discrimination - senate - 1970

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

As the General Assembly of the United Nations has designated 1971 as the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination will the Government make an early statement on whether it will actively support this decision, which would be in line with Australia’s subscription to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]
I believe that there is justice in this recommendation and that there is unfair discrimination against the people of Queensland. [More…]
Government in the Senate aware that hundreds of thousands of workers throughout Australia today stopped work and that workers and pensioners attended mass rallies protesting at the injustices and economic discrimination of the Budget? [More…]
I think it should be clearly emphasised that it cannot be charged against the Government that it practises discrimination in its policy towards Aboriginals in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In view of the fact that other handicapped persons who have sight can sit for such examinations will the Minister see to what extent special facilities can be made available to avoid any discrimination against people without sight? [More…]
The next is: ‘The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality’. [More…]
Was Mr Ivica Kokic ever in charge of the Commonwealth Employment Office in Sunshine; if so, was he transferred to Melbourne due to his discrimination against non-Croat Yugoslav migrants. [More…]
If the Minister considers the situation is unfair to the patients of optometrists, will he take acion to remove this discrimination. [More…]
If so what is the reason for this discrimination. [More…]
Do any laws of the Commonwealth, in any way, contain elements of racial discrimination? [More…]
But its big inconsistency is its discrimination. [More…]
That leave bc given to introduce a Bill for an Act relating to the Elimination of Racial and Other Discrimination. [More…]
Stop the Government practice of trade union membership discrimination. [More…]
They all add up to one thing: Discrimination at the expense of the black people of my State. [More…]
Will the Minister ask his colleague to inform the Senate on what basis this unfair discrimination is being enforced? [More…]
Will the Government have discussions with the Czechoslovakian Government to abolish this discrimination and to protect the rights of these Australian citizens? [More…]
That leave be granted to introduce a Bill for an Act relating to the elimination of racial and other discrimination. [More…]
It is racial discrimination in its worst form when an Aboriginal senator is discriminated against to that extent. [More…]
Again, that is discrimination by his own parliamentary party. [More…]
I think it is hypocritical for Australia to take such a stand when there is discrimination and prejudice against the indigenous people of this country. [More…]
Is this not another form of discrimination which has been carried on for far too long? [More…]
Pursuant to leave granted on 23 October I present a Bill for an Act relating to the elimination of racial and other discrimination. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs whether he has sighted a copy of a report on racial discrimination prepared by social work students at Sydney University. [More…]
2 Racial Discrimination Bill 1974 (No. [More…]
There has been no discrimination between Roman Catholic and other non-Government schools. [More…]
If not, is this not another move in the Government’s discrimination against independent schools? [More…]
-The Department of Labor and Immigration has investigated the facts and has found no discrimination against the Chilean women. [More…]
Because the issue is one of great sensitivity and because it involves legal matters, social matters of very wide import, and human relations, the Racial Discrimination Bill requires a great deal of examination and requires of all of us a considerable amount of thought and selfexamination as we endeavour to make a contribution to the debate. [More…]
Matters of racial discrimination, matters of social equality and matters of social inequality are what I would describe as popular issues today insofar as society, in endeavouring to find new ways in which mankind may express itself, has decided that these issues shall be the subject of seminars and conferences. [More…]
As the pre-school teachers suffer discrimination through being unable to claim reimbursement for fees paid for inservice courses, will the Minister investigate this matter and take appropriate action to correct this anomaly. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs been drawn to the adoption by the Third Committee of the United Nations of a resolution that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination? [More…]
to (5) The following full-time staff are currently responsible for servicing the National and State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. [More…]
1 ) What staff has been appointed to the National Committee and each of the State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. [More…]
has the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation been established; [More…]
has each State Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation been established; [More…]
Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (Question No. [More…]
1 ) and (2) Details of complaints of discrimination in employment and occupation considered by the National and State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation from their establishment in June 1973, until the end of September 1975, and the action taken in respect of these complaints, are contained in the following table. [More…]
b) each State Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. [More…]
It does not go far enough, for example, in proceedings under the proposed section relating to practices for which clearance is not available, in relation to monopolisation, resale price maintenance and price discrimination. [More…]
He was appointed in accordance with the Racial Discrimination Act 1 975 on 3 1 October 1 975 for a period of seven years. [More…]
Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Why were the Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation at both State and National level disbanded on 30 June 1976. [More…]
Will these Committees ever be in a position to recommend the bringing down of anti-discrimination legislation. [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, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs relating to that report. [More…]
1 ) Why has the charterof the Queensland Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation not been renewed since the original charter expired on 30 June 1 976. [More…]
Can the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) indicate at this point what funding will be available for the Community Relations Office, the establishment of which was provided for in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
I present the third annual report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, 1975-76. [More…]
Our intention is to impress upon the House that inability to speak English means discrimination- discrimination in the field of employment, in education and in social and political life. [More…]
Does discrimination exist between male and female service personnel attached to HMAS Penguin in relation to billeting facilities. [More…]
That the Federal Government support the abolition of the Aborigines Act (Queensland) 1 97 1 , and the Torres Strait Islanders Act (Queensland) 1971 and take such action as they deem necessary to ensure that the provisions of the Queensland Discriminating Laws Act, 1975 and the Racial Discrimination Act, 1975 be enforced in so far as they relate to Aborigines and Islanders; [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…]
Legislation was enacted to protect the rights of contributors whose claims for benefits are refused by funds on the grounds of improper discrimination in relation to: chronic or particular conditions; the age of a person; frequency of rendering of medical services; the amount or extent of benefits paid or payable or any other matter prescribed by regulations. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take immediate steps to remove the discrimination directed at certain Queensland residents whose property is insured under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme. [More…]
The Government’s decision to pursue this matter should not in any way be interpreted as an act of discrimination against the Croatian community. [More…]
There is no question of discrimination again the Savings Bank of Tasmania in the Reserve Bank’s action. [More…]
Pursuant to section 46 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975,I present the report of the Commissioner for Community Relations 1979. [More…]
Some of the discriminations are crude, but many are very subtle. [More…]
The report documents many cases in which subtle discrimination has been used to their disadvantage. [More…]
We have a right to deplore such discrimination on grounds of race or religion. [More…]
It had been ratified when the Racial Discrimination Act was passed. [More…]
I am advised that the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination had then been ratified. [More…]
I simply indicate at this Committee stage of the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill that the Opposition’s attitude is one of complete opposition to every substantive provision in this Bill. [More…]
The question is that the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1 979 be now read a third time. [More…]
If there was not a class society in Australia before, it has been built up by this Government through its inequity and in its discrimination. [More…]
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 4 and except when the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property on board so requires, no provision of this Convention shall be interpreted as authorising or requiring any action in respect of offences against penal laws of a political nature or those based on racial or religious discrimination. [More…]
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 4 and except when the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property on board so requires, no provision of this Convention shall be interpreted as authorising or requiring any action in respect of offences against penal laws of a political nature or those based on racial or religious discrimination. [More…]
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 4 and except when the safety of the aircraft or of persons or property on board so requires, no provision of this Convention shall be interpreted as authorising or requiring any action in respect of offences against penal laws of a political nature or those based on racial or religious discrimination. [More…]
But all that the reports of the investigators into the Reid Murray companies provided was an indication of how the losses occurred, how the development of this great commercial empire occurred, and the lack of discrimination which took place in the course of its building up. [More…]
Senator Keeffe has made some serious accusations of racial discrimination against the Division, which the Minister has denied. [More…]
It is discrimination, first of all on a racial basis and secondly because the War Service Homes Division is developing into a national scandal and it will be abolished within the lifetime of this Parliament. [More…]
When I asked the Minister for Housing how many Aboriginals had secured war service homes, she said that there were no figures available because her Department did not practice discrimination. [More…]
My submission to you, Mr President, is that far from just mentioning what Senator Keeffe alleges is discrimination in passing, he is now embarking upon, as he said, something upon which he embarked last night, which refers to a Torres Strait islander. [More…]
The Government is trying to pick out a few stooges, an elite, in New Guinea who will co-operate and perpetuate this discrimination between one section of Papuans and New Guineans and another section. [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; [More…]
But the spirit of section 102 is in conformity with section 99, the purpose of which was to ensure that the Commonwealth would not allow for any discrimination in any field against any State. [More…]
Despite that early warning and the fact that so many of us drew to the attention of the Federal Government the possible disadvantages which Tasmania would suffer, we still remain outside the service and the Commonwealth has adopted an attitude of discrimination against Tasmania. [More…]
One section refers to discrimination between States or parts of States. [More…]
I am not a legal man - sometimes 1 have been almost glad that I am not - but il seems to me that the provision which states that there shall not be discrimination between States or parts of States covers matters over which the Commonwealth itself has direct jurisdiction. [More…]
I wish this could be done, I would welcome it, but is it not a fact - and 1 ask Senator Rae, if he is listening to correct me if I am wrong - that this would conflict with that same section in the Constitution about which Senator Wriedt spoke, that there shall not be discrimination between States or parts of States? [More…]
I rather take up the point made by Senator Lillico, namely, that if we intend to be terribly legalistic in regard to the Constitution perhaps we in Tasmania should go a little quietly because, if all the facts about all the money that has been spent by the present Government on providing shipping services to and from Tasmania were known, it might be said that the discrimination is in our favour. [More…]
The honourable senator said - and I think quite properly - that he could detect no discrimination by the Minister for Shipping and Transport, the Minister for Trade and Industry or the Commonwealth against any Tasmanian interest. [More…]
I do not think any discrimination has been demonstrated. [More…]
In view of the racial discrimination policies of the South African Government in the sporting field, will the Australian Government indicate immediately its opposition to such a tour and advise the Australian Cricket Board of Control accordingly? [More…]
There was no discrimination such as Senator Gair tried to indicate in his question. [More…]
The purpose of the request for an amendment is to remove the existing discrimination against patients who use the services of ophthalmologists when those services require the use of or the prescription of spectacles. [More…]
It is claimed by optometrists that unfair discrimination arises from the fact that subject to certain 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…]
We consider that there is discrimination in this matter, that the unfortunate patient who is referred to an ophthalmologist and has spectacles prescribed for him is placed in an unfair situation and that it is unjust. [More…]
It is claimed by optometrists that unfair discrimination arises from the fact that subject to certain conditions medical benefits are payable for consultations with ophthalmologists but not with optometrists. [More…]
If a dentist is qualified to carry out dentistry or oral surgery I, for my part -I do not know what the rest of the chamber thinks - believe that it is discrimination against him to make him subject to the approval of the Director-General. [More…]
I do not think there should be a power of this nature which, without applying any criterion, is, on the face of it, offending against the rule of law in that discrimination is made between one dental practitioner and another - I repeat, without any standard being applied except the unqualified discretion of the DirectorGeneral. [More…]
We suggest that there should be no discrimination whatsoever. [More…]
The present attitude of the Government and the Minister is outright discrimination against Queensland. [More…]
Bui if we want regulations and we say that the terms and conditions that the Minister may impose shall be as prescribed - and we prescribe them - unless we have the power of discrimination expressed in the statute the terms and conditions would have to be applicable to all organisations. [More…]
There is scope for discrimination; there is scope for injustice. [More…]
-The Opposition believes that it is in the interests of the community generally, of patients and of optometrists as well as ophthalmologists that any discrimination now existing should be done away with completely. [More…]
I wantto do it only as an indication to the Government that the Committee will not support a discrimination between general practitioners and specialists. [More…]
We are developing a discrimination in the method of fixing salaries of this nature. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is Australia a signatory to a United Nations Article which states, among other things, that the signatory nations shall do all in their power to promote energetic action which, by combining with legal and other practical measures, will make possible the abolition of all forms of racial discrimination? [More…]
Does the Government not accept that there must be discrimination in the exercise of these economic weapons? [More…]
Obviously the Leader of the Opposition did not listen to the answer I gave to Senator Buttfield because I did give a specific example where the Government thought discrimination was desirable. [More…]
We as a nation will face the same fiasco as England would have faced if we continue to play competitive sport with a country that is using the most vicious form of racial discrimination against the indigenous and other coloured people who live within that nation. [More…]
According to Hansard, it was on the basis that this was discrimination in legislation so far as patients of medical practitioners are concerned; that it was unjust so far as the patients who are contributors to medical benefits funds are concerned; that it was unfair; that it was anomalous. [More…]
On the basis of discrimination against patients, and on the basis of anomalies so far as contributors to medical benefits funds are concerned, the Opposition presses the requests. [More…]
All children, without any exception whatsoever, shall be entitled to these rights without distinction or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or social origin, property, birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family. [More…]
Is Australia a signatory to a United Nations Treaty which, in one Article, states that signatory nations ‘shall do all in our power to promote energetic action which, by combining legal and other practical measures, will make possible the abolition of all forms of racial discrimination’; if so, how does the Government reconcile agreement with this article with the growing trade wilh South Africa, which in 1969 reached a total of $65. [More…]
The honourable senator’s quotation is from Article 10 of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
At that time we pointed out that the tax fell heavily on all, without discrimination, and that it fell on those who were not able to meet the charge. [More…]
The Bills are illegal, anyway, because in them the Government is practising discrimination between the Stales, even if the discrimination is only for the transitional period. [More…]
Have executive members of a Jewish youth organisation recently made statements indicating that they would be boycotting the Bolshoi Ballet, currently touring Australia, because of the discrimination which exists in the Soviet Union against Jewish people. [More…]
It is a fact that such discrimination exists in the Soviet Union; if so, is that situation, in principle, different from the situation which exists with respect to coloured people in South Africa. [More…]
To the extent that Jews in the USSR formally have legal equality with other Soviet citizens, their legal situation can be said to be different in principle from that of non-white citizens of South Africa, who are the objects of statutory discrimination. [More…]
So again we see the discrimination against the low income earner. [More…]
The political prejudice and discrimination of this Government prevented us for many years from taking advantage of markets in Socialist countries. [More…]
I may not seek to do the same as those people are doing, but I am in complete sympathy with those who are seeking, by every reasonable means, to prevent discrimination against people, lt is inhuman. [More…]
Senator Webster knows that this is rampant throughout his Party, ft is nice for him in this chamber to attack those who are trying to prevent the colour bar in South Africa, who are trying to end discrimination. [More…]
It is unjust and it is selective in its discrimination against the Australian wage earner, lt has been presented by a Government which is regressive and unjust in ils philosophy and which is destined to be destroyed by the majority of Australians. [More…]
1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry, ls the Minister aware that there is considerable concern among persons interested in developing exports of a promising rural industry - plastic packs of frozen vegetables - who claim that the absence of satisfactory export regulations, such as exist for the export of other foods - for example, canned fruits - may cause variations- in quality which will cause this new industry to meet with problems from dissatisfied overseas buyers and possible discrimination against the Australian exporters? [More…]
Does this piece of political bias herald discrimination against the DLP similar to that which occurred at the last House of Representatives election when 4 leaders of opposing parlies were invited by the ABC to take part in a ‘Four Corners’ broadcast just before the election to attack the DLP, and the DLP was given no opportunity to reply? [More…]
The lack of discrimination in that respect outweighs any consideration of selectivity of service. [More…]
Is there a reason for this discrimination? [More…]
The following State laws, which are currently under discussion with the State Government con cerned, contain provisions which could be, prima facie, regarded us discrimination against Aborigines: [More…]
at this stage the Senate might attempt formally to put on record its concern at this discrimination. [More…]
We have experienced already bitter blows from the United Slates of America through its discrimination against the Australian beef industry. [More…]
This is where the discrimination has an effect of prejudicing an application. [More…]
In effect, if all thatthe Minister may discriminate between are certain persons, some of whom are to be referred to the court and others who are not to be referred to the court, it is an insubstantial consequential effect of the discrimination with which we are concerned. [More…]
Will the Minister extend the standard travel concessions available to dependants of railway workers to dependants of railway workers engaged in National Service, and thus ensure that there is no discrimination against these workers and their dependants. [More…]
There is no discrimination involved. [More…]
This is the first time in my recollection that we have had a clear-cut statement of policy from the Minister on this matter and it disturbs me greatly to see that it is no longer based on economics but is a clear case of racial discrimination. [More…]
The answer by the Minister to my question is clear: it is a matter of racial discrimination. [More…]
I do not know what the Minister will say in reply but I object most strongly to the accusation that the Government is involved in racial discrimination. [More…]
And I object to the fact that for sheer short term political advantage an accusation of racial discrimination has been thrown at this Government when the same policy would be followed by those people who are responsible for the policies of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
What I rose to object to were the many statements made both by Senator Poyser and Senator Keeffe which suggests that Australia is practising racial discrimination. [More…]
That senator has raised this matter in this debate to indicate that he certainly does not agree with any discrimination against coloured people, and he is entitled to do so. [More…]
This is racial discrimination, and there is no other way to describe it. [More…]
There may be an odd case where the Government would extend the provision, but no-one can deny that this is racial discrimination. [More…]
No-one could say that the case we are considering now is not one of racial discrimination. [More…]
This to me is discrimination. [More…]
I cannot see any justice in any of these areas: Firstly, the non-disclosure of investments; secondly, the non-availability of loans for home building purposes, and thirdly, the discrimination against dependants. [More…]
But basically at present no discrimination is exercised in the manner in which the grants arc made to independent schools. [More…]
But it introduced an element of unfair discrimination. [More…]
However, the decision on such aspects must be a personal one for each Manager, lt docs not appear thai there was any political discrimination in view of the acceptance by 4BH of other advertising for the Party and the offer made in the particular case lo broadcast amended copy. [More…]
Thirdly, there was gross discrimination against the Lebanese seamen and the Lebanese community has said: The Minister now has had his pound of flesh’. [More…]
I listened with great respect to what Senator Greenwood said and to what Senator Murphy said about the insufficient formulation of objective criteria, according to which any possible entrant without discrimination might be judged and admitted to the University. [More…]
If so, what is the reason for the discrimination? [More…]
of this year, for writing a news story about discrimination against an Aboriginal woman by the Australian Mutual Provident Society in relation to insurance premiums, and whether it is true that neither the AMP Society nor the woman concerned have denied the story despite the fact that the controller of news, Mr Fraser, specially sent out another reporter in an attempt to get her to refute the story. [More…]
I ask the question in view of the remarks made at today’s luncheon and also in view of the recent statement made by the Prime Minister that he and his Government abhor racism and that the Government is giving $12,000 to a national committee being established to combat racism and racial discrimination. [More…]
I again ask in this year which is set aside to combat racial discrimination: What is being done by the Government to ensure that proper wages and conditions are received by our Aboriginal people? [More…]
I ask: Will the Government prevail on the Australian cricket authorities to scrap the tour unless these coloured cricketers are allowed to join the team, and so alleviate the undoubted tension which is rapidly building up in this country in protest against racial discrimination in South Africa? [More…]
At the same time, they recognised that respect for human rights and individual freedoms and the avoidance of any kind of discrimination constitute the indispensable basis of all social welfare development. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the strong fears expressed by many Malaysian graduates of Chinese origin resident in Australia that due to racial discrimination practised by the Malaysian Government in favour of citizens of Malayan origin as against those of Chinese origin, the latter have little chance of job placement in Malaysia commensurate with the professional qualifications acquired in Australia? [More…]
This does nol of course reflect any discrimination against the male but results solely from the fact that male lives experience higher mortality rates than female lives. [More…]
A subject of the Queen, resident in any State, shall not be subject in any other State to any disability or discrimination which would not be equally .applicable to him if he were a. subject of the Queen resident in such other State. [More…]
To illustrate my argument on how discrimination can exist between States, I take the case of a lad who was born in Brisbane at 12.20 on the morning of 20th March” 1951 and compare it with the case of a child who was born at that same instant in South Australia or Western Australia, lt would not be unreasonable that a male child could have been born at the same time in those States. [More…]
Having regard to this illustration, which conversely could be favourable to boys born in the eastern States and unfavourable to boys born at the same instant in western States of the Commonwealth, it is felt that discrimination does exist between residents of the various States and that the Commonweath Constitution is contravened. [More…]
But, in this instance, I would be fairly strong in my submission that the question admits of no doubt whatever and that section 117 of the Commonwealth Constitution forbidding discrimination between residents of different States, would not be considered to have any application to the case where, by reason of differences in the time scale, birth days would be registered as different dates in Brisbane and Perth. [More…]
It is necessary to have all those categories in mind before any credence whatever is given to the highly specious claim implied in the honourable senator’s question that there is discrimination against the very few in the administration of the law. [More…]
The PostmasterGeneral has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (3) There is no discrimination in the Broadcasting and Television Act against the employment of married women by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
The Commonwealth 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…]
If it is intended that this principle should be applied then it should be applied to all those officers to whom’ it is intended to apply without discrimination, .excluding those to whom it is thought inappropriate to apply it. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that a group known as Commonwealth Public Service Scientists has suffered this discrimination? [More…]
Insofar as there may be discrimination against Aboriginals, which I think is implicit in the honourable senator’s question, this naturally would be a matter of concern to the Minister in Charge of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
They see a moral wrong in racial discrimination. [More…]
I do not object to that because I see a moral wrong in racial discrimination. [More…]
But the same people do not attack the Russians for their racial discrimination against the Jews, a most blatant and brutal type of racial discrimination. [More…]
They do not select many other countries in the world, which we could name one by one, which practice a policy of the most blatant racial discrimination whether it be against the Indians, the Chinese or some other race. [More…]
If I am opposing the South Africans and refusing to play sport against them, then with equal measure I must oppose Russia and every other country in the world that practices racial discrimination; and there are many of them. [More…]
I do not think there is any point in my incorporating in Hansard Article 44; 1 merely mention that it deals with the safe and orderly growth of international civil aviation; the encouragement of the arts of aircraft design and operation for peaceful purposes’, the encouragement of the development of airways and airports; meeting the needs of people for safe air transport; preventing economic waste; ensuring that the rights of contracting States are respected; avoiding discrimination; promoting air safety; and promoting generally the development of all aspects of international civil aviation. [More…]
The Federal Executive of the Federal Council for Advancement of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders invites the General Assembly of the United Nations to appoint a delegation to visit Australia and examine the incidence and the charges of racism and racial discrimination in many forms practised against the indigenous peoples of Australia. [More…]
Ill - the Discrimination, Employment and Occupation Convention 1958 - and that these Conventions should apply to all indigenous peoples under Australian authority. [More…]
Does this mean the Government is satisfied to see a continuation of economic discrimination which can only exacerbate tensions in the Territory over economic and racial discrimination by the Administration and employers. [More…]
It is completely unrealistic to brand these conditions as economic and racial discrimination. [More…]
In view of the fact that other handicapped persons who have sight can sit for such examinations will the Minister see to what extent special facilities can be made available to avoid any discrimination against people without sight. [More…]
humanitarian considerations involving close family relationship or hardship on grounds of specific discrimination are present; or [More…]
We heard Senator Murphy refer to his visit to Teheran, the Declaration of Human Rights and non-racial discrimination. [More…]
This is something which government supporters say is politically motivated action, that is, the condemnation of discrimination on racial grounds. [More…]
As recently as the time of the last Hall Government in South Australia the trade union movement went on to the streets and to the parks and demonstrated at stop work meetings against this discrimination against the rights of electors. [More…]
In New Zealand an organisation was formed - I forget its name - with the objective of doing away with all sorts of racial discrimination. [More…]
I smiled at the purity of the Labor Party here tonight on ‘ this - matter of racial discrimination. [More…]
It is going to show the world that this country is pure on racial discrimination. [More…]
Over and above this there is solid evidence, as in the case of Malaysia, that there is extreme discrimination between those of Malayan origin and those of Chinese origin. [More…]
This is a policy of deliberate discrimination directed solely at perpetuating a system in which the best education standards remain the prerogative of the wealthy few. [More…]
One of South Australia’s most important achievements in this area is the Prohibition of Discrimination Act 1966. [More…]
That is to say, under this legislation the advancement of Aborigines goes beyond the mere negative removal of specific legislative discriminations and deals positively with the informal discrimination which had previously operated under social rather than statutory sanctions. [More…]
If this is so, will the Minister give a firm assurance that there will be no discrimination between wool sold privately and wool sold at auction when subsidies are paid? [More…]
Was 1971 declared by the United Nations Organisation as the international year for action to combat racism and racial discrimination? [More…]
What action to combat racism and racial discrimination has been taken or is intended to be taken during 1971 by the Australian Government? [More…]
In a statement to the press on 22nd March, 1971, the Prime Minister announced that Australia subscribed fully to the purpose of this Year which is to achieve significant progress in eliminating all forms and manifestations of racial discrimination. [More…]
As part of the programme to observe the Year, the General Assembly of the United Nations recommended to all governments that they should make as one of their objectives the signature and ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
I return to my reference to the fact that a higher standard of education, wider knowledge and a deeper understanding of the whole purpose of living and of life gives more people within our community greater powers of discrimination and wiser judgment. [More…]
Is this financial discrimination reflected in the lower wage scales of State railway employees relative to other employees in the transport industry, as pointed out by the Federal Secretary of the Australian Railways Union? [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been Irawn to a statement reported in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ of 22nd October and attributed to Senator Young, in which the honourable senator is alleged to have said that there is no more racial discrimination in Rhodesia than there is in Australia? [More…]
I assure the honourable senator that no discrimination is necessarily made against those who sell wool privately. [More…]
Some critics have seen this as an example of discrimination or favouritism. [More…]
While an answer to a question without notice is not the occasion on which to express an opinion on legal or constitutional issues, it does appear to me that the honourable senator’s suggestion of a lower rate of duty on aviation fuel used on flights to and from Tasmania would constitute discrimination between the States on a law relating to taxation, lt would therefore be beyond the Commonwealth’s powers. [More…]
The Chinese are strong commercially and industrially yet there are strong discrimination laws against them. [More…]
The point is that the proposed amendment highlights the fact that there is no discrimination in this Bill in respect of people who are wool producers on a large scale and are on a very good thing with their other interests, as distinct from the people who are in need. [More…]
Ruthless objectivity, free from sectional discrimination, is precisely what the growers need today and it is up to the Government to give it to them. [More…]
They argue that because they have to accept the on-farm price there is a measure - I use the word measure’ advisedly - of discrimination against them. [More…]
All I want to say is that there will not necessarily be discrimination against wool grower who sells privately to a private buyer who is not undercutting the market. [More…]
I propose to vote for the amendment moved by Senator Cohen because in the discussions that I have had with representatives of small business organisations and with proprietors of small businesses, they have told me that in many respects discount discrimination is the biggest weapon monopoly is able to use against them. [More…]
Although the Committee is not clear about what time would be required, the reference in relation to discrimination against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders certainly would be all the Committee could cope with within this series of sittings, so it would not be ready for any other references before we returned in 1972. [More…]
This discrimination will not face up to full and proper examination. [More…]
For the life of me, I am at a complete loss to understand why there is any discrimination at all between the graders and the tipping trucks which are used in connection wilh precisely the same exercise. [More…]
There is discrimination. [More…]
Because of a strange twist of fate - because of racial discrimination against him in the West Indies - he could not successfully follow his trade and successfully conduct a business in partnership. [More…]
The then Minister, Mr Lynch, gave me a written reply which clearly indicated that the decision was based on racial discrimination. [More…]
It has been established - this is my advice, and I accept the advice - that through the intervention of the Ford Motor Company on this man’s behalf he was granted an assisted passage, although he did not comply with the hard line policy which the Government now has on racial discrimination in mixed marriages. [More…]
He is not finding any racial discrimination within his employment. [More…]
If there is racketeering in the trade union movement, let us have a look at it, and let people who claim discrimination prove such assertions. [More…]
He suggested that the policy which is being applied with regard to assisted passages is an inhuman policy and a policy which savours of racial discrimination. [More…]
The second matter 1 wish to raise is the question of racial discrimination. [More…]
The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]
The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]
Our policy is most definite that there shall be no discrimination on the ground of race, colour or creed, lt could well be that various members of the Opposition in explaining our policy could place different emphasis on or give different interpretations of that policy. [More…]
But so that there would be no misinterpretation of this policy, the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Whitlam, in a Press conference before television cameras, together with the shadow Minister for Immigration, explained in the shadow Minister’s home State Labor’s policy on immigration, lt was stated definitely that there would be no discrimination on the ground of race or colour. [More…]
Whichever way we look at this, it is racism and it is discrimination because of colour. [More…]
I believe that we have cited enough instances in this chamber today for the Australian people to understand - even if Government supporters cannot understand - that discrimination is being practised. [More…]
They are 3 major cases involving racial discrimination by this Government. [More…]
It arose because Senator Poyser, a member of the Austraiian Labor Party, accused the Government of having an immigration policy which was based on racial discrimination. [More…]
I denied that we had a policy which would properly be described as a policy based on racial discrimination. [More…]
The avoidance of discrimination on any grounds of race or colour of skin or nationality. [More…]
Are we to have an avoidance of discrimination irrespective of what might be the impact on our national wellbeing and on our homogeneity of population, or is the homogeneity of population to be the pre-eminent consideration? [More…]
The point of the avoidance of discrimination on any ground of race, colour of skin or nationality was in at the direction of the Conference. [More…]
There is the avoidance of the difficulty and the avoidance of discrimination. [More…]
They know that no matter what the situation is there shall be no racial discrimination and, therefore, any person from another country who wants to migrate here shall not be denied entry because to do so would be to involve him in racial discrimination. [More…]
There shall be no racial discrimination. [More…]
There shall be no discrimination under Labors policy on the basis of nationality or colour. [More…]
Mr President, as I do not know how closely you have followed the debate this afternoon and evening on the estimates for the Department of Immigration, I think I should indicate that everything seemed to go along smoothly until just prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner, which is when SenatorPoyser brought up the question of whether there was racial discrimination against a particular type of migrant. [More…]
The matters referred to it which are still unresolved and which are still for consideration are: The elimination of discrimination against Aborigines (including Torres Strait Islanders) by or under Commonwealth and State laws, which is a reference from 7th October 1971; and the law and administration of divorce, custody and family matters, which is a reference from 7th December 1971. [More…]
Will the Minister afford me an early opportunity lo make the fullest representations to remove this wholly unacceptable discrimination against a certain section of the Australian community whose work and dedication are of the highest order and who must surely be entitled to some social service benefit in the circumstances? [More…]
However 1 should point out, in view of the colourful language which the honourable senator used when referring to this so-called discrimination, that the unemployment and sickness benefit provisions of the Social Services Act were introduced by a government formed by the Parly which he supports. [More…]
Discrimination of use is all important, but overdone the whole meal is completely ruined. [More…]
Quite frankly, I am fed up with the discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders throughout Queensland. [More…]
Discrimination against Aborigines is one of the blights on the conscience of Australians in 1972. [More…]
I propose to refer to another matter on which information was transmitted to me today, lt concerns an instance of discrimination which unfortunately happened in my own home town of Townsville. [More…]
I have visited many places while serving 6 years In the Air Force and have probably been fortunate inasmuch as not experiencing discrimination before. [More…]
1 ask that this also be referred to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, lt is not the first time there has been discrimination in Townsville. [More…]
Normally, in the past, we have been able to quieten things down by talking to the hotel association but lately there have been too many cases of discrimination and it is not good enough. [More…]
Initially Senator Keeffe raised one matter regarding the treatment of Aborigines, in the context that it was either an injustice or a matter of discrimination.I do not know the full details of the matter he raised. [More…]
But that is one of the problems which we face in these issues of alleged discrimination against Aborigines. [More…]
We are told that it is supposed to help to increase employment but there is no discrimination between labour intensive and capital intensive industries in the allocation of the allowance. [More…]
I believe that there was a great deal of justification for the comment that was made by Senator lames McClelland, namely that there seems to be no discrimination between plant manufactured in this country and imported plant. [More…]
The question of discrimination between Australian born and Australian naturalised citizens visiting Fiji and the amount of the bond which some have to give was therefore not discussed. [More…]
I am thinking particularly of one case before an unfair practices committee in the United States when the question of discrimination because of colour was raised. [More…]
There was no discrimination between the subsidisation of a religious hospital or an independent hospital on the one hand and a secular government hospital on the other. [More…]
Therefore the Labor Party’s policy is seen to be an aim at monopoly and an aim at discrimination. [More…]
The school has a flexibility within it and the grant is paid equally to all schools so that there is no discrimination. [More…]
Does the Branch ensure that there is no discrimination in employment in the Government and private sectors. [More…]
Employers are under no legal obligation to offer equal employment opportunities to people regardless of racial origins but any complaints of discrimination in employment are investigated. [More…]
The Public Service Board, being a Commonwealth agency, must be brought into the situation so that there is co-ordination between the terms and conditions of the staffs of the Public Service and of the Commonwealth’s authorities, otherwise there would be discrimination and chaos. [More…]
Governments and, more particularly, Aborigines and their supporters, have tended to justify favourable discrimination on the general grounds that Aborigines have suffered adverse discrimination and deprivation for so long that a few years of favourable discrimination is the least they can expect, and that it is only by such measures that the glaring inequalities between the standard of living of the average Aboriginal and the average non-Aboriginal can ever be eliminated. [More…]
This report states that there is discrimination against optometrists by health insurance funds. [More…]
An equitable enforcement of the law without discrimination to anyone upon whom an obligation falls is carried out for the purpose of fairness in regard to the discharge of that duty. [More…]
This amendment was to ensure that there would be no discrimination against the optometry profession that would arise from the first amendment. [More…]
This is consistent with the Government’s policy of non-discrimination against the optometrical profession. [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…]
There is general acceptance, I would hope, of the fact that there should be no discrimination as between one State and another. [More…]
It says on the one hand that it wants to avoid discrimination and, on the other, that it will provide without discrimination a greater number of assisted passages. [More…]
I think the charge fairly could be laid on the Government that the Government’s treatment of Fox reeks of discrimination and political persecution. [More…]
They are opposed, rightly - so am I - to discrimination one against the other. [More…]
Surely none of us here could agree with that sort of discrimination. [More…]
So in essence if we are to maintain in this country a system of 2 parallel airline operators to whom equal privileges are flowing, there should be no discrimination one against the other. [More…]
There is obvious discrimination in the issue of free telephone directories. [More…]
That the state of Aboriginal rights, health, infant mortality, life expectancy, education, training, employment, ownership, movement and democratic political advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Peoples everywhere in Australia is unequal compared with people of European origin, whether migrating to or bom in Australia; and this constitutes a challenge to the Australian people on grounds of racial discrimination, racism and even forms of genocide; [More…]
Your petitioners request that the honourable Senate initiate a debate on all features of governmental and other discrimination against the indigenous people. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs: With the current proposed expulsion of Asians from Uganda and the previous expulsion of many Asians from Zambia by devious means, will the Australian Government give support to any proposed United Nations sanctions against such blatant acts of racial discrimination? [More…]
While this increasing discrimination against the low income earners has continued over that period we find that Australians have to pay a greater proportion of their income in taxation. [More…]
It is obvious that the Government has allowed these acts of discrimination to continue. [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Having in mind the blatant acts of racial discrimination by Uganda against Asians, will the Australian Government give an assurance that any sporting team from Uganda visiting this country will be given protection against racial demonstrators in an endeavour to avoid another Springbok demonstration and clearly show that the Government and great majority of people in Australia will not accept the mixing of politics with sport? [More…]
My understanding is that the scheme makes no discrimination whatever between Aborigines and other unemployed persons. [More…]
One way that we saw for removing this distinction was the system of student loans applied without discrimination to the whole student body. [More…]
Let me make it clear that that team was selected on the basis of racial discrimination. [More…]
That sort of discrimination I think is quite opposed to the rule of law as I understand it. [More…]
Discrimination between human beings on the grounds of race, color or ethnic origin is an offence to human dignity and shall be condemned as a denial of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, as a violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human [More…]
<1) No State, institution, group or individual shall make any discrimination whatsoever in matters of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the treatment of persons, groups or persons or institutions on the grounds of race, color or ethnic origin. [More…]
No State shall encourage, advocate or lend its support through police action or otherwise, to any discrimination based on race, color or ethnic origin by any group, institution or individual. [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…]
