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

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science say whether any scientific studies will be made into the possible effects of the present oil spill from the ‘Oceanic Grandeur’? [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science inform the Senate, or obtain for the Senate, the number of Colombo Plan and private overseas students in Australia? [More…]

• -I direct to the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science a question which follows upon one I asked yesterday. [More…]

• It will be understood that the control of this vessel is the responsibility of the Department of Shipping and Transport but the Minister for Education and Science has been in consultation with the Minister for Shipping and Transport with a view to ascertaining whether or not the experience could be made the subject of an investigation from the point of view of scientific research.I can inform the honourable senator that two scientists of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization are leaving today to visit the area and they will report upon the practicability of this proposal. [More…]

• I wish to inform the honourable senator that no date has been set for the next meeting of State Ministers concerned with this matter with the Federal Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• In view of the multitude of questions, both oral and written, directed at the Minister for Education and Science this session on fauna conservation, can he give the date of the next meeting of State Ministers involved with this matter, since he would be the convenor of such a meeting? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• That leave bc given to bring in a Bill for an Act to alter the Constitution by empowering the Parliament to make laws with respect to tertiary education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Knowing the Minister’s willingness to encourage conciliation and arbitration in the settlement of differences of opinion between persons, I ask: Will the Minister whose knowledge and support of the state aid for education policy are well known, use his best efforts to settle the cleavage of pre-Victorian State election opinion said to exist between our Victorian senatorial colleagues, Senators Brown and Poyser, on the question of state aid? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, ls it a fact, as reported in today’s Press, that a recommendation by the Council of the Australian National University addressed to the Government has proposed additional undergraduate representation on the Council of the University? [More…]

• I would like the opportunity to consult with the Minister for Education and Science before formulating a responsible answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science the following question: What are the financial allocations for 1970 for library purposes for the archdioceses and individual Catholic dioceses in Queensland? [More…]

• The establishment of this power station does not come within the responsibility of the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• ls the Minister representing the Minister, for Education and Science aware of an article appearing on page 1 of today’s ‘Australian’ entitled ‘Decision To Produce A-bomb Fuel “May Have Been Made” ‘, wherein Professor Encel, Professor of Sociology at the University of New South Wales, raised grave doubts about the Government’s possible intention regarding, and use of, the proposed establishment of an atomic plant at Jervis Bay? [More…]

• I shall refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs as well as to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Honourable senators will note that the Bill provides for the appointment of an Interim Council to make recommendations on the functions and powers of the Institute and it is the intention of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) to appoint Dr M. F. Day of CSIRO as Chairman and the following scientists as members of the Interim Council: Professor C. Burdon-Jones of the University College of Townsville; Dr N. H. Fisher of the Commonwealth Bureau of Mineral Resources: Professor Dorothy Hill, Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Queensland; Mr Walter Ives, Secretary of the Department of Primary Industry: Dr D. F. McMichael, Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service in the State of New South Wales; and Professor R. J. Walsh, representing the Australian Academy of Science. [More…]

• As soon as the Interim Council has completed its work, the Minister for education and Science will place its recommendations before the Government so that a further Bill may be introduced prescribing in detail the functions and powers of the Institute and its constitution. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• When the scheme was first introduced the present Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), who was then the Minister for Education and Science, wrote to each State suggesting that if delays were likely to occur because the State Public Works Department was unable to undertake the work in the normal way the. [More…]

• 1 shall take the opportunity to refer the record to the State Minister for Education in New South Wales as a matter of courtesy to him. [More…]

• by leave - I wish to provide the Senate with some further details of the Government’s education programme for 1970-71, as outlined by the Treasurer in the Budget Speech. [More…]

• This increase in Commonwealth expenditure on education results from the introduction of new measures as well as from the development of programmes which are already in operation. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that, according to recent psychological studies carried out under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation ot the United States of America, half of ali growth in human intelligence takes place between birth and age 4 and a further 30% between age 4 and age 8 or that, in relation to formal education, two-thirds of a child’s intellectual development takes place before he even commences primary education? [More…]

• In these circumstances and especially in the light of the remarks of the Minister for Education and Science on the subject of the role and importance of pre-schools, as reported in the ‘Australian’ on 16th July last, might we expect that his views will be given tangible expression in the form of greater recognition of and aid to the many forms of preschool, kindergarten and similar institutions in which the very young are being taught and that the financial support given to these institutions by parents and citizens will be classified as allowable taxation deductions? [More…]

• [n view of the enormous growth of the educational programmes both of the States and the Commonwealth over the last 6 years it is not unnatural that energetic politicians now seek assistance for the fringes of educational responsibility. [More…]

• It would be known to the honourable senator that the Government has instituted assistance for preschool education in the last 2 or 3 years. [More…]

• I desire to ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]

• I ask: Will the Minister have a correction made in a statement he presented to the Senate on Wednesday, 19th August 1970, on behalf of his colleague the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• That portion of the statement is contrary to fact, as Commonwealth scholarships were first made available in 1943 during the life of the government led by the late John Curtin, when the Minister responsible for education was the Hon. [More…]

• The question asked by the honourable senator enables me to state the position with regard to the Commonwealth’s contribution to education. [More…]

• At the present time the Commonwealth has not been invited nor has it decided to enter upon direct assistance for primary education, rt will be remembered that the Commonwealth has assisted by substantial votes the increase of teachers, thereby enabling a greater number of teachers to be available in the schools. [More…]

• It is also important to be reminded that since the Commonwealth has been assisting education in other fields it has enabled, together with the State’s own efforts, a reduction of the teacherpupil ratio from about 32 pupils per teacher in the early 1950s to 26 last year. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that I attached to my statement to the Senate on the subject of Commonwealth education about 2 weeks ago a statistical table, but stated in another way the position can be expressed by saying that in 1962 the number of classes of more than 40 pupils in the primary schools represented 35.6% of the pupils attending. [More…]

• It is necessary for me to add only that in addition to these very sound votes of great increases that the Commonwealth has made, due to the policy of increasing State grants, the States by their own efforts over the last 10 years have increased their expenditure on education from $325m ten years ago to $898m this year. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Does the Minister consider that there is a great and increasing need for added support in the very basic area of primary education? [More…]

• the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system. [More…]

• a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]

• 200,000 students from universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]

• Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]

• The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]

• Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]

• Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science would he approach his colleague to have the government library grants scheme extended to cover primary schools. [More…]

• Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONThis matter is really one of policy, but 1 certainly will refer the question to the Minister for Education and Science for consideration. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Department of Education and Science for the year ended December 1969. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Pre-school and After-school education facilities are in urgent need within the Australia community. [More…]

• In advanced countries Pre-school and Afterschool education are recognised as essential aspects of education for all children. [More…]

• Provide the necessary financeto enable State education departments and local government authorities to establish: [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science been drawn to an account of the annual report of the Victorian Apprenticeship Commission which says that it will be necessary progressively to modify apprenticeship in order to make it more attractive? [More…]

• In view of the claim in the report that many additional facilities will be required in the next few years, as well as what it describes as substantial additional Government money provided to the Education Department’, can the Minister say whether the Department he represents hew: has plans for improving the area of. [More…]

• apprenticeship in the future and whether or not State Departments of Education are seeking Commonwealth assistance? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• 1. refer to the numbers of students in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate how it comes about that, on a relative population basis, there are approximately 10 times as many students in colleges of advanced education in Victoria as there are in New South Wales? [More…]

• I am sure it will be remembered that Senator Mulvihill asked a question about a film that had been prepared by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to demonstrate the problem of informal voting and which suggested that perhaps a higher level of education in voters would overcome this. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister -for Education noted the statement by the Catholic education authorities in Canberra on the deteriorating financial situation of their schools, necessitating considerable increases in their fees? [More…]

• Will the Minister give consideration to the claims of private schools of all kinds in the National Territory for assistance, particularly because their existence saves the Commonwealth considerable education costs? [More…]

• in reply- The only thing that 1 wish to say in reply to the debate is that although the Canberra College of Advanced Education may, in the course of years, grow to look more and more like a university, the intention is that the College shall always be a separate institution from a university. [More…]

• I do not want to detain the Committee at any length but 1 understand that the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) said - and I do not want to offend the learned gentleman - that the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education would take into consideration the question that I. raised of people getting degrees and then not being able to find gainful employment. [More…]

• I would suggest that there is no analogy between the Australian National University, which has part representation on its Council from this Parliament, and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• There again it follows a pattern which has prevailed in the States, where technical colleges and colleges of advanced education do not have parliamentary representation as such on their boards. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education and Science: [More…]

• Pursuant to sections 5 ‘ and 9 of the States Grants (Teachers Colleges) Act 1967, I present a statement setting out the payments that have been authorised by the Minister for Education and Science under this Act during the financial year 1969-70 and specifying the projects in relation to which the payments have been so authorised. [More…]

• I shall ascertain from the Minister for Education and Science whether funds acquired compulsorily from students support the publication. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I shall, for greater assurance, refer the matter to the Minister for Education and Science and ask him to correct my impression if it is wrong. [More…]

• 1 address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, ls it a fact that there continues to be a serious shortage of teachers in Canberra schools? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Treasurer: As the fees charged by many private schools today are in excess of the amount permitted under the Income Tax Assessment Act as an education allowance, will the Treasurer give immediate consideration to increasing the allowance for education under that.Act? [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the following matter: [More…]

• What should be the role of the Commonwealth in regard to teacher education throughout Australia. [More…]

• I preface my question which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science by informing the Minister that students of the Tweed River High School publish a school newspaper and that during a recent election campaign they invited both Labor and Liberal candidates to contribute an article. [More…]

• My question is: Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether such political censorship is carried out at the direction of the Minister for Education and Science? [More…]

• If the answer is in the negative, will he take appropriate action to ensure that this type of censorship is abolished, particularly in view of the fact that all finance for the Australian education system comes either directly or indirectly from Commonwealth funds? [More…]

• The Senate can be assured that the Minister exercises no political censorship whatsoever under the name of education. [More…]

• Webster, Keeffe, Mulvihill and Kane; The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts: Senators Sir Magnus Cormack, Hannan. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 8 of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969-70, I present a statement of approvals given during 1970-71 in respect of Commonwealth unmatched grants for acquisition of library materials in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I shall draw it to the attention of the Department of Education and Science and ask for a comment. [More…]

• That the petitions be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• I will refer the honourable senator’s request for a statement to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• It refers to the maximum income concessional allowance available to a parent in respect of the education expenses of his children. [More…]

• If the question is whether or not 1 will ask the Minister for Education and Science to suggest to the next meeting of conservation Ministers that they list this item for the agenda, the answer is yes. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, who is administratively responsible for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, consider holding summit talks with the various State Ministers responsible for wildlife conservation with a view to evolving a uniform policy to eliminate aerial baiting of bushland with the poison1080? [More…]

• I shall ask the Minister for Education and Science to give it consideration. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, relates to the report in this morning’s Press of a nearly blind student at Laverton High School who was very talented but who was unable to sit for the Commonwealth secondary schools scholarship examination because there are no facilities for people with this incapacity. [More…]

• The majority of people favoured an increase in regional electorates and suggested that educational qualifications for candidates be retained. [More…]

• There is a widespread request that educational qualifications be combined with experience. [More…]

• The Committee felt that such a qualification was necessary to ensure a guaranteed standard of education in the House of Assembly. [More…]

• That the petition be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the position of and provision for deprived schools - a deprived school being a school in the inner urban or rural areas providing primary education, in which a high proportion of the school population is disadvantaged through background and/or environment - with a view to financial aid to the States to premit the recognition of such schools as special schools warranting a more liberal scale in staffing, equipping and servicing. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the following matter: The Petition presented to the Senate on 18 August 1971 by Senator Devitt concerning the granting of deductions from income for taxation purposes. [More…]

• I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate appointing the following senators to the following legislative and general purpose standing committees: Education, Science and the Arts, Senators Carrick and Davidson to replace Senators Sir Magnus Cormack and Prowse; Health and Welfare, Senators Bonner and Jessop to replace Senators Davidson and Webster; and Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade, Senator Prowse to replace Senator Rae. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• In view of this further evidence of the continuing crises in education what steps does the Government plan to prevent such a disastrous closure? [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-70 I present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31st December 1970. [More…]

• Estimates Committee B- Department of Works, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Education and Science, Department of Labour and National Ser vice, Department of External Territories, Department of Housing. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that Dr Paul Ehrlich is a distinguished Professor of Biology at Stanford University and that a few weeks ago he came to Australia at the invitation of an international science school which is comprised of students from the United States of America, Japan, the United Kingdom as well as young Australian students in science? [More…]

• ls the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that in a properly conducted poll of students at the University of Sydney, in which all students were eligible to participate, an overwhelming majority of students! [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30th June 1971. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• leave - The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), by leave of the House of Representatives, had incorporated in Hansard his statement on the Commonwealth’s education programme for 1971-72. [More…]

• This is an important statement which deals in a large degree with the Government’s analysis of the survey of national needs in education. [More…]

• If the Government recognises the National Civic Council as a right wing organisation and the major newspapers as being anti-left wing, will the Minister advise the former Attorney-General, exMinister for Education and Science and present Minister for Foreign Affairs thai he has an incomplete knowledge of local Australian politics? [More…]

• I shall have to refer the specific question to the Minister for Education and Science, although my belief is that it is for both government and independent schools. [More…]

• If the answer is yes, why are there not ministerial conferences between the Minister for Immigration, the New South Wales Minister responsible for immigration matters and Ministers responsible for education to settle the problem of standards? [More…]

• Further, has the Committee on Overseas Professional qualifications been asked to mediate in this apparent conflict involving United States and West German teachers which makes the teachers virtually educational beachcombers? [More…]

• the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education for the year ended 30th June 1971. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he can inform the Senate of the stage reached in the campaign by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation against the sirex wasp? [More…]

• Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party notifying the appointment of Senator McManus to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in the place of Senator Byrne. [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister foi Education and Science consider that more research is needed into education generally as well as into some aspects of the national survey? [More…]

• Will he recommend an increased Commonwealth grant to the Australian Council for Educational Research to match the increased funds recently made available to that Council by the States? [More…]

• I shall have to refer that question to the Minister for Education and Science for anything like accurate information. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• What research programmes are currently being carried out by the Department of Education and Science? [More…]

• The honourable senator’s question refers to a nation-wide survey which was made in each State by the respective State Ministers for Education as to the needs and the subsequent surveys and examination of those needs. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, ls any delay occurring through lack of finance in the implementation of the recommendations of the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Has the Government shelved the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs? [More…]

• Does the Minister representing the Minister for Customs and Excise recognise that textbooks for school children are an integral but expensive part of our education requirements? [More…]

• On what grounds does the Government justify the imposition of duty on books used in our State or private education systems? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Because of the public funds involved and the importance of Australia’s education programme at the tertiary level, will the Minister make inquiries as to the effectiveness of advisory services regarding careers and will he obtain information on Arts courses at Australian universities with a view to assisting with the channelling of student ability into successful vocations? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science expects to be able to make a statement this week on matters of education, including the matter referred to by the honourable senator. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science able to say when the Government is likely to make a statement concerning the establishment of an institute of marine science at Townsville? [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Does the Commonwealth give special assistance to children living in isolated areas of the Northern Territory in order that they might gain a full education; if so, what form does such assistance take and what is the annual cost? [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immed iate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• I have taken this action because, although I know that all honourable senators will agree with me that tertiary education should be a responsibility of the Commonwealth Parliament and that this proposition would be acceptable to the Senate, there may be problems in the other place and I cannot see a referendum being conducted on this matter. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that the Australian Constitution has been set as a text for social studies in Victorian schools but that many hundreds of students have been unable to obtain a copy of the document? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the establishment of the Science Policy Branch ofthe Department of Education and Science, and what functions does the Branch perform. [More…]

• My Government will continue to co-operate with the States in measures both direct and indirect to expand and improve education services in government schools. [More…]

• Our policy for the independent schools is that, relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments, they should be able to continue to provide places at a reasonable standard for that proportion of the school population which in the past has sought education in non-government schools. [More…]

• At the end of the motion add - but the Senate is of opinion that the Federal Government’s capital grants for education to the States should be extended to non-Government schools.’ [More…]

• -.1 ask the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in the Senate to look at clause 20 of the Bill, lt deals with the officers and employees. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science tell me the number of students currently enrolled at the Australian National University? [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• Insofar as the Federal Government has responsibility for education. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Is it a fact that persons who have left school either under discretionary, provisions of the relevant Education Act or who are above the minimum school leaving age, are, if unable to obtain employment, ineligible for unemployment benefit if they are under 16 years of age. [More…]

• Subsequent to a screening of the film ‘The Acid Test’ on commercial television in Canberra the Drug Education Sub-committee of the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence, recommended that the film should not be given further exposure on the mass media. [More…]

• However, the film has been used by State health education authorities in training programmes for drug educators. [More…]

• The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has now advised me that grants for study into the problem of the crown of thorns starfish are administered by the Department of Education and Science, on the advice of an advisory committee. [More…]

• That (here be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the following matters: [More…]

• can be provided with an education suitable to the children’s talents and interest, which will equip them . [More…]

• The means by which these disabilities can be overcome whether by an extension and deployment more widely of schools or institutes of tertiary education, the provision of financial aid to such children or otherwise. [More…]

• The States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1972 provides for amendments and some alterations to the schedules of the principal Act. [More…]

• asked the Minister rep resenting the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to thehonourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Mr President, I seek leave to make a statement to the Senate on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• It relates to the Commonwealth’s education programme for 1972- 73. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Snedden) has already mentioned, in the Budget Speech, some significant features of the Government’s education programme for this financial year. [More…]

• I should like to give the House further details of the programme, which covers a wide range of activities and reflects the emphasis which the Government continues to place on the development of educational services. [More…]

• I shall begin by outlining the progress that is being made with existing activities, and I shall then move on to deal with major new developments in the Government’s programmes - in particular developments in Commonwealth scholarship schemes and in Commonwealth financial support for teacher education. [More…]

• Pre-school and after-school education facilities arc in urgent need within the Australian community. [More…]

• In advanced countries pre-school and after-school education are recognised as essential aspects of education for all children. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to provide the necessary finance to enable State education departments and local government authorities to establish: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• I am obliged for the intervention of my colleague Senator Davidson because, with his intimate knowledge of this subject as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which investigated the subject of teacher education, his contribution relieves me of the obligation of saying much that I had intended to say. [More…]

• It is that with the concurrence of State ministers for education the Federal Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has agreed to bring within the scope of advanced colleges of education not only teacher training institutions but also pre-school training institutions. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-1970, I present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31st December 1971. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Department of Education and Science for the year ended December 1971. [More…]

• by leave - I wish to inform the Senate of the measures by which effect will be given to the Government’s announced policy of placing increasing emphasis on migrant counselling and selection and migrant education and welfare services. [More…]

• The unity of purpose within the Committee was to draw to the attention of the Government, and through the Government to the country, the situation in which education found itself today. [More…]

• One of the earlier speakers in the debate referred to the line in our report where we mentioned that in spite of a growing recognition of the need for more emphasis on teacher education, the truth of the description of teacher training given to the Committee by one distinguished educationist as the Cinderella of education was recognised by the Committee. [More…]

• The Committee has sought to draw this matter to the attention of the Senate in order that this sphere of education may be recognised for the high place it holds and should hold in the total sphere. [More…]

• The principle of Commonwealth responsibility to contribute to the cost of education generally and to teacher education particularly has been the subject of much debate and not a little difference of opinion. [More…]

• Education in Australia traditionally has been regarded as primarily a responsibility of State governments, but it is true also that ample powers exist under the Constitution for the Commonwealth to make financial contributions in a number of fields, including education. [More…]

• The question that we faced so often was not whether the Commonwealth could come to the aid of our teacher education system but how great its commitment should be and in what way it could best help. [More…]

• I am particularly appreciative of the comments in the letter from the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) from which Senator Wright quoted and in which the Minister said that he expects that the Committee’s work in this field will continue to exert an influence on the further development of policies in the sphere of teacher education. [More…]

• Did meetings of the Minister for Education and Science the Postmaster-General and State Ministers for Education on educational television take place in 1967 and 1969; if so, when is it proposed that another such meeting shall take place. [More…]

• Has any report yet been submitted to the Postmaster-General and the Minister for Education and Science from the Sub-Committee comprising Commowealth and State representatives established to investigate the technical developments involved in the establishment of educational television in Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Works in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• In view of the wildly erroneous statements made by Labor leaders on the question of education, can he tell the Senate to what extent the percentage of youth population having access to universities has grown in the last decade under this Government? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and .Science been drawn to Press reports of a so-called demonstration of pupil power by small groups of high school students in Australian cities? [More…]

• Will the Government consider withdrawing all forms of educational aid from these small minority groups because it is a waste of taxpayers’ money, apparently not needed and certainly not appreciated? [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the, annual report on migration education for the year ended 30th June 1972. [More…]

• For a commentary upon the incidentI refer the honourable senator to the statement made by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I bring up a progress report from the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• Consequent upon the national wage case decision of May 1972, salaries for academic staff in colleges of advanced education have increased. [More…]

• As a result of the revised schedule of grants for recurrent, expenditure for 1972, supplementary Commonwealth grants totalling approximately $70,500 and representing a combined additional Commonwealth-State allocation of nearly 201,000 will be made available for colleges of advanced education in the States. [More…]

• The matter I wish to raise in relation to the estimates for the Department of Education and Science concerns the amount of money which is being paid for the cleaning of the Nhulunbuy school on the Gove Peninsula. [More…]

• I refer to a statement made by Dr G. W. Miller, of the University of London Institute of Education, that Australian universities should review the practice of failing a certain percentage of students each year, and that the Australian dropout rate was two and a half times higher than that in Britain. [More…]

• Has the Department of Education and Science had any communication with the universities on this matter? [More…]

• How does the Australian Government’s education programme provide for maximum development at the tertiary level. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided me with the following additional comments. [More…]

• I would also refer the honourable senator to the ‘1961 Study’, an analysis of the progress of new bachelor degree entrants to Australian universities in 1961, prepared jointly by the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee and the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• 2) and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]

• Mr President, I suggest that, with the concurrence of the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) and the Senate, this Bill and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party supports the establishment of commissions to advise the Government on the provision of finance for education. [More…]

• Not only do we support the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education; we go further than this. [More…]

• The criticism which has often been levelled against the Labor Party is that our policy of establishing a schools commission and a pre-schools commission will be to centralise education in the hands of a Canberra bureaucracy; that it will take away from the States the right to conduct their own affairs in the field of education. [More…]

• The very fact that this Government itself maintains the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education shows that despite what it says it does not believe its own propaganda. [More…]

• Indeed if one looks at the second reading speech of the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) on both of these Bills, one finds that mention is made of the acceptance within universities and colleges of advanced education of the recommendations that have been made by those commissions. [More…]

• We believe that these commissions which have worked so successfully in the case of universities and colleges of advanced education, also would work just as well and just as successfully in the fields of primary, secondary and pre-school education. [More…]

• in reply - We are dealing with 2 Bills which simply make adjustments to the contribution that the Commonwealth is making to the academic salaries of colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report on the survey of Child Migrant Education in Schools of High Migrant Density in Melbourne. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education: Apart from Press reports, what details of the proposed Victorian university had been received by the Australian Universities Commission prior to the tabling of its report on 3rd May 1973? [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education any information which would justify the Federal Government’s recommendation regarding the siting of a fourth university in Victoria, which recommendation conflicts with the judgment of the Victorian Government that the proposed multi-campus university would best serve the needs of several regional centres in that State? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, follows upon a question which was asked earlier by Senator Poyser. [More…]

• I am delighted that the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) in his second reading speech has recognised that education is a matter of importance not only to the Government but to the whole Parliament. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the report on secondary education for Canberra. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education aware that some confusion exists about the eligibility of parents who live in isolated areas for Commonwealth assistance for their children? [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education consider advertising or circularising full details of the scheme to clarify the position for all concerned? [More…]

• I will refer the matter to my colleague, the Minister for Education, for a reply. [More…]

• The report of the Committee surely goes to indicate how much education was neglected in the hands of the previous Government. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask: How does the Government reconcile that clear promise with the report of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission - the Karmel Committee - which recommends the phasing out of a major area of direct per capita grants and the subsequent statement by the Minister for Education that there was no conflict within the Government over the report and that he did not reject the Committee’s findings? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the ‘Australian’ news-: paper of15 May suggesting that acting upon the Campbell report on university and college of advanced education staff salaries the Government will break the existing nexus between the rates of pay applying in universities and colleges of advanced education? [More…]

• The Minister for Education has informed me that: [More…]

• The amendment that has been moved by Senator Rae has been discussed by me with my colleague the Minister for Education, whom I represent in the Senate. [More…]

• Because it does not interfere with the administration of Government policy on education, and the Department can see nothing wrong in principle with the amendment, the Government is prepared to accept Senator Rae’s proposition. [More…]

• I reiterate that it is not intended in any way to curtail or inhibit the operation of the colleges of advanced education in the application of these funds but rather to assist in looking at the future operation and assessing the need for further assistance of this or some other similar type. [More…]

• The only additional part which we propose is the part under sub-paragraph (b) which requires the States to furnish annually to Colleges of Advanced Education Commission statistics and information in respect of the application of the moneys by the States. [More…]

• The figures which I cited in the Senate last Wednesday were provided to me by officers of the Department of Education on the advice of my colleague the Minister for Education who is in another place. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to the fact that in his statement dated 6 August 1973 the Minister for Education stated that originally 140 non-systemic non-Government schools would be placed in category A. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I lay upon the table of the Senate the report of the Committee on Medical Schools to the Australian Universities Commission relating to the expansion of medical education, and move: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I lay upon the table of the Senate a statement dated 23 August 1973, by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on Government initiatives in education, together with supporting documents, and move: [More…]

• Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-1970, I present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31 December 1972. [More…]

• It is a Budget which has had to deal with the problems not only of finding large sums of money to meet great new expenditures on health, education and social security generally but also of coping with the price instability and the residues of unemployment which had been left by the previous Government. [More…]

• Senator Rae’s remarks related to questions directed to Senator Douglas McClelland, the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• On behalf of Senator Douglas McClelland, for the information of honourable senators I present a copy of the report by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on the conference of the Australian Education Council held in Melbourne on 14 and 15 June 1973. [More…]

• I will certainly make inquiries of the Department of Education and let the honourable senator know the result. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I table papers referred to in section 3 of the Minister for Education’s answer to Senate question No. [More…]

• I simply urge upon the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) that he pass on to his colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who, I trust, has now recovered or will recover shortly, the urgency of making known publicly what the regulations will contain. [More…]

• For example, the Department of Education requires an additional $1,834,000 to meet payments under the assistance scheme for isolated school children and for Aboriginal secondary grants and study grants. [More…]

• We wish to add to the definitions a definition relating to the Australian Education Council in the Bill. [More…]

• For 26 years I was on the Victorian Board of Adult Education. [More…]

• If that is good enough for the Victorian Board of Adult Education, why is not it good enough for this Commission. [More…]

• Australian Education Council’ means the Australian Minister for Education and every Minister for Education of the States of Australia meeting together. [More…]

• The purpose of this amendment is to give, in the definitions clause of the Bill, a clear meaning of the term ‘Australian Education Council ‘ which is used in the new clause 4a which was inserted by the Committee yesterday. [More…]

• Everyone has always understood that the Australian Education Council means what the definition in the amendment states, but the amendment puts the matter beyond doubt. [More…]

• At the invitation of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) I respond to the question he raised and indicate that the Opposition has stated repeatedly, through me and through other people, that we do not oppose the recommendations of the Karmel Committee in relation to the provision, whether it be through a Schools Commission or otherwise, or a committee, of vastly increased funds for education. [More…]

• Our criticism has been that in relation to some areas of education in fact there has not been an increase. [More…]

• In regard to the States Grants (Schools) Bill I indicate that the Opposition will not be doing anything to prevent the extra funds being made available to education next year. [More…]

• It may be that after further consideration of some of the provisions of that Bill there may be some suggestions for improvement but there will not be from the Opposition any attempt to reduce the funds for education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) to respond to the considerable emphasis which was placed, during the discussion on this amendment, on Article 26 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights as it relates to education. [More…]

• Surely the Declaration of Human Rights as it relates to education contains points of view which are not only worth writing into legislation but also are worth a reply. [More…]

• Against the 2 intentions of these Bills the Australian Labor Party seeks to intervene an amendment which is of massive significance and massive intention by way of alteration of the whole concept of education as it exists today in the Commonwealth and in the States. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• If we exclude the age pensioner groups which, of course, are unlikely to have children qualifying for university education, from which group does the remaining 20 per cent of students come? [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• General in-service training developed by teachers in education centres. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1 973. [More…]

• If he did, did he notice that Senator Rae appeared on the service to comment on the education Bills that were at that time before the Senate and that no Government spokesman was given an opportunity to appear? [More…]

• It provides a wide variety of educational advantages and programs. [More…]

• To the extent that it provides the money for educational facilities I give it my support. [More…]

• As everyone undertaking tertiary education will receive amounts of money and as everyone in the country will receive the age pension whether they are rich or poor, I fail to see the logic of the Government in denying a comparatively small proportion of the people per capita education grants. [More…]

• I ask the AttorneyGeneral: Does the International Covenant on Human Rights grant the ability for parents to give their children religious education of the parents’ choice. [More…]

• Education in Australia certainly will be enhanced by the allocation of the funds provided in these 5 Bills that we are discussing. [More…]

• I rise on the debate that the Bill be now read a second time only to invite the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) in his reply to inform the Senate whether he has given any consideration to the possibility of this expertise or applied experience being better provided in colleges of advanced education or at one of them in particular. [More…]

• I point out that these colleges have afforded the legal profession a great facility in the practical education of the profession in the last couple of years in workshop skills of which parliamentary drafting is one. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the average per pupil cost in government schools in Australia has been calculated for the last year at $378 per primary school pupil and $639 per secondary school pupil? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present a report on the Conference of the Australian Education Council, 28 February- 1 March 1974. [More…]

• -Will the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs inform the Senate of details of the amounts of money allocated to the Western Australian Government during the year 1972-73 for Aboriginal education in that State? [More…]

• Was the amount allocated to Western Australia increased during the 1973-74 financial year in line with the Labor Government’s promise to increase the funds made available to that State for Aboriginal education? [More…]

• On behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education and for the information of honourable senators I present the preliminary report by the Commission on Advanced Education on NonGovernment Teachers Colleges. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representi the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Further detail is given in the statement made by the Minister for Education on 10 April 1974 when he tabled the Committee’s report in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Government made any decision on the recommendations of the Committee on Technical and Further Education, including those relating to expenditure in the year 1974-75. [More…]

• Committee on Technical and Further Education (Question No. [More…]

• I did see the statement to which the honourable senator has alluded and, because of the interest in it, I sought some information from my colleague the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I am given to understand by the Minister for Education that the Australian Government has made grants to the Victorian Government, which would include provision for the establishment of school libraries. [More…]

• However, my colleague the Minister for Education advises me that the Victorian Government will not supply information about the state school libraries and that of all the State governments it alone refuses to do this. [More…]

• Environment and Conservation; Social Security; Immigration (to be re-allocated); Overseas Trade; Primary Industry; Attorney General; Aboriginal Affairs; Capital Territory; Defence; Northern Development; Manufacturing Industry; Education (awaiting delivery). [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education seen a Press report in the Melbourne ‘Sun’ of 8 August in which it is reported that parent and teacher groups in Victoria have described the state school building program as a disaster? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report from the Hospitals and Health Commission entitled: ‘Continuing Medical Education’, dated August 1974. [More…]

• For the information of honorable senators, I present the Department of Education report for 1973. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) The initial planning of Hawker and the projected rate of growth of the suburb, with a predominance of private enterprise housing, suggested, on the basis of demographic studies of similar areas, that primary school enrolments would grow slowly and for some time would be accommodated in the neighbouring suburb of Weetangera. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• For what area is the Weetangera pre-school, in the Australian Capital Territory, meant to provide pre-school education facilities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Government’s aim is to give all children in the Australian Capital Territory one year’s pre-school education before they attend primary school. [More…]

• Most children living in the Hawker- Weetangera area and due to attend primary school in 197S will be able to receive one year’s pre-school education at the Weetangera preschool. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Australian Capital Territory: Pre-school Education (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Government undertaken to give all children in the Australian Capital Territory at least one year’s preschool education before they attend primary school. [More…]

• Will all children living in the Hawker-Weetangera area of the Australian Capital Territory, and due to attend primary school next year, be able to receive at least one year’s pre-school education at the Weetangera pre-school. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s Question: [More…]

• Studies of primary school needs in these areas are under way through the Australian Capital Territory Education Planning Committee. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• If the school is not constructed by the anticipated date, what arrangements are to be made to provide education facilities for the children in the Hawker area. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• For what area is the Weetangera Primary School, in the Australian Capital Territory, meant to provide primary school education facilities. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) There is no record of an application made by medical students at the University of New South Wales for increased allowances having been received by the Minister for Education or by his Department. [More…]

• I also inform the Senate that the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, will be absent from Australia until 28 October to attend the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s General Conference in Paris. [More…]

• During his absence the Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, is acting as Minister for Education. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report entitled ‘Technical Education in the Australian Capital Territory’ dated September 1 974. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• 1 ) What amount of loan funds was made available by the Australian Government for State education requirements in each of the last three years. [More…]

• What proportion of Federal funds made available to the States for State education is required to be repaid to the Australian Government. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I have not seen the report but I will take up the matter with my colleague the Minister for Education and obtain a reply for the honourable senator. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education, a report on the meeting of the Australian Education Council on 4 October 1 974. [More…]

• The plumage and skins of Birds of Paradise can only be legally imported into Australia for education or scientific purposes. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• On behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), for the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Commonwealth Scholarships Board for 1973. [More…]

• I have had discussions with my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present a report by the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education on supplementary funds for programs administered by that Committee. [More…]

• I present the following petition from 26 lecturers of New South Wales Colleges of Advanced Education: [More…]

• To the Honourable the President and Senators of the Upper House in Parliament assembled: The Petition of certain lecturers of New South Wales Colleges of Advanced Education respectfully showeth: [More…]

• I will discuss them with my colleague the Minister for Education. [More…]

• of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-73 I present a statement of approvals given during 1974 in respect of the grants for special education in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-1973 I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1974. [More…]

• In reply- As the Minister representing the Minister for Education, I am pleased to learn that the Opposition wishes these Bills a speedy passage. [More…]

• The article correctly states my views in the context of facilities and services for the early detection, treatment, rehabilitation and education of young handicapped children in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I will discuss them with my colleague, the Minister for Education, secure the information for her and ensure that it is given to her. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wriedt, informing me that Senator James McClelland has indicated that he wishes to be discharged from further attendance on the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, and Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• That Senator James McClelland be discharged from further attendance upon the Standing Committees on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, and Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82J of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $150 is $50.00 below the 1956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• to (3) The Department of Education considers it important that all children with specific learning difficulties should be identified at an early age, and even a successful application of the research mentioned in ( 1 ) does not promise a short cut to this goal because of its concern with only one form of specific learning difficulty. [More…]

• First, the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education is supporting a number of studies concerned with methods of early identification of children with specific learning difficulties although to the present, none of these studies has attempted a genetic approach. [More…]

• Second, the Schools Commission through its special education program, provides grants to the States which may be used to employ psychologists and guidance officers for the actual identification of children with these difficulties. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Why are grants under the Child Migrant Education Program as shown in the Minister’s press release of 9 December 1974, made to Roman Catholic, but not to other nonGovernment Schools. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Under the Child Migrant Education Program the Australian Government provides special assistance to both Government and non-Government schools to assist migrant children in learning English. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• What plans does the Department of Education have to carry out surveys to confirm or deny this potentially important observation. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Committee on Technical and Further Education for the period 1 July 1975 to 31 December 1976, together with an accompanying statement. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• -The honourable senator directed his question to me as the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I remind him that I am the Minister representing the Minister for Education and that Senator Wriedt is the Minister representing the Minister for Science. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the followig answer to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• I will refer the matter to my colleague, the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I just think that with the sort of world in which we live and with the different types of education we get today we can get younger people interested and I merely think this is a very quiet sort of amendment which will give to the Minister of the day a wider choice when he is selecting Distribution Commissioners to look at electoral boundaries. [More…]

• All I can do is undertake to refer the matter to the Minister for Education for his further advice. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Education, pursuant to section 33 (2) of the Australian National University Act 1946-1973 I present the report of the Council of the Australian National University for the calendar year 1 974. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Committee for the Review of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, dated May 1975. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• April 1975, page 1941 to a question concerning delays in payments under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• I might add that I visited the University of Wollongong, the University of Newcastle and the Newcastle College of Advanced Education and consulted students in distress. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Minister able to give any information with regard to the delay in payment of allowances to students under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• She sought clarification of the way in which the definitions in the Bill covered the provision of technical and further education in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I am advised that the arrangements agreed upon by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the Chairmen of the commissions concerned is that all funds that go to colleges of advanced education will flow through the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• However, that part of the funds which goes towards technical education level courses within the colleges of advanced education will be recommended upon by the Commission on Technical and Further Education but the funds will flow through the other Commission for reasons of co-ordination. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle said that the current technical education program tends to restrict the freedom of the States but I already have dealt with that matter in my reply in the second reading debate. [More…]

• I am advised that, if it is a separate technical education body- a part of a college- the school would make application through the State to the proposed Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• But if it is simply one year of a college of advanced education, the school would make application through the college of advanced education. [More…]

• 1 member nominated by the Secretary to the Department of Education; [More…]

• 3 members nominated by the Australian Education Council; [More…]

• In some areas and in some towns, small or large, such as the town I come from, there is a college of advanced education and, because of size, economics and everything else, technical courses are being conducted. [More…]

• Does this mean that these colleges in applying for their grants, or the State in applying for its grant, for technical courses in colleges of advanced education will have to go to this new Commission but will then get its funds through the College of Advanced Education Commission, or the other way around, or why do they have to do both? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Moore Theological College’s Diploma of Arts course the only course offered by a College of Advanced Education in New South Wales that does not attract assistance for students under the Tertiary Allowance Scheme; if so, will the Minister reconsider the decision which appears to discriminate against students at the College. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• 1 ) An office of the Department of Education was opened in Townsville on 4 November 1974. [More…]

• Supplies of forms for travel re-imbursement under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme have not been kept in the Townsville Office. [More…]

• As part of an effort to make the payment of Tertiary Education Assistance grants speedier and more accessible, Townsville Office will be made responsible for these payments in 1976, and also for the payment of other student assistance schemes administered by the Department. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator ‘s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Is an office of the Department of Education situated in Townsville, Queensland. [More…]

• Were officers in Townsville unable to supply forms for travel re-imbursement under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme when requested to do so in early March 1 975. [More…]

• Did the Officer-in-charge advise a student that the sole function of his office during 1975 would be the administration of Aboriginal study grants and that all other inquiries, such as those relating to travel re-imbursement under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, were to be referred to Brisbane for resolution. [More…]

• Maddick entitled Education and Training of Local Government Administrators in Australia. [More…]

• I will have to obtain from my colleague the Minister for Education details of the matter raised by Senator Guilfoyle. [More…]

• They developed their skills by going to universities, adult education courses and so on like many of us did. [More…]

• Has an experimental program on bilingual education been commenced in the Northern Territory? [More…]

• Pursuant to section 14(2) of the Schools Commission Act 1973 I present the report of the Schools Commission for the triennium 1976-1978, together with a statement by the Minister for Education on that report. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the progress report on the bilingual education program in schools in the Northern Territory, dated December 1973. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the second report of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education on needs in technical and further education in Australia. [More…]

• Education 1975-76 [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate when we can expect legislation concerning the maritime college at Launceston to be brought before the chamber? [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The consumption patterns of tobacco products in Australia by established smokers, among whom I would include myself, suggest that the smoking education campaign has been successful in changing smoking habits. [More…]

• The Council has adopted a code which states that public health education responsibilities of pharmacists should be applied in connection with the sale of tobacco products. [More…]

• Have the Minister’s activities been motivated by concern that the smoking education campaign has failed? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-1970 I present the Report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year 1 January 1974 to 31 December 1974. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Department of Education for 1 974. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided me with the following answer: [More…]

• Full-time students receiving payments under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme receive an incidentals allowance to meet these charges. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I have provided the honourable senator with a set of statistics relating to the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme as at 30 June 1974 which were incorporated in Hansard of Thursday 4 September 1975, pages 560-561. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The States Grants (Schools) Act 1973-74 makes provision for programs which relate to primary and secondary education only. [More…]

• The Schools Commission is likewise empowered to bc concerned with educational provision at the primary and secondary level. [More…]

• The development of facilities and services in relation to pre-school education is the concern of the Childrens Commission in consultation, as appropriate with other authorities. [More…]

• It is also understood that teachers from other levels of education were able to attend these courses. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Does an anomaly arise from the wording of the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973 in connection with financial provision for inservice education to teachers in Government and non-Government schools, as the Act makes no provision for inservice activity involving pre-school education. [More…]

• On behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education and for the information of honourable senators, I present a statement relating to funds for the education commissions for the 1976 calendar year. [More…]

• Pursuant to Section 15 of the Universities Commission Act 1959-1974 1 present the Universities Commission’s recommendations for 1976 together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to those recommendations. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided me with the following answer: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• I present a short statement by the Minister for Education on the Government’s funding policy for the 4 national education commissions. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• (New South Wales- Special Minister of State)- For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education for 1 974. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• As a matter of interest and relevance, the honourable senator’s attention is drawn to the recent issue of Education News (volume 15,Nos2 + 3 1975), published by the Australian Department of Education, which contains a number of articles on the issue of literacy. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Were the Departments of Education, Social Security, Health, Tourism and Recreation, and the Treasury all represented on the committee; if not, which departments were represented. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-1973 I present the annual report on Migrant Education for the year ended 30 June 1 975. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, really is supplementary to the question asked by Senator Davidson which concerned the outflow of people who have been trained as interpreters and translators. [More…]

• Therefore, the knowledge of them was not with the Education Department of New South Wales as they were not bonded to that Department and they had no contractual responsibilities to that Department. [More…]

• I am advised that the New South Wales Department of Education has written to three of them inviting them to come and have a talk. [More…]

• They were the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the University of New South Wales. [More…]

• Those courses were funded initially by the then Department of Labor and Immigration on the understanding that the funding would be picked up in the education triennium and funded forward. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education and relates to training courses for translators and interpreters. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware of some staffing difficulties at the Canberra Technical College? [More…]

• If I misunderstood, let me now apologise and say that my answer yesterday related to the Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme. [More…]

• The triennium is relevant to assembling the costs of the whole of education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that in his answer yesterday to my question concerning tertiary education fees he said that the Government has no policy as yet for the year 1977 and subsequent years. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that many students have embarked on a tertiary education course on the understanding that no fees will be charged and could only continue if that situation remained? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the report of the Committee on Post-secondary Education in Tasmania. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate how many applications to participate in the innovation grants scheme nave been received by the Department of Education since applications were first invited in October 1975. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Are benefits still available under the Secondary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Education: Student-Teacher Ratios in Canberra (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Benefits under the Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme are available to adults who are undertaking full-time the final year of matriculation studies at an approved educational institution. [More…]

• Further details of the conditions and benefits of the scheme are available in the booklet produced by my Department, Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme 1976: Information for Applicants. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Australian Education Council meeting held in Sydney on 12 and 13 February 1976. [More…]

• Education and the Arts: [More…]

• It is not necessary for me to consider the views of Dr David Lindsay in relation to Commonwealth education in the Territories. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• As far as Commonwealth education in the Territories is concerned, does the Minister agree with Dr David Lindsay, a specialist in thoracic medicine at Royal Alfred Hospital and Medical Director of the Asthma Foundation, that such ineligibility was primitive, illogical and ignorant. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• What was the expenditure by the Department of Education for the financial years 1973-74, 1974-75 and what is the anticipated expenditure for 1975-76 in each of the States and Territories. [More…]

• -Mr President, I seek leave to make a short statement to the Senate relating to the future program of inquiries by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware of recent work on continuing medical education devoted to medical knowledge self assessment programmes. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the second progress report on the Bilingual Education Program in Schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• I ask for leave to make a statement relating to the guidelines for triennial reports of education commissions and other measures. [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to offer a comment on the suggestion which I made with respect to intersections. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• This is an important matter to be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts particularly in the current climate when the employment of musicians is of great concern to people involved in the whole area of public performance. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South Wales)Minister for Education) ( 10.25)- I shall be very brief. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has directed my attention to section 35, sub-section (2) of which states: [More…]

• Education and the Arts, Senator Davidson, the report of that Committee on the education of isolated school children. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education indicate when consideration of the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority Ordinance will be completed and when it might be introduced in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The balance is made up of recurrent grants- $25m to cover the costs to the States of abolishing tuition fees in technical colleges and $ 13.2m for a range of programs to improve the quality and effectiveness of technical and further education. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 8 of the Technical and Further Education Commission Act 1975, I present the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission for the triennium 1977-1979. [More…]

• I am aware that within the tertiary education field there is some need for co-ordination and rationalisation as was recognised by the previous Government. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report on the meeting of the Australian Education Council held in Cairns during 8 July and 9 July 1 976. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: When will a decision be taken on those sections of the Bland report that affect the Department of Education? [More…]

• Will the Minister ensure that before decisions are taken the relevant sections of the Bland report are made available to groups interested in education? [More…]

• -I ask that my colleague the Minister for Education answer this question because it is within his area of responsibility. [More…]

• However, an active health education and disease prevention program is instituted by Public Health personnel from Adelaide, and in addition medical specialists from Alice Springs and Adelaide also visit centres in the area. [More…]

• Such advice is included in the teaching of medical students and graduates and in education programs run by the Family Medicine Program and Family Planning Associations and has been referred to in medical journals. [More…]

• Committee of Inquiry into Education and TrainingMinisterial Statement, 9 September 1976 and move: [More…]

• -Could the Minister for Education indicate to the Senate any areas where, during the term of this Government, Federal powers in education have been transferred to the States? [More…]

• Approximately onehalf of these inquiries relate to schemes which come under the category of ‘Education’ and the balance consists almost wholly of ‘Social Security’ and ‘Repatriation and Compensation ‘ scheme inquiries. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to the statement in the media that uniformed police now have the right to enter university grounds without the permission of the vice-chancellor? [More…]

• On 22 December 1975, 10 journalists were employed by the Depanment of Education and one by the Schools Commission. [More…]

• On 1 September 1976, 10 journalists were employed by the Depanment of Education and one by the Cirrriculum Development Centre. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• How many journalists were employed in the Department of Education, and in commissions and statutory bodies under the Minister’s control, at 1 September 1976. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Department of Education for 1 975. [More…]

• The tertiary education Commissions are interested in collecting and analysing information relating to the rejection of applications for entry to tertiary institutions. [More…]

• However, as stated in my earlier answer there are significant methodological problems involved in collecting this information on a comprehensive basis, largely because of the different admission processing arrangements adopted by universities and colleges of advanced education in each State. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education indicate to the Senate the progress being made in relation to the establishment of the Interim Council for the Australian Maritime College to be situated at Launceston in Tasmania? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education for 1975. [More…]

• The circumstances in which the Bill was introduced were set out in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• 1 ) The Department of Education is currently conducting or supporting the following research projects in the field of migrant education: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What research programs are being carried out by the Department of Education which relate to changing needs in the field of migrant education. [More…]

• If so, I would be obliged if the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is in charge of the Bill, will advise the Senate and the people of Australia in that regard. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) can clarify this point in his response. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) knows there will be 2 members of the Parliament of the Commonwealth who shall be appointed on the nomination of the Leader of the Opposition in another place. [More…]

• These deal with consumer education and a number of matters such as unit pricing, prepackaging and date stamping’. [More…]

• If so, apart from the report on consumer education which is due by the end of October, when are the other reports due and when will they be presented to Parliament. [More…]

• Depanment of Education 14 May 1976 [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -I present a progress report from the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on its inquiry into the employment of musicians by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• I thank the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for that information. [More…]

• -I want to respond briefly to the explanation by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) about the 3 islands which are a haven for the Cape Barren geese. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Trade Practices Commission, dated October 1976, entitled Consumer Education. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education define the terms ‘tertiary’ and ‘postsecondary’ as they apply to entitlements and allowances under various aspects of the education legislation? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the percentage of public sector expenditure on education in Australia in relation to gross domestic product for 1975-76, and projected for 1977-78. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement relating to changes to education administration in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate whether a grant could be made to the appropriate body so that four Aboriginal girls and one Aboriginal boy who have completed their high school education at Broome could be employed as teacher aides at the Kununurra Catholic Primary School. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education explain to me what categories of people come within that word otherwise’? [More…]

• Does the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) envisage that some meetings will not be held in public? [More…]

• hearings of the body in connexion with matters relating to the making of recommendations by the body with respect to the provision of financial assistance to local governing bodies in the Education and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs) OUT OF MONEYS TO BE PAID TO THE State by the Commonwealth under this Act are held in public; [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to give a more detailed explanation of the intent of this amendment. [More…]

• Normally I would move that the Senate take note of the statement but as we will be dealing with education Bills shortly, I suggest that this matter be the subject of debate when we deal with those Bills. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• What was the shortfall between the 1976 component of the 1976-78 triennial funding recommendations made by the various education commissions and the 1976 interim year allocation for education subsequently announced in August 1975 by the then Minister for Education, Mr Beazley. [More…]

• For the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission the financial recommendations in the 1976-78 reports covered the whole period without showing amounts for individual years. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What has been the current, capital and total outlay by the Australian Government on education for each financial year from 1945-46 to 1975-76. [More…]

• 1 ) The recurrent and capital outlays on education by the Commonwealth Government in each year from 1948-49 to 1975-76, are shown in the following table. [More…]

• The estimated outlay by the Australian Government on education in 1976-77, as shown in 1976 Budget papers, is $2, 204m. [More…]

• This total includes a provisional estimate of $60m to allow for prospective cost increases during 1976-77 in the programs of the Education Commissions. [More…]

• 1 ) The following authorities come under the control of the Minister for Education: [More…]

• Commission on Advanced Education [More…]

• 1 ) and ( 2 ) As indicated in my statement to the Senate on 4 November the Government’s education objectives include the widening of educational opportunity and promotion of equality as well as special assistance to the educationally disadvantaged. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware that the States Grants (Schools) Bill significantly departs from the principles of need and equality as the basis of education funding as espoused in the Schools Commission Report. [More…]

• Forward planning and development in education was disrupted in 1976 when the previous Government rejected the 1976-78 triennial reports of the Commissions and introduced one year programs. [More…]

• In 1977 by the decisions of this Government, growth will be resumed in the programs of the Education Commissions, and the foundations restored for ongoing triennial development. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Did the Federation state on 9 November 1976 that The term ‘rolling triennium’ to be revised each year is a form of deception which in fact has no meaning other than that education will be funded on an annual basis . [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the ‘rolling triennium’ funding concept undermines the ability of the Commissions to adequately plan education needs. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister for Education will reply to me by letter rather than discuss the matter now. [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to clause 3 (2) of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Bill. [More…]

• The BUI also provides the first grants for programs to be carried out by non-government adult education bodies. [More…]

• Can the Minister give me some idea of what is meant by ‘non-government adult education bodies’? [More…]

• Are they adult education bodies? [More…]

• Just what are the non-government adult education bodies referred to? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Dean of the University of Queensland’s School of Medicine, Professor Eric Saint, in a speech reported in the Courier-Mail dated 7 September 1976, has advocated the establishment of a new Commonwealth Commission to control funding of medical education because of the continued neglect of Australian medical schools under the traditional method of funding through the Universities Commission and State Health Departments. [More…]

• During an Estimates Committee hearing the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) indicated in relation to the Kakadu National Park that in the national interest the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development would be the ultimate deciders on the boundaries of that park. [More…]

• As Senator Carrick happens to be the Minister for Education he will appreciate what I am trying to ascertain. [More…]

• One way or another the Schools Commission generally receives maximum exposure, as does the whole field of education. [More…]

• The Schools Commission puts forward annually what it believes is a fair deal for education. [More…]

• Have any State Education Departments approached the Minister’s Department requesting recruitment of teachers overseas. [More…]

• We made our remarks trusting that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in a calm way would give us the answers. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the projected staff ceiling for the Department of Education as at 30 June 1977. [More…]

• Yesterday I asked a question of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) relating to the status and standing of students from Thailand in this country. [More…]

• I am sorry I do not have the legal education that is often needed in this place. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education advise whether the Interim Council of the Maritime College has yet been called together? [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1 976. [More…]

• -During the course of this year, by the use of interdepartmental committees and other methods, the Government has been gathering information with regard to, in the first place, the co-ordination and rationalisation of education throughout Australia- a move which is regarded as highly desirable not only by the Commonwealth but also by the States and which was regarded as such by the previous Whitlam Government- and has been looking at the question of cost sharing with regard to education. [More…]

• -In that case, I direct my first question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask: Is it correct that an interdepartmental committee has been considering a number of options to enable the transfer of a greater share of the cost of education from the Commonwealth to the States? [More…]

• Does the report of the IDC deal with the roles of the 4 education commissions? [More…]

• -Mr President, I seek leave to table certain evidence taken by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts during its inquiry into broadcasting and television and to make a brief statement relating to a new matter which the Committee has decided to investigate within the terms of its reference on all aspects of television and broadcasting, including Australian content of television programs. [More…]

• I invite the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to reply with one word. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his reply to comment on the fact- I put it to him that it is a fact-that in the past 3 months average advertising time per hour on commercial television has gone up from 9 minutes to 13 minutes when the standard set by the Broadcasting Control Board is a maximum of 1 1 minutes per hour. [More…]

• What action, if any, has been taken to provide for compulsory education until the age of 14 years in each ofthe Australian territories. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• I am advised that the Down’s Syndrome Project in the School of Education, Macquarie University, will continue during 1977. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Is a project at Macquarie University at the School of Education called the Down’s Syndrome Project to be discontinued; if so, why. [More…]

• The International College of Chiropractic at Bundoora, Victoria, has not applied for national registration of its courses to the Australian Council of Awards in Advanced Education. [More…]

• Students undertaking courses at the college are not eligible for assistance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme since the courses have not been approved for the purposes of the Scheme. [More…]

• It is not possible to consider the courses for approval unless the college receives official recognition by government medical organisations and advanced education authorities. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that university students who are not in a financial position to pay their subscriptions to the Australian Union of Students are receiving additional money by way of an allowance from the Commonwealth Government to assist with the payment of their union fees? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of the serious deficiencies that exist in certain areas of technical and further education in Australia, especially in terms of the buildings, accommodation and facilities on older technical education campuses? [More…]

• In the light of such deficiencies as are apparent at such an institution as the Sydney Technical College, will the Minister give favourable consideration to implementing the recommendations of the Technical and Further Education Commission of August 1976 and increase public expenditure in this area? [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education inform the Senate on what basis theological students are denied eligibility for allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme? [More…]

• Are the costs of the salaries debited against the Department of Aboriginal Affairs or are they being met by the Australian Government Department of Education? [More…]

• -I report to the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) nominating senators to be members of the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees as follows: Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee- Senator Button, Senator Devitt and Senator James McClelland; Education and the Arts Committee- Senator Button, Senator Robertson and Senator Ryan; Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee- Senator Mcintosh, Senator Primmer and Senator Sibraa; National Resources Committee- Senator McAuliffe, Senator McLaren and Senator Robertson; Science and the Environment CommitteeSenator Colston, Senator Melzer and Senator Mulvihill; Social Welfare CommitteeSenator Brown, Senator Grimes and Senator Melzer; Trade and Commerce CommitteeSenator Cameron, Senator Coleman and Senator Walsh. [More…]

• The Australian Association for the Mentally Retarded has prepared a proposal to establish an Australian Institute on Mental Retardation which is being examined by the Department of Social Security in conjunction with my Department and the Department of Education and Finance. [More…]

• My understanding is that the South Australian Government, which has a very direct constitutional responsibility regarding all aspects of education, specifically colleges of advanced education, some time ago set up the Anderson Committee of Inquiry into aspects of higher education. [More…]

• South Australian Board of Education has made a submission to the Anderson Committee and that the status of the report is simply that it is a submission from that Board. [More…]

• So putting aside the Board ‘s submission, I say this: The previous Government and this Government have accepted some evidence that in Australia there may be a relatively small number of institutions, being colleges of advanced education, which could be improved in a variety of ways in terms of co-ordination or rationalisation. [More…]

• In any case, when we set up the new co-ordinating commission within the next month, one of the main concerns of the commission will be to work in conjunction with the States to achieve in the end the best institutions we can in terms of quality so that they deliver the highest quality of education that is possible. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and refers to a report from South Australia that at least 3 colleges of advanced education are likely to face closure or absorption as a result of the submission made by the South Australian Board of Advanced Education to a State Government committee of inquiry? [More…]

• If so, does the report suggest that the discipline of advanced education is undergoing a major change and that there might be too many tertiary education institutions? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report on the meeting of the Australian Education Council held at Hobart, Tasmania, in February 1977. [More…]

• ) to ( 3 ) The Department of Education has not employed apprentices in any trade from 1 July 1 970. [More…]

• They promise a more relevant product in education. [More…]

• The new educational commission, with the new levels of financial support, will combine opportunities for a better development of balanced educational programs in our community. [More…]

• It is an expression of our present and continuing commitment to education in the Australian community. [More…]

• Firstly, I endorse the matter of principle that has been raised by my colleague Senator Wheeldon, in relation to radio station 3CR and I respect the remarks of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on the same subject matter. [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• In this context my Government has given preliminary consideration to possible ways of improving the existing arrangements for support for schools technical and further education, colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• You will no doubt agree that high priority must continue to be given to governmental support for education, and that we should jointly be doing what we can to improve the efficiency and co-ordination of our efforts to get the best value possible from our outlays. [More…]

• From our own preliminary consideration, we have come to the view that there may well be significant room for improving the existing separate co-operative arrangements applying to the various sectors of education. [More…]

• One step we have taken in this context is the recently announced decision to replace three education Commissions with one Commission to cover the whole post-secondary area, which will enable the Commonwealth Government to receive better coordinated advice on the three separate components in the post-secondary area. [More…]

• We are interested in exploring jointly with States possible avenues for rationalisation and better co-ordination, in particular in administration and finance, across the whole education function but we fully appreciate the complexities that any such exercise entails. [More…]

• Neither is there any attempt by the Commonwealth to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment, nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]

• Commonwealth funding in education ranges at present from full support for universities and colleges of advanced education to varing levels of complementary support for the schools and TAFE sectors. [More…]

• We consider it is possible that a new overall system might be devised which would be acceptable to all governments and could significantly improve co-ordination between governments and rationalisation in the provision of education. [More…]

• We see a continuing place for the Education Commissions consistent with both Commonwealth and State responsibilities. [More…]

• I am writing to you, therefore, to seek your agreement to discussion without commitment at this stage being initiated by my Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, with his State colleagues. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Is it the intention of the Government to reintroduce tertiary education fees? [More…]

• Has any consideration been given to the reintroduction of tertiary education fees? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) What technical and further education institutions are there in Australia? [More…]

• This situation was exacerbated in 1976 when the Whitlam Government cut education funds by a total of $105m over the 1975 level of expenditure. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 March 1 977: [More…]

• 1 ) What education expenditure has been affected by recent Cabinet decisions to curtail or suspend areas of Government expenditure for 1 976-77. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• -Will the Minister for Education give an undertaking that the Federal Government will continue to finance, fully, Australian universities and colleges of advanced education in the calendar year 1 978? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 March 1977: [More…]

• How many women were appointed to, or promoted to, senior positions in the Department of Education during 1976. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 30 March 1977: [More…]

• I am particularly interested in what resources will be available for the education functions that Office was previously performing. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 March 1977: [More…]

• -I want to ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) one or two questions about this admirable legislation which is receiving the support of both sides. [More…]

• -I present a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on its inquiry into the employment of musicians by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• I have quoted for the specific purpose not of winning any vote, which I know would be impossible here in the circumstances, but to give notice to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Government that this matter is not going to rest easy in the future. [More…]

• I wonder whether the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) can supply this information. [More…]

• Hansard contains a number of tables of authoritative figures which show expenditure on education in calendar years. [More…]

• That is the way in which education is costed and understood. [More…]

• The Whitlam Government made a decision that in the 1976 calendar year expenditure on education should be $105m less than expenditure for the 1975 calendar year. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education say what criteria will be applied in determining the eligibility for and number of student teacher scholarships to be made available by the Federal Government, other than those under the Tertiary Education Allowance scheme? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Does the overseas section of the Australian Development Assistance Bureau intend to develop a program to assist underdeveloped countries in the education field? [More…]

• Could there be liaison between the Department of Education and the overseas section in respect of unemployed teachers so as to give these teachers the opportunity of serving for a period in the underdeveloped countries where their skills are needed? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 5 May 1 977: [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present on behalf of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) the report of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal on self-regulation for broadcasters. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education say what function the Schools Commission has in the area of the arts in education? [More…]

• Senator Carrick, Minister for Education, is unable to attend the Senate this morning. [More…]

• by leave- I should like to support the remarks made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) about Mr Fraser I am sure all honourable senators would endorse his remarks about the work that Hansard does. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the report of the Commonwealth Department of Education for 1976. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 25 May 1 977: [More…]

• I want to raise one other matter of a general nature which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) might explain. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) can reassure us; but we are concerned about the wording of that sub-clause, particularly the words ‘or such higher amount as is prescribed in respect of that year’. [More…]

• In view of the fact that firstly I am concerned with the claims being made by these people and plight they are in, and secondly I am concerned with the efforts which have been made by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on behalf of the people, I seek this opportunity to ask the Minister for Education whether he is now in a position to give the Senate some further information on the matter. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Tertiary Education Commission- Recommendations for 1978.I seek leave to make a brief statement relating to this report. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether he can explain that. [More…]

• When the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) was replying to the debate on the motion for the second reading of the Bill he mentioned the control over the transfer of allocations from areas to areas and so on. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he can say what stage has been reached with the appointment of ancillary staff, particularly 40 additional staff, in schools in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The 1977-78 Budget includes $75m for cost supplementation of the programs of the Education Commissions. [More…]

• For the most part the budgetary provision in 1977-78 relates to the second half of the 1977 calendar year programs of the Education Commissions. [More…]

• Both capital and recurrent components of grants to be provided under the 1977 programs of the Education Commissions will be subject to cost supplementation but from 1978 supplementation will be limited to increases in respect of the wages and salaries components of recurrent grants only. [More…]

• As indicated in answer to part (1), both capital and recurrent grants under the 1977 programs of the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission will be supplemented for price and wage increases in 1977-78. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 August 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) What indexes, projected or actual, have been applied to (a) base capital and (b) base recurrent programs for 1977-78 in each sector of the Tertiary Education Commission and each program of the Schools Commission, to arrive at the estimated total of $75 million provided for cost supplementation of grants made by these bodies in the financial year 1977-78 (Financial Tables in Budget Statement No. [More…]

• How will the $75 million estimate be apportioned among capital and recurrent programs of each sector of the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Is the Minister saying that the Commission’s assessment of the needs of the States in respect of capital programs for education is wrong? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the annual report of the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education for 1976. [More…]

• The recommendations are being studied by the Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs, Health, Education and the Northern Territory. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Programs of the Education Commissions for the 1978-80 Rolling Triennium-Ministerial Statement, 20 October 1977. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask whether he has seen or heard of reports in the Adelaide Advertiser that English courses for migrants in South Australia are being cut because of cuts in Federal Government finance for further education and that some courses are even being abandoned. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen in the 12 October edition of Education, the journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, an illustration of Idi Amin with the caption: ‘Idi Amin couldn’t make an atom bomb with our uranium if we left it in the ground ‘? [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Department of Social Security taken steps to establish a Social Welfare Unit for Aborigines within the Department; if so, is this Social Welfare Unit to have comparable powers to the Social Welfare Units in the Departments of Health and Education. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education, in view of certain recent speculation, inform the Senate whether the Government has any intention of introducing fees for foreign students attending Australian universities, or for students undertaking second degrees? [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate what progress has been made in the recruitment and training of Aboriginal teachers and teaching aides? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: What is the method of allocating capital funds for school buildings in the nongovernment sector? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether these provisions are sufficient to allow for the extension of the activities of the Special Broadcasting Service into remote areas as well as to smaller cities such as Adelaide. [More…]

• I merely inform the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that I think that what Senator Townley has said about the two clauses to which he has objections ought to be given serious consideration. [More…]

• May I just confirm that, in relation to post graduate students at colleges of advanced education- if in fact there are any and I think there are nowadays- the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is saying that those post graduate students at colleges of advanced education should be treated equally with post graduate students at universities? [More…]

• As to the second question, relating to colleges of advanced education, to my knowledge there are no post graduate students at those colleges. [More…]

• The report referred to is ‘Education for Aborigines’ Report to the Schools Commission by the Aboriginal Consultative Group, June 1975 which contains a total of 37 recommendtions. [More…]

• Thirteen recommendations are being actively pursued by the National Aboriginal Education Committee or respective authorities. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Fourthly, are the films a part of the material produced by the Department of Education? [More…]

• I suppose that is inevitable anyhow when one enters into what is basically, I imagine, a group of films aimed, if I can put it in the broader compass, at sex education. [More…]

• They are not part of the Depanment of Education. [More…]

• I saw an item in one of the newspapers this morning reporting that a project called SEMP- the Social Education Materials Project- had been banned yesterday by the Queensland Government. [More…]

• State governments, all State education departments, of educators and churchmen. [More…]

• There is, I think, a genuine public interest in matters relating to social education and social science as well as in the question of social values, community values, and whether, in schools, programs exceed the limits that one may judge. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Education. [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…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware of problems surrounding an academic award for a nursing education program. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether Commonwealth funding is available for completion of basic degree programs and, if not, when it will be considered by the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission? [More…]

• As a result, in co-operation with my colleague the Minister for Health and through the Tertiary Education Commission, I set up an inquiry into nursing education under Dr Sax. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Does his Department keep statistics on the number of university graduates who are unable to obtain employment in their chosen profession immediately after graduation? [More…]

• We do maintain such statistics throughout the education system of Australia. [More…]

• I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, by saying that whilst I appreciate that the Commonwealth has no constitutional power or formal responsibility regarding educational standards in the state school systems, does the Minister consider that he has any duty, as the Minister responsible for education in the whole country, to see that modern courses such as Man- A course of Study- MACOS- and the Social Education Materials Projects- SEMP- which are professionally designed for and relevant to all Australian schools are used in those schools? [More…]

• Thirdly, in view of the Government’s oft repeated concern for community involvement and parent choice in education, what action will the Minister take to see that the parent organisations of all those Queensland schools which have sought to retain the MACOS program will not be denied freedom of choice in this matter? [More…]

• I intend to say a few words this evening about the Social Education Materials Project display that has been in this building for the last few days. [More…]

• I must admit that I was impressed not only by the display itself but also by the educational materials. [More…]

• Having an educational background, I am probably more able to be professionally critical of the material than some other members and senators. [More…]

• To talk about SEMP and discuss it without actually having seen the material means that we are talking in the abstract about an educational program, not knowing what it involves. [More…]

• I suggest to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that he might investigate the possibility of having a display similar to the one that has been in Parliament House during the last few days set up at various locations in Queensland. [More…]

• I know that this would require a fair amount of organisation by the Department of Education and would probably involve some cost, but I think it is important to investigate the possibility. [More…]

• At Question Time this morning the Minister said something which suggested that we would be able to convince the authorities in Queensland only by a program of education to allow the public to gain an understanding of the nature of the program. [More…]

• The Curriculum Development Centre, which is the body responsible for the Social Education Materials Project, is a cooperative Federal-State venture, as is SEMP, and it is also a vendor of programs. [More…]

• I think that it is to be in the Catholic Education Office here, and that it will also be available in the various States, including Queensland. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education make appropriate arrangements to display within Parliament House material of Man: [More…]

• A Course of Study in the same way as the Social Education Materials Project information was displayed? [More…]

• I did not intend to rise again because I think I have all the answers I require from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and I thank him. [More…]

• -I would like to pursue a little further with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) the guidelines and the general principles of the legislation which were outlined to the State Premiers. [More…]

• I thank the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for acknowledging the urgency of our suggestion to establish a national water commission. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967, I present the annual report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31 December 1976. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Was the deadline for application for tertiary education assistance allowances 3 1 March last? [More…]

• In addition, the Commonwealth is setting up a trust fund for the education and general benefit of the three children of the Council workers killed in the explosion as an indication of the Government’s concern for their families. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Under what conditions is the secondary allowance benefit for students in years 1 1 and 12 of school payable to students who are living independently of their parents? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware of recent reports in the Press and elsewhere alleging a drop in the standard of basic skills acquired by Australian children at school? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]

• Mr Howard, and the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, to discuss a report that the Taxation Department is considering taxing country teachers on the value of rent subsidies. [More…]

• The Government chose Launceston and a site adjoining the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Certainly Warrnambool, with the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education established in that provincial city, would have liked to have had the College. [More…]

• The purpose of this legislation is to provide maritime-related education and training for people who wish to become, or are, officers on merchant or fishing vessels. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 978: [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- The answer is yes, they are. [More…]

• In my speech in the debate on the second reading I asked the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether he would give consideration to the suggestion that the Australian Maritime College be in the position to have courses which could be availed of by urban fire brigades for training to cover ship fires. [More…]

• Senator Missen said by way of interjection that the second reading speech by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) does disclose the information. [More…]

• If I understood both Senator Tehan and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) correctly, the Minister has stated that the cash of the company, or the cash in hand as he put it, is sufficient to discharge the $ 14m total outstanding debt. [More…]

• However, I think it is appropriate to record the vastly increased contribution by the Commonwealth to educational expenditure on schools in the past few years and the results of that increased expenditure, which are revealed in the most recent report of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• It is important to recognise, wherever the debate may lead in relation to the qualitative issues in education, that that is a fact which has emerged and which suggests that, in terms of the States Grants (Schools) Acts, the result has been a marked improvement for schools in this country. [More…]

• 1 ) How many graduates of Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and Technical Colleges, respectively, are at present employed by the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]

• What is the proportion of graduates of Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and Technical Colleges, respectively, of the total number of persons employed by the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 February 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Department of Education made any predictions as to what funds will be spent on teaching staff in the future, in view of the Minister’s prediction that there will be a surplus of teachers by 1985; if so, what are those predictions. [More…]

• Has the Department of Education set priorities as to which particular areas in education will be staffed in the future; if so, what are those priorities. [More…]

• Will the Minister be considering the appointment of a person, with expertise in matters relating to education for ethnic groups, to the proposed National Inquiry into all aspects of teacher training; ifnot, why not. [More…]

• The approach adopted in the report of the Australian Education Council working party on teacher supply and demand was to accept the estimates of future demand for teachers that were supplied by State Education Departments for government schools while estimates were made by the working party for non-government schools. [More…]

• Migrant education teachers are provided on the basis of one teacher to a maximum of 30 migrant pupils. [More…]

• The Schools Authority also maintains as part of its education facilities at Telopea Park High School an intensive English language centre for secondary students referred from neighbourhood secondary schools. [More…]

• In the last financial year, 1976-77, the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority spent about $500,000 on migrant education, so the matter is being given significant priority. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate of the position of Australian Capital Territory child migrant education programs, particularly as to whether adequate numbers of such teachers are available and whether the provision of facilities for teaching English as a second language in the Australian Capital Territory are adequate for migrant children? [More…]

• How much did the Commonwealth Government spend on the provision of migrant education television services in the financial year 1 976-77. [More…]

• What were the original procedures initiated by the Commonwealth Government to fund migrant education television services. [More…]

• Has any cost-benefit analysis been carried out in connection with the Migrant Education Television Scheme; if so, what are the results. [More…]

• Has any consultation taken place between: (a) the Commonwealth Government and ethnic organisations throughout Australia; (b) the administrators of the Migrant Education Television Scheme and ethnic organisations throughout Australia. [More…]

• 1 indicate my appreciation to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for making available a copy of the report. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a draft report on study leave in universities and colleges of advanced education, prepared by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• -In July 1977, following the establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission, I renewed a request which I had made to the former Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education to inquire into and report on the systems of study leave and staff development leave in universities and colleges. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has prepared a report and has decided, with my endorsement, to release it in draft form in order to obtain comment from institutions, organisations and others affected by its recommendations. [More…]

• States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 I present a statement of payments to the States authorised under that Act for the financial year 1 976-77. [More…]

• to (g) Initial payments for the year to a number of students under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme were delayed because of an unpredictable human error in the payments procedures. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 February 1 978: [More…]

• Were some Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme payments delayed in Queensland this year due to cheques being dated wrongly; if so: (a) what date was placed on the cheques; (b) what date should have been placed on the cheques; (c) were some students whose payments were delayed informed earlier that their first payment would be made about 6 February; (d) when did the students whose payments were delayed receive their first payments for 1 978: (e) how many students were affected; (f) how did the error occur; and (g) what steps have been taken to ensure the error will not be repeated. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education the following question, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1978: [More…]

• Were applications for new course approvals for 1978 made from any colleges of advanced education in Queensland; if so, (a) what applications were made; (b) which applications, if any, were successful; and (c) why were the other applications refused approval. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 16 March 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Is the Minister aware that Social Education Materials Project (SEMP) and Man-A Course of Study (MACOS) programs have been banned for use in State Schools in Queensland. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 February 1978: [More…]

• How many Migrant English teachers have been employed by the Education Department in each State in each year since 1972. [More…]

• What is the percentage of Migrant English teachers of the total number of teachers currently employed by the Education Department in each State. [More…]

• What funds have been made available by the Federal Government for Migrant Education in each year since 1 972. [More…]

• Will the Federal Government be making additional funds available for Migrant Education in the near future; if not, why not. [More…]

• If I might digress for a moment, I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) will be in the chamber this evening. [More…]

• I understand that in relation to the Environment Protection (Alligator Rivers Region) Bill dealt with yesterday, Senator Wright and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) had some discussions during the luncheon or dinner adjournment in order to consider this aspect. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) prepared to answer the question that Senator McLaren and I have asked? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: How many schools in Australia which are funded directly or indirectly by the Commonwealth or are supported in some way by the Commonwealth are associated with the Ananda Marga sect? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) forecasting the introduction of subsequent legislation if the States or any State fails to request what is considered to be a satisfactory code of practice? [More…]

• During the course of the debate that we just heard on these Bills, in reply to Senator Button the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) made certain statements concerning education expenditure in this country. [More…]

• I wish to nail the mistruth that Senator Carrick reiterates about the Labor Government having reduced expenditure on education in its last year of office. [More…]

• That Speech sets out the figures for Commonwealth expenditure on education for the three years of the Labor Government. [More…]

• Page 28 of that document indicates that in the year 1973-74 total spending on education by the Federal Government, that is the first year of the Whitlam Government, was $858. [More…]

• In 1974-75, the second year of the Labor Government, again we doubled total expenditure on education to an amount of $ 1 , 67 1 . [More…]

• 6m in education expenditure in the last year of the Labor Government. [More…]

• Senator Carrick comes into this chamber so often and talks about the fact that the Labor Government in its last year of office reduced expenditure on education. [More…]

• I have risen at the third reading stage only to point out, to place on the record and to make it clear to any person who may be listening to this debate that in its third year in office the Labor Government continued to increase its expenditure on education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the guidelines issued by the Tertiary Education Commission on 3 June 1977 for the 1978-80 triennium specified that there would be no new universities or colleges of advanced education established during the triennium? [More…]

• If so, why is it intended to establish Casey University and was the decision to establish that university in the purview of the Tertiary Education Commission when those guidelines were prepared? [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education and refer to the statement that he put down last night and to answers to certain questions this morning on fees paid by university students. [More…]

• What courses will the Academy offer which are not already available in any of the present tertiary education institutions. [More…]

• As I stated when I announced the guidelines for 1978-80 on 3 June 1 977, the Government in making its decisions, had to reconcile the aspirations at all levels of education with its policy of containing inflation, which necessarily involves restraint in public expenditure, and reducing the level of the deficit in the Commonwealth budget. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 978: [More…]

• What is the estimated total difference between the projected expenditures for 1978 and 1979 for the various education commissions under the guidelines announced on 26 May 1976 and 3 June 1977. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It will be recalled during the recent debate on supplementary grants to education Labor speakers claimed that when their Party was in government it did not reduce capital spending on schools. [More…]

• I relate this to the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) which gives a fairly clear indication that the States are perfectly free to move forward on their various proposals as far as urban transport is concerned. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The National Aboriginal Education Committee has now been functioning for some 18 months. [More…]

• Is the Minister in a position to indicate what progress the Committee has made since it was set up and have any schemes or reports been made to the Minister in regard to Aboriginal education? [More…]

• J ask the Minister for Education: Has his Department any information available to it about concealed unemployment in schools? [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting for the lunch I had commenced to outline education funding in its various sectors and was in the process of indicating the details of the guidelines that are necessary to effect that funding. [More…]

• I now turn to deal specifically with technical and further education. [More…]

• Will the Minister spell this policy out in some detail and undertake a public education campaign to inform all Australians of the need for energy conservation. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 4 May 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 May 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 4 May 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 9 May 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) What was (a) the total value of Commonwealth support; and (b) the value of such support per student for: (a) Universities, (b) Colleges of advanced education, and (c) technical colleges for each of the financial years 1974-75, 1 975-76 and 1976-77. [More…]

• The actual expenditure by the Commonwealth Government on tertiary education for 1974-75, 1975-76 and 1 976-77 is set out below: [More…]

• -Could the Minister for Education provide the Senate with the latest projections on primary and secondary school enrolments in Australia? [More…]

• Education and the Arts- Senator Martin and Senator Robertson. [More…]

• Education and the Arts- Senator Colston and Senator Teague. [More…]

• On behalf of Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, and pursuant to section 35 of the Student Assistance Act 1973, 1 present the report of the operation of that Act in 1 977. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the report of the Department of Education for 1977. [More…]

• Has the Government conducted an evaluation of the Adult Migrant Education Program; if so: [More…]

• the Government adopt the theme of access to community life and the prevention of disability, with public education as an integral part of both themes; and [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education confirm that he has received the final report on tertiary study leave? [More…]

• In this context, the Prime Minister stated that arrangements would be made for education authorities to assume responsibility for non-government schools for the handicapped which wish to participate. [More…]

• and (c) These recommendations of the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped concern the education of handicapped children and were referred to my colleague the Minister for Education, Senator the Hon. [More…]

• He has advised me that the Schools Commission has begun a wide ranging national survey of special education provision, and that the Council’s recommendation relating to information about the education of children in State institutions will be kept in mind in the course of conducting the survey. [More…]

• Senator Carrick also advises that authorities in the States responsible for the administration of Schools Commission Special Education funds make allocations for services to children in hospitals. [More…]

• Funds have also been made available since 1 977 under the Children in Residential Institutions Program to bring life experience for children living in institutions closer to that of other children and to enable institutions to provide the support some children need in their formal education. [More…]

• the education of handicapped children should be the responsibility of education authorities and accordingly should be funded from that source rather than through the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act; [More…]

• -I merely want to ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) a question which may also involve you, Mr President. [More…]

• From 1 January 1974 the Commonwealth assumed full funding for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 15 August 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) What was: (a) the total value of Commonwealth support; and (b) the value of such support per student, for (i) universities; (ii) colleges of advanced education; and (iti) technical colleges, for each of the financial years 1974-75, 1975-76 and 1976-77. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The purpose of the review was to provide a resource document for those with a professional interest in the drugs of dependence area, particularly government officers and those involved in health education. [More…]

• My question is to the Minister for Education and relates to media education. [More…]

• I ask: What initiatives has the Government undertaken in relation to media education? [More…]

• Are there any plans for additional funding for studies or programs in media education? [More…]

• Tertiary Education Commission- Ministerial statement, 19 October 1978. [More…]

• -Will the Minister for Education indicate whether a stalemate has been reached in the current dispute involving teachers in Australian Capital Territory government schools? [More…]

• Further, what prospects are there for settlement and what action is being taken to bring to an end the rolling strikes which are disrupting children’s education at a critical time of the year? [More…]

• That a referendum of voters of the Australian Capital Territory should be held, as soon as possible, to confirm or reject the recommendations of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health in its Report No. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]

• What action has been taken, or is proposed, concerning the Working Party’s recommendations, in view of the stated understanding of the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped (Second Report) that, although these proposals were accepted by the Government, lack of funds restricted the implementation of the recommendations, and the failure of the Tertiary Education Commission to make provision for the implementation of the proposals. [More…]

• However, the Universities Council, in Volume 2 of the Tertiary Education Commission’s Report for 1979-81 Triennium (paragraph B52), has stated that it believes thatopportunities exist for the redeployment of resources within the field of medical education generally to such areas as rehabilitation medicine. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1 978: [More…]

• 1 ) Did the draft report of the Tertiary Education Commission examining study leave in Australian Universities find that study leave served a valuable function, enhanced Australia’s international reputation, provided benefits as a result of research, and that there was no evidence of widespread abuse. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the practice of corporal punishment should be abolished throughout the Australian education system. [More…]

• The Depanment of Education certainly made no such submission. [More…]

• I had a couple of questions on this Department for which I have not received answers from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• asked the Minister fro Education, upon notice, on 13 September 1978: [More…]

• Have funds been withdrawn from the Aboriginal Adult Education Program so that no part-time instructors employed under the program are now working in Alice Springs or Amoonguna; if so, will the program again be funded. [More…]

• I will seek it out, study it and compare it with the Cabinet decision and the Tertiary Education Commission report, and respond to Senator Button. [More…]

• On further questioning, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) reiterated that it was a Cabinet decision and that there was no indication how that money was intended to be expended. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate of any recent developments in respect of the Australian Maritime College. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 1 present the report on the operation of the Act for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]

• The reasons for introduction of the Bill were outlined by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech. [More…]

• 1 ) The statutory bodies which have a responsibility to report through the Minister for Education to the Parliament are: [More…]

• Expenditure by the Commonwealth on the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training is outlined below: [More…]

• to (4) The Queensland Department of Education is the appropriate authority to provide this information. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 6 November 1 978: [More…]

• One of the documents was a letter from the Tasmanian Minister for Education. [More…]

• It has everything to do with the Education Department in Tasmania. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- by leave- In order to facilitate the seeking of leave by Senator Wriedt to continue his remarks later, my intention was to indicate that the Government intended that at an early date a full debate should take place. [More…]

• -I draw the attention of the Minister for Education to the comments on page 190 of the Tertiary Education Commission’s last report expressing concern that enrolments in para-professional and technical courses in the predominantly State-funded technical and further education sector have fallen every year since 1974 in Queensland, whereas in the same State there has been a rapid growth in similar courses at the associate diploma level in colleges of advanced education which are fully funded by the Federal Government. [More…]

• Does it represent an attempt by the Queensland Government to divert students into colleges of advanced education and thus obtain Federal funding, denying the Queensland people the full range of educational opportunities available through technical and further education? [More…]

• It is true that, in the technical and further education area, the Commonwealth Government’s role is one of topping up. [More…]

• As Senator Button knows, basically more than 70 per cent of the funding for technical and further education comes from the individual States. [More…]

• I can only point to the fact that under this Government the expansion of technical and further education has been highly significant and will continue to be so. [More…]

• I will have the question referred to the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• I asked one of a series of, I think, four questions yesterday to challenge the validity of a statement the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) made on the previous Thursday. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]

• In the field of education many bodies and public interest organisations which in some circumstances could be regarded as lobby groups participate in the work of various advisory committees which put forward recommendations on education policy issues for consideration by Government. [More…]

• There is ongoing contact, both formal and informal, between such bodies and my Depanment, and other pans of the portfolio including the education commissions. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]

• 2 standing in my name relating to a report of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health. [More…]

• What amount has been made available by the Commonwealth to the States or to regional bodies in each of the financial years from 1972-73 to 1978-79 for pre-school education within the children ‘s services program. [More…]

• Pre-school Education (Question No. [More…]

• Volume 2 of the Tertiary Education Commission’s Report for 1 979-8 1 Triennium, which was tabled in the Senate on 2 1 September 1978, includes enrolment statistics for each college of advanced education. [More…]

• Only students enrolled in courses approved by the Tertiary Education Commission under Section 13 ( 1 ) (a) of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act, 1978 are included. [More…]

• All of the courses approved under this section of the Act, for the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, are courses leading to formal advanced education awards. [More…]

• Programs of continuing education may be approved by the Commission under Section 13 (1 ) (b) of the same Act and colleges of advanced education may spend part of the recurrent funds provided under the Act on such programs. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1 979: [More…]

• Are the students in the external non-qualifying course provided by the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education counted for funding or other purposes for that Institute. [More…]

• My second major point relates to the statement on page 7 of the report to the effect that the main emphasis has been going to training and education of Third World people, especially within Australia, and I should like to raise this point again for the Government ‘s consideration. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Did the number of unemployed benefit recipients increase by 18,000 between last November and February of this year compared with the corresponding period last year? [More…]

• Is this increase in part attributed to a greater number of school leavers deciding not to continue with their education this year? [More…]

• What proposals from the Williams Committee report does the Government see as being capable of urgent implementation to ensure that these students either receive work or are attracted back to appropriate post-secondary education? [More…]

• -I would acknowledge that the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts is a very valuable contribution to public understanding of what is a very important problem. [More…]

• I am aware that within that report there are matters related to education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I draw attention to Press reports this morning which relate to ministerial reaction to the latest report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• I wish to speak briefly to the statement that has just been put down by the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]

• Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1 967 I present a report by the council of the operations of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31 December 1977, together with financial statements in respect of that year. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 29 March 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 29 March 1979: [More…]

• Has the Minister, at any stage, informed State Governments that any attempt to waive compulsory contributions from all tertiary students as a condition of enrolment would, in the view of the Federal Government, be contrary to the agreement entered into during 1973 which has resulted in the present public funding arrangements for tertiary education. [More…]

• I ) Special courses may be developed under NEAT to assist unemployed people in gaining employment particularly in those occupations for which suitable training is not available on-the-job with an employer or through an established educational institution. [More…]

• NEAT funds arc provided on a short-term basis only and are intended to enable industry or the education system opportunity to assess the course and provide for future funding. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Government considered the Neal-Hird report on Northern Territory education? [More…]

• Will the proposed transfer of the Northern Territory section of the Department of Education to the Northern Territory Government on 1 July 1 979 have any effect on the recommendations of the report? [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer the Minister to his guidelines for the Tertiary Education Commission issued on 9 June 1978. [More…]

• That is, the Tertiary Education Commission- is asked to have in reserve some high priority projects which could be added to its recommended program. [More…]

• I ask: What effort did the Tertiary Education Commission expend in preparing such a list of high priority projects and in fact were any further projects added? [More…]

• With the benefit of hindsight does the Minister regard this somewhat ad hoc method as the best way of planning capital expenditure in education? [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New Wales-Minister for Education)- by leave- I thank Senator Cavanagh for his apology. [More…]

• The University Student Progress Study, outlined in Volume 2, Appendix D of the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, found that 57 per cent of the 16,141 full-time students commencing a bachelor course in 1971 and continuing their studies on a full-time basis, completed their course in minimum time. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 1 present a report on provisions for child migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1 978. [More…]

• The Bills provide additional funds for universities, colleges of advanced education, colleges of technical and further education, and schools in the States in respect of cost movements in recurrent programs for 1978-79. [More…]

• In addition, the Bill relating to tertiary education provides additional funds for more new capital projects in the second half of 1 979 and advanced education courses in tertiary and further education institutions. [More…]

• The tertiary education Bill also contains for the first time a provision whereby government funds for approved non-government business colleges will be appropriated through the State grants mechanism. [More…]

• In essence, the Bills are evidence of the Government’s continuing commitment to support education from school to university. [More…]

• I respond to Senator Douglas McClelland by saying simply that I am very much aware of the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• One of the main conditions that the Tertiary Education Commission saw as necessary if we were to proceed was that there should be an arrangement with the New South Wales Government to achieve parallel development of technical institutions on the same campus as the college of advanced education. [More…]

• Tomorrow or the next day I will be issuing guidelines to the Tertiary Education Commission, and the Commission will report to me its recommended priorities. [More…]

• I would hope that in due course we would be able to indicate the viewpoint of the Tertiary Education Commission on the matter. [More…]

• There is no doubt in the world that there is a very real role for decentralised education as an industry. [More…]

• All I am saying is that if one considers it important for honourable senators to debate into the early hours of the morning then the education statement is also important and the Senate should continue to debate it right now. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Which state school systems have now reached the Karmel resource use targets set in 1973? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether the AM program of 6 June 1 979 included the following statement from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate: [More…]

• Having regard to continuing inflation that means a reduction in the current expenditure on education. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate about the current speculation that fees for tertiary education courses might be reintroduced in 1 980? [More…]

• Three-year rolling program for adult migrant education; and [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education calculated the fall in the real value of postgraduate awards since January1977 when they were last substantially increased? [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- by leave- The fact of the matter is that what Senator Grimes has now said is equally totally untrue. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the text of a statement by the Chairman of the Australian Education Council on the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training- the Williams Committee- on education, training and employment. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the annual report of the Commonwealth Department of Education for 1978. [More…]

• The Fund has to date distributed in excess of$ 18m of its capital, and interest earnings, on welfare relief of eligible ex-Servicemen and women and their dependants in needy circumstances, on education assistance for eligible children and on eligible children suffering from serious afflictions. [More…]

• The following information relates to the number of Aboriginal students who, in 1 978, undertook full time or part time courses at Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education or institutions of Technical and Further Education, with the assistance of the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 June 1979: [More…]

• How many: (a) male; and (b) female Aborigines are enrolled (i) at each University and College of Advanced Education; and (ii) in each faculty at each university or college. [More…]

• How many in each category are receiving any technical and further education, at which institutions are they enrolled, and what form of training are they receiving. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: What attitude does he take towards the rumours that the Tasmanian Government is proposing to close the Mount Nelson campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education? [More…]

• Do 1 take it for granted that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is not going to reply to this request? [More…]

• I want to make clear, because I think it is not clear now that Senator Button has intervened, the point I was pursuing, which I am satisfied that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has answered. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to have the Government take up this matter with the Yugoslavian Embassy because the Government must recognise that now in Australia a large number of Australian citizens refuse to recognise the current Yugoslavian Government as the Government of their country. [More…]

• I refer to the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), in which he stated: [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) when he replies to clarify for me the division of roles between the Department of Foreign Affairs in its custody of overseas travel documents and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on those rare occasions when a foreign seaman might seek sanctuary- not so much internal sanctuary as aid under the Refugee Seamen’s Convention. [More…]

• In view of the answer given by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), may I suggest that consideration of clause 7 of the Bill be postponed until an answer to my question is provided because, depending on the type of answer I am given, I may have a series of other questions to ask. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to remark that if, as in clause 6 and as emphasised by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), an Australian passport remains the property of the Commonwealth, it would seem to me that the Commonwealth should take more pride in the control of its property than has been indicated by the Minister in his reply at the second reading stage. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 June 1979: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• As there is much confusion amongst the young unemployed and their families after Mr Viner’s barely concealed threats to take away their unemployment benefit, will the Minister for Education explain his reference in the telex to ‘a process of early identification of “at risk” students, devising meaningful alternatives for them’? [More…]

• They all acknowledge that they can identify such students who are potentially at risk, that there are people who, for some reason or other in the course of their journey, lose the sense that school is for them, lose a sense of motivation, lose a sense that the generalist stream of education will benefit them, and therefore tend to switch on”. [More…]

• That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to amend the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967. [More…]

• I have to inform the Senate that the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Carrick, will be absent from the chamber throughout the whole of this day as he is attending a meeting of the Australian Education Council in Perth. [More…]

• 41 (Australian National University Amendment Bill 1978; and Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1978) be discharged from the Notice Paper. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that the Australian National University Amendment Bill 1979 and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1979, introduced this day, supersede Government Business Order of the Day No. [More…]

• I would like to direct a couple of matters to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the Committee stage of the Local Government (Personal Income Tax Sharing) Amendment Bill. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the text of a statement on the meeting of the Australian Education Council held in Perth on 25 and 26 October 1979. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, and for the information of honourable senators, I present a report entitled ‘Australian Students and Their Schools’. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, and pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967,I present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education 1978. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, and pursuant to section 14 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, section 140 of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 and the corresponding provisions of the assessment Acts relating to sales tax, payroll tax, estate duty and gift duty, I present the 58th report of the Commissioner of Taxation dated 1 November 1979.I present also taxation statistics for 1977-78 dated 1 November 1 979, supplement to the . [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, and pursuant to section 33 (2) of the Australian National University Act 1946, I present the annual report of the Australian National University 1978. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration Education Act 1971, I present a report entitled ‘Child Migrant Education 1978-79’. [More…]

• To complete the second reading speech on the States Grants (Teritary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• These amounts were approved within the programs for advanced education for the 1979-81 triennium. [More…]

• I suggest that the second reading of this Bill and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1979 be debated cognately. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 August 1979: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Education, concerns school buildings. [More…]

• We still have areas involving the Parliament, and the departments of Education, Treasury and Foreign Affairs to consider and I am sure that other honourable senators have many questions to ask on those matters before the Senate adjourns at 12 o’clock. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1979: [More…]

• I am making an apppeal to the Minster for Education (Senator Carrick) to talk to the Government to ensure that this situation, where we are sitting until 5 a.m. or 5.30 a.m., does not happen again tomorrow morning. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I table a report by the Minister for Education entitled ‘Progress in Education 1979-80’. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement concerning the report by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the education of isolated children. [More…]

• Matters relating to poverty are within the responsibility of a number of portfolios, including Social Services, Health and Education and Science. [More…]

• Education, Labour, Posts and Telegraphs, Public Health, Public Works, and Trade and Industry. [More…]

• In the field of education, the Australian military forces have built schools and provided teachers. [More…]

• The more education that is given to the indigenous people the less likely they are to drift along in a very slow fashion. [More…]

• I have believed over the years that in many ways New South Wales spends more on education and lest on health than Queensland, where the situation is reversed. [More…]

• It simply means that in one State you may have got a better education, but in your early years you may not have received good health services. [More…]

• To put it another way, the Government has, as I concede, taken the challenge and has made grants available for education. [More…]

• Just as the Government is rightly making the airlines pay to a degree for the maintenance of navigation and other facilities associated with aviation, some few cents out of each $1 earned by the bus companies should be paid into a fund from which Senator Wright or perhaps the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) could feed back money to State conservation Ministers who could then acquire the extra acreage that we have been advocating for the protection of our marsupials. [More…]

• adequate measures to promote family life, particularly in the fields of child endowment, maternity ‘ allowances and education; and [More…]

• I was present at this meeting, where the farmers made immediate demands on the Government to implement a short term plan to effect instant relief in fields most affected by the cost-price squeeze, including land tax, receipts tax, shire rates, consolidation of rural debt, interest rates, freight and transport costs, wool compensation and education. [More…]

• I feel that this Government is falling down on the essential job of helping the family and of helping to populate this country when it again fails to increase child endowment, when it leaves maternity allowances at the miserable rates at which they have been for so many years, and when in regard to education it still has not done all it should, although I must be fair and admit that the Government has done a lot in recent years for education. [More…]

• I think that it has shown commendable interests in education but I feel it could go further. [More…]

• There is no provision in the Speech to take care of the social problems of health and education, and also social welfare. [More…]

• This can be done by the implementation of Labor’s policy on education. [More…]

• The advise of the Department of Treasury, Department of Health and Department of Education and Science was also taken by the Australian delegation. [More…]

• In that way they would know that they had an obligation to defend their country or at least to equip themselves to defend their country, but there would be a minimum of interference with their education or civil training. [More…]

• He is responsible for the Christian Education and evangelism of the Aboriginal inhabitants, and there his responsibilities end. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, more specifically in his capacity as Minister-in-Charge of the Commonwealth Scientific and industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• I should like to have heard more in the Governor-General’s Speech on the problems in education. [More…]

• I asked Senator Wright, who represents the Minister for Education and Science, a question concerning overseas students who are coming to Australia. [More…]

• The issue before me points out at page 2 that about $31,616 has been provided for adult education courses run by the Department of Adult Education at the University of Sydney, and it gives details of other facilities which are available. [More…]

• Continuing assistance is to be given to our young people in the field of education and to the aged and ill in the community. [More…]

• the great social issues of pollution, interest rates, housing and land costs, poverty, education and the burdens on families’. [More…]

• In education, in nutrition and in almost every aspect of life the Aboriginal people are not being given a fair go. [More…]

• There are families which face enormous problems in education. [More…]

• During the 20 years of office of this Government we have been building up a caste system in education and through the tax laws which have been developed. [More…]

• The development of Australia really got under way in that period and no-one can deny the great awakening thought that was displayed and the tremendous success that was achieved by Sir Robert Menzies in relation to tertiary education. [More…]

• He was widely and well educated and he obviously took every opportunity to improve his education and knowledge. [More…]

• Someone, either in government or in the education administration, is to blame for this position. [More…]

• I referred the matter to my colleague the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• He informed me that as from this year that College has been recognised as a college of advanced education. [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science throw any light on the figures which appear in the report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education which show that although the number of university students in Victoria and New South Wales are roughly comparable per head of population, in Victoria there are 25,000 students in colleges of advanced education and only 4,000 in New South Wales, and that the Commonwealth proposes to grant $30m in each State for capital expenditure over the next 3 years but only $23m in New South Wales as opposed to $52m in Victoria for recurrent expenditure? [More…]

• With the concurrence of honourable senators I incorporate in Hansard 6 paragraphs of a letter from the Minister of Education and Science providing information on this matter. [More…]

• Surely the Government should have realised by now that education is not the answer for the prevention of smoking. [More…]

• They have dealt with legislative and administrative machinery matters and what some people have been pleased to call public education or public responsibility. [More…]

• There has been considerable emphasis on introducing social studies on pollution at all educational levels so that not only this generation but also the next may be aware of the problem. [More…]

• adequate measures to promote family life, particularly in the fields of child endowment, maternity allowances and education: and [More…]

• They believe that their children are entitled to education and health facilities. [More…]

• the great social issues of pollution, interest rates, housing and land costs, poverty, education and the burdens of families’. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]

• Will he seek, through the Minister for Education and Science, to iron out a problem that has arisen between the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth concerning secondary teachers’ scholarship tuition? [More…]

• On behalf of the young men and women involved, will the Minister try to adjust the petty difference that has arisen between the respective Education Departments and overcome this problem, which affects a number of young Australians and their families’? [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• As to whether his suggestion in this instance is practicable, I shall refer to the Minister for Education and Science whom 1 represent in this chamber, and ask him and the Minister for Defence to consider this question together with question No. [More…]

• $325,000 for education, a total of $1,450,000. [More…]

• Commonwealth to New South Wales for housing, health and education was $775,000. [More…]

• In addition to these grants there have been the problems of education. [More…]

• In addition grants were made in the following fields: For university education, 11; for secretarial and business college courses, 64; for matriculation studies, 12; for teacher training, 5; and for others, mainly at technical colleges, 23. [More…]

• In addition to this, as honourable senators will recollect, in the Bill which was passed through the Senate the Commonwealth provided subsidies to the wage structure of Aboriginals to allow them to be employed in areas where their study, education and skills did not put them on a parity with European-descended labour. [More…]

• Included in this area are the very important fields of health, housing, education and employment. [More…]

• Grants totalling $5,410,000 will be made to the States in 1969-70 to support State activities in the fields of housing, education, health, employment and vocational training. [More…]

• It was incurred in the education field on such items as the grants-in-aid scheme for secondary school students and payment for the mentally handicapped Aboriginal children in existing special schools; the construction of an additional wing at Kirinari hostel, which is run by the Aboriginal Children’s Advancement Society; adult education courses, renovations to Tranby hostel, which is run by the Co-operative for Aborigines Ltd; assistance with the cost of school buses; work in the pre-school area; renovations to preschool buildings; assistance to church and charitable bodies, including the construction of a hall for the Daughters of Charity primarily for follow-up work on former preschool children; and a grant to the Save the Children Fund for pre-schools. [More…]

• An amount of $5.4m is being made available for housing, health, education and employment. [More…]

• The secondary grants, which will be available from the beginning of the 1970 school year, will be awarded by the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science who, in considering the applications to him, will take into account the extent to which the applicants are regarded as capable of benefiting from further secondary school studies. [More…]

• I think all honourable senators will agree with me that it is the most practical way to assist these young people to gain an education. [More…]

• I am sure all honourable senators will agree that education is the real answer to so many of the problems of our Aboriginal people. [More…]

• After discussing these matters they continued their planning for the future in the field of housing, in the field of education and in the field of health, all of which I believe are tremendously important for the future of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• We have a school manned by Australian teachers who are responsible for the education of about 1,000 Australian school children. [More…]

• 1 ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware of the claim made by the State Government of New South Wales that owing to the limited amount of funds made available under the Commonwealth Educational Grant over 3,000 students who passed their Higher School Certificate examination in 1969 and who wished to make teaching their career had to be rejected by the State Government for teacher training scholarships although suitably qualified. [More…]

• lt becomes something of a catch-cry to say thai any dislocation of services arises through insufficiency of finance provided by the Commonwealth Government, In the educational field the Commonwealth Government’s financial supplies have increased out of all proportion over the past 5 years, as indeed have the appropriations made by the States from their own revenues. [More…]

• In relation to colleges for teacher training, it should be noted that a great expansion has been caused as a direct result of the Commonwealth’s policy instituted some 3 or 4 years ago specifically to supplement finance for this aspect of education. [More…]

• Is it a fact that since the institution of taxation deductions allowable per child for education expenses in 1952-53 the following rates have applied: 1952-53, $100; from 1953-54 to 1955-56, $150; from 1956-57 to 1962-63, $200; and from 1963-64 to 1968-69, S300? [More…]

• The honourable senator has given the allowable taxation deductions for children’s education expenses. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science noted claims in the Press that statistics show that the percentage of engineers graduating from Australian universities today is the lowest of any comparable country in the world. [More…]

• What facilities exist within the Navy for assistance in the education of serving personnel’s children [More…]

• Education Allowance may be paid to Service personnel in Australia whose children are undergoing secondary education, at the rate of $1,205 per annum, where the child attends school as a boarder or $625 per annum where the child attends day school. [More…]

• This allowance may only be paid where the member’s wife accompanies him on postings, the child has been living with his parents prior to posting and it can be established that a move would seriously interfere with the continuity of the child’s education. [More…]

• Where a member of the Services is posted overseas and his wife accompanies him at Departmental expense, an Education Allowance may be paid in respect of a member’s child who . [More…]

• The rate of change is accelerating with the development and expansion of education programmes amongst Aboriginals in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• This is not said in an unduly critical way because, after all, the public has lost its money and the governments may think it better to spend money on education or health rather than discovering how the public’s money was lost in some company or on the stock exchange. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science seen statements, firstly from Dr J. F. Cairns and, secondly, from a person who claims to be organising a moratorium in the Australian Capital Territory in May, calling on schools to participate in a strike to be held at that time? [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer: [More…]

• A letter dated 11th March 1970, has been forwarded to Senator Mulvihill by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Entry- Services General Certificate of Education in four subjects, English and two subjects from Maths 1, Maths II and Physics compulsory (Victorian Leaving standard). [More…]

• Let me say that this is not the first occasion on which 1 have had to make inquiries of the Minister for Education and Science in respect of representational matters of a general nature.I therefore ask the Government to raise this matter with the Minister for Education and Science in view of its urgency for this young man and to see that a reply is expedited. [More…]

• Before dealing with matters relating to the War Service Homes Division about which I intend to say something at a later stage, I want to refer to a case that I have taken up by way of correspondence with the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen). [More…]

• I took this case up with the Minister for Education and Science on 10th March. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The members of Parliament who are involved in this self education process would, I suggest, be very unwise to seek fuller parliamentary power over the area of conduct of foreign affairs matters. [More…]

• Does the honourable senator think that we discovered education? [More…]

• Do we have specific rights in regard to education? [More…]

• But Australia has not done anything to ensure that these people are provided with a suitable education so that they will know that they are not inferior to other people in the world, that they have equal rights to other people, that the law protects them and that there are people outside of Australia who protect their interests. [More…]

• By way of education we will be able to open up the divine objective of man which he can achieve only if the restrictions imposed on him are lifted. [More…]

• They have taken advantage of the opportunities for education and have developed themselves to such a stage of sophistication that many of them would be able to hold down what are considered good administrative positions in Australia itself. [More…]

• They are education and communications. [More…]

• I turn now to education. [More…]

• I noticed that Senator O’Byrne tonight steered clear of education. [More…]

• Education is one of the grass roots of the development of any country. [More…]

• In 1969-70 something in excess of $29m will be spent on education. [More…]

• There is a long term objective programme to provide a comprehensive education system covering the whole Territory under which any children who desire to have a primary education will be able to have it. [More…]

• Let us look at the field of secondary and tertiary education. [More…]

• Secondary and tertiary education has the objective of producing people with the particular technical and professional qualifications needed to meet the manpower requirements of government. [More…]

• As I have said, education is at the grass roots of any community. [More…]

• The objectives do not stop at primary and secondary education. [More…]

• Let us have a very quick look at what is being done in the field of education in the Territory. [More…]

• Let us see what happened last year in the field of tertiary education. [More…]

• Large numbers of young people are taking the opportunity that is being given to them by the Australian Government and by the Administration to get an education and to advance themselves in this life. [More…]

• They want land, they want housing, they want health services and they want education. [More…]

• The history of these countries is a frightening reminder to us of what can happen when a small group of people believe that they are all-powerful and, because of their education, they are in a position not only to govern but also to lord it over their people and to inflict on them not self government, not parliamentary government, but a dictatorship of the most corrupt and brutal kind. [More…]

• Therefore, in such matters as education and economic development they are relatively backward. [More…]

• Because of their educational and economic backwardness they fear domination by the more sophisticated people along the coastal belt of New Guinea who have had so much longer - 70, 80 or 90 years - experience under the influence of Europeans. [More…]

• I have doubts, but I would hope that the steps which are being taken by the Australian Government at the moment will lead the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea towards self government by way of increasing education opportunities, economic development and an economically viable community. [More…]

• Some people in India will miss out on the benefit of a university education because the courses are conducted in English, which is almost the universal language. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science who is in charge of Commonwealth schools. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a report appearing in a magazine Broadcast and Television, dated 27th November 1969, attributing a statement to the Western Australian Minister for Education that a special committee representing the Commonwealth and States will be set up to study new television teaching techniques, including the use of electronic video recorders. [More…]

• Was the Western Australian Minister for Education also reported as having said that the committee will be assigned to study the latest developments in television teaching aids, especially in the field of cassetted television films, and that the Melbourne conference of Commonwealth and State Education Ministers agreed that the Commonwealth should provide more money for the Australian Broadcasting Commission to expand its educational television programmes. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Commonwealth is awaiting the nomination by the Stale Ministers for Education of their representatives on the committee. [More…]

• What happened at the conference of Ministers was that State Education Ministers requested that additional finance should be made available by the Commonwealth to the A.B.C. [More…]

• to expand its activities in the educational television area. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answers: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• What is the basis of selection used by the Department of Education and Science in the awarding of Commonwealth Secondary Scholarships. [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT: The Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer: [More…]

• Education authorities in all Slates recommended that the award of Commonwealth Secondary scholarships in 1970 be based on candidates’ results in the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarships Examination plus an assessment of each candidate provided by the school. [More…]

• The Commonwealth accepted these proposals and has further agreed to the requests made by the State education authorities relating to the methods used to combine marks in the selection examination with the school assessments. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Secondary Scholarships Examination, which is prepared by the Australian Council for Educational Research consists of four two-hour papers - [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following information: [More…]

• The conduct of the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarships Examination is in the hands of the State education authorities. [More…]

• (3) and (4) The number of students who sat for the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Examination under supervision away from school is not known to the State Education authorities. [More…]

• Faculty groups were elected from the faculties of Arts, Science, Law, Medicine and Engineering and the Diploma of Education. [More…]

• This is the backwoods country of the so-called free world because we never spend enough per capita on education, from the primary field right through to the university level. [More…]

• In Queensland a group of school teachers was called up, disrupting a certain section of the education system, but they could not get an exemption. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Immediate demands on the Commonwealth and State Governments to implement a short term plan to effect instant relief in fields most affected by the cost price squeeze, including land tax, receipts tax, shire rates, consolidation of rural debt, interest rates, freight and transport costs, wool compensation, education, improved port facilities and power for industry. [More…]

