research, if the elimination of racial discrimination in this country is to be achieved in fact as well as in theory. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) has just delivered a second reading speech relating to racial discrimination. [More…]
This Electoral Bill is a violent expression of discrimination. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton said that this Bill is a violent expression of discrimination. [More…]
How can it be a savage invasion of privacy, a violent expression of discrimination, when in fact it extends the right to spend money in respect of candidates from $500 to about $3,000 in the average case? [More…]
Despite that the honourable member for Moreton has said that that is discrimination of the worst kind. [More…]
It could take the form of social ostracism, industrial activity or political discrimination by an opposing party if it gains power. [More…]
There is no discrimination whatever. [More…]
The Council considers that this situation is extremely bad as it represents discrimination against one section of the community, namely the person who owns or is purchasing a property in which he lives. [More…]
I believe that these forms of discrimination may well be a reason for the sluggishness of expansion of rental accommodation. [More…]
I am ashamed that a South Australian should come into this chamber and say, with his limited experience, that there is discrimination in New South Wales without facts to substantiate his allegation. [More…]
My view is completely opposite to that of the Minister in relation to his allegations of discrimination in the legislation. [More…]
The next three principles with which I wish to deal are those which the Minister apparently believes are necessary to avoid discrimination. [More…]
Let me return to the question of discrimination. [More…]
I suggest that the Minister’s claim of discrimination against wives cannot be supported. [More…]
At least one eloquent body on women’s rights, the Women’s Electoral Lobby- an organisation whose members are never slow to find themselves discriminated against- has now stated emphatically that discrimination does not exist in the Bill. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the first annual report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation for the year ended 30 June 1974, entitled: ‘Towards Equal Opportunity in Employment’. [More…]
We believe that we have to make a stand against discrimination between the sexes and therefore we are not prepared to discriminate. [More…]
We should investigate conditions leading to discrimination against women in education, in the work force and certainly in the credit facilities available to them. [More…]
I am pleased to see some of the moves that this Government has made since coming into office towards eliminating the discrimination against women in the fields of pay and opportunity of employment. [More…]
We cannot survive as people and we cannot proudly claim success in the campaign to remove discrimination against women unless we remember too all other groups similarly disadvantaged. [More…]
But that does not alter the principle that if the foreign relations of this country are going to be conducted with any consistency and if we are ever going to achieve a situation in which the horrible racial discrimination which does occur in South Africa and which is probably a level of racial discrimination which is duplicated in many countries throuhout the world is ever going to be broken down we are not going to break it down by hermetically sealing off South Africa from the rest of the world, we are not going to break it down by having no contact with the South Africans and we are certainly not going to break it down by preventing cricket contests between South Africa and Australia. [More…]
Two avenues are open: One is to take the matter to the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation; the other is to proceed through the Industrial Court under section 5 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: while the House supports the Bill’s condemnation of acts of racial discrimination it is of the opinion that the Bill should be substantially amended because it- [More…]
I begin by stating- I trust with some particularity; I hope, further, with some clarity- the Opposition’s attitude to the question of racial discrimination before I come to deal with the provisions in the Bill. [More…]
The first thing I want to say is this: The Opposition condemns, without the slightest sense of inhibition, racial discrimination. [More…]
We are opposed unequivocally to racial discrimination. [More…]
I say with no ambiguity and no equivocation that the Opposition is opposed to racial discrimination. [More…]
The second matter to which I draw the attention of the House with regard to this Bill is that in the gathering of powers conferred upon this Parliament there is absolutely nothing which gives to this Parliament an explicit right to legislate upon the question of racial discrimination. [More…]
It was my kidney of government that signed the convention dealing with racial discrimination- 1966 circa- and now the Bill is to be ratified. [More…]
The Bill seeks to outlaw racial discrimination and the various manifestations of it. [More…]
In other words, I am seeking to assert the thesis that it is the view of this entire Parliament that racial discrimination, one of the disfigurements of the 20th century, should be silenced. [More…]
This Bill seeks to establish, among other things, tribunals relating to the hearings of matters with respect to racial discrimination. [More…]
The second part of the Bill deals with the prohibition of racial discrimination and it sets out what I may describe as the particulars of offences of racial discrimination. [More…]
We are proposing by dint of this Bill that the transgressions with respect to racial discrimination should be solved by erecting an apparatus which would be more suited for a totalitarian country. [More…]
It seeks to put into legislative form the man who comes along and says: ‘Jones has treated so-and-so in a shabby fashion, which infringes Part II of the Racial Discrimination Bill.’ [More…]
The Opposition is unequivocally opposed to racial discrimination. [More…]
There can be no doubt that in Australia since the white man arrived there has been a history of racial discrimination against the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Many people think that there is no racial discrimination in this country. [More…]
On the contrary, racial discrimination is found at the highest levels. [More…]
Discrimination exists everywhere. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Bill is long overdue. [More…]
With such bigoted persons as those to whom I referred adorning the Opposition benches, is there any wonder that when they were in government they never introduced a Bill to ratify the International Convention on Racial Discrimination? [More…]
I do not think such action helps the cause to the conclusion which I believe we are all seeking to see achieved, that is, a diminution in any discrimination or racial prejudice which obtains in Australia. [More…]
The Government has introduced the Racial Discrimination Bill into this House after 3 Bills on the same subject had been introduced previously in the Senate. [More…]
In the words of the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) ‘The purpose of the Bill is to make racial discrimination unlawful in Australia and to provide an effective means of combatting racial prejudice in our country’. [More…]
We are dealing tonight with discrimination- not only racial discrimination but discrimination against people of different nationalities as well as of different races. [More…]
It should be said at the outset that discrimination does exist in Australia just as it exists in every country in the world. [More…]
I believe that we can legitimately divide discrimination into 2 broad categories. [More…]
These are discriminatio by intent and discrimination by inadvertence. [More…]
Whilst the effect on the victim is manifestly the same, that discrimination which comes about by inadvertence implies no underlying hostility on the part of the discriminator. [More…]
This is important because if discrimination comes about through inadvertence there are no underlying community attitudes which have to be changed. [More…]
I do not have any research figures to back up my assumption, but I believe that the great bulk of discrimination within Australia comes about not deliberately but by inadvertence. [More…]
A further matter that should be investigated at the Committee stage is that the Bill carries with it an underlying presumption that all racial discrimination is deliberate, which I dispute. [More…]
I believe it is true that many cases of alleged discrimination are unintentional, careless and when they are pointed out, mostly regretted. [More…]
I am merely pointing out that there are many situations where unintentional discrimination and racial intolerance do take place. [More…]
The objective we all desire- that of overcoming the radical prejudices and discriminations that characterise an uncultured society- must be sought as strenuously through the avenues of education and understanding on a broad general level as it is sought in post-event cases where discrimination has actually taken place and the courts have become involved. [More…]
Again, in relation to unintentional discrimination, it could well be that this style of discrimination is brought about by little more than a lack of understanding and awareness. [More…]
One should also note that the Bill covers only racial discrimination. [More…]
To concentrate solely on racial discrimination is to run the risk of over.simplifying the issue of discrimination as a whole. [More…]
It is discrimination of any kind which cannot and must not be tolerated in any society with pretensions of sophistication. [More…]
Certainly racial discrimination is readily discernible and more easily demonstrable, but other areas of prejudice should not go unnoticed. [More…]
It could well be established that even though there are many individual cases of discrimination, the Australian people have a basically good-spirited attitude to people from other nations. [More…]
Problems of discrimination can be engendered by immigration policy. [More…]
In the main, whilst many migrants will be able to complain of individual instances of prejudice or discrimination that they personally have experienced, Australia has developed with their help and effort, largely free from significant racial or cultural prejudice. [More…]
There can be no doubt that much remains to be done before we can all claim that for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike equality of opportunity exists, the prejudice and suspicion have been eliminated and that discrimination no longer exists in Australia. [More…]
It is with that background in mind that we should assess the structure and functions of the Racial Discrimination Bill as presented to the House. [More…]
That may be something of which people are in favour, but I believe that in the long term discrimination of any sort should be overcome. [More…]
I welcome any attempt to overcome discrimination against individuals who are badly done by or disadvantaged, particularly Australia’s Aboriginal population. [More…]
I welcome the opportunity being provided to fulfil the obligations that Australia has undertaken with the United Nations in relation to the international conventions on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
We must, however, remain cognisant of the need to avoid appearing to be encroaching upon the freedom of individuals, of the distinction between unintentional and wilful discrimination and of the need to ensure that the proposed conciliation procedures do not become an opportunity for persecution or character assassination. [More…]
I reiterate that much can be gained by the passage of this Bill, bearing in mind the necessary modifications that we of the Opposition will outline, not only by Australia as a nation showing itself to be mature enough to tackle the problems of racial discrimination but also by each individual who has for so long been disadvantaged by the sad deficiencies in our present system. [More…]
We have seen aspects in the last two or three weeks examples of discrimination against certain people who have made applications for jobs. [More…]
In 1975 we have suddenly found it necessary to introduce legislation to prevent racial discrimination. [More…]
First, the Bill seeks to ensure that racial discrimination should be proscribed by law and fundamental rights and freedoms, without distinction as to race, should be guaranteed by law. [More…]
Third, the Bill embodies the principle that there should be established formal administrative machinery to investigate individual instances of racial discrimination and attempt to achieve a settlement of issues by conciliation. [More…]
Fourth, the Bill proposes that there should be fostered- and I believe that this is very important- programs of education and research and other programs to combat racial discrimination and promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups. [More…]
All compassionate and sensible people would aspire to end racial discrimination. [More…]
Unfortunately racial discrimination has characterised modern history as man of different ethnic origins has achieved greater mobility enabling him to move rapidly from his own environment to the environments of other ethnic groups. [More…]
The first is to promote an understanding and an acceptance of the Act by developing and conducting research and educational programs to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
Well, I think there is evidence to show that, if anything, legislation that outlaws racial discrimination has had some effect in countries where it exists, such as in Canada and in the United States of America where the Constitution is being used to outlaw it. [More…]
One is the legislative portion attempting to outlaw acts of racial discrimination. [More…]
I am sure that many honourable members here would be staggered to know how often such discrimination occurs, particularly as it affects Aborigines. [More…]
The judgment is made by the person who is guilty of the act of discrimination not on the basis of the person’s suitability or unsuitability but solely on the basis of the colour of his skin. [More…]
There have been plenty of instances of similar discrimination in which a person’s religion was a barrier to accommodation and employment. [More…]
I do not know whether I can convince them that they are wrong but I genuinely believe that legislation used with discrimination, not used with the mailed fist, can be the framework for the next great push in Australia to eliminate racism and racial discrimination. [More…]
He was at least gracious enough to concede that the sincerity with which members of the Liberal and Country Parties oppose racial discrimination is not in dispute. [More…]
There is a difference of opinion in this House on this legislation but it is not a difference of opinion regarding the abhorrence of racial discrimination; it is rather a difference of opinion as to the best method by which the problem of racial discrimination in our society can be handled. [More…]
I do not want to canvass the evidence of racial discrimination, much of which has already been alluded to during the earlier part of the debate. [More…]
There is no doubt that in certain areas of Australia the level and the incidence of racial discrimination is totally unacceptable and that methods must be devised to eradicate such incidence and to bring down such level. [More…]
It was expressly conceded that the best hope of advancing the field of the elimination of racial discrimination was to be found in the processes of conciliation and of education. [More…]
We concede- no, we go further, we totally endorse- the declared intention of this legislation to eliminate forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
If that process of conciliation fails we believe then and only then that there should be a right of civil action available to the person who complains that he or she has been the subject of discrimination. [More…]
I know that there will be some on the Government side who will immediately say that the Opposition is speaking with 2 voices, that on the one hand we say that we are against racial discrimination but on the other hand we want so to emasculate the Bill that it will not be possible for any effective steps to be taken against the incidence of racial discrimination in our society. [More…]
In our society there is a very strong body of opinion- it was given eloquent expression by the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt)that we will not lessen the incidence of racial tension and racial discrimination by passing fairly stringent laws about it. [More…]
I know that they have been successful, but I would ask the Government to consider the fact that, while there is a problem of racial discrimination in Australia, there are significant differences between the problem that we have and the problem experienced in the United Kingdom. [More…]
One of the great difficulties about this legislation, because it is to have Australia-wide application, is that while there are serious problems in certain areas of Australia there are large areas of Australia where legislation in the form proposed by the Government could be quite inappropriate, for the reasons outlined by the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) and others, particularly as it is a first go at some kind of legislative proscription of racial discrimination. [More…]
This removed some anomalies and some sense of discrimination which was felt by many retired people who, although on a pension, were not entitled to those fringe benefits under the previous arrangements. [More…]
Is there any discrimination against this fund? [More…]
It concerns me because in my view if this legislation is carried in its present form it will culminate in discrimination against women. [More…]
I believe that women’s organisations should be drawing attention to the discrimination against women which will be involved if this Bill is passed. [More…]
Let me hasten to say here and now that the whole idea behind this Bill- the prevention of racial discrimination- must be supported, but the manner in which these clauses have been drafted and the hidden meaning that appears to me to be behind them could spell disaster for many an innocent citizen. [More…]
The purpose of this amendment is to add a further category of persons or bodies to those categories already in clause 15 regarding acts of discrimination in respect of employment. [More…]
I think it is a commitment of all the major political parties of this country to make unlawful any incidence of discrimination in employment whether it be on the grounds of race, sex, colour or political or other opinions. [More…]
It is certainly the declared policy of the Opposition parties that discrimination on that basis shall be unlawful. [More…]
We think that the addition of the amendment I have moved would catch another category of acts of discrimination. [More…]
I know the argument that an act of inciting racial discrimination is in some respects more despicable than individual acts of racial discrimination, because the presence of intent by a person who incites an act of racial discrimination can hardly be called in to question whereas the intent of a person who commits an act of racial discrimination- certainly some of the acts of racial discrimination as they are prescribed in the language of this legislation- may not be quite the same malicious intent as that of the person who incites. [More…]
But, that notwithstanding, the Opposition feels that the penalty or the consequences for inciting an act of racial discrimination ought still to be civil matters and that they ought to follow the pattern which the Opposition has endeavoured to establish with its other amendments to the procedures to follow complaints of racial discrimination. [More…]
I recognise that there are arguments to the contrary and that where there is a mixture of reasons some might argue that it is sufficient that racial discrimination be a substantial reason. [More…]