Once you put them in a different position, whether a position of discrimination adverse to them or in a position of discrimination favourable to them, you are perpetuating the system of paternalism and at the same time destroying or moving away from the new concept which we are all trying to adopt, that is, of integration into our community. [More…]
I again express my pleasure that the invidious discrimination between officers and men has been eliminated. [More…]
At different times over the years I have asked whether the breakdown of taxation statistics should not include a more particular discrimination in occupation and a fragmentation in professional occupation so that the community could see the levels of incomes in the various categories. [More…]
Further, the Government should seek to remove any discrimination against Australian leathers by Eastern European countries and Japan. [More…]
It is to the credit of the Party to which I belong that for the last 16 years it has fought consistently for the right of parents to choose the school and the kind of education they want for their children without discrimination. [More…]
All I am saying is that when public moneys are set aside for education they ought to be spent equally on all children without discrimination. [More…]
If that is not discrimination, what is it? [More…]
Yet members of the Labor Party have the audacity to say that that is not discrimination. [More…]
Aborigines will have equal rights and opportunities with alf other Australians, and every form of discrimination against Aborigines will be ended. [More…]
He is inclined, with that lack of discrimination for which he is noted, to regard most persons and parties with whom he disagrees politically as fascist. [More…]
Although this legislation applies to a relatively small number of persons, Mr President, as approximately 760 Torres Strait Islanders and 40 mainland Aboriginals served during World War II in the Torres Strait Light Infantry Forces, it is nevertheless important as another move in the Commonwealth’s avowed intention to remove the last remnants of racial discrimination from the statute books. [More…]
May I intervene shortly to indicate that our attitude on this side of the House is quite clear, that in matters such as the appointment of conciliation commissioners there should be no discrimination on any ground, whether it be of religion or politics, and the mere fact that somebody had been a member of the Australian Democratic Labor Party does not disqualify him from appointment to office. [More…]
The only question should be whether a man is qualified for appointment to a position and no discrimination should be practised in any area. [More…]
Anyone would become, upset, 1 suppose, if every appointment were made from members of the Australian Labor Party or from the Liberal Party, or if the number of appointments of a particular type indicated that some discrimination was occurring in favour of some religion or some political party. [More…]
Although one cannot point to any specific discrimination in a particular case, the facts of the matter are so overwhelming as to indicate a discrimination in practice. [More…]
no discrimination in matters of this kind on the grounds of previous party affiliations of whatever kind. [More…]
I imagine that few v/ould argue with the contention that over the years TransAustralia Airlines has in fact suffered such discrimination. [More…]
The submission made by TAA to the Senate Standing Committee outlined the matters which it felt were causing a discrimination against its operations. [More…]
1 do not think there is this element of discrimination against the National Airlines Commission which is recited in the amendment. [More…]
What immediate steps does the Attorney-General intend to take to rectify this serious discrimination and this sorry state of affairs? [More…]
I can just imagine the noise of protest which would resound throughout Australia about the discrimination and the lack of justice in such a proposal. [More…]
Quite apart from the discrimination amongst persons who are entitled to 4 weeks leave, there are certain reasons why this decision ought not to be accepted. [More…]
- Awards containing a clause under the heading “Preference- which, although not truly preference clauses, provide that there shall be no discrimination against workers of the relevant union or prospective members of such union. [More…]
Some honourable senators have talked about discrimination. [More…]
Ill which concerns discrimination in respect of employment and occupation states in part: [More…]
Considering that the Declaration of Philadelphia affirms that all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity, and Considering further that discrimination constitutes a violation of rights enunciated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . [More…]
For the purpose of this Convention the term discrimination’ includes - [More…]
Everyone has the right, without discrimination, to equal pay for equal work. [More…]
It is purely a question of discrimination between certain workers, be they unionists or nonunionists, that has led to the motion which we have been discussing for so long. [More…]
It is worth noting some of the more objectionable forms of discrimination which will be eliminated by this Bill. [More…]
Surely this is discrimination, not justice, and just as surely it will create inequality not equality. [More…]
Yet it has the hypocrisy to talk about justice, equality and the ending of discrimination when its policies are aimed at and directed to achieving the opposite effect. [More…]
In these circumstances, taking into account section 116 of the Constitution which, in effect, guarantees that there will be no discrimination between religions, it seemed to me that it is not the function of the Commonwealth to decide which are true religions and which are false religions and to start to discriminate between them. [More…]
But while it is there, I believe that it should be carried out without discrimination between the various bodies which seek to avail themselves of the provision. [More…]
Among the numerous statements he made - I will read some of them - were the following: ‘seriously unjust’, ‘objectionable forms of discrimination’, ‘ending the punishing meanness with which unemployment and sickness benefits were paid’, ‘no more poor house alms giving mentality’, ‘official meanness’, ‘invective in suffering’, ‘social casualties of disastrous economic policies’, ‘meanness of unemployment benefit rates’, ‘blundering economic policies of the last Government’, and actions by mean men for too long’. [More…]
It amazes me that the former Government, now in opposition, showed discrimination between those classes of people to whom I have just referred. [More…]
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…]
But I would doubt whether sufficient information would be available to allow the Government to make any discrimination in a matter like this. [More…]
The policy of the new Government is to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
I think it has been announced already that legislation will be introduced into this Parliament to implement the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
As I conceive it, it will be possible, pursuant to that legislation, for this Parliament to insist that any form of racial discrimination be eliminated in Australia, whether such discrimination be by the Federal Government and its agencies or by State governments and their agencies. [More…]
My understanding is that we will be able to legislate generally to forbid the pactice of any form of racial discrimination throughout Australia. [More…]
The amendment simply makes that clear and prevents discrimination between members and senators, at the instance of the Executive Government, in provisions not approved by the Parliament. [More…]
Secondly, I think the Government is deserving of congratulation for acceding to what has been said in the Senate for a long time, namely, that there ought to be no discrimination between members and senators with respect to electoral allowances. [More…]
Government intended to remove the Discrimination between the sexes in the Parliament. [More…]
1 am left with no alternative because 1 believe that the action of the Government today is one of the worst displays of arrogance, petulance, discrimination and denial of the rights of the Opposition that I have witnessed in any Parliament in which 1 have served. [More…]
Today it might be thought that the Senate is passing this Bill to remove some racial discrimination against Aborigines whereas, if I understand the history of the Bill correctly, it was introduced originally to protect Aborigines against exploitation by the white man. [More…]
This is the same kind of political blackmail and the same kind of implied discrimination which lies behind the ideas of the tendering system - you scratch our back, we will scratch yours; you be good to us, we will be good to you. [More…]
The point I want to make is this: I saw some of the crocodile tears expressed by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) about the rights of migrants and I wondered whether he had referred back to speeches such as those I made in the past 5 years in which I begged the then Government to change the Crimes Act in order to avoid discrimination against people who had acquired Australian citizenship not having been born in Australia. [More…]
I say this to the Opposition: Notwithstanding the events which have occurred, the plain fact of the matter is that the discrimination in the Crimes Act and the previous Government’s failure to provide portability of pensions were 2 of the reasons why the Labor Party obtained the major ethnic vote of the major groups at the last election. [More…]
My leader, the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Murphy) will, I am sure, have the pleasure of bringing to this chamber in the not too far distant future an amendment to get over this gross discrimination in our Crimes Act. [More…]
It is rather curious that Senator Wright should appear here tonight as the champion of civil liberties, the champion of non-interference in the political opinions of persons resident in Australia, when one well remembers that he was a member of the Government party which was responsible for the waves of red baiting, of police terrorism, police scrutiny, police investigation and police discrimination which took place right through the 1950s, the 1960s and the (first 3 years of the 1970s. [More…]
There was a discrimination to a degree against the Croats. [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…]
Does the Attorney-General uphold the principle enunciated by him on 13th March 1973 when replying to a question asked by Senator Greenwood on Scientology in general or only with regard to particular statutes, that, whilst he did not believe that a particular provision should exist on the statute books, he said ‘while itis there I believe that it should be carried out without discrimination*. [More…]
We most certainly are opposed to all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
There has been discrimination and prejudice in many ways, and I do not think that we can get away from this. [More…]
Although the discrimination may perhaps not be so blatant today, it is still there, it is in a more subtle form. [More…]
Discrimination can be overcome. [More…]
I have done it myself, we have scientists who are doing it, and there is a swell of opinion right round the world against nuclear testing, and we make no discrimination whatever. [More…]
This is in part a legacy of some 20 years of discrimination in bed subsidy by previous governments. [More…]
On 1st June and 16th July various immigration committees are to meet in Melbourne and in Sydney to deal with alleged or possibly reasonable areas of discrimination. [More…]
The signatories include people like Ivan Kosovich of Yagoona, a man who, when it comes to racial discrimination, experienced it on the Western Australian gold fields in the 1930s. [More…]
He said - and he has said it for the last 6 years: ‘When is the Australian Government with its discrimination against citizens who are not native born and which utters platitudes and which patted me on the back when I worked my guts out at Island Bend up in the Snowy Mountains project, going to recognise it and amend the Crimes Act?’ [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 the Senate 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…]
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). [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…]
Will the Minister give consideration to granting equal opportunities to the Air Pilots’ Guild, and ending the previous Government’s policy of discrimination? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I lay upon the table a statement made in the House of Representatives this day by the Minister for Labour, Mr C. R. Cameron, relating to discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
The casualties of this discrimination are the people who agitate for reforms against their local councils, their trade unions and some of the rural co-operatives. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, is thai if some of those people had spent more time agitating for the removal of this discrimination, had got into the main stream of the political affairs in this country and had not tried to redraw the boundaries ot Eastern Europe, they would have been in a much stronger position. [More…]
People came out here accepting Australian ctizenship but in particular circumstances they have been subject to this discrimination and to being deported to the land from which they came, often going to a fate that was worse than any we might have administered to them. [More…]
That is in the past but circumstances involving dual nationality are still under dis cussion, as is discrimination regarding deportation which is being eliminated by this measure. [More…]
Does the Government condone this discrimination? [More…]
We believe that the price in this case should be one which has regard to the costs of the Authority in establishing and running its service - in other words, a cost price and not a price which has in view a profit or any element of discrimination as between one customer and another. [More…]
It is typical discrimination, because the one thing that a socialist government hates is the little person, the individual and individual rights. [More…]
Why then, if such extreme discrimination was used against these young girls, is the Aus tralian Government -now allowing easy entry and free movement to 2 recognised African Rhodesian extremists and radicals? [More…]
On 20 March, on the occasion of the international 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 stated in the House on Tuesday, we are ratifying a number of other ILO conventions as soon as possible, in particular those dealing with equal remuneration - 1951 - and with discrimination in the fields of employment and occupation - ‘1958. [More…]
It seeks, by indirect means - by delays, by duress, by discrimination and by victimisation, particularly by deliberate delay and by deliberate duress - to bring about a short term freeze. [More…]
Apart from the serious discrimination which has, in fact, forced a firm which has an overall turnover of $20m to do these things, another firm with a turnover of $19m escapes the investigation while all the little firms that are not in the $20m bracket completely escape it. [More…]
The implication is that there will be discrimination and victimisation. [More…]
Throughout the whole of this structure runs the fear of patronage, the fear of discrimination and the fear of victimisation. [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…]
We are determined to do our best to prevent such unfair social discrimination. [More…]
The ILO Convention is concerned that the existence of maternity benefits should not result in discrimination against women in employment. [More…]
I think that if there is discrimination in Western Australia in providing news services and newsprint this is a matter for the Attorney-General of Western Australia. [More…]
1 am not aware of any case of discrimination against any member of the Panel. [More…]
The first guiding principle enunciated by the Minister is that there must be no discrimination between different groups of settlers. [More…]
I think that the word ‘discrimination’ is wrong if it is said that the present system discriminates in favour of British migrants, lt is not suggested that we learn test cricket from Bessarabia. [More…]
Frankly, I find it very difficult to accept the Minister’s statement that all migrants are to be equal and that we have no discrimination when we find this tremendous program of aid going forward to President Amin’s dictatorship in Uganda. [More…]
I think that most, if not all members of the Parliament, will agree that the Government’s intention to do away with discrimination in regard to citizenship is a very laudable objective. [More…]
The principal reason for the introduction of this Bill is to remove all forms of discrimination against every Australian citizen. [More…]
Members of this Government are the people who preach lack of discrimination on grounds of religion, race or class, but this is class discrimination as sour as the most disappointed politicians who are conscious of their unworthiness. [More…]
Schedule 4 and 5, also adopted in July 1964, provide for the suspension from participation in the ILO of any nation pursuing a policy of racial discrimination. [More…]
One may wonder whether the purposes of avoiding racial discrimination really are achieved by expelling from the Organisation where influences may prevail bodies which do not measure up to the standards of ILO, but that is academic at this stage. [More…]
The Government has indicated that it wants to adopt this convention to indicate its position in regard to racial discrimination and that position is supported by the Opposition. [More…]
I know that the present Government, when it was in Opposition, sought to denigrate the Ordinance and the Government’s actions and motives in relation to it on the basis that the Ordinance represented some racial bias or some racial discrimination. [More…]
It is symbolic of racial discrimination. [More…]
I pose the question: How does the Government see itself to be implementing something which is to be an elimination of discrimination when under this particular Bill it gives a higher benefit to women who receive a high salary and a lower benefit to women who receive a low salary and no benefit at all to those women who are not employed by the Commonwealth Public Service? [More…]
Is not this part of the convention which we would want to adopt dealing with discrimination against women? [More…]
It is all very well to talk of increasing numbers, but unless we say: Where are they at the top level’, we would have to accept that undoubtedly, there has existed discrimination. [More…]
There undoubtedly has existed in the past a social, sexual, psychological and political discrimination against women. [More…]
Perhaps the activist women’s organisations of Australia are pointing somewhat militantly at present to this discrimination. [More…]
I understand the point she was making, that once this benefit is provided we have to ask ourselves the question: ‘Is this a discrimination between the high wage earners and the low wage earners?’ [More…]
There is some element of discrimination. [More…]
It seems only right from the point of view of ladies that they should be acknowledged as having the same entitlements and benefits as do males in this place, lt seems to be a denial of the currently accepted and developing political philosophy that this discrimination should continue to apply. [More…]
Does the Government condone this discrimination? [More…]
If this is so, why is there discrimination in favour of the ABC and against the private broadcasting companies? [More…]
I understand that there is no discrimination, that the media has been dealt with as the media in toto. [More…]
Can the AttorneyGeneral confirm recent reports to the effect that the Government intends introducing during this session legislation outlawing discrimination against Aborigines? [More…]
Can he inform the Senate whether this legislation is aimed at implementing the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination which was never done by this Government ‘s predecessors? [More…]
It is intended to implement the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, and legislation has been prepared to do this. [More…]
I hope it will put paid to the kind of discrimination which is still able to be exercised in this community and which should not be tolerated. [More…]
If this is justice according to the Australian Labor Party, then certainly it is not justice according to the thousands of people in Australia who are being adversely affected by this unfair discrimination. [More…]
How can we know which schools have received this favourable discrimination? [More…]
How can any other small schools know whether perhaps they may not be entitled to similar discrimination in their favour? [More…]
If Senator Mulvihill wants to stand by all this discrimination in my State - and I hope that representatives of the 34 schools in my State are listening at this moment - -let him get on his feet and explain this little riddle. [More…]
We have heard claims about discrimination against non-government schools. [More…]
We hear so much about discrimination, socialist objectives and similar matters. [More…]
It is a matter of humiliation that we stand here with the few remaining members of the Government who are giving the debate their attention and that they are unashamed of the discrimination and dishonesty which we are displaying to the public. [More…]
The Committee finds the term ‘systemic’ by which to exclude the majority of Catholic schools from its discrimination. [More…]
It is a shameful exercise in the great appropriations that have been mentioned in the Budget Speech that Government members can be so miserable and pusillanimous as to persist in this dishonest discrimination over$2m or$3m. [More…]
If so, what is the reason for this discrimination? [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the Minister for Immigration approves of what seems to be a blatant act of discrimination against a migrant wishing to serve his adopted country in this way? [More…]
But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards. [More…]
Does the Minister know that this residential college is subsidised by public funds to the extent of 87.5 per cent and that the rules of the College insist that there shall be no discrimination against students? [More…]
The substance of the question, as I understood it, is that if Commonwealth moneys- that is, public moneys- are provided through the appropriations of the Australian Parliament for any institution then such institution should not practise discrimination on extraneous grounds. [More…]
At end of motion add, ‘but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards*. [More…]
But the Senate is of the opinion that the Government has failed to honour its election promises in respect of defence, per capita grants to independent schools, pensioners, company taxation, the revision of taxation burdens, the home owner, its claim to come to government with malice towards none and its subsequent unfair discrimination against the rural community and its disregard of inflationary pressures and that this Budget therefore deserves condemnation in the Senate as the Budget of a government that has exposed itself as a government of double standards’. [More…]
The amendment states that in the Budget there is unfair discrimination against the rural sector, Before dealing in more detail with that subject I want to comment on one or two points made by Senator Drake-Brockman. [More…]
Industries should not be taken at random or without discrimination as some may have special conditions and circumstances which need evaluating in different ways. [More…]
-Is the Attorney-General aware that the Victorian Council for the Single Mother and Her Child is seeking removal of all legal discrimination against illegitimate children? [More…]
I am aware that the Government is negotiating with the States on this matter; but, in view of the considerable length of time during which these negotiations have gone on, can he give an assurance that in laws passed by the national Parliament all discrimination will be removed? [More…]
It would not be possible to do so completely because it might be necessary to refer to legitimacy in order to remove some kind of discrimination which otherwise would exist. [More…]
It seems to me to be gross discrimination to give retrospectivity to some people and not to others. [More…]
Does he agree that this is unfair discrimination and would he undertake to have this situation rectified? [More…]
I have some concern as to whether there has been discrimination between what I call employee and employer publications. [More…]
The discrimination between employee or trade union publications and employer publications appears to have been established fairly clearly on the evidence made available to me. [More…]
There has been pretty vicious discrimination in all charges against people who live outside the capital cities and the big provincial cities. [More…]
There seems to me to be grave discrimination against certain sections of the community. [More…]
This shows sheer prejudice and discrimination. [More…]
In answer to the honourable senator because it comes within my sphere, if necessary I will institute whatever proceedings are available against the administrative authorities in this community to see that the discrimination ceases. [More…]
But I want to state now quite authoritatively as far as the Australian Government is concerned, that if there is any imputation of discrimination on the part of the Australian authorities I reject it as I have rejected it in the past. [More…]
In the present situation of lighter credit, what steps has the Government taken to protect against discrimination those low income earners, especially the young, who are not at present buying homes but who will want home finance? [More…]
Obviously from the noise there are other people in the Australian Labor Party who are equally acutely embarrassed by the discrimination which has now been made public. [More…]
The first relates to the blatant partisanship and discrimination which is shown by the Government in its declaration of intention. [More…]
I believe that this type of discrimination is part of the reason why this referendum will never succeed in securing the vote of the Australian people. [More…]
It is blatant discrimination. [More…]
The second matter to which I wish to refer is the absolute invalidity, if not hypocrisy, of the argument which is advanced to support this sort of discrimination. [More…]
It was not in favour of any discrimination in favour of or against a particular buyer. [More…]
It reeks of discrimination. [More…]
One of the things that has been called for is a full-scale investigation into police activities, particularly in the inner city areas of Brisbane and Sydney, and an end to all police brutality and discrimination. [More…]
Aborigines to have equal rights and opportunities with all other Australians, and every form of discrimination against Aborigines to be ended. [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 of those who pay for the assistance, namely, other industries, consumers, or taxpayers. [More…]
I simply indicate shortly that the Bill deals in a comprehensive way with those practices which have been injuring the community and which have led to private price fixing, to contracts, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade, to monopolisation, exclusive dealing, price discrimination, anti-competitive mergers and conduct which is recognised all round the world as being against the proper operation of the economy. [More…]
You are not allowed to engage in price discrimination. [More…]
For example it is an exemption which does not apply to monopolisation, to resale price maintenance, to price discrimination, to this totally new area of consumer protection or to any contracts or combinations having- and these words are so tremendously significant- the purpose or the effect of fixing, controlling or maintaining prices. [More…]
It deals with such important and significant matters as mergers, monopolisation, exclusive dealing, resale price maintenance and price discrimination. [More…]
Given the problems that beset the Builders Labourers Federation official Jack Mundey at the moment, could the Opposition’s proposal not be open to discrimination? [More…]
I think it could be said that the fact that there is such a discrimination is highly undesirable. [More…]
As this discrimination is implicitly embodied in this legislation it is a matter of grave concern to the Senate that we should perpetuate such a system. [More…]
Yet implicit in this legislation is an attempt to perpetuate what is a very gross discrimination. [More…]
This is a principle that provides just terms without discrimination for whatever interest you have in land or however large may be your value. [More…]
-Exactly, and for the litigant whose right of action is taken away by a special piece of legislation the conscience has screwed itself to give itself a discrimination: It may recompense costs that have been thrown away and, having been thrown away, have become abortive, having regard to the enactment of this Act, when the litigation or arbitration is halfway through its course. [More…]
This is not in our view any sort of discrimination based on religious or any other prejudices. [More…]
Anybody who analyses the distribution of the school population between government and non-government schools, I suggest in all sincerity, cannot complain that there is any discrimination implicit in those figures against non-government schools. [More…]
Will the Minister reconsider the withdrawal of the $3 special compensation allowance which appears as unfair discrimination against these men and their families? [More…]
If the Commission provides diversity, freedom of choice and absence of discrimination, its influence will certainly be good. [More…]
In 1970, in the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, the Australian representative expressed concern about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union and appealed to the Soviet Union to resist from policies or practices of discrimination against citizens of Jewish origin and to allow those wishing to emigrate to do so. [More…]
But we have this Government parading Bills of Rights which proclaim that there shall be no discrimination between sexes. [More…]
But the idiocy of limiting this compensation to an arbitrary limit of $1,500, assuming a 5,000-bushel crop, is revealed by this attempt to spawn discrimination between people who are engaged in a joint association in producing and marketing a crop. [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…]
The Bill also provides that everyone is entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. [More…]
The Bill also deals, in clause 15 (2) with the right of women to hold public office on equal terms with men, without discrimination. [More…]
This Bill proposes that racial discrimination should be made unlawful in Australia. [More…]
The Universal Declaration proclaims in its first Article that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and Article 2 provides that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration, without distinction of any kind, including discrimination on grounds of race, colour or national origin. [More…]
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was adopted by the United Nations in 1965. [More…]
The United Nations has placed high priority on the advancement of measures for the elimination of racial discrimination in its human rights program. [More…]
A good deal of attention was given to various aspects of discrimination at the 1968 Teheran Conference on Human Rights held during the International Year for Human Rights. [More…]
The Proclamation of Teheran observed that the implementation of the principle of nondiscrimination, embodied in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration and other international instruments, constituted a most urgent task of mankind. [More…]
Subsequently, the General Assembly of the United Nations approved a program for the observance of 1 97 1 as the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The vigorous action initiated by the United Nations in 1971 was followed up in November 1972 by a resolution of the General Assembly in which it was decided to launch a Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination and to inaugurate these activities on 10 December 1973. [More…]
Initiative was taken in 1971 by the United Nations Association of Australia which set up a Committee to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The Committee also made representations to the Australian and State governments for the establishment of Race Relations Boards to administer legislation which would prohibit discrimination on grounds of race in respect of the provision or sale of goods, facilities or services, employment and conditions of employment, membership of trade unions and similar organisations, the purchase, sale or rental of housing accommodation, and the availability of business premises. [More…]
The volumes edited by Mr F. S. Stevens constitute a valuable contribution to the study of racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
The volumes on Australian racism disclose various aspects of discrimination in Australia. [More…]
Discrimination has had its effects on migrant groups in our community and there has been evidence of support in Australia for white racist regimes of South Africa. [More…]
Perhaps the most blatant example of racial discrimination in Australia is that which affects Aboriginals. [More…]
Discrimination affects Aborigines so far as it concerns the administration of the criminal law and the enjoyment of civil, political, social and economic rights. [More…]
The view is sometimes put that equality is an overriding value and all discrimination, whether for or against a group is necessarily bad. [More…]
For the past 180 years Aboriginals have suffered enormous handicaps in Australian society by comparison with whites, commencing with violent dispossession from their land and destruction of their social fabric, and continuing through various forms of legal, social and economic discrimination. [More…]
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination does, in fact, recognise the need to take special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development of certain racial groups for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the Bill gives recognition to this need. [More…]
The basic scheme of the Bill is to condemn racial discrimination as being unlawful and to provide machinery for investigation and conciliation as well as legal sanctions. [More…]
The proscribing of acts of racial discrimination will have an important persuasive and educative effect. [More…]
The fact that racial discrimination is unlawful will make it easier for people to resist social pressures that result in discrimination. [More…]
The Bill is divided into 7 parts, the first dealing with preliminary matters, the second with the prohibition of racial discrimination, the third with investigations and civil proceedings, the fourth with offences, the fifth with the Race Relations Council, the sixth dealing with administrative provisions and the seventh with miscellaneous matters. [More…]
Part II of the Bill deals with the prohibition of racial discrimination. [More…]
This provision follows closely the definition ‘racial discrimination’ in the Convention. [More…]
The purpose of clause 9 is to guarantee equality before the law without discrimination as to race in the enjoyment of rights and this clause will supersede laws of Australia or of the States that discriminate on grounds of race in relation to the enjoyment of rights. [More…]
Clauses 10 to 15 deal in greater detail with discrimination in the enjoyment of rights. [More…]
Clause 10 deals with discrimination so far as it concerns access to places and facilities, clause 1 1 with discrimination in the provision of land, housing and other accommodation and clause 12 with discrimination in the provision of goods and services. [More…]
Clause 14 deals with the important aspect of discrimination in employment and clause 15 deals with the display of advertisements that indicate an intention to do an act that is unlawful by reason of the legislation. [More…]
There are also offences relating to incitement of racial disharmony, the dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred with intent to promote hostility or ill will and the incitement of acts of racial discrimination. [More…]
This Bill is a first, but essential, step in providing measures for the elimination of racial discrimination in Australia and for the guarantee of rights without discrimination on grounds of race. [More…]
To be effective, however, anti-discrimination laws cannot operate in a vacuum. [More…]
I hope that this Bill will not only provide the machinery to deal with acts of discrimination but also will promote public awareness of this problem which will be so important in achieving the objectives of this legislation. [More…]
In conclusion I would emphasise that the purpose of the Bill is to carry out the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
In a week when we have scheduled into us yesterday a Bill of Rights protesting against discrimination on the grounds of sex, I ask honourable senators to listen to this: [More…]
I am not aware of any other laws of the Commonwealth which contain elements of racial discrimination. [More…]
Government objectives and government control could be achieved by administrative procedures and without legislation unfairly, in a manner of discrimination and capriciously. [More…]
Will the Minister reconsider the withdrawal of the $3 special compensation allowance which appears as unfair discrimination against these men and their families? [More…]
Is it arbitrary and excessive power to introduce a Bill to outlaw racial discrimination in this country? [More…]
If the Labor Party would like a double dissolution on this issue I think a very interesting election campaign would ensue in relation to the discrimination between one church school as opposed to others. [More…]
I do not raise this matter in a cantankerous spirit; but I raise it because it is a matter of great discrimination between members if it is left to the decision of the Minister. [More…]
I remind honourable senators, as I remind the Minister, that no-one has explained to the Senate during this debate what the reference to relative need really means, because by imposing this basis of relative need the Government introduces discrimination into the education community. [More…]
But this should be applied uniformly, without fear, favour or discrimination, to every child whose parents partly support him at a non-government school. [More…]
Does the Minister know that this residential college is subsidised by public funds to the extent of 87.5 per cent and that the rules of the college insist that there shall be no discrimination against students? [More…]
As I stated at the time, the Government has been engaged in preparing legislation to implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which will do much to prevent the practice of discrimination on extraneous grounds. [More…]
The Government, as a matter of policy, would not wish to interfere in the internal policies and administration of independent bodies such as residential college councils, except where there was some breach of federal law, for example on racial discrimination and other fundamental human rights. [More…]
I say to the Attorney-General that when we find similar provisions to these in his Racial Discrimination Bill and in his Human Rights Bill- provisions which give this tremendous inquisitorial power to commissions to interfere with the rights of ordinary citizens- this is the forum and this is the Parliament in which a voice must be raised to object to that sort of thing being done. [More…]
This is an example of the Labor Party’s determination that there must be no distinction or discrimination between people. [More…]
It is to the credit of the Roman Catholic people that they have had meetings on the subject and have said that they do not want discrimination that is occuring. [More…]
It will have a significant jurisdiction in defining civil liberties under the Human Rights and Racial Discrimination Bills which are already before the Senate. [More…]
To those who immediately raise to cry of ‘discrimination’, let me point out that similar differentials now exist in public hospital charges and that these will grow even larger in the future. [More…]
The Government will see that insurers offer insurance to all present members on the same terms, without discrimination according to age and health status and without limits to the period of coverage. [More…]
Irrespective of the fate of the Bills before the Senate- and it is quite clear what will happen to them- I suggest that the present Government could act to overcome discrimination that appears to occur at the moment with respect to certain funds. [More…]
I refer to the discrimination against the patients of optometrists in favour of the patients of opthalmologists. [More…]
If the honourable senator is suggesting that each advertisement should have contained each and everyone of the racial and ethnic discriminations practised by the previous government touching on the people that he quaintly calls British subjects, then he would have had to take not a small advertisement but a full page advertisement in everyone of the papers concerned. [More…]
The honourable senator is obviously not aware of the multitude of discriminations that were practised in the past. [More…]
They were shameful and unacceptable and that is why both Houses of Parliament voted against them, and to replace those discriminations with the present law. [More…]
The Minister for Services and Property has not indicated any attitude on these matters at all but it should be clearly understood that discriminations in the grant of Australian citizenship have been also as obnoxious, unjust and totally unacceptable to our country in 1973. [More…]
If the honourable senator has any dissenting views in favour of discrimination then it should be recognisefVhe is out of step with our time and that the attitude of the House of Representatives and the Senate as expressed in their vote on these matters. [More…]
Throughout Australia are many schools, such as the Adass Israel school, Marbury College, Portland Loreto Convent, the Australian International Independent School (Sydney) and many others that one could name which are small, which have clear needs, and which are being positively discriminated against by this Government which wishes to ensure the perpetuation of a discrimination against a section of the community. [More…]
It seems to me to be a rather peculiar discrimination. [More…]
I wanted to make those points because I believe that the Government is discriminating against certain people although it says it is trying to eliminate discrimination in matters such as pensions. [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…]
There is no racial discrimination in that. [More…]
The text of the Bill reflects their principal concern as to its operation- this was that there be no discrimination between States in any designation by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Through the forum of this Parliament let me now address myself to the older members of my race- those who, like me, have suffered so much because of past discrimination and prejudice; those who, because of the attitudes of the past, have lived in squalor on the banks of creeks and have seen the destruction of their culture, yet have been able to fight back and to give their children the best education that those conditions would permit. [More…]
We who have crossed so many dry gullies and have known hunger, despair and discrimination in its worst form have paved a much smoother way for the younger members of our race. [More…]
The conduct which is to be prohibited under the restraint of trade, monopolisation, exclusive dealing and price discrimination provisions is defined more tightly and an express exception is included for restraints of trade that are insignificant. [More…]
The price discrimination provision is modified as follows: [More…]
The defences in clause 49 (2) are made available in respect of discrimination in the provision of ancillary services as well as discrimination in prices. [More…]
Presumably, the Racial Discrimination Bill will be reintroduced, but when does the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) expect that to be debated? [More…]
I am surprised that Senator Carrick would be so critical of his own Government in saying that this would be an act of discrimination against the States. [More…]
The standards obtained in the development of our society have been achieved without racial discrimination and without the problems that have beset other countries. [More…]
I will take up the matter with the Minister to ascertain the attitude of the Government in regard to air fares and to see whether there has been any discrimination against Western Australia. [More…]
It is not an area of discrimination against the Commonwealth, nor is it an area of discrimination against Federal law. [More…]
He revealed the intimidation and the discrimination practised by Federation Insurance Limited against one of its employees who is a member of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Stop the Government practice of trade union membership discrimination. [More…]
This Bill re-introduces, with improvements, the Racial Discrimination Bill 1973, which was introduced into the Senate on 21 November 1973. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to make racial discrimination unlawful in Australia. [More…]
It implements into Australian law the obligations contained in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The Bill will 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…]
The Bill guarantees equality before the law without discrimination based on race or national origin. [More…]
The Bill goes on to deal in greater detail with discrimination in the enjoyment of rights on grounds of race, colour or national or ethnic origin. [More…]
It deals with discrimination so far as it concerns access to places and facilities, the provision of land, housing and other accommodation, the provision of goods and services, the right to join trade unions and employment. [More…]
As was the case with the 1973 Bill, machinery to enforce the elimination of racial discrimination forms an important part of the legislation. [More…]
A Race Relations Council will be established to make recommendations on the action that should be taken to bring about the elimination of racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
In the first place, the Bill has been extended to deal with discrimination against persons on the ground that they are immigrants. [More…]
The previous Bill applied only to discrimination that is made on the grounds of race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin. [More…]
This is the basis on which most discrimination is made against migrant people and the form of discrimination dealt with by the Convention against Racial Discrimination. [More…]
However, I have decided that it would be desirable for the Bill to deal also with discrimination made against a person purely on the ground that he is an immigrant, and the Bill has been so extended. [More…]
The Council’s role will encompass the areas of educational programs, the promotion of studies and research programs, the publication and dissemination of material to assist in the elimination of racial discrimination and the promotion of understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial or ethnic groups. [More…]
The changing of community attitudes and the promotion of understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial or ethnic groups will form an extremely important part of the Government ‘s program for the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]
I have observed on another occasion that anti-discrimination laws cannot operate in a vacuum. [More…]
The proscribing of acts of racial discrimination, will of itself, assist in reducing social pressures that result in discrimination. [More…]
There are other measures relating to racial discrimination before the Senate. [More…]
That discrimination by the Labor Government against rural industries and the community dependent upon them is adversely affecting the economy and the welfare of the nation and many of its citizens. [More…]
The International Labor Organisation Convention on Discrimination in Employment was implemented. [More…]
There is discrimination. [More…]
In earlier discussion mention was made of discrimination against women. [More…]
With all that this Government is doing to end discrimination through employment and other channels, I can express only concern and a little surprise that there is discrimination in the Parliament. [More…]
This requirement in itself is discrimination. [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 [More…]
I ask: Will the Minister consider referring this matter to the Australian Institute of Criminology, asking that Institute to examine all relevant aspects including the nature of the offences involved, the nature and extent of the punishments inflicted, any evidence of discrimination, the desirability of any legal reforms and any possible steps of a preventive nature? [More…]
The main complaint is that there are in gaol today so many Aboriginals who have been convicted of what I call victimless crimes such as drunkenness, vagrancy and prostitution- crimes in which there were no victims- and that there is some discrimination in that there is a greater incidence of arrest among Aboriginal people than among white people because there are different attitudes in different places. [More…]
The Senate also is to deal with motions relating to a system of imposed regionalism and discrimination against rural industries, Aborigines, rural policy, grants to the States, and so on. [More…]
That has been the most effective way to assist the financing of farms in Australia and harping all the time on claims that there has been some sort of discrimination against the farming sector in relation to interest rates just does not stand up to investigation. [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; anti-competitive mergers. [More…]
The practice of price discrimination is defined in clause 49, which is now in the form of the amendments that I circulated before the double dissolution. [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…]
There also is gross discrimination in relation to public telephone charges. [More…]
This is a gross discrimination. [More…]
It is in line with the discrimination that is evidenced in various other charges laid down in the Bill. [More…]
This Government, which says that it wants to do away with discrimination, ought to be condemned for including these discriminatory charges in what is a social as well as an economic measure. [More…]
I conclude by repeating that, whilst I believe in the principle of uniform banking laws, I worry at the inherent and very real power of arbitrary discrimination which lies in the Bill. [More…]
I wish to direct attention to a further item of discrimination which will be authorised under this Bill unless some corrective measure is taken in relation to the clause. [More…]
It seems to me that the clause requires the inclusion of some means whereby the Senate may supervise any arbitrary discrimination against companies in particular categories in regard to the assets they hold. [More…]
Then, instead of the wholesale permissive discrimination that would be allowed under subclauses (4) and (5) of the Government’s Bill, as I read the Opposition amendment it is a straightout prohibition against the Bank using its powers to determine finance for a particular person or to prohibit finance for a particular person, and a prohibition against the Bank requiring finance by a corporation outside its ordinary business or prohibiting finance inside its ordinary business. [More…]