• It was called by the Adult Education Board. [More…]

• They have not finished their education or apprenticeships. [More…]

• In Australia,for example, there have been developments in the fields of social services and migrant education. [More…]

• In the field of migrant education steps have been taken to provide for: [More…]

• • Special classes in existing schools for migrant children of all ages to ensure that they achieve the education to which their intelligence and natural skills entitle them. [More…]

• I table for the information of the Senate a copy of the speech made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) in another place last Thursday on the subject of Commonwealth educational research assistance. [More…]

• But that situation no longer exists there, thanks to the untiring efforts of .a great Australian, a ion of Broken Hill, the late Ernest Wetherell, who was Minister for Conservation and subsequently Minister for Education in a New South Wales Labor Government. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• When replying to Senator Greenwood on the subject of the wearing of Vietnam Moratorium Campaign badges by school pupils, will he refer to the New South Wales Department of Education which has indicated that it will permit the wearing of Moratorium badges by pupils in high schools in that State? [More…]

• In answer to my colleague Senator Greenwood, I said that I would refrain from answering any questions on this matter without consulting the Minister for Education and Science and giving him the opportunity to formulate the opinion that he believes should govern the practice in this respect. [More…]

• I have no doubt the Minister will be obliged to the honourable senator for drawing his attention to any ruling or practice which exists in the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]

• Alternatively, if it is at an undergraduate stage the system which is applied in relation to Education Departments, amongst others, which grant scholarships in return for a bonded period of service may be worthy of consideration in relation to obtaining sufficient numbers to staff the Office of Parliamentary Counsel. [More…]

• A number of matters including legal education are discussed at these conferences which are held every year. [More…]

• Another matter that may well be considered at the same time by the AttorneyGeneral is the extent to which he might be interested in promoting not only in this field but also in the general field of legal education, the types of courses which have been recently introduced with the assistance of the law society and its members, the University of Tasmania and the College of Advanced Education in relation to what are called - for a short term - ‘How to do it’ courses. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Postmaster-General aware that Australia has been honoured by selection as host nation for the international conference on education this year, and that this year has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Education Year? [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science indicate the approximate amount which the Australian taxpayer is called upon to contribute, by way of direct grants or scholarships, to universities through the Commonwealth Government? [More…]

• Do prospective beneficiaries include the Victorian Meat Workers’ Union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Waterside Workers’ Union Film Unit, the Trade Union Education and Research Centre of Sydney, and the Melbourne May Day Committee, all of which have been active in disseminating pro-Communist propaganda. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• What reasons underlie the figures which appear in the report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education which show that, although the numbers of university students in Victoria and New South Wales are roughly comparable per head of population, in Victoria there are 25,000 students in colleges of advanced education and only 4,000 in New South Wales, and that the Commonwealth proposes to grant $30 million in each State for capital expenditure over the next 3 years but only $23 million in New South Wales, as opposed to $52 million in Victoria for recurrent expenditure. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following replies to the honourable senators question: [More…]

• The main reason underlying the differences in the figures in the Honourable Senator’s question is the fact that colleges of advanced education, or similar institutions, have been long established in Victoria, while New South Wales has only recently begun to redevelop institutions and courses at Advanced Education level. [More…]

• the main reason for the difference in the figures quoted is the relative stage of development of advanced education facilities in the two States. [More…]

• At the time of his appointment Mr Giese’s academic qualifications included Trained Teachers Certificate; Bachelor of Arts, Diploma of Education (University of Western Australia); Bachelor of Education, Master of Education (University of Melbourne). [More…]

• His previous experience included 6 years primary and post primary teaching and 12 years in senior administrative posts in the fields of physical and health education, youth welfare and community recreation, and in-service training. [More…]

• The RAN subscribes to over 380 magazines and journals in such fields as science, technology, education, business administration, medicine, law and current affairs. [More…]

• The headmaster said: ‘One of the things that hurt me is that this lad is in gaol for the very principles that I have an obligation under the Education Act to teach him - the individuality of and obedience to his conscience. [More…]

• The very things that I placed into his mind are the reason why he is in gaol today, because my education of this lad was so thorough’. [More…]

• Another thing that the headmaster said grieved him was that this lad was in gaol as a result of a decision of the Federal Government and a Minister of that Government went to the same school and received the same education. [More…]

• lt is true that the States brought their problems to the Commonwealth, but their indebtedness to the Commonwealth, because of a system, to which the States had agreed, of allowing the Commonwealth to collect all the income tax, because of the tremendous growth of income that came about with our development and our improved prosperity for the families which were already here and the new families which were being added from day to day, meant that the returns to the States were inadequate to meet the demands for expenditure on education and hospitals and all the other expenditures that the States were required to meet. [More…]

• Not very long ago there was a belief - at least, this was the way the Commonwealth Government expressed itself - that there was no responsibility on the part of the central government for the education system of this country. [More…]

• Of course the Commonwealth, pressed by public clamour for some better response and some better performance in the field of education and some acceptance of the responsibility in this tremendously important area of human endeavour found a loophole. [More…]

• We will not go into that at this stage, but it was piecemeal, and until we attack it on a proper basis we will not solve the great problem of education. [More…]

• If the Government could perform better in the held of education it would not have to happen. [More…]

• For instance, local government in the United Kingdom runs the police forces and the education system and it has a very important and distinct role in the raising of funds, lt does not have the intrusion of the Commonwealth to the extent that we have here into the revenue raising or the taxation fields in their particular areas of responsibility. [More…]

• The Commonwealth should accept full responsibility for tertiary and teacher education. [More…]

• The first is the demand for an enormous increase in expenditure on education which in Victoria, for example, is 43% of the entire resources of the State, and the second is the problem of the States in meeting their interest bills. [More…]

• I do not think there is any escape from the problem of devoting more money to education but sometimes when I look at some of the people on the university campuses I wonder whether we are spending it wisely - not because of their appearance, although that is inducive, to say the least, to a bit of disgust on my part because they are dirty and if one gets near to them down to leeward they smell. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science the following question without notice on 17th March 1970: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]

• Will he seek, through the Minister for Education and Science, to iron out a problem that has arisen between the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth concerning secondary teachers’ scholarship tuition? [More…]

• On behalf of the young men and women involved, will the Minister try to adjust the petty difference that has arisen between the respective Education Departments and overcome this problem, which affects a number of young Australians and their families? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• In the time at my disposal today I propose to trace events over the past 4 years which have culminated in the motion now before the Senate which calls virtually for summit talks between the Commonwealth Minister concerned, the Minister for Education and [More…]

• 1 commence with a communication dated 4th May addressed to me by the Minister for Education and Science in reply to some views that 1 have expressed. [More…]

• According to a report in the Sydney Daily Telegraph’ of 9th May considerable agitation had been expressed and directed to the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) who replied by stating that he hoped soon to hold a conference with other departments, including the Department of Primary Industry and the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• with the Federal Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• We have had conferences of wildlife authorities for many years, but in July 1969 Mr Malcolm Fraser, who was then Minister for Education and Science, convened an official meeting in Canberra of all State Ministers interested in the preservation of wildlife. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, under my colleague the present Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), has been following a continuous programme of research into aspects of the kangaroo in particular. [More…]

• The Department of Health is concerned, as is also the Department of Education and Science, the Tourist Commission, the Department of the Interior and the Department of National Development A meeting of these departments and their representatives is to take place on the 18th of this month - next Monday - for the purpose of concerting the viewpoints of the Government’s advisers on the matter that should go to the Darwin conference and then go to the Ministers’ conference out of which action should take place. [More…]

• If one goes out to the Tidbinbilla reserve, which 1 had the privilege of doing recently, one sees the utmost friendship that exists between the animals in a proper environment and visitors, lt is a real education in the pleasure which people derive from seeing wildlife. [More…]

• In-service training arrangements will be required in industry, for school teachers, and in many others areas, and there will have to be programmes for education of the public. [More…]

• The Weights and Measures (National Standards) Regulations 1961 made metric units legal in addition to the customary units based on the foot, the pound and the gallon, and metric units are already in wide use in Australia in, for instance, pharmacy, electronics, the chemical and photographic industries, national mapping and, of course, in education. [More…]

• For the different sectors of industry, of commerce and of education it will actively commence at different times and proceed at different rates. [More…]

• As already indicated, the Board will be required to investigate and report to the Minister for Education and Science on any special circumstances in which the payment of compensation may be appropriate, lt will also be required to advise on the need for legislation to give effect to conversion, to report attempts to take unfair advantage of the public in the course of conversion, and to perform various other functions appropriate to conversion, lt is not, in general, the Government’s intention to tie the composition of the Board to representation of specific interests - for it would be impossible to represent on one Board all the major interests concerned with metric conversion - but it will be the aim of the Government to appoint to the Board those it considers best able, by virtue of experience and ability, to contribute to its work and to assist in the activities of its committees. [More…]

• Consultant, Harvard Grad School of Education; World Law Fund; etc. [More…]

• According to Vietnam Past and Present, published in Saigon in 1956 under the patronage of the South Vietnam Department of Education and the National Commission for UNESCO and written by Mr Thai Van Kiem a Vietnamese diplomat and scholar, the total number of refugees was 887,895 of whom 85% or 754,710 were Catholics. [More…]

• To minimise the cost of education and medical and hospital expenses to persons living in isolated country areas; [More…]

• In television and film production Australia has the best chance yet to build a television and film production industry which could supply a considerable proportion of her own needs in entertainment and education, and win a profitable place in world markets. [More…]

• Despite their comments about aboriginal housing and education, you won’t find them engaged in the difficult task of trying lo educate these children who live in an environment nol conducive to rapid education, or attempting the frustrating task of training Aboriginals to occupy accommodation quite foreign to them. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: (1)Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report prepared by the Tamworth and District Chamber of Commerce on the needfor a College of Advanced Education to be established in that city to provide tertiary education facilities in the north and north-west of New South Wales. [More…]

• Is it a fact that members of a Committee established to investigate the situation felt that because of present lack of follow-on facilities, the talents of at least 50% of Higher School Certificate pupils were being wasted in the area proposed to be served by such a College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Which country areas of New South Wales at present have Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senators question: [More…]

• The following institutions outside the Sydney metropolitan area have received or are to receive Commonwealth financial assistance as colleges of advanced education during the triennia 1967-69 and 1970-72: [More…]

• Mitchell College of Advanced Education [More…]

• Riverina College of Advanced Education [More…]

• The Schedules to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1967-69 and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969 provide maximum grants as follows: [More…]

• The report sponsored by the Tamworth and District Chamber of Commerce was addressed, quite properly, to the New South Wales Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Commonwealth support for colleges of advanced education is decided only after consideration has been given to submissions made by the States. [More…]

• Should any proposal be submitted from the New South Wales government, seeking Commonwealth assistance with the establishment of a college of advanced education at Tamworth it would receive every consideration, in the light of advice from the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• 1 ask: Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a news report of comments by Mr Tom Roper, a university lecturer, who, in referring to the Australian educational scene, said that country people suffer from such serious inequalities that continuing government neglect is criminal? [More…]

• Does the Government acknowledge that there are disadvantages, both physical and financial, to students from country areas who seek higher education in the capital cities? [More…]

• Will the Government, through the Department of Education and Science, investigate such allegations and attempt to provide greater assistance to students who are found to be at such disadvantage? [More…]

• I am sure the honourable senator will appreciate that his question is directed to the centre of my interests in education. [More…]

• It is quite obvious that the distance and the expense of getting from the country to the educational institutions for one’s education impose a handicap. [More…]

• It is recognised as a handicap that must be overcome in order to give to the country student population an equitable balance from the point of view of educational opportunity. [More…]

• Decentralisation of educational institutions - and I refer to the university at Armidale, the development of a medical school in an area such as Hobart and the establishment of branch institutions in other country centres, as has been advocated - together with scholarships that take into account the need for boarding away from home and travel allowances, 1 think, are very pertinent. [More…]

• I am obliged to the honourable senator for giving me the opportunity of transmitting his question, as a matter of specific concern, to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• and (2) Scholarships have not been suspended for the Sheep and Wool course conducted by the New South Wales Department of Technical Education. [More…]

• I think that the nation has a responsibility to face up to its total responsibility for health in the same way as it has attempted to do for education. [More…]

• For many years we have been crying out about the basic educational needs of the people and their children. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite are prepared to talk about education. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts; [More…]

• On 5th March, 1 970 Senator Fitzgerald asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science inform the Senate, or obtain for the Senate, the number of Colombo Plan and private overseas students in Australia’.’ [More…]

• Despite their comments about Aboriginal housing and education, you won’t find them engaged in the difficult task of trying to educate these children who live in an environment not conducive to rapid eduction, or attemtping the frustrating task of training Aboriginals to occupy accommodation quite foreign to them, in fact their habitat is not the habitat and their endeavours not the endeavours of the people whom they ‘rubbish’ despite the inference that they have the answers to all these problems. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science been directed to a radio news bulletin this morning in which a Western Australian educationist, a Mr Schapper, has criticised the established education programmes as being unsuitable for Aboriginals? [More…]

• If so, has the Minister noted that educationist’s comment that mission schools should be abandoned and that special programmes should be devised to meet the particular education needs of Aboriginals? [More…]

• Will he confer with his colleague and ascertain details of any studies of education for Aboriginals and whether there is any merit in Mr Schapper’s claim? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the PostmasterGeneral aware that Australia has been honoured by selection as host nation for the international conference on education this year, which Was been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Education Year. [More…]

• All ot the money is going to State Education Department colleges but at least 10% of the places attributable to the expenditure of these grants will be made available to students not bonded to State Education Departments. [More…]

• Winners of Commonwealth advanced education scholarships and university scholarships may apply their scholarships to courses at these colleges. [More…]

• This increase is designed to assist the States with their teacher education programmes at a realistic and reasonable level and was determined in the light of current experience and knowledge of building costs. [More…]

• Another major factor is the amount of matched assistance that New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania are receiving for teacher education in colleges of advanced education The overriding considerations however have been the needs of the States and the expected effectiveness of the grants in meeting these needs. [More…]

• The need to improve the quality of the teaching force is central to the task of improving the quality of education generally and these grants will enable the States to provide new and replacement teacher education facilities at a better standard and a good deal earlier than they could hope to do from their own resources. [More…]

• This, of course is not the only Commonwealth assistance in this field of education. [More…]

• Over 40% of Government teacher trainees are in universities and the Commonwealth shares fully in the cost, both capital and recurrent, of their education. [More…]

• Furthermore, the Commonwealth is now supporting teacher education in colleges of advanced education - for this triennium, in New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania. [More…]

• Let me refer now to another field, that of education. [More…]

• I believe that the education authorities in Queensland could quite sensibly demand additional money for education facilities in that Stale; but because the State Government has to contribute to the free hospitals system it is unable to provide the Department of Education with the necessary finance to equip schools properly. [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• All Premiers and State Ministers for Education have received copies of Mr Justice Eggleston’s report and have been informed of the Government’s intentions. [More…]

• It would seem that some kind of education was required within sections of the medical profession in relation to certain drugs. [More…]

• In his application he set out various other extra-curricular activities in which he had been involved, amongst which were the following: Editor of ‘Honi Soit’ in 1964; President of the Sydney University Australian Labor Party Club in 1965; education officer of the Sydney University Student Representative Council in 1964; member of the Bankstown Civil Rehabilitation Committee, and member of Student Action for Aborigines. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following replies to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has replied as follows: [More…]

• Where special facilities are required for general education they will also be included. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts; [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts; [More…]

• Education and Science; and the Standing Committee on National Finance and Development. [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• You teach a man aeronautical engineering and you invest in him, because most of our education is Government subsidised, and he finds he has no outlet so he goes abroad. [More…]

• There is one further point; if we do not provide opportunities for men who in themselves have a burning zeal and conviction that they wish to be engaged in aircraft design and manufacturing, we will lose these men with their considerable education and qualifications. [More…]

• The film industry is at once involved with the people whom I have mentioned as well as with the world of entertainment, the world of education and more particularly - and this is a facet which interests me especially - the world of communications. [More…]

• I submit to the Senate that all this plus the factors to which 1 have referred in the last few minutes has an influence on taste, activity, leisure and on attitude not only to entertainment but to a sphere which we sometimes describe as ‘adult education’. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for the Army aware that because of the acute shortage of teachers in New South Wales some teachers in the employ of the New South Wales Department of Education who are members of the Citizen Military Forces are finding great difficulty in securing leave from the Department to enable them to do their 2 weeks annual training in camp with their CMF units? [More…]

• Another source of information, for which I am greatly indebted, is the report of Lord Willis which was presented to a committee of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. [More…]

• That the members of the Board be drawn, amongst others, from manufacturing, commerce, education, rural industry, trade unions, the National Standards Commission and the Standards Association of Australia. [More…]

• It can be done with the co-operation of the various States by adult education. [More…]

• Most States have indicated their approval of such a plan and have indicated their desire to co-operate in the field of adult education. [More…]

• It is proposed that the responsible Minister should be the Minister for Education and Science, who administers Commonwealth weights and measures legislation. [More…]

• What power does it give in the general field of education to determine how this object shall be attained? [More…]

• The knowledge of them, as in established use, is among the first elements of education, and is often learned by those who learn nothing else, not even lo read and write. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• In view of this educational advance, will he discuss with his counterparts in the Slates the possibility of the introduction of the study of an Asian language at primary school level? [More…]

• However I will submit the suggestions in the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Education and Science to see whether he thinks any further answer is appropriate. [More…]

• There are also references to public education, professional training and the encouragement of a responsible community altitude. [More…]

• I congratulate also the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) for introducing this Bill which is, one might term it, merely an interim Bill to serve the purposes of the final Bill which visualises the establishment of an institute of marine research. [More…]

• I heartily congratulate the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), who was responsible for introducing this small but very important Bill which provides for the establishment of the Australian Institute of Marine Science at Townsville in conjunction with the James Cook University of North Queensland. [More…]

• On I (hh Sep.ember 1969 the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Whitlam, asked a question of the then Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• The then Minister for Education and Science replied: [More…]

• Many months ago in this place the late Senator Cohen asked the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who in this place represents the Minister for Education and Science, a question on notice. [More…]

• We have a Prime Minister who, as a former Minister for Education and Science, has an interest in these matters and a sympathy for them. [More…]

• In conclusionI ask the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), whether the Institute or the council that is to be set up to’ establish the Institute will be prepared or allowed to make a submission to the royal commission on the Great Barrier Reef with the thought in mind that until this Institute has had at least 10 years in which to carry out its investigation no drilling should take place on the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• When one recalls the very limited contribution which the Commonwealth made to tertiary education not so long ago, and when one looks at the large sums that are made available for purposes such as the provision of halls of residence at universities, one must admit that the Commonwealth deserves considerable credit for the financial provision that it has made. [More…]

• But I can say that I believe one feature of the interest that the Commonwealth has taken in education, for which it deserves to be particularly commended, is its interest in tertiary education. [More…]

• As I have said, I believe that when one looks back a comparatively few years and considers how little was being done in education, and when one looks at the situation today and realises how much is being done in respect of universities, one must pay a tribute to the Commonwealth. [More…]

• There are also the social welfare workers who assist parents in the education of handicapped children. [More…]

• They wanted merely: An officer of the Commonwealth Education Department directed to investigate the best overseas methods of conveying some form of instruction to subnormal children; research through the Health Department into the causes of subnormal births; and a grant of 1,000 a year to enable the association to function Federally and a Commonwealth subsidy for capital expenditure on a pound-for-pound basis to erect centres and schools for the children to the limit of 10,000 in any one year. [More…]

• The committee should examine the needs of mentally retarded people in the fields of education, health, research, institutions, workshops, guidance clinics and staff training. [More…]

• We refer to the exclusion of State Education Departments from the benefits of the Act as defined by section 6 of Part 1. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has heretofore declined to grant assistance in this direction on the grounds that education is the responsibility of the State governments. [More…]

• In South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania the Education Departments have accepted the responsibility to provide free education for all children. [More…]

• The other States have provided financial assistance to enable parents and Health Departments to co-operate in providing training centres and more recently to enable parents to provide schools staffed by Education Department teachers. [More…]

• If we have an obligation for the education and the welfare of the able child, we have at least an equal obligation to the disabled child, and it should not be a question of a 2 for 1 subsidy to voluntary contributions where schools are provided. [More…]

• Yes, that is true, because the damage to the portion of the brain may be in the motor section of it or in some other section that has nothing at all to do with the mental capacity to cope with a good education or anything else. [More…]

• He said that it is not proposed that the Commonwealth should intrude into the education programmes of the State governments. [More…]

• The States are assisted by other means towards meeting the cost of education and it would therefore be inappropriate for them to be brought within the provisions of a Bill which is designed to achieve a limited and specific objective. [More…]

• The Government has already set up an interdepartmental committee comprising officers of the Departments of Social Services, Health, and Education and Science to survey the extent of handicapped children and the facilities available to them. [More…]

• Although the Opposition supports the Bill, I feel that it should be pointed om that, as with so many matters related to education in particular and to government budgeting in matters of this nature in general - in this case a very substantial figure of $30m is provided for a service, namely, the addition to and development of existing teachers training colleges - there appears to be no system whereby such large sums are arrived at. [More…]

• Sofar as I can gather from reading the speech of the Minister in the other place, and that of the Minister representing in the Senatethe Minister for Education and Science, I have not been able to discover whythe sum of $30m was selected. [More…]

• It would seem quite apparent,I should imagine, that in such important matters as education, there should be some appropriate commission which would, on the basis of needs, as has been done in the past with the Grants Commission, assess the requirements of these matters, explain them lo the Parliament, and then appropriate whatever amount of money is available and required after having considered the needs of the educational system - in this case that part of the educational system which deals wilh teacher training. [More…]

• I do not think anybody could seriously object to persons who are not going to be bonded to Education Departments being admitted to teachers training colleges and trained to become teachers. [More…]

• I think most people who have given any great attention to the problems of education are convinced that one of the great deficiencies in our educational system at the present time is the bonding of teachers whereby, because a person has trained to become a teacher for the purpose of entering a State Education Department, he is bound to serve- for a certain number of years in that Education Department on the completion of his training unless he is prepared to refund to the Education Department a quite considerable sum of money by way of a bond. [More…]

• Apart from a very small number of private teachers colleges, the only way in which one could obtain a teacher’s qualifications was to attend a State teachers training college and consequently be bonded to an Education Department. [More…]

• Although admittedly the same sums of money are not available to the unbonded teachers who are training to become teachers in private schools as are available to those bonded students who wish to enter Slats Education Departments, it does seem to he something of an anomaly that within a teachers training college there are certain students who are bonded to teach within an Education Department and other students who are not bonded. [More…]

• I trust that this is the commencement of steps which the Commonwealth, which does control the moneys available for Education Departments, will be taking to see that at some time in the not too distant future all of those persons who enter teachers training colleges will be able to do so without having a bond inflicted upon them so that after they have obtained their qualifications they will be free to practise their profession in whichever field they wish or not to practise it if they decide to. [More…]

• However, I suggest that it is implied, and it has led one to the conclusion that there are being placed on those people who wish to enter State education services disabilities which are not placed on those who wish to enter the teaching profession as teachers in private schools of one form or another. [More…]

• The reasoning behind the selection of those figures is noi known, and 1 would suggest that at some time in the future provision ought to be made for a commission of inquiry to inquire into the whole matter of education and arrive al these figures according to standard criteria and some sort of fixed principle rather than what seems lo have been done here. [More…]

• But whatever be the merits or demerits of that, so far as I know, it is a field of State educational policy into which the Commonwealth has not sought to trespass. [More…]

• I should think that we would all recognise in this chamber that State Education Departments have the skill, experience and competence to formulate a policy appropriate to the situation. [More…]

• It is reasonable to say thai we have 2 systems of education - State and independent - and it is reasonable to sary, surely, thai these colleges, once established, shall provide a proper complement of teachers for each of those systems. [More…]

• 7m in the present year, lt is also clear that in many colleges of advanced education assistance is given to teacher training.. [More…]

• In the actual application of these objectives the Department of Science and Education engages in continuous and very practical consultations with the Departments of Education in the various States, and each of these programmes - the dissection of which in Ihe Schedule Senator Willesee said he had no basis for understanding - is worked out on a basis of practical considerations. [More…]

• These are, first, the building projects that are proposed by each State; secondly, the population in each State; thirdly, the performance of each State in carrying out its present triennium programme; and fourthly, the need to provide adequate funds to complete existing college projects and the funds provided under the Colleges of Advanced Education Act for development of teacher education during this triennium in the 3 States. [More…]

• Those figures for colleges of advanced education, of course, are taken into account. [More…]

• I think therefore that the Senate is right in acknowledging that the Government is making a substantial contribution to the expansion of this programme in a most important field of education by providing this assistance for the establishment of colleges for teacher training. [More…]

• So there is a duty either to provide a reasonable limit or else to make sure by way of notices, by way of publicity, by way of education, that members of the public do know that it is necessary for them to take out some extra form of insurance. [More…]

• The proposition which has been put by Senator Gair now suggests that 2 standing committees be established - 1 on trade, industry and labour and 1 on health, welfare, education and science. [More…]

• Then, of course, there are the eleemosynary committees on health, welfare, education and science. [More…]

• Grants from the Fund to the CSIRO will in future be made by the Minister for Primary Industry after consultation with the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has advised that the universities obtain advice on the purchase of computers from various sources. [More…]

• The following actions have been taken: - Additional positions of hygiene supervisor, supervisor family services, nursing sisters, a’nd assistant kitchen supervisor have been added to the settlement staff; - The Department of Health has provided additional Health Inspectors to service the settlements and mission stations; - a new kitchen/dining room unit, a home management centre and an infant welfare centre have been built; - 65 houses with an appropriate number of laundry, toilet and ablution blocks have been erected for Aboriginal families; - The hospital has been renovated and improved; - A substantially improved water supply has been installed; - A water-borne sewerage scheme for the settlement is scheduled for early construction and funds have been set aside for this purpose; - Health education is being stressed in the school and adult education programme; sisters of the Health Department are assisting with infant welfare and health education programmes; - A research project into the incidence of deaths amongst children at Yuendumu is being undertaken by the Australian National University and the Adelaide University in conjunction with the Welfare Branch of the Administration. [More…]

• On 12th May Senator Greenwood asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, without notice: ls it a fact, as reported in today’s Press, that a recommendation by the Council of the Australian National University addressed to the Government has proposed additional undergraduate representation on the Council of the University? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer in reply: [More…]

• It concerns matters related to libraries that are provided to a very large extent as a result of the provisions of Commonwealth funds through the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• I appreciate that the control the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science has over the day to day administration of schools that receive grants from the Commonwealth is very limited insofar as it exists at all. [More…]

• T appreciate the limited influence which the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science can have on these matters. [More…]

• I do not know who was behind the suppression which took place inside this school, but certainly it does not appear that the New South Wales Minister for Education has taken any action of his own volition in order to see that these books are made available at the request of the librarian, who incidentally also in future has to obtain the permission of the subject teacher before she can acquire any new books, which is quite contrary to the normal provisions relating to a school librarian, and she has also been compelled to provide to the principal of the school invoices of all those books which she has purchased over the past year. [More…]

• I do not know what the State Minister for Education has done. [More…]

• The child of a deceased Commonwealth worker cannot be brought up to enjoy the standard of living and the standard of education that is provided to the child of the man who saves his money and who continues in his employment. [More…]

• Despite al’l the dramatic changes taking place in industry generally, in the professions and in the field of science and education, we do not seem to be able to reach the stage of providing full wages for a worker who has been injured in the course of his employment. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• This is particularly so in the fields of education and health, in the provision of libraries, science blocks and other big contributions made by the Commonwealth - and rightly so, too. [More…]

• The working man of today has the opportunities of compulsory education; he is able to get away from the continuous grind of poverty; he is able to see the light on the hill; he believes that after all is said and done he has certain basic rights and certain basic civil liberties; and he is looking for a place in the sun. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Why has not the summit meeting materialised between the Minister for Education and Science, Mr [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Education is in a state of crisis and the Budget has done nothing to meet pressing and urgent needs in many areas. [More…]

• The States are so starved of funds that the proportion of State budgets going to education is now levelling off which is a scandalous position. [More…]

• Australia spends only 4.4% of its gross national product on education - one of the lowest percentages anywhere in the Western world. [More…]

• This is a national disgrace and the minor concessions to education in this Budget will have practically no effect at all in meeting the massive problems confronting this country in education. [More…]

• As a result of changes in secondary education systems of various States, certain qualifications specified in the existing regulation are out of date. [More…]

• In the appointment provisions of the Public Service Act, educational qualifications are described in broad terms and this approach has been adopted in the revised regulation. [More…]

• The Public Service Board will retain authority to conduct its own examinations or to use the standards of education authorities and provision will be retained for promotion within the service so that the most junior officers will have the whole field of the Public Service open to them, provided they are able to meet the standards which are set for promotion within a division or, of course, advancement from one division to another. [More…]

• It would be difficult to bring down legislation owing to the need to take account of the variation in educational standards as between the Slates, and, as was pointed out to mc by a colleague recently, as between one country and another, because there may be some people here who had the preliminary education in another country. [More…]

• A point has been made about what is happening in the education system in Australia. [More…]

• There is a tremendous divergence between States in educational standards and in the description of qualifications. [More…]

• It would be a very brave man who would write a regulation “and prescribe educational standards without knowing whether within a few months those standards were going to be altered because of the great changes being made to standards of education. [More…]

• I know that changes are being made in primary education and that a great variety of changes are coming in education at the tertiary level. [More…]

• I suggest to the Senate that this proposal for a disallowance of the regulation challenges the discretions which are an essential ingredient in this matter because of the whole variety of changes throughout our education system. [More…]

• In these days of great movement of people and the tremendous immigration that has taken place persons who may be in the Third and Fourth Divisions and transfer from the lower to the higher grade may come to the Commonwealth Public Service endowed with a multiplicity of qualifications from an enormous number of institutes of learning in all parts of the world - perhaps different language institutes from one country or another - and it is a question whether the qualifications of the technical institute of education in X city and Y country are comparable with those of a similar level of education in Australia and whether they could properly be accepted in this country. [More…]

• Mr Menzies laid down the clear intention and a criteria - the leaving certificate standard of the New South Wales education system. [More…]

• It relates to whether an officer holds the appropriate education qualification for transfer and whether he can demonstrate that he holds . [More…]

• 2 between representatives of the New South Wales Teachers Federation the New South Wales Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, the New South Wales Federation of Pre-school Clubs and members of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party Education Committee? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• This committee is made up of Sir Richard Wolley the Astronomer Royal Professor Fred Hoyle, Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University, Professor Olin Eggen, Director of the Mount Stromlo Observatory, and Dr E. G. Bowen, Chief of the Radiophysics Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, together with Mr J. F. Hosie of the Science Research Council in Britain and Mr K. N. Jones of the Department of Education and Science, Canberra. [More…]

• During this interim period the 2 governments have acted through the Science Research Council in London and the Department of Education and Science in Canberra. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• So it should be recognised that ever since the Menzies Government appointed the Australian Universities Commission, the Commonwealth has made probably its most significant contribution to the education of the country by making available greater opportunity for university education. [More…]

• At question time yesterday Senator Wheeldon directed a question to me regarding an incident which had occurred that day at the front entrance to the House when a group of visitors, representatives of a number of bodies concerned with education, sought admission to attend a meeting of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party Education Committee. [More…]

• There is no hope of the American people being able to solve their urban problems and the problems of their education system and their schools while they are committed to this war. [More…]

• If the American economy, with all its built in wealth acquired over hundreds of years and its tremendous economic capacity cannot cope with being involved in war as well as attending to urban problems - the problems of poverty, health and education - how much less can Australia afford to engage in war as well as to attend to those problems? [More…]

• No attempt is made in the Budget to provide the finance necessary to give our children the opportunity for education to which they are entitled as a basic human right. [More…]

• Our children will continue to have fewer educational opportunities than those of other industrialised countries. [More…]

• In the United States and Japan a significantly higher percentage of children enter and complete secondary school courses, more receive a university education and more undergo technical training than in Australia. [More…]

• Our performance in the education of Aboriginal children is shameful. [More…]

• Apart from the high priority increases in expenditure allowed for in the Budget, such as increased assistance to the States, which honourable senators will remember the Treasurer dealt with at length, increased expenditure on education, on social services, on repatriation and on health benefits, the Government was firmly of the resolve that something had to be done to provide taxation relief to the middle and lower income earners. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators to remember how the Government dodged the education problem for many years until ultimately it was forced by public opinion to make contributions to public education. [More…]

• The provisions in relation to education have been increased by 25%. [More…]

• Last year the increase was 38% in direct expenditure and 53% in the total expenditure, including direct expenditure and moneys given to the States for education purposes. [More…]

• In other words, there was an increase in expenditure by the Federal Governmentlast year of 53% and 25% this year in relation to education alone. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science been drawn to a recent statement made by the Principal of the Armidale Teachers College, Mr A. R. Crane, in which he is alleged to have said that a crisis in teacher education was developing throughout Australia? [More…]

• This morning I have already troubled the Senate to listen to statistics which show that over the last decade the increase in expenditure on education has been striking indeed and a very great achievement on the part of governments. [More…]

• Nevertheless there still remains a lot to be done, but it is quite unavailing to describe the situation in teacher education in catch terms such as ‘crisis’. [More…]

• The second part of the question properly comes within the ambit of the Minister for Education and Science who is responsible for the co-ordination of inquiries and for conferences such as those referred to by the honourable senator. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That is, in finding employment - were those with limited education or training, those with mental and physical handicaps or unfavourable work attitudes and those affected by age. [More…]

• If one looks at the estimates of expenditure mentioned in the Budget Speech one finds a vast number of avenues of expenditure - payments to the Slates, defence, mental health institutions, home nursing services, education scholarships, assistance to industry, assistance to wool growers, advances for capital purposes and a host of other items that Senator Young expects the Leader of the Opposition here to deal with adequately and then pay enough attention to primary industry. [More…]

• Certainly today in education a programme of expenditure is laid down for a triennium or for some other particular period. [More…]

• With reference to the 1970 Budget, this meeting of Queensland teachers deplores the callous disregard of the needs of education at the pretertiary level and the failure to acknowledge in the Budget the undertaking given by the Prime Minister in his election policy that this Government would give consideration to the survey of the needs of State education over the next 5 years, made by the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• In this Budget, direct Commonwealth expenditure on education represents an increase of some 25 per cent on the previous year, 50 per cent on 2 years ago and 500 per cent on the figure of some 10 years ago. [More…]

• Teachers and parents are protesting about the inadequacies of our education system. [More…]

• The other night Senator Wright, who represents in this place the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), brought down a long and detailed statement of what the Government is doing in the field of education. [More…]

• He referred to the Government’s claim that it had involved itself in increased expenditure on education, but he and other members of the Government conveniently forget that the Weedon Committee which the Government appointed some years ago to inquire into projections for the future in the field of educational television in Australia, produced positive and forthright recommendations, all of which were rejected by the Government. [More…]

• On the subject of education let mc read portion of a letter which was sent by teachers at the Blakehurst High School in Blakehurst, a middle class area of Sydney, to the parents of children attending that school. [More…]

• The Government talks about assistance in the field of education but is doing nothing. [More…]

• the Budget merely plugs holes in social services and makes no provision for a comprehensive national insurance scheme or for necessary aid for family life through better child endowment, maternity allowances, housing, health and education assistance; [More…]

• My attitude has been that, if it were possible to save $280m, then that sum should have been devoted to the pensioners, to child endowment, to education and to other deserving causes. [More…]

• A further answer was given that it is a matter of education and also the fault of the parents. [More…]

• The National Health and Medical Research Council, upon whom this matter was thrust, stated straight out that it recognised the need for increased education in the prevention of accidental poisoning and it commended the use of tablet containers which would not readily be opened by young children. [More…]

• The people receive it in health services and some of the education services. [More…]

• I do nol want to start on the subject of education but if honourable senators look at the schools and compare them with schools in their own States they would be horrified with the ones in their own towns compared with the ones here. [More…]

• We see the improvement in services to the people, be they in education, hospitalisation or services generally to improve the way of life and the living standards of the people. [More…]

• Senator Sim has not heard of Sir Herbert Read but I am afraid that I cannot engage in an adult education class at this stage. [More…]

• Minister for Supply, will represent the Acting Minister for Works, and the Ministers for Labour and National Service, Education and Science, External Territories and the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]

• Your Committeebelieves, therefore, that these unresolved questions should be examined promptly by all of the parties concerned, including tertiary education institutions. [More…]

• He says that getting a better return from the same resources enables the nation to spend more on education and social services without having to short-change investment in the future and provisions for defence to do so. [More…]

• There is limitation in education opportunity in this country at the present time, but 1 will deal with that later. [More…]

• According to Dr Henry Schoenheimer, for the child of a professional or senior executive family the chances of obtaining a tertiary education are 18 times higher than those of a child with semi-skilled or unskilled parents. [More…]

• This is the basis for the figures which show that the chances of obtaining a tertiary education are 18 times higher for a child who has professional or senior executive parents than they are for a child who has semi-skilled or unskilled parents. [More…]

• The children of the unskilled have not the same opportunities for enlightenment as those whose parents have had the advantage of secondary education and tertiary education. [More…]

• They have said that not enough money has been provided for the States, for social services, for education and for the primary producers. [More…]

• I refer next to education. [More…]

• If ever a House of Parliament has debated education it has been this Senate in the last 4 or 5 years in what 1 termed earlier as the era of the academics in charge of the [More…]

• That S3 12m is an increase of $63m over the expenditure on education last year. [More…]

• Is it negative or deceptive to increase by 25 per cent in one financial year the vote for education? [More…]

• In education, people are striving to get in first with ideas to help teach all age groups and all sections of the community of the dangers that face Australia if this question is to be faced in a definite manner. [More…]

• The Prime Minister informed the delegation that whereas the Government could and would, give consideration to plans to improve nursing education and other facets of nursing in the Australian Capital Territory, it could not interfere with the decision handed down by the Full Bench of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has consulted with the Attorney-General who has advised that the draft of the Regulations for the Scholarships Act 1969 involves the consideration of a number of legal and drafting problems which will require the attention of an experienced drafts man. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Minister conferred with State Education Ministers on the compulsory introduction into school curricula of fire prevention and fire behaviour education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer to the honourable senators question: - [More…]

• There has been no consultation between the Minister and the- State Ministers for Education on this matter. [More…]

• The introduction of new elements into school curricula is entirely a. matter forthe State education authorities. [More…]

• A meeting of Commonwealth and State Ministers is being considered by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Leading economists say quite openly that our intake through immigration, added to our natural increase, while contributing to economic growth involves tremendous expenditure in the fields of education, housing, transport and health. [More…]

• In this country we have had studies about everything - studies about rural problems, studies about standardisation of railways, a national study about education and studies on different subjects. [More…]

• Contrary to the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate the Budget deals quite significantly with education. [More…]

• Under the new arrangements at the Premiers conference level the States have been given considerably greater assistance in terms of allocation and, as a consequence, the States In their own sovereignty will be able to make significant additional contributions to the field of education. [More…]

• in which it is suggested that New South Wales is going to make a significant increase in its allocation for education this financial year. [More…]

• The heading states: ‘Budget allots record sum on education.’ [More…]

• The article then goes on to portray the significant increases which will be made in education as a result of the Commonwealth’s special recognition at the Premiers conference level of the needs of the States. [More…]

• The Budget under this head deals with Commonwealth expenditure relating ~ to education for special purposes. [More…]

• payments tor universities $78m; for the developing colleges of advanced education $35m; for special purpose unmatched grants for school facilities, technical colleges and teacher training colleges $48m … [More…]

• The expenditure extends right through the education field. [More…]

• I suggest this contribution has to be looked at across the board in terms of education. [More…]

• One cannot take one figure out in isolation and say that in that field the increase has not been significant therefore nothing has been done in the educational field. [More…]

• The story of Commonwealth intervention in education is a dramatic story and it demonstrates that this Government, above all else in the field of education, has made mammoth contributions whereas a decade ago there was practically no Commonwealth subvention in the field of education other than through the normal channel of the Premiers conference and contributions to the States in that way. [More…]

• I want to make it clear that this year Commonwealth expenditure specifically related to education is expected to be in excess of $3 12m which will be an increase of $63m or approximately 25 per cent in its totality. [More…]

• I am the first to recognise that that would not be the taxable income, so we need to deduct such things as the allowances for children and for education. [More…]

• Another point I wish to raise in relation to taxation concerns education. [More…]

• Senator Murphy said: _ No attempt is made in the Budget to provide the finance necessary to give our children the opportunity for education to which they are entitled as a basic human right. [More…]

• Our children will continue to have fewer educational opportunities than those of other industrialised countries. [More…]

• In/the United States and Japan a significantly higher percentage of children enter and complete secondary school courses, more receive a university education and more undergo technical training than in Australia. [More…]

• Education will take an extra $63m. [More…]

• As responsible citizens we budget domestically, and if we find that our income is not equal to what we propose to spend on food, clothing, rent, education and everything else, what do we do? [More…]

• Some of those who wrote letters and distributed circulars seeking a reduction in taxes are now writing to us saying how unhappy and dissatisfied they are with the treatment that has been meted out to the pensioners and at the fact that insufficient funds have been made available for education and other purposes. [More…]

• Earlier this evening Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson announced in some detail the increased benefits in education through (he additional amounts being granted to the States. [More…]

• But in Commonwealth benefits the universities will gain by $78m, the colleges of advanced education by S35m, the unmatched grants to the States by $48m and the per capita grants for independent schools by $24m. [More…]

• The man on the land has Fewer social and recreational opportunities and a lack of access to tertiary education for his children. [More…]

• He says that getting a better return from the same resources enables the nation to spend more on education and social services without having to short-change investment in the future and provisions for defence to do so. [More…]

• Take, for example, the field of education. [More…]

• I would think that the pressure upon the Commonwealth Government today to provide educational facilities which were not part of public consciousness 10 or 15 years ago is indicative of the everyday political pressures which are being applied. [More…]

• In this Budget the Government has increased its expenditure on education by some 25 per cent over what was provided last year, lt has done this in response to pressure and it could scarcely have done less. [More…]

• One can take an easy illustration in the field of education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has no responsibility whatsoever under the Constitution in regard to education, whether it be independent school education or State school education. [More…]

• The result is that whenever there is a demand for education or for any other social service which normally would be a State responsibility, the pressures upon the Commonwealth to respond in that area are pressures to which no government can fail to respond. [More…]

• The war machine is blocking our commitments in this country to proper housing and slum abolition, a proper allocation for education, a proper attitude towards health responsibilities and hospitals and proper safety precautions on our roads. [More…]

• the Budget merely plugs holes in social services and makes no provision for a comprehensive national insurance scheme or for necessary aid for family life through better child endowment, maternity allowances, housing, health and education assistance; [More…]

• be opportunity for the projection in definite terms of political philosophies, the amelioration or extension of social security, or the extension of interest in education or science where they are not in the same sense rigid and necessary but certainly in degree are capable of more or less emphasis. [More…]

• The powers and resources to undertake a continuous programme of research and education on environmental problems. [More…]

• A great deal of education is required as well as a great deal of research before Australia can claim that it is up with it in respect of the technical aspects of pollution control, the necessary research, how to go about it and the persons best suited to handle the problem. [More…]

• It has a role to play in the Territories; in assisting in co-ordination between the States; in research by specialists; in education; in carrying out work, be it research or technical work of actually carrying out pollution control; in the education of the general public; and, I believe, in providing funds for the carrying out of a lot of aspects of this work, particularly in relation to finding a formula - whatever that formula may be - which will enable sufficient funds to be obtained, be they from Commonwealth sources, State sources, local government sources or some source about which we have not heard before, whether it be an Opera House lottery or something similar. [More…]

• Undoubtedly the education of our citizens, particularly the education of our young citizens and children will be one of the great contributing factors. [More…]

• Amongst other things it attracted the lively interest of education authorities, the appreciation of academic leaders and scientific people, a widespread Press reaction which looked at it from a variety of angles, sometimes a practical angle, sometimes even a political angle, and even a complimentary article as a book review while on more than one occasion it has attracted the interest of a national television network. [More…]

• But whatever way they looked at it, whether it be even in the sphere of education, they all came back one way or another in support of what the Commitee was pleased to put in its conclusions and recommendations as a national approach. [More…]

• Encouragement, assistance and coordination are required in many fields including an assessment of the quality of water and the quantity of water resources, the conducting of our research, the provision of funds as well as technical resources and, very importantly, as we said so many times during our negotiations, in the areas of education and legislation. [More…]

• Since then the Australian Tourist Commission has been examining ways and means of instituting in colleges of advanced education courses of training which would be advantageous to the tourist industry. [More…]

• We note that progress has been made and is still being made in the relevant areas of education to improve staffing. [More…]

• Men of industry, men of qualifications, men of education, were required to work on roads for 2 or 3 days a week, according to the number of their dependants. [More…]

• For instance, should we take away from education so that we can pay higher pensions? [More…]

• Further, I suggest that any government should be prepared to accept the responsibility of making a decision as to what the economy can stand in the form of non-productive payments - I do not say that in any derogatory sense- in which 1 include those under the social welfare programme, as opposed to productive payments in which I include, but not exclusively, things such as national development and education. [More…]

• This subject is a hardy annual which comes up at about the same time as the subject of Australia spending a low percentage of its gross national product on education. [More…]

• I would like to reemphasise that a person who receives a scholarship for the purposes of advancing his education - it may be on orthodox ideas or unique ideas - should not ordinarily suffer a forfeiture of the scholarship or any other benefit which he receives for anything other than a serious crime or serious misconduct. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following replies to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science seek from his colleague information whether and under what circumstances the Fisheries Division o the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation would carry out research to discover whether beds of scallops and/ or prawns exist in the Tasmanian waters of Bass Strait, as is firmly believed by fishermen who have not the facilities and equipment to undertake this important research? [More…]

• It is because of the reasons T have given, and the fact that the Government has increased its expenditure this financial year on health and education as well as in many other fields which are of interest to the Australian community, that I am prepared to say that this Bill to amend the Social Services Act is a satisfactory one. [More…]

• We would be saying to this capable, honourable tribunal: Take the running of the economy of this country into your own hands, spend what you like on social services, and then when you have told us what you are going to do we will tell the people what we can do, if anything, for the development of this country in relation to health, hospitals, education, defence and grants to the States.’ [More…]

• I ask the Leader of the Government whether he has seen a report in the South Australian Press of a statement made by the Chairman of the Moratorium Committee in South Australia that that Committee would attempt to bring the life of the nation to a standstill in transport, factories, offices and education facilities, and that it would use such means as the occupation of city streets for a considerable length of time to achieve that purpose. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science seen a statement attributed to the New South Wales Minister for Health that whereas shortly after the second World War medical graduates from the University of Sydney were of the order of 300 a year, now, despite the increased population and increased expenditure on education, the number of graduates in medicine from the University has shrunk to about 200 a year? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that medical education is not only a State matter but also one of national importance? [More…]

• Therefore, will the Commonwealth take these matters into sympathetic consideration so far as New South Wales is concerned when an allocation is made of Australian Universities Commission grants for medical education? [More…]

• I admit that I am not gifted with degrees or anything like that, but a person with only an ordinary education - whether it be in school or out in the word- [More…]

• But what about the educational programmes which are telecast over this channel for schools in the area? [More…]

• fs this not a charge on the Department of Education and Science? [More…]

• I do not think I am divulging anything I should not divulge when 1 say that I know that other members of the committee as well as myself were a little surprised to learn that the Post Office paid the Department of Works for erecting its buildings whereas, for instance, the Department of Education and Science did not. [More…]

• Council recognises the need for increased education in the prevention of acci dental poisoning, stressing in particular the need to keep all poisonous substances, whether drugs or preparations for household use, in places inaccessible to children. [More…]

• Even if the handling of trade union journals was a losing proposition, as the Minister claimed it to be, what is a losing proposition when the education of the people of Australia is involved? [More…]

• When honourable senators opposite pontificate on the role of the trade union movement, they always harp on education. [More…]

• They say that there is nothing of an educational value in a trade union journal; that it is always full of slogans. [More…]

• Even the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) has spoken about the low level of management in Australia and the necessity for more education in this field. [More…]

• important in the education and training of children, to pay additional postage for their distribution. [More…]

• One way would be to reduce government expenditure on pensions, health, education or defence. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The New South Wales Department of Public Health is currently conducting a health education programme on hydatid disease in areas surrounding the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Most of them are married people with families, and there are very, very limited education facilities available to their children. [More…]

• education they can gain is by correspondence. [More…]

• Despite the fact that some very small assistance is given by the Government for education at boarding schools, the parents must make up the difference, and this is quite a significant financial burden on them. [More…]

• But for education it can find only SI 57m. [More…]

• U Chairman is Director, Commonwealth Office of Education (a C.P.S. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, refers to the new higher primary school being built by the Commonwealth Government at a cost of $515,000 on Groote Eylandt. [More…]

• Can the Minister say what level of education the students can attain at this school? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now furnished me with the following information in reply: [More…]

• There is a demand for increased child endowment and for immense sums to be spent upon education. [More…]

• Our feeling was that since it was such a small amount there was a good case - we expressed that case - for leaving taxation as it was and for using the money to assist the farmers, for child endowment, for education, and to give the pensioners a fair deal. [More…]

• If the average good hearted Australian were asked: ‘Do you want the few dollars that you are to get out of this or would you sooner see more money given to the pensioners and the farmers, for child endowment and education, and to other good causes?’ [More…]

• It would have been better to give the money to help families through child endowment and education, to increase pensions and to help farmers in necessity. [More…]

• Senator McManus, on behalf of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, has stated that because of the demands of farmers, because of the demands for increased child endowment - there has been no increase for at least 15 years - because of the demands for increased amounts to be awarded to pensioners, because of the demands for larger amounts to be spent on education and because of the requirements for decentralisation, it is difficult to see avenues in which taxation can be reduced. [More…]

• For many if has been a necessity to pay off their homes, cars and furniture, and a struggle to keep their children at school to obtain a better education. [More…]

• My present position here is Promotions and Public Relations Manager for Brunswick Far East Inc., but, if this position will not apply in the Immigration Laws, then, I would be very grateful if you would bring up the matter in the next reading of the Immigration Bill, bearing in mind that I spent a considerable time from the age of fourteen until I was twenty three in Brisbane, where ] completed my education. [More…]

• Mr Lim, as is mentioned in that particular communication - there are other communications in this file which I will make available to the Department of Immigration if it is anxious to look at it again - spent a number of years in this country, has reached a standard of education well in excess of matriculation standard, holds down a responsible job, has a brother in this country married to an Australian girl, has a home to which he can come, has a job to which he can come, and yet he is refused entry to Australia. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science seen a statement attributed to the New South Wales Minister for Health that whereas shortly after the second World War medical graduates from the University of Sydney were of the order of 300 a year, now, despite the increased population and increased expenditure on education, the number of graduates in medicine from the University has shrunk to about 200 a year? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that medical education is not only a State matter but also one of national importance? [More…]

• Therefore, will the Commonwealth take these matters into sympathetic consideration as far as New South Wales is concerned when an allocation is made of Australian Universities Commission grants for medical education? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now furnished me with the following information in reply: [More…]

• 1 understand also, as some backing for my belief that the total concept of the scheme has not been worked out, that people in the Urban Administration Section of the Department of the Interior are attending a course at the Canberra College of Advanced Education to work out the details of some new system. [More…]

• Immediate demands on the Commonwealth and State Governments to implement a short term plan to effect instant relief in fields most affected by the cost price squeeze, including Land Tax, Receipts Tax, Shire Rates, Consolidation of Rural Debt, Interest Rates, Freight and Transport Costs, Wool Compensation, Education, Improved Port Facilities and Power for Industry. [More…]

• The Bill has a secondary purpose connected with the Government’s decision to establish under the Fishing Industry Research Act 1969 a matching fund for research education, extension and development for the benefit of the fishing industry. [More…]

• Senator Devitt said that the College of Advanced Education is running a special course of study for land administrators in order to make the system work. [More…]

• They will go into competition with all the people in the metropolitan area for all the community services such as water supply, sewerage, roads, education and health services. [More…]

• In view of the contention by the Minister for Primary Industry that pesticide dangers are of a minor nature, will he confer with his colleague the Minister for Education and Science with a view to having the Wildlife Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation investigate allegations emanating from the Sommerlad Tourist Committee that aerial baiting, ostensibly to destroy dingoes, is causing the unnecessary destruction of other fauna on the New South Wales north coast? [More…]

• I could say that apart from housing the main expenditure through the States are in education, health and employment. [More…]

• So far as education is concerned, in addition to the amount of $912,000 spent through the States, major amounts are being spent by the Commonwealth directly. [More…]

• I might mention that, in addition to the amounts spent on Aboriginal education through the States, direct Commonwealth expenditure in this field will this year reach $2.3m. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that in December 1968 the then Minister for Education and Science and the Minister-in-Charge inaugurated a scheme of study grants for post-secondary and tertiary studies for Aboriginals. [More…]

• The introduction of the complementary secondary grants scheme by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) and the Minister-in-Charge in January this year has had the most encourag ing results. [More…]

• So far about 500 Aboriginals have been assisted under the scheme, and although this is a small beginning I would expect that increasingly the scheme will help Aboriginals, particularly those emerging from the education system, to become permanently employed. [More…]

• We had a system whereby a man could establish his craft ability by undertaking a trade test conducted by the South Australian Education Department at its technical school. [More…]

• A tradesman’s ability was assessed by representatives of the Education Department, an employers’ organisation and the trade unions. [More…]

• The education allowance for youngsters between 12 and 14 years whose mother receives a repatriation pension is $2.18. [More…]

• The social services widow receives no education allowance for children between 12 and 18 years or up to time of matriculation. [More…]

• But where is the money to come from to meet these promises of increased expenditure in rural centres and on urban redevelopment, higher pensions, better education and so on? [More…]

• By way of brief preface I wish to say that a 25 per cent concession is given at the moment by domestic airline operators to students at universities, colleges of advanced education, theological colleges and some technical colleges, subject to certain conditions, but those students who attend teacher colleges, which in a number of instances are the only tertiary education facilities in an area, are excluded altogether. [More…]

• All applicants not previously admitted must serve articles of clerkship or complete a prescribed course of legal education. [More…]

• The ordinance also provides for admission to practise as a barrister and solicitor of persons who have the prescribed educational qualifications, which are set out in the ordinance, who are British subjects and who have rendered service under articles of clerkship or who have undertaken an appropriate course of legal education. [More…]

• Any person now or hereafter Only admitted and at the time of his application entitled to practise as an attorney, solicitor or barrister of the Supreme Court of any State of the Commonwealth of Australia shall on proof being made of such admission be entitled to be admitted by the Supreme Court of Victoria to practice as a barrister and solicitor in accordance with the rules made or to be made by the Council of Legal Education. [More…]

• Indeed, in one sense it is less restrictive than the Victorian provision because it does not require compliance with, as is the case in Victoria, rules which may be made by the Council of Legal Education. [More…]

• I have been referred to the case of a school teacher who is under an obligation to serve in the Education Department in Hong Kong at the present time. [More…]

• We had similar situations itv Victoria in relation to the Education Department. [More…]

• Each person involved was making a profit before the Education Department finally purchased the land for the development of the school. [More…]

• EDUCATION (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following replies to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to give effect to the election policy of the Government to increase the amount of Commonwealth assistance to educational research in Australia. [More…]

• The Commonwealth is already assisting educational research in a number of ways. [More…]

• Some examples of this are the assistance given to selected educational research projects through the Australian Research Grants Committee and the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]

• In addition there are special grants to the Australian Council for Educational Research for individual projects such as the Australian science education project and the tertiary education entrance project. [More…]

• 1, division 230.5, there are grants-in-aid to various bodies such as the AustralianAmerican Educational Foundation, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Council for Educational Research, the Social Science Research Council of Australia, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Lady Gowrie Child Centres, some parts of which are applied for the purposes of research. [More…]

• Notwithstanding that the Commonwealth has for some time been assisting education research in this country, it has become evident that more needs to be done. [More…]

• In September 1969, at a meeting in Canberra, a number of leading Australian educationists carefully considered the needs of educational research in Australia and highlighted several areas demanding greater attention. [More…]

• The meeting strongly recommended that a greater measure of assistance be given to research in education, and emphasised the importance of communication of results, identification of areas of national importance, co-ordination of research efforts and the training of research personnel. [More…]

• Subsequently the Government promised, as part of its policy before the 1969 House of Representatives elections, to stimulate educational research still further by means of special assistance, commencing with the allocation of $250,000 in the 1970-71 Budget. [More…]

• To implement this policy, and to advise the Minister for Education and Science on the administration of the new research programme, the Minister has established a committee known as the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]

• Professor S. S. Dunn, Professor of Education, Monash University; [More…]

• Mr D. M. Morrison, Assistant Secretary, Policy and Research Branch, Department of Education and Science, Canberra; [More…]

• A. Verco, Director General of Education, New South Wales. [More…]

• Mr A. H. Webster, Director of Planning, Department of Education, New South Wales; [More…]

• Mr W. Wood, Director of Special Education Services, Department of Education, Queensland. [More…]

• The Bill before the Senate is designed to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969 to enable the Commonwealth Government to provide for increased grants to the States for advanced education. [More…]

• The first part is concerned with increases in the grants offered to all States, in order that we might meet our share of academic salary increases in the current 1970-1972 triennium, brought about by the adoption by the States, in whole or in part, of the report of the Sweeney inquiry into salaries in colleges of advanced education and the Eggleston report on salaries in universities. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that the second report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education recommended support for teacher education in certain colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Teacher education at these colleges will attract the normal Commonwealth grants, namely, for recurrent expenditure $1.85 State and fees of $1 Commonwealth, and on the capital side SI for $1 between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]

• The Second Report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education recommended that a total of Sim be made available for capital development on the Mount Nelson site at Hobart of the school of teacher education within the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The situation has now changed because teacher education in Hobart became the responsibility of the Council of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education from 1st January of this year. [More…]

• The third part increases the Commonwealth offer made for support of the recurrent expenditure of some colleges of advanced education in the 1967-1969 triennium. [More…]

• Increases in a number of States have already been met by way of amendment to the 1967 Advanced Education Act. [More…]

• The Government is prepared to support the establishment and maintenance of residential colleges of advanced education as it does in the universities. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education is at present examining the means whereby residential accommodation in the colleges of advanced education might best be assisted and will make recommendations in its third report. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to make certain amendments to the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that when the Canberra College of Advanced Education was established in 1967, it was not given the power to award degrees for the satisfactory completion of courses. [More…]

• This arrangement was consistent with the Government’s policy t that time of not providing financial assistance for degree courses in colleges of advanced education in the States. [More…]

• In the meantime the Government sponsored an inquiry into the nature and classification of awards in colleges of advanced education by a committee under the chairmanship of Mr F. M. Wiltshire. [More…]

• The recommendations of the Wiltshire Committee have been under discussion between State and Commonwealth Ministers of Education for some considerable time now. [More…]

• The proposed amendment to the functions of the Canberra College of Advanced Education will enable the College to make statutes for the award of degrees in appropriate circumstances. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science will be prepared to recommend such approval where the academic standards of courses in the College have been established through effective national accreditation machinery. [More…]

• Pending arrangement with the States on the form that machinery will take, the Minister proposes to invite a small independent group of knowledgeable persons to make recommendations to him in respect of awards at degree level submitted by the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Public education campaigns have been carried out for over 40 years by State Governments, graziers’ associations and the Australian Wool Board. [More…]

• The New South Wales Department of Public Health is currently conducting a health education programme on hydatid disease in areas surrounding the A.C.T. [More…]

• The activities of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation fall within the area of responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• On 26th August 1970, Senator Devitt asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that, according to recent psychological studies carried out under the sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation of the United States of America, half of all growth in human intelligence lakes place between birth and age 4 and a further 30 per cent between the age 4 and 8 or that, in relation to formal education, two-thirds of a child’s intellectual development takes place before he even commences primary education? [More…]

• In these circumstances and especially in the light of the remarks of the Minister for Education and Science on the subject of the role and importance of pre-schools, as reported in the Australian’ on 16th July last, might we expect that his views will be given tangible expression in the form of greater recognition of and aid to the many forms of pre-school, kindergarten and similar institutions in which the very young are being taught and that the financial support given to these institutions by parents and citizens will be classified as allowable taxation deductions? [More…]

• The Commonwealth is at present providing financial support for a programme of research into pre-school education which is being undertaken by a research worker at the Melbourne Lady Gowrie Child Centre. [More…]

• The question of providing further assistance for pre-school education is receiving consideration. [More…]

• Generally speaking payments made by a parent for the attendance of his child at a pre-school or kindergarten would be deductible for income tax purposes under the heading of education expenses. [More…]

• In this context, ‘education expenses’ means expenses necessarily incurred by the taxpayer for or in connection with full-time education at a school, college or university or from a tutor. [More…]

• It is accepted that a child who attends preschool or kindergarten for the maximum period each week appropriate to his or her age is receiving full-time education at a school. [More…]

• Payments to such establishments are considered to be for the care, supervision and maintenance of a child, rather than for full-time education; any education that a child may receive being no more than incidental and ancillary to the care and maintenance. [More…]

• by leave - The Minister for Education and Science has advised that new rates of allowances will be payable in 1971 to certain classes of students holding Commonwealth scholarships. [More…]

• The Government has decided that the following changes will operate from 1st January 1971: The maximum living allowance payable to holders of Commonwealth university and advanced education scholarships will be increased from$620 to$700 a year in the case of students living at home and from$1, 000 to $1,100 a year for students living away from home. [More…]

• This higher rate of stipend will also be paid to holders of the new postgraduate awards for full-time study leading to a master’s degree by course work; students receiving living allowance under the Commonwealth university and advanced education scholarship schemes will be permitted to earn up to $10 per week during the academic year without affecting their entitlement to living allowance. [More…]

• The new rates and conditions applying to Commonwealth university scholarships will also be applicable to the new Canberra teacher education scholarships to be tenable at the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1971. [More…]

• Subdivision 5 of Division 330 relates to Migrant Education Services, The actual expenditure last financial year was $1,332,690. [More…]

• Douglas was born at Tjirabon (Java) on 7th January 1939, of Chinese parents, and is one of a family of three sons and two daughters, all of whom were sent to Australia by their parents to receive an education. [More…]

• Douglas received an education to at least first year university standard- [More…]

• But we are still enticing them somehow because in sub-division 5 which covers education services we have an increase in appropriation of $2,667,310. [More…]

• He is a man who has a better basic education than two-thirds of Australians have. [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• In addition, if both the husband and wife die and there are children under the age of 16 years left the pension is drastically reduced and there is not sufficient to maintain the children or keep them at school until such time as they can receive a reasonable education. [More…]

• Senator Cavanagh will notice that wc were able to point out to the Committee that during the last 12 months our apprentices in a number of States have received education awards including Commonwealth awards, the Outstanding Apprentice of the Year in Victoria, the Outstanding Apprentice in the Refrigeration and Automobile Chamber of Commerce, special prizes in advanced plumbing and Apprentice of the Year in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• For example, Mr Justice Nimmo conducted an inquiry into the existing health services; Mr Justice Sweeney conducted an inquiry into salaries paid in colleges of advanced education; Mr Justice Eggleston for many years has been connected with the Company Law Review Committee and, as 1 understand it, has not been occupied at all with Industrial Court activities. [More…]

• The payments made to persons who wish to continue or to take up a university course or some other tertiary education are not at all adequate in the circumstances. [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• That the House of Representatives be requested to amend the Second Schedule by reducing the vote - Divisions 230-246, Department of Education and Science, $129,478,000- by $2 - as an instruction to the Government that it should: [More…]

• the objectives and quality of Australian education; and [More…]

• inequalities of education opportunities, and [More…]

• primary and secondary education, [More…]

• tertiary education; such a tertiary commission to co-ordinate all forms of tertiary education including teachers colleges; and [More…]

• the co-ordination of all levels of education. [More…]

• The Opposition is making this request because it believes that in the debate on the estimates of the Department of Education and Science it is essential that certain well established policies of the Australian Labor Party be put before the Senate. [More…]

• These policies are policies which either in whole or in part are held not only by the Australian Labor Party but also by a number of responsible bodies throughout Australia dedicated to the needs and improvement of Australian education. [More…]

• This paragraph deals with perhaps one of the most basic necessities of having a proper understanding of what the purposes of Australian education are, and without having this proper understanding it would seem to be impossible to improve in any way our educational system. [More…]

• Paragraph (a) requests that the Government should: use its good offices to secure the immediate publication of the Commonwealth-States survey of educational needs and make emergency grants accordingly; [More…]

• The Opposition appreciates that in any survey of educational needs unilateral action by this Government would not be sufficient; there would need to be cooperation with the States. [More…]

• The Opposition appreciates also that there are State governments with differing viewpoints and that there may well be - in fact it would be surprising if there were not - contradictory views expressed by the States on what the individual States regard as the needs of education within their own provinces. [More…]

• It will need to be known to this Government, the Commonwealth Parliament, the State parliaments, the Australian people and in particular those people who are working in education precisely what the position is at the present time with regard to the adequacy of teaching staffs, the training of teaching staffs and the facilities such as buildings and equipment for the education of students at present attending institutions of learning in Australia. [More…]

• There will also need to be an examination to determine what will be the needs posed by any projected increase in population, particularly in those age groups who receive education. [More…]

• We are not in any way being pedantic or dogmatic about how many committees there should be or about which persons or which classes of persons should constitute these committees, although it would obviously have to be understood that at least some of these persons would be experts within various fields of education. [More…]

• We call on the Government to establish committees to examine and make recommendations on the objectives and quality of Australian education and also the inequalities of education opportunities. [More…]

• 1 believe it is essential that the Government should have some guidelines as to what are the objective of our education system. [More…]

• Amongst industrialised Western countries, and indeed amongst those countries which have reached a sufficient stage of technical advancement to have fairly sophisticated systems of education, there are great divergences of opinion as to what are the goals of education. [More…]

• There are societies in which it is believed that the primary purpose of education is a narrow functional purpose; that the purpose of education is to train people to deal with the necessary machinery; to understand the instructions which they are given as they go around the streets; that certain people should be perhaps only literate and no more in order to be trained in some simple occupation and that other persons should be highly skilled in certain occupations which require technical expertise. [More…]

• Other people in advanced Western countries believe that there are other purposes in education. [More…]

• For example, if one narrows it down to 2 countries which are different in many respects - the United States of America and South Africa, at least so far as the white population is concerned - there is an insistence in the field of tertiary education at the university level that before one proceeds to special studies, such as the study of law, it is necessary that there should be a study of the humanities in any university course. [More…]

• In many countries the goal of education is to see that all those persons who axe capable of receiving it, whatever occupation they might subsequently follow and however, m the usual terminology, menial their occupation might be - and I for one do not agree that any useful occupation is a menial one - should receive it. [More…]

• I do not believe that the Government has given a clear indication - and I think I could say that I do not think sufficiently clear indications have been given by any of the other political parties - as to the basic purpose of education in Australia. [More…]

• Is it merely to enable enough people to build houses or to drive engines or to fly aeroplanes or to practise the law or to extract tonsils or to rill teeth in order to fulfil the material requirements of society, with the remainder of the population needing only sufficient education to be able to understand the Canberra ‘Sunday Post’, provided that they can get through the misprints? [More…]

• But what I am saying is that I do not believe that in Australia there is a sufficiently wide recognition of the purpose of education - whether it is merely to provide narrow training in certain skills or whether it is to do something which is broader, wider and deeper than that. [More…]

• In the past it has seemed to me from various statements which have been made by some people who at least have held prominent positions in the Government, that the purpose of education in their minds is no more than to train people to read the instructions on the machinery. [More…]

• Certainly one thing on which the Australian Labor Party is quite clear is that all persons who are capable of benefiting from tertiary education should receive it. [More…]

• We shaM be able to arrive more easily at sensible conclusions about the purpose of education if the committees, such as those suggested in paragraph 2 of this amendment, are appointed. [More…]

• Paragraph b (ii) refers to inequalities of educational opportunities. [More…]

• Even if education to the tertiary level is made available to all persons - and it certainly is not in Australia - there still can be serious inequalities in educational opportunities depending upon the circumstances of the parents and the background in which the students have been raised. [More…]

• Recently in Sweden, where there has now been 35 years of Labor government and great advances have been made towards equalities of income and opportunity, the Swedish Minister for Education proposed that there should be a 10 per cent loading in examination marks for the qualification to enter universities given in favour of those young people who come from underprivileged homes. [More…]

• I do not think there is any psychologist or reputable educationist in the United States who now would not agree that the difference in the IQs of young white people and young black people is due to the opportunities of young white people, which, in the majority of cases, were superior to those available to young black people and that with the spread of education among the black youth of the United States there has been a steady drawing closer of the IQs of both groups. [More…]

• Paragraph (c) of the motion refers to the establishment of commissions to investigate and make recommendations on the 3 major branches of education. [More…]

• The first concerns pre-school education - kindergarten and other forms of education which are given to very young children. [More…]

• The second commission is to deal with primary and secondary education. [More…]

• This commission is to deal with the needs of primary and secondary schools in all systems of education throughout Australia. [More…]

• The third is to deal with tertiary education and in that field the Opposition envisages, as is expressed in this motion, the incorporation of all tertiary institutions including colleges of advanced education, teachers’ training colleges and universities into one system. [More…]

• In this latter I believe that we have the support of a very considerable body of people interested in tertiary education. [More…]

• This support has been indicated by such diverse bodies as the Victorian Government which is proposing that degrees should be awarded to graduates of colleges of advanced education in addition to those which are awarded by universities. [More…]

• Whatever the merits of the proposal it does show an inclination towards the coordination of tertiary institutions such as colleges of advanced education and universities, in particular by the National Union of Australian University Students which recently changed both its name and its constitution to include amongst its members not only students at universities but also students at institutes of technology and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In addition to these commissions we advocate that there should be another commission of inquiry to co-ordinate all levels of education. [More…]

• Clearly if there is to be sensible education activity in the field of preschool, primary and secondary schools and the universities and other tertiary institutions there seems to be a need for some overall plan to co-ordinate all 3. [More…]

• They are all, in any event, inter-dependent, and in a society in which it is hoped that the highest education which is available to anyone will be available to every citizen who is capable of taking advantage of such education it is necessary that all these forms of education be co-ordinated. [More…]

• We have just listened to Senator Wheeldon who is apparently putting forward the chief points that the Opposition feels should be advanced on the subject of education. [More…]

• Apparently it is the object of the Opposition to take over education in its entirety and control it through the Commonwealth. [More…]

• With regard to the first proposition the honourable senator put regarding a Commonwealth-wide survey it should be remembered that that survey on the educational needs of the Commonwealth was arranged by the State Ministers for Education. [More…]

• It was not a Commonwealth project although the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) co-operated in it, together with his officers. [More…]

• The position that has developed since then is that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) has asked each State Premier for his Government’s view on the result of the survey and on the priority that the State governments would wish to accord to the needs of education at primary and secondary levels. [More…]

• It may well be that the State Education Ministers have stated aspirations which are in contrast to financial undertakings and financial programmes. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has sought replies on various aspects of those proposals because he is examining the nation-wide survey in readiness to discuss the decisions that should be made. [More…]

• With regard to the second part of the resolution submitted to us, that we should establish committees of practically world-wide ambit in education and apparently absorbed in generality, it should not be forgotten that the Commonwealth has from time to time acted in consultation with the States to establish committees of inquiry into particular aspects of education much more productive of useful results than a generalised committee such as is proposed here. [More…]

• 1 mention that when we were about to enter upon a grand programme for university education we procured from England the services of Sir Hugh Murray and got together a committee which worked with him. [More…]

• They produced what everybody thought was a magnificent report on university education. [More…]

• Some recent examples that have been of great benefit are the Wiltshire Committee which looked at the question of nomenclature and standards of awards in colleges of advanced education and the recent Auchmuty Committee which has just completed an examination of the teaching of Asian languages and cultures in Australia. [More…]

• In South Australia a committee under Professor Karmel is presently carrying out a comprehensive inquiry into education in that State involving, 1 think as one aspect, the realm of independent schools. [More…]

• That report will, of course, be looked to by educationists as a useful guide. [More…]

• The third proposition put forward by the Opposition was that we should have a continuing commission to make recommendations on pre-school, primary, secondary and teritary education and the co-ordination of education at all levels. [More…]

• I suggest that it is unlikely that we would, but in considering that proposal the Senate ought to recognise that education continues to be primarily the responsibility of the States, and die State governments are jealous of their interest in the subject of education. [More…]

• Finally, I wish to make a few general comments that might indicate to the Senate that the policy of the Federal Government is to implement the State development of education and this can be seen, I think, by the magnificent degree of assistance that has been extended in the Federal sphere over the last 10 years. [More…]

• Another fact that may be of interest to the Committee is that the total expenditure on education by the State governments has increased from 25 per cent of total State revenue and known expenditure 10 years ago to an estimated 31 per cent this year. [More…]

• The total estimated expenditure on education in Australia - that is, combined Commonwealth and State - as a percentage of the gross national product has increased from 3.5 per cent in 1961-62 to 4.2 per cent in 1969-70. [More…]

• Of course there are always things to be achieved in the field of education and health and those other areas of social improvement, but all I am saying is that the Labor Party proposition as I have stated it seems to be one generally of futility and the Government achievement, as I have stated it, over the last 10 years is one of significant improvement. [More…]

• Education for any country is far too important to be dealt with in the way it has been dealt with by Senator Wright who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) in this chamber. [More…]

• It is too important to be left in the area where the Minister would like to leave it by saying: ‘Oh, well, we have all sorts of demands in health and social services and education. [More…]

• Let us brush aside the brutal facts about education in Australia.’ [More…]

• As has been demonstrated many times in this chamber by the late Senator Cohen and by educationists throughout Australia, education is at a deplorably low standard in Australia when one compares it to education in other advanced countries. [More…]

• It is true, as the Minister says, that we are spending about 4 per cent of our gross national product on education. [More…]

• He turned around to say something personal instead of telling the truth and saying: ‘Yes, senator, we are spending less of our gross national product on education than other advanced countries’. [More…]

• The children of Japan on a per capita basis at every stage get better educational opportunities than the children of Australia. [More…]

• More of them go to secondary school; more complete secondary school; more go to university; more complete university courses; more do post graduate courses and more get technical education. [More…]

• It is not only that their children are getting the education that they deserve as individuals, but this finds a result in the productivity of the country. [More…]

• This is why Japan is bounding ahead: It is spending money on education and we should be doing the same. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of everyone in the community - it is not to be left to the States, the parents, the churches or anyone else - to see to it that Australian youth get the education they deserve. [More…]

• Anyone who does not realise that is not fit to represent the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• More money should be spent on education. [More…]

• There should be a better understanding of what the problems are in education so that we can see to it that money is spent in the best way. [More…]

• The Government’s performance in education has been discreditable. [More…]

• Australian educational authorities are demoralised. [More…]

• Teachers throughout the country and State Ministers foi Education are asking for more money. [More…]

• We are all aware of the disgraceful conditions under which children in our community are getting education. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has asked for an inquiry into education. [More…]

• That a select committee of the Senate be appointed to inquire into and report upon tile needs of pre-school, primary, secondary and technical education throughout Australia and to recommend such legislative and administrative measures by the Commonwealth as wilt enable (Inbest standards of education for all. [More…]

• It would have thrown light on the educational problems in Australia and given an opportunity to those who are concerned about them to put forward submissions. [More…]

• It states, in the first place, that we should have published immediately the results of the Commonweal th-States survey of educational needs and that there should be emergency grants in accordance with that survey. [More…]

• If the Government does not want to act on them it should at least do something in the way of emergency action to deal with what is an emergency - and the situation of education in Australia is an emergency situation. [More…]

• Senator Wheeldon proposed that the Government establish committees - this motion to reduce the vote would be an instruction to the Government to do that - to examine and make recommendations on the objectives and quality of Australian education. [More…]

• They are to examine also inequalities of education opportunities. [More…]

• Who doubts that in this country inequalities of education opportunities exist? [More…]

• Then one goes to other schools where the children are receiving the kind of education that they no doubt deserve. [More…]

• Senator Wheeldon also suggests that there be established continuing commissions to investigate and make recommendations on pre-schools, primary and secondary education and tertiary education. [More…]

• We know that there is some investigation of tertiary education. [More…]

• Senator Wheeldon said in regard to that, that the tertiary education commission should coordinate all forms of tertiary education including teachers colleges. [More…]

• The policy of the Australian Labor Party is that the Commonwealth ought to take over the entire financial responsibility for the teachers colleges, and it ought to be taking the entire financial responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]

• Primary, secondary and technical education obviously need a proper investigation. [More…]

• Continuing commissions are needed to act in regard to education at these levels. [More…]

• Or is it going to go in and start to open up the problems of education? [More…]

• They should investigate the needs of all schools and of all children and they should recommend grants to be made according to those needs to meet the demands of proper education for children throughout Australia and on the basis of certain needs and priorities. [More…]

• I suggest to honourable senators that the proposal put forward by Senator Wheeldon is a wise one and that the Senate in its wisdom ought to adopt that policy so that Australia will face up to its responsibilities in education. [More…]

• Senator Murphy, in the course of speaking to this amendment, stated that the Government’s approach to education and its actions with regard to education were wholly discreditable. [More…]

• No-one with any sense of objectivity examining the record of what this Government has done in education over the last 13 years, could say that it is discreditable, and mean it. [More…]

• But the basic fact - this is something which Senator Murphy was inclined entirely to ignore - is that in Australia at the present time education is primarily a State matter. [More…]

• Each State has its own education department. [More…]

• Each State has an apparatus by which its education department is administered, by which schools are erected and maintained and by which teachers are trained. [More…]

• All the facilities necessary for the provision of education are in the hands of the States. [More…]

• Therefore, if the Commonwealth is to take any role in education which is an economic role and has regard to existing resources and the use of them, the role adopted by the Commonwealth must be a supplementary one. [More…]

• What would it cost if the Commonwealth Government had to bear the entire cost of the universities and the colleges of advanced education? [More…]

• In addition, the Commonwealth Government has recognised that we have in Australia a dual system of education. [More…]

• For more than 100 years we have had independent schools and a State education system. [More…]

• As the Minister has said, in this current year the Commonwealth Government will provide $3 13m which represents a 25 per cent increase on the amount which the Commonwealth Government provided for education last year. [More…]

• If the argument that the Opposition uses now comes down to questioning what is happening in Vietnam, which has been the hoary shibboleth it has thrown up in the last 3 or 4 years, it seems to me that it is really devoid of argument on the merits of the educational programme. [More…]

• Senator Murphy wants to know why the Government has not published the survey of educational needs which was produced by the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• The first is that earlier this year the Commonwealth Government very substantially increased the amount of general revenue assistance to the States, and therefore the ability of the States to provide moneys for education exceeds that which was the basis upon which this survey was made earlier this year. [More…]

• The second point is that if the Commonwealth Government is to provide assistance to the States for educational purposes, what is required is a survey of what is practicable. [More…]

• I consider that the attack which has been made by the Australian Labor Party on the Government’s educational programme is but one more electioneering effort which ignores the realities and seeks to make capital by the use of generalities and the loud voice. [More…]

• I trust that whenever an opportunity arises there will be recognition of the very signal achievements which this Government has been able to produce in a wide variety of fields in education, each one of them complementing existing State programmes. [More…]

• Their limited education makes it almost impossible for Aboriginals te take advantage of legislation which provides them with opportunities for appeal against restrictions, lt is with concern that we approach this subject. [More…]

• lt is also important to realise that the Aborigine on the reserve has very little formal education - perhaps 5 years of schooling would be the average for the adults. [More…]

• Considering the high rate of illiteracy of Aboriginal adults (average education is about 5 years at school) this implies the heavy dependence they must place on white employees of the department for assistance in their appeal against decisions of the department. [More…]

• well and good, but most of them cannot find employment because the Department, the Commonwealth Government and other people do not believe that they require a standard of education similar to that enjoyed by the average Australian. [More…]

• Secondly, having provided Aboriginal children with some sort of an education, the next big problem is to provide job opportunities for them, because they are not being provided. [More…]

• The number of Aboriginal youngsters undergoing secondary education represents a very tiny fraction of the total number of Aboriginal children who ought to be receiving lt. [More…]

• I think that throughout Australia, only 5 or 6 Aboriginal children are undergoing university education, and this is a disgrace to this country and to the Government. [More…]

• The availability of education facilities is vital because until we get the Aboriginal children and train and educate them they will continue to behave as they have done in the past. [More…]

• Education is vital if we are to train these people to a state of responsibility that will enable them to take their place in any phase of our community life. [More…]

• Education is the important thing, lt may be found necessary for many years that they have to operate such properties with the guidance and direction of persons qualified to conduct the business side of such undertakings. [More…]

• I think we all agree that the basic needs are housing, health and education. [More…]

• The Queensland programme for 1970-71 includes health education programmes on settlements and reserves. [More…]

• 1 think that this is particularly so in the field of education. [More…]

• In 1970-71, S2.3m is provided in the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account for study grants in tertiary education and secondary grants to enable students to continue their secondary education. [More…]

• The Government is developing a very decided programme of pre-school education for implementation in this financial year. [More…]

• Therefore, we are looking to all the areas of education. [More…]

• Our assistance goes right down to the pre-school level, which we all agree is tremendously important, and up through the education of children of older ages. [More…]

• I want to make one or two other points because it was implied that while there is a need for education and assistance in employment - and of course this is accepted - nothing was being done. [More…]

• Assistance is also given in the field of education by way of grants in aid. [More…]

• Special adult education projects have been set up and this of course must assist Aboriginals tremendously in the employment field. [More…]

• At the end of motion add: ‘, but the Senate is of opinion that the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education should be a statutory body reporting its principles, actions and recommendationsannually to Parliament.’ [More…]

• The Opposition does not wish to prevent the passage of this Bill as it stands because at least it involves an advance, a small advance, whereby there is recognition of the need for overall research into the problems of advanced education to be undertaken by the Government. [More…]

• This accords, if only in very small part, with the principles put forward by the Opposition in the amendments which were moved yesterday in this Parliament to the estimates of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• However, if one compares the Bill which is now before the Senate and which has been passed in another place with the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) and that of the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), representing him in this chamber, one finds what is quite a significant gap. [More…]

• In the Minister’s second reading speech considerable reference is made to the establishment of a body to be known as the Australian Advisory Commitee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]

• The purpose of the Commitee, as set out in the Minister’s spech, is to receive submissions from various persons who are interested in research into higher education and to make recommendations on the submissions of persons who are concerned with such research that they should receive grants to assist them with such research, and generally to advise the Minister on what research projects should be undertaken by those persons qualified to engage in research into higher education. [More…]

• Insofar as it goes, this is indeed admirable.It is desirable that there should be a co-ordinated approach by the Commonwealth to the problems of education and there can only be this co-ordinated approach in any form of intelligent manner if there is coordination of research because the purpose of research into education, as is the purpose of research into any other field of activity, is to ascertain facts. [More…]

• Without the ascertainment of the relevant facts in the matter of advanced education, it is impossible to lay down any guidelines or take any consistent action directed towards the future development of advanced education. [More…]

• In the second reading speech quite con siderable mention is made of the Committee and the Minister for Education and Science has undertaken that the Committee will make recommendations to the Minister and the Minister may accept or reject these recommendations. [More…]

• It is clear that a committee of this nature would have to act on an advisory basis and it would certainly be wrong if the conduct of the nation’s affairs, whether in education or any other matter, were to be taken out of the hands of the elected representatives of the people and handed over to a committee, however responsible, however erudite and conscientious the members of the committee may be. [More…]

• The Opposition, while conceding that the ultimate lines of policy should be in the hands of the Government and particularly the Minister for Education and Science, believes that this Committee, which clearly will play a very important role in determining what sort of research is to be undertaken into advanced education, should be constituted by statute. [More…]

• The Minister could merely go around and have a chat with a few people whom he happens to know are interested in education and after having a talk with them he could make up his mind to do something which one or other or all suggested he ought to do or not do something which one or other or all suggested he ought not do. [More…]

• The Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education should be a statutory body. [More…]

• This Committee, having certain principles which guide its deliberations, will presumably have some consistency in its actions and these should be reported regularly to the Parliament so that we may have the benefit of knowing what these outstandingly qualified persons believe ought to be done in the field of advanced education. [More…]

• But on a matter which is arousing such controversy and such interest amongst the Australian people and something which is of such tremendous importance to the Australian people as the future of advanced education, it is the view of the Opposition that the body which deliberates on these matters should have a standing beyond the rather ephemeral standing which is given to it in the terms of the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]

• While the amendment is a little weak because it says ‘the Senate is of opinion’, it does provide that at the end of the motion the following words should be added: but the Senate is of opinion that the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education should be a statutory body reporting its principles, actions and recommendations annually to Parliament.’ [More…]

• The thing that caught my eye when I was reading the second reading speech delivered by the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) is the fact that this will be just another body to look into the subject of research in education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth is already assisting educational research in a number of ways. [More…]

• Some examples of this are the assistance given to selected educational research projects through the Australian Research Grants Committee and the Commonwealth Advisory Committee o’n Advanced Education. [More…]

• In addition there are special grants to the Australian Council for Educational Research for individual projects such as the Australian Science Education Project and the Tertiary Education Entrance Project. [More…]

• 1, Division 230 5, there are Grants-in-Aid to various bodies such as the Australian-American Educational Foundation, the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Council for Educational Research, the Social Science Research Council of Australia, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Lady Gowrie Child Centres, some parts of which are applied for the purposes of research. [More…]

• One can say that if one aspect of the education system has been looked after it is educational research. [More…]

• I have yet to know of any other walk of life in which one can find as many bodies which are supposed to have as one of their principal objects research into education. [More…]

• I wonder whether the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) or the Government at some time will think of combining all these bodies. [More…]

• No-one is opposed to education itself. [More…]

• Some of us who perhaps were not fortunate enough to be able to have a good education in some fields do feel a lack of it. [More…]

• I have often sought a research council to inquire into the educational needs of the nation. [More…]

• An officer of the Department of Education and Science was very kind at short notice, just, before the suspension of the sitting in fact, to provide me with information as to the total expenditure embracing education. [More…]

• With all the money that is being spent on education, I do not see why - and I wonder about this - we do not ask some of these research bodies: Will you tell us what this nation will need in 10 or more years?’ [More…]

• I believe this is because of a lack of educational facilities. [More…]

• Yet, on the other hand, I am told that recently an advertisement was placed seeking scientists with a high degree of education. [More…]

• It seems that people who are spending many years of their lives studying or obtaining degrees - up to the age of 25 years or 26 years - are finding it extremely hard to obtain worthwhile occupations to suit the talents and the educational standards that they have attained through their hard work. [More…]

• 1 think that we ought to give special encouragement to students to study in avenues of education through which, when they qualify, they will be of great advantage to the nation. [More…]

• But for the money we are spending - it is a fair sum - are we getting in our universities the best candidates for higher education? [More…]

• Education is important and we should set our mind to it and give a higher education to as many as we can. [More…]

• The Minister was good enough to give me the number of young ladies who were doing an arts course at Monash University, Latrobe University and the University of Melbourne, and we tried to find out how many of them went further and did their diploma of education. [More…]

• I will not say that for a young girl who has an arts degree education is the only avenue in which she can employ her talents. [More…]

• We are a very wealthy nation and no doubt we can afford the money that we are spending, and no doubt as the years go on and the population grows and the urge for education is as great as or greater than it is today, more money will be spent. [More…]

• If they have to work in different spheres of research, those who know more about the educational desires or wants will be better off. [More…]

• But I cannot understand why we keep on adding another body to those already mentioned by the Minister when we have no planned education scheme for the good of the nation. [More…]

• I am not decrying the contention that everybody should have a university education. [More…]

• in reply - I think very few would share Senator Kennelly’s point of view that it is a time for restriction on expenditure in education. [More…]

• I think most people would agree that it is a time when as much as possible of the Budget should be expended on education. [More…]

• Senator Kennelly pointed out that today the Commonwealth and the States are expending $l,272m on education. [More…]

• I have referred to the fact that the Commonwealth’s direct expenditure on education has increased from S54m in 1961 to $312m this year. [More…]

• But the point I make is that with the challenges of modern life, a much greater proportion of our community will be assisted vastly by this expanded expenditure on education than was the case in the days when Senator Kennelly and I were youths. [More…]

• In order to remind honourable senators, especially the members of the sub-committee which had occasion to examine the rather insignificant voles provided for these specialist bodies, I point out that arising out of a meeting of high educationalists in Canberra last year the Commonwealth Government accepted the proposal that there should be a general vote for research in education. [More…]

• When we gel to the stage of direct control of $250,000 for general research in education, surely it is prudent to constitute an advisory committee of an informal nature to advise the Minister as to the fields to which he should accord priority and in which money should be expended. [More…]

• Many continuing informal advisory committees have been established by the Commonwealth in the education field. [More…]

• They are the Australian National Advisory Committee for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation; the Committee on Education of Aboriginal and Disadvantaged Children in the Northern Territory Community Schools; the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Standards for Science Facilities in Independent Schools; the Commonwealth Secondary Schools Library Committee; the Australian Research Grants Committee to Administer Scholarships; ihe Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship Committee; the Queen’s Fellowship Committee; and the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]

• It established the Canberra College of Advanced Education and although the provisions of the Bill which is now before the Senate are not in themselves very wide they are of some significance when consid ered in conjunction with the second reading speech made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bo wen). [More…]

• In his speech the Minister has given some indication that the proposed development of the Canberra College of Advanced Education will lead to the establishment of a degree-conferring institution in Canberra. [More…]

• It may well lead to the establishment of other tertiary educational bodies in the Australian Capital Territory, such as a teachers’ training college. [More…]

• Also there has been some discussion by the Minister of a national co-ordinating body to make provision for the qualifications awarded by and the requirements of similar colleges of advanced education throughout Australia. [More…]

• For this reason the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act can become something of a model of what it is anticipated will happen in Australia as regards the Commonwealth’s attitude to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The purpose of these amendments will be to give to the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education the same sort of status as is at present given to the Council of the Australian National University by allowing for representation of both Houses of the national Parliament, on the governing body of the College: to make provision for the representation of the citizens of Canberra, by election, on the Council of the College; and also to make some minor provisions relating to the prescribing of regulations by the Governor-General. [More…]

• I merely indicate that the Opposition believes that the future of the Canberra College of Advanced Education is of extreme importance to the educational system of Australia. [More…]

• The establishment of colleges of advanced education has been quite a radical departure in the field of tertiary education from what Australia and, indeed, most countries have been used to in the past where one has either had universities or what were loosely known as technical schools or technical colleges which were, generally speaking, of a much lower standard than universities. [More…]

• The concept of a college of advanced education which has a status somewhat similar to, although not quite identical with, a university is new and, in many respects, it is a great advance. [More…]

• We believe that anything which is done in Canberra with regard to the Canberra College of Advanced Education is of importance because, although the colleges of advanced education in the Slates will be under the control of the State parliaments, there can be no doubt that what is done in the national capital could well serve as a model and guideline for development within the States. [More…]

• Although it may well be agreed that there is some difference in function between the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the Australian National University insofar as the Canberra College of Advanced Education presumably is meant to deal specifically with the Australian Capital Territory whereas the Australian National University does have a national status, I do not think that this is a complete answer to the arguments which could be put forward on the amendment that I have just moved. [More…]

• In any event it is the view of the Opposition that as the Canberra College of Advanced Education is an institute of higher learning conducted by the national Government and constituted by Act of the national Parliament there should be some representation of this Parliament on the governing body of the college. [More…]

• It is our view that education is part of a total process which involves the whole community in which that education is taking place. [More…]

• The members of the community at large, whether or not they are versed in the sciences or the arts of education, are entitled to have a substantial voice in the education which is being given by the institutions which are controlled by their government in the city in which they live. [More…]

• There must be democratic participation in every form of government, and particularly in a field such as education. [More…]

• The proposal that elected members of the community should be a component of the board of a college of advanced education is quite anomalous, because this is not a provision which prevails in the general pattern of colleges of advanced education throughout the country. [More…]

• His main reason for applying for this extra money was to meet education needs as well as to help to some extent the building trade, which was in a state of decline at that time in South Australia’. [More…]

• The money sought for education purposes was to be used to replace by more solid constructions the unsatisfactory temporary timber classrooms which dot many of the schools in South Australia. [More…]

• Here we have $5m being granted to us not on the basis of political expediency or of yelling out for a certain thing but on the basis of a proven requirement determined by those who will determine what is required beyond what is now being granted to South Australia to enable that State to reach approximately the standards applying in other States in education, hospital and social services and in general wages. [More…]

• This Bill deals with grants that are being made by the Commonwealth to various institutions of tertiary education in Australia. [More…]

• Clearly, it would be foolish for us to oppose a Bill that provides for additional grants to be made to the impoverished tertiary education institutions of Australia. [More…]

• However, the Australian Labor Party is of the opinion that introducing this piecemeal legislation, which periodically comes before the Parliament to provide a grant to one institution or a grant to another institution, is not the proper way of dealing with the problems of Australian education, whether it be tertiary education or primary, secondary or pre-school education. [More…]

• lt is our opinion - an opinion reinforced by the fact that the standards of education at all levels in Australia are at present in a most deplorable situation - that countries which only 2 or 3 decades ago were well behind Australia as far as the level of education is concerned are now well in advance of Australia. [More…]

• Now it is so far ahead of Australia in this field of education that this is one of the major obstacles to us getting migrants from there to come to Australia. [More…]

• The parents of children who may be attending school at some time in the future are reluctant to leave their home country, even though economically it may be much poorer than Australia because they are aware of the hardships they will have to endure if they are to give their children the sort of education which is available to them in their homeland. [More…]

• The Opposition has made its position clear on the matter of education. [More…]

• One of the reasons for their acceptance is their growing awareness of the inadequacies of the Australian education system. [More…]

• My suggestion does not reflect a policy decision of the Australian Labor Party but 1 put it to the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who represents the Minister for Education (Mr N. H. Bowen), as a subject for consideration. [More…]

• There would no doubt be a great deal of benefit for the education of people engaged in mining in Western Australia if the Kalgoorlie School of Mines were able to award university degrees. [More…]

• On the basis of the existing Kalgoorlie School of Mines it seems to me - this certainly is the view of a great many Western Australians - that consideration should be given to developing it into a university college or into a separate university with other faculties available so that the people living in the gold fields and in areas closer to them than they are to Perth would be able to receive the benefits of a better tertiary education than is presently available to them. [More…]

• In reply- The Bill before the Senate relates to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act of 1969 and has 4 parts. [More…]

• The major part is that which gives assistance to meet the increase in salaries of academic staffs of colleges of advanced education following the Sweeney and Eggleston reports. [More…]

• I join with Senator Wheeldon in saying that I am delighted that the Kalgoorlie School of Mines is part of the advanced education programme. [More…]

• It is one of the important colleges of advanced education as a result of the co-operative effort of the Commonwealth Government, the State Government and the industry which is of unique importance in that decentralised area. [More…]

• At the same time, having regard to what the spokesman for the Opposition said with regard to Australian education in general, it is my duty to refute the imputation that we are falling behind countries which hitherto were thought to be primitive but now are considered, in the blinded outlook of the Australian Labor Party, to be advanced in relation to Australia’s performance. [More…]

• It is proper that the Senate, which is representative of the people of Australia who are the taxpayers yielding their taxes for this purpose, should know that this Federal Government in Canberra, operating a policy to supplement the endeavours of the States which have the primary responsibility in this field, has, so far from allowing education to fall into discard, as Senator Wheeldon implies, increased direct Commonwealth expenditure on education from $54m 10 years ago to S3 12m under this year’s Budget. [More…]

• These things refute completely the suggestions of the Opposition that we regard education as something to be relegated to insignificance. [More…]

• An Opposition spokesman referred to Yugoslavia as a country which is in advance of Australia in relation to education. [More…]

• We in this Commonwealth Parliament, with no direct responsibility for the field of education but seeing the need for supplementary assistance have increased that assistance I repeat from $S4m in 1961 to $3 12m this year and have distributed among scholars who have earned Commonwealth scholarships 37.4m this year compared with $7.9m 10 years ago. [More…]

• I do not dispute the relevance of his generalised denigration of Australia’s performance in respect of education. [More…]

• As I have said already, this is certainly no argument for not having adequate competitive salaries at Australian universities, but it does show in a very sharp relief the appalling salaries and conditions under which teachers in our secondary and primary schools system have to work, a system without which it would be impossible to retain any tertiary education. [More…]

• and (2) In keeping with its particular and special role in the education of Aboriginesthe standard of discipline at Koomilda College is high and there have been no complaints that would suggest otherwise. [More…]

• There are people in the industrial field, the educational field and the housing industry who have needs. [More…]

• There are people who have a need in the field of drug abuse and the Government is paying attention to that aspect by making grants for education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• They have the final decision in a range of areas from taxation to local government and education - vast steps which have been made towards self-government. [More…]

• Over the years they have made various pronouncements about the necessity for freeing the colonial peoples and not allowing any excuses - whether it be the backwardness of the people, their lack of education or lack of performance - for colonial peoples not proceeding rapidly to self-government and independence. [More…]

• It further requested the administering power to intensify and accelerate the education and technical and administrative training of the indigenous peoples of the Territories and the localisation of the Public Service, and requested the Trusteeship Council and the Special Committee to continue to examine this question and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its Twenty-sixth Session. [More…]

• One of the things which obviously would be required if a country such as New Guinea were to function would be a proper system of education. [More…]

• Everybody is in favour of independence for Papua and New Guinea, but let us not fail to recognise the immense difficulties of running an independent country in a place where the problems of economic viability are very considerable, where there is not an administrative class and where education has not attained a standard at which the great bulk of the people can understand even what independence means, let alone function under it. [More…]

• I am nol in favour of speeding up education in the case of people such as those in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• It may seem all right to some people to speed up education for people of that kind and to plunge them into a twentieth century civilisation overnight, but experience has shown that when that happens it is not altogether to the advantage of the people concerned. [More…]

• But the education that they need to operate in any sort of society is not up to primary standard. [More…]

• We have failed in the field of education. [More…]

• There are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of youngsters who have not yet received an opportunity to have a primary education, let alone a secondary education in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]

• To achieve this in the right way we must step up the education programme. [More…]

• Far from cutting down the contributions or telling them how the money should be used, as was suggested by my friend over here on the left who comes: from the right section, we ought to be increasing contributions in the 3 fields I have referred to, health, education and the overall administration. [More…]

• The honourable senator is living back in the days of feudalism, in the days of one-party government by those who had the opportunity - not the wealth, but the opportunity - to receive an education. [More…]

• We have been laggard in the creation of educational opportunities in the Territory and in the political education of its people. [More…]

• This Bill provides legislative basis for the comprehensive programme of migrant education which was announced in the House of Representatives on 23rd April 1970 by the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch). [More…]

• The Bill, Mr Deputy President, relates to the total area of migrant education, which for purpose of simplicity may be dealt with under 3 main headings - the adult programme, intensive courses and child migrant education. [More…]

• As foreshadowed in the statement on 23rd April the Government has approved the detail of a major review of the adult education programme in source countries where pre-embarkation instruction is given, during the journey to Australia and in the community after arrival. [More…]

• The number of shipboard education officers will be increased, and with the growing emphasis upon air travel we will consider providing educational facilities in aircraft as circumstances permit. [More…]

• The child migrant education programme represents a new area of Commonwealth participation. [More…]

• Because what is planned in the adult programme and with intensive courses is essentially an extension of existing programmes, the Bill is concerned largely with the area of the major new initiative in child migrant education^ [More…]

• The short title - Immigration (Education) Act 1970 - indicates that the source of power for the Bill derives from the immigration provision in the Constitution. [More…]

• The State education departments and the independent school authorities are being informed that the Commonwealth will meet from existing appropriation costs within the approved programme which are incurred in the special instruction of migrant children as from 1st April 1970. [More…]

• In the defintions clause, clause 3. the intention of the definition ‘capital equipment of an educational nature’ is where the need for special classes is established that State and independent schools will be provided with Commonwealth funds to purchase equipment of the language laboratory type. [More…]

• Non-English speaking immigrants are not specified because English speaking immigrants and their children as well as their non-English speaking counterparts are to be provided with courses in citizenship education which are referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-clause (I.) [More…]

• Clause 5 relates to the proposed new arrangements for the child migrant education programme as well as to existing arrangements for adult migrants and for full lime intensive courses of instruction. [More…]

• The Department of Education and Science, which will be assisting in the development of the child migrant education programme in the States and will be responsible for producing appropriate teaching materials, will be establishing a committee to advise on the design and content and production of text books and other material for the child programme. [More…]

• The committee will include representatives from State Education Departments as well as the Department of Immigration and the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• Some State Departments of Education have already taken steps to meet the problems encountered by migrant children in their schools and for this purpose are employing teachers in the special instruction of migrant children. [More…]

• Reference was made in the House of Representatives on 23rd April to the need for research in the fields of both adult and child migrant education. [More…]

• Clauses 8 provides authority for the conduct of such research, which will be undertaken by the Department of Immigration and the Department of Education and Science in conjunction with the research units of the State Education Departments and of appropriate tertiary institutions. [More…]

• of clause 9 is intended to provide for the situation where the State Education Department or independent school authority may wish to purchase teaching and learning materials which are not suitable for production under the arrangement referred to in clause S but which may be considered necessary to the effective implementation of the child programme. [More…]

• Clause 10 makes the normal provision for the administration of any part of the migrant education programme to be delegated by the Minister and is in accordance with the provision of such delegation used frequently in other Acts. [More…]

• The Bill is intended to give legislative force to the programme of migrant education which the Government believes to be a matter of national importance. [More…]

• Some 1.5m has been provided in the current financial year for migrant education. [More…]

• I believe - indeed, many thoughtful people now believe - that the constant pressure for public spending and capital expenditure upon schools, hospitals, roads, education and so forth has been caused by the very rapid increase in our population. [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, fs the Minister aware of any circumstances which have arisen recently which would necessitate or justify notifications being sent by State Departments of Education to winners of Commonwealth scholarships that funds for the purpose have been reduced and that scholarships are not available now? [More…]

• Education and Science. [More…]

• State., governments cannot or will not at this stage increase education facilities and improve the environment of the inner suburban schools to enable proper education to be given to children living in these sub-standard areas. [More…]

• That opposition was evident when it was suggested that a committee be set up to inquire into the needs of education in Australia. [More…]

• The facts are that the Democratic Labor Party opposed proposals for select committees which were clearly in the national interest, such as the proposal for a select committee to inquire into the establishment of a national disaster organisation, the most important proposal to have an inquiry into the needs of education throughout Australia and also, and perhaps most importantly, the proposals for the establishment of these standing committees about which we are speaking. [More…]

• Some of these are: The Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies Act 1964, section 28: Aboriginal Enterprises (Assistance) Act 1968, section 12: Australian Tourist Commission Act 1967: Canberra College of Advanced Education Act; Science and Industry Research Act; Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Act; Australian Capital Territory Electricity Supply Act; and the National Library Act. [More…]

• Are we to take it that the Government intends to prune expenditure in the area of education and so depress the education system further? [More…]

• If this is the product of our vaunted university education, then we should seriously re-examine our altitude, to so-called higher education. [More…]

• In the circumstances I do not think it would bc beyond the wit of the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Bowen) in this chamber, to devise some form of expression or definition which would ensure that ‘student’ meant a genuine student. [More…]

• I am not aware of any other students attending university in any State in Australia who have not a genuine desire to attain a higher education. [More…]

• itself with university education, , the Government ought not accept it. [More…]

• There is a great need in university education throughout the world today for better communication and a sharing of responsibility from top to bottom. [More…]

• Anybody who does nol subscribe to the proposition that the student body to be represented on the Council of the University has an obligation to show that it has a sense of responsibility and a regard for the good name of the university and that that responsibility and regard should be manifested, for example, in a rejection of crude pornography as a feature of official student journalism comes beneath the standards of the ordinary citizen of this country, beneath the standards of the Parliament of the country, and certainly beneath the standards which I hope are being cultivated in the area where we are giving opportunities for special education in the proprieties, decencies and efficiencies of modern civilisation. [More…]

• In the second reading debate the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) had a few words to say about the Opposition’s attitude to the University. [More…]

• After all, they are the people who are the reason for the existence of the university, lt is not there for the professors, nor is if there for the businessmen or the parliamentarians who are on the Council: the reason for its existence is the education of the students. [More…]

• They may well be concerned, as apparently the students were al the beginning of the great riots in France in 1968, with the quality of the education that they are having. [More…]

• In France the students were not Irving to make life easier for themselves; they were complaining that conditions were not satisfactory and that they were not getting the education that they wanted. [More…]

• This is the way that the world will go, There will be far more participation in the decisions which affect persons, and the presence of students on the governing Council of the University may well lead to an improvement in the quality of education. [More…]

• It is to their interests that the education be better and it is to their interests that inefficiency be removed, (hat standards be improved and that the cobwebs be blown out of the educational system. [More…]

• The appropriate Minister would be the Minister for the Interior or perhaps the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• No independent nation in the modern age can maintain a civilised way of life unless it is well served by its universities; and no university nowadays can succeed in its double aim of high education and the pursuit of knowledge without the good-will and support of the Government of the country. [More…]

• On their side the universities have the inescapable duty to carry out the education of the gifted young of the nation and to carry out certain kinds of research in the best spirit of western tradition; and to guard and secure their integrity in the free pursuit of knowledge and in the free education which they offer. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable senators that their observations will be conveyed to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) for such consideration as he thinks fit. [More…]

• the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts; and [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts; (0 The Standing Committee on Social Environment (this shall include Housing, Transport, Communications and the provision of other facilities); and [More…]

• In suggesting this I have chosen the Standing Committee on Education Science and the Arts and the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• On behalf of the Democratic Labor Party 1 indicate that we feel that a standing committee on education, science and arts should be given imediate viability by hte appointment of members. [More…]

• The next named committee is the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• It is suggested in the document Committees of the Australian Senate’ that we should move into 2 more immediately or as soon as possible, the 2 suggested committees being the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts and the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• I believe that both of the areas suggested are areas in which there is at present a great deal of public interest and concern, but particularly in the area of education and science. [More…]

• Insert “whilst not refusing to give the Bill a second reading, the House condemns the Government for the delay in providing a comprehensive programme of migrant education, adequate finance facilities and capital equipment, including buildings’. [More…]

• People of that calibre, linked with educationists, would bridge the gap that exists. [More…]

• I have discussed this matter with prominent people in New South Wales such as Mrs Backhouse, president of the New South Wales federation of parents and citizens organisations; Mrs Miller, a former vicepresident of the organisation, who is active in the central western suburbs of Sydney, and Father Collins of the Catholic education organisation in Sydney. [More…]

• As I see the situation, the Government in its wisdom is creating a fairly skilled apparatus and providing sufficient funds to attract the education technocrats. [More…]

• We of the Opposition fear that the Government will fashion an extremely technical weapon in the matter of education of migrants, but unless it can get the parents and citizens organisations and some of the ethnic groups to play their part the Gov ernment’s tools will not operate at maximum efficiency. [More…]

• Father Collins of the Catholic education section has assured me that teaching aid is welcomed in the western suburbs of Sydney such as Seven Hills, Blacktown and Wentworthville but when I asked him what role he was playing in relation to the education of the mothers, I gathered from his response that, for economical reasons, nothing is being done. [More…]

• The Minister for Housing said in her second reading speech that the migrant education programmes will be provided at an annual cost of $4m. [More…]

• I appreciate that it may be argued that public money is being made available for instruments of education but I am deliberately putting up this suggestion to see whether it would be possible to get a maximum attendance of migrant mothers at these classes. [More…]

• I know that the criterion which is applied is whether the migrant received the equivalent of a high school education in his own country. [More…]

• I appreciate that it might be argued that it is a waste of effort if the person being taught does not have the IQ to take advantage of the sophisticated educational programmes. [More…]

• An ambitious girl who was working on, for the want of a belter term, a conveyor belt in a clothing factory once said to me: ‘I have not had the necessary high school education, but I believe that if I am given the opportunity 1 will obtain a much better vocabulary and may graduate into another field’. [More…]