But the Opposition believes that it should be the dominant reason for the doing of the act so that in all the circumstances it is fair to say that the reason why a person acted in a particular way was on the ground of racial discrimination. [More…]
I think that quite deservedly it will catch a lot of people but it will also catch some people who have unwittingly committed acts of racial discrimination. [More…]
We therefore think it is necessary in all the circumstances that there be no doubt that the reason why a person has done an act complained of is by reason of racial discrimination. [More…]
Implicit in both the contribution from the honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) and the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) has been the difficulty of the task which is posed by this Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
combating racial discrimination and prejudices that lead to racial discrimination; [More…]
His role shall be merely to conciliate in an effort to effect settlement of differences which arise out of acts alleged to be acts of racial discrimination. [More…]
While I admit that the question of race discrimination is something in the hearts and minds of people, and it will not be resolved by law, the fact is that in this country the law is not only an expression as outlined in legislation but also it has to have the look of force or the effect of governmental power behind it before most people will take it seriously. [More…]
Yesterday I spoke as strongly as I could on the fact that most racial discrimination in Australia, I believe, comes about through inadvertence. [More…]
This is the first time that an Australian government has ever sought to tackle racial discrimination in Australia with a law of this sort. [More…]
When one seeks to enact a law for the whole of Australia one has to realise that there are different parts of Australia- different in the sense that racial discrimination might be found to be more extensive in some parts than in others. [More…]
I think one of the Opposition speakers mentioned that in Australia generally racial discrimination, where it occurred, was often inadvertent. [More…]
The amendment provides that a person who is unhappy with the conciliation process, a person who complains that he or she has been a victim of an act of racial discrimination and feels that nothing has been achieved can go to a civil court and commence proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction for any of the remedies which are set out in clause 26. [More…]
Again, the Opposition very sincerely asks the Government to consider the sort of procedure we have in mind, which admittedly is a softer approach to the treatment of racial discrimination than that desired by the Government. [More…]
On the one hand, there is the demand to eliminate acts of racial discrimination. [More…]
The Opposition accepts that any acts which incite racial discrimination ought to be made unlawful, and in fact the earlier sections of this Bill do make that sort of behaviour unlawful. [More…]
Once again, this was part of the pattern of amendments put down by the Opposition which believes that acts inciting racial discrimination should attract the same types of consequences as those acts themselves. [More…]
I think that the Government means to maintain the special discrimination in favour of our Aboriginal people which is contained in some of the legislation, some of which I introduced into the House, and some of which subsequently has been introduced. [More…]
No one is a greater admirer of the common law and the ways in which it can achieve progress than I am but it has been a dismal failure in terms of trying to give relief where racial discrimination exists. [More…]
Everyone has conceded that this is a serious attempt to do something about racial discrimination. [More…]
It can express the sense of outrage that a civilised society feels about discrimination of this sort where it exists. [More…]
The Parliament may by any law with respect to trade or commerce forbid, as to railways, any preference or discrimination by any State, or by any authority constituted under a State, if such preference or discrimination is undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State; due regard being had to the financial responsibilities incurred by any State in connection with the construction and maintenance of its railways. [More…]
But no preference or discrimination shall, within the meaning of this section, be taken to be undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State, unless so adjudged by the InterState Commission. [More…]
This legislation, seen against the background of the racial discrimination Bills and other legislation which the Government has introduced or proposes to introduce, is designed to remove from the Queensland legislation certain discriminatory laws or certain discriminatory sections of existing laws. [More…]
Leaving that aside, I state that we have all accepted in this House the fact that we need positive programs of discrimination in favour of the Aboriginal and Island people to overcome the disabilities from which they suffer in order that perhaps a generation from now all people in this country may be equal. [More…]
We have earlier this day addressed ourselves to the Racial Discrimination Bill which flowed from a resolution of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination from the United Nations. [More…]
The chief feature of that Bill, as honourable members will recall, and its pertinence to the matter now being discussed is that by the introduction of penalties we will be able to achieve what understanding and reason have not been able to achieve previously, notwithstanding that the resolution, as evidenced in the Schedule attached to the Racial Discrimination Bill, insists that we are to promote and encourage universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all. [More…]
Again, we swing back to features of the Racial Discrimination Bill which would necessitate that if one of these Aborigines from a reserve or, to a lesser extent, one of these Torres Strait Islanders who ethnically seem to demonstrate an all-round greater ability in their original state should apply for a position in this outside world and find that because of lack of opportunity he is not up to the job and preference is given to a non-Aboriginal, immediately, under the terms of the Racial Discrimination Bill, an employer who decides to exercise that preference is liable because of all the reasons advanced for discrimination against the appointment. [More…]
So, from that time an element of discrimination was introduced. [More…]
Let us accept that there is discrimination and that much of the discrimination directed against the Aboriginal race is most unfortunate. [More…]
The great misfortune suffered by Aborigines has been magnified greatly by the level of inflation which has made discrimination a lot more real in some areas. [More…]
Here again are the elements of discrimination. [More…]
There is a second element in relation to discrimination and it is a new one. [More…]
It is patently and obviously a fundamental reason for the feelings of discrimination that arise in the hearts of some people in certain areas. [More…]
I complete my remarks by saying that I hope this Government will do everything it possibly can to remove discrimination. [More…]
In particular, I would like it to try to get at one of the main root causes of discrimination which unfortunately in some areas of Australia today is getting greater and not less. [More…]
So we are here tonight to remove the discriminatory provisions that remain in the Queensland legislation, and to make provisions with respect to the people of the Aboriginal race of Australia and the race to which the Torres Strait Islanders belong for the purpose of preventing discrimination in certain respects against those peoples under the laws of Queensland. [More…]
What are those areas of discrimination? [More…]
I saw this discrimination in the Torres Strait myself. [More…]
We could reach the situation where, because of some discrimination on a personal basis, an Aboriginal or Islander would not be allowed to rejoin his family or his friends in a reserve. [More…]
It is not only in this area of workers’ compensation that this discrimination against Western Australia appears but also under social services benefits legislation in relation to fees payable to a chiropractor and fees payable to a chiropractor under the repatriation services legislation. [More…]
One very practical example of discrimination is that fees payable to medical practitioners are available for tax deduction but those payable to registered chiropractors in Western Australia are not tax deductible. [More…]
I should hope that the Minister in charge of that legislation and of other fields that I have referred to will have a look at this matter to see that that discrimination is ended as quickly as possible. [More…]
Nowhere in technical and further education is discrimination in access more evident than in skilled training for apprentices. [More…]
Last week I participated in the debate on the Racial Discrimination Bill- a Bill I had wanted to see introduced long before I came to this place. [More…]
The articles which have been appearing in the ‘Australian Financial Review’ in relation to section 49 deal with price discrimination. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that section 49 of the Act prohibits discrimination as follows: . [More…]
the making of payments for services or facilities provided in respect of the goods, if the discrimination is of such magnitude Or is of such a recurring or systematic character that it is likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market for goods, being a market in which the corporation supplies, or those persons supply, goods. [More…]
Arising out of that inquiry one of several things could happen: The inquiry could disclose that there was no discrimination or that unfair preference was not being given to one individual or group as against another individual or group. [More…]
The Parliament may by any law with respect to trade or commerce forbid, as to railways, any preference or discrimination by any State, or by any authority constituted under a State, if such preference or discrimination is undue or unreasonable, or unjust to any State; due regard being had to the financial responsibilities incurred by any State in connexion with the construction and maintenance of its railways. [More…]
But no preference or discrimination shall, within the meaning of this section, be taken to be undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State, unless so adjudged by the Inter-State Commission. [More…]
subject to any particular person, State, locality or class or kind of transport to any discrimination or disadvantage. [More…]
They must laugh at the piety of the Government’s anti-discrimination statements because they know that they suffer from massive discrimination. [More…]
One way in which such a possibility could be minimised is to enable anyone with a legitimate interest in industrial relations I use that phrase in the way it is used in the Queensland courses- to be given the opportunity to participate in the courses without discrimination. [More…]
They will kill the whole mass of people who have served this government without any discrimination of corrupted or not corrupted people. [More…]
This burden can be overcome in 2 ways: Either by the mother, irrespective of the ages of her children, going to work, or by significant tax reforms so that the current discrimination against the single income family is removed. [More…]
The Union suggested a number of measures to remove some of the discrimination. [More…]
As the honourable member for Darling Downs says, the mother who stays at home must now bear the brunt of the financial and social hardships because her deprived children suffer discrimination among their peers in their schools and in their social activities. [More…]
Both administrations in South Vietnam, i.e., the PRG and the Saigon administration are to be treated without any discrimination whatsoever either both will participate in the Conference or neither will. [More…]
It is a matter of getting it cleaned up and removing some of the discrimination which exists. [More…]
We would change the requirements dealing with marriage, which are a positive discrimination against single people. [More…]
Under the new scheme there is no discrimination against single people as there is under the old scheme. [More…]
The honourable gentleman was putting forward that there should be discrimination against tenderers on the grounds that they either derive from or have some association with companies overseas. [More…]
The other matter I refer to is the discrimination in the application of the National Employment and Training scheme (NEAT). [More…]
In these times, when the generosity of the Government is excelled only by the number of unemployed in this country I ask why discrimination against people wishing to enter theological colleges should be practised. [More…]
But as they are on the Government side, and in great numbers, and have been told of these happenings, if they are true men at least they should have the character or the courage to stand up in their Party room and demand the removal of this discrimination. [More…]
The Government does not consider that this discrimination can be justified. [More…]
One thing which the Corporation will do is to reform in the following areas: Firstly, the formulation of a series of standard policy clauses to protect policy holders from deception, fraud and exploitation; secondly, examine the need if any for the abolition of arbitration clauses; thirdly, the discrimination against females in sickness and accident policies and in employment opportunities; fourthly, adequate laws are badly needed to govern the standard, training and monitoring of both brokers and agents; and, fifthly, simply, accurate advertising. [More…]
I regard this discrimination as indefensible and very much in need of correction. [More…]
If so, will the Minister investigate why this discrimination was shown by the A.B.C., particularly when it is realised the Leader of the Opposition had released during that period the Opposition’s 12 point aid plan for Indochina. [More…]
Renton, that insurance employees who are even lukewarm in their opposition to the Corporation may face discrimination in the form of nonpromotion? [More…]
So this discrimination is obviously sexist based. [More…]
When one breaks it down on a work class basis, one finds that 4 out of 5 manual workers are not covered by any form of superannuation and that more than 9 out of 10 females employed in manual work are not covered- further evidence of the sexist basis of discrimination in superannuation. [More…]
Australia should plan to avoid any conflicts or frictions arising from racial or national differences and while doing so should be liberal in admission to Australia of people of any race or nationality who desire to come, especially those who are suffering from reprisals or discrimination in some other country. [More…]
I am not reflecting on my friend, the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett), but I think this is discrimination against the people in McPherson, the majority of whom vote Liberal, while the majority of people in Maranoa choose to vote National Country Party of Australia. [More…]
I think the honourable member talked about discrimination in the latter part of his remarks. [More…]
We shall also eliminate the restriction on single persons because we believe there is strong discrimination against women and men who are unmarried. [More…]
Mr Lewis’s advertisement also refers to discrimination against psychiatric patients. [More…]
Therefore, to the extent that there is discrimination, it rests solely with the New South Wales Government. [More…]
I refer to such matters as the Racial Discrimination Bill, the attempts to gerrymander the electorate in order to sustain an authoritarian system of democracy; and various Constitution Bills that were knocked back by the Senate and the people. [More…]
Why is there this discrimination? [More…]
Other provisions illustrate this discrimination. [More…]
It is the policy of the Australian Government to apply the principles incorporated in the Declaration on Territorial Asylum without discrimination, and hence without regard to the identity of the regime alleged to be persecuting, or likely to persecute, an applicant. [More…]
Apart from discrimination against people in private hospitals this adds to the confusion of health funds. [More…]
I refer next to the claim by the Government that it will end discrimination in hospitals with the introduction of Medibank. [More…]
All that the Government is doing is introducing discrimination in respect of those people who believe that they have a right as Australians in a free society to be treated by their own doctor and to have the hospital ward accommodation of their preference. [More…]
Let us look at the claim of no discrimination. [More…]
How does this situation relate to the suggestion that the Government is ending discrimination in hospitals in Australia? [More…]
The Government is just introducing a new form of discrimination. [More…]
The Senate has amended the Racial Discrimination Bill in a number of respects, the most important of which are as follows: First, the power vested in the Commissioner for Community Relations to commence legal proceedings where he is unable to effect a settlement by conciliation has been removed. [More…]
The Government would also have much preferred the inclusion of the offences relating to incitment and the promotion of racial hatred so that the requirements of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination could have been followed more closely in Australian law. [More…]
The legislation will declare racial discrimination unlawful. [More…]
The Commissioner will have power to engage in programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
It applies to a broader range of acts based on racial discrimination than is found in overseas legislation and contains fewer exceptions. [More…]
The Opposition believes that the amendments will have the effect of replacing the blunt instrument of the Bill as originally presented with a process of conciliation and education which we believe will do a great deal more effectively to reduce the incidence of racial discrimination in Australia than would have been the case with the Bill in its original form. [More…]
There is no doubt, as the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Enderby) said, that a common ground exists between the Government and the Opposition concerning the abhorrence of racial discrimination. [More…]
It was for that reason, and not because of any reluctance to oppose racial discrimination, that the Opposition moved the amendments. [More…]
The problems of racial discrimination and racial tensions in the United Kingdom are vastly different from problems of the same nature in Australia. [More…]
There is no posturing about the Opposition’s attitude towards the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
As my colleague has stressed, we are as much against racial discrimination as anybody in the land but we believe that the original proposals put forward by the Government were perhaps a little bit too enthusiastic in some areas. [More…]
I think that it is a step forward in bringing about a realisation within the total Australian society that racial discrimination, which I firmly believe is largely inadvertent, should not be countenanced. [More…]
A lot of people are opposed to a racial discrimination Bill. [More…]
Of course, it is true to say that the basic solution to discrimination lies with individuals. [More…]
I personally believe that a racial discrimination Act, as this will now become, embodying as it does the aspirations of our society for attitudes that ought to exist between individuals in the society will, in the end, promote the proper relationship. [More…]
What I and others like me are concerned about is that ultimately this Government intends to use the Superior Court to rule on all manner of matters such as discrimination, environment, children, women, motor accidents, the stock exchange, corporations and trade unions. [More…]