It is to ensure that the wholesale discrimination in sub-clauses (4) and (5) of the Bill is not there, and to ensure in particular that sub-clauses ( 1 ) and (2) are read as a reference to general policy and are not to be used for the discriminatory purpose under the heading of applying policy of providing finance for different classes of transactions. [More…]
If we allowed the bank to make regulations of that sort under sub-clause (2) I think we would be giving it a power of discrimination which would go close to achieving that which nobody should want, namely, to provide that finance be given, for example, if Coles were known to have put in an application and the bank had been seen on the matter, or the trading bank had conveyed the information to the [More…]
If the statute permits overdue discrimination there is nothing that the Regulations and Ordinances Committee can do to invalidate regulations that simply follow a discrimination permitted by the statute. [More…]
It is only where the statute does not authorise discrimination that we do not allow regulations unduly to trespass on the individual rights of citizens and it is in those circumstances that we would be at liberty to take action. [More…]
But in my view we in the Regulations and Ordinances Committee would be very severely limited in taking action against discriminatory regulations if the statute is expressed so as to permit overdue discrimination. [More…]
The whole purpose of the legislation, as pointed out yesterday, is to prevent that discrimination from taking place. [More…]
It would seem to me to be an unreasonable suggestion that discrimination could be used against individuals by the manner in which the Bill is currently drafted. [More…]
I do not know why we have to spend so much of our time on this matter when ample provision has been written into the legislation, as was mentioned yesterday when we were discussing the matter and reference was made to consultations with the industry to make sure that there would be no abuse or discrimination against individual finance companies. [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…]
It is a different approach entirely from that which says that under no circumstances can you have price discrimination. [More…]
There is nothing which I can find in reports of the Commissioner which states that this concept of price discrimination should be outlawed in the completely prohibited way in which it is under this legislation. [More…]
These vertical arrangements also restricted competition by establishing either resale price maintenance, exclusive dealing, collective boycotts, exclusionary dealing or price discrimination. [More…]
But that Association has expressed strong opposition to clause 47 which relates to exclusive dealing and to clause 49 which relates to price discrimination. [More…]
It denies to a corporation the right to engage in exclusive discrimination in price matters and forbids mergers, and then makes a whole number of exceptions to those general statements. [More…]
The Opposition felt that as well as the provision relating to the delayed commencement of the exclusive dealing provisions there should also be a similar provision relating to price discrimination. [More…]
Therefore, the Opposition’s amendment was simply to add to clause 2 the expression ‘47 (1)’, which deals with exclusive dealing, and the expression 49(1)’, which deals with price discrimination. [More…]
The case we put in support of that, and I imagine that the Attorney-General has become aware of it, is that so many of the arrangements under which business and commerce are carried on in this country are arrangements which will have to be adjusted in the areas of exclusive dealing and price discrimination and in areas where existing distributorships and networks and connections between companies will have to be looked at arid changed. [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…]
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…]
The Opposition also seeks to move an amendment to clause 49, which introduces a concept of price discrimination. [More…]
One could say that to make the concept of price discrimination unlawful in the way in which the BUI does is to bring in not only a completely new concept with which everyone engaged in commerce in this country now would have to live but also it is to introduce one of the most difficult concepts with which American trade practices law has ever had to deal. [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…]
When one looks at the clause as a whole, one finds that it deals with discrimination of such magnitude or of such recurring or systematic character that it is likely to have the effect of substantially lessening competition in a market for goods. [More…]
As to the proposal that the words ‘directly or indirectly’ be deleted, although there may be some advantage in leaving those words in the sub-clause, in some ways the indirect kind of discrimination is dealt with in parts of the clause. [More…]
That is the general prohibition on price discrimination- 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. [More…]
This will mean that the sub-clause will not apply if the discrimination alleged ‘is constituted by the doing of an act in good faith to meet a price or benefit reasonably believed to be offered by a competitor of the supplier’. [More…]
The supplier might reasonably respond by saying: ‘Yes, but I have this price discrimination provision and I cannot give you any discount or allowance’. [More…]
Is the supplier engaging in the offence of price discrimination under clause 49? [More…]
Obviously he is offering a discrimination because everyone else is charged $ 1 for the product item but he is offering this customer a price of 95c. [More…]
This supplier is excused from any offence if he can fit himself within the provision to which I am referring; namely, sub-clause ( 1)- the offence of price discrimination- does not apply in relation to a discrimination if ‘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…]
We would provide that the person would escape the net in this clause although there was discrimination. [More…]
Where discrimination has been carried out the person could answer. [More…]
In other words, there is no basis in fact which would justify the discrimination. [More…]
Immediately those who are practising the discrimination, those who are carrying out the kinds of conduct which are aimed at by this Bill, will have their batteries of lawyers looking into how they can escape the provisions of the legislation. [More…]
One is price discrimination. [More…]
In any proceeding for a contravention or sub-section ( I ), the onus of establishing that that sub-section does not apply in relation to a discrimination by reason of sub-section (2) is on the party asserting that sub-section ( 1 ) does not so apply. [More…]
If he has that proof, if he has some satisfactory reason and if he can discharge the onus, the words which Senator Greenwood suggests should be added to the clause are desirable and fair, bearing in mind particularly the high penalty which people will pay if convicted of price discrimination. [More…]
The things that are referred to in this part are contracts and arrangements in restraint of trade, monopolisation, exclusive dealing, price discrimination and mergers. [More…]
The attempt of the draftsman is to incorporate in those 7 paragraphs the matters which it is felt ought not to be taken into account in deciding, for example, whether there has been a contract, arrangement or understanding entered into in restraint of trade or whether there has been exclusive dealing or price discrimination and so on. [More…]
The Human Rights Bill and the Racial Discrimination Bill which will be introduced into the Parliament by the Government will, when passed, reinforce Australia’s compliance with the terms of the genocide convention. [More…]
I refer now to another example of what we did last night- clause 49 which relates to price discrimination. [More…]
Not only that, the Committee left it as a matter of fact to be established as to whether there was discrimination between purchasers of goods. [More…]
In any proceeding for a contravention of sub-section ( 1 ), the onus of establishing that that sub-section does not apply in relation to a discrimination by reason of sub-section (2) is on the party asserting that sub-section ( 1 ) does not so apply. [More…]
If a competitor is injured by virtue of monopolisation, exclusive dealing or price discrimination, he has a cause of action which he can take to the court. [More…]
But we believe that authorisations should be able to be obtained in respect of monopolisation and price discrimination. [More…]
If a company can apply to the Commission for an authorisation to engage in conduct which would otherwise be prohibited by clause 45 as being in restraint of trade, or if a company can apply to the Commission for an authorisation to engage in conduct which would otherwise be regarded as exclusive dealing, it seems that there is no proper case for price discrimination and monopolisation not to be able to be excluded. [More…]
I suggest for consideration by the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) that the very width of what is described as monopolisation and price discrimination and the element of uncertainty which must attach to words which are coming into application for the first time in this country warrant the opportunity being given for authorisation. [More…]
We do have a basic problem with regard to authorisations, but with regard to monopolisation and price discrimination one cannot apply for any authorisation. [More…]
I simply say that they repeat with regard to conduct which is called price discrimination the same considerations which we advanced with regard to the other provisions. [More…]
We sought to apply that provision now in regard to price discrimination. [More…]
A private individual suing a company which he alleges has engaged in the practice of monopolisation, price discrimination or exclusive dealing or which has entered into a contract in restraint of trade under which that individual has suffered loss, could subpoena a member of the Commission to produce all documents relating to the hearing which was then in question. [More…]
I have refered to the Parliamentary Counsel the question of whether we can introduce legislation to overcome discrimination in Queensland. [More…]
To my mind, the present situation is well within the ambit of discrimination. [More…]
Mr Whitlam said that Mr Grassby would be appointed commissioner under the racial discrimination legislation when passed. [More…]
He also informed the public that, as Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby had established a community relations committee which had gathered a great deal of evidence indicating that discrimination continued to exist in important areas of community administration and activity. [More…]
If so, what is the reason for this discrimination against pensioners in Queensland private nursing homes? [More…]
The question concerns the contravention of a convention relating to employment discrimination. [More…]
The question raises the matter of discrimination. [More…]
In his opinion it was a case of discrimination and he is going to see that it is referred to the Discrimination Board. [More…]
Clearly, what has emerged in the argument is the suggestion that some form of discrimination should be exercised so that books, which that honourable senator thought were not in good taste or which in some way offended his sense of decency, ought not to receive the bounty. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Local Government Association of Western Australia has alleged that there is discrimination by the Federal Government in the treatment of applications for unemployment grants to authorities in that State? [More…]
Mr Acting Deputy President, 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…]
Will the Minister make inquiries into the reason for this discrimination against Tasmanians with the hope of having such discrimination removed? [More…]
Would our bold moving Minister for Foreign Affairs say that no discrimination of any kind exists in Australia today? [More…]
Australian criticism of racial discrimination in South Africa, and the Government ‘s unofficial proposal to vote in the UN Security Council for the expulsion of South Africa, either choose to ignore facts that are being given wide publicity or to interpret them as gimmicks and window-dressing. [More…]
South Africa’s Ambassador to the UN, Mr Botha, made admissions on Thursday of discrimination and promises to improve. [More…]
The facts are increasing multi-racial sport and some multiracial diplomatic staffs, official moves to gradually get away from colour discrimination, and preparations for the complete independence of the Bantu homelands. [More…]
May I interrupt my reading to say that I do not remember hearing any great criticism from our Minister for Foreign Affairs of the day when President Amin took some of his racial discrimination to heart and proceeded to act in a reverse way. [More…]
It would be just as easy to ignore the official pronouncements of the Australian Government and to focus exclusively on the discrimination which the white Australians practise against the black Australians. [More…]
It is a country which has ranged through the problems of racial discrimination. [More…]
There we see discrimination in Western Australia through legislation which has recently been introduced. [More…]
I admit that there are sections of discrimination against Aborigines. [More…]
I admit that there are pockets of discrimination against Aborigines and other low socio-economic sections of our community but honourable senators will see this in many countries. [More…]
He comes out with the same utterances as Senator Coleman who is concerned with discrimination against a section of the community. [More…]
We should be united in this protest to see that discrimination ceases in Australia also- both in respect of the legislation passed in Western Australia and in respect of the Country Party’s attitude particularly to Aborigines within Australia. [More…]
If honourable senators want to see the greatest discrimination in Australia we have it in the Queensland Parliament against the Aborigines. [More…]
Do honourable senators say that that is not discrimination? [More…]
Is this not discrimination? [More…]
Surely the advocacy of Senator Webster will justify his voting for our Queensland Aborigines anti-discrimination Bill when it comes before the Senate. [More…]
I applaud him for his attitude towards and his condemnation of the discrimination which has existed in Australia, but he says that because it exists here, because we are guilty, because we are rotten, low-down and contemptible for tolerating it, we should do nothing to cut it out anywhere else in the world. [More…]
Let me say this: From the statements that have been made tonight, if we are sincere we should be hand in hand in unity- Senator Coleman, Senator Webster and I- to stop discrimination where it exists in Australia or any other country. [More…]
Labor’s policy on Aboriginal affairs is the only hope we have in Australia of stopping discrimination. [More…]
Let us remember that the things that Senator Webster hates about discrimination in Australia and the things that Senator Coleman dislikes about Western Australian legislation are hated by all free men and all democrats. [More…]
Let us stop discrimination and apartheid wherever it may raise its ugly head. [More…]
There is no real movement in sport in South Africa because at the club level where sport starts, not necessarily at the international level, there is still segregation and discrimination. [More…]
The honourable senator acknowledged in turn that the reason that we should vote against South Africa is that we have not clean hands on the question of social discrimination. [More…]
How can we in Australia say that we are trying to get rid of racial discrimination and that we believe we should not judge one another because of the colour of our skins, yet turn round and vote the other way when it conies to South Africa? [More…]
We are passing laws and establishing departments to assist and uplift and to get away from racial discrimination. [More…]
The honourable senator referred to the discrimination which is practised against the women senators. [More…]
I do not think that any honourable senator would want to practice any form of discrimination against senators of the other sex. [More…]
I should remind the Senate that although the prohibition of price fixing, monopolisation and anti-competitive mergers in the consumer protection provisions has been operating as from 1 October, the provisions in relation to the prohibition of exclusive dealing, prices discrimination and contracts in restraint of trade, other than price fixing, are not operative until 1 February 1975. [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 this country. [More…]
I introduced into the Senate a Racial Discrimination Bill on 21 November 1 973, and again on 4 April 1 974, but the Bill was not debated before Parliament was dissolved for the last election. [More…]
The Bill implements into Australian law the obligations contained in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The Bill recognises the importance of legislation that will make racial discrimination unlawful. [More…]
I emphasise that the introduction of legislation to outlaw racial discrimination is a fundamental step that must be taken if Australia is to ratify the Convention. [More…]
The common law provides no effective remedies against discrimination in the exercise of human rights, whether it be based on race or colour or on other grounds. [More…]
Legislation therefore has a vital role to play in the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]
The proscribing of racial discrimination in legislative form not only makes people more aware of the evils of discrimination and makes it more obvious and conspicuous, but also furnishes an essential legal background on which to base changes to basic community attitudes. [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 Bill follows closely the definition used in the Convention. [More…]
The Bill 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, the provision of land, housing and other accommodation, the provision of goods and services, the right to join trade unions and employment [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 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. [More…]
The Bill also recognises the importance of developing programs of education and research and other programs to combat racial discrimination and promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups. [More…]
The Commissioner will have the function of conducting programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination, and a Community Relations Council will be established with an advisory role. [More…]
A further change to the previous Bills effected by the present Bill will give the Commissioner the function of carrying out and fostering programs of education and research and other programs to combat racial discrimination. [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…]
In my second reading speech of 4 April 1974, 1 pointed out that the changing of community attitudes and the promotion of understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups would form an extremely important part of government’s program for the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]
I also pointed out that both government and community-based programs to combat racial discrimination were necessary. [More…]
Australia will be required by Article 7 of the Convention to conduct programs of this kind to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
Finally, the Bill has been amended to emphasise reliance on civil, rather than criminal, law to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
The Bill will provide the basis upon which Australia can comply with the obligations imposed by the Convention on Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The Bill recognises that laws proscribing discrimination are vital, but not in themselves sufficient. [More…]
The legislation 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…]
Your petitioners believe that this Budget measure is regressive and is an unjustifiable act of discrimination inflicted on parents struggling to keep their children in independent schools. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that action will be taken to remedy this act of discrimination. [More…]
That has been a deliberate policy of exclusion and discrimination which has passed unmentioned and uncriticised generally by the nations of the world. [More…]
Your petitioners believe that this Budget measure is regressive and is unjustifiable as of discrimination inflicted on parents struggling to keep their children in independent schools. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that action will be taken to remedy this act of discrimination. [More…]
Your petitioners believe that this Budget measure is regressive and is an unjustifiable act of discrimination inflicted on parents struggling to keep their children in independent schools. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that action will be taken to remedy this act of discrimination. [More…]
Your petitioners believe that this Budget measure is regressive and is an unjustifiable act of discrimination inflicted on parents struggling to keep their children in independent schools. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that action will be taken to remedy this act of discrimination. [More…]
Many of these people will be refugees and others who are suffering political discrimination. [More…]
The vice of what is occurring at the present time is the vice of discrimination. [More…]
That sort of discrimination is the complete antithesis of the universality of the application of rules to which the AttorneyGeneral has given his support on other occasions. [More…]
All these books and all the material that is coming forward indicate that the utmost discrimination is being practised in the administration of the system of criminal justice. [More…]
I am talking of the mums and dads who have suffered discrimination and prejudices and who have come up the hard way but who today, because of their hard work and their perseverance, are living in the community in decent homes which they have obtained by the sweat of their own brows. [More…]
Queensland remonstrated about this and the Minister, apparently realising the extent of his act of discrimination against the Queensland Aborigines, suddenly decided that he could pull $3. [More…]
It cannot be described as anything less than an act of discrimination against Queensland ‘s Aborigines because they are the ones who will suffer. [More…]
On the subject of discrimination in Queensland, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and another senator in this chamber have said that Queensland provides an outstanding example of racism. [More…]
The one great factor I came away with after my first real meeting on that level was that those people really wanted to be Australians and to end discrimination in this community. [More…]
I think that the amendment proposed by the Opposition would further discrimination, not end it. [More…]
Let me say to the Opposition that it will have my opposition when it tries to stick to the methods of the past and refuses to venture into an area which gives dignity to the Aboriginal people and ends discrimination against them, as has been acknowledged in some areas of administration by the Queensland State Government. [More…]
We have clothed ourselves with the spite of many people in the world because we voted in favour of South Africa’s expulsion from the United Nations on the basis that South Africa had an apartheid policy and because it practised discrimination. [More…]
I admit that there are sections of discrimination against Aborigines. [More…]
After all, while we have discrimination and indeed apartheid in this country, we wanted to push out South Africa if we could without taking notice of the other black countries in the world today which practise apartheid. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Bill 1974 introduced by Senator Murphy is aimed at overcoming the differences between whites and Aborigines in some respects. [More…]
Has the Australian Government recently raised with State Governments the question of discrimination by the exclusion of males from those eligible to be trained as school dental therapists or nurses? [More…]
Does the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs agree with Mr Charles Perkins that the head of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs should be sacked for racial discrimination in the administration of the Department? [More…]
That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to make provision with respect to the peoples of the Aboriginal race of Australia, and the race to which Torres Strait Islanders belong, for the purpose of preventing discrimination in certain respects against those peoples under laws of Queensland. [More…]
In view of the fact that the numbers in this category would be very small and in any event the loan would be totally repaid with interest in due course, is there any justification for continuing this quite unfair and unjust discrimination? [More…]
No there is no justification for continuing the discrimination and, in accordance with the suggestion by Senator Drake-Brockman, the Government is acting responsibly and intends to remove this discrimination. [More…]
A Bill has been introduced into the other House to amend the Act and take away the discrimination against single men and widowers. [More…]
If I might say so, it is an unfortunate discrimination. [More…]
Further, there is absolutely no discrimination between the treatment given to our own international airline and any other international airline, or between any international airlines. [More…]
As segregation is the worst form of discrimination and in view of the terms of the liquor ordinance, will the Minister advise whether the owners or the management or both are contravening the ordinance? [More…]
If so, will he advise what action he will take to ensure that this type of discrimination and segregation does not continue at the Canberra Rex Hotel or at any other hotel in the Australian Capital Territory? [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 of the 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 10 1 voting in favourincluding Australia- none against and 5 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 Aboriginals, but my Government has told those States that those laws 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- Hansard 20 April 1971, page 1663. [More…]
In 1971 the United Nations Association of Australia set up an Australian Committee to 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 senators’ attention to the policy platforms of the Liberal Party and the Labor Party on the issue of discrimination against Aborigines. [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 Aborigines. [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…]
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 know honourable senators opposite take the view that this is still discrimination because the people do not vote in the normal way. [More…]
How senators opposite might have suggested that it is a pretty mild sort of discrimination. [More…]
We believe that the control is unlimited, undefined and permitted discrimination between stations. [More…]
The first objective was to remove the possibility of discrimination between stations, and we considered that to be an important amendment which was understood by the Government when it was introduced by us. [More…]
If this is not discrimination, nothing is. [More…]
The Act is not designed as an instrument of racial supremacy, bigotry, hatred or discrimination. [More…]
Far from being an act of discrimination against Aborigines, the Queensland Act discriminates in favour of them, which is in accord with the Schedule of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Special measures taken for the sole purpose of securing adequate advancement of certain racial or ethnic groups or individuals requiring such protection as may be necessary in order to ensure such groups or individuals equal enjoyment or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms shall not be deemed racial discrimination provided, however, that such measures do not as a consequence lead to the maintenance of separate rights for different racial groups and that they shall not be continued after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved. [More…]
Yet this dauntless disciple of racial discrimination, with his Department divided, his radicals ridiculing him and the children under his care starving, presumes to discredit Queensland’s Aborigines and Islanders, the Queensland legislation and the Queensland Premier with a Bill that is nothing more than deceit and duplicity. [More…]
The final thing I want to say is that the further discrimination that has been practised in Queensland is illustrated in the figures of the Department of Health. [More…]
I think I have highlighted the sort of discrimination being practised against Aborigines by the Queensland Government and by the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs. [More…]
The provisions in respect of the management of property that are discriminatory against Aborigines or Islanders are contrary to the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
There is very little difference between the forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
There is discrimination against Aborigines, especially among estate agents and property owners. [More…]
We propose to take action by supporting the Attorney-General’s racial discrimination Bill which will make illegal the refusal to let premises to a person simply because of his Aboriginality. [More…]
Has the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs seen an article in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald ‘ last Saturday to the effect that descendants of Pacific islanders brought to Australia as slave labour last century are planning an appeal to the United Nations against what they allege is racial discrimination by Federal and State governments in Australia? [More…]
Therefore it seems rather strange that there should be this discrimination against those who are actually developing or expanding an existing market. [More…]
The overall ceiling of $100,000, to which I have referred, is of course a discrimination against the larger operators in this area. [More…]
We feel that it is open to misinterpretation and perhaps, in some cases, to discrimination. [More…]
Racial Discrimination Bill 1974 [No. [More…]
That the Senate compliments the Government on recognising 1975 as International Women’s Year, and asks the Government to take urgent and immediate steps to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in Australia and to actively encourage the elimination of discrimination against women in all parts of the world. [More…]
It is not often that I find myself on the same platform as my friend Jim Keeffe, but tonight I find that I must agree with him in his call for a royal commission into some of the allegations that have been made from time to time of police brutality and the discrimination that has been shown towards Aborigines in various parts of Australia. [More…]
We have no racial discrimination Bill. [More…]
In view of experience overseas, where FM broadcasting has attracted huge listener retention to the great detriment of amplitude modulation broadcasting stations, will not this discrimination ultimately gravely weaken the commercial stations and mean a move towards nationalisation? [More…]
Whilst we know the features of poverty in other groups, if we take into account income, housing conditions, loss of freedom and racial discrimination it is clear that Aboriginals are worse off in Queensland than in other States. [More…]
It aims to eliminate discrimination between parties. [More…]
It aims to eliminate discrimination between political candidates. [More…]
I trust that optometrists will show their usual discrimination and reject the offer with contempt. [More…]
If the answer is no, and if he has not already done so, will he take action to ensure that any discrimination against women is eliminated, particularly during International Women’s Year? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation: If there is this discrimination, be it against men or against women, will he make recommendations for it to be removed, particularly during International Women ‘s Year? [More…]
If there has been any discrimination against Western Australia in this matter I will attempt to find the explanation thereof and will let the honourable senator have a reply as quickly as possible. [More…]
It is against that background that I want to look at this Bill, a Bill which in itself contains a very great evil, and that is discrimination. [More…]
What is the reason for this discrimination when all the terms of this Bill could have been applied to all Australian people if there had been negotiation and consultation with the States and the ordinary construction authorities in Australia? [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…]
This legislation will implement into Australian law 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 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 make people more aware of the evils of discrimination and will also make it 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 Bill follows the definition used in the Convention. [More…]
The Bill 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, the provision of land, housing and other accommodation, the provision of goods and services and the right to join trade unions and employment. [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…]
It is recognised in the legislation 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. [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 sufficient. [More…]
The legislation 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…]
We want to end all forms of sex discrimination. [More…]
Will the Minister examine this matter and advise whether such practices would be in conflict with the proposed Racial Discrimination Bill? [More…]
The company claims that discrimination is not involved but that it is a question of correct underwriting because nonwhite, non-Europeans have a lower life expectancy than Europeans. [More…]
Section 13 of the Racial Discrimination Bill which, I think, has reached the second reading stage in the Senate, provides - [More…]
I am sure this will be reflected in his attitude to the Racial Discrimination Bill and other legislation which comes before the Senate. [More…]
I can assure all honourable senators that the Australian Government insurance office will see that there will be no racial discrimination in the provision of policies for any resident of this country who applies for them. [More…]
The essential quality of that is some balance and no discrimination, and certainly not preference. [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…]
As it is International Women’s Year, I wish to draw the attention of the Senate to various incidents which show how diligent a government must be and how difficult it is, until one actually has legislation to enforce an idea, to bring people to realise that they have a blind spot and that when it comes to matters such as discrimination between the sexes, unfortunately, a deal of discrimination still exists. [More…]
The matter that I wish to bring to the attention of the Senate concern discrimination against women. [More…]
Again this is an example of how we can legislate against discrimination but we have to take the ideas right through the community. [More…]
In this regard, of course, we have established discrimination committees which are investigating these sorts of matters. [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…]
The other thing to do is to see that an office is established in Australia which will not function on the ground of race or sex discrimination. [More…]
A racial discrimination Bill was first introduced in November 1973 and it was not presented to the Senate for debate prior to the Parliament being prorogued. [More…]
A second racial discrimination Bill was introduced in April 1974 and that again was not presented to the Senate for debate. [More…]
A third racial discrimination Bill was presented in October 1974 and that was withdrawn from the Senate in February 1975. [More…]
On 15 April of this year this Racial Discrimination Bill was transmitted by message from the House of Representatives and today, after some 18 months, it comes before the Senate to be debated. [More…]
The Opposition has many reservations about the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
It recognises that the Bill gives expression to a desirable and acceptable principle- the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]
Racial discrimination which proceeds from or which seeks to develop a superiority concept is to be deplored and avoided. [More…]
A society which is plagued by the tensions of racial discrimination is likely to be a society torn by dissension and evidencing a developing instability. [More…]
The Bill of course ratifies the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
It seeks to establish its principles by providing, in general provisions, that racial discrimination shall be unlawful and by providing, through particular provisions, that certain types of racial discrimination shall be unlawful. [More…]
It is recognised by the Opposition that if we are to cope with racial discrimination in a way that seeks to specify what are acts of racial discrimination and to indicate a community disapproval of such conduct, then provisions of the character which are contained in the Bill are desirable. [More…]
The Bill of course indicates- it is a provision to which we take exception- that if an act which could be regarded as an act of discrimination occurs and the reason for that act of discrimination occurring has a number of facets to it of which only one is the intention to do an act of racial discrimination, then that is still to be regarded as an unlawful act. [More…]
If an act of discrimination occurs it should be unlawful only if the dominant reason is discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin. [More…]
If it be said that one reason why civil proceedings are not the appropriate proceedings under the Racial Discrimination Act is because of the delicacy of the human relations which are involved, one might draw by way of comparison the fact that that has been the type of argument which has been used to justify certain types of proceedings before conciliation commissioners. [More…]
The first relates to the constitutional justification which might have been offered for this legislation; the second is to consider whether laws of this character can be expected to have the overall beneficial effects which can be claimed for legislation which deals with racial discrimination; and the third is to specify a little more precisely why the Opposition will propose its type of enforcement in preference to that which the Government has suggested. [More…]
This is a Bill which seeks to make unlawful conduct which may be described broadly as conduct involving racial discrimination. [More…]
There is no express power in the Constitution to make laws with respect to race relations or racial discrimination, or the conduct which may take place which is proscribed by this Bill. [More…]
What the Government is doing is relying upon the fact that there is an international convention for the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination which Australia is ratifying and which, because of the obligations which it is said flow from that ratification, enables it to exercise its powers to make laws with respect to external affairs. [More…]
There also is an obligation upon a guarantor, a party to the convention, to declare as an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, or incitement to racial discrimination as well as all acts of violence or incitement to such acts. [More…]
It shall declare illegal and prohibit organisations which promote and incite racial discrimination. [More…]
I object to racial discrimination; I object to communism, to fascism and to other forms of totalitarianism. [More…]
Notwithstanding that I object to communism, or fascism, or racial discrimination, I would recognise that it is the right of other people if they want to disseminate those views to be able to disseminate them. [More…]
The Convention proceeds, of course, on the basis that the propagation of any doctrine based on racial discrimination is scientifically false, is morally condemnable and socially unjust and that there is no justification for racial discrimination. [More…]
I think it has to be recognised today that there are few, if any, laws still remaining in this country which could be regarded as laws which involve a racial discrimination. [More…]
It was said that the legislation has a vital role to play in the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]
The proscribing of racial discrimination in legislative form will make people more aware of the evils of discrimination and will make it more obvious and conspicuous. [More…]
It may be that that will be a consequence of the Bill, but whether that will aid in the elimination of racial discrimination is very much open to question, because the more there is a concentration and a focusing of attention on an issue which to many people has never been an issue at all, the more it will create problems which never before were problems. [More…]
The fact that racial discrimination is unlawful will make it easier for people to resist social pressures that result in discrimination. [More…]
I think that people desire to observe the law, and if they know it is unlawful to engage in acts of racial discrimination then I think there will be a tendency and a willingness to accept that that is a conformity which they must respect. [More…]
I know that in the United Kingdom where the racial tensions have a far greater recognition than in Australia there has been legislation designed to avoid racial discrimination since, I think, 1966. [More…]
If one looks at the commentaries in the news reports, one realises that racial discrimination is as great and as much a source of friction in the United Kingdom today as it ever was. [More…]
The effectiveness of the Act has been particularly marked in virtually removing discriminatory notices and advertisements from shop windows and newspapers and there are strong reasons to believe that discrimination in services and places of public resort has greatly diminished. [More…]
On the other hand, although it appears that the Act has had beneficial effects in the fields of unemployment and housing the board considers that there is still evidence of discrimination, especially in promotion opportunities and the ‘white collar’ sector of employment and in private housing. [More…]
The other publication to which I refer is ‘The Extent of Racial Discrimination’. [More…]
The results of our tests demonstrate that there is still substantial discrimination against members of the minority groups when seeking jobs and housing. [More…]
They also show that this discrimination is more related to race than to foreign origin, since the level of discrimination against Italians or Greeks is comparatively low. [More…]
Although the level of discrimination seems, therefore, to be lower now than it was before the Act, the general conclusion from these findings must be that the number of cases of discrimination that are dealt with by the law (either by means of conciliation or by means of legal sanctions) forms a very small proportion of the number of acts of discrimination that actually occur. [More…]
We in Australia have been singularly free of racial discrimination. [More…]
That is the concept in this Bill- which is inherent in the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination becomes continually more and more plainly correct and it will be a notable day when this country of ours can join those who have ratified the Convention. [More…]
Senator Greenwood said also that this Bill would declare illegal organisations which foster racial discrimination. [More…]
There is a great need to declare illegal those organisations which foster racial discrimination. [More…]
The reasons for discrimination have never been terribly important. [More…]
What is important is that there is discrimination. [More…]
There is discrimination on any number of grounds. [More…]
There is discrimination because of sex, age, race, colour, religious or political beliefs, an accident of birth, or otherwise. [More…]
Senator Greenwood spoke of the previous racial discrimination [More…]
Everyone is entitled without any discrimination to the equal protection of the law. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware, of course, that discrimination against women is nothing new in Australia. [More…]
Women have traditionally met discrimination when they have endeavoured to obtain finance, particular for housing and major purchases. [More…]
When looking at discrimination we must take in the situation which existed in Western Australia until at least 12 months ago when it was not even possible because of discrimination for a woman to sign a guarantee for her son or daughter to continue his or her tertiary education. [More…]
If we are looking at discrimination against women in general we cannot bypass what happens in the Parliament. [More…]
I remind Senator Wright, who is trying to interject, that Aboriginal women are included in the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
The racial discrimination that we are specifically looking at today is just as apparent in many other areas. [More…]
We have all read reports of racial discrimination, and some of us have been fortunate enough, or unfortunate enough, to see instances of racial discrimination. [More…]
Senator Greenwood mentioned earlier that the Convention would declare illegal organisations which foster racial discrimination. [More…]
I think honourable senators should give a few moments thought to the background of the matter before the Senate, which is the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
-We are discussing the Racial Discrimination Bill 1975 but after hearing that speech by Senator Coleman we could be forgiven for falling into some confusion because for all we know it could have been a discussion on a Bill on discrimination on the grounds of sex, income level, drugs, family power- anything but racial discrimination. [More…]
Problems of racial discrimination do not occur in the socialist countries. [More…]
Those countries are not subject to the same problems in racial discrimination as we are here. [More…]
Because of these problems, once again created by governments, we are now faced with this Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
In my opinion if this Bill is implemented it will create more discrimination, not less. [More…]
This Bill is being brought in on the grounds that Australia is a party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
The introduction of the Bill is supported by the Schedule of the International Con vention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and claims that the charter of the United Nations is based on the dignity and equality inherent in all human beings. [More…]
Far from eliminating racial discrimination by making it illegal, the Bill will highlight the problems between the races and create an official race relations industry with a staff of dedicated anti-racists earning their living by making the most of every complaint in much the same way as does the Race Relations Board in the United Kingdom. [More…]
It is somewhat incongruous that we find the Opposition parties criticising this Government which outlined in its policy speech- it also is in the program of the Australian Labor Party- its determination to play a significant part in abolishing any forms of racial, political and economic discrimination in this country. [More…]
I find racism the most objectionable and most obnoxious form of discrimination. [More…]
I cannot understand how any Australian, or for that matter, any person can ever defend the sort of discrimination that has taken place in this country and many other countries. [More…]
The Bill sets out very simply to ratify an international convention to make it unlawful for any person to practice racial discrimination. [More…]
This Government is seeking to introduce legislation designed to meet Australia’s obligations under the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
I can quote no better authority on the question of racial discrimination than the founder of the Australian Liberal Party, Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
Nobody can disagree, surely, with the proposition that racial discrimination continues to flourish in this country. [More…]
My colleague, Senator Coleman, has given abundant evidence that this form of racial discrimination exists very far and very wide in our country. [More…]
What is required are strong, operable, measures designed to eliminate racial discrimination in order that a more free and equal Australian society can emerge from the scourge of prejudice. [More…]
It recognises also that racial discrimination cannot be curbed solely by legal means. [More…]
I am grateful for the small mercy that at least Mr W. C. Wentworth in another place said that he would support that portion of the legislation which seeks to implement the Convention and to carry out a program of education in order that racial discrimination is no longer fostered in our community. [More…]
On the third front against racial discrimination the Bill provides for the settlement of alleged racial discrimination by non-legal means. [More…]
Senator Sheil, who preceded me in the debate, seemed to think that if some responsibility were passed on to an eminent person within the community to examine and regulate these problems of discrimination it would result in the setting up some form of bureaucracy and that that should be avoided at all costs. [More…]
According to the legislation, every endeavour is to be made by the Commissioner to settle the matter, to promote understanding, to deal with the lesser excesses of racial discrimination in a non-legal manner. [More…]
I witnessed racial discrimination in that country. [More…]
The role of education in eradicating social discrimination cannot be over-emphasised, and the Bill does precisely that. [More…]
The role can be made more meaningful and effective if expressions and actions of racial discrimination are prohibited. [More…]
Without this legal sanction the Bill would have little effect in curbing racial discrimination. [More…]
The Bill would be nothing more than an empty declaration of good intent or a belated recognition that racial discrimination exists in our country. [More…]
No one could assert that there is no racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
That fact ought to be a constant reminder to us of what happens when people advocate armchair fashion attitudes and policies against discrimination and do nothing. [More…]
Who thinks that words are stronger than deeds- those who deny the existence of racism, those who talk about prejudice as if it does not exist, those who say this legislation ought not to be carried and those who are concerned to protect the guilty rather than the innocent victims of racial discrimination? [More…]
If a racial discrimination Bill ought to have been in operation at any time it was at the time that the Tasmanian Aborigines were being exterminated by the settlers in that State. [More…]
Discrimination against the Aborigine in the administration of the criminal law and in the enjoyment of civil, political and technical rights still exists. [More…]