• Just because someone has received a limited education does not mean that he should be required to stay in the cellar. [More…]

• Are they prepared to give more than lip service to migrant education? [More…]

• Territory is that although the Department of the Interior handles education matters, in the strict sense there is no equivalent to a State Education Department. [More…]

• At the end of the motion add - but the Senate condemns the Government for the delay in providing a comprehensive programme of migrant education, adequate finance facilities and capital equipment, including buildings’. [More…]

• Whilst not refusing to give the Bill a second reading the Senate condemns the Government for its delay in providing a comprehensive programme of migrant education, adequate finance facilities and capital equipment, including buildings. [More…]

• The Immigration (Education) Bill which is before the Senate today is a comprehensive one. [More…]

• The Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) said during the second reading speech that the Bill related to the total area of migrant education. [More…]

• Of course it is an education measure. [More…]

• Although the measure comes from the Department of Immigration and was introduced by the Minister in the Senate representing the Minister for Immigration, it is also affiliated with the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• These committee workings are in the nature of an advisory capacity and include representatives of State education departments. [More…]

• In the sphere of education, in this way mutual understanding takes place. [More…]

• The Bill which is before us provides for a comprehensive programme of English language education facilities which are vital to the integration of migrants. [More…]

• In 1968, on the initiative of the then Minister for Immigration, Mr Snedden, arrangements were made with the New South Wales Government for a division of research and planning within the New South Wales Department of Education, lt was arranged that the division should work in cooperation with the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science and with the Commonwealth Department of Immigration. [More…]

• Looking briefly at the adult education field, and referring again to the surveys and to the Government’s programme, the provision of an education service to enable adult migrants to learn the English language goes back as far as the beginning of the post-war immigration programme in 1947. [More…]

• Bringing this whole matter up to date, I refer to the policy speech by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in 1969 when he made an announcement concerning the Government’s intention to take further initiatives in promoting and accepting responsibility for undertaking the expansion of English education programmes. [More…]

• He said that the Commonwealth had undertaken the responsibility for financing the expansion of existing facilities for the instruction of adult migrants; the provision of intensive full-time English language courses for those who must know English in order to follow occupations; and special classes in existing schools for migrant children of all ages to ensure that they achieved the education to which their intelligence and natural skills entitled them. [More…]

• New areas of need have become evident, and whilst there have been practical reasons in the past to concentrate on speaking and understanding the English language, the comprehensive programme now proposed will provide for more emphasis in the future to be placed on reading and writing English, on meeting the individual needs of migrants and on their citizenship education. [More…]

• Professor Connell titled his paper ‘Education for Adult Migrants’ and in it he said: [More…]

• The genera) purpose of education is to enable a person lo become more effective in the society in which he lives. [More…]

• Communication, social understanding, vocational preparation, and physical development are the basic ingredients of all programmes of general education. [More…]

• They apply to the education of all citizens, including migrants. [More…]

• They open up not only the whole world of communication but also the flow of educational, social, vocational, health, cultural and mental benefits, and of course the benefits of citizenship. [More…]

• Undergirding the education programme outlined in the Bill is the matter to which I referred at the beginning of my speech, and which will contribute to the programme’s ultimate success. [More…]

• I have in mind the important steps that are being taken not only within Australia but also overseas at what in migrant terms is the preembarkation stage, lt is not always possible to carry out surveys in a great number of areas of an education programme, and they would not necessarily contribute to the effectiveness of such a programme. [More…]

• The area of language includes not only scholastic progress but also the educational process. [More…]

• In the United Kingdom the Birmingham Education Authority has developed one of the leading research centres in the area of the English language and communication. [More…]

• In contradiction to the terms of the amendment proposed by the Opposition migrant education has proceeded in various forms and degrees of intensity over the years. [More…]

• I think we should say that the Bill is concerned not only with either education or immigration policies as such but also with fundamental social rights These rights have been set out in the United Nations Universal Declarations oi Human Rights. [More…]

• He referred >o the fact that expenditure on immigration education has been mounting progressively through the years, and with it the services provided. [More…]

• The Minister pointed out that expenditure this year on migrant education represented an increase of 166 per cent over the funds available last financial year. [More…]

• A recital of an increase in funds does not necessarily mean that there has been a greater extension of the facilities, but from the incidence which I have quoted and from my knowledge of the programme it is true in this case that the extra money which has been spent provides not only for an extended range of educational benefits but also for a greater number of people to receive those benefits. [More…]

• Do not tell me that it has not already been decided that there will be a First Assistant Director-General (Education), that he will have a First Assistant Secretary, that there will be five or six other positions in charge of different little sectors to cover various countries, and so it will go on. [More…]

• So I have the feeling that there will be a tremendous increase in the sub-section of the Department of Immigration involved wilh education of migrants. [More…]

• I think the Bill has been forced upon the Commonwealth because of the growing deficiencies in State educational systems which have dealt with the problem of integrating new settlers into our community and with the problem of educating children who have a deficiency in the English language. [More…]

• Chinese students have complained to me that because of their lack of knowledge of the English language, they were unable to absorb even the rudiments of the education that they came here to get. [More…]

• We know that an education programme such as this will not reach everybody. [More…]

• But the education systems of the nations of the world are expanding and becoming more proficient. [More…]

• Perhaps the States were using funds that were meant for education in general to provide crash courses in English to enable people from other countries - particularly children - to cope more readily with the education system in this country. [More…]

• 4m; full time intensive courses, $600,000; child migrant education programme, $1.8m. [More…]

• The honourable senator referred to cooperation between State Departments of Education. [More…]

• I wish to inform him that under the adult programme an agreement between the Commonwealth and State governments in 1951 gave the State Departments of Education a specific role in the operation of the adult programmes. [More…]

• The new child programme requires substantial co-operation and activity on the part of State Departments of Education and of the independent school authorities. [More…]

• The Australian migrant education programme is not confined only to language instruction but includes also social and orientation courses. [More…]

• Classes at work sites have been part of the normal continuation programme for migrant education in the Australian community. [More…]

• It is believed that the education of migrant workers in both language and citizenship should be a normal part of the personnel management practice of all major employers of migrant labour, and I hope it will not be too long before this is a reality. [More…]

• These are being conducted in cooperation with the State Departments of Education and the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• The Opposition has charged that there has been inordinate delay on the part of the Government in introducing a comprehensive programme of migrant education. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that the proposed amendment ignores entirely the substantial measures which have been taken since the early days of postwar migration by this Government, and by its predecessor, to develop a comprehensive programme of migrant education. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators of the education officers who have been appointed in overseas countries, of shipboard education programmes, of continuation classes after the arrival of migrants and of the radio and correspondence courses which have been designed to reach adult migrant communities in Australia. [More…]

• It was the Department of Immigration, I remind the honourable senator, which took the initiative again in 1962 in conducting a survey of abandonment from migrant education classes in Victoria. [More…]

• There was the planning of a major survey of the education needs of both adult and child migrants. [More…]

• This led to the report which has been referred to previously on the situation of migrant children in schools in New South Wales and which has provided such an important basis for the new initiatives in child migrant education. [More…]

• This year expenditure on migrant education represents an increase of 166 per cent over the funds available last financial year. [More…]

• To this stage the Government has not been able to accept that buildings, and classrooms in particular, should be a charge to the migrant education vote. [More…]

• The Government maintains that funds for classrooms are not a proper charge to the migrant education vote for several reasons. [More…]

• Not only are we assisting the migrants in the field of education, we are helping them also to live happily and to enjoy their lives as citizens of this country. [More…]

• Educational organisations must have the dissemination of knowledge as their principal object to be eligible for category A. [More…]

• It is not considered that the Federation is an educational organisation in the generally accepted sense of the term in that it does not have a substantial degree of systematic or formalised education in its activities. [More…]

• On 23rd February 1971 Senator Devitt asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of any circumstances which have arisen recently which would necessitate or justify notifications being sent by Stale Departments of Education to winners of Commonwealth scholarships that funds for the purpose have been reduced and that scholarships are not available now? [More…]

• Nor amI aware that either the State Departments of Education or State Offices of my Department have dispatched these notices. [More…]

• I propose now to refer particularly to paragraph (2) (d) of the resolution proposed by the Leader of the Government where the Minister recommends that the committees to be next fully established be the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts and the Standing Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• To cite an instance of what 1 feel and what I fear, recently in the southern part of Tasmania there was a series of fires in schools conducted by the Education Department. [More…]

• Thousands of dollars worth of damage was done to those institutions and this was a very great blow to the State’s education system. [More…]

• T am reminded of the situation of education a few years ago when it was argued that the Federal Government had no responsibility in that field. [More…]

• There was such a public outcry about declining standards of education in Australia and such emphasis upon the point that the Commonwealth Government had the money and in the ultimate analysis ought to accept some responsibility that finally grants were made available by the Federal Government to improve the education system of the nation. [More…]

• Such people have to be brought on to the committees simply because of the enormous technical problems that are involved in finance, economics, science, industry, education and so on. [More…]

• He referred to that part of Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s motion which says that the next 2 committees to be geared into action as operative standing committees shall be the Committee on Education, Science and Arts and the Committee on Social Environment. [More…]

• Estimates Committee C covers the Department of Works, Tourist Activities, the AttorneyGeneral’s Department, the Department of Labour and National Service, the Department of Education and Science and the Department of External Territories. [More…]

• the Standing Committee on Education and Science and the Arts; [More…]

• With regard to migrant education in general, I remind the honourable senator that the Senate passed a Bill in recent days which made very ample provision, in my view, for this subject. [More…]

• It is well recognised that in Australia we are extemely deficient in managerial skills and that something ought to be done about education in management. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• However, in order to qualify for payment of salary from a date earlier than 4th February they were required to produce evidence of resignation from a State service and a statement showing the date to which they had been paid by the Stale Education Department. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The various State education departments may be able to provide this information. [More…]

• The advisory committee would report to the Minister for Education and Science, who will act on behalf of both Governments. [More…]

• Its object, briefly, is education in matters pertaining to the Navy and Merchant Navy. [More…]

• rural education including re-training for any fanners facing displacement; [More…]

• Much more needs to be said to ensure complete public education, to coordinate different groups to define the problems clearly, and to plan solutions. [More…]

• The making of recommendations for grants to education institutions and other bodies undertaking research or the training of personnel in air pollution matters, including the measurement of pollutants, their effects on human, animal and plant life, and method!) [More…]

• A general lack of water pollution experts and an almost complete lack of training facilities are manifest, and there is no concerted programme of public education on pollution problems. [More…]

• Few opportunities are available for education in the technical fields related to water pollution. [More…]

• Although there was a marked improvement in public awareness of pollution problems throughout the world during the period over which our inquiry extended, there is, in Australia, neither a State nor a national programme of public education on water pollution. [More…]

• The solution of the pollution problem in Australia will require the use of extensive resources of money and skills, and will call for the acquisition of knowledge through education and research on a scale that will require a national approach. [More…]

• -I seek leave to make a statement on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science in relation to the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on the Teaching of Asian Languages and Cultures. [More…]

• I make this statement on behalf of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]

• The Committee was to make a comprehensive review of the current situation regarding the teaching of Asian languages and other aspects of Asian life and cultures in Australian schools and other educational institutions. [More…]

• The Committee was to report back to the Commonwealth and State Ministers for Education. [More…]

• The Advisory Committee submitted its report on 2Sth September 1970, and the then Minister for Education and Science sent copies to all the State Ministers for Education early in October. [More…]

• It is hoped that such a discussion might take place as soon as a mutually convenient time can be found, In the meantime, the Minister for Education and Science has decided to release the Advisory Committee’s report, so that there might be an opportunity for public discussion of it. [More…]

• This action is being taken after further discussion and with the concurrence of the State Education Ministers. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I refer to matters such as education, health, the States, the arts and a hundred and one other responsibilities, and finally the defence of this country. [More…]

• One might mention in passing, but without developing these subjects, the education sector, the rural segment and other segments of the community all of which are part of what I will call ‘a wave of needs’ which is being presented to the Government. [More…]

• Finally, social welfare provided necessary supportive services to the development of health, housing, education, manpower training and employment as well as broad policies of rural development. [More…]

• It is the same old story when we debate education measures. [More…]

• Therefore, profits of Australian companies provide a major source of the revenues needed to finance social services, defence, rural reconstruction, education and health services. [More…]

• It means that the money allocated by the Government for education, health and the whole range of State services and public works will not go as far as it was intended to go at the time of allocation. [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• The evidence relating to the fire at the Lyneham Primary School shows a strong need for the problem of classification of all schools in the Australian Capital Territory as special purpose buildings to be resolved without delay by the Department of the Interior in consultation with the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• We also believe that, as a matter of urgency, the Department of Education and Science must continue to pursue its investigations into burglar alarm systems for all government owned schools in the Territory. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (]) Yes, the former Minister for Education and Science, the Honourable Nigel Bowen, made such a statement. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• If not, will the Minister ensure that such censorship is abolished in view of the fact that all finance for the Australian education system is derived from the Commonwealth Government? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to’ the honourable senators question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science exercises no form of political or other censorship. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following information in answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• the Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I preface it by asking him whether he is aware that most young men who obtain deferment of national service call-up in order to complete university and other higher education courses are called up immediately they fail an end of year examination - frequently through no fault of their own - and after 2 years national service a high percentage do not resume their studies. [More…]

• The honourable senator will be of course aware that children of Greek origin are included amongst the migrant children who receive special instruction in the English language under the child migrant education programme. [More…]

• Already this financial year the Commonwealth has committed under this programme payments to State Education Departments and the independent school authorities of some $1.4m dollars for the salaries of special teachers and the provision of equipment for classrooms. [More…]

• I also remind honourable senators of the concessional deductions allowable to a taxpayer in respect of his spouse, a daughter housekeeper, student children, invalid relatives, parents., subscriptions to hospital and medical benefit insurance funds, medical and dental expenses, funeral expenses and education expenses. [More…]

• It has made available hearing aids, education scholarships, maternity allowances and the home savings grant about which I will have a few more words to say in a moment. [More…]

• As far as I know no consideration has been given in Australia to a project on the same lines as in Britain, but the question of the use of television in the general educational field is currently the subject of consideration by Commonwealth and State Ministers for Education who have appointed a committee to examine new technology. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I shall undertake to refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for Education and Science for investigation into whether a revision of any of these details is appropriate. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that for some time in 1970 the University of Queensland, on a head count, was the largest university in Australia? [More…]

• I submit that it is such in the same way as an act to extend university education ‘ in South Africa was an Act 10 deprive non-whites of the right to attend the few English speaking universities they still bad a chance to attend. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the following matter - What should be the role of the Commonwealth in regard to teacher education throughout Australia. [More…]

• Education is a fundamental determinant of the progress of our society and the quality of life of our citizens. [More…]

• There are serious problems in education all over the world. [More…]

• In Australia there is the problem of allocating funds to support education generally. [More…]

• There are problems which have to do with reassessing our past educational practices, especially in our primary and secondary schools. [More…]

• Also there is the very great problem of teacher education. [More…]

• In no area of the crisis in education is dissatisfaction greater or the debate more vigorous than that of programmes for the education of teachers. [More…]

• Newspapers announce the crisis in teacher education with such headlines as: ‘Parents Want New Training For Teachers’, ‘Terrible Mess in Teacher Training’ and Teachers Should be Trained to the Highest Level*. [More…]

• Some teachers and prospective teachers have described Diploma in Education courses described education faculties as ‘old fashioned and unadventurous’. [More…]

• The subjects in these courses were described as ‘poorly integrated, the teaching methods poor and the lectures unrelated to educational problems’. [More…]

• The universities are criticised for providing programmes not relevant to practical needs and relegating the study of education to second class status. [More…]

• One prominent educator - Professor Walker of the University of New England - believes that educating teachers, like educating lawyers, doctors, architects and other professionals, must be a job for universities and deplores the chaos of present policies which are building new teachers colleges, setting up colleges of advanced education and keeping student teachers going through universities all. [More…]

• We have followed English educational practices when they were not what we needed. [More…]

• Now that a sensible one comes along with the Robbins Report recommendation that teacher education should always be associated with universities, .we appear to be turning our backs. [More…]

• P. Shoenheimer Senior Lecturer in Education, at the La Trobe University - has said that all new teachers need some kind of preparation appropriate to setting their teaching against a background of the real world situation, and that all professionally undereducated teachers need in-service education. [More…]

• He has described the crisis in teacher education in these terms: [More…]

• While aD our teachers, or 95 per cent of them, are underqualified by the latest or emerging world standards, those coming out of college and university in the current stage are, in teacher education terms, the elite of the profession. [More…]

• The real brake on progress is made up of the tens of thousands of senior teachers, many of them in positions of authority, who have less preparation - perhaps 2 years after an incomplete secondary education - or who know nothing about education that was nor known in 1935. [More…]

• I consider it vital that all teachers should have at least 4 years of professional preparation, of which al best 2 should be devoted to those disciplines of study which relate specifically to the teaching profession - psychology, sociology, comparative education, philosophy (or ethnics) of education, history of education. [More…]

• He is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the La Trobe [More…]

• Also, in that and other publications he has been writing for some time not only on the problem of teacher education but also on other fundamental education questions. [More…]

• Many teachers see useful change in our system of education coming in large part from drastic changes in our approach to teacher training. [More…]

• The need to recruit so heavily to teacher education’ programmes has given rise to recruitment practices which enrol many students who are uncommitted to teaching and who frequently prove personally unsuitable. [More…]

• At the end of 1969 the Bathurst Teachers College, founded in 1951, went out of existence and its students, site and buildings were taken over by the new Mitchell College of Advanced Education which is offering a 3-year teacher education programme. [More…]

• Lack of adequate financial support has had numerous adverse effects on New South Wales colleges because in the early 1960s the New South Wales Department of Education decided to extend all 2- year courses to 3-year courses, but year after year this innovation was postponed because the Treasury could not make money available. [More…]

• Little money is available for proper research projects or for travel to conferences and equipment is generally inferior to that now in use in comparable programmes in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In the 10-year period from 1957-58 to 1966- 67 out of a total of $323m spent by the New South Wales Department of Education on the purchase of sites and the construction of new buildings, only $6. [More…]

• Being public servants, staff members are also unable to speak out and to criticise the education system of which they arc a; part. [More…]

• Wagga Wagga Teachers College will be absorbed into the new Riverina College of Advanced Education, but since April 1970 the future of other teachers colleges has been obscure. [More…]

• The problem in teacher education is not simply a question of providing more bodies, to hold a watching brief in the classrooms of the nation. [More…]

• The supply of teachers is often mistakenly seen as the only problem of teacher education, but it is only part of the solution and certainly not the larger part. [More…]

• We have now what is in effect a 4-tiered system of teacher education: There are the old teachers colleges; new colleges which recently have been established or are in the process of being completed; colleges of advanced education; and universities. [More…]

• The old established teachers colleges, according to one scholar in the field of education have been neglected and forgotten by students of higher education, the public and governments. [More…]

• They are still the poor relations in the field of higher education. [More…]

• After that a further $30m was provided by the Commonwealth Government to support teacher education programmes in 5 new State colleges of advanced education and to allow its own Canberra College of Advanced Education to train teachers. [More…]

• There must be a recognition of the deeper issues associated with teacher education. [More…]

• Besides providing funds, any Commonwealth government has substantial responsibilities in looking at the quality of teacher education, its underlying philosophy and its relevance to contemporary need. [More…]

• The qualitative problems of teacher education must be recognised by government. [More…]

• Simply providing money will not improve the quality of teacher education and will not solve the problems of teacher education automatically. [More…]

• Too often it is said that a programme which provided funds for new physical facilities for teacher education would automatically solve all of the other problems of teacher education. [More…]

• It leaves the question of Commonwealth planning in education completely unresolved. [More…]

• The grant of $3 Om to the States does constitute an attempt to come to terms with one aspect of the crisis in teacher education, but does not cope with the whole, of the problem which is much wider than the mere provision of money or physical facilities. [More…]

• In simply allocating funds for the establishment of new colleges of advanced education, all of the older institutions involved with teacher education were being left out in the cold. [More…]

• The whole area of teacher education calls for some systematic investigation. [More…]

• A student of Australian education put the case for Commonwealth involvement in teacher education in this way: [More…]

• Perhaps the most valuable contribution that the Commonwealth could make in this field would be to initiate a full scale investigation of teacher education on a national scale, much along the lines of the investigation of universities carried out by the Murray Committee and the Martin Committee. [More…]

• Such an inquiry ought to look into a whole range of issues: teachers’ colleges autonomy; financial needs; integration of colleges into the system of higher education; the bonding system as well as the complex and difficult task of preparing teachers to meet the needs of our schools and our society. [More…]

• Obviously the Commonwealth has an important role to play in planning teacher education and teacher re-education. [More…]

• It has an important role to play in co-ordinating the activities of the various institutions associated with teacher education. [More…]

• A programme of research into some of the crucial bottlenecks in our system of teacher education is also a matter for Commonwealth Government attention. [More…]

• Education generally remains Australia’s most under-researched industry. [More…]

• Notwithstanding that, on this subject a fair amount of material has been gathered by some of those concerned with educational research. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) might like to be made aware of the fact that before proposing this matter to the Senate I made some inquiries of persons with specialised knowledge in this field. [More…]

• It is one which affects education in a fundamental way. [More…]

• I therefore commend this proposal as an appropriate one for the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• Senator Murphy has raised a matter of considerable importance to the educational future of this country. [More…]

• I do not think that anybody can deny that the future of our education is largely bound up with the degree to which we can supply trained teachers. [More…]

• I have often said in this chamber that people have been misled into the belief that the problems of education can be solved by providing more money and building more buildings. [More…]

• The first thing that has to be done is to provide a reservoir of trained teachers who ?are capable of undertaking the work which becomes necessary as a result of the increase in the number of educational institutions. [More…]

• We have reached the situation in Victoria where disputation between sections of the teachers and the administration of the Education Department has almost disrupted the affairs of the Department. [More…]

• When the question of supporting this reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts came before the Australian Democratic Labor Party we were unanimous that we should support it. [More…]

• The Government takes the view that teacher education is a very important matter. [More…]

• Education is a subject matter under State jurisdiction of which they are very jealous. [More…]

• The question of the role of the Commonwealth in education will involve a very delicate judgment as to priorities, not’ merely in relation to the quality of the teaching profession and the status of its members, but priorities of Government, first of all, from the financial point of view, both Commonwealth and State. [More…]

• As Senator Murphy has said, the Commonwealth has already pursued, not only in this field but in other fields of education, a policy of direct assistance to education. [More…]

• It is a condition of those grants to the States that 10 per cent of the trainees should be available for non-bonded positions outside the Education Department. [More…]

• In addition to that, as Senator Murphy mentioned briefly, provision has been made for the education of teachers at 6 colleges of advanced education - Bathurst, Wagga, Toowoomba, Rockhampton, Hobart and Canberra. [More…]

• In addition to that the Commonwealth is providing an unmatched grant of $2.5 m over 3 years for pre-school training colleges and, in addition to that, Commonwealth scholarships, for both universities and colleges of advanced education, are available for this purpose. [More…]

• I put that on the record as a very brief summary of the financial position in relation to education but indicate that, since the deputy leader of the Australian Democratic . [More…]

• For years the Department of Health has told us that it will solve this problem by education. [More…]

• What has the Government done about education and what good has it been? [More…]

• I think that people in the education field should be concerned to make Australians, aware of the risks they run by smoking cigarettes. [More…]

• I sense, possibly following what Senator Rae is pointing to, that the main area in which activity should be undertaken is health education. [More…]

• Education in the schools is, I think, doing a tremendous amount to inform people of the hazards of smoking. [More…]

• The Education Departments in the States are doing that. [More…]

• Firstly, I believe that the unavailability of a wide spectrum of information and education through our news media - Press, radio and television - is creating and even extending tensions. [More…]

• The older people had less opportunity for education in their younger days. [More…]

• The second item is the Constitution Alteration (Tertiary Education) Bill. [More…]

• I refer to the failure of our education system. [More…]

• It has been confined to an orthodox method of education. [More…]

• Because of the narrowness of the approach of the educational system, they have narrow views. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to- , Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will “be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per- cent of Australia’s children. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]

• the States for their public education services which ‘ provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established . [More…]

• serious deficiencies in education. [More…]

• Ensure that emergency finance .from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public: education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children.. And your petitioners, as .in duly, bound, will ever pray.’ [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer: [More…]

• That the Australian Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]

• Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware of protests by parents and citizens’ organisations and of the private petitions presented to this Parliament from thousand of residents of New South Wales on the conditions existing in government schools? [More…]

• Is he aware of the financial difficulties that are encountered by private schools in that State and in other States in all grades of education - technical, secondary and primary? [More…]

• Enterprise Hostel at Springvale took place, in the period from 1964 to 1966, it was not proposed to conduct migrant education classes’ in the Hostel itself but to rely instead upon the facilities available in the community. [More…]

• Late in 1970 following the Government’s decision to expand the migrant education programme action was taken to establish in the actual Hostel intensive instruction for non-English speaking migrant children before they were passed on for enrolment in the normal school system and both full-time and part-time courses for adults residing in the Hostel. [More…]

• Since the migrant education centre in the Hostel was opened in January 1971 under the supervision of a Departmental Language Training Officer, classes under teachers provided by the Victorian Education Department have been held in the Recreation Hall, in the foyer adjoining it. [More…]

• In respect of item 06, Department of Education and Science, the appropriation for 1970-71 was $294,700. [More…]

• This is an extraordinary amount for the Department of Education and Science to pay in rent. [More…]

• A range of questions was asked dealing with rents paid by the Department of Education and Science, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Primary Industry, the Prime Minister’s Department, the Department of Shipping and Transport, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Treasury. [More…]

• Thus in earlier days the Department of External Affairs and, in more recent times, the Department of Education and Science have been separated from the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) has already received general proposals from the State Ministers for the use of $36m which the Bill proposes should be available over the next 3 financial years. [More…]

• However, the States will be forwarding firm programmes of projects for the approval of the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science before the new legislation becomes effective. [More…]

• In putting forward their programmes several States have indicated that these are part of co-ordinated programmes which embrace not only technical education facilities, but also other educational institutions like colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Both the Minister for Labour and National Service and the Minister for Education and Science are aware that proposals might flow from these discussions which would have implications for technical institutions under the control of the States. [More…]

• The proposed increased level of Commonwealth assistance for technical training reflects the Government’s continuing interest in an area not covered by the recent Australia-wide survey of needs in the fields of primary, secondary and teacher education. [More…]

• The claims are that an education allowance be paid to children of civilian widow pensioners, that B class widows receive the standard rate of pension and that the ceiling limit of $520 per year permissible income for single widow pensioners be raised forthwith. [More…]

• The only thing I can add is that in- answer to a question recently I pointed out that to increase the demand representatives of the trade in New Zealand, Australia and the United States of America had decided to set- up a committee to, in effect, promote mutton by trade education and consumer education in an effort to encourage the consumption of mutton. [More…]

• This estimate excludes integration, education and accommodation costs in Australia as well as expenditure brought to account by other departments under the ‘common services’ arrangement, which operate at overseas posts where 2 or more Commonwealth Departments are accommodated in the same premises. [More…]

• Will the Minister arrange for representatives of the Australian Council for the Arts and officers of the Department of Education and Science, to discuss with officers of the Queensland Branch of the Council the distribution of financial grants in Queensland? [More…]

• The Department of Education and Science is not concerned in (he provision of grants for the performing arts. [More…]

• and (2) When detailed planning of the Enterprise Hostel at Springvale took place, in the period from 1964 to 1966, it was not proposed to conduct migrant education classes in the Hostel itself but to rely instead upon the facilities available in the community. [More…]

• Late in 1970 following the Government’s decision to expand the migrant education programme action was taken to establish in the actual Hostel intensive instruction for non-English speaking migrant children before they were passed on for enrolment in the normal school system and both full-time and part-time courses for adults residing in the Hostel. [More…]

• Since the migrant education centre in the Hostel was opened in January 1971 under the supervision of a Departmental Language Training Officer, classes under teachers provided by the Victorian Education Department have been held in the Recreation Hall, in the foyer adjoining it, in the Child Minding Centre, the Library, the Youth Centre and the Staff Sitting-room. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in eduction. [More…]

• Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]

• The Department has certain health education functions in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and involved in this health education programme is the giving of information, particularly to school children, on the hazards involved to health in cigarette smoking. [More…]

• Idirect my ques tion to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen reports of the forum organised by the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine on the subject of Australia and the Asian Student’, in which Dr Bill McCarthy, who is the world health authority consultant on medical education, described medical courses pursued by Asian students in Australia as ‘inappropriate, inefficient and wasteful both of Asian talent and Australian money’? [More…]

• Importantly it stresses that the long term solution lies in education. [More…]

• Our Report suggests a revolutionary recasting of the present approach to education in schools and if those concerned are strong enough and big enough to accept it I believe Australia will become a far happier place, not only in terms of defeating drug abuse but in the contribution education can make to what I call ‘living in the community’. [More…]

• And equally important we must by education, through the minds of our people, give them the reasons and the motivation not to provide a sales market for those drugs which break through our barriers. [More…]

• Of all our conclusions and recommendations we believe that those referring to education and we make admittedly far reaching pleas in this regard, are the foundations on which must be built the entire Australian structure to save this country from being engulfed in the rising tide of drug availability, which we know has swept, and is sweeping, through other countries. [More…]

• Add to these the deficiencies of our school education system; they all play some part in causing the drug habit. [More…]

• There is a Commonwealth role in education. [More…]

• The Board has appointed a committee, comprising people active in children’s programme production and in education, to advise it on the types of programmes likely to interest children in the various school age groups, to ensure that the provision of such programmes under the Board’s new requirements is effective. [More…]

• The various State advisory committtes of which there are 2 in each State, 1 for Roman Catholic and the other for non-Roman Catholic schools, will continue to make recommendations to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) concerning grants for the category of schools for which they are responsible. [More…]

• The Committee felt that it was necessary that there be a guaranteed standard of education in the House. [More…]

• For instance, some 400 people serving under the provisions of the National Service Act have university degrees or higher education diplomas, and many of them are required to act as stewards or offsiders in cookhouses. [More…]

• I can recall when there was a move to appoint an additional Minister to the new portfolio of Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• What is more 1 welcomed the Commonwealth’s entry into the field of education because I was fully appreciative of the inability of the State governments to measure up to the increasing demand that was being made upon them in education even though I was opposed to an additional Minister because I felt that there was room for and that there was merit in an amalgamation of services under the control of the minor portfolios. [More…]

• He persisted, as we sometimes do, in pushing Senator Gorton, who was then in charge of the Commonwealth Scientic and Industrial Research Organisation and later Minister of Education and Science. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, and Science. [More…]

• Is the Government aware that the Council’s funds are built up from a compulsory levy called a ‘General Service Fee’ to which university authorities apportion amounts of government money made available to the students through State and Federal government scholarships for student education? [More…]

• We come into the university situation only in supplementing finance and maintaining the Australian Universities Commission to govern general policy on education. [More…]

• As the matter of education and medical treatment is now one which, I believe, largely concerns the Minister’s Department and since this subject is very special and its. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Is the Government not conscious of the fact that it costs money to provide education for these louts and also that it costs money to provide buildings in which to house them? [More…]

• Students who wish to pursue their education without obstruction should not be obstructed by unlawful activities - on university campuses. [More…]

• Education and Science, in reply to a similar question earlier, said that he would refer the question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Education studies are current in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• In the debate on the Budget for the last financial year - that is 1969-70 - I referred to its grave shortcomings in such crucial areas to the welfare of the Australian people as health, education, public works and services and national development. [More…]

• That is why there is not enough money for medical and hospital care, not enough for education, not enough to maintain our sick, our unemployed and our retired at a decent standard of living, not enough for our roads, our dams and our public works, and not enough for the States or for local government. [More…]

• They relate to States grants for the purposes of education. [More…]

• They were debated quite extensively in another place by my colleagues in the Labor Party and although I think an occasion of this nature could properly be used for one to express one’s view on the nature of education, one’s philosophy on education and one’s Party’s views as to how the education of this country should be conducted, because of the lateness of the hour and the fact that we are almost at the end of the sessional period I do not intend to detain the Senate at any great length in debating these matters. [More…]

• The Opposition is of the opinion that pre-school education is of great importance. [More…]

• There are 3 main branches of education, pre-school education, school education and tertiary education. [More…]

• For that reason the Australian Labor Party has as its policy the establishment of a preschools commission to consider the needs of pre-school education. [More…]

• In many respects the States Grants (Technical Training) Bill 1971 is one of the most complex of Bills because it makes special provision for a particular type of tertiary education and that is the sort of technical education which is given at a tertiary level but at a non-university level. [More…]

• Only recently criticism came from one of the senior academics associated with the Wollongong University College, to the effect that the university college was being used merely as an appendage to big business, that people were receiving technical’ education at the Wollongong University College merely to be trained to take up positions with certain big enterprises which require their services, and that there was not an overall plan covering Australia’s requirements for engineers. [More…]

• As well as looking for technical training we should be looking for some well rounded education. [More…]

• It would seem to me that one of the weaknesses of the institutes of technology quite frequently is that there is an undue emphasis on the purely technical education without at the same time there being provision for a broader and more general education in the humanities. [More…]

• In the essential fact of spending money on education they are identical, but in the different ways in which they propose to make grants to the States they each have a slightly different purpose, although all deal with education. [More…]

• The DLP supports the idea of a better education system and always has. [More…]

• At one time a person was very fortunate if he went to school beyond the age of 14 and 15 years and the possibility of a university education for anybody who belonged to what might be broadly described as a working class or middle class family was almost non-existent. [More…]

• But within one generation we have reached the stage where almost anybody who has the capacity is entitled to and gets tremendous assistance to have a university education that may take him through to his early 20s before it is required that he should obtain useful or gainful employment [More…]

• The students who have destroyed this public property which has been created for their use, the use of their generation and the generations to follow them then get a placard and scrawl on it: ‘More money for education’. [More…]

• I repeat that this is the attitude of a very small minority but, as this problem has been deepening and becoming more complex as the years have gone by, we feel that the time is over-ripe when governments must take some action, in the interests not of the older generation who have made quite considerable sacrifices to provide these opportunities but of the generation that is receiving the opportunities and those who will succeed them, to see that whatever problems young people feel they have they respect the property that is available to them for the purpose for which it was created - the education of students. [More…]

• We believe that the opportunities for education must be granted only to those who accept them and who prove that they have the responsibility to make use of them in their own interests and in the interests of the nation. [More…]

• I agree with what Senator Wheeldon said about the education of children merely for the use of big business. [More…]

• In the field of education a philosophy is developing that because we spent too little for too long on education, it is necessary now only to spend more money on education and the problem will be solved. [More…]

• If the money is misspent and energy is misdirected our educational system will be no better than it was before we increased our expenditure on it. [More…]

• By the same token, if we spend money on the provision of facilities for young people, to be used in their interests and the interests of following generations, and those young people destroy the facilities, again we will have achieved nothing merely by spending money on education. [More…]

• I have placed those thoughts and philosophies before the Minister to indicate our views on expenditure on education. [More…]

• If the trend continues it will be very bard to get our organised society to continue to accept the responsibility of raising the capital necessary to provide even more facilities and even better education to *be generations that are to follow us. [More…]

• in reply- It is gratifying to bear the speeches that, have been made in relation to these 3 Bills insofar as they relate to the Commonwealth’s contribution to education and an acknowledgement of the improvement that has occurred over the last 15 or 20 years. [More…]

• It might be appropriate to remind the Senate that the Commonwealth’s direct expenditure on education has risen from $54m 10 years ago to $3 12m in the current financial year. [More…]

• Insofar as it might be suggested that this is the full reach of the Government’s performance in regard to training facilities, I remind the Senate that on 1st February the then Minister for Education and Science, Mr N. H. Bowen, adverted to the fact that there was available for consideration the report of the Australian Tripartite Mission to study methods of training of skilled workers in Europe - a report of most valuable content, the subject of which is the central theme of an international seminar in Canberra this week. [More…]

• Some 3 weeks ago I addressed questions to the Minister in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service and as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, concerning, firstly, safety provisions for ships entering Australia from overseas ports and the report of an accident that occurred at Newstead wharf on the previous day and, secondly, concerning the reimbursement of salary and wage increases for non-academic staff at the University of Queensland. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• and (2) The Government’s aim is towards education of the public on smoking rather than advocating a complete ban on cigarette advertising. [More…]

• Therefore when the Western Australian Constitution Act was passed on 25th July 1890 it contained the provision that 5,000 should be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Aboriginal Protection Board for ‘the welfare of the Aboriginal natives, and expended in providing them with food and clothing when they would otherwise be destitute, in providing the education of Aboriginal children (including half castes) and in assisting generally to promote the preservation and well-being of the Aboriginals.’ [More…]

• Only yesterday we were debating questions of increased social service payments and education grants and we found that this Government could not find the sort of money needed to give the poorer people and the pensioners of Australia a better deal. [More…]

• to participate, with their ‘family, in a fully co-ordinated rehabilitation programme including technical college education or at least its equivalent.’ [More…]

• rural education including re-training for any fanners facing displacement; [More…]

• It will take into account whether there is a case for permanent or temporary subsidies from the urban to the rural sector; whether any aggregation or reorganisation of present rural holdings is necessary and, if so, whether it should be achieved by independent action by rural producers, or through government-assisted schemes; the expected future rural labour force required; rural education, including re-training for any farmers facing displacement; and the establishment of decentralised industrial towns which would offer employment within the region. [More…]

• A great number of primary producers have gone on to the money market and borrowed money in order to do these sorts of things, which they have been encouraged to do by government education, extension services, encouragement of farm clubs and so on. [More…]

• My question which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science relates to the coming conversion to the metric system. [More…]

• Will the Minister arrange for an examination to be made of this claim and to press for an intensification of public education programmes, especially as far as housewives, motorists and the general public are concerned? [More…]

• I will bring the matter to the notice of the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• to participate, with their family, In a fully co-ordinated rehabilitation programme including technical college education or at least its equivalent. [More…]

• For instance, to take one aspect of family life today, the man in the country who wants to give his children a reasonable education comparable with that which is available to people in the urban areas has a problem. [More…]

• rural education including re-training for any farmers facing displacement; [More…]

• On 6 April 1971 Senator Milliner asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following questions: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided the following answer: [More…]

• Most schools for the deaf in Australia are run by State Education Departments who are responsible for drawing up the curriculum for use in the school. [More…]

• Independent schools for the deaf are responsible for determining their own curricula, although inspectors from State Education Departments visit these schools from time to time to ensure that satisfactory standards are maintained. [More…]

• On 14th May 1971 Senator Bishop asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided the following answer: [More…]

• If the Laverton High School pupil’s sight is sufficient for her to make use of enlarged papers then the Victorian Education Department can arrange for her to sit for the examination at Burwood, or for a set of the papers to be sent to Laverton High. [More…]

• As the examination papers contain a number of pictures, symbols and diagrams, the Australian Council for Educational Research is negotiating with the Victorian Institute for the Blind to translate them into braille to assist totally blind students. [More…]

• The Minister said he was concerned that information available to him showed that teachers of Laverton High had not contacted the Victorian Education Department on this matter. [More…]

• As the regional electorates are currently constituted they can be contested only by persons who have an intermediate certificate standard or a higher standard of education. [More…]

• It is proposed in the new Bill to increase the number of regional electorates from 15 to 18 so that when the House of Assembly elections are held in the first half of 1972 there will be 18 areas for which people cannot nominate unless they have this standard of education. [More…]

• Some of the chiefs of tribes and other experienced people in the Territory would probably make better political representatives than those who might have formal education of the standard required. [More…]

• This is not to say they are not good parliamentary representatives but they do not have formal certificates to show that they have reached this standard of education. [More…]

• When it comes to experience, political know-how and a conception of the problems of this country, their standard of education is probably equivalent to the graduate level. [More…]

• If formal certificates have to be produced we may be precluding from the lists of candidates in the Territory some of the more experienced people in favour of some who have this education certificate. [More…]

• If one looks at what is happening to State education throughout Australia one can only be forced to the conclusion that the policy of the present Government is for electoral purposes to maintain the Catholic educational system at a subsistence level, a non-Catholic private educational system for the purpose of training some sort of elite, and a State educational system educating - if educating is the correct word - the children of the most underprivileged elements of the community to be nothing but hewers of wood and drawers of water. [More…]

• If one looks at my own State of Western Australia one can see an example of the sort of policies which are being conducted by the Government towards State education. [More…]

• Of course State education was provided by the State. [More…]

• In that town are 2 schools which give a secondary education. [More…]

• Is it to be wondered at that this is causing a reaction throughout the whole of Australia and that we find taking place protests organised by parents of children attending State schools - people who are interested in the future of State education? [More…]

• We cannot have a sound education system in Australia without a sound State education system. [More…]

• Whatever may be done or ought to be done for private schools must be subsidiary to what is done for State education because it is State education which sets the whole pattern for education in Australia. [More…]

• If we have a corroding, collapsing State education system we will have an uneducated population. [More…]

• If Senator Gair is a product of that education system I think it must have been sadly lacking. [More…]

• We believe that the only sound, education system is one which is based on a solid State education system. [More…]

• If Senator Little feels capable of talking about education I am prepared to hear him, although I suggest that the contribution that he would make would be a living argument for the inadequacy of education in Australia, as is the presence in this chamber of Senators Gair and Little. [More…]

• I trust that this Bill will be sent back to be re-drafted so that justice may be done to the pupils of Australian State schools, to the parents of pupils of Australian State schools and to Australia, which is sadly lacking in any sound education system at present. [More…]

• The Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who in the Senate represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn), said in his second reading speech that the present rate of expenditure is to be slightly reduced. [More…]

• My experience in education may be more limited than that of Senator Wheeldon, and I have to think back a little further to my school days. [More…]

• Perhaps the educational system was not as good then, or it may have been better than it is now. [More…]

• I do not know, but it enabled me to take a place in the life of this community and I have been very grateful for the limited educational facilities that were available in my school days. [More…]

• Many members of my generation determined to see that our children and our children’s children had better opportunities for education than we had, and that they were not disrupted by such great financial and personal tragedies in this country as were created by the depression of the 1930s. [More…]

• My colleagues and I feel that there has been a great achievement by a generation that had its own educational opportunities somewhat limited by the circumstances of the day. [More…]

• It was suddenly realised, amongst all the pressures of education, that in the field of science we had to keep pace with the rest of the world. [More…]

• I knew that my parents paid their taxes and education was provided out of those taxes. [More…]

• The Federal and State governments of this country saw the justice of spending at least portion of the funds allotted from the public purse for education on children attending private schools only when they were driven to it by sheer necessity. [More…]

• These children had been taken off the back of the taxpayers in respect of education expenditure because their parents were paying for their education in addition to their contributions to the public purse. [More…]

• All of us who are interested in children and in their education well know that the educational opportunities of the second, third and fourth child in a family were being neglected because of the sheer lack of finance. [More…]

• If we are talking of spending more money on education, it is high time we had an investigation to inform us ali why it costs so much more to educate each child in a state school than in the private schools. [More…]

• We of the Democratic Labor Party deplore the fact that there is not complete honesty in relation to this great question of education. [More…]

• We are discussing the education of the children of Australia. [More…]

• We are discussing the education of young Australians and surely all honourable senators should be wrapped up in the idea that all of them should get the best opportunity that is humanly possible irrespective of the education system selected for them by their parents. [More…]

• Private schools were not receiving funds from the Commonwealth pool by way of State grants for education to provide basic necessities for the staff and for buildings. [More…]

• It is a lie to try to draw a comparison between the 2 education systems and to say that over the whole picture this Bill proves that more money is being spent on the education of children in private schools than on those being educated in state schools. [More…]

• One happens to be a medical practitioner at the age of 23 years, thanks to the state school education system in Australia. [More…]

• At least that would bring a substantial measure of justice to that section of the community, that section of my Australian brothers and neighbours who have paid their taxes for a lifetime for the education of their children and have then paid out of their own pockets as well for that education. [More…]

• So did the parents of the child next door, but they did not get the same advantage because they also paid for their child’s education. [More…]

• The point is that the Commonwealth has no jurisdiction over education. [More…]

• In the Commonwealth Parliament we can look at science laboratories and libraries; but we cannot look at education and making grants to schools. [More…]

• When we look at the wording of our amendment, which has been criticised severely, we see that the amount about Which we are talking is for assistance to the schools, lt means insofar as the Commonwealth can go; it does not mean that we should be running education for the various States. [More…]

• The Commonwealth cannot provide for education. [More…]

• It can provide grants to the States, which themselves administer education. [More…]

• He made the point that the Commonwealth is not so concerned with the details of education. [More…]

• The mover of the amendment, Senator Wheeldon, casts a gross reflection on the very schools he is trying to help when he suggests that all pupils who come from the State education systems are hewers of wood and drawers of water. [More…]

• I draw attention to the fact that the Bill is part of a total programme in which the Commonwealth Government has applied itself to the total education system of Australia. [More…]

• This expenditure has not been undertaken just to provide a convenient vehicle; it is part of the total education programme. [More…]

• There has been increased international emphasis on science education at all levels. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has long recognised the necessity for sophisticated science education. [More…]

• It was clear that students who proposed to enter tertiary institutions would not be able to make the maximum use of the increased facilities being provided for them unless better facilities were available for their training at earlier stages of their education. [More…]

• Whilst being very enthusiastic about the development of the science programme, we must remember that it is only one element within the education structure. [More…]

• We have to remember the place that science holds in our total education structure. [More…]

• Therefore, the humanities, which are also part of the total education structure, must receive their fair share of attention. [More…]

• Some of these aspects are being taken care of in other parts of the Commonwealth’s education programme - not as opponents of science but rather as its friends and even its guides. [More…]

• From the time I started school until the time I required secondary education, I attended a State school. [More…]

• I was required to leave the State schools system to obtain secondary education because at that time the State had not entered the field of secondary education. [More…]

• Had it not been for the existence of independent schools, Queensland’s young men and women who wanted higher education and those who desired to study law, medicine or other professional subjects would have been lost to the State of Queensland had it not been for the Grammar Schools or the few independent denominational schools available to them at that time. [More…]

• Those who have distinguished themselves in medicine, law, architecture or any other profession, until recent years when the State entered the field of secondary education, owe their education and their training to the secondary schools conducted by churches and other independent authorities. [More…]

• is spent on the provision of education facilities for all children, irrespective of religion or whether they went to an independent school. [More…]

• Let us remember when we talk about taxpayers that the parents of children attending independent schools are contributing to the education of children going to State schools, in addition to paying for the education of their own children. [More…]

• We will find that, for all the contributions that independent schools have made to education in Australia since the turn of the century and even before, they are entitled to some consideration and a great deal more than they have received from any government up to now. [More…]

• No-one could estimate in dollars and cents the value of the work of teachers in independent schools, many of whom have devoted their lives to the education of the youth of Australia without payment at all. [More…]

• The test of the amendment is whether the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) in this chamber can dispute the figures that have been presented by Senator Wheeldon. [More…]

• Therefore, it is a Bill concerning one feature of education. [More…]

• The outstanding matter of regret with regard to the debate is that Senator Wheeldon, who was chosen to lead for the Australian Labor Party Opposition, displayed such a deficiency of education both from the point of view of integrity of argument and a reasoned rational approach to the subject, that I believe the presentation of any argument that could be made upon the Opposition’s amendment has been damaged greatly. [More…]

• The indulgence in personal abuse between himself and other honourable senators, which would seem to imply for himself an arrogant claim to an education of a methodical kind different from, and he would imply superior to, the education of some of the rest of us is, of course, the most rancid piece of uneducated arrogance. [More…]

• On the other hand, the state schools, the state high schools and those other educational institutions that are maintained by the States, have made very great claims to prestige in the advancement of education. [More…]

• I stated in my second reading speech that we are dealing here with a special field of education. [More…]

• In this special field of education the (Commonwealth, over the past 7 years, has devoted $80m for the assistance and expansion of science laboratories. [More…]

• To date, of the $80m of Commonwealth moneys in this special field of education, $51m have been paid to the state schools and $29m to the independent schools. [More…]

• A look at the Government’s performance will reveal that for this year the Commonwealth’s appropriation in the total field of education is $3 12m. [More…]

• That indicates the degree to which efforts are being made to improve the amount of assistance given out of Commonwealth revenue for education. [More…]

• If we take away the amount of expenditure on Commonwealth scholarships from the total expenditure of $3 12m it will be seen that we devote $190m to other fields of education. [More…]

• Our actual assistance for specialised education other than scholarships amounts to $ 190.7m. [More…]

• It has been developed according to the needs for science laboratories in the various education sections. [More…]

• The honourable senator is throwing a reproach against purposeful and experienced educationalists who advise State governments in regard to independent schools and whose recommendations are accepted by the State governments as to the needs of the schools for science laboratories. [More…]

• The Department of Education and Science, whose advice and assistance we have, is particularly scrupulous to ensure that expenditure of this nature is not made where it is not warranted. [More…]

• Having said that, I do not think it is necessary to refer to Senator Wilkinson’s contribution because to say that the Commonwealth has not any sense of responsibility in the field of education is to ignore an enormous programme of social advancement and Commonwealth expenditure over the past 15 years whereby with the various means available to us under our Constitution we have built up a programme of assistance from $54m 10 years ago to $3 12m for this year. [More…]

• Senator Wilkinson fails to recognise that we have given this assistance for science laboratories and libraries, to pre-school teachers’ colleges, teacher training colleges, technical training facilities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Clause 5 defines a child to whom this Act applies as a person under the age of 16 years or a person who has attained the age of 16 years but is under the age of 21 years and is receiving full time education at a school, college or university. [More…]

• If a child continues at university after he has attained the age of 21 years and is receiving a full time education, under the provisions of this Bill he is not a dependant child. [More…]

• While the education of the child remains the responsibility of the parent the child should be classed as a dependant of the worker. [More…]

• Mr Fairbairn will, for the time being, continue to hold the portfolio of Education and Science. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence will continue to be represented in the Senate by Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson and the Minister for Foreign Affairs by Senator Wright, who will also continue to represent the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly, recommend that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should: Cause the Standing Committee of the Senate on Education, Science and the Arts to conduct a searching inquiry into the state of the arts in Australia and make recommendations thereon that will encouragethe development of all forms of cultural and artistic activities in Australia. [More…]

• That the petition be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]

• a major inadequacy at presentin Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]

• 200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]

• Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]

• The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income , for tax purposes. [More…]

• Removal of (he present age limit in respect ofthe deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance of students. [More…]

• Increase inthe amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]

• the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in (he Australian Education system. [More…]

• a major inadequacy at present in Australian education isthe lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]

• 200.000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty frominadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]

• The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]

• Removal of the present age limit in respect ofthe deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]

• Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]

• the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]

• a major inadequacy at present in Austraiian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all [More…]

• 200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]

• Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]

• The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purpose. [More…]

• Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students [More…]

• Increase in the amount of deduction allowance for tertiary education expenses. [More…]

• That the petitions this day presented to the Senate by Senators Webster, Poyser, Byrne and myself on education be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• With an unparalleled schools crisis across the nation, this week is to see a third Minister for Education and Science inside half a school year. [More…]

• In the week commencing 16th August the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts and the Senate Privileges Committee have met. [More…]

• the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]

• a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]

• 200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936- 1968. [More…]

• Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]

• The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]

• Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]

• Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]

• Education, Science and the Arts [More…]

• Cause the Standing Committee of the Senate on Education, Science and the Arts to conduct a searching inquiry into the state of the arts in Australia and make recommendations thereon that will encourage the development of all forms of cultural and artistic development in Australia. [More…]

• The petition is in the same terms as one which was received yesterday and forwarded to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• Are most young men, who have obtained deferment of national service call-up in order to complete university and other higher education courses, called up immediately they fail an end of year examination, and after two years national service, a high percentage do not resume their studies? [More…]

• asked the Minister repre senting the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• To what extent, if at all, does the Department of Education and Science consult with the Council of the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations on matters which that body would have special knowledge, experience or opinion? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Staff Associations has made representations to successive Ministers for Education and Science and to the Australian Universities Commission about matters in which the Federation is interested. [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The number of accidents in Papua/New Guinea during the past year has caused some concern but I believe that the situation will respond to intensified pilot education and field supervision which has been undertaken by the Department. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided me with the following advice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply: [More…]

• Are not unionists interested in matters of health, or in tariffs which might affect their employment, or with education and pensions? [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the following matter - The petitions presented to the Senate on 17th August 1971 by Senators Webster, Poyser, Byrne and Cavanagh concerning the granting of deductions from income for taxation purposes. [More…]

• I do not think a day goes by when a senator does not ask a question on education. [More…]

• The same is to be said of Mr Fairbairn, who is now the Minister for Defence and who has held the portfolios of Air, National Development and Education and Science. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that 20 Murrumbeena High School teachers in the State of Victoria, allegedly on strike since 26th July, during which period they have been receiving two-sevenths of each week’s pay, have decided to return to work 2 days before a holiday period for end of term; that they have returned to work with a threat to strike again in the new term; and that they will be paid for the holiday period? [More…]

• Does the Government approve of this flagrant exploitation and misuse of taxpayers’ money allocated for the education of our children but being diverted by this system of industrial banditry [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• In view of the submissions from leading educationists, plus the further deterioration of education generally as exemplified by the admissions by the New South Wales Minister for Education, Mr Cutler, and the overseas recruitment campaigns in the British Isles and Canada, I think this is an ideal time to accede to the request not merely in these 5 cases but in those which I am sure other senators can produce. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present 2 statements, one being the annual report of the Department of Education and Science for the year ended December 1970 and the other being a statement of statistics on education in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory as at the beginning of August 1970. [More…]

• Our education system is in a continuous state of crisis. [More…]

• We need enormous amounts of money pumped into the whole educational system, and to do this requires a complete change of direction - a new approach by a new government. [More…]

• Part of it is the inevitable result of an education system which is lagging behind those of other countries. [More…]

• Why else do we have a country with the riches that Australia has - the mineral wealth, the agricultural and pastoral wealth and the income potential - but with the education opportunities for our children worse than those for the children in other countries such as Japan, with a rate of growth that is falling behind those of other countries and with a social service system such that in the statistics that the United Nations hands out Australia has dropped from being one of the first 3 or 4 in the world at the time this Government came into office to being about twentieth in the world and receding rapidly? [More…]

• The last thing that 1 wish to say is that we are accused of not having had regard to education. [More…]

• The increased vote for education this year brings our direct expenditure on education to $346m. [More…]

• There is the Seat of Government Railway Aci 1928, the National Capital Development Commission Act 1957. the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Supply Act 1962, the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967 and the Removal of Prisoners (Australian Capital Territory) Act 1968. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science been drawn to a report in this morning’s Press to the effect that a number of university students have been stood down for various periods at the La Trobe University in Melbourne? [More…]

• The report to which the honourable senator has referred has not come to my notice, but I am glad to have been informed that the La Trobe University has, for the good of the other students and out of respect for the Government moneys that go to support this education institution, exercised some disciplinary action. [More…]

• I assure the honourable senators that the Minister for Education and Science will give serious consideration to the question of whether Commonwealth scholarships should continue in such instances. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he can inform the Parliament how many children of Aboriginal and Island descent were enrolled in the 197 J school year final matriculation classes and university courses? [More…]

• Education, Science and the Arts - Senator Byrne in place of Senator Kane, resigned. [More…]

• But he also represents the Minister for Education and Science, the Minister for Labour and National Service, the Minister for External Territories and the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• Looking at some of the other portfolios, I suggest that Education and Science is important but it is still not a full time job. [More…]

• I am fully aware that there are many other important subjects warranting the attention of this Parliament, such as immigration, foreign affairs, health and education and I hope that at a later stage I will be given an opportunity to canvass them. [More…]

• The standard of living of the Australian people depends upon the strong demands of the unions for improved conditions, social services, education, housing and a host of other things. [More…]

• He should be entitled to free medical treatment, free education for his children, guaranteed employment and decent homes. [More…]

• As we go through the Budget papers and the Budget Speech we see an increase in expenditure in nearly all directions, especially for those items that the public feels are necessary such as social services, education, external aid, the advancement of the Aboriginal community and retirement pensions and allowances for superannuitants and ex-servicemen. [More…]

• I do not think that one can neglect the deficiencies in education today. [More…]

• Although we will be told what the Commonwealth Government has done in the field of education, I think that there is a great deal more to be done. [More…]

• This deficienty in education can be overcome only by the provision of Commonwealth grants. [More…]

• I want to spend some time on this subject because I have received an abundance of correspondence on the question of education from primary and secondary schools in South Australia. [More…]

• Obviously Mr Dunstan was not satisfied because he said that the cost of meeting educational needs far exceeded what the States had been given. [More…]

• What is provided for education in the Budget? [More…]

• What is provided to meet the increased expenditure which the survey on education indicated would be necessary over the next 5 years? [More…]

• Correspondence from the Minister for Education in relation to a complaint at one school indicated that the educational capabilities of migrants cannot be assessed because of their inability to speak the English language. [More…]

• Unless they mix into the environment and make progress with the language their education is doomed. [More…]

• That is what is going on in our education system at the present time. [More…]

• South Australia needs increased expenditure on administration, the purchase of land, inservice education, the provision of text books, allowances for students, school transport and library services in primary schools, lt should be noted that of all the Austraiian States South Australia has the greatest population of students attending State schools - about 85 per cent. [More…]

• South Australia needs more Commonwealth help in education generally with the greatest possible degree of flexibility being left to that State to determine is priorities. [More…]

• The Commonwealth is giving priority in the field of education to assistance to independent schools and the provision of science blocks and libraries. [More…]

• The education position is not much better in the other States. [More…]

• Let us consider what Mr Cutler, the Deputy Premier and Minister for Education in New South [More…]

• In New South Wales - these are figures that have not been released before - we need not an expenditure but an increase in capital works over the next 5 years of about$160m in the field of primary and secondary education and teacher training. [More…]

• Mr Cutler went on to say: 1 join with the Premier of South Australia in saying that whatever is done in the future there should be flexibility as far as the States are concerned; but the States are completely incapable financially of facing up to the problems that confront education over the next 5 years. [More…]

• It is particularly in this period between now and 1975 that we need to put education in Australia on a proper basis. [More…]

• An urgent plea has been made by the Minister for Education in New South Wales for assistance. [More…]

• What amounts have been spent on (a) housing (b) education, (c) health and (d) business loans/grants. [More…]

• $945,000 was spent on education (c)$643.000 was spent on health [More…]

• Following upon some recent incidents, the Transport Workers Union wrote to the Department of the Interior saying that its members would refuse to drive buses to and from offending schools; the Department of the Interior informed the Department of Education and Science of the contents of the Union’s letter and sought its cooperation in removing the cause of complaint. [More…]

• The Department of the Interior has had discussions with Commonwealth and State education authorities as a result of which the New South Wales Department of Education has sent a circular to all school principals seeking their cooperation in action to deal with the problem of misbehaviour on school buses. [More…]

• Before this debate was interrupted on the last day we sat, which was Thursday of the week before last, I had dealt to some extent with the concern of the various State Ministers for Education at the lack of Commonwealth assistance to the States for education. [More…]

• I showed that this concern was consistent throughout all the States and that the plea was for greater financial assistance for education without strings attached to it as to how it had to be spent. [More…]

• I wish to mention now the Angle Park Boys Technical High School where the education of individual children has had to be sacrificed because of the inability to provide the necessary facilities. [More…]

• I. have taken this matter up with the Minister of Education in South Australia, Hon. [More…]

• After Mr Dunstan had referred to the deficiencies of education in South Australia the then Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, said: [More…]

• I think you would agree - perhaps you would not - thai the .standard of the pupil/ teacher ratio and the standard of facilities for education have been improving over recent years. [More…]

• The Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, has assured a South Australian school official the States are able to meet their financial responsibilities for education and other services. [More…]

• A survey, carried OUt by State education Ministers, showed that $ 1, 443m more than the Stales could afford should be spent on education between 1970 and 1975. [More…]

• There we have the Prime Minister saying that the States now can meet their financial responsibilities, and we have heard the Minister tell us by way of interjection what is provided in the present Budget for education. [More…]

• In a Press release of 18th August Mr Hudson, the South Australian Minister for Education, bitterly attacked the Federal Budget for ignoring the plight of the State’s primary and secondary schools. [More…]

• The Government found education sufficiently important to promise concerted action on a national survey before the last election. [More…]

• The result of the survey, indicated beyond any shadow of doubt that the State education systems were in dire need of massive financial assistance which could only come from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• He went on later: lt has neglected entirely the needs of the very great majority of children who attend State schools or the less wealthy independent s’chools and who have little prospects of tertiary education under present conditions. [More…]

• The needs of education for the next 5 years have been shown by the survey which was conducted in co-operation with the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• Since I have been in this Senate I have heard the Government justifying its attitude of too little too late by comparing one year’s expenditure on education with the previous year’s expenditure, or by comparing what it has done with what the Government of the day did in 1949. [More…]

• The fact is the Commonwealth Government has not met the cost of education needs. [More…]

• The Government has made its biggest impact on education by the taxation deduction which may be claimed for expenditure on education. [More…]

• If a man earning S2,000 a year spends $400 on the education of one child he will receive a taxation concession of S82. [More…]

• However, if a man earning $20,000 a year spends $400 on the education of one child his taxation concession will be $280. [More…]

• The only educational institutions today which charge $300 a year in fees are the prestige schools to which the less wealthy and less privileged man cannot send his child. [More…]

• From time to time we have had demands from those undertaking part time tertiary education for taxation relief. [More…]

• These are people who are paying their own way through university or college of advanced education. [More…]

• I have made an appeal for priority to be given to education; I think education has been accepted as having one of the highest priorities. [More…]

• Despite increased expenditure the Commonwealth is not meeting its obligations to education, lt may be that there will be more to say on this subject during the Estimates debate. [More…]

• The education allowance deduction from income tax for children has been increased from $300 to $400. [More…]

• The direct expenditure by the Commonwealth on education this year will be S346m. [More…]

• I point out that the total direct expenditure on education by the Commonwealth has increased in 10 years from S55m to $346m. [More…]

• It gives the lie to some of the criticism expressed by Senator Cavanagh about the education system. [More…]

• In the same 10 years the total State expenditure on education has increased from $40 lm to $ 1,043m, which is a very substantial increase. [More…]

• 1 was sorry to hear the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who represents in this chamber the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), say in answer to a question I asked of him the other day that university students holding Commonwealth scholarships are not automatically deprived of their scholarships when they are expelled from a university. [More…]

• I would also like to mention that expenditure from the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account on housing, health and, in particular, education in Queensland is to be increased by 28 per cent. [More…]

• There are 1,250 Aboriginal children over 14 years of age in Queensland who are receiving education assistance. [More…]

• The National Fitness Act authorises the Minister to use this money for the purpose of providing assistance, firstly, to encourage the development of national fitness in each State under the direction of a national fitness council appointed by the government of each State; secondly, to promote physical education in schools, universities and other instrumentalities; and thirdly, for such other purposes as are consistent with the Act as the Minister determines. [More…]

• The bulk of Commonwealth assistance has been directed to State national fitness councils which are responsible for conducting the broadly based fitness programmes in each State and to universities and State Departments of Education to assist in the training of teachers engaged in physical fitness. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science been directed to a stop press statement appearing in today’s Sydney ‘Daily Telegraph’ to the effect that in Hobart there will be a closure of 2 Roman Catholic schools and a part closure of a third at the end of this year? [More…]

• Because of the Federal Government’s increasing involvement in the education field, will the Minister implement the findings of the nationwide survey of education needs for non-government schools, which was commissioned by the Government for the purpose of seeing what further funds would be necessary to prevent the independent schools closing, and thereby prevent any further problems in government schools? [More…]

• The National Health and Medical Research Council has recommended that health education is probably the most effective way of attacking the smoking problem; warning labels should be included on cigarette packs, tar and nicotine content should be indicated and there should be restriction of advertising of cigarettes. [More…]

• The Council has also recommended that health education programmes in schools on the hazards associated with smoking should be extended. [More…]

• While I do not want to overoccupy the rostrum in replying to questions, it is such an important matter that I would like to go on to say that the Commonwealth has responsibilities for health education programmes in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and these have been intensified in the A.C.T. [More…]

• following the formation of a separate health education section in the A.C.T. [More…]

• State and Territory has received a proportion of the grant to develop and coordinate its own drug educational programme in line with the views of the subcommittee. [More…]

• If we were to encroach on that allocation we may help one aspect but we may take away the impact or impetus of what the Government wants to do and what the Senate Committee wants to do in relation to drug education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Have any special courses for particular needs of the Public Service of Papua New Guinea been designed at universities and colleges of advanced education in Australia when comparable courses of study are not yet available in Papua New Guinea? [More…]

• In areas such as education and, in particular, health the lack of demarcation and the lack of our ability to say to the people: ‘This is a State responsibility but that is a Federal responsibility’, is a defect. [More…]

• I believe that in the vision of the future to meet the challenges of the future, the great solutions and the great motivations not being created by economic instruments will be created by a new philosophy of education. [More…]

• I believe that in rethinking our education, in rethinking our education research, in studying as our main subject not material science but man, we will come some way towards the solutions. [More…]

• Crises exist - whether or not this Government is prepared to recognise them - in education generally, housing, hospitals, sewerage, social welfare, accommodation, human relations and the decline in value of money. [More…]

• I feel overawed by the obvious education of honourable senators within this august chamber. [More…]

• Both items are of special interest to me because they include considerable sums for Aboriginal advancement, mainly for special programmes of housing, health and education. [More…]

• Whilst I commend the Government for its awareness of the need for improved programmes of housing, health and education, I want to take this opportunity to point out that in common with all citizens, Aborigines of Australia are most certainly not looking for handouts. [More…]

• I am sure that they will respond to efforts being made to enhance their self-esteem, particularly through the programmes of social development and vocational and general education. [More…]

• I want to emphasise the urgency of greater Aboriginal participation particularly in the areas of social development and vocational and general education. [More…]

• Firstly I express my appreciation of what the Government is already doing to make pre-school education facilities available for my people. [More…]

• Who will be the people who will gain, for example, by the increase in the allowable deduction for education expenses from $300 to $400 a year? [More…]

• I notice that Mr Hudson, the South Australian Minister for Education, made a statement on this very point just recently. [More…]

• Despite the fact that education is crying out for more Commonwealth money, allowances of this nature are made to people on high incomes who, in fact, do not deserve them or are not in need of them. [More…]

• A government largely may determine how much it is prepared to spend in the public sector, in such areas as health, education, public works and defence, by the amount of the national income it is prepared to collect in taxation, either direct or indirect. [More…]

• But, as a result of that, all those countries are able to pay better social services and to provide more of their national income for education, health and hospitals than we are. [More…]

• We have a crisis in education. [More…]

• Only just recently we were told by an authoritative body that an additional $l,400m will need to be found over the next 3 years for the education system in Australia. [More…]

• Unless we are prepared to accept the fact that this money must be directed, at the Federal level, into further financial assistance for education, the education system must continue to decline. [More…]

• We talk about increases in social service pensions, education payments and child endowment, but if we take note of the sort of thing that Dr Ehrlich was talking about a week or so ago it seems that somewhere someone must say: This far and no farther’. [More…]

• As I have said, following the decentralisation of people into the new towns that have arisen in these regions we already are faced with growing problems in the fields of health, education, town planning and so on. [More…]

• Attention should be directed immediately to the problems of health and education. [More…]

• There is also a deficiency in the field of education. [More…]

• I believe that in the long term there is only one way of meeting these great social demands that we have - the proper demands of this community for things such as improved social services, the abolition of poverty as far as we possibly can as a Parliament, the provision of better housing and better education, and so on. [More…]

• However having regard to the medical view, which has been very clearly expressed, that there is a proven relationship between cigarette smoking and medical health, we should continue our efforts towards education as to the risks in the hope that people will become aware of them. [More…]

• I must point out to him that whilst this is so right, we must look at it against the background of the well being of the nation to ensure that there are common standards throughout the nation, be it in education, in the provision of roads and transport, water reticulation, hospitalisation and all these things. [More…]

• My colleague Senator Cavanagh yesterday mentioned education. [More…]

• Senator Cavanagh cited figures from the Minister of Education in South Australia, which showed that the education system had not been given enough money and revealed the sum that will be required to put into operation a system which will cope with the increase in the number attending school over the next 2 or 3 years. [More…]

• Commenting on the Commonwealth Budget last week, the Acting President Mr F. A. Woithe, said that the only new measure introduced for education was an increased taxation deduction which would only benefit those people who sent their children to wealthy private schools. [More…]

• I could read further but I think that is sufficient to demonstrate the poor state of the education system in Australia today. [More…]

• I feel that the Government should have a firm look at the situation to see whether it is possible to introduce some measure of assistance to the States for education or to put into operation the report of the Commission that was set up by the Government itself to inquire into the needs of nongovernment schools. [More…]

• If the Government can save the non-government schools from closing down by doing this I feel that it would be doing a service to the community by not imposing as great a strain on the State education system as would be imposed if these schools had to close down. [More…]

• The first matter is education. [More…]

• Each year the Commonwealth greatly increases the money it provides for education. [More…]

• One wonders whether this is the result of education or whether it reflects a lack of ability to understand and take in education on the part of those for whom we are providing. [More…]

• Many of the students receive practically all their education as a result of Commonwealth scholarships provided by the taxpayers. [More…]

• When the first child attains 16 years of age the parents of those 3 children are in this situation: The first child does not receive 50c a week but is paid $1.50 a week as a student’s allowance if he continues bis education at school. [More…]

• Prior to this Budget, parents were allowed for each dependent child an education deduction of $300 a year. [More…]

• I wish to read to the Senate what the Minister for Educa- tion in South Australia had to say when referring to the Commonwealth Budget increase in the taxation allowance for education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Budget recently provided that the amount of tax deduction claimable for the education expenses of each dependent child would rise from $300 a year to $400. [More…]

• A close examination of the implications of these figures reveals that the assistance offered by the Commonwealth’s education concessions in taxation is little short of scandalous. [More…]

• For example, if a man earning a taxable income of $3,000 per annum pays $100 per child per annum on education, the tax rebate is $23 as against a possible maximum of $280 for ‘ a taxpayer who could afford to spend $400. [More…]

• If the average taxable income of parents at a high fee school is $10,000 the effect of the increase in the allowable education deduction is an increase in rebate of $53. [More…]

• Apparently this is the kernel of the Commonwealth Government’s approach to education. [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…]

• We should look through our education system, even from the pre-school stage, for the means of producing the voluntarily self-disciplined citizen because so many of the inmates of the gaols are created by us and our society. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science seen a reported statement by Sir John Crawford, Vice-Chancel lor of the Australian National University, to the effect that he hopes that the ANU will start an inter-disciplinary degree in the science of man? [More…]

• All I can say is that I will have the question put to study by referring it to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The cost to revenue of providing income tax concessional deductions for children, including deductions in respect of education, exceeds some $250m per year. [More…]

• There are groups in society, whether they be in the field of social welfare, education, industry or anywhere else, that are pressing for Government assistance, Government incentive, Government encouragement and Government co-operation. [More…]

• I refer no more than briefly to the expenditure on education which has been increased by 14 per cent in the present Budget. [More…]

• Commonwealth expenditure on education now totals $346m. [More…]

• Education is a sphere which the Commonwealth has entered in comparatively recent years. [More…]

• Commonwealth activity has been of the greatest possible assistance not only in the development of education but also in promoting diversity of opportunities for education. [More…]

• But an education programme, at any level and at any time, will always be a programme which must constantly be upgraded, revised and reformed. [More…]

• It is not without significance that one of the Senate standing committees deals with this area of our society almost exclusively and that it is presently considering a matter of particular significance to the Commonwealth’s role in education. [More…]

• The Government has responded to all these factors in providing $346m for expenditure on education in the ensuing year. [More…]

• We see Government charges in such fields as health, education, defence and administration generally increasing at a very much faster rate than the rate of increase in costs in the private sector. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that about half the students in Canada who graduated from universities in May this year have been unable to find suitable employment and that university education in that country is becoming termed the ‘great training robbery’? [More…]

• However, since I am only acting for the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science 1 shall have the matter referred. [More…]

• They have revealed a need for continuing education, for adult education, for the re-education of people perhaps made redundant in one particular aspect of their prior training and experience. [More…]

• This draws into emphasis the importance of adult education or continuing education - whichever name one likes to give to it. [More…]

• I would like to take this opportunity to commend the National Adult Education Board for the steps it is starting to take in relation to this - the initiative which it is taking. [More…]

• All these are areas in which the continuing education programme in Australia can play an important role and, I believe, must play an important role. [More…]

• Through the Department of Education and Science this Budget provides for a significant Commonwealth share in the cost of education throughout Australia by the support it gives to State Budgets by direct expenditure under Commonwealth programmes. [More…]

• In 1971-72 the payments to the States for particular types of education expenditure are to exceed $200m. [More…]

• Of that amount $128m is for tertiary level education. [More…]

• Expenditure on education in Commonwealth Territories will reach the amount of $77m this year with total Commonwealth direct expenditure on education amounting to $346m. [More…]

• To this amount we must add the enormous amounts which are spent under State Budgets on the education programmes of the States. [More…]

• I can see far enough ahead to visualise an Australian nation which has been founded in very good faith, enriched by a rounding of the personality of its people through education, creative and cultural opportunities, in turn demanding from government all the other measures which a mature nation would value. [More…]

• He referred to the crisis in education. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some school teachers who are campaigning for more money for education have been misled tremendously on this matter and are putting up propositions similar to those advanced by Senator Wriedt. [More…]

• He said that we have a crisis in education, and we all agree with that. [More…]

• Only just recently we were told by an authoritative body that an additional $ 1,400m will need to be found over the next 3 years for the education system in Australia. [More…]

• I do not believe that if we do that we are getting value for money in education. [More…]

• I would like to see the money spent not on that type of luxury or indulgence of the teachers but on the education of children. [More…]

• Those countries may say: ‘Let us go without those goods and give a better education to our children’. [More…]

• The economic fact is that out: of the capacity to produce and consume these goods comes that which we can syphon off to use in the interests of infant welfare, a better deal for handicapped children, a better deal for education in general and so on. [More…]

• lt is an oversimplification of our problem to try to criticise the Government and to suggest that some of us want motor cars and not education for our children, as Senator Wriedt so unkindly suggested in reply to an interjection by me. [More…]

• We realise that by manufacturing and consuming all the goods that the ingenuity of man enables us to manufacture and consume we are adding to the total economic strength of our country and our capacity to improve our standards of education by spending the’ money we can afford to spend upon our children. [More…]

• We should give consideration to our additional requirements for education, housing and social services, including pensions and child endowment. [More…]

• Has his Department any plans for implemnting an education programme in the use of such drugs similar to that outlined in the conclusions and recommendations of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse? [More…]

• Senator Davidson very properly referred to drug education. [More…]

• I point out that the Commonwealth has set aside in the Budget a sum of $500,000 to be used in collaboration with the States for drug education. [More…]

• “That is surely consistent with the views expressed by the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse on the need for education in the use of drugs. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware of the current emergence of a potentially disastrous locust plaque which threatens farmers in southern New South Wales and Victoria? [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• It has been of interest to me to note great criticism of allocations in State Budgets for education, for example, yet in my own State of Victoria 42 per cent or 43 per cent of the total Budget has been allocated for education. [More…]

• Surely such a man should be entitled during his lifetime as a worker to free hospitalisation, medical services and education and to a full day’s pay when he is off due to sickness or an injury. [More…]

• I know that an increase in our population brings with it responsibilities and expense in the fields of social services, education and so on, but it is a challenge for us to meet these problems. [More…]

• The type of assistance that is available is the opportunity to undertake full-time or part-time training by entering formal courses in technical education, or through training by job experience in subsidised employment by approved employers. [More…]

• Where entry to a training programme depends on additional educational qualifications, applications for the tuition necessary to acquire the pre-requisite education will be considered up to a maximum period of twelve months prior to commencement of the approved training programme. [More…]

• On 27th April Senator Hannan asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: [More…]

• Concerning the second point, changes were made at the beginning of 1971 in the amounts Commonwealth University and Advanced Education scholarship holders are permitted to earn without living allowance entitlements being affected. [More…]

• ls the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware of a statement by Professor J. Auchmuty, Chairman of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, reported in yesterday’s Press, that a significant amount pf student union fees collected by universities is being used for semi-political and non-university purposes? [More…]

• Nevertheless I shall direct the question to the Minister for Education and Science and see whether anything is necessary in our administration to ensure that any part of Commonwealth moneys supplementing students’ fees is hot used for non-university purposes. [More…]

• -^ My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• It refers to educational opportunities available in the city of Darwin. [More…]

• Before thought can be given to any particular site many important aspects in relation to matters such as how the scheme might be financed, how such a facility should be integrated with the existing system of technical education, particularly at the tertiary level, and by whom it might be administered, would have to be discussed and resolved. [More…]

• Children are brought to the United Kingdom, provided with secondary and further’ education and, on completion of training, returned to their homelands to assist in the economic and cultural development of their nations. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister; for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Therefore there needs to be a greater awareness in terms of education and international conference regarding emphasis on the quality of life. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that it is the stated intention of the Tasmanian Education Department in 1972 to keep the number of teaching staff approximately 200 below the accepted minimum level required to maintain existing educational standards? [More…]

• General information leads me to believe that the Tasmanian Education Department will have to impose some limitation upon its teaching facilities due to limited finances. [More…]

• Firstly, it will be remembered that in the last 2 years the Commonwealth has increased its general grant to all States from S2,400m to $3,200m, an increase of 33i per cent in that period, and a considerable part of that is devoted to State educational needs. [More…]

• One of the very significant purposes for which television and radio are used is education in the schools. [More…]

• I believe that in cases such as these financial assistance should be given by the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• Press telegrams, small bulletins by educational authorities and similar items. [More…]

• These are not a profitable activity, but the Department is prepared to charge that reduced rate because it believes that those items are part of the cultural education of the community. [More…]

• But while these arguments remain the same and while there is a tendency to make decisions on an emotional basis, I think it also must be recognised that we are living in an age when a higher standard of education applies and there is a much greater and wider ranging discussion on social matters and other matters of this kind. [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…]

• Cause the Standing Committee of the Senate on Education, Science and the Arts to conduct a searching inquiry into the state of the arts in Australia and make recommendations thereon that will encourage the development of all forms of cultural and artistic development in Australia. [More…]

• ls he also aware that Canada has been able to reduce the number of disabling injuries through an intense programme of education? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The Council of the University of Melbourne has decided to abolish the diploma of physical education course and the University will not accept first year students to the course after next year. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether any discussions have been held with university authorities in relation to the expulsion or cancellation of the scholarships of students, such as those at Melbourne University, who openly defy the law and assist others to do the same by barricading university buildings and preventing the police from carrying out their duties? [More…]

• I think that any Commonwealth legislator would accept the proposition that universities have autonomy and freedom for the purpose of education. [More…]

• For the purpose of this provision, a child between the ages of 16 and 21 years is deemed to be a child under 16 years of age if he is receiving full-time education at a school, college or university. [More…]

• Where a child over the age of 16 years is receiving full-time education at a school, college or university, student endowment is payable at the flat rate of $1.50 a week. [More…]

• States have their priorities with regard to their health services, their education programme, their welfare, and all of those other matters which are State responsibilities and which the direct taxing power will enable them to de:ermine in their own way. [More…]

• I am sure that in each State similar priorities in the matters of education, health and social welfare will benefit directly from this increased revenue which comes directly to them for their determination. [More…]

• Quite apart from environmental matters problems are created by the interest of the Department of Primary Industry and the conceivable interest, to which Senator Mulvihill referred, of the Department of Education and Science, which is responsible for the administration of CSIRO. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the following matter - The petition presented to the Senate on 18th August 1971 by Senator Devitt concerning the granting of deductions from income for taxation purposes. [More…]

• After the words ‘Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts’, insert the words for ils information’. [More…]

• When he returns, subject to his approval, 1 see no reason why that matter should not be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• How could one establish any fairer means than the birthday ballot - a secret choice of selection by reference to, not their class, their creed, their education, their income or any other distinction that might cause invidiousness, but their birth irrespective of all the other things that divide men. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I refer to the ministerial statement which outlines the Commonwealth education programme for 1971-72.’ [More…]

• The Minister stated that the Canberra College of Advanced Education will not only be training teachers to meet the needs of the Commonwealth Territories but also will be accepting students for teacher training without regard to the school system in which they will eventually teach. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether his attention has been drawn to the annual report of the Apprenticeship Commission of Victoria in which it is stated that in the past year trade training has not fared as well, in the competition for limited government resources, as secondary and tertiary education. [More…]

• The Commission pointed out that during the year 1970-71 the Federal Government spent $13m on technical education. [More…]

• $37m on colleges of advanced education and $109m on universities. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to advise of any future programme in which greater emphasis will be given to funds specifically for technical education? [More…]

• Minister for Immigration outline the extent of liaison which exists between his Department and the New South Wales Department of Education as regards the acceptance of United States and West German migrant teachers? [More…]

• The New South Wales Department of Education and the Department of Immigration have worked very closely together on the matter of recruitment. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware of the pornographic content of the New South Wales University student journal Tharunka’, particularly the ‘Family Issue’ dated 28th July 1971? [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Study Grant Scheme also assists persons who are beyond normal school age to resume secondary studies with the object of qualifying for entry to courses of further education. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science: [More…]

• Have the Department of Education and Science and the Office of Aboriginal Affairs conducted an investigation into complaints that a group of Aboriginals, undertaking a management training course in Canberra 4 weeks ago, were receiving grants smaller than those which would have been paid to Europeans in their position? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Following press reports that dissatisfaction with the benefits had been voiced by some of the trainees, officers of the Department of Education and Science and the Office of Aboriginal Affairs discussed the matter with the group. [More…]

• The Committee has made several recommendations concerning the free distribution of parliamentary publications to educational institutions, such as universities, colleges of advanced education, institutes of technology, teachers’ colleges and secondary schools and believes that one of the most important functions of the Parliament is to inform the rising generation of Australians about its operations. [More…]

• As 1 mentioned prior to the suspension of the sitting, doctors who were practising their profession al that time had no training in pharmacology as part of their university education. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Health, relates to reports of statements made in Melbourne by officers of a Victorian association for the retarded and the Australian Association for the Mentally Retarded which, among other things, referred to the waiting lists for places in education department schools. [More…]

• On 16th September 1971 Senator Murphy asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: ls the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that Dr Paul Ehrlich is a distinguished Professor of Biology at Stanford University and that a few weeks ago he caine to Australia at the invitation of an international science school which is comprised of students from the United Stales of America, Japan, the United Kingdom as well as young Australian students in science? [More…]

• However, the then Minister for Education and Science, Mr Gorton, persuaded the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial [More…]

• There was no consultation with the unions or the people concerned as to what was to happen to their homes, what was to happen in regard to the education of their children, or that type of thing. [More…]

• Its functions are broadly conceived so that it will become also a centre of creative activity for the exhibition of collections from abroad and of the work of contemporary artists and a focus of education and research exercising, in collaboration with sister galleries in the States, a profound and pervasive influence on the life of Australians. [More…]

• Since that is the clear statement of the Minister, I conclude with these questions: What public and universal political education has the Minister directed to be implemented to enable the people to make such choice intelligently? [More…]

• Does such education include the sympathetic presentation of the principles of socialism with which we are very much concerned, that is, public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange? [More…]

• Where entry to a training programme depends upon additional educational qualifications, applications for the tuition necessary to acquire the prerequisite education will be considered up to a maximum period of 12 months prior to the commencement of the approved training programme. [More…]

• I ask whether there is any provision for the payment of a weekly training allowance while this preliminary education is being undertaken. [More…]

• But that allowance does apply to those full time trainees in receipt of preliminary education to whom the honourable senator refers. [More…]

• On 29th September, Senator Guilfoyle asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• It refers to educational opportunities available in the city of Darwin. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer: [More…]

• Residents of the Northern Territory are eligible to enrol at the University of Queensland as external students for degrees in the faculties of arts, law, commerce and education. [More…]

• The Darwin Adult Education Centre, which is to be absorbed by the Community College, provides some tutorial assistance for students enrolled in such courses and it arranges periodic weekend schools. [More…]

• Detailed planning of the Community College’s education programme will not be competed until the senior members of its academic staff have been appointed during 1972. [More…]

• At the sub-tertiary level, the training of apprentices, tradesmen and technicians is conducted by the Adult Education Centre. [More…]

• In a similar manner the work of the Adult Education Centre in continuing education, in-service training and extension courses will also be developed. [More…]

• Canberra College of Advanced Education [More…]

• Is the Acting Minister for Immigration in a position to give a reply to the detailed criticism of our migrant education programme contained in the Melbourne Brotherhood of St Laurence extensive survey which, in the last 72 hours, has been largely substantiated by comments made by the New South Wales Department of Education and the Sydney Catholic Education Office? [More…]

• The recommendations contained in the World Health Organisation’s report are mainly concerned with the areas of health education on smoking; warning labels on cigarette packets; restrictions on the contents of cigarette smoke; and other recommendations regarding taxation measures in respect of tobacco. [More…]

• In the mainland Territories, the Commonwealth has intensified health education programmes to discourage smoking, and is co-operating with the education authorities in developing effective health education programmes in the health aspects of smoking. [More…]

• Survey testing was carried out with the assistance of the Slate Education Departments in 1969 and 1970 and a draft report to the Council received preliminary consideration at its meeting in June this year. [More…]

• Does he agree that there is a strong feeling in Australia that the Australian resources, particularly the mineral resources, ought to be exploited in the interests of the people of Australia in order that our poverty problem may be overcome and that decent health, education and social services are provided for our people? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I will answer the question in the absence of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Works in his dual capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service and the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Will overseas migration officers, in future, emphasise to all prospective leacher-migrants that it is essential to have a diploma of education, or its equivalent, before a person can be employed as a teacher in New South Wales? [More…]

• The position is that there is a full-time representative of the New South Wales Education Department in the United States recruiting teachers and counselling enquirers upon teacher employment opportunities in the State of New South Wales. [More…]

• It is the practice for any enquiry received at the Australian Consulates General in the United Slates to be referred to the State Education Department representative. [More…]

• Replies received from two State Education Authorities indicated employment could not be offered as a teacher. [More…]

• He discussed this with the representative of the New South Wales Education Department in New York. [More…]

• The Department of Immigration co-operates closely with the State Education Departments in the recruitment of school-teachers. [More…]

• Thus, officers of the Department of Immigration are not required to counsel applicants in relation to employment opportunities in State Education Departments. [More…]

• Since July, 1970, 879 teachers recruited overseas by the New South Wales Department of Education have taken up positions with that Department. [More…]

• The actual numbers of Papuans and New Guineans to undertake further education and training at ASOPA next year will depend on. [More…]

• Arrangements are now in hand for new teacher trainees for Papua New Guinea to commence their training at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Dr S. S. Richardson, C.B.E., Principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and Mr A. Tololo, Papua New Guinea Teaching Service Commissioner, have agreed to the bc appointed to the reconstituted Council. [More…]

• Senior Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education and Science, who was for many years a member of the ASOPA Council. [More…]

• The presence of several hundred Papuans and New Guineans in Sydney for training at ASOPA together with increasing numbers coming to Australia for other education and training purposes will bring Australians into much closer contact with Papuans ami New Guineans. [More…]

• By one proposal, the upper limit of the amount that may be allowed as a deduction to a taxpayer for expenditure incurred by him in the education of a full-time student will be increased from $300 to $400 a year. [More…]

• The deduction for expenses paid in respect of the education of a full-time student will also be available where the student is less than 25 years of age instead of 21 as at present. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Today I asked a question of the Minister for Education and Science concerning the peculiar financial problem facing the University of Queensland. [More…]

• The second part of the question which relates to the University of Queensland should be directed to the Minister for Education and Science who deals with such matters. [More…]

• Universities are dealt with by the Minister for Education and Science who is represented in the Senate by Senator Wright. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 9 of the States Grants (Teachers Colleges) Act 1970, I present a statement setting out the payments that have been authorised by the Minister for Education and Science under this Act during the financial year 1970-71 and specifying the projects in relation to which the payments have been so authorised. [More…]

• J address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Has the Minister received appeals from the other States for additional financial help to enable them to increase in turn their educational assistance to outback areas? [More…]

• ls the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that many thousands of secondary school students will be unable to enrol in universities in 1972 because of inadequate facilities in existing universities? [More…]

• Has the Government received any requests from the States for special grants to overcome the shortage of facilities in tertiary education? [More…]

• I would expect such an application to come from the Premier of the State concerned to the Prime Minister and not to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I refer to my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science on 13th October 1971 which concerned the New South Wales University student journal Tharunka’ and associated publications such as the notorious ‘Sex Manual’. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the last 3 Ministers for Education and Science have stated that a local education authority is inevitable in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• If so - and before doing so - will the Minister consider holding an immediate open and independent public inquiry to ensure that such an education authority is in accordance with the wishes of the residents of the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• I am bound to say that I am a bit apprehensive in answering impromptu a question that is designed to bring together the statements of at least 3 Ministers for Education and Science. [More…]

• This Government has been deprived of the revenues it would need to provide social services, education and health benefits, if it were so minded. [More…]

• We can apply it also to the amount allowable for medical expenses, payments to hospital benefits funds, education and so on. [More…]

• For example, the deduction allowed for the education expenses of a full time student is to be increased from $300 a year to $400 a year. [More…]

• I refer to the deductions allowed for a spouse, children, payments to hospital benefits funds, education and insurance expenses and matters of that sort. [More…]

• The maximum deductions allowable for education expenses of a dependent full time student child will be increased from $300 to $400 per annum. [More…]

• Also, education expenses will be allowable in respect of such students up to the age of 25 years instead of the present age limit of 21 years. [More…]

• This is still inadequate as a realistic deduction for the school fees and requirements of students at independent schools and at tertiary level institutions in respect of whom parents are making a considerable national investment in education and are finding that there is a burden of fees which will not be met by the proposed increased deductibility to the extent of $400 per student up to the age of 25 years. [More…]

• The estimated cost of these education and adoption expense concessions in a full year will be $6m. [More…]

• There is another area with regard to education expenses where I think some consideration could be warranted. [More…]

• This is with regard to education expenses of a taxpayer incurred personally for approved secondary or tertiary courses. [More…]

• I feel that an allowance of this type would be a valuable concession for those taxpayers in full or part time employment who pay considerable sums for self improvement in educational courses without taxation deductibility with respect to their expenses. [More…]

• It is hoped that some time in the quite near future consideration may be given favourably by the Government which will allow the deduction of these personally incurred expenses for self education. [More…]

• Has the New South Wales Department ul’ Education discontinued nearly SO migrant education classes because of a request from the Department of Immigration to restrict spending in this area? [More…]

• Early in July State Education Departments were informed that there would be some reduction this financial year in the funds available for the operation of the continuation class programme. [More…]

• When the Government announced new initiatives for migrant education in April 1970, involving for adults a transfer in emphasis to more specialised and accelerated forms of instruction and substantial development In the area of child migrant education, the Government directed also that there should be a review of the long-term continuation programme (in addition to a high abandonment rate which had become evident there was a need also to assess the justification for continuing to meet expenditure with respect to single classes catering in many Instances only for small numbers of migrants). [More…]

• As evidence of the importance which the Government attaches to migrant education, the funds provided for the more diversified programme in the current financial year are in the vicinity of S5m compared with an expenditure of $3.8m last year. [More…]

• State Education Departments, which are responsible on a reimbursement basis for arranging the continuation classes and appointing teachers, were asked therefore to effect a rationalisation of the programme by closing single classes where the number of migrants attending had fallen below the acceptable level and by regrouping the remaining classes in centralised areas to afford more effective instruction whilst maintaining as wide a coverage as possible. [More…]

• The New South Wales Education Department initially was able to close 73 classes including 54 in the Sydney metropolitan area. [More…]

• The Department of Immigration is in consultation with the State Education Departments in regard to the action which has been taken to date in rationalising the continuation class programme, with a view to ensuring that the interests of those migrants whose needs are best met by the long-term course are safeguarded so far as possible. [More…]

• Even though we hear some academic criticism of water conservation projects, I do not believe that the critics have thought through the subject that they criticise as far as they should in view of their education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has recently entered the field of education. [More…]

• These are matters which need to be discussed at some point within our educational system. [More…]

• Resources should be available within the community to be used for education on marriage and to cope with the crises which promote the circumstances later aired in the courts. [More…]

• However I think it is fair to say that there is very little education in this respect in our schools. [More…]

• On 13th October 1971 Senator Kane asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware of the pornogr aphic content of the New South Wales University student journal’ Tharunka’, particularly the Family Issue’ dated 28th July 1971?Is thetaxpayers’ money being used in the production of Tharunka’ and associated publications such as the notorious ‘Sex Manual’? [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Education and Science has informed me that there is no direct Commonwealth subsidy which supports the production of such publications as those to which the honourable senator referred. [More…]

• asked the Minister representingthe Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Government recognises that improvement in the quality of Australian education depends to a considerable extent on devising curricula and associated materials which reflect the changing needs of Australian life. [More…]

• Firstly, the Commonwealth and all the States are financing the Australian Science Education Project which is developing instructional materials in science for use by teachers and students in secondary schools throughout Australia. [More…]

• It was established in 1970 after consultation with the six State Education Departments, the Social Science Research Council, the Australian Teachers’ Federation, the National Council of Independent Schools and the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Education. [More…]

• Science and the Arts, of which Senator Davidson is the chairman, has before it references in regard to teacher education, and all aspects of television and broadcasting, including Australian content of television programmes. [More…]

• The first reference to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts relates to the Commonwealth’s role in regard to teacher education. [More…]

• Leaving aside those petitions, the only other reference to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts is all aspects of television and broadcasting in Australia, including the Australian content of television programmes. [More…]

• 4 ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware that many divorce and social groups allege that a cause of the alarmingly high level of divorce is financial hardship due to crippling interest rates on hire purchase agreements. [More…]

• Will the Minister, therefore, introduce along lines similar to citizenship instruction, education in domestic economics and family budgeting for students in their last year of schooling? [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware that almost every major country except the United States of America has converted to the metric system of weights and measures. [More…]

• I think that 12 major subcommittees have been established on a national basis; they do not specifically represent the particular fields such as trade, education, engineering or what you will from which the members have been appointed. [More…]

• The amending Act included, inter aiia, provision that the maximum age of students receiving full time education at a school, college or university for whom a deduction is allowable from taxable income be extended to 25 years. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the views of Professor Wilfred Mommaerts, Professor of Physiology and Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who recently told a seminar in Melbourne that a quiet revolution in medical education is occurring in the United States of America, created by students concerned with the needs of the under-privileged and who desire to create a modern variation of the old style family doctor? [More…]

• Today the educational training is very limited indeed. [More…]

• Training is available to those national servicemen who had completed their education and training before call-up but who require a refresher course. [More…]

• But that is because instead of wanting to throw money away we advocate spending greater amounts of Government money on things such as health, education and, as we were advocating today, social services. [More…]

• Many of them, such as the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), not to mention Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd or Dalgety Australia Ltd,, are very far from the breadline, lt will, be interesting to observe the speed with which the legislation is introduced into this Parliament for the additional $30m wor.h of assistance for the Australian Wool Commission, an amount which the Leader of the Australian Country Party, the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony), was able to extract from the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) almost before he had time to unpack his squash racquets. [More…]

• But, for example, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who does not need it, and organisations like Dalgety’s and Elder Smith who do not need it are getting a chop out of it. [More…]

• I think members of the Senate will be interested to know that efforts to achieve this desirable end are now to be undertaken as part of the national drug education campaign being conducted jointly by the Commonwealth and the States, that is, to establish a more responsible approach to the reporting of the use of drugs and particularly of any bizarre effects. [More…]

• will help to achieve a greater understanding of the objectives of the national drug education campaign and of the value of a responsible approach by the mass media to the whole subject of drug use will be taken up. [More…]

• It is planned to invite about 30 senior journalists from various sections of the media to attend the seminar along with representatives of Commonwealth and State authorities engaged in health education programmes concerned with drug abuse. [More…]

• In addition to the seminar action will be taken within a national drug education campaign to assist journalists readily to obtain factual information on all aspects of the use and abuse of drugs. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• In view of the fact that States are not in a financial position to meet their commitments to education as laid down in the - national survey of education needs which covers only necessary and very urgent works, will the Minister indicate what assistance the Commonwealth Government now proposes to give to ensure the further development of education in the preschool, primary and secondary fields in Australia? [More…]

• When the Government has a proposal for increased assistance for education it will be announced by the Minister for Education and Science at the proper time.I need only remind the honourable senator that the Commonwealth’s assistance to education is now recorded in the figure of $330-odd million this year, which represents a terrific increase in our assistance to education over the last decade. [More…]

• In the course of his recent statement on the Commonwealth’s proposals in respect of education, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) mentioned the Commonwealth’s decision to join with the States in providing additional recurrent grants for universities in the current triennium, 1970-72, to assist them to meet the costs arising from exceptional increases in non-academic salaries and wages. [More…]

• When the Minister for Education and Science presented the fourth report of the Australian Universities Commission on 21st August 1969 he made it clear that the Commonwealth still adhered to that view and would only consider the provision of supplementary grants during the triennium in extraordinary circumstances. [More…]

• The main purpose of the Bill before the Senate is to appropriate additional giants in order that the Commonwealth might meet its share of the cost of the present levels of academic salaries in colleges of advanced education under the accepted matching formula. [More…]

• For 3 colleges of advanced education in New South Wales, the Bill also provides for matching recurrent grants to the State for approved academic salary increasesother than those flowing from the national wage case. [More…]

• One State, Tasmania, has advised that no additional grant will be required to finance the cost of increases in academic salaries in its college of advanced education as this may be met by savings effected elsewhere within the current triennial programme. [More…]

• The Commonwealth grant previously appropriated for recurrent expenditure in 1970-72 for colleges of advanced education in the States was $49,008,870; this Bill provides tor an appropriation of $50,069,010, an increase of $1,060,140 in respect of academic salaries in this triennium. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that in his Budget Speech the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) mentioned the willingness of the Government to join with the States in providing further supplementary giants to colleges of advanced education in recognition of exceptional increases which have occurred in non-academic salaries. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that the Commonwealth has made financial assistance available to the States since 1966, under the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act. [More…]

• for the development of a new arm of tertiary education in Australia in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• It has also established the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• To advise it in such matters, the Government set up in 1965 the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, which reports to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The present situation is that the Commonwealth is dealing with 5 State authorities - the New South Wales Advanced Education Board, the Victoria Institute of Colleges, the Board of Advanced Education in Queensland, the Western Australian Tertiary Education Commission, and the Council of Advanced Education in Tasmania. [More…]

• In South Australia the Government has announced its intention of establishing an advanced education authority in 1972. [More…]

• The colleges of advanced education in Australia now number 48. [More…]

• During its 6 years of existence the Advisory Committee has been serviced by the Department of Education and Science, and the Government believes that the time has now come to establish its advisory authority on advanced education as a statutory advisory body with powers and status more appropriate to the task it is called upon to perform. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill before the Senate is to give effect to this decision by establishing a new statutory advisory body to be named the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• At the present time the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education consists of a full-time Chairman - Mr T. B. Swanson - and 9 part-time members. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that the Commonwealth’s movement into the field of advanced education followed the acceptance by the Government of recommendations of the Martin Committee which advocated the establishment of this new type of institution in the field of tertiary education. [More…]

• In recent years the colleges of advanced education have come to be accepted as fully tertiary institutions providing a form of education alternative lo that of the universities. [More…]

• Just as the Australian Universities Commission advises the Minister for Education and Science upon the balanced development of the universities, so the Commission on Advanced Education will advise the Minister on the balanced development of advanced education in Australia. [More…]

• Commission Act will be amended to incorporate a requirement to consult with the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• There will then be 2 parallel commissions working together to promote the balanced development of tertiary education in Australia. [More…]

• This legislation will provide a chaner within which the Australian Commission on Advanced Education will work. [More…]

• Because of the wide and varied range of institutions being developed as colleges of advanced education, it has been necessary to spell out the definition of ‘college of advanced education’ at some length. [More…]

• The actual institutions, and courses within institutions, to be offered financial support from the Commonwealth within its programme of grants to colleges of advanced education, will be determined from time to time in the development of the triennial programmes. [More…]

• The present development of colleges of advanced education owes its impetus to Commonwealth support and it is Commonwealth policy that the college system should continue to develop to diversify opportunities for tertiary education. [More…]

• The establishment of the State authorities in advanced education, to which 1 referred earlier, indicates the importance attached by State governments to the future development of advanced education as an ongoing system. [More…]

• The new Commission will be required to have frequent consultations with these State authorities, as well as with senior State officials and, on occasions, with State Ministers for Education. [More…]

• State governments have adopted the colleges arc facing problems of the same nature as universities and it is in the national interest that these problems should be critically examined and the Government provided with expert advice on possible courses of action to be taken, lt is for these reasons that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education is to be set up. [More…]

• In 1961 Sir Ian became a member of the Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and upon his retirement in 1965 accepted the invitation to become Chairman of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]

• In this position he brought to bear upon the problems of advanced education the same high intellectual ability for which he had always been noted, coupled with an enthusiasm and drive which has resulted, in the comparatively short space of 6 years, in the colleges of advanced education becoming firmly established in the Australian community as an integral part of the fabric of tertiary education. [More…]

• Moreover, there has been a rapid growth of public interest in universities over recent years which has necessitated the Commission accepting responsibility for the important and timeconsuming task of advising the Minister for Education and Science on the many day to day questions and problems concerning universities that arise in the course of administering his portfolio. [More…]

• In consequence of the Bill to establish the Australian Commission on Advanced Education this Bill also provides that, in the performance of its functions, the Australian Universities Commission shall consult with the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• A similar provision is contained in the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill 1971. [More…]

• They look to the Government for cheaper land, cheaper and better housing, cheap transport, better education facilities, welfare and other services as well as for a decent environment. [More…]

• I am unable to obtain figures which indicate the kind of money that will be required by the States to provide education, hospitals and other public facilities. [More…]

• As the Commonwealth is the taxing authority which collects the money, it should finance the education of children throughout Australia by ensuring that the States have adequate money to enable them to provide educational facilities. [More…]

• At present many families are unable to give the little bit of extra assistance in the way of education that they would like to give to their children because they are groaning under the burden of the interest rate of 7 per cent or 8 per cent that they have lo pay on their housing loans. [More…]

• This is true, not only in the realm of housing, but of transport, roads, education, and the like. [More…]

• As the Government has such a vested interest it will be less inclined to engage in the necessary education and prevention programmes to reduce the quantity use by the community. [More…]

• WhenI read thisI clasped my forehead and thought that all the evidence that had been heard and all the education programmes that had been put before us must have had absolutely no effect upon the Chairman, atleast. [More…]

• It made me think that possibly education programmes would be of no avail. [More…]

• Parents have the right to choose their children’s education and as taxpayers they are entitled to ask that public funds to which their taxes have contributed should be shared justly and equitably for the education of all children. [More…]

• The reduction of the number of independent schools in Australia will effectively deprive many taxpaying parents of their rights to choose an alternative type of education tor their children. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Education and Science propose to convene a very early meeting of State Ministers responsible for the conservation of wildlife to consider the implementation of recommendation No. [More…]

• Therefore, it is not possible for me to say that at this stage the Minister for Education and Science is in a position to make a decision as to whether he will convene the proposed conference. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, ls the Government aware that thousands of young university students who usually work during the university vacation to assist finance their education are unable to gain employment due to the current economic difficulties? [More…]

• It is within my general knowledge, and I think it is within *he general knowledge of all honourable senators, that students ;it the tertiary level seek casual employment during the vacation period to help their financial situation, and particularly to help them in their future education and studies al university. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Minister seen the statement in the annual Report of the Apprenticeship Commission of Victoria that in past years,trade training had not fared as well in the competition for limited Government resources as secondary and tertiary education. [More…]

• Is the Minister able to advise of any future programme in which greater emphasis will be given to providing specific funds for technical education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer: [More…]

• It should also be noted that as a result of the Commonwealth’s increased general financial assistance to the States, they are now in a position to devote substantially increased funds to all levels of education. [More…]

• It is of course for each State government to determine the proportion of funds which it will devote to any particular sector of its own education system. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science whether any discussions have been held with university authorities in relation to the expulsion or cancellation of the scholarships of students, such as those al Melbourne University, who openly defy the law and assist others to do the same by barricading university buildings and preventing the police from carrying out their duties? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: 1 have taken a close interest in the difficult situation which hits arisen on university campuses because of the disruptive activities of radical minority groups. [More…]

• I address a question to Ihe Minister representing the Minister for Education, and Science. [More…]

• I refer to the Ministerial statement which outlines the Commonwealth education programme for 1971-72. [More…]

• Advanced Education will not only be training teachers to meet the needs of the Commonwealth Territories but also will be accepting students for teacher training without regard to the school system in which they will eventually teach. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer: [More…]

• The College authorities have always intended that the Teacher education courses at the College would he available for trainees destined for both government, and independent schools. [More…]

• 2) might be debated together with the next 3 Bills shown on the Orders of the Day, the Australian Universities Commission Bill States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill, and the Bill which was introduced a little earlier, the States Grants (Secondary Schools Libraries) Bill. [More…]

• The Government and the Opposition have agreed to debate them concurrently relating as they do to clearly cognate matters - education. [More…]

• Although the 5 Bills which are now before us may seem to be very different they relate to the policy and performance of the Government and bear on the policy of the Australian Labor Parly in the field of education. [More…]

• To assist the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) I point out in passing that the Opposition does not intend to oppose two of the Bills, namely, the Australian Universities Commission Bill and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill. [More…]

• At end of motion add ‘, but the Senate is of the opinion that the Bill should provide for assumption by the Commonwealth of responsibility for financing university education’. [More…]

• In relation to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1971 I shall move an amendment to the motion that this Bill be now read a second time in the following terms: [More…]

• At end of motion add - but the Senate is of the opinion that (1) the policy of matching grants should be examined to ascertain whether it permits of an adequate system of advanced education; and (2) sufficient funds should be made available to the States in the form of recurrent grants to permit the abolition of fees in Colleges of Advanced Education’. [More…]

• One might have hoped, when having simultaneously from the Government 5 Bills relating to education, that one could detect in them some constant theme, some philosophy of education, a necessary interest of any civilised society. [More…]

• If one looks at these 5 Bills one sees that although they relate to somewhat different matters they are all related to the education of young Australians. [More…]

• Each has little in common with the others and they show no overall philosophy of education, unless one can say that this philosophy of education is one of neglecting the education of Australian students; undess one can say there is an overall philosophy which consists of the evading of responsibility. [More…]

• I refer to the Australian Universities Commission Bill 1971 and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill 1971. [More…]

• However, when we turn to the other 3 Bills which are before us we come to the substance of the Government’s education policy and we see quite clearly the issues which divide the conservative parties in Australia from the Australian Labor Party on the question of education. [More…]

• Al end of motion add ‘, but the Senate is of the opinion that the Bill should provide for assumption by the Commonwealth of responsibility for financing university education.’ [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party believes that the question of tertiary education, and in particular university education, is so important that it should not be handled on the basis whereby it is administered by such a great number of bodies. [More…]

• In my own State of Western Australia there is a Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• We believe that full responsibility for financing university education should be assumed by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• We believe also that- this is in accordance with our policy that university education should be provided free to all those capable of benefiting from it. [More…]

• We believe this is something which can be dealt with only by a national plan and that national plan can be carried out only if the Commonwealth assumes complete responsibility for financing university education. [More…]

• The- second amendment I shall move relates to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill. [More…]

• As the Minister very correctly pointed out in his second reading speech, one of the interesting developments in education in Australia over past years has been the development of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I do not think any of us really could predict the ultimate status of colleges of advanced education, particularly as they are introducing the awarding of degrees to their graduates. [More…]

• Obviously there is something which distinguishes colleges of advanced education from universi-ties, although often what it is is not quite clear. [More…]

• It seems that there is more emphasis - insofar as one can emphasise practical matters in any theoretical institution - on practical matters in colleges of advanced education than in universities; that perhaps there is more abstract theory involved in universities. [More…]

• 1 think everyone would agree that the future role and status of institutes of advanced education have not yet been settled. [More…]