The Australian and State Parliaments to pass Acts providing for human rights and civil liberties, and to take all possible legislative and administrative action and judicial proceedings to prevent infringement of such rights and liberties and in particular to prevent discrimination on the grounds of colour, race, sex, creed or politics. [More…]
He says a Liberal government will use example, encouragement and specific legislation to rid our country of discrimination. [More…]
So he is going to use legislation to rid our country of discrimination; that is apparently to ensure that there are not the great gaps between privilege in Australia. [More…]
He rejects any moves to deal with discrimination yet he says in the same speech, 2 paragraphs away, that there will be specific legislation to rid our country of discrimination. [More…]
Many people believe that this Budget should not have seen expenditure cuts almost across the board, that in fact there should have been more positive discrimination in favour of lower income groups, that huge allocations should have gone to deserted mothers and fathers, child endowment, public housing, child care and education. [More…]
No discrimination on grounds of race, nationality, politics, creed or sex. [More…]
Clause (f) of the policy which provides that there shall be no discrimination on grounds of race, nationality, politics, creed or sex lies at the heart of Australia’s immigration policy. [More…]
This offensive requirement, this denial of basic rights, this shameful example of political discrimination, is the personal responsibility of the Prime Minister, and he alone demanded it. [More…]
The decision represents discrimination against every migrant in this country. [More…]
This Government will oppose discrimination against migrants and will guarantee no discrimination against migrants in our society. [More…]
I hasten to say that in years this Government has done more to guarantee an end to discrimination against migrants than our friends did in the 23 years of their Government. [More…]
When did the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar), who began this debate or the second speaker from the Opposition side, the right honourable member for Bruce, bring in any legislation or any administrative machinery to prevent discrimination against migrants or, for that matter, anybody else? [More…]
In the current law there is for the first time in this country provision for consumer protection and measures to deal with mergers, price discrimination and exclusive dealings. [More…]
Can he inform the House of any United Nations conventions against discrimination between the sexes, particularly as they apply to sport? [More…]
-For some time there have been United Nations conventions dealing with discrimination against women. [More…]
It was left to my Government to ratify the 1953 Convention on the Political Rights of Women, the 1951 International Labour Organisation Equal Remuneration Convention and the 1958 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention. [More…]
I regret to say that none of these conventions dealt with discrimination in sport as regards sportswomen or sportsmen. [More…]
There are other resolutions of the United Nations dealing with discrimination in sport on racial grounds; there are none dealing with discrimination in sport on the grounds of sex. [More…]
I am not aware of discrimination on the grounds of sex being raised in any United Nations forum. [More…]
Why is there this discrimination? [More…]
But at the same time there is discrimination in the weight of the tax- $2 a tonne on steaming coal as against $6 a tonne on coking coal. [More…]
Will he see that Dr Colston is given full protection against any employment discrimination arising out of his recent ordeal? [More…]
I am not sure what the Government could do with respect to any discrimination which is shown against Dr Malcolm Colston when he seeks re-employment in the Queensland Public Service. [More…]
This in itself is discrimination against pensioners in the 65 years to 75 years group because they were already means tested and taxed as well. [More…]
This is discrimination and differential treatment and it is a betrayal of a promise by a senior spokesman for the then Labor Party Opposition that Labor would not take away any benefits already enjoyed by the blind people of Australia. [More…]
The Minister avoids the fact that the NEAT scheme contains other forms of discrimination which the Government is pledged to remove. [More…]
In addition- and quite apart from what may appear to be sloganeering- we have a great deal of detail worked out in terms of major programs for the creation of equal opportunities for work, for removing discrimination in employment, but not by legislation tampering with decisions of the Commission, for training and retraining and for union and management training. [More…]
The media is fond of turning the searchlight of truth or at least illumination on those matters where it can be suggested that there is some waste of public expenditure or where it seems that there has been some discrimination in favour of Aboriginal people which seems to be unfair vis-a-vis other Australians. [More…]
But there are many people who, when looking at a program put forward in regard to Aboriginal affairs, are inclined to say: ‘This is discrimination in favour of the Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines do not want this discrimination. [More…]
The people in those townships say that this is discrimination in favour of Aboriginal children, but if one goes to the places where some of the adults live and where some of these Aboriginal children live one finds very often that they live on a reserve and, notwithstanding the large amounts of money that have been devoted to Aboriginal housing, they may still live in a corrugated iron shed or shanty without electric light or a water supply. [More…]
As honourable gentlemen know, in recent times we have enacted legislation directed at the Queensland scene designed to eliminate discrimination against Aboriginal people. [More…]
I take this opportunity of saying that legislation is operative and I hope that wherever opportunities present themselves the Aboriginal people Will avail themselves of that legislation and seek legal advice, perhaps from my Department, in order to sweep away any of the relics of the discrimination that remains in that State, as indeed it does. [More…]
There has been great discrimination and this must be corrected. [More…]
I bring to his attention the fact that there is discrimination on the Commonwealth Railways with regard to people who have their goods consigned to Alice Springs for on-forwarding by other than the Government contract carrier. [More…]
I hope that the Government will give an assurance that such a remission will be provided so that discrimination against certain producers, particularly those in the granite belt, might be eliminated. [More…]
They claim that it would cause some discrimination, some inequity or uneven incidence in the application of the levy to the States, particularly with respect to Queensland. [More…]
We have accepted the principle of positive discrimination in favour of these people, and I applaud that. [More…]
We have laid down certain rules governing that positive discriminationbroad rules, the rule of law in general. [More…]
In this area of positive discrimination alone it is necessary not only that these people feel that they are being fairly treated but also it is essential that they succeed in what they are doing. [More…]
-I remember complaints being made about discrimination against Aboriginal people in Queensland. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the Liberal governments in those States have a conscious policy of cruel discrimination against people who pay rent. [More…]
Mr Bourke was pointing out the discrimination practised by the Housing Commission against people who pay rent when the Commission sells its rental homes. [More…]
There is the work the Government has done to combat discrimination in employment. [More…]
The work of inquiry, investigation and research which lead up to the establishment of the committees against discrimination in employment represent yet another major step forward in opening up a true equality of opportunity for all the women of this country. [More…]
In the field of the protection of human rights, the Parliament will recall that very important law, the Racial Discrimination Act, which established a Commissioner for Community Relations and also a Community Relations Council. [More…]
An earlier draft of the proposals was considered by standing committee ‘B’ of the Australian constitutional convention early in 1974 and the bill subsequently revised to reflect the principal concern of the Committee, which was that there should be no discrimination between States in any designation by the Commonwealth. [More…]
They did not worry about the discrimination in pricing that was going on. [More…]
It provides now for the abolition of price discrimination against small businessmen, and that more than anything else is helping the small businessman today. [More…]
How does it expect to meet the discrimination which would clearly arise between States as a result of some States imposing higher surtaxes on taxpayers than applies in other States? [More…]
Why should there be that discrimination between States? [More…]
Among those valuable initiatives was the decision to appoint a committee of the Immigration Advisory Council to inquire into and report upon the extent of discrimination and exploitation of migrants, with particular emphasis on their use of community resources. [More…]
In the interim report the Committee put particular emphasis on several aspects of community concern for migrants and highlighted several areas in which discrimination was practised against migrants. [More…]
The National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation has endorsed this specific recommendation and has expressed the view that where any nationality requirement is justified it should be restricted to that of Australian citizenship. [More…]
But I believe that it should be regarded by the Government as a matter of urgency that this one area of discrimination against newly arrived migrants should be eliminated by the positive action of the Government to give equal employment opportunities in the Public Service to all Australian citizens regardless of their ability to handle effectively the English language. [More…]
There is also discrimination against married women who since 6 December are not regarded as ‘primary breadwinners’. [More…]
But still there persists a discrimination which is really based on sex. [More…]
The National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation and its counterparts on the State level have been in operation since June 1973. [More…]
In other words, there should be no discrimination on the basis of income or ability to pay. [More…]
I believe that the Australian Legal Aid Office, the Racial Discrimination Act and the many other initiatives of this Government will help to right the imbalance, help to ensure that the migrant communities can play an active role in Australian society with a minimum of social cost. [More…]
Appeals Regulations, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the Trade Practices Act, the Family Law Act, the Social Welfare Ordinance, the Legal Assistance Ordinance and the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
The United States, through the normal diplomatic channels, has raised the matter of our air navigation charges, alleging discrimination against its international carrier, Pan American World Airways Inc. As far as we are concerned there has been a formal request for consultation which will take place later this year. [More…]
There has been a complaint, I believe, by the United States Government to the United Kingdom Government against this increase, once again alleging discrimination. [More…]
Can the Minister explain the apparent discrimination against Victoria in the provision of funds by the Australian Government for health projects, and can the Minister indicate the future of health programs should the Budget be rejected or deferred in another place? [More…]
The same thing happened in the Racial Discrimination Bill where the Minister and the Commissioner had overpowering and tremendous powers. [More…]
To summarise the terms of the Convention, States Parties thereto declare that Apartheid is a crime against humanity and that acts resulting from the policies and practices of Apartheid and similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination are crimes violating the principles of International Law, in particular the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and constituting a serious threat to international peace and security. [More…]
It is easy to gauge the effects of this sort of discrimination. [More…]
This is the sort of discrimination and disadvantage that Tasmania would have to suffer if the Opposition was ever to be successful in introducing its proposals. [More…]
More generally, my Government is anxious that 200 years of despoliation, injustice and discrimination have seriously damaged and demoralised the once proud Aboriginal people. [More…]
In-line with its general policy towards apartheid, the Australian Government firmly opposes racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
The Government believes that the maintenance of sporting relations with South Africa should depend on that country’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
That discrimination has ended. [More…]
The problem of discrimination is built into the Labor Government’s scheme in the case of a person who goes to the private section of a public hospital and a person who goes to the private section of a private hospital. [More…]
That is a nice little anomaly and discrimination against the bulk of Australians. [More…]
How does the Government expect to get a solid nation in Australia if it has poverty, discrimination, lack of opportunity and lack of child care facilities? [More…]
With flexible approach offered to teachers in the innovations program there was some hope that positive discrimination could be provided, particularly in disadvantaged schools in areas of high migrant concentrations where the children have not mastered the language adequately, where they have very few facilities at home and very little encouragement, because of the difficult situation with their parents, to make the best of their education opportunities. [More…]
I am certain that the Minister, coming from a country electorate in Victoria and being conscious of the fact that sometimes whether we like it or not air travel is the only convenient method of connection, not only for business but for pleasure, will appreciate the point I make that there should be no discrimination between air passengers from one State and from another. [More…]
That sort of discrimination is causing a tremendous amount of ill-feeling in isolated communities in Australia. [More…]
We will continue to support appropriate measures in the United Nations and elsewhere aimed at bringing an end to the practice of racial discrimination, not only in Africa but wherever it exists. [More…]
The Government is also opposed to racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
If our objective is not merely to express moral indignation but also to help end the discrimination, we have to consider how best this will be achieved. [More…]
For this Government, the basic condition will be South Africa’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
This is an unnecessary and an unfair discrimination. [More…]
Another effect is the price discrimination section of the Act which was borrowed by the former Government from a similar United States statute. [More…]
I recently lodged with the Consul at the Russian Embassy a petition containing 2500 signatures protesting at the harsh treatment meted out to Soviet Jewry, decrying the discrimination against them and highlighting the consistent refusal of the Russian authorities to grant exit visas to them. [More…]
There had been too much neglect, too much moralising, stigmatisation and discrimination against these women, and too much of that was to the disadvantage of the innocent infants who were their offspring. [More…]
There would be few honest men in this Parliament who could not enumerate great numbers of incidents where women in this category had come into their offices and detailed not only the harrowing circumstances under which they tried to make ends meet and raise their children but also the problems of maintaining equipoise with their personality, maintaining their self-respect, maintaining their sanity in the light of the discrimination that existed in the past. [More…]
The discrimination between A, B and C class widows was removed. [More…]
The Chairman of the Committee has been associated with a company that has been embroiled in several investigations of the Trade Practices Commission, involving massive price discrimination designed to destroy competition by selling goods below cost. [More…]
The Minister gives no reason for singling out price discrimination and mergers as 2 particular areas for the attention of the Committee. [More…]
The fact is, as he points out, that if the pre- 1959 fund, which has not yet been distributed, is wound up, there is a real risk of unfair discrimination against these older superannuees who are already getting what I consider to be a bad deal. [More…]
So in this respect there should be no discrimination either for or against Aboriginals and those who misbehave in a way which upsets their neighbours should be treated in the same way as those whites who we know do misbehave. [More…]
The honourable member asked me to consider a suggestion he put forward regarding an alleged area of discrimination and, responsibly, I will say that I will give it consideration. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have shown their complete discrimination against such people by breaking every promise on indexation that they have given since 13 December. [More…]
Honourable members might note that the Government has flagged for the Committee’s special attention 2 practices -mergers and price discrimination. [More…]
But what of proceedings under the proposed new section 163a relating to practices for which clearance is not available, such as monopolisation, exclusive dealing under subsections 47 (3) and 47 (4) resale price maintenance and price discrimination? [More…]
He said that there was no public demand in the case of the price discrimination section of the legislation. [More…]
In all these welfare issues that have been debated in the Parliament, I have noted that he has derived great hilarity from the concern expressed by the members of the Opposition about people affected by the discrimination and the unfairness of the burden which has been imposed on these sections of the community. [More…]
Indeed, two of the cuts cast serious doubts on Australia’s status as a signatory to the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The cut in the appropriation for ‘Committees on Discrimination in Employment’ is almost half of the total-$24,000 out of $50,000. [More…]
I referred earlier to the fact that the cuts cast serious doubts on whether we have fulfilled our obligations under the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
We became party to this Convention with the passing of the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]
In other words, the new Government has effectively prevented the full expression of the Racial Discrimination Act and has rendered impossible one of the key provisions of the Act. [More…]
If this Government is not prepared to allow the Council to be established, I ask the Minister whether he will give effect to article 14 ( 1 ) of the Schedule of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
That article provides that a State Party may at any time declare that it recognises the competence of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to receive and consider communications from individuals or groups of individuals within its jurisdiction claiming to be victims of a violation by that State Party of any of the rights set forth in the Convention. [More…]