In the past 180 years Aborigines have suffered enormous handicaps in Australian society by comparison with whites, commencing with violent dispossession of their land and destruction of their social fabric, and continuing through various forms of legal, social and economic discrimination. [More…]
Many of the existing practices of racial discrimination will be outlawed. [More…]
It will become possible now for those public officials to be charged with discrimination if they persist in their unfair and discriminatory practices which are synoymous with the activities of certain policemen in the Redfern area, activities have been noted by lawyers of substance in the region, activities which are continuing to this very day to the everlasting disgrace of sections of the New South Wales police force. [More…]
One would imagine, when one listens to the Opposition, that we have never had a problem associated with racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
We opened our hearts, we brought them here and then we began a policy of discrimination. [More…]
We have had the opportunity in the last few days to examine the forms of discrimination practised against the migrant population in our country by the insurance companies, those great citadels of capital accumulation. [More…]
I never realised until I was elected to this place the degree of discrimination to which the previous LiberalCountry Party Government turned a blind eye for so many years. [More…]
It took no steps to eradicate these forms of discrimination. [More…]
It was not until the United Nations and other international organisations drew the attention of the Australian Government to these forms of discrimination that we had an opportunity to compensate these people for the forms of discrimination which have been practised. [More…]
This is one of the companies that have the temerity to challenge the established and declared policy as enunciated in the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on 2 occasions that we shall establish an Australian Government Insurance Office in which there shall be no discrimination on sex, race or religion. [More…]
One has only to look at the propaganda from the Rights Committee that operates in the far north coast area of New South Wales and in Queensland to see that that organisation makes racism and discrimination a cornerstone of its policies. [More…]
It is the subtle unspoken discrimination which has to be eradicated. [More…]
An unspoken inhuman discrimination- which I am sure was the substance of the behaviour of the insurance companies and of many others- from time to time manifests itself in a racist comment or joke and maintains the alienation felt by the migrant and the Aboriginal from the so-called original Australians. [More…]
We write to urge your support of the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
It was moved and seconded That this general Meeting of the Australian Council of Churches supports the Racial Discrimination Bill, 1974, and informs the AttorneyGeneral of this, at the same time requesting him to ensure that those minority groups which suffer from dis.crirnination have substantial representation on the Community Relations Council which will be set up if the Bill is enacted. [More…]
To my mind the Racial Discrimination Bill 1975 that is before us is, in its present form, in many aspects of the over-government type and is restrictive of the freedom of Australian citizens to express their opinions freely and to conduct their own affairs in accordance with the dictates of their consciences. [More…]
Racial discrimination’ is a term which should be used very carefully. [More…]
Personally, I define ‘racial discrimination’ as an expression of malice towards any human being because of his race. [More…]
Therefore, I have no personal difficulty in agreeing fully with the assertion that racial discrimination is evil. [More…]
I am not so sure that coercive measures will help to combat prejudice and discrimination. [More…]
There is a vitally important area of discrimination which, I feel, could cause more harm, hurt and damage than many other forms of discrimination. [More…]
I believe that discrimination in the sense of making or constituting a difference in or between people is morally wrong in whatever way it comes about. [More…]
However, as soon as we want to combat discrimination on the basis of race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin and class, we should adhere to the great tradition of this country that a person is innocent unless proven guilty. [More…]
Therefore in my opinion any racial discrimination Bill should include a reference to the immoral ideologies by which racism is promoted at the expense of the dignity of humanity and all its individual members. [More…]
I trust that as a result of certain amendments being carried this legislation will finally emerge as good, effective and just legislation and legislation that is actually able to achieve, in a way in which the Australian people would desire it, the elimination of whatever discrimination is present in our country. [More…]
-The Senate is debating the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
Senator Laucke, who preceded me in the debate, confused me with some of the attitudes he took towards the Bill, particularly that which he expressed as a desire to abolish class discrimination. [More…]
The first of those basic principles is that racial discrimination should be proscribed by law and that fundamental rights should be guaranteed without distinction as to race. [More…]
So the outlawing of racial discrimination by legal sanctions is also a basis for changing community standards. [More…]
As a fourth principle the Bill emphasises the importance of the use of education and other programs to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
I have said ‘helping to solve this problem in Australia’ because nobody on this side of the House would pretend for one moment that by passing a racial discrimination Bill we are in any way solving the problem of racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
I think that the highest we can seriously put it is that we believe- of course, we gather that the Opposition also believes- that the passing of this legislation will assist and facilitate the lessening of racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
While that is true, the origins of the Bill can be found perhaps in the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination which was signed by Australia in 1966. [More…]
Since 1966 nothing very much happened in this country in relation to racial discrimination until this legislation was introduced. [More…]
It is an interesting fact and a very happy fact for this country that both major political parties have in their platforms clauses which specifically deplore racial discrimination. [More…]
In 1971 the Australian United Nations Association set up in Australia a committee to combat racism and racial discrimination. [More…]
That committee, which had the support and co-operation of all the major churches in Australia, most major welfare organisations and both major political parties, made representations to State and Commonwealth governments asking them to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of race. [More…]
When I was going around in nappies there was a lot of racial discrimination in this country and there still is. [More…]
The lady in question took great pains to describe the Racial Discrimination Bill as rubbish, and she used other terminology of a similar kind. [More…]
This group says that under the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Bill and Human Rights Bill and the Victorian Avoidance of Discrimination Bill a person who chooses to marry his or her race, ethnic group, nationality, or religion, and not to marry a person of another race, ethnic group, nationality or religion, does an act involving a distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on colour, descent, national or ethnic origin or religion can be prosecuted and could happen under the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
As I understand it, what this group is saying is that according to the view which it is spreading about the Racial Discrimination Bill a person who makes a choice to marry a person of Australian ethnic origin can be prosecuted because that is racially discriminatory, but of course that is just stupid and it is typical of the sort of thing which is printed in this type of publication I referred to earlier. [More…]
I want to refer to one other example of this sort of discrimination in our society. [More…]
One English migrant wrote to a newspaper about the British anti-discrimination Bill and indicated the great disturbance and divisions it had caused in that country. [More…]
I have not found any great discrimination against people like that. [More…]
Can we be accused of discrimination because a particular person goes to morning tea with me or somebody else goes with another person to morning tea or afternoon tea, or to supper or to have their meals? [More…]
Can that be said to be discrimination? [More…]
When we are talking about discrimination, the term can have a very wide aspect. [More…]
The honourable senator is a legal man; so I ask him where this discrimination ends. [More…]
I exonerate Senator Button from such remarks because he did have the good sense to say that apart from one or two speeches this really has not been a debate on an anti-discrimination Bill but it has been more like a debate on a migration Bill. [More…]
We have been speaking of discrimination and racism but let us consider where this exists. [More…]
We in Australia are just amateurs in racial discrimination. [More…]
Is that not racial discrimination? [More…]
If it appears to the Minister that the Commission is showing undue preference to, or is exercising undue discrimination against, any person or persons of any ‘class or description in the charges or other terms or conditions applicable to services provided by it, he may, after consultation with the Commission, give it such directions as appear to him requisite to secure that it ceases so to do. [More…]
If it appears to the Minister that the Commission is showing undue preference to, or is exercising undue discrimination against, any person or persons of any class or description in the charges or other terms or conditions applicable to services provided by it, he may, after consultation with the Commission, give it such directions as appear to him requisite to secure that it ceases so to do. [More…]
Section 102 of the Constitution provides that the Parliament may make laws forbidding undue or unreasonable preference on discrimination by state railway systems. [More…]
A State, or an authority of a State, shall not, as to any railway, in respect of or so as to affect trade or commerce among the States, give any preference or make any discrimination that the Commission has adjudged undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State. [More…]
He said that it was necessary to clothe the Commission with sufficient power to deal with railway rates, discrimination, rebates and all other forms of unfair treatment, as has been done in the United States of America where they have established a United States Commerce Commission. [More…]
I do not lapse into legalism, but the point I wish to make is that the purpose of the InterState Commission, as it was envisaged by the framers of the Constitution was that it was designed to deal with problems which arose from discrimination so far as valid laws were concerned. [More…]
All it can do is act in relation to preferences and discrimination under valid laws. [More…]
For example, if one examines clause 10 one finds that the Parliament is arrogating to itself a power to declare unlawful, in respect of or so as to affect overseas transport or interstate transport or in relation to overseas transport or interstate transport, any preference or advantage, discrimination or disadvantage which the Commissioner adjudges to be undue and unreasonable. [More…]
What if the InterState Commission was to declare some charges to be unreasonable or to be a discrimination? [More…]
-Has the Minister for Manufacturing Industry seen Press reports of a speech by the Queensland President of the Institute of Surveyors, Mr K. Davies, to the effect that there is confusion and demoralisation in Australia’s small business sector and that discrimination against small enterprises is rife in Australia? [More…]
The Government also recognises that there is discrimination against small firms. [More…]
To help counter this discrimination we initiated measures in the Trade Practices Act to prohibit price discrimination. [More…]
It is a fact that there is this discrimination law in Queensland. [More…]
I am sure that the legislation on our notice paper- the Bill that has been through the Senate and the House of Representatives and now has been returned to the Senate with some proposed amendments- will overcome the discrimination that now applies to Aborigines on settlements in Queensland. [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 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 any particular person, State, locality or class or kind of transport to any discrimination or disadvantage, that the Commission has adjudged to be undue and unreasonable. [More…]
1 ) A State, or an authority of a State, shall not, as to any railway, in respect of or so as to affect trade or commerce among the States, give any preference or make any discrimination that the Commission has adjudged undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State. [More…]
In deciding whether the doing of any act or thing constitutes for the purposes of sub-section ( 1 ) a preference or discrimination that is undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State, the Commission shall have due regard to the financial responsibilities incurred by any State in connection with the construction and maintenance of its railways. [More…]
-Some days ago this matter was before the Senate for debate and I spoke for some time then on this Racial Discrimination Bill, so let me give a quick resume. [More…]
What is racial discrimination? [More…]
Is it discrimination because of the different nationalities of people? [More…]
Is it discrimination because of the different colour of people? [More…]
Is it discrimination because some people are not as well off as are others, or because of whatever other aspect we may think of? [More…]
Therefore, the matter of accepting one another, getting on well with one another, and of not having discrimination depends in many cases upon individuals. [More…]
Are we to be accused of racial discrimination because we do not like those people? [More…]
It is a case of personal desires and personal likes, but legislation such as this Racial Discrimination Bill when put into effect, is the type of thing that can cause to develop, in the minds of certain people in this country, an attitude on racial discrimination that can be of a very dangerous character. [More…]
It is easy to say, ‘Someone acted against me racially’, or That person showed racial discrimination’. [More…]
The Jewish people have achieved a greatness, a development and an enrichment in many ways because they did not allow this silly business of discrimination to worry them and to beat them down. [More…]
I am not saying that discrimination is good. [More…]
I have not seen any discrimination against them. [More…]
I realise that it is often most difficult to establish discrimination on race, colour or ethnic grounds, and of course there is always the risk of creating the converse situation. [More…]
There is nothing worse than the mental cruelty that can be and is being inflicted on minority groups in our community by so-called law abiding citizens, and when the only ground for this discrimination is racial it is indeed high time that something was done about that form of cruelty which not only disadvantages a person in the fields of employment and housing but robs him of his dignity and his pride. [More…]
This Bill helps to protect people from racial discrimination in the fields of employment and housing and in access to places and facilities. [More…]
However, I will say that racial discrimination in the 1970s is not as blatant as it was in the 1950s, but it is just as latent, and that is where the danger lies- in the latent discrimination that goes on, especially in our education system. [More…]
I am talking about people in ethnic groups who protect themselves from being disappointed or hurt simply by not applying for higher employment or better accommodation, solely because of the fear of discrimination on sheer racial grounds. [More…]
Parties, for example, to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination undertake to adopt immediate and effective measures, particularly in the fields of teaching, education, culture and information with a view to combating prejudices which tend to racial discrimination and to promoting understanding and tolerance’. [More…]
That the widest possible educational and publicity campaign be undertaken and, in particular among disadvantaged sections of the population, with respect to the Human Rights Bill and the Racial Discrimination Bill, if and when enacted, and the Legal Aid Schemes. [More…]
Because we live in a materialistic society today rather than a religious society, the same urge exists to solve all the problems of racial discrimination of one sort of another, not by the canonical law but by statute of Parliament. [More…]
She attacked the whole problem of racial discrimination on the basis of sexualism that is to say, women are a deprived element in the community. [More…]
Racial discrimination against women as a sexual problem will not be remedied by passing laws. [More…]
I turn to what I regard as the most dreadful form of racial discrimination which came out inferentially in Senator Button’s speech. [More…]
As Senator Sheil has said, the problems in relation to racial discrimination in Australia exist to a large degree because we have tried to create a multiracial society at least based on some common ground of a European descent, which Senator Mcintosh appears to disregard. [More…]
I accept the declaration by the United Nations Organisation that there should be no discrimination in the terms in which the United Nations made this declaration. [More…]
The propaganda which was distributed in Australia by the United Nations Organisation and which was mentioned by Senator Mcintosh states that the United Nations was unanimous on this declaration regarding racial discrimination; that all the people in the United Nations subscribe to this declaration without any demurrer. [More…]
I have here a list of the nations that have acceded to the United Nations International Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
There it is, a great part of the sub-continent of Asia with some 450 million or 500 million people, wracked by racial, religious and caste discriminations, yet that country acceded to the Convention. [More…]
The Government of India declared that for reference of any dispute in the International Court of Justice, for decision in terms of article 22 of the International Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, the consent of all parties to the dispute is necessary in each individual case. [More…]
Finally, the United States throws the whole Convention out of the window and says: ‘We will make our own arrangements in relation to racial discrimination on the grounds of religion, cast and colour’. [More…]
We give the ground away, not on the basis that we are ashamed in any way, but simply on the argument that I first adduced, namely, that you cannot eliminate discrimination on the ground of religion, race, colour or anything else except if it is done by an educated society. [More…]
If honourable senators have read the Melbourne ‘Herald’ this week they would know that in the Canadian Province of Ontario, which Senator Button praised as having a model statute of racial discrimination of one sort or another, there is more discrimination than in any of the other Canadian Provinces. [More…]
Yet it has this model racial discrimination legislation which, as I mentioned earlier, carries this exception to protect Senator Coleman from affronts of one sort and another. [More…]
Observations were made by Senator Gietzelt about racial discrimination in the election which Mr Grassby lost. [More…]
In 18 cases, it was decided that there had been discrimination. [More…]
Twenty-two complaints in the sale of houses were investigated and discrimination found in 3 cases . [More…]
The Race Relations Act seems to have been effective in reducing discrimination in public houses. [More…]
The population of the United Kingdom is involved in racial discrimination to an infinitely more emphatic degree than the population of this country. [More…]
The Race Relations Board and its committees found 23 cases of racial discrimination concerning public houses in 1970-71 and in twenty-two of those cases conciliation was successful. [More…]
All I am saying is that there is racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
The report of the select committee of the House of Commons in Great Britain- it is the third of such reports- found that the causes of discrimination were other than colour, caste and creed. [More…]
It will not solve the problem of racial discrimination as referred to in the United Nations Convention. [More…]
First of all it must tackle the problem of racial discrimination at its base. [More…]
It is a racial discrimination problem in which he is involved. [More…]
Work in it will probably begin to solve the problem of racial discrimination. [More…]
Because we are committed internationally to try to solve this problem, I believe we must introduce a racial discrimination statute onto the Australian statute books. [More…]
Notwithstanding the comments of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack and the references that he made to Senator Button and 1 or 2 other colleagues of mine, I do not believe that anyone on this side of the chamber believes that racial discrimination can be entirely legislated out of existence. [More…]
The fact that racial discrimination is unlawful will make it easier for people to resist social pressures that result in discrimination. [More…]
Having been born and reared in a country town which like most country towns in Australia manifested quite a deal of anti-Aboriginal discrimination, I have seen examples of the relevance of the point that Senator James McClelland was making. [More…]
The barber states in a town where racial discrimination does exist that if he cuts the Aboriginal’s hair his European customers will not patronise his shop; they will go somewhere else. [More…]
If on the other hand the barber is in a position to say ‘the law forbids me from discriminating against Aboriginals’ he is then in a very much stronger position to resist those very social pressures for racial discrimination to which Senator James McClelland referred. [More…]
The Bill prohibits racial discrimination and incitment to racial hatred. [More…]
However, Senator Greenwood did not bother to mention that the laws of defamation already provide substantial constraints against an absolute freedom of expression and of publication, nor did he explain why if the Bill is objectionable on those grounds the Government of which he was a member in 1966 voted for the United Nations Convention on Racial Discrimination which is appended to this Bill and which provides for exactly the same prohibitions against incitement to racial hatred and the publication or dissemination of racist propaganda. [More…]
He then proceeded to tell us that in terms of racial persecution and racial discrimination we in Australia were just amateurs and that we had a lot to learn from the natives. [More…]
I rise to welcome the presentation of this Racial Discrimination Bill to this chamber and to congratulate the Government for having introduced it into the Parliament. [More…]
The racial discrimination document which the United Nations produced was executed by the previous Government in 1 966. [More…]
It is my view that it is a pity that following the execution of that document legislation was not enacted at a State level, where there is less constitutional uncertainty, to deal with the question of racial discrimination. [More…]
In other words, 1 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…]
There is some difference of opinion about the machinery that ought to be utilised by society and by government to bring an end to racial discrimination. [More…]
I think there is nothing improper or disgraceful about having differences of opinion about the machinery, but I stress the unanimity of the Parliament in condemning racial discrimination. [More…]
I say to the Minister in charge of the Bill that he ought to give very careful consideration to the amendments which will be put forward by the Opposition in the Committee stage of this Bill, because it is certainly my conviction that the amendments will in fact improve the legislation, would enable it to be introduced far more successfully into the community, and would in the long term aid the objective which I am sure the Government has of reducing racial discrimination in this country. [More…]
The second important fact is that there is discrimination in this country. [More…]
I have listened to my fortunate colleagues who have spent time overseas tell us that discrimination in other countries is worse than it is here. [More…]
Since I do not have the benefit of that experience, I cannot say whether they are right or wrong, but I can say that my own experience tells me that discrimination in this country is at a level which I find totally unacceptable. [More…]
When I speak of discrimination I simply mean that a large number of people are treated not because of what they are but because of their racial heritage- because their parents were Aboriginal, Greek, or of some other race. [More…]
In my professional life I came across a consistent series of examples of discrimination on the grounds of race that I found highly objectionable, and on many occasions the law did not provide an adequate remedy. [More…]
That, to me, is blatant discrimination, and this woman was subjected to it not only by a government department but also by my own profession. [More…]
This platform, which was adopted only last year, provides on page 17 that ‘the maintenance of individual freedom calls for positive measures by the Government and private organisations to encourage equal opportunity and to prevent discrimination against the individual or minority groups’. [More…]
I agree with many honourable senators who have pointed out that to legislate against discrimination is extremely difficult. [More…]
In just the same way, if we have a legislative framework which declares that racial discrimination is illegal, that legislative framework in itself has some educative effect and it is part of the environment and the context in which people grow up. [More…]
I do think that law has a place in moulding community attitudes and that therefore the declaration that racial discrimination in Australia should be illegal is useful in itself as a long term educative tool. [More…]
Quite apart from that, of course, the Bill, even if it cannot change attitudes immediately, can prevent overt acts of discrimination which are harmful to individuals. [More…]
His article carries the heading ‘The Role of Legislation in Eliminating Racial Discrimination’. [More…]
I have had some experience of matters which have been drawn to the attention of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) over the past year or two in which, in my judgment as a lawyer who has had some practise in this field, it would be difficult to obtain solutions simply by going to the courts because quite often people who are the subject of discrimination are the sort of people who are least able to take advantage of court procedures. [More…]
In my view, the important thing is that the people of Australia should see that a Bill comes out of this Parliament that has the unanimous support of the Parliament, because I think that that in itself will be a big propaganda victoryand I use the word ‘propaganda’ in a nonoffensive sense, I hope- for those people who believe that racial discrimination should be destroyed in Australia. [More…]
If those people who are actively discriminating on the ground of race see that the whole of the Parliament is united in this declaration that racial discrimination should be unlawful, I believe some will lose heart at least to some extent and cease the sort of campaign that I think has been offensive to most of us. [More…]
Those people I have an obligation to look after under my portfolio have been referred to frequently and I think it would be accepted that, if there was any racial discrimination in Australia, they would be the most aggrieved people by any racist attitude of the Australia public or of any sections of our community. [More…]
If it is established that discriminatory action was taken because an ethnic group was involved, then there is an offence and, as Senator Walsh said, it establishes social support for the individual to refrain from using discrimination. [More…]
There are some people who may say that racial discrimination acts in 2 ways and that some preference is being given to Aborigines at the present time by way of the allocation of funds. [More…]
It is significant that a Racial Discrimination Bill has only now reached the Senate after having been first introduced in November 1973. [More…]
In my opinion, Australia is not in the throes of racial discrimination; and I emphasise that. [More…]
He said that there is a pocket of discrimination; he said it is a pocket of racial discrimination. [More…]
I am not prepared to admit that there is that pocket of racial discrimination. [More…]
There is a pocket of discrimination, and there is a difference between normal discrimination and racial discrimination. [More…]
I say that Australia is not in the throes of racial discrimination for these reasons: Accepted Government policy has decreed that Australia is not in the throes of racial discrimination. [More…]
So we do not have that racial discrimination of which we have heard so much tonight. [More…]
There will be isolated cases, but on an overall basis we do not have racial discrimination in our area. [More…]
But because of that isolated pocket of discrimination referred to by Senator Cavanagh, we have presented to us legislation which in my humble opinion is going to be very difficult to implement. [More…]
I am not aware of blatant racial discrimination, but I am fully aware of many acts of discrimination. [More…]
There is discrimination galore in this chamber. [More…]
There is discrimination against people because of their likes and dislikes for music, the arts and everything else that one could imagine. [More…]
There is discrimination against men who wear their hair long. [More…]
There is discrimination all along the line. [More…]
A person could think: ‘I did not get this employment because of racial discrimination’. [More…]
If there were racial discrimination I would do my best, not only as a legislator but as a person, to see that it was stopped. [More…]
It is not fair that there should be racial discrimination. [More…]
I honestly think that this legislation could be the means of insulting that section of the new races we have in Australia because it implies racial discrimination in an area in which I think it does not exist. [More…]
He did not say that there was racial discrimination. [More…]
So we have a state of affairs today in which people who have played a part in our society will get the idea that there is racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
It is a racial discrimination of which 99 per cent of our community are not aware. [More…]
We must ask ourselves this question: Has racial discrimination in Australia reached a point at which legislation is necessary? [More…]
The book implies that there have been blatant examples of racial discrimination against a trained Aboriginal nursing sister who is employed by the Aboriginal Medical Service in Sydney. [More…]
They show the existence of racial discrimination. [More…]
It is apparent from them that racial discrimination is in fact occurring. [More…]
Just before the close of business last Thursday evening the Racial Discrimination Bill came before the Senate and I spent 2 minutes speaking by way of introduction. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Bill comes to the Senate at this hour of the evening by way of contrast. [More…]
Matters of racial discrimination, matters of social equality and indeed matters of social inequality are very important and in current conversation have become popular issues today. [More…]
This Racial Discrimination Bill implements into our Australian law the obligations that are contained in the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
In short, the Bill now before the Senate seeks to make racial discrimination unlawful. [More…]
I use the term ‘racial discrimination’ in the sense in which I read it in the United Nations Convention. [More…]
The Bill makes it unlawful for a person to do an act- I am looking very broadly at the Schedule which is contained in the Bill- involving discrimination based on race, colour, descent and national or ethnic origin. [More…]
These procedures are related to complaints of racial discrimination. [More…]
There is an aspect of the Bill which relates to the development of programs of education and research which are designed to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
The United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination- this is the area, as every honourable senator knows, to which this legislation is related- evolved after a good deal of study and analysis of the very difficult and sensitive matter of racial discrimination around the world. [More…]
After all, any discussion, study or research into the whole area of racial discrimination involves human relations, a whole lot of economic conditions and a whole lot of international conditions. [More…]
As most honourable senators know, a declaration on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination was drafted and was adopted in 1963. [More…]
In general terms the Convention condemns and seeks the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
The term ‘racial discrimination’ is one on which we can have debate and discussion over a long period of time but I take it at this point of speaking to the Senate in this debate to mean, as it was quoted in the Convention: [More…]
It is true to say that the Convention provides for us comprehensive measures of implementation and there is also the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
This Committee has been established to receive reports on the existence of racial discrimination and to implement methods of conciliation. [More…]
While we may have some support for the thrust of the Bill and the principles which it puts forward, legislation alone does not solve the problem of racial discrimination, the problem of relationships between person and person. [More…]
If I recall his words correctly, he made reference to the fact that legislation has only a role to play in the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]
The Minister said the Bill is a step towards the objective as outlined in the Bill, so the Government has put down a measure which, while it is very comprehensive, is conceded by the Minister in presenting it to the Senate as having only a role to play and is a step towards the elimination of racial discrimination. [More…]
In any program for the abolition of racial discrimination which involves the well being of a total community, a state or a nation the community must be reminded over and over again that it has a role and there are steps that it must take and that it has involvement and a responsibility in such a program. [More…]
This is referred to in various clauses of the Bill, and it relates to the dissemination of ideas on racial discrimination as contained in article 4. [More…]
I think that in any discussion on racial discrimination it is important that nations involved take unto themelves the high responsibility of legislating as far as domestic matters are concerned. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that racial discrimination is something that we should seek to eliminate by the most effective means possible. [More…]
After all, as I said earlier, it is comparatively easy to lay down legislative processes that would seek to eliminate racial discrimination but when you come to implementing them in human terms I ask the question: How do we really do it, do it effectively, and how do we do it so that the total society benefits and so that relations between persons and person, group and group, and community and community are maintained for the benefit and total development of the whole? [More…]
I suppose it is easy to say that racial discrimination exists right round the world. [More…]
While I might say that racial discrimination has existed throughout history that does not excuse me from being involved in legislative processes, or any other processes, that may help to avoid discrimination. [More…]
The fact is that mankind has had to wrestle, at some level almost throughout history, with the fact that racial and other discriminations have existed. [More…]
Because we might exist in a majority group and because we have got into the habit of stereotyping other groups, believe it or not we develop into a situation whereby discrimination unfortunately thrives. [More…]
We of a European society and tradition are concerned about racial discrimination. [More…]
It is not without importance to observe that racial discrimination has been a factor not only of European society, it also has been a factor of other societies, and references have been made in this debate to discrimination in other communities. [More…]
Because discrimination exists in other communities, that does not give us any justification whatever for allowing it to continue and exist in our own. [More…]
Most ethnic discrimination that we see in Australia is related to differences which occur as a result of the circumstances which have developed, particularly in the last 50 to 100 years. [More…]
I guess we could have some debate and argument on all of these things, but the fact is that some discrimination has been developing within our Australian society. [More…]
I think it probably is true to say that we have been spared the worst excesses of racial discrimination simply because of the other conditions that developed in our society at the time that there were discriminating references and habits. [More…]
I make this reference because I think it is important in a discussion on a racial discrimination Bill but I do not speak for the Committee and therefore my references must be general and I must speak purely from personal observation. [More…]
Allegations of racial discrimination within our Australian society have been many in the experiences I have had in relation to that Committee, but I would not be prepared to stand up and prove them in this Senate because there is a whole range of other circumstances related to such incidents. [More…]
But I have been greatly concerned as I have gone around and heard evidence of the existence of what appears to me to be discrimination which is unfortunate and hurtful to the people concerned. [More…]
I may be wrong in describing this as racial discrimination. [More…]
I merely refer to it as an experience which I have had and which appears to me to be discrimination against a section of our community. [More…]
Whether or not this can be proved or whether or not it is true I am unable to say at this stage but I became aware of what appeared to me to be an example of racial discrimination within our Australian community. [More…]
I have heard allegations of discrimination against the Aboriginal community by various other sections of our society; of exploitation carried out over the counters of shops, and exploitation by people involved in the delivery business. [More…]
I recall other stories of discrimination in the field of employment particularly as it applied to apprentices. [More…]
These could be expanded maybe but it becomes, as honourable senators would very well know, difficult to prove that a situation of racial discrimination occurs. [More…]
In the outline of the allegations and in the observations it has been presented to me as a member of the Senate Committee that there was a section of our Australian community that was suffering some disadvantage that it should not have suffered; that there was a section of our Australian community that felt that it was being discriminated against and was offended or hurt as a result of this discrimination which it believed it was not entitled to receive. [More…]
I think it also should be mentioned that there is a growing number of people within our Australian community- there is a growing number of communities within Australiawho are seriously concerned, as have been speakers in this debate, about racial discrimination in Australia and who through the various opportunities available to them are doing constructive work to combat discrimination. [More…]
I think of Aboriginal legal services and of various schools and colleges within our Australian community, but more particularly I pay tribute to individual citizens, privately and those who are involved in public affairs, who take upon themselves very seriously tasks and opportunities to rid the country of discrimination and particularly to serve people who may feel that they have been victims of discrimination. [More…]
This is not good for society, certainly is not good for the people concerned and might very well be described as a form of racial discrimination. [More…]
Indeed, in my thinking it is the most effective way to destroy racial discrimination. [More…]
I am a little reluctant but I do mention that it is a matter of regret and indeed grief to some groups within our society that the Baltic community in Australia still has a very strong feeling that it has been the victim of some discrimination, so that when we undertake legislation here, whether it be the Government or the whole Senate, in connection with the matter of racial discrimination, I think we have to be aware of the complexities that exist and aware of the fact that even the most finely developed legislation cannot solve all of the human and the personal problems in racial matters. [More…]
If Australia is successfully to face the challenge of the next decade and in particular to solve its present problems it cannot afford the self destroying tendency to discrimination which unfortunately exists within the community. [More…]
While I acknowledge that the Bill seeks the goal of removing racial discrimination, I question sometimes in my mind whether it over emphasises the legal remedies to these problems as compared with other remedies. [More…]
I refer to educating people against racial discrimination particularly as a long term solution. [More…]
On the one hand there is freedom of expression and on the other hand the protection of the individual against discrimination. [More…]
Therefore I feel, looking at clause 31 again, that systematic and extensive programs of community education may in the long run very well be the most effective way of creating and maintaining a harmonious social environment that is free from discrimination. [More…]
I merely cite it as an example as one way in which if not a knowledge of a language at least an appreciation of a language would help in this matter of racial discrimination. [More…]
I believe, to be perfectly true, that legislation, worthy though it may be, cannot guarantee to heal racial discrimination. [More…]
I rise to support the second reading of the Racial Discrimination Bill 1975 and also to support, at the same time, the amendments which the Liberal and National Country Parties will be proposing. [More…]
We are, of course, discussing a Bill which involves primarily and firstly the ratification of an international convention relating to the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. [More…]
The Bill concerns racial discrimination in the broad sense in which it is interpreted in Article 1 of the Convention, namely, distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based upon race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin. [More…]
We have seen 81 countries ratify or accede to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Some of my colleagues have said that this is not perhaps the worst country in the world for racial discrimination, that this is certainly a country with its tradition of freedom that ought to be in the forefront of those that proclaim freedom from racial discrimination and that set a lead to other countries. [More…]
When the subject was debated in the House of Representatives, there was a general unity of purpose on the part of members on both sides of the chamber and many were the illustrations of racial discrimination in this country. [More…]
Because of these problems, once again created by governments, we are now faced with this Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
In my opinion, if this Bill is implemented it will create more discrimination, not less. [More…]
In other words, he takes the Bill as being totally unsatisfactory because it will in his opinion increase the discrimination that exists in this country. [More…]
Far from eliminating racial discrimination by making it illegal, the Bill will highlight the problems between the races and create an official race relations industry with a staff of dedicated anti-racists earning their living by making the most of every complaint in much the same way as does the Race Relations Board in the United Kingdom. [More…]
I would have thought that that was an obvious statement but, at the same time, racial discrimination is here. [More…]
I say there is discrimination in this country against migrants not only in respect of words but also in respect of jobs. [More…]
I say to Senator Wood that the expectation that they must speak our language is one of the indications of our discrimination against these people. [More…]
If he means by that that those people will realise that there is discrimination against them and that they have a remedy, I think it is a good thing that they shall have a remedy, that they shall not continue to live in that state but will be able to improve their position in life. [More…]
When it was drawn to his attention that they still suffer discrimination in this country, he preferred to say that that sort of discrimination brings the best out of people and that if they dig deep into themselves when they are discriminated against that is the way they improve their morale. [More…]
I do not know how one should regard the extremes of Hitler in that regard but I do not believe that discrimination is a desirable thing for the purpose of improving the morale of people. [More…]
I do not accept that type of explanation and excuse for racial discrimination in this country. [More…]
If I were dealing with 3 wise monkeys I suppose that he would be the one who could see no evil because he has had a fortunate life of innocence in which he has never accepted that there is racial discrimination in this country. [More…]
He said: ‘I am not prepared to admit that there is that pocket of racial discrimination in this country’. [More…]
When Senator Cavanagh said that there were pockets of discrimination, Senator Bunton said that there was not even that. [More…]
I think we all know, as has been established in this debate, that there are serious realms of discrimination. [More…]
The honourable senator has not read the Bill because the definition of racial discrimination in the Bill includes national discrimination and ethnic discrimination. [More…]
These are matters of racial discrimination and are dealt with by this Bill. [More…]
Consequently, in reply to Senator Bunton who said that he is not aware of blatant racial discrimination in this country, I put it to him that some of the worst forms of discrimination are those that are not even known or appreciated by people. [More…]
It does not matter whether the discrimination is blatant or not. [More…]
It is obvious that the common law has never developed in such a way that it would eliminate racial discrimination. [More…]
The existing rights and remedies are costly and difficult to deal with racial discrimination. [More…]
I think the procedure includes no way of removing fortunately- nor does the Convention- that benign discrimination, that ability to assist people who are below the average in their standards of living or in their rights and privileges and whose standard may be brought up under the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
In respect of this matter I would like to read the words of the Director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission who explained what was done in relation to his body’s conciliation approach to racial discrimination. [More…]
The same applies even more so in the case of statements on racial discrimination. [More…]
It is in that respect that the Convention is somewhat obscure because, although it does call upon nations to make punishable by law the offence of the dissemination of ideas based upon racial superiority or hatred, the Convention also says that each State Party shall prohibit and bring to an end, by all appropriate means including legislation as required by the circumstances, racial discrimination by all persons, groups or organisations. [More…]
Under the innocuous badge of banning racial discrimination the Labor Party has introduced the apparatus of the Police State, with its secret Police, empowered to engage in inquisitorial investigations, fines, imprisonment, arrest, damages and injunctions. [More…]
one remarks that this ‘ Racial Discrimination Bill ‘ was drawn up in its present form largely by a man of southern European origins and with a southern European temperament assisted, so he said, by a woman of southern European origins who was reared in eastern Asia and the Philippines . [More…]
I have mixed feelings about it because for so many years of my life I have known racial prejudice and discrimination. [More…]
To my consternation, to my hurt and to my shame I have found throughout this country discrimination and prejudice aimed particularly at one of the minority groups. [More…]
Some have said that there is no discrimination. [More…]
I say to all and sundry: Ask an Italian, a Sicilian, or a Greek who has been called, to use some of the denigrating terms that have been used, a wop or a greaser or ask a Jew who has been called a hooknose or a moneybags whether he knows what discrimination is. [More…]
Ask some of the Aboriginal people who have been called boongs Abos and such like whether there is discrimination. [More…]
There is discrimination and we must do something about it. [More…]
No more discrimination against those who are less fortunate in the community, those who have a different coloured skin, those who speak a different tongue or those who are not so well educated. [More…]
There is no discrimination, according to some people. [More…]
Because of past discrimination and things that have happened in the past, a group of young Aboriginal men and women could become angry, and outside this place they could shout, ‘Down with the whitey ‘, or something about some race of people. [More…]
It is of some interest to note that in the calendar year 1972 a total of 908 complaints were made to the Race Relations Board and that the Board formed the opinion that there had been some discrimination in 181 of those cases. [More…]
One sees that in relation to only one category of complaints disposed of in that period of 5 full years did the Board, after investigation, make a finding of discrimination in more than 30 per cent of the cases in the category. [More…]
I was somewhat surprised to find that eventually they were prepared to say that they believed it was more properly a matter of human rights than a matter of racial discrimination in the approach which should be adopted. [More…]