• It is certainly true that they are playing an important role in the education of Australians and that many excellent graduates from colleges of advanced education have been able lo play their part in not only, the economic life of Australia but elsewhere in the life of this country and that they are making a considerable contribution to Australia. [More…]

• We believe that the proposition that colleges of advanced education ought to be maintained on a system of matching grants by the Commonwealth should be re-examined. [More…]

• Our approach to this - and this shows the consistency of the Australian Labor Party approach to education - is that there should not be any more of a piecemeal approach to colleges of advanced education than to universities. [More…]

• If in a particular State, for some reason or other, funds are not available in the same quantity as they are in another State, it does not follow that it is in the national interest that there should be fewer opportunities for education within a college of advanced education in that State, which appears to be impecunious or reluctant to make funds available, than (here are in the other State. [More…]

• We believe this is something which calls also for a national plan because the needs of education are national needs. [More…]

• The problems of education in Tasmania can be important to the people of Queensland, and the problems which may be facing educators and those who wish to be educated in Western Australia can affect the people of New South Wales and Victoria. [More…]

• We are not being adamant on this matter but we are asking for an examination of the whole system of matching grants to see whether it permits an adequate system of advanced education. [More…]

• We also say about the colleges of advanced education, just as we say about pre-school education, primary and secondary education and university education, that education within the colleges of advanced education should be free. [More…]

• The second part of the amendment to the Slates Grants (Advanced Education) Bill which I shall move provides that: [More…]

• Sufficient funds should be made available to the States in the form of recurrent grants to permit the abolition of fees in Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]

• We do not believe that a person should be deprived of the opportunity of benefiting from the education which these colleges provide because he does not have enough money to attend a college, or his parents or his family have not enough to send him to a college. [More…]

• We do not believe that Australia should be deprived of the contribution that this person would be capable of making as a result of that education because, of the poverty of his family, his parents or himself. [More…]

• Many of these children wish to continue their education, would be capable of benefiting from their education and would be capable of benefiting their fellow mcn by having a higher education. [More…]

• Having said that it then considers that .to determine the needs of all schools we should establish an Australian schools commission - this is outlined in our policy - similar in many respects to the existing Australian Universities Commission, it would consider the needs of all the different bodies engaging in education and of the schools within the different systems of education, bearing in mind that the first responsibility is to the children in the government schools. [More…]

• What is acceptable to the Government, I would suggest, would certainly nol be acceptable to the enlightened countries on this globe, of which this country, in regard to education is certainly not one. [More…]

• We talk about the expense of conducting an education system and the needs of particular schools but we find sometimes 2 schools - a poverty stricken State school and a poverty stricken Catholic parochial school - side by side. [More…]

• But the Australian Labor Party wishes to use this opportunity to say to the people of Australia that its policy is that every student who is capable of benefiting from an education, whether it is a primary or secondary school education or a teritiary education, should be able to do so under the best possible conditions; that the resources of the community should be mobilised so that they are shared in such a way that the best use is made of those resources; to ensure that we are not wasting those resources on the unnecessary proliferation of schools and systems of schools; and that the needs of the Australian people are taken into account. [More…]

• We are debating now probably one of the most important matters which can be considered by this Parliament, the matter of education. [More…]

• The Australian Democratic Labor Party will support the Bills on education which are now before the Senate. [More…]

• My Party has always been education minded. [More…]

• It has always supported the provision of adequate finance by the Commonwealth to assist education which is under the control of the States. [More…]

• I am particularly interested in education because before entering politics I was a teacher in government schools for nearly 20 years. [More…]

• I have appreciated the very considerable advances which have taken place in education in my lifetime. [More…]

• Because I have been interested in education 1 have always been an advocate of the provision of adequate finance. [More…]

• I regret that there appears to be a kind of assumption in the community that we should push for these astronomical sums for education and that more and more academic education is necessary for every young person. [More…]

• A second assumption is that whatever is wrong with education can be cured by making available large sums of money. [More…]

• J believe that not every child benefits or would benefit by having university or other tertiary education. [More…]

• I am quite sure that to cure anything that is wrong in education today we need a good deal more inquiry and less of the assumption that all that is needed is to make available more money. [More…]

• Obviously, if the Government is to provide astronomical sums for education, something else has to go short. [More…]

• I say that as one who believes in education and who has voted for every educational advance proposed during my period as a senator. [More…]

• He has asked, as have others, whether there is any evidence at all on which to base the assumption that it benefits every child to have formal education until the age of 18 or so. [More…]

• I know that that view is contrary to the view that many people are trying to propagate and as a result of which, I am satisfied, hundreds of young people who are attending universities and advanced colleges are not fitted for them, will not be happy in them and would be much happier in a vocation or in some other form of education. [More…]

• I think, we have to have a much closer look at what is happening in education and decide what proportion of students shall go to universities and what proportion of them are entitled to be financed in this way. [More…]

• Recently at a meeting of a committee with which 1 am associated, and which has to do with a number of tertiary educational institutions, I asked an administrative officer the position. [More…]

• I notice that no less a person than Sir Philip Baxter, who has wide experience in university education, some time ago asked what the universities were doing to ensure that this appallingly large failure rate did not continue. [More…]

• To those people who say that we can cure all the problems of education by giving more money, I suggest that we look at the situation in the United States of America. [More…]

• Australia spends about 4 per cent of its national income on education. [More…]

• But while we pay 4 per cent of our national income on education, the United States spends 7 per cent of ils national income on education. [More…]

• There may be factors other than the ones we are told about in relation to what is happening to the youth of the United States, but it would appear that spending more and more money on education and making it easier for people to go to tertiary institutions free of charge has not produced in the United States the kind of community that we would want here. [More…]

• I can only say to parents who may be listening that in my view they would be doing their child a favour by keeping the child at school for an extra year at matriculation level because when he went to the university he would be infinitely more mature and infinitely better equipped to cope with a university education and get the best from it. [More…]

• We have spent large sums of money on the education of people who have achieved doctorates of philosophy and today they cannot get a job in this country. [More…]

• This is another indication that there is some ill direction in the field of our university education. [More…]

• As one who has always voted and will continue to vote for adequate sums of money for university education, I would like to see a little more authority and discipline exercised from the top in the universities of this country. [More…]

• As I said earlier, my Party believes that in the field of secondary education all children, whether they go to a State school or a private school, should bc treated in the same way. [More…]

• As the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who represents in the Senate the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), has explained, the purpose of this Bill is to extend the highly successful Commonwealth school library programme for a further 3 calendar years. [More…]

• I make no apology to the Senate for saying that 1 strongly believe that all sections of our education system must be assisted with such essential aids as libraries. [More…]

• As honourable senators know, our education system is based on the existence of government and non-government schools. [More…]

• realise that the bulk of government funds for education must be devoted to schools operated by the Government, but at the same time this Government has recognised that: there is a need to assist other schools, particularly in the provision of facilities such as libraries and science blocks. [More…]

• This Bill seeks to assist all sections of our education system us previous legislation of this type did when it came into force in 1969. [More…]

• As we all know, tremendous changes have occurred in education in Australia in recent years. [More…]

• When I went to school - and I can assure honourable senators that I did not spend very many years at school - the school library was unheard of, but today it is regarded as an essential part of our education system. [More…]

• The Government has also acted to meet needs that have arisen to provide many other educational facilities. [More…]

• I appreciate that much is being done in the field of education in the cities and large towns, but in the outlying areas children do not have the same opportunities as those in the cities and more settled areas where television and many other amenities are provided. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has submitted an amendment and has advanced the opinion that the Commonwealth should take over the responsibility of financing university education. [More…]

• The next Bill is the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill which, J remind the Senate, provides for an additional amount of Commonwealth expenditure to provide, in this case, for academic salaries. [More…]

• That will mean that in the triennium 1970-72 the Commonwealth will be providing approximately SI 00m for colleges of advanced education and the State contribution to those colleges during the same period will be approximately $142m. [More…]

• This time they do not advance the proposition that the Commonwealth should take over responsibility for the whole expenditure but they put forward the proposition that the policy of making matching grants should be examined to see whether it permits of an adequate system of advanced education - whatever that may mean. [More…]

• They dp not say that the Commonwealth should take over the whole of the responsibility for financing colleges of advanced education, which would involve, as 1 pointed out. [More…]

• 1 am sure that after gulping down the additional S400m in respect of the States Grants (“Universities) Bill he would digest with ease a mere $!42m for colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• He consciously has not advanced that proposition for our consideration but has proposed that the Commonwealth advance sufficient funds, in the form of recurrent grants - he does not consider the capital grants in relation to this proposition: he confines it lo the recurrent grants - to permit the abolition of fees at colleges of advanced education, which would require a mere S3m. [More…]

• It is almost a matter of mystery why Senator Wheeldon, after advancing a proposition for the provision of S400m for universities, would take even the 21 minutes that he did take to advance his proposition on the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill for the provision of a mere crumb of a sum of $3. [More…]

• That is the amount which would be needed to abolish the fees of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• That brings me to the third Bill, which is the one to constitute a commission for the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• That Bill has received no reference in the debate, except insofar as Senator McManus’s observations apply to it and other agencies for education in the country, lt is pointed out in the second reading speech that colleges of advanced education, after a short period of 6 years, now number no fewer than forty-eight. [More…]

• That shows the degree to which, in cooperation, the States and the Commonwealth have been able to establish this policy and get the concept of colleges of advanced education under way. [More…]

• There remains the solution of the problem of defining what will distinguish a college of advanced education from a university. [More…]

• Insofar as the Parliament has accepted the principle that we should have a commission, which will be in lieu of ihe previous very helpful advisory committee that operated so magnificently under Sir Ian Wark and which will be parallel to the Australian Universities Commission, the Bill requires the 2 of them to consult with each other in putting forward their recommendations in these twin fields of tertiary education. [More…]

• Having regard to the economy of country areas and the distances that it is necessary for students to travel in these areas for secondary and tertiary education, Senator Bonner’s remarks in relation to libraries will be taken on board. [More…]

• I have no doubt that at the proper time they will be given significant consideration in relation to living away from home allowances for holders of scholarships, which would be an appropriate means, if money were available, to adjust to the economy of those isolated areas the particular circumstances of rural children needing secondary and tertiary education. [More…]

• Before I refer to the Labor Party’s amendment to this Bill I wish to acknowledge Senator McManus’ general observations under this heading with regard to education. [More…]

• The honourable senator makes the point with unquestioned cogency when he says that having regard to the huge appropriations which the youth of the country are now receiving from State and Federal governments, it is imperative that those responsible for institutions dispensing education and the students receiving the benefit of that education should be alive to the fact that they must justify the moneys that are appropriated and that those moneys should be reproduced in value of educational material as a result of that expenditure. [More…]

• Referring to the Commonwealth contribution only, 10 years ago we were applying $55m as direct expenditure on education. [More…]

• 10 years ago the expenditure to which 1 referred represented 1.9 per cent of total Commonwealth expenditure whereas this year the educational expenditure made directly by the Commonwealth - $346m - represents 4.4 per cent of total Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• That is an indication of the added responsibility which accrues to us as members of Parliament and which is transmitted to the governments of educational institutions and students. [More…]

• I am not competent to comment on the soundness of his propositions with regard to the availability of education to everyone. [More…]

• Senator McManus is a man of established experience in the field of education and I listened to his proposition with considerable respect. [More…]

• However, I cannot fail to express a lurking misgiving within me because I have seen many a student start with no particular promise at the initial stages of his educational career and come out with complete brilliance, and by the same token I have seen others win bursaries at the top of the State list and fade away under the pressure of educational processes, indicating that the intellect has not been equal to the challenge. [More…]

• It is for that reason that 1 confess to a lurking predilection for the idea that every child who is prepared to devote his energies to any one of the educational stages - primary, secondary or tertiary - is entitled to the opportunity to do so. [More…]

• The Opposition has taken this Bill as the vehicle with which to advance its well-worn theme to establish in respect of all grades of education, government and non-government alike, primary, secondary and technical, an Australian schools commission. [More…]

• When Senator Wood interjected during the debate, imputing to the Labor Party some proposition for transferring responsibility for education to church schools, or something of that sort- [More…]

• The Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in this chamber, explains quite clearly in his second reading speech the reason for this when he says: [More…]

• I want to refer to something which was said by the learned honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), who is apparently the Labor Party’s spokesman on education. [More…]

• I just want to know where the Labor Party stands with its education policy. [More…]

• The honourable member for Fremantle spoke of private schools and church schools and then went on to say: lt seems to me that realistically, if the increasing hurden of education is to be carried on by such private bodies- [More…]

• That is the private schools - they will have to come to accept what was once offered, I’ understand, by a former director of education in Western Australia. [More…]

• He went on to say what was said by the former director of education in Western Australia. [More…]

• If it set up as it should in the Australian Capital Territory an independent education authority, it could make such an arrangement in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Does this mean that the Australian Labor Party believes in abolishing the State education systems, or what does it mean? [More…]

• It was so stated by me some 3 or 4 years ago when the policy was first adopted by the Australian Labor Parly and it was confirmed in this chamber by the then shadow Minister for Education, the late Senator Cohen. [More…]

• The policy otherwise is that we believe - I would not think it could possibly be suggested otherwise and it is set out in the platform of the Party - that it is the obligation of the State to provide a universal free compulsory secular system of education open to all citizens. [More…]

• I would emphasise that it is most important that we ensure that all available money for education goes towards the construction of schools, particularly government schools because they are the main ones. [More…]

• I have a pretty fair idea of how the whole education system works. [More…]

• Having read the amendment fairly recently, it seems to me that it is probably what 1 might call a dragnet amendment designed to accommodate the various education hobby horses of the Australian Labor Party and to join them together so that members of that Party cau have a general punch-up on it. [More…]

• All my life I have believed in the dual system of education. [More…]

• I have always felt that it was right and proper to have a dual system of education, for the community to allow that facility and for the community to support those who provided those resources. [More…]

• It is not about general education; it is about library grants. [More…]

• The education authorities have worked very well together. [More…]

• I think Senator Negus would agree that we are seeing a new phase of and a new development in education. [More…]

• If these funds were denied to the Australian people - if the Bill were not passed by the Senate or if the Labor Party amendment were carried, which would result in the Bill not being passed - the community and the whole education process would suffer. [More…]

• I think I have quoted to Senator Negus that part of the publication to which I referred which relates to the essential qualities of a modern library in a modern school in a modern education system. [More…]

• Its effect is to canvass the whole area of education and what happens in it. [More…]

• Parents have the right to choose their children’s education and as taxpayers they are entitled to ask that public funds to which their taxes have contributed should be shared justly and equitably for the education of all children. [More…]

• The reduction of the number of independent schools in Australia will effectively deprive many taxpaying parents of their right to choose any alternative type of education for their children. [More…]

• I bring to the chamber the statistics on education from time to time. [More…]

• I commend the officers of the Department of Immigration for bringing to my attention a lengthy analysis or rebuttal of the report on education by the Brotherhood of St Lawrence. [More…]

• Such reports are very deep and a joint committee could have a good hard look at them when considering education problems and could come up with some clear cut answers. [More…]

• 1 remind the Committee again, that some of the matters which Senator Poyser referred to in relation to naturalisation, social service benefits, migrant education and migrant accommodation, among other things, have come out of the work which the existing committees and councils have done. [More…]

• I refer to the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which has before it a petition concerning the transfer of social service entitlements and also the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which has had the question of education needs in Australia referred to it by way of 3 petitions. [More…]

• The Attorney-General may be aware that I have written to the Minister for Education in New South Wales about the possibility of some Filipino school teachers teaching in Australia. [More…]

• Secondly, I would like the Minister for Immigration to consult with the State Ministers for education as to ways of overcoming the teacher shortage which exists in Australia by bringing in Asian teachers with the necessary qualifications. [More…]

• I think this matter would come under division 330, subdivision 5, item 03, full lime intensive English language courses, which relates to the adult migrant education programme in Australia, including part time instruction and also the full time intensive English language courses. [More…]

• Again we can sec that the expenditure on migrant education services last year was down considerably on the amount appropriated. [More…]

• We can see that the Department is going from the night classes in the adult migrant education programme, including the part time classes, to intensive classes for the purpose of rapid development of the English language. [More…]

• In order to implement this policy the Government has asked State Departments of Education which are responsible lor arranging classes and for appointing teachers to rationalise evening class programmes particularly single classes where numbers have dwindled to below acceptable limits. [More…]

• He will find that the Migration Education Services were considered by Estimates Committer B. [More…]

• The capacity to provide employment, housing, education and social services. [More…]

• He is a man with an excellent education who has relatives in Australia who are prepared to give him a home and provide him with employment. [More…]

• The situation at the moment is that the Government is bringing in so many migrants that it cannot fina employment for them, it cannot provide education facilities for their children, it cannot provide housing for them and it cannot provide health and hospital services for them. [More…]

• It does not matter whether the topic is education or immigration. [More…]

• Migrants coming to Australia are frequently warned by the Government supported by the Minister and Senator Wood not to go to Queensland because of its hillbilly Government which makes no provision for jobs, housing, education or health services. [More…]

• The basis of such policy shall include the capacity lo provide employment, housing, education and social services. [More…]

• What agreement has the Department of Immigration withthe New South Wales Railways Department relating to the provision of facilities under the Adult Migrant Education Programme. [More…]

• The Department of Immigration has no agreement with the New South Wales Railway Department relating to the provision of facilities under the Adult Migrant Education Programme. [More…]

• These evening classes were arranged by the Adult Migrant Education Branch of the New South Wales Department of Education, which is responsible for arranging such classes under the 1951 Commonwealth-State Agreement on Adult Migrant Education. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the following matter - The position of and provision for deprived schools (a deprived school being a school in the inner urban or rural areas providing primary education, in which a high proportion of the school population is disadvantaged through background and/or environment), with a view to financial aid to the States to permit the recognition of such schools as special schools warranting a more liberal scale in staffing, equipping and servicing. [More…]

• In addition lo ihe amounts which it is intended to apply to housing, health, education, employment and vocational training and .similar purposes through the States grants, it is proposed to apply $3,850,000 to the continuation by the Department of Education and Science of the study and secondary grants schemes and $173,000 to smaller projects, particularly in health and education, through Commonwealth departments. [More…]

• Thus of the total budgetary provision in the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account for 1971-72 of $l4.35m, no less than 13,223,000 will be devoted primarily to efforts in the fields of housing, health, education and employment and vocational training. [More…]

• The development of programmes of health education and preventive medicine by professional and sub-professional people should progressively reduce the pressure on the curative services provided in hospitals in Ihe major centres. [More…]

• Funds provided for education through the Trust Account are ensuring to Aboriginal Australians more and better educational facilities by way of buildings, equipment, libraries and so on, and are helping the States to ensure that children at school below the statutory school leaving age will receive necessary assistance with clothing, textbooks, travel, tutorial assistance and homework supervision. [More…]

• This will be used for grants to non-governmental organisations for a wide range of purposes - for welfare work, adult education, the provision and running of hostels, support of arts, crafts and cultural activities, support of youth and sporting activities, Aboriginal housing societies and for preschooling provided by private organisations. [More…]

• Other matters which could be considered are the general research question, the overall research question and the education programme. [More…]

• What is being done about the development of an education programme? [More…]

• What money is being expended by the U members of this division of the Department in relation to the development of an education programme and the expounding of that education programme? [More…]

• Will the Minister for Health confer with his colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, to consider the desirability of establishing a faculty of general practice or family medicine in all medical schools with the aim of uplifting the standing of this form of medical practice and of halting the serious drift away from it? [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Launceston Teachers College the status of a college of advanced education? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The granting of ‘college of advanced education’ status to education institutions in a State is a matter for the State Government. [More…]

• The Tasmanian Minister for Education announced recently that the Launceston Teachers College, together with parts of the Launceston Technical College, will become a unit within the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Launceston Teachers College will be transferred to the control of the Council of Advanced Education from 1st January 1972.I have informed the Tasmanian Minister of my agreement in principle to Commonwealth financial support from the beginning of 1973 on the understanding that the nature and extent of that support will be examined by the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education in the development of its recommendations for the 1973-1975triennium. [More…]

• The Committee consists of representatives of- the Department of Health (which provides the Chairman); the Department of Social Services: the Department of Labour and National Service; the Repatriation Department; the Department of Education and Science; the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; the Treasury; the Department of the Interior; and the Public Service Board. [More…]

• The number of young people entering the work force is however less than the number leaving school as a proportion of school leavers move on to full-time tertiary education. [More…]

• Throughout my time in the Federal Parliament I have heard from the Opposition great claims about the Government not doing sufficient to prevent a brain drain from Australia to other countries, and in relation to nearly every sphere of science and education the Leader of the Opposition in this place has criticised the Government for not doing something to ensure that those particular abilities which are required in this community were retained. [More…]

• The number of young people en:ering the work force is however less than the number leaving school as a proportion of school leavers move on to full time tertiary education. [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• Governments are exercised throughout the world in attempting to heal division of colour, religion, education, etc., surely it must be arguable that here amongst such a small population Government decreed ‘divisionism’ is indefensible. [More…]

• Another disability inherent in this scheme is that a government of a particular political persuasion may be elected on the basis of a mandate which it receives from the public, based upon certain blandishments or offers of performance as a government; but, when it assumes office and begins to institute a policy on social services under which it agrees to offer benefits additional to those which are offered in New South Wales or Victoria, or wishes to give special consideration to education by providing some additional assistance, such as living away from home grants, special assistance in particular areas and things of that kind in respect of which it wants to exercise its own initiative, it cannot do that without incurring an adverse report from the Grants Commission and an adjustment Which takes away its right to institute that system which it wants to institute in the interests of the people of the State. [More…]

• I have seen this happen in the field of education where a State wanted to exercise its own judgment as to what it would spend on education but was unable to do so. [More…]

• The current expenditure on primary and secondary education in State schools has benefited significantly from these arrangements and the Government is convinced that additional assistance in that area would not be justified. [More…]

• My Government will continue to cooperate with the States in measures both direct and indirect to expand and improve education services in government schools. [More…]

• Our policy for the independent schools is that, relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments, they should be able to continue to provide places at a reasonable standard for that proportion of the school population which in the past has sought education in non-government schools. [More…]

• I support the Bill because when I look at what has been done in the past 3 years particularly by the Federal Government I find that there has been a gradual increase in the amount of money allocated to the States to cover such important areas as housing, health, education, employment, social work and various other projects throughout Australia. [More…]

• There are many other problems associated with housing, health and education. [More…]

• I know from personal experience that, because of a lack of education and training, Aborigines are facing many problems. [More…]

• I have been told that because of a lack of education and academic ability this cannot be done. [More…]

• However, I do not believe that in their field education is of the greatest importance. [More…]

• I think that there are only 2 in all the education departments in Australia. [More…]

• What public political education has the Minister directed to be implemented in the Territory of Papua New Guinea in order to enable the people of the Territory to choose, intelligently, their own political structure. [More…]

• Does such education include the sympathetic presentation of the principles of socialism; if not, why. [More…]

• and (2) The political education programme which is being undertaken in Papua New Guinea togetherwith the current affairs content of school syllabuses and the less formal political education given through institutions such as the House of Assembly and Local Government Councils and through the work of such bodies as Select Committees on. [More…]

• The Department of Immigration provides a migrant education service to most migrants travelling to Australia by sea. [More…]

• At least one Shipboard Education Officer is assigned to vessels carrying a significant number of non-English speaking migrants to Australia. [More…]

• These officers arrange for a programme of English language instruction and citizenship education for migrants during the voyage. [More…]

• Shipboard Education Officers are officers of the Department of Immigration and are recruited both from within and outside the Commonwealth Service. [More…]

• Shipboard Education Officers are Class 4 officers of the Third Division of the Commonwealth Service and receive a salary within the range S5.413-S6.0I6. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• If a child has to attend school interstate for special medical reasons the Director of Education can approve the above allowance on the provision of a suitable doctor’s certificate. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Have the last 3 Ministers for Education and Science stated that a local education authority for the Australian Capital Territory is inevitable and does the Minister intend to establish such an authority? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Ministers have stated that they accept that at some future time it will be appropriate for education in the Australian Capital Territory to be administered separately from New South Wales. [More…]

• The factors which would need to be taken into consideration when education in the Australian Capital Territory is administered separately from New South Wales are under active consideration. [More…]

• Ministers have received a number of requests to establish inquiries into various facets of education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• After careful consideration last year the Government decided against holding an inquiry into education in the Australian Capital Territory at that time. [More…]

• The question of an inquiry is being kept under review as are the views expressed by community groups in the Australian Capital Territory with an interest in education. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that in a properly conducted poll of students at the University of Sydney, in which all students were eligible to participate, an overwhelming majority of students - about 80 per cent - voted against the use of Students Representative Council funds for political purposes of any kind? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers,inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate and the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• Is it also a fact that the information obtained showed that 75 per cent of the State high schools in Australia do not have gymnasiums or suitable indoor facilities for physical education and that this has significantly and detrimentally affected physical education programmes? [More…]

• The second part of the question, which was built around the first part of the question, relates to the equipment which is provided in the educational systems of the States. [More…]

• The honourable senator has suggested that because of a lack of appropriate equipment the physical education of children is being affected. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science may wish to respond to the question, but in my view it is clearly a matter for State government instrumentalities through their own education systems. [More…]

• However, I shall refer the honourable senator’s question to the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: (!) [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT - The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to tthe honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister lor Education and Science has supplied the following answer: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer lo the honourable member’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The States are responsible as far as their own secondary schools are concerned, for the administration of the funds made available to them under the Commonwealth Science Facilities Programme, within a general programme of proposed expenditure which is submitted to me by each State Minister for Education for my approval. [More…]

• I consider that the Victorian Minister of Education is best placed to make an educational decision on this matter. [More…]

• Senator Townley asked Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science the following question: ls the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that about half the students in Canada who graduated from universities in May this year have been unable to find suitable employment and that university education in that country is becoming termed the ‘great training robbery”? [More…]

• In his reply Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson said that he would refer the question to the Minister for Education and Science for further information. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided me with the following advice: 1 am aware thai there have been some graduates who have experienced difficulties in obtaining appropriate employment. [More…]

• These include parents, careers masters, teachers, officers at tertiary education institutions, and employers. [More…]

• On 5 th October 1971, Senator McAuIiffe asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, the following question: ls ii a fuel that Melbourne University Council has decided to abolish the diploma course of physical education and that the University will nol accept first year students to the course after next year? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided me with the following advice: [More…]

• In coming to its decision to abolish the present Diploma in Physical Education course, the University of Melbourne was undoubtedly influenced by the views expressed by the Martin Committee, and subsequently endorsed by the Australian Universities Commission which indicated in its Third Report published in 1966 that it proposed to discontinue support for sub-graduate courses in universities. [More…]

• Honourable senators may be interested to know that, in announcing the decision to discontinue the Diploma in Physical Education course, the University of Melbourne said: [More…]

• The University of Melbourne Council will set up a Planning Croup to consider the question of a new course to replace the present diploma course in physical education. [More…]

• In considering the replacement course the Planning Group will consult with the University’s Department of Physical Education. [More…]

• The present Diploma in Physical Education course will be abolished and no students will be admitted to the course after the admission of first year students in 1972. [More…]

• The output of teachers of physical education probably will not be reduced following the abolition of the diploma course al Melbourne because of the output from the Monash Teachers’ College and the possible out pui of teachers from the Victoria Institute of Colleges. [More…]

• -(South Australia)- Pursuant to the resolution of the Senate of 29th April 1971, I present the report of the Standing Committee on Education. [More…]

• Science and the Arts relating to teacher education, together with the minutes of evidence and documents submitted to the Committee in evidence. [More…]

• We should use our resources, our technology and the potential for education throughout the world. [More…]

• About 60 journalists, academics and educationists from all States will attend the seminar. [More…]

• The seminar is being held as part of the Government’s national drug education campaign. [More…]

• If in Australia we have, as we endeavour to have, a system which will ensure that there is equality of standards, say in education, hospitalisation and road construction as a general background to our way of living, and if a State cannot meet that standard because of its’ economic situation, special grants are made or larger allocations arc given to that Slate to ensure that there is a national equality. [More…]

• On the reserves they are learning useful skills in a training scheme which pays them a training allowance and they are benefiting from a better diet, health services and education for their children. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools to the government school system for which the Government is truly responsible. [More…]

• Their standard of education was lower than today and it may be that they were ill qualified to estimate the comparative probative value of alternative methods of proof. [More…]

• , conference considers that couples have a basic human right to decide freely and responsibly on the number and spacing of their children and a right to adequate education and information in this: respect . [More…]

• and (2) The Government’s present policy is directed mainly towards the education of young persons in the health hazards of smoking. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Advisory Committee on the Teaching of Asian Language and Cultures was established by the Commonwealth Government with the agreement of the Stale Ministers for Education, in March 1969, for the purpose outlined by the honourable senator. [More…]

• Professor J. J. Auchmuty, ViceChancellor and Principal, University of Newcastle (Chairman); Mr A. P. Anderson, Assistant Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Education and Science; Mr E. ft. Horwood, Honorary Organising Secretary, Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers” Associations; Professor A. H. Johns, Professor of Indonesian Languages and Literatures, Australian National University; Mr W. N. Oats, Headmaster, The Friends’ School, Hobart: Mr A. W. Jones, DirectorGeneral of Education of South Australia: Mr T. W. Payne, Deputy Director of Secondary Education, New South Wales Department of Education: Mr G. Semple, President, Queensland Teachers Union; and Mr F. R. G. Strickland, Managing Director, H. Halford Ply Ltd, Melbourne. [More…]

• I rise tonight on behalf of numerous conservation groups throughout Australia to express concern at the undue delay exhibited by the Minister for Education and Science, the Honourable Malcolm Fraser, in calling a meeting of the State Ministers who are responsible for wildlife conservation. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, prior to the Parliament adjourning for the Christmas recess I did draw to the attention of Senator Wright, who represents in this chamber the Minister for Education and Science, recommendation 6 contained in the interim report of the Fox Committee. [More…]

• Therefore it is proper that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) should give time for this report to be studied by various people responsible for the administration of the law. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• Education - The introduction of a programme’This Week in Education’. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Education and Science has discussed the prospects of a study of the ecology of the Ord with both CSIRO and Professor Stanley, Head of the Microbiology Department of the School of Medicine of the University of W.A. [More…]

• Department of Education and Science is now considering the recommendations. [More…]

• Again 1 hark back (o (he fact that when this proposal for an increase in school bus fees charged in the Australian Capital Territory came to light there would have been very few people brave enough in isolation, I suggest, to add to the already high cost of education in this country. [More…]

• We are in a day and agc when a tremendous emphasis is being placed upon the problems of education and the sufficiency of incomes to meet the great and growing demands upon people’s purses for education and the other services and systems. [More…]

• When we consider that 64 per cent of the wage earners in Australia receive less than $90 a week and that the income tax returns for 1969 for the Australian Capital Territory showed that approximately 26,000 people received less than $60 a week, we realise that we are dealing not with something which is rather remote but something which is very closely related to the pockets and purses and the capacity of people in the Australian Capital Territory to meet the growing cost of education in this area. [More…]

• i believe that it is the right of every free born child to receive an education to the full extent of his intellectual capacity. [More…]

• So, it is incumbent upon every one of us to do everything we possibly can to facilitate education and not, without making the most serious examination of the situation, to put any impediment in the way of the achievement of that objective. [More…]

• I believe that this could be seriously detrimental to the interests of young people trying to receive an education in this Territory. [More…]

• I believe that, if we deal in that way with the question of education or, to come right down to this minuscule question, 5c per bus trip, we are failing to lake account of all the co-related factors which go to make up the total life of a community. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations were amended in 1971 at the request of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and increased the fares of school children from 2c to 5c. [More…]

• Although basically this is a matter for the Minister for Education and Science, the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) has the carriage of it since the regulations are administered by his Department, and in this chamber I represent the Minister for the Interior. [More…]

• The decision to increase school bus fares was taken by the Minister for Education and Science in view of the increasing cost to that Department of the provision of special school buses and for the subsidy on school bus fares On regular buses. [More…]

• The proposal to amend the Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations in the Education Ordinance of the Australian Capital Territory was discussed at a meeting of the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council on 20th September 1971. [More…]

• Members of the Council did not express any objection to the proposed fare increases but suggested, as a Council, that the Department of Education and Science consider granting school bus fare concessions to families suffering hardship. [More…]

• Certainly the Minister has not attempted even to justify this measure; he merely said that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said that there ought to be an increase. [More…]

• Admittedly, he is a man who has worked in the field of university education but a man with great experience in the practical work in a community of running enterprises. [More…]

• I argued that if we wanted a Federal convention or referendum to succeed we needed to have much more public education and much more work on public understanding. [More…]

• If I may say sp, it has been, unhappily, the characteristic of our State education systems to grow more centralised and monolithic and not sufficiently dispersed. [More…]

• The fundamental thing that divides the Opposition side of the chamber from this side is the difference of belief as between federalism and unification - whether or not central power can do things better in relation to education, health or anything else. [More…]

• Does anyone doubt that the thing that matters to Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr and Mrs Brown day by day is the education of their children? [More…]

• Does anyone realise that almost 50 per cent of every State budget is for education? [More…]

• Indeed, if one looks at the levels of government in the United States of America and gets down to the Stales and counties as well as the district councils of education and the whole ramification of participation in government one finds that on a per capita basis the involvement of the people of that country is substantially more than our own involvement. [More…]

• In view of the comprehensive programmes of education carried out in the Territory, will he seek to obtain an assurance that opportunities exist for encouraging and achieving nationalism without resorting to the practices mentioned? [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education and Science received a proposal from the Minister of Education in South Australia, Mr Hudson, that the Commonwealth Government finance universities and colleges of advanced education on a $1 for $1 basis for each $1 spent by the States on both capital and recurring costs, on the condition that the State abolish all tuition fees? [More…]

• Does the proposal detail the resultant savings to the Commonwealth from the abolition of tuition fees on scholarships as well as savings from the resultant reduction in taxation allowances now permitted for student children, and the further saving of fees now refunded by the Commonwealth Public Service to employees who pass approved courses and the tax deduction allowance to employers who now pay for employees to attend universities or colleges of advanced education? [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education and Science had the proposal evaluated and would the scheme permit free tuition at universities and colleges of advanced education, at very little additional cost to the Commonwealth Government? [More…]

• Education and Science. [More…]

• In no other way can the crisis in education be solved. [More…]

• Some papers dealt primarily with the drug situation and education. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Is more research needed into education generally, as well as into some aspects of the national survey on educational needs. [More…]

• Sena’or WRIGHT - The Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government, is fully aware of the importance of educational research. [More…]

• In addition to its annual grunt to the Australian Council for Educational Research and its support for education research through such programmes as the Australian Science Education Project, the tertiary education entrance project and the Australian Research Grants Committee, the Commonwealth Government is stimulating very significant work under the programme of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education, which it established in 1970. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• -The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following replies to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Government secondary schools receive n cash grant with which they purchase books of their choice direct from booksellers, and in addition are able to select books from a list prepared by the State Education Department up to a certain value depending on the size of the school. [More…]

• Invoices are submitted to the Education Department which pays the accounts after approving the lists of purchases. [More…]

• Schools select books from lists prepared by the Education Department and purchases are made centrally by tender. [More…]

• Schools select from Education Department lists up to a value determined by enrolment and need for bookstock. [More…]

• Schools select from Education Department lists and purchases are made centrally. [More…]

• The main purpose is to ensure that the selected books are of a standard appropriate to secondary education and that the proportion of fiction to non-fiction is in accordance with the recommendations of the Commonwealth Secondary Schools Libraries Committee. [More…]

• It can now be left to the common sense, education and experience of those people who bring their minds to it to make their own dissection, acceptance or rejection of the evidence adduced. [More…]

• If there is any difficulty in providing that text for study in schools I have no doubt that the Minister for Education and Science will afford whatever assistance is possible to enable that to be done. [More…]

• I should have thought that educational schools would have ready access to copies of the Constitution. [More…]

• What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Commonwealth Banking Corporation to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]

• These cadetships are made available to young people for attendance at Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and Technical Colleges to enable the recipients to follow study courses that meet the special needs of the Corporation. [More…]

• For attendance at Colleges of Advanced Education and Technical Colleges, bursaries are granted to enable the recipients to follow courses with a commercial orientation. [More…]

• Cadetships for study at Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a. severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners must humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the Government is specifically responsible: [More…]

• It is equally true that men who have received their tertiary education and gained university degrees in Australia, have gone overseas, acquired extra knowledge, come back here and given this knowledge in the interests of the nation with great distinction. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Will the Minister examine the possibility of altering the starting time of the 8.30 a.m. lectures at the Canberra College of Advanced Education as this present starting time doubtless contributes to traffic delays caused to students at the intersection of Belconnen Way and Haydon Drive, due to heavy citybound traffic on Belconnen Way? [More…]

• I am sure that the Minister for Education and Science and the Minister for the Interior, whose concern this matter is, will give serious consideration to the question raised by the honourable senator. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Science Policy Branch of the Department of Education and Science, which has a total establishment of 20, comprises two Sections, the Scientific Information and External Relations Section and the Planning and Special Projects Section. [More…]

• As far as independent schools were concerned, the Commonwealth had decided to increase the rates of per capita grants from the commencement of the 1972 school year, from $35 to $50 per annum for each pupil receiving primary education, and from $50 to $68 per annum for each pupil receiving secondary education. [More…]

• Our policy objective for the independent schools is that, relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments, they should be able to continue to provide an adequate standard of education for that proportion of the school population which has in the past attended independent schools. [More…]

• The Government sees the maintenance of a viable alternative system of schools, with assurances of continuing financial support, as essential to the health and vigour of Australian education generally. [More…]

• The Government will continue to keep these questions under close review, as part of its policy of improving education in all schools. [More…]

• The Government believes that the grants authorised by this Bill represent a significant contribution by the Commonwealth in the field of education. [More…]

• We wish to see a standard of education available to all members of our community regardless of whether they are black or white. [More…]

• In these fields of medicine, education, housing and employment every Australian must set a standard and live to that standard. [More…]

• One is by free sterilising operations which I advocate, but this wilt take slow effect unless also positive education is done with colour films and tv advertisements as powerful as those used to promote patent foods, drugs,, alcohol and smokes, petrol and detergents. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the ‘Little Red School Book’ asa first step in preparing the child for enlistment in revolutionary activities sets out to undermine respect for every form of traditional and accepted authority - the authority of those who wield power in politics, industry and education; the authority of parents and teachers; the authority of the inherited Christian norms of western civilisation? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]

• That the Commonwearth review secondary and technical scholarships to ensure that every student who has successfully completed all but the last 2 years of his full course will receive financial assistance to enable and encourage him to proceed with his education. [More…]

• As honourable senators would be aware, the amendment is taken directly from the federal policy of the Australian Labor Party on education as it relates to the Commonwealth’s relationship to the financing of education by the States and by independent schools. [More…]

• The policy is set out in the amendment in some detail because it is the opinion of the Australian Labor Party that it is impossible to reach a reasoned conclusion on the requirements of education without looking at all the aspects mentioned in this amendment even though some of the matters mentioned in the amendement, particularly those relating to technical scholarships mentioned in the second paragraph, are not directly dealt with by these Bills. [More…]

• It provides for an increase from $35 to $50 for each pupil receiving primary education, of the annual per capita grant and an increase from $50 to $68 in the case of secondary school pupils. [More…]

• The crux of the whole argument put by the Opposition and the fundamental division between the Australian Labor Party and other parties represented in this chamber on the question of education are set out on page 3 of the Minister’s second reading speech on the Bill relating to independent schools. [More…]

• It does not convey what is proposed by the Australian Labor Party in its policy on education. [More…]

• Only recently, as Senator Wriedt has reminded me, a committee of inquiry recommended that the sum of $ 1,400m be allocated to education and the needs of schools throughout Australia. [More…]

• The sum of almost $41m which is to be provided under this legislation bears no relation to the $ 1,400m which was recommended by a responsible group of people with which we are all familiar nor, indeed, is there any indication as to what proportion this amount of almost $41m is of the whole amount which the Commonwealth Government eventually intends to give to education. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has repeatedly told this Parliament that it believes that there are gross inequalities in the education system in Australia. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South Wales) (2.21)- ‘The 2 Bills that are being discussed in this cognate debate cover the whole spectrum of education. [More…]

• The Bills do so against the background that the Commonwealth and the States have, over the past decade, increased enormously their expenditure throughout the whole range of the field of education. [More…]

• In other words - I wish to make this clear - government must provide education for all and not for one section of the community. [More…]

• I would like to see improvements made in our approach to pre-school education, to deprived schools, to education of the Aborigine and, in particular, to education of the handicapped. [More…]

• But that equality of opportunity must be, of course, consistent with the ability of the individual student at a particular level of education to discharge his or her role. [More…]

• Against the 2 intentions of these Bills the Australian Labor Party seeks to intervene an amendment which is of massive significance and massive intention by way of alteration of the whole concept of education as it exists today in the Commonwealth and in the States. [More…]

• The amendment as it is spelt out in the words circulated, in the printed words of the Australian Labor Party platform and in the spoken words of the Labor Party’s leaders aims, in my view - and I hope to demonstrate it - at the nationalisation and unification of education, first in the, centralising of the control of State education in Canberra and the destruction of the 6 individual systems of State education as they exist today and, secondly, by limitation, restriction and control of the commission and the destruction of the independent system and its nationalisation. [More…]

• The fundamentals of our approach to education are contained, I think, and are best spelt out in the Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations Charter. [More…]

• Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]

• Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]

• The right to choose in education as in any other fundamental action in life is of vital importance. [More…]

• It is important that I should spell out what happened under the education Acts of the States following the introduction of compulsory education because those who have opposed consistently the idea of the independent system of education and any government support for it have in fact mixed goals and methods. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that until the end of the 19th century education in Australia was voluntary and was conducted by independent and religious schools. [More…]

• The governments of the day very rightly decided that every child, irrespective of means, was entitled to a minimum standard of education. [More…]

• Nothing in the intention of those Acts set as goals that children should be forced to use government buildings, government teachers or secular education. [More…]

• Any attempt to destroy the freedom of choice must inevitably under these conditions be a socialisation or a nationalisation of education. [More…]

• So, I say to you, Mr President, that education stands with health, help for the aged, and welfare in a similar principle; it is a principle that I completely uphold. [More…]

• The independent system of education should not be used in a divisive way by its critics. [More…]

• I am a product of the State system of education and an immense advocate of its qualities and achievements and an immense advocate of methods to improve it as well as the independent system. [More…]

• So, I stand here not as a partisan at all except as a partisan for education itself and indeed as a partisan who opposes monopoly in education or in anything else. [More…]

• That is not a bad journey because it is three-quarters of the journey of the existing life of the Liberal Party which has proudly advocated the right and supported practically the right of the twin system of education. [More…]

• Any government has as its primary right the responsibility for the highest possible education for all students in Australia, whether they attend government or independent schools. [More…]

• In the other major field of education, that is tertiary education or university education, the Labor Party platform explicitly says that education at the university level shall be provided for all students at no fee so that the rich man’s son or daughter can without fear or favour receive education to (he university level equally with the poor man’s son and daughter. [More…]

• If we were to apply a means test as proposed by the Labor Party, and as education is not compulsory beyond the age of 15 - I think in all States - why not apply that same means test in relation to high schools run by the State? [More…]

• It will have direct control of and will be able to intervene, in the State, local and grass roots area of education, probing and controlling even the supply of chalk and blackboards. [More…]

• Everybody associated with parents and citizens associations knows the struggles and heartbreaks of parents and knows that the aim of having governments assist is a noteworthy one, but I wonder whether the 6 State Premiers, including the Western Australian Labor Premier and the South Australian Labor Premier, and the 6 State Education Ministers will agree with this policy which aims to take to the centre everything which now lies within the State sovereignty. [More…]

• The device of approaching this matter on the basis of the needs and priorities of schools is an insidious device because, if a government has the power to discriminate between schools and to determine which ones shall be encouraged and which shall wither on the vine, that government has the power to wipe out the freedom of choice in education. [More…]

• Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, when reporting on the Commonwealth’s role in regard to teacher education, presented a dissenting report on the proposal to treat independent teachers colleges on the same basis as other teachers colleges. [More…]

• In essence, the aim of the majority report was this: Where an independent teachers college can qualify by standards, by practice and by performing parallel with other teachers colleges it should be entitled to be treated as a college of advanced education and it should receive the recurrent and capital funds that other colleges of advanced education do. [More…]

• Education is a service. [More…]

• When I sit here day after day and hear members of the Labor Party arguing that it is wrong that in the field of taxation deductions the wealthier person receives more by way of taxation rebate than does a poorer person, whether in respect of education expenses or hospital and medical expenses, I simply say to myself: ‘How can anyone fail to understand that in the first place the person about whom they are talking is paying 5, 10 or 20 times the amount of tax that the other person with whom they are comparing him is paying, and that in fact the relatively small amount he receives by way of rebate is as nothing compared with that?’ [More…]

• I demonstrate the point by saying that the sum of $ 1,700m currently being spent on education is equal to about $316 for each of the 5.2 million taxpayers in Australia today. [More…]

• In so doing I have sought to show - I believe that I have shown - that the Labor Party has introduced not something innocent or simply a little new policy point but a proposal which, if implemented, would create in Australia a centralised and unified monopoly of education which would be controlled from Canberra - all of this is agreed by Mr Barnard and others - and which, whether quickly or slowly, would cause the independent system to atrophy and to die. [More…]

• The Australian Democratic Labor Party welcomes the spirit of justice in the allocation of Commonwealth moneys for education which is embodied in these Bills. [More…]

• We commend the Minister for Education and Science, Mr Malcolm Fraser, on the manner in which he is administering his Department in this respect. [More…]

• It is only natural that as these Bills relate, to a degree, to both sections of our dual system of education a good deal of this debate is centring around the general and much debated question of aid to independent schools. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party, while opposing means tests in a vast variety of other fields, insists that it favours a means test in the field of education. [More…]

• South Australia has provided on the Slate level a model of how the needs policy would work on the Federal level and in March this year a committee in South Australia reported to the Minister of Education on the distribution of $250,000. [More…]

• I communicated with leaders of the educational system in the independent schools in South Australia. [More…]

• It offered no justice to the independent schools and it had given them an amount of money which could be described only as humiliating while at the same time concentrating the immense volume of money available for education on government schools. [More…]

• Just imagine computerising education. [More…]

• In other words, it is a proposal to encourage parents to regard the State as being completely in charge of education and its financing and to have absolutely no interest in the school that their children attend. [More…]

• Therefore, our committees will give the money to the schools where the parents were not prepared to go into debt and were not prepared to take risks in order to improve the quality of education available to their children’. [More…]

• I have been informed that the amount which has been made available for education in secondary schools in South Australia this year is $110,000. [More…]

• Anybody who has had any association with education knows that the training of teachers is vital. [More…]

• My criticisms of the proposed commission are these: Firstly, an education needs commission would increase government control over non-government schools and would increase interference in the administration and financial affairs of such schools. [More…]

• What already is done at the collection end, where taxation is scaled according to income, would have to be repeated at the other end, according to this proposed system, when distributing it for education. [More…]

• As has been indicated, the wording of the amendment comes from the Labor Party platform and policy on education. [More…]

• These grants therefore will result in additions to the levels of expenditure on education. [More…]

• It is important to note that the grants we are discussing today are not only for specific purposes, not only for extending and intensifying the area of education, but are part of the Commonwealth’s total and comprehensive education programme. [More…]

• I suppose it is pertinent to mention that in recent years the Commonwealth has played an increasing and significant role in the field of education. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be well aware that the Constitution does not mention education as an area in which the Commonwealth has particular powers or responsibilities. [More…]

• Honourable senators also will be well aware that in section 96 of the Constitution there is provision for the making of grants to the States for use for any purpose, including education, at the discretion of the States. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has made increasing use of those powers, as the Constitution has allowed it to do, and has provided a growing measure of assistance to the States for the purposes of education. [More…]

• It is also equally important to affirm again that the programme of education grants to the States over the period of years since the Commonwealth first became actively involved in this field has been marked by a consistent policy of consultation, conversation and communication with the State education authorities. [More…]

• Another very strong objective of the Commonwealth in entering into the field of education in a very big way has been its desire to encourage the development of standards and to develop the total education quality and quantity throughout the country. [More…]

• But I think it is not without significance to observe that the projected expenditure on education by the Commonwealth this financial year is running to the measure of some $350m. [More…]

• Perhaps some indication of the growth in the involvement by the Commonwealth in the field of education can be gauged from the fact that the expenditure this year will represent a doubling of the Commonwealth’s contribution in the last 5 years. [More…]

• That gives an indication of the emphasis and importance which the Commonwealth has placed on education. [More…]

• That emphasis and importance has found expression in practical support and, indeed, the widening of interest over the total range of the field of education, which is undoubtedly producing a higher quality of education and, more importantly, making better education available to a greater number of people. [More…]

• When quoting figures of expenditure, when referring to the co-operation and consultation that exist between the Commonwealth and the States and when inferring that that is contributing to the total quality of Australian education it is also very important to point out that the States themselves are spending increasing and substantial amounts on education. [More…]

• The increased amounts that the Commonwealth is making available each year for education are in confirmation of its recognition of the importance of education and of the development of educational services at all points. [More…]

• As all honourable senators know, there has been a programme of assistance in providing scholarships, science blocks, libraries, colleges of advanced education, research programmes and a wide range of other procedures. [More…]

• Education has assumed a considerable proportion of Commonwealth Government interest and contribution. [More…]

• It is against that background that these Bills, which continue the policy of the Commonwealth’s involvement in the field of education, have been introduced. [More…]

• Other speakers have said here and elsewhere, but it needs to be said again, that the Administration is supporting what we will call the dual system of education, which allows parents the choice of sending their children to government or independent schools. [More…]

• While, of course, no system can be complete and excellent in every sphere in every place at any given time the new schools and the new developments that are taking place in education at a government school level provide plenty of opportunities for students. [More…]

• The standard of teacher education comes into its own relationship here. [More…]

• I would argue that the independent school system represents a parallel stream of education. [More…]

• Independent schools assist in the total development and evolution of the education programme by attracting to them people and students who, unable to exercise their enterprise, growth and diversity within the State system, are able to do it within the independent school system. [More…]

• However much a Labor government may wish to reduce students in all education systems to a common level, there is a desire on the part of a considerable section of the community that there should be within our education system this opportunity for the expression of an independent line of education and an independent administration of education. [More…]

• The amendment in my view would completely destroy the value of the education system which we have in Australia, lt would have the tendency to centralise administration, lt would build an enormous bureaucracy. [More…]

• The first thing that would happen would be that there would be a great number of people who would be denied opportunities to go forward and to receive the advantage of a beneficial education system. [More…]

• I think that I can do no better than to bring to the Senate an extract from the speech delivered by the Minister for Education and Science, Mr Malcolm Fraser, in summing up the debate in the other place yesterday. [More…]

• I remind the Senate, as other speakers have done, that if this part of Labor Party policy eventually should become law an indication is given of how the system will work and how the Labor Party, in my view, is misleading the public in relation to the independent school system within the Australian education system. [More…]

• I refer to what I believe to be one of the most important areas in relation to independent schools and their relationship to the total education system in this country. [More…]

• But, in addition to this, they undertake responsibility to maintain and perform yet another stream of education which not only turns out educated young people but also contributes materially to raising the standard of educational thinking throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]

• It was the best evidence that I have seen in recent times of community interest, co-operation and personal sacrifice not only to the members of their own families but also to the education community at large. [More…]

• It is assistance in diversity; it is assistance in enterprise, in growth, in educational development and in research. [More…]

• I have been a member of a Senate committee which has been carrying out a study of teacher education. [More…]

• As you know, Sir, it was my privilege to put down the report relating to the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education in the Senate earlier this sessional period. [More…]

• That part of the amendment has a clear message of nationalisation of education in Australia. [More…]

• The document from which I am reading is called ‘The DLP and Education in Australia’. [More…]

• The increased grants for education announced by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) comprised $1.4m as a capital grant to the State system and additional per capita grants to non-State schools amounting to $220,000 per annum. [More…]

• Add the words ‘but the Senate is of opinion that the best interests of Australian education require: [More…]

• That the Commonwealth review secondary and technical scholarships to ensure that every student who has successfully completed all but the last 2 years of his full course will receive financial assistance to enable and encourage him to proceed with his education. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate and the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]

• As many paraplegics and quadraplegics are keen to undertake or to continue education in the tertiary field but are unable to do so or, if they do, are placed in great financial difficulty because of their inability to earn extra income, will the Minister give consideration to making available to these people financial grants to assist them with their studies and to ease some of the financial burdens and disadvantages under which they are placed, at the same time giving many of them the opportunity to continue upon a career, or to take up a course, which otherwise may be lost to them? [More…]

• Included in these figures are 4 Officers and 47 Other Ranks serving as teachers in the Royal Australian Army Education Corps. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• A deduction of $300 is made from the gross family income for each dependent child under 16 years of age and for each dependent child (other than the award holder) under the age of 21 who was in full-time education at 30 June of the previous year. [More…]

• In addition, substantial concessions to the means test apply where 2 or more members of a family are attending university, advanced education or technical courses as full-time students. [More…]

• How many and what types of cadetships were offered by the Commonwealth Public Service to students commencing at universities, colleges of advanced education, technical colleges or similar educational institutions in each of the years 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972. [More…]

• What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]

• One of the primary purposes of the review undertaken with the State Education authorities in September 1971 of the continuation class programme (which provides two hours of instruction in classes held twice weekly, generally in the evening) was to ensure a more effective programme by re-grouping classes in centres where graded levels of instruction would be possible and by closing classes where the small number of migrants attending could not justify their being maintained. [More…]

• Migrants who live in the South Melbourne area are able also to attend classes at the Migrant Education Centre at 200 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, where, in addition to continuation classes, accelerated and full time intensive language courses are available. [More…]

• The closing of classes was not however due to a lack of finance but followed a review of the continuation class programme undertaken in conjunction with the State Education Departments in September 1971 with a view to improving the efficiency of the programme generally. [More…]

• The purpose of the review was to reduce the number of classes at which attendance had fallen below acceptable levels and single classes which were operating uneconomically and to regroup other classes so that more effective instruction could be given in larger centres which were better able to meet the educational needs of migrants whatever their initial standard of English was on enrolment. [More…]

• The establishment of the Commonwealth Teaching Service has become necessary because of the growth of education in the Commonwealth mainland Territories and hence the need for the Commonwealth Government to take a direct responsibility for the staffing of schools. [More…]

• At present, despite its wide involvement in education, the Commonwealth itself employs relatively few teachers. [More…]

• A first purpose of this Bill, therefore, will be to make immediate provision for Commonwealth staffing of the two school systems for the Northern Territory, that is, the community schools conducted by the Department of Education and Science, which have been staffed until recently by South Australia, and the special Aboriginal schools staffed by teachers employed by the Department of the Interior under the Commonwealth Public Service Act. [More…]

• Indeed, at the suggestion of the New South Wales Minister for Education, discussions have already commenced between the State and Commonwealth Departments on the implications of the existence of a Commonwealth Teaching Service on the staffing of Australian Capital Territory schools. [More…]

• To take another example, the Department of Education and Science employs, under the Public Service Act, pre-school teachers in both the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Unlike other government teaching services in Australia, (he Commonwealth Teaching Service will extend over more than one school system or education authority. [More…]

• Such movement helps to stimulate fresh educational thinking. [More…]

• It is the Government’s belief that educational decisions should be made, as far as possible, in the school system serving a particular community and that the school system should reflect any special elements of the community it serves. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has said that he personally would be surprised if, over the years, significant and worthwhile differences did not develop between the system of community schools ultimately adopted in the Northern Territory and the school system adopted in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• It seemed to us that mobility in the field of education rather than between Commonwealth career fields was a key consideration. [More…]

• As a statutory authority, the Teaching Service will not be part of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• We believe that the Commonwealth Teaching Service can make a valuable contribution to education in Papua New Guinea, both in the immediate future and beyond the time when Papua New Guinea is self-governing and independent. [More…]

• It is clear that Papua New Guinea will want to draw on Australia, for some time, in order to maintain the pace of educational development and meet the needs for highly experienced and specialised staff. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Teaching Service will also provide teachers for the smaller external territories as existing commitments to teachers or arrangements with State education departments are concluded. [More…]

• The Commissioner will be appointed by the Governor-General and will be responsible directly to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• This division of function will require close consultation and joint planning between the Commissioner and the various education authorities and such consultation is provided for under clause 16 (5.). [More…]

• enables the education authority to transfer teachers, within its school system, under its normal procedures but the promotion of any teacher in the Commonwealth Teaching Service will be subject to the conditions set out in Division 3 of Part III of this Bill. [More…]

• enables the Commissioner to make teachers available to education authorities outside the Northern Territory both in other Commonwealth territories and outside Australia. [More…]

• The Government would expect that, in many instances, the Commissioner would consult with representatives of both teachers and education authorities before framing such determinations. [More…]

• At the same time, the Commissioner’s determinations must influence how education authorities organise their schools. [More…]

• To this end, it made an agreement recently, with the Australian Council for Educational Research, under which, Dr Radford, Director of the Council, and Professor Neal, Vice-president of the University of Alberta, will conduct an investigation into practices in school and staff organisation in Australia and in certain overseas countries. [More…]

• We recognise the circumstances which have Icd State Education Departments to establish teachers colleges; at the time this was the most effective way in which facilities to train teachers in the numbers required could be provided. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware of the development of teacher education institutions as a result of the States Grants (Teachers Colleges) Act of 1967 and 1970. [More…]

• They will also be aware of the establishment of schools of teacher education in colleges of advanced education, including the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• We would expect that, at least initially, he would take over the scheme of unbonded scholarships for teacher education introduced by the Commonwealth from the beginning of this year. [More…]

• The Department of Education and Science has met with the Australian Teachers Federation and at those meetings there have been representatives of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, the South Australian Institute of Teachers, and the Darwin Teachers Association. [More…]

• The demand for these teachers will emanate from educational authorities, which will specify the kinds and levels of teachers required for their schools. [More…]

• In effect, therefore, the education authorities will determine, in the wider sense, the composition of the Teaching Service. [More…]

• It seems to us that the Federation’s proposal is inappropriate to the Commonwealth situation in which the Teaching Service will be separate from the education authority administering any one school system. [More…]

• It would be more appropriate for an education authority running a particular school system. [More…]

• Commonwealth education authorities wilt make increasing use of such advisory councils. [More…]

• While the Government would have no objection to such a committee playing a role in the nomination of an officer for promotion, it would regard the establishment of such a committee as occurring more appropriately in the education authority which, in the large majority of cases, would be responsible for nominating an officer for promotion. [More…]

• As this is a matter for the education authority it is outside the scope of this Bill. [More…]

• I feel sure honourable senators will agree that this Bill is an important milestone in the development of the Commonwealth’s responsibilities in education. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Does the Federal Government approve of portion of the education grant to the State of Victoria being used to provide a building for the purpose outlined by Mr Seagrave? [More…]

• 1 have seen quite a deal of reference to this matter, particularly in the form of a reported statement by the honourable senator himself, followed by a statement by the Minister of Education in Victoria and some statements from some officers of the university. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Is it a fact that because, of adverse weather and other environmental conditions the amount of time unsuitable for outdoor physical education programmes in State high schools is, in no State, less than 25 per cent of the school year? [More…]

• Is it also a fact that 75 per cent of State high schools do not have gymnasiums or suitable indoor facilities for physical education activities? [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate what steps, if any, the Government proposes to take to make these indoor facilities available so that physical education programmes in our schools will be more effective in that they will be continuous, varied and balanced and not dependent on weather conditions? [More…]

• With regard to the question about the provision of gymnasiums, the priorities for the development of any particular educational facility must be recognised to be a matter of State responsibility. [More…]

• In that regard I remind the Senate that over the last 10 years State expenditure on education annually has increased from $401m to $l,284m this year. [More…]

• As to whether the Minister will take any steps in this sphere to make available physical education programmes, I remind the honourable senator that, a few weeks ago, I think he asked a similar question of my colleague the Minister for Health. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• If no steps have yet been taken will the Minister make representations to his colleague the Minister for Education and Science to have action implemented to achieve adequate treatment of Asian languages and cultures in secondary schools in Australia? [More…]

• In the field of health education a specialist has been appointed whose duties include the exploration of ways in which the Aboriginal’s knowledge of the dangers of venereal disease can be increased. [More…]

• Health education pamphlets are issued in several Aboriginal languages and free treatment is available. [More…]

• Is it possible, in view of the increasing medical problem, to reduce by education or other acceptable means the, deaths and injuries currently resulting from this activity? [More…]

• What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]

• Specialist Traineeships are offered to meet the needs of the various specialist areas in the ABC, for example, Music, Education, Current Affairs, Rural Broadcasts, Sporting, Religious, Publicity, etc. [More…]

• Cadets, ABC Education Department - Papua New Guinea [More…]

• Cadets, Education Department - Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• In many instances members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service probably will not be suitably qualified to be engaged in university teaching, teachers college teaching or college of advanced education teaching. [More…]

• But the reason was not an acknowledgement that there are no grounds for it but rather a supposition that my audience had undergone primary education in social studies. [More…]

• for the heightening of professional standards of teachers in the Commonwealth Teaching Service by empowering the Commission to negotiate for the establishment of faculties of education in universities where necessary, including the Australian National University; [More…]

• In the Australian Capital Territory the New South Wales Government has provided the teachers by virtue of an agreement between the Commonwealth and that Government, and in the Northern Territory, at least until recently, the South Australian Education Department provided the teachers. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party does believe that it is desirable that there be a Commonwealth Teaching Service and that there is a special role which the Commonwealth can play in education which may be assisted by the establishment of such a service. [More…]

• Indeed, we hope that after Papua New Guinea has achieved its independence this Commonwealth Teaching Service will be able, if the people of Papua New Guinea desire it, to assist in the establishment of their school system and their education department. [More…]

• As is expressed in paragraph (c) of the amendment, it also is hoped by the Australian Labor Party that the functions of the Commonwealth Teaching Service will be extended so that assistance may be provided by the Commonwealth of Australia to other countries in the Pacific area which, in many instances, are still in a rather rudimentary stage in the development of their education systems and may look to this country to give some assistance at some time in the future. [More…]

• As my colleague, Mr Beazley, said in the course of the debate in another place, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has taken decisions to the effect that there should be representation of teachers on the governing bodies of education services. [More…]

• If I may say so, the views of the Australian Teachers Federation have been rejected by the Government without any great attention having been given to them in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• I doubt whether the Minister for Education and Science would have wished Senator Withers to say what he just said; I do not think that he would be very proud of it. [More…]

• Paragraph (b) of the amendment calls for the heightening of the professional standards of teachers in the Commonwealth Teaching Service by empowering the commission to negotiate for the establishment of faculties of education in universities where necessary, including the Australian National University. [More…]

• It is the opinion of the Labor Party that education ought to be regarded, if it is not so regarded, as a profession; that the people engaged in teaching in the primary and secondary schools of this country are performing one of the most valuable occupations within the community; and that there ought to be a level of expertise possessed by teachers at least equal to the expertise which is required of lawyers, doctors, architects and members of other learned professions. [More…]

• It is our view that one way that this result can be achieved is by the Commonwealth’s taking care to see that in all universities there are faculties of education so that a systematic academic course of study in the principles and practice of education may be given by qualified persons, in the same way that when a person wishing to become a civil engineer- normally enters a school of engineering in a university; a person wishing to become a lawyer joins a law school in a university; and a person wishing to become a doctor enters a medical school. [More…]

• We also believe that as education is a concern of practically everybody in the community there should be in addition to the commission to which we have already referred an advisory council to assist the commission in its deliberations. [More…]

• No matter how important those matters are, it would seem that they are not as important as the matter of a national education service. [More…]

• It could well be that on the advisory council that we propose there would be representation of teachers and other groups of people, of the already existing organised bodies of citizens throughout the country who have an interest in education. [More…]

• We say that the commission of the Commonwealth Teaching Service should have available for consultation an advisory council consisting of representatives of the citizen’s groups in Australia who are concerned with the problems of education, including its future. [More…]

• Hardship is inflicted not only upon them but also upon the whole education system. [More…]

• Their services are lost to the education systems of this country. [More…]

• The Act is necessary arising out of the fact that the Commonwealth has a responsibility for education in its Territories. [More…]

• It is not a service with authority over education policies. [More…]

• May I commend to the Senate the report on teacher education of its Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in which honourable senators will find set out not only the existing attempts throughout Australia to achieve quality in teacher training but also recommendations to do all those things which Senator [More…]

• We are moving more and more rapidly towards a situation where teachers, instead of receiving their training at teachers colleges, attend colleges of advanced education which have a similar status to that of universities and where universities have either an integrated education course or an end on course of the B.A. [More…]

• The fact is that throughout Australia great things are happening in teacher education. [More…]

• But this Bill certainly does not envisage that the Commissioner should be interested in school systems, education policies or curricula. [More…]

• If in fact there were to be a commission which controlled or supervised an education system as distinct from being emphatically an employment agency then there well might be the argument put that we ought to have the expertise of teachers alongside to advise and to assist. [More…]

• 1 remind the Senate that the Minister for Education and Science, when introducing the Bill in another place, drew attention to the fact that a committee has been set up under agreement with the Australian Council for Educational Research comprising Dr Radford, the Director of the Council, and Professor Neal of the University of Alberta. [More…]

• The second paragraph of the Opposition’s amendment says that the Bill should provide: for the heightening of professional standards of teachers in the Commonwealth Teaching Service by empowering the Commission to negotiate for the establishment of Faculties of Education in universities where necessary, including the Australian National University; [More…]

• In addition, it is far and away the responsibility of others, including the Australian Universities Commission, the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, the various registration boards for teaching in the various States and the State education departments, to look for the heightening of professional standards of teachers and, through these institutions, to set about developing those qualities. [More…]

• But surely he would consult the Universities Commission and with the Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]

• Surely he would have talks at the level of the Council of Education Ministers in order to get throughout Australia some understanding of the needs, standards and requirements of the teaching profession. [More…]

• The functions are those of employment, not of teacher training, not of school systems, not of education policies and not of curricula. [More…]

• The upgrading of standards and qualities of the profession primarily must be the function of the bodies charged with those responsibilities - the Universities Commission, the Advisory Committee on Advanced Education and the various State bodies. [More…]

• I note that the Minister for Education and Science in another place said - I have no knowledge either for or against this statement - that it is his understanding that the provisions of this Bill are, in fact, in accordance with the ILO recommendation. [More…]

• It is an important step for the Commonwealth and in the whole orchestration of education in this country. [More…]

• This Bill must not be looked at as a Bill which provides all the answers to education. [More…]

• The enormous need in this country in relation to education is not for us merely to work on the basis of old principles and values and apply ourselves to those principles but, first of ali, to lake slock and decide whether what we did in the past is right for the future. [More…]

• I mention again the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in relation to the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education. [More…]

• The second paragraph of the Opposition’s amendment deals with the heightening or improvement of professional standards of teachers by the establishment of faculties of education. [More…]

• In another place the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has said categorically that the leave provisions in the Bill for pregnancy are in conformity with the International Labour Organisation recommendation. [More…]

• 1 am glad that the Commonwealth is setting up its own Education Service, lt is another stage in the advancement of educational authority in the Commonwealth. [More…]

• When the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts was giving consideration to the Commonwealth’s role in regard to teacher education and when it was compiling its report which, as honourable senators know, was tabled in the Senate, it prefaced the report by making reference to the role of the Commonwealth in education. [More…]

• the beginning of chapter .1 the Committee pointed out that the Commonwealth has statutory responsibility for education in the Territories and that under several sections of the Constitution it can exercise powers and responsibilities in a limited area throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I suppose it is fairly obvious, but nevertheless it is very important to say that the presentation of the Bill is an important milestone in the development of the Commonwealth’s responsibilities in education. [More…]

• This important Bill is something that reflects the Commonwealth’s sense of responsibility as it undertakes a widening avenue of service within the discipline of education. [More…]

• This has meant that there has been a growth in education needs. [More…]

• As has been recounted already, the South Australian Department of Education has given notice that it will phase out its activities in the Northern Territory by 1976. [More…]

• As a South Australian, I think I should pay tribute to the State Department which, for a number of years, has serviced the educational needs of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The growth of the Territories over which the Commonwealth has control has lead to an intensification of education services and to a realisation by the Commonwealth that it will have to take direct and complete responsibility for the staffing of its schools. [More…]

• The idea behind this measure differs from other teaching services in Australia because as a teaching service it will extend over more than one system or education authority. [More…]

• It goes without saying that this fosters fresh educational thinking. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Works who represents the Minister for Education and Science in this place both pointed this out in the speeches when they introduced the Bill. [More…]

• During the hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which dealt with the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education we were confronted on almost every day that we operated with a situation of recognising that many long standing assumptions regarding education were being seriously challenged. [More…]

• I think it will bc seen that the Senate Committee has responded to the fact that many of the long standing assumptions regarding education are being seriously challenged. [More…]

• I feel that it is very desirable that any initiative and any new thought in the field of education should be adopted and should include the best that can be gleaned from Australian educational experience. [More…]

• As I have made some reference to the report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education, I make further reference to the Bill by saying that this proposed Commonwealth Teaching Service is based on a recognition that it is extremely necessary to take advantage of the new thought and new ideas that are being introduced not only in the sphere of education generally but more particularly in the sphere of teacher education. [More…]

• I understand that this is something which most teachers working in State education systems consider highly desirable. [More…]

• To this we must add the teacher training programmes in many colleges of advanced education as well as the development of teaches training institutions under the States Grams Acts. [More…]

• In the course of its hearing on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education, the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts became aware of the widespread opinion that confirms the statement I have just made, namely, that where possible there should be a separation of the appointing authority from the training authority. [More…]

• This leads me to take up a point which also is included in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• If we could have such registration and if it could be promoted, extended and acted upon, it would contribute to what I referred to earlier as an encouragement of stimulating fresh educational thinking and the promotion of new ideas and creative communication. [More…]

• Therefore, it is essential that he be provided and undergirded with machinery which will enable research to be undertaken into education to meet the needs of the communities which the Commonwealth Teaching Service will serve. [More…]

• I have referred to educational research. [More…]

• 1 repeat that in the debate in another place the Minister for Education and Science said that the provisions regarding applications for leave conform with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation. [More…]

• I conclude by referring again to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• We cannot, of course, have a completely different system of education for each individual; yet, as far as possible, the individual’s very subtly distinctive personality should be taken into account in giving him his education. [More…]

• Education has to be standardised to some extent, but it should be as flexible as possible. [More…]

• It certainly is appropriate that, with the Education Department of South Australia bowing out of the obligation which it has accepted up to now to provide teachers for the Northern Territory and with the possibility that the Department of Education in New South Wales will do the same in respect of the responsibility which it has hitherto shouldered to provide teachers for the Australian Capital Territory, the Commonwealth Government should set up a teaching service of its own. [More…]

• Another matter which has been adverted to by previous speakers, especially those who participated with me in the inquiry into the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education by the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, which- has just recently completed its inquiry and tabled its report in the Senate, is the separation of the authority which has responsibility for the teaching service from the authority which is actually responsible for running the schools. [More…]

• In the deliberations of the Senate Standing Committee, expert after expert who gave evidence before the Committee constantly stressed that it was not desirable that the education departments of the States should have control of the training of teachers who later would man the schools run by those education departments. [More…]

• I detect both in the second reading speech of the Minister and in what has been said by speakers in this debate tonight some sort of extension of that principle into a suggestion that the teaching service which is being set up by this Bill should not in any way concern itself with the actual training of teachers but should be content to draw on the other sources which are at present available in the community; they are the universities, colleges of advanced education, teacher colleges and so on. [More…]

• It seems that to do otherwise would in some way be breaching the principle applied by the experts to whom I have referred and which is now enshrined in the report I am speaking of because, as is made clear in the Minister’s second reading speech, the teaching service which is set up by this Bill will not bc part of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• The Department of Education and Science is at present responsible for the operation of community schools in the Northern Territory and as such is an authority under the Bill. [More…]

• They said that education is really just beginning to face up to its problems; that fundamental questions are being asked about what is being sought to be achieved by education. [More…]

• After all, there is widespread movement in the community for participation, especially in spheres such as education, of wide layers of the community. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and his Department deserve the highest praise and congratulations on what I consider to be a most comprehensive Bill. [More…]

• But on the subject of education I find that there are not one or two opinions coming from the Australian Labor Party but there are 3. [More…]

• In setting up the Commonwealth Teaching Service the Government has in mind the desirability of providing a career structure for teachers enabling maximum flexibility in the educational field and facilitating the movement of teachers not only to various education systems within Australia but to positions overseas where they will be able to participate in the educational fields in developing countries thereby increasing their experience in a very tangible way. [More…]

• Senator Davidson, who is the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Senator Carrick, Senator James McClelland, who spoke before me, and their colleagues who are members of that Standing Committee recently brought down a report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education. [More…]

• I believe that the last chapter I shall mention - ‘Research in Teacher Education’ - is one of the most significant in the report. [More…]

• They cover research of teacher education in Australia, the financing of research, research overseas, education of Aboriginal children and the need for future research. [More…]

• I believe that the key to the upgrading of educational standards is effective research. [More…]

• Several years ago the Commonwealth Government took a significant step in this direction by setting up the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Education, which has become known as the Partridge Committee. [More…]

• Realising the fact that for different and other purposes we had constituted the Department of Education and Science it was recognised that there was a need to establish a special authority whose exclusive responsibility should be to make available qualified personnel in the form of teachers, adequate in numbers, to fulfil the needs of the school systems I have mentioned. [More…]

• for the heightening of professional standards of teachers in the Commonwealth Teaching Service by empowering the Commission to negotiate for the establishment of Faculties of Education in universities where necessary, including the Australian National University. [More…]

• He said that Cook had applied for leave in the same way as any other prisoner who wanted to attend an education course. [More…]

• Poverty knows no colour bar and there are, no doubt, many non-Aborigines who are in need of financial assistance for housing, education and health services as are the vast majority of Aborigines. [More…]

• I think that the answer which was given by the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science to an earlier question showed that there were approximately 4,300 or 4,400 students at the Australian National University. [More…]

• My question, which I address to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, follows the question I asked yesterday about the teaching of Asian languages and cultures in secondary schools in Australia. [More…]

• My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, follows upon a previous question put to the Attorney-General by Senator McManus. [More…]

• However, in the long run, such a course would mean decreasing incentives to those obtaining higher incomes on the grounds of work, value, including considerations of training or higher education and bearing of heavy responsibilities. [More…]

• What was the cost of producing the recent television programme shown by the Australian Broadcasting Commission and entitled ‘The Great Debate on Education’? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that the programme’s contribution to the solution of Australia’s real education problems was a minimal one which did not justify the enormous amount of public expenditure and inconvenience? [More…]

• Will the Minister note that many responsible citizens fully agree with the opinion expressed by Mr K. Beazley, M.P., the Australian Labor Party’s spokesman on education, that ‘The Little Red Schoolbook’ aims to produce violent, cynical, disillusioned slobs at the age of IS and is a mixture of marihuana and militancy? [More…]

• It is supplementary to a question asked earlier by Senator Gair about ‘The Great Debate on Education’. [More…]

• Was the director of ‘The Great Debate on Education’ a Mr Tom Manefield from the British Broadcasting Corporation? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, who is responsible for the administration of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• We trust teachers with our most precious possession, our children and the development and education of their minds. [More…]

• The same people will carry in the street banners calling for more money for education. [More…]

• Everybody approves the principle of more money for education, but where is a lot of the money for education going? [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for Stale school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I refer to a report in an Adelaide newspaper which referred to what was described as a deterioration in spelling and which further carried a comment by a Melbourne high school headmaster that ‘bad spelling is a nuisance and embarrassing socially - but it is nol significant educationally.’ [More…]

• Will the Department confer with State departments of education to determine forms of spelling that are accepted as correct, not careless, and significant educationally? [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science been drawn to recent Press reports stating that certain rebel students had occupied the administration buildings at La Trobe University for a period of days until recently, thus obstructing the operation of that university? [More…]

• Is the Minister able to state whether an education policy dictated partly by a gentleman who takes part in improper occupation of university premises and so prevents its proper functioning would be in the genuine interests of Australian students? [More…]

• I call Senator Wright as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The reports were to the effect that the aforesaid William Hartley was one of the students, that the discarded official of the Australian Labor Party now occupies the role of a pseudo student, and that in the interests of a subversive minority group he now is carrying on the left wing Labor policy of preventing, within the educational institution, the great body of purposeful students from getting the instruction to which they are entitled and of preventing the great body of dedicated staff from fulfilling their proper educational functions. [More…]

• The Federal Government has increased its involvement in Australian university education in the last 10 years from the then appropriation of $28m to the present appropriation of $90m and it is encumbent upon university administation to understand that no Government responsible for that expenditure could remain unconcerned about the frustration of the proper purposes to which those appropriations should be put. [More…]

• May I interpose a lighter point for a moment in relation to a question that was asked earlier of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science concerning the problems of spelling. [More…]

• Honourable senators will, of course, realise that war widows with children of school age receive considerable repatriation assistance for the education of their children, right through to completion of tertiary studies. [More…]

• A war widow with 2 children will now receive $40.25 a week from repatriation plus education allowances and fringe benefits; and if she happens to qualify for age or invalid pension, a further $27.12 a week could be payable; all service pensioners will receive an increase and, depending on various factors, such increases will range from 75c to $2.75 a week. [More…]

• Additionally, of course, asI said earlier, education assistance, medical treatment and other fringe benefits are provided. [More…]

• Did the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science see a television news session last week during which a courageous young lady university student lashed out against the disruptive minority of university students who occupied offices at Latrobe University recently? [More…]

• What power has the Minister for Education and Science to require the university government to maintain a peaceful place suitable for study? [More…]

• With regard to the power of the Minister for Education and Science, the Commonwealth Constitution does not give this Parliament direct power in relation to State universities. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I refer to the Minister’s announcement reported in Monday’s newspapers that the Federal Government has decided to require the inclusion of a health warning in all cigarette advertising on radio and television and that it will finance a national education programme against smoking, directed particularly at young people. [More…]

• If the Government intends to finance a national education programme against smoking as opposed to the hazards involved with smoking, why does the Government not advocate the complete banning of cigarette advertising on radio and television? [More…]

• Finally, will the Government in its education programme consider producing television advertisements advocating that young people should not smoke and time slot such advertisements at children and family viewing times, at the same time thereby supporting Australian programme productions for children and family viewers? [More…]

• The Press statement indicated, first, the Government’s intention ‘to implement a national health education programme directed towards young people’. [More…]

• I also will be giving the States an indication of the health education programme directed to the young and I will be seeking the cooperation of the States in relation to this matter. [More…]

• Will he also advise whether a programme of education on road courtesy is envisaged? [More…]

• The second part of the honourable senator’s question referred to an education programme. [More…]

• at a national level, the maintenance of liaison with drug education authorities. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• In addition to these, one must have regard to the fact that there is an extension of migrant education services - and interpreters are part of this extension - in the community at large in a variety of places which provide interpreters such as banks. [More…]

• After World War II, it was recognised internationally that major investment in science, in education and in science based activities would be a prominent feature of the future. [More…]

• After examination by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of experience and developments overseas, and following discussions with leading industrialists, with the Australian Academy of Science and with senior Government scientists, the Government has decided to establish an Advisory Committee on Science and Technology. [More…]

• The primary function of the Committee to which I have referred and which will report to me through the Minister for Education and Science will be to make recommendations to the Government, on Australian efforts in civil science and technology. [More…]

• The greater proportion of young people in Tasmania tends to produce a relatively greater need for expenditure on education and for infant and child welfare services. [More…]

• According to the Commission, in the field of education, the ratio of pupils at government schools to total population is much higher in Tasmania than in other States; that there is a higher proportion of government to non-government school enrolments; that the degree of utilisation of public hospitals in Tasmania about equals the average; that the cumulative total of Tasmania’s net loan expenditure has more than doubled in the last decade, and is much higher in Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia than in the other States, and that the relatively high expenditure on housing in South Australia and Tasmania partly reflects the fact that those States for a number of years were not parties to the CommonwealthState Housing Agreement. [More…]

• YMCA officials wrote the whole of the physical education programme accepted by the Administration of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Australian Airlines Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]

• The Government has decided to implement a national health education programme directed towards young people and to seek uniform State and Commonwealth action on the health labelling of cigarette packages. [More…]

• The Government will make amounts of up to $500,000 available for each of the next 3 years for a national health education programme. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Health aware that there is great concern and alarm among physical education experts because surveys show that Australian school children are the unfittest in the world and that they are becoming less fit each year? [More…]

• I am aware of recent newspaper reports which have outlined various physical educationalists’ views on the supposed unfitness of Australian youth. [More…]

• Nor have the physical education experts named the specific surveys to which they refer. [More…]

• When one takes into consideration the effect of the loss of this industry on education, hospital, medical and other facilities one can appreciate the situation in which this community will find itself. [More…]

• However, of prime consideration is the prevention of poisons which is essentially a matter for health education. [More…]

• The Minister told me that an interdepartmental committee consisting of representatives of his Department, the Department of Social Services, the Department of Education and Science, the Repatriation Department and the Department of Labour and National Service had been formed to investigate the relevant reports. [More…]

• I am especially mindful of my most recent exercise with the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• The report of that Committee on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education was tabled in this Senate this session. [More…]

• It has been received very favourably indeed by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• He has indicated that he has referred certain of the recommendations to education councils and organisations of that nature with a fairly firm view of looking favourably at the recommendations brought down. [More…]

• The remarkable advances in medical treatment, rehabilitation procedures and techniques of education surely will contribute towards an era in which mentally ill or retarded people will be able to become useful and satisfied citizens in the community instead of just being left to languish in institutions and homes. [More…]

• The Senate Committee also spelt out some recommendations relating to prevention and treatment, lt dealt for quite a while with recommendations concerning education - pre-school education, the main schooling area and teacher training. [More…]

• 1 turn now to the reference in our report to education. [More…]

• I referred earlier to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education. [More…]

• One of the submissions to the Committee which investigated teacher training stated that provision within the State education systems for the special training of teachers dealing with the mentally retarded virtually is non-existent, although awareness of this lack is evidenced by recent moves in some teacher training colleges to introduce special courses. [More…]

• It is all very well for us to talk about education for the handicapped but we must ensure also that as we do this we talk about some facility for teaching the teachers. [More…]

• The other departments involved are Social Services, Repatriation, Education and Science, Labour and National Service, Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Public Service Board, and Interior. [More…]

• It is only through the wonderful work that has been done in the last 15 years by voluntary workers, by education campaigns to establish confidence in retarded children and acceptance of them, that we have been able to get across the message that retarded children should not be so treated. [More…]

• Recommendation 22 is that those States which have not taken full responsibility for the provision of free and compulsory education for all handicapped children should take immediate steps to do so. [More…]

• They have referred to the various wings of the problem, with particular emphasis on handicapped and retarded children, social services, health, education and so on. [More…]

• Our decision has been taken against the background of the direct and indirect contribution which the Commonwealth is already making to education in schools. [More…]

• Our policy is that, relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments, the independent schools should be able to continue to provide places at a reasonable standard for that proportion of school population which in the past has sought education in nongovernment schools. [More…]

• For the independent schools, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will approve the individual projects and authorise the amount of assistance to each of them. [More…]

• I am suggesting to the Premiers that my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, the Honourable Malcolm Fraser, discuss the detailed application of these proposals for both government and independent schools with his colleagues in the States. [More…]

• The Government is satisfied that the new measures I have outlined will represent a milestone in improving the education of all Australian children. [More…]

• In my own situation serving on the Senate Standing Committee on Education and Science, I point out that there is the enormous reference relating to radio and television. [More…]

• When one sees the value that an organisation such as that places on the report, and when one sees the value that the obtaining of the report would be to such an organisation, one wonders why money is expended on other forms of drug education while there is a restriction on the availability of the report which, in the opinion of individuals who claim to be authorities on drug prevention, is the most up to date and the best textbook that they could have for study by those who will be counsellors in the field of drug prevention. [More…]

• 1 note that a considerable sum has been spent on drug prevention education, but I wonder whether it would be better to spend more on publication of this report and allow free distribution to agencies which seek to use it for the sole purpose of educating their counsellors to assist those who wish to fight the scourge of drug taking which is prevalent in Australia at present. [More…]

• The drug educationists in the States condemned the film because it could possibly tempt youth to take drugs rather than deter youth from taking drugs. [More…]

• Those interested in education against drug abuse condemned the expenditure by the Commonwealth Government because the film was more likely to incite rather than repel a desire for drugs. [More…]

• Possibly he is attempting to advance his education or to find his place in industry. [More…]

• in Australia, other than 3 persons in the New South Wales Department of Education, persons with these qualifications are not available. [More…]

• The Committee gives a warning about Commonwealth expenditure on education. [More…]

• I do not anticipate that he will be able to answer the matters that I will raise this evening but I would like him, if he would, to refer them to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who is responsible for them. [More…]

• I do not expect the Minister for Works to be able to comment one way or the other about this matter this evening but I ask him to refer it to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I urge the Minister to ask the Minister for Education and Science to make some inquiries and to see whether what I have put to him is well founded. [More…]

• I listened to Senator Wheeldon and I am grateful to him for bringing a matter of this sort under notice so that I can refer it to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• At a recent conference with the local authorities it was agreed that the State Education authorities would initiate action with the State Government to approach the Commonwealth with a view to the State obtaining the site. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science who administers the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation whether he is aware that a new desalination process known as Sirotherm for purifying water for domestic and industrial use is undergoing final tests in 3 States, namely, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that there has been a reaction from the South Australian Minister for Education, the honourable Mr Hugh Hudson, to the recent announcement by the Prime Minister of the extra grants to schools to the effect that he was disappointed that no extra funds would be made available until July 1973 and that he was equally disappointed that no extra funds would be provided for recurrent purposes? [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware that there was reaction too from the President of the South Australian Institute of Teachers, Mr M. D. Hains, when he said that education needs money now, not in 15 months time, to enable all State authorities to implement progressive plans for educational development? [More…]

• As the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, I rise to acknowledge Senator McLaren’s question. [More…]

• My question to the Attorney-General is this: Is that not a remarkable statement by a member of the Australian Labor Party when some of the most forthright opposition to ‘The Little Red Schoolbook’ has come from the official spokesman on education for the Australian Labor Party? [More…]

• Will he arrange for honourable senators to be supplied with copies of the very forthright statements condemning The Little Red Schoolbook’ which have been made by Mr Beazley, the official spokesman on education for the Australian Labor Party, and also in the last few days by Mr Duthie, who is one of the most respected members of that Party - neither of whom could ever be accused of bigotry or wowserism? [More…]

• They are apparently absorbing what I am saying and receiving an education. [More…]

• Progress has also been made in education. [More…]

• As to social services expenditure (other than education) and departmental expenditures, the submission expressed agreement ‘in very general terms’ with Queensland’s claim that it has disabilities which should be compensated for through higher per capita general revenue grants. [More…]

• He referred also to the subject of education. [More…]

• I would say that it ill-behoves any member of the Opposition in Queensland to villify the Government’s record on education. [More…]

• It has an outstanding record in relation to the money spent to provide education, particularly to the people in the outback and the remote areas. [More…]

• University education has spread to north Queensland. [More…]

• Education is one field in which the Queensland Government has done a tremendous job, and if it has to go to the Commonwealth Grants Commission or anywhere else to get the funds to spend in that direction, it is worth white. [More…]

• The persons awarded scholarships have been engaged in Film Production: Television Production; Film and Television Scriptwriting: and Education. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate and the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]

• The application touches superficially on a number of points but from reading it we see that Queensland is short of money for its police force, for its hospitals and for education. [More…]

• He told us what a lot he had done for education. [More…]

• There arc no jobs; there is no possibility of youngsters getting apprenticeships, and facilities for higher education, particularly for the children of people on low wages, are almost non-existent. [More…]

• I think that a school child moving into the secondary education field would have been able to compile a better application. [More…]

• I shall read what the report has to say on education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Treasury contrasted this with its own approach, referred to in earlier reports of the Commission, which would assess relative needs in education by comparing the percentage of the eligible population in the total State population of the claimant State with the corresponding percentage for the standard States. [More…]

• Applying this comparison to Queensland would show a ‘positive’ need (that is, a need for a higher level of expenditure per head of population than in the standard States), in contrast to the negative’ need shown by the Commission’s method of comparing education expenditures on the basis of actual school enrolments. [More…]

• These include the proposals concerning education expenditure, debt charges and business undertakings referred to in paragraphs 25 to 28 of this Report. [More…]

• Additional appropriations amounting to $27.6m required for departmental other services include $0.8m for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; $2.4m for Commonwealth scholarships to cover a greater number cf awards and an increase in university fees; $1.2m for education services in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory mainly for increases in teachers’ salaries; $0.6m is sought for payment to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account for the acquisition of land off reserves - further funds pursuant to the policy statement by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) of 26th January last will be provided in the Budgets for 1972-73 and subsequent years; Sl.Sm aid for Pakistan refugees before the establishment of the independent State of Bangladesh; $1.5m rehabilitation and relief aid for Bangladesh; $1.6m for migrant education to cover increased salaries and on expanded programme of activity; $0.7m for various services in the Northern Territory; $1.7m for broadcasting and television services, mainly to meet salary increases; $0.9m for repatriation pharmaceutical services; $8m for ship construction; and $1.8m to meet a rise in the number of grants under the Aged Persons Homes Act. [More…]

• For that reason I am indebted to Mr Beazley, the Australian Labor Party spokesman on education, for his article on the dangers of ‘The [More…]

• I understand that the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence, which includes representatives of the Commonwealth and State departments of Health, has the matter in hand and that a considerable amount of money has been allocated for the purpose of education. [More…]

• Our answer to the problem at the moment should be the education of young people not to use marihuana. [More…]

• This is why I say that education rather than preventive measures is the way to try to handle the situation. [More…]

• The Committee recommended also that there should be education in regard to all drug taking. [More…]

• I speak for myself when I say that I think our problems have been exposed by this Committee in a very strong way, but I think that the community will be forced to take more far reaching measures, not only by way of education but also by way of other inducements, to cope with these problems. [More…]

• My great education on those matters came from Senator Mulvihill long before those topics were popular in the community. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I ask: Does he recall the statements by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education and Science regarding proposed financial assistance to independent schools? [More…]

• At this point I join with the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in expressing my thanks to the Interim Council for its work and for its recommendations on which this Bill is substantially based. [More…]

• The Government therefore has decided on 3 immediate measures: Firstly, to conduct through the Commonwealth Department of Health, in association with the States, an education programme aimed at informing the public of the dangers to health of cigarette smoking. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science talked about public interest and said that the Government would invervene and oppose the 9 per cent flow on to the Third Division of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]

• They are the very bases of the ability of this country to pay for increased social services and to function in all those things which are desirable, such as expenditure on education and other matters. [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science: [More…]

• Has the Minister received a proposal from the Minister for Education in South Australia, Mr Hudson, asking the Commonwealth Government to finance Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education on the basis of$1 for each $1 spent by the States on both capital and recurrent costs on condition that the States abolish all tuition fees. [More…]

• Does the proposal show the resultant savings to the Commonwealth in the abolition of tuition fees of scholarships now paid and reduction in taxation allowance now permitted for student children and the further saving of the fees now refunded by the Commonwealth Public Service to employees who pass approved courses and the tax deduction allowance to employers who now pay for employees to attend Universities or Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Hasthe Minister had the proposal evaluated and would the scheme permit free tuition at Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education with very little additional cost to the Government. [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: (I), (2) and (3). [More…]

• The Minister of Education in South Australia, Mr Hudson, wrote to me on 17th December 1971 to suggest that financial support of universities and colleges of advanced education in the States be shared equally by the Commonwealth and States on condition that tuition fees in these institutions be abolished. [More…]

• Dear Mr Hudson, 1 have read with interest your letter of 17th December 1971 in which you suggest the abolition of fees at universities and colleges of advanced education in association with a change in financial arrangements so that the Commonwealth and the States would share equally in support of recurrent expenditure in these institutions in the States. [More…]

• The various elements of indirect cost to which you refer are taken into account whenever we are called upon to estimate the cost of abolishing fees in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Governments need to have careful regard to priorities to be accorded to various proposals for additional expenditure on education, whether in tertiary education or elsewhere. [More…]

• You yourself have referred to the problem facing students from low income families who wish to attend a university or college of advanced education. [More…]

• A significant proportion of full-time students in universities is represented by those who hold teacher training scholarships from State Education departments. [More…]

• H. R. Hudson, M.H.A., Minister of Education, G.P.O. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minis ter for Education and Science: [More…]

• How many students of aboriginal descent were admitted to each of the Australian Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education in each of the last 3 years and to which faculties were such students admitted. [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Government continues to endorse the triennial principle for grants to universities and colleges of advanced education, but accepts that during the current 1970-72 triennium there have been exceptional increases in non-academic salaries and wages. [More…]

• The main purpose of the Bill now before the Senate is to make the corresponding supplementary grants for colleges of advanced education in the States in respect of costs arising from exceptional increases in nonacademic salaries and wages. [More…]

• A new institution - the South Australian Board of Advanced Education - has been established in 1972. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that the current Act already provides specifically for support of boards of advanced education in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, and similar provision is now being made for South Australia. [More…]

• A a result of the revised schedule of recurrent grants, supplementary Commonwealth grants totalling approximately $787,000 and representing a combined additional Commonwealth/ State allocation of $2,242,000 will be made available for colleges of advanced education in the States. [More…]

• In accordance with established precedent the Bill provides separately also for Commonwealth support of McGregor College, a residential college affiliated with the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• A new institution listed for preliminary support is the Torrens College of Advanced Education in South Australia which will come into operation in the forthcoming 1973-75 triennium. [More…]

• I commend to honourable senators this Bill which provides for additional Commonwealth grants to the States for advanced education. [More…]

• He paid two visits to the area and conferred with Officers of the Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare, the Education Department, the local Council and the local hospital. [More…]

• There is a major need for a national trade union college in Australia to provide union education. [More…]

• Improved working conditions, social services, health, education, housing and a host of other things are the concern of the trade unions as the organised strength of the lower and middle income groups. [More…]

• He ought to be taken out of the area of indifference, not by compulsion but by information and perhaps by education. [More…]

• Is the Repatriation Department the only Australian body involved in all aspects of research, education, evaluation and patient treatment in the field of prosthetics and orthotics. [More…]

• The Repatriation Department is the only organisation in Australia conducting formal education in the field of prosthetics and orthotics. [More…]

• Mr E. R. McClean (Supervisor, Migrant Education ; Adult) [More…]

• Mr M. Mackrell (Slate Education Department) [More…]

• Mr C. L. Fitzgerald (Department of Education and Science) [More…]

• Mr A. H. Sansom (Migrant Education Officer, S.A. Education Department) [More…]

• Depending upon the facts of the particular case, however, she may be entitled to a concessional deduction under the heading of education expenses or under the provision relating to a housekeeper. [More…]

• If a child is old enough to attend a school at which full-time education is provided, expenses incurred by the mother in connexion with the full-time education of the child at the school are allowed as deductions up to a maximum amount of $400 per annum for each such child. [More…]

• No deduction is allowable where the child attends an establishment which merely provides a child minding service and is not a school providing full-time education. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer: [More…]

• Will the Postmaster-General re-classify the Journals of State school parent Associations under Category ‘A’ for posting purposes in view of their role which is both charitable and serving the purposes of education. [More…]

• Educational organisations must have the dissemination of knowledge as their principal object. [More…]

• According to the strict criteria adopted by the Post Office, educational organisations are considered to be those bodies, such as universities, schools and colleges, which are generally recognised as such and which have a significant element of systematic or formalised education in their activities. [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science concerns the activities of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in the air pollution field. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Dr Reader of the National Heart Foundation and Dr Willee, Director of Physical Education at the University of Melbourne, have declared that Australian over- 16-year- olds are less fit than their American counterparts who are considered to be the most unfit race of people in the world? [More…]

• What urgent action does the Minister propose to take to give greater emphasis to physical education in schools in view of these alarming claims? [More…]

• Board to accept either suitable qualifications granted by an institution of tertiary or technical education or alternatively, appropriate membership of a professional institute recognised by the Board. [More…]

• State School Committees are primarily engaged in activities concerning the welfare and education of school children, and increased postal charges on our magazine means less money for our main purpose. [More…]

• This Government apparently intends to counter that type of expenditure by providing a mere $500,000 a year for 3 years- in other words, $1,500,000 over 3 years - compared with $30m over 3 years spent by the tobacco companies, for the purpose of conducting, in association with the States, a so-called education programme, aimed at informing the public of the dangers to health of cigarette smoking. [More…]

• I take it from the fact that the Commonwealth will provide $500,000 a year for 3 years for an education programme aimed at informing the public of the dangers to health of cigarette smoking that the Government is not prepared to accept a complete ban on cigarette advertising. [More…]

• I would prefer to approach the matter from the viewpoint of applauding the steps that have been taken in relation to the education programme. [More…]

• I refer to the release of a document this morning by the Minister for Civil Aviation and the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The latest development in which the Minister for Education and Science and myself and our Departments are involved is the development with radio physics of a more intensified system of landing aids based on microwaves, which is more precise, more refined and much more definite. [More…]

• I refer to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts and its reference from the Senate to inquire into all aspects of broadcasting and television, including the Australian content of television programmes. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that this Committee concluded its previous assignment dealing with the Commonwealth role in teacher education and put down its report in the Senate on the first day of this session. [More…]

• One matter is that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts is making a report as to the progress of the Committee. [More…]

• I think that the expectation of the Senate that standing committees make regular reports as to their progress has in general not been observed as it has been by the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• Briefly I say that it is my sincerest opinion that if the Government had followed the advice and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse in respect to advertising and gone ahead with an education policy, much more good would have been flowing to the community than will flow from this legislation. [More…]

• The result of this plea has been the setting up of various State Media Advisory Committees on Drug Education, representative of all mass media. [More…]

• The third step was to conduct, through the Commonwealth Department of Health in association with the States, an education programme aimed at informing the public of the dangers to health of cigarette smoking. [More…]

• The Government’s view is that it is essentially a matter of education and essentially a matter of bringing to people’s attention the risks that they run. [More…]

• So we have an education campaign. [More…]

• I would have been interested to hear him quote one or two sections from the report instead of reading from the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (MiMalcolm Fraser). [More…]

• There are one or two points in the second reading speech of the Minister for Works (Senator Wright), who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), which require some examination. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided an answer to the question. [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• In view of the comprehensive programmes of education carried out in the Territory, will he seek to obtain an assurance that opportunities exist for encouraging and achieving nationalism without resorting to the practices mentioned? [More…]

• As the process of formal education impacts more and more on the people, self-esteem and self-respect for their country and countrymen will become popular ingredients in the growth of nationalism - as they have in other emerging countries. [More…]

• Main elements of the political education programme are consolidating national unity and encouraging a spirit of nationalism by welcoming the adoption of national symbols. [More…]

• A spirit of nationalism is promoted also by bringing Papuans and New Guineans from all regions of the country together in the Public Service and education institutions. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT - The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of govern ment education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate and the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [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…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The Commonwealth takes an active part through its interest in the Australian Capital Territory, the education programme of the Australian National University, the Territory of Papua New Guinea and through the Department of the Interior timber and forestry programme in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT - The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT - The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• On 22nd March Senator McLaren asked me as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science the following question: [More…]

• Will the Minister examine the possibility of altering the starting time of the 8.30 a.m. lectures at the Canberra College of Advanced Education as this present starting time doubtless contributes to traffic delays caused to students at the intersection of Belconnen Way and Haydon Drive, due to heavy city-bound traffic on Belconnen Way? [More…]

• I brought the question to the attention of the Minister for Education and Science who has now provided the following information: [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]

• are keen to undertake or to continue education in the tertiary field but are unable to do so or, if they do, are placed in great financial difficulty because of their inability to earn extra income, will the Minister give consideration to making available to these people financial grants to assist them with their studies and to ease some of the financial burdens and disadvantages under which they are placed, at the same time giving many of them the opportunity to continue upon a career, or to take up a course, which otherwise may be lost to them? [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science informs me that he has been advised as follows: [More…]

• The kind of assistance which the honourable senator has in mind is, more appropriately a matter for provision by the Department of Social Services than by the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided me with 3 reports and some general comments on the matter for the information of the Senate. [More…]

• Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science seen reports of statements by Dr Charles Williams, the head of the University of Sydney counselling service, that hundreds of thousands of dollars are being spent on health and counselling services to prevent students cracking up under pressure and, further, that sums spent in this way are rising each year? [More…]

• In my reply I said that I did not think that the matter had been under examination by the Minister for Education and Science but would refer the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for his consideration. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided me with the following advice: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Is there a different value in the grant to an Aboriginal student attending a High School to qualify for a Leaving Certificate, when compared with a student attending a College of Advanced Education or a University. [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minis ter representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Does the Federal Government approve of portion of the Commonwealth grant to the State of Victoria for education being used to provide housing for the purposes outlined by Mr Seagrave. [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has providedthe following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Discussions have taken place between the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, Department of Education and Science, Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, the [More…]

• What was the cost of producing the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s recent television programme ‘Education - The Great Debate’. [More…]

• I understand the aim of the programme was to provide a forum for a nation-wide discussion on secondary education in Australia. [More…]

• It was not designed to provide solutions to whatever problems may exist in the field of education. [More…]

• I direct a question without notice to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science who, I understand, has responsibility also for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• Then it was education: It was the mother’s fault for leaving the containers around. [More…]

• He used to tell me that education was the answer. [More…]

• What has the Government done about education? [More…]

• It has been shown that education is useless. [More…]

• The Government has not spent one cent on education. [More…]

• This year it intends to do something about education. [More…]

• On education in relation to the dangers of tobacco smoking. [More…]

• The other area about which I wish to speak is the area of education. [More…]

• Therefore, if we are to look constructively to the future it is to seek an effective education programme for the community that we must turn. [More…]

• There is a drug education sub-committee of the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence. [More…]

• I realise that it is a permanent standing committee, that it has an education programme in conjunction with the Department of Health and the State bodies and that it has been a source of preparation of literature, films and the sorts of releases that form part of a basic education programme; yet 1 wonder whether the structure of that standing committee enables it to encompass all the recommendations made in this report to the Senate on drugs. [More…]

• The report expresses the hope that there will be established a national education council, representative of the Commonwealth and the States, and that its membership will be drawn from a variety of disciplines, including education, medicine, social health, the legal profession, social workers and youth leaders. [More…]

• I consider that the broadest base would be required for an education committee which had to give continuing service to a developing problem. [More…]

• As someone who has had some activity in the Young Women’s Christian Association and who knows how that Association and its corresponding organisation, the Young Men’s Christian Association, work in serving the youth of our community, I realise that youth workers, who are close to the people in the relevant age group, have much to contribute in the way of giving information, developing education programmes and in actually taking these programmes to the people who can best use them. [More…]

• For this particular species of man there is a dependence on some drugs, and an education programme for that part of our society would need to be very different from that which would be addressed to youth with all its colour and vibrancy. [More…]

• Thus I would hope that the education council, which I should like to see formed, would have some application to members of that special group of the community who do need a different application of the educational processes to develop their intelligence as to their usage and dependency on drugs. [More…]

• Here again lies a new need for education for this group. [More…]

• So I return to my point about the national education council. [More…]

• I would hope that the recommendations which ensue would be valuable and constructive so that we could cover the areas which I have isolated as those on which I wished to speak; that is, drug trafficking and the education of our people. [More…]

• To those various governments it was a report for action by the health authorities, education authorities, social welfare authorities and law enforcement authorities. [More…]

• Educationists could read our chapter on education and consider curriculums and education systems necessary in the years ahead. [More…]

• This is not a health problem and it is not altogether a government problem; it is a social problem and it is a problem that leaders in the social field and educational field should be considering. [More…]

• So if we are really to try to beat the drug menace in Australia it is important that we get to people not only through education but also through the environment in which they live. [More…]

• As a result committees have been set up in several of the States - in other States they are being formed - on which the news media and the health authorities, governmental or private, are able to get together and talk about drug education through the media and drug reporting in the media. [More…]

• I have high hopes that the newspaper reporting of and education on the drug situation in Australia will continue to improve and that governments will get great co-operation from the media. [More…]

• This enlightening of the public is done by education, by speeches from people who know about the matter and by the holding of seminars. [More…]

• I think that enough has been said and is known in relation to education but, for Senator Turnbull’s information, I say that the Commonwealth has produced, under a vote of $500,000, in the last 3 years a lot of very worthwhile pamphlets, television shorts and films which have been made available to and are greatly appreciated by the State governments which are using them according to their sovereign rights as they wish to have them. [More…]

• The Committee made a recommendation regarding the setting up of a committee to oversee all the educational and sociological aspects of the drug problem in Australia. [More…]

• An education sub-committee to which -I have referred has been working on this matter. [More…]

• In answer to a question asked of me yesterday by Senator Townley, 1 said that I would like to take the opportunity of the adjournment to obtain a factual answer in regard to that question concerning Tasmanian shipping insofar as it came within my responsibility as Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science who is responsible for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• I desire to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I shall have the figures referred to the Minister for Education and Science and get from him a detailed answer explaining the reason for the various amounts. [More…]

• My question which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, refers to the statement made by the Minister in the Senate on Thursday. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the segment of that statement dealing with teacher education shows a substantial Commonwealth involvement in this sphere of education? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this section of the statement reflects a wide and favourable response by the Government to the major recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, whose report on teacher education was put down earlier this year? [More…]

• I am very glad that Senator Davidson, as Chairman of the Senate Committee which inquired into and reported upon this matter, should notice immediately the consideration which the Minister for Education and Science has given to the Senate Committee’s report on this important subject. [More…]

• As a result of the recommendations of the Senate Committee, of which, as I say, Senator Davidson was Chairman, my colleague, the Minister lor Education and Science, made a statement which refers to a substantially increased involvement in the question of teacher education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Are indirect grants in the form of Commonwealth taxation deductions to the extent of $70m and indirect grants available to nonState schools listed in the brochure ‘Government Grants - Allowances and Subsidies for Primary and Secondary Schools and their Pupils’ issued by the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science included in these calculations? [More…]

• The third report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• I seek leave to make a statement about the 1973-75 triennial programmes for universities, research grants and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The reports of the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education represent valuable documents for those who wish to obtain a full understanding of the developments that are planned in education in universities and colleges of advanced education during the next 3 years. [More…]

• The reports summarise the developments and progress which have taken place in the period 1970- 72 and make recommendations for financial assistance for universities and colleges of advanced education for the coming triennium 1973-75. [More…]

• I am pleased to be able to say that the Government has found it possible to accept all the financial recommendations of the Australian Universities Commission and virtually all of those of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The estimated cost of the combined programmes approved for universities and colleges of advanced education for the 1973- 75 triennium is $ 1,467m which represents an increase of 45 per cent over the actual programmes in the 1970-72 triennium. [More…]

• The programme for colleges of advanced education of $450m represents an increase of 78 per cent compared with an increase of 117 per cent for the previous triennium. [More…]

• When presenting the reports in respect of universities and colleges 3 years ago, the Minister for Education and Science expressed the belief that the courses offered by the colleges being more directly related to the immediate needs of industry and commerce would appeal to many able students as a meaningful alternative to university education. [More…]

• In 1969, 65.5 per cent of all tertiary students were undertaking university courses, 21,5 per cent courses in colleges of advanced education and 13.0 per cent were in teachers colleges. [More…]

• This year only 58.6 per cent of the total tertiary enrolment is in universities while the proportion in colleges of advanced education has risen to 27.5 per cent. [More…]

• Thus, of a total expected enrolment of approximately 245,000 in tertiary institutions by 1975, excluding students in universities proceeding to higher degrees, about 132,000 will be undergraduate students at universities, 81,000 students at colleges of advanced education and 32,000 teachers college students. [More…]

• The growth in numbers in colleges of advanced education will be the most significant and will represent an increase of 50.4 per cent on the numbers enrolled this year compared with an increase of 15 per cent in universities. [More…]

• The programmes of financial assistance proposed for universities and colleges of advanced education will provide greater educational opportunities at the tertiary level and by 1975 the proportion of the 17-22 years age group studying at these institutions is expected to rise to 15 per cent compared with 12.5 per cent in 1972. [More…]