States Parties undertake to adopt immediate and effective measures particularly in the fields of teaching, education, culture and information with a view to combating prejudices which lead to racial discrimination and to promoting understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations and racial or ethnical groups, as well as to propagating the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations [More…]
Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and this Convention. [More…]
But before I outline the ways in which the cuts have had this effect, it is worth noting the views of the present Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs when the Racial Discrimination Act was debated on 8 April 1975 and he was speaking for the then Opposition. [More…]
He talked on 2 distinct types of discrimination. [More…]
The Minister referred to deliberate and inadvertent discrimination. [More…]
Whilst the effect on the victim is manifestly the same, that discrimination which comes about by inadvertence implies no underlying hostility on the part of the discriminator. [More…]
This is important because if discrimination comes about through inadvertence there are no underlying community attitudes which have to be changed. [More…]
This cut has totally negated the educational component of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
3 ) If so, is the reason for the present discrimination due to the existence of the disease of bluetongue in the United States which is highly dangerous to the cattle and sheep population of Australia. [More…]
Since bluetongue is now reported to be present in Canada discrimination no longer exists. [More…]
Therefore, it was discrimination in favour of winemakers. [More…]
I have gone on public record as saying that if the decision making had been in my hands at the time the alteration was made, I would have gone ahead with this alteration because it was, I believed, a discrimination which should not continue. [More…]
We certainly hope that the discrimination which is currently brought about by this Bill in respect of the hire industry will be eliminated after due consideration over the weekend. [More…]
If this is to be the situation, all right; there is only one way to describe it- it is a naked and blatant exercise in Liberal discrimination for those people who put the Government in power and to whose tune the Government dances. [More…]
These proposals represent noxious price discrimination aimed at enfeebling, if not destroying, Medibank. [More…]
This is the sort of discrimination to which I was referring. [More…]
While I share completely the view- I am sure all members of the Government share it- that there should be no discrimination against individuals, I think it is fair to say that there would be very few cases in which individuals who did not have the benefit of some corporate existence would want or qualify for this type of assistance. [More…]
The Queensland Aurukun Associates Agreement Act, the Aborigines Act and the Torres Strait Islanders Act reek of paternalism and discrimination and stand in breach of United Nations and International Labour Organisation conventions. [More…]
They are also in breach of the Australian Government’s Racial Discrimination Act and the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands Discriminatory Laws Act of 1975. [More…]
Discrimination is probably one of the greatest hurdles with which Aboriginal people have to contend. [More…]
No matter where they go, they strike discrimination. [More…]
Whilst we may get away with discrimination against Aborigines who lack education and unsophisticated Aborigines coming out of the bush, we cannot train them, educate them and throw them back on the scrap heap. [More…]
It seems to me that under these circumstances there has been some discrimination against country dwellers. [More…]
3 ) If so, is the reason for the present discrimination due to the existence of the disease of bluetongue in the United States which is highly dangerous to the cattle and sheep population of Australia. [More…]
Since bluetongue is now reported to be present in Canada discrimination no longer exists. [More…]
I have compared the reporting of the lady reporters with the reporting of men- I have made a note of this because it has been my aim in life to overcome the discrimination against women which has been characteristic of the human race down through the centuries- and I am bound to say that the women reporters in this House are on the whole better than the men. [More…]
It is good to see that the discrimination between Australian persons and others who are not British subjects has been removed. [More…]
I am in favour of no discrimination against pregnant women over employment or promotion. [More…]
I appeal to certain women’s organisations and public service groups to look beyond their narrow borders and see the unfair discrimination against the vast majority of pregnant women in Australia before they push for any further maternity, paternity or parental leave conditions. [More…]
The staff freeze makes a mockery of the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]
At the present level the staff can deal with, and only in a limited way, direct complaints concerning specific instances of discrimination. [More…]
When the office of Commissioner for Community Relations was established it was envisaged that it would play a vital role in the community, that it would deal not only with specific complaints of instances of discrimination but also would actively initiate programs to rid our country of discrimination and racist attitudes. [More…]
It also underlies the hypocrisy of the Minister who, when the Racial Discrimination Bill was debated - [More…]
If there is anything that is a stark reality in the Budget it is the discrimination by this Government in favour of large mining corporations against small Australian companies. [More…]
I point out to the House that the stock valuation proposals will, in fact, correct a discrimination against some companies. [More…]
The measure announced by the Treasurer, therefore, will not be discriminatory in itself but it will correct an existing discrimination brought about by high levels of inflation. [More…]
The question concerns the national and State committees on discrimination in employment and occupation which were established following ratification of International Labour Organisation convention 1 1 1. [More…]
This would involve elimination of gross subsidies and price discrimination which has led to unfair competition. [More…]
How does he justify the sort of discrimination that arises for a very large number of people in the community who, if they wish to stay within the basic Medibank cover for public ward and medical insurance and take out optionally hospital insurance for intermediate ward cover, have to pay a lot more in total than if they were to go directly to a private fund, including Medibank Private if it is the person ‘s whim to take out that sort of cover? [More…]
This is evidence of the clear discrimination which is directed against the original concept of Medibank and further evidence of the determination of the Government generally to undermine the viability of the original concept and its attractiveness to the community. [More…]
On 4 March, the Minister told the Parliament that in deciding what sporting contacts would be permitted with South Africa: the basic condition will be South Africa’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
The Government is also opposed to racial discrimination in sport . [More…]
our objective is not merely to express moral indignation but also to help end the discrimination . [More…]
Let me make it clear, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) has made it clear on many occasions in this place that in line with its general attitude towards the apartheid system, the Australian Government firmly opposes racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
The Government is also opposed to racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
If our objective is not merely to express moral indignation but also to help end the discrimination, we have to consider how best this will be achieved. [More…]
For this Government, the basic condition will be South Africa’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
In line with its general attitude towards the apartheid system, the Australian Government firmly opposes racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
The maintenance of sporting contacts with South Africa will depend on that country’s willingness and ability to move away from racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
The Government is opposed to racial discrimination in sport. [More…]
But if our objective is not merely to express moral indigation but to help end the discrimination, we have to consider how this will best be achieved. [More…]
Discrimination based on the sex of the parent requiring assistance is against the spirit of this fundamental and quite proper principle. [More…]
So I would be very much opposed to any discrimination in that regard. [More…]
I have recently said publicly that the Department is now working on ways and means by which we can convert those unemployment benefits into work money, not in any sense of discrimination or to deny to Aboriginals their entitlement to unemployment benefit but to see that the money which would otherwise go into a community in that way and not be put to work is in fact put to work. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that last year the Racial Discrimination Act was passed by the Parliament. [More…]
One of the things that it did most significantly was to abolish discrimination based, amongst other things, on ethnic origins. [More…]
The creation of that Office and the appointment of this man to that position raised significantly the hopes of ethnic communities that positive discrimination in their favour may at last take place and that a good deal of discrimination that took place so unfairly in the community would be stopped. [More…]
Unfortunately the parties now occupying the Treasury bench have a long history of discrimination against persons with left wing leanings, as previous speakers have said. [More…]
No similar discrimination is practised against persons with extreme right wing political leanings. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) referred to the recommendation of the Trade Practices Review Committee to abolish section 49 of the Trade Practices Act which deals with price discrimination. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs who is responsible for administering the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
I wish to stress that the Commissioner for Community Relations is a statutory officer with certain functions set down in the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]
The Government supports the principles on which the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 is based and adheres firmly to the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination which Australia has ratified. [More…]
I made this suggestion simply because the booklet was not of a standard which in my view would bring any credit to the Commissioner or further the cause of those of us in the community who are opposed to racism and to discrimination based on racism. [More…]
All honourable gentlemen are opposed to racial discrimination and the Government is committed to its elimination in Australia. [More…]
I might say that there was absolutely no discrimination for or against these people. [More…]
Most of all, this discrimination in favour of the advantaged and the inference that the manual worker is in some way inferior is surely poor justice. [More…]
I will not now labour the point about the great inequalities and the discrimination applying to the Aboriginal people for all sorts of reasons. [More…]
I want to mention finally the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation which was formed following ratification of Convention No. [More…]
This country is bound by the Convention to monitor discrimination in employment and occupation, it having ratified that Convention. [More…]
This Committee, and the State committees, are quite crucial in ensuring that there is no discrimination in employment and occupation but they have not been able to meet for months. [More…]
This means that all the complaints about discrimination in employment and occupation are coming in to the staff of the committees but they cannot be processed by the committees. [More…]
If this Government really believes what it said in its policy speech last year about how it believed in abolishing discrimination in employment and occupation, the Minister should immediately appoint a chairman of those committees and allow them to meet and reduce the massive backlog. [More…]
The honourable member also referred to discrimination committees. [More…]
The Government wants to end that vicious discrimination which Labor inflicted on country people and begin to heal the breach between city and country people which was fostered by the Labor Party in its 3 years of office. [More…]
To date, no answer has been provided why this apparent discrimination is to be exercised against serving members of the defence forces. [More…]
Is it true that one of the reasons for the veto on publication of the booklet is ‘an unnecessary expense considering that discrimination is an everyday event’? [More…]
What is this Government’s stance in relation to discrimination against ethnic groups in this country? [More…]
Essentially, as I mentioned in the House some time ago, I did not believe that the standard of the booklet or the collection of material was such as to enhance any attitudes against discrimination in the community if it was publicly made available. [More…]
Why should there be such discrimination against large families? [More…]
Why this discrimination? [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to a scurrilous advertisement that appeared in the Australian of 29 October last, which sets out the most infamous resolution ever passed by the United Nations, whereby Zionism was said to foster the growth of racism and racial discrimination. [More…]
Racism and racial discrimination, including apartheid, are abhorrent not only to the people of Israel but also to all other peoples of the world who similarly cherish democracy. [More…]
Never let it be forgotten that the Jews themselves are the classic victims of racial discrimination and that their martyrs over the centuries run into tens of millions. [More…]
Again, this smacks of paternalism and discrimination and portends perhaps the Minister’s fears of the articulate and educated Aborigines of the south influencing their northern brothers and sisters. [More…]
I say to the honourable member for the Northern Territory that if discrimination is justified I believe in it. [More…]
Of course I believe in discrimination in a compensatory way. [More…]
Aborigines at the present time need a great deal of discrimination in their favour, and we did establish a system of compensatory education. [More…]
I am speaking of the need for discrimination where people are in need. [More…]
I am not speaking about adverse determination or accusing anybody of adverse discrimination at the moment. [More…]
1 ) Is there discrimination against a particular age group of blind pensioners relative to other blind pensioners which has been brought about by actions of the former Labor Government. [More…]
If so, what is being done to remove this discrimination. [More…]
1 ) and (2 ) There is no discrimination against any particular group of blind pensioners relative to other blind pensioners under the Social Services Act. [More…]
In view of the growing discontent amongst petrol resellers in various parts of the country at the effect of wholesale price discrimination, particularly in favour of ACTU-Solo, can the Minister give any indication as to when the Government will announce its decision on the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Petroleum? [More…]
Why the discrimination in favour of this group? [More…]
These people then get a further discrimination in their favour by having 12 months to pay their levy. [More…]
-This evening I wish to raise a matter of discrimination against women. [More…]
Nevertheless there is a strong case for continuing to pursue the elimination of discrimination against women where it exists. [More…]
It would seem to me that the Australian Defence Force continues to be a bastion of such discrimination. [More…]
As a sequel, it was necessary for the Australian Government to introduce the Racial Discrimination Act and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act which was assented to on 19 June 1975. [More…]
Social, economic, ecological and environmental deterioration which are exemplified at the national and international levels by inequalities in living conditions, social segregation, racial discrimination, acute unemployment, illiteracy, disease and poverty, the breakdown of social relationships and traditional cultural values and the increasing degradation of life-supporting resources of air, water and land; [More…]
These policies must facilitate the rapid and continuous improvement in the quality of life of all people, beginning with the satisfaction of the basic needs of food, shelter, clean water, employment, health, education, training, social security without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, ideology, national or social origin or other cause, in a frame of freedom, dignity and social justice. [More…]
It is therefore the duty of all people and Governments to join the struggle against any form of colonialism, foreign aggression and occupation, domination, apartheid and all forms of racism and racial discrimination referred to in the resolutions as adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. [More…]
However, the Government has accepted the recommendation of the review committee that the prohibition of price discrimination be repealed. [More…]
Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 I present the first annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]
One particular matter to which I would like to refer relates to the assertion that there is a widespread breach of our international obligations under the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
The initiative to combat racial discrimination was taken by the Labor Government. [More…]
If you reject a man on the grounds of his politics or his religion, he may change them to please you, but if you reject him on the ground of race in any way whatsoever by discrimination in regard to his land rights, there is no way in the world he can change his race to please you. [More…]
I would like to make it quite clear that there is absolutely no discrimination at all against the appointment to positions of permanent head of what might be normally termed outsiders in the sense that they are not members of the Public Service. [More…]
I understand that my colleague the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) will be speaking on the question of price discrimination later in the debate. [More…]
The Government has said clearly that it accepts the recommendations of the review committee that price discrimination and other matters need to be given a proper scrutiny. [More…]
It is essential that we look, in the Australian context, in which we have such an oligopolistic market structure, at price discrimination. [More…]
There is, I believe, a general acceptance that it has been useful in the area of price discrimination in the United States, but it certainly took, at the least, 25 to 30 years for that to come about. [More…]
In looking at that time frame we have to look at the difficulties caused by an intervening war and at the post-war period when it was not relied on and when it was not a matter of great litigation, but I believe the essential justification for legislation on price discrimination remains as valid today as it was in the United States 40 years ago. [More…]
Let us look at the basis upon which the Government has decided to repeal section 49 which deals with price discrimination. [More…]
that price discrimination brings price flexibility, and that price flexibility is at the very heart of competitive behaviour. [More…]