I have always wondered whether our approach may not be better if we were not to emphasise racial discrimination as though it were the only form of discrimination that mattered but rather to concentrate on ensuring the human rights of all Australian citizens in relation to racial discrimination or any other form of discrimination. [More…]
As is well known, this Bill introduces into Australian law obligations contained in the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
In any event, I got an impression in listening to Senator Greenwood in this debate that he was a reluctant supporter of a Bill to outlaw racial discrimination, and I hasten to add that I am not attempting to overstate the case. [More…]
I do not for one moment believe that Senator Greenwood is in favour of racial discrimination. [More…]
One of the greatest problems which we face is the discrimination by and the attitudes of some of these unions. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Manufacturing Industry (Senator James McClelland) whether it is intended to apply to the relevant authorities for the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to be ratified and whether that application is to be made forthwith. [More…]
The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination came into force as a convention in 1 969. [More…]
The first difficulty which comes to mind is that, on a reading of the Australian Constitution, the power to make laws about racial discrimination seems to rest with the States. [More…]
There is certainly no express power in the Commonwealth Parliament to make laws with respect to the outlawing of racial discrimination. [More…]
I refer the Minister to Article 4 which provides that adherents to the Convention are to ‘condemn all propaganda and all organisations which are based on ideas or theories of superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or which attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and discrimination in any form, and undertake to adopt immediate and positive measures designed to eradicate all incitement to, or acts of, such discrimination’. [More…]
For example, there is a requirement to declare an offence punishable by law all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, incitement to racial discrimination, as well as all acts of violence or incitement to such acts. [More…]
There is also an obligation to declare illegal and to prohibit organisations and also organised and all other propaganda activities which promote and incite racial discrimination. [More…]
Whatever one might say about ideas based on racial discrimination, just as one might say a lot of things about other social or political tenets to which one can express abhorrence, in this country we have endeavoured to provide as much free speech as we can. [More…]
They challenge freedom of speech on the justification, presumably, that such steps are necessary to abolish racial discrimination. [More…]
We have seen in the United Nations how in the name of racial discrimination countries like Rhodesia and South Africa have been treated as pariahs and have been excluded from the world community. [More…]
Other countries which practise racial discrimination are lauded in the United Nations and are permitted to condemn other countries while their own conduct remains unexamined. [More…]
That means that the constitutional limitations, the general juristic limitations, on our power to deal with racial discrimination in this country will be considered by that Committee in considering as a result of complaints whether we have complied with the terms of the Convention. [More…]
The fact that we are attempting to deal with matters of racial discrimination in this country does not affect the fact that people who consider themselves to be aggrieved by our laws will avail themselves of their freedom to criticise us. [More…]
If we are to appear in the eyes of the world as a country which abhors racial discrimination, and which does what it can to eliminate racial discrimination, we just have to cop it sweet, to use a good old Australian expression. [More…]
A nonracist society or a society which is trying to eliminate racial discrimination is, I suggest, a society which can stand such criticism and which can say: ‘We stand on our record and we are doing what we can to eliminate racial discrimination. ‘ [More…]
The scheme of the Bill is that in clauses 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 there are a number of activities which are declared to be unlawful if they take place by reason of an act of racial discrimination, as that expression is used throughout those clauses. [More…]
What is the greater offence in the field of racial discrimination? [More…]
Discrimination was practised by people infected with the anti-semitic virus. [More…]
I do not see anything illogical or inconsistent in the proposition that it is more evil to incite to racial discrimination than to practise acts of racial discrimination. [More…]
Also, there is the technical matter that the Convention does require us to make incitement to racial discrimination a criminal offence. [More…]
But, if there is the provision of services or the selling of a house and the employee or the agent commits an act of racial discrimination in the performance of his duties, then that is the commission of an act that is unlawful. [More…]
He said that the barman would be free from the charge of discrimination if the owner was proved to have told the barman that he must not serve drinks to this type or colour of person. [More…]
To use the Minister’s example, if a barman commits an act which is unlawful because it is an act of discrimination, he must face the consequences which this legislation imposes. [More…]
-Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was indicating that there can be 2 reasons why an act alleged to be an act of racial discrimination has occurred. [More…]
Perhaps the person might also take a view based on racial discrimination. [More…]
It might be that the racial discrimination is a quite substantial element but not necessarily the dominant element. [More…]
I refer to the South Australian Prohibition of Discrimination Act which put an extremely heavy onus on the complainant. [More…]
I understand that that Act required a complainant to show that the discrimination occurred by reason only of race, country of origin or colour of the skin. [More…]
To require proof that the discrimination occurred as a result of those reasons only is to cast a very heavy onus indeed on any complainant. [More…]
If that is considered a wishy-washy point to make, I would refer to the sort of statistics quoted by Senator Rae in the second reading debate and to the statistics of the English Race Relations Commission which indicate that in that country, at least, a large number of cases are brought which are found not to be based on racial discrimination. [More…]
The Commissioner has two types of fuction One is to promote an understanding and acceptance of the various programs and need for avoidance of racial discrimination. [More…]
In this area of racial discrimination, where we are making a start in this country with regard to a comprehensive law of this character, we believe it is tremendously important to tread carefully and not in an over-zealous pursuit of enforcement powers to create the possibility of a backlash that would do more harm in the long run than good. [More…]
This makes a travesty of the efforts of an authority like this to do something about stamping out racial discrimination. [More…]
I share with nobody my detestation of ideas of racial discrimination based upon racial superiority or a discrimination which seeks to evoke a superiority. [More…]
I would prefer to see this clause removed entirely and I think that we do better in this area of trying to avoid racial discrimination, of allowing the free interplay of ideas, by hoping that the tolerance which ought to be current in this community to receive and listen to differing viewpoints, no matter how antipathetic they may be to us, will be encouraged and permitted. [More…]
The provisions penalising these offences are entirely separate in character from the anti-discrimination provisions of Part II of the Bill, and are enforced by separate machinery. [More…]
Their inclusion in the Bill is likely to create, as it has in Britain, an ineradicable impression in the public mind that the whole Bill is concerned with the criminal courts, fines and imprisonment; the crucial element in the whole exercise, the tackling of racial discrimination by informal conciliation, may become de-emphasised; and public sympathy may tend to be directed more towards the discriminator, believed to be likely to receive harsh penalties, than his victim. [More…]
In the minds of some people apparently this can cause a great feeling of racial discrimination. [More…]
It is a little bit tough for such people to be called up just because they say something or publish something that somebody regards as being racial discrimination. [More…]
Where do we stop this discrimination business? [More…]
We might have discrimination in politics. [More…]
We might have discrimination of people. [More…]
I noticed discrimination also as 1 walked around the chamber. [More…]
But we did not take those people to court and ask that they be imprisoned because of political discrimination or anything of that nature. [More…]
That is an example of racial discrimination between people of 2 coloured races. [More…]
Clause 29 (Inciting Acts of Racial Discrimination) [More…]
It reminds me of the many instances in which a constituted council has shown discrimination against people who have a basic right to return to their settlement- a basic right by birth, by some previous residence at that place, by some association with people on that reserve. [More…]
I would have hoped that any discrimination or any overlordship of this sort had long disappeared. [More…]
I hope that the Minister, having accepted this amendment which leaves a very substantial area of possible discrimination, can convince me that there is some means of appeal against a decision by a council which could exclude or separate a family or a group of friends. [More…]
Firstly, the Party to which Senator Sheil belongs is the worst offender in discrimination against Aboriginal people, and has been for many years. [More…]
I want to remind him that earlier today we were discussing the individual rights and freedoms of citizens, and we have talked about discrimination. [More…]
Discrimination must stop. [More…]
The first matter concerned what I alleged to be and what on the material available was a fairly clear case of political discrimination by this Government, notwithstanding publicised boasts by the previous Minister for Immigration that no such discrimination had ever existed under the Whitlam Government. [More…]
The second matter I raised on that occasion concerned a Mr Ivan Palovic who was also the subject of apparent discrimination on the same grounds. [More…]
The interesting fact in relation to Chile was that an attempt was being made to eradicate the evils of poverty and discrimination that existed in that country, and it is obvious that neither Senator Greenwood nor Senator Sir Magnus Cormack has any understanding of the evolutionary development in that country. [More…]
One could understand that this decision could have been taken by the Chilean Government if one understood the degree of poverty, deprivation and discrimination existing in that country. [More…]
Is the Minister able to inform the Senate of the reason for this discrimination against Tasmanian industry being permitted? [More…]
The same concept emerged in the recently passed Racial Discrimination Bill, where the Government inserted a provision enabling legal aid and assistance to be given to persons who wanted to pursue proceedings under that legislation. [More…]
The Opposition amended the provision and we intended to ask this Committee to amend this provision in the same way as the Senate amended the provision for legal aid in the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
That, as I understand the position, is the precise wording which the Senate accepted regarding legal aid provisions in the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
Accordingly, we seek to follow the same procedure as was followed in the Racial Discrimination Bill, which we think is a fair procedure. [More…]
Specific reference to the Australian Legal Aid Office already exists in legislation passed by this Senate, namely, the Family Law Bill, and I cannot help thinking the objection to the specific reference to the Australian Legal Aid Office in this Bill, as with the Racial Discrimination Bill which was before us a few days ago, is based on Senator Greenwood’s recently aroused antipathy to the Australian Legal Aid Office and is not soundly based in any particular principle. [More…]
The only difference is that one of those persons would be discriminated against, and the degree of discrimination would be much greater if the wife was the remaining partner. [More…]
Finally, will the Leader of the Government give an assurance that under no circumstances will the Australian Labor Government tolerate that sort of discrimination against Tasmanian exports, which has been demanded on 2 occasions by the Premier of Queensland, tacitly supported by the Leader of the Oppposition, Mr [More…]
If this is the discrimination the senator refers to then I must point out the remedy rests solely with the New South Wales Government. [More…]
There will, however, be no discrimination according to nature of illness, so that the treatment of mental illness in general hospitals will be automatically covered. [More…]
Measures which assist particular industries constitute forms of economic discrimination which, at least in the short term, can be of considerable advantage to the industries assisted and to the disadvantage of those who compete for the assistance, namely, other industries, consumers or taxpayers. [More…]
Fortunately this discrimination now does not exist. [More…]
I can recall Dame Ivy and me discussing at great length and speaking in this Parliament about the terrible discrimination which was exhibited against a woman member of this chamber. [More…]
If so, on what basis and for what reason did such discrimination operate against farmers who may have little or no income under existing economic conditions? [More…]
One that I will come to a little later is the matter of discrimination. [More…]
Let us look at another aspect of insurance and discrimination as far as women are concerned. [More…]
I wonder how many of the male doctors sitting on the Opposition benches are concerned at the discrimination against their female counterparts. [More…]
Let us examine the formal discrimination that is normally shown to women when, among other things, they want to take out insurance policies. [More…]
I am aware that most insurance companies claim that they have excluded the more blatantly discriminatory sections in their existing policies, but I am also conscious that a great number of then would be able to find ways and means to continue the discrimination against those same migrants. [More…]
One can see the degree of discrimination that exists in the private insurance field. [More…]
The Bill will also remove the discrimination against women wage earners which is in the present legislation. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Labor and Immigration been drawn to a statement made by the Leader of the Opposition in Perth last week to the effect that the Opposition, if elected, would attempt to end discrimination in employment? [More…]
Is it a fact that a national policy to eliminate discrimination in employment and occupation was enunciated for the first time by the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron, in a statement to Parliament on 22 May 1973? [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Australian Government has since been active in pursuing that policy, that committees on discrimination in employment and occupation have been set up at the State and national levels and that the first annual report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation was tabled in this Parliament on 5 March 1975? [More…]
Unfortunately, Mr Fraser is a little late in the field of anti-discrimination. [More…]
The Australian Government already has a policy against discrimination in employment. [More…]
It should be noted that previous governments, which have suddenly discovered the virtues of anti-discrimination, never took any steps towards ratification of that document. [More…]
Ratification of the Convention obliges Australia to eliminate discrimination in employment on the grounds of race, colour, sex, religion, political opinion, national extraction or social origin. [More…]
A national committee and committees in each State have been set up to investigate complaints of discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
They have drawn up guidelines for the removal of discrimination in advertising employment. [More…]
The first annual report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation was tabled in Parliament on 5 March last and contains all the above information. [More…]
It will not forget the consumer protection legislation, the Trade Practices Act, which the Opposition would abolish, the Racial Discrimination Bill and the Family Law Bill, which although not a Labor Government Bill was passed during the term of this Government. [More…]
It obviously reveals a sense of discrimination which the Government is applying and implying. [More…]
The Government is completely inconsistent in its attack on one comparatively small section simply because it has a sense of discrimination, it has a kind of inverted snobbery, it has a kind of jealousy of the private sector of the community. [More…]
So perhaps in the near future, probably when a Budget is introduced by this Government next year, this matter will receive recognition and a provision will be introduced so that there is no discrimination against the deserted husband as there is today and so that he will receive a similar benefit to that received by a deserted wife. [More…]
Is the Minister able to inform the Senate of the reason for this discrimination against Tasmanian industry being permitted. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the Senate what action he intends to take through his Government to institute a nationwide royal commission into the alleged discrimination by law enforcement agencies against Aboriginal people? [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Attorney-General: Does the Government have an up-to-date estimate on when the International Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination is likely to enter into force for Australia? [More…]
Does the Government propose to proclaim the Racial Discrimination Act as soon as possible after that Convention enters into force? [More…]
It was pointed out that the Government considers that Australian participation in events in South Africa only serves to lend respectability to the continuance of racial discrimination in South Africa. [More…]
The Australian Government is firmly opposed to racial discrimination in any form. [More…]
The Government believes that any other approach could be taken as implicit approval or encouragement of the South African Government s policy of racial discrimination. [More…]
I shall take this up with the Health Insurance Commission and if I find that this discrimination is being engaged in I shall take whatever steps I can to see that it ceases. [More…]
Will the Racial Discrimination Act be proclaimed this month, as the article suggests, since presumably an appointment under the Act would require the Act to be proclaimed? [More…]
As the honourable senator will be aware, sections 1, 2 and 7 of the Racial Discrimination Act have already come into operation but the rest of the Act has not yet come into force. [More…]
It is related to another matter which is part of the honourable senator’s question, that is, the date of coming into force in Australia of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Will the Minister cause investigation of this incident which appears to be in breach of section 1b of the International Labor Organisation Convention to which Australia is a signatory and which renounces all forms of discrimination in employment based, inter alia, on race, sex, religion and politics? [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that the national and State committees on discrimination are empowered to act in such cases of totally reprehensible and unacceptable discrimination based on the sexuality of the person? [More…]
Despite the prehistoric whistles which emerged from the other side of the chamber when this question was being asked, if it turns out to be true, 1 would regard it as an outrageous discrimination and would certainly refer it to the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. [More…]
whether any discrimination or disadvantage in connexion with the provision of any service by way of or in relation to inter-State transport to which any particular person, State, locality or class or kind of transport is subjected is undue and unreasonable; [More…]
whether the doing of an actor thing by a State, or an authority of a State, as to any railway, in respect of or so as to affect trade or commerce among the States, constitutes a preference or discrimination that is undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State. [More…]
“(3) In deciding whether the doing of any act or thing constitutes for the purposes of paragraph (2)(d) a preference or discrimination that is undue and unreasonable, or unjust to any State, the Commission shall have due regard to the financial responsibilities incurred by any State in connexion with the construction and maintenance of its railways. [More…]
Racial Discrimination Bill 1975 [More…]
I think that, as has been illustrated before, if one looks at the instructions to agents of the life assurance companies one can see that not only is there racial discrimination but also there is sexual discrimination involved in their policies. [More…]
-The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on 17 October adopted by a vote of 70 for, 29 against and 27 abstentions the draft resolution to have the General Assembly determine that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. [More…]
The Committee had earlier adopted 2 draft resolutions on the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination by votes of 126 for, 1 against and 2 abstentions, and 126 for, 1 against and 1 abstention. [More…]
The Australian representative on the Third Committee was instructed to oppose the draft resolution on Zionism, to make it clear in his explanation of vote that the Australian Government could not accept in any sense the determination contained in the draft resolution that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. [More…]
The representative said that the Australian Government believed that the attempt by the co-sponsors of the draft resolution to equate Zionism with racial discrimination was a distortion of fact, was unhelpful in the context of the search for a settlement in the Middle East and weakened the essential purposes of the 2 resolutions on the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. [More…]
and (b) The decision to establish the National and State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation was made by Cabinet, with the support of the six State Governments, and of the national employers’ and trade union organisations, in May 1973, at the same time as it decided that Australia would ratify ILO Convention 111 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958. [More…]
The Guidelines laid down by the National Committee for the handling of allegations of discrimination in employment and occupation include a provision for a Committee to invite parties to a complaint to appear before it to put their respective points of view if the Committee considers that this would assist in resolving the matter. [More…]
I refer to the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Has Australia lodged its instrument of ratification pursuant to section 7 of the Racial Discrimination Act? [More…]
Is the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation consulted in the formulation of rates of pay for members of the Services? [More…]
That the Senate ask the Government to make such funds available as will enable projects commenced during International Womens Year 1975 to continue and be expanded, and take urgent and immediate steps to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in Australia, and to actively encourage the elimination of discrimination against women in all parts of the world. [More…]
What steps are being taken to eliminate this form of discrimination? [More…]
As far as the other forms of discrimination are concerned, I think that I have made a number of statements on policies which have been followed by various companies, including the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd, which require that a person should be able to speak and understand English without difficulty before he can obtain a life assurance policy. [More…]
1 ) How many meetings has the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation held. [More…]
How many meetings has each State Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation held. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation has held 27 meetings, all in Melbourne, on the following dates: [More…]
and (4) The New South Wales Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation has held 21 meetings, all in Sydney, on the following dates: [More…]
The Victorian Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation has held 44 meetings, all in Melbourne ( except where indicated ), on the following dates: 23.7.73, 20.8.73, 24.9.73, 15.10.73, 29.10.73, 5.11.73, 19.11.73, 4.12.73, 10.12.73, 18.12.73, 11.2.74, 4.3.74, 1.4.74 (Springvale), 22.4.74, 7.5.74, 20.5.74, 3.6.74, 24.6.74, 2.7.74, 15.7.74 (Shepparton), 5.8.74, 19.8.74, 16.9.74, 23.9.74, 14.10.74, 21.10.74, 4.11.74, 25.11.74, 16.12.74, 13.1.75, 25.2.75 (Mildura), 17.3.75, 14.4.75. [More…]
The Queensland Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation has held 19 meetings, all in Brisbane (except where indicated), on the following dates: [More…]
1 ) Who are the current members of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation and of each of the State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. [More…]
I object to there being any discrimination between male senators and female senators. [More…]
Whilst no discrimination between sports may be intended it is noted with interest that similar assistance has been previously granted to Soccer, Lawn Tennis, Gymnastics and a variety of other sports. [More…]
It did not campaign on promises to dismantle Labor’s most popular reformsMedibank, legal aid, equal opportunity in education, and the elimination of discrimination based on sex, country of origin or race. [More…]
The Minister’s decision to cut $1.6m from the Schools Commission’s special projects allocation is a drastic reduction in what is virtually the only source of funds so far available for programs designed to eliminate sex based discrimination against girls in schools. [More…]
There is as yet no antidiscrimination legislation to bridle sexist prejudice. [More…]
I hope that the present Government’s overwhelming anxiety to reduce expenditure will not prevent it from turning its attention to relatively low cost reforms like anti-discrimination legislation. [More…]
If the Minister is aware of this situation, will he impress upon the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour in Sydney the importance of this matter to Tasmania and the need for it to rectify the discrimination against those 5 workers and to avoid the unnecessary action which would result therefrom? [More…]
I think in our days in Opposition that we agreed to the Industrial Court, for example, being a court which could hear matters arising under the Trade Practices Act, under the Racial Discrimination Act and I think also under the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act. [More…]
Women of such quality will be employed irrespective of their age, race, religion, colour or any other form of discrimination which anybody might be able to dream up. [More…]
In other words, the report exposes what has happened under 3 years of Labor government, a government which claimed that it was against any kind of sex discrimination. [More…]
I see no reason why there should be discrimination against a husband who is supporting young children going to school. [More…]
The Americans, with an odd sense of discrimination, refused entry to the goats. [More…]
In this respect policies promoting or perpetuating apartheid, racial segregation, discrimination, colonial and other forms of oppression and foreign domination stand condemned and must be eliminated. [More…]
In this respect policies promoting or perpetuating apartheid, racial segregation, discrimination, colonial and other forms of oppression and foreign domination stand condemned and must be eliminated. [More…]
The opposition to class discrimination has been changed to an opposition to racial discrimination. [More…]
It is now easy to see why America, representing capitalism, and South Africa, representing discrimination, are the targets of the Third World. [More…]
We the members of the National Congress of the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders, assembled at Canberra, Australia this 10th day of March 1 976, do hereby, as the democratically elected representatives of our people, solemnly and unanimously resolve that we claim for our people the following inalienable rights:- the right to natural justice, the right to self determination as a separate and distinct people, with our own laws and customs, languages culture and heritage, living in our ancient home-land and with the right to a full voice in and influence on our own affairs, the right to be free from the racial oppression and discrimination imposed upon us by the uninvited European people who have invaded our country and imposed their own laws and way of life upon us, the right to preserve in perpetuity for our people the surviving tribal lands reserves and sacred sites in all Australian states and territories, the right to fair and just compensation to our scattered tribes, our detribalised and urban people, for the lands seized from our forefathers, and for the inhuman and violent treatment of our people. [More…]
We the members of the National Congress of the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders, assembled at Canberra, Australia this 10th day of March 1976, do hereby, as the democratically elected representatives of our people, solemnly and unanimously resolve that we claim for our people the following inalienable rights: the right to natural justice, the right to self determination as a separate and distinct people, with our own laws and customs, languages culture and heritage, living in our ancient home-land and with the right to a full voice in and influence on our own affairs, the right to be free from the racial oppression and discrimination imposed upon us by the uninvited European people who have invaded our country and imposed their own laws and way of life upon us, the right to preserve in perpetuity for our people the surviving tribal lands reserves and sacred sites in all Australian states and territories, the right to fair and just compensation to our scattered tribes, our detribalised and urban people, for the lands seized from our forefathers, and for the inhuman and violent treatment of our people. [More…]
That the Senate ask the Government to make such funds available as will enable projects commenced during International Women’s Year 1975 to continue and be expanded, and take urgent and immediate steps to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in Australia, and to actively encourage the elimination of discrimination against women in all parts of the world. [More…]
Because when International Women’s Year was first mooted the government of the day had long recognised that discrimination against women was incompatible with human dignity and with the wellbeing of society, it saw International Women’s Year as a chance to highlight areas to which the community had turned a blind eye for so long. [More…]
In the year 1974 it was thought necessary to give the world 12 months in which to recognise that there had been discrimination against women, that there was discrimination against women and that unless steps were taken to bring women out of themselves and to realise their full potential, the world was missing out on the potential of over 50 per cent of the population. [More…]
Now we want to spend the next 50 or 100 years making sure that those problems are dealt with, that new problems do not arise, that all our citizens participate to the best of their ability and that there is not discrimination against part of our community. [More…]
Unfortunately, we know that that discrimination still exists. [More…]
I am not saying that discrimination does not exist in other areas, but in this instance we will not find out how far discrimination against women goes unless we give women a chance to speak out, to talk about their needs, thoughts, worries, hopes and dreams. [More…]
Discrimination against women exists in Australia in many different ways and some of the things that we have found out give us an idea of the direction in which we should go. [More…]
We know very much to our sorrow that under equal pay some people are more equal than others and that this is still one area of great discrimination. [More…]
That is discrimination at the lowest level and something has to be done about it. [More…]
Another area of discrimination which appals me, and for which I feel my sex is as much to blame as the other sex, is in superannuation. [More…]
The conditions under which women in the workforce are employed smack of discrimination to the nth degree. [More…]
An area of discrimination that governments can do something about is the media. [More…]
If we are talking about discrimination then let us talk about that sort of discrimination. [More…]
In the motion which is before us we ask that this Government take steps to ensure that discrimination against women in all parts of the world is brought to an end as quickly as possible. [More…]
I am very humble about telling other countries what they should do about discrimination when I feel that my own country could do so much more about setting an example. [More…]
Surely we could advise our representative on the United Nations to watch out and to encourage movements in other countries towards cutting down discrimination against women. [More…]
If so, is this the manner in which the Government is eliminating discrimination? [More…]
I do not like the use of the word ‘discrimination’ with regard to repatriation patients who are using the hospitals. [More…]
I feel sure that there is no element of discrimination in any decisions that have been taken, but I will have an answer given to the honourable senator. [More…]
As a taxpayer he may be interested to know that there is discrimination against women. [More…]
It is a matter of discrimination within a university which should be regarded as intolerable. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Attorney-General aware that since the change of government there has been an apparent increase in racial discrimination? [More…]
Will the Minister take appropriate steps to eliminate such racial discrimination? [More…]
I am not aware that there has been any increase in racial discrimination since an arbitrary date, namely, the date of the last election. [More…]
The fact is that legislation on this matter has been passed by the Commonwealth Parliament and there is a man who holds the office of Commissioner for Community Relations whose job it is to investigate any allegations of racial discrimination and, if he finds there are such allegations, to endeavour by consultation and talking with people to avoid the consequences of a practice which all Australians would abhor. [More…]
Will the Australian Government give a directive to the Australian Meat Board to review as a matter of urgency the current United States export limits set, in order to prevent the needless discrimination against sections of the meat producing industry which are likely to be confronted by a drastic slump in Australian cattle prices later this year if immediate action is not taken? [More…]
To the already dramatic problems of a person who is genuinely unemployed are now added the psychological and social problems of discrimination from neighbours, family and acquaintances, based on the dole-bludger campaign waged so successfully by some elements of the media in conjunction with some members of the present Government. [More…]
The Opposition had hoped that, in drawing up new legislation, the Government would have taken account of the anomaly, which seems to be almost discrimination based on class, whereby orphaned children of 16 years who are fulltime students may continue to draw a pension from their deceased parents’ superannuation but orphaned children of 16 years who go into the work force or, more significantly, wish to take an apprenticeship do not continue to have an entitlement. [More…]
To endeavour and encourage a continuous voluntary association of residents of Doonside and those of neighbourhood either Australian Citizens by birth or naturalisation or citizens to be, and to promote thereby a realistic process of integration based upon pursuit of mutual interests, direct social relations without discrimination resulting from origin, race, religion or political beliefs. ‘ [More…]
If the report is correct, I ask the Minister why there is this discrimination in favour of the other States against the State of Queensland? [More…]
Students in our Schools face discrimination when compared to students in public institutions, but they also face discrimination when compared with other private Colleges, in which courses are approved by the Commonwealth Office of Education. [More…]
This depends on the total amount of income received, with no discrimination between sources of income. [More…]
Since I am on my feet and since the question has been asked, I make this comment: The honourable senator will know that the Constitution does not permit of any discrimination in taxation as between the States. [More…]
Strangely enough, apparently it does allow discrimination as between Territories. [More…]
I am referring to the discrimination in relation to the way in which visas are issued. [More…]
I think the Senate will appreciate that there is a feeling of discrimination. [More…]
There may not be discrimination, but I think we are entitled to answers. [More…]
55 complaints of racial discrimination are currently being investigated under the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
I repeat: There will be a single tax’, will the Minister inform the Senate whether or not the Government has received legal advice as to whether such a tax is consistent with the prohibition against discrimination between States contained in section 51 (ii) of the Constitution? [More…]
It is true that the Commonwealth Constitution imposes upon the Commonwealth the responsibility to ensure that there shall be no discrimination in taxation as between the States. [More…]
I have received from time to time verbal advice that if the Commonwealth were to be an agent to collect a surcharge imposed by a State or to cause a reduction by way of rebate allowed by a State it would not be discrimination since the Commonwealth itself would be imposing a tax which was non-discriminatory as between the States. [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…]
In my capacity representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, for the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]
Is the Minister able to confirm that the Department of Foreign Affairs is attempting to bring some pressure to bear on the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this issue, realising, of course, that such discrimination in the application of our immigration laws must bring Australia into disrepute in our own region? [More…]
Some of the statements that have been made are very serious indeed, particularly those that related to racism and discrimination in our immigration policy. [More…]
The extent of discrimination against women in the work force is still very great. [More…]
I hope that the Government in making this admirable small measure towards helping the position of poor women at home will not feel that it has done enough for women and will not ignore the extent of discrimination which is still suffered by women in the work force. [More…]
I refer briefly to a report which I received today and which, I think, was tabled yesterday and which is entitled Equality in Employment: The Second Annual Report of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation 1974-75. [More…]
On pages 6 and 7 of this report there is evidence to show that discrimination against women in the work force on the basis of sex is still extremely widespread and extremely disadvantageous to those women. [More…]
Of course, the removal of discrimination within the Public Service gave more opportunities to women, as did the introduction of maternity leave and, to a lesser extent, paternity leave for government employees. [More…]
One is that the previous speaker referred to the question of discrimination, and the other is to point out to the Senate a little bit of the history of child endowment payments. [More…]
I speak with some experience about the question of discrimination because I was a member of the Tasmanian Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. [More…]
To emphasise the point that I made on a previous occasion that many women at home are discriminated against in their occupation, I wish to quote from a letter that was written to the Tasmanian Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation by a Mrs H. M. Speden. [More…]
I wish to make submissions to the Tasmanian Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation that I am being discriminated against by the Federal Government of Australia in my occupation as a Mother. [More…]
Then she lists in quite a degree of detail the reasons to support her claim of discrimination. [More…]
The Tasmanian Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, P.O.Box 585F Hobart 7001. [More…]
SUBMISSION ON DISCRIMINATION IN OCCUPATION [More…]
I wish to make submission to the Tasmanian Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation that I am being discriminated against by the Federal Government of Australia in my occupation as a Mother. [More…]
How can the Federal Government reconcile this statement and its own affirmation to ‘eliminate discrimination in employment and occupation’, with the present inferior position of mothers in the Australian community? [More…]
All of the matters that were raised by Senator Ryan with regard to women- discrimination against them in the work force and so on- seemed to have some relevance to the matter that is under discussion, but they are not matters to which I wish to refer in detail. [More…]
In addition to this Act, the Racial Discrimination Act became effective in law from 31 October 1975. [More…]
This Act has a more general application to discrimination based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, and makes it unlawful for a person to do an act involving racial discrimination which impairs the enjoyment, on an equal footing of fundamental rights and freedoms. [More…]
This Act also contains provision which guarantees equality before the law in the enjoyment of rights without discrimination based on race, and which are designed to supersede State or Commonwealth laws that discriminate on ground of race in relation to the enjoyment or rights. [More…]
This Act also prescribes acts of racial discrimination in respect of access to places and facilities available to members of the public, the disposal of land, housing and other accommodation, the provision of goods and services to the public, employment, and the right to join trade unions. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 provides that the Commissioner for Community Relations shall enquire into alleged infringements of the Act and endeavour to effect a settlement. [More…]
We have here a means of discrimination against the electronic media alone. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Parliament in the negation and non-recognition of Croatian nationality. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Government in Ethnic Schools and University courses when it permits only the teaching of Serbo-Croat and not of the Croatian language as an alternative. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Parliament in the negation and non-recognition of Croatian nationality. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Government in Ethnic Schools and University courses when it permits only the teaching of Serbo-Croat and not of the Croatian language as an alternative. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Parliament in the negation and non-recognition of Croatian nationality. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Government in Ethnic Schools and University courses when it permits only the teaching of Serbo-Croat and not of the Croatian language as an alternative. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Parliament in the negation and non-recognition of Croatian nationality. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Government in Ethnic Schools and University courses when it permits only the teaching of Serbo-Croat and not of the Croatian language as an alternative. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Parliament in the negation and non-recognition of Croatian nationality. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Government in Ethnic Schools and University courses when it permits only the teaching of Serbo-Croat and not of the Croatian language as an alternative. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Parliament in the negation and non-recognition of Croatian nationality. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Government in Ethnic Schools and University courses when it permits only the teaching of Serbo-Croat and not of the Croatian language as an alternative. [More…]
That discrimination has been exercised in the granting of citizenship privileges to migrants of Croatian origin. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Parliament in the negation and non-recognition of Croatian nationality. [More…]
That discrimination is being exercised by the Australian Government in ethnic schools and university courses when it permits only the teaching of Serbo-Croat and not of the Croatian language as an alternative. [More…]
This Bill can be likened unto the mythical phoenix, as it rises and triumphs from the ashes of oppression, discrimination, and mistrust, which for far too long has been the lot of my people; a cruel lot, thrust upon them by almost 2 centuries of harsh, unthinking and, generally, uncaring European rule. [More…]
It was within this deprived society that I grew up; within these harsh confines of human degradation that I, Neville Bonner, suffered the cruel barbs of discrimination and depravity at the hands of my white brother. [More…]
They too were clustered around the outskirts of towns and, like their Aboriginal brothers, were treated to the same cruel and ignorant discrimination and oppression, and shared the same fate as their culture and customs were derided and destroyed. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Administrative Services inform the Senate whether his Department has received allegations of racial discrimination on Christmas Island? [More…]
As the Minister is considering making a statement on this scheme shortly, will he consider waiving the means test to avoid what appears to be discrimination against tertiary students from these areas? [More…]
That, I think, is fairly interpreted as a discrimination against those who wish to stay in Medibank Private. [More…]
Ill concerning discrimination in respect of employment and occupation affirms that: all human beings, irrespective of race, creed or sex, have the right to pursue both their material well-being and their spiritual development in conditions of freedom and dignity, of economic security and equal opportunity . [More…]
And further affirms that such discrimination, if practised, would constitute: a violation of rights enunciated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . [More…]
Is he further aware that the Convention defines discrimination’ as exclusion, preference which has the effect of nullifying or impairing equality of opportunity or treatment in employment or occupation as may be determined by the member concerned after consultation with representative employers’ and workers’ organisations where such exist 1 1n view of that Declaration, to which we are a signatory I ask: Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the actions of the Queensland Government and the statements of the Premier of that State regarding the civil action against 3 teachers and a railway worker, which has had the effect of imposing double penalties on such employees? [More…]
What action can the Government take, legislative or otherwise, to protect citizens from such discrimination which nullifies the spirit and the principles of the ILO Charter? [More…]
I am grateful to have his reminder of the definition of ‘discrimination’ because my recollection of it does not extend to all the finer details. [More…]
There was indeed a positive discrimination against mothers who chose to stay at home. [More…]
This positive discrimination was engendered by radical feminist propaganda. [More…]
That in order to preserve the quality of higher education in Australia and so as to prevent discrimination against disadvantaged groups there should be no introduction of fees for overseas students, second degree students, higher degree students or any students. [More…]
As this must surely constitute racial discrimination, I ask the Minister whether urgent measures can be taken to have the Commissioner for Community Relations investigate this case? [More…]
What action does the Government contemplate to enforce the letter and the spirit of the Racial Discrimination Act against the operation of such bodies? [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that the Government will give increasing support to the Office and the officers of the Commissioner for Community Relations which, independently of government, have the task of combating racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
Commissioner for Community Relations to ensure that there is no racial discrimination in this country. [More…]
But I am able to give an assurance that this Government will do whatever is necessary to ensure that there is no racial discrimination of any kind in this country. [More…]
Would not a reduction in the pensionable age for males to 60 years eliminate the current sex discrimination upon which the age for retirement is based? [More…]
What steps has the Government taken to implement the Racial Discrimination Act 1975? [More…]
I hope that there will be no discrimination in the exercise of this resettlement fund. [More…]
I mentioned previously allegations of racial discrimination against Asian citizens. [More…]
Examples have been given to me of racial discrimination amongst Government employees. [More…]
As more of the Christmas Islanders come to Australia they will do a lot in this country to counter so-called racial discrimination and silly ideas people have about those of a different colour. [More…]
Therefore, irrespective of statements which people who are directly involved may have made, the Government’s philosophical approach is that it will have no part of racial discrimination in whatever form it shows and no matter how dressed up it is. [More…]
That is a total discrimination. [More…]
The support that he gives to the matter which he raises seems to be based largely on complaints which he has received about the State police in Queensland, the administration of the Queensland Mining Act, allegations that people in Queensland are not able to have their say, allegations that there has been some discrimination in relation to the employment of teachers, and so on and so forth. [More…]