• In presenting these reports I would like to emphasise that the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education have prepared their recommendations and reports in close consultation with each other and that each Commission has had detailed consultations with the relevant authorities and institutions in all States. [More…]

• In deciding to support the programmes for the 1973-75 triennium, the Commonwealth Government concluded that they represent both a reasonable expansion of tertiary education facilities and an acceptable demand on our overall resources, bearing in mind our other considerable commitments to education at other levels. [More…]

• The Government also believes that the allocation of resources as between universities and colleges of advanced education is appropriate for the balanced development of the 2 streams of tertiary education. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that in the final analysis a complete remedy will be found not only in enforcement or in treatment or rehabilitation but also through an improved environment and education in the home. [More…]

• It has implemented long term projects in the area of education and research. [More…]

• When the Senate established a committee to inquire into and report on the problem the terms of reference were realistically wide to ensure that all of the aspects - education, enforcement, treatment, etc. [More…]

• Such a programme would have been a direct assault on the high level of unemployment and, incidentally, a contribution to those neglected twins - health and education. [More…]

• One most welcome measure is the deductibility of expenditure by a taxpayer on his own education. [More…]

• We have introduced and stepped up migration education and welfare and integration programmes. [More…]

• I equally believed - I believe it now- that’ the 1970s would be years of what I call ‘ domestic expansion when we would be able to do something more for the general well being of the people within this country in the fields of taxation, health, hospitals, housing, education, roads, railways1 - all those things that mean something to them. [More…]

• At end of motion add - but the Senate condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]

• We have an education system, both government and non-government, which is creaking at the seams; health services which literally cause most people to fear the economic consequences of sickness; a pension scheme which ensures a poverty standard for a million of our elderly citizens; and a country being ravaged by overseas investors, as well as many other great issues. [More…]

• Other honourable senators will talk of many of the expansions in our education programme and many of the decisions taken with the regard to the defence priorities of Australia, national development projects, communications systems which we are developing and all those other things which are part of a great national programme. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• As the discipline of learning also carries with it references to teaching, I ask: Has the Minister observed the recommendation in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on teacher education that refers to attention, aptitude, temperament and desire? [More…]

• I am obliged to the honourable senator for directing attention to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on teacher education. [More…]

• I carried with me into the chamber the education statistics that are such a notable achievement of this Government, In regard to teacher education, I remind the Senate that in 1970 the full time teacher education enrolment in colleges of advanced education numbered 1,068, that by 1973 it is estimated that the full time enrolments will exceed 2,500 and that since 1968 the number of teacher trainees in Government schools has increased from 29,000 to 42,000. [More…]

• I think it is a necessary corollary of that fact that teacher education is being guided as much as possible into colleges of advanced education at the present time although of course many teacher institutions will continue to exist for their exclusive function of teacher training. [More…]

• I am not aware that the Government has given any specific allocation of funds for research into this matter, although, as the Senate knows, the funds made available to the States by the Commonwealth and the direct expenditure by the Commonwealth on education afford ample opportunity for the States to institute this research if necessary. [More…]

• Is it a fact that when giving sworn evidence on 6th June 1971 before the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, as recorded at page 224 of the transcript, Sir Robert said, inter alia: [More…]

• Can the Minister representing the Minster for Education and Science state, firstly, the total amount spent by the Commonwealth Government on Aboriginal education in the year ending 30th June 1972; and secondly the amount allocated for this purpose in the current Budget? [More…]

• Fourthly, can he provide me also with the per capita figure spent on the education of other Australians during the same period? [More…]

• I am able to inform the honourable senator that the allocation for Aboriginal education last year was $8.6m. [More…]

• That only takes its place as an item in the very impressive increase in the Commonwealth’s direct expenditure on education which rises from S354m a year ago to $426m this year. [More…]

• With regard to the comparative per capita expen diture on education as between Aborigines and others, last year the general per capita- [More…]

• A strategy to meet this problem requires a comprehensive approach including a drastic improvement in education, housing and economic opportunity as well as health services. [More…]

• That community-based health education and preventive medicine, in close harmony with the provision of medical treatment, be the keystone of such health programmes. [More…]

• There should be a programme of orientation to and education about Aboriginal life and culture, including language courses where possible, presented essentially by Aborigines, for all personnel involved with Aborigines through health services. [More…]

• Despite attempts by the Opposition to frustrate him when he was giving his answer, he said that Aboriginal children are attracting education grants of $100 a head. [More…]

• I wish to deal quickly with education. [More…]

• I would like to draw the attention of the appropriate Minister, the Minister for Works who represents the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in the Senate, to the plight of parents living in outback isolated areas of Australia. [More…]

• I am referring to the penalty that is imposed upon such people because of the need to provide governesses up to a certain stage of education and because of the need for these parents to send their children away from home thus incurring substantial boarding expenses as well as general education expenses. [More…]

• They are making an important contribution to this country because, without these men firstly, going in to assist the development and the education of this country and, secondly, taking a stake in it to develop it and get commercial viability in certain areas, this country would not be in the situation that it is in today - moving towards complete selfgovernment and eventual independence. [More…]

• As I was endeavouring to explain, the Australian Labor Party is of the view that just as the Australian Universities Commission is essential to university education, there should be an Australian schools commission to deal with the problems of primary and secondary education throughout Australia. [More…]

• Similarly we believe that there should be an Australian pre-schools commission to deal with the very great problems of pre-school education. [More…]

• At this late hour on a Thursday night I do not want to labour the point, but T think it is generally accepted by educators throughout the world that one of the most important branches of education is pre-school education. [More…]

• Preschool education is not a subsidiary or trivial part of their education, as has often been considered in the past; it is an integral and very important part of their education. [More…]

• We believe that the present provision made for pre-school education is grossly inadequate. [More…]

• To a very large extent the people whose children receive the benefits of pre-school education are middle class and upper middle class parents who are able to afford to maintain by private subscription the kindergartens and pre-school centres in the localities in which they live. [More…]

• To a very large extent the people whose children are most in need of the services of pre-school centres and kindergartens are those people whose children are deprived of that education. [More…]

• We merely ask that a pre-school commission should be established to raise the level of pre-school education throughout Australia at least to the level of pre-school education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Although the Australian Capital Territory clearly leads the rest of Australia in the provision of this type of education, pre-school education in the Australian Capital Territory leaves a great deal to be desired. [More…]

• About 52 per cent of eligible children in the Australian Capital Territory at present are receiving pre-school education. [More…]

• The percentage of Australian children of pre-school age who receive the benefit of pre-school education is only 14.8 per cent. [More…]

• The variations in the percentages of children receiving the benefit of education in this very important part of their lives range from 34.6 per cent in the Northern Territory to 3.1 per cent in New South Wales. [More…]

• In the largest State only 3.1 per cent of preschool age children are receiving the benefit of this type of education. [More…]

• Western Australia, only 12.8 per cent of children receive the benefits of preschool education. [More…]

• The results of the inability to provide pre-school education can be seen in many areas where working class parents do not have the facilities that are available to their more affluent fellow citizens to provide the sort of home assistance that is necessary. [More…]

• Throughout Australia, particularly outside the Australian Capital Territory, there is clear evidence that the most depressed sections of the community - the sections of the community most in need of pre-school education for their children, particularly those children of recent immigrants from countries where the language is not English - are deprived of a very essential advantage in the upbringing of their children. [More…]

• The amendment ignores completely the process of education administration which is well known to be very much the sphere of the States. [More…]

• It highlights the com.plexitiy of Australian Labor Party policy of centralising the whole processes of education, in particular the whole processes of pre-school education, at a central or distant spot, with one standard across Australia, with one criterion, one standardisation and one requirement. [More…]

• The Government’s record thus far in this field indicates that the support which it gives to the States and to the organisations involved in pre-school teacher education is far and away the best one and one which is achieving the greatest degree of success. [More…]

• I remind the Senate of the speech made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in which he referred to a meeting of the Australian Education Council in May of this year when State Ministers for Education requested Commonwealth assistance for State teachers colleges, particularly to bring pre-school teachers colleges within the advanced education arrangements. [More…]

• Included in those decisions is the decision by the Commonwealth offering to share with the States from July next year the capital and recurring costs of pre-school teachers colleges under the advanced education arrangements. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts has investigated the Commonwealth role in teacher education. [More…]

• I wish to refer very briefly to some of its findings in the area of the training and education of teachers for kindergartens and what we call the pre-school area’. [More…]

• The Committee received a good deal of evidence concerning the value to the community of pre-school education. [More…]

• It was generally accepted by the people who submitted evidence to the Committee in relation to this area of teacher education that the most receptive learning period in a child’s life is between the ages of 3 and 8 years. [More…]

• Evidence showed that the major limiting factor in the provision of pre-school education is an adequate supply of fully qualified preschool teachers. [More…]

• The members of the Committee were particularly impressed with the quality of teacher education and the sense of dedication which these organisations have. [More…]

• We considered that pre-school education was one of the most vital and yet also one of the neglected areas of education in Australia today. [More…]

• The Government’s attention to pre-school teacher education is a matter of vital importance. [More…]

• The Committee recommended that the Commonwealth provide capital and recurrent funds for the establishment and mainte nance of pre-school teacher training facilities as part of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• That the interest and expertise of the community through the voluntary organisations be maintained if pre-school teachers colleges become part of colleges of advanced education or if financial responsibility is taken for their building and maintenance by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I am unable to understand bow the Senate can be expected, in the light of the Government’s announcements on education and its announcement on pre-school education in regard to teachers colleges, to turn back and express the view that we should have a centralised, inflexible unrelated pre-school commission. [More…]

• After completing his education in the United States of America, he served as a displomat from 1965 to 1970. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for Slate school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• Recently the proposals for the Commonwealth’s participation in providing funds for Australian universities and colleges of advanced education for the next triennium were announced. [More…]

• Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and, secondly, the requests of the universities and colleges themselves? [More…]

• The honourable senator will be reminded that the 2 commissions referred to were set up to recommend to the Government the appropriations required for universities in the one case and colleges of advanced education in the other case, lt is my belief, without being able to verify the matter in answer to a question without notice today, that the appropriations which the Government has made comply in full with the recommendations of each commission. [More…]

• In the case of colleges of advanced education, the amount has risen from about $34m to about $45m this year. [More…]

• I support the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition, which seeks the condemnation of the Budget by the Senate because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres. [More…]

• In education we have seen important advances in nearly every direction. [More…]

• There is an important omission as far as education is concerned and that is in relation to children in isolated areas. [More…]

• I know that the States, too, have a responsibility in this sphere because they control the education system. [More…]

• I know that the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is sympathetic to the cause, lt is only a matter of the State Departments of Education and the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science getting together. [More…]

• I am sure that when they do we will see this anomaly in our education system rectified. [More…]

• Qualifications - Tertiary education, preferably in Economics or Sociology and that the position was open to permanent [More…]

• The qualifications were ‘Tertiary education, preferably in Economics or Sociology, with evidence of ability to analyse and write clearly’. [More…]

• On 24th August Senator Jessop asked me a question concerning Aboriginal education which was considerably distorted by proceedings in the Senate, and in the interest of accuracy, I wish to give the following answer. [More…]

• I am able to inform the honourable senator that the allocation specifically for Aboriginal education last financial year was $8. [More…]

• That only takes its place as an item in the very impressive increase in the Commonwealth’s direct expenditure on education which rises from $354m in the last financial year to a budgeted $426m this year. [More…]

• But the fact is, excluding special expenditure in the field of Aboriginal education, in the last financial year the Commonwealth spent nearly $27 per head of total population on education, and this year expenditures is budgeted at more than $31 per head. [More…]

• In addition in the last financial year a further $60 per head of Aboriginal population was spent by the Commonwealth specifically for Aboriginal education. [More…]

• What positive action emerged from the recent conference of State and private education directors which discussed the possibility of European and other overseas teachers being co-opted to assist Australian teachers in instructing some migrant children in inner capital city suburbs? [More…]

• There were representatives of State Education Departments, the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science, the Catholic Education Offices of Melbourne and Sydney, the Commonwealth Teaching Service, teacher registration authorities in Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria, the National Council of Independent Schools and, of course, the Department of Immigration. [More…]

• ‘the Senate condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programming for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs, the prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capita] cities and regional centres’. [More…]

• I thinkit is important in this context to point out some answers given by Sir Robert Madgwick, the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, during a hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on 6th June 1972. [More…]

• You may recall, Mr Acting Deputy President, that when I came here last year I confessed that 1 was not fortunate enough to have had a very high academic education. [More…]

• It relates to children of families who live in very isolated ureas and who are suffering because of the problems associated with their education. [More…]

• 12 refers to a ministerial statement on the Commonwealth education programme for 1971-72 and the question is that the Senate take note of the paper. [More…]

• The reason for the different approach State by State is that the 3 books in which the maps appear were books which formerly covered the whole State and the maps were included when the books were split into sections as part of a general education programme. [More…]

• Now I turn to the issue of education. [More…]

• There was a thunderous silence from the Labor1 Party on education despite the fact that: this Government, over recent months and- in the Budget, has gone ahead with historical moves. ‘ [More…]

• The Government is assisting education on-. [More…]

• Was there any mention of the teacher training programme, of all the announcements in relation to colleges of advanced .education and universities which have been made in recent weeks and which are exciting? [More…]

• Any citizen in Australia who chooses to send his child to an independent school will receive second class education because the Labor Party has said this through Mr Whitlam’s mouth. [More…]

• It is willing to help the rich at universities, State high schools and in secular education but it is out to divide, destroy and demolish the independent system. [More…]

• If Mr Whitlam is elected to office and keeps all his promises, he will have to find finance for boosting pensions to 25 per cent of average earnings; ending the means test; handing out an immediate $100m to pensioners and unemployed; reducing sales tax; raising unemployment benefits; extra spending on schools and hospitals; p re-school education; free university education; a national insurance scheme; and regenerating urban public transport. [More…]

• Let me remind Senator Hannan that that member of the Country Party is also a member of the National Civic Council Education Extension Committee. [More…]

• When the report of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education was tabled on 22nd February I, as Chairman of the Committee, was responding to a direction of the Senate. [More…]

• As the Committee met during 1971, debated, discussed and took evidence in relation to the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education, it was constantly mindful of the fact that it had to table a report by about the third week of February 1972, as it believed the first sitting date of 1972 to be. [More…]

• So it was with some degree of appreciation that on 22nd February of this year I was able to respond to the Senate’s direction and table in the Senate the report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education. [More…]

• The report indicated that we covered, as far as time and circumstance would allow, a wide range of studies relating to teacher education. [More…]

• I seem to remember one newspaper commentary which stated that while we had devoted a lot of time to and made a lot of recommendations about administration and areas in which the Commonwealth may involve itself in teacher education we had not given much time to studying in depth the whole discipline of teaching; we had not spent a great deal of time discussing and working out the requirements and the demands, on the personal level, of the individual teacher. [More…]

• I will go so far as to say that the proportion was too large for the good of education in Australia. [More…]

• On the other hand, teaching is such a vital, necessary and significant part of our national life - it always has been and it is now, particularly as we are moving into a wide range of intellectual and academic developments - thai teacher training or teacher education becomes very important and perhaps far more important than all of us realise. [More…]

• It may well be that the areas which we have covered, the material which we have studied and the recommendations which we have made will encourage more people - if the Committee had time it might like to do something about this matter - to do a study in depth on the requirements of aptitude, personality, ability and the whole relationship between teacher and students, teacher and community, staff and school and teacher and the whole wide education discipline. [More…]

• As the Minister will recall this is related in particular to pre-school teacher education but I imagine that the Minister would agree that the principle which applies to pre-school teacher education would also apply to the wide range of teacher education. [More…]

• We said in the report that in our deliberations we were constantly reminded that many longstanding assumptions regarding education were now being seriously challenged. [More…]

• I think that what I will call the lay community throughout Australia has certain assumptions about teacher education. [More…]

• Some of the assumptions were in the areas of pupil/teacher ratios and the relative significance of pre-school, primary and secondary teaching education. [More…]

• Indeed, we made the point that the whole philosophy of education in the 1970s should be under the closest possible scrutiny. [More…]

• Therefore it is singularly important that we give a great deal of attention to the teaching profession within this decade because, as we move from the 1980s towards the close of the century there will be greater demands on the education discipline within our nation, there will also be greater demands upon the teaching profession. [More…]

• One of our early recommendations deals with the encouragement and establishment of integrated courses in education. [More…]

• The recommendation deals mainly with the fact that while it is very important that people who are training for the teaching profession should devote their time very strongly and emphatically to undergoing education in the area of teaching, it is also singularly important that those people who would undergo education as teachers should also have complete and widespread knowledge of the total sphere of education and the integration of course subjects; that is, subjects in a variety of courses, whether in the commercial sector or the professional sector or in other sectors that emerge, together with education subjects. [More…]

• We felt that the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education should encourage the establishment of ‘ these integrated courses. [More…]

• In another instance the Committee was concerned that there was no adequate and up to date set of facts, figures and information concerning projections of the number of pupils and teachers and the prospective number of teachers who might be engaged in the system of teacher training or teacher education. [More…]

• A very serious attempt should be made to have listed and available the range of qualifications of teachers so that the teaching profession throughout Austrafia could have some idea of where the talents lay, where the numbers lay and where people could be moved from one point to another so that the teacher education programme and the teaching discipline would be related, not a series of unrelated areas. [More…]

• A discussion was held on education, including teacher training and - as one would expect in these days - on what are called the ‘non-government’ or ‘independent’ schools. [More…]

• We were emphatic that if financial assistance were provided for these bodies the standards to be met by them would be those laid down by State boards of teacher education and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• In today’s developments and society the matter of people who require special education is receiving a great deal of emphasis and is coming very much under the spotlight. [More…]

• There is the emerging emphasis on special education for Aboriginal children where again the teachers need to be trained in a certain kind of way. [More…]

• They need a special type of education. [More…]

• We owe it to our people to ensure that the entire community receives the best available kind of education. [More…]

• We recommended that the Australian Universities Commission establish at least one university department of special education in each Stale. [More…]

• We also suggested that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, in conjunction with State boards of teacher education, establish special courses for teachers of the handicapped in several colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Those who wish to look at it for some emphasis will find it in the section dealing with education for teachers in the technical sphere. [More…]

• I suggest that the apex of our work was our concern for research into the future of teacher education. [More…]

• We were concerned also about the administration of teacher education. [More…]

• We were anxious that the maximum of research and inquiiry should be undertaken into the whole sphere of teacher education, both now and in the future. [More…]

• This is why our report leads up with very heavy emphasis to the fact that there should be provided to a research institution additional funds for research into the whole field of teacher education. [More…]

• I suppose that the most satisfying aspect of our report on teacher education was the fact that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) responded very enthusiastically to the recommendations which we made. [More…]

• He referred the whole report in its total form to the Australian Education Council which, at its meeting, went through the report and made comments on the various recommendations that we had made. [More…]

• It drew attention, as has the Minister, to the fact that in relation to the registration of teachers, which I mentioned earlier, neither the Australian Universities Commission nor the Australian Commission on Advanced Education considered that it was the appropriate body to undertake a matter of this kind. [More…]

• It was suggested that the matter might more appropriately be referred to State departments of education. [More…]

• It was felt that teacher education institutions should become autonomous. [More…]

• The matter of single purpose teacher education institutions came up very strongly in our discussions and there are references to it in our report. [More…]

• I understand that the Government has indicated that it favours the provision of teacher education in multi-purpose institutions wherever possible. [More…]

• State teacher education institutions should, if they were single purpose ones, be regarded as multi-purpose institutions for the purposes of funds that were being allocated. [More…]

• The teaching profession is one of the most significant and important professions in Australia because it is so tremendously important to the whole field of education and learning. [More…]

• Education must always undergo an evolving and changing process because it must always be geared to new demands and new needs. [More…]

• As governments spread their education benefits wider through the provision of grants for colleges and schools and through scholarships and other opportunities for learning, so also must provision be made for the total development of and the maximum possible provision for those people whose high responsibility and, indeed, whose supreme privilege it will be to impart the new learning, the new techniques, the new skills and the new developments of the mind. [More…]

• I hope that the Senate will agree with me when I say that we believe that the report which we have presented to the Senate has discharged our responsibility and will be for the benefit of education in general and teacher education in particular. [More…]

• My participation in the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts was my first experience of the working of the commit- tee system in this chamber. [More…]

• We senators, with varying views on society in general and the education system in particular, found that when confronted with the dispassionate, careful and unemotional views of the experts who paraded before us, the field of disputation narrowed and the field of agreement seemed to grow wider as the evidence proceeded. [More…]

• Whilst we did not agree on everything, it certainly came as a surprise to me that in a field as full of politics as education we could agree, for instance, on such a formulation as this, which appears in the forward to the Committee’s report. [More…]

• However, the evidence is overwhelming that, at least in the sphere of teacher education, the problems are so vast and pressing and their solution so fundamental to the preservation and advancement of basic community values that an increased Commonwealth commitment is nol only justified but urgently required. [More…]

• I thought, when 1 embarked on the deliberations of this Committee, that it would take something to drag the representatives of the Government along with the proposition that the education system was flagging to such an extent that they could put their names to a proposition such as that. [More…]

• After all, there is nothing novel in society’s preoccupation with the question of education. [More…]

• To be opposed to better and more enlightened education systems is like being opposed to motherhood. [More…]

• There is very little quarrel that there is a need for a massive attack in order to update and modernise our education system. [More…]

• The education departments in the various States have attracted young men and women to undertake a course in teacher training by offering the bait of certain living allowances which generally are higher than those offered to holders of scholarships or attenders of universities In general. [More…]

• One suspects that a large number of them are in it because this is the only way they have of doing a tertiary education course. [More…]

• The best expression of the views of those experts that we listened to was that given by Mr Hughes, Head of the School of Teacher Education at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth should develop a National Scholarship Scheme comprising the separate systems now operating for university scholarships, advanced education scholarships, Commonwealth teacher education scholarships and State teacher education scholarships. [More…]

• Professor Goldman, Dean of the School of Education at La Trobe University, made this recommendation: [More…]

• Having weighed all the evidence that we took on this vexed question of bonds and inducements to students to embrace the education profession, the problem of retaining teachers in the education system and the problem of deploying them in remote, unattractive locations without the sanction of a bond, which many education authorities pointed out had been an important factor in persuading young men and women to teach in remote unattractive locations, and appreciating all the difficulties, the Committee recommended: [More…]

• That a conference of the Commonwealth and State Governments be held at an early date to devise a uniform system of scholarships for the whole tertiary system of education embracing all studies (i.e. [More…]

• This meant that the student could decide, without any pressure of the type I have discussed, that he or she would undertake tertiary education but would be under no pressure to fulfil an obligation to do a job which he or she did not really want to do. [More…]

• I commend to honourable senators and to all education authorities in this country the recommendations and the suggestions in the report. [More…]

• The financial priorities involved in an urgent and massive attack on the manifest shortcomings of teacher education disclosed in evidence given to the Committee would exclude, in our view, any Commonwealth assistance to small elite colleges catering for the more affluent section of the community. [More…]

• The rationale of State aid to Catholic schools is that those schools are a traditional part of our total education system to which parents who wish their children to obtain a distinctively Catholic education are entitled to send them; that their continued existence relieves the burden on government schools; and that it does not amount to subsidising a religion but to furthering the educational aspects of schools where religion is also incidentally inculcated. [More…]

• It was admitted by various witnesses, including leading figures in the Catholic education system who appeared before us, that there had been a growing tendency in recent years for lay teachers to take on an increasing burden in the Catholic schools. [More…]

• The fact that I may have had a Catholic education does not blind me to the shortcomings of the Catholic education system, nor to the fact that different considerations apply in 1972 from those that may have applied in 1930. [More…]

• Nothing that I am saying and nothing that was said in this report reflect in any way on the right of Catholics to have an education of their own choosing. [More…]

• But there has been that recognition, as the evidence before our Committee showed, that Catholics can no longer sustain their education system by relying on the Catholic religious orders to instruct the children in their schools. [More…]

• The view that I take is that anything that the Commonwealth puts into improving the general system of training of lay teachers will redound just as much to the benefit of the Catholic education system as to the general State education system. [More…]

• The interests of Catholics in an improved education system must be in an improvement in the general training of teachers in the State institutions. [More…]

• There seemed to us to be a large sphere in which education is totally neutral. [More…]

• The answer that I received was quite an equivocal one but the point that I was making is that a large sphere of education surely is totally neutral. [More…]

• I respect and have no desire to denigrate the aspirations of the people running the Catholic education system, or any other religious education system such as the Jewish education system. [More…]

• But I claim that the State is concerned only with neutral, objective, education standards and that anything else - the training of children in the maintenance of Catholic values, or Jewish values or Presbyterian values - is peculiarly the province of those particular sects themselves. [More…]

• Wherever Catholic teachers or teachers at Catholic schools are to be prepared, there ought to be some, at least, parallel and pretty fully integrated understanding of what you might call the Catholic theory of education. [More…]

• If the people who are charged with the control and organisation of the Catholic education system believe that that is the purpose of the training of Catholic teachers, I respect that belief, but I suggest that under the Constitution it is nothing with which the Commonwealth can concern itself. [More…]

• For that reason, and with the greatest respect for those in the community whose views of what education is about are different from mine, I put my signature, beside that of Senator Milliner, to this dissent on the recommendation of the Committee that Commonwealth funds should be devoted towards the training of teachers in independent institutions, apart from the training of teachers in institustions of the State. [More…]

• Few matters in my period of public life have given me such very real interest, satisfaction and indeed challenge as the reference to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts of an inquiry into the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education. [More…]

• It is a document which will be useful to every person concerned with education in this country, that is, every student, parent and every educator. [More…]

• Like Cromwell, who asked that he be painted warts and all, so this document should be accepted warts and all because when one deals with education the very first thing one finds is the warts. [More…]

• One could be pardoned, on first looking at the subject matter of the inquiry and seeing that it related to an inquiry into the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education in Australia, for expecting the position to be different, as indeed I did. [More…]

• I go along with Senator Davidson and Senator James McClelland in saying that the recommendations we have made for a look to be had at a kind of studentship or scholarship that is common to all tertiary education - that is, common to universities and colleges of advanced education - were to us the important thing because, indeed, this was fundamental to the recommendations that we made al every other level. [More…]

• We found that the teacher training college - this single purpose institution - was rather the Cinderella of education. [More…]

• It was not even really regarded as something which was a part of tertiary education. [More…]

• future could stand as equals in competition with colleges of advanced education and universities in attracting both the tutors and the students. [More…]

• Fundamentally, the Commonwealth Government has accepted the principle that in future, provided the standards are raised or are satisfactory, teachers colleges will be colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Really, what one is asking oneself is: What is the goal that we are seeking; what is education? [More…]

• I think that in our 8 months search we found that there was a very profound ignorance world wide of what the real goals of education might be. [More…]

• We used the cliche that whereas in the past there has been education in making a living, for the future there should be philosophically the concept of education in living. [More…]

• Therefore we felt that we should not hold back on the defects we saw but that we should make recommendations to cope with them and set in train a series of think tanks which could challenge all the basic concepts of education and start putting answers so that when we come to long term education recommendations we will have the value of some very deep and sound research. [More…]

• I say to honourable senators that we found that the witnesses which came before us were challenging virtually every prior concept of education. [More…]

• The idea was that secondary school teaching is fundamentally more skilled and more important but more and more educators are saying that the hungry mind, the hunger of curiosity, the expanding of the intellect, the adventure in education of the child, comes much younger still and that one should be looking to primary and pre-school centres, really, to which to apply the top skills of the really highly educated and the special teachers. [More…]

• There would not be communication just between teacher and student but the encouragement of education and communication between student and student. [More…]

• Honourable senators can see that the who/e idea of education is under challenge. [More…]

• We take the view that the community asks of education that the students and the teachers should fulfil a certain number of requirements regarding secular education. [More…]

• We take the view that between certain ages the student shall go to school and shall fulfill certain curricula, and if the student wishes to go to an independent school to undertake secular or religious education it is no business of the State to put any disbarments on that. [More…]

• I believe - I have held this view very strongly over a lifetime - that so many of the great problems that confront us will find their solutions in the development and expansion of education and that education in itself is the most important domestic thing that we undertake. [More…]

• Therefore, what we should do is to build into our education system the highest quality of excellence that we can provide. [More…]

• What this report has sought to say - perhaps it has touched upon it in only a fragmentary way - is that the real qualities of education are in many ways the abstract qualities - the philosophies that underlie it, the great human values that underlie it. [More…]

• The real solutions to education problems will come when we attract to education those students and those graduate students who are eager and dedicated to teaching, have the skill to teach, are able to communicate and who are convinced - and who live in a community which is convinced - that the profession of teaching is the highest temporal profession on this earth. [More…]

• (9.26)-Tonight the Senate is devoting its attention to discussing the report that has been made to it by the Senate Standing Committee on Education, [More…]

• The mere mention of the world of education gives scope for a great variety of ideas that impel one to spirited praise of the purpose of education. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Committee has indicated that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), whom I represent in this place, wrote to him as recently as 16th August to indicate what consideration had been given to this report and where the consideration of the report stood. [More…]

• The comprehensive nature of your Committee’s report has already been of very great assistance in the examination of some of the more important issues in the field of teacher education by Commonwealth and State authorities. [More…]

• In the realm of teacher education the Government has demonstrated an acceptance of responsibility. [More…]

• In addition, part of the appropriation for universities and part of the appropriation for colleges of advanced education are devoted to the subject of teacher training. [More…]

• On 10th March action was taken by the Minister for Education and Science upon a report submitted to the Senate in February. [More…]

• Seeking reactions to the Committee’s report the Minister wrote to the following authorities: All Stale Ministers of Education, the Australian Universities Commission, the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education, the Australian Commission on Awards in Advanced Education and, in relation to recommendation 21, the Minister for Labour and National Service. [More…]

• Following consideration of the report by the various responsible authorities, the report was discussed at the Australian Education Council meeting in May 1972. [More…]

• I set out the points as follows: Firstly, the Government has offered to support State teachers colleges and pre-school teachers colleges under advanced education arrangements. [More…]

• Thirdly, the Government prefers provision of teacher education in multi-purpose institutions wherever possible. [More…]

• Fourthly, as stated in the Minister’s speech of 17th August, the Australian Commission on Advanced Education will look into particular areas such as the training of teachers of the handicapped and special remedial teachers. [More…]

• The Australian Universities Commission will also encourage courses in special education. [More…]

• The Commission believes that this is an important branch of teacher education. [More…]

• that there should be at least one university department of special education in each State. [More…]

• The Commission is sympathetic to the Committee’s intention, although it would not necessarily agree that there should be separate departments of special education. [More…]

• Fifthly, the Department of Education and Science is continuing consultation with Treasury and banking officials on the efficacy of student loans. [More…]

• For my part, T find great interest in the fact that there is sufficient faith in the general student youth to support the idea that a person who has acquired what is perhaps the most special asset that an affluent society can confer - that is education in one of the various fields of learning - is probably the best security possible for the expenditure of public money. [More…]

• 1 will content myself with saying that the recommendation is that after students are accepted, because of the influence of allowances and other things to guide them through an educational course, some research into aptitudes and motivation should be considered. [More…]

• It is also examining the possibility of research into pre-school education. [More…]

• I might pause to say at this stage that I sat back in my seat to hear the dynamic challenge that Senator Carrick issued in this field when he said that he would implement advanced ideas on education more in the junior areas than in the secondary education area as is now done. [More…]

• The Partridge Committee is also to examine recommendations 25 and 26 on educational research. [More…]

• But I have said sufficient to show that the Universities Commission - a very exalted body in the educational levels of Australia - the Department of Education and Science and the State Ministers of Education have all indicated their appreciation of the practical validity of the recommendations of the Senate Committee. [More…]

• Having regard to the acceptance of so many recommendations in a fluid field of education where the Committee has concentrated on the particular field of teacher training and having regard also to educational authorities’ acceptance of these recommendations as practicable and valuable, this Committee of the Senate can accept for its members great credit for its notable achievement in this field of education. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• I ask: Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a recent article in the ‘Australian’ news paper which claimed that universities will be forced in the next 3 years to turn away a considerable number of students and that students will be required to turn to colleges of advanced education for their tertiary education? [More…]

• If so, will he seek a response from the Department of Education and Science to meet the upsurge in student interest in these subjects and fields? [More…]

• There is a pattern of growth in the number of applicants seeking university education. [More…]

• This is a matter which is under continuous consideration by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• It should be noted, of course, that the proportion of the student age group eligible for university education that has entered universities over the last 10 years has grown remarkably with the increased university facilities that have been made available by the Government. [More…]

• It is natural that those who cannot gain admission to universities should turn to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware of a statement made by the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, that as the Australian Broadcasting Commission uses public moneys it must accept public responsibility and scrutiny? [More…]

• Has he noted the annual report of the Department of Education and Science, issued by the Authority of the Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, which reveals that during 1971 $24m was paid by the Commonwealth to independent schools? [More…]

• Is the Minister able to assure the Senate that the money expended by the Commonwealth has been used solely in the furtherance of education and is based on the needs of education? [More…]

• The Senate can be assured that the arrangements made by the Minister for Education and Science with regard to expenditure on aid to independent schools, although not invoking the provisions of the Audit Act of the Commonwealth, are such that the moneys paid to independent schools are faithfully paid for the purpose of school buildings and education. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science now in a position to state whether it is correct that the Government has accepted and is implementing in their entirety the recommendations of the Australian Universities Commission in relation to funds for Australian universities for the next 3- year period? [More…]

• The associated report relating to colleges of advanced education has been accepted in the main with a few reservations, 2 of which come to mind. [More…]

• In the national context, a shorter working week must be set against the wishes of most people for improvements in social services, housing, education, health, and other services of a practical kind affecting the individual and the community. [More…]

• The Council has 3 standing committees, namely, the Committee on Social Patterns under the chairmanship of Professor George Zubrzycki, the Committee on Migrant Education under the chairmanship of Dr Sam Richardson, and the Committee on Citizenship under the chairmanship of Mr George Hastie. [More…]

• For example, the Department of immigration, in addition to undertaking its own research has subsidised studies of the Australian Council of Educational Research and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. [More…]

• These ‘other areas’ include much better personal income tax concessions and rate reductions, easing of estate and gift duties, sizable grants for a wide range of education services and provisions for non-profit , child care centres, about which I offer a ‘ warning to plan and administer well and with great care and wisdom for grave dangers lie therein. [More…]

• Just to refresh the memory of honourable senators who are present, I want to read the amendment moved by Senator Wriedt: but the Senate condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres. [More…]

• but the Senate condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides … no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare . [More…]

• The Opposition would condemn the Budget although it provides for one of the largest education programmes we have seen in our time and although the new provisions, not only in the education sphere but also in the social welfare sphere, will relieve personal hardship by increasing pensions, improving the social wellbeing of the people and easing estate duty. [More…]

• It provides for the establishment of child care centres, for increases in homes savings grants, for new facilities for the care of the aged, for travel assistance for unemployed persons, for Aboriginal advancement, for enormous increases in the housing, health and education programmes for Aboriginals, for improvement in the estate duty situation and, of course, for a very widespread education programme. [More…]

• The Budget contains many references to education. [More…]

• This leads me to refer to the fact that, in addition to providing financial assistance for education, the Budget provides for specific payments to the States These payments are estimated at $250m, compared with just over $200m last year. [More…]

• The largest of these grants, which total $138m, are for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• There is a wide range of other payments including capital grants for school construction, for secondary school science laboratories and libraries and for numerous other education facilities. [More…]

• From the beginning of next year there will be significant increases in the number of scholarships awarded and a wide range of educational facilities and services will be provided. [More…]

• Wider education opportunities and greater social involvement have meant that young people are maturing far earlier intellectually, emotionally, socially and politically. [More…]

• The President of the National Youth Council also stated: vote as those who are presently called ‘adults’, political awareness have resulted in 18-year olds being equally capable of exercising a responsible Increased education opportunities and greater [More…]

• That there bc referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the following matters: [More…]

• can be provided with an education suitable to the child, en’s talents and interests, which will equip them for employment in the occupational field which they select. [More…]

• The means by which these disabilities can be overcome whether by extension and deployment more widely of schools or institutes of tertiary education, the provision of financial aid to such children or otherwise. [More…]

• This is one of a series of motions which have come before the Senate and which indicate the interest of the Senate in matters relating to the education of children. [More…]

• There is a reference already in my name to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts to which it is proposed to refer this matter in relation to the education of deprived children, that is, children who come from certain economic and geographic areas and who by virtue of some degree of intellectual starvation or lack of communication within the domestic environment, arrive at school somewhat disadvantaged when compared with their contemporaries. [More…]

• This is a matter of very great consequence, particularly to anybody who moves in the country such as honourable senators who represent the Australian Country Party and who know that in the remote areas of Australia this is of importance and great concern to the parents of children living in those areas who, for financial or other reasons, are not able to see that their children receive an adequate education which will equip them for the role they are to play in life according to their disposition and talents. [More…]

• In spite of all the other problems which are of great concern to those people who are gravely distressed because of the economic recession in the rural industries, a matter which was occupying their minds with great intensity was the deprivation of educational opportunities which they felt, rightly, should accrue to their children in these areas. [More…]

• It is dispersed over the whole continent, particularly the eastern part, and is very active in its attempts to secure some measure of educational equity and justice for children in these parts of Australia. [More…]

• These people are most enthusiastic that this matter should be discussed by the Parliament, and even more enthusiastic that it should receive scrutiny from the appropriate committee of the Senate which, in this case, is the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• When we speak of isolated children I do not want it to be thought that we speak of the sons and daughters of very wealthy sheep graziers or beef graziers of whom some cynic might say: ‘They should have enough money themselves to provide education for their children’. [More…]

• We know that, in view of the recession in the rural industries, many of this latter group are people who, whatever might be thought of their traditional economic position in the community, today no longer enjoy that position and are finding tremendous difficulty in financing their properties and many other things, including the education of their children. [More…]

• The child from isolated areas who needs remedial education at special schools (available only in capital cities, and in some cases only interstate), . [More…]

• If a mother is required to teach a child for 6 or 7 hours a day she is virtually doing the work of the Education Department. [More…]

• In the Northern Territory the figures are not known to the Association, but perhaps they would be known to the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• As at August 1971 the Queensland Correspondence School had 213 primary pupils and 214 secondary pupils, but the Queensland Education Department has not established whether all of these are from rural areas and are all full time pupils. [More…]

• Undoubtedly it is not the best education. [More…]

• But part of our education system which has been extremely successful in producing very great men and women in Australia is the boarding school. [More…]

• But education in the home requires a mother who is interested, who is skilled and who has the time and is not required to help her husband during the day in the conduct of the property or business. [More…]

• I have indicated to these good people that when this matter comes before the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, they undoubtedly will be invited to appear and probably will have a prior invitation to make their submissions, following the normal practice, in writing and then to support them in person by members of the Association making oral presentation to the Committee. [More…]

• Senator Byrne seeks to refer this matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts for investigation and report. [More…]

• It will go into the matter thoroughly to find out what is the best proposal to help children living in isolated areas in respect of their education. [More…]

• It will see what can be done to give to those children educational opportunities equal to those of children living in more favoured areas. [More…]

• It will seek to find the manner in which these children can be provided with an education suitable to their talents and interests, which will equip them for employment in the occupational field which they select. [More…]

• I draw to the attention of the Senate that, in the current financial year, the appropriation for the Department of Education and Science is $426m. [More…]

• It concerns those people who want their children to have a fair chance of getting some education in life. [More…]

• Therefore I have no objection to this matter being referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• I suggest it will be some time before the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts will be able to get round to investigating this problem because I understand that the Committee at the present time has embarked upon a very lengthy inquiry into all aspects of broadcasting and television. [More…]

• The debate on this matter gives me the opportunity to raise one or two other matters where this Goverment has fallen down so far as education is concerned. [More…]

• We have told them that their problems will receive the closest scrutiny along with the other problems of education by the Australian Schools Commission which a Labor government will establish when it comes to office. [More…]

• In 1965 this Government received a report on educational television from the Advisory Committee on Eductional Television Services, known as the Weeden Committee. [More…]

• The Weeden Committee recommended the establishment of a frequency for an educational television station. [More…]

• The Government refused to accept the recommendation of that Committee and said that additional funds should be made available to the Australian Broadcasting Commission for educational purposes. [More…]

• At the same time the Government decided to establish a conference between State Ministers for Education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science to consider how the matter should be tackled. [More…]

• Did meetings of the Minister for Education and Science, the Postmaster-General and State Ministers for Education on educational television take place in 1961 and 1969; if so, when is il proposed that, another such meeting shall take place. [More…]

• I was told - and mind you, the Weeden Committee’s report was tabled in this Parliament in 1965 and rejected by this Government - that a meeting of the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science and State Ministers for Education took place in 1966 and that it took another 3 years before there was another meeting in 1969. [More…]

• How serious is this Government when it talks about solving the problems of isolated children when educational television is one of the weapons at its disposal to overcome the problem? [More…]

• Has any report yet been submitted to the PostmasterGeneral and the Minister for Education and Science from the Sub-Committee comprising Commonwealth and State representatives established to investigate the technical developments involved in the establishment of educational television in Australia? [More…]

• I am discussing the education of isolated 1 children. [More…]

• Surely the problem of educational , television is very much wrapped up in this problem. [More…]

• It seems to me that the responsibility for education rests largely upon the States. [More…]

• Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, Senator Davidson, has shown an interest in this matter. [More…]

• He led a delegation from Bourke to meet the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on this very subject. [More…]

• Although the Government did not make special provision in this respect it did at least increase taxation allowances for education. [More…]

• I raised it with the Minister for Education and Science in January this year and asked again that special attention be given to the matter. [More…]

• In addition he demonstrated in the recent Budget his interest in education. [More…]

• In the Budget the Government provided an additional $200m for State governments to spend in this field of education. [More…]

• I know that the Outback Parents Committee at Port Augusta has made repeated representations to the present South Australian Labor Government with regard to this matter and I know that on one occasion Mr Hudson, who is the Minister of Education in that State, treated them rather casually, so much so that members of the deputation were rather upset about the way he treated them on that occasion. [More…]

• The Senate must pay some regard to this matter, and for that reason I believe we should support the motion to refer the matter to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• I recognise that children in such places spend only a small part of their time undergoing education and that there could be some children who could not participate in the class every day because of flat batteries in their wirelesses. [More…]

• I support this matter being referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts because so many people have suggested that finance is the solution to this problem. [More…]

• I do not know whether that is the most desirable form of education. [More…]

• I have been greatly impressed by those who claim that education is not limited to what one learns in the 4 walls of a classroom but is a continuing process, and both home life and school life are part of the education process. [More…]

• The first is because of personal connections that I have with various educational institutions that serve outback areas in their own way, particularly in my own State, but my main reason is because of my position as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts to which it is proposed to refer this matter of education for isolated school children. [More…]

• I took them to meet and talk with the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• I know something of the response of the Minister and of his concern for the total field of education. [More…]

• This has been very adequately displayed by allocations in recent times of funds to the States for the development of education, and also in the current Budget. [More…]

• Referring a subject of this nature to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts poses the rather difficult problem of when the matter will receive attention by the Committee. [More…]

• In reply to references which have been made earlier this evening 1 say that the Senate will understand that as the Committee is doing a complete and wide-ranging study of all aspects of broadcasting and television, educational television must loom large in the discussions. [More…]

• The important thing is for the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts to recognise the urgency with which the arguments about the needs of members of the Isolated Children’s Parents Association have been put forward tonight and for the Committee to have some understanding of their situation, to have more than sympathy for them, and to recommend to the Senate the steps that can be taken to meet their needs. [More…]

• The matters involved aTe more than matters of an educational nature. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has a deep and personal concern about the matter. [More…]

• He has talked with State Ministers about the educational problems of isolated children. [More…]

• To refer it to a committee will provide an opportunity to establish a dialogue and an opportunity for the Committee to talk with the people who are involved not only in the sphere of education but in the total sphere of outback needs, the whole area of decentralisation and the social welfare of the people who serve Australia so well and so worthily in this sphere. [More…]

• All of them impinge on the total wellbeing of education. [More…]

• It is with considerable enthusiasm that I rise to support the motion which seeks to refer to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts a matter as important as aid to isolated children and the parents of isolated children throughout Australia. [More…]

• As all honourable senators know, the actual responsibility for education has been traditionally the responsibility of State governments. [More…]

• By way of example I quote the situation in the more remote part of Western Australia - the zone which attracts the highest Jiving away from home allowance for the parents of children who have to be sent away from home to obtain certainly portion, if not the whole of their education. [More…]

• A family which has several school age children has to pay prohibitive costs just to send the children to a hostel for a period - perhaps it is only for a period of their secondary education. [More…]

• If the parents wish to give their children a boarding school education the costs are far greater than that. [More…]

• In places where we have a number of small towns developing as part of mining development throughout Australia it will be impossible to provide in each town the full range of education, both primary and secondary, which the parents of children who are going to these areas would be entitled to demand for them. [More…]

• Therefore one must look to the development of regional schools, certainly for secondary education and the necessity to establish hostels for children sent into these regional areas to complete their education. [More…]

• Other points have been made in this debate tonight in relation to the school of the air, education by correspondence, television education and other fields. [More…]

• The school of the air and education by correspondence have been traditional ways of overcoming the problem to some extent. [More…]

• But nobody has ever suggested that these ways or even the development of educational television - we see the possibility of that - provide a real and full solution to the problems. [More…]

• So I think that it is highly appropriate that this matter be considered by the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, I fully support the motion. [More…]

• As Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in the Senate, 1 simply want to say how grateful I am for the cogent consideration that has been given to this matter by Senator Durack and Senator Davidson, who followed the mover of the motion, Senator Byrne. [More…]

• Senator Douglas McClelland, who preceded Senator Davidson in the debate, wove into the discussion a reference to education by radio and television, which was most appropriate from one point of view, lt was the point of view of showing that this is a facility which would be very well considered as perhaps an appropriate facility to solve, in some measure, this problem. [More…]

• The fact that at the present time the same Committee is investigating all aspects of broadcasting and television shows that in the course of that existing inquiry of great deal of the problem of the education of outback children could be investigated and decisions arrived at. [More…]

• The appropriation for scholarships and other educational grants in the Budget this year is about S56m. [More…]

• I am most grateful to the Senate for giving an item relating to education, so appropriately introduced by Senator Byrne, a very thoughtful debate this evening. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Prime Minister of Singapore disclosed that certain pro-Communist students were being sent to Australia for tertiary education; if so, what notice is given to the Australian Government that a student in the above category is to come to Australia and how many such students have either been in, or are at present in Australia? [More…]

• I direct my question to Senator Davidson, Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• I refer to the resolution of the Senate yesterday which referred to that Committee the question of the education of children in isolated areas. [More…]

• It is true that during the debate yesterday on this matter I indicated that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts was in the midst of a very heavy assignment relating to all aspects of broadcasting and television. [More…]

• It occurs to me that an inquiry into the matter of education of isolated children is of considerable urgency. [More…]

• I respond lo the honourable senator’s question by indicating to him that I will take up the matter with the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts and recommend to it that we intervene the reference so that it may receive early attention. [More…]

• The basic things for which they were looking were land rights in accordance with their requirements, better health, education, employment and housing facilities for themselves and for their people. [More…]

• I remind him that almost all of the youngsters who camped across the road in front of Parliament House had at least a secondary education; many of them had reached matriculation standard; and several of them had commenced university courses. [More…]

• Department of Education and Science [More…]

• The measure dealing with what have become known as self-education expenses is an important one. [More…]

• Many people spend money on educational courses with a view to obtaining qualifications to aid them in earning income. [More…]

• The Government has decided, however, that a concession should be available for people who set themselves the task of gaining educational qualifications connected with their careers. [More…]

• We therefore propose a special concessional deduction for expenditure incurred by a taxpayer on fees, books and equipment associated with a course of education he undertakes for the purpose of acquiring qualifications related to his employment or career. [More…]

• It will be available whether a course of education is attended on a full-time or part-time basis or is carried on by correspondence. [More…]

• As is the case with the concession now provided to a parent for the education of children, the maximum deduction under the new concession in any income year will be $400. [More…]

• The new concession will complement the present allowance for education expenses and will be limited to the difference between the amount of $400 and any amount allowable to a parent or other person for the education expenses of the taxpayer. [More…]

• It is proposed that both the deduction for self-education expenses and the increased dependants allowances will be allowable in assessments based on income derived in the 1972-73 income year and subsequent years. [More…]

• Thank heavens, even though it has taken 23 years and we are on the eve of an election, the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) has brought down some new methods regarding both education and screening of migrants, and I agree with those methods. [More…]

• That report had been commissioned by the Commonwealth Council for National Fitness and had been directed by Dr Willee, who is the Director of the Department of Physical Education at the University of Melbourne. [More…]

• The project received support from the State Director-General of Education, and financial assistance was received from the Australian Mutual Provident Society. [More…]

• The second point .1 wish to develop is the lack of planning in national fitness, physical education, recreation and sport. [More…]

• One of the reasons, says Dr Willee, that school children in Australia schools are unfit is the lack of physical education facilties. [More…]

• I suggest to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that he should make equally generous subsidies available to schools for the construction of gymnasia, swimming pools, dance halls and indoor physical recreation facilities. [More…]

• At page 13 of the ‘Liberal Platform’ issued by the Federal Secretariat of the Liberal Party in November 1948 its policy had been amended to read that the adoption of a programme of progressive tax reduction was part of its platform, with special help for the family taxpayer, particularly with reference to allowances for dependent children, medical and like expenses, and education. [More…]

• I turn to an article by our distinguished Minister for Education and Science, the Honourable Malcolm Fraser, which is headed( ‘Take the struggle out of education’. [More…]

• When be cun barely speak English, let alone write if, it makes a normal Australian education almost unattainable. [More…]

• This has been further confirmed by the announcement of the migrant education programme by the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes). [More…]

• The Senate may be interested to know that prior to 1970 expenditure on migrant education amounted to approximately $lm annually. [More…]

• The main elements in educational services for the migrant community include, in the first instance, the child migrant education programme, then the adult migrant education programme, the full time intensive English language courses as well as the well tried and successful pre-embarkation and shipboard instruction. [More…]

• May I take a moment to look, first, at the child migrant education programme. [More…]

• A total of approximately $5m to which I referred earlier is provided in the current Budget for the child migrant education programme. [More…]

• This is a singularly important area of migrant education as it represents an increase of some 50 per cent in the appropriation for the previous year. [More…]

• Whilst I suppose this is the most important area of migrant education, another very important and significant area is the adult migrant education programme in both its education and its social contexts. [More…]

• In the Budget presented this year the Government increased the amount provided for adult migrant education programme to $3m which represents an increase of 39 per cent over the previous allocation. [More…]

• Interestingly enough, in the Senate today a document has been distributed on the migrant education programme for the last year. [More…]

• The standards of migrant education centres in all capital cities have improved and the centres will provide a focal point for migrant education in each State. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science then dealt with another important area of education when he referred to the problems faced byAboriginal children. [More…]

• In the current Government education programme special attention is provided for Aboriginal children who, around Australia this year, will receive Commonwealth study grants to help them advance themselves. [More…]

• All of this is part of the Commonwealth education programme for 1972-73. [More…]

• The figures have been spelt out before but I think it is important that they be spelt out again because total Commonwealth expenditure on education has more than doubled in 4 years. [More…]

• Special attention is being concentrated on the grants to the States for universities and those very important and significant institutions known as colleges of advanced education which are making such a remarkable contribution to education throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Having been involved with the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts I have come to know something of the value of educational research. [More…]

• Also of advantage to the Government’s education programme is the continuation of unmatched capital grants. [More…]

• The education programme of the Commonwealth has included Commonwealth finance for state school buildings. [More…]

• Another factor in the Government’s education programme deals with scholarships. [More…]

• This provides a great opportunity for many people to undertake further education. [More…]

• All of this requires a background of a strong and contemporary teacher education system. [More…]

• As honourable senators will recall the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts carried out a study in relation to the Commonwealth role in teacher education. [More…]

• All of this proves that the Government is concerned not only with education but also with a diversity in educational style, forms and expenditure which recognises that in its programme education administration is largely and almost, entirely within the responsibility of the States. [More…]

• What is more, the Government’s policy on education has provided massive amounts of money to all levels of education. [More…]

• We have heard talk about migrants, Aboriginals, universities, colleges of advanced education, scholarships and pre-school teachers colleges. [More…]

• A whole range of these are receiving the benefit of a programme of educational development which is being instituted through State authorities and emphasised through government schools. [More…]

• The Government provides for this dual stream, diversity and flexibility in education. [More…]

• I contrast this with the Labor Party’s policy on education and this talk of an Australian schools commission which will have power to control every individual school in Australia. [More…]

• This would destroy existing State control over education. [More…]

• It would eliminate that diversity, seriously restrict and, I suspect, finally destroy the independent schools which have made such a valuable contribution to education in Australia. [More…]

• These are some of the things which I wanted to spell out in order to show that even when we have a first reading debate on a money Bill there are some worthwhile things to be said that are in favour of a positive programme in education and related fields. [More…]

• If Mr Whitlam is elected to office and keeps all his promises, he will have to find finance for boosting pensions to 25 per cent of average earnings; ending the means test; handing out an immediate J 1 00m to pensioners and unemployed; reducing sales lax; raising unemployment benefits; extra, spending on schools and hospitals; pre-school education; free university education; a national ipsurar.ee scheme; and regenerating urban public transport. [More…]

• I could go on and talk about education. [More…]

• The Labor Party makes flamboyant promises in regard to education which would cost $546m more than we are committed to at the moment. [More…]

• I felt that this was rather significant, because in the education field we are finding that there is agitation amongst young people. [More…]

• My question, addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, follows upon a previous question put to the Attorney-General by Senator McManus. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided me with the following comments: [More…]

• That increase has been made to enable young people to get access to education of various suitable forms. [More…]

• I can give the honourable senator only this assurance: The progress of the scholar in educational achievement is the test by which the continuance of that scholarship is determined from year to year. [More…]

• I desire to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• In answer to the rather wide ranging question of the honourable senator, let me say that it was the present Commonwealth Government which in the mid-1950s, seeing the deficiencies under which universities were then labouring, made a special point of assisting education in the university field. [More…]

• If the honourable senator were to take the trouble of looking at the annual reports of the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education he would see that reference is made in them to this question of the entrance to universities of only those people who are qualified and have a reasonable prospect of succeeding in completing their courses. [More…]

• He will recognise also that the establishment of colleges of advanced education is a very potent step designed to enable students more qualified for colleges than universities to undertake tertiary education. [More…]

• Under the Repatriation Bill, as previously explained, in the case of certain children receiving full-time education, amendments are being made in respect of the continuation of their pensions until the age of 21 is reached. [More…]

• After a detailed review of the situation the Government has decided to implement a national health education programme and has sought uniform State and Commonwealth action requiring the inclusion of a health warning on cigarette packages. [More…]

• The Commonwealth will make amounts of up to $500,000 a year available for the next 3 years for a national health education programme against smoking, directed particularly towards young people. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• 1 refer to a statement made by Dr G. W. Miller, of the University of London Institute of Education, that Australian universities should review the practice of failing a certain percentage of students each year and that the Australian dropout rate was 21 times higher than that in Britain. [More…]

• Has the Department of Education and Science had any communication with the universities on this matter? [More…]

• How does the Australian Government’s education programme provide for maximum development at the tertiary level? [More…]

• If, when 1 see the question in print, I think there is anything further that needs to be answered, I shall ask the Department of Education and Science to prepare a supplementary answer. [More…]

• These measures include health education, immunisation and other preventive programmes, improved hospital and allied facilities, and consultation with other authorities concerned. [More…]

• The Democratic Labor Party does not believe in the application of the means test whether it be applied in the area of social services or of education or of scholarships or anything else. [More…]

• One finds children of even well to do families dropping out from the higher level of education and giving up scholarships, because despite their parents’ income, of which they are not necessarily beneficiaries, they arc denied the necessary living allowances that are made available to other members of the community. [More…]

• Of course, should these young people make the grade and attain higher skills through education and so earn higher incomes, they will pay the higher taxes under our system which we believe is fair and just. [More…]

• Provisions for education have been vastly increased in recent years. [More…]

• I believe that this is an area in which the Government must make a judgment that the amount it spends on social services is to be measured against how much is to be spent on education, how much is to be spent on defence- [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senators question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT - The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Health education, immunisation and other preventive programmes have been undertaken. [More…]

• I do not know what the future programme of advertisements will be, except that there is, as Senator Guilfoyle has stated, a $500,000 programme over a period of 3 years designed to publicise as effectively as possible and as part of a health education programme the dangers of smoking. [More…]

• I raised that matter also in the course of the debate relating to the education of isolated children that took place recently. [More…]

• In some departments, such as drama, science programmes and education, the ABC has now developed skills and talents to a level where significant and high-quality programmes could be produced in greater quantity. [More…]

• I think the honourable senator and I should either undertake an education programme or seek leave and be paid to go over there again to refresh our minds. [More…]

• It will also make opportunities for further deductions for education expenses. [More…]

• In that Bill there is also provision for a tax deduction of self-incurred education expenses. [More…]

• The other provision to which I referred was that of allowing self-incurred education expenses to be deducted for qualifications which are undertaken in regard to a career which is being pursued by a taxpayer. [More…]

• I have always felt that the income earner who self-incurs education expenses, not only where it achieves a qualification directly connected with a career but also where it self improves or gives opportunity for greater educational attainments, should be allowed as a deduction from taxable income. [More…]

• It will complement the present allowance for education expenses and will be limited to the difference between the amount of $400 and any amount allowable to a parent or other person for the education expenses of a taxpayer. [More…]

• I am pleased that that provision has at last been included as a measure of assistance to those people either with ambition or with endeavour who do self-incur education expenses for approved courses. [More…]

• 5) 1972 in which it is indicated that self-education expenses will be allowed to a certain amount. [More…]

• We therefore propose a special concessional deduction for expenditure incurred by a taxpayer on fees, books and equipment associated with a course of education he undertakes for the purpose of acquiring qualifications related to his employment or career. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle remarked that the new deductions covered self-education expenses incurred in relation to a present career or employment. [More…]

• For example, a taxpayer who incurs self-education expenses to increase his future job opportunity will come within the scope of the new concessional deduction. [More…]

• Referring to Senator Webster’s speech again, I indicated in relation to Senator Guilfoyle’s contribution that the new deductions for self education expenses are not to be confined to an existing career or employment. [More…]

• Here was a man brought up with the religious education who resented the way in which his lad was spoken to and who tried to make a complaint to every officer he could contact. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• When will the Department of Education and Science report on research and development expenditures in Australia be completed, and is it intended to publish this report [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• It relates to a question which I recently directed to the Minister on the subject of the imposition of an education tax ransom on Jewish academics and professionals seeking to leave the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to go to Israel. [More…]

• The information available is to the effect that a requirement is made of people wishing to leave Soviet Russia to pay what is claimed there to be recompense for costs of education but which the honourable senator describes, and 1 think with justification, as a charge for permission to leave the country. [More…]

• The Government has endeavoured to provide the States with general purpose funds from which they may improve both the quantity and quality of education. [More…]

• In addition, we have developed a range of programmes of direct financial assistance to particular areas in education. [More…]

• Our attitude in this matter is based on more than a belief that every child has a right to a basic level of support from governments in education. [More…]

• I should add that it is very difficult for the parent of a child at a nongovernment school to accept the argument that everyone has the right to a complete government-provided education in a government school, but that they lose any right the moment they decide to send their children to a non-government school whether it be for a religious, geographic or any other reason. [More…]

• When the Prime Minister announced the new policies which are to be brought into operation by this Bill, he said that they would represent a milestone in improving the education of all Australian children. [More…]

• I am sure that the Senate will endorse that view and that in the not too distant future Australian will look back on the enactment of this legislation as an historic event in Australian education. [More…]

• 73m and $75,000 in the votes of the Department of Education and Science for secondary and study grants and for the continuation of special projects in the Northern Territory, and $150,000 in the votes of the Department of Health for similar special projects in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In previous years these amounts for the Departments of Education and Science and Health were included in the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account, and it would therefore be appropriate to compare last year’s provision in the Trust Account of $ 1 4.83m with total provision this year of $26.5m for the same purposes; but it has been thought more appropriate that provision should be made from now on in the votes of the functional departments. [More…]

• I envisage allocating the $14.5m as between the various purposes for which the grants are made to the States on the basis of $8, 25m for housing, $1,748,000 for health, $2,377,000 for education, $500,000 for employment and vocational training, $875,000 for special work projects and $750,000 for regional projects. [More…]

• Programmes of health education and preventive medicine being developed by professional people should progressively relieve the burden on the curative services provided in hospitals in the major centres. [More…]

• Funds have been provided to the States - and in some cases by direct grants also - to meet a variety of educational needs ranging from the construction of, and the provision of equipment for, preschools, primary and secondary schools, to the establishment of residential hostels in the cities and major towns so that students from rural areas may be able to continue their education .beyond the primary level. [More…]

• In discussions with the .States it was decided that one of the main targets to be aimed at in the educational sphere during this year would be the further development of pre-schools and pre-schooling facilities so that Aboriginal children would be suitably prepared for entrance into the school system. [More…]

• In addition to its assistance to the States, the Commonwealth, through the ‘Department of Education and Science administers the secondary and study grants schemes, inaugurated respectively in the 1969 and 1970 academic years. [More…]

• But we can be seen to be making progress, and Aboriginal children will soon be emerging from secondary schooling with educational prerequisites for higher levels of employment. [More…]

• Of these, 29 were studying at universities and 9 undertaking other tertiary education - a small number, it is true, but a distinct improvement in the situation at the time of introduction of the scheme when there were only 4 Aboriginal graduates and a further 11 studying at universities. [More…]

• The housing programmes aim primarily to assist families, whose children will benefit thereby: a great deal of health activity is devoted to improving the health situation of Aboriginal infants and children; the bulk of expenditure in education is, of course, for younger Aborigines; while the employment training scheme and other activities of the Department of Labour and National Service seek in particular to assist schoolleavers. [More…]

• This will involve assisting them with accommodation, providing the means for them to overcome the health handicaps from which many of them suffer, giving assistance with education and employment, and providing legal assistance. [More…]

• Either with the State or unilaterally we have provided hostels and houses, supported the Aboriginal health service in South Sydney, provided funds for schooling, pre-schooling and adult education facilities, assisted Aborigines to find and hold employment, and supported the Aboriginal legal service. [More…]

• I hope that we can, through the provision of relevant education, ensure that members of the remote communities become less and less dependent, while at the same time relating that education more directly to the sorts of employment we will be encouraging the Aborigines there to undertake. [More…]

• Under our present educational systems everyone has the opportunity for a higher level of education. [More…]

• It is fair again to comment that in some cases today education does not cease at the age of 17 years, as used to be the case. [More…]

• He did not go on with it, fortunately, because it was better that he should not do so, but had he pursued that doctoral course he would have continued his education until he was 26 years of age. [More…]

• Everybody has an opportunity for a higher level of education. [More…]

• I say advisedly that I have encountered a view - it is not my view - expressed seriously that with the problems of society, the complexity of life and the higher age for finality in education, there is a case for increasing the voting age. [More…]

• It is the outcome of advanced systems of education, new techniques in the transmission of learning and new responsibilities which have been imposed on young people because of their much earlier participation as operatives in the work force and in school vocations. [More…]

• With regard to taxation and child endowment a youth and his parents are encouraged to keep on with education to a greater age than hitherto has been the case. [More…]

• This Government encourages them to go on with their education, following upon our Tasmanian example. [More…]

• I agree that in the age in which we live they are still undertaking education and the like but I am only speaking about Australia - that is all the Bill is about - and who is fit to vote. [More…]

• State Ministers of Education agreed to provide information on expenditure for government schools to be incorporated in an assessment of the national average of expenditure per pupil in government schools on which the Commonwealth’s grants will be calculated. [More…]

• 1 direct a question to the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• Following the resolution of the Senate to refer to that Committee the matter of the education of children from isolated areas, the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Davidson, in answer to a question I asked of him, indicated that the Committee would give a priority consideration to this matter. [More…]

• The Secretary of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts has been and will be in touch with interested organisations to ascertain their interest and to invite submissions from them. [More…]

• Finally, as the Chairman of the Committee, I hope to attend the conference and seminar of the Isolated Children’s Parents Association which is to be held at Bourke tomorrow and which the Minister for Education and Science will attend. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to Senator Davidson in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, relates to a question asked of him earlier by Senator Byrne. [More…]

• Senator Douglas McClelland will recall that I indicated earlier today that the inquiry into the education of children in isolated areas would take place as soon as parliamentary circumstances allowed. [More…]

• However frequency modulation broadcasting represents a significant advance in broadcasting techniques, and, when it is developed, as it will be, in the UHF band where sufficient space is available for many stations, it will offer a broadcasting service which the Government is confident will serve this country’s needs for entertainment, information and education for very many years. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT- The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]

• Senator WRIGHT - The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• It may be argued, and possibly the argument can be sustained, that the youth of today have greater educational opportunities than did the youth of past generations. [More…]

• Therefore they may be more educationally mature, but it is debatable whether that qualifies them as being ahead of past generations when it comes to deciding how to vote. [More…]

• Apart from the greater opportunities for education that are available, I doubt that the youth of today are better or worse than the youth of past generations. [More…]

• Interest in world affairs conies from the added opportunities of education. [More…]

• When we create better educational opportunities for our young people we expect some critical and decisive results from our investment and they are showing them; yet we deprive them of the basic democratic right, the final democratic act, of participating in the choosing of members of Parliament. [More…]

• As an example, let us consider education. [More…]

• If we consider the opportunities available to the youth of today and those who are in their late teens, undoubtedly the educational standard of those individuals is far superior to what had been achieved 10 or 20 years ago by people aged 21 years. [More…]

• If educational standard is to be the basis upon which we judge adulthood, certainly people who are not 21 years old are competent to have the benefit of the franchise. [More…]

• I well recall being at an educational conference in Victoria some years ago when the Director-General of Education mentioned that the volume of education available to the world today had doubled itself 4 times since the birth of Christ. [More…]

• The Director-General of Education explained that in the first 1750 years knowledge had doubled from what had been available at the time of the birth of Christ, lt doubled itself again in the next 150 years, and in the next 50 years, that is, from the beginning of this century until 1950, it had doubled itself again. [More…]

• Others would argue that young people could have a voice in saying how the taxpayers’ money was to be spent although they provided some of it and were still dependent on their parents or on scholarships or some other means of subsistence to complete their education. [More…]

• I do not know However, in bygone days a person had to have a university education or own certain land or property to be able to stand for the Legislative Council in the State of Victoria or to vote for those seeking election. [More…]

• I think that a strong argument can be made that because more people today are receiving educational benefits and therefore, are remaining at school or university for a longer period it takes much longer before they have adjusted, after they have left an atmosphere of formal education, to the problems and exigencies of life outside the institutionalised atmosphere. [More…]

• lt is not that education is bad for them but that the atmosphere in which formal education is inculcated is one which does not equip persons to deal with the knocks of life. [More…]

• Necessarily it excludes questions of worth, questions of intelligence, questions of greater or lesser education as standards or criteria upon which a person’s rights in the community must depend. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]

• Not only does this Bill do that in the name of a Government which supports inequality in education but also it tends to bind a future government - a government from a Party which believes in equality of education - to carry out the policies of this Government. [More…]

• We have often said - and I say it again now - that the contending claims of education throughout Australia, the contending claims of the various States, the contending claims within the private sector and State sector are such that they should not be in the hands of the Government which hands out the money holus bolus to all as if all schools, all systems and all States were in precisely the same position. [More…]

• The only way that the contending needs of the varying systems, States and schools can be met is by an impartial arbitrary body looking at the needs and problems of these respective schools, systems and States, lt is the Australian Labor Party’s policy that there should be an Australian schools commission which will not consist of delegates or representatives of the various institutions and persons interested in education but a commission which will be impartial and which will, as far as possible, tend to represent the public interest before the various branches of the education system. [More…]

• The differing elements within the private and State systems may make representations and the schools commission may investigate the needs of the whole of Australian education and particular schools and systems. [More…]

• We believe that this is a consistent approach which ought to be applied to the whole of our education policy. [More…]

• It was foreshadowed in that document that in 1970 there would be a need for $l,443m of extra funds over 5 years on the basis that the States would be able to increase their education budgets by 10 per cent. [More…]

• Having said that, and having said that by granting this amount the Government not only has done of its own initiative an historic thing but has done what all the education authorities in Australia had asked for and which the Australian Labor Party now rejects. [More…]

• Every education authority, joining together in the needs survey for Australia, has asked for this to be done. [More…]

• When members of the Labor Party solemnly vote for this amendment tonight they will be doing the reverse of what the people who conducted the needs survey and what ail education authorities in Australia on the State level have banded together to seek. [More…]

• Having said that it was based on a 10 per cent increase in education and on the idea that the reimbursement grants would increase by a factor of 10 per cent, I point out that the reimbursement grants have increased by 18 per cent, 19 per cent, 20 per cent. [More…]

• Literally hundred of millions of dollars have gone to the Stales in extra funds to help the financing of the States education systems. [More…]

• The Government has taken historic action in deciding that all teachers colleges in Australia, including preschool teachers colleges if of the correct standard, shall be funded as colleges of advanced education and therefore shall attract $1 for SI in capital works and SI for $1.85 in capital revenue. [More…]

• This is part of the overall programme that the education authorities have set out. [More…]

• In moving this amendment honourable senators opposite say, in effect: ‘We reject the idea that State governments shall have sovereignty over primary and secondary education. [More…]

• This is the concept that is being put forward: The States shall have their sovereignty over education revoked. [More…]

• It is fair to say that each of the education bodies in Australia, certainly those in my State, such as the Australian Teachers Federation, the parents and citizens associations and all education bodies that have ever approached me as a delegation have emphasised that they support State sovereignty in education. [More…]

• So the idea of an Australian schools commission is fundamentally opposed to the ideas that have been propounded by the education bodies both in the needs survey and in the philosophy of control. [More…]

• By the power which Mr Whitlam foreshadowed in his Fabian lectures in July of this year and the, power of section 96 of the Constitution, a Labor government will take over the central functions now run by the States which include education, hospitals and other services. [More…]

• I invite honourable senators opposite to deny that the intention is for the existing sovereignty of the States over primary and secondary education to be destroyed and vested in the Commonwealth through an Australian schools commission. [More…]

• Indeed, Mr Barnard has said that a Labor government would centralise education. [More…]

• This amendment goes against the recommendations of all education authorities in Australia and against the views expressed by education bodies as reflected in the needs survey. [More…]

• Not only does it cut across those things but also does it cut across the concept of the sovereignty of the States and the belief that there should be decentralisation and diversification in education. [More…]

• We will set up in Canberra one single bureaucratic body that shall decide both streams of education.’ [More…]

• That, in anybody’s language, is the nationalisation of education. [More…]

• Is this amendment and are its policies consistent with its policy to centralise the control of education in the Commonwealth Parliament and to remove from the State Parliaments their sovereignty over primary and secondary education? [More…]

• This historic legislation will do what the needs survey and the educationists asked to be done. [More…]

• It will be reinforced by the colleges of advanced education taking over the role of teachers colleges. [More…]

• It stands, therefore, to destroy the sovereignty of the States in education. [More…]

• It stands to destroy the dual system of education. [More…]

• If the 2 reins of the dual system of education are held in the fingers the power to discriminate is grasped. [More…]

• By the rejection of that principle and by the statement of Senator Wheeldon, the Opposition is cutting across the whole principle of State sovereignty and is bringing forward a blueprint for the nationalisation of education - a blueprint which the people of Australia, if they understood it, would reject wholesale. [More…]

• Whatever the outcome of the election in December - it will not matter which party is in office after then - the Government will have to balance health, education, defence and many other issues. [More…]

• Normally I would nol have entered into a debate on education but so many people, including Senator Carrick, have been putting themselves forward as the complete repositories of educational knowledge. [More…]

• My assessment of the Labor Party’s policy has been based largely upon the development of the education system in the central western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]

• the Government cannot escape the fact that in 5 years hence, whatever amount it allocates for education, it is doubtful whether the States will be able to match it. [More…]

• I have never run from a dispute, whether it be in the trade union movement or in the education field. [More…]

• As Senator Kane would know, I have attended many discussions on education. [More…]

• To all this talk about education I am very functional in my approach; I say simply that a Labor government or the present Government cannot promise the world; the cake must be cut up, and with all due respect to education we believe, as my Queensland colleague Senator McAuliffe has argued, in the health of the young people. [More…]

• Not enough is done about physical education and no matter what happens after the election in December, more money must be spent to make this a healthier nation. [More…]

• In doing so perhaps some of what educationists want will have to be deferred. [More…]

• Whether it be for physical or for the broad spectrum of education the Labor Party will make no apologies for how the money should be spent. [More…]

• When this Government expanded its policy to meet the middle echelon education demands, the Government did not give the States, as Senator Carrick knows, a blank cheque for what they wanted. [More…]

• I have referred to the fundamental economic aspect of the matter and said that any government has to divide, the expenditure provided for in its Budget between the 27 different ministries and that it is obvious that the education ministry will not get the lot either now or in the future. [More…]

• The Labor Party would be honest and say that there had to be some distinction between the manner in which sums provided for education, immigration and so on were cut up. [More…]

• He accused me in his speech of having come from a privileged family, of having a privileged position in life and of having had a privileged education. [More…]

• I have neither pride nor any inverted sense of snobbery in the fact that the circumstances of my education were perhaps even more difficult and primitive than those of the honourable senator. [More…]

• My mother went out to do domestic work, all to her credit; and I obtained a tertiary education by working. [More…]

• Firstly, it is the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education they want for their children. [More…]

• For some 100 years all Australian governments were taxing all the people to provide education for all the children, but directing all the moneys so derived to state schools and denying any moneys to private schools. [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…]

• If the honourable senator agrees with the right of parents to choose the kind of education they want for their children, surely he must agree with the Democratic Labor Party when it says that it is wrong in principle and unjust to penalise parents who exercise that right. [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…]

• For instance, if a millionaire were to send his child to a state school, the Labor Party would be quite happy to meet the total cost of the child’s education. [More…]

• The Labor Party has agreed to pay the total cost of the education of a student of a wealthy parent, provided that student goes to a state school. [More…]

• If the Labor Party accepts the principle that a parent has the right to choose the kind of education he wishes for his child and if the taxpayers’ money is set aside for educational purposes, surely that money ought to be spent equally on a child in a private school and on a child in a state school. [More…]

• We believe in complete equality in the field of education, and for the reasons I have outlined the DLP supports the Bill - not because it achieves that, but because it is a step in that direction. [More…]

• I repeat, for the sake of emphasis, that we are proud of the role we have played in this matter over the last 15 years, and we are glad to see that now, after 15 years of struggle, at least this Government is moving in the right direction towards achieving equality in education. [More…]

• Undoubtedly, the Labor Party has not one policy on education, not 2 policies on education, but 3 policies on education, because those 3 people disagree with the fundamental policy that was served up by the conference that was held recently on an island not far from this continent. [More…]

• I suggest that the Labor Party is quite confusing in its attitude to education. [More…]

• It is incredible that members of the Australian Labor Party should suggest hypocritically in this place that we should apply some form of means test to education when they announce in all sincerity that they would apply a means test on social service benefits. [More…]

• But it is quite incredible and incomprehensible that members of that Party should advocate something different with respect to education. [More…]

• Incredible attitude to education adopted by the South Australian Labor Government. [More…]

• I should like to draw attention to the South Australian position at the moment with respect to education. [More…]

• New South Wales received an allocation of $10,180,000 from loan funds and it provided from its own resources no less than $2m for the provision of schools and for other educational purposes. [More…]

• It is quite incredible that Mr Hudson, who is the Minister of Education in South Australia, should accuse tha Commonwealth Government of disregarding educational needs in Australia when his Government adopts such an irresponsible attitude, although in February the Commonwealth Government provided the State with so much more money in the distribution of loan funds. [More…]

• The State Minister of Education has revealed his disregard on other occasions. [More…]

• In this place it was not so long ago that we discussed the education of outback children. [More…]

• A friend of mine told me that as a member of a deputation he approached the Minister of Education in South Australia with regard to this critical problem. [More…]

• He went along to the Minister in a very sincere and, 1 may say, humble way to request the South Australian Government to devote more money to the education of outback children in South Australia. [More…]

• I have only my friend’s statement to support this, but according to him the Minister said: ‘If we gave you extra money for the education of the outback children you would probably spend it on booze.’ [More…]

• I am serious in what I am going to say because I personally know Mr Hudson who is the Minister of Education in South Australia. [More…]

• I ask Senator Jessop to withdraw his remarks in relation to the South Australian Minister of Education. [More…]

• No doubt in conscience they think that what they are promoting in association with the Australian Labor Party is against their own principles because they have benefited by the Christian upbringing and education afforded to them as a result of their parents’ decision to send them to an independent school. [More…]

• 1 recognise that the Australian Labor Party is sensitive about our attitude to education because it is clear that it is a most just attitude to both independent and government schools. [More…]

• It is fair to say that everyone on this side of the chamber as well as on the other side, judging by the remarks to date, believes that every Australian child has an equal right to education. [More…]

• We start with the premise that everyone has a right to education and that everyone has an equal right to educational opportunity. [More…]

• Despite the colossal sums of money that this Government claims are spent from time to time on education in the Australian Capital Territory and in the States through the State governments, the present educational system is riddled with inequality of opportunity. [More…]

• If equity existed in education today there would be nothing wrong with the Government’s proposals. [More…]

• I can say, as a father of children who attended State schools - 2 of them have passed through State schools and are now at university and another is attending a State school in New South Wales - that the standard of State school education in New South Wales is much lower today than it was 6. [More…]

• 7 or 8 years ago despite the money that has been poured into the State educational system. [More…]

• As the standard in the State school system has deteriorated, so too has the standard in the secondary Catholic school system in New South Wales, compared with a vast improvement all round in the standard of greater public school education. [More…]

• If we are to carry out the principle that everyone has an equal right to educational opportunities, surely there has to be involved in the carving up of the education cake - governments can provide only a certain amount for education each financial year having regard to their overall responsibility to the nation - the principle of equity in order to bring about equity in the availability of well trained teachers and in the size of classrooms. [More…]

• Of those who enter a State public school system for secondary education and those who enter a Catholic school system for secondary education, 30 per cent complete their secondary education. [More…]

• Of those who enter the greater public school system, 70 per cent complete their education. [More…]

• Therefore inequality not only exists in the primary sector of education and the secondary school sector of education but also flows right through into the university or tertiary system of education and hence right through the community. [More…]

• If the parent decides to send his child to a state secondary school and he believes that the school is not of a sufficient standard despite the amount of taxation he might be paying for the education of his child and every other child, the fact remains, if he has the wherewithal, that he is financially able to improve the educational standard of his child by sending him to a greater public school. [More…]

• Even if he chooses not to do that, if he is not satisfied that the education that his child is receiving is sufficient, he can then afford private tuition. [More…]

• A man in humble circumstances is unable to afford the additional education for his child. [More…]

• I think that last year some $48m was allowable by way of taxation deductions for education. [More…]

• The financial structure, so far as it relates to the taxpayer who spends on education, is heavily loaded in favour of the wealthy man. [More…]

• In regard to equity in the educational system, it is heavily loaded in favour of the child of the wealthy parent. [More…]

• We believe that for the system of education existing in Australia for all children there should be established an Australian schools commission to iron out on a national basis where the principal needs are so that a system of equity can be brought about. [More…]

• Having ascertained the priority of needs in order to bring about some standard of equity in the educational system, it will then recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States, cutting out all this malarkey about centralisation and unification to assist andto meet the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities. [More…]

• If, as has been said, the members of the Government and the Australian Democratic Labor Party believe that every child is entitled to the right to education and that every Australian child has an equal right to educational opportunity, they have no alternative but to support the amendment moved by the Opposition. [More…]

• I am proud that the Government through this legislation is introducing a programme to assist the States financially for education purposes in order to ensure that all Australian children will obtain the best education that is possible. [More…]

• I am happy to support this Bill because I believe that the Federal Government has a responsibility te make available financial assistance to the States for education purposes. [More…]

• The 2 principles that I see in the Bill represent a significant step in the advancement of the education programme of this Government. [More…]

• What the Labour Party amendment implies in this respect is that the centralised Commonwealth controlled commission should supersede the real control by State governments and their Departments of Education. [More…]

• That is a situation in education at which we have not arrived yet. [More…]

• Other fields are already ripe for more national government, but I doubt whether education is. [More…]

• The honourable senator told us that there is class distinction in regard to education. [More…]

• Where there is a graduated system of income taxation of the severity which he, on the hustings, will condemn, he should recognise that despite deductions for education the graduation of the scale already takes an increasing amount of the upper bracket earnings and applies it generally for educational purposes. [More…]

• I want to say a word or two on education because the Minister in his reply, I think, missed the whole point of what this Bill really is all about. [More…]

• That is the need to face the fact that there is today a crisis in education. [More…]

• Senator Carrick, if I understood him correctly, seemed to be criticising the fact that the Labor Party amendment wishes to bring about some sort of centralisation in education. [More…]

• It is in only fairly recent times that we were able to coax the Commonwealth into the field of education. [More…]

• Until that time a former Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, as he then was, used to say that education was a State matter, which seemed to be much the same thing as Senator Carrick said tonight. [More…]

• I know it is difficult at this time when dealing with education to avoid political expediency and because of the dual system of education one must be careful that one does not fall into the controversial pit of sectarianism. [More…]

• I think the whole basis of the approach of the Labor Party to this is found in what Mr Menzies did when he finally forsook the attitude he had taken that the Commonwealth had no right in the field of education because it was a State field. [More…]

• When Sir Robert Menzies, or Mr Menzies as he then was, appointed Sir Keith Murray to investigate the university system, a recommendation Was prepared in 9 months and the Commonwealth moved very rapidly into the field of university education - and, I suggest, it made great improvements in it. [More…]

• It seems to the Labor Party that it is very simple to do exactly that at all levels of education, therefore we believe that a Commonwealth commission should look into all aspects to see what is needed. [More…]

• He must realise that education just does not run over 12 months, and there have been changes of government. [More…]

• It is tremendously vital to a small country such as ours because what we lack in numbers - and having in mind the great areas of the country that we cannot develop - we can make up in education. [More…]

• This can be seen amongst the Swiss and other peoples of Europe who have concentrated on education. [More…]

• We must consider also Aboriginal children, deaf children, spastic children - there are examples of spastic children who can benefit from university education, if they are given the opportunity to do so - children suffering from dyslexia, and migrant children. [More…]

• Therefore this is another field of education to which we must give special attention. [More…]

• These things are lost in the field of education. [More…]

• I suppose it is natural on the eve of an election and with a dual system of education and because of the events that have gone before. [More…]

• But we must concentrate on the field of education. [More…]

• I direct my question to Senator Drake-Brockman which relates to both the Primary Industry portfolio and the Education and Science [More…]

• I wish to raise a matter related to the second reading debate on this Bill, concerning what Senator Jessop said about the Minister of Education in South Australia. [More…]

• A friend of mine told me that as a member of a deputation he approached the Minister for Education in South Australia with regard to this critical problem. [More…]

• He went along to the Minister in a very sincere and, I may say, humble way to request the South Australian Government to devote more money to the education of outback children in South Australia. [More…]

• I have only my friend’s statement to support this, but according to him the Minister said: ‘If we gave you extra money for the education of outback children you would probably spend it on booze’. [More…]

• I told Senator Jessop that I would be quoting some letters which have been sent to these people by the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -I ask Senator Webster to listen to me and give me a chance to say what the Minister for Education has said. [More…]

• I ask Senator Jessop to withdraw his remarks in relation to the South Australian Minister of Education. [More…]

• It is signed by Mr Hugh Hudson, Minister of Education. [More…]

• This statement (that there would be no assurance that the money would be spent on education, it would probably go in “booze”) I feel is a personal insult to each family living in the outback.’ [More…]

• The members of our club felt very insulted to think that the Minister for Education could make such an unfair remark. [More…]

• If the allowance were paid to all parents whether or not a governess was employed, some of the money could be used for other than educational purposes. [More…]

• As Minister of Education it is not possible for me to make money available in circumstances where some portion of it would not be used for for educational purposes. [More…]

• This scheme involves the payment of a sum up to $370 over and above the existing boarding allowance to help parents meet the costs of secondary education where no facilities are provided by the Education Department. [More…]

• If the allowance were paid to all parents whether or not a governess was employed, some of the money could be used for other than educational purposes. [More…]

• As Minister of Education it is not possible for me to make money available in circumstances where some portion of it would not be used for educational purposes. [More…]

• This scheme involves the payment of a sum up to $370 over and above the existing boarding allowance to help parents meet the costs of secondary education where no facilities are provided by the Education Department. [More…]

• I recall that on Thursday, as he said and as he real accurately from Hansard, 1 used a phrase describing the attitude of the South Australian Minister of Education on the occasion of a deputation of people from the Stockowners Association of South Australia and the Outback Parents Club. [More…]

• Mr M. I. McTaggart presented a report on the deputation to the Minister of Education on 23rd June 1971 seeking financial assistance for outback children doing correspondence lessons. [More…]

• The Minister replied that he could not be sure that such an allowance would go towards education, and thought that in some cases it more likely that it would be spent on ‘booze’. [More…]

• In reply to this we suggested that it could be paid only to those who passed their exams, and so afford an encouragement to help education. [More…]

• The Minister replied that where parents were conscientious they would complete primary education and then possibly living away help was required to help brighter children, but that there is now a reasonable allowance for secondary students. [More…]

• The suggestion was made that a grant should be made to the parents of each child, but the Minister of Education could not agree with this because he thought it might not be utilised for the purpose for which it was granted. [More…]

• I think an apology is owing to the Minister of Education in South Australia. [More…]

• Hugh Hudson, Minister of Education, who wrote: [More…]

• So it is obvious that Mr McTaggart has endeavoured to bring pressure to bear on members of the Liberal Party or the Liberal-Country League, or whatever one might call them in South Australia, to bring discredit on the Minister of Education in South Australia. [More…]

• He saw that there was some political mileage in raising this matter in this Parliament to try to denigrate the South Australian Minister of Education. [More…]

• There are many areas in which Aborigines are in great need, particularly in fields to which the Government has seen fit to allocate money such as housing, health, education, employment and, social work. [More…]

• They had to live under sub-standard conditions because of the lack of educational training and job opportunities. [More…]

• I feel that perhaps there is a need for more help in this field as there is in relation to health and education. [More…]

• They go right across the board covering such matters as land rights through to education, housing and schooling. [More…]

• making insufficient provision for education ranging from pre-school to technical training, adult education and education at university level: [More…]

• 1 turn to the question of education grants. [More…]

• Nevertheless, these education grants cannot be made available until a child reaches 14 years of age, and there are many youngsters attending primary school whose parents need financial assistance to keep the children at school in order to give them a reasonable education. [More…]

• In clause (f) we condemn the Government for making insufficient provision for education ranging from preschool to technical training, adult education and education at university level. [More…]

• A lot of young people would be receiving a more stubstantial education and there would be some Aboriginals in universities. [More…]

• Today, as many of their young people are receiving what is considered to be a reasonable standard of education, they are walking away from many of the old myths and cultures. [More…]

• Certainly the magnitude of the figures is alarming and an effort has to be made to reduce them as quickly as possible, remembering at all times that what is entailed here is a vast programme of education which will need the co-operation of all political parties - and no villains, thank you. [More…]

• Even in the educational field, let us not expect too much. [More…]

• Far from it being true that not one Aboriginal is studying at a university, if only Senator Keeffe had been prepared to read the second reading speech and not utilise the occasion of this debate to give expression to preconceived ideas, he would have found that there was a vast programme of assistance in the education area. [More…]

• There are 29 Aborigines studying at universities and there are 9 Aborigines undertaking other tertiary education. [More…]

• Funds have been provided to the States - and in some cases by direct grants also - to meet a variety of educational needs ranging from the construction of, and the provision of equipment for, pre-schools, primary and secondary schools, to the establishing of residential hostels in the cities and major towns so that students from rural areas may be able to continue their education beyond the primary level. [More…]

• In discussions with the States it was decided that one of the main targets to be aimed at in the educational sphere during this year would be the further development of preschools and pre-schooling facilities so that Aboriginal children would be suitably prepared for entrance into the school system. [More…]

• I do not repeat the second reading speech in detail, but an indication of the general programme in education matters which the Government has been following is set out in considerable detail. [More…]

• reduce existing social and other handicaps facing them in health, housing, education and vocational training; and [More…]

• to minimise the cost of education and medical and hospital expenses to persons living in isolated country areas; [More…]

• On 17th August 1972 Senator Devitt asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science: [More…]

• I direct a question without notice to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science who, I understand, has responsibility also for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has now provided the following information: [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science aware that of the numbers of students throughout Australia who commenced their secondary education in 1966 or 1967 only 26 per cent attending government schools enrolled for their final year in 1971 while the corresponding figure for non-Catholic, non-government schools was 81.7 per cent? [More…]

• Does the Minister acknowledge that those figures highlight the inequalities existing in Australian education today? [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government, after consultation with State governments, has concluded that the time is appropriate for such a review and, on 11th September 1972, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) announced that Mr Justice W. B. Campbell of the Supreme Court of Queensland had been appointed to conduct an inquiry into academic salaries in universities. [More…]

• Mr Justice Campbell’s inquiry will not be examining salaries at colleges of advanced education because the Commonwealth is adhering to the principles of the Sweeney report that salaries of lecturers and senior lecturers in colleges of advanced education should be broadly the same as those in universities. [More…]

• When the recommendations of the inquiry into university salaries are known, the Commonwealth and State governments will give further consideration to the question of academic salaries for colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• When presenting the Commission’s report on 22nd August 1972, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) outlined its contents and explained that for the forthcoming triennium the Commission had recommended a number of changes. [More…]

• Fifthly, the definition of ‘fees’ has been altered to exclude from the recurrent grant formula the fees payable for adult education, extension work, professional refresher courses and other short courses. [More…]

• This will encourage the universities to develop their activities in continuing education, work in proportion to the demonstrated need for them and the universities’ own enterprise. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill now before the Senate is to give effect to the Government’s decision to provide funds for the development of colleges of advanced education in the triennium 1973-75. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that when I tabled the Third Report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education on 22nd August 1972 I said that the Commonwealth would support a programme totalling approximately S450m in the triennium. [More…]

• Included in this sum is provision for the Canberra College of Advanced Education which is financed entirely from Commonwealth funds and for which accordingly no provision is made in this Bill. [More…]

• These figures demonstrate the strong measure of community support which the colleges are receiving, especially among school leavers seeking a tertiary education orientated to the needs of industry and commerce. [More…]

• They also reflect this Government’s determination to encourage the development of this significant new stream in tertiary education in Australia. [More…]

• The Bill before the Senate is broadly similar to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969 but incorporates some changes consequent upon the creation of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and upon the construction of affiliated residential colleges in the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• as might be expected, the salaries of the teaching staff and in this connection it should be noted that during the present triennium, 1970-72, the student enrolment in colleges of advanced education has risen from approximately 38,000 in 1970 to about 54,000 in 1972 and it is expected to reach approximately 81,000 in 1975. [More…]

• Wales, the continuation of major projects in all States, special assistance for the construction of student residences particularly in country areas, assistance with running costs of student residences, and the provision of special assistance to libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In the colleges of advanced education also, affiliated colleges exist and there may develop during the triennium other student residences of a collegiate type. [More…]

• This Bill makes provision for unmatched grants to be made to such institutions on the recommendation of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and a sum of $500,000 has been set aside for this purpose. [More…]

• The Commission on Advanced Education has drawn attention to the particular needs of libraries in colleges of advanced education and this Bill provides for additional assistance for these libraries. [More…]

• Under the present Act the Minister must approve particulars of building projects and must approve courses in colleges of advanced education for Commonwealth funding purposes. [More…]

• Now that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education has been set up as a statutory authority the Government has decided that some of the functions at present resting with the Minister should be transferred to the Commission and this Bill provides that approval of courses and particulars of projects listed in the Schedules to this Bill may be approved by the Commission. [More…]

• In conclusion I might remind honourable senators that this Government has maintained a live interest in teacher education and it might be noted that the Bill before the Senate provides for funds for teacher education in 7 colleges ot advanced education. [More…]

• Moreover as honourable senators will recall the Australian Commission on Advanced Education has been asked to present a report no later than March 1973 on the needs of teachers colleges which the Government has decided should be funded in the same way as colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• Thus under the scheme, opportunities will exist for children aged between 3 and 5 years in child care centres to receive pre-school education. [More…]

• Centres will need to provide programmes of pre-school education for children as appropriate; [More…]

• I draw honourable senators’ attention to the recurrent grants that encourage - indeed, demand - the employment of qualified staff in centres including staff capable of providing pre-school education. [More…]

• The amendment proposed by the Australian Labor Party is as follows: but the Senate condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]

• That the Australian Education Council’s Report on the Survey into Educational Needs has established serious deficiencies in the State’s education services. [More…]

• Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Parliament will take immediate steps to ensure that finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]

• I present also a report of the Joint Committee on the Australian Capital Territory on references relating to, firstly, State and municipal costs and revenues in the Austraiian Capital Territory and, secondly, aspects of a statutory authority to administer education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• by leave - During the deliberations of Senate Estimate Committee C on the estimates of the Department of Education and Science on 21st September, Senator Georges sought information on the Department’s intentions concerning the funds to be made available for research into the crown of thorns starfish problem on the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]

• It was agreed that it would be taken up with the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) whether it would be appropriate for him to make a statement to the Parliament on this question. [More…]

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• At the time tenders were called for cleaning the Nhulunbuy School the Tender Board of the Northern Territory Administration was continuing to provide this Department with services on the same basis as it had provided services to the Education Section of the Northern Territory Administration when it was responsible for community schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Education and Science has provided me with the following comments by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on the matter: [More…]

• That surveys have shown that a substantial percentage of children in Australia have learning disabilities, and therefore require suitable remedial education. [More…]

• That in many cases there is a correlation between education failure and juvenile delinquency, with a resultant economic loss to the community. [More…]

• Special training courses for experienced teachers in remedial education for children with learning disabilities at all levels. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• A poll taken in Australia recently showed that education was the No. [More…]

• Therefore, I ask the Minister: Is he in a position to tell the Senate whether there has been during the past weekend an important expression of attitude by a significant section of the public towards the Government’s education policy and whether that attitude was also expressed towards the so-called needs basis education policy of the Opposition? [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and Science, ls it a fact that the Tasmanian Minister for Education has informed the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science that the Tasmanian Labor Government will not participate in the Commonwealth’s proposals for provision of assistance to independent schools pursuant to a long term programme? [More…]

• Therefore we have suggested, in turn, a total examination by a commission of the rural industries and a fundamental examination of the rural sector; we have had referred to a Senate Select Committee the question of drugs; we were responsible for the creation of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control to examine the erosion of Australian control and ownership of our national resources; we have had referred matters of education in the field of deprived children and in the field of children living in isolated areas and, if necessary, financial assistance. [More…]

• We also have a small population which has a different structure from that of the other States and which requires greater expenditure on education and hospitals. [More…]

• If we in South Australia are to have equality of opportunity throughout the country insofar as the provision of necessary services is concerned, be they water reticulation or the provision of roads, education or hospitals, which are all requirements of society, we need this sort of assistance. [More…]

• At the end of motion add, ‘but the Senate is of the opinion - (a) that the Commonwealth Government should take the initiative to establish child care centres to meet the needs of working mothers, and should do this on a basis of priorities, to give maximum advantage to a maximum number of families, rather than leave the provision of this service to the chance interest of employers and local authorities, and (b) that child care centres should be within the province of the Department of Education and Science, and should be part of a pre-school system developed progressively throughout the nation’. [More…]

• Some authorities such as Professor Hugh Philip, Professor of Education at Macquarie University, have expressed doubt that such industrial centres are in the best interests of the child. [More…]

• It will insist upon the emphasis on education being part of the overall consideration of the Bill. [More…]

• I would like to think that they would be developmental; but I do not see at this stage that we should link them with what we term a ‘pre-school education programme’. [More…]

• Expert in pre-school education which have heard mentioned? [More…]

• 1 am not speaking from personal experience, but I have been told by people who have spent a lifetime in pre-school education about the position in the world today. [More…]

• That Child Care Centres should be within the province of the Department of Education and Science, and should be part of a pre-school system developed progressively throughout the nation. [More…]

• We would not support a proposal for child care centres to be placed in the hands of departments of education, even in the various States. [More…]

• We feel that the matter is one more of a social character and a medical and health character than of education. [More…]

• We do not believe that taking children of 3 years of age and treating them as subjects for education and science would greatly improve child care centres. [More…]

• What we would like to see would be a preschool education for every child, which is an entirely different proposition. [More…]

• The amendment states that child care centres should be within the province of he Department of Education and Science and should be part of a pre-school system developed progressively throughout the nation. [More…]

• It was also raised - I think by Senator Gietzelt, and it is implicit in the amendment which the Labor Party has moved - that this scheme should not be administered by the Department of Labour and National Service but should be administered by the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• Whilst there may be a case for pre-school centres being within the administration of the Department of Education and Science, or coming within the overall responsibility of that Department as far as the Commonwealth is concerned, I do not think there is the same case for child care centres being administered by that Department. [More…]

• This difficulty arises because school leavers do not usually make firm decisions to enter the labour force or continue with their education until the commencement of the new scholastic year. [More…]

• Against this background and on the basis of past experience the Department of Labour and National Service has tentatively estimated that about 170,000 young people completing their secondary education will probably enter the labour market at the conclusion of the 1972 school year. [More…]

• In addition it is estimated that about 30,000 students will complete their tertiary education. [More…]

• Education would stop it. [More…]

• Education would stop it. [More…]

• All grants to the States in connection with housing, education and other things are made under section 96 of the Constitution and there is a stipulation as to how they are used. [More…]

• One point is that the scheme to assist with child care centres should be administered by the Department of Education and Science as distinct from the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]

• of this section, as is reasonably necessary to ensure the proper maintenance and education of the child or children is payable to the Commissioner for the benefit of the child or children. [More…]

• the Commissioner considers that circumstances have arisen that affect the proper maintenance and education of the child or children; [More…]

• the Commissioner may, in respect of a child of a deceased employee who is not self-supporting, authorise the continuation of weekly payments until the education of the child is completed; [More…]

• However, I wish to take a moment or two to support the measures which are before the Senate this afternoon and to underline the fact that the purposes of the Bills is to give, effect to the Government’s decision to provide funds for universities and for the development of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The system of colleges of advanced education has, of course, received a wide measure of community support. [More…]

• It is important to point out to the Senate that the proposed level of expenditure for colleges under the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]

• This Bill, to which I wish to refer in particular, is a reflection of the Government’s determination to encourage, development of the system of advanced education. [More…]

• In August last the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) put down the report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Commission had been particularly impressed with the way in which what it called old and familiar educational administrative problems were being tackled in new and varied ways. [More…]

• The Commission found that there was a general willingness to abandon hide-bound or traditional attitudes and to experiment in a whole range of vital matters such as traditional attitudes, student selection techniques and modern educational technology. [More…]

• The system of colleges of advanced education was designed, as the Senate knows, to meet an educational need, to complement the pattern of tertiary education and to provide for a greater diversity of opportunity. [More…]

• There is a warning in the Commission’s report where it makes the observation that while the basic purpose of the colleges is to increase the range of opportunities for tertiary education, and has a strong emphasis on practical application, it was concerned to note signs that this original aim was tending to be changed by academic pressures. [More…]

• I have been very interested to note also that there has been a measure of support from the Australian Union of Students which has pointed out that colleges of advanced education should be more oriented towards vocational practical teaching and more towards industrial and social needs. [More…]

• One of the areas in which I have an interest in this measure is the relationship between the Bills and the report, of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on the Commonwealth’s Role in Teacher Education. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that this report drew attention strongly to the necessity for the integration of teachers colleges into the college of advanced education system, indeed, one of the conclusions of the Committee in this sphere stated: [More…]

• Those teachers’ colleges at present operating as single-purpose institutions should be incorporated as integral parts of colleges of advanced education wherever possible and that those teachers colleges which are geographically remote from existing or planned colleges of advanced education should be deemed to be Colleges of Advanced Education for the purposes of autonomy and eligibility for funds. [More…]

• I note in both the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in another place, and of the Minister for Works, who presented the Bills in this place, reference to the fact that a report is expected in March next year. [More…]

• Firstly, I refer to the establishment of new colleges of advanced education in South Australia and New South Wales. [More…]

• Not only are they additional to education facilities but they also carry significant overtones of a social measure. [More…]

• I have had the opportunity in the last 2 or 3 weeks of visiting and inspecting a couple of colleges of advanced education - one in Hobart and the other in Canberra. [More…]

• One has an impression of size, and greater size yet to come in regard to the College of Advanced Education here in Canberra. [More…]

• Both of these colleges are fulfilling a unique role in the total pattern of education. [More…]

• These 2 institutions and others like them, along with the financial references and allocations in the Bill, highlight the enormous amount of money and effort that is being spent on advanced education. [More…]

• At the same time, while more and more money is being spent on advanced education, there is a continuing demand for even more money to be spent on providing more facilities. [More…]

• In this regard, the taxpayer rightly asks for value for money but government equally rightly replies that, in terms of educational opportunities, it is providing opportunities for an everwidening range of people. [More…]

• So, in supporting the Bill, I draw attention to its value in the opportunities that it will provide and, above all, the diversity of opportunity, authority and management which is the important difference between the Government’s educational measures and the policy put forward by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• 2) and the State Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]

• 3), 1 feel that the occasion calls for a more complete review of the situation than has to date been advanced because we approach a debate on Bills of this sort only once every 3 years, as each of the commissions - the one dealing with colleges of advanced education and the other dealing with universities - puts forward a comprehensive report every third year in pursuance of their function. [More…]

• I believe that this will give to the Australian population a very creditable proportion of the people who have access to university education. [More…]

• Realising the intensified demand for technical skills from the Austraiian population, the Government in 1965 saw the necessity to branch out into a second field of tertiary education, namely, the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In this field, the Bill that we are discussing provides for a total programme of expenditure of S450m, which will cater for 44 colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The amount of S450m includes the approporiation that is made for the Commonwealth Canberra College of Advanced Education but the total that the Government will provide for assistance to colleges of advanced education in the States will be of the order of about S423m. [More…]

• As I have mentioned, this assistance is to be provided for the second branch of tertiary education, the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Senator Davidson, who obviously has a very great interest in the field of education, referred to the report of the Commission in which it is stated that the outstanding feature with regard to colleges of advanced education over the last 3-year period has been their growth. [More…]

• Of the $423m that the Bill will provide for State colleges of advanced education, $266m will be absorbed in recurrent expenditure while $157m will go towards expanding or reconstructing or constructing and equipping colleges. [More…]

• I will not detail the amounts that are involved under each of these separate heads, but, I think it is satisfactory to the Senate to know that the Commonwealth Government is devoting a very significant part of its Budget in the ways I have indicated - a total of $344m for universities and $173m for colleges of advanced education under these 2 Bills. [More…]

• I believe that it is a satisfactory note upon which the Senate can proceed to the closing stages of this session to realise that there is projected into the future for the next 3 years a commitment of over S600m in the 2 fields of tertiary education to which I have referred. [More…]

• He said that as the Menzies Government and the McMahon Government had provided commissions, in one case for universities and in the other case for colleges of advanced education, so he would claim initiative for an original idea of . [More…]

• The Australian Commission on Colleges of Advanced Education caters for the need at present of some 44 colleges. [More…]

• That shows how impracticable is the idea that Senator Wheeldon advanced again, copying what has been done by the present Government with regard to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The idea that having commissions can be extended to include a commission to deal with all the problems of 9,500-odd schools is an impracticable idea which does not seem to be very acceptable for the purpose of real assistance to education. [More…]

• One is their living and social conditions - health, education and what have you; the other is the preservation of those things that are sacred to them, such as the Drums of Mer which were made famous by an Australian writer but which today are virtually non-existent. [More…]

• The Commonwealth may also provide assistance to war widows in the form of training and, to the eligible children of deceased ex-servicemen, the Commonwealth may provide education assistance by way of allowances, fees, fares, books and equipment under the Soldier’s Children Education Scheme. [More…]

• Is the Mr F. Kirwan, designated as the private secretary to the Minister for Education, the same Mr Frank Kirwan who was the defeated Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives for the electorate of Forrest in Western Australia? [More…]

• The attitude of the Papua New Guinea Government was expressed in another way by Mr Ebia Olewale, who is Minister for Education, in a statement reported on 3rd May 1972 in which he said that it was unreasonable to ask Papua New Guinea to put up with a situation which Queensland would not tolerate should the positions be reversed. [More…]

• The principal criticisms which were voiced were the failure to recruit nurses, and to retain nurses once recruited; inadequate, or inappropriate, and unimaginative nursing educational programmes; unrealistic and inadequate staff establishments in some hospitals, with consequent depressed standards of nursing care; use of hospitals which provide insufficient variety of clinical and nursing experience for education and training; inadequate teaching and supervisory staff in very many hospitals. [More…]

• Notwithstanding that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts is charged with the responsibility to consider and report upon the best procedures to be adopted to assist the education of children in isolated areas of Australia, has he or the Government received any complaints from the parents of such children about the generous allocation of money to them prior to the report of the Senate Committee being finalised? [More…]

• As the very valuable report of the Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse showed, it is not simply a problem of the criminal law; nor is it simply a problem of education, health or the other disciplines. [More…]

• I have a document in front of me from the Department of Education that is signed by Mr A. E. Guymer, the Director General of Education, which reads: [More…]

• The position in the Education Department is given. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for the Media, concerns a written submission of the Australian Mass Communications Council to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on 19th July 1972. [More…]

• I am aware that last year the Mass Communications Council presented a submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which is inquiring into all aspects of radio and television. [More…]

• 1 ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: ls it not a fact that this administration and previous administrations have spent many millions of the taxpayer’s dollars on education and can exert some influence on the education system throughout Australia? [More…]

• If I have done no more than take honourable senators on the briefest of journeys in this regard, I think they will agree that what the Committee has done, both in the education of its members and in the preparation of the report, is of great worth to this Parliament and to the community. [More…]

• The second ground of approach was the clear failure, of existing social and economic structures to meet the needs of modern society, particularly in relation to education, social security, health, industrial relations and urban and regional development. [More…]

• I ask whether the Minister for the Media has now studied the written submission of the Australian Mass Communications Council to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts to which his name is attached? [More…]

• The answer to the first portion of the honourable senator’s question is no, I have not had the opportunity yet of perusing the submission that was made by the Australian Mass Communications Council to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the [More…]

• My colleague, Senator J. R. Mcclelland, was and still is a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which is inquiring into all aspects of radio and television. [More…]

• The Government’s policy on war pensions for student children, which is reflected in the Bill, is that they should be continued until completion of full-time education in respect of dependent children who are not receiving a maintenance or living allowance or salary from Commonwealth sources that equals or exceeds the allowances payable under the Repatriation Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme. [More…]

• In relation to children of service pensioners, the Bill also reflects the Government’s policy that a child should continue to be recognised for service pension purposes irrespective of age, for as long as the child continues to undertake full-time education. [More…]

• As has been stated in connection with the Repatriation Bill, the Government’s policy on student children of war pensioners which is given effect to in this Bill in conjunction with the Repatriation Bill, is that they should not terminate at age 21 but be continued until completion of the student’s full-time education. [More…]

• This applies only in respect of dependent children who are not receiving a maintenance or living allowance or salary from Commonwealth sources that equals or exceeds the allowances payable under a repatriation children education scheme. [More…]

• First, they can try to adapt themselves to a changing world and a higher level of education in this country, knowing that there are now people who do not believe the sort of twaddle they were talking in 1949 about socialism leading to communism, China being an agent of Russia, [More…]

• They go on to tertiary and technical education in much greater numbers. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education been drawn to statements that some schools in Victoria are utilising Commonwealth scholarship money as payment towards composite fees? [More…]

• Now that he has done so, I shall refer the matter to our colleague the Minister for Education in another place and I shall ask him to provide the information that the honourable senator seeks. [More…]