Put shortly, it is that a law controlling price discrimination will have a long term influence on structural trends that will be pro-competitive by ensuring survival of small business interests that can continue to compete. [More…]
This whole area of competition law with which we are dealing is not something in which we will see rapid changes in market place behaviour since the Trade Practices Act came into operation, both in 1974 and certain provisions such as that relating to price discrimination in 1975. [More…]
That is what the Commission said in relation to price discrimination. [More…]
The Trade Practices Commission refers particularly to the fact that it believes that in making its recommendations on the question of price discrimination the Swanson Committee very likely went beyond its term of reference. [More…]
I would like to turn to section 49 of the Actthe price discrimination section- which this legislation proposes to repeal. [More…]
The price discrimination provisions were put into this Act as a result of the Murphy legislation. [More…]
We have discussed tonight in considerable detail the sections dealing with prices discrimination. [More…]
I should like to commend to all honourable members the reading of section 7 of the Swanson Committee report, which deals with price discrimination. [More…]
The section dealing with price discrimination has been the subject of considerable discussion because of the involvement and the conflict of that section with the operations of the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
If honourable members would care to look at an article by Mr Charles Filgate Giles appearing at page 555 of the Australian Law Journal of November 1976 they will see, under the heading ‘Price Discrimination- s. 49’, some more detailed reference to the United States experience, which has been very similar to our own. [More…]
While that prospect of uncertainty exists, is it any wonder that the price discrimination clauses have not been effective? [More…]
But I can say that in moving around my electorate- the large city of Parramatta- I have not had people coming up to me and saying: ‘Ruddock, you have to maintain those price discrimination clauses because to do otherwise would have a disastrous effect upon small business’. [More…]
I put it to honourable members opposite that the provisions of section 49, which they are emasculating, section 47- there the Government is not putting in the provisions required for price discrimination particularly in the retail section of the oil industry- and section 73A, the link provisions, are .being ignored because the Government will be obliged to do so. [More…]
They believe that section 49 has in many instances prevented unfair discrimination and that it has been a major factor in the survival of small business. [More…]
The Royal Commission on Petroleum recommended after an extensive study of petroleum marketing and a close observation of the effects of price discrimination that section 49 be strengthened along the lines of the Clayton Act in the United States. [More…]
There is no real worry about price discrimination now. [More…]
It is discrimination at its worst. [More…]
The prohibition of price discrimination is repealed. [More…]
The Government is of the view- I agree with this -that price discrimination arrangements worked to inhibit price flexibility and did not encourage competition. [More…]
It has practised social ostracism and even racial discrimination and petty obstruction against highly skilled specialists in a way which is contrary to the so-called ethical standards of the medical profession and in total disregard of the interests of the public. [More…]
Medibank: Discrimination by Private Doctors (Question No. [More…]
Is he aware that the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils is deeply concerned by the decision and that it is regarded by some Muslims as an act of discrimination against the Islamic faith? [More…]
The Karmel report clearly shows the obvious discrimination that there has been in education in Australia for many years. [More…]
Nothing has been heard of the promised legislation on sex or race discrimination. [More…]
When dealing with South Africa the Minister stated that we are maintaining a policy of correct diplomatic relations with South Africa to oppose without reservation that country’s policies of racial discrimination. [More…]
We have heard nothing of the proposed legislation on sex or race discrimination, or legislation on pollution control and effective means of appeal to protect applicants for unemployment benefits from official abuses. [More…]
It enters into the question of quality of life in the cities, and the provision of public services, the organisation of the economy, the planning of land use and resources, the protection of the environment, and the need to overcome disparities and discrimination. [More…]
Under the pretence of freedom, we know that there are inside the borders of the Soviet Union discrimination, persecution and worse of all who profess any religion because, as Lenin said, communism is necessarily militant atheism. [More…]
Some of these people in the Soviet Union had had the tremendous courage to face martyrdom to face deprivation, to face discrimination, to face persecution. [More…]
It has produced discriminations over a wide field of human endeavour. [More…]
There are legal discriminations. [More…]
There is social discrimination, whether it is the efforts of the people of Bega or of Kempsey to prevent houses being built in their street, or, the one more difficult to locate, the employer who refuses to give an Aborigine a job, or the proprietor of a hotel or a boarding house who finds he has no vacancies left if applied for by an Aborigine. [More…]
But there is one less forgiveable, more easily removable discrimination. [More…]
The expenditure on schools and general public services in these townships is nowhere near comparable to the expenditure on an equivalent white township, and economic discrimination resulting from the poverty of their general surroundings and their own personal position, and there is one which I recall at the moment negative discrimination’. [More…]
So many favourite beliefs have to be challenged, so many people have to be confronted vigorously on the question of discrimination of all sons that it will only be with the full support of all Parliaments, both parties and both Houses, that this will be attacked effectively in the next few years. [More…]
It was natural that in our first period of government we set about restoring women’s rights, and removing discrimination in all its social, economic or legal forms. [More…]
We recognised that for women to take their place in society on a basis of dignity and equality it was necessary to remove discrimination and, beyond that, to meet the needs of women in overcoming handicaps. [More…]
We established committees on discrimination in employment and an inquiry into the educational needs of women and girls. [More…]
And undoubtedly there is more to be done in removing discrimination and promoting sexual equality, but it is time we turned our minds to broader issues as well. [More…]
Whatever party they belong to it is time the Government looked to safeguarding the ordinary rights of students to hold political opinions of their own without fear of discrimination at the academic level. [More…]
There should be no discrimination on the grounds of race, nationality, politics, sex or creed. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 states clearly that the Commissioner should throw out a complaint if he believes the complaint to be quite frivolous, vexatious or not made in good faith. [More…]
Did the Royal Commission on Petroleum recommend that section 49 of the Trade Practices Act be amended in line with the Clayton Act of the United States of America to prevent price discrimination. [More…]
Indeed, there is no discrimination against Aboriginals in the Social Service Act. [More…]
But we do not want this discrimination not only in funding but also in courses so that we have a third grade tier. [More…]
By condoning this situation we are condoning a far more subtle, and in the long term effects, a more drastic form of racial discrimination than anything known or practised hitherto. [More…]
It took Australia 6 years to accede to the 1960 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation convention against discrimination in education. [More…]
I believe it involves discrimination in the sense that many companies, particularly those to which I shall refer shortly, who sell houses on terms contracts appear to sell primarily to migrants. [More…]
Discrimination reigns supreme in every area to which one can point. [More…]
We will revert to the old system of discrimination which applied before Labor took office. [More…]
The Bill no longer provides for the abolition of section 49- the section which prohibits anticompetitive price discrimination. [More…]
It covers matters not previously touched, for example mergers, price discrimination, exclusive dealing, and consumer protection. [More…]
On 25 November 1975 the Women’s Trade Union Commission and the Queensland Women’s Trade Union Committee received grants of $40,000 and $500 respectively from the International Women’s Year allocation, to undertake activities which would assist women unionists and would work towards the elimination of discrimination against women in trade unions. [More…]
Does this apply to pensioners as well as to others and is it a form of discrimination in that when a person is required to occupy a bed other than a standard bed he is denied cover even up to the standard rate although he may be prepared to pay the difference between standard and intermediate or standard and private ward cost? [More…]
If so, what plans has the Minister to eliminate this most regrettable discrimination? [More…]
A basic principle is that there should be no discrimination between trading partners. [More…]
The Government itself has seen fit to ignore recommendations of that Committee in respect of other matters, such as mergers and price discrimination. [More…]
Again, price discrimination under section 49, which has been retained by the legislation before us, and perhaps there will be some further reference to it, is still contrary to the recommendation of the Swanson Committee. [More…]
In the second reading debate, such as it was, that we were permitted on the December legislative proposals that the Minister introduced, it fell to the Labor side of this House to champion the interests of small business and successfully to defend the repeal of section 49 in relation to price discrimination. [More…]
The other material which will be deleted by the amendment might raise accidental inferences leading to an undesirable narrow interpretation -for example, that conduct did not include price discrimination. [More…]
The proposition that in some way the total effect of this legislation represents discrimination against the trade union movement to the advantage of private enterprise in Australian society is, in my view, a wholly unfounded proposition. [More…]
How shameful it was that in that defence of section 49 and in that defence of the price discrimination laws of this country we were not assisted by one Government member in the debate earlier this year. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the chamber are aware of the difficulties in working out price discrimination laws, but they have advantages in the relatively medium term in restructuring the Australian economy on a more soundly competitive basis. [More…]
Like the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam), I think it is of great significance that this Government, which came to power on the wave of being generous to business, understanding business and representing business, has been forced to retain section 49, dealing with price discrimination, at the behest, perseverence and representation of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
These reports recommended major amendments to the procedures governing the payment of unemployment benefits to Aborigines, the extension of the very successful vocational officer service, further development of Aboriginal employment schemes, and the implementation of anti-discrimination legislation. [More…]
The need for special initiatives in the field of Aboriginal employment stems from the high level of Aboriginal unemployment, lack of general education, formal and on-the-job training, work experience and discrimination against them. [More…]
The Royal Commission report ranges over such diverse things as the development of the Island’s economy, whether cows and horses should be able to continue to roam across it, whether duty free status should be continued, whether there should be a law library on the Island; matrimonial causes, legal aid, a prison and law enforcement, racial discrimination, unionism and social services. [More…]
As my allegations subsequently have been proved correct and no malice was intended on my part, does my experience testify to the fact that the Racial Discrimination Act can in some instances work against the freedom and rights of everyone? [More…]
Associated with that measure will be amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Under the Racial Discrimination Act as it is presently framed the Commissioner for Community Relations on receipt of a complaint which has, of course, to come from the person aggrieved or affected by the incident complained about, does have the power to refuse to entertain a complaint on certain grounds. [More…]
In that respect, again I can only say to him that I will give attention to it when considering amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
It will vest in the Commission functions under other Acts, such as the Racial Discrimination Act, relating to human rights. [More…]
There is a growing complexity of laws in Australia dealing with privacy and with discrimination of grounds of race, colour, sex and marital status and other laws. [More…]
There also has been a movement towards the introduction of legislation on specific matters, such as racial discrimination, discrimination on grounds of sex or marital status, criminal investigation and invasions of privacy. [More…]
The Commission is to have functions under other Commonwealth Acts- such as the Racial Discrimination Act- or under a State Act that vests functions in the Commission. [More…]
I hope I heard him correctly and that this is not a case of discrimination against those people who are not medical practitioners. [More…]
In accordance with the Racial Discrimination Act, this amounts to a slur upon the Japanese. [More…]
Committees on Discrimination in Employment (Question No. [More…]
1 ) How many meetings has (a) the national and (b) each State Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation held since 1 1 November 1975. [More…]
If that becomes a widespread belief then the basis for racialism, discrimination and perhaps worse is established. [More…]
We are so conscious these days of removing discrimination in employment that the community, and certainly the trade union movement, should give more attention to this aspect. [More…]
The aims and objectives of ICAO are to develop the principles and techniques of international air transport so as to ensure the safe and orderly growth of international civil aviation throughout the world; to encourage the arts of aircraft design and operation for peaceful purposes; to encourage the development of airways, airports and air navigation facilities for international civil aviation; to meet the needs of the peoples of the world for safe, regular, efficient and economic air transport; to prevent economic waste caused by unreasonable competition; to ensure that the rights of contracting states are fully respected and that every contracting state has a fair opportunity to operate international airlines; to avoid discrimination between contracting states; to promote safety of flight in international air navigation; and to promote generally the development of all aspects of civil aeronautics. [More…]
Mr Grassby, with the powers which he holds under the Racial Discrimination Act as the Commissioner, has an obligation to come to grips with the matter and to say to Senator Colston: ‘Mr Cameron claimed that a group of people were doing this? [More…]
I am glad that this discrimination against women and that most essential role of the housewife and mother have been recognised by the Government. [More…]
Discrimination against women in the assessment of the sickness benefit has also been removed. [More…]
As a first step, there should be a supporting parents benefit similar to the supporting mothers benefit so there is no discrimination because of sex. [More…]
I think it would be a big step backwards as it would mean that we would be creating discrimination, et cetera, amongst those people. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has written to me, informing me- his letter is dated 22 September- that under the Racial Discrimination Act such inquiries are to be made only by the Commissioner himself. [More…]
The activities of the Government from the time it took office have been directed towards getting rid of Grassby or, alternatively, of getting the Office into an area where he would be suppressed so that he could not carry out his role of providing protection against racial discrimination. [More…]
That office has done a splendid job in encouraging a sense of dignity among people who have come to this country to make their lives, to even out discrimination against them and to alert the Australian community to shortcomings in the present set-up. [More…]
I suppose, in some measure, I was to blame in that case because I could not see why there should be some discrimination against Queanbeyan public houses as distinct from Canberra public houses. [More…]
I say quite firmly that I am not against price cutting; only where discrimination - [More…]
discrimination or unequal status based on race cannot be eliminated, and may not even be affected, by preventing the collecting of data which will reveal its extent, in all probability this will merely allow inequalities to continue unchecked, especially since those responsible can then deny the inequalities exist. [More…]
From what Mr Burns has passed on to me, it would appear that the most glaring instances of discrimination against him arise in matters concerning rural policy. [More…]
The consumer price index cements the argument that there is discrimination against farmers. [More…]
The Government has decided to remove an element of discrimination existing in relation to the eligibility of married women to receive sickness benefit. [More…]
111.- Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) 1958- is in such a form that it is not mandatory for a ratifying country to enact legislation in order to implement its provisions. [More…]
Accordingly, when Australia ratified this Convention in 1973, the National and State Employment Discrimination Committees were established shortly thereafter, on a nonlegislative basis, in order to give effect to its provisions. [More…]
As the honourable member will also recall, this nonlegislative approach which was adopted by the Commonwealth Government in 1973, had the support of all the State governments,’ as well as of the national employers’ organisations and the trade union movement, and the tripartite membership of the Employment Discrimination Committees reflected this tripartite support. [More…]
Moreover, because these Employment Discrimination Committees were established by the Commonwealth, with the full support of all the States, there were no problems involving jurisdiction and no demarcation disputes, while the participation of non-governmental representatives, nominated by the employers and the unions, enabled the Committees to resolve complaints of discrimination which they received in a way which may not have been possible if their membership had been restricted to the governmental level. [More…]
However, since the Employment Discrimination Committees were established, the Commonwealth has enacted its Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and, in addition, the New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 1977, as well as the South Australian Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Racial Discrimination Act 1976, have been adopted. [More…]