The Attorney-General has reminded me that although there is no legislation on hand as yet he has taken steps to prepare legislation against sex discrimination. [More…]
I am surprised that, as the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), he did not offer some explanation to the Senate on why the committee looking into discrimination in employment has not met since May 1976 and why none of the similar State committees have met since June 1976. [More…]
When I asked a question about that in March of this year I was told that it was the Government’s intention to establish a committee to deal with discrimination in employment. [More…]
That is how much this Government cares about the issue of discrimination in employment, in spite of the fact that nearly 2 pages in the Liberal Party’s policy document and in the Liberal Party’s program deal with the importance of discrimination in employment. [More…]
He leaves out something which ought to be right in front of his nose as a Minister- the question of discrimination in employment. [More…]
I refer to the emphasis which has been given or not given to the Racial Discrimination Act which was passed by this Parliament last year. [More…]
Both the Racial Discrimination Act and the discrimination in employment question are classic examples of the failure of this Government to carry out the obligations which are imposed on it under international conventions and, particularly in the case of the discrimination in employment situation, the clear undertakings given by previous governments in Australia to establish a satisfactory method of endeavouring to prevent at a State level discrimination in employment in the signatory States. [More…]
The rule of law is fundamental to a free society and an assurance of justice without discrimination or partiality. [More…]
I now refer to the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Bill was passed with Opposition support although we did introduce some amendments which I believe improved it. [More…]
This Government has taken positive steps to examine the question of sexual discrimination. [More…]
When I discussed the question of a sex discrimination Bill with the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby- a Labor appointee and a man who I would have thought had general support on the other side of the chamber- he told me that he was extremely doubtful that at this stage we should be proceeding in that field because of the very great difficulties which are involved. [More…]
Will she ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to refer the matter to the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations for investigation and possible action under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
I am informed that there is some doubt about this case coming within the scope of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware that the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation has not met since May 1976 and that a backlog of work is accumulating? [More…]
That in order to preserve the quality of higher education in Australia and so as to prevent discrimination against disadvantaged groups there should be no introduction of fees for overseas students, second degree students, higher degree students or any students. [More…]
Those of my colleagues who are more expert in these matters than I am would be able to tell the Senate that that form of tokenism is regarded as reprehensible in some circles where it is believed that the same result can be achieved without written positive discrimination in favour of women. [More…]
If, on the other hand, society will to some extent be placing less emphasis on the aims of faster quantitative growth, and will be giving more attention to qualitative issues such as equality and cultural values, these types of educational programs, and notably positive discrimination in favour of disadvantaged groups, could make a positive contribution. [More…]
The old idea that education made available without any discrimination on the basis of financial means thereby raises the standard of people has been very obviously disproved in this particular area. [More…]
Will the Government consider the recommendations of Professor Henderson and the alleged recommendations of Professor Fitzgerald to avoid the discrimination against poor families which have school leavers which occurs under the present Government’s policy? [More…]
The legislation perpetuates the discrimination against the long term and therefore usually more seriously injured as compared with the short term injured. [More…]
1 ) What steps has the Government taken to implement the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Act has already been implemented, all parts having become operative by 31 October 1975. [More…]
and (5) The functions of the Commissioner for Community Relations as set down in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 cover matters which involve various Departments and agencies in the Commonwealth and State jurisdictions For instance, the National and State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation operate as conciliation committees in regard to complaints of discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
Action has been taken, or is proposed, in several States in regard to racial discrimination. [More…]
The Administrative Review Committee was asked to inquire into overlapping and duplication of antidiscrimination functions and activities, and its recommendations are currently being considered. [More…]
It will provide information on discrimination of a social or ethnic origin. [More…]
Senator Coleman raised a matter concerning discrimination against women in relation to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I point out that there is no question of discrimination against women because the defence service homes scheme always has been confined to persons who have served on active service outside Australia or on a ship at war. [More…]
Therefore, there is no discrimination against women. [More…]
The only discrimination that could arise would be discrimination between those who served overseas and those who did not. [More…]
There is no discrimination between men and women as far as service in Australia is concerned. [More…]
and (2) As the honourable senator will be aware, the National and the six State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation were established in mid- 1973 following Australia’s ratification of I.L.O. [More…]
1 1 1 -Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1 958- for a three-year term. [More…]
The reconstituted Committees will meet in the immediate future and proceed to deal with complaints of discrimination in employment and occupation according to their normal procedures. [More…]
Moreover, it would not be correct to infer that there has been no activity on behalf of the Commonwealth Government in the field of investigation of complaints of employment discrimination since last June. [More…]
The Secretariats to the National and State Committees (which comprise officers of my Department), have continued to undertake a great deal of preliminary investigative work into complaints of discrimination, and the results of their work will be immediately available to the Committees when they reconvene. [More…]
The National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation has the responsibility for advising the Government on any measures designed to implement its policy of equality of opportunity-including advice as to the desirability of introducing legislation. [More…]
However, the National Committee, although it is quite free to do so, has not made, to date, any recommendations to the Government on the question of introducing anti-discrimination legislation. [More…]
Recognising that this will be a major step in breaking down discrimination against migrants and recognising the considerable interest in this particular subject in South Australia, can the Minister indicate how soon the authority will be established? [More…]
A hypothetical matter that comes to mind is this: Let us suppose that the Commissioner for Community Relations was enthusiastically and diligently exploring and investigating allegations of discrimination against Aborigines- for instance, in some of the areas of New South Wales where that is most endemic and most notorious, such as Wee Waa, Moree and places like that- and that complaints were made by Aborigines that no action was forthcoming and that the real, if I can use a nonracist term, negro in the woodpile turned out to be an instruction from the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs that the Commissioner for Community Relations was to run dead in this area because of some electoral pressures. [More…]
1 ) Call upon the South African Government to eliminate apartheid and racial discrimination. [More…]
I refer to a recent address by Mr Walter Lippmann, Chairman of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria, during which he expressed regret that the Community Relations Council has not yet been established under the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
He went on to say that he believed Aborigines seek correction and justice in respect of past mistakes but they do not, to the best of his knowledge, seek to achieve this by turning the sword of discrimination against their non-Aboriginal neighbours’. [More…]
The sort of matters to which I am referring include the Racial Discrimination Bill, the Administrative Appeals Bill, the Family Law Bill and the Ombudsman Bill, which we dealt with just a few days ago. [More…]
In an earlier question on notice I asked the Minister what steps the Government had taken to implement the Racial Discrimination Act and I was told in reply that all parts of the Act became operative on 3 1 October of this year. [More…]
Although we have racial discrimination legislation, I do not think that it is being fully utilised. [More…]
This applies a great deal in the north-west of Western Australia and in the gold fields areas where, in spite of our racial discrimination legislation, Aboriginals still seem to be third and fourth class citizens. [More…]
I would like the Minister to explain at some stage what will happen in relation to the housing situation and the discrimination that occurs in the hotels. [More…]
I think that the latter situation is adequately covered by the racial discrimination legislation which is not being put into effect. [More…]
Senator Coleman raised the matter of racial discrimination legislation. [More…]
I hope that the matters which are brought to his direct attention do result in the removal of the discrimination which in many ways has been practised and perhaps accepted in this country. [More…]
There is no discrimination. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to comments by the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, reported in the Brisbane Courier-Mail on 16 July 1976, that the team which produced the report alleging racial discrimination in Queensland had ‘only made contact with malcontents’. [More…]
In his reply the Commissioner for Community Relations indicated that evidence of discrimination against Aboriginals in Queensland was being incorporated into a more detailed report which would be made available to me shortly. [More…]
The situation, therefore, is that a report was received in June which asserted the existence of widespread racial discrimination in Queensland and I am still awaiting the report which the Commissioner for Community Relations has advised me will substantiate the assertions. [More…]
1 ) When will anti-discrimination legislation be introduced in the Federal Parliament to protect women from discrimination in such areas as home buying, house rental, employment, education, job training, credit, and superannuation. [More…]
What positive steps can a woman take when confronted with this form of economic discrimination, until legislation is introduced. [More…]
1 ) The question of anti-sex discrimination legislation is currently under active consideration. [More…]
Individual cases of discrimination under Federal jurisdiction can be raised with the Women ‘s Affairs Branch of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
Complaints of employment discrimination can be lodged with the Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation which operate in each State. [More…]
I refer to the proposed amendment to the Trade Practices Act by the deletion of section 49 which prohibits price discrimination. [More…]
I should be very surprised if the interests to which Senator Missen referred in regard to price discrimination have not already taken the opportunity to put their views to the Minister. [More…]
That in order to preserve the quality of higher education in Australia and so as to prevent discrimination against disadvantaged groups there should be no introduction of fees for overseas students, second degree students, higher degree students or any students. [More…]
Whereas many countries of northern and central Africa have been deeply embroiled in revolutions, racial violence, massacres, forced starvation, abductions, terrorism, and discrimination of all kinds without the United Nations instigating sanctions or other penalty, and [More…]
-I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs whether she is aware of reports appearing in the Press over the last week on racial discrimination. [More…]
Racial discrimination seen in Townsville. [More…]
A year after the Anti-Discrimination Act, housing discrimination is blatant in Townsville. [More…]
I ask: Will the Minister inform the Senate as to what action is intended to ensure that this discrimination against the Aboriginal community in Townsville ceases? [More…]
Honourable senators talk about discrimination. [More…]
If the rest of Australia gives the people of the Northern Territory the right to vote in referendums, 66 years of discrimination will come to an end. [More…]
I do not believe it is a correct state of affairs that the Indonesian Government should attempt to intimidate Australian citizens by saying that if they speak up or belong to some organisation- I have already said that this couple did not belong to the organisation- or take a view on the position in East Timor they will be subject to this sort of discrimination, that they will not be allowed to go for a tourist trip to Bali or to pass through Indonesia as a tourist. [More…]
Will the Minister be issuing a statement on 2 1 March, United Nations day, against racial discrimination? [More…]
I think it is quite clear from statements which have been made by Mr Chipp when he spoke for these Parties and by Senator Guilfoyle since she assumed her portfolio that there is a great deal of sympathy in the Government for the removal of the present discrimination which exists in favour of single mothers as against single or supporting fathers. [More…]
This has led and is leading today to discrimination against Australia by some countries which reacted fairly sharply to our trade policies. [More…]
1 ) The National and the 6 State Committees on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation were established in mid- 1973 following Australia’s ratification of ILO Convention No. [More…]
1 1 1 -Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958. [More…]
The main function of the Queensland Committee is to receive, investigate and attempt to resolve by a process of conciliation and persuasion, complaints of discrimination in employment and occupation. [More…]
During the period when the Queensland Committee was being reconstituted, its Secretarial continued to receive, and to undertake a great deal of preliminary investigative work into, complaints of employment discrimination. [More…]
Otherwise we will end up with black power and guerrilla movements and Klu Klux Klan activities brought about by well-meaning but incredibly stupid people practising apartheid and racial discrimination . [More…]
I believe there is sufficient bigotry, discrimination and prejudice in Australia without a member of this National Parliament going out of his way to make allegations which cast a slur on every member of a particular racial group. [More…]
Nevertheless, it is worth noting that the Commissioner for Community Relations does view discrimination against Aborigines as a serious matter. [More…]
It is obvious from the work and experience of the Community Relations Office since its inception on that discriminaton against Aboriginal people forms the greatest volume of discrimination practised in the Australian community. [More…]
Mr Cameron ‘s position as a member of the national Parliament does not give him licence to roam at large, disregarding the spirit of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Was a United Nations seminar held at Ohrid in 1974, which amongst the other principles adopted, included the following: ‘inseparably connected problems of the abolition of discrimination and promotion and protection of the human rights of national, ethnic and other minorities have a world dimension and significance’? [More…]
The twin problems of the elimination of discrimination and protection of the human rights of national, ethnic and other minorities are of world-wide scope and significance ‘. [More…]
The use of such materials is in violation of Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, to which Australia is a party . [More…]
During the 3 years preceding 30 December 1975 Australia had never produced legislation against discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take urgent action on matters arising out of the 1977 report by the Community Relations Office relating to discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders in northern Queensland. [More…]
Will the Minister ask his colleague in another place to examine this position with a view to approving this alternative to union membership in order to prevent this blatant discrimination against some members of Telecom? [More…]
I have known discrimination, hunger and everything else. [More…]
Whilst the Opposition does not oppose the concept envisaged under this legislation it most certainly says to the Government that, in combining the 3 bodies, the Government should give an undertaking that there will be no discrimination against one of the tertiary sectors in favour of another. [More…]
I have already said that every patient in this city can be seen in hospital by either salaried doctors or private doctors; there is no discrimination. [More…]
Unless the local content falls substantially there is no discrimination between the Australian manufacturers. [More…]
Does not this appear to be unfair discrimination against those men who also fought and made many sacrifices in the cause of world peace? [More…]
Nobody will argue with that- with: equality of opportunity so that all persons, without discrimination, may live a full and satisfying life; full employment; rising and generally enjoyed standards of living, with stability in costs and prices; [More…]
I have expressed my opinions about racial discrimination. [More…]
That is discrimination too. [More…]
If the Government is saying that it is not practising discrimination against Aboriginal people I say that that is wrong; it is. [More…]
The Trade Practices Act will continue to deal with anti-competitive agreements, monopolisation, exclusive dealing, resale price maintenance, anti-competitive price discrimination and mergers. [More…]
The Bill does not accept the recommendation of the Swanson Committee that section 49- the section which prohibits anti-competitive price discrimination- should be abolished. [More…]
Since the advent of the Dunstan Government South Australia has become notorious for leading the country in introducing legislation in relation to racial discrimination, Aboriginal affairs, abortion and homosexuality. [More…]
It covers matters not previously touched, for example mergers, price discrimination. [More…]
I will start again, for the third time, on section 49 of the Act and the amendments proposed in this Bill which relate price discrimination. [More…]
I am very happy to see that in the final analysis section 49 of the Act, which relates to price discrimination, is retained. [More…]
In CAGEO’s view the only equitable means of avoiding this blatant discrimination is for the Commonwealth to adopt the proposal contained in the first paragraph of this submission. [More…]
To keep specific records of particular groups of people such as Aborigines or persons of foreign descent could lend itself to claims of racial discrimination. [More…]
Discrimination Against Aborigines: Townsville (Question No. [More…]
What action does the Minister intend taking, if any, either through his own Department or in conjunction with the Queensland Government, or other Federal Departments, as a result of the study conducted by a team led by Dr Knud Larsen, Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, which apparently found significant rates of discrimination against Aboriginals in Townsville in the fields of employment and housing. [More…]
All programs sponsored by the Commonwealth Government in respect of Aboriginal affairs are designed to help Aboriginals overcome special disadvantages arising from their Aboriginality, including acts of racial discrimination. [More…]
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs works closely on such matters with the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, other Commonwealth and State Departments, and with influential community groups and will continue to do so in order to inform all members ofthe Australian community of their rights and obligations, whether they be informal or as set down in the Racial Discrimination Act, in respect of dealings with members of another race. [More…]
C. A. Wharton) seeking his comments on Professor Larsen ‘s findings and on the general incidence of racial discrimination in Queensland so far as Aboriginals and Islanders are concerned. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s repeatedly expressed sympathy for the morally persuasive case that such ex-servicemen should not continue to be denied Service pension entitlements, why was this discrimination against a handful of ex-servicemen not remedied in last night’s Budget. [More…]
Senator Scott said that we accused the Government of discrimination against the unemployed. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he supports the attitude taken by his Department and whether his Government favours discrimination on the basis of sex in the allocation of government housing. [More…]
This is not a policy of discrimination. [More…]
But I say that we in this country and the Government in particular should take note that the Government ought to work, as we in the Australian Labor Party believe we should and as we do in our policy, towards ending the discrimination in the working hours of certain people in certain occupations. [More…]
Will the Minister have this discrimination investigated to see whether this 19th century practice can be stopped? [More…]
I certainly do not disagree with his comments, but unfortunately maintaining a separate identity sometimes leads to discrimination. [More…]
I think we would agree that there was some discrimination against this community during World War I and even to some extent during World War II. [More…]
1 ) Is the Prime Minister aware of a statement concerning discrimination in Government services in the Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations for 1 976 that A significant number of complaints have arisen because of the inadequacy of government services available to the Australian whose first language is not English and who will never be able to attain an adequate erudition in his second language’. [More…]
Appendix A of the Commissioner’s Report shows the nature of all complaints and cases of discrimination which he investigated. [More…]
Consistent with its program of discrimination, the Government has directed extra funds to the wealthiest private schools in an attempt to destroy the needs principle and thus heighten the iniquities in our education system. [More…]
In the Budget Speech it was announced that the Government had decided to remove an element of discrimination in the payment of sickness benefit and to repeal the relevant section of the Social Services Act. [More…]
What effect will the setting up of a Human Rights Commission have on the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Will the Government introduce legislation similar to the Racial Discrimination Act, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, marital status and sexual preference; if so, will provisions against discrimination in employment be included in the legislation. [More…]
9 ) Will anti-discrimination legislation as a single act, applying to the Territories and all areas of Commonwealth responsibility, be introduced. [More…]
10) What steps, if any has the Attorney-General taken to achieve Commonwealth-State co-operation for a uniform approach to legislation to proscribe discrimination on the basis of sex. [More…]
It is intended that the basic administration of the Racial Discrimination Act I97S will come under the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The Attorney-General has under consideration proposals for legislation to proscribe discrimination on the grounds of sex and marital status. [More…]
There are no plans at the present time to include all Commonwealth anti-discrimination legislation in a single Act. [More…]
The organisation also aims to encourage the development of aircraft design and operations 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, finally, to promote generally the development of all aspects of civil aeronautics [More…]
To this end ICAO seeks to avoid discrimination between member states and to promote safety of flight in international air operations. [More…]
Would any decision to employ such personnel at below award wages be in breach of a State industrial law or, in Queensland, in breach of the Queensland Racial Discrimination Act? [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry and draw his attention to a Press statement issued on Tuesday by the Minister for Primary Industry in which he claimed that the new averaging rules for primary producers had removed what he called ‘discrimination’ against farmers by the interaction of zero or near zero income in a particular year and the general rebate system. [More…]
Does the table I left in the Minister’s office about an hour ago demonstrate that discrimination and, if not, can he identify any errors in my table? [More…]
Equality to all lone parents without discrimination. [More…]
The plight of lone fathers who are struggling to bring up children provides another reminder that discrimination is a two-edged sword. [More…]
If these things are threatened prejudice and discrimination become inevitable. [More…]
One might add to that the chronic degree of discrimination against Aboriginals in employment and the fact that a very high percentage of unemployment occurs amongst Aboriginals. [More…]
The result of this is a positive discrimination against people who are functionally illiterate, against itinerant Aboriginals and against people who are mentally retarded in some way or another. [More…]
Can the Minister assure the Senate that action will be taken to ensure that contravention of Federal laws by the Queensland Government does not continue and that discrimination against Aborigines ceases? [More…]
In no way am I suggesting any discrimination against a working wife. [More…]
When we look at a comparison between these two places we see a most disturbing trend towards discrimination. [More…]
I am attempting here to pluck out various examples just to show the discrimination. [More…]
If we take away the national aspect of which I spoke and come back to the State-like, municipal and local aspects, there is no justification whatsoever for this discrimination. [More…]
If one looks through the whole record of South Africa while the South African Nationalists have been in government one finds the Group Areas Act, the Bantu Education Act, the Immorality Act, the Unlawful Organisations Act, the Suppression of Communism Act and the Terrorism Act- every one of those Acts directed either to further imposing racial discrimination on the people of that country or repressing those who set out to oppose it by means which in any democratic country would be regarded as lawful. [More…]
He said at the founding conference of the Progressive Federal Party, held last month in Johannesburg, that ‘there was no greater priority in South Africa ‘s politics than the banishment of race and colour discrimination’. [More…]
Perhaps the white man is in greater need of liberation, in greater need to be freed from fear and liberated from the threat which race and colour discrimination is to our future safety. [More…]
He needs to be liberated from the blot that race discrimination is on the name of our country, from the burden it is on our conscience and the curse it will be on our children. ‘ [More…]
There was no greater priority in South Africa’s politics than the banishment of race and colour discrimination, Mr Basson said. [More…]
In the same way as the Jewish people of Israel or any other people in Israeldespite what the United Nations has decided, I do not believe that Israel is a country which engages in racial discrimination- are entitled to their own nation, the Palestinian people are entitled to their own nation. [More…]
If he continues to go to work- as the majority of unionists did during the Medibank strike-he will be able to do so without the discrimination, threats, abuse and physical violence that went on during the Medibank strike when some people decided that they would go to work and would not go on strike. [More…]
As to her question regarding employment opportunities for women and what action has been taken by the Government in this regard, I simply point out that the various schemes the Government has intitiated in regard to employment, particularly of young peopletraining under the National Employment and Training scheme and the expansion of that scheme which the Government has undertaken, and the many other schemes to which I have referred from time to time- make no discrimination between men and women. [More…]
Those schemes are directed towards assisting and are intended to assist both men and women, without any discrimination against one sex or the other. [More…]
In view of those circumstances, will the Minister examine this type of disparity with a view to establishing a full availability of such pensioner concessions so that those people receiving British war pensions do not suffer this sort of apparent discrimination? [More…]
Such a provision would be completely in conflict with Australian policies, particularly the immigration policies which are administered without discrimination as to race or colour. [More…]
If an investigation of racial discrimination reveals that assertions presented by Senator Chaney are correct, the matter is one which I think should be referred to the Commissioner for Community Relations and I would certainly do that. [More…]
I would simply say that in this area, as in any other, I will continue to be extremely hostile about any evidence of racial discrimination in our country which contains a large multi-racial element. [More…]
There are problems of discrimination, the white backlash and so on, which are already quite evident in those area. [More…]
I think that would be a sensible non-racial discrimination to impose. [More…]
I say to him that in view of his opposition to any form of racial discrimination, I hope he will use his good intentions with some of his colleagues in his State who trooped north during the last Western Australian election to confuse the minds of so many Aborigines in the north of Western Australia over their rights to vote. [More…]
We will immediately be discussing this matter with State governments, and I am hopeful that there will no longer be the discrimination between supporting male parents and supporting mothers which exists at the present time. [More…]
But at an administrative level it appears that there should be some discrimination against those people who take up the new arrangements solely for the purpose of reducing their tax burden. [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…]
I want to make it quite clear that there is no discrimination in relation to the 139 Club as far as the subsidy for the social worker is concerned. [More…]
The Government claims, in classic doublespeak, that it is removing discrimination against married women but, in fact, brings sickness benefits into line with unemployment benefits by altering the benefits available to married men. [More…]
We believe that when introducing changes such as this, when there is an absence of sex discrimination in the community, the proper thing to do would have been to bring in at the same time the obvious reform of raising that permissible income at least to the level applying to other pensions and benefits in the community. [More…]
They believe that this amendment does not alter the discrimination that exists between the sexes in relation to the lone parent’s benefit. [More…]
I would think that the differences are marginal but the note of discrimination in the legislation has been removed by this provision. [More…]
To me it seems that there is now some discrimination towards this group. [More…]
It is an offence under racial discrimination law to pay an Aboriginal on a reserve less than he would receive for the same work off a reserve. [More…]
Will the Minister take urgent steps to see that there is no discrimination against these two men at the behest of that most inhuman person from the north? [More…]
Senator Button spoke of Premier Bjelke-Petersen’s discrimination in the Public Service of Queensland against those who would dare to stand as Australian Labor Party candidates and of how the present Executive itself treats parliament with contempt by appointing an outside body to review the pecuniary interests of parliamentarians when a parliamentary committee from both Houses of Parliament and both sides of politics, including present Ministers, has reported with a unanimous decision on the subject. [More…]
During the campaign and afterwards I personally heard of several occasions of blatant discrimination against the less educated and poorer sections of the community. [More…]
I support the right of both the male and the female of the species to work without discrimination and I recognise the necessity for adequate child-minding facilities being provided for widows and other single parents. [More…]
Analysis of the records enables discrimination between man-made disturbances and earthquakes, and comparison of the results with other seismic stations enables the location of explosions or earthquakes to be determined. [More…]
The statement of Dr Cass clearly shows Labor’s discrimination against migrants and exemplifies the Labor Party’s position on that subject, which can only be compared with that of Hitler’s Germany. [More…]
I have heard nothing from the Australian Government as to what it believes to be a minimum requirement of the South African Government before we would be prepared to say that it is making progress towards the elimination of apartheid and adverse racial discrimination. [More…]
One need only look at, for example, the pressure on mothers to go out to work, and the discrimination felt by single income families in relation to taxation, et cetera. [More…]
The problem cannot be solved by discriminating against married women in the work force, as some have suggested; rather, the solution lies in Government financial measures which will recognise the economic worth of the homemaker, contribution to family support programs and thus reverse the economic discrimination now experienced by single income families. [More…]
It would give them the option to do the most important job in this world, bringing up future citizens of this country, and would remove the undue discrimination which they experience at present. [More…]
The Government’s prime concern is to see air fares reduced across the board and without discrimination. [More…]
Measures which assist particular industries constitute forms of ecomomic discrimination which, at least in the short term, can be to the considerable advantage of the industries assisted and to the disadvantage of those who pay for the assistance, namely, other industries, consumers, or taxpayers. [More…]
If help cannot be given, perhaps he will consider amending the legislation to correct what appears to me to be discrimination. [More…]
On 30 October 1975, the Federal Government ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Each State party shall take effective measures to review governmental, national and local policies, and to amend, rescind or nullify any laws and regulations which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever if exists. [More…]
These acts are contrary to Federal laws, particularly Queensland’s Discriminatory Laws Act of Queensland, and the Racial Discrimination Act of 1 975. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt spoke at one stage about the takeover being illegal and contrary to provisions of Queensland discriminatory laws or the Racial Discrimination “Act. [More…]
Any rational observer could only admit that the operation of the Queensland Aboriginal Act is nothing but a breach of the United Nations Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labour Organisation conventions. [More…]
But will someone tell me why the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, which was introduced by the Whitlam Government, was not the first exercise of that authority? [More…]
As far as I am concerned, the sort of thing that is going on is racial discrimination; it is apartheid. [More…]
I think that to suggest otherwise is to suggest apartheid or racial discrimination, or whatever name one likes to call it. [More…]
That is the sort of thing that is going on under the racial discrimination that exists at the moment. [More…]
The matters I have mentioned in respect of housing loans, business loans and minerals indicate that racial discrimination against white people, migrants and any other people in this country is apartheid. [More…]
Why is there a policy of discrimination or differentiation in respect of Aboriginal reserves? [More…]
What action has been taken by the Government to develop ‘a national philosophy which mobilises public opinion to recognise the discrimination suffered by the handicapped in our midst; a philosophy which motivates employers, trade unionists, the man in the street to play a role in overcoming barriers which continue to deny the handicapped many of the fundamental human rights’, in view of the Minister’s speech at Manila, in January 1978, concerning legislation for the handicapped in Australia, and the Minister’s reference to services for ‘severely disabled persons of working age ‘. [More…]
In my speech at Manila in January 1 978 1 emphasised that in fact what is lacking in Australia today is a national philosophy which mobilises public opinion to recognise discrimination suffered by the handicapped in our midst. [More…]
That the Federal Government support the abolition of the Aborigines Act (Queensland) 1971 and the Torres Strait Islanders Act (Queensland) 1971 and take such action as they may deem necessary to ensure that the provisions of the Queensland Discriminatory Laws Act 1975 and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 be enforced in so far as they relate to Aborigines and Islanders; [More…]
That the Federal Government support the abolition of the Aborigines Act (Queensland ) 1 97 1 and the Torres Strait Islanders Act (Queensland) 1971 and take such action as they may deem necessary to ensure that the provisions of the Queensland Discriminatory Laws Act 1975 and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 be enforced in so far as they relate to Aborigines and Islanders; [More…]
This is discrimination in favour of the second wife; but, in the light of s. 110, there is no equivalent discrimination in favour of the legal wife where the contributor has died before a remarriage with the de facto wife. [More…]
As pointed out in two excellent articles on the whole subject by Gwendoline Wilson (see the articles entitled ‘Discrimination over marital status in Superannuation’ in the Canberra Times 14 and 15 September 1977), an important practical point, among others, is that statistically wives outlive husbands by a number of years, so that the position is most serious for divorced wives faced with the prospect that, upon the death of the ex-husband contributor, they will become disinherited of any right to a spouse’s pension under the Superannuation Act. [More…]
One of the major problems in providing special concessional fares for groups such as students is that other groups- for example, pensioners and migrants- could justifiably claim discrimination if they were not assisted similarly. [More…]
Tonight I bring to the attention of the Senate a clear case of discrimination against some Queensland residents. [More…]
As a Queensland senator, I am obliged to outline the circumstances surrounding this discrimination and urge that steps be taken to rectify what is a definite injustice. [More…]
I refer however to the discrimination against certain Queenslanders which I mentioned earlier. [More…]
I notify the Government that there is no way that those people under this scheme in Queensland will accept this type of discrimination. [More…]
When this situation is compared with that of those who come here for only a short time so as to be eligible for a pension and who then return home, does it not show discrimination against those who fought for our country in favour of those who came here once the fighting had finished? [More…]
Our objectives for Australian school children include the widening of educational opportunity with discrimination in favour of disadvantaged groups; maintaining and pursuing educational quality and excellence; and encouraging choice and diversity in schooling. [More…]
Our objectives for Australian school children include the widening of educational opportunity with discrimination in favour of disadvantaged groups; maintaining and pursuing educational quality and excellence; and encouraging choice and diversity in schooling. [More…]
They should be aware of the Government’s attitude towards them, which, in fact, amounts to discrimination in favour of the wealthy. [More…]
The major charge is that Connair, as the socalled opposition airline to SAATAS, has been given unfair Government assistance and that 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…]
The events as I have outlined them and the allegations made, which at least give the appearance of police discrimination, cause some concern as to the protection of civil liberties in our country. [More…]
Problems have occurred of discrimination at work based on the publicity that was given to this case, as I am afraid they always will occur in such circumstances. [More…]
Discrimination has arisen out of the sort of publicity given to this case. [More…]
There are allegations and undoubtedly there are cases of discrimination occurring as a result of this case. [More…]
Before dealing with some of the matters on which I wish to make specific comments, I make the statement that I am assured by the Director-General of Social Services that there is no basis at all for the suggestion that persons with Greek sounding names are being singled out for discrimination. [More…]
I have already referred with some regret to the way in which the presentation of the Press material could have led to a feeling of discrimination. [More…]
I think it is regrettable that a feeling of discrimination has arisen from perhaps the way in which the matter has been reported in the Press. [More…]
He asked about interpreters and I have told him about the independent interpreters and the interpreters from New South Wales who were assisting in the investigations of the Commonwealth Police and who at all times were able to advise whether there had been discrimination or intimidation. [More…]
The concern of the Government is one that is quite unreservedly expressed by me, that is, to ensure that no person should suffer hardship and no person should feel that there is discrimination against or disgrace amongst members of a community which has the highest reputation in this country. [More…]
What we do accuse the Government of, in particular, is mishandling this situation so that the allegations of discrimination, ethnic prejudice and so forth have justly and properly been raised. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament what action can be taken to rectify what appears to be a blatant act of racial discrimination? [More…]
If the honourable senator is claiming that there has been racial discrimination against the 40 Aborigines concerned, I am sure that the Racial Discrimination Act would provide some basis for reporting that incident to the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
The next line talks about the various subsections of the Economic and Social Council and 1 (XXIV) of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, a summary of your communication will be included in a confidential list of communications which will be submitted to the Commission on Human Rights and to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. [More…]
Welcomes the decision of the Commission of Human Rights to give annual consideration to the item entitled “Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including policies or racial discrimination and segregation and of apartheid, in all countries, with particular reference to colonial and other dependent countries and territories,” without prejudice to the functions and powers of organs already in existence or which may be established within the framework of measures of implementation included in international covenants and conventions on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and concurs with the requests for assistance addressed to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and to the Secretary-General; [More…]
In our State, Queensland, we have the worst case of racial discrimination, the great white father image, whose policies are designed to oppress our people and keep them dependent on the State Government . [More…]
The unfortunate part is that if there is any discrimination in Queensland it is against the white people in the lower socioeconomic groups. [More…]
There is discrimination even in South Australia. [More…]
On seeking further information, the Committee was informed that, with the exception of the Queensland Police, whose co-operation had been excellent, the Queensland Government had failed to respond to any matter of racial discrimination referred to it by the Commissioner. [More…]
What the Government- and the Labor Party Government did when in office- is trying to do is give some compensation to those people, some special understanding, in fact, discrimination in their favour. [More…]
The proposed tests of reasonableness and hardship to be applied to requests for financial assistance in such cases are expected to be similar to the tests in the Trade Practices Act, the Racial Discrimination Act and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act. [More…]
This to me is real racial discrimination. [More…]
Only the black man fits the world pattern of international political warfare directed against the West by the East, ls it any wonder that the countries most clamant against racial discrimination are those who practise it most, that is Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. [More…]
If the Minister cannot give this assurance, does she agree that the present medical service will deteriorate and that this in itself is a further discrimination against those members of our society whose very age demands that they receive the best medical care available? [More…]
One area in which there is a serious problem and which, as far as I can understand, has received no attention from the Government relates to discrimination against female employees within the ABC. [More…]
This report documents a serious case of sex-based discrimination within the ABC. [More…]
Can the Minister assure the Senate, firstly, that no government department, agent or instrumentality will, in any manner, be involved with the National Front in the fulfilment of these aims; secondly, that the Commissioner for Community Relations will maintain a constant check on the Front’s activities to ensure that it does not breach the Racial Discrimination Act 1975; and, thirdly, that the National Front will not be allowed to violate the conditions outlined in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, both of which have been ratified by Australia? [More…]
That the Federal Government support the abolition of the Aborigines Act (Queensland) 1971. and the Torres Strait Islanders Act (Queensland) 1971 and take such action as they deem necessary to ensure that the provisions of the Queensland Discriminating Laws Act, 1975 and the Racial Discrimination Act, 1975 be enforced in so far as they relate to Aborigines and Islanders: [More…]
6469 would be a discrimination against women, as rebates are paid for vasectomy and prostate operations for males. [More…]
Would this not eliminate the racial discrimination policy of this Government, like that of the Whitlam Government? [More…]
I have stressed to him that this Government does not have a racial discrimination policy. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully say that we are concerned about the discrimination which exists against the children of those parents who are in receipt of the Supporting Parents Benefit in comparison with children of Single Parents who receive the Widows Pension. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Parliament take immediate steps to ensure that this year’s budget allow for Lone Parents to be given the right to receive a pension with the same benefits as are given with the Widows Pension, and we also request that the Parliament take immediate steps to instigate one ( 1 ) category of Lone Parent Pensions to eliminate the discrimination currently experienced. [More…]
which lends itself to discrimination against those citizens who involuntarily bear dual citizenship. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully say that we are concerned about the discrimination which exists against the children of those parents who are in receipt of the Supporting Parents Benefit in comparison with children of Single Parents who receive the Widows Pension. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Parliament take immediate steps to ensure that this year’s budget allow for Lone Parents to be given the right to receive a pension with the same benefits as are given with the Widows Pension, and we also request that Parliament take immediate action to instigate one ( I ) category of Lone Parent Pension to eliminate the discrimination currently experienced. [More…]
The problem cannot be solved by discriminating against married women in the work force, as some have suggested but rather by implementing the Government’s financial measures which will recognise the economic worth of the homemaker and contribute to family support programs, thus reversing the economic discrimination now experienced by single income families. [More…]
The union to which I belong currently is undertaking a major survey of membership to see what the reaction would be to governmental policies designed to eliminate the discrimination that is currently being experienced by full-time homemakers, to see whether that would be sufficient attraction for women with dependent children to enable them to do their most important work, that is, the nurturing of their children, the future citizens of this country. [More…]
I do not agree with the suggestion that there should be discrimination against married women in the work force. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take urgent action on matters arising out of the 1977 Report by the Community Relations office relating to ‘Discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders in North Queensland ‘. [More…]