• $7,500,000 will be made available to the States to supplement funds already provided by the Commonwealth to cover expenditures in such fields as housing, education and health. [More…]

• Of that sum, $7.5m is to go to the States for housing, education and health. [More…]

• There are new demands for various departments as follows: Department of Services and Property, $435,000; Department of Aboriginal Affairs, $630,000; Attorney-General’s Department, $93,000; Department of Education, $55,000; Department of Social Security, $35,000; Department of the Treasury, $46m; and the Department of Works, $19,800,000. [More…]

• He said: ‘Generally, counter hands in butcher shops have not received very much education. [More…]

• As to whether it is the desire of the Australian Government to make more stations available to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the honourable senator will be aware that the Minister for Education has established a committee of inquiry to investigate the feasibility and practicability of establishing an open university. [More…]

• When he is determining the weekly amount payable for the benefit of a dependant, the Commissioner is to have regard to the need to secure the proper maintenance of the dependant and, where appropriate, the proper education of that dependant. [More…]

• By leave - I am grateful to the Senate for the opportunity of making a few brief references to this report on the survey of child migrant education in schools of high migrant density in Melbourne. [More…]

• My interest in the report springs not only from its content but also from the reference in its conclusions to the Migrant Education Committee of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]

• The Migrant Education Committee of the Council was set up during my term as Chairman of the Council. [More…]

• The survey, which is the substance of this report, was initiated by the previous Minister for Immigration and the former Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The Migrant Education Committee of the Advisory Council became aware in its surveys, carried out, I think, last year, of the difficulties which shortage of accommodation was causing in the migrant education program. [More…]

• I recall that members of the Committee visited many schools of a variety of kinds in several capital cities and took note of many of the needs of child migrant education. [More…]

• The Migrant Education Committee of the Advisory Council comprises distinguished people in all fields of education and I understand they are continuing their work. [More…]

• The statement which the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Douglas McClelland) has just tabled notes the role and interest of the Council’s sub-committee and the important field of research into child migrant education. [More…]

• That would be a matter for discussion and, perhaps, debate but the report tabled by the Minister refers to a specific area of needy children - migrant children who have been having difficulties in education, notably in the English language, and who, because of their location, may be regarded as deprived children. [More…]

• Returning to my short statement on this report which Senator Douglas McClelland has presented, 1 would say briefly that at this time last year some 25,000 children were receiving instruction and some 600 teachers were employed under the child migrant education program. [More…]

• I commend the Government for its response to this report, which response was referred to in a speech made in another place by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• I point out that the problems referred to herewith are both educational and social, and the successful adoption of appropriate action and finding effective solutions to the problems referred to in the report will add greatly to the quality of our national life and it will be to Australia’s advantage. [More…]

• I think that the success of the remedies to be undertaken will depend to a large degree on how the various State education systems respond. [More…]

• It is quite clear that education is a field in which numerous calls are made. [More…]

• I know that the Commonwealth Minister for Education (Mr [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• The grant will be used for housing, health, education, employment, special works projects and regional projects. [More…]

• I believe that we should strive for their economic independence and to reduce existing social and other handicaps which face them in respect of health, housing, education and vocational training. [More…]

• Money is to be allocated for housing, health, education, employment, special work projects and regional projects. [More…]

• It is important that Aborigines are given the same opportunities as other Australians in the field of education and housing, and surely there is a real need for more to be done in the field of health than perhaps has been done in the past. [More…]

• Today many of the adult Aboriginals suffer from a lack of education and training in various fields. [More…]

• All the legislation which is brought forward in relation to education and health will not solve problems unless competent Aborigines are fielded to liaise with their own people, to ensure that they are sure of their entitlements and where to go to receive them, and how to cope with the many problems they are facing. [More…]

• He is the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• On Thursday, 26th April, and Friday, 27th April, we are again committed with Senator James McClelland who will be chairing the Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which is meeting in either Sydney or Canberra - I am not sure which. [More…]

• Australia has influenced our political system, our education, and other aspects of our daily life. [More…]

• It has been said that his parents could not afford to give him a secondary education, yet through his own efforts he rose to be the man in charge of the finances of the nation. [More…]

• Most of the people who came to the Island as adults had little formal education but have acquired useful skills as a result of their employment in the phosphate industry. [More…]

• Those who came as children or were born there have had the benefit of primary and secondary education. [More…]

• The curriculum is based on the Singapore curriculum with some modifications and senior students sit for the University of London general certificate of education. [More…]

• Various improvements to the educational system recommended by an educational adviser in 1970 are being made as rapidly as possible. [More…]

• Every effort will be made to equip the people for resettlement through education and training on the Island, scholarships, resettlement grants and appropriate reception arrangements. [More…]

• The first amendment substitutes a new definition of ‘child’ in section 83 to clarify the intention that a child who has attained the age of 16 years must be undertaking full-time education and be wholly or substantially dependent upon the pensioner parent before being recognised for service pension purposes. [More…]

• There has been a direction in relation to matters such as education. [More…]

• This may be a matter more appropriate for the Minister for Education, or in this case the Minister for the Capital Territory and Minister for the Northern Territory, to consider. [More…]

• As I recall, the criterion for entitlement to a bounty is - I do not think it is amended by this Bill - is that the book must be of a literary or educational character. [More…]

• ‘Literary’ means a book of literary quality, especially when it is taken in conjunction with the other aspect that engaged the attention of the legislature when it defined the criterion for entitlement to this bounty, that is, ‘education’. [More…]

• It must be seen to provide an opportunity for re-education, rehabilitation and special attention to any persons who are involved, not only the offenders. [More…]

• The question of the prevention of crime and the education of the community towards that prevention should receive our attention. [More…]

• The carrying out of the death penalty, in my view, does not contribute to that prevention or indeed to that education. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Victorian Premier or Minister for Education at any time provided detailed information on the structure, courses, etc. [More…]

• and the relationship to teachers’ colleges and colleges of advanced education of the proposed fourth Victorian university? [More…]

• Last Thursday the Minister for Education tabled a report in the House of Representatives from the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education based on an inquiry which those Commissions conducted on the location, nature and development of institutions of tertiary education in Sydney, Melbourne and the Albury-Wodonga region. [More…]

• I say in reply to the honourable senator, having been briefed on this matter, by my colleague in another place, that some information was conveyed by the Victorian Government to the Australian Universities Commission through the State Minister for Education since this report to which I have referred was tabled. [More…]

• I am informed by my colleague the Minister for Education that the establishment of a fourth university in Victoria has been contemplated for a number of years and that at the time of the Victorian State election in 1970 both major political parties - that is, the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party of Australia - announced their intention to establish a fourth university, if elected. [More…]

• The fourth university committee presented its final report to the Victorian Minister of Education in January 1972. [More…]

• I am told by my colleague, Mr Beazley, the Minister for Education, that the Australian Universities Commission received a broad outline of possible ways in which the fourth university in Victoria might be developed as a result of discussions with the Victorian Minister of Education, Mr Thompson, on 13th October last year. [More…]

• Mr Beazley advises me that some further information was provided by the Victorian Minister of Education in a letter to the Australian Universities Commission in February this year, but that the detailed information sought by the Commission had not been provided prior to the tabling in the House of Representatives last Thursday of the report to whichI have made reference earlier and which I will table in the Senate at the appropriate time this afternoon. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Education advises me that it is highly unlikely that it will be possible for the fourth university in Victoria to open for students in 1976 unless decisions are taken almost immediately. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I table the report by the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education on the location, nature and development of institutions of tertiary education in Sydney, Melbourne and the Albury-Wodonga region. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I table the report on teacher education prepared by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill now before the Senate is to give effect to a number of Government decisions to provide additional funds for the development of advanced education in Australia during the current triennium. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education recommended, in its third report, that the Commonwealth should provide an unmatched grant of S5m for libraries in colleges of advanced education during the 1973-75 triennium. [More…]

• The present Government accepts the view of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education that present library resources are inadequate in colleges of advanced education, and it is therefore prepared to make available for college libraries the sum of $5m during the current triennium. [More…]

• I may say that education is a field where social workers are needed. [More…]

• To help overcome this shortage the Government is providing an unmatched grant of $40,000 in 1973 to enable the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education to establish a post-graduate course In social work to commence in 1974. [More…]

• The Government has approved an allocation of $3m to universities and colleges of advanced education to enable them to provide financial assistance to needy students. [More…]

• Of the S3m, $806,000 is for students attending colleges of advanced education in the States. [More…]

• The assistance scheme is to be administered by the respective colleges of advanced education and assistance will be given in the form of grants or loans, depending on individual circumstances, and will be available to pay fees, living allowances and other approved educational expenses. [More…]

• It will be a matter for each college of advanced education to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that the grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by bread-winners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the bread-winner; loss of earning power by the bread-winner or any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]

• The present Bill, together with other Bills on education listed for introduction during this autumn session of Parliament, underlines the importance which the Government and, I believe, the Parliament attach to the whole field of education - a view which Parliament knows is shared by the nation. [More…]

• On 14th March 1973 the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) announced the decision of the Australian Government to provide an unmatched grant of 33m this year to help students who were experiencing hardship in commencing or continuing their tertiary studies at universities or colleges of advanced education because of financial circumstances. [More…]

• The Australian National University will receive $69,000 and the balance of the total of $3m will be made available to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Provision for grants to the States in respect of colleges of advanced education will be the subject of another Bill. [More…]

• The assistance scheme for university students will be administered by the respective universities and assistance will be given in the form of grants or loans, depending on individual circumstances, to pay fees, living allowances and other approved educational expenses. [More…]

• It is a matter for each university to determine who should receive assistance, but the Minister for Education has indicated that he would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]

• The allocation of funds between universities was determined by the Minister for Education in consultation with the Australian Universities Commission, and each university Vice-Chancellor was advised shortly after the Minister’s announcement of the amount that the university would receive for the purpose of assisting students in needy financial circumstances. [More…]

• It will be recalled that the Mission observed that Australian governments were not providing sufficient funds for industrial training and that the amounts devoted to technical education were small compared to the expenditure on genera) and tertiary education. [More…]

• The Government intends that this situation will be remedied, and we are determined that technical and further education should receive the same consideration as will -be given to the other areas of education. [More…]

• The Government has therefore decided to establish a commission which will examine the needs of technical and further education and make recommendations to the Government on financial assistance that should be provided to the States in these areas. [More…]

• I am confident that this measure will place technical education in Australia on a more satisfactory basis than has to date been the case. [More…]

• Steps have already been taken to establish the commission, and my colleague the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, recently announced the composition and terms of reference of the Australian committee on technical and further education. [More…]

• This committee will become the commission when the necessary legislation has been enacted, and assistance for technical and further education after 30th June 1974 will be on the basis of the recommendations of the commission In the meantime, the Government wishes to ensure that additional capital projects of an urgent nature are not delayed until after that date, and this Bill to provide supplementary grants totalling$10m is an interim measure intended to raise the level of assistance available under the existing arrangements. [More…]

• The Government’s decision to introduce this legislation is an accord with a request from State Ministers of Education that additional funds be provided for urgent building projects that could be undertaken during the current triennium. [More…]

• The existing arrangements for the scheme will continue until 30th June 1974 with the exception that the Bill provides that grants may now be used for the purchase of land which is to be used for technical education facilities. [More…]

• Although grants under this program have not in the past been able to be used for this purpose, this provision exists in similar States grants legislation in the fields of university and advanced education, and the Government has accepted the view of the State Ministers of Education that this program should include the purchase of land in appropriate circumstances. [More…]

• One consequence of the relative neglect of technical education in the past has been that the sites of the older technical colleges located in city areas are generally over-crowded and restricted. [More…]

• In order to remedy this situation, funds will now be available under the program, where necessary, to assist the States to acquire sites for technical education institutions. [More…]

• The proposed supplementary grants reflect the Government’s interest in an area of education that I believe is of vital national concern. [More…]

• I am confident that the supplementary grants will provide the Stales with sufficient additional capacity to carry out urgent building projects until the nature and extent of the needs in this area of education can be assessed in a systematic way by the Commission. [More…]

• If the Parliament had sufficient fortitude to spend nol so much money on useless social services, or social training, or so-called social education but more on increasing the police force and training its members in the cunning of criminals, when hijackers flew in, providing there was sufficient evidence to make an immediate arrest, the evidence could be heard the next day when the court sat and within 7 days the sentence could be carried out. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education been drawn to a Press statement today by Professor Watson-Munro, who is Professor of Physics at the Sydney University, in which he is reported to have said that Australia needed to embark upon a program to determine the economic feasibility of solar energy? [More…]

• Minister representing the Minister for Education I can tell the honourable senator that I saw in this morning’s paper the report which was attributed to Professor Watson-Munro. [More…]

• I feel that the matter is more the responsibility of the Minister for Science than of the Minister for Education, and I will see that the contents of the honourable senator’s question are referred to Mr Morrison, the Minister for Science, so that he can consider the matters raised by the honourable senator. [More…]

• 2), the Defence Service Homes Bill, the Housing Assistance Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Bill (No. [More…]

• They stay at school longer and receive tertiary education in increasingly large numbers. [More…]

• I object strongly, as did other honourable senators earlier this evening, to the time of the Senate being taken up when important business could be before us in the interests and for the well-being of ex-servicemen in respect of their housing, the education of our children and other important issues. [More…]

• That abortion is not a desirable form of birth control and that emphasis should be placed on education, better methods and wider use of contraception; [More…]

• That as education is advanced and better con traception becomes available the need for abortion will diminish to negligible proportions. [More…]

• That would mean that those honourable senators who are suggesting that the Bills ought to be dealt with will have an opportunity to enable them and the other important matters concerning grants for education to be despatched by the Senate today. [More…]

• We would be dealing with the important housing and education Bills. [More…]

• What is worse is that Senator Greenwood, who has had a classical education, is being led by a little toad from Queensland’ [More…]

• It will examine the needs of trade union and employer organisations in Australia, the need for amalgamations, for trade union education and for closer consultation between unions, employers and government. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the ‘Australian’ newspaper of 15th May suggesting that acting upon the Campbell report on university and college of advanced education staff salaries the Government will break the existing nexus between the rates of pay applying in universities and colleges of advanced education? [More…]

• I find this surprising for a Government which prides itself on having some concern for the special situation of minorities and which has talked about the special needs of groups of people, of minorities and of people who are in some particular and peculiar circumstances whether in the field of social welfare, education, the arts or communications. [More…]

• It may be unfortunate for honourable senators opposite that in the 23 years in which they were in government they allowed a situation to develop wherein people had to move to the great metropolitan areas in order to get an income, and an education for their children. [More…]

• Mr Whitlam may have had more education than people such as myself, but I do not play second fiddle to him so far as my progress through the world, as I see it, is concerned. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has advised me that a winner of a senior secondary scholarship is entitled to a basic annual allowance of $150, free of means test. [More…]

• I am advised by my colleague the Minister for Education that to date $9,000 has been spent by the Department of Education to advertise the scheme. [More…]

• There has been close co-operation with State departments of education in regard to this matter. [More…]

• The advertisements have informed people that they can obtain further information by contacting officers of the State departments of education. [More…]

• If the honourable senator indicates that he requires further information on the matter I shall ensure that my colleague the Minister for Education provides it for him. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, relates to today’s announcement by the Minister for Health that $750,000 will be made available to the national drug education program for pamphlets, films and television documentaries. [More…]

• Good parents do nol cease to be such when the sun rises on a 21st birthday; indeed their continuing care and concern is confidently gambled upon by the government when it requires a financial contribution to a child’s further and further education even up to the age of 25. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Did the Minister, on 29 March 1973, announce that the Government intended to take over the full financial responsibility for tertiary education in Australia. [More…]

• Did the Prime Minister, on 25 March 1973, in an address to the Victorian Conference of the Australian Labor Party, state that ‘We already, before Christmas, set up the Interim Schools Commission which will make its report before the end of May which will, we expect, be put into force in the coming budget and which, with the co-operation of the States, to which we have writen, will mean that the Commonwealth can take over in the terms of the Party Platform, in the terms of the policy speech, in the terms of Sir Paul’s opening address to the Parliament, will enable the Commonwealth to assume the responsibility for planning and financing tertiary education in Australia on the condition that the money so saved is spent on other forms of education.’ [More…]

• If the Government intends to take over the planning of tertitary education in Australia, will the Minister make a full statement detailing its intention in this matter. [More…]

• Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Government’s intentions in regard to tertiary education are as announced in the Minister’s statement of 29 March 1973, in which he said that the Australian Government has proposed to the Premiers an early Federal assumption of full responsibility for financing tertiary education. [More…]

• Universities and colleges of advanced education have been established under State legislation and clearly the States will have a continuing concern with decisions about the role of these institutions. [More…]

• The Australian Government will need to develop over a period of time, through consultation with the States, an agreed pattern of responsibilities in the planning of tertiary education under the new financial arrangements. [More…]

• It should be remembered that the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education have already been involved, over a considerable period of time, in planning the development of tertiary institutions and in the process they have consultations with State authorities and with individual institutions. [More…]

• Inasmuch as a planning function is inherent in the making of financial decisions, obviously the Australian Government will be involved in planning to the extent that it will be involved in providing finance for tertiary education. [More…]

• In view of the Government’s plans to extend to migrants a wide range of services and education facilities from the date of their arrival, has the Government plans rapidly to increase all these services to the considerable extent required? [More…]

• We were pleased to be informed in the Treasury minute that the former Departments of the Interior (now Services and Property) and Education and Science (now Education), and the Department of the Treasury had agreed, firstly, that all school buildings in the Australian Capital Territory should be regarded as special purpose buildings, and secondly, that the responsibility for maintaining assets registers for those buildings should rest with the Department of Education. [More…]

• In addition, we are able to report that a feasibility study has commenced to determine the most efficient and economical burglar alarm systems for use in existing and proposed educational buildings. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report of the assessment panel on the Australian Capital Territory Education Authority on a design for the governance and organisation of education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I also lay on the table a statement delivered by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) this day in another place concerning the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]

• I have no need to remind the Senate of the role of education and community facilities in regional centres and decentralised areas. [More…]

• I do not want to develop the detail of that subject at this stage, but as new communities develop, as new high rise buildings are constructed, as there is urbanisation of our society, and as the technical development of communications, including television, takes place we must consider the cable television system which will feed into a house or an apartment a great number of cables which will provide a wide diversity of programs, opportunities and facilities, whether they be education or business or commercial facilities. [More…]

• 6m for the Department of Education of which $5m has been provided for Commonwealth scholarship schemes to cover increases in university fees and the extension of the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme to all children of Aboriginal descent attending secondary schools and classes from the beginning of 1973; $2.5m for education services in the Australian Capital Territory and $700,000 for educational ser vices in the Northern Territory; $3m for the Department of External Territories to cover special assistance to facilitate the transfer of functions to the Papua New Guinea Administration, emergency assistance to alleviate food shortages in the Papua New Guinea highlands and salary increases for overseas officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service; $5. [More…]

• The document which I am tabling today relates to an inquiry conducted in 1971-72 into the management and financial administration of the then Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• In pursuing this inquiry and preparing its report, the Committee has been conscious of the considerable interest shown by senators in all matters relating to education - especially the Commonwealth’s role and responsibilities in this field. [More…]

• Although there have been considerable changes in the structure of the Department of Education and Science since the Committee conducted its inquiry, the information contained in the 144th report provides a useful background for further study of current educational trends and policies. [More…]

• 1 suggest to all honourable senators that they study the report, particularly where it outlines problems encountered by the Department of Education and Science in building up a satisfactory structure to carry out its various tasks. [More…]

• 4m for various other services, including $700,000 for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and $8.6m for the Department of Education, $5m of which is provided for Commonwealth scholarships. [More…]

• In Tasmania this is done already in some areas that I can think of and I know of other schools that are ideally suited to this type of co-operation between the Department of Education and the National Fitness Council. [More…]

• The writer suggests that there is no need to develop more courses in physical education in Australia for at least another decade. [More…]

• Additional financial aid must also be made available for more scholarships and grants-in-aid to students in physical education. [More…]

• Some of the other features of the new scheme are: Commutation of retirement pay will be a right for members who retired after 1 October 1972, subject only to applications for commutation being made within one year of retirement or such longer period as may be necessary in special circumstances; management of the scheme is to be vested in a statutory authority on which all the Services will be represented; reversionary benefits will be extended to de facto widows and the member’s illegitimate children in certain circumstances, and dependent widowers of female members; the rates of pension payable in respect of children and orphans will be increased and, provided they are receiving full time education at a school, college or university, will continue in payment until age 25 years; invalidity pay will no longer be subject to suspension solely on account of earnings from civil employment; a contributing or recipient member may, if he is dissatisfied with a decision of the authority in relation to invalidity classification or any other matter of general administration of the Act, have his case referred to an invalidity classification review tribunal or an administrative review tribunal, as appropriate, for hearing and decision. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education aware that the Central Commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops, representing all the Catholic Bishops of Australia, has emphasised in a prepared statement dated 30 May its unqualified support for direct per capita aid to independent schools without means test and its opposition to a system of lump sum payments to schools according to the needs of the school or parents? [More…]

• I shall refer his question to my colleague the Minister for Education for a reply. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• This is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Education, in another place. [More…]

• The remaining proposals in the Bill are a result of the introduction by the Commonwealth of schemes to assist with the education of children living in isolated areas and for the payment of a domiciliary nursing care benefit to persons taking care of invalid aged relations in their homes. [More…]

• The amendments proposed in relation to the isolated children’s education scheme will ensure that allowances paid under the scheme will receive the same exemption from income tax as payments under the Commonwealth secondary and technical scholarship schemes. [More…]

• Like the scholarship schemes, however, amounts payable for the maintenance or accommodation of isolated children are to be taken into account for the purposes of the concessional deductions for maintenance of dependants while allowances paid in respect of education costs are to be taken into account in calculating the concessional deduction for a child’s education expenses. [More…]

• In addition, the repatriation pensioner would receive fringe benefits, such as education expenses and medical care. [More…]

• In addition she would receive fringe benefits, such as education allowance and medical care. [More…]

• Department of Immigration, made some estimates amongst which he said that ‘each migrant was a gain to Australia because of his education, training in industrial skills and the incidental costs which had been paid for by another nation’. [More…]

• It has made recommendations about language, education, counsellings, to which I have just referred, employment and other matters relating to health, housing, finance, personal needs, social workers and welfare officers. [More…]

• I understand that we are to have a cognate second reading debate on the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Bill (No. [More…]

• I simply remind the Senate that the Bills with which we are dealing provide a total of $3m for application by the universities and the colleges of advanced education in Australia for the assistance of needy students who find themselves unable to continue their courses or unable to commence their courses for various reasons related to financial problems which can be overcome by the granting of assistance by way of either grant or loan. [More…]

• Of the total of $3m provided for, $2,096,000 is to be made available to the State universities, $69,000 is to be made available to the Australian National University in Canberra and the remainder is to be made available through the States to the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• They will continue, we believe, a form of assistance to students which has been an important part of the Liberal-Country Party attitude towards education for many years. [More…]

• This is outlined well in part of the third report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education which was presented last year. [More…]

• An adjunct to the development which has already commenced in many areas of education in the provision of that type of service is the necessity to assist students the counselling of whom and contact with whom show that their problem is related to matters which can be overcome by the provision of financial assistance. [More…]

• One other aspect of this matter which should be referred to in view of some of the comments made by the Minister for the Media in his second reading speech, concerns the increases’ which were made by the previous Government in its recognition of the need., of education in Australia and its commencement and development of a program of proper assistance for education and the proper application of funds. [More…]

• Such assistance has shown a steady increase from the time that the Commonwealth Government recognised that the need was beyond the capacity of the States, and took steps to intervene to make money available particularly for tertiary education. [More…]

• Then there was the development of assistance to other forms of education. [More…]

• For instance, in the last Budget prepared by the former Government there was an increase of 23 per cent in the total amount of fundi made available to education in Australia. [More…]

• I comment further that the new Government had, as a plank of its Party platform and as a policy promise, that massive assistance would be given to education in Australia. [More…]

• Personally, as an individual interested in the development of education in Australia, I can only applaud some of the steps which have been taken already by the Government. [More…]

• One of the points the Opposition would like to make is, that, notwithstanding any of the steps which may be taken by the Government next year to provide free university education or free tertiary education, a need will still exist to assist some students with their financial affairs. [More…]

• The Opposition sees the likelihood that the type of assistance provided by these Bills will need to continue and that it will be necessary to make money available to what could be known as the Vice-Chancellor’s Fund - a fund from which assistance can be given to individuals in particular and peculiar need within a tertiary education institution. [More…]

• The amendments will be in broad terms and will seek to have information provided, to the Parliament through the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, so that it can determine the needs of students and the success of these forms of assistance to students in Australia. [More…]

• We take the view that, notwithstanding the proposed alteration to provide so-called free education in tertiary institutions, there will still be circumstances in which it will be necessary to help individual students. [More…]

• We would also point out very clearly that we do not wish to be taken as interfering, either directly or indirectly, with the autonomy of universities and colleges of advanced education in exercising their own discretion in the application of funds in the best interests of students. [More…]

• Universities and colleges of advanced education know the students’ interests and will see that the students’ interests are served within the general terms outlined by the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The Opposition believes it is desirable that there should be a reporting through the 2 Commissions which were set up by the Liberal-Country Party Government, that these are appropriate bodies to deal with the allocation of funds to universities and colleges of advanced education for the needs of students and that the reports from these bodies should make available to the Parliament information as to the operation of these schemes. [More…]

• All those aspects are matters about which we are concerned so that the necessary background can be provided for other steps to be taken to improve the operation of our tertiary education institutions. [More…]

• The whole area of education these days is an exciting and challenging one. [More…]

• Developments in the field of education would excite a wide-ranging debate, given the opportunity. [More…]

• The States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1973 provides $5m for libraries in the 1973-75 period without any requirement of a matching State contribution. [More…]

• It provides $3m to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• A certain amount has been provided to colleges of advanced education for special assistance to students suffering financial hardship. [More…]

• I think at this time we should be paying greater attention than we are giving to the needs of education in country areas. [More…]

• J know that it is much easier to concentrate on education in the cities, but the need is perhaps greater in the country towns, particularly for libraries in country high schools where there is” no alternative such as the public libraries which are available in the cities. [More…]

• If the Government wants to get mo/e balance in providing adequate education for our people it will have to broaden its approach, expensive though that will be. [More…]

• I am interested in the additional $10m which is to be provided under the States Grants (Technical Training) Bill, one of this group of 4 Bills dealing with education. [More…]

• I suggest that if the Government wants to achieve the best from this expenditure it should look at the development of technical training centres in country areas which will provide this sort of education and training for all the people there and thus achieve a real advance in the status and usefulness of these people in our community. [More…]

• They provide for improvements in education for which the Government and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) deserve commendation. [More…]

• These Bills represent only a portion of the increased expenditure on education which the Government has promised and I feel a certain amount of concern after glancing at some of the amounts to be provided. [More…]

• In the case of education, I saw a statement by one of the teacher organisations that it had been promised $ 1,434m by the Australian Labor Party last year if it was elected and that was only for certain aspects of education. [More…]

• Without desiring in any way to suggest that I do not support improvements in education, I would say that when so many things have been promised there is need for a little more caution. [More…]

• The lesson is that instead of building more and more universities we ought to bring about some system of testing or examining students to ensure that those who go to universities and cost the country these immense sums of money really are qualified to take advantage of a university course.Their education should perhaps proceed in another direction. [More…]

• But I do believe that the fact of so many students attending universities - at immense cost to this Government - who the records show are unable even to complete the first year must be taken into consideration before we start spending money widely on education. [More…]

• I conclude by saying: Let us provide all the money that education needs but let us be very careful to ensure that it is spent wisely and that we are getting value. [More…]

• The 4 Bills before the Senate tonight - the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1973, the States Grants (Universities) Bill 1973, the States Grants (Universities) Bill (No. [More…]

• I am bound to say as I commence my contribution to this discussion that it is a matter of some disappointment to me that we have not had an opportunity of devoting a little more time to them and at the same time devoting a little more time and attention to each Bill individually because, as you, Mr Acting Deputy President, will recognise, they simply cannot be lumped together as education measures. [More…]

• One Bill deals with avanced education and 2 with universities. [More…]

• I know it may be easy to have a common debate on 4 cognate measures but I emphasise that these are 4 measures which cover a wide range of education, a vast range of people and a wide range of areas which I shall call, simply and fairly generally, social and community affairs. [More…]

• Yet another provides for a grant of 5m for libraries in Colleges of Advanced Education while the fourth deals with matters relating to technical training. [More…]

• At the risk of interfering with the judgments that are made by qualified and fairly eminent social workers, it may be queried whether scarce resources in money ana in qualified and experienced teachers should be diverted to provide that which, as honourable senators will recall, is quoted in the secondreading speech as an unmatched grant of $40,000 in 1973 as additional finance in 1974 for the Tasm’anian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Provision is made for grants of money for the provision of libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• If we are talking about libraries, even in debating a Bill on education, we have to take into account that libraries have to learn to cope with greater, more urgent and more diverse demands upon them. [More…]

• But the libraries about which we are speaking tonight are not necessarily community libraries, State libraries or city libraries, but they are libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Their purpose is also very special because they are related to an educational institution. [More…]

• As we allocate funds for libraries in colleges of advanced education I think it is important to write into the record that a library in a college of advanced education is not just a library placed on its own. [More…]

• A library in a college of advanced education is a series of libraries in a series of colleges, and because they are libraries in a series of colleges they are also libraries situated within ‘the wider and larger community. [More…]

• I hope that as the library system in educational institutions is developed attention will also be paid to a co-operative system and an inter-relationship and inter-dependence both between libraries within colleges and between college libraries and libraries in other educational institutions. [More…]

• I hope that as the Bill goes through and as the Government gives attention to the use of libraries it will always regard libraries, especially in colleges of advanced education, as communications centres, because it is essential that the area and discipline of communication be developed to the maximum degree. [More…]

• The next step, indicating the concern of the former Government for this area of education, was contained in the policy speech of the then Prime Minister when he made the proposal to provide $20m per annum for this purpose. [More…]

• It seems to me that the increased emphasis on technical education in the future will arise from two or three principal factors. [More…]

• One of these is that, as education standards improve, we will ind that the demand for job satisfaction and the advancement of the individual worker will receive greater emphasis. [More…]

• As I said at the outset of my remarks tonight, these Bills not only cover education matters but also have a very strong emphasis on social affairs. [More…]

• The role of technical education is not limited singly to the provision of purely vocational courses. [More…]

• Technical education is playing an increasingly important part in providing cultural skills and other varied skills courses for adults who are given the opportunity to develop their talents and their abilities. [More…]

• It may be one of the factors in a technological age where technical education and technical colleges can play an important part in helping people to use their leisure time, if I may mention that very much overworked and misused word, creatively. [More…]

• I am interested in this measure also because of my involvement in the work of the Senate Standing Committee on the Commonwealth’s role in Teacher Education. [More…]

• In the course of its meetings that Committee examined the needs of technical education and in the report that it put down in the Senate the Committee found that a very large section of the Australian skilled work force was provided with vocational training by the technical colleges. [More…]

• The Committee recommended that the Commonwealth, through the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, or through another interdepartmental committee, should undertake extra research in this field. [More…]

• In view of the increasing demand for technical education, some areas of which I outlined a few moments ago, we felt that substantial assistance would be needed in the future. [More…]

• The report on teacher education by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education also underlined the very factors which were contained in the report by the Senate Committee. [More…]

• Teacher education in the technical field is usually acquired by in-service training or part-time courses. [More…]

• In reply - The Government is appreciative of the reasonably expeditious passage that the Opposition has given to these 4 pieces of legislation relating to education. [More…]

• For the record, in 1972 the total scholarships held were made up as follows: University and post-graduate, 38,672; colleges of advanced education, 7,739; secondary and technical, 23,963; in total, the number of scholarships held was 70,374. [More…]

• Senator Rae also said that, apart from the money going to universities, all of the other funds provided by these 4 pieces of legislation would go to the States for the purpose of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Basically, what he said is true except that $29,000 will go to the Canberra College of Advanced Education, which is treated in somewhat the same manner as the Australian National University. [More…]

• Senator McManus, who spoke on behalf of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, suggested that the amounts involved in these pieces of legislation represented only a portion of the increased expenditure that the Government has promised for education. [More…]

• He suggested that the Government should look at the manner in which it is spending its money and that it should ensure that we get value for all the money that is spent on education. [More…]

• I point out to the honourable senator just briefly that in fact colleges of advanced education on a percentage basis are growing faster than the universities in order to provide the alternative form of education to which Senator McManus has referred. [More…]

• I would refer the honourable senator to the third report of the Australian Commission of Advanced Education, 1973-1975. [More…]

• One is in relation to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill and the other is in relation to the States Grants (Universities) Bill. [More…]

• I simply explain that there are no changes from the situation outlined during the second reading debate on the Sates Grants (Advanced Education) Bill. [More…]

• Therefore we are prepared to accept the amendment, I having discussed the matter with my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• The Commonwealth had to be persuaded some years back to enter the field of education. [More…]

• in education, the tendency of the Commonwealth Government was to say that it was a matter for the States. [More…]

• I am sure that honourable senators will appreciate that this attitude changed as it became apparent that education could not play its part in the development of our nation if it had to rely solely upon State funds. [More…]

• So we have seen a gradual change over the years to the point where the Commonwealth Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) announced recently that in the next Budget $660m - a massive sum - will be made available for distribution to the States. [More…]

• That is a great change from the previous indifference displayed in the early 1950s when the Commonwealth was asked to become involved’ in the whole area of education. [More…]

• In this way the sort of money that has been spent in recent years on trying to solve education problems will become available, 1 hope, in sufficient amounts from the Commonwealth Government to make a very big change in the whole area of local government. [More…]

• I do not think that we could succeed in our endeavours to build the sorts of new cities envisaged and in rectifying the deficiencies that exist in our cities at present if we do not see this measure as being part of some co-operative effort and if we do not accept the challenge of putting local government in the forefront of Commonwealth responsibility, as was done by the Commonwealth in the area of education. [More…]

• The Labor Government is now seeking to take over powers in areas such as education through the Schools Commission, and health through a proposed hospitals commission. [More…]

• That Committee seeks in its recommendations to by-pass the States which the Constitution vests with direct powers in regard to education, and predictably to establish regions, amorphous bodies, which the Labor Party proposes to develop. [More…]

• Yesterday in the debate on education grants we heard one senator speaking for about 35 minutes on libraries. [More…]

• I say most definitely that my colleagues and I were exasperated with the attitude of some members of the Opposition in the debate dealing with the Grants Commission Bill and also on the legislation relating to grants to the States for education purposes. [More…]

• for speaking for a half an hour in a debate on education. [More…]

• I refer to the education Bills which we dealt with a few nights ago. [More…]

• If they are not yet at the top level in their chosen professions, whatever employment they have sought, we must then take up the point that was made at the end of the Minister’s speech when introducing the Bill, when he said that these women would be making a contribution because they had had the facilities of education. [More…]

• If we regard education and training as a national investment, surely we should allow the aspirations which will flow from that to reach the top level in all of the chosen professions of the women of Australia. [More…]

• The Minister then responsible for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Oganisation and later Minister for Education and Science, Senator Gorton, took the matter up as a resultof the initial suggestions that were made. [More…]

• The consultants were directed in their investigation by a steering committee comprising representatives of the Departments of the Interior, Treasury, Works, the Defence group, Civil Aviation, Education, Health, and National Development and the Commonwealth Railways. [More…]

• We look to a society in which the purpose of work is to achieve a higher level of man’s estate and in which he will have time, if he has had proper education, to appreciate his leisure hours and work will be only a means to an end. [More…]

• Will the Minister announce that, in future, the Government will concentrate on driver education and re-training and re-testing of all inefficient drivers. [More…]

• It has decided to do five main things re-appoint the Select Committee on Road Safety in co-operation with the States, undertake a program of improvements at locations where accidents keep occurring establish a central information service for those working in road safety increase the technical and other resources devoted to vehicle safety, traffic codes, education and publicity and road safety research re-appoint the Expert Group on Road Safety. [More…]

• They relate to tax deductions for certain education expenses, domiciliary nursing care costs and the withdrawal of the tax concessions available to visiting industrial experts. [More…]

• On 1 June, Senator Carrick asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, without notice: [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education aware that the Central Commission of the Australian Catholic Bishops, representing all the Catholic Bishops of Australia, has emphasised in a prepared statement dated 30 May its unqualified support for direct per capita aid to independent schools without means test and its opposition to a system of lump sum payments to schools according to the needs of the school or parents? [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answers to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Secretary of the Australian Episcopal Conference forwarded a copy of the statement of the Conference of 30 May to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It deals with matters of great importance for education in Government and Independent schools. [More…]

• Sir Walter Cooper was an Englishman who received his early education at a school in Leicester. [More…]

• However, I congratulate the Board for having convened an excellent seminar, and I am delighted to know that a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, which is inquiring into all aspects of television and broadcasting, was in attendance at that seminar. [More…]

• The policy was formulated also against the background that migrants coming to Australia these days do not see themselves as industrial fodder but come with high aspirations which touch not only on employment but also on housing, education and public services generally. [More…]

• It is designed both to clear the decks for progress in the years ahead and to ensure that in major areas of concern- social welfare, education, the quality of urban life- real forward moves are made immediately. [More…]

• The refusal of the Government to adhere to and acknowledge the promises made during 1972 by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley that Commonwealth grants to non-government schools would be maintained al a basic level of at least that applying in 1972. [More…]

• The refusal of the Government to adhere to and acknowledge the promises made during 1972 by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley that Commonwealth grants to non-government schools would be maintained at a basic level of at least that applying in 1972. [More…]

• Its object was said to be to improve standards and opportunities in education. [More…]

• Certainly we do not - I emphasise ‘not’ - criticise the increased allocation of funds recommended by the Committee for the development of education in Australia. [More…]

• We believe that every child in Australia has a basic right - a fundamental right - to be able to receive some assistance towards its education from the taxpayers’ funds or the community purse. [More…]

• We believe in the right of choice and in the right to receive some assistance from the public purse towards education. [More…]

• It is a college with 38 pupils that has adopted the new, progressive, modern approach to education. [More…]

• To an extent, it is an experimental school that is developing, I think in the interests of Australian education, some of the newer theories. [More…]

• They have swimming pools and all of the most desirable facilities that one could imagine for sport, education and recreation. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, is to be condemned for the sort of attitude that he adopted when he responded to a telegram sent by me requesting information. [More…]

• That is the broken promises and the high handed attitudes both of the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley. [More…]

• It was a statement in which he said that aid would not be reduced and that the Labor Party would continue any forms of benefit in education which were pre-existing. [More…]

• I emphasise that this was after we, then in Government, had announced on 1 1 May the increases which apply this year, the scheme which we introduced whereby every nongovernment school would receive from Federal sources 20 per cent of the average cost of the education of a child in a government school. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party has never voted against any Bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education - [More…]

• On 13 December the Prime Minister again made a statement in a letter written to people concerned with non-government schools education. [More…]

• Let us look at what the Minister for Education, Mr Beasley, said in answer to a number of questions asked of him by the headmasters of 2 schools. [More…]

• It is the education of children that matters. [More…]

• What was the response of the Minister for Education to the complaints of people that they could not find out information about categories? [More…]

• That letter has been tabled in the House of Representatives at the instance of the former Minister for Education and Science, Mr Malcolm [More…]

• 1 simply reassert that justice requires the recognition of the right of every child in Australia to a basic percentage of education expenditure from government funds. [More…]

• They are being kept secret at this stage, notwithstanding the requests which have been made to the Minister for Education for that information to be made public. [More…]

• A series of secretive actions, a series of actions which are not in the interests of education, a series of actions which are unjust and discriminatory has been engaged in by the Government and it stands condemned for its actions. [More…]

• I have listened with great interest to the remarks of Senator Rae, who has initiated a discussion concerning education and the Government’s attitude towards the report of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]

• I have also listened with a great deal of interest to his criticism of my colleague in another place, the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley. [More…]

• One of the most outstanding men in the new Labor Cabinet is the Minister for Education. [More…]

• At the commencement of his remarks Senator Rae said that a wave of anger is sweeping this country about the way in which the Australian Government is approaching the educational situation. [More…]

• Education is an important matter to the Australian [More…]

• As the Treasurer (Mr Crean) said last night, education is to be given top priority by the Government. [More…]

• The Government has set out on a policy of balancing out an educational scale which was in a state of tremendous imbalance at the time it came into office. [More…]

• For this Government, education is a top priority - it constitutes the fastest growing component of the Budget. [More…]

• The Government will be providing $843m for education this financial year. [More…]

• I say quite frankly and fairly that it is unjust of Senator Rae to stand in this chamber and criticise the Minister for Education for the manner in which he had handled his portfolio. [More…]

• As soon as a report was received by the Minister for Education from the Committee which was appointed a mere 10 days after the Australian Labor Party was elected to office because it regards education as a top priority it was, in pursuance of my Party’s policy of open government, tabled in the Australian Parliament for all and sundry to see. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable senator, not in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Education but in my capacity as Minister for the Media, being ministerially responsible to the Parliament for the Australian Government Printing Office, that 13,000 copies of the report have been printed and another 3,000 copies have been requested. [More…]

• We are discussing the subject of education quite frankly and openly in public because we regard it as being of top priority. [More…]

• It is for the Government to determine what its education policy will be. [More…]

• Bearing in mind that only last night the Government announced an increase of$404m in expenditure on education, bringing it to a total of $843m for this financial year - an increase for this financial year of 92 per cent on what his niggardly Government did - I do not think Senator Wright has much to bellyache about. [More…]

• This document, which is entitled ‘Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, General Recurrent Grants to NonSystemic Non-Government Schools’, was dated 1 August 1973 and was distributed to schools with a letter from the Minister for Education on 5 August 1973. [More…]

• He suggested that there was a refusal of the Government to adhere to and acknowledge the promises made during 1972 by the Prime Minister and by the present Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, that Commonwealth grants to non-government schools would be maintained at a basic level of at least that applying in 1972. [More…]

• Let me read the Labor Party’s policy speech, as it related to education, for the last election. [More…]

• In his reply to a questionnaire in Tasmania my colleague, the Minister for Education, identified himself with a basic grant of $50 for primary education and S68 for secondary education hut he made it clear that for 1973 grants of S62 and $104 would be continued. [More…]

• It was made clear in debate in the House of Representatives on 30 May when the report of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission was tabled that the Minister for Education had advocated on a number of occasions a basic grant of $50 and $68. [More…]

• Every member of the Labor movement in this chamber is proud of the achievements undertaken to date by our colleague the Minister for Education. [More…]

• We are proud of the fact that as soon as a Labor Government was elected the Prime Minister took action immediately to correct the great imbalance that had occurred in our educational system as a result of the activities of the previous Government. [More…]

• It will take a long time before that great imbalance is corrected but at last we have started on the road towards giving every Australian child at least equality of opportunity so far as educational circumstances are concerned. [More…]

• The Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) who represents the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said that the Labor Government is proud of its achievements. [More…]

• The refusal of the Government to adhere to and acknowledge the promises made during 1972 by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, that Commonwealth grants to nongovernment schools would be maintained at a basic level of at least that applying in 1972. [More…]

• One of the main points of issue so far as the Opposition is concerned is that during those months prior to the election education was of particular importance. [More…]

• Taking in good faith the promises made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and others, the people of Australia were convinced that great things would be done for education. [More…]

• It must be handed to the present Labor Government that it has increased greatly the expenditure on education. [More…]

• In equivalent cash terms, apparently additional dollars are to be made available for education. [More…]

• We want to remove the inequalities in Autralian education, and these are the greatest in the nongovernment sector, and my Party believes that where the need is the greatest, there, this assistance should be given. [More…]

• During 1972 Mr Beazley was asked what would be the continuing attitude of the Labor Party in relation to education, should it become the Government. [More…]

• Not only have the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education broken a promise to the Australian people, but they have continued to break it and are apparently proud to do so. [More…]

• If a great Party, which has come into power, promised the people, through its policy, that it would continue this support and then denied it - if the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education gave to the Australian people promises relating to the continuation of this support and then denied them - what are the people able to believe of the Labor Party? [More…]

• My children go to private schools at which I think they obtain an excellent education. [More…]

• The matter before the Senate is a motion moved by Senator Rae in which he condemns the actions of the Federal Government and, in particular, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• I suppose the essential part of this rather long motion moved by Senator Rae is contained in paragraph 1 which refers to the denial by the Government of the right of every Australian child to receive economic support from government funds for his educational needs. [More…]

• If one says nothing else, 1 think one must say that one has to admire the audacity of a defunct, defeated Liberal Party which, on seeing the first Labor Budget for 23 years which gives unprecedented assistance to the education of Australian children, with an increase- [More…]

• On the one hand they are saying that not enough money is being given to education, but when I point to the fact that the amount which is being given is unprecedently high, Senator Jessop says that that is inflationary. [More…]

• If we do not give money to education we are depriving the children of their education, and if we do give money that is inflationary. [More…]

• Let us have a look at the funds which are being made available to education in Australia. [More…]

• What does the Labor Government say about education? [More…]

• For this Government, education is a top priority - it constitutes the fastest growing component of the Budget. [More…]

• If I may interpolate, this was said on the very day before the Opposition in this place has moved a motion which condemns the Government for not spending enough on education. [More…]

• We will provide S843m for education in 1973-74, an increase of S404m or 92 per cent on last year. [More…]

• So we have provided for a 92 per cent increase in the budgetary expenditure on education in this country and the Opposition has the audacity to say that this Government is denying every Australian child the right to receive economic support for his educational needs from Government funds. [More…]

• We have increased by 92 per cent the money available for the education of young Australian children, and one can only admire the Goebbels technique of this motion. [More…]

• At a time when such a tremendous increase in expenditure on education is proposed by the Federal Labor Government the Liberal Party can only say that we are denying the rights of Australian children to an education. [More…]

• If we are denying the rights of Australian children to an education, what was the previous defeated Government doing? [More…]

• What has been the history of the assistance provided to education in Australia? [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party does not adopt that policy in relation to the education of Australian children. [More…]

• We believe that there ought to be equality of education but we have not removed grants to the non-government schools. [More…]

• It believed that the general level of education in Australia was altogether too low, that if one looked at the basic resources of the government schools in Australia and took an average one could give to this average an index figure of 100. [More…]

• The modest but reasonable goal of our education program - it is not an inflationary goal - is to raise over the course of the next 6 years that basic level of 100 to a level of 140. [More…]

• If one takes the government schools, for example - and this is the basis of Australian education, and I am not ashamed to say that the basic educational factor in Australia is the Government education system - one sees that for 1971-72 Commonwealth aid to government schools amounted to $40.5m which will be increased to $495m for the financial year 1974-75. [More…]

• Yet this is a government which is accused of not looking after the educational needs of Australia. [More…]

• We are endeavouring to raise the level of all children who are receiving education in Australia. [More…]

• Our education program is not a social services program. [More…]

• If some people think that the education which is provided by government schools or by Catholic schools is so inadequate that they want to send their children to Melbourne Grammer School or to Guildford Grammar School. [More…]

• This Government is concerned about education. [More…]

• The people of Australia repudiated the previous Government and the way in which it treated education. [More…]

• Education has been made the first priority of this Government. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Senate and of the people of Australia to a statement made by the spokesman for education and now the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) not 5 months but 13 days before polling day. [More…]

• Big Brother, the socialist, knows best whether it in relation to education in independent schools, hospitals or anything else. [More…]

• But in another part of the report, and in other published documents, the Committee says solemnly that the teacherpupil ratio has no necessary bearing on the quality and standard of education. [More…]

• So the Government says: ‘We are going to use this ratio, we will apply it, but take no notice of it because it bears no necessary relationship to the quality of education’. [More…]

• The test which this socialist Government makes on education is: ‘Go ahead, sack your teachers, increase the teacher-pupil ratio, debase your system. [More…]

• We will have the incredible example of socialist conformity forcing down the education system the whole time. [More…]

• We are talking, as the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) did in happier and more high principled times, of all the students in Australia and their parents. [More…]

• The Senate is debating a matter of urgency proposed for discussion by Senator Rae, chiding the Government for denying the right of every Australian child to receive economic support for his education needs from Government funds. [More…]

• In the light of these figures, how breathtakingly fatuous it is that the Opposition in the Senate should choose the subject of education for its first attack on the Government during this session of the Parliament. [More…]

• In deciding that after 1973 there will be no further grants for recurrent, as against capital, expenses in schools in category A, the Government is not, as Senator Rae suggested, denying the right of every Australian child to receive economic support for his educational needs from Government funds. [More…]

• The latest statistics show that just under 10 per cent of all taxpayers claim 200 or more per child for education expenses. [More…]

• In other words, the present Prime Minister pledged his word that not one educational benefit being paid by the previous Government would be removed by his Government. [More…]

• I point out that the present Minister for Education OM, Beazley) was also electioneering. [More…]

• In the course of his electioneering, the present Minister for Education said that his policy was that the Commonwealth should have identity with the education of every child. [More…]

• The present Minister for Education went further. [More…]

• He toured a number of areas in the course of the election campaign and, in search of votes, he published a document called ‘Priorities in Education’. [More…]

• The promise was made by the Minister for Education- [More…]

• The Minister for Education said: [More…]

• My appeal to Labor Party members is to honour the pledge that was given to the people by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It is little credit to Senator McLaren that he is prepared to try to drown with his shouts the evidence that the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education promised that no school under Labor would receive less than it received in per capita payments from the previous Government. [More…]

• It does little credit to Senator McLaren, who would himself claim to be a man of honour, that he is prepared to defend dishonesty and to defend the breaking of a pledge freely given by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education when they were chasing votes in order for their Party to become the Government. [More…]

• This Government says that he is entitled to have practically everything required for his education paid by the State. [More…]

• It is going in for free tertiary education. [More…]

• The Government is not prepared to spend a very small sum of money in order to keep its word to the private schools but is prepared to spend huge, even astronomical sums in the field of tertiary education without any regard to the fact that many of the children who will be going to those universities will be the children of wealthy parents who could well afford to pay for their education. [More…]

• I am prompted to take part in this debate not ‘because I feel there is a case to answer - I think the Opposition’s efforts in this respect have been pretty futile - but because I believe that the education policy of the Government will result in one of the most dramatic and exciting changes in the education system in the history of this Parliament. [More…]

• They are preliminary boys up against the policy and administration of possibly the best Minister for Education in Mr Kim Beazley ever to sit in the Australian Parliament. [More…]

• I think this debate was initiated for no other reason than to try to advertise the fact that Senator Rae is the shadow Minister for Education. [More…]

• Senator Rae said that there is to be a denial by the Government of the right of every Australian child to receive economic support for its educational needs from Government funds. [More…]

• For the benefit of the record and as the Opposition has graciously given the Government an opportunity to get its message over to the people of Australia per medium of the broadcasting of this debate, allow me to make a brief comparison between what the McMahon Government did in the field of education and what the Labor Government is doing. [More…]

• Surely to God no one in this chamber will parade under any misapprehension that he did not know that the Labor Party’s education policy, if it became the Government, would be based on need. [More…]

• On the other hand, at the Geelong Grammar School, which is the alma mater of the former Minister for Education, Mr Malcolm Fraser, the fees for a day school student are SI, 200 a year. [More…]

• The plain truth of the matter is this: Although this Government will spend $2,000m on education in the next 6 years, the schools which are in category A today will still be ahead of the 140 points which is regarded as the level to which the whole school system in Australia should be lifted. [More…]

• After $2,000m is spent on education in the next 6 years these schools which Senator Wright and Senator McManus are defending will still be ahead of the 140 points which is regarded as the mean for the recurrent resources for the school system in Australia. [More…]

• The refusal of the Government to adhere to and acknowledge the promises made during 1972 by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, that Commonwealth grants to nongovernment schools would be maintained at a basic level of at least that applying in 1972. [More…]

• Yes, at Labor Party meetings, wanting education. [More…]

• Let us see what the present Minister promised in relation to the education system. [More…]

• The present Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, when speaking on the States Grants (Schools) Bill said: [More…]

• Education is more than a program of schools or of teacher training, lt is more than a matter of technical development or of institutions and programs. [More…]

• Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), gave us a speech in which he quoted chapter and verse from last night’s Budget Speech instead of answering the questions put forward by Senator Rae. [More…]

• I remind you, Mi Deputy President, that no less a person than the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts could only muster up arguments on this subject for 7 minutes, no more than that. [More…]

• Let me put this very firmly on the record: If that is the best that the Chairman of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts can do on the subject of education, which is of vital importance to the country and to the Senate, then the Government has admitted its own inadequacy in this situation. [More…]

• The basis of education is to provide within our total activity in society systems and opportunities whereby people can obtain the knowledge, skills and cultures which they require. [More…]

• Education also can provide for them systems which are most useful and from which they will get personal and long-lasting satisfaction and effectiveness. [More…]

• I make this point because the cornerstone of such a program of education is the provision of freedom of choice and flexibility of movement. [More…]

• Why do we not recognise that if a community body wants to establish an educational organisation or a school to provide a type and style of education that meets the country’s standards, and which can attract a sufficient number of students, it should be free to do so? [More…]

• The refusal of the Government to adhere to and acknowledge the promises made during 1972 by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, that Commonwealth grants to nongovernment schools would bc maintained at a basic level of at least that applying in 1972. [More…]

• We press the urgency of these key words because in the Government’s program for education there is a denial, a failure and a refusal. [More…]

• This is true because it has been long acknowledged and established by communities in States and by governments that for some years there has been a growing involvement of public funds in the total education program. [More…]

• What about the Minister for Education? [More…]

• Prime Minister and the word of the Minister for Education cannot be given any credibility. [More…]

• I will refer to something else which the Minister for Education said. [More…]

• It has caused great confusion in the education world. [More…]

• Education leaders are looking in vain for guidance. [More…]

• Any government which proceeds to deny the right of every child in this country to some economic support in its education cannot be relied upon not only now but in the future when it makes any decision or announcement concerning this matter or indeed any other matter. [More…]

• It has overridden the Minister for Education. [More…]

• So this denial to provide funds for every child by withdrawing aid from some schools is having a crippling effect on the Australian community and, in particular, on the education system. [More…]

• It must sound strange to those people who are listening to the debate tonight, with the words of the Treasurer (Mr Crean) still ringing in their ears as to the amount which has been voted for education by this Government, to hear the very first matter of urgency which is raised by the Opposition in this chamber relates to a subject that one would have expected to be the last matter that the Opposition, with its record in the field of education, would ever have raised on the floor of a responsible Parliament of this country. [More…]

• But before I do so, let me pass a comment about the curious remarks made by Senator Davidson concerning the involvement of a number of members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts who, I believe I heard him say, failed in their responsibilities somewhere along the line. [More…]

• I want honourable senators to recall that within the very last fortnight, when the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts was convened to meet in Brisbane, 3 Labor members of the Committee attended and not one member of the Opposition attended to assist that Committee in its deliberations. [More…]

• Firstly it refers to the denial by the Government of the right of every Australian child to receive economic support for his educational needs from Government funds. [More…]

• What a ridiculous, stupid and idiotic thing to say 24 hours after the Government had increased its vote for education by 92 per cent, making the greatest subvention for eduction in the history of Australia. [More…]

• This increase was made not on the basis of a grant of 5m which Senator Rae’s Party made available when it was in Government and was looking for votes - when it bought votes with 5m in order to win an election - but on the basis of a deeply considered and deeply studied analysis of the education system of this country by a very responsible committee. [More…]

• Must we sit here and deny to so many thousands of Australian children an equal right to the availability of educational facilities in this land? [More…]

• Ought we not to be engaged upon an exercise designed to raise the level of all sections of the education system in this country in order to give every child an equal opportunity? [More…]

• In the past how many families have gone without many things because some member of the family has had the ability to take higher education? [More…]

• They are honouring their election promises in the areas of education, social services and all these other matters’. [More…]

• If there is anything for which the Labor Party can be commended in relation to its performance up to this present time it is in the field of education. [More…]

• The first and basic thing that one would do - it is in the interests of the country to do it too - is to provide education to the highest level possible within the intellectual capacity of every child in the Australian community. [More…]

• I think that probably at least 95 per cent of the people of Australia would put their hand up for the Labor Party today on the basis of what we have done for the education system of this country. [More…]

• We have the situation whereby immediately this Party came to office it commissioned a most responsible body of men to go into the depths of the education system and to root out the bad features of it. [More…]

• In the first place the previous government started by buying the votes with 5m, and so far as I am concerned in every succeeding Budget the education vote has been pitched to the securing of votes. [More…]

• So we ought to stick our necks out when it involves giving to every child in the Australian community an equal opportunity for education. [More…]

• The humbug of it all, of course, is that the Government has not taken away assistance to all forms of education in the Australian community. [More…]

• One would gain the impression from what we have been hearing tonight that the present proposal is the end of it all; that the whole education system from here on is cast in a solid block; that it is an immovable thing; that there will be no departure from it whatsoever. [More…]

• Following in the wake of the expanding opportunities that the previous Government gave to education, this Government is emphasising the increase in general appropriations. [More…]

• The matter of urgency that has arisen concerns a particular matter in which there is a discriminatory activity of the Labor Party, designed to introduce a sectarian criterion so as to deprive a substantial section of the pupils attending non-government schools of their right to a proper share of Government appropriations for education. [More…]

• Then we find the Committee moving on in that devious way which excites no admiration even on the part of the most unlearned but still less on the part of those who claim to have had the advantage of education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• It believes the State has an obligation to provide a universal, free, compulsory system of education open to all citizens. [More…]

• No education authority in Australia except the Government of New South Wales weights its grants to non-government schools according to a parental means test. [More…]

• My question ls directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• If not, will the Minister note this point and inquire whether there can be a response to a call for a greater breadth of interpretation in specialist education? [More…]

• No modern education system can operate without the services of persons with teacher training and with teaching background and experience who have special competence in a variety of fields. [More…]

• There will always be responsibilites in head offices of education authorities which call for qualities most likely to be possessed by members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]

• Examples are educational research, curriculum development, the preparation of text materials and teaching aids, to say nothing of guidance and counselling services, including psychological and educational clinics. [More…]

• Other support services attached to education authorities include master teachers who can be used to visit schools and by example, guidance and encouragement raise the quality of teaching. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Teaching Service carries responsibility for the education of a significant proportion of the Aboriginal child population of Australia, some of these children being taught in their own languages. [More…]

• Part of the Teaching Service may in future form the expatriate teaching service in Papua New Guinea, carrying responsibility for secondary and technical education there. [More…]

• It is also the teaching force for the Australian Capital Territory, which ought to be a laboratory for new and valid educational ideas. [More…]

• These colleges will constitute a form of broad and high calibre secondary education, recognising in its scope and structure the adult status of fifth and sixth formers. [More…]

• We have declared war on poverty and on the lack of facilities for education and health, and the lack of facilities for the cities of Australia. [More…]

• I wish to take the opportunity given to us by the Government to return to the subject which was raised yesterday afternoon and last evening, the question of education in Australia. [More…]

• I also remind the Senate that in speaking to the motion which 1 moved I referred to the fact that we did not oppose - I emphasise the word ‘not’ - in any way at all but rather applauded the steps which had been taken to make further funds available for education in Australia. [More…]

• The Liberal Party - I am sure I speak for the Country Party as well - applauds the granting of further funds to education. [More…]

• I willnot quote from the actual motion but it was in these terms: We believe that every child in Australia has a right to government expenditure on its behalf towards its education. [More…]

• Why is it that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) wrote a secret letter dated 13 April to the Karmel Committee changing the terms of reference? [More…]

• No one should have to be subjected to the sort of nonsense which is coming from this Government and this Minister for Education who, if he was a man of principle, would have resigned long since. [More…]

• Last night the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland), who in this place represents the Minister for Education, gave us a little information, but precious little. [More…]

• The representative wrote thus to the Minister for Education: [More…]

• I write formally to object to the classification of our college in category A as recommended in the Karmel Committee report to the Education Committee of the Australian Government. [More…]

• This Government does not know what resources are because it does not know what education is. [More…]

• It does not know the first thing about education. [More…]

• In addition to the problem of recurring expenditure, almost all independent schools are incurring huge capital debts in order to provide good quality education. [More…]

• While the Committee recognises that capital assets such as good grounds and buildings provide an enriching environment for education, it is obvious that it is becoming increasingly difficult even for the most affluent schools to service such debts. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the availability of that informed opinion, this Government - T include this Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, who is prepared to get up in the House of Representatives and sanctimoniously say what he said on 30 May, which I shall quote in a moment - is prepared to take action which will mean inevitably in the opinion of the Cook Committee in South Australia the closure of a number of smaller schools. [More…]

• My view was that every school in the country, including Geelong Grammar School, should receive a basic grant from the Commonwealth and that the Commonwealth should have an identity with the education of every child. [More…]

• ‘Let me just remind the honourable senator that the Karmel Committee surveyed the needs of education in Australia. [More…]

• We know how long it took God to make the world but I rather think that the Karmel Committee was stretching it if its members thought that in 16 days they could remake on an equitable and just basis the whole distribution of funds and the whole principles and philosophy of education in Australia. [More…]

• I want to make a further point, lt was bad enough that that committee should work out a system such as it worked out for categorising schools, but it is worse that the Government acted a fortnight after the report came out and before a majority of the organisations of parents of school children, the people interested in education in Australia, had even been able to receive a copy of the report which carne out in such limited numbers that it was available to members of Parliament, a few committees and about half a dozen schools. [More…]

• So .many parents have written to me in the past few weeks saying that both parents have been working, gaining a relatively low income, but they have been prepared to work to put their child through a school at which an education of the type they believe in is available. [More…]

• Concern has been expressed in many letters that have been written to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• He made a statement in which he patted himself on the back and said: We as a government have done all these things in education.’ [More…]

• If he had any concern, if the Government had any concern for education in Australia as it pretends to have, a concern which goes beyond dollars and cents, he would have said: ‘These are the matters about which the Parliament and the people are concerned and I will answer them.’ [More…]

• Last night the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) who represents the Minister for Education in the Senate, said something about the small schools. [More…]

• It should not have happened, but worse, it is an indication of what may happen in the future if the Minister for Education continues to adopt an arrogant and unfeeling attitude as he has done in the past. [More…]

• But now we see a situation, with a change of government in Canberra, where in the Budget this week the Government proclaimed that it was going to do so many things in the fields of social welfare and education and in so many other areas. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that many public and private companies are purchasing homes for executives and allowing capital outlay, rates and taxes as charges against general costs to the company; extensively using expense accounts as entertainment charges to the company; allowing executives to charge education of their children at wealthy private schools as a cost to the company; allowing interstate and international trips by company officials as expenditure items to the company’s costs; and generally loading a large amount of nonbusiness activity as a cost to their enterprise? [More…]

• It also stands out in stark contrast to its promise in the field of education, namely, that there would be no reduction in grants made to independent schools. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to establish the Film and Television School as a statutory body with the status of a college of advanced education. [More…]

• It carried out wide-ranging investigations and produced 3 reports which documented firm suport for the School from commercial film producers, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Commonwealth Film Unit, guilds and unions, and educational institutions. [More…]

• It will conduct full time courses in film and television production, and it is hoped that it wi;l become a centre for open school activities, which will include refresher courses, seminars and workshops for people involved in the film and television industry, in education, and for all film makers and video specialists in devoloping areas of audio-visual communications. [More…]

• Universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers and technical colleges, as well as many other institutions are increasingly seeking people qualified in areas of film and television production and education. [More…]

• The School will co-ordinate the granting of financial assistance to organisations and institutions concerned with film and television training and education in Australia. [More…]

• Its purpose, as was stated by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy), is to establish a Film and Television School as a statutory body with the status of a college of advanced education. [More…]

• These reports indicated firm support for the School from commercial film producers, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations, the Australian Broadcasting -Commission, the Commonwealth Film Unit, guilds and unions, and educational institutions. [More…]

• There also is a demand in universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers and technical colleges for people qualified in areas of film and television production and education. [More…]

• In the arts, the upgrading of the minds of the people of Australia is very necessary, and certainly in education, all honourable senators will agree, the full potential of television has not yet been tapped. [More…]

• In earlier years some of us suggested the establishment of at least a television network to enable us not only to achieve a cassettetype educational survice for schools in the metropolitan area but also to bring the expertise of the highest quality of teaching to those in more remote areas, a matter of particular concern to my Party, the Australian Country Party. [More…]

• We agree with the proposal that the school should become a statutory corporation and should have the status of a college of advanced education. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Deputy Prime Minister on assuming office promised to give ex-regular members of the armed forces the same assistance in education for retraining as was and is being given to former national servicemen? [More…]

• If such a promise was given, has it been honoured or is it a fact that many exregular servicemen are still awaiting educational assistance? [More…]

• Will the Minister make a statement on the actual and projected entitlement to educational training for former members of the forces? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for the Media: Is it the Government’s intention to set up an independent television authority based on the British system, the idea of which has been publicly supported by his colleague, Senator James McClelland, who is Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which is inquiring into television? [More…]

• Achievement in various facets of Australian life - industry, health, education, leisure and so on - will depend increasingly on Australians being able to find their way to and through relevant areas of recorded knowledge. [More…]

• It has claimed a mandate for its health insurance scheme, its electoral redistribution Bill, its industrial reforms and its education, taxation, housing and urban development policies. [More…]

• For that reason he concentrated not only on the Doomsday sections of his statement but tried to be a Colonel Blimp and an expert on defence; and from there he went across the board to become Mr Chipps and’ to pride himself on being an expert on education. [More…]

• His association with education is largely in the field of the old school tie; he says: ‘Look after my friends in the upper class and we are happy with your education budget’. [More…]

• This is not the policy of the Australian Labor Party because it has been said on so many occasions and expanded in the Budget which was presented a week or so ago that education will be helped in areas where the greatest need exists, and that is the way it ought to be. [More…]

• The Leader of the Opposition gave the impression that he was also an expert in the field of education. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said recently in another place, other sums of money will be made available in these fields which will probably more than compensate them anyway. [More…]

• In 1972- 73 the Liberal-Country Party Government was able to find the fantastic sum of $439m for education. [More…]

• In 1973-74 the Labor Government proposes to provide $843m for education. [More…]

• For too long the children of the underprivileged people of this country have had to accept third or fourth rate status when it has come to education. [More…]

• The Labor Government’s expenditure on education this financial year will represent a 92 per cent increase on the expenditure of the previous Government last year. [More…]

• The expenditure on education this financial year is to be almost double that of last financial year. [More…]

• It is designed both to clear the decks for progress in the years ahead and to ensure that in major areas of concern - social welfare, education, the quality of urban life - real forward moves are made immediately. [More…]

• I deeply regret that Labor’s attitude in so many fields has been apparently to hand over the reins of decision making to economic experts such as we find in the economic task force which was led by Dr Coombs and in other areas such as the Karmel report in relation to education. [More…]

• Perhaps this is one of the outstanding things which I see arising under Labor, whether it is in relation to its education policy or in relation to the tall poppies in the Public Service. [More…]

• When it comes to water storage in this very dry country, it is my philosophy - indeed, I may be proved to be right one day - that in actual fact it is better to spend money on water schemes than on education, because those who may be very well educated in future years may find that they have not sufficient food or water to serve their needs within the Australian community. [More…]

• I come to the matter of education. [More…]

• I think that the Government is to be complimented on the fact that it has been able to increase expenditure on education by $400m. [More…]

• This will make a great impact on education. [More…]

• Although the Government is making a greater amount of money available for education and declaring that it will abolish fees in the tertiary area, what it has done is to show a complete disregard for the inflationary costs that are being appended to private schools. [More…]

• In 1970-71, $296m was voted for education. [More…]

• In this first year of our Government, $843m has been voted, an increase of $404m in the education field. [More…]

• Yet people say that the Labor Government is not worried about education. [More…]

• In respect to defence, repatriation, welfare or education, no government has the record that we have up to now. [More…]

• May I repeat the figures in respect of education so that honourable senators opposite will not forget them? [More…]

• This financial year there will be an increased expenditure of $404m on education, an increase of 92 per cent. [More…]

• I cannot understand why 105 schools should be deprived of this money when the Prime Minister is prepared to spend millions and millions of dollars on free education for university and tertiary institution students. [More…]

• When I heard today of the disgraceful manner in which students at one of our Victorian universities had rabbled and ill-treated the ambassador of a friendly country who had come to address them, and when I learned how those ignorant yahoos had broken every principle of freedom of speech and expression, I said to myself: ‘There ought not to be free university education for people of that type’. [More…]

• Before the Government says that it will spend without limit and that it will make university education free to everybody who wants to go to a university, I think it should say to the universities: ‘You have to establish a method of examining these people to see who is fit for entry to a university and who is not’. [More…]

• I have sat on Senate committees of inquiry into education which have had astonishing, appalling figures offered to them of the degree to which people who go to universities, in many cases at the Government’s expense and last at them for only the briefest of periods. [More…]

• I think the Government is guilty of reckless extravagance when it makes an elaborate gesture and says: ‘We will make university education completely free’ - particularly when the records indicate that the money which it is going to spend on a large number of these people is going to be poured down the drain. [More…]

• I believe that the universities of this country should be called upon to institute some system of examination of prospective students - ‘based on school records, if you like, but also based on a psychological examination and other forms of entry examination - to ensure that the Government will not be lavishing upon university education millions of dollars that could be well spent in other directions. [More…]

• It is designed both to clear the decks for progress in the years ahead and to ensure that in major areas of concern - social welfare, education, the quality of urban life - real forward moves are made immediately. [More…]

• In the area of education it is spending an additional $404m. [More…]

• I find it somewhat pathetic to hear Opposition speakers criticise what the Government is doing in education. [More…]

• I give some credit to the previous Government because last year it did seek to increase the Budget expenditure on education. [More…]

• In the new Government’s approach to education we will spend 12 times more money on public education than has ever been spent before by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• This represents a tremendous and significant additional Commonwealth expenditure in the area of education. [More…]

• Are they saying that we should spend less on education, on pensions, on urban affairs or on health? [More…]

• I bring up the second progress report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on all aspects of broadcasting and television. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts has just indicated .that the report which he has just put before the Senate is a progress report. [More…]

• When introducing a Bill to amend the Australian National University Act on 27 October 1970 the then Minister for Education and Science spoke of the introduction at a later stage of further amendments to the Australian National University Act to give the university power to control traffic within the university. [More…]

• A similar provision already exists in the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act. [More…]

• All through last week the honourable senators on Government benches said: ‘Look at our education program. [More…]

• In view of the Australian Government’s announced intention to take over the full financial responsibility of all tertiary education, will the Minister take steps to see that all institutions receiving Federal funds accept the fundamental principle that no students will be discriminated against as a result of their race, creed, politics or sexuality? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -As the Minister representing the Minister for Education in this chamber, naturally it is impossible for me to know whether the Prime Minister or any other Minister or member wrote to Professor Karmel. [More…]

• It is like a number of other education matters which we originated and for which we are responsible. [More…]

• The Bill is designed also to enable provision to be made for the payment of an annual book and equipment allowance to the holders of Commonwealth Teaching Service scholarships, to enable provision to be made for the payment of accommodation expenses in relation to practice teaching undertaken by the holders of Commonwealth Teaching Service scholarships, and to widen the function of the Commonwealth Teaching Service Commissioner so that he may make available for the performance of duties with education authorities persons who will not be required for teaching duties in schools but who will be members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]

• Senator Rae referred to the second reading speech that I made in the Senate on behalf of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) wherein I said that earlier this year the Government had decided that the holder of a Commonwealth teaching scholarship should be given an annual book and equipment allowance of $80 but that because the existing provisions of section 45 of the Act do not cover a benefit of this kind it was necessary to add to the legislation to encompass this benefit. [More…]

• I am advised that it is too early at this stage to estimate just how many teachers will be required to implement in full the in-service recommendations of the Karmel Committee but that the Department of Education is optimistic of recruiting some 600 new teachers for the Australian Capital Territory for the year 1974 alone. [More…]

• The proposed legislation will penalise parents who try to exercise this choice, and discourage them from making a vital financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humble pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should acknowledge the right of every Australian child to equal per capita grants of government money spent on education. [More…]

• If so, can he say whether the article refers to the report of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which was put down in the Senate recently, and is he aware that this report recommends that the whole question relating to UHF and VHF be re-examined? [More…]

• Our education budget is the biggest ever known to the community, and of course those welfare plans have an effect on the domestic economy. [More…]

• The only claims in support of this Budget have been made by honourable senators opposite in relation to education. [More…]

• During an urgency motion on education in this chamber honourable senators after honourable senator asked: ‘Are we not good? [More…]

• We have increased education spending by $404m or 92 per cent. ‘ [More…]

• We will provide$843m for education in 1 973-74, an increase of $404m or 92 per cent on last year. [More…]

• When one looks at a little document alongside the Budget Papers called ‘Payments to or for the States 1973-74’ one finds that under tertiary education, States grants and State loans will be reduced in future as an offset by some $ 144.6m. [More…]

• But I go further and say that much of the $259m which can be claimed as an increase for education comes in two ways. [More…]

• There is the implementation of the Cohen Committee’s report and other tertiary education committee reports which were initiated by the previous Government, involving an amount of some $90m and at least some 5 ?m or $70m is simply the inflationary upsurge of wages. [More…]

• So if we look at the one thing on which the Government stakes its claim, and that is the 92 per cent increase for education, it falls to ashes around us. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in another place admitted- perhaps by faulty misrepresentation- that the amount of” $404m includes $ 144.6m which is an offset and not an increase at all. [More…]

• There has been a lot of talk and bleeding hearts about education priorities. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, has been most emphatic on the matter. [More…]

• I refer to university education. [More…]

• The proposed increased expenditure on education is an example. [More…]

• The Labor Party claims, incorrectly, that $404m has been added for expenditure on education purposes in Australia. [More…]

• London, Foundation for Education and Research in Childbearing. [More…]

• London, Foundation for Education and Research in Childbearing. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education whether he can provide me with the details required to enable an independent school to prepare an appeal against a decision by the Minister for Education to place it in category A. I speak on behalf of the Kobeelya Church of England Girls’ School at Katanning which has been trying to obtain a reply from the Minister since 15 August. [More…]

• The Minister might take this matter up with the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -Last week I noticed an advertisement inserted in the New South Wales newspapers by the Department of Education stating that schools could appeal to the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission on matters of this nature. [More…]

• In particular, I was taken by the way in which he pointed out the methods employed by the Labor Government to delude the electorate into believing that the Government had increased expenditure on education by $404m when it had reduced the grants to the States for tertiary educational purposes by $ 144.6m, which gives a very different picture altogether. [More…]

• The expenditure on education has increased by only $259.4, when the Government would have the public believe that the figure was $404m. [More…]

• The needs are the greatest among the aged, the sick, the unemployed, the city dwellers, the educationally starved and those who are battling on pensions and from invalidity. [More…]

• It has been said that we have greatly boosted education. [More…]

• The fact is that the vote for education this year is $843m which is an increase of $404m or 92 per cent over that of last year. [More…]

• This has been the claim of educationists throughout Australia. [More…]

• Education is the most essential requirement in this day and age for our growing community. [More…]

• That was the subsidy which we were giving towards education. [More…]

• If one takes away the amount of $144m the amount granted is still higher than that previously given to education. [More…]

• This gets over the restrictions which were placed on education before. [More…]

• By distributing $843m we are removing the impossibility of the less privileged child in our community to receive the same education as children who went to category A schools and to higher schools. [More…]

• We have reached the stage where we have the goal of producing a certain standard of education by 1988. [More…]

• We have doubled the grant to education and to independent schools. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has accepted financial responsibility for all tertiary education. [More…]

• We can no longer leave it to the States which have to place quotas and charge for tertiary education. [More…]

• Not only will tertiary education be free to those children who can receive it but also they will, subject to a means test, be granted a living allowance. [More…]

• This will assist the child who had to terminate his education at the tertiary level because of the inability of his parents to keep him at school because of his inability to exist on the pocket money which the parents could afford. [More…]

• This is the period when in most cases under the State education system the compulsory school age ends. [More…]

• Does anyone condemn the grants which we have given to education and our method of allocation? [More…]

• During the life of this Government there has been no opposition to the grants which it has given to education. [More…]

• As much as I welcome the increased benefits it provides, particularly in the social welfare and education fields, I deplore the imbalance of the total measures. [More…]

• Should it be in the field of education or social welfare or housing? [More…]

• Is it reasonable to suggest that any government in its first year in office after 23 years in opposition- bear in mind that this is fundamental to the whole position- should spend as much as $843m on education, $36 lm on health, $2 1 9m on housing which is an increase of 26 per cent on the last Budget, undertake to implement the elimination of the means test for people over 65 years of age, introduce national superannuation and do a number of other things which benefit not only people who live in urban areas but also those in rural areas? [More…]

• The Government is committed to a policy of far reaching expansion in the provision of public facilities and transfer payments in the fields of education, health, the cities and welfare generally. [More…]

• The Labor Government has claimed that it will be responsible for a tremendous increase in expenditure on education. [More…]

• Most of this increase has been due to the transferring of the responsibility for education from the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]

• There are many items in the Budget on which one could speak- social services, education and other things- but I was always told that a postscript should never be added to a good letter. [More…]

• Idonot wish to criticise the fact that there is to be increased expenditure on education and social welfare programs or the development of health care programs. [More…]

• My colleagues have pointed out already that the Labor Government has allocated for education in this Budget 92 per cent more than was allocated by the previous Government in its last Budget. [More…]

• Soldiers’ children education scheme allowances for other than tertiary students will be increased by various amounts ranging from 65c to $3.35 and the new weekly rates will range from $3.25 to $16.65. [More…]

• The allowances for tertiary students are adjusted in line with movements in the rates of living allowances paid under the university or advanced education scholarship schemes administered by my colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• Then with regard to the trustworthiness of the Government as exemplified by its actions, we have proposals for education which it says will be its top priority. [More…]

• Mr Acting Deputy President, would you believe that in the same Budget the Government boasts of giving free university and tertiary education at colleges of advanced education, entailing additional outlays in the Budget of $179m this year? [More…]

• You and I can look with relish upon the fact that other people will get free opportunities for university education, but we should consider the integrity of excluding category A and reducing category B in the nongovernment schools to save $3m to $4m and then giving $ 1 79m to universities and colleges of advanced education which the most wealthy in the country are at liberty to attend. [More…]

• In another debate Senator McManus referred to a meeting at Festival Hall in Melbourne at which, he alleged, the now Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said that, if elected to office, they would continue the per capita grants. [More…]

• When dealing with education at that meeting the present Prime Minister said: [More…]

• The most rapidly growing sector of public spending under a Labor Government will be education. [More…]

• Education should be the great instrument for the promotion of equality. [More…]

• For example, the pupils of State and Catholic schools have had less than half as good an opportunity as the pupils of non-Catholic independent schools to gain Commonwealth secondary scholarships, and very much less than half the opportunity of completing their secondary education. [More…]

• The Labor Party is determined that every child who embarks on secondary education in 1973 shall, irrespective of school or location, have as good an opportunity as any other child of completing his secondary education and continuing his education further. [More…]

• The Labor Government sees this as a high priority, and that is why it has increased Commonwealth expenditure on education in the Budget. [More…]

• The Budget provides $843m for education in 1973-74, which is a increase of $404m or 92 per cent over expenditure on education last year. [More…]

• There will be a further substantial rise in expenditure on education in 1974-75, and further programs will be introduced during 1974. [More…]

• The Labor Government has completely honoured its election policy regarding education. [More…]

• I have always held the view that the standard of education in Australia declined very significantly during the last 27 years when the previous Government was in office. [More…]

• The Government is to spend over $400 m more than was spent by the previous Government last year in order to try to overcome this problem where the education of school children is declining. [More…]

• An article in the ‘National Times’ of 17 September 1973- only yesterday- under the heading ‘Poor children get a poorer education, Western Australian survey shows’ states: [More…]

• Surely those surveys, together with the survey of the Interim Committee headed by Professor Karmel, have all reached the same conclusion, that a lot more money is needed for education in Australia. [More…]

• The present Government recognises the plight of the States which are faced with increasing costs for education and which cannot meet the requirements. [More…]

• I venture to say that most States will be happy to see that at last a sympathetic Labor Government is increasing payments so that children in our schools can and will receive equal education. [More…]

• The Labor Government has carried out completely its electoral promises on not only education but also social services, including the payment of pensions. [More…]

• I think that the figures I have given, particularly those showing the improvement and increases in pensions that have flowed since the Labor Government took office in December last year, show conclusively that the promises made prior to the election have been completely honoured; and the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) shows, I believe, that prior to the election no undertaking was given by either the Prime Minister or the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that a Labor Government, if elected, would continue the per capita grants to independent schools. [More…]

• Mr Kim Beazley, the Minister for Education, referred to that. [More…]

• It is designed both to clear the decks for progress in the years ahead and to ensure that in major areas of concern- social welfare, education, the quality of urban life-real forward moves are being made immediately. [More…]

• From 1 January all tertiary education is to be free. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Will he ask his colleague, the Minister for Education, to have the Commonwealth Government follow the lead given by its fellow Labor Government in Tasmania and reconsider this Government’s decision to discriminate vindictively against some Australian children by cutting off grants previously provided? [More…]

• Doubtless, my colleague the Minister for Education also has seen it. [More…]

• I can assure the honourable senator that the Government received a mandate from the people to implement an educational policy. [More…]

• This year we have made available an additional $440m for education. [More…]

• Consequently it is my view that any money spent on improving housing, health services, education facilities and training programs as a necessary prerequisite to a full contribution by Australian Aborigines to Australian life. [More…]

• I asked a question of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) representing the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on 28 August last. [More…]

• I wish to have the answer incorporated in Hansard and I wish to make certain remarks which will be relayed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• By way of preface I refer to the fact that in his statement dated 6 August 1973 the Minister for Education stated that originally 140 non-systematic non-Government schools would be placed in Category A. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has written a letter to the Minister for the Media dated 12 September 1973 which I received this evening. [More…]

• Apparently it took a fortnight for the Minister for Education to answer that relatively straightforward question and it took almost another fortnight for the answer to be transferred on from the Minister for the Media to me. [More…]

• The letter of the Minister for Education to the Minister for the Media states: [More…]

• It has become patently clear that the Minister for Education is not prepared to come clean in relation to matters concerned with the categorisation of schools. [More…]

• I see no reason why the Minister for Education in this instance could not supply the details sought, which were the names of the schools, why they were transferred and what were the circumstances of the transfer. [More…]

• The proposed legislation will penalise parents who try to exercise this choice, and discourage them from making a vital financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should acknowledge the right of every Australian child to equal per capita grants of government money spent on education. [More…]

• If so, is it a fact that the new inquiry arises as a direct result of the recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts? [More…]

• The Prime Minister said that Cabinet had taken note of the interim report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which had recommended the setting up of a new inquiry. [More…]

• But I do believe in defence preparation and in defence education. [More…]

• Our defence academies are providing up to and above university education for the officers who are required for the sophisticated equipment, aircraft and ships that we have. [More…]

• ( New South WalesLeader of the Government in the Senate)- For the information of honourable senators I present the second annual report, 1971-72, of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]

• I have a telegram from Field Education Enterprises of Australasia Pty Ltd which complains about the measures which we are considering at the moment. [More…]

• Those honourable senators who were privileged to be members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in its inquiry into all aspects of broadcasting and television have come in contact with the role which the Post Office plays in postal services as we understand them, its relationship to the media and its widespread activities in and involvement with the Australian community. [More…]

• I ask the Government to adhere to the pledge it has given and to explain to the Senate why it has felt it necessary to place these additional charges upon sections of the community which can ill afford to carry them and upon groups which are endeavouring to serve the Australian community not only in terms of education and community welfare but also in terms of the important matters of growth and national development. [More…]

• Government programs in social welfare, education and urban development. [More…]

• The State departments channel a substantial proportion of these funds through other State departments in areas such as health, education and housing. [More…]

• The Australian Government does not seek the transfer from the States of particular responsibilities in the fields of health, housing, education and other functional areas, which in its view should preferably be carried out by the appropriate Australian or State departments having responsibility in these areas, partly on the basis of the continued provision of funds by the Australian Government. [More…]

• The Bill provides legislative basis for the provision, as an emergency measure under the child migrant education program, of supplementary class-room accommodation in state and independent schools where this is necessary to allow adequate special instruction of migrant children to take place. [More…]

• The Bill, Mr President, seeks an amendment of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 which, in defining in section 3 capital equipment of an educational nature’ which could be financed under the child program, specifically excluded any building. [More…]

• A survey of child migrant education in schools of high migrant density in Melbourne which the Government initiated late in 1972, and undertaken by the Victorian Education Department, the Catholic Education Office in Victoria, the Department of Immigration and the Department of Education, revealed serious inadequacies with respect both to accommodation and supply of teachers, which are related problems, and some shortages of equipment and materials. [More…]

• Because he sees migrant education as one of the most vital matters affecting migrants, he asked that this area should be given first priority by the Task Forces. [More…]

• In presenting the report of the Victoria task force, its Chairman, Mr Garrick, M.P., and Vice-Chairman, Mr Innes, M.P., reported that migrant children are being blatantly denied a good education because they are not taught enough English. [More…]

• Cabinet on 14 May 1973 approved a joint submission by the Minister for Immigration and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) to extend the child migrant education program to include provision for supplementary class-room accommodation by way of demountable or portable class-rooms, where this was necessary as an emergency measure to ensure that adequate instruction could be given. [More…]

• Some 420 schools have been listed by the education authorities where additional class-rooms are required for this purpose. [More…]

• Clause 1 makes the point that the principal Act when amended will be known as the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-1973. [More…]

• The purpose of clause 3 is to extend the definition of capital equipment of an educational nature in section 3 of the original Act to provide also for portable class-rooms but not to include any other building. [More…]

• Clause 4 provides for the expectation that the Australian Government in addition to paying for the portable class-rooms that have been obtained direct by education authorities, may in some circumstances itself wish to handle the ordering and supply in the case of a particular education authority. [More…]

• It appears that the majority of State Departments of Education and Catholic education offices will have the necessary administrative resources and machinery to arrange supply, but some may not. [More…]

• One of the problems which was identified as a result of a number of inquiries set up by the Opposition while in government was the need for a greater degree of English teaching of migrant children to enable them to participate fully in the education otherwise available to them. [More…]

• Surveys were conducted, in New South Wales in particular, in relation to the education of migrant children. [More…]

• Following those surveys, steps were taken in 1970 by the former Liberal-Country Party Government to introduce a program which provided for the expenditure of money in relation to migrant child education. [More…]

• They were ascertained as a result of the inquiry which was undertaken by the Victorian Department of Education, the Catholic Education Office in Victorian, the Department of Education and the Department of Immigration. [More…]

• Part of the fair go given is that the children should be given special coaching where necessary in the English language to enable them to be able to participate fully in and obtain the rewards from the education system available in Australia. [More…]

• We hope that demountable classrooms will not become a feature of Australian education. [More…]

• But the program that is going ahead in relation to education in Australia, a program which we are delighted to see includes the provision of funds for the building of extra school facilities, should overcome the temporary need. [More…]

• One of the dangers that we have when Commonwealth money is granted to the States is that the priorities that we regard as essential may not coincide with the desires and the wants of the State education authorities. [More…]

• It is expected that over the 2-year period we shall meet all of the requirements of the various State education authorities. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Such services include livestock quarantine, quarantine officers’ control of overseas passengers and freight, production of vaccines, research projects, rural education projects, beef roads, brigalow schemes and so on. [More…]

• We will not follow the practice of playing one section of the Australian community off against the other and that is why we have done so much and taken great initiatives in the areas of health, education and social security in this Budget, steps which will be of benefit to all Australians. [More…]

• It is difficult to evaluate all the consequences and benefits which might result from an upheaval such as this but the impact of these things will be felt strongly not only in the fields of education, culture, health, medicine and science in general but also, more importantly, the impact will be overwhelming in relation to organisation and management of the total society, particularly in our social welfare and our quality of life. [More…]

• When a government has shown that it is making provision for pensions, that it is helping school children by providing massive amounts for the education of our young people and is providing massive amounts for hospitals, it is not right then to say to that government: ‘If you are taking the steps which you consider are important to balance the finances at a time like this, we will say you are to be criticised because this in some way has an adverse effect on some people in the lower income groups.’ [More…]

• Will the Government take the opportunity to make public recognition of the report of the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution in the same way as the Prime Minister publicly recognised the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts following its inquiry into frequency modulation radio? [More…]

• With the introduction of the recommendations of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, relating to the education and training of handicapped children, it is probable that there will be a reduction in the assistance sought by voluntary and religious organisations under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]

• In developing new goals, implementing long term planning and setting priorities in the welfare field, the Commission is charged with the task of taking an overall view of social policy, which encompasses such areas as education, housing, health services, employment policies and other matters, as well as the more specific issues of income-security payments and personal welfare services. [More…]

• The aim of the Australian Assistance Plan is to assist in the development at a regional level, within a nationally coordinated framework, of integrated patterns of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and the welfare related aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies. [More…]

• The Government attaches very high priority to education and particularly to the quality of education and to equality of opportunity in education, and as an interim approach to these objectives, to ensuring a sound basic standard in all schools. [More…]

• The establishment of a Schools Commission is a logical extension of the principles adopted by former governments in regard to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Diversity and innovation in education at the school level are desirable. [More…]

• ‘Needs’ include the need to provide scope and opportunities for the gifted as well as effective education for those who are in any way disadvantaged. [More…]

• The States will retain responsibility for administering their own educational programs but will have available to them greatly increased funds for the purpose. [More…]

• Part of the Commission’s task will be to see that there is a proper use of economic resources in the field of education. [More…]

• As the Commission’s responsibilities will encompass primary and secondary education throughout the whole of Australia, a composition of twelve, of whom, other than the Chairman, a maximum of three will be full-time appointees, appears necessary. [More…]

• The terms and conditions of the Chairman, members and staff are in accord with those of such bodies as the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• I draw the attention of honourable senators to a number of the functions with which the Commission is charged because they indicate matters which are important in the field of education. [More…]

• The Senate will be aware that the Government is in the process of making tertiary education free in universities, colleges of advanced education, and technical colleges. [More…]

• It will be the function of the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, and the Commission for Technical and Further Education to keep tertiary education free. [More…]

• There has been an alarming tendency for free education to be abandoned as a principle by governments in Australia and, in one way and another, to charge high fees in State schools. [More…]

• It is gratifying to note that, as a result of the recommendations of assistance to State education by the Interim Committee under Professor Karmel, some State Governments propose to abolish these fees. [More…]

• The Commission is directed to ‘have regard to the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children’. [More…]

• In advising on the needs of government and non-government primary and secondary schools, the Commission is required to keep in mind the need to establish educational opportunities for the handicapped, the disadvantaged and the gifted. [More…]

• The Commission shall have regard to ‘the desirability of providing special educational opportunities for students who have demonstrated their ability in a particular field of studies, including scientific, literary, artistic or musical studies’. [More…]

• The Commission is also charged with the need to encourage diversity and innovation in education in schools, and in the curricula and teaching methods of schools’. [More…]

• In a sense the Commission is invited to enter the field of public relations on behalf of government and nongovernment education, for it is invited ‘to stimulate and encourage public and private interest in, and support for, improvements in primary and secondary education and in schools and school systems’. [More…]

• The Commission will advise on a vital range of educational problems. [More…]

• Child migrant education has been floundering in Australia. [More…]

• The Commission is to have regard to ‘the needs of disadvantaged schools and of students at disadvantaged schools, and of other students suffering disadvantages in relation to education for social, economic, ethnic, geographic, cultural, lingual or similar reasons’. [More…]

• In both the government and non-government sectors of education there may develop special needs, deficiencies, or areas where special encouragement is needed. [More…]

• The Schools Commission is empowered to make recommendations for correcting deficiencies, encouraging diversity and innovation, improving standards of staffing, buildings and equipment, and stimulating the flow of educational ideas. [More…]

• I believe this can usher in an era of advance in education. [More…]

• The Commission is to be a constant searchlight on all education, government and non-government, in Australia. [More…]

• In view of Senator O ‘Byrne’s question in relation to education, would the Minister take it upon himself to educate the Press about the real rights and authority of the Senate? [More…]

• I hope that in any education program the white people will absorb the things that ought to be absorbed so that they can see in their proper light the problems that they have inflicted on black people. [More…]

• It has come to my notice that the Department of Education employs some 600 Aborigines. [More…]

• I believe that the Commonwealth Government should be making sufficient money available to the States to enable them to carry on the programs which they have been endeavouring to carry on for some time in the fields of housing, health, education and employment so that the Aboriginal people in the various States can be independent, the same as any other Australian. [More…]

• Education is the responsibility of the Department of Education, and that Department possibly can do better than the Department of. [More…]

• The same situation applies to education. [More…]

• Education in the Northern Territory is the responsibility of the Commonwealth Department of Education, but if a new school is required in an isolated area elsewhere and it otherwise would not be built, the Australian Government will finance it or build it in order to make these facilities available because there is a special need for special treatment for these children. [More…]

• They want housing, health and educational facilities, job opportunities, self determination and land rights. [More…]

• We have done this in the fields of housing, health and education out of capital funds. [More…]

• I appreciate that this requires a good deal of leadership, education, explanation and discussion. [More…]

• They know that within the foreseeable future it will not be possible for their own education system to provide the expertise or the skilled manpower that they will require. [More…]

• We are insisting on Papua New Guinea adopting our education system, and probably our education system is better. [More…]

• I think we have failed the people of Papua New Guinea in education and in medicine, and I think we are going to fail them altogether when we hand over independence to them. [More…]

• Will the Government take the opportunity to recognise the Report of the Committee in the same way that the Prime Minister publicly recognised the Second Progress Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on all aspects of television and broadcasting, including Australian content of television programmes, which referred, in part, to frequency modulation radio. [More…]

• will the Minister note this point and inquire whether there can be a response to a call for a greater breadth of interpretation in specialist education? [More…]

• As I stated in my reply at the time, I have not seen the report to which the honourable senator refers, and the Minister for Education has advised me that the Australian Universities Commission has made inquiries and has been unable to obtain any information or statements relating to a glut of some university trained specialists and a shortage of others. [More…]

• Further, is the Minister aware that a number of Aborigines have enrolled because they were threatened with the loss of government assistance in the fields of education, housing and other assistance which is important to their advancement? [More…]

• The reductions to the financial assistance grants which it was agreed would accompany the transfer to the Australian Government of financial responsibility for tertiary education as from January 1974; [More…]

• At the Premiers’ Conference in June the States accepted the Australian Government’s offer to assume full financial responsibility for financing tertiary education from 1 January 1974, and it was agreed that estimated amounts of recurrent expenditure of which the States would thereby be relieved should be deducted from the financial assistance grants otherwise payable. [More…]

• Legislation to authorise the necessary additional grants to the States for tertiary education will be introduced by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in the present sittings of Parliament. [More…]

• of clause 6 provides for the reductions to the 1974-75 grants on account of the Australian Government’s assumption of full responsibility for financing tertiary education. [More…]

• Comparison of the amounts of such assistance estimated to be paid in this year with the amounts paid in 1972-73 are affected by the reductions to be made to the 1973-74 grants on account of tertiary education. [More…]

• Secondly, at the same meeting, the States accepted the Australian Government’s offer to assume full responsibility for financing tertiary education from January 1974 and agreed that their Loan Council programs should be reduced by estimates of the capital expenditures of which they would thereby be relieved. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Gordon Bryant, was reported to have indicated to an Aboriginal university student that he was prepared to offer university students long vacation employment, will the present Minister consult those Aborigines who are engaged in tertiary education and offer them the same opportunities as the former Minister did? [More…]

• To improve extension services to industry, agriculture and medicine, including regional services and programs of further education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Of the 50 schools formerly excluded from participation in the Karmel Committee recommendations for Commonwealth education grants but now approved under reclassification, how many were reclassified upon appeal, the justification for which was the failure of the applicant in the first instance to fill in the application form correctly? [More…]

• Anticipating that a question of this nature would be asked, I sought some details from my colleague, the Minister for Education in another place, Mr Beazley. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for the Media whether his attention was drawn to a statement by Senator James McClelland, the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, that TCN [More…]

• If Senator Webster has a look at what was said by my colleague, who is the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which is inquiring into all aspects of radio and television, I think he will find that Senator James McClelland suggested that an inquiry should be held into whether or not the licence of Channel 9 should be suspended or revoked because it did not give reasonable opportunities to all political parties. [More…]

• Occasionally I attended its meetings, lt was like a sort of secret Workers Education Association class at which people from the Department of Foreign Affairs or somewhere gave us information which sounded like a resume of last month’s Reader’s Digest’. [More…]

• I refer to the question of whether in Australia we should have a Schools Commission which should be a national or a nationwide body- a body created so that it is able to play,u part in the development and co-ordination Of education in Australia. [More…]

• Although we had fears as to what might happen, because of some of the things that had been said by various spokesmen on behalf of the Australian Labor Party as to what they conceived a Schools Commission to be, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in his second reading speech in the House of Representatives made it quite clear that our fears are no longer well founded. [More…]

• The Minister has made it quite clear that the Government has no intention whatsoever of using the creation of the Schools Commission as a centralising body in the administration of education in Australia. [More…]

• I believe that it is unfortunate to call it a schools commission rather than perhaps an education commission or even a students commission. [More…]

• The questions that the Schools Commission will be concerned with are primary and secondary education and not pre-school education or any of the other numerous areas in which the Commonwealth is to a greater or a lesser extent involved. [More…]

• I emphasise that we are not concerned in this Bill with pre-school education which, again, is a matter of considerable public interest and a matter in which the Government has taken other action, as would we have taken action had we continued in government. [More…]

• Pre-school education is a matter that was referred to in both of the policy speeches before the last House of Representatives election. [More…]

• The general position is that the principles with which we are concerned in the Schools Commission Bill were explained by the Minister for Education in his second reading speech. [More…]

• I wish to quote certain parts of that speech because these aspects are a recognition of the realities of the situation in relation to primary and secondary education in Australia. [More…]

• The Minister for Education said: [More…]

• Diversity and innovation in education at the school level are desirable. [More…]

• In those quotations we see a clear recognition by the Minister on behalf of the Government of the twofold role in education- the role of government schools and the role of the States in relation to the conduct of those schools. [More…]

• We see that the Government is recognising what was put to it very strongly and firmly by the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, commonly known as the Karmel Committee, that there should not be a centralisation of the administration of education in Australia. [More…]

• The constitutional responsibility for the provision of public education rests primarily with the States, as at present does the major financial commitment. [More…]

• I believe that there would be considerable advantage to the Government, to those interested in education and to the final result which could be achieved in the interests of education in Australia had it been possible to have a debate in this chamber on that report before the legislation was introduced. [More…]

• I believe that it is of the utmost importance that the wide and divergent views of people greatly concerned with education, many of whom are expert in educational matters, should be able to be taken into account and considered by this Parliament before the legislation is passed. [More…]

• It can give a feedback to members of Parliament and can provide information to members of Parliament which is likely to lead in the long run to better legislation and better education. [More…]

• One is that it endorsed federalism in relation to education. [More…]

• It would be hard not to do so because the constitutional realities in Australia, whether people like it or not, are that the States have been given the power by the Constitution in relation to education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth has not the power and it is only by the use or, as some people would claim, the misuse of section 96 that it is able to take action in relation to education outside the Territories. [More…]

• The cost of education and the needs of education are sufficiently great to involve the Commonwealth Government of necessity. [More…]

• What has happened with the Schools Commission is a recognition that there is clearly a role to be played on a national basis but that the constitutional realities are that the day to day administration of education in the States is a State function carried out by the State departments of education, with the exception of the nongovernment sector which, again, is not a direct administrative responsibility of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• That is an important matter to many people in Australia who were afraid that perhaps there was a move to limit in some way or to curtail the right of people to choose the type of education which was to be given to their children. [More…]

• It is necessary that, far from centralising education, in the interests of diversity and in the interests of innovation we should be able to have a greater degree of independence within those education systems which exist. [More…]

• It made it quite clear that it recognised the need for diversity, for innovation and for local involvement and participation in education- all matters which have of late in a number of countries, in particular Australia, received the support of a large number of people who are concerned with and are active in questions related to education. [More…]

• The Committee acknowledged research and the necessity for vastly increased research activity in relation to education. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to refer to a publication of last year entitled ‘Education in Australia: The Liberal Party’s Objectives and Achievements’. [More…]

• There are some who would claim that it has been the new Government which has done all these magnificent things in education which the former Government did not. [More…]

• I suggest that some of the developments in education which have taken place this year were very largely in the pipeline under the former Government. [More…]

• ‘Education in Australia: The Liberal Party’s Objectives and Achievements’. [More…]

• I mention 2 overriding objectives which are referred to- encouraging a variety of educational institutions and encouraging local educational research programs to identify the major educational needs and problems and to ensure that Australian solutions are developed on soundly based analytical work. [More…]

• It is surprising to find how things which it emphasised and the matters which it found so important were published last year in the document ‘Education in Australia: The Liberal Party’s Objectives and Achievements’. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to mention that fact because there are many people in Australia who tend to be snowed under by the weight of public relations work which has been poured out by this Government in relation to education- not all of it accurate, and some of it grossly misrepresenting the true situation. [More…]

• I refer also to the speech made by the Minister for Education in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• The Commission is to have regard to ‘the needs of disadvantaged schools and of students at disadvantaged schools, and of other students suffering disadvantages in relation to education for social, economic ethnic, geographic, cultural, lingual or similar reasons’. [More…]

• It is important in relation to the debate on education which has taken place in Australia. [More…]

• I refer to what is often termed ‘the needs principle’ or adopting the needs principle’ in relation to education. [More…]

• I regard this issue as one of the most confused issues- and deliberately confused in some respects- that can be identified in education. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that there has been confusion, but the fact is that the previous Government had adopted a needs approach which was fulfilled in a variety of ways and which was described as being integral to the whole of its program in relation to education. [More…]

• What is certain is that in education there needs to be, because of the cost involved and because of the long term involved in changing programs, in developing physical facilities, in training teachers and in all the rest of the matters which are involved, a degree of certainty and a degree of planning. [More…]

• It is important in education in Australia that there be long term planning and that there be the opportunity for some co-ordination and co-operation between the various authorities in education and administration. [More…]

• Let us hope that we do not have any more examples of that sort of problem in relation to education where, rather than solving problems, they are being created. [More…]

• What the Committee was concerned with and what I suggest we are concerned with is to ensure that innovation, development and future change takes place in education on a continuing basis. [More…]

• We will seek to introduce into the Bill proper considerations so that the functions of the Commission will have regard to the development of the quality of education in Australia. [More…]

• I refer to the continuation and preservation of freedom of choice in relation to the type of education which should be given to children in Australia. [More…]

• We are trying to make something which has a prospect of making a real contribution to the development of education in Australia. [More…]

• Before concluding I make the comment that we have had the opportunity of consultation with a wide cross-section of people interested in education. [More…]

• We have had numerous meetings of education committees of the Opposition to consider the suggestions. [More…]

• We hope that we have been able to produce something by way of proposed amendments which takes into account the assistance which came from the various sectors interested in education in Australia. [More…]

• It should not be just a matter of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) acting petulantly, as he has, by saying in effect that he will take his bat and ball home if we do not pass his Bill unamended. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on behalf of the Government- the Government is united on this -will not accept the amendments. [More…]

• I can assure him that if and when our National Pipeline Authority is established, it will work with a great deal more efficiency than did the Liberal Party education pipeline because the things which the Liberal Party had in the pipeline seemed to have become clogged somewhere between where they were put in and where they are supposed to come out as they had not come out even though the Liberal Party had been in office for 23 years. [More…]

• If one has any doubt about the relative dedication to education by the Federal [More…]

• In its last year, the previous conservative Federal Government allocated $404m for education. [More…]

• In the first year of our Government in office we have allocated $843m for education, an increase of 92 per cent. [More…]

• I suggest to Senator Rae that he will be greeted in stony silence if he goes to those people throughout Australia who are concerned about education and talks to them about the length of the Liberal Party pipeline and how much was inside it when those people can refer to the fact that we have almost doubled the amount spent on education by the Commonwealth Government from 1972 to 1973. [More…]

• I do not want to labour this subject, but in case anybody feels that the Karmel report has not been ventilated before the Senate, they should be reminded that the Opposition parties which have effective control of this chamber, per medium of Senator Rae himself on 22 August last moved an urgency motion relating to education which contained some rather severe strictures against the Government’s education policy in general and the Karmel report in particular. [More…]

• There was an extensive debate in this Senate on 22 August last on the Karmel report and other problems of education. [More…]

• It was contained in our policy speech given by our leader; it was in the printed policy speech; it was in all the material on education which was prepared by this Party; it was the advice given by this Party which now forms the Government to all those persons throughout Australia concerned with education. [More…]

• There were people within the Labor Party who believed that the Commission should be constituted on a representative basis and that various organisations and interest groups concerned about education should have representatives or delegates serving on the Schools Commission. [More…]

• It has members nominated in general because of their knowledge of university education or the applicability of university education to the various fields of the national life. [More…]

• The argument advanced against the proposition that the Schools Commission should be a type of delegate or representative body- I was one of those who sucessfully argued for the policy which was adopted at the Labor Party conferencewas that in having a schools commission which consisted of a certain number of delegates from private schools, a certain number from state schools and all the other possible permutations and combinations that one could think of, we would not have a quasi-judicial body looking over all the needs of education without somebody being responsible to someone else and being responsible for election or nomination to some organisation or interest group. [More…]

• The amendment proposes that one member of the Schools Commission shall be appointed on the recommendation of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia. [More…]

• In fact Archbishop Cahill, who is the secretary of the Episcopal Conference, has said that in his opinion it would be unconstitutional for the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference to appoint a . [More…]

• In order to be a member of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference one has to be a member of the Catholic Church. [More…]

• Senator Rae’s amendment seeks to delete those words and to replace them with the following words: “(b) The needs of primary and secondary school students in respect of buildings, equipment, teaching and other staff and other facilities and teaching aids and the respective priorities to be given to the satisfying of those various needs and to the improvement of the quality of education available for primary and secondary school students in Australia; “. [More…]

• It seems to me to be quite an appropriate sort of welfare body which could well fit in with an overall education theory. [More…]

• But they are not a way of assessing the needs of education. [More…]

• the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children. [More…]

• But, Mr Deputy President, I repeat this to you: The matters which are contained within our Schools Commission Bill which is now before you are matters which are fundamental to the education policy of the Government. [More…]

• I do not think anybody can deny that they represent a wide variety of interests, of schools, of backgrounds and of organisations concerned with education. [More…]

• -Senator Rae, in opening his remarks ibr the Opposition spoke of the interest of parents, teachers and other people in education throughout Australia. [More…]

• Senator Wheeldon, who has just spoken for the Government, said that if the amendments proposed by the Opposition were carried they would so change the character of the Schools Commission Bill that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) had every right not to go on with the Bill. [More…]

• It does not mean $ 1 more as far as education is concerned. [More…]

• I remind him further that the increased funds for universities and colleges of advanced education are very small amounts and that those increases were approved by the previous Government last year. [More…]

• So Senator Wheeldon in saying that the Labor Government is responsible for giving such a large amount to education is really working a big hoax. [More…]

• Elevation of education standards and facilities always has been given very high priority by the Country Party. [More…]

• This is a highly important piece of legislation touching on all elements of primary and secondary education and affecting every child and every parent in Australia. [More…]

• It does not say which elements of education shall be represented. [More…]

• The Minister said in his second reading speech that the States would retain responsibility for administering their own education programs. [More…]

• I believe that the States would feel much happier about their own continuing role in the decision-making areas of education in which they have done so much in the past if the Federal Government were to give them a voice in the Commission itself. [More…]

• Therefore, whilst I commend the Minister and the Government for making more money available for education, including teaching, the Bill as presented suggests that the Government is prepared to give on one hand and to take on the other. [More…]

• I think that the Senate will recall that at the time the honourable member moved those amendments he said that they were prepared in a hurry because the Minister for Education had introduced the Bill into the House of Representatives at very short notice. [More…]

• I believe that adoption of the amendments will ensure that the Commission is sufficiently representative of interests closest to education in Australia. [More…]

• The function of this Commission is best described in the words of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) during the debate in the other place. [More…]

• In more recent memory, as recently as last year or maybe the year before when the Commission on Advanced Education was set up, once again the Liberal-Country Party Coalition Government did not hesitate to appoint the members of that Commission. [More…]