As all this legislation applies, inter alia, to the proscription of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation, at least on the grounds of race and sex, it does provide some legislative basis for giving effect to some of the provision of ILO Convention No. [More…]
Ill, even in respect of race and sex, has given rise to questions of jurisdiction, to demarcation disputes, as well as to problems of duplication, overlap and uncertainty, as well as to confusion among the Australian community, and very real difficulties from the point of view of the Employment Discrimination Committees. [More…]
In these circumstances, and given these recent legislative developments, I am examining the desirability of discussion with the States, as well as with the national employers’ organisations and the trade union movement (through the National Labour Consultative Council), on the possibility of providing a legislative basis for the National and State Employment Discrimination Committees. [More…]
In any case, in undertaking the considerable task of investigating alleged discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union, the-. [More…]
This type of discrimination should not exist in our society. [More…]
Article 2 which relates to discrimination has certainly been breached in my view so far as the treatment of Aboriginals and women are concerned. [More…]
I agreed that the subdivision in toto should be removed, but to remove half of it on the basis that it is known which way the people will vote is a blatant discrimination against the people in that electorate. [More…]
The Western Australian redistribution enshrines the most serious and deliberate discrimination against Aborigines in Australia. [More…]
As a result of this discrimination against Aborigines, the new electorate of Kalgoorlie is larger in size and larger in population than it need be if all eligible Abongines were enrolled. [More…]
Discrimination against Aborigines has diluted the vote of all other Australians in the Kalgoorlie electorate. [More…]
There can be now no doubt about the source of that discrimination. [More…]
The extent of discrimination against and intimidation of Aborigines has been fully disclosed in the Court of Disputed Returns over the last few months. [More…]
Not all forms of discrimination are so blatant as that practised against Aborigines in Western Australia. [More…]
I want to mention one other form of discrimination, and that is the discrimination against persons who are Commonwealth citizens, in particular citizens from Cyprus and Malta and who therefore, under our laws, are not only entitled to vote after they have resided in Australia for six months but are compelled to vote. [More…]
That New South Wales has thus suffered adverse discrimination at Commonwealth hands. [More…]
The Government is removing some discrimination against married women. [More…]
If the Government were to grant equal pay to women to fight discrimination and so on it would do that by reducing the male rate of pay. [More…]
This is a major discrimination against those families in the country who find it difficult to keep their children when they leave school and cannot find a job. [More…]
Can he supply the following for each State: (a) what Federal Government departments, authorities or commissions buy bulk supplies of petroleum, (b) what price do they pay, (c) from which oil company or companies do they purchase petrol, (d) what is the wholesale price of petrol as charged to lessee petrol resellers by lack of these companies in the States concerned and, do these figures reveal any evidence of price discrimination. [More…]
14) What action does he propose to ensure that the price discrimination practised by oil companies is prohibited in accordance with the price discrimination provisions in the Trade Practices Act [More…]
14) The Trade Practices Act already prohibits forms of price discrimination that have or are likely to have, the effect of substantially lessening competition. [More…]
Complaints re Discrimination (R. 183)- This recommendation is being examined along with recommendations 176 and 187 and others in the current review of overall grievance processes, which are to be considered further by the Government. [More…]
I am very disturbed to think that there may be some feelings of discrimination against such taxpayers. [More…]
The Minister recently, as I recall his statement as accurately as I can, said that there is to be no discrimination, or no discrimination against commuter aircraft, that there is no move to shift commuter aircraft out of Mascot, but a system of priority based on weight has been developed. [More…]
Some of the problems of unemployment are brought about by more discrimination on the part of those seeking jobs. [More…]
We have to accept greater discrimination amongst job seekers as something desirable. [More…]
That is discrimination. [More…]
It is not possible to sweep away the mark of discrimination and inequality in two or three years. [More…]
Sometimes, unfortunately, those dealers are left in a difficult situation in which one could say that gross discrimination occurs. [More…]
Whilst we may boast that we are without doubt one of the most prosperous nations in the world, we are also a nation with pockets of poverty, with seams of discrimination, and with an everwidening band of individual intolerance. [More…]
Measures which assist particular industries are forms of economic discrimination. [More…]
It is a system of institutionalised racial segregation and racial domination which provides for discrimination against blacks in all walks of life. [More…]
Clearly the Government takes as little interest in the status of Australian women- and the discrimination they still endure- as it does in the affairs of our migrant communities. [More…]
This type of discrimination should not exist in our society. [More…]
Other files include information on homosexuals; Eastern and Orthodox Church groups; worker participation movements; campaigns against racial discrimination; Persons involved in divorce law reform . [More…]
Does this reversal confirm the complaints by many small businessmen that there is widespread discrimination by financial institutions against lending to small business? [More…]
These include international obligations against discrimination and racism. [More…]
We keep hearing about declining inflation, however minor and temporary it may be, but the dole queues are extending, people on the poverty line are getting poorer and those in the unfortunate position of being discriminated against are being subjected to even more discrimination. [More…]
That is absolute discrimination. [More…]
If that is not discrimination against a section of the community, I do not know what it is. [More…]
I think the areas that need to be assessed by the House and by the Government are the areas of price, services or facilities, in which discrimination may be imposed on small businessmen. [More…]
It goes a long way towards removing some of the discrimination that people must face due to their remoteness. [More…]
I hope that we will get rid of some of the discrimination and poor practice that has been obvious in the industry and that, having achieved that, the ultimate objectives of this Government of stability, progress, increased production and an increasingly beneficial way of life to all Australians will be achieved. [More…]
The Royal Commission on Petroleum in its fourth report detailed the problems of cross subsidisation, price discrimination and over capitalisation which plague the petrol market. [More…]
He knows that there is unfairness, a discrimination in the market place and that is the reason he is upset tonight. [More…]
-Obviously the honourable member supports the discrimination against Tasmania. [More…]
If the honourable member for Wilmot is happy to say that he supports discrimination against the people of Tasmania and all that that entails in regard to the cost structure of Tasmanian products and the burden that that places upon Tasmania in getting its products to the mainland, he ought to stand up and say so. [More…]
It is conscious of the discrimination in prices across Australia and it is determined to do something about it. [More…]
There has been no action that this House knows of to enforce the laws passed in 1975 against discrimination generally and, in particular, against discrimination in the Queensland law concerning Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
Hopefully before much longer the relics of discrimination which riddle those laws will be removed. [More…]
Under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975 we gave Aborigines rights over their properties, we ended wage discrimination, we established their rights to have legal representation in courts and we ended the odious permanent entry system onto reserves. [More…]
The authority of that legislation, in conjunction with the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975, the Aboriginal Land Fund Act and the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act of 1976 gave the Government, if those authorities were taken up, a great deal of clout in its relations with the Queensland Government in the matter of Aboriginal welfare and rights. [More…]
Between them the laws I have quoted would have removed odious discrimination from the laws, regulations and by-laws in Queensland. [More…]
Unless one has actually seen and experienced the situation, it would be hard to credit that, in 1976, such oppression could be practised by the Queensland Government and its agencies against a section of its citizens; or that a State Government daily flouts two Federal laws, namely the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) and the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
If the Government were thoroughly genuine in this matter it would have long ago taken up the authority available to it under the legislation that we introduced to eliminate racial discrimination in all of its odious, oppressive and insidious forms in Queensland. [More…]
I refer, for instance, to the Aboriginal Land Fund Act, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act, the Racial Discrimination Act, the Aboriginal Lands and Associations Act. [More…]
In spite of that, not only was the authority under the Racial Discrimination Act not adopted but also the evidence is that the Minister prevented it from being adopted in defence of Aboriginal rights. [More…]
Your letter of 7 December 1977 was also the first advice to me that the Commission had taken relevant legal advice in respect of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
By itself that might not have seemed so significant, although it is certainly worrying; but in association with other matters for which the Minister has been responsible, clearly what he was seeking to do was to impose a fiscal discrimination, a fiscal prohibition, on the Land Fund Commission which was very rightly seeking to exercise the authority available to it to protect the rights of Aboriginals in Queensland. [More…]
He does not understand the way in which the Queensland Laws Racial Discrimination Act, which was passed by his own Government, operates. [More…]
Further, the Commission said that it desired legal action to be taken under the Racial Discrimination Act, if that was possible. [More…]
It seeks to strike down the very abuses of human rights, of which the honourable gentleman spoke- the discriminatory actions and legislation of the Queensland Governmentbut it does it in such a way that it creates a right in the hands of any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander in Queensland to protect himself against discrimination by reason of the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
The honourable gentleman said that there was some evidence to the effect that I had prevented action being taken under the Racial Discrimination Act arising out of the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations on Queensland. [More…]
The honourable gentleman ought to know what is provided for in the Racial Discrimination Act by way of inquiry and report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
I ) Letters sent to Dr Rowley of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission of 3 February 1978 concerning land purchases in Queensland and the prohibition of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission from obtaining legal advice under the Racial Discrimination Act - [More…]
1 ) Letters sent to Dr Rowley of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission of 3 February 1 978 concerning land purchases in Queensland and the prohibition of the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission from obtaining legal advice under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
If, as a matter of policy, FM reverted to (say) 5 per cent of its music being rock, its audience would increase greatly, and no one could level at ABC-FM a charge of blatant discrimination against rock music listeners. [More…]
Australians are true to the belief in liberty and equality and the brotherhood of all people, then we will see Aboriginals move in dramatic fashion out of the crippling mire of poverty, protection and discrimination … we will see Aboriginals do it for themselves . [More…]
But, in the mere fact that he has proposed an amendment to the Act, he also admits that differences do exist in the administration of Aboriginal communities and that of other communities and that it is the right of Aboriginals to maintain those differences so that they have some protection against intrusions, the incursions and the irresponsibilities and, indeed, the racism, suppression and discrimination of which he complains in his speech on the ‘winds of change’. [More…]
The amendment to section 45A of the Act, by clause 8 of this Bill, is designed to remove any unintended discrimination between goods and services. [More…]
In the Press release the Minister for Transport and the National Country Party are accused of porkbarrel politics and discrimination. [More…]
The major charge is that Connair as the so-called opposition airline to SAATAS has been given unfair Government assistance and I and the National Country Party stand accused of pork barrel politics and discrimination. [More…]
There was clearly no discrimination, nor could there have been under the procedures followed in the matter. [More…]
There has been no discrimination against SAATAS or any other operator. [More…]
I have documents which show the Minister has made misleading public statements about the Government’s sustained preferential treatment of Connair and its discrimination against a rival operator, South Australian and Territorial Air Services. [More…]
There has been tremendous discrimination against Canberra, particularly against business, through the general cutting back in government expenditure, the way it reflects on turnover in the city, on the building trade and on employment opportunities generally. [More…]
In the view of the Opposition it is a rather vague and uncertain basis for such discrimination, especially as the Commissioner of Taxation has an inadequate knowledge at this stage of the income year as to the extent of the various schemes in operation. [More…]
Let us prevent any discrimination and date them all back to 1 July 1 977. [More…]
The Government supports, as it always has supported, the principle of equal pay and the policy of non-discrimination. [More…]
Through the very successful national and State discrimination committees, the role of women in the work force has been significantly protected. [More…]
The south coast mines were subjected to price discrimination. [More…]
In Britain discrimination against disabled people is actively discouraged. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that towards the end of last year the Prime Minister announced that after the election a conference of all sections of the oil industry would be called to discuss certain disagreements, particularly in relation to alleged price discrimination within the industry. [More…]
As employment in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs is determined by the capacity of officers to meet the normal requirements for employment in the Commonwealth Public Service, a requirement that a person should or should not be a first generation migrant or should or should not be from a particular ethnic background would appear to be in conflict with the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
What steps have been taken by the Commonwealth and each State, to (a) abolish laws which breach international conventions, the Racial Discrimination Act and announced Commonwealth policies, and (b) to implement outside the Northern Territory the Woodward Commission’s recommendations on land rights as legislated for the Territory. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament enacted the Racial Discrimination Act in 197S to implement the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. [More…]
All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. [More…]
Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. [More…]
For example, there has been action on the problems of discrimination, the status of women, the right of asylum, the administration of justice, freedom of information and so on. [More…]
One significant channel of contact for small business is the Productivity Promotion Council of Australia (PPCA), through which the Working Environment Division of my Department (located in Melbourne), supports enterprise productivity improvement without discrimination as to the size of firms. [More…]
1 ) Between what dates has the Commissioner for Community Relations been consulted by the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission concerning possible breaches of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, by the Premier of Queensland. [More…]
The Commissioner for Community Relations has advised that, in the course of an inquiry under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 in relation to an action of the Queensland Government, he sought assistance from several persons including the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission. [More…]
Quite clearly, not only is this an act of discrimination; the legislation also waters down the conditions of the serviceman. [More…]
What is happening here, as I said earlier, is really discrimination against the poor. [More…]
Constant personal contact in my electorate with cases of discrimination, abuse and obstruction by the Department in issuing unemployment benefit payments leads me to conclude that this callous departmental attitude is government policy. [More…]
Thus, it was considered that a stabilisation scheme was needed and that ‘the tests of practicality and reasonableness (which includes fairness to all without discrimination throughout Australia) are satisfied by the comprehensive compulsory scheme which has been adopted’. [More…]
Here we have a real discrimination against Australian industry and in favour of foreign based industry. [More…]
Before I deal with the actual estimates themselves, I want to say something about discrimination against women in this country. [More…]
Much has been said about discrimination in recent years and many people are in favour of eliminating discrimination against women. [More…]
I would like to suggest that, if we are really serious about ending discrimination against women, we ought to start right here in Parliament House. [More…]
Let me also suggest that perhaps we can start in this chamber by eliminating some of the discrimination that exists. [More…]
For instance, at the moment it is engaged in drawing up proposals for anti-discrimination legislation. [More…]
There is no discrimination against married women on the part of this Government. [More…]
Particularly among young whites, attitudes of prejudice and discrimination against non-whites are less evident than among older people. [More…]
There are still disadvantages, disabilities and discrimination for farmers in this situation. [More…]
Will he try to prevent such discrimination against persons who have generally given good service to a government authority? [More…]
It ill behoves one of the wealthiest men in this Parliament to be responsible for the imposition of such discrimination and disadvantage. [More…]