6469 would be a discrimination against women, as rebates are paid for vasectomy and prostate operations for males. [More…]
If on top of the discrimination against these small firms because of the local content components under the Bounty (Agricultural Tractors) Act we have further discrimination because of manipulation of the taxation Act so that it provides a further protective device, I fear that the consequence will be that firms such as Phillips in Merredin and the other two firms in New South Wales and Victoria, which obviously are efficient manufacturers because they are competing in an open market, will not have a future. [More…]
There is very little evidence brought to the Committee’s attention of overt racial discrimination against Islanders at the present time. [More…]
The only consistent area of complaint was in regard to obtaining rented accommodation although other isolated cases of discrimination have been brought to the notice of the Committee. [More…]
It has not been properly recognised that this group has been caught up in the area of discrimination against the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands people. [More…]
For many years this group has been caught up in this discrimination and deprivation. [More…]
We are endeavouring to recover from that, but the Pacific Islanders, with other peoples, have been caught in the trap of discrimination. [More…]
Having been torn away from their homeland, from friends and relatives, brought to a foreign country and used as they were, having suffered prejudice and discrimination of the worst kind, they had lost their ties and were not willing to go back. [More…]
They remained here, living under much the same conditions as their counterpart- we, the Aborigines and the Torres Strait Islanders- suffering prejudice, discrimination, lack of opportunity for employment, decent housing, education and everything else that we, the indigenes of this country, suffered. [More…]
Discrimination has definitely favoured Mr Iwasaki. [More…]
An explanation of Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act is to be translated into the languages of migrant communities. [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister for Home Affairs advise the National Women’s Advisory Council that he was considering legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex and marital status; if so, will the legislation apply to the Australian Capital Territory and the Commonwealth Public Service only. [More…]
I did indicate at the first meeting of the National Women’s Advisory Council on 10 August 1978 that I have a special interest in the means by which the law can be used to improve women’s status and officers from my department have been considering, with officers from the AttorneyGeneral’s Department, the possible form of Commonwealth legislation to proscribe discrimination on the grounds of sex and marital status. [More…]
It is not at present considered possible under the Constitution to extend such legislation to the whole of Australia, although persons (particularly women) who live in States which do not have such legislation will not have legal guarantees against discrimination on these grounds. [More…]
The Governments of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales have already enacted legislation proscribing discrimination on the basis of sex or marital status and it is being considered in Tasmania. [More…]
What sort of discrimination is this and why is it necessary for the Opposition to take it up? [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully say that we are concerned about the discrimination which exists against the children of those parents who are in receipt of the Supporting Parents Benefit in comparison with children of Single Parents who receive the Widows Pension. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Parliament take immediate steps to ensure that this year’s budget allow for Lone Parents to be given the right to receive a pension with the same benefits as are given with the Widows Pension, and we also request that Parliament take immediate steps to instigate one ( 1 ) category of Lone Parent Pensions to eliminate the discrimination currently experienced. [More…]
What steps will be taken to ensure that: (a) all possible measures are taken to ensure placement of Australian Services Canteens Organisation staff in other Government employment; (b) conditions of employment similar to those currently applying in Australian Services Canteens Organisations are applied to staff placed in new Government positions; (c) members of the Australian Services Canteens Organisation superannuation fund are not disadvantaged by early involuntary retirement; and (d) no discrimination on grounds of sex or marital status occurs when placements in other Government positions are arranged. [More…]
Government employment policies provide adequate safeguards against all types of discrimination. [More…]
Let me be the first to state quite unequivocalbly that there should not be discrimination against married women in the work force. [More…]
But at the same time in Australia today there is not that true freedom of choice; economic discrimination is experienced by the mothers who stay at home and do the most important job, that is, raising the future citizens of this country. [More…]
Why do I say that there is economic discrimination? [More…]
Senator Ryan replied no to our question: ‘Do you support removing the present economic discrimination against single-income families by (1) indexation of family allowances?’ [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this action could offend the Federal Government’s Racial Discrimination Act? [More…]
1 is: ‘Do you support removing the present economic discrimination against the single income family by indexation of family allowances?’ [More…]
Could the Minister inform the Senate whether the action as foreshadowed by Mr Koval threatens discrimination against Australian visitors to the Games and the direct political intimidation of the visitors to the Olympic Games? [More…]
There is therefore no question of an investigation in a breach of the Anti-Discrimination Act. [More…]
There is therefore no question of an investigation in a breach of the Anu-Discrimination Act. [More…]
I presume that he means the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
The Government was appalled to read the story in the Press and expresses the abhorrence, I think, of all Australians if in fact there is discrimination against any citizens, whether Australian citizens or not, on the ground of religion or other discrimination. [More…]
I repeat that all honourable senators will share the Government’s abhorrence of any situation in which the ordinary freedom of the individual is restricted because of religious discrimination, whether anti-semitic, as in this case, or otherwise. [More…]
Is not Qantas the responsibility of the Australian tax payer and obliged to abide by Australian legislation and policies on racial discrimination? [More…]
However, in respect of the questions raised by the honourable senator, 1 would have thought that the information provided to the Senate already by the Leader of the Government in the Senate probably indicates that Qantas Airways Ltd itself is not exercising any active discrimination against people within Australia. [More…]
Discrimination of any type is rightly deplored by members of all political parties in this country. [More…]
All political parties are sincere in deploring discrimination. [More…]
There are many forms of discrimination. [More…]
Discrimination against race is despicable and is to be deplored. [More…]
Discrimination against colour is equally monstrous. [More…]
Cultural discimination and sexual discrimination are bad and are to be condemned. [More…]
But, of all the types of discrimination, in my view the worst- if there can be a worst type- is discrimination against a person’s religious beliefs, and that is precisely what the Syrian Government’s action in this instance is. [More…]
Australia is going along with that kind of discrimination. [More…]
I hope that all parties in this chamber will condemn this action for what it is- the worst of all possible forms of discrimination. [More…]
An Australian citizen who was born into a family that had been Christian for generations and who changed his or her religious beliefs to the Jewish faith would come under this blanket discrimination by the Syrian Government. [More…]
While we are supporting the Camp David accords, while we are deploring discrimination, Qantas, which is our international front window, with or without Government knowledge is speaking with two voices. [More…]
Leaving aside religious discrimination, let us look for a moment at the country to which we have been seen to bow because of political blackmail- Syria. [More…]
I repeat what I said at Question Time, that is, the Government deplores discrimination in any context on grounds of race, religion or for any other reason. [More…]
Therefore where discrimination arises, as apparently it has arisen in this instance, the Government is strongly opposed to it, not only in rhetoric but also in the force of its actions. [More…]
Of course the Commonwealth Government would be eager to be able to use air routes over air space where conditions resulting in any kind of discrimination were not applied. [More…]
I repeat that the Government, in common with all Australians, hates that thought and regards racial discrimination as evil. [More…]
In terms of racial and religious discrimination, it would deplore anti-semetism wherever it may be. [More…]
If, because this matter has been exposed, it is competent for any government to find solutions that can be achieved in flying the routes of this world and minimising discrimination, this will be a good thing and a useful debate. [More…]
Is not this practice of racial discrimination a shocking thing, but there must be some hundreds of thousands of dollars involved in the trade so we will continue with it’. [More…]
What we are doing by saying that is to indicate that quite clearly we are going to aid and abet the Government of Syria to practise what has been described as religious discrimination, but it is racial discrimination, against Jewish people including Australian Jews. [More…]
If people want to see the central issue as one of discrimination by Syria against Jews, I think that is to misunderstand the issue. [More…]
Such as not being able to obtain travel- or any form of discrimination based on his religious beliefs. [More…]
It constitutes a discrimination not only against religion, not only against race, but also against nationality- all three. [More…]
Religious discrimination of the type practised to enforce this ban is reminiscent of the Middle Ages. [More…]
It is a discrimination that is worse than that of the Middle Ages, yet we are supposed to be living in an enlightened age. [More…]
We should stand up, seek out the other countries which are signatories to this United Nations Charter and make them put their money where their mouth is and stand up for what they believe, if they really believe that there should be no discrimination as to race, sex, language or religion. [More…]
I think we all deplore the notion of discrimination against any of our citizens, particularly on our international airline. [More…]
I think that distinction is important, because I understand that Israel refuses to permit into Israel people who hold passports from countries of the Arab League and that again reflects a state of conflict between those Arab countries and Israel, It emphasises the distinction between discriminating on the basis of nationality or citizenship- that is the passport- and discrimination clearly based on the faith or religion of the person concerned. [More…]
However, as Senator Baume has mentioned, the one fundamental human right that is mentioned in our Constitution- we do not have a Bill of Rights- is the right to religious freedom and the unacceptability of discrimination on grounds of religion or faith. [More…]
If it is found that there is no way to overcome this discrimination against Jewish people whether of Australian nationality or any other nationality it seems to me that Qantas ought to start examining alternative routes to avoid the discriminatory practice which has to a degree been forced upon it but which it has accepted by flying via Damascus. [More…]
The issue is that the Australian Government, through one of its instrumentalities, is in fact condoning discrimination against 70,000 or 80,000 Australians as well as other people of Jewish faith because these people presumably cannot fly with Qantas to London via Damascus. [More…]
The Government should ensure that Qantas is not involved in what can only be considered to be unreasonable discrimination on religious grounds against a large number of Australians and people of other nationalities. [More…]
In the absence of an explanation one can only assume that it is to feed the conservative discrimination of members and supporters of the Government. [More…]
Further, it typifies the Government’s discrimination in that it makes the unemployed without dependants second-class citizens. [More…]
Would the Minister not agree that the position which Australia is following with regard to apartheid in South Africa and racial discrimination in other parts of the world such as Rhodesia, may be taken by some critical observers to be somewhat hypocritical for so long as Qantas either refuses or discourages the travel by Australian Jews on Australian aircraft? [More…]
I say that in no combative way because I share with him the principle that we ought to oppose religious or racial discrimination wherever it should he. [More…]
What I think happens is that we live in a very ugly world in which a large part of the world has racial and religious discrimination and a lack of civilised behaviour. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully say that we are concerned about the discrimination which exists against the children of those parents who are in receipt of the Supporting Parents Benefit in comparison with children of Single Parents who receive the Widows Pension. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Parliament take’ immediate steps to ensure that this year’s budget allow for Lone Parents to be given the right to receive a pension with the same benefits as are given with the Widows Pension, and we also request that Parliament take immediate steps to instigate one ( 1 ) category of Lone Parent Pensions to eliminate the discrimination currently experienced. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate whether this publication which states, among other things, that the Israeli Government practises policies of ‘racist discrimination’ and ‘mass punishment’ is produced by the United Nations or one of its agencies? [More…]
Indeed, the Australian Government was for a time unable to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination’ of the United Nations because of the Queensland Aborigines ‘ and Torres Strait Islanders ‘ Acts. [More…]
To make Aborigines pay more for their foodstuffs and for their needs than white people pay on any of the islands have to pay is racial discrimination. [More…]
Rather than removing discrimination this Government is discriminating between personnel. [More…]
Here again we see the application of another form of discrimination. [More…]
It seems to me to be incongruous that we should be in a position where we will change the order of priority and that, because of the cutback in funds which are down $10-7m in this Budget, we are to have such a policy of discrimination. [More…]
I am not satisfied that this Bill removes a discrimination, of which I have spoken before in this Parliament, against certain Queensland residents. [More…]
People in Queensland who are insured under the defence service homes insurance scheme will not accept the discrimination which is being directed towards them. [More…]
In fact, it appears to me that this type of discrimination might even be extended. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully say that we are concerned about the discrimination which exists against the children of those parents who are in receipt of the Supporting Parents Benefit in comparison with children of Single Parents who receive the Widows Pension. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that Parliament take immediate steps to ensure that this year’s budget allow for Lone Parents to be given the right to receive a pension with the same benefits as are given with the Widows Pension, and we also request that Parliament take immediate steps to instigate one ( 1 ) category of Lone Parent Pensions to eliminate the discrimination currently experienced. [More…]
It follows the recent controversy about discrimination against Jewish airline travellers by Qantas Airways Limited. [More…]
We hope that you will kindly arrange for this type of discrimination against Poles to end, as soon as possible, as we are pan of the ethnic community in Australia. [More…]
Bearing in mind the fact that Rhodesia has now done everything which the United Nations required of it, will the Australian Government urge the United Nations, firstly, to recognise the major steps taken as a result of the internal settlement of 3 March this year; secondly, to condemn the use of terrorism by the external guerrilla forces; thirdly, to congratulate the transitional government, which has a majority of black leaders, for the steps taken for the abolition of racial discrimination and for free elections; and, fourthly, in the light of these steps, to abolish sanctions immediately and, encourage the achievement of the act of selfdetermination? [More…]
That is a fact which is inescapable and, as between women seeking an abortion in Sydney and women seeking an abortion in Canberra, there is a discrepancy, a discrimination, which is important and which I believe would have been important in the deliberations of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Further, I would direct the attention of honourable senators to the fact that there is in this country a Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
On the other hand, wide-spread attitudinal discrimination persists, the inadequacy of public and private services for a multicultural population remains a serious problem, and the gap between Aboriginal Australians and the rest of the community continues to affect every aspect of life in every part of Australia. [More…]
I raise this matter because of a case of blatant discrimination that has come to my attention. [More…]
That is blatant discrimination. [More…]
Ms Helene Chung of the Australian Broadcasting Commission on the ground of racial discrimination against her by a senior ABC officer. [More…]
Is the Minister satisfied with the decision of the Commission; that is, that Ms Chung had no grounds for claiming racial discrimination? [More…]
That is not to say that the ABC ought to have complete freedom in the matter of racial discrimination any more than should any other section of the community. [More…]
The report refers to a question asked of me yesterday by Senator Ryan about the complaint by a Ms Chung in relation to an allegation of racial discrimination by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
I referred to the fact that there was an avenue available, namely, the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Over and above the general negligence and irresponsibility displayed by the Fraser Government and its supporters to the national scandal of unemployment there is the question of discrimination. [More…]
In using the word ‘discrimination’ I mean that the Government is acting unfairly and unjustly in respect of a section of the unemployed, particularly the young unemployed. [More…]
There are two particular instances of discrimination by the Fraser Government to the unemployed that I wish to mention during the course of this debate. [More…]
This is discrimination. [More…]
I mention briefly the further discrimination introduced in the Budget by which the benefit paid to unemployed persons without dependants will not be indexed. [More…]
In conclusion I draw attention to another particular area of discrimination. [More…]
One can use the word ‘discrimination’ in a negative or positive sense, but I gather from Senator Ryan’s comments that she is seeking to establish that the Government has been discriminating in a negative sense. [More…]
In this sense it is making positive discrimination by providing funds for such training. [More…]
I point out that Senator Ryan not only raised this matter but also listed specific cases of what she considers to be discrimination against the unemployed. [More…]
In the recent Budget, quite apart from the breach of faith obvious in the Government’s action of abandoning twiceyearly indexation, the relegation of unemployed people without dependents- largely the single unemployed- to second-class citizenship so that they receive no indexation of benefits, which is a grossly discriminatory act as Senator Ryan said, the Government continually indulged in other acts of discrimination against the unemployed, particularly the young unemployed. [More…]
The United Nations declaration on the elimination of discrimination against women states that maternity leave is essential to protect women from discrimination on the grounds of marriage or pregnancy. [More…]
There was also no discrimination by reason of pregnancy. [More…]
If a woman who sought employment in the Public Service was so many months pregnant, according to the Act there could be no discrimination and she was to be employed. [More…]
It seems to me that there is something in the Maternity Leave (Australian Government Employees) Amendment Bill which perhaps ought to be reported to the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs been advised of concern being felt and expressed by the Timorese refugees in Australia, particularly those in Darwin and Victoria, relating to the delay in the processing of applications for the reuniting of families in Australia and to the discrimination practised by the Government of Indonesia against Timorese people who wish to come to Australia to be reunited with their families? [More…]
I direct my question to the Attorney-General as the Minister responsible for the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Questions under the Racial Discrimination Act are matters for an independent statutory officer, the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
Those who advocated the urgent introduction of media educational courses in the schools pointed out that since television is such an important influence in the learning process, children should be taught discrimination in its use. [More…]
Speaker after speaker mixed up the issues of slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism, imperialism, hegemony, racism, discrimination and freedom, and heaped all these charges onto South Africa and Rhodesia. [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…]
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 contributions for benefits, if in the opinion of the Minister the change brings about an ‘improper discrimination’. [More…]
Under new Section 73BFB 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…]
We believe that these amendments will give protection to those against whom discrimination could have been practised. [More…]
I think that the Minister will be aware that a number of representations have been made to the Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, about the discrimination against South Australia in respect of travel to and from South Australia because presently Qantas Airways Ltd has to apply the ruling domestic fare for such travel. [More…]
Therefore, I ask the Minister to consider an alternative name which would remove this charitable syndrome and any suggestion of discrimination. [More…]
I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Transport a question relating to what are believed by many Western Australians to be two areas of discrimination against Western Australians in regard to air fares. [More…]
I can assure honourable senators, as an opponent of any form of racial discrimination or apartheid. [More…]
If there is to be this continual disruption and discrimination against China, because somebody doesn ‘t 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…]
Does she agree that it is indeed a deep injustice for such discrimination to exist between children? [More…]
The rest of the people in the Kimberleys who are not associated with the township of Kununurra or the Ord scheme have suffered also from neglect and discrimination against all of the other towns in the Kimberleys in favour of this region and the Premier’s self-indulgent obsession. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this is blatant discrimination of a sexist nature to disfranchise these Australian citizens? [More…]
As far as being blatant discrimination of a sexist nature is concerned, to pick up Senator Bonner’s terms, if he means by that that there was some intention to discriminate on a sexist basis, I do not agree with him because I suspect that it is simply an historical fact that at the time when the legislation was introduced it was not thought that wives of servicemen would be overseas with their husbands. [More…]
In the early days some of us were actively trying to interest the Australian people in the problems of the discrimination which was taking place. [More…]
We can express forcefully disapproval of the deprivation of human rights, of torture, of racial discrimination or of exploitation of man by man in any country, and we should do so. [More…]
-Has the AttorneyGeneral noted a recent United States Supreme Court decision which waived alimony awarded in a divorce case on the ground that the male appellant would be suffering sex discrimination if his wealthy wife were to receive maintenance from him? [More…]
There must be no discrimination on the basis of politics or religion, against the people we bring to Australia. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take urgent action on matters arising out of the 1977 Report by the Community Relations Office relating to ‘Discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders in North Queensland’. [More…]
Under the heading ‘International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ‘ the report states: [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Act 197S enabled Australia to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 2 1 December 1 965. [More…]
On page 1 1 of the report there appears the heading ‘Racial Discrimination-Case Study of a Country Town’. [More…]
But because these people are black, because there is racial discrimination against them by the white community, they are forced to tolerate it or be penalised by a fine of up to $40 or 14 days in the local lock-up. [More…]
Unfortunately discrimination is not confined to Queensland. [More…]
There has been a progressive scaling down, and there is discrimination being practised right here at Federal Government level. [More…]
This is discrimination in its worst form. [More…]
There is also discrimination against blacks who want to own land and there are three famous examples that ought to be incorporated in the record. [More…]
For example, there have been cases of physical discrimination and I wish to refer to a few things that did not happen yesterday or the day before, but happened the day before that in terms of Australian and Aboriginal time. [More…]
There are people who try to close their eyes and say that there is no racial discrimination. [More…]
That is sheer discrimination. [More…]
There was some controversy, and the Homeless Persons Assistance Group decided that there had been some discrimination. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take urgent action on matters arising out of the 1977 Report by the Community Relations Office relating to ‘Discrimination against Aborigines and Islanders in North Queensland. [More…]
In the past hour Senator Keeffe has given an outline of the misery suffered by and the discrimination exercised against Aborigines in [More…]
I connect with the 1977 report the third annual report of the Commissioner for Community Relations- the 1978 report which deals with, among other matters, discrimination against Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
It deals with complaints of racial discrimination, discrimination in Queensland, racial discrimination at Ceduna and its aftermath, discrimination and the police, discrimination in the courts, discrimination in employment, discrimination in local government, discrimination in Aboriginal housing, discrimination in health services, discrimination in education, discrimination in school text books, discrimination in the media, discrimination in hotels, and so it goes on to chapter 19, dealing with the dissemination of racial hatred and many other important matters, to which I am attracted. [More…]
If we are to do anything at all about racial discrimination, we need to have the problem identified. [More…]
In identifying the problem he has investigated and documented evidence of racial discrimination. [More…]
It will be necessary for us to keep those reports close to us because, to a certain extent, those of us who live a more urban life have been insulated against evidence of racial discrimination in Australia. [More…]
Discrimination is lost in the activity of the great cities and their suburbs. [More…]
I refer to discrimination in Queensland- to the problem and to the conclusion which must be drawn. [More…]
At page 21 of the report the Commissioner, having referred to some 20 or 2 1 cases of racial discrimination in Queensland, in particular discrimination against Aborigines, makes this point: [More…]
In the light of all the above allegations of racial discrimination on the part of the Queensland Government, I would draw attention to the fundamental freedoms and human rights which Australia guarantees to its citizens. [More…]
These are enumerated in many international documents, but those most pertinent to my operations are listed in Article 5 of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
These are incorporated in section 9 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: [More…]
It is my duty under the Racial Discrimination Act 1 975 - [More…]
I would also be wanting in my duty if I did not indicate the lack of co-operation of the Queensland Government in relation to my inquiries into matters of racial discrimination. [More…]
I would also be wanting in my duty if I did not indicate the lack of co-operation of the Queensland Government in relation to my inquiries into matters of racial discrimination. [More…]
In addition I have to report upon deficiencies in Commonwealth legislation, principally the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, in achieving even a proper inquiry into matters associated with the exercise of fundamental freedoms and human rights for all racial groups in Queensland. [More…]
However, I would like to go further and refer to that section of the report which deals with discrimination in education. [More…]
I am not talking about South Africa; I am talking about Australia and about the report on discrimination. [More…]
If we can clearly identify and reveal the problem of racial discrimination as it exists, we are bound to do something good about it. [More…]
I want to remind honourable senators that this Senate also has a responsibility to see that racial discrimination is not practised against any one of its members. [More…]
According to this report racial discrimination is apparently prevalent. [More…]
It is unfortunate that it happens to be the Aboriginal people who suffer the brunt of the discrimination. [More…]
In this report there is evidence that the Commissioner approached the Queensland authorities with complaints of blatant discrimination, restriction of freedom, restriction of rights, but the Queensland Government did not respond or reply. [More…]
-I also want to take the opportunity in this first reading debate on the Poultry Industry Levy Amend: ment Bill to talk about discrimination against individuals. [More…]
Senator Grimes early in his speech stated that the charges which have been placed by the police give rise to a feeling in the Greek community that there has been some singling out of Greek people for special treatment or some discrimination against them. [More…]
I have repeatedly expressed my concern that members of the Greek community may feel that there is some discrimination against them as a group of people or that in some way some damage has been done to their reputation. [More…]
I believe it would be accepted by all people in Australia that any social security system should operate without discrimination. [More…]
In my discussions with the Archbishop in February of this year I stressed to him my concern that there would be some people who may feel that discrimination had occurred. [More…]
The Opposition raised this matter because of clear discrimination and an attempt to make scapegoats of a section of the Australian community. [More…]
I raise the topic of discrimination. [More…]
The particular case I wish to discuss is the alleged discrimination against people of Greek origin in Darwin. [More…]
He gave examples of discrimination which I will give later. [More…]
I contacted the Greek consul and leading citizens of Greek origin, businessmen, et cetera, and put this question to them: ‘Do you see examples of discrimination against Australians of Greek origin in Darwin?’ [More…]
But the general feeling was that there was discrimination. [More…]
A stronger feeling was that a good number of Greeks in Darwin felt that there was discrimination. [More…]
I was given information which I find particularly interesting, and I quote the actual comments made: ‘In our experience when people say that there is discrimination there is a 90 per cent chance that they are right’. [More…]
Why do these people of Greek origin in Darwin think there is discrimination? [More…]
I think I have given enough examples to suggest that the Greek people believe that discrimination exists. [More…]
If we follow the comment made by the officer from the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, we ought to be concerned about this because it is possible that discrimination does exist. [More…]
I am not claiming that there is discrimination. [More…]
In all he has said we would agree that it would not be in the spirit of Australian community life that there should be discrimination against groups of people or individuals on account of their place of birth, background or ethnic group origin. [More…]
I am very concerned about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act which was a law that I as the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs introduced to stop discrimination against Aboriginals on settlements. [More…]
We must all be resolved that such discrimination and bigotry will never happen again . [More…]
Mr Porter later rejected a call to the Federal Government by South Australian Premier, Mr Des Corcoran asking it to stop racial discrimination in Queensland. [More…]
If it is discriminatory, will the Minister take steps to have the discrimination removed? [More…]
It is important for us during the course of this year to consider those areas in which there is discrimination against a child not only in this country but also in other parts of the world where there are not laws to protect children in the same way as there are to protect adults. [More…]
Protected against all forms of neglect, cruelty and exploitation; and to be protected from practices which may foster any form of discrimination. [More…]
In fact, discrimination takes place in all the States and Territories of Australia. [More…]
Concern is also expressed over Article 44 of the Constitution which lends itself to discrimination against those citizens who involuntarily bear dual citizenship. [More…]
We say that as a matter of reality and as a matter of fact violence in any form threatens the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth but engendering or engaging in activities encouraged to promote hostility or for that matter hatred- I take it that the Attorney-General has really borrowed the word ‘hatred’ from some racial discrimination legislation in some place or other- does not as we put it, fall within the purpose of this clause in promoting danger to the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth. [More…]
-The Racial Discrimination Act certainly will render some acts in this area unlawful, but it does not go so far as to render the incitement itself unlawful. [More…]
We must all be resolved that such discrimination and bigotry will never happen again. [More…]
But it is possible to draw from what Senator Grimes has said the concern which he has at this time of the year that there should be priority on expenditure for income security matters and that there should be no discrimination against those who are totally dependent on income of this kind. [More…]
Any measures affecting an individual who is justifiably suspected of or engaged in, activities prejudicial to the security ofthe State shall not bc deemed to bc discrimination, provided that the individual concerned shall have the right to appeal to a competent body established in accordance with national practice. [More…]
Convention 1 1 1 which concerns discrimination in respect of employment and occupation provides in Article 4, as Senator Elstob said, as follows: [More…]
Any measures affecting an individual who is justifiably suspected of, or engaged in, activities prejudicial to the security of the State shall not be deemed to be discrimination. [More…]
Racial Discrimination Act 1975- s. 4. [More…]
We submit that that is a form of discrimination. [More…]
During this session of Parliament- I am not referring to a General Business item at the moment- I raised a matter concerning discrimination which is occurring towards certain residents of Queensland. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take immediate steps to remove the discrimination directed at certain Queensland residents whose property is insured under the Defence Service Homes Insurance Scheme. [More…]
It may be that by the time the Budget session commences the Government will have removed this discrimination that I talk about in my notice of motion. [More…]
If that is so, it will be a satisfying conclusion to what has been a sorry state of affairs with regard to this discrimination which has occurred in Queensland. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt clearly argued that from his point of view those payments were not taxable and that therefore there was some discrimination against Aboriginals. [More…]
I suppose it could be said that there is an element of discrimination in this law and in the tax which is imposed. [More…]
Does this not represent a serious anomaly in our constitutional arrangements and a source of discrimination, real and potential, against the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
If the latter is the case how does the Government justify discrimination against the family where the wife and not the husband is the invalid pensioner? [More…]
There is outright discrimination by real estate agents who prefer to rent to ‘families’ rather than single women with children. [More…]
While I cannot confirm reports whether Vietnam intends to expel its entire ethnic Chinese population, the information available to me suggests that ethnic Chinese in Vietnam are being subject to a deliberate campaign of discrimination. [More…]
I turn to another aspect of political discrimination- compulsory job transfer. [More…]
I suppose it could be said that in Iran those who are not Moslems may eventually suffer discrimination. [More…]
Would the Minister not agree that this is a blatant discrimination and is against Government policy on employment? [More…]
I think that Williams is right in drawing to our attention the fact that one of the most insidious forms of sexual discrimination in Australia is that which is practised systematically in the secondary school system against female students. [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…]
In view of the obvious racial discrimination involved in the low wages currently being paid to the non-European employees of the British Phosphate Commission on Christmas Island, will the Minister recommend that the Federal Government become a party to the pending arbitration case involving these employees to ensure that they enjoy wage justice? [More…]
The continuous delay in the negotiation of this fare is outright discrimination against a sector of the Australian population. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt spoke about the discrimination which has become apparent in the negotiations on cheap air fares. [More…]
In 1976 the Government introduced a similar Bill and withdrew it because it allowed for redeployment and redundancies without appeal and it gave enormous scope for discrimination against individuals. [More…]
I would have thought that the Government would have realised that because this is so it should move a little gently rather than barging through with all the tact and lack of discrimination of a Sherman tank. [More…]
That the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should take immediate steps to remove the discrimination directed at certain Queensland residents whose property is insured under the Defence Service Homes Insurance scheme. [More…]
Of the many employment practices relating to discrimination that have become apparent, two are particularly worth recording because of their frequency and wide felt repercussions. [More…]
The Bill is the result of successful opposition to an earlier but very similar Bill which lapsed in 1977 because it provided for redeployment and redundancy without any right of appeal, and because it gave such wide opportunity for possible discrimination within the Public Service. [More…]
There is, of course, the perennial problem of the potential for personal discrimination on the grounds of religion or race or simply a personality conflict where a more senior officer does not like a particular employee. [More…]
By 1 973 discrimination on grounds of race had disappeared from immigration selection policy. [More…]
I refer to the extraordinary difference in attitudes towards people from different countries and the basis for this discrimination. [More…]
I have again reviewed this case but I am satisfied the decision to refuse Mr Grekos a visit visa was reasonably based on policy and there was no discrimination based on race or nationality. [More…]
People in the community are concerned at this sort of discrimination. [More…]
I stress at this stage that in both ZimbabweRhodesia and South-West Africa racial discrimination has been eliminated in its entirety. [More…]
-I ask the Attorney-General: Was a complaint received by the Commissioner for Community Relations from the Winchinam and Burdel groups of Aborigines in Queensland that the Queensland Government was acting in breach of the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act in refusing the transfer to such groups of land intended to be purchased? [More…]
Did the Commissioner, in accordance with section 22 of the Racial Discrimination Act, call a conference of representatives of all parties concerned to try to resolve the matter? [More…]
As Senator Cavanagh has suggested, a conference was called by the Commissioner for Community Relations on alleged racial discrimination by Ministers and, I think, two officials of the Queensland Government. [More…]
What are the savings to revenue of this callous discrimination against pensioners over 70 years of age? [More…]
the prohibition of unfair discrimination by oil companies between their lessee or licensed dealers; [More…]
There was discrimination against the great mass of the people of what was then Rhodesia. [More…]
Prominent Nationalists such as Dr Koornhof and Dr Marais -one of the leading Afrikaaner capitalists; a back bencher but one of the most prominent thinkers on the Afrikaaner Nationalist side of politics in South Africa- have said that apartheid has to be ended, that racial discrimination at all levels has to be destroyed. [More…]
Nevertheless, if the refusal of visas to Australians were an act of discrimination, the Government would deplore it. [More…]
Community Radio Federation Ltd has stated in its initial application for a licence that it is committed to discrimination in favour of the working class, including ethnic groups. [More…]
Active discrimination in terms of compensation is not the only problem. [More…]
All children without any exception whatsoever shall be entitled to these rights, without distinction or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, whether of himself or of his family. [More…]
The child shall be protected from practices which may foster racial, religious and any other form of discrimination. [More…]
Is there to be particular discrimination against those students in relation to these matters? [More…]
Many of them come from places where discrimination exists. [More…]
These factors include, and I quote, ‘low socio-economic status’, ‘a lack of motivation and purpose’, ‘stress and frustration resulting from cultural conflict’, ‘expression of group solidarity’, and the ‘expression of equality resulting from racial prejudice and discrimination’. [More…]
The Petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that Parents Without Partners (Queensland) begs to draw attention to the discrimination forced upon innocent children by virtue of their circumstances causing emotional trauma which must continue into their adulthood and we petition you to more closely examine the reasons for the breakdown of marriage in this Year ofthe Child. [More…]
As the honourable senator will be aware, the Australian Government does not believe that any distinction or discrimination should be made on the basis of race, colour or creed. [More…]
Is the real reason for this obvious discrimination by the Department of Transport a way of forcing the acceptance of a new air fare structure in the ASEAN region? [More…]
If that is correct, it is apparent that something should be done about the conditions under which State fishing authorities grant licences to vessels, in order to remove what appears to be discrimination against Australian fishing. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is this another example of our long and inglorious history of discrimination against my people? [More…]
I think that I can give a categorical assurance to the honourable senator that no slight or discrimination was intended in the omission to which he drew my attention in his question. [More…]
Then later this day the Senate is to debate the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
Community Relations since the implementation of the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]
As I said, if the legislation which the Government has foreshadowed had in fact been introduced and passed today that process of emasculation of the Racial Discrimination Act would, in a sense, have become complete. [More…]
The Commissioner, both at page 2 and again at chapter 7 of the report, refers in detail to the decision by the Queensland Government to defy the law of the land and to deny complainants under the Act the right to conciliation processes laid down under the existing Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Another interesting section of the report is the review of the international scene in which the Commissioner contrasts the action taken at home to combat racial discrimination with the Australian Government’s attitude overseas. [More…]
He notes, for example that the Australian report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at page 5 stated: [More…]
Section 10 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1 975 overrides any existing laws that may operate with a discriminatory effect. [More…]
The Commissioner says that in practice the Queensland Government has failed to recognise the existence of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act of 1 975 and, to all intents and purposes, the Federal Racial Discrimination Act of 1975. [More…]
Adequate provision for research and education on racial discrimination has also been stressed by Australian– [More…]
Australia is fundamentally opposed to and condemns all propaganda and organisations which are based on or profess ideas or theories of the superiority of one race or group of persons of one colour or ethnic origin, or which attempt to justify or promote racial hatred and discrimination in any form. [More…]
In practice, I have not been able to prevent the dissemination of racist literature, nor can a racial or ethnic group ( as distinct from a person) have any redress under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 against racially defamatory statements. [More…]
In that regard it is worth referring to the conclusions of the National President of the United Nations Association of Australia, Mr Richard Alston, on the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
I think a very interesting commentary on page 13 of the report points out that the Commissioner for Community Relations has not been consulted at all about the forthcoming amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
On page 12 of the report the Commissioner also reiterates the suggestions made in his 1977-78 report for the better operation and implementation of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
It is very interesting that those suggestions made on page 12 of the report as to how the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 might be improved in its operations have not been tackled by the Government. [More…]
Will the Minister agree that those figures evidence discrimination against women occupying senior positions in the Public Service? [More…]
The Government is very keen to ensure that there is no discrimination within the work force. [More…]
Does it accept that it amounts to a quite contemptuous disregard not only for the courts but also for the letter and the spirit of the relevant sex discrimination legislation? [More…]
Finally, will the Government consider imposing conditions on Ansett ‘s operating licences to ensure that it does not continue to engage in flagrant sex discrimination of this kind in the future? [More…]
There is no discrimination against Australians or Australian passport holders. [More…]
The fact that the Government has done one thing with respect to superphosphate and something quite different- almost contradictory- with respect to nitrogenous fertiliser, coupled with its importance to the State of Queensland, constitutes discrimination against Queensland by the Government. [More…]
However, if we believed that there was any discrimination, then we would approach the authorities. [More…]
In Miss Eather’s case the approaches made to the Indian authorities were not in relation to discrimination but rather about what appears to be an unusual delay in the proceedings in which she is involved. [More…]
I refer to a question asked yesterday by Mr Tom McVeigh in another place and alleging discrimination against Vietnamese workers by the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia in Brisbane. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate of what steps he can take under the Racial Discrimination Act to protect these workers against such discrimination? [More…]
-Will the AttorneyGeneral tell the Senate whether he has received from Amnesty International, the United Nations Associations, civil liberties organisations and other bodies submissions in connection with the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill which have not yet been debated in the Senate? [More…]
We wish to make a complaint under the Racial Discrimination Act, 1975. [More…]
We think that forcing Stan to leave Fitzroy is discrimination because it will make things harder for we Aborigines. [More…]
The thrust of this legislation is discrimination against intending migrants, particularly poor and nonEnglishspeaking migrants. [More…]