• Of course, when we do this we will not by any means exclude the representation of different schools of thought, different tendencies, different philosophies, different interests in the community in the matter of education. [More…]

• It is necessary only to look at the composition of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, which I am assured by the Minister for Education will constitute the personnel of the Australian Schools Commission if this Bill is passed, to see that the Government has gone right across the spectrum in constituting its Committee. [More…]

• He was DirectorGeneral of Education in Papua New Guinea from 1966 to 1973, is 42 years of age and has a great past and a promising future in education. [More…]

• Other members are Dr Gregory Hancock, 31 years of age, who was Associate Chief of the New South Wales Education Department’s Division of Planning; Mr David Bennett, who was a lecturer in Education at Monash University; Mr Peter Moyes, Headmaster of Christchurch Grammar School in Western Australiaprobably the leading Anglican school in that State; Mr A. D. J. [More…]

• Wood, Principal of St Michael’s School for the Handicapped just outside Launceston; Mr McNamara, President of the Sydney Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends Associations; Father F. Martin, Director of Catholic Education in Victoria; Mrs J. Kirner, who was selected from a panel of names presented by the Australian Council of State School Organisations; Mr Ray Costello, President of the Queensland Teachers Union; Mr Albert Jones, Director of Education in South Australia; Dr Peter Tannock, a young man who is Dean of the Faculty of Education in the University of Western Australia; and Mrs J. Blackburn, who has been an outstanding member of teachers college staffs in South Australia. [More…]

• Seriously I say to honourable senators opposite and to anybody who is interested- that must include most serious people in this countrythat surely the selections that the Government has made already for its Interim Committee, which will ultimately become the permanent Australian Schools Commission, show a most responsible, ecumenical and, I would say, scholarly interest in the subject disclosed by the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I suggest that he has sought far and wide to find not only in terms of qualification but also geographically a wide and representative selection of people to set in motion this new philosophy that we have about how education can be stimulated and set on a new road in this country. [More…]

• Six members are to come from the Australian Education Council, which is a sort of attempt by the Opposition to assert some suzerainty of the States because the Australian Educational Council is really a body which, as envisaged by the Opposition, is to be dominated by the State Education Ministers. [More…]

• It would be totally unreal to suggest that in the sphere of education there are not pressure groups and that any government which was hoping to be realistic in this field could turn a deaf ear to pressure groups. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that ‘pressure group’ is an evil term or that independent schools, Catholic schools, Quaker schools and calithumpian schools should not have their voices heard by people who are seeking to provide the best educational service. [More…]

• In the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary educational facilities in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in government and non-government schools in Australia, and, in particular, shall have regard to- [More…]

• the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children; [More…]

• Article 26 of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights and in particular the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children; [More…]

• I will merely refer to the fact that so much is being attempted and so much strain is being put on Ministers and members that 3 members of this Senate- 2 Ministers- and one member of the House of Representatives, who is the Minister who initiated this Bill in the other place, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), have in recent weeks been overcome by illnesses resulting from straight out exhaustion and overwork. [More…]

• When so many bodies put into education in this country a tremendous amount of voluntary service, I make no apology for saying that my belief is that those bodies are entitled to be named and represented and are entitled to appoint their representatives. [More…]

• In my day our battle was to have teachers and education organisations represented by their nominees and not by people whom any government thought would do a better job than the people whom we wanted. [More…]

• We came to the conclusion that education being a State instrumentality and the Federal Government being in the situation that it must seek the co-operation of the States there is less likelihood of the stress and the strains to which Senator James McClelland quite fairly referred and there is more likelihood of co-operation if the State governments or the State education systems are represented on the Commission. [More…]

• We are beholden to that attitude because the third part of that amendment seeks to give to the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia, the National Council of Independent Schools and the Australian Parents Council, which are organisations of schools of different religions, the right to appoint their representatives straight out. [More…]

• That statement was echoed by the shadow Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, on more than one occasion during the election campaign. [More…]

• I think that it was unfortunate that a measure which promised so much for the future of Australian education was, as it were, harmed in the eyes of many people, though perhaps it should not have been, because people felt that a promise had been given and it had been broken. [More…]

• While there has been a Democratic Labor Party it has voted for every measure which offered progress for education. [More…]

• Some people say all forms of education’. [More…]

• I believe that the interest shown by quite a number of honourable senators in debates concerning the future of Australian education has had a very good effect. [More…]

• I believe that in a democracy interests which put in a great deal of voluntary and other work for education should have the right to present their own nominees. [More…]

• I hope I am not reporting him incorrectly but I think he said that there are many voluntary organisations involved in education which should be represented on the Commission and that they should appoint their own representatives. [More…]

• But what about the number of voluntary organisations in the field of education? [More…]

• It is an amazing education policy. [More…]

• The Country Party gives, and believes the nation must give, a high priority to education. [More…]

• We seek to achieve the greatest possible equality and balance in educational opportunity. [More…]

• We want to see the overall quality of education improved at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels. [More…]

• The Country Party remains concerned at the special difficulties facing children and parents in country areas in gaining access to all levels of education. [More…]

• The Country Party remains concerned at the special difficulties facing children and parents in country areas in gaining access to all levels of education. [More…]

• The 5 governments prior to the present Labor Government refused all overtures to give any assistance whatsoever to children having education difficulties in isolated areas. [More…]

• Honourable senators will know that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts is investigating this issue at present and is going to Bourke on Friday to take evidence there. [More…]

• One of the first things that the Australian Labor Party did when it gained office and before there were any pressures at all from any organisations was to give to the parents of children in isolated areas an amount of $1,004 a year towards the education of those children. [More…]

• What I have said will indicate to the Senate that that is the attitude of the Country Party to education in Australia. [More…]

• Turning to education- which touches the lives of all of us in a dozen different ways. [More…]

• The Teachers Federation had been telling that Government for many years that that was the problem in education. [More…]

• Directly more than indirectly- more than half of the $ 1,900m being spent on education in Australia. [More…]

• The initiatives we have taken during the last 12 months have broadened and developed the Commonwealth’s involvement in the education of your children. [More…]

• There are several new measures we now plan to introduce in particular areas of education. [More…]

• We will provide $25m a year over the next 3 financial years for capital and recurring expenditure to assist the States in their efforts to expand pre-school education. [More…]

• The Liberal Party had found at last that preschool education is important though its Ministers had been going overseas in the 23 years supposedly to be studying education. [More…]

• We will expand our present commitment to technical education and continue it into the future, allocating not less than $2Om a year [More…]

• Now the Liberal Party was going to put in $20m a year for technical education. [More…]

• We will give an education allowance of $400 a year free of means test for children in isolated areas who must live away from home in order to attend school or who have to be taught at home. [More…]

• The most rapidly growing sector of public spending under a Labour Government will bc education. [More…]

• Education should be the great instrument for the promotion of equality. [More…]

• For example, the pupils of State and Catholic schools have had less than half as good an opportunity as the pupils of non-Catholic independent schools to gain Commonwealth secondary scholarships, and very much less than half the opportunity of completing their secondary education. [More…]

• The Labor Party is determined that every child who embarks on secondary eduction in 1973 shall, irrespective of school or location, have as good an opportunity as any other child of completing his secondary education and continuing his education further. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of a community service which should involve the entire community- not just the Education Departments and the Catholic school authorities and the Headmaster’s Conference, not just parents and teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• The quality of the community’s response to the needs of the education system will determine the quality of the system. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party believes that the Commonwealth should adopt the same methods to assist schools as it has adopted to assist universities and colleges of advanced education- through a Commission. [More…]

• I would now like to read what the Budget Speech had to say on education. [More…]

• For this Government, education is a top priority - [More…]

• We will provide $843m for education in 1973-74, an increase of $404m or 92 per cent on last year. [More…]

• I regret very much that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who initiated this Bill is ill and is not available to be present. [More…]

• There was an overwhelming request from the various education bodies throughout Australia to the Labor Party that if it were to gain government and establish a schools commission that that be a specifically nominated commission. [More…]

• On all those platforms representatives of the Labor Party were asked by the education bodies: ‘If you establish this commission will you establish the principle that individual sections of the education system- the teachers, the parents, the handicapped and so on- will have direct nomination?’. [More…]

• They all acknowledged that they had been present at major public meetings at which 1 had shared the platforms and at which they had asked and got an assurance from the Labor Party that if a schools commission were established- I remind Senator Turnbull of these facts- the members of the Commission would be nominated in terms of specific education interests. [More…]

• The essence of the amendments under this section of structure as put forward by the Opposition reflects the representations of the various education bodies to all of us in Opposition, both in writing and verbally, and to myself asking that the schools Commission should not be a Minister- appointed body but should be a specifically structured body nominated from various sections of the education spectrum. [More…]

• Representations were made to the Karmel Committee so it must be understood that these amendments proposed by the Opposition now are not in any way a frustration of the election policies of the Government or of the requests of the education bodies but are in fact an earnest of their fulfilment. [More…]

• The very educational bodies themselves are structured in this representation. [More…]

• I repeat that our amendments relating to the structure of the Schools Commision foreshadow the promise given by the Labor Party before the election to have a specifically structured commission representing particular educational interests. [More…]

• If the Government rejects these proposed amendments it will be rejecting the specific recommendations made by the education bodies to the Opposition and to others in recent months. [More…]

• In the amendments put forward by the Opposition we are not only reflecting the election policies of the Labor Party and the pre-election and post-election requests of educational interests, but also we are reflecting the recommendations and decisions of the Karmel Committee because throughout its report these recommendations run like a uniform thread. [More…]

• For the past decade or longer all governments, both State and Federal, have been increasing the priority of education throughout Australia- and rightly so- trying to upgrade the quality of both government and non-government schools to a point where Australia today is rightly spending more on education than on any other function of government. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• A letter of 1 3 April 1 973 from the Minister for Education to the Chairman of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission about the phasing out of existing Australian Government programs for schools was tabled in the House on 30 May 1973. [More…]

• 1 have arranged for the tabling in the Senate of this and all letters written from the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education to the Chairman of the Interim Committee before the presentation of its report. [More…]

• In addition to the material referred to in (2) above, the Interim Committee was addressed by the Minister for Education at the commencement of its initial meeting on 21 December 1972. [More…]

• In the course of its inquiries the Interim Committee had discussions with officers of the Department of Education and with representatives of advisory committees associated with that Department; these are referred to in the Appendices to the report of the Interim Committee. [More…]

• That there be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the following matter Procedures, organisation and action necessary to ensure that the Australian Council for the Arts and its boards properly and effectively carry out their task of overall promotion of the arts in Australia. [More…]

• Preventive, early treatment, education and aftercare services will be a feature of the projects to be undertaken. [More…]

• In the next few years, further increasing local integration with community health, education and welfare services will remove more of the old stigma attaching to those needing help which is not just physical. [More…]

• The general purpose of social policy- which encompasses such areas as education, housing, health services, employment policies and other matters, as well as the more specific issues of income-security payments and personal welfare services- is to provide an environment in which the individual is given the opportunity to develop his or her personal abilities to thenmaximum potential. [More…]

• However, in the last few years in Australia, there has been a growing concern to ensure that community health, welfare and legal services, as well as adequate education and housing, are available to the entire community as a matter of right rather than as an act of charity. [More…]

• Today the institutions to which I have referred are receiving a Commonwealth education grant on a per capita basis. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to provide a legislative basis for the senior secondary scholarships scheme, postgraduate awards scheme and the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• The tertiary education assistance scheme, to be introduced for the first time at the beginning of 1 974, is a major step taken by the Government in its program to produce a revolution of access to education. [More…]

• Full time students at post-secondary technical colleges, colleges of advanced education, and universities will be eligible for means tested living allowances. [More…]

• The tertiary education assistance scheme replaces the Commonwealth university scholarships scheme, the Commonwealth advanced education scholarships scheme and the Commonwealth technical scholarships scheme. [More…]

• The Bill repeals the Education Act 1945-1966, thereby abolishing the Commonwealth Office of Education and the Commonwealth Scholarships Board. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Scholarships Board has continued to function since it was originally established under the Education Act 1945-1966. [More…]

• The function of education in a world in crisis is to develop people who can fashion a new and inspiring civilisation- people who have the moral and intellectual qualities, and the sensitivity to produce a renaissance. [More…]

• The Committee’s report refers also to communication and migrant education problems- subjects which often have been debated in various ways in this chamber- as well as the employment situation. [More…]

• I also inform the Senate that the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, who is sick, is expected to be absent for a further 2 weeks. [More…]

• The PostmasterGeneral, Mr Lionel Bowen, will act as Minister for Education until Mr Beazley returns. [More…]

• Has the Minister read the case for the establishment of an institute in Western Victoria put forward by Dr O’Brien of the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education? [More…]

• 2, standing in the name of Senator McManus, relating to the reference of a matter to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, formal or not formal? [More…]

• That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the following matter- Procedures, organisation and action necessary to ensure that the Council for the Arts, and its Boards, properly and effectively carry out their task of over-all promotion of the Arts in Australia. [More…]

• Quite clearly also during its presentation of its platform to the public the then Opposition- now the Government- had submissions from parent and teacher organisations which argued strongly that on any such commission there should be direct representation of parents and of teachers and, indeed, of other interested segments of education. [More…]

• It is our view that if every group represented on the Commission were required to do the same, the result would be a Commission properly representative of the education community, but free enough from sectional pressures to be able to function as an expert, objective body. [More…]

• The very latest and most immediate submission from this organisation reveals that the 2 main bodies, the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations submitted to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) a panel from which one person was chosen by the Minister. [More…]

• The relevant amendment, as circulated, concerning the teacher organisations says this: the Chairman and five other members upon the recommendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organisations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]

• Six other members upon the recommendations of the Australian Education Council and of whom two shall be members of parent organisations selected by the Australian Education Council from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Council of State School Organisations and one shall be a person involved in special education of handicapped children or children with special learning difficulties; [More…]

• Senator James McClelland, in drawing attention to the Committee, said that the present Committee has as its Chairman, Dr Kenneth McKinnon who was Director-General of Education in Papua New Guinea. [More…]

• He went on to mention Dr Gregory Hancock, 30 years of age, who was associate chief of the New South Wales Education Department’s Division of Planning; Mr David Bennett, who was a lecturer in education at Monash University and who no doubt is well equipped in education theory and research; Mr Peter Moyes, Headmaster of Christ Church Grammar School in Western Australia, who is obviously the type of person who would be looked at by the National Council of Independent Schools; Mr A. D. J. [More…]

• Wood, Principal of St Michael’s School for the Handicapped just outside Launceston, which is a category specified by our amendments; Mr McNamara, President of the Sydney Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends’ Associations, a category which we provide in terms of our amendment; Father F. Martin, Director of Catholic Education in Victoria, which is a similar category; Mrs J. Kirner, who was selected from a panel of names presented by the Australian Council of State School Organisations- and we, of course, would allow for 2 such persons. [More…]

• He mentioned Mr Ray Costello, President of the Queensland Teachers Union- and we would allow for 2 such persons; Mr Albert Jones, Director of Education in South Australia who is, of course, capable of being appointed by the Australian Education Council; Dr Peter Tannock, a young man who is Dean of the Faculty of Education in the University of Western Australiaagain capable of being categorised; and Mrs J. Blackburn, who has been an outstanding member of teachers’ college staffs in South Australia. [More…]

• Labor Party speakers sought to claim that our indication that there should be a nominee from the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia would be ultra vires section 1 16 of the Australian Constitution. [More…]

• This was a remarkable fact because I think that the very same senator, without a smile on his face, read out that the Australian Government had found no difficulty in appointing Father F. Martin, the Director of Catholic Education in Victoria, and no doubt nominated to such an office. [More…]

• We are not nominating members of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia. [More…]

• The constitutional responsibility for the provision of public education rests primarily with the States, as at present does the major financial commitment. [More…]

• As has been emphasised in Chapter 2, the Committee places great value on the encouragement of grass-roots developments in education, as local knowledge and initiative are more likely to produce effective educational experiences than fiats imposed from remote sources. [More…]

• Moreover, the Committee’s attachment to diversity is an argument against a centralist approach to educational matters. [More…]

• On the other hand, the planning of the strategic development of education on a national scale, as distinct from its centralised administration, may yield many benefits in meeting the requirements of the twenty-first century. [More…]

• The concept that education should not be centralised in Canberra, the stress by the Committee that some remote bureaucracy, using its words, in Canberra should not impose its will upon individual schools, the seeking for diversity, the seeking for innovation and the seeking for experimentation are the basic principles that the Opposition wholly espouses. [More…]

• The recognition that education is primarily, under the Constitution, and essentially, because of decentralisation, a State matter, is inherent in the beliefs of the Opposition and in the Karmel Committee’s report. [More…]

• Against that background there has been an attempt to misrepresent the general philosophy of the Opposition, specifically of the Liberal Party of which I am a member, with regard to education. [More…]

• The Liberal Party sees the responsibility of government with regard to education as a responsibility for every citizen in Australia and not just for some. [More…]

• We take the view that a member of Parliament, when he takes his oath, takes an oath to serve all the people of Australia and not just some, and that education should be provided without fear or favour and at the highest possible standard for all the people of Australia. [More…]

• 1 ) Everyone has the right to education. [More…]

• Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. [More…]

• Elementary education shall be compulsory. [More…]

• Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. [More…]

• Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]

• Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]

• Of fundamental importance are the elements of that Declaration, namely, that education shall be for everyone and that everyone has the right to education- that is of great importance in that education shall be directed to the full development of the person and not only to material things; and the last of the three paragraphs, which states: [More…]

• Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]

• The Liberal Party sees the responsibility of government in the field of education as being to govern in the interests of all. [More…]

• Because the absorption of education between certain ages- 6 years and 1 5 years in most States- and attendance at school by children irrespective of living standards, affluence or poverty of parents are made compulsory, the Liberal Party sees the responsibility of government as being to provide within a state system a secular system of education which is free. [More…]

• In order that poor people may obtain education, quite clearly the government must provide a free and secular education. [More…]

• Let me make it clear that the Opposition believes that it is an important duty of” government to provide a government system of education throughout Australia, of the highest possible standards, within which individual talent is encouraged and within which there is no disbarment or inequity because of the lack of financial assistance. [More…]

• The Opposition accepts as a major task the responsibility of government to establish a state secular system of education free of charge and of the highest standards. [More…]

• The goal of government is not to enshrine education in one set of bricks and mortar to the exclusion of another. [More…]

• Therefore, it is fundamental to the second part of a philosophy on education that we understand and embody the third section of that Declaration; that is, that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]

• It is not a prior right to choose education if only the wealthy can choose. [More…]

• It accepts in every way the need to pump into that sector not only money but also ideas and drive which will give the primary and secondary education at the State level all the virtues and enlightenment which can move it into the next century. [More…]

• This year no less than $7 16m will be spent by New South Wales on education of all kinds in that State. [More…]

• But I understand that in terms of the total expenditure on primary and secondary education in New [More…]

• Incidentally, what it has done has been in furtherance of a whole series of advances which were made by the previous Liberal Government, such as going into the funding of colleges of advanced education and moving into libraries for primary schools. [More…]

• But I want to place in perspective that as an earnest of the Opposition’s attitude we find in any State where a Liberal Government is in power that the great bulksome 42 per cent or more- of its total budget is directed to education. [More…]

• I think it is a rule of thumb to say that education costs as much as or more than the whole of the funds which a State gets by way of Commonwealth tax reimbursement. [More…]

• In other words, all money which comes back to the States by way of Federal income tax reimbursement and more, is absorbed by the States in education. [More…]

• I say this not in any sense of satisfaction because I would like to see more money put into education but to try to get a perspective. [More…]

• Some $7 16m has been spent on education, ranging over the whole of education and out of it in direct per capita grants some $ 15.6m has been provided. [More…]

• The Opposition looks at education as a whole. [More…]

• Incidentally, it looks at education not only for every student but also in the concept of whole of life. [More…]

• Education will not be confined to formal education in the shorter age brackets but it will run throughout life. [More…]

• As to structure what we propose by way of amendments is wholly in line with election promises and undertakings and with submissions by education bodies. [More…]

• When delegations from the various education bodies came to this Parliament last week and discussed with a number of us our amendments, their criticism relating to a panel of 5 from which 2 will be selected, whether teachers or parents, was that that was not good enough, that they should be able to directly nominate 2 and not nominate 5 from whom 2 would be selected. [More…]

• If ever the Senate should realise the importance of the danger of a remote body with respect to education- and I honour it- in Canberra making a not intensive investigation and hurried decisions, it must do so now when it looks at the first announcement of the categories, and the need to modify them out of sight and to come to a position in which the whole question of categorisation must stand under challenge. [More…]

• The Government and the Opposition are combined in one great adventure- that is, to provide for the people of Australia the best possible education we can. [More…]

• We are, I hope, combined in the view that that education should be extended to all children, not to only some. [More…]

• The Department of Education requires not quite $2m of the sum of $36m referred to in this Bill in order to do some very worthwhile and praiseworthy things. [More…]

• In discussing the Schools Commission Bill 1973, 1 recall, firstly, that the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) referred earlier today to the fact that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is still in hospital. [More…]

• When the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) put down the second reading speech he indicated that the Government attached a very high priority to education. [More…]

• He went on to elaborate this theme by placing emphasis on what he described as ‘the quality of education’ and ‘the equality of opportunity in education’. [More…]

• The previous Government, both by its words and by its actions, moved through the total field of education in recent years to improve greatly the quality of education by large financial measures and also great diversity of activity in the establishment of its own Department of Education. [More…]

• It also moved through the field of the establishment of science laboratories, libraries, colleges of advanced education and other measures which greatly improved the quality and diversity of education. [More…]

• Also, equality of opportunity in education was greatly enhanced under the previous Government’s administration by a wide ranging selection of scholarships, bursaries and other opportunities which put into action this particular theme and phrase. [More…]

• So, when the Government says that it places great value on education and attaches a high priority to these things, I say that the same line was followed by the previous Government. [More…]

• Indeed, providing education and the facilities related to it is one of the most important things a government can do. [More…]

• In recent years education has moved a great way from the earlier simple areas of operation. [More…]

• Today we have more than simple primary, secondary and tertiary spheres; there are the great areas of technical education, advanced education, further education, continuing education, adult education and a whole range of other styles of education. [More…]

• So, this Schools Commission which is the subject of the debate in the Senate today will have a relationship with many areas of education. [More…]

• The Schools Commission and its administration will have not only this kind of relationship with all fields of education but also a relationship with the community and with community organisations which themselves are bound up with education. [More…]

• So, whilst we applaud the Minister’s statement in which he talks about the quality of education and equality of opportunity, it is important to say that previous administrations opened the way for Commonwealth involvement in education on a very extensive basis. [More…]

• As the Senate looks at this development which the Government is proposing- the establishment of a Schools Commission- it needs to be observed that the Australian community for some years now has ploughed into the quality and quantity of education not only an enormous amount of money but also an increasing amount of effort and personal concern as well as a tremendous amount of student involvement, community involvement and parent and teachers involvement. [More…]

• I think it is pertinent to contemplate the effects that this proposed Commission will have not only on education in Australia but also on our student community, our education community and indeed on our future citizens. [More…]

• If the Commission succeeds in providing a wide range of educational facilities, its influence will be good. [More…]

• That is why, in any discussion of this Schools Commission Bill today, it is important to observe that freedom of movement in the total education sphere is essential. [More…]

• These schools systems have programs of education which have a complementary relationship to the government schools. [More…]

• Together, the government and nongovernment schools make a great contribution to what the Minister was pleased to call in his second reading speech ‘the quality of education’. [More…]

• Even in that short reference one detects the recognition by the Prime Minister of the value of the nongovernment schools within the total sphere of education in this country. [More…]

• I referred earlier to the freedom of movement occasioned by the inclusion of the independent school sector within our education community. [More…]

• It is very important to stimulate this freedom of movement in educational thought by the involvement of educational and community interests in any proposed commission. [More…]

• He has emphasised that in the view of his association it is entirely appropriate that this enormous body directly interested in and affected by the education system should have some voice in the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of a community service which should involve the entire community- not just the education departments and the Catholic School authorities and the Headmasters’ Conference, not just the parents and the teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• The request that is made in this document, which is similar to requests which have been made in various other ways in other documents by some bodies, is that the organisation’s area of education should have involvement in the Schools Commission so that it’s various aspects of thought, of knowledge and of skill can be placed before the Commission in its deliberations. [More…]

• As I said a few moments ago, an examination of the amendments which we in the Opposition propose to put before the Senate during the Committee stage of this Bill will reveal a strong recognition of the importance of the fact that any advisory body containing voices and opinions of community interests in education, parents and teachers, those interested and involved in the highly important area of research and also those involved in the rapidly changing and demanding area of special education should be heard, and should be involved, and their influence should be noted. [More…]

• If we place any value at all on the Karmel report- it is a report of very great value to our education, research, history and indeed administrationwe can do no better when giving emphasis in support to the argument which I have just put before the Senate than to turn to the report. [More…]

• enhance access to education and equality of opportunity within schools, having special regard to handicapped and disadvantaged children and youth; (0 to stimulate public and private concern about, interest in an support for education; [More…]

• So I think we claim with some conviction to reflect the Government’s wish to establish a Commission by not opposing the establishment of a Commission because we believe in the equality of education and the equality of opportunity. [More…]

• Education affects not only the widest possible section of the Australian community but also affects an enormous variety of groups within the Australian society. [More…]

• These areas all have responsibility in education. [More…]

• There is the Commonwealth, which I have referred to earlier, with its program of financial contributions; the various State departments of education with the day-to-day administration; and then the several establishments which manage and establish non-government schools. [More…]

• I believe the amendments will give to the Act and to the Commission greater diversity, will provide wider participation and will provide a worthwhile educational establishment. [More…]

• Always political differences are bound to develop and to exist in relation to matters of education when so much of the public purse is devoted to pursuit of these policies. [More…]

• In years gone by debates in this Parliament and I suppose in other parliaments on educational matters have taken place in a highly emotional way. [More…]

• Someone listening to the debate might have got the impression that the Government was not prepared to appoint to the Commission persons associated with a range of major organisations and authorities interested in education. [More…]

• Let me say quite succinctly and specifically that that is not so, because we as a government have demonstrated in the appointments that were made to the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission on 1 1 December and in the reconstitution of that Committee recently that we and particularly my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), recognise the significant contribution which such people can make to the work of the Commission. [More…]

• The point at issue is that the Commission is intended to be a continuing body of great significance in the improvement of education in Australian schools. [More…]

• Our 1972 election proposal on education was to establish a schools commission along the lines of the commissions for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• the State Director-General of Education or his nominee; [More…]

• the Director of the State Catholic Education Office or his nominee; [More…]

• four members appointed by the Commonwealth Minister for Education after consultation with the State Minister of Education. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDNaturally, I would have to discuss that matter with my colleague, the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen). [More…]

• However, apparently some State ministers of education have indicated to my colleague that there is a case for some variation in detail from State to State in order to reflect the local situation. [More…]

• But I assume that this could well be taken into account in the appointment of 4 members appointed by the Commonwealth Minister for Education after consultation with the State minister. [More…]

• Senator Rae, and also Senator Carrick, speaking on behalf of the Liberal Party, have acknowledged the need for diversification and decentralisation in education and for more direct community participation and involvement. [More…]

• Of course, if the Opposition parties collectively use their numbers in the Senate to amend the Bill in a way which will seriously prejudice in the opinion of the Government the actions of the Schools Commission, the Government could continue, as I think was stated by my colleague the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, shortly prior to his taking ill, for the time being with an interim schools committee. [More…]

• The proof of the Government’s concern for the education of Australian children in all schools, both government and non-government, is demonstrated by its actions. [More…]

• As a result of that Committee’s deliberations, the Government shortly will invite the Parliament to approve grants for schools which during the 2 years 1974 and 1975 will increase grants for education to government schools to approximately $500m and for nongovernment schools to approximately $200m, making a total amount all told of some $700m. [More…]

• I was interested to hear Senator Carrick’s remarks this afternoon when he gave the amount that was spent on education by the State Government of New South Wales. [More…]

• He said that only 2 per cent of the 42 per cent of that State’s budget devoted to education was spent as a result of the Karmel Committee’s recommendations. [More…]

• But by the implementation of the Committee’s report the New South Wales Government and all other State governments will over the years be able to expend a substantially greater sum on education than they have been able to do. [More…]

• If they do not accept that this Government has increased expenditure on education in this financial year by 92 per cent then on their own argument they must accept that there has been a 62 per cent increase. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to claims emanating from the College of Advanced Education in Tasmania that that college’s budget has been cut from $ 15.8m to $12m necessitating a reduction in the number and the extent of the courses available at that college? [More…]

• In the Minister’s second reading speech the request for a total of $36m is explained as follows: Salaries, what I call not fundable under existing votes, represents about $5.288m; an amount for the restructuring of and additions to departments which is not specified; an amount for education of $ 1.834m which, as I said yesterday, is for admirable purposes; Service pensions and gratuities of about $9m. [More…]

• In respect of the Department of Education the increase is for Aboriginal secondary grants, Aboriginal study grants and isolated children’s assistance, the latter being for the substantial amount of $ 1.5m. [More…]

• We have the Schools Commission Bill which contemplates the establishment of a Schools Commission and which fundamentally alters the structure of the whole education system in Australia. [More…]

• I look firstly at the amounts set out for the Department of Education, a department in which a lot of us have more than a passing interest. [More…]

• Senator McManus anticipated this debate because yesterday, without any opposition and by means of a formal motion, he moved that the matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• 2, standing in his name, and, pursuant to Notice, moved- That there be referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts the following matter- Procedures, organisation and action necessary to ensure that the Council for the Arts, and its Boards, properly and effectively carry out their task of over-all promotion of the Arts in Australia. [More…]

• I think the course is to be held in conjunction with the adult education program in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• As to that part of the question about what the Australian Government is doing, I think the last time a conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers took place on educational broadcasting was 4 years ago- in 1969- and the meeting before that was in 1966. [More…]

• Therefore, very little has been done by way of co-operative effort between the Commonwealth and the States collectively on educational broadcasting. [More…]

• My Department and the Commonwealth Department of Education have been investigating this matter, and we hope that early in the new year we will be able to arrange another Commonwealth-State conference. [More…]

• My Department and the Commonwealth Department of Education are now preparing a questionnaire to be sent out to all schools in Australia to ascertain that information prior to the holding of a CommonwealthState broadcasting conference. [More…]

• Perhaps I should have given prioity to Parliament House itself, which is becoming a Mecca for nearly all Australian people and particularly for children who feel that it is part of their education to come to Canberra. [More…]

• I do not want to go off on a red herring in relation to frequency modulation, but the Senate will appreciate that the Government, as a result of a report by the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts- I see that my friend Senator Milliner is in agreement with me on this- proposes to refer the question of the frequency band in which frequency modulation is to be introduced to a new independent investigator or inquiry. [More…]

• True it is that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which has been charged by the Senate to inquire into all aspects of radio and television has presented an interim report and has suggested that a second look should be given at the recommendations of the Broadcasting Control Board on frequency modulation. [More…]

• The Government’s amendment fails to acknowledge that what we are really dealing with in relation to education in Australia is the question of the education of students and not the interests of schools. [More…]

• The clause provides for the creation of a schools commission consisting of a chairman and between 4 and 1 1 other members appointed totally at the discretion of the Commonwealth Minister for Education. [More…]

• I indicated further that we accepted that although there had been debate last year as to whether it was appropriate in Australia, with the division of power that existed with the desirability of decentralisation in education and with all of the other arguments which were put forward at that time, to have a centralised schools commission, that debate is now over. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party believes that the Commonwealth should adopt the same methods to assist schools as it has adopted to assist universities and colleges of advanced education- through a Commission. [More…]

• We will do what we can to make suggestions to the Government which, no doubt, if they are passed by the Government, will be taken back to the Minister for Education, or if he is still unwell to the Acting Minister for Education, and back to those in the Government who will consider them. [More…]

• I remind the Committee that there has been a certain amount of publicity and statements by the Minister for Education and statements even by the Prime Minister as to what will happen if the Senate dares to exercise its parliamentary right of reviewing legislation put forward by the executive government. [More…]

• To put it in other terms, unless this chamber is prepared to rubber stamp entirely that which the Minister requires, the Minister will not go on with what is regarded by the Australian people and apparently by the lower House- and this would be the majority view of this chamber- as something which is desirable in the interests of education of Australia, that is, the creation of a schools commission. [More…]

• I would like to support some of the comments that were made by the Minister in his second reading speech in regard to the importance of the job which the Schools Commission can do for the future of education in Australia. [More…]

• There has been very widespread discussion and communication between the Liberal and Country Party Education Committee and community groups on this matter. [More…]

• In addition, university people have been able to discuss their ideas on education as have various other experts from a wide cross section of educational fields in relation to primary and secondary school children. [More…]

• The Prime Minister said that the Commission would include representatives of State education departments, the Catholic system and teachers. [More…]

• But the Prime Minister accepted the principle that the Schools Commission should be comprised of people who were familiar with and representative of particular areas of education. [More…]

• There is no provision in the Bill which would guarantee the right of representation to parents, teachers or any of the other groups referred to, including State education departments. [More…]

• As the Bill is drafted at this stage representation will be made at the whim of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• At later stages the Opposition will be moving amendments to include on the Commission a variety of people drawn from various areas of education in Australia so that the Commission will number in all 15. [More…]

• It has not at any time done other than applaud the addition of extra funds for education in Australia. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that on 23 August this year in this chamber I said: 1 also remind the Senate that in speaking to the motion which I moved I referred to the fact that we did noi oppose- I emphasise the word ‘not’- in any way at all but rather applauded the steps which had been taken to make further funds available for education in Australia. [More…]

• The Liberal Party- I am sure I speak for the Country Party as well- applauds the granting of further funds to education. [More…]

• I therefore made the point that the Government not only had a mandate but also had indicated, as shown in the passage from its policy speech that Senator Rae drew attention to, that it would put on the Schools Commission ‘people familiar with and representative of State education departments, the catholic system and the teaching profession’. [More…]

• It is our view that if every group represented on the Commission were required to do the same, the result would be a Commission properly representative of the education community, but free enough from sectional pressures to be able to function was an expert objective body. [More…]

• Previously I quoted only the third paragraph which states specifically that the 2 bodies nominated to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) a panel of nominees from which one person was chosen as a part-time commissioner. [More…]

• Surely the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), in looking for people to put on this Committee or Commission, would not go round looking for people expert in animal husbandry, water and sewerage, or something like that. [More…]

• Naturally he would be looking for people who know something about education. [More…]

• It is our view that if every group represented on the Commission were required to do the same, the result would be a Commission properly representative of the education community, but free enough from sectional pressures to be able to function as an expert, objective body. [More…]

• the Chairman and live other members upon the recommendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organizations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]

• six other members upon the recommendation of the Australian Education Council and of whom two shall be members of parent organizations selected by the Australian Education Council from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Council of State School Organizations and one shall be a person involved in special education of handicapped children or children with special learning difficulities; and [More…]

• three other members of whom one shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia, one shall be upon the recommendation of the National Council of Independent Schools and one shall be upon the recommendation of the Australian Parents ‘ Council. [More…]

• The argument between us, really, is whether the Commission should be what we seek to make it, which is a flexible body reflecting as widely as possible the views of people across the education spectrum but not consisting of representatives, in the literal sense, of people who represent pressure groups. [More…]

• I do not see anything wrong with the existence of pressure groups especially in a field as contentious as education. [More…]

• Where, for instance, on the present Committee are the 6 representatives of the Australian Education Council? [More…]

• They are there because the Government in its wisdom wanted to hear the whole of the people from that part of the educational spectrum but it did not want to have its choice limited to the nominations of the Episcopal Conference, quite apart from any constitutional difficulties which might arise under section 1 16 of the Constitution. [More…]

• Apart from that two would have to be appointed from a panel presented by the Teachers Federation and six would have to be appointed- not ‘may’ but shall’- on the recommendation of the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• the Chairman and five other members upon the recommendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organisations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than S persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]

• Then, two shall be from a panel presented by the Teachers Federation and six on the recommendation of the Australian Education Council- that is, in effect, the State Ministers for Education who must, by definition, dominate that Council; and 3 others, one from the Episcopal Conference, one from the National Council of Independent Schools and one from the Australian Parents Council. [More…]

• The position is that the Bill provides for a Commission, as I said, of up to 12 people appointed totally at the discretion of the Commonwealth Minister for Education. [More…]

• the Chairman and five other members upon the recommendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organizations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than five persons’ names, submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]

• six other members upon the recommendation of the Australian Education Council and of whom two shall be members of parent organizations selected by the Australian Education Council from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Council of State School Organizations and one shall be a person involved in special education of handicapped children or children with special learning difficulties; and [More…]

• three other members of whom one shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia, one shall be upon the recommendation of the National Council of Independent Schools and one shall be upon the recommendation of the Australian Parents’ Council. [More…]

• What the Opposition has in mind is to comprehend a number of what we believe have been strongly held views of a variety of people, including even the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) as expressed in past statements and actions, of the Labor Party in its approved policy speech, and of a number of organisations throughout Australia which are interested in education, and basically supported by the Constitution. [More…]

• The position in Australia is this: There are 3 administrative power areas in relation to primary and secondary school education. [More…]

• We believe that it is totally unreal to approach the question of primary and secondary school education in Australia from the point of view of a failure to recognise the existence of those 3 major administrative power areas. [More…]

• The first is the Commonwealth area administered by the Commonwealth Minister for Education, in relation to which he has the responsibility of the administration of schools in the Territories- the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]

• This is a fact recognised by the Minister in his second reading speech and also recognised by the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) in the second reading speech which he made on the States Grants (Schools) Bill 1973 that was introduced into the House of Representatives last Thursday. [More…]

• Under the Constitution, the States clearly have the overall education responsibility but certainly have responsibility in relation to primary and secondary schools which are the ones with which we are concerned here. [More…]

• Let us hope that they do not arise on the massive scale on which they could arise through a failure of adequate communication between the various administrative power areas involved in primary and secondary education in Australia. [More…]

• Six of the members will be appointed by the Commonwealth Minister and six will be appointed by the Australian Education Council which is, of course, that body of State ministers responsible for education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education meeting together. [More…]

• I take the opportunity to point out that, of course, the Commonwealth Minister is a member of the Australian Education Council and would have an opportunity to have his say in the deliberations of that body as to the persons to be appointed by it to the Schools Commission. [More…]

• So if there were some person that the Australian Education Council was considering to appoint that the Minister thought was totally unsuitable for one reason or another, he has the opportunity to argue that this is so and to put forward his reasons to have them taken into account by the other ministers before they make their nominations for appointment. [More…]

• The number of children involved in this area of education represents slightly more than 20 per cent of the total number. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of community service which should involve the entire community- not just the Education departments and the Catholic school authorities and the Headmasters ‘ Conference, not just parents and teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• The quality of the community’s response to the needs of the education system will determine the quality of the system. [More…]

• That person should be involved in the research area of education. [More…]

• For instance, if educationalists are members of the Australian Teachers Federation, that does not mean that they will have, as members of the Schools Commission, a narrow, mean and selfish outlook. [More…]

• After all, they are educationalists. [More…]

• The fact that they are chosen from a panel- not necessarily a narrow panel, but a wide panel- automatically suggests that they are people who will give good service to the cause of education, not to the Teachers Federation. [More…]

• Will the people who are appointed by that organisation- in language which I think is a fair interpretation of what Senator James McClelland has put- be completely narrow and prejudiced in their approach to the problem of the education of all Australian children? [More…]

• On the other hand I see nothing dictatorial in the Government’s looking at all the talent available in the education field and while paying regard to the desirability of availing itself of expert advice from the panel submitted to it and from the education field at large, reserving the right to choose what it considers the most balanced and competent commission. [More…]

• This is as opposed to the total discretion of a Minister who may not be the present Minister for Education. [More…]

• We would therefore see as desirable the inclusion of 4 persons recommended by the Australian Education Council who would represent the interests as seen by the State area of administrative power. [More…]

• These people may or may not be representatives from the State education departments. [More…]

• The Australian Education Council would be required also to select 2 people from a panel of 5 names put forward by the Australian Council of State School Organisations. [More…]

• The Council should also, in the forum in which it has total discretion, appoint one person who is involved in the special education of handicapped children or children with special learning difficulties. [More…]

• Again, this is not something unusual; this is not something for which there is no precedent in education. [More…]

• We have also put forward the suggestion that one member should be appointed on the recommendation of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia. [More…]

• I pause at this point to say that in the Catholic system of education the Education Executive is the ultimate body concerned with the direction of Catholic education in Australia. [More…]

• Therefore the Education Executive of the [More…]

• Senator James McClelland has suggested that it is monstrous for us to say that we should draw people in this way from a number of areas of education. [More…]

• Schools Authority because it includes people nominated as follows: two by parents’ councils, three by the Australian Capital Territory teachers, one by the Canberra Pre-School Society, one by the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council and two by the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It wishes to ensure that there is a guarantee in the structure of the Commission that representatives of parent interest groups, teacher interest groups, areas of research in education, State administration interests and the area of special education for the handicapped will be included in the membership of the Commission. [More…]

• We believe it is desirable that the group represented by its Secretary, Mrs Ryan, which has been referred to on a number of occasions, should be represented on the Commission, together with the parents of children attending government schools in Australia, with the right to have their say in the development of education in Australia. [More…]

• I have moved the amendment on behalf of the Opposition in the interests of Australian education. [More…]

• We do so in the hope that the Government will give proper consideration to this matter which does after all basically carry out the Government’s own promise of representation to people who are drawn from the various areas of education. [More…]

• It accords with the general wishes of a wide variety of groups in Australia which are interested in education. [More…]

• In our view, it ensures that the 3 major administrative areas are recognised and provides some real prospect of their feeling involved and being prepared to contribute to and work with the Commission in the development of education in Australia. [More…]

• the Chairman and three other members upon the recommendation of the Minister of whom one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]

• four other members upon the recommendation of the Australian Education Council of whom one shall be a person involved in special education of handicapped children or children with special learning difficulties; [More…]

• three other members of whom one shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia, one shall be upon the recommendation of the National Council of Independent Schools and one shall be upon the recommendation of the Australian Parents ‘ Council; [More…]

• I will move that amendment because I think that this Schools Commission- we supported the Commission and voted for the second reading of the Bill, as my Party has supported every progressive move that has been brought forward in respect of education in this Senate and in this Parliament- ought to have a reasonable degree of independence and for the life of me I cannot understand how the claim can be made that a commission, every member of which is appointed by the Government, will be an independent commission. [More…]

• Therefore, if a large number of the members of this Commission represent organisations interested in education I believe that it will be a more independent Commission than one whose members’ tenure of office depends entirely upon the will of the Minister. [More…]

• I have had a long discussion with the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley- I stop to say that I deeply regret his illness; we all have the utmost regard for him and hope that he will make a very speedy recovery- and with a large number of people associated with education in order to reach a right opinion in regard to this matter. [More…]

• They told me that they were under the impression that if we moved and carried our amendments in respect of representation the whole Bill would be dropped and millions of dollars which were to be made available for education would not be made available. [More…]

• This is a question of a commission wholely appointed by the Government or a commission containing representatives of bodies interested in education. [More…]

• I found that many of the people on the deputations which I received were surprised when I told them that if we carried this Bill as we desired to amend it, it would not mean the end of the Commission or of the money which was to be made available for education. [More…]

• The great battle in those 19.5 years was a battle by the teachers to get the right to appoint their representatives to government education bodies. [More…]

• After I battled, as a unionist, for 19.5 years to get the right for teachers to be represented by their own people on government education bodies, I now find teachers coming to me and saying that they do not want to appoint their representatives; they would like the Government to appoint people for them’. [More…]

• Secondly, there is the principle that those in the involvement will not be direct representatives of organisations as such but will come, by selection, from a number of areas of education and community interest. [More…]

• This is clearly evident in Senator Rae’s amendment and it draws a distinction from a Commission totally appointed by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and therefore responsible in a very direct way to him. [More…]

• The proposed structure provides for the inclusion of people who are involved in areas of education and community operation and who, by reason of their selection, would have a degree of personal and educational flexibility and who stand a much greater chance of resisting the pressures to which I have referred already. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of a community service which should involve the entire community- not just the Education Departments and the Catholic school authorities and the Headmasters’ Conference, not just parents and teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• In developing that theme during the course of my speech in the second reading debate I went on to point out that it needed to be observed that in recent years the Australian community had ploughed into the quality and quantity of education not only an enormous amount of money but also an increasing amount of effort and personal concern, but also a tremendous amount of student involvement, community involvement and parent and teacher involvement. [More…]

• Because of the involvement in education in recent years which has characterised the Australian community it is altogether appropriate that there should be on the Australian Schools Commission people who had an association not only with education but also with that area where education impinges upon the whole range of our community life. [More…]

• It is important also to recognise that in any national education advisory body- and the proposed commission will be a national education advisory body- it is essential that the membership of that body should have sufficient relationship with the various areas of education and community involvement in education. [More…]

• It is tremendously important that any advisory body in relation to education contains people who have an involvement with community interest in education. [More…]

• They can be dealt with adequately only by a Commission fully in touch with the effects on the student, his family and the community of education policies. [More…]

• We submit that this expert and necessary knowledge is not only the domain of the educational theorists. [More…]

• The parents and teachers of students are equally a part of the education community. [More…]

• I also point out that in having this community involvement the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has a considerable amount of discretion in the appointment of the Commission. [More…]

• the Chairman and five other members upon the recom mendation of the Minister and of whom two shall be members of teacher organisations selected by the Minister from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Teachers’ Federation and one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]

• six other members upon the recommendation of the Australian Education Council . [More…]

• The Minister for Education is a member of the Australian Education Council and therefore not without a sphere of influence in the selection of members of the Commission. [More…]

• I draw attention to the importance of the inclusion of one or two of the areas of education. [More…]

• I refer back a little further to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on the Commonwealth role in teacher education. [More…]

• I propose not to refer in detail to that document but to draw attention to the fact that throughout it there was increasing and repeated reference to the importance of the teaching profession in the total Australian community and the importance of the influence of the teaching profession on the total education structure. [More…]

• Those who will be chosen will not represent an organisation but generally speaking will represent a discipline and an area of involvement in education. [More…]

• Teachers have among their number a variety of people who are involved not only in teacher education but also in administration and, more importantly, as I see the Schools Commission, there will be others involved in education planning for the future. [More…]

• Other areas which are set out in the amendment refer to someone involved in the important matter of research and to other members recommended by the Australian Education Council, one of whom shall have an involvement in the special education of handicapped people. [More…]

• Again this raises in my mind another Senate committee which drew attention to the importance of this field as far as total Australian education is concerned. [More…]

• That day I drew the attention of the Senate to the importance of their maintenance and their interdependence with the Government school system to provide for the total education system a scheme which developed the community to its maximum capacity and ability. [More…]

• Rather they come on a selection basis representing areas of educational involvement. [More…]

• He said that he had been a member of the Adult Education Association of Victoria for an extended period. [More…]

• No member of that Adult Education Association, whether he be a teacher, an educationist or whatever he may be, can qualify for appointment to this Commission if he is not a member of any of the organisations to which the Opposition has referred. [More…]

• a person involved in special education of handicapped children or children with special learning difficulties; [More…]

• Say, for instance, that the Australian Council of State School Organisations nominates a person who has qualifications in special education of handicapped children as its nominee for a position. [More…]

• But in Tasmania there is a very well qualified person who has special education qualifications in respect of handicapped children and children with special learning difficulties. [More…]

• The Opposition says that the person nominated by the Australian Council of State School Organisations must be chosen; but someone whom it has not nominated but whom the Minister or the education authorities know to be far superior to the person put forward by that Council may not be appointed. [More…]

• Six other members upon the recommendation of the Australian Education Council and of whom two shall be members of parent organisations selected by the Australian Education Council from a panel of not less than five persons’ names submitted by the Australian Council of State School Organisations and one shall be a person involved in special education of handicapped children . [More…]

• It may, in its honest belief, say that person A is the best man for this job because he is highly qualified in special education of handicapped children. [More…]

• The Government may know of somebody in some other State who is qualified in both those fields of special education- handicapped children and children with special learning difficulties. [More…]

• As I said, the Government’s priorities in regard to education appear to be wrong. [More…]

• If the Government wants to give equal opportunity in schooling to every child in Australia, it should concentrate on the primary field because it is there that the child takes his first steps up the education ladder. [More…]

• The Opposition is suggesting that that 5 per cent should have complete preference over others who have a far greater difficulty and a far greater need for education. [More…]

• But my association with SPELD indicates to me that it takes quite a substantial part of any kiddie’s primary school education to learn of his special difficulties. [More…]

• True, it is not a perfect job; nevertheless, it is a good job and a pointer to what education in Australia shall be in the future. [More…]

• Normally, I do not speak on education, but I must say that, when Senator McManus referred to all the lobbying that has gone on, that is correct. [More…]

• The most outstanding feature of the last 12 months has been the number of people who have had honest differences of opinion with the present Government on what we propose to do about education. [More…]

• Of course, despite what honourable senators opposite have said, we have one outstanding example of the way in which they acted when they set up a commission in the sphere of education. [More…]

• I want to advert now to the proposition advanced by Senator Rae both when he was on his feet and by way of interjection to Senator Milliner, namely, that somehow or other our argument is shot down in flames by the fact that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has set up in the Australian Capital Territory a schools authority consisting of people nominated by groups. [More…]

• I think that if we examined the state education we would find a variety of educational bodies set up with interest groups represented on them. [More…]

• In fact, the Minister for Education in New South Wales, Mr Willis, and the Minister for Education in Victoria, Mr Thompson, have taken active steps in relation to the development of community involvement in those States in relation to education. [More…]

• But he misread our amendment which provides in paragraph (b) that the Australian Education Council should select 6 members, of whom 2 shall be from the parent group and 1 shall be a person involved in the special education of handicapped children. [More…]

• We are deeply concerned that the Bill faces defeat or amendment in the Senate, and that our parent organisations, which could contribute a great deal in resourceful ideas to education administration, will be denied representation if this happens. [More…]

• I assure Senator Rae- using his earlier words- that there is no petulance on the part of the Government or the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and that there is no desire on the part of the Government or the Minister to take the bat and ball home. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and the Government are anxious to pad up and to get on with the game. [More…]

• Let me quote the education policy of the Labor Party as enunciated by Mr Whitlam at the last Federal elections. [More…]

• What happened so far as the colleges of advanced education were concerned? [More…]

• Did those governments in putting forward their legislation then say to the Minister for Education at the time or to whomever was the responsible Minister in making appointments to the Australian Universities Commission or the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, You shall restrict your appointments to nominees from this organisation, that organisation or another organisation’? [More…]

• The Schools Authority will administer education in government schools in the ACT. [More…]

• The Opposition’s proposal to specify particular institutions, authorities and groups of people which will have a right of nominating either persons or panels of names is not in accordance with the practice adopted by the Opposition when it was in Government in establishing advisory bodies in education. [More…]

• It needs to be remembered that the Schools Commission will have a continuing existence and that as measures to improve the quality of education in Australian schools take effect and as new priorities emerge circumstances could require a change in membership. [More…]

• The combination of 2 principal amendments, the first to limit the flexibility of the Minister in his choice of people to serve on the commission and the second the exclusion of the Schools Commission advisory boards- I indicate that that is contemplated in an amendment to be proposed by Senator Rae- can be intended only to frustrate the Government’s intention to create an expert advisory body in this most important area of education just as is already being done for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• the Chairman and three other members upon the recom mendation of the Minister of whom one shall be a person involved in research in relation to education; [More…]

• four other members upon the recommendation of the Australian Education Council of whom one shall be a person involved in special education of handicapped children or children with special learning difficulties; [More…]

• three other members of whom one shall be appointed upon the recommendation of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia, one shall be upon the recommendation of the National Council of Independent Schools and one shall be upon the recommendation of the Australian Parents’ Council; [More…]

• This is particularly unfair when one considers how much power, prestige, affluence and education in the white community has been built on the exploitation of land from which whites ousted blacks’. [More…]

• The amendment provided for representation from State education officers, from State school teachers, from State school parents and from a wide variety of people, only one of whom happened to represent Roman Catholic schools. [More…]

• He was Director of Education in Papua New Guinea from 1960 to 1973 and has held various other highly responsible jobs. [More…]

• This term applies to both the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• Sub-paragraph (c) deals with the 3 members of the Commission who are drawn from the area of non-government school education. [More…]

• The reason for this is simply to ensure that all sectors of the education administration areas are likely to be included on full time membership of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• This is a role which we see as being of vital importance to the whole of the development of education in Australia. [More…]

• We believe it is desirable that full time members should be able to draw on the experience, knowledge, ideas and developments which are taking place in the various administrative areas of education in Australia. [More…]

• It appears to me to be only common sense that if there are to be a number of full time members of the Schools Commission one should be experienced in an important area of education. [More…]

• The effect of the proposed amendment is that one of the 3 full time members of the Schools Commission will be a person who is appointed upon the recommendation of the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia, the National Council of Independent Schools, or the Australian Parents’ Council. [More…]

• However, one hopes that this highly important body will have as its full time members- that is the Chairman and three others- the very best people in education in Australia. [More…]

• In the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary educational facilities in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in government and non-government schools in Australia, and, in particular, shall have regard to- [More…]

• the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children; [More…]

• shall consult with representatives of the States, with authorities in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory responsible for primary education or secondary education in either or both of those Territories and with persons, bodies and authorities conducting non-government schools in Australia, and may consult with such other persons, bodies and authorities as the Commission thinks necessary; and [More…]

• It is of some interest to note that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said, as reported at page 1636 of the House of Representatives Hansard: [More…]

• I draw the attention of honourable members to a number of the functions with which the Commission is charged because they indicate matters which are important in the field of education. [More…]

• I emphasise the words ‘because they indicate matters which are important in the field of education ‘. [More…]

• The functions of the Commission do indicate matters of considerable importance- very great importance- in the field of education. [More…]

• It has been stated by the Minister for Education in his second reading speech and by the Karmel Committee that the function of the Schools Commission is to be not administrative but advisory, of necessity involving what might be regarded as an investigatory aspect and apparently also involving the gathering of statistics. [More…]

• The Committee believes that widespread consultation will be vital to the successful work of the Commission, especially with education authorities and parent and teacher organisations. [More…]

• In addition to those persons and organisations with whom the Commission’s field officers, Committees and Regional Boards will consult, the Commission itself will need to develop a close liaison with the other educational, social and cultural Commissions and agencies of the Commonwealth and State Governments and with those authorities concerned with community and individual welfare, including the appropriate Commonwealth and State bodies. [More…]

• We believe, therefore, as the Minister himself said- and recognising that the functions as set out in the Bill indicate matters which are important in the field of education and recognising the stress which was placed by the Karmel Committee on the importance of consultation- that the consultation should in fact be spelt out in much more detail than is the case in the draft Bill. [More…]

• The definition, in consultation and co-operation with the State Departments of Education, the authorities in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory responsible for primary education or secondary education in either or both of those Territories and with authorities responsible for or connected with nongovernment schools in Australia, parent and teacher organisations and such other organisations and persons as it may deem appropriate, of desirable standards for buildings, equipment, teaching and other staff and other facilities at government and non-government primary and secondary schools in Australia, and the means and provision necessary for attaining and maintaining those standards; ‘. [More…]

• We believe that that as a wording of the first function of the Commission is more desirable, more comprehensive and more in accord with both the recommendations of the Karmel Committee and the desires of the Australian people and of the State governments- which are, as we have mentioned already, directly concerned with the administration of so much of the education in Australia- than is the provision drafted by the Government. [More…]

• Is it to be acceptable to the government schools, the State Education Departments, the non-government schools, and those who have done research in relation to it? [More…]

• The second point to which I draw attention is the inclusion of the reference to the various education authorities, that is, the State Education Departments, the Commonwealth education authorities in the Territories, the responsible authorities in relation to non-government schools. [More…]

• The Government’s Bill has omitted reference to some things which most people concerned with education would feel were desirable to mention. [More…]

• I would just note that the Australian Education Council, that is, the meeting of the State Education Ministers with the Commonwealth Education Minister, issued a Press release’ on 14 June 1973 which stated: [More…]

• We simply take that up to say that it is important that there should be the maximum of consultation and co-operation, because if the Commonwealth is to do a successful job in relation to the improvement of the standards of education in Australia obviously it will need consultation and co-operation with those who actually do the work, that is, the State or the non-government schools, in relation to all school children other than those in the Territories. [More…]

• Not ‘may’- consult with representatives of the States, with authorities in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory responsible for primary education or secondary education in either or both of those Territories and with persons, bodies and authorities conducting nongovernment schools in Australia, and may consult with such other persons, bodies and authorities as the Commission thinks necessary; [More…]

• Nothing could be more in line with the realities of education in Australia today and the desires of the parent and teacher bodies and the people of Australia to keep a decentralised system. [More…]

• I believe that it is quite important that the Senate should look to the Karmel Committee report and particularly to 2 sections of it which spell out quite clearly the recognition of a constitutional situation that education is and should remain a primary function of the States and also that there is an overriding virtue in decentralisation and devolution. [More…]

• The Constitutional responsibility for the provision of public education rests primarily with the States, as at present does the major financial commitment. [More…]

• As has been emphasised in Chapter 2, the Committee places great value on the encouragement of grass-roots developments in education, as local knowledge and initiative are more likely to produce effective educational experiences than fiats imposed from remote sources. [More…]

• Moreover the Committee’s attachment to diversity is an argument against a centralist approach to educational matters. [More…]

• On the other hand, the planning of the strategic development of education on a national scale, as distinct from its centralised administration, may yield many benefits in meeting the requirements of the twenty-first century. [More…]

• State Departments of Education, the authorities in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory responsible for primary or secondary education in either or both of those Territories and with authorities responsible for or connected with non-government schools in Australia, parent and teacher organisations and such other organisations and persons as it may deem appropriate. [More…]

• Here again the Karmel Committee surely in one of its most important chapters of its report relating to the Commission has expressed the view very firmly that the Committee believes that widespread consultation will be vital to the successful work of the Commission, especially with education authorities and with parent and teacher organisations. [More…]

• Plenty of people and authorities are already working in the education field. [More…]

• The amendment also gives the Commission the opportunity to have a better chance to make up its own mind after it has had consultation with authorities that are already in existence in the education sphere. [More…]

• Northern Territory responsible for primary education or secondary education in either or both Territories and with persons, bodies and authorities conducting nongovernment schools in Australia, and - [More…]

• In short, the words used in the Bill have been chosen to demonstrate the Government’s intention to appoint an independent expert advisory body to assist the Australian Government in developing a national program for improving the quality of the education system and to recommend to the Government the nature and extent of the financial assistance it ought to make available to the States for both government and nongovernment schools. [More…]

• In the Australian Labor Party speech for the last election we said that we would embark upon the establishment of a Schools Commission along the same lines as the conservative governments had embarked upon the establishment of the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• By referring to the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Act 1971, particularly section 13 dealing with the functions of the Commission and section 14 dealing with the performance of the functions of the Commission, it will be seen that we have set out in this Bill to enact somewhat similar legislative requirements. [More…]

• As I said earlier, we say that this is yet another attempt by the Opposition to water down- I think I used the term ‘maul’ earlier- the national initiative of the Government in improving education throughout Australia which certainly was put to the electorate by the Labor Leader, Mr Whitlam, during the course of the last election campaign and which certainly was endorsed by the electorate last December. [More…]

• The needs of primary and secondary school students in respect of buildings, equipment, teaching and other staff and other facilities and teaching aids and the respective priorities to be given to the satisfying of those various needs and to the improvement of the quality of education available for primary and secondary school students in Australia; [More…]

• I remind the Committee that the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt), in his second reading speech, said that the functions of the Commission ‘indicate matters which are important in the field of education’. [More…]

• Of course we are all concerned with needs, but we are concerned with what is needed to make education of the greatest value, of the greatest availability and of the highest standard for students in Australia. [More…]

• The needs of primary and secondary school students in respect of buildings, equipment, teaching and other staff and other facilities and teaching aids and the respective priorities to be given to the satisfying of those various needs and to the improvement of the quality of education available for primary and secondary school students in Australia. [More…]

• We think it important that it also have regard to the quality of education so that not only will it have regard to the needs in physical form but also to the needs of students in relation to the quality of education. [More…]

• We therefore wish to write into the Bill the words requiring that the Commission’s functions shall have regard to the improvement of the quality of education available for primary and secondary school students in Australia, perhaps a striking omission on the part of the Government. [More…]

• 1 would not for a moment think that the Government would not agree that it is the needs of students about which it is concerned and I cannot for a moment think that it is not interested in improving the quality of education in Australia. [More…]

• It is simply designed to help the interests of education in Australia. [More…]

• I do not think it is in the best interests of education as such to have this device which purports to produce priorities of expenditure within the schooling systems in Australia, centralised in Canberra. [More…]

• Each State government has the right to determine its own priorities and it is clear from the records that most State governments give education a high priority. [More…]

• Whether this would continue under a centralised system of education such as that advocated by the Australian Labor Party amendment in terms of setting up an Australian Schools Commission is, I believe, extremely doubtful. [More…]

• The Minister placed great emphasis on what he called the quality of education. [More…]

• It is true that buildings, equipment, staff and other facilities make a valuable contribution towards the quality of education but I take leave to point out that when emphasis is placed on needs as the amendment points out, the needs of students in respect of these things- then the contribution made to the quality of education is much greater, more comprehensive, more easily understood and has a greater ongoing quality. [More…]

• In the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary educational facilities in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in government and non-government schools in Australia, and, in particular, shall have regard to- [More…]

• the needs of disadvantaged schools and of students at disadvantaged schools, and of other students suffering disadvantages in relation to education for social, economic, ethnic, geographic, cultural, lingual or similar reasons; [More…]

• In the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary educational facilities in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in government and non-government schools in Australia, and- [More…]

• The primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children- [More…]

• Again, in the spirit of endeavouring to make the Schools Commission legislation workable and in the endeavour by the Opposition to make the Schools Commission a body which can and will contribute to the development of education and the interests of the students of Australia, we suggest that this paragraph should be re-drawn. [More…]

• The constitutional responsibility for the provision of public education rests primarily with the States, as at present does the major financial commitment. [More…]

• Diversity and innovation in education at the school level are desirable. [More…]

• I am wondering, for instance- I ask it rhetoricallywhether this sort of provision is contained in the Universities Commission Act which was introduced by a conservative government or whether it is contained in the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1971 which was introduced by a conservative government. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party believes that the Commonwealth should adopt the same methods to assist schools as it has adopted to assist universities and colleges of advanced education . [More…]

• Here we have really a conflict as to which form of words is better and is more in keeping with our aspirations to assist education in this country. [More…]

• I think it does more to indicate the desire of Parliament to assist the cause of education in relation to these matters. [More…]

• Article 26 of the United Nations Chaner of Human Rights and in particular the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children; (aa) the obligation for governments to provide or assist in the provision and maintenance of educational opportunities for all children which are of the highest standard and which recognise the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children and where provided and maintained by or on behalf of a government ensure that these opportunities are open without fees or religious tests, to all children; (ab) the rights and powers pursuant to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act of the State Governments in relation to education; (ac) the need for research into education standards, quality, variety and opportunities in Australia; (ad) the importance of the improvement of the quality of education available to all students attending primary and secondary schools; ‘. [More…]

• In the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary educational facilities in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in government and non-government schools in Australia, and, in particular, shall have regard to - [More…]

• The first of those proposes that the Commission shall have regard to Article 26 of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights and, in particular, the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]

• Let me say at once that the Government gladly accepts the inclusion in this Bill of the extract from the Declaration of Human Rights from which the former Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has quoted, embodying, as it does very thoroughly, the philosophy and statement of faith on which the legislation before the House rests. [More…]

• Further, I point out that the Declaration of Human Rights in this respect embodies a principle which I think has been accepted as an important principle, namely to avoid the possibility that there could develop in a country- one hopes that it should never be a fear in Australia- political indoctrination and the opportunity for the political education of children, where steps are taken which would mean that children were not obtaining the type of education which they or their parents might wish them to have. [More…]

• I was interested in a statement by the 3 federations in New South Wales which are a powerful group of people interested in education in Australia. [More…]

• So it is quite clear that those 3 powerful groups in New South Wales would all support the right to have included in the consideration of education in Australia that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that should be given to their children. [More…]

• We believe it is important to have as one of the matters to which the Commission should have regard the right available to every parent and every child in Australia not to be directed as to the form of education which they are to receive. [More…]

• I acknowledge that this is basically a statement of Labor Party philosophy and policy in relation to education. [More…]

• It is a matter on which I think there has probably been a difference of opinion between the various groups interested both in education and politics in Australia. [More…]

• But we would suggest that it is an improvement to state it in the following way: the obligation for governments to provide or assist in the provision and maintenance of educational opportunities for all children which are of the highest standard and which recognise the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children and where provided and maintained by or on behalf of a government ensure that these opportunities are open without fees or religious tests to all children; [More…]

• It is our very firm belief as an Opposition that the obligation of governments which, amongst other things, require all children with a very limited number of special exceptions to undergo education, is an obligation of that government to ensure that educational facilities of the highest standards are available. [More…]

• Do you say that government has an obligation to ensure that its assistance is available to provide the best standard of education, be it within a government school, be it within a nongovernment school which is related to a particular religious belief of the people who conduct it, be it related to a non-government school conducted by people who have particular views in relation to progressive education or be it a nongovernment school where people simply find it convenient, because of the absence of a government school, to group together to form a school which is of acceptable standard to the education department of the State which licences schools, as the Minister said in his second reading speech. [More…]

• The third amendment which we would suggest is that regard should be had to the rights and powers pursuant to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act of the State governments in relation to education. [More…]

• I pass now to the next question which concerns the need for research into education standards, quality, variety and opportunities in Australia. [More…]

• It should have regard to the need for research into education standards, quality, variety and opportunities in Australia. [More…]

• This we believe is important in the overall development of the grand design which it may be possible to produce for the improvement of education in Australia. [More…]

• It has to design research so that it can play a part in the whole of the structuring of education in Australia so that the recommendations which the Commission makes can be carried out at particular schools within systems in the various ways in which it is desirable. [More…]

• The next and final point in this sub-clause which we regard as important is the maintenance of the improvement of the quality of education available to all the students attending primary and secondary schools. [More…]

• The Government’s Bill does refer to the need to encourage diversity and innovation in education. [More…]

• We totally support those proposals but for some strange reason the Government seems to have omitted the important item of the general improvement and quality of education. [More…]

• We have been told by the Government that its outlook is one of seeking to improve the general quality of education throughout the community but in the Government’s Bill we find that the children of this country are to be divided into 2 classes. [More…]

• The Government says that the primary obligation in relation to education is to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open without fees or religious test to all children. [More…]

• How can a charter of that nature be incorporated in the legislation of this country when the Government has a provision in its education legislation which contradicts the Charter on Human Rights? [More…]

• My feeling is that the overwhelming majority of the Labor Party approves the decision of a few years ago that the Labor Party will stand for justice in education. [More…]

• If a parent receives a high income, then let him pay for that education. [More…]

• I am indebted to my father for the little education that I got. [More…]

• Everyone has the right to education. [More…]

• Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. [More…]

• Elementary education shall be compulsory. [More…]

• Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. [More…]

• Education shall be directed to the full development of human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]

• Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]

• Of course, when we talk about that particular measure, as well as subclause (a) of this amendment, we open up this matter of the prior right to choose the kind of education that any parent wants to give his child. [More…]

• Looking further to the amendment I take the opportunity to refer to the need for research into education standards, quality, variety and opportunity in Australia. [More…]

• Surely it must be acceptable to the Government, reflecting on what I believe to be its own views in relation to the United Nations Charter which has already been referred to in the Senate this afternoon, that there needs to be an emphasis on the need for research into variety and opportunities- ‘opportunities’ is the key word here- of education in Australia. [More…]

• The Liberal Party of Australia for which I speak in relation to education does not assert that there is not a proper case for the provision of extra funds to overcome the disadvantages about which Senator Mulvihill was speaking. [More…]

• The most rapidly growing sector of public spending under a Labor Government will be education. [More…]

• Education should be the great instrument for the promotion of equality. [More…]

• For example, the pupils of State and Catholic schools have had less than half as good an opportunity as the pupils of non-Catholic independent schools to gain Commonwealth secondary scholarships, and very much less than half the opportunity of completing their secondary education. [More…]

• The Labor Party is determined that every child who embarks on secondary education in 1973 shall, irrespective of school or location, have as good an opportunity as any other child of completing his secondary education and continuing his education further. [More…]

• This debate has been conducted on a very high plane and I am sure that Senator McManus will agree that in the Bill which the Government has presented to the Parliament for endorsement the Government has set out deliberately by proposing the establishment of a Schools Commission to provide for equality of opportunity in education for all children irrespective of school or religious denomination. [More…]

• In the exercise of its functions, the commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary educational facilities in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in government and non-government schools in Australia . [More…]

• I point out that my statement was based on the fact that this clause says that the Schools Commission shall have regard to ‘the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems’. [More…]

• I said that the primary obligation upon the Government should be to provide adequate education for all children in the community. [More…]

• Any child who goes to those schools will get an education equal to anything which can be obtained in the top class independent schools. [More…]

• Rather than take in isolation that section of Article 26 which Senator Davidson read out, surely it must be accepted that the whole of that article relates basically to countries in which there is probably no education or very little education. [More…]

• Australia is blessed with a system in which education is compulsory. [More…]

• Northern Territory responsible for primary education or secondary education in either or both of those Territories and with persons, bodies and authorities conducting non-government schools in Australia, and may consult with such other persons, bodies and authorities as the Commission thinks necessary. [More…]

• That clause relates to State Advisory Boards and refers to having consultation with ‘persons, authorities and associations responsible for, or connected with, primary or secondary education’, and what have you. [More…]

• Sub-clause (2) clearly states that the Minister for Education shall cause each report in relation to matters connected with grants of financial assistance to be presented to the Parliament. [More…]

• In relation to proposed sub-clause (4) I add for the interest of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland), who in this chamber represents the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), that this sub-clause, as I recall, was taken from the Broadcasting and Television Act and is in the general form in which the Australian Broadcasting Commission is required to report. [More…]

• But here we are dealing with an advisory committee on education, not with a statutory corporation conducting an activity on behalf of the Government for which it is appropriate to require an annual report. [More…]

• This proposal in clause 14 is similar to the arrangements under which the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education operate. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party believes that the Commonwealth should adopt the same methods to assist schools as it has adopted to assist universities and colleges of advanced education . [More…]

• This, as I have said, is similar to the arrangements under which the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education operate. [More…]

• It is totally irrelevant to try to compare the Commission directly with the Australian Universities Commission or the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• (1 ) For the purpose of assisting the Commission in the performance of its functions by providing, in each State and in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory, means by which suggestions, proposals and information relating to those functions can be communicated to the Commission by, and the Commission can consult with, persons, authorities and associations responsible for, or connected with, primary or secondary education in the State or Territory, including teachers, students and parents of students, the Minister may, in relation to each State and each Territory, establish a Board or Boards to be known as the Schools Commission Advisory Board, or the Schools Commission Advisory Boards, for the State or Territory. [More…]

• That is a matter which has caused great concern to some State Ministers for Education, a matter as to which I have had considerable representations made to me. [More…]

• What we should have is the enlarged Commission which we have proposed- a commission of 1 5 members, large enough to inform itself, as it is empowered to do, into subcommittees, to visit and to make first hand contact with the people with whom it is concerned to consult; and to obtain for itself first hand information so that it may through its own members- not through some feed-in system of a filter such as an advisory board- know what is going on in education in Australia and what are the needs. [More…]

• But if we are to have an hierarchal structure in which there is at State level State Advisory Boards, then coming to God himself- the Commission- and then to the perhaps almightier God- the Minister- we are going to slow down the process of development of education in Australia and the accuracy of input of information and make more likely an increase in the bureaucracy which most people would wish to avoid. [More…]

• After a lot of discussion with State Ministers, State Directors of Education or their representatives and the representatives of various other people interested in education, it is our belief that this will be a definite and clear improvement in the workings of the Schools Commission, bearing in mind that the Commission is now increased in size to 15 members, thereby being large enough to have sub-committees to do the work which might otherwise have been done by the State Advisory Boards. [More…]

• I think Senator Rae said that several State Ministers for Education had expressed concern to him that there should be included a suggestion that a board shall have such functions as are from time to time determined by the Minister. [More…]

• The advice tendered to me by the educational advisers to this Government is that only one State Minister has expressed concern to the Federal Minister for Education. [More…]

• -He was the Victorian Minister for Education. [More…]

• I am advised by my advisers that no other State Minister has lodged an objection with the Federal Minister for Education in relation to this clause. [More…]

• They may have complained to him, but the advice tendered to me is that they have not complained or lodged on objection to the Federal Minister for Education. [More…]

• I am further advised that the DirectorGeneral’s conference on education has endorsed this proposition. [More…]

• The boards are meant to provide 2-way consultation with the Commission and to facilitate consultation with various education authorities, professional associations, teachers, parents and students. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), in his second reading speech as reported at page 1636 of the House of Representatives Hansard, said that it was proposed that it should be possible: to appoint such committees of the Commission as are necessary from time to time to enable it to perform its stated functions. [More…]

• No limitation is provided in clause 1 7 of the Bill as submitted by the Government which would accord with the object stated by the Minister for Education in his second reading speech. [More…]

• The Minister for Education said in his second reading speech delivered in the House of Representatives that this was the intention of the Bill. [More…]

• The Commission will make the request to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• I believe that a much more effective measure would be to make Aborigines more politically aware by means of education and publicity so that they enrol in State and Federal elections. [More…]

• They want people to go out and talk to them and to point out to them what benefits are available to them in the fields of education, employment and many other aspects on which they need advice. [More…]

• In paragraph 6 it is suggested that education and publicity should be established to get people on the roll. [More…]

• It is the commencement of the education of these people. [More…]

• Allocations to the States for Housing and Education account almost entirely for the marked increase in Specific Purpose Payments in the 1973-74 Estimates (See Table 5). [More…]

• Table 5- Payments to States for Housing and Education 1972-73to 1973-74. [More…]

• PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR HOUSING AND EDUCATION 1972-73 TO 1973-74 [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/senate/1973/19731122_senate_28_s58/#subdebate-40-0)

• Specific Purpose Payments to States for Housing and Education- 1972-73: Housing, $19,463,000; Education, $252,309,000; Total, $271,772,000. [More…]

• 1973-74: Housing, $241,091,000; Education, $612,295,000; Total, $853,386,000. [More…]

• Total Specific Purpose Payments to States, excluding Housing and Education- 1972-73: $653,771,000; 1973-74: $792,205,000. [More…]

• Percentage increase in Total Specific Purpose Payments 1973-74, excluding Housing and Education Payments- 17.51 per cent. [More…]

• Secondly, the State governments accepted the Australian Government’s offer to finance tertiary education. [More…]

• I am glad to see that the Commonwealth Government has assumed certain responsibilities by way of substituting grants for borrowings on behalf of the States so that at least half of the indebtedness of the States is relieved, and that the Commonwealth has assumed a responsibility, for example, for the provision of welfare housing and capital works arising from the new Commonwealth approach to the assumption of responsibility for tertiary education; and the consequential capital saving that will result from that which is now the burden of the States. [More…]

• This Senate on a number of occasions and in particular areas has expressed its concern, particularly in the educational field, in the sense that Committees have had referred to them the matters of education of children in isolated areas, the education of deprived children and, at the instance of Senator Fitzgerald, the education of handicapped children. [More…]

• This shows a general solicitude for the educational care of children. [More…]

• I believe that we must step up our education of the general public that alcoholism and drug dependence are illnesses. [More…]

• The Opposition wholeheartedly supports the Bill which it regards as a continuation of the development of a policy which was an important aspect of the Liberal Party’s approach to education over the years. [More…]

• Over the years it has provided a most valuable service to Australian education. [More…]

• Some time ago I asked the Minister for the Media, representing the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in this chamber, a question which he answered on 14 November. [More…]

• 1 ask him to take this opportunity to clarify the matter because I have had, and no doubt the Minister for Education and the Department of Education have received, a number of inquiries as to what is happening in relation to the regulations. [More…]

• I take this opportunity to pass on to the Minister for the Media and, I hope to the Minister for Education, the importance of making the regulations quite clear and final as soon as possible and preferably before the end of this year rather than waiting until the end of January 1974. [More…]

• It has supported every progressive step in education which has ever been offered to the Senate. [More…]

• I have noticed that Sir Philip Baxter and others have said that surely it is necessary, if we are to see that money is properly spent, to initiate some system by which we can be reasonably sure that the student who goes to a university and who will be provided for in these ways really ought to be going to university and not seeking his education in some other direction. [More…]

• Why have we not some system whereby we can determine within reasonable limits whether a student should go to a university, a college of advanced education or into some form of vocational training? [More…]

• I say quite kindly to the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland), who in this chamber represents the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), that not one signpost or indication is given in this legislation as to the criteria upon which scholarships will be provided by the regulations. [More…]

• Then I am intrigued by the provisions of clause 9 and a parallel clause, clause 12, regarding tertiary education assistance. [More…]

• First of all, in May an outline of the scheme was released by way of ministerial Press release by the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley. [More…]

• Copies of the outline were sent to educational organisations throughout Australia, the Directors-General of Education and the heads of all tertiary institutions. [More…]

• If you have doubt about any conditions under which assistance is granted you should contact the nearest Office of the Australian Department of Education. [More…]

• If anything has been wrong with the standard of education in Australia up to the present it has been, as I understand it, that the parents of about 80 per cent of all students are in the upper income and middle income brackets. [More…]

• Last year I wrote to the then Minister for Education, Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]

• After all, education is a very costly business. [More…]

• We are all in favour of spending the maximum amount on education. [More…]

• I refer to the figures that I understand were provided to him by the former Minister for Education and Science, Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]

• Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts could well consider probing into a highly important subject of this nature. [More…]

• Therefore, there has to be a culling out during the course of the education curriculum. [More…]

• I am not immediately aware of it but I will ask the officers from the Department of Education to advise me. [More…]

• The tertiary education assistance living allowance will be paid by the month in the middle of the month. [More…]

• In reply to the query that I temporarily deferred as to whether this type of definition existed in any other Acts of a similar nature, I am told that it exists in the Education Act 1945-1959. [More…]

• Section 8 ( 1 ), of the Education Act states concerning the Commonwealth Scholarships Board: [More…]

• It is the Education Act 1945-1959. [More…]

• I am sure the honourable senator will agree with me that there are many working class people who have quite clever sons and daughters who go to their sixth year level of secondary education and who, unfortunately, because of the financial circumstances of the family, often are barred from going on to higher tertiary level examinations. [More…]

• Sub-clause (2) of clause 9 says that where an existing scholarship is terminated an authorised person may approve the grant of a scholarship, which is referred to by the name ‘senior secondary scholarship’, in respect of the course of secondary education to which the existing scholarship related, to the person who was the holder of the existing scholarship. [More…]

• An authorised person may, subject to and in accordance with the regulations, approve the grant of a Senior Secondary Scholarship to a person who is an Australian citizen or a permanent resident of Australia and is undertaking, or proposes to undertake, as a full-time student at a secondary school, a course of secondary education at a level approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section. [More…]

• 6 ) Paragraph (f) of sub-regulation ( 1 ) does not prevent the grant of a Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship to a prescribed person if it was impracticable, as a result of his having changed his ordinary place of residence from one State to another or of his having been absent from Australia, for application to be made, during the third last year of his course of secondary education, for the grant of a Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship to him. [More…]

• In the case of tertiary students, the Scholarships Act of 1969 made provision for Commonwealth university scholarships, Commonwealth advanced education scholarships and Commonwealth technical scholarships. [More…]

• In 1974 these will be replaced by tertiary education assistance which is referred to in preliminary publicity as tertiary allowances. [More…]

• In 1974 a new scheme will be introduced providing awards tenable at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The document is headed ‘Education in Australia for Personal and National Development’. [More…]

• We are considering here tertiary education assistance- it is not a scholarship- which is conditioned not by any merit qualification nor any age limit but only by needs as measured by a means test. [More…]

• I ask the Minister what fees have been paid in the new millenium of tertiary education since 2 December last and what fees will be paid after 1 January next? [More…]

• Will the Minister indicate to me the justification for absolving tertiary education assistance of any requirement as to merit or age and then tell me whether I am correct in understanding that this assistance is to be distinguished from a scholarship by there being no basic allowance, and that tertiary education assistance consists simply of a living allowance which, of course, in the case of a 40-year-old who has a family of four may be a very considerable sum. [More…]

• Also, can the Minister tell me whether I am correct in understanding that this tertiary education assistance consists of a living allowance, an incidentals allowance and a fares allowance only? [More…]

• The honourable senator raised the question of tertiary assistance and I assume that the honourable senator was referring to clause 10 which relates to the establishment of the new scheme of tertiary education assistance. [More…]

• Part III of the Bill deals with tertiary education assistance. [More…]

• An authorised person may, subject to and in accordance with the regulations, approve the grant of Tertiary Education Assistance to a person who is an Australian citizen or a permanent resident of Australia and is undertaking, or proposes to undertake, at a tertiary education institution a course of study or instruction approved by the Minister for the purposes of this section. [More…]

• In addition- I was about to add before Senator Wright interjected- the scheme replaces the Commonwealth Universities Scholarships, the Commonwealth Advanced Education Scholarship Scheme and the Commonwealth Technical Scholarship Scheme. [More…]

• The courses approved under the new scheme will include the same range and type of courses formerly approved under the previous 3 schemesthat is, university and advanced education bachelor degree courses, post graduate diplomas, advanced education diplomas, technical college certificates, pre-apprenticeship and preemployment courses and secretarial courses at , technical colleges. [More…]

• Students may receive assistance to complete more than one course in order to gain specialised qualifications at a particular level, for example, Arts followed by a Diploma of Education or upgrade qualifications or a course at a technical college followed by an Engineering degree at a university. [More…]

• It is understood that few students will be involved since the great majority of approved part-time courses will come under the general arrangements for financing tertiary education and no fees will be payable. [More…]

• The amount of the incidentals allowance varies according to the institution attended; for example, it is $100 at universities, $70 at colleges of advanced education or teachers colleges and the like and $30 at technical colleges. [More…]

• Parliamentary counsel are working on them and with their cooperation and that of the Department of Education it is believed that the regulations will be ready before the end of January. [More…]

• -The only observation I make is that the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) is able to state that the tertiary education living allowance is, in the case of students living at home, limited to $850 and, for students living away from home, to $1,400. [More…]

• If ever a man lived life to the full, enjoyed what he was doing, gave of his best, kept his interest in life, in education, in learning and contributing right to the end of his life it was John Johnstone Dedman. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969-1972 which provides for the 1970-72 triennium. [More…]

• Two of these proposals were approved by the previous Minister for Education and Science and one by the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• The new projects, which will be funded by the transfer of grants previously allocated, are specified in clause 3, paragraphs (a), (e) and (f), for the New South Wales Advanced Education [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-1973-which deals with the 1973-75 triennium so as to extend its terms to the provision of financial assistance for all State teachers colleges, and for pre-school teachers colleges, as from 1 July 1973. [More…]

• The Bill also makes provision for special grants in respect of the acquisition of library material, the employment of library staff, the conduct of special education courses, and the allocation of a further special grant of $425,000 to fund in 1973-75 the increased enrolments of pre-school teacher trainees. [More…]

• In the view of the Government, the high quality and professional skill of the teacher are crucial to the process of education. [More…]

• The Bill now before the Senate demonstrates, in a practical manner, the Australian Government’s concern for enhancing the quality of teacher education for teachers in all Australian schools. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that the Bill has its origin in the recommendations of the Report on Teacher Education prepared by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Government accepted the Commission’s recommendations in entirety including the recommendations for special grants for the particularly worthy purposes of accelerating the development of teachers college libraries, of fostering research into aspects of teacher education, of increasing the numbers of students undertaking courses to prepare teachers for handicapped children, and, of extending teacher education facilities in existing colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The Report called for a program of $2 10m for the development of teacher education in the former State teachers colleges, the pre-school teachers colleges and in existing colleges of advanced education during the period July 1 973 to December 1975; of this amount the Australian Government contribution under the existing system of matching State-Federal grants would have been $86m. [More…]

• However, following the offer by the Australian Government to the States to finance tertiary education completely from January 1 974, our contribution will become one of $ 188m. [More…]

• Further, by applying to teachers colleges the same arrangements as will apply to universities and colleges of advanced education, the teachers colleges will be brought fully within the community of tertiary institutions. [More…]

• The Bill before the Senate, in providing for the Government’s decisions, integrates the teachers colleges completely within the framework of the advanced education legislation. [More…]

• Subsequent to the teacher education report the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has, at the request of State authorities, agreed to certain revisions to the building and other projects to be supported at Goulburn Teachers College in New South Wales and Secondary Teachers College in Western Australia and the changes are incorporated in the Bill. [More…]

• The revised Schedules in the Bill incorporate certain variations to the program for the previously listed colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• They involve the transfer of funds rather than additional grants, and they have been approved by the Minister for Education or the Commission under the appropriate sections of the Act. [More…]

• The colleges concerned are- in the First Schedule: Caulfield, Footscray, Gordon, Preston and Royal Melbourne Institutes of Technology; Gippsland and Warrnambool Institutes of Advanced Education; and the Victorian College of Pharmacy; and- in the Second Schedule: Mitchell College of Advanced Education, The New South Wales College of Paramedical Studies, Footscray and Gordon Institutes of Technology, Gippsland and Warrnambool Institutes of Advanced Education, Victorian College of Pharmacy and, Torrens College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• In commending this Bill to honourable senators I would advise them of 2 other developments in teacher education likely to lead to other measures that will be presented for their consideration in due course. [More…]

• First, consequent upon the Commission’s Report on Teacher Education and the Report of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission the Minister for Education has written to the Chairman of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Australian Universities Commission asking them to report on the grants that should be made to ensure that adequate provision is made for the training of handicapped children. [More…]

• Second, honourable senators are aware that the Commission’s Report on Teacher Education was limited to a consideration of the needs of the former State teachers colleges and pre-school teachers colleges. [More…]

• As teachers colleges are now becoming autonomous the desirability of a diversity of basic approach to education makes it opportune to consider the value of private teachers colleges. [More…]

• The Australian Government’s policy of full financial support for tertiary education makes the support of private teachers colleges a logical step. [More…]

• The main purpose of the Bill before the Senate is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-73 to enable the Australian Government to assume full financial responsibility for advanced education from 1 January 1974. [More…]

• This is part of the Government’s intention to assume financial responsibility for all tertiary education. [More…]

• 3) 1973 was introduced into the Senate recently to implement this policy with regard to university education. [More…]

• The assumption of full financial responsibility for tertiary education includes the abolition of tuition fees at all tertiary institutions including colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Already this year, grants have been made for financial assistance to students in need at colleges of advanced education and universities, and this legislation will enable the Government to step closer to its goal of promoting equality of educational opportunity for students intending to undergo tertiary education. [More…]

• The Bill enables payment of grants in respect of full-time university students who are resident in a hall of residence at a college of advanced education. [More…]

• In accordance with the Government’s plans the Bill provides for grants for special courses in dental therapy, social work and physical education at various colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• This amendment provides for the allowance to be paid in respect of university students living in college of advanced education residences; an amendment has been included in the recently introduced States Grants (Universities) Bill to provide for advanced education students in university residences. [More…]

• With the acceptance by the Australian Government of the full responsibility for funding tertiary education from 1 January 1974 the entire cost of construction of a student residence in a country area may be borne by this Government, and in the case of affiliated colleges this Government will now meet 75 per cent of the cost of construction leaving as before, only 25 per cent to be found by the college authority. [More…]

• The Government has also agreed to provide $800,000 for courses in social work and physical education at the Institutes of Technology at Preston and Footscray in Victoria. [More…]

• Apart from providing for Government initiatives in the fields of social work, physical education and dental therapy the basic programs recommended by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education in its third report and the teacher education report remain unchanged. [More…]

• On 23 August 1973 my colleague the Honourable Kim E. Beazley made a statement to the House of Representatives on Government initiatives in education. [More…]

• At that time he indicated that the Australian Government would assume full financial responsibility for tertiary education from January 1974, and also tuition fees at universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and technical colleges. [More…]

• The purpose of this legislation is to implement that policy with regard to university education. [More…]

• As indicated by my colleague, the Treasurer (Mr Crean), in the Budget Speech, the Australian Government has decided to establish a National School of Management Education at the University of New South Wales, and provision is made for recurrent and building grants. [More…]

• In section 6 of the Bill provision is made, amongst other things, for a capital grant of up to $1.8m to erect buildings to house a National School of Management Education. [More…]

• Apart from the amounts for social work $125,000 and Management Education approximately $2.3m, the additional funds available to the universities $76m are entirely accounted for by salary increases and do not represent an expansion in the universities’ programs of real expenditure. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill now before the Senate is to provide for a full-time Deputy Chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• This growth in the colleges of advanced education has substantially increased the demands made upon the Commission, for all institutions look to it for help and guidance with developmental problems. [More…]

• Visits to institutions do much to facilitate the Commission’s work and are necessary if the Commission is to provide objective advice to this Government on the development of advanced education. [More…]

• Initiatives of this Government in the fields of health, education and welfare are making heavy demands on the Commission which is actively involved both in the formulation of policy concerning the education of professionals in the areas mentioned, and in the implementation of other decisions and initiatives supported by the Government in respect of the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• As will recalled, new arrangements will apply to the funding of advanced education from 1 January 1974, and will provide not only for the assumption by the Australian Government of the existing financial commitment of States in respect of approved programs but also will include some innovation in the method of financing which will make allowance for cost rises during a triennium. [More…]

• In so doing he will enable the Chairman to devote more time to other areas of policy in the field of advanced education. [More…]

• Millions continue to live far below the minimum levels required for a decent human existence, deprived of adequate food and clothing, shelter and education, health and sanitation. [More…]

• One can see that from the debates that we have had recently on education. [More…]

• Department of Social Security, Department of Labour, Department of Education, Australian Universities Commission, Australian Commission on Advanced Education, Australian Council of Social Service, Australian Association of Social Workers, Australian Psychological Society, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, Interim Committee of National Hospital and Health Services Commission, South Australian Department for Community Welfare, Australian Institute of Welfare Officers. [More…]

• To make predictions regarding requirements for education to meet the welfare manpower needs of the future. [More…]

• What we have today is a definite and deliberate decision by the Australian Labor Party to arrogate to Canberra and the bureaucrats, mainly through the exercise of the power of the purse, all power over housing, all power over education, all power over health, all power over minerals, all power over conservation, all power over finance, all power over the control of off-shore minerals, all power over the control of Aborigines and all power over the control of arts and a host of other things. [More…]

• What is happening in the field of education is a prime example of this. [More…]

• The present Minister for Education, Mr Kim Beazley, went to every State and repeated the Prime Minister ‘s words. [More…]

• The Postmaster-General in another place (Mr Lionel Bowen), who is Acting Minister for Education, says that this is deliberate obstruction, and that if the DLP tries to help the Prime Minister and Mr Beazley to keep their promise, the Government will refuse to give $600m to the schools. [More…]

• I do not know that I have ever heard of a government more bankrupt of principle than a government which says that if people try to get its leaders to keep a promise, it will deprive the children of Australia of $600m in educational aid. [More…]

• The Government has introduced into this Parliament legislation to control fuel resources, mineral resources, health, education and Aborigines in this country. [More…]

• Surely no one on the Opposition side will challenge what the Labor Party proposes to do in the field of education. [More…]

• In the financial year 1973-74 this Government will spend $843m on education, an increase of $404m or 92 per cent on that spent last year during the term of the previous Government. [More…]

• The significant improvements will be made in the fields of housing, health and education and in providing employment training facilities. [More…]

• It will be spent as follows: $32.4m on housing, $2 1.3m on education, $ 12.9m on health, $9.Sm on missions and settlements, $ 10.8m on community activities, $2m on legal aid and $28. [More…]

• So much for education and Aboriginal welfare. [More…]

• Let us ask the Australian people whether all these things which I have enumerated regarding social welfare, education and so on have been achieved as a result of the rapid concentration of excessive and arbitrary powers in Canberra. [More…]

• It was said earlier, by interjection, that the Australian Labor Party and the Prime Minister did not keep an election pledge regarding education. [More…]

• The Prime Minister and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) were quite specific when they commented on this point in September 1972. [More…]

• In order to have the record right, I will read the statement made by the present Minister for Education. [More…]

• He instances tertiary education where this Government with one hand relieves the universities of direct financing and takes it over itself but, with the other, puts an entry in the other side of the ledger offsetting that by a reduction of the money available to the States. [More…]

• I note that the Government is doing this in regard to its education scheme, when it excludes the A class private schools from assistance. [More…]

• The great proportion of the $8,448 paid in tax by a taxpayer on this high income would be spent on the education of children. [More…]

• The greatest proportion of all taxation these days is spent on education. [More…]

• That man will be paying completely for his child’s education if he sends his child to an expensive private school. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Will the Minister ascertain why the many statements made yesterday and last night by Mr Snedden and Senator Rae, who are the Opposition spokesmen on education, were ignored in the information which the news program gave about this current affair. [More…]

• I understand that Senator Carrick raised his suggestion at a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which is inquiring into all aspects of radio and broadcasting. [More…]

• The situation is that in the main bulletin at 7 p.m. last night the comments made by Mr Snedden on the education issue were featured and in the 9 p.m. bulletin last night the comments of Senator Rae, the Liberal Party spokesman on education, also were featured. [More…]

• Therefore in this morning’s 7.45 bulletin the comments on the education Bill were mainly those of the Prime Minister, with a shorter reference to comments by Mr Snedden. [More…]

• A large amount of money has been budgeted for education. [More…]

• If both Houses of the Parliament went to an election I think it could be a very interesting election campaign, because under the education policies of this Government certain schools are not being provided with assistance. [More…]

• What is the result of the Government’s education scheme? [More…]

• Contrary to what the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said and contrary to what the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, said, the Government has deprived a number of schools of a subsidy. [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• Honourable senators will recognise that the measure now before them involves a marked increase in the expenditure of the Australian Government on primary and secondary education. [More…]

• Less immediately it is the result of the views expressed by the Australian Education Council in its Nation Wide Survey of Educational Needs (1969). [More…]

• It is also an expression of the conviction of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) of the need for a transformation of education, as contained in his policy speech of 1972. [More…]

• Outside of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, and with the exception of benefits to students, the Australian Government does not have direct responsibility for primary and secondary education. [More…]

• Some years ago, after a needs survey, the States sought action by the national Government to fill the gaps which perturbed State Ministers for Education. [More…]

• Teacher education left much to be desired. [More…]

• The education of handicapped children was characterised by omissions to meet need which bordered upon the callous. [More…]

• Migrant education was profoundly unsatisfactory. [More…]

• Buildings, playground space, physical education facilities and the capacity to employ teachers were generally defective. [More…]

• A scheme existed through the Australian Department of Social Security to assist the education of handicapped children by private charities, but not in State schools. [More…]

• The crisis in Australian education- though the expression ‘crisis’ is not used by the Interim Committee- is perhaps summed up in a few words of the Interim Committee’s report in paragraph 5 : 1 on page 48 of Schools in Australia’, where it points out that in too many schools the level of resources employed: . [More…]

• is below that required to implement modern educational methods, and to prepare all children, irrespective of their rate and style of learning, for full participation in a complex society. [More…]

• Human and physical resources do not of themselves ensure a high quality education. [More…]

• 5m which honourable senators will agree constitutes a dramatic increase, the expenditure of which will be of great significance in improving the quality of education in schools. [More…]

• They improve the quality of education by encouraging an individual approach to learning. [More…]

• will be provided for the inservice education of teachers in 1974 and 1975. [More…]

• These courses will be ‘planned in each State as a joint approach by State, Catholic, and nonsystemic non-government school education authorities. [More…]

• Assistance will also be provided for inservice education initiated by the teachers themselves rather than by their employers. [More…]

• These funds will be for the establishment and for the operation of education centres where teachers would meet their fellows. [More…]

• To establish education centres about $2m is to be appropriated under the Bill and a further $600,000 will be made available for the operating expenses of the centres concerned. [More…]

• Change in education is essential. [More…]

• Education in a formal sense thus becomes entirely the business of the school, parents being unable to provide assistance and reinforcement, even if willing to do so. [More…]

• Parents are often ignorant of the implications of educational choice and of the range of the alternatives which exist. [More…]

• They are most likely to need education in arts, crafts, mechanics, technical skills, most likely to need to be given the most intelligent, informed and precise advice on the choice of careers and courses of study leading to such careers. [More…]

• The scholars and students of disadvantaged schools are the ones most likely to be in need of financial assistance for the purchase of books and educational equipment if they come from underprivileged homes. [More…]

• The Government believes that this program is only the beginning of a great deal that needs to be done to create the highest quality in Australian education.’ [More…]

• There will assuredly be no high quality in Australian education as long as there continues ‘to be public indifference and official complacency about the fate of children in disadvantaged circumstances. [More…]

• Special Education [More…]

• The years 1974 and 1975 will see the beginning of an effort to solve the very formidable problems in special education for handicapped children. [More…]

• We will continue with the grants under our predecessors’ Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act and also with grants for training teachers for special education under our teacher education programs in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Our Department of Education, enlightened and guided by the Pre-School Commission and the Schools Commission-or in the event of the destruction of the Schools Commission by the Senate, the Interim Committee of the Schools Commission- should consider itself as having a special obligation to children and young people up to the age of 1 8 who have these special needs. [More…]

• Special Education- Aims of the Government [More…]

• The principal aims of the Government in the area of special education for the handicapped are as follows: First, the development of each handicapped child to the fullness of his potential as an effective, integrated, self-respecting and independent person. [More…]

• Handicapped education must always aim at this independence and at this capacity for self support. [More…]

• Research is needed to identify what characteristics of children are most predictive of subsequent education and social difficulty. [More…]

• Second, as recommended by the Interim Committee, the State education departments and the Catholic systemic school authorities will have wide discretion in the use and distribution among schools of both the general recurrent grants and the additional grants for disadvantaged schools. [More…]

• The Education Department in each State will determine its own projects under each program. [More…]

• I am sure all honourable senators will agree that this legislation marks a turning point in Australian education. [More…]

• The balance is expended by the Department of Education for study grants and secondary grants, the Department of Health in the Northern Territory, the Department of Labour under its employment training scheme and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. [More…]

• This Government established a special study group of Commonwealth and States health authorities which recommended a co-ordinated program covering establishment of local health committees, delivery of health care- including much wider deployment of doctors and community health nurses- administrative reorganisation, education, family planning, research and other special programs. [More…]

• It is still a fact however that only a relative handful are undergoing tertiary education. [More…]

• Programs to overcome this situation have been approved by me and include support of teachers colleges carrying out courses in Aboriginal education; compensatory teaching programs for children in primary schools; support of a special college of Aboriginal education at Torrens in South Australia where a range of basic skills is taught, leading to further education or improved employment. [More…]

• I ask it against the growing background of distortion and misrepresentation of the Opposition’s case on the current education controversy. [More…]

• on the morning of Friday last, 30 November, gave publicity only to the Government’s viewpoint by featuring both the Acting Minister for Education, Mr Lionel Bowen, and the President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Hawke, and no Opposition spokesman? [More…]

• I will certainly make inquiries of the Commission to ascertain what other programs were involved, stating the Opposition’s case on the education controversy without the Government’s viewpoint having been reported. [More…]

• One of the first acts of the Labor Government when it was elected was that of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in his capacity as Acting Minister for Education, to appoint an Interim Schools Committee. [More…]

• But the Government still believes, as I said when speaking on behalf of the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) at the time, that its proposals were being emasculated. [More…]

• We believe that gross inequalities exist in Austraiian education. [More…]

• The model proposed by the Government for the establishment of a Schools Commission closely follows that which was adopted by its predecessorsnamely, the McMahon and Gorton governments- in establishing the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The policy speech of the Australian Labor Party delivered by the Prime Minister during the last Federal election campaign stated that we would establish a Schools Commission along the same lines as the Universities Commission and the Advanced Education Commission. [More…]

• We wish to retain the appointment of the membership of the Schools Commission solely at the discretion of the Commonwealth Minister for Education’, totally disregarding the fact that within the schools of Australia there are 3 clear and separate administrative areas. [More…]

• I simply remind the Government and the Senate that Mr Beazley, the Minister for Education, in a letter of which I have a copy and which I am quite happy to produce or table for anybody who wishes to inspect it- the letter is signed on the Minister’s behalf by his Secretary and is in answer to the question: Would there be representatives of the independent schools on the Schools Commission- said: Yes, there would be’. [More…]

• We find it regrettable that the Government is not prepared to have regard to the interests of education but rather wishes to see its own view upheld at all costs and is prepared to toy with the interests of education. [More…]

• All that the Opposition Parties are endeavouring to do is to take away from whoever is Minister for Education- I am not talking about the present Minister because tomorrow we could have another Minister - [More…]

• All I want to say is that my Party believes that every section of education should be represented on this Commission. [More…]

• In regard to the commission on education for the Australian Capital Territory, the Minister and the Government have provided that the organisations can nominate their own representatives. [More…]

• Clearly the most major plank on which the Labor Party went to the people and for which it secured a mandate from the people was our education policy. [More…]

• Let me repeat what the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had to say on education. [More…]

• If Senator Webster wants to know whether this is the truth he can check what I am saying, as it appears under the heading ‘Education’ at page 12 of the policy speech that the Prime Minister made before the last elections. [More…]

• The most rapidly growing sector of public spending under a Labor Government will be education. [More…]

• We propose in our education plans for 1974 and 1975 to spend $694m. [More…]

• Education should be the great instrument for the promotion of equality. [More…]

• For example, the pupils of the State and Catholic schools have had less than half as good an opportunity as the pupils of non-Catholic independent schools to gain Commonwealth secondary scholarships, and very much less than half the opportunity of completing their secondary education. [More…]

• The Labor Party is determined that every child who embarks on secondary education in 1973 shall, irrespective of school or location, have as good an opportunity as any other child of completing his secondary education and continuing his education further. [More…]

• I emphasise the words ‘same methods ‘- to assist schools as it has adopted to assist universities and colleges of advanced education- through a commission. [More…]

• The Gorton Government and, I think from recollection, the McMahon Government established a Universities Commission and an Advanced Education Commission and provided that the Minister would make the appointments to those commissions. [More…]

• In our policy speech we said that if we were elected to government we would establish a Schools Commission along the same lines that the previous Government laid down for a Universities Commission and an Advanced Education Commission. [More…]

• Is there any difference between our proposal and your proposal about the way in which appointments are made to the Universities Commission and the Advanced Education Commission? [More…]

• If they were accepted and became part of the legislation their overall effect would be to embed conflicting interests and to institutionalise the inequalities which exist in Australian education and which it is the Government’s intention to remove. [More…]

• We say, as my colleague in another place said, that the Australian Education Council was not consulted before its suggested role was incorporated into the relevant amendments moved by the Opposition parties in the Senate. [More…]

• We say that the overall effect of the Opposition’s amendments will be to prevent the Schools Commission from being the national expert body to which the majority of the people of Australia are looking to improve the quality of education for all Australian children. [More…]

• What it will do is reduce the amount of grant to 40 per cent of the children of Australia who attend nonsystemic schools which they receive towards their education from Federal Government sources. [More…]

• This is notwithstanding the fact that all taxpayers contribute and notwithstanding the fact that we have a government which is abolishing fees for tertiary education and letting anyone regardless of his income, wealth or need attend a university without any payment on his part so that he receives the same kind of sustenance, subsidy or payment from Commonwealth Government sources as any other person. [More…]

• We suggest that the child himself has a right to the basic grant from the public purse towards the child’s education so that his parents may on his behalf or later in his development exercise a right to attend whatever school he chooses and to receive the form of education he wishes to receive or which his parents wish him to receive. [More…]

• We want to remove the inequalities in Australian education, and these are the greatest in the non-government sector, and my Party believes that where the need is greatest, there, this assistance should be given. [More…]

• We will not repeal or reduce any educational benefit which is already being paid. [More…]

• The ALP has never voted against any Bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education and it will support any forms of benefit already existing. [More…]

• On 27 October 1972 at Haberfield in New South Wales Mr Beazley, the present Minister for Education, said something which was extremely significant. [More…]

• The present Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, made the statement to refute whispering campaigns. [More…]

• I quoted earlier from the actual copy of his speech which is called ‘Priorities in Education’. [More…]

• It is nearly as obnoxious as the monstrous fraud which the Government has committed in claiming to have increased expenditure on education by 92 per cent. [More…]

• When one takes out the funds which have been shuffled away from the States, when one accepts that one-third of the increased expenditure in the Budget is simply an amount which previously was paid by the States and which will now be paid by the Commonwealth- that amount is taken away from the money which otherwise would be paid to the States and does not represent one cent extra for education in Australiaand when one realises that two-thirds of the remainder relates to amounts which were approved by the previous Government and does not represent one cent of extra funds provided by this Government, one comes down to a very small amount, nothing like the 92 per cent claimed by this Government in its mammoth misrepresentations on education. [More…]

• The greatest confidence trick and the greatest political hoax in the history of Australia is in relation to education and has been perpetrated by this Government this year. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the letter of 13 April 1973 which is addressed to Professor Karmel and which is signed Kim E. Beazley, who is the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It is up to the Government to honour the promises and to see that there is justice for every Australian child and every Australian parent who wish to avail themselves of their right to choose the kind of education which the children are to receive. [More…]

• Mr Beazley, the Minister for Education, on 30 May this year expressed his personal view. [More…]

• My view was that every school in the country, including the Geelong Grammar School, should receive a basic grant from the Commonwealth and that the Commonwealth should have an identity with the education of every child. [More…]

• It is a school which believes devoutly and firmly that the only sort of education which should be given to the children who attend it is the type of education which involves the particular religion available at that school. [More…]

• The Opposition will stand firm on a principle in which it believes and in which I believe the majority of Australians believe; namely, the right of choice and the right to receive a basic grant towards education to enable the children of Australia to enjoy that choice. [More…]

• It is the credibility of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• But even if he did not, surely the Minister for Education is involved. [More…]

• In that statement the Minister for Education called upon the schools to disregard the whispering campaign to the effect that the Government would not continue the aid. [More…]

• Mr Beazley, within 5 weeks of the election, as the prospective Minister for Education, said that the Labor Government would continue the basic per capita payments to all schools as at present. [More…]

• All we have said is that when the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education promise people before an election that they will continue to give at least basic aid to all schools, they should keep their promise. [More…]

• When the Government has given that basic aid, all the money that it provides for education in future can be provided on the needs basis. [More…]

• With some highly deceptive foreplay by his Acting Minister for Education he has created the illusion that the Government’s whole schools aid program is being irredeemably jeopardised by Opposition obstructionism . [More…]

• This promise was made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education before the last election. [More…]

• Those people would be suited down to the ground if they could prove that a subvention was being given to a religion through a school instead of a child receiving an education grant. [More…]

• State school gets exactly the top elitist education which is received by a boy in one of the top private schools, the former without his parents paying practically anything and the latter with his parents having to pay enormous sums because the Government believes in a needs basis. [More…]

• This year education costs are rising steeply. [More…]

• Senator McManus has suggested to the Senate that the issue before the chamber this afternoon is the credibility of the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, and the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam. [More…]

• -That is a statement to which Mr Beazley, in his capacity as the Labor Party’s shadow Minister for Education, gave voice in an amendment he moved to the legisation we are now proposing to amend by this very Bdi. [More…]

• Of course, if we are in some sort of a contest about consistency and if we are to be involved in saying that we are held to what one of our Ministers who was in conflict with another Minister has said, I think we are entitled to ask Senator Rae today whether he is the spokesman for the Opposition on education matters or whether the spokesman is a man in another place who is alleged to be the spokesman on labour relations and who has made extraordinary progress lately, I have noted, in his words on labour relations. [More…]

• When he intrudes into the field of education he goes back to his natural Neanderthal position. [More…]

• Are we on the Government side of the chamber, when looking to what we can expect from the Opposition in matters of education, to take seriously the threats of this bold warrior, [More…]