If that were done, there would be no need for such mean and penny-pinching discrimination to be imposed upon the more needy and the more deprived people in the community- the most trusting people in the community. [More…]
I advance the thought to the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the Minister for Construction (Mr McLeay) who are at the table, that when considering forward planning for good, decent living for all Australian people, they bear in mind that under the arrangements for the payment of family allowances and tertiary assistance there is some discrimination against big families. [More…]
Is the unemployment beneficiary in some sense morally less worthy, or is this discrimination one further piece of evidence to support this dole bludger syndrome which tends to lie behind much of the rhetoric of the Government on this question? [More…]
Does the Government regard this discrimination as being of minimal impact, as in a sense affecting only young people? [More…]
Is that the explanation for this discrimination? [More…]
) If so, what action has he taken to ensure that no person from another country suffers discrimination in employment because of his nationality. [More…]
) If not, will he make inquiries to see whether some employers and companies follow a policy of discrimination and will he take action to abolish the practice if this is the case. [More…]
There have been occasional such reports from the Commonwealth Employment Service, as well as complaints to the National and/or State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. [More…]
The latter Committees have been established as part of the machinery to give effect to Australia’s ratification of ILO Convention No.111 - Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958. [More…]
and (3) With its ratification (in 1 973) of this ILO Convention, the Government is committed to eliminating discrimination in employment and occupation on the grounds of, inter alia, race or national extraction. [More…]
The Employment Discrimination Committees are available to receive, and take remedial action on, complaints of employment discrimination on such grounds. [More…]
Persons who consider they have been discriminated against in their employment on grounds of race or national or ethnic origin may, alternatively or additionally, lodge a complaint with the Commissioner for Community Relations under the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
Finally, such persons who reside in New South Wales or South Australia, may seek redress under the provisions of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, or the SA Racial Discrimination Act 1 976, respectively. [More…]
That is some sort of discrimination when the service is available to six million people. [More…]
They are the effect of new technologies, employment and unemployment, discrimination in employment and the tripartite committee on issues affecting women in the work force. [More…]
The Minister posed a series of rhetorical questions but he did not explain away the discrimination he exhibited last Saturday in the raid on the headquarters of ACTU Jetset Travel Service Pty Ltd. [More…]
In any reasonable assessment of what happened last Saturday, it was a blundering, unnecessary performance and a clear exercise of political discrimination by a Minister who pleads the rights of democracy but practices the principles of partiality in support of those he wishes to advantage. [More…]
The only other area of discrimination and opposition to lower air fares has been against Australian Student Travel Service Pty Ltd. [More…]
The only construction that we can place upon the events of last Saturday are as follows: Firstly, they reveal the discrimination of this Government against the trade union movement and any efforts it makes to advantage the needs of its members; secondly, they reveal the Government’s inability to administer in an evenhanded, proper and responsible way its obligations under bilateral arrangements with nations and with the International Air Transport Association; and, thirdly, they reveal the Government’s blind and continuing opposition to the introduction of lower air fares. [More…]
This Government is determined to introduce low cost air fares that will benefit all Australians without discrimination, including all members of unions and all people who are not in unions. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Transport had an opportunity to consider a report today that Qantas Airways Ltd is applying discrimination against Jewish passengers? [More…]
There can be discrimination against Australian citizens of a particular faith, and that is of concern to the Government. [More…]
So we are going to find this discrimination in one industry vis-a-vis another or one company vis-a-vis another within an industry. [More…]
Not only are we going to find the initial discrimination based on pork barrelling, as there will be in this new set up; we are also going to find that discrimination compounded. [More…]
It is fundamental to our own Constitution that no person shall be subjected to penalties or to any form of discrimination based on his religious beliefs. [More…]
Our major responsibility is to ensure that people of Jewish faith in Australia and elsewhere are free to practise their faith without being subjected to any forms of discrimination or hindrance. [More…]
It would seem to me that this Dutch born person who, incidently, as soon as he could became an Australian citizen, is having a form of discrimination practised against him. [More…]
The second factor in the Labor Party’s manpower policy would be the use of selective employment promotion measures to alleviate labour market disabilities of groups disadvantaged by poverty, discrimination, inadequate training and obsolete skills. [More…]
That is a stark discrimination against the underprivileged, even in the private sector. [More…]
In order to clear the confusion amongst some ethnic groups concerning the implementation of the new air fare policy, will the Minister clarify whether there will be some discrimination against ethnic groups? [More…]
One dealt with a private dinner; three dealt with the economy; one was on export controls; one was on mineral exports; one- only one- was on the very serious question of employment; and one was on the question of Jewish discrimination by Qantas Airways Ltd. [More…]
The objectives specified in the Bill are as follows: The first objective is to prevent discrimination in the payment of medical benefits for medical services rendered on or after 1 November 1978 which is, in the opinion of the Minister for Health, improper discrimination. [More…]
This term is defined in clause 3 of the Bill and, briefly, is discrimination relating to the following matters: Chronic illness; age of the patient; limitation on the level of medical benefits payable under organisations’ rules because of the frequency of the rendering of professional services or the aggregate of amounts of benefits payable; or any other ground prescribed by regulations. [More…]
To safeguard continued membership for those persons who, for example, are chronically ill persons, clause 5 of the Bill provides a new section 73BFB, which entitles a person who believes cancellation of his membership to the medical benefits fund constitutes an ‘improper discrimination’ against him to request the Minister to direct the organisation concerned to reinstate the person. [More…]
Where the Minister is of the opinion that improper discrimination has occurred the Minister can direct the organisation concerned to reinstate the person without loss of entitlement. [More…]
Secondly, the amendment prevents the Minister from approving a change to organisations’ rules which provides for a new table of benefits, or alters or affects contributors or benefits, if in the opinion of the Minister the change brings about an ‘improper discrimination’. [More…]
The final amendment in the Bill is in clause 9, under new section 73BFB, where provision is made for the Minister to make a direction to a registered organisation to reinstate a contributor whose membership has been cancelled on grounds of improper discrimination. [More…]
There is no discrimination against any one country. [More…]
That would mean repealing legislation to protect individuals against discrimination and persecution and repealing legislation to protect essential services. [More…]
A very small increase in charges in other areas would obviate what I think is quite a severe discrimination against people who can least afford it. [More…]
The raid can be described only as one of blatant political discrimination. [More…]
Under this legislation, improper discrimination by a fund against a contributor must now be brought to the Minister’s attention. [More…]
Under the new rules on improper discrimination, is the Minister going to insist that the fund insure people over 65 years of age? [More…]
If a contributor’s membership has been cancelled, the contributor, believing there to have been improper discrimination, can ask the Minister to direct the fund concerned to reinstate him without loss of entitlement. [More…]
One important point of the legislation is that the Minister will have the power to prevent discrimination against hospital benefits contributors where the discrimination, on or after 1 May, is related to the question of whether, having regard to a person’s medical condition, hospitalisation is necessary, desirable or appropriate. [More…]
I emphasise again that that was not the only fund which introduced the limits to which we now refer as ‘unfair discrimination’. [More…]
‘improper discrimination’ means a discrimination that is related to all or any of the following matters: [More…]
After all, they are defined as being people against whom improper discrimination is practised. [More…]
On the one hand, we have the problem of maintaining equity for old people and the ability for them to obtain health care, whether it be hospital or medical, without discrimination. [More…]
The second reading speech which details or explains the amendments contained in this BUI makes four points: Firstly, protection from improper discrimination by a fund to cover chronic illness, age, limitation on frequency of services, etc; secondly, to protect subscribers in both the pre- and post- 1 November situation from rule changes made by medical benefit organisations; thirdly, protection from reduction below the 75 per cent level by any fund; fourthly, protection from arbitrary reclassification of the patient from a hospital to a nursing home situation. [More…]
This is discrimination which the present Bill will not remove. [More…]
Other aspects of discrimination have arisen out of the present scheme. [More…]
Surely this is discrimination. [More…]
Discrimination is also possible because doctors have the capacity to bulk bill but they are not required to do so. [More…]
Discrimination, in whatever form, has no place in this land, and I hope that all parties in this Parliament agree on that point. [More…]
This legislation is directed specifically towards preventing or reducing discrimination against medical benefit contributors in relation to the scope and level of benefits available to them for medical services rendered on or before 1 November 1978. [More…]
In the Bill, improper discrimination is clearly defined as relating to chronic diseases or other illnesses of a particular kind, age, maximum benefit rules applied by organisations, and any other prescribed matter referred to and decided upon by the Minister. [More…]
As I said to the Director of the Hospitals Contribution Fund in a telegram I sent to him, I and my colleagues in this Parliament will take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that legislative action is initiated to prevent discrimination of that type. [More…]
I refer to his point relating to improper discrimination as it might apply to benefits for procedures, such as cosmetic surgery. [More…]
Any discrimination must, in the opinion of the Minister, be improper discrimination. [More…]
It will only be when all the children in all of the schools in Australia receive the same teaching about our multicultural society and when all of them are given access to a second language that we will be able to say that discrimination has been abolished and everyone is being given the same opportunities. [More…]
That is blatant discrimination by this Government, but such discrimination is not unusual. [More…]
This is a sectional government, a government of discrimination. [More…]
The first matter I raise is the failure of the Minister to mention- I do not know whether the report mentions it- the continuing discrimination against Australian Citizen Military Forces servicemen who served in theatres of war within Australia in the Second World War and who are excluded from benefits under this Act. [More…]
If he agrees with the view of the National Population Inquiry that failure to collect data which will reveal the extent of discrimination or unequal status based on race will in all probability merely allow inequalities to continue unchecked, especially since those responsible can then deny that the inequalities exist, what action has he taken to have Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders separately identified from non-Aboriginals in imprisonment censuses in Queensland as already is done in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia, and in court statistics in Queensland as already is done in Western Australia (Hansard, 13 October 1977, page 2054). [More…]
If there is discrimination, what are the reasons. [More…]
There is no discrimination between a woman and a man receiving a supporting parents benefit The concessions available to all Supporting Parents are the same as those provided by the Labor Government to female Supporting Parents. [More…]
Because they can no longer be sent as there is little or no money left to send them the result is discrimination against -those people who do not have telephones. [More…]
Alongside the inadequancy of the present levels of benefits are all the aspects of discrimination that were based in the 19th century on the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor. [More…]
If so, what is the reason for this discrimination against a certain sector of the mail delivery service. [More…]
There has been no discrimination against any sector of the mail delivery service. [More…]
As a result of recent events the Government took action by introducing legislation which would empower the Minister to ensure that improper discrimination against contributors to medical funds does not occur on grounds of chronicity, age and other reasons. [More…]
As to the alleged discrimination on cards, I point up my criticism of the honourable member’s allegations by indicating that there are 3,600 staff in 218 offices of the CES. [More…]
produced copies of confidential cards verifying the derogatory remarks and discrimination. [More…]
Their reform demands include- confidentiality and privacy in interview, standardised assessment guidelines, proper interviewing and assessment training for inter viewing staff, permanent applicant access to cards, and the right to challenge assessments, automatic prosecution of employers who seek to discriminate, removal of CES staff ceilings and staff increases to allow the service to function effectively, and non-intimidation of CES staff who report discrimination or other irregularities. [More…]
The criticism has included charges of bias and discrimination towards the unemployed by CES officers. [More…]
If it becomes public knowledge that there is this difference, a preference, a discrimination as between civil servants and ordinary members of the public it will react against those who in the restructuring of these proposed new sections did not inform the people intimately involved and with a profound knowledge of the matter. [More…]
Will he initiate a conference with Transport Ministers of each of the States to ensure uniform legislation and regulation in this area so that discrimination of this sort will no longer exist. [More…]
We are hoping that the market will grow still more, but if there is to be this continual disruption and discrimination against China because somebody does not like its involvement in the Vietnam war all I can say is that those people are doing great harm to a great Australian industry, to the nation as a whole and to our relationship with China. [More…]
Basically the Minister’s proposals, if they proceed, would end price discrimination by ensuring that the oil industry could not sell petrol at different prices to different stations. [More…]
To achieve this it must, firstly, proceed with the legislative measures to end price discrimination that it announced last year and, secondly, it must enable the Prices Justification Tribunal to shed some of the much needed light on the whole spectrum of the petroleum price structure. [More…]
It is very difficult to imagine how Mr Kaldis could claim that the figures that are available show a discrimination against Mediterranean and Middle Eastern people in favour of people from the United Kingdom or other places such as South Africa. [More…]
Is there some other explanation for this apparent discrimination against a coloured person compared to a white one? [More…]
If that is so, it is a discrimination which should not be allowed to continue and I ask the Minister to examine the matter. [More…]
I can give such assurances as may be appropriate that there is no discrimination with respect to widows. [More…]
There is to be no racial discrimination. [More…]
It means rather a discrimination in the definition of Amernan interests and in the employment of American power. [More…]
The Trade Practices Commission had even wider jurisdiction in protecting the community from restrictive trade practices, excessive monopolisation and undesirable company mergers, resale price maintenance and price discrimination by producers and wholesalers against retailers. [More…]
It is relatively easy to identify what are known academically as three degrees of price discrimination. [More…]
Price discrimination itself can arise only due to an imperfect market. [More…]
Have earlier undertakings that no discrimination would be exercised against the Trust for town maintenance and public utilities funding which this year averages $782 per Trust managed dwelling, compared with $2,093 per selfmanaged dwelling, been dishonoured. [More…]
Is this not discrimination against the poor? [More…]
One thing that perturbs me is that this motion would bring about economic discrimination against a person who in the normal course of events could not afford to have the treatment. [More…]
The implementation of the motion is fraught with risks of grave inequities, discrimination and massive administrative problems. [More…]
It is objectionable because apart from any other factor it will discriminate most against those least able to bear with that sort of discrimination- the poor, the distressed and the overwrought. [More…]
It seeks to avoid discrimination against any section of the community, particularly women. [More…]
The questions of discrimination, social and economic stresses and the mental anguish of the mother must be weighed against the taking of life. [More…]
It is discrimination of the grossest kind to allow abortions for the rich but to condemn the poor to unwanted pregnancies or to send them to back yard abortionists or to public hospitals. [More…]
The honourable member for Hume’s response to that kind of discrimination- which was mentioned by the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson)- when challenged by the National Times was to say: [More…]
I re-emphasise and reiterate that there has been gross discrimination in many of these areas between the white collar workers and the blue collar workers. [More…]
As I said, there has been gross discrimination by the authorities against blue collar workers. [More…]
Whereas this meeting of Commonwealth Young Leaders has taken cognisance of the existence of racial discrimination in some countries ofthe world; [More…]
Be it resolved that this meeting condemns the existence of racial discrimination in any part of the world. [More…]
There is to be no discrimination in granting civil and political rights. [More…]