We have had reports from the Government that there is a desire in Australia generally to pursue a policy of non-discrimination in the admission of migrants, but this sort of legislation containing these sorts of charges discriminates on the grounds of the ability to speak English and, of necessity, on the grounds of race. [More…]
If these charges are inflexible and if the Minister or the Department does not have the ability not to apply the charges, we will have discrimination against the not so well educated and nonEnglishspeaking migrants, whether they come from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America or anywhere else. [More…]
If that is the situation we believe that it is a further discrimination in the legislation. [More…]
That is not correct since the selection criteria, the variations in the selection criteria and the ability to expand this scheme and the various schemes of reciprocal scholarships will in fact mean that the emphasis will be upon the selection of people of merit rather than the selection procedures which have been highly discriminatory in countries of origin in the past, as one can see from the practices involving the Malaysian Government in the way in which it has practised quite a considerable form of discrimination against students it trains in its own universities, and in the racial composition of that group of students who study overseas. [More…]
Yet is has been made quite clear in ministerial statements that a student who believes that if he is required to return to his home country he will be subject to some form of political persecution and discrimination has the same rights to apply to the Committee on the Determination of Refugee Status to have his case considered and to be one of the exceptions that would be made. [More…]
On the other hand, if they did come from a wealthy family there would still be some discrimination. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General tell the Senate whether he has received from Amnesty International, the United Nations Associations, civil liberties organisations and other bodies submissions in connection with the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill which have not yet been debated in the Senate? [More…]
The Status of Soviet Jewry- 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…]
Such antisemitism is an illegal manifestation of religious and racist discrimination both by international and Soviet law. [More…]
Perhaps the most succinct editorial comment on the legislation, taking into account both the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill however came from the Canberra Times on 29 September, when the following statement was made: [More…]
One interesting and important clause in the Bill is clause 9 (2) which recognises the necessity, in certain circumstances, for affirmative action or benign discrimination; the clause in question provides that an enactment or practice should not be regarded as offensive to human rights if it is: . [More…]
It is true that in a number of areas like racial discrimination and also the protection of privacy effective investigative and conciliatory machinery can be as important in practice and perhaps even more important than the creation of formal rights enforceable through the courts. [More…]
Of course the Bill does not give specific legislative approval to the ratification of the Covenant as did by way of contrast the Radial Discrimination Act 1975 in relation to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. [More…]
Let me now turn to the other side of the coin, the other piece of legislation, the companion piece of legislation that has been introduced, the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
He started with a piece of legislation which had been emasculated by the Liberal and National Country Parties in this Senate by removing from it provisions or rewriting provisions so as to make the proof of discrimination more difficult, so as to remove from the Commissioner his power of compulsory evidence gathering, by removing from the Commission his power to initiate litigation. [More…]
Against that background, let us look and see what the Government is trying to do to the Community Relations Commission in this Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
The second criticism that the Opposition has about this legislation is that the various functions which are vested in the Community Relations Commissioner by section 20 of the Racial Discrimination Act, namely investigation and settlement of complaints, promotion of compliance with the Act and general research and education to combat racial discrimination, are now all given specifically to the new Commission. [More…]
Thirdly, although it appears on the face of the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill that there is nothing in it to directly stop complaints of racial discrimination wherever arising, including Queensland, being channeled directly to Mr Grassby, as they have been in the past, the Opposition believes that one must take into account the potential effect of clause 1 1 (1) (b) of the Human Rights Commission Bill, which has an effect, and which would make it possible for the Commonwealth to delegate completely to a State any function relating to the promotion of the observance of human rights, ‘including functions of the Commission’. [More…]
One cannot forbear from commenting that continued pressure of the kind that has so far been so successfully exerted in the past, for example, in relation to Aurukun and Mornington Island, may well result in the Commonwealth handing back to States like Queensland the domestic enforcement of all or part of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
The fourth general matter that I wish to raise about the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill is that Mr Grassby ‘s staff is to be transferred lock, stock and barrel to the new Commission, leaving him no powers at all of hiring, firing or deployment. [More…]
That is the attitude of the Opposition to this Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1 979. [More…]
There has been a proliferation of such machinery at both Federal and State levels in recent years, in the areas especially of racial and sexual discrimination- if Senator Maunsell can bring himself for a moment to concentrate on concepts which will be entirely unfamiliar to him, I expect- and also in the area of privacy. [More…]
I might add that similarly to try, as the Government apparently intends doing, to dismantle the national network of employment discrimination committees, those tripartite bodies of employers, unions and government which have engaged very successfully in the - [More…]
That is a matter on which the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Confederation of Australian Industry and the Chairman of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, Dr Colin Hughes, remain quite unpersuaded. [More…]
Given the fact that the responsibility for these communities at the moment is still tenuously within the Ministry of Employment, and possibly within the area of industrial relations- there seems to be some kind of tug of war going on in that particular area- those Ministers who have the most immediate responsibility for the administration of that particular informal anti-discrimination operation have not made the position at all clear. [More…]
In addition to the courts, I believe that it is appropriate and desirable that there should be enforcement mechanisms and enforcement machinery of an investigative, conciliatory kind, with which we have become familiar in the work of Mr Grassby, the Community Relations Commission, the various States’ sexual discrimination and equal opportunity commissions and the Privacy Committee in New South Wales. [More…]
It is not a substitute for other more specific, more piecemeal solutions to particular human rights problems in the privacy area, the sexual and racial discrimination area, the criminal investigation area and other areas as well. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, which are connected pieces of legislation, have been in gestation for quite a long time. [More…]
I think that we can make alterations to the Human Rights Commission Bill which will turn the proposed Commission into an organisation which can be effective, but I do not see any way in which we can deal with the other Bill, the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, which has been criticised so vehemently by Senator Evans this afternoon. [More…]
Last year the Australian Government submitted to the World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination a national report which stated that action taken in this country to combat racial discrimination had been based on five principles. [More…]
Racial discrimination should be made unlawful by specific legislation; [More…]
Formal administrative machinery should be established for the investigation of racial discrimination on a systematic basis and to attempt to settle issues involving discrimination by conciliation; [More…]
A comprehensive framework of legally enforceable remedies should be created to provide redress against racial discrimination where conciliation fails. [More…]
I do not believe that we have adequately enforced that racial discrimination covenant as yet. [More…]
By Senator Alan Missen on the terms of the 1979 Human Rights Commission Bill and Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill (As introduced in the Senate on 25 September 1 979) [More…]
Unlike the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, the Bill does not formally approve ratification of the Covenant although the Government has expressed its desire for early ratification. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill is a complementary Bill which will transfer the functions, now performed by the Commissioner for Community Relations (Dr [More…]
But individuals who may breach human rights (an employer, a Union or a publican for example) may be determined on a course of discrimination and in no way susceptible to public or governmental pressure. [More…]
Contrast this Bill with the Racial Discrimination Act, which provides various offences which may be prosecuted to ensure compliance with the ‘International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination’, which we ratified in 1973. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill ( 1979) [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Act 197S was passed with the support of the ALP Government and the Liberal-Country [More…]
The Commissioner for Community Relations, who already has specific responsibilities in the area of racial discrimination, is not named as a Human Rights Commissioner and it is clear to me that he will not be appointed to such a position. [More…]
There is indeed a case for amalgamating the operations concerning racial discrimination with other human rights (as the Galbally Report recommends), but not by downgrading the existing working operations of the Racial Discrimination Act and debarring its Commissioner from the policy determinations of the Commission. [More…]
Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Bearing in mind the possibility of racial discrimination occurring in remote areas of the country, the contrasting power of delegation is significant. [More…]
It will be noted that the powers over racial discrimination now being transferred to the Commission are not ‘toothless’ but have been developed with limited facilities yet with overall success. [More…]
No action should be taken, either by reason of personal animosities or for other reasons, to weaken the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, which was an all-party endorsement by the Commonwealth Parliament of an International Convention to control racial discrimination. [More…]
I turn now to the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill because that is a Bill which amalgamates the operations which have been effectively going on for a number of years under [More…]
The weaker Commission will accumulate the greater powers which, at the moment, the Racial Discrimination Commissioner has. [More…]
The Committee expresses its concern that the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, which are currently before Federal Parliament, would reduce the chance for such activities as those in Queensland to be documented and brought to the attention of the public. [More…]
Assurances have been given that this supervision will be of a general kind and that he will continue to deal with most if not all complaints under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Before the suspension of sitting, I was dealing with what are in my opinion defects in the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
That is that there is a possibility of a constitutional challenge to the whole operation of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
It is known that certain citizens- the Winchinam group from Aurukun- have indeed sought legal aid from the Attorney-General so that they can pursue their claims that may ultimately lead to a challenge from the Queensland Government to the validity of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
This is no time for us to make a major change in the Racial Discrimination Act when a challenge is about to be launched which will determine whether the Racial Discrimination Act is valid. [More…]
It is indeed an extraordinary situation where the Government of Queensland openly disputes the validity of the Racial Discrimination Aa of 1 975 and the Aboriginal Land Fund Act of 1 974. [More…]
He of course there seeks among other things the support of the Commonwealth Government in defending the challenge- in other words, in defending the right of the Commonwealth to have taken the action under the International Convention and to have proclaimed and to have operated the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
I take a fundamental view in regard to the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
I believe that the operations of the Racial Discrimination Act since have been very good. [More…]
I therefore believe that the second Bill which is before us tonight, the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, will weaken the operation of the present Act. [More…]
I am not satisfied with the amount of expenditure on and the amount of staff employed in the area of racial discrimination. [More…]
I am certainly not satisfied that it is proposed to have sufficient staff to cover the whole operation of the Human Rights Commission plus the area of racial discrimination, and that the staff will in any way be even as adequate as is presently existent for the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
His two deputies are on loan from other Government departments, and all matters pertaining to racial discrimination are handled by a skeletal staff: eight in the Canberra office and one representative in Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]
The Commissioner has no representative in Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory, where some of the worst instances of racial discrimination have been alleged. [More…]
Neither has a Community Relations Council been set up in accordance with Part V of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
In view of the weaknesses of the Act, the limited scope allowed the Commissioner for Community Relations, the failure to establish either a Community Relations Office or Council on a statutory basis, and the reality of racial discrimination in Australia, there are strong grounds for asking whether the Australian Government is serious in its commitment to fight for racial equality. [More…]
We must take some action by throwing out this Bill to ensure that we do not damage the operation against racial discrimination in this country. [More…]
We will lose the real achievements which we made against racial discrimination if we merely submerge operations of the Commissioner for Community Relations in the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
I will oppose the passage of the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill because I believe it is contrary to what I have fought for in this Parliament and what I have voted for in this Parliament. [More…]
The Human Rights Commission Bill 1979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1979 are being debated together. [More…]
We understand that the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill will be before the Senate in the immediate future. [More…]
Whilst recognising the neatness of bringing all the human rights mechanisms under one Commission, we submit that these Bills, if passed, will make almost totally ineffective the operation of the Racial Discrimination Act (1975). [More…]
Here I want to interpolate to say that it is amazing that the Australian Government firstly, should have introduced amendments to the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1979, and, secondly, should have introduced the Human Rights Commission Bill 1979 at this particular point in our history. [More…]
When the community relations organisation was set up, it was set up with the specific task of eliminating racial discrimination in Australia so far as it was humanly possible to do so. [More…]
The functions of the Commission will be limited to the investigation of complaints of racial discrimination. [More…]
That might be appropriate there, but it is not appropriate in this country, where we are trying to get rid of racial discrimination. [More…]
Our Commission has applauded the efforts of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Foreign Affairs in action against racial discrimination in Africa recently. [More…]
But neighbouring peoples rightly ask us, ‘What is your government doing about racial discrimination in Australia?’ [More…]
We do not want to have to reply that our government has emasculated the only effective piece of racial discrimination legislation that we had. [More…]
We submit that for the Parliament to proceed to pass the Human Rights Commission Bill while amending the Racial Discrimination Act in the way proposed, will serve to prove to the world that the Human Rights Commission Bill is just a piece of window dressing. [More…]
The Prime Minister of this country wants to be able to parade on the stages of Africa and in forums around the United Nations and say that there is no racial discrimination in our country. [More…]
What actually happens while he is putting up this facade of political window-dressing in these areas is that racial discrimination in this country, because of the amendments in the one case and the new Bill in the second case, will be aggravated. [More…]
If the amendments contained in this Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill are carried, the Commissioner for Community Relations will only be able to read these types of things and pass them on to the too hard to answer file because he will have no authority. [More…]
Senator Keeffe is addressing himself to the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, which is being discussed. [More…]
It was put out by the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations and it refers in particular, naturally, to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and what this Bill seeks to do to that Act. [More…]
The constitutional validity of the present Racial Discrimination Act is under challenge. [More…]
Its validity cannot be resolved by superior Courts unless an aggrieved party initiates action under the Racial Discrimination Act 197S. [More…]
You might recall, Mr Acting Deputy President, that two nights ago in this chamber I referred to a letter which had been written by Mr Porter, the Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Affairs in Queensland, in which he made some very cynical remarks about the Racial Discrimination Act 1 975 without actually naming the Act. [More…]
I submit most respectfully, Mr Acting Deputy President, that if Mr Porter, Sir Charles Court or anybody else- even the other Mr Everingham- want to test the Racial Discrimination Act 1 975 they will find that it will stand up to a High Court challenge also. [More…]
People suffering discrimination need the support of an independent Government agency. [More…]
The working paper then refers to the four annual reports of the Commissioner under the heading ‘The reality of racial discrimination’. [More…]
I think it was the 1 978 report which referred in particular to the many acts of discrimination which are suffered by Aborigines and other minority groups in Queensland. [More…]
Racial prejudice and discrimination particularly affect the lives of the Aborigines and other coloured groups but ethnic groups also are victims. [More…]
Such prejudice and discrimination affects the daily lives of people in such areas as: [More…]
There are numerous examples of that which can be documented whenever necessary and which show that there has been total discrimination in each of these areas. [More…]
The report goes on to say that there has been discrimination in employment, the provision of goods and services, the availability of accommodation, freedom of association and the use of facilities available to the public. [More…]
The constitutional validity of the Racial Discrimination Act 197S has been questioned since it became law on 31 October 197S. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Act applies equally to all residents of Australia and her external territories. [More…]
I rise to address my remarks to the Human Rights Commission Bill and, to a much lesser extent, the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
They are to be found in section 80, which provides for jury trials; section 116, which prevents the Commonwealth from enacting laws establishing religion; and section 1 1 7, which provides basically that citizens in any State should not be subject to any disqualification or discrimination which would not be equally applicable to them were they subjects of the Queen resident in such other State. [More…]
Those rights can be abrogated provided that such measures are not inconsistent with other obligations under international law and do not involve discrimination solely on the ground of race, colour, sex, language or social origin. [More…]
I wonder whether the Government will have the courage also to ratify the optional protocol which it seems to me would allow individuals to appeal to the human rights committee set up as a consequence of Part IV of the principal Covenant in order to receive complaints from individuals about acts of discrimination by State parties which take place as far as they are concerned. [More…]
It has no more important role than the role that it plays in debating legislation like human rights and racial discrimination legislation. [More…]
Australia is not in a position to make precise judgments about the condition of the Hungarian people in Romania, although we would very much hope that as a minority group they suffer no discrimination. [More…]
-In my notable speech to the Senate last Thursday on the Human Rights Commission Bill 1979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1979-1 will be concluding my speech with only a few short remarks- I pointed out the basis of my grave misgivings concerning the Government’s good faith even in presenting this human rights legislation to this Parliament. [More…]
I join the debate on the Human Rights Commission Bill 1 979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1979. [More…]
The Government will perhaps accomplish with the Bill in its present form another toothless tiger such as the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
In most of these cases, particularly where racial discrimination or breaches of human rights occur, it is the most unfortunate people, economically, educationally and in other ways, who would not have the wherewithal to be able to carry out that kind of prosecution. [More…]
I believe that the areas which will fall within the province of the Commonwealth will be negligible, as presently State laws cover most of the areas in which breaches of human rights and discrimination occur. [More…]
That would be rather ludicrous because it is under State laws, particularly in my State, that most of the discrimination against Aboriginal people occurs. [More…]
I believe that such a provision is completely unacceptable if we are to have fair dinkum legislation in relation to human rights and racial discrimination. [More…]
All he wants to do is to be free from that kind of attitude, that kind of discrimination and that kind of oppression. [More…]
I believe that in both these pieces of legislation there should be provision for prosecutions for breaches of human rights, regardless of the kind of discrimination there may be against a person or persons. [More…]
I have said time and time again that in relation to stamping out discrimination the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 has always seemed to me to be a toothless tiger as I have always felt that in most instances discrimination is a state of mind, an inherent belief, which can be eliminated only by reason, greater knowledge, tolerance and understanding. [More…]
I am confining most of my remarks to the racial discrimination aspects of these two Bills. [More…]
I say that because I disagree with the amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act which will bring the Commissioner for Community Relations under the new Commission. [More…]
He will have no way of doing things on his own behalf, as he has been doing by travelling around the country and setting up in different towns voluntary organisations of groups of people who are interested in looking into acts of racial discrimination. [More…]
The Senate, in debating the issues of racial discrimination and human rights, is really beginning to concern itself about democracy and about the interpretation of democracy as it is applied. [More…]
The demand for legislation to deal with racial discrimination and human rights is synonymous with demands that are being made in many countries in the world. [More…]
That is why earlier I referred to the discrimination that existed and the power that, because of the way in which our society is structured, flowed from that discrimination. [More…]
There is a need to recognise the deficiencies that exist in the society and the need for some public debate, some legislative action, and some better understanding within the community about the power disposition, the power discrimination and the inequality that that brings to the average person in the Australian community. [More…]
I am not suggesting that Australia is any different from any other country, because I think what we have witnessed in recent times is this tremendous world movement towards human rights and against discrimination, and the struggle of the Third World countries to be recognised in the same way as other countries, the realisation that the superpowers should not have the sort of powers that they have to make decisions over life and death, peace and war. [More…]
They put it to Senator Murphy and me that we should come down on a Friday night to have a look at what happens in the pubs around Redfern, and that they should show us exactly how the law operates in terms of discrimination against the human rights of blacks. [More…]
Of course, we know that this form of discrimination which takes place within the States themselves has been a running sore for a considerable number of years. [More…]
It is a form of discrimination, and yet this legislation does nothing to overcome the obstinacy and the refusal of State governments to come into line on the question of human rights and against racial discrimination. [More…]
So while the Opposition recognises the tentative step that this Government has taken in this legislation, we nevertheless feel that it is purely a first step in a very long march towards an understanding of human rights and ending racial discrimination. [More…]
Complaints have come from civil liberty groups, employer groups, church groups, the United Nations Association of Australia, trade unions, a number of important citizens in our community and people in the legal fraternity who know what discrimination means because they have to deal with the rough side of discrimination almost every day in the law courts. [More…]
It is under State laws that discrimination finds its reflection. [More…]
It is under State laws that Aborigines are discriminated against and it is under State laws that there is discrimination against women. [More…]
We have not moved that far in terms of evolution and technological change when we still have areas of discrimination within society. [More…]
We all know, if we know anything of the way officialdom has dealt with the problems of Aborigines in the back-blocks of Australia, that the person at the level of making the decision is the one who often practices the discrimination. [More…]
If one has a problem of discrimination, it has to be examined to see why that power is exerted in such a way to create the act of discrimination. [More…]
Discrimination is created because it is inherent in the very system in which we live. [More…]
To suggest that we should enact legislation at the Commonwealth level without following it through right down the line in a way that makes the practising of discrimination and denial of human rights an offence is to forsake our responsibilities. [More…]
The theories of democracy and the way democracy operates ought to be examined in the light of the thousands and thousands of cases of discrimination that appear. [More…]
That will give some nebulous group or person the opportunity to make it even more difficult for the ordinary citizen to become involved in an inquiry when he or she suffers from discrimination. [More…]
To say that it is more than that would be to gild the lily very considerably because this legislation will not put an end to racial discrimination. [More…]
We have an obligation to define the areas of discrimination and the areas in which human rights are threatened and prejudiced as a result of the way our society operates. [More…]
Apart from the Attorney-General (Senator Durack), I am the eighth senator to speak- there have been four speakers from the Opposition side and four from the Government benches- and so far everyone except the Attorney-General has criticised the Human Rights Commission Bill 1 979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1 979. [More…]
The cognate Bill, the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, can be seen as a comment on the thinking behind the Human Rights Commission Bill. [More…]
Under the Racial Discrimination [More…]
The Australian Democrats join Senator Missen in rejecting the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill unless it is substantially altered. [More…]
The thing that makes me sad as I speak on this Bill is that the emasculation of the Racial Discrimination Act will do nothing to fight the garbage, the hatred, that is being put out by these twisted people. [More…]
We agree that the Human Rights Commission Bill is edentulous and that the amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act will emasculate it. [More…]
The second was the Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination in 1963. [More…]
I rise to support the Human Rights Commision Bill 1 979 and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill 1 979. [More…]
It has been a classic phenomenon in the American experience that the worst breaches of human rights, particularly in the racial discrimination area, were in the State area in the South. [More…]
The precedent for this action is very obviously the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975 when precisely the same clause was carried. [More…]
It is acknowledged by the Opposition, as it was by Senator Missen, that a provision of this kind, albeit that it does appear in the Racial Discrimination Act, is not technically necessary. [More…]
I believe the merit of Senator Missen ‘s proposal, which is in similar terms to the proposal put forward by the Labor Party and endorsed by the Australian Democrats, is that it may, along with the similar clauses in the Racial Discrimination Act and the proposed similar clause in former Senator Murphy’s Bill on Human rights, build up a practice whereby this Parliament is involved in the process of telling the international community that we will be bound in some particular manner. [More…]
The only other matter I wish to mention relates to the proposed amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
They will preserve the powers of the Commissioner for Community Relations in relation to investigations of complaints about racial discrimination. [More…]
As I said, this proposal to amend the Racial Discrimination Act is designed simply to rationalise the machinery so that, when the proposed Commonwealth institution, which will have an overriding position in relation to human rights, is established, it will have that power in relation to the Racial Discrimination Act and in relation to other specific Acts in that area which might be passed by the Parliament. [More…]
If we have a commissioner for racial discrimination on the Commission, people will want various other specialist areas to be represented specifically also. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General tell the Senate whether he has received from Amnesty International, the United Nations Associations, civil liberties organisations and other bodies submissions in connection with the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill which have not yet been debated in the Senate? [More…]
I have received representations from many organisations, including Amnesty International and the United Nations Association of Australia, concerning the Human Rights Commission Bill 1977 and also the current Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
Will the Government consider the redress of this serious discrimination against self-employed small business men in the forthcoming Budget? [More…]
If discrimination did occur we would deplore it, but we have no clear evidence of it at this moment. [More…]
Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that that Bill has the effect of incorporating the racial discrimination administration under Mr Grassby in the operations of the Human Rights Commission but does not make him a commissioner of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The effect of that is that one member of the Commission, which is to consist of a chairman, a deputy chairman and not less than five nor more than nine other members, would already have been already identified as the person who holds the rank and office, under the Racial Discrimination Act, of Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
This has been a proved and tried method under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Under the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill which has yet to be discussed in detail, Mr Grassby is to be under the direction of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Under the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, no opportunity will be presented for him to have a separate staff, but he would be in a position to argue the need for such staff if he were a commissioner. [More…]
It meets the requirement that we should not in any way turn the racial discrimination administration into a defective organisation; that we should not create a situation in which there will be a clash between the Human Rights Commission and the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
For these reasons I have moved this amendment, which I regard as extremely important to the continuing operation of racial discrimination oversight and the most effective working of the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
It is a matter for great regret that the vote to reject the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill was lost last night only by one vote, as a result of the indavertent non-appearance in the chamber, in time, of Senator Harradine. [More…]
He has made it clear that he does not include within the range of his ambitions the employment discrimination committees which now operate at the national level and at every State level. [More…]
It is obvious that a consideration of this kind is at best a barely veiled rationalisation of the Government’s real reason; that is, it finds Mr Grassby, the present Commissioner, a political embarrassment not because of his previous party affiliations but because of the way he so relentlessly exposed the deficiency of governmental activity both at the State and Federal levels in protecting our citizens against racial discrimination. [More…]
As I said in my speech at the second reading stage, it is no accident that in the corridors of this Parliament back bench Liberal members are referring to the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill as the Get Grassby Bill’, because that is what it is about. [More…]
Under the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, which had its second reading last night, the various powers vested in the Commissioner are now to be taken from him and formally vested in the Commission. [More…]
It is further obvious from the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill that Mr Grassby will no longer have the right or the duty to prepare and deliver reports to the Parliament. [More…]
It has sought to pretend and claim to the community at large that nothing is changing, that something is being added to the present structure for the protection of human rights, but that nothing is being taken away and that it is business as usual as far as the Racial Discrimination Act and Mr Grassby are concerned. [More…]
It seems ludicrous to me that we are setting up the Human Rights Commission and that part and parcel of that Commission will be the Racial Discrimination Act under which the person holding the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations is to work. [More…]
I am giving my total support to this amendment because I believe it is necessary, if we are to have Human Rights Commission and if we are to maintain the Racial Discrimination Act and the Office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, that the Commissioner have a vital role to play on that Commission. [More…]
If the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill are passed, that valuable body of experience, going back many years, will be embodied only in the person of the Commissioner. [More…]
However, if somebody else were to be appointed to that position, I must say that I think that person, if he were a person of great integrity and great capacity, probably would want to think twice about taking a position which potentially was of such subservience as these Bills, the Human Rights Commission Bill and the Racial Discrimination Amendment Bill, would reduce it to. [More…]
I believe that the support which both sides of the Parliament gave to the original Racial Discrimination Act indicates that. [More…]
I believe that the support given to it in its eventual form by distinguished former Liberal senators, such as the late Ivor Greenwood, and the way in which he linked the Racial Discrimination Act with the first statutory reference to the International Covenant, indicate the seriousness with which honourable senators on this side of the Parliament have regarded the problems of racial discrimination. [More…]
It has been stressed each year that lack of resources in personnel and finance have made it impossible to make the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and its provisions widely known and more readily accessible. [More…]
As the Aboriginal population of Australia becomes progressively more and more educated and articulate it will find more and more that it is subject to acts of discrimination and that it is the object of positive prejudice by other Australian citizens and by governments. [More…]
Appendix B on page 139 of the Commissioner’s report shows that 238 of the 993 complaints that he dealt with last yearoverwhelmingly the largest number; in fact twice as large as any other individual group singled out- concerned complaints of discrimination against Aboriginals. [More…]
The Commissioner, at chapter 9 of his report, which is headed Discrimination in Employment’, says: [More…]
If honourable senators look at the figures in Appendix B as to why the Polish communities, for instance, should be singled out for discrimination they will see the extent to which that is economically based. [More…]
I direct the attention of honourable senators to those criticisms- the criticism that the Commissioner is placed under the control of the Human Rights Commission, that complaints will not be as easily handled by the Commissioner in the future, that he will be subject to directions that his access to staff will be reduced, that his report to Parliament will disappear and that his role in promoting an understanding and a public awareness of racial discrimination matters will also disappear. [More…]
He is aware, this Government is aware and the Labor Government was aware of the necessity to ensure that racial discrimination in Australia is treated as the sort of community disease that it is and that actions are taken in order to prevent the spread of the disease and to excise the cancer of the disease whenever that is possible. [More…]
It is in this period that the Government and the Parliament have to accept the responsibility of providing a framework so that those affected by the discrimination that is taking place every day in every facet of our society can ventilate their complaints and experiences in a way that they feel will be understood and in a way that makes them feel part of the Australian community. [More…]
He must be capable of seeking out and encouraging people discriminated against to believe that they have an avenue by which they can ventilate their problems and the acts of discrimination. [More…]
But it is in these areas where much of the discrimination, based upon the whole historical development of our country takes place. [More…]
My father can tell me of countless instances of discrimination, cruelty and barbarism on the part of the people at the turn of the century and right up to World War I. [More…]
In the period that lies ahead, as indeed in the period that we are talking about, that experience, that understanding, that safety valve which are available there are at the moment to those disadvantaged people in our community, should be available to those who are suffering discrimination; they should have the opportunity of appealing to this person. [More…]
It so happens that at the moment we do have a Commissioner for Community Relations appointed under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
Although the Government certainly has not made any decisions in relation to this matter there may well be other legislation in the discrimination area by which persons could be appointed to carry out those functions. [More…]
There certainly are a vast number of different interest groups involved in the area in which this Commission will be concerned and not just in the area of discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, religion or handicaps. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that if the Government was considering these questions afresh and was entirely able to develop its own blueprint for a Human Rights Commission and a human rights approach, it would be doubtful whether it would actually create a statutory position of a commissioner of human relations as has been created by the Labor Government under the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
I think that the indications from the Racial Discrimination Bill are that we will assign the Act functions to the Human Rights Commission. [More…]
The proposed amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act give an indication of the thinking that I have expressed. [More…]
For a Minister of the Crown to find it degrading to mix with Aborigines who are, after all, his voters and constituents seems to me to be related to the problems we were discussing yesterday on the racial discrimination and human rights legislation. [More…]
Proposed new section 32a provides that admission of a person to, or enrolment of a person at, the university as a student shall not be refused on the grounds that he has refused or failed to make application to become a member of an organisation of students, or of students and other persons; that his position at the University shall not be terminated or suspended on that ground; and that no discrimination based on the failure to become a member, or termination of membership, of an organisation of students shall be allowed to interfere with his admission to or continuation in any course of study or instruction, the conferring of a degree, diploma or certificate of the University or the enjoyment of any benefit, advantage or privilege in relation to the University. [More…]
As you will probably appreciate, Mr President, there is discrimination in respect of salaries and allowances for officers of the Parliament, particularly as they relate to the Senate. [More…]
Of course, another area of discrimination in this legislation concerns the role of the Whips of the Senate. [More…]
This discrimination is unforgivable. [More…]
As has been indicated, we find discrimination in respect of the Senate Whips travelling to Canberra during non-sitting periods to carry out some of their responsibilities. [More…]
Conciliation, a useful technique in the discrimination context, is an inadequate tool to deal with rights such as those of an accused person on arrest, or matters such as the death penalty, to name but two of the matters covered by the Covenant. [More…]
My views on that matter were reinforced in a document which I received today, which was prepared by the office of the Commisioner for Community Relations under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. [More…]
It is entitled: ‘Queensland Aboriginal Reserves Policies, Administration and Discrimination’. [More…]
Whilst on the face of it this is a somewhat innocuous provision, perhaps even a convenient one, it has given rise to a good deal of concern, particularly in the context of the administration of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
This clause, if applied literally, would enable the new Commission to divest itself of the administration of the Racial Discrimination Act and to vest that in the Queensland Government. [More…]
In other words, the Commonwealth could hand back to the Queensland Government the administration of the Racial Discrimination Act. [More…]
My appeal to you is to speak up for the handicapped and to expose the deep discrimination exercised against this already underprivileged group in the Australian community. [More…]
Frankly, I want to know why there is discrimination or why, prima facie, there appears to be discrimination by the Department of Social Security against the residents of New South Wales who have appealed to the Social Security Appeals Tribunal, and have had there appeals considered by that Tribunal. [More…]
In particular, I hope that the Government will address itself to the issue of sex discrimination legislation. [More…]
Commonwealth sex discrimination legislation should cover both direct and indirect discrimination in the areas of employment, education, accommodation, access to goods, services and facilities, credit, insurance and superannuation, sport, recreation and clubs, the Defence Forces and Government contracts, and should apply to the Australian Capital Territory and to Government administration. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government should act quickly to enact the strongest possible sex discrimination legislation consistent with its constitutional powers and in the spirit of the recommendations developed by the Council’s National Conference on proposed Commonwealth sex discrimination legislation. [More…]
I would simply say that the Human Rights Commission legislation which is being enacted in this place at this time goes no way at all towards the recommendation for sex discrimination legislation outlined in the report. [More…]
I express the hope that at the earliest opportunity in the meeting of the Parliament after Christmas we will have before us sex discrimination legislation as outlined in the first annual report of the National Women’s Advisory Council. [More…]
Sometimes discrimination was oven- Aborigines had to be granted citizen rights before they could enrol. [More…]
The absence of overt legislative discrimination, though a pre-requisite to equality of opportunity to vote, does not of itself guarantee equal opportunity. [More…]
Part II section 10 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, guarantees right to equality before the law. [More…]
And I have been receiving letters from a commissioner (he could not remember the name) charging me with racial discrimination’. [More…]
It is also an enforcement procedure which is entirely in accordance with the existing provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act which this Government has not been minded to oppose or to seek to amend. [More…]
Rather than engage in any kind of drastic surgery which the Government is unlikely to accept, given its track record in these matters, I simply ask the Government to accept the amendment in these terms because these are terms which are exactly paralleled in the Racial Discrimination Act, an Act which the Government supported when in Opposition in 1975, which it has done nothing to amend subsequently and which it ought to be able to accept as a matter of policy and principle. [More…]
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When asked about the imminent disappearance of the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations, the Minister replied: ‘The Federal Government has decided to create a Commission for Human Rights, and one of the Commissioners of this body will be responsible for watching out for racial discrimination. [More…]
Nevertheless if the refusal of visas to Australians were an act of discrimination, the Government would deplore it. [More…]
Has the International Olympic Committee violated its own rules by agreeing to hold the Games in a country where there exists racial, national, political and religious discrimination. [More…]
Has the Hungarian ethnic minority in Romania been subjected to various forms of discrimination and harassment, including attempts to wipe out its distinctive language and culture; if so, what action is proposed by the Minister to protest to the Romanian Government over this matter. [More…]
Australia is not in the best position to make precise judgements about the condition of the Hungarian people of Romania, although the Government would very much hope that they do not suffer discrimination because they are a minority group. [More…]
The role of women in the Australian Public Service and the removal of any discrimination are under constant attention by the Public Service Board. [More…]
It investigates any complaints by women of discrimination because of their sex or marital status when seeking employment, or in employment, in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
as the International Year for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination will the Government make an early statement on whether it will actively support this decision, which would be in line with Australia’s subscription to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 said that I thought the question should properly be answered by the Minister for External Affairs, who has provided the following answer: [More…]
I am sure that Senator Coleman and all other honourable senators will be delighted to learn that in fact there is no discrimination between women and men veterans of the Australian forces and that all are entitled to the same benefits in the same circumstances. [More…]
Possibly it could be argued that there is some discrimination against men insofar as a male dependant of a deceased female veteran does not receive the same benefits, not as high benefits, as a female dependant of a deceased male veteran. [More…]
Accordingly, conduct of the kind reported would be made unlawful by those provisions of the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]