• Malcolm Fraser, who would risk all, who would go to the barricades, who would challenge us to a double dissolution and who had promised us, presumably without any consultation with the nominal spokesman for the Opposition on education matters, that there will be a real showdown here? [More…]

• It is very easy for the other shadow Minister for Education, Mr Malcolm Fraser, to threaten the ultimate contest in the other chamber, where he knows that he does not have the numbers, but in this chamber, where we come down to the nitty gritty and where the Opposition does have the numbers, presumably there has been some retreat from the barricades. [More…]

• After all, it makes them very uncomfortable to have made the bold threats which one or other of the Opposition spokesmen for education in the other place made and then over here when it comes down to the nitty gritty to have to go to water. [More…]

• We want to remove the inequalities in Australian education, and these are the greatest in the non-government sector, and my Party believes that where the need is greatest, there, this assistance should be given. [More…]

• We will not repeal or reduce any educational benefit which is already being paid. [More…]

• The ALP has never voted against any bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education and it will support any forms of benefit already existing. ‘ [More…]

• -The Senate is dealing with the States Grants (Schools) Bill which comes before the Senate as a result of recommendations made this year by the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission and of the Australia-wide survey into the needs of education which was conducted by the Australian Education Council in 1969. [More…]

• It seems quite obvious to me that Government senators have been at great lengths in this debate to endeavour to get the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) off the hook. [More…]

• This has been so evident that Senator McManus began his contribution to the debate by saying that the issue now before the Senate had developed into an issue of the credibility of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education to honour their pre-election promises in regard to education. [More…]

• Both Senator Devitt and Senator James McClelland went to great lengths to try to show the people of Australia that the Government was carrying out its repeated pre-election promises that any form of education benefit already existing would be maintained and, therefore, any aid would be additional to that existing in the field of education. [More…]

• Mr Beazley, as the Labor Party spokesman on education, at that time moved an amendment to the motion for the second reading of the Bill. [More…]

• We want to remove the inequalities in Australian education, and these are the greatest in the non-government sector, and my Party believes that where the need is greatest, there, this assistance should be given. [More…]

• We will not repeal or reduce any educational benefit which is already being paid. [More…]

• In the House of Representatives Mr Beazley, as recently as 27 October 1972, produced a paper entitled ‘Priorities in Education’. [More…]

• I place on record my appreciation, and the appreciation of the Australian Country Party, of the great contribution made to education by the Interim Committee and in particular by Professor Karmel. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, in a letter to Professor Karmel dated 13 April 1973, changed the terms of reference. [More…]

• Why take this decision in spite of the often repeated promises by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education that the old forms of assistance would continue? [More…]

• Could there be a clearer promise than the one made by the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, in his paper in which he referred to ‘whispering campaigns to the contrary’? [More…]

• I want to make it very clear that the Opposition supported, and continues to support, the Government’s education program for 1974 and 1975, costing almost $700m. [More…]

• The cost is insignificant in the total education commitment. [More…]

• But the Government defeats its own cost argument by granting every one of the 33,000 children in category A schools the right to free education in the tertiary institutions. [More…]

• Many facets are connected with the Bill and many areas are laid down in which the Government proposes to spend money and in which it proposes to advance the whole concept of education. [More…]

• I say this because it is established to provide for an ongoing and a ever-extending diverse system and program of education. [More…]

• There is another factor in the Bill which excludes certain areas of education and certain schools, namely the non-government or independent schools, from receiving grants or funds. [More…]

• The Government excludes certain schools and it knows perfectly well that the policy of the Opposition, stated last year when it was in government, and stated this year over and over again has been to establish a system of funding so that every child in the country receives a grant towards his education. [More…]

• It is denying the members of the community within Australia their rights as citizens and their rights towards education. [More…]

• Let me remind the Senate that this is not the first time that we have gone through this exercise of a challenge to education. [More…]

• In our view there must always remain not only a flexibility in interpretation of education but also freedom of choice for both parent and student, freedom of opportunity for groups that wish to establish a school and freedom for teachers to express their vocation in any one of a number of educational systems. [More…]

• Education is a cornerstone of our society. [More…]

• After all, the basis of education is to provide within our total activities in society a series of systems and opportunities whereby people can obtain the knowledge, skills and cultures which they wish to acquire. [More…]

• The Bill, related as it is to the Interim Committee for the Schools Commissionthe Karmel Committee- provides a great diversity of opportunities, a great amount of money and a great area of systems so that a great number of people in Australia can have a maximum opportunity for education. [More…]

• The Bill sets out to provide sums of money for education. [More…]

• I ask the Government and the Minister for an explanation of the relationship between the number of dollars spent and the excellence of the education standards? [More…]

• He has listed a whole range of areas in which educational facilities are to be provided. [More…]

• A high proportion of our resources today is spent on education. [More…]

• There is a viewpoint that environmental influences of the home and of the neighbourhood persist right throughout a person’s life regardless of the expensiveness of education. [More…]

• This may tend to suggest that the amount spent on education will have little effect on the person who emerges at the end of an extensive and expensive educational career. [More…]

• I point out this Bill provides for a very expensive educational process. [More…]

• But today the educational system, especially that provided for in this Bill, will determine a great deal in the life, aspirations, personal achievements and satisfaction of our citizens of the next generation. [More…]

• Therefore, I remind the Senate and the people of the nation that the Government must not only give account of the way in which it will spend the money, but also it must persuade the Senate that the money spent extensively and expensively on education will yield satisfaction and will provide for the education of Australians. [More…]

• It will provide facilities that will be complementary to those provided by other administrations in educational institutions and at other levels of education. [More…]

• We drew attention to the fact that libraries in modern society play a major part in the whole field of education. [More…]

• So he suggests that grants will be provided for the in-service education of teachers in 1974 and 1975. [More…]

• I draw attention to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education, which was tabled as late as last year. [More…]

• At page 54 of that report a chapter is devoted to the continuing education of teachers, and the Committee has expressed the belief that existing teacher training institutions should provide inservice courses within the limit of their resources. [More…]

• I now refer to the part of the Minister’s speech relating to special education, with particular reference to handicapped children. [More…]

• Here again, the Minister is not the first to think of this matter, and neither is the Department of Education, because the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfareand the Government has been a great champion of the Senate Standing Committee system- contains a section devoted to the education of the handicapped. [More…]

• It set out a whole list of recommendations relating to the necessity for special education, particularly for those who are handicapped. [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…]

• As honourable senators very well know, the long-established policy of our Party, both in Government and Opposition, has been that every child attending a non-government school should receive a basic per pupil grant towards the recurrent cost of his or her education. [More…]

• If the system of education in our country is to include a nongovernment or independent schools system- and the Government believes in the inclusion of that system, because it has not thrown it out- surely the Government must believe in a principle whereby those same schools can plan, budget and work with security, purpose and a prospect for the future. [More…]

• I say to the Government that, if it persists in this needs doctrine, it will cause great harm to its own education program and to this massive Bill to which I have referred previously. [More…]

• If the Government continues under its needs doctrine to penalise the independent schools system, the number of students at independent schools will fall, the number and types of teachers will decline, and the variety and dimension of education- and the Government has approached this aspect with such ambition in this Bill- will suffer. [More…]

• As I said at the outset of my remarks, in August we had a debate on education that touched on the very matter that has been aired before the Senate tonight. [More…]

• It is the States Grants (Schools) Bill which, if and when enacted, will enable us as a Government to provide to the people of this country the funds that are required to carry out the principal election platform of the Labor Party which was to make education the prime responsibility of a Labor government. [More…]

• I would have thought that in addition to that novelty there is a very important principle which probably was highlighted by Senator Davidson, the last Opposition speaker, who virtually criticised the Government for adopting a principle of education expenditure based on needs compared with the former Government’s policies of per capita grants. [More…]

• I would have thought that in addition to the novelty, if I might use Senator Rae ‘s expression, of the Bill appropriating the largest amount ever expended by a government on education, which is what this Government is doing, there is wrapped up in the whole of this legislation the element of the principle of needs which was urged by the Labor Party not only at the last election but also at a time when we were in opposition. [More…]

• Ignoring all that went on earlier about the establishment of the Schools Commission, if anyone is in any doubt about the basis of education expenditure being according to needs, let me reiterate what the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had to say on this matter in his policy speech. [More…]

• Education is the prime example of a community service which should involve the entire community- not just the Education Departments and the Catholic school authorities and the Headmaster’ Conference, not just parents and teachers, but the taxpayers as a whole. [More…]

• The quality of the community’s response to the needs of the education system will determine the quality of the system. [More…]

• It is not a question, as Senator McManus said this afternoon when he spoke on behalf of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, of whether the credibility of the Prime Minister or the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is at stake. [More…]

• It is not so much a question of the amount of money that is involved, and the Opposition will admit that this is the greatest amount of money that any government has ever decided to spend on education. [More…]

• The whole principle wrapped up in this legislation is education expenditure based on priorities and needs and not according to the old Government’s formula of per capita grants. [More…]

• In his remarks the Leader of the Country Party in the Senate, Senator Drake-Brockman, referred to a letter which, I think, was tabled by Senator Rae and which was written by the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, to Professor Karmel, the Chairman of the Interim Schools Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, on 13 April 1973. [More…]

• But let me read out the first paragraph of that letter to indicate the intention of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• On 13 April this year, about 4 months after this Government had been elected to office, my colleague the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, wrote to Professor Karmel. [More…]

• I cannot be more explanatory than the terms used by my colleague the Minister for Education. [More…]

• if the school is a non-government primary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 2 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year, and [More…]

• if the school is a non-government secondary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 3 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• if the school is a non-government primary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 4 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year, and [More…]

• if the school is a non-government secondary school- an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 5 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year. [More…]

• a sum of $62 in respect of every pupil receiving primary education at a non-government primary school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• a sum of $104 in respect of every pupil receiving secondary education at a non-government secondary school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year, is payable to the school authority ofthe school. [More…]

• To enable people to understand what I am talking about I refer to what Mr Beazley said in his paper called ‘Priorities and Education’. [More…]

• I am quite happy to spend as long as the honourable senator likes to explain the promise made by the Labor Minister for Education. [More…]

• At their request he brought the future Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, to Tasmania. [More…]

• The Minister for Education made them repeatedly throughout the year and they are documented. [More…]

• Of this present Government the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Minister of Education have repeatedly made the promises throughout the year. [More…]

• Our philosophy is that it is important in a free society that people be able to make a choice as to what school, what system of school and what type of education they wish their children to receive. [More…]

• To enable them to exercise that right of choice it is necessary that people from the poorest to the richest should be able, if they wish, to choose a non-government school which provides the type of education they want. [More…]

• Many people have a philosophy which is not related to religion but to an approach to education. [More…]

• They believe that the modern or progressive type of education is best for their children. [More…]

• if the school is a non-government primary schoolan amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 2 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• if the school is a non-government secondary school- an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 3 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year, [More…]

• if the school is a non-government primary schoolan amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 4 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year, and [More…]

• if the school is a non-government secondary school- an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 5 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• a sum of $62 in respect of every pupil receiving primary education at a non-government primary school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• a sum of $104 in respect of every pupil receiving secondary education at a non-government secondary school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year, is payable to the school authority of the school. ‘ [More…]

• On 13 April the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) wrote to Professor Karmel, the Chairman of the Karmel Committee, and said: [More…]

• The Government has made great play of the amount which it is appropriating for education. [More…]

• The Treasurer (Mr Crean), in his Budget Speech, said that the appropriation for education was being increased by $404m and that the increase for tertiary education, universities and advanced colleges of education will entail an additional outlay of $179m. [More…]

• It follows, from the figures in the Budget Speech, that the previous Government’s appropriation for education was $43 9m. [More…]

• The first advance made by way of Federal assistance for education was when the Menzies Government, through the Murray Committee, gave direct assistance to universities, and then advanced that assistance to schools. [More…]

• Whereas the governments of this country administering the taxes that they collect from the people allocate 100 per cent of the expenditure on a state government school pupil to that school, the fees discharge only about 70 per cent to 75 per cent of the expenditure on the education of a nongovernment school student. [More…]

• The Committee must have been frantic indeed to spawn such a confusion of ideas that has no relationship to equity, economy, or education and borders on the unreasonable or irrational. [More…]

• In the light of the promises given by Mr Whitlam and his cronies for the purpose of capturing votes in order to gain office and receiving a report such as this which divorces the real benefits of our system from a significant section of the non-government school students, this Party would deserve to earn discredit if it did not fight to establish the principle that every child in this country is entitled to receive 100 per cent of the cost of his state school education if he wants it- and I took it- or, if he goes to an independent school, that he is entitled to such proportion of that expenditure as the Federal Government of the day decides. [More…]

• All we ask is that the Government carry out the promise made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, before the election, namely, that if the Labor Party were elected to office it would at least maintain the basic per capita grants given to every school. [More…]

• The ALP has never voted against any Bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education and it will support any forms of benefit already existing. [More…]

• On 27 October 1972 the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, said at Haberfield: [More…]

• That is the promise made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My Party, the Country Party and the Liberal Party are firm upon the point that those schools are entitled to payments under the terms of the promise of the Prime Minister and the promise of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It will spend $700m on education. [More…]

• I know of innumerable instances of mothers who go to work to try to give their children a better education. [More…]

• All this is done in the sacred cause of education. [More…]

• I believe it is an honour to support this recommendation that the Prime Minister should keep the promise that he and the Minister for Education made. [More…]

• I believe that is a measure of the interest that the Opposition takes in education. [More…]

• The promise which was made by the Governmentby the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) - that it would not disadvantage any student as a result of its education policies has been repeatedly emphasised this evening. [More…]

• I think that this tends to bring out the cargo cult attitude to education of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]

• We support the overall right of all citizens to a freedom of choice in education, a right that the State should recognise in an effective way by giving all citizens, all children, some access to public funds for education. [More…]

• But we are adamant that the Labor Party should honour its pre-election and post-election promises that no student in Australia will be disadvantaged as a result of its education policy. [More…]

• My view was that every school in this country, including Geelong Grammar School, should receive a basic grant from the Commonwealth, and that the Commonwealth should have an identity with the education of every child. [More…]

• In the report which was presented in February 1972 by the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts there was a dissenting report by Senator James McClelland in which he quite clearly indicated a basic viewpoint. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s constitutional power to support education is probably limited to helping finance the inculcation of knowledge which is, in a religious sense, neutral. [More…]

• It can concern itself with training men and women to be teachers, but hardly to be purveyors of a ‘Catholic theory of education’. [More…]

• I know that if Mr Beazley were still Minister for Education it is unlikely that this imbroglio would be taking place. [More…]

• In view of the Australian Government’s announced intention to take over the full financial responsibility of all tertiary education, will the Minister take steps to see that all institutions receiving Federal funds accept the fundamental principle that no student will be discriminated against as a result of his race, creed, politics or sexuality? [More…]

• I have sought the views of the Minister for Education and I now provide the following additional comments: [More…]

• I did see the news telecast in which there was quite a lengthy interview with Senator Rae who represented the Opposition and who put the Opposition ‘s point of view on the education Bills that were discussed in the Senate yesterday. [More…]

• This has become an unhappy experience for honourable senators and various members and supporters of the Government who have taken an interest in primary production, education, taxation or defence. [More…]

• The Opposition does not oppose any of them and in its usual cooperative way in relation to matters involving education wishes to see the greatest expedition possible in the achievement of educational objectives. [More…]

• They have been a little slow coming to fruition, perhaps, because of the Government’s over-concentration on some other aspects of education. [More…]

• For instance, it is proposed to change the name, for some unknown reason, of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• But the Opposition says that if that is what the Government wants then by all means let it change the name by deleting the word ‘Australian’ from the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The work of the Commission on Advanced Education has increased. [More…]

• 3) is concerned, we were told in the second reading speech that it follows the assumption by the Government of full financial responsibility for tertiary education from January 1974, and tuition fees at universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and technical colleges will become the full responsibility of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• But apparently school children come into some special category which is to be singled out for a different principle to be applied to them by this Government from that which is applied by the same Government to tertiary education. [More…]

• We find that the Government is prepared to assume responsibility for the full payment of fees in relation to universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and technical colleges. [More…]

• One can only ask: Why does the Government wish to exclude 40 per cent of the children attending non-systemic schools in Australia from receiving the money promised in respect of their education? [More…]

• I might comment that it is interesting when considering this extraordinary attitude on the part of the Government to note that as late as 8 February of this year the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who introduced these Bills, said this in a letter to the Secretary of the Parents and Friends Federation of Victoria: [More…]

• That was said by Mr Kim E. Beazley, Minister for Education, in a letter dated 8 February 1973- long after the election and long after the promises that were made last year. [More…]

• They relate to such things as the extension of management education courses at the University of New South Wales. [More…]

• We believe that the building of a National School of Management Education in Australia will help develop a greater degree of sophistication and finesse in management in Australia. [More…]

• Although there has been this great hoo-ha by the Government in relation to education and its Budget, it is important to remember that of the $404m to be spent on education, which they claim is an increase of 92 per cent, $ 144.6m was a straight transfer of what had been States’ expenditure. [More…]

• That sum is to become Commonwealth expenditure and does not represent a single cent of extra expenditure on education. [More…]

• Of the remainder of the money, the largest percentage is in respect of programs recommended by the Australian Universities Commission and the Advanced Education Commission, both of which were approved by the previous Government before this Government came to power. [More…]

• It is a political hoax of massive proportions to claim that this Government, as a result of its initiatives, has increased expenditure on education in its Budget by $404m or by 92 per cent. [More…]

• It is a claim that has been made to mislead the public of Australia in the same way as the Government has attempted to mislead the public in relation to a number of other aspects of education development. [More…]

• We support these Bills but we simply deplore the duplicity and deceit engaged in in relation to the education debate in this country. [More…]

• Before I call Senator Drake-Brockman I want to say that, the Senate having agreed to have a joint discussion on these 5 education measures, it took me some time to decide what was relevant in debate and what was not. [More…]

• I think honourable senators would agree that we do not want another debate on education. [More…]

• If I am occupying the Chair at the time I certainly will have to permit the Minister to reply to his remarks but I ask honourable senators to keep to the Bills that are before the Senate and not to indulge in a repeat of the education debate. [More…]

• I congratulate the Minister for Education, Mr Kim Beazley, who, even though we have caused him some trouble over the past couple of weeks, we all acknowledge is a man who has a very fine outlook in regard to education. [More…]

• He is a very broad minded man and one who is determined to do all he can to improve the status of education in this country. [More…]

• No system which determines whether a student should go to a university would be perfect, but I put that suggestion because education is taking an increasing amount of Commonwealth finance. [More…]

• I presume that the Government looked at the matter, but he is an authority in regard to university education and the attitude which he adopted- he wants to see universities advanced- was that he thought that an extraordinarily large sum would be involved, and he questioned whether that money could not have been put to a better use in some other educational direction. [More…]

• As teachers colleges are now becoming autonomous the desirability of a diversity of basic approach to education makes it opportune to consider the value of private teachers colleges. [More…]

• The Australian Government ‘s policy of full financial support for tertiary education makes the support of private teachers colleges a logical step. [More…]

• I congratulate it for introducing these Bills, and I congratulate the Minister for Education who has fathered them. [More…]

• I merely say to Senator McManus that the Department of Education has already taken note of the remarks which he made a fortnight or so ago when another Bill relating to scholarships was debated. [More…]

• The problems of employment, housing, and education for Aboriginal people are real problems indeed that need to be tackled with a sense of responsibility and concern in order to ensure that the Aboriginal people are provided with a program of self-help and not a program of handouts, under which money is made available without complete and proper supervision over how it is spent, without ensuring that it is used in the best interests and to the advantage of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The people involved must meet with the Aboriginal people in the local area and environment to look at the problems with which they are faced in these important fields of housing, employment, education and health. [More…]

• The officers could go to places such as Charleville or Cunnamulla in Queensland, meeting the Aboriginal people there and looking at their problems and opportunities in housing, employment, education and health. [More…]

• In this way, many of the problems faced by Aboriginal people today could be solved, particularly in the important fields that I have already mentioned three or four times- housing, employment, education and health. [More…]

• Unfortunately, some of these organisations, because of a lack of training, education, or business sense, have not always been wise in the way they have spent this money. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Australian Government has allocated $300,000 to replace radio receivers which are used in the education of children in isolated areas? [More…]

• I will answer this question in my role as Minister representing the Acting Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Government has decided to replace radio receivers which are used in the education of isolated children, and the expenditure involved will be provided by the Australian Government. [More…]

• Because Australia is a party to the international agreement it is bound by the agreement to change fixed service high frequency radio transmissions from the double sideband to the single sideband by the end of 1977, and the expenditure of $300,000 to replace these sets for the education of isolated children will take place in that transitional period. [More…]

• The precise terms of the Covenant in regard to education escape me, but generally the covenant refers to the preservation of religious freedom.’ [More…]

• But let me say that Bills on education, on workers’ compensation- and, it is contemplated, on national insurance, on the right of access to the Australian Loan Council by local authorities, on matters affecting inflation, on referendums- the present Prime Minister and the GovernorGeneral indicated three or four matters which were to go before the Australian people by way of referendum proposals- on the Australian Industries Development Corporation and on industrial matters, all of which could be regarded as cornerstones of the Government’s policies, have in one way or another been put aside, amended, rejected or deferred. [More…]

• But the growth in those 23 years, the advance in production, in education and so forth should really cause honourable senators to keep a decent silence if they maintained a little relativity about this. [More…]

• If this is so, why is the Government prepared to give an extra $2 7m for holidays to its public servants when it is not prepared to give an extra $5m for the education of children in this country? [More…]

• In clause 13, before sub-clause (1), insert the following sub-clause- ( 1A) In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall consult and co-operate with representatives of the States, with authorities in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory responsible for primary or secondary education in either or both of those Territories and with persons, bodies and authorities conducting non-government schools in Australia, and may consult with such other persons, bodies and authorities as the Commission thinks necessary. [More…]

• However, I do make these points: We see the Schools Commission as having a function in relation to the education of every child in Australia. [More…]

• We see it as of vital importance that there is an involvement in the Commission at the community level of parents, teachers, and people in some of the special areas of education. [More…]

• We wish to see that it is not left to the total discretion of the Minister, whoever he may be from time to time, to say: ‘I shall appoint so and so to the Commission’, without regard to these basic principles which we believe will make for a more successful Schools Commission and a better development of education in Australia. [More…]

• The whole tendency in this Government’s approach to the question of education has been to look at it from the point of view of the creation of and the interests of the institution which children attend. [More…]

• We believe that it is the children in education who are important, and not the institutions. [More…]

• To categorise education on the basis of the interests of the school as an institution rather than the pupil gives, I think, an interesting indication of the basic approach and attitude of the Government. [More…]

• It is not interested in giving each child in Australia an opportunity as an individual member of a free society to be able to obtain an education as an individual. [More…]

• This is why the Liberal Party stands by the principle that there should be within the Schools Commission and other areas of education a basic attention to the rights of the individual member of the Australian society, that the whole of the legislation should be drawn with that in mind, and that the interests of individuals rather than institutions and political parties should be looked to. [More…]

• This expression is used in a sloppy way by people who do not think about what is involved in real needs in education but who like a jazzy slogan which is a good shorthand way of saying something that might sound good to people who do not think about it. [More…]

• What are the needs of education in Australia? [More…]

• We are concerned because in our opinion the Commission will not always be representative of all the interested bodies and groups associated with education. [More…]

• But having debated the matter- I think it is before the Senate for the third time- in view of the importance of getting the new education program under way and for the education authorities, the States and the parents to understand and know where they are going in February of next year, my Party will not persist with its objection to this aspect of the Government’s Bill. [More…]

• I believe that every Australian has an interest in education and hopes that the Government will honour the undertakings given in its pre-election promises and in this legislation. [More…]

• Whilst not all the undertakings of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), especially in relation to independent schools, have been honoured the new provisions in the Bill at least respect the rights of the State Departments of Education and the independent school authorities. [More…]

• I believe that this proposed amendment meets our request that the State Departments of Education and authorities connected with and responsible for non-government schools should be brought into consultation and co-operation. [More…]

• We believe that this is the only way in which the Schools Commission will make an acceptable and meaningful contribution to education. [More…]

• For some weeks there has been a continuing struggle between the Government and Opposition, the background or the basis of which has been the attitude of the Government that education grants should be determined almost solely on a needs basis, and the attitude of the Opposition which could be summed up in the words that there should be equal treatment for every Australian child. [More…]

• As I have said before, the only thing on which I disagree with the Government- I understand that the Country Party will join with the Government on it so that the Government will win on it- is the inclusion of the provision that the primary obligation upon the Commission is to be in regard to education in government schools. [More…]

• I have noticed that clause 13(3) states that in the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary education in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in government and non-government schools. [More…]

• I appreciate the point that it could be argued that any statement by the Government that it has a primary obligation to government schools is qualified by the fact that it has said that its aim is equal treatment and equal improvements in education for all schools. [More…]

• Those are all qualifications in the direction of what my Party stands for, that is, the equality of Australian children in education. [More…]

• They not only subscribe, through the taxation they pay, to the government schools and to the aid provided to other independent schools but also have to pay for the education of their own children at schools which receive no assistance. [More…]

• It is in the expectation of that policy and to establish this Schools Commission that we have proposed these amendments, not so much as a proposal for an armistice- using Senator McManus ‘s term- as to get the education forces regrouped and moving on a forward and constructive basis. [More…]

• Our objective, despite what Senator Wood has said, is to obtain some equality of opportunity for all Australian children in the educational scheme of this country. [More…]

• Until educational assistance is put on an effective needs basis equality of opportunity cannot be implemented. [More…]

• They are the proposed amendment to page 6 of the Bill, to clause 13, before subclause ( 1 ), relating to cooperation with the States and the educational system representatives generally; and the other at page 7 of the Bill, to clause 13, whereby we would insert the words: and the need for ensuring that the facilities provided in all schools in Australia, whether government or non-government, are of the highest standard. [More…]

• In particular we will by our proposed amendments give prominence at the beginning of clause 13, which deals with the functions of the Commission, to the obligations of the Commission to consult and co-operate with education authorities in the States and the 2 Territories including those conducting nonGovernment schools. [More…]

• I have said already that it is the aim of the Government to obtain equality of opportunity in the education system of Australia. [More…]

• We regard research in relation to education as one of the most important developments which can occur to maximise the advantages which can come to the children of Australia from developments in our education system. [More…]

• For instance, we see the necessity for a combination of social research with educational research. [More…]

• We think it is desirable that there be a co-ordination and dissemination of the material available in relation to research on education carried out in various States of Australia by various institutions and universities and individual persons. [More…]

• If it is suggested that migrants should be settled in the area, surely there ought to be some reference to the emphasis to be placed on particular education programs for these people and on their social integration into the total community. [More…]

• The many other aspects which go to make up a city, such as the provision of education and religious worship, will be covered by State legislation. [More…]

• The Government applies the same principle to such a basic thing as health as it applies to education. [More…]

• We have been trying to tell the people of Australia, particularly honourable senators opposite, that we look on education as being the right of every Australian citizen, of every Australian child, from the kindergarten right through to university. [More…]

• One does not have to use much imagination to apply our policy in relation to education to health. [More…]

• I believe that this program and our policy on education are two of the most progressive and humanitarian legislative measures ever introduced into this Parliament. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to ask the Minister for Education whether he will contact his opposite numbers in the various States and investigate whether the States will agree to make competence in swimming compulsory in all Australian schools. [More…]

• In the meantime will the Government, where it has power such as in the Australian Capital Territory and its other Territories, initiate moves to have learning to swim made compulsory in the schools’ education syllabus? [More…]

• -This is probably much more a matter for the State Ministers for Education than it is for the Commonwealth. [More…]

• I do not know whether my colleague the Commonwealth Minister for Education can influence the curricula to be engaged in by the various States, but I shall certainly refer this matter to him to see what can be done about it. [More…]

• I think that the more money is made available for educational purposes generally the more will students who have not been able to afford these things in the past be enabled to do so in the future. [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware of the fact that Mr Chipp, who viewed the film himself, has described it as pornography from start to finish and that it is being promoted in an aura of respectability by the makers as a sex education film? [More…]

• if the school is a non-government primary school- an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 2 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• if the school is a non-government secondary school- an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 3 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year, [More…]

• if the school is a non-government primary school- an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 4 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school is included and the number of pupils receiving primary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• if the school is a non-government secondary school-an amount equal to the product of the amount specified in column 5 of Table 3 in Schedule 2 opposite to the category specified in column 1 in which the school in included and the number of pupils receiving secondary education at the school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• a sum of $62 in respect of every pupil receiving primary education at a non-government primary school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year; and [More…]

• a sum of $104 in respect of every pupil receiving secondary education at a non-government secondary school on the date in that year that is the schools census date for that State for that year, is payable to the school authority of the school. ‘ [More…]

• The Government also has sought to have the Schools Commission established as an independent statutory advisory body which will recommend measures for raising the standards of education in schools and for eliminating inequalities in opportunity among Australian school children. [More…]

• The Government has, by a series of rather shabby actions, marred an otherwise outstanding development in education in Australia. [More…]

• However, there is room for the principle for which the Liberal Party stands, and that is that there should be freedom of choice in education and that it is a fundamental concept in a free society that children should not be forced into one form of education which is controlled by the Government of the day. [More…]

• It has set out to divide effectively those who are involved in the provision of an alternative education scheme and an alternative opportunity so that the people of this country, particularly the children, have a choice. [More…]

• The proposals, as costed by the Department of Education, would cost about $4m extra a year. [More…]

• We have the repeated claim by the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) and other Government spokesmen that this is a move by the Liberal Party to look to the interests of the wealthy schools. [More…]

• We accept the situation but I repeat what I said yesterday- this does not determine the fight for educational equality, it is only an armistice and the fight will continue in the years to come. [More…]

• I think it was a pity that the Government did not follow the wishes of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who, as we all know, wanted to continue basic grants for category A schools but was overruled. [More…]

• If it does so it will not get itself into the problems which it got into in the last month or two on the education question. [More…]

• One of the interesting things about this question of education is that apparently when the Government took up this attitude its judgment was based not on the wealth of the individual but on the supposed wealth of certain schools. [More…]

• Certainly, the arrangements as they are now proposed which seek the approval of the Senate will enable the Government effectively to launch its education campaign and its education policies to bring equality of opportunity to all Australian children. [More…]

• In regard to the other figures that were referred to by Senator Wright, I understand that these were the subject of discussion between my colleague, the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) and the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony). [More…]

• If he directs a letter to me or to my colleague, the Acting Minister for Education, I will see that a reply is obtained for him. [More…]

• I simply say that it appears, in summary, that the schools which are being categorised have no basis upon which to plan with any certainty as to what is likely to happen to them after the end of 1975, which is a tragedy as far as the development of education in Australia is concerned. [More…]

• I think that in the nature of the studies and the training, it would not be suitable to be undertaken at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• However, the Bill has regard to the fact that some persons of 1 8 are still being educated and it does enable an order to extend beyond 18 to enable a child to complete its education. [More…]

• Looking through what my State is doing in relation to education I note that the Queensland Government has provided for 28.2 per cent more than the previous year’s allocation of $ 142.2m, which will allow for something like 1,829 additional teachers to bring the total strength to 16,763. [More…]

• As we all understand, this is a very important part of our education system. [More…]

• An education allowance was also paid where an officer left a senior secondary student child in Melbourne for the remainder of a school year or term. [More…]

• He was Chairman of the Standing Committee on Industry and Trade from 1971 to 1973; Chairman of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts from April to August 1971; Leader of the Australian delegation to the 58th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at The Hague in 1970. [More…]

• Then he was appointed to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, reflecting his university training and his interest in education. [More…]

• He was born at Mittagong in 1892 and received his tertiary education at Sydney University. [More…]

• He was a school teacher from 1910 to 1949 and an examiner with the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]

• As the Leader of the Government in the Senate has said, John McCallum was an educationist. [More…]

• He was one of the lecturers who delivered the old Workers Education Association lectures. [More…]

• The proposed legislation will penalise parents who try to exercise this choice, and discourage them from making a vital financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Senate in Parliament assembled should acknowledge the right of every Australian child to equal per capita grants of government money spent on education. [More…]

• I am not sure whether it is a matter for my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) or my colleague the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham). [More…]

• Nonetheless, I will refer the matter to my colleagues the Minister for Education and the Minister for Health. [More…]

• Important measures affecting health, education, and consumer protection have been either rejected, delayed or put aside by these people who have bulldozed the Australian people by their decision to oppose the implementation of the policies which the people adopted. [More…]

• That is the promise by the Labor Party that if it were elected to power it would in a short time bring to the Aboriginal people of Australia a new deal, giving them a chance for dignity, good housing, good education and employment. [More…]

• The Labor Party policy speech on pre-schools stated that it would make pre-school education available to every Australian child. [More…]

• The Association claims that the Government is repudiating its policy, is in fact refusing to adopt the Fry report on pre-school education and is moving into a form of child care instead. [More…]

• In our first Budget we committed $843m to education, almost double the expenditure of our predecessors in that area. [More…]

• But you could not get away from admitting that the Karmel report was a tremendous achievement and has given the go-ahead for education in Australia. [More…]

• Consider the degree to which we have taken over responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]

• We have abolished fees for tertiary education, a revolutionary concept in Australia. [More…]

• The young people in our universities must, and do, appreciate the fact that higher learning and tertiary education is no longer an area of perpetuated vested interest, that people can aspire to achieve the highest and widest range for their talents- and we are providing the basis for this. [More…]

• Not only that, we provided an educational allowance of up to $304 a year for children in their final 2 years of secondary school. [More…]

• I wish to deal now with some of the things which have been said this evening about education. [More…]

• I am conscious that enormous amounts have been made available for education. [More…]

• But the Government seemed to be of the opinion that children who are to receive any government assistance in their education must attend a government school. [More…]

• They are wealthy because people have worked and have made sacrifices to that their children will get the best education money can provide. [More…]

• That is another example of the hypocrisy of this Government in its attitude towards education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Will the Government take urgent steps to overcome its own internal problems so that it may take some positive steps to implement a preschool and child care scheme to ensure that even more educational institutions are not forced to close down? [More…]

• -Being in the position of representing the Minister for Education, I am unaware of any internal problems within the Government in relation to the implementation of the Government’s policy for pre-school children or, for that matter, any other reason. [More…]

• I shall obtain a reply from my colleague, the Minister for Education. [More…]

• (New South Wales- Minister for the Media)- On behalf of the Minister for Education and pursuant to section 7 of the States Grants (Independent Schools) Act 1 967- 1 972, 1 present a statement of the payments made to independent schools in each State for the year ended 3 1 December 1972. [More…]

• I find that the Government certainly has not carried out its election promises in that field or, as I mentioned earlier, in the field of education. [More…]

• I warn my young friends that I will have no truck with the other kind of black power which, I know, brings in its wake violence, and I warn against it as I have done previously and as I will continue to do.I say to those of my race who are young, who have had the advantage of an education and who are articulate: ‘Use these God given talents to influence the thinking of non-Aboriginal communities’. [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 must ensure that the genuine problems of health, housing, education and employment, along with the associated problems, are solved satisfactorily. [More…]

• In the field of education it was an emotional sort of thing, and it was doubtful who was responsible for making the decisions. [More…]

• As a result of work done by the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the new inquiry may very well recommend that we go into the very high frequency band instead of the ultra high frequency band, which, in the long run, will save Australia some millions of dollars. [More…]

• They enjoyed here improved standards of education and accommodation, whilst activities relating to integration also were strengthened and improved. [More…]

• My third priority refers to education. [More…]

• September of last year, shortly after the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts produced its second progress report on all aspects of television and broadcasting, including the Australian content of television programs, and I and officers of my Department were able to consider it, I recommended to the Government that an independent inquiry should be held into frequency modulation broadcasting. [More…]

• Most of the aid in education is given by bringing graduates, university people and the like to Australia. [More…]

• Education, Science and The Arts [More…]

• The Bill now before the Senate reimburses the States for abolishing fees in government technical education. [More…]

• It is the concluding part of a sequence of actions to make tertiary and post secondary education free. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall legislation passed in the Budget session of 1973 which gave effect to the Government’s policy of abolishing fees in universities and colleges of advanced education from the beginning of 1974. [More…]

• The Bill now before the Senate rounds off this policy by abolishing fees also in technical education. [More…]

• The Government has a clear commitment to do this based upon its belief that a student’s merit rather than a parent’s wealth should decide who should benefit from the community’s vast financial commitment to tertiary education. [More…]

• The total program of assistance to the States for technical education from 1 July 1974 onwards is to be reviewed following consideration by the Government of the recommendations of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) expects to receive the report of that Committee within the next few months. [More…]

• It is to be noted that the list includes some colleges of advanced education which in addition to tertiary courses provide courses at technician level. [More…]

• Consistent with the arrangements adopted at the tertiary level, adult education courses have riot been included as they are mainly of a hobby or general interest nature. [More…]

• This legislation demonstrates once more the determination of the Australian Government to open up opportunities to post-secondary education as a complement to its efforts for primary and secondary education. [More…]

• Technical education is an investment in national efficiency. [More…]

• It arises as a result of a decision of the Government in relation to the abolition of fees for technical education. [More…]

• If the people are not yet able to see the need to change the Constitution it ought to be part of their general education to have the debates in this place presented to them; then by a campaign, to try to make them understand that the responsibilities of government require that they should look at this matter in a more responsible way. [More…]

• There is a lot of ballyhoo talked about the Commonwealth, about what it does and about the money it spends on education, hospitals or anything else. [More…]

• For the benefit of Senator Carrick and also for Senator Webster, who has suddenly come into the chamber and starts to interject after having heard perhaps one-tenth of the debate which has taken place, I will read the preamble from the platform of the Australian Labor Party which is quite clear and which I feel should be written into the record for their education and for the education of some of their colleagues. [More…]

• We have injected massive expenditure into education and if we are given assistance or a fair go from the Opposition Parties we will do the same in the field of health. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, is related to the Government’s election policy speech in 1972 and the Prime Minister’s commitment to establish a pre-schools commission as part of the program of national enrichment. [More…]

• Will the Government introduce this session legislation to establish a pre-schools commission to fulfil the election policy commitment and thus avoid further delay in a national responsibility to provide adequate educational opportunities? [More…]

• I undertook to obtain information from my colleague, the Minister for Education, to provide to Senator Rae. [More…]

• The same situation applies in relation to education grants. [More…]

• The various States receive grants which are additional to the normal education grants. [More…]

• These additional amounts are voted to the various States for the education of Aboriginal people where there are special requirements. [More…]

• -Has the Minister representing the Minister for Education noted the statement made by the Secretary of the [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the recommendations contained in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education Science and the Arts on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education which urges the establishment of particular training courses for teachers to meet the special learning difficulty need and the further reference in the Karmel report calling for urgent and early consideration of the matter? [More…]

• I do recall seeing the statement to which the honourable senator has referred, and I know that recently something was said about this matter by my colleague, the Minister for Education. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I lay on the table a report of the Australian Universities’ Commission entitled ‘Courses in Special Education at Universities’ dated November 1973, together with a statement by the Minister for Education, the Honourable K. Beazley. [More…]

• There are the disastrous rural policies of the ALP; the disastrous Aboriginal affairs situation in Western Australia; the takeover of tertiary education; the takeover of local government and the devastation to the road program in Western Australia for the period 1 974 to 1979 by a massive reduction in funds. [More…]

• I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that some teachers in the Northern Territory have not been paid for 7 months and that the Federal Government owes approximately Sim in salaries to 600 teachers in the Northern Territory? [More…]

• This is the first time in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Education that I have heard of anything of the nature referred to by the honourable senator. [More…]

• All I can do is undertake to refer the matter to my colleague, the Minister for Education, in another place and obtain what information I can for the honourable senator. [More…]

• However, the Bill has regard to the fact that some persons of 18 are still being educated, including receiving vocational training and under apprenticeship, and it enables an order to extend beyond 1 8 for a child to complete his education. [More…]

• I have already mentioned that the court may make an order for the maintenance of a child over 18 to enable him to complete his education, but will be able to do so only where not making such an order would subject the child to substantial hardship. [More…]

• Thirdly, additions have been made to the functions of the Race Relations Council to reinforce its role with respect to the promotion of education and research. [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…]

• I would be remiss, Mr President, if I did not also use this opportunity to extend my thanks to the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts for the role they have played in this area. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present statements by the Honourable Kim Beazley, Minister for Education, entitled ‘Interim Program for Pre-school and Child-care Services and Progress under the Child Care Act’. [More…]

• It referred to the fact that the area of greatest inequality in education is that of pre-schools. [More…]

• The issue involves not only education; it is part of the fundamental issue of equality. [More…]

• Is it social welfare or is it education? [More…]

• We will provide $2Sm a year over the next three financial years for capita] and recurrent expenditure to assist the States in their efforts to expand pre-school education. [More…]

• The policy of the Liberal and County Parties, so far as their education committee is concerned, will be to ensure that there is adequate available space for both pre-school and child care programs. [More…]

• As regards Senator Rae’s remarks about the paper that I have presented on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), I remind the Senate that the previous Government had some 23 years in which to do a lot about child care, but it did very little other than to express some concern about the problem that was manifesting itself as a result of the inadequacies of the undertakings and policies pursued by the previous Government. [More…]

• Frankly, we would have liked to have seen them carried out at a much more rapid pace but everyone remembers the fiasco on education that went on in this chamber for 4 or 5 months last year when the Government’s efforts to get its educational proposals accepted by the Australian Parliament were being thwarted. [More…]

• The Minister for Education set out in his statement on this interim program for pre-school and child care centres the assistance approved for each State as well as comments on aspects of the assistance. [More…]

• They deal with training opportunities, health, education, employment, housing and the law as well as other matters. [More…]

• The plan provides for a shift of resources from consumption and maintenance spending to spending on investment and durable capital items, namely new equipment and infrastructure of bases, training and education facilities, more efficient storeholding, and living and working accommodation that accords with community standards. [More…]

• Much is being done to improve the training and the professional education of servicemen. [More…]

• It will provide, in the one establishment, education at a tertiary level for officer cadets of all 3 Services, for some cadets from overseas, and for selected serving officers. [More…]

• As a Parliament, we ought to be trying to increase at least the number of our patrol vessels and the number of our aircraft even if it means taking money from education. [More…]

• In my opinion, education is highly overcapitalised at this time, to the extent that many of our highly educated people are claiming unemployment benefits which are costing Australia over $40m a year on the latest figures that are available. [More…]

• In my younger days, with great enthusiasm, I helped sponsor free schemes for workersworkers education societies. [More…]

• The Choice 9th International Educational Film Festival of Ministry of Education (Iran) 1972 [More…]

• He will cut down on education, health and social services. [More…]

• Does the Minister not agree that the lack of any clear proposals by the Opposition, together with its obsession with public spending, must mean that it would want to cut spending on education, health and welfare? [More…]

• From reading the transcript, it appears to me that on a number of occasions Mr Snedden has stated clearly that he will reduce spending on social welfare and education, but particularly - [More…]

• These include $2.4m for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to provide for award wage employment of Aboriginals formerly employed under the training allowance scheme in the northern Territory; Department of Education, including $ 1.1m Tor secondary grants to Aboriginals and $1.3m for assistance to isolated children; $ 1 1 .5m for the Department of Foreign Affairs for payment under the National Wheat Agreement- Food Aid Convention; $5.1m for the Department of the Media for increased costs of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; $1.5m for the Department of Minerals and Energy for oil search subsidies; $600,000 for the Department of Primary Industry for emergency adjustment assistance to the apple, pear and canning fruit industry; $2. [More…]

• I now turn to education. [More…]

• The Government promised that no child would receive less from the Government for education than he was receiving from the then government. [More…]

• They do not want money being spent on health and education in a myriad of ways in order to overcome 23 years of neglect. [More…]

• In the case of the Department of Education, teachers in Australian Capital Territory schools have been employed by it since 1 January 1974 whereas they were formerly employed, on a reimbursement basis, by the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]

• Grants to cover the cost of repair and restoration of assets of the Queensland University and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Minister for Education- the Hon. [More…]

• I have always felt that one of the 2 very proper functions of government were to protect the weak and the disadvantaged sections of the community, those people who through accident of birth or lack of education could not protect themselves. [More…]

• There are still some areas where parents do not believe that girls need an education because after all they are going to work as a clerk or a typist for some little time and will then get married. [More…]

• Those who have read the history of social and economic reform will realise that the same tactics were used in respect of reforms for the introduction of the age pension, the introduction of workers’ compensation, the introduction of the 48-hour week, the 44-hour week and the 40-hour week, the imposition of restrictions on child labour and the introduction of universal education. [More…]

• The Speech outlined moves to centralise control over roads, railways, public transport systems, education, hospitals and housing. [More…]

• The field of education was also dealt with in His Excellency’s Speech. [More…]

• The Government which came into office in 1972 inherited a situation in which there was gross inequality in educational opportunity in Australia. [More…]

• Although the Government’s program may be criticised in detail, it represents a massive commitment to the abolition of the inequalities in educational opportunity which existed throughout Australia. [More…]

• There is freedom from the blight of unemployment and there is the question of equality of opportunity in education. [More…]

• The areas of disadvantage include the fields of education, cultural activities, social activities and community amenities. [More…]

• In the primary and secondary education field, payments to Queensland for all primary and secondary schools increased from $llm in 1972-73 to $27m in 1973-74, which is an increase of 145 per cent. [More…]

• In the field of tertiary education, payments to Queensland increased from $20m in 1972-73 to $53m in 1973-74, which is an increase of 165 per cent compared with an increase of 150 per cent for all other States. [More…]

• Capital assistance to Queensland in the field of technical education has risen from $1.9m in 1972-73 to $4m in 1973-74, which is an increase of more than 1 10 per cent. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has announced in addition that some of the functions that were formerly performed by Mr Grassby ‘s Department will be passed over to the Minister for Social Security, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, in some cases, the Minister for Education. [More…]

• A woman in Western Australia at least- I speak only of the situation there- cannot be a guarantor for her children to attend tertiary education institutions when a bonding agreement is necessary. [More…]

• I take a homely example from the State of Victoria where we have an education program which I think is without equal in any State of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• We all want to see improved standards of living and we all want to see better education, roads, hospitals and so on. [More…]

• We are using agencies in the States for welfare, health, education and housing. [More…]

• More recently, increasing emphasis has been placed- especially by IDA but also by the IBRD to a limited extent- on projects with greater social implications and more direct benefits for the masses of needy people in developing countries, in such fields as education, urban renewal, population control, public health and sewage, and improved agricultural credit and extension services for small farmers. [More…]

• I refer to the provision of medical education and research, preventative medicine and administrative medicine. [More…]

• Obviously the more the Government puts into medical education and research and preventative medicine the less it will have left to put into curative medicine. [More…]

• Maybe it is like the Opposition’s education program which was produced in April 1974. [More…]

• I wish to quote from page 70 of the Karmel report headed ‘Expansion of Medical Education’ produced in July 1973. [More…]

• I commend the whole of the supplement to honourable senators for their education. [More…]

• I can tell the honourable senator that, at or about the time of the recent double dissolution, arrangements had been made by my colleague the Minister for Education and me to hold a meeting with State Ministers for Education to consider the future of educational broadcasting throughout Australia. [More…]

• As a result of the double dissolution and the election we were not able to proceed with the proposed joint educational broadcasting conference. [More…]

• I am now asking officers of my Department to confer with officers of the Department of Education to make arrangements again for the early convening of an Australian Government-State Government conference of this nature. [More…]

• Pursuant to Section 6 of the States Grants (Secondary Schools Libraries) Act 1971, on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education I present a statement describing the arrangements in accordance with which payments under this Act have been authorised in 1973. [More…]

• The other paragraph in this document which 1 wish to quote contains the Minister’s comment on the recommendation made by the Senate Select Committees on Air and Water Pollution in Australia in relation to public education and encouragement. [More…]

• I believe there is an enormous area for the involvement of taxpayers funds in this country- defence, education, welfare, economic incentive and so forth. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -This matter falls within the ambit of my colleague the Minister for Education whom I represent in the Senate. [More…]

• I have briefly read the contents of the report to which the honourable senator refers but I am unaware of the extra-curricular activities which exist throughout educational institutions in Australia. [More…]

• I shall direct the question to my colleague the Minister for Education in another place and obtain a reply for the honourable senator. [More…]

• Only yesterday Mr Barnard pointed out that he had not finished his study of the report on school cadet units and that he had asked the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, and the Minister for Tourism and Recreation, Mr Stewart, to consider it. [More…]

• I refer to such things as better education, hospitalisation, social services and so on. [More…]

• In calling upon the taxpayer to subsidise big business in this way, money that could have been used for child care centres, education or other welfare programs was no longer available. [More…]

• I know that I speak not only on behalf of the women in Australia who seek to have a greater participation in our economic activity but also on behalf of those women who need the child care facilities to enable them to give members of thenfamily what has been established now as the average standard in education and opportunity. [More…]

• In the first instance I was, on behalf of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh), to carry out an on the spot in-depth examination of conditions that the Aborigines in that region were experiencing in relation to housing, education, health, and work opportunities among other things. [More…]

• The report shows that the Aborigines in that region, generally speaking, are suffering from deplorable conditions in terms of housing, education, employment opportunities and the provision of health services. [More…]

• I do not propose to go into detail and, if it is so wished, I am happy to table a document prepared by the Education and Welfare Group of the Legislative Research Service of the Parliamentary Library relating to the voting rights of Aborigines in State and Federal elections. [More…]

• Last year in Aboriginal assistance the Australian Government gave to Victoria $557,000 for housing, $84,000 for health, more than $250,000 for education and $32,000 for unemployment purposes as special works grants. [More…]

• It will support education, social services, counselling services and communication work through television. [More…]

• The Australian Council of Social Services report states that in most of the inner city areas there are inadequate health, education and welfare facilities. [More…]

• We heard the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) talk before about the Leader of the Opposition’s electorate of Bruce. [More…]

• Their needs are not only in respect of health, education and housing, the whole ambit of their needs, is carted into this Parliament on the basis of what would be good legislation or legislation in their interests. [More…]

• How could anyone suffering inflation trust it when it won an election just a few months ago and promised everyone faithfully that only Whitlam and his Government would be able to save their employment, cure inflation and provide $130m for preschool care and education? [More…]

• One hundred and two years ago the various States embarked upon an education system to deliver to the furthest part of Australia the same quality of education as they would deliver to anybody who lived in the city. [More…]

• Our basic position- and it is the primary intention of this program- is that health care services should be provided in the same way as is assistance for education; it should be provided as a social utility available as a right to every Australian rather than as a commodity to be traded or as a privilege to be purchased. [More…]

• For example, it must cut down our capacity to spend on education, conservation, defence, roads, urban improvement and pensions. [More…]

• To put it in some form of perspective, if this scheme were in operation today the extra cost would mean that the entire Commonwealth spending on defence, plus the entire Commonwealth spending on education, would be totally obliterated. [More…]

• The total spending on defence and education by the Commonwealth was $2,200m but the extra cost of this scheme is $3,000m. [More…]

• Cut out education and defence spending entirely and we still have not got the $3,000m that would be needed, on the clear statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam), to meet the cost of the scheme. [More…]

• To put the position in perspective, we claim that to fund the scheme would take all present Commonwealth spending on defence and education. [More…]

• Our medical education, medical research, administrative medicine, curative medicine and preventive medicine all exist for the patient- and one at a time, not in big groups. [More…]

• There are great and growing needs of the people for better housing, health, education and for the whole quality of life in which the modern city has failed so badly. [More…]

• These needs are so great and are growing at such a rate that they cannot be met from the proceeds of taxation on individuals, or from charges made in the public sector, or from charges made for health or education or housing. [More…]

• I can further instance its wages policy, trade union education policy and so on. [More…]

• We also had to take account of our commitments to other programs of high priority such as education, health and social welfare and above all of the general state of the economy. [More…]

• I have here a telex copy of statutory declarations that have been filed in the Supreme Court by 2 people, Lance Johnson, an Anglican priest and sub-warden of St George’s College at the University of Western Australia, and Harold Badger, the Director of the Melba Conservatory and a resident of Melbourne who has been in Perth attending the conference of the International Society for Music Education. [More…]

• I think that one of the incidental tragedies of this whole matter has been the unfortunate conclusion to the congress of the International Society of Music Education which took place in Perth. [More…]

• Therefore, having regard to the policy of making grants on the basis of needs, the Government in adopting all the other recommendations of the Karmel Committee for a 2 year program costing in all some $694m- and I say with pride that the Labor Government stands on its record of assistance to education and Australian school kids - [More…]

• Whilst I personally have not been to the school, I assure the honourable senator that again I will draw his remarks to the attention of my colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]

• I remember that, as Minister representing the Minister for Education in this chamber, I tabled the reasons for the classifications during an education debate last December. [More…]

• I will draw the honourable senator’s remarks to the attention of my colleague, the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that many students in secondary schools and tertiary institutions have missed out on Federal Government allowances because inflation has taken parents’ income above the means test limit? [More…]

• I can tell the honourable senator from information I have received from my colleague the Minister for Education that these aspects of the scheme are being reviewed. [More…]

• Several programs have a high priority, such as education, welfare, health and above all, the general state of the economy. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the concern that the Minister has always shown for the special difficulties migrant children experience in gaining an education in Australia, will the Minister take whatever steps are possible to alleviate immediately the lack of proper accommodation and facilities experienced by staff and pupils at the Brunswick Girls High School in Victoria where, apart from the fact that the building is a disgrace to the Victorian Government in any circumstances, twothirds of the pupils are of migrant origin? [More…]

• My colleague the Australian Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, has approved Brunswick Girls High School as a disadvantaged school under the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: ( I ), (2) and (3) No. [More…]

• Details of Australian Government approvals under this program were advised to the Victorian Minister for Health in a letter from the Minister for Education dated 10 April 1974. [More…]

• The Department of Education keeps in close touch with State Departments and agencies about the development of projects approved under these programs. [More…]

• Although he received little formal education, he qualified as an engineer by correspondence course. [More…]

• When does the Minister anticipate that he and his colleague the Minister for Education will be able to meet State Ministers for Education to discuss plans for the development of television and audio visual systems in Australian schools? [More…]

• I assume that the honourable senator is referring to the survey being undertaken by my Department in conjunction with the Australian Department of Education to ascertain the availability in schools of film, television and audio visual facilities. [More…]

• The project was undertaken by my Department in conjunction with the Australian Department of Education earlier this year. [More…]

• When those results are available I certainly shall discuss with my colleague the Minister for Education the question raised by the honourable senator about making the results public. [More…]

• As far as the conference with State Ministers of Education on the subject of educational broadcasting is concerned, we had tentatively made arrangements earlier this year for a conference to be held, I think, early in May. [More…]

• The most politically sensitive of the committees still in abeyance is on Arts, Education and Science which, under the chairmanship of Senator James McClelland, has been conducting a wide-ranging inquiry into television and radio in Australia. [More…]

• Within this context the obvious implication is that in my capacity as Manager of Government Business in the Senate, conjointly with my responsibility as Minister for the Media, I was responsible for delaying the reconstitution of the Senate standing committees, especially the Committee on Education, Science and the Arts and thereby ignored my responsibility to the Senate. [More…]

• Education, Science and the Arts; [More…]

• Education, Science and the Arts; [More…]

• I do not think anybody would deny that the work done by the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts has been of great value. [More…]

• I think of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• It has been of enormous benefit not only through the reports and the value which they have to the committee but also in the education of honourable senators themselves. [More…]

• The need for Federal Government assistance to the Playgroup Association of Queensland as a part of their preschool education program. [More…]

• that Playgroup be recognised as a necessary part of pre-school education and as such all expenses incurred by the parents be an allowable tax deduction; [More…]

• Mr Ermolenko had mentioned her christian name shortly after announcing plans to stay in Australia following the International School of Music Education Conference in Perth . [More…]

• Did you say on Monday that you did not want to see Professor Dimitri Kabalevsky (the Russian President of the International Society for Music Education )? [More…]

• On behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), for the information of honourable senators I present a report dated August 1974 by the Schools Commission entitled: ‘Supplementary Funds for Programs Administered by the Schools Commission’. [More…]

• On behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), I present for the information of honourable senators a report by the National Youth Council of Australia entitled: ‘The Recreational Priorities of Australian Young People’. [More…]

• Thus, loans have been made to assist the development of infra-structure facilities in the electric power, transport and communications sectors as well as for agriculture, water supply and education projects. [More…]

• Yet we are told in the Green Paper that no more than 4 per cent of our farmers have received a post-school education. [More…]

• In fact, of the developed nations Australia has the lowest percentage of farmers with a post-school education. [More…]

• I believe that this must be a cause for some concern on the part of the Government because, as I read the agricultural scene, having lived in it all my life, and as I see it projected into the future, it is very obvious to me that over the next decade or so people with no post-school education will not be able to cope with the intricacies and the techniques which are constantly evolving in agriculture. [More…]

• I believe that here is a task for some governments to give serious thought to, and frankly I do not know how one gives farmers a post-school education over any extended period if they are to continue to look after their farms. [More…]

• I should at least remind the honourable senator that one other area of increased expenditure this year has been an extra $60m spent on education in rural areas. [More…]

• I suppose it is a matter of judgment whether it is of more benefit to the rural community to give a subsidy on phosphate or to make sure that equal education opportunities are given to children who live in rural areas. [More…]

• -I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister seen a report in the Australian’ newspaper of Monday, 23 September, in which the education correspondence of that newspaper again raises the question of the failure of the New South Wales and Victorian governments to reveal their expenditure of Federal money on education? [More…]

• However, I know from discussions I have had with my colleague, the Minister for Education, and from answers that I have delivered in the Senate on behalf of the Minister for Education, that this information in regard to expenditure of Commonwealth moneys has been sought previously from time to time from the governments of New South Wales and Victoria but, as far as I know, so far without success. [More…]

• In relation to the second part of the honourable senator’s question, I can state that I am given to understand that there is considerable concern in Victoria about the efficiency of that State’s education administration. [More…]

• I think that it is fair to say that in New South Wales it is felt by a number of people that there should be a rethink on the question of education generally in that State. [More…]

• However, if the honourable senator requires further details from my colleague, the Minister for Education, I will gladly get them for him. [More…]

• The Government is not prepared to vary its previous decision and allocate more from the Budget to the Post Office because this could only be at the expense of our priority programs in the fields of education, welfare and health. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister reminded the Senate that the Asian Development Bank helped to finance facilities in the electric power, transport and communications sectors as well as agriculture, water supply and education projects. [More…]

• I have had the opportunity, both on my own and with a parliamentary delegation, of seeing something of these electric power, communications, water supply and education projects and they are impressive. [More…]

• It raises well over $lm in a calendar year not only for rehabilitation but also for development and programs of research, education and progress within the receiving countries. [More…]

• The report proposes that the central maritime college should be a part of the college of advanced education system. [More…]

• That committee has agreed to draft a submission to Cabinet requesting permission for action to be commenced to establish a central maritime college and to go ahead under the auspices of the Minister for Transport, the Minister for Education and the Minister for Agriculture. [More…]

• In meeting these social and economic needs in areas such as medical assistance, education, agricultural extension services and temporary housing, Australia would be joining Canada, the Netherlands, West Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and other countries, together with the specialised agencies of the United Nations such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the United Nations Childrens Fund, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation and the World Health Organisation in giving humanitarian assistance to the African national liberation movements. [More…]

• Then, in August 1 973, the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts presented to the Senate an interim report which recommended the establishment of a new and independent inquiry into frequency modulation radio broadcasting in Australia. [More…]

• Education, Science and the Arts: Senator Carrick, Senator Georges, Senator James McClelland, Senator Martin, Senator Milliner, Senator Scott. [More…]

• Let us take a look at another one of the Budget’s so-called ‘soak the rich’ provisions- the reduction in the educational tax allowance from $400 to $150. [More…]

• The Labor Party may believe that the decision to reduce the taxable education allowance struck a blow at privilege, but the decision hit not only private schooling which the Party hates so much; it also affected the parents of all children who have to wear school uniforms. [More…]

• This Government- the champion of free educationis making it difficult for children to dress decently while they are learning. [More…]

• This Government is making it more and more difficult to keep children at school for their full secondary education. [More…]

• It is making it more and more difficult for students to take advantage of the improvements in education being made possible by the Govenment’s massive injection of funds into education. [More…]

• What is the use of having wonderful new schools, with the latest equipment and a teacher for every 5 pupils if the pupils are not able to continue with their education because of financial problems on the domestic scene? [More…]

• Firstly, he referred to inflation and, secondly, he referred to education. [More…]

• He said: ‘The crisis we are facing today is not education’. [More…]

• Of course it is not education -he admits it- because of the actions of this Government. [More…]

• I will deal with the problem concerning education, as Senator Withers sees it, later in my remarks. [More…]

• He began his remarks by saying that under this Government education was in trouble, and he referred to what we were doing to the people who had children going to school. [More…]

• Then he concluded his remarks by saying that education was not one of the crisis matters. [More…]

• They would bring expenditure on education back to where it was when they were in government. [More…]

• As I have said, those areas were education, health, social security, housing, and urban and regional development. [More…]

• I refer now to the amounts of money which were spent on education by the previous Government. [More…]

• The education of all Australians continues to be a particular concern of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Direct expenditure by the Commonwealth, including payments to the States for education, is expected to reach $426- up $72m. [More…]

• That does not say much for what the previous Government was spending on education. [More…]

• If we look at the reference to education in the Budget Speech in 1973-74, which was the first year of the Australian Labor Government, we find that Mr Crean said: [More…]

• For this Government, education is a top priority- it constitutes the fastest growing component of the Budget. [More…]

• We will provide $843m for education in 1973-74, an increase of $404m or 92 per cent on last year. [More…]

• It can be seen that in last year’s Budget we increased expenditure by the exact amount that the previous Government had spent overall on education. [More…]

• What I am concerned about is to ensure that the children of the underprivileged and the working class in this country get an opportunity to obtain a decent education so that they can compete with the sons and daughters of the silvertails who could not give a damn about the working class. [More…]

• Let us have a look at the proposed expenditure on education this year as announced last week in the Budget. [More…]

• Education remains one of the Government’s highest priorities. [More…]

• Last year, Australian Government expenditure on education almost doubled. [More…]

• For 1974-75, total outlays on education are estimated at $ 1,535m, an increase of 78 per cent on 1973-74. [More…]

• This year there is an increase of over $ 1 , 1 00m on education. [More…]

• Yet we have the Leader of the Opposition standing in this place and criticising this Government because it is to spend this amount of money on education. [More…]

• We have to spend it to overcome the neglect in education over the previous 23 years before Labor came into office. [More…]

• Of the amount of money which was allocated last year for education in Victoria, which is run by a Liberal government, a sum of $9m remained unexpended. [More…]

• As I said, money which we allocated to the Liberal Government in Victoria for expenditure on education could not be spent. [More…]

• But the Opposition has the hide to criticise our education program. [More…]

• I think I have illustrated quite clearly tonight that we are concerned about expenditure on education. [More…]

• The Opposition may quibble because we have cut down the taxation allowance in respect of education expenses from $400 to $ 1 50. [More…]

• With our highest ever standard of education in this country, the Government has chosen to play on what it believes to be a great mass ignorance and to play on lower elements in human nature. [More…]

• In the whole education debate there probably is no section which has been more unjustifiably slurred than that of independent schools. [More…]

• Our independent school system has contributed many great things to the educational system of this country and I hope it continues to do so. [More…]

• Our priorities are in areas such as education where we are concerned with the long term needs of the majority of Australian children. [More…]

• True it is that we consider that children in government schools have a greater educational priority than children in private schools, but since this Government came to office it has made $23i4m available to private schools for building programs. [More…]

• We have not ignored the interests of private schools; we have emphasised our priority, which is to the public sector of education. [More…]

• The Government promised a vastly expanded program of expenditure on what might be called the areas of social concern- health, education and so on. [More…]

• More of that income will be taken and devoted to spending on education, health, Aborigines and so on. [More…]

• We have got to get away from the ridiculous fiction that social welfare and education are obtained at no cost to the individual. [More…]

• We conveniently forgot that all children are entitled to proper education, proper care, and have a place to fill in this society. [More…]

• Proper care and proper education are as much concerned with what children do from the time they leave home and go into the schoolroom and what they do in their school holidays as they are about them passing exams and going to the university. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• All suburbs planned in this period except Belconnen 27 have areas identified for construction of educational facilities, including pre-schools. [More…]

• Education Planning Committee. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• The Weetangera pre-school is meant to provide preschool education facilities for Weetangera. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Following the statements by the Minister for Education approving further capital grants for non-government schools in Australia amounting to some $5. [More…]

• Our Government recognised the desirability of changes in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands which will be directed towards assuring for the people of the Islands higher standards of education, economic development and self government. [More…]

• The Government’s justification for limiting the advance is that if it were to increase the advance to the Post Office beyond that figure it would be at the expense of other government priority programs in the field of education, welfare and health. [More…]

• Eric Harrison was a man who did not come to public life blessed with the educational background which many people have in modern times. [More…]

• His formal education was a modest one but he had a tremendous urge to serve his country. [More…]

• From a working community background and with very little education he graduated from the ranks to become one of Australia’s most important men and certainly one of the most respected. [More…]

• I recall that when Mr Gorton was Prime Minister he complained about the great lack of education for management in Australia. [More…]

• This Bill provides grants for universities for a number of purposes- for universities to undertake programs high in the Government’s social and educational purposes. [More…]

• Special grants are to be available to specified universities to increase teaching and research in special education of the handicapped, to establish courses or chairs of community practice associated with community health centres, and to increase the number of social workers in training. [More…]

• In the legislation enacted during the 1973 Budget sittings provision was also made in Part IV of the First Schedule to the Act to establish a School of Management Education at the University of New South Wales. [More…]

• When the Australian Government assumed full financial responsibility for tertiary education from January 1974 amendment was necessary for proportions of payments to be made by State Governments. [More…]

• As I have already mentioned, the Australian Government assumed full responsibility for the financing of tertiary education from 1 January 1974 and since that time it has become evident that one of the exceptions contained in the existing definition of ‘fees’ in the principal Act relating to fees payable to student organisations requires clarification. [More…]

• There has been a tremendous increase in expenditure in the Budget on education right throughout Australia but I would like to refer to only one aspect of the education provisions and that is the reduction in the tax allowance from $400 to $150 a child. [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• We also see a Government that is spending money, and spending it heavily, in the areas of health and education and on other things that go towards making for the welfare of our people. [More…]

• He will remember that when his leader, during the last Federal election campaign, was asked which areas he would cut out, he found it very difficult to say anything, except to suggest cuts in expenditure on health, education and the other services which no selfrespecting government would cut. [More…]

• 1 ) That the national Curriculum Development Centre, in consultation with State and Federal education authorities, examine the desirability of co-ordinated long-term planning arrangements for the supply of basic teaching materials for the educational process. [More…]

• 5 ) That the Australian Government Departments of Education and Labor and Immigration in consultation with State technical education authorities explore the possibility of planning and co-ordinating at national level the production of core technical textbooks and manuals suited to the industrial techniques and conditions applying in Australia. [More…]

• That State education authorities be encouraged to consider the desirability of further application of the bulk buying principle, in light of the demonstrated benefits obtained by the Western Australian Government. [More…]

• It seems to me to be appropriate at this stage to mention the Government policy regarding the taxation deduction for education expenses of dependants. [More…]

• The stress placed by this report on the increasing prices of text books draws our attention to the fact that the $150 allowed as a taxation deduction in respect of dependent children is inadequate in view of the text books and other educational requirements of secondary students. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware, through the legislation which has been before the Senate, of the successive initiatives which the Government has taken in relation to universities: The abolition of fees and the assumption of full financial responsibility by the Australian Government, provision for needy students, new and expanded medical schools, and support for new programs in social work, special education and community practice. [More…]

• Professor Karmel himself has been heavily engaged in a number of special inquiries, quite apart from his historic work with the Karmel Committee on Schools, and is at present bringing to a conclusion the report on open tertiary education. [More…]

• It is a responsible Budget because it makes available an ever increasing amount to the States so that education, housing, sewerage, roads and public transport are not disadvantaged by private sector mismanagement of resources in this country. [More…]

• For example, expenditure on education has gone from $259.4m to $1,172. [More…]

• 9m, an increase of $9 13 m. I have not heard any member of the Opposition parties, either in the other place or here, suggest that there should be a cut in the education budget. [More…]

• It is from the tax on this system that the money is raised for education, social services and the like. [More…]

• It has rightly infused money, ideas and hope into the several education systems of this country. [More…]

• I turn now to education. [More…]

• We, as a Labor Government, are feeding back to the States money to be used in the fields of education and social security. [More…]

• I note that the headmistress of the West Brunswick High School in Victoria says that the Victorian Minister for Education will not tell her how this money has been spent. [More…]

• As I have said, the Whitlam Government Budget is concerned with education, health, social welfare and urban improvement. [More…]

• When the first Whitlam Budget was presented we sounded a tocsin in relation to education, health and social welfare. [More…]

• Is it to be spending on pensions, is it to be spending on education, is it to be spending on health or is it to be spending on grants to local and State governments? [More…]

• For once, even though there have been very serious inflationary crises throughout the world as well as in Australia, we have kept our promises relating to social welfare, education - [More…]

• -We have more than exceeded the claims made by anybody in regard to education and social welfare, as well as in regard to repatriation benefits. [More…]

• For example, we have made sure that the biggest single increase in the Budget is in spending on education. [More…]

• If the Liberals had been in power the people would not have had one-fifth of that amount spent on education. [More…]

• Would the educational grants to all the schools have been maintained? [More…]

• For heaven’s sake, what about the education vote, the welfare and the repatriation pensions? [More…]

• As a matter of fact, I think that one of the matters of which we can be justly proud is steps which we took to create in Australia a system of funding of universities and the development of opportunities for university education and for university research and academic life. [More…]

• So that this matter may be expedited I make no further comments although I do not wish that to be taken in any way as expressing a disinterest in the subject matter but rather an interest in getting the Bills through this House as soon as possible so that the money may flow and the changes may take place in the interests of the advancement of education. [More…]

• There is a great need at the moment for extra medical education and educational facilities. [More…]

• If the Labor Government is to proceed with medical education it will need more medical schools. [More…]

• The Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) will know that Dr John Stevens, a leading English general practitioner, has put in a comprehensive plan of medical education for the Wollongong situation and it could be put into action any time we wanted to do so. [More…]

• in reply- The Government appreciates the speedy passage which has been given by the Opposition to these 2 noteworthy pieces of legislation which were introduced by the Government as part of its general overall education program. [More…]

• In reply to the debate my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) set out at reasonable length reasons why the change was taking place. [More…]

• But just to bring someone in because she is an Aboriginal and has a good education is not right. [More…]

• I say briefly that it is an iniquitous thing that the tax allowance for education should have been reduced from $400 to $150 a child. [More…]

• If they want a situation in which there is no freedom of choice in the area of education, as in any other area, that is their business. [More…]

• It is for human concern in the face of a Government that could not keep its promise on increasing age pensions, which could not keep its promise in relation to education, which could not keep its promise in relation to pre-school care. [More…]

• There is much talk of the increase- in nominal figures- of 78 per cent in education. [More…]

• They should tell themselves that every education department in Australia has said that construction costs and salary increases in Australia this year will be approximately 40 per cent. [More…]

• So taken together there is not a penny extra to jingle in the whole education system, and the Government is talking about increases. [More…]

• It is the prime force which provides food, clothing, shelter, education, medical services, necessities and luxuries on a scale undreamed of a few centuries ago. [More…]

• The Budget will be a disaster in the State sphere for the State governments which have set up housing and education projects. [More…]

• For instance, my State of Victoria finds it wise to allocate over 40 per cent of its budget to education. [More…]

• Of course we have put a lot more money into education, health and social security. [More…]

• The Tribunal will have the power to determine salaries for universities and colleges of advanced education established by law in the territories and will recommend the rates of salaries which should be used as a basis for grants to the States. [More…]

• Clause 7 also provides that a member of the Tribunal shall not be appointed as chairman if he has in the past 7 years been a member of the full time staff of a university or college of advanced education. [More…]

• The Tribunal will deal with academic staff in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• It will also report on the rates of salaries for academic staff in other institutions of tertiary education and recommend the rates to be used for making grants to the States. [More…]

• Besides considering academic salaries, the Tribunal may report on the salaries of vice chancellors, principals, other chief executive officers, and other senior officers such as registrars and bursars in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82J of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $ 1 50 is $50 below the 1 956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• That we strongly oppose the introduction of legislation which would lessen the $400 education rebate to $ 1 50: [More…]

• That the reduction of the education rebate would prejudice the practice of this prior right as stated in Section 13, (4b), of the above mentioned Act. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government will take no measure to reduce the education rebate. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Education inform the Senate of the progress that has been made in the planning of the university to be established at Albury-Wodonga? [More…]

• The balance will be expended by other departments such as the Department of Education for study grants and secondary grants and special programs in the Northern Territory, by the Department of Health in the Northern Territory, and the Department of Labor and Immigration under its employment training scheme. [More…]

• However, some items of expenditure, such as the provision of education and health services at Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, while designed to meet the special needs of the Aboriginal people, al.so represent to some extent the equivalent of services provided for the general community. [More…]

• In summary, the policies of the Australian Government in respect of Aboriginal people might be described as seeking: to encourage and strengthen the capacity of Aborigines to manage their own affairs and to increase their economic independence; to enable Aborigines to have a real freedom of choice about their life style and the extent to which, particularly in the more remote communities, they maintain their traditional customs and culture- a freedom which can be exercised to the extent that communities have local authority, in particular through land ownership; to make equality a reality for Aboriginal Australians by working to overcome those handicaps which generally face them in fields such as housing, health, education, employment and civil liberties; in doing this, to help Aborigines themselves to provide services designed to overcome handicapsfor instance, through Aboriginal housing societies, medical services and legal services- and to act in the closest consultation with Aboriginal communities and individuals at both the national and the local levels. [More…]

• It has always regarded the provision of services such as health, housing, education, employment, legal aid and others to Aborigines as being the responsibility of functional departments and authorities. [More…]

• It is not the Australian Government’s intention to assume permanent responsibility for the activities of State departments in fields such as health and education in respect of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• There are approximately 50 children travelling frequently to Tasmania for higher education, and parents are concerned about them in small aircraft with the lack of these facilities. [More…]

• The only one to which I will specifically refer is the fraud one in education. [More…]

• In no way did the Government increase expenditure on education by anything like 94 per cent because more than one-third of the increase - $144m out of $4 16m- was simply a transfer of money which formerly had been paid to education by the Commonwealth through the States and now was being put into the Commonwealth’s education budget. [More…]

• It did not represent a single solitary cent of extra expenditure on education. [More…]

• It is important for us to remember that the Government has been living upon that fraud for some considerable time, inducing people to believe that it has done far more in increasing expenditure on education than it has in fact done. [More…]

• These areas are as follows: Dental therapy assistance, pre-school education, community recreation complexes, the State Strategy Plan, urban public transport, community health, community mental health and the National Estate. [More…]

• In a small State like Tasmania, with a small population which is spread across the State, some forms of social services, health and education cost more than they do in other States. [More…]

• For colleges of advanced education $14m has been provided, which is about 4 times the allocation of the previous 2 years. [More…]

• There is $2m for technical education which is 3 times the allocation for the previous 2 years. [More…]

• In September 1972, before the election, we were assured by the then Minister for Education and Science and by Senator Rae that the removal of the Antarctic Division to Tasmania was impossible and undesirable. [More…]

• We are spending more money on education and the arts. [More…]

• Despite the figures that Senator Rae quoted for education, the net total payment to education in Australia by the Australian Government in 1973-74 was $459m, after allowing for offsets, to be increased in the 1974-75 [More…]

• The grant for tertiary education has gone up from $ 11.4m in 1973-74 to $22.5m this year. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82J of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $ 1 50 is $50 below the 1 956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• It was an amendment well worthy of your support and we think it a great pity that you could not have expressed your personal opinions and done something to assist the State you represent instead of voting on Party lines scoring political points and mouthing arithmetic about aid in the field of education and health. [More…]

• It is vital to any community that those people who are concerned with the advancement of knowledge and with the education of our young people who are to take leading parts in every walk of life should be adequately remunerated. [More…]

• Has the Minister for the Media seen a report that the New South Wales Minister for Education, Mr Willis, was astounded recently to discover that the average school age child in Australia watches television for 28 hours a week? [More…]

• Can the Minister indicate what power the New South Wales Minister for Education has to direct the Australian Broadcasting Control Board in its audience research activities? [More…]

• I have seen the report in one of this morning’s newspapers which states that the New South Wales Minister for Education had said that he had had the Australian Broadcasting Control Board make a check on the figures relating to programs watched by school age children and their viewing habits. [More…]

• I doubt whether it can be suggested in those circumstances that the New South Wales Minister for Education has directed the Board to make the check to which the honourable senator referred. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82 j of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $150 is $50.00 below the 1956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is the Government aware of the hardships caused to families living in remote areas of Australia by the Government’s action in reducing the education deduction for taxation purposes from $400 to $ 1 50? [More…]

• -The honourable senator will be aware, when he criticises this Government in regard to its education policy generally, that this Government has spent more on education than has any other government since Federation. [More…]

• The honourable senator also refers to the problems of people in isolated areas insofar as those problems relate to the rearing of families and giving their children educational assistance. [More…]

• When members of the present Opposition were in government there was a lot of talk but little action about what was going to be done to assist children in isolated areas educationally. [More…]

• One of the first things this Government did when it came into office was to move in the area of giving very substantial assistance to parents of children in isolated areas for educational purposes. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I know that my colleague the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, is aware of the reports of deficiencies in the facilities of Victorian technical colleges and of the implications of those deficiencies for the training of apprentices. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and the Australian Government regard the technical college section of apprenticeship training as quite important and believe that the facilities in technical colleges should be improved. [More…]

• The Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education was established by the Government for the purpose of recommending programs in support of technical college facilities. [More…]

• For this reason- in the area of short films- I think it is important that those films which are films produced, for instance, as Australian documentary films must lie equally with those short films which could be in the entertainment area, the education area or in any other area. [More…]

• Something that has not got off the ground in Australia in the last 10 years is the production of educational films. [More…]

• I believe that the time will come when we will see education being delivered to school children not on the expensive basis on which it is delivered today. [More…]

• In my State of Victoria over 40 per cent of the total Budget is spent on education, in line with the demands of the people. [More…]

• The students will receive a top line delivery from the best educational service and advice that can be given. [More…]

• One’s imagination is fired by the thought that the various classifications of education can be delivered to the outback schools and to schools in country towns, not purely to the large schools in the cities where the expert instructors are encouraged to live and work. [More…]

• We will be able to deliver to the outback schools the top educational instruction. [More…]

• If, with the availability of finance, educational films can be produced in cassette form on the advice of the educational authorities throughout the country, we can make a universal type of education available on specialised subjects. [More…]

• Funds provided by the Australian Government to the States for education in 1971-72 ($204.9m). [More…]

• Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-70 1 present for the information of honourable Senators the report of the Council of the Canberra College of [More…]

• Advanced Education for the year 1 January 1 973 to 31 December 1973. [More…]

• This new allowance should be seen in the context of the broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children being developed by the Government. [More…]

• What I do regard as relevant to debate and to consider are complaints such as the complaint made by the Cooperative for Aborigines Ltd in a Press statement dated 4 October 1974 of which the heading is Government Failure to Sponsor Aborigine Education in Co-operatives a “Turtle Scandal in Reverse” ‘. [More…]

• While in Opposition, Government members pledged themselves to promote intensively co-operative education Ibr Aborigines, yet once in office, they have comfortably forgotten all about it. [More…]

• The allowances paid under the soldiers’ children education scheme to students undertaking secondary education, or industrial or agricultural training, will be increased by about 13 per cent. [More…]

• From shadow Minister for Education at the time of the last election, we have him emerging shortly afterwards as the shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and I pass no reflection on the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh). [More…]

• Will the Minister look at the situation in isolated areas with a view to setting up low powered AM stations for educational purposes? [More…]

• If this is feasible will he take the matter up with his colleague the Minister for Education and the necessary State authorities? [More…]

• -The whole question of the future use of radio for educational purposes is being looked at by the Government. [More…]

• The last conference that took place on this subject between the Postmaster-General in the previous government and the State Ministers for Education was as long ago as 1966. [More…]

• My colleague Mr Beazley, the Minister for Education, and I have been holding discussions on this matter. [More…]

• It was intended earlier this year to hold a conference between Mr Beazley, myself and the State Ministers for Education during last May but that proposal had to be cancelled because of the double dissolution. [More…]

• Since that time we have attempted to find a mutually convenient date to reconvene such a conference between Mr Beazley, myself and State Ministers for Education in order to discuss the matter generally. [More…]

• Within the growing up generation it is natural for girls to seek equally good vocational education as boys, and the girls who are now leaving school are probably in general prepared to have gainful employment during the major part of their adult lives. [More…]

• Women have been liberated and have different expectations, not only because their attitudes are different but also because their education is better. [More…]

• We need to commence this education in early childhood. [More…]

• We should start preparing people at an early age for marriage, the responsibilities of marriage and their role in the kind of relationships they will need to make, and we should keep this kind of education going forward. [More…]

• Yet in our educational system we give a high value to matters which are often largely irrelevant for the kind of life we will live. [More…]

• We must teach something much more than biology, and one of the criticisms of present day sex education is that it is too factual. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82J of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $150 is $50.00 below the 1956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourage them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82 J of the Income Tax assessment Act from $400 to $150 is $50.00 below the 1956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82J of the Income Tax assessment Act from $400 to $150 is $50.00 below the 1956-57 figure. [More…]

• That the parents to benefit most relatively from education! [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• -The Government recognises the desirability and need for changes in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which will be directed towards ensuring for the people of the Islands higher standards of education, economic development and self-government. [More…]

• I believe it is necessary that in every school there be some availability of discussion not only in the areas to which we have been alerted but also in respect of sex education, which was mentioned the other night. [More…]

• One high school student delegate claimed she had been actively discouraged from continuing her education after fourth form. [More…]

• I think it is a responsibility of government to make much more generous provision for the work of marriage guidance counselling, research into marriage and matters such as education for marriage and sex education. [More…]

• The change from the extended biological family we had in the past to the more fragile nuclear family, the increase in the breadth of education for women in our society and the changing role of opportunities for women have all made marriage a more stressful situation. [More…]

• But in the meantime the future of stable marriage, I think, lies in education in human relationships, in education in the home, in education in the schools, and in our whole way of life. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -My attention was drawn to the report and because I represent in the Senate the Minister for Education in another place I sought the views of his office and his Department on the matter. [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…]

• Amendments were made to the Bill to supplement the advisory role of the Race Relations Council with respect to education and research. [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…]

• Why did it not include a special study of salaries at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate as to whether there is a fixed relativity between academic salaries at universities and at colleges of advanced education, in view of the proposal contained in a press statement made on 14 July 1974 that “the outcome of the interim review would have application also for colleges of advanced education ‘ ‘. [More…]

• This review will include all academic staff in both the universities and the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• and (4) Relativities between academic staff in universities and colleges of advanced education will henceforth be a matter for the Academic Salaries Tribunal. [More…]

• 1 ) What was the total amount of the refund of tax allowed for education expenses in the most recent year for which information is available. [More…]

• What is the expected saving in revenue through the cut in the amount of the education deduction to a maximum of $150 per child. [More…]

• 1 ) As indicated at page 20 or the Statements attached to the 1974-75 Budget Speech, it is estimated that the cost to revenue of the concessional deductions for education expenses (including self-education expenses) was $130m in respect of the income year 1 972-73, the latest year for which figures are available. [More…]

• As indicated at page 86 of the Statements, it is estimated that the proposed reduction from $400 to $150 in the maximum amount claimable per-student for education expenses (including self-education expenses) would produce a full-year gain to revenue of $30m. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe in the principle that every Australian child, irrespective of the school he attends is entitled to economic support for his basic educational needs from the funds placed at the disposal of the Australian Government through taxation. [More…]

• Further, they believe that as a direct result of the recent Budget measure to reduce the taxation concession for education expenses from $400 to $150 a significant level of economic support, hitherto received, has been withdrawn. [More…]

• On behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and for the information of honourable senators I present a report prepared for the Department of Education entitled Recommendations Concerning Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory’. [More…]

• Again on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and pursuant to section 9 of the States Grants (Pre-School Teachers Colleges) Act 1968-1972, I present a statement of payments authorised under the Act during the financial year 1973-74 and projects in relation to which the payments have been authorised. [More…]

• The reduction from $400 to $150 a student as a taxation deduction for educational expenses is a wonderful example. [More…]

• I would like to remind the Senate that the people who find it the hardest to dress their children and to provide them with text books and amenities they need for their education are the average working people of this country and not the wealthy people at whom the Government has been aiming. [More…]

• It was this Government which gave the education authorities of this country for the first time sufficient funds to give every child in Australia a decent education. [More…]

• Before Estimates Committee C commenced its questioning on the estimates of the Department of Tourism and Recreation, Department of the Media and Department of Education I laid down guidelines for the procedures which would be followed regarding questioning. [More…]

• Senator Baume came in again at the latter part of the questioning on the estimates for the Australian Broadcasting Commission and on the latter part of the estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]

• This is the gem which fell from Senator Baume ‘s lips in the discussion on the estimates for the Department of Education: [More…]

• Moreover, the practice followed this year is consistent with that adopted in the past, e.g., the provision for the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, Division 237, Appropriation Act (No. [More…]

• There is a re-affirmation of that Committee ‘s recommendation on this occasion by the present Estimates Committee C. As I understand the situation, Senator Laucke is not actually querying the explanations that were given by me as the Minister responsible for reporting to the Committee on the 2 items to which he has referred, namely, the one relating to new expenditure being incurred by the Australian Government Advertising Advisory Council and the one relating to expenditure on youth activities by the Department of Education. [More…]

• Proposed expenditure- Department of Education, $275,522,000, and Department of Tourism and Recreation, $8,356,000- passed. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe in the principle that every Australian child, irrespective of the school he attends is entitled to economic support for his basic educational needs from the funds placed at the disposal of the Australian Government through taxation. [More…]

• Further they believe that as a direct result of the recent Budget measure to reduce the taxation concession for education expenses from $400 to $130 a significant level of economic support, hitherto received, has been withdrawn. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe in the principle that every Australian child, irrespective of the school he attends is entitled to economic support for his basic educational needs from the funds placed at the disposal of the Australian Government through taxation. [More…]

• Further, they believe that as a direct result of the recent Budget measure to reduce the taxation concession for education expenses from $400 to $150 a significant level of economic support, hitherto received, has been withdrawn. [More…]

• 1 ) Your petitioners believe in the principle that every Australian child, irrespective of the school he attends is entitled to economic support for his basic educational needs from the funds placed at the disposal of the Australian Government through taxation. [More…]

• Further, they believe that as a direct result of the recent Budget measure to reduce the taxation concession for education expenses from $400 to $130 a significant level of economic support, hitherto received, has been withdrawn. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82J of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $130 will impose an unfair financial burden on many parents with children attending school, both government and non-government, and particularly on parents with more than one child at school. [More…]

• That all parents have an equal right to receive government financial assistance for the education of their children. [More…]

• That many parents, unable to continue to send their children to non-government schools will have no alternative but to seek places for them in government schools where pressures caused by over-crowding and under-staffing are already affecting the quality of education the schools can provide. [More…]

• That it is undesirable that the large voluntary financial contribution being made to education in Australia by parents of children at non-government schools should be reduced. [More…]

• That the reduction in assistance to parents for education expenses will result in non-government schools being forced to become more socially exclusive whereas their own as well as the national interest will best be served by making available to as wide a socio-economic group as possible the kind of education they seek to offer. [More…]

• Whereas the Treasurer of the Australian Government has proposed that the concessional deduction for education expenses be reduced from $400 to $ 1 50. [More…]

• We, the undersigned, humbly petition the Senate to return any legislation which could give effect to such a proposal to the House of Representatives and request that the concessional deduction for education expenses be restored to $400 for each child attending an approved school or college. [More…]

• He is the director of the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82 J of the Income Tax assessment Act from $400 to $150 is $50.00 below the 1956/57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• I would like to ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I also suggest that the honourable senator place his question on the notice paper so that I can obtain a reply from the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The basic program for 1974-75 takes into account estimated capital expenditures of which the States would be relieved in that year as a result of the Australian Government’s assumption of full responsibility for financing tertiary education from 1 January 1974. [More…]

• Other moneys are to be spent on education, health and other matters. [More…]

• The State Government in Queensland, over a number of years, has accepted responsibility for these Aborigines to the extent that it provides for these communities in every field- education, health, housing, the whole box and dice of what is required. [More…]

• There was granted $1.2m for Aboriginal health which was not spent, and the grant given to Queensland for education and amenities was not fully spent. [More…]

• Apart from the magnitude of the education vote, a number of schemes, including the National Employment and Training Scheme, have been designed to give people the opportunity to take a study course where there is no employment available in their particular categories. [More…]

• Very few of us went on to high school and very few indeed went on to tertiary education in those circumstances. [More…]

• I think that there must be an accelerated and intensified program of education in studies of marriage, studies of successful home and family life and studies of human relations. [More…]

• Education for marriage; guidance on family planning and the responsibilities of family life to give effective support for the harmony and continuity of marriage. [More…]

• Provision of a suitable environment, the development of community amenities, education and health services, and the opportunity to obtain suitable housing as essential prerequisites of a sound family life. [More…]

• Whereas the Treasurer of the Australian Government has proposed that the concessional deduction for education expenses be reduced from $400 to$150, [More…]

• We, the undersigned, humbly petition the Senate to return any legislation which could give effect to such a proposal to the House of Representatives and request that the concessional deduction for education expenses be restored to $400 for each child attending a n approved school or college, [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under section 82J of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $ 1 50 is 50 below the 1 956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under section 82J of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $ 1 50 is $50 below the 1 956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• On behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), for the information of honourable senators I present schedules showing the position, as at 18 November 1974, for programs under the States Grants (Schools) Act 1972-1973 including amendments proposed by the States Grants (Schools) Bill 1974 which is currently in course of passage through the Parliament. [More…]

• There is a great demand for school furniture in Victoria, because of the increased expenditure on education. [More…]

• proceedings with respect to the maintenance of a party to the proceedings, settlements, the custody or guardianship of infant children of the marriage or the maintenance, welfare, advancement or education of children of the marriage, being proceedings in relation to concurrent, pending or completed proceedings of a kind referred to in either of the last two preceding paragraphs, including proceedings of such a kind pending at, or completed before, the commencement of this Act. [More…]

• proceedings with respect to the maintenance of a party to the proceedings, settlements, the custody or guardianship of infant children of the marriage or the maintenance, welfare, advancement or education of children of the marriage, being proceedings - [More…]

• I refer to some remarks that I made at the second reading stage of this Bill concerning education programs for people of secondary school age. [More…]

• Would an organisation such as those referred to in clause 12 (2) (a) and (b) be one that may engage in certain education programs, retreats, camps or whatever they have for people of secondary school age? [More…]

• The intent of this would not be to move into areas in which the Minister for Tourism and Recreation (Mr Stewart), the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and other Ministers are handing out funds in various ways. [More…]

• I am reminded of the field of education, where ties have applied to something like 50 per cent of the money that is made available at this time. [More…]

• I suggest that the Government faces this problem not only in the field of aid to local government but also in the fields of education, housing and roads where great amounts of money are being made available and yet the end result represents no improvement. [More…]

• Is he aware that thousands of tertiary education students will be unable to gain holiday employment this year because of the recession in business and industry? [More…]

• -As was pointed out by my colleague, the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Barnard) when he introduced this Bill into the House of Representatives, the main purpose of the Bill before the House is to amend the States Grants (Schools) Act 1972-1973 and the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973 to increase the level of Australian Government assistance available to both government and non-government schools in Australia. [More…]

• the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children: [More…]

• The proposals of the Committee are, in effect, that all ‘State-type’ functions be transferred to the Territory Executive, except that major functions such as rural land, mining, education, health, companies and the Supreme Court be retained by the Australian Government and other major functions such as roads, ports, fisheries, national parks and the police be shared. [More…]

• A further amendment in the concessional deduction area to be made by the Bill will reduce the maximum deductions for education and selfeducation expenses from $400 to $150.I do not have to stress the substantially increased direct expenditures that the Government is making on education. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission allow a factor for inflation in the recurrent costs of education in Government schools; ifso, what was the factor between 1973 and 1974 and between 1974 and 1975 used in compiling the ‘Schools in Australia’ Report. [More…]

• Is the escalation of expenditure referred to in Paragraphs 6.45 and 6.54 of the Report based on an assumption that there would be an increase in recurrent costs of 10 per cent in the non-Government sector of Australian education. [More…]

• If a disparity exists, or is found to exist, between any inflation factor used in compiling the ‘Schools in Australia’ Report and the inflation of recurrent costs since its compilation, will the Government make an appropriate adjustment to grants for recurrent costs of education, as set out in Table 14.3 ofthe Report, so as to restore value to the grants; ifso, what adjustment. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister Ibr Education. [More…]

• I said at the time that I had not seen the report but that I would take up the matter with my colleague, the Minister for Education, and obtain a reply for the honourable senator. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has asked me to refer the honourable senator to the Treasurer’s remarks. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under Section 82j of the Income Tax Assessment Act from $400 to $150 is $50.00 below the 1956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penally is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• Whereas the Treasurer ofthe Australian Government has proposed that the concessional deduction for education expenses be reduced from $400 to $ 1 50. [More…]

• We, the undersigned, humbly petition the Senate to return any legislation which could give effect to such a proposal to the House of Representatives and request that the concessional deduction for education expenses be restored to $400 for each child attending an approved school or college. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask: Has his attention been drawn to the report in today’s Melbourne ‘Age’ that the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education at Churchill in Victoria will offer 75 places in a course for a diploma of teaching and a bachelor degree in education in 1975? [More…]

• As there is no oncampus accommodation at the Gippsland Institute at the moment, there will be none when the 1 975 education year opens, there will be accommodation for only 36 by the end of May, and as there is very little accommodation in the surrounding communities, yet there will be 629 full time students there before these additional students are taken on, will the Minister confer with the Minister for Housing and Construction to do what the Victorian Government is not prepared to do, that is, to ensure that some emergency measures are taken to provide housing so that students will not have to abandon studentships? [More…]

• In the time that was available to me prior to coming into the chamber I sought to make contact with my colleague the Minister for Education in another place about the article and to obtain his view on it. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and I will be joining a conference of State Ministers for Education on Friday to discuss generally the question of educational broadcasting throughout Australia. [More…]

• I certainly shall draw the matter to the attention of the Minister for Education and ask him to have discussions with the Minister for Housing and Construction and, if necessary, the Victorian Minister for Education. [More…]

• the extent to which the payment of maintenance to the party whose maintenance is under consideration would increase the earning capacity of that party by enabling that party to undertake a course of education or training or to establish himself or herself in a business; [More…]

• There is a provision already in clause 55 which states: if the court is satisfied that the provision ofthe maintenance is necessary to enable the child to complete his education (including vocational training or apprenticeship) or because he is menially or physically handicapped, and, in that case, the order continues in force until that day or the expiration of that period, as the case may be. [More…]

• I think it is quite absurd to use the family law in this regard, particularly that aspect of it directed to maintenance of children, to deal with the position of an adult who happens to need maintenance while undergoing education or some kind of training. [More…]

• Clause 55 (3), which we mentioned some little time ago, deals with the maintenance of children and says that a court may continue an order beyond 18 years of age for the maintenance of a child where it is considered necessary to complete his education. [More…]

• Whereas the Treasurer of the Australian Government has proposed that the concessional deduction for education expenses bc reduced from $400 to $ 1 50. [More…]

• We the undersigned, humbly petition the Senate to return any legislation which could give effect to such a proposal to the House of Representatives and request that the concessional deduction for education expenses be restored to $400 for each child attending an approved school or college. [More…]

• I can tell the honourable senator that my colleague the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, and I had convened a conference with State Ministers of Education to take place in May of this year. [More…]

• In attendance will be my colleague, Mr Beazley, all State Ministers of Education and, or course, myself as the Minister for the Media. [More…]

• The honourable senator will realise that since that time, in the last 5 years, there have been amazing technological advances in aids and facilities that are available for educational broadcasting and in the media field generally. [More…]

• I should point out, in regard to the last part of the honourable senator’s question, that whilst most of the population is able to receive the excellent service provided by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in educational broadcasting the fact is, as honourable senators well know, that there are many individual schools and students in remote parts of Australia that are inadequately catered for in this respect. [More…]

• Could this facility be used for transferring educational material to video cassettes for use in teaching isolated children? [More…]

• Is there any progress in the development of a national program resources centre to provide material for such teaching, and has there been any consultation on this matter with the State education authorities? [More…]

• I think I reported to the Senate last year that one of the commercial television stations in Adelaide- I think from recollection it was station SAS- was engaged in making video-tape facilities available to the education authorities of South Australia, and I understand that that arrangement has met with some success. [More…]

• I know that recently, as a result of representations that came to me, I think, from my colleague the Minister for Education, the Australian Broadcasting Commission also was able to extend this type of facility to schools in and around the Alice Springs area. [More…]

• As I mentioned in reply to a question that was asked of me by, I think, Senator Poyser earlier this morning, the whole question of educational broadcasting and what can be done by way of media facilities is being opened up at a national conference to be held at Parliament House in Canberra tomorrow, between myself, my colleague the Minister for Education and the State Ministers for Education. [More…]

• It is possible to criticise the fact that this might well have been capable of being increased but certain adjustment processes have taken place in regard to tertiary education and other matters that have to be allowed for in these calculations. [More…]

• For this reason it involves an element of public education in urban and planning issues. [More…]

• Because the time is now 10.26 p.m. and we are due to rise at 10.30, and as the Opposition is anxious to see that the education programs of the States throughout Australia go ahead, I shall limit my comments and speak with much greater brevity than I otherwise would. [More…]

• So it is necessary for the Government to introduce this legislation to increase very substantially the amounts of money which are to be expended so that the program has some chance of going ahead as planned with the same number of schools to be built and maintained and the same number of teachers to be provided, together with the various other aspects of the education program. [More…]

• 1 do not take any longer than simply to remind the Senate that not only have those things happened but also we have had repeated time and again the absurd claims that have been made by the Government about the extent to which it has increased assistance to education in Australia. [More…]

• As is well known now it was only a sleight of hand exercise because in producing the Budget figures, which give a false impression, the Government has included sums which were otherwise going to education, not through the education allocation in the Budget but through grants to the States. [More…]

• Putting those sums of money into the appropriation for education makes it look as though the Government has increased education expenditure by very much more than it has. [More…]

• I well recall during an education debate last year receiving 43 telegrams sent from one post office with identical wording and purporting to have come from people scattered all over New South Wales. [More…]

• In the present Australian economic climate, if we are to suggest that all television in this country should be a matter of government responsibility, I have to pose the question: What priority should be given, in terms of economic management, to a development of expenditure on television, resulting in diminished expenditure available for other services which we are required to provide, such as education, hospitals, schools and so forth? [More…]

• instructional education, [More…]

• After all the matter was referred to by an all-Party Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• The purpose of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill 1974 is to provide funds for post-school technical and further education in the States in accordance with the general program of development recommended by the Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]

• The Committee was established under the chairmanship of Mr Myer Kangan, in April 1973, to advise on the development of technical and further education and to make recommendations on the financial assistance to be provided to government institutions providing technical and further education. [More…]

• He stated: ‘We are determined that technical education shall cease to be the Cinderella of Australian education’. [More…]

• The Bill which I am introducing is an expression of our determination to give technical education that place. [More…]

• The Government has endorsed the approach adopted in the Kangan Report of a national program to upgrade technical and further education, with the Australian Government providing funds additional to a maintained effort by the States. [More…]

• We do not wish to see technical and further education denned in any narrow way, related only to skills required by industry. [More…]

• The definition of technical and further education in the Bill covers the broad range of post-school education, including courses which have a vocational bias in order to meet occupational requirements and also courses which are not necessarily vocational but are designed to meet community needs. [More…]

• The Bill is therefore aimed at meeting national needs for an adequately educated and skilled workforce as well as providing continuing education for the adult population. [More…]

• The scope and status of non-government institutions in the technical and further education field are so diverse that a good deal of consideration needs to be given to the nature of the assistance they might receive. [More…]

• The needs of these institutions, of which two of the more widely known are the Workers Educational Association and the Victorian Council of Adult Education, are, with one exception, not being taken into account by the Bill. [More…]

• The question of support for them will be the subject of a report by the proposed Technical and Further Education Commission and submissions from voluntary bodies not operated for profit have already been sought. [More…]

• Both of these groups of courses have been receiving fees reimbursement grants and the tertiary courses are continuing to do so under arrangements for colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The report of the Committee on Technical and Further Education recommended that grants totalling nearly $ 105 m be provided to the States over the 18 month period 1 July 1974 to 31 December 1975. [More…]

• Together with the $3.5m to be available to the Australian Capital Territory and $250,000 provided for research, the total amount which we have set aside for technical and further education over the two years is over $ 1 1 8m. [More…]

• The States will be expected to continue their own support for technical education. [More…]

• 63m for general purpose grants, which the States may spend on technical and further education as they see fit. [More…]

• The purposes to which the grants may be put, referred to in clauses 1 7, 1 9 and 2 1 of the Bill, are- $2.4m for in-service teaching staff development; $805,000 in total for the provision of library furnishings, the training of library technicians and the investigation of the feasibility of a bibliographic centre; $lm for furthering the concept of unrestricted access to recurrent education; $56,000 for the development of proposals for community colleges; and $200,000 for the design of model library resource centres. [More…]

• Those colleges would be particularly valuable in locations removed from large metropolitan centres, opening new horizons to people cut off from the mainstreams of educational opportunities, assisting them to transfer from one type of course to another and encouraging the kind of broad based education which widens job prospects. [More…]

• In its examination of the barriers preventing ready access to technical and further education, the Committee refers to the special problems faced by people in rural areas, by women and girls, and by handicapped persons and migrants. [More…]

• The Minister shall be asking the States to ensure that the needs of these groups are taken into account by the various education authorities. [More…]

• The pressure of Parliamentary business during this Budget session has been very great and for this reason alone we have decided to delay the introduction of legislation to establish the Technical and Further Education Commission as a statutory body. [More…]

• Nevertheless, the work which will be undertaken by the Commission is being effectively carried out by the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education under the chairmanship of Professor Richardson of Macquarie University. [More…]

• We endorse the approach of the Kangan Committee that technical and further education should develop the general education of individuals as well as providing them with specialised training. [More…]

• In this way, people will become confident of meeting change because the breadth of their education fits them for alternative employment. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that earlier in the session an amending Bill to the States Grants (Universities) Act 1972-1973 was enacted which included provision for grants for teaching and research in community practice, social work and in special education at a number of universities. [More…]

• The major purposes of this Bill are to provide a program of financial assistance for seven nonGovernment Teachers Colleges for 1974 and 1975, and to provide for variations in both capital and recurrent costs for all colleges of advanced education which were not allowed for when the programs for the 1973-75 triennium were adopted. [More…]

• In 1973 the Government amended the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act to give effect to the decision that former State Government teachers colleges as they moved toward autonomy would be funded by the Australian Government as colleger, of advanced education. [More…]

• Consistent with the policy that these teachers colleges should be so funded the Commission on Advanced Education was asked to report on the assistance to be provided for approved nongovernment teachers colleges. [More…]

• This undertaking of the Prime Minister has been met this year with the extension of student allowances and recurrent funds in the nongovernment teacher education aree.. [More…]

• In accordance with the Government’s decision of 23 August, 1974, the Bill also provides funds for recurrent expenditure of up to $230,000 for the establishment of recreation leadership courses at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• It is a growing concern of the Government to adapt tertiary education and technical and further education to the needs of country people and to do this the cost of residential accommodation must increasingly be met. [More…]

• The indexes used by the Universities Commission will also be used by the Commission on advanced Education to calculate cost variations for the college system. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that this Government has provided assistance for courses in dental therapy at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, social work at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, social work and physical education at the Preston Institute of Technology and physical education at the Footscray Institute of Technology in Victoria. [More…]

• Grants have also been provided for courses in special education and for the preparation of preschool teachers. [More…]

• In accordance with established government policy, following the national wage case decision of May 1974 adjustments have been made to salaries payable to academic staff at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• This amendment provides an additional $47m in the 1973-75 triennium for colleges of advanced education and non-government teachers colleges. [More…]

• Whereas the Treasurer of the Australian Government has proposed that the concessional deduction for education expenses be reduced from $400 to $ 1 50, [More…]

• We, the undersigned, humbly petition the Senate to return any legislation which could give effect to such a proposal to the House of Representatives and request that the concessional deduction for education expenses be restored to $400 for each child attending an approved school or college, [More…]

• In 1973 we made in direct payments to the States for the purposes of education, health, urban affairs, culture, recreation and housing, $2,449m. [More…]

• I believe that they resent this legislation which imposes additional taxation on unearned income, the legislation which introduces the capital gains tax and the legislation which reduces from $400 the taxation allowance for education expenses. [More…]

• But there is another Bill which could be altered and that is the one which seeks to reduce the taxation allowance for education expenses. [More…]

• Mr Beazley has been criticised about education matters. [More…]

• In turn we are giving subsidies to the trade union movement for education. [More…]

• That Government cannot even spend more than but 24 per cent of the money which is allocated to it for education in a financial year. [More…]

• The Liberal Government in Victoria has never really seen the needs which exist for the children of that State in education, particularly the needs of disadvantaged children. [More…]

• At end of motion, add- but the Senate is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $150 seriously restrict the freedom of choice which now exists in the Australian education system, are a contravention of the Government’s election undertakings and will impose unwarranted burdens on parents with children attending both public and private schools and, further, that the Bill specifically: [More…]

• Indeed the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) in another place has in respect of the first aspect I mentioned, that is, the reduction in the allowable deduction for education expenses from $400 to $ 1 50, made it clear that not only does the Opposition emphatically oppose that reduction but that when in government we will reverse that position. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education been drawn to a questionnaire circulated recently under the auspices of the Australian Schools Commission seeking information from teachers at schools in relation to various aspects of the Commission’s functions? [More…]

• In any event, will the Minister seek to have the Minister for Education direct that this abuse be discontinued and that the recipients of this questionnaire so far be informed that they should not answer that part of it? [More…]

• I remind the Senate that this Bill is a complex Bill covering such matters as increased tax liabilities for the mining industry, the imposition of taxation on fringe benefits, special allowance of deductions for depreciation of child care facilities, reduction of the limit on deduction for education expenses, the deductibility of mortgage interest payments, a reduced level of the special deduction allowable to life assurance companies, a rebate of dependants’ allowances for low income families, technical amendments of the principal Act with respect to dividends payable from Papua New Guinea, the relief of taxpayers in cases of hardship and provisional tax for 1974-75. [More…]

• As a person who was educated, and is proud to say so, in state schools, and as a parent who sent his children to state primary schools, I emphatically applaud the work that is done by state school education authorities. [More…]

• Any person who sends his or her children to a state school today will incur expenditure of substantially more than $150 a year in education expenses. [More…]

• It must be a right for people who are not affluent, who have not got the kind of earnings that are necessary to pay large fees, to pay $1,000 a year or more for their children’s education. [More…]

• At end of motion, add- but the Senate is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $150 seriously restrict the freedom of choice which now exists in the Australian education system, are a contravention of the Government’s election undertakings and will impose unwarranted burdens on parents with children attending both public and private schools and. [More…]

• The desire of those people is to give their children what they think is a good education. [More…]

• Such individuals are getting a concession because they are trying to give their children a better education. [More…]

• When one looks around country centres one can visualise that there is not the opportunity in those areas to give children higher education. [More…]

• Because of the great distances in States like my own that people have to send their children if they are to get such an education and because of the cost of keeping their children at such schools, surely to goodness those people are entitled to some concession for giving their children the opportunity of obtaining a good standard of education. [More…]

• No doubt they did so, in the opinion of their parents, to get a higher standard of education. [More…]

• It was all right for them because they lived in the areas in which such a standard of education could be obtained but what about the people who do not live in such areas? [More…]

• These people should be commended and encouraged by the Government because of their desire to give their children a higher education. [More…]

• There is no question that if we could lift the standard of education of people throughout this nation, to get