We have this dreadful situation of there being international covenants dealing with human and political rights and international covenants saying that there is to be no form of racial discrimination, and yet the Queensland Government thumbing its nose at the Prime Minister and the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs. [More…]
It is not implementing its legislation or the legislation of the Labor Government to remove discrimination. [More…]
) Is it also a fact that those officers have been subject to a double interview screening, whereas applicants from elsewhere in the Public Service are only required to attend one interview; if so, will he state the reason for this apparent discrimination. [More…]
So we can say that there is discrimination here. [More…]
It seems strange to me that it has to be the electronic media that are singled out for this sort of discrimination. [More…]
It can be described as nothing but discrimination. [More…]
-Tonight I want to raise an issue of discrimination in the Royal Australian Air Force which is based solely on grounds of marital status. [More…]
I believe that this discrimination reflects no credit on the Air Force. [More…]
In one case financial demands are made- there is a financial discriminationand the only justification for this seems to be one based on grounds of marital status. [More…]
As a former journalist, I find it offensive that this kind of paternalism should be forced upon the public and that there should be a discrimination of this kind between the various kinds of media. [More…]
By 1 973 discrimination on grounds of race had disappeared from immigration selection policy. [More…]
In examining the matter the Committee has been asked to pay particular attention to the provisions of the Act dealing with monopolisation, exclusive dealing and price discrimination. [More…]
That was a clear case of economic and political discrimination. [More…]
Air Fares to the Middle East: Discrimination (Question No. [More…]
In 1975 the Commonwealth Parliament enacted the Racial Discrimination Act and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act in order to supersede certain provisions of the Queensland legislation which had the effect of discriminating against Queensland Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
The original Bill was flawed because it allowed for redeployment and redundancies without appeal and gave enormous scope for possible discrimination against individuals. [More…]
Most refugees have suffered discrimination or persecution. [More…]
But the discrimination does not stop there. [More…]
By November a single pensioner will have become $60 worse off and a married couple $100 worse off because of the imposition of Fraser economics, the discrimination, the disadvantage, the exploitation, the injustice, the total unacceptability of such objectional measures. [More…]
Section 73BE (2) of the National Health Act provides for the Minister to give a direction in relation to matters of discrimination and the level of medical and hospital benefits payable. [More…]
There is the practical problem of how discrimination as between regions could be justified and also the question of whether such discrimination might be unconstitutional. [More…]
What is more, we believe that the Australian Government, in its provision of benefits to students, should ensure that there is a positive discrimination in favour of disadvantaged groups. [More…]
I would have thought that any genuine Liberal as opposed to a Tory would have supported our policy concerning the redistributive aspects of education funding which sought to provide for people who were in the greatest need some kind of positive discrimination. [More…]
It is not an argument in terms of positive discrimination. [More…]
These in total amount to unfair discrimination between country and city workers and unfair discrimination between the manual worker and the non-manual worker. [More…]
So we have to overcome these anomalies and this unfair discrimination. [More…]
If the Labor Party was really genuinely in support of the blue collar worker it would stand up for him in this unfair discrimination. [More…]
There is a tremendously unfair discrimination against the self-employed person in the determination of that income. [More…]
We have got to contrast the two and given that these are obviously regarded by the Government as being important why is there discrimination against the customs and excise changes and more attention given to bounty changes? [More…]
To obtain Government support for the review of Government and administrative discrimination of the Croatian people in matters of citizenship, employment and passports; and [More…]
The continuing failure of the Government to conclude lower air fare arrangements with Italy has continued the discrimination against people of Italian descent. [More…]
Is any positive discrimination practised regarding the eligibility for unemployment benefits of Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
Racial Discrimination Act, 1975 s. 22 (5) [More…]
-There is no discrimination in the Standing Orders as far as the position of any member in this House is concerned. [More…]
Remedies are available under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 to persons suffering from any acts of discrimination to which that Act applies. [More…]
1 ) Is it planned to transfer the Manpower and Programs Policy Division, Manpower and Industry Studies Division, Management Services Division and the Women’s Bureau and Employment Discrimination Section of the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs to Canberra. [More…]
I am advised that Section 34 (a) of the Public Service Act is not in contravention of the Racial Discrimination Act nor of relevant international conventions. [More…]
If so, what progress has been made and what targets have been set for the elimination of discrimination which leads to degradation of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
Australia has ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination which requires States parties to undertake measures that could be said to be designed to promote inter-cultural communication. [More…]
Remedies are available under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 to persons suffering from any acts of discriminationto which that Act applies. [More…]
Provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975 override Queensland legislation which is considered to discriminate against Aboriginals. [More…]
They may develop a cynical attitude to the whole system, charge employers with discrimination against the young or blame the irrelevancy of their education or false promises of careers at the end of their training. [More…]
Everyone has the right to effective remedies and protection against any form of discrimination based on the grounds of race, colour, sex, descent, or national or ethnic origin. [More…]
We agree that everyone has the right to protection against acts of incitement to racial hatred and discrimination, whether committed by individuals, groups or other organisations. [More…]
We affirm that there should be no discrimination based on race, colour, sex, descent or national or ethnic origin in the acquisition or exercise of the right to vote, in the field of civil rights or access to citizenship, or in the economic, social or cultural fields, particularly education, health, employment, occupation, housing, social security and cultural life. [More…]
In accordance with established principles of international law and, in particular, the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, we affirm that everyone is, at all times and in all places, entitled to be protected in the enjoyment of the right to be free of racism and racial prejudice. [More…]
We believe that the existence in the world of apartheid and racial discrimination is a matter of concern to all human beings. [More…]
We recognise that we share an international responsibility to work together for the total eradication of apartheid and racial discrimination. [More…]
Yet I believe every member of this House who has bothered to take notice will realise that such discriminatory practices persist in Queensland despite laws passed by the Whitlam Government banning such discrimination and despite actions under that legislation taken by the Hon. [More…]
They will also realise that the Fraser Government not only is dragging its feet in implementing measures to end that discrimination, which are within Commonwealth legislative ambit, but also, we have heard, is moving to abolish the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations as part of the winding down of so-called surplus bureaucracy. [More…]
We affirm that there should be no discrimination based on race, colour, sex, descent or national or ethnic origin in the acquisition or exercise of the right to vote, in the field of civil rights or access to citizenship, or in the economic, social or cultural fields, particularly education, health, employment, occupation, housing, social security and cultural life. [More…]
Why then this discrimination? [More…]
One of the major problems in providing special concessional fares to select groups is that other groups could justifiably claim discrimination if they were not similarly assisted. [More…]
Arrangements for both international and domestic air travel aim to avoid the development of practices that lead to discrimination concerning the price paid by selected groups of customers. [More…]
Active discrimination in terms of compensation is not the only problem. [More…]
For the first time Australia indicated that it was ready to deal with the non-aligned and with Asia and Africa on their own terms, without racial discrimination in immigration policy and without overriding military preoccupation. [More…]
In other words, it has been used to identify them and to do so in a way that may lead to discrimination against them. [More…]
For example, there is a federal law which deals with racial discrimination and racial hatred. [More…]
) Is he able to say whether this reversal of a decision was due to advice from Australian Government sources; if so, was any political discrimination exercised and, in particular, was (a) the Australian Government a party to restriction of movement to representatives of minorities seeking international support for removal of discrimination or for compensation for dispossession of indigenes by later settlers in Australia and (b) an Aboriginal subject to refusal of a visa on account of unsubstantiated political objections raised by a State Government, but not applied in the case of non-Aborigines. [More…]
This is a matter of serious discrimination. [More…]
For a number of years, there has been discrimination in most laws of the States and the Commonwealth of Australia against children born out of wedlock. [More…]
Over a period- not a very long periodmost of those discriminations have been removed. [More…]
The Government adopts a situation, and knows that it adopts a situation, whereby discrimination takes place in all instances where de factos are confronted with an advantageous or disadvantageous position. [More…]
Is it a further discrimination against people of Italian descent now resident in this country? [More…]
That is the measure of the discrimination, the punitiveness and the indifference of the Government towards these young people. [More…]
There is discrimination between areas within our community. [More…]
By charging for these English tests the Department is entrenching discrimination against non-English speaking people by administrative mechanisms. [More…]
On 10 September 1976 I issued a Press release entitled ‘Minister Acts on Alleged Discrimination in Queensland’. [More…]
It involved alleged discrimination against British migrants by the same man and the same union. [More…]
On the face of it, this would appear to be a breach of section 14 of the Racial Discrimination Act which states, amongst other things: [More…]
So, on the face of it, there does appear to be a breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
I will be taking the matter up with the Attorney-General for him to communicate with the Commissioner for Community Relations to see whether there has been a breach of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
In making its decision, the Government will take account of the views and comments it has received as well as significant changes in the market situation where widespread discounting with allegations of price discrimination has been replaced by supply difficulties and virtual cessation of discounting at the retail level. [More…]
Some two weeks ago, I raised in this House the question of discrimination against women who, having been widowed - [More…]
Well, you just have a look and see the discrimination that exists. [More…]
Let me mention some further anomalies highlighted by this legislation which suggest either government neglect or deliberate discrimination or, in respect of the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh), simply ignorance. [More…]
No justification is offered for this discrimination against the unemployed and none can be offered. [More…]
But these Bills do more than simply tolerate the existing welfare discrimination against the unemployed. [More…]
So, there has been that kind of discrimination. [More…]
After three years of waiting, with all these promises that the anomalies were going to be put right, we get this gross discrimination against Commonwealth employees. [More…]
I am surprised that honourable members on the other side are prepared to accept this gross discrimination against Commonwealth employees, but I suppose that it is consistent with the Government’s attitude towards workers generally, towards public servants and towards Canberra. [More…]
When it is said that the CES figures are now lower than the Australian Statistician’s figures discrimination is not made between full-time and parttime work. [More…]
One of the depressing features of the deliberations of the Tribunal is the creation of a continual discrimination, one might say, between members of this Parliament. [More…]
The other part of the package deals with price discrimination. [More…]
Have the examinations for admission to the Public Service been modified in any way, bearing in mind that these examinations have been an effective barrier against immigrants and their children from non-Commonwealth countries entering the Public Service, in addition to the legal discrimination against them? [More…]
There is no discrimination either for or against any segment of the Australian community. [More…]
The presentation of a petition containing almost 30,000 signatures to the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) last week indicates their grave dissatisfaction at what is effectively discrimination against 700,000 Australians of Italian origin. [More…]
Whether or not Jews in the Soviet Union are the victims of adverse discrimination in citizenship, in rights to religious practice, in rights to publish, communicate, travel, emigrate and organise. [More…]
It does, for example, discriminate severely against Soviet Jews and the report details the nature of that discrimination as it applies to Jews and, to a lesser extent, to the other Soviet minorities like the Crimean Tartars. [More…]
As a result of this admittedly narrow space in which the populations recognise that they can make their own choices, political discrimination applied in a more effective way fulfils its stabilising function. [More…]
Although religious activity suffered greatly under Mr Khrushchev, official discrimination against religious believers is continuing, and the very survival of some religions or denominations is at stake. [More…]
Religious believers are subject to harassment and imprisonment and the unregistered Baptists and members of several evangelising faiths mentioned in the report are subject to special discrimination. [More…]
Last, but by no means least in importance, cuts in education have resulted in educational discrimination against disadvantaged and minority groups. [More…]
So not only is there a non-government tilt in the allocations of funds for schools assistance, but even within that sector of education there is open discrimination in favour of the wealthier private schools. [More…]
That is discrimination, which is intolerable and is resented extensively in the Greek community. [More…]
What it boils down to is a situation of enormous discrimination against Greek people in the community. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister had any discussions with his counterpart in Queensland regarding the Queensland Government’s defiance of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, as reported in the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations; if so, when and where did those discussions take place. [More…]
Was any consideration given to the role played by Mr P. J. Killoran in the matter which was the subject of a direction to Mr Killoran under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
It will also provide for full disclosure of relevant information to incoming franchisees, rights for franchisees to continuation of supplies, without discrimination in the event of any shortage, and rights of assignment of their franchises. [More…]
The Government has deferred a final decision on the possible proposals relating to price discrimination and a prohibition of oil companies engaging in retail petroleum marketing. [More…]
A decision will be taken on these proposals after the Government has had the opportunity to consider comments on the draft franchising Bill and also a report from the Trade Practices Commission which has been requested to monitor and report on the extent of price discrimination in the industry. [More…]
A decision on the price discrimination and divorcement provisions of the original package of proposals has been deferred. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the statement attributed to Mr Richard Alston, on page 14 of the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations, which states in part that the Government has undermined its international obligations pursuant to its ratification of the International Convention on Racial Discrimination. [More…]
What has been the response of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to the submission it received from the Foundation for Aboriginal and Island Research Action, in which it was alleged that the Queensland Government was discriminatory in its legislation and administrative practices. [More…]
Has a Legal Defence Fund to support Australian Aboriginal liberation struggles been established by the International Conference for the Eradication of Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Australia, as a State Party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, submits national reports to the Committee established under that Convention whose task it is to consider measures taken to give effect to the Convention. [More…]
It is not open to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to receive and consider communications from the Foundation for Aboriginal and Island Research Action in the matter mentioned in the question. [More…]
1 ) Did he state on 22 February 1979 that the Government would legislate to outlaw discrimination in the petroleum retailing industry; if so, is this still intended. [More…]
The package contains a proposal to prohibit an oil company from discriminating in price between its lessee or licensee dealers, except where such discrimination is cost justified or is engaged in to meet competition from a competitor of the oil company. [More…]
The Government also decided to ask the Trade Practices Commission to monitor and report on the extent of price discrimination in the industry. [More…]
The decision to request a report on price discrimination recognises changes which have occurred in the market situation since my announcement of the proposals. [More…]
A decision on the proposals relating to price discrimination and the prohibition of oil companies from engaging in retailing petroleum has been deferred until after the Government nas had an opportunity to consider the report of the Trade Practices Commission on price discrimination and public comments on the draft franchising bill. [More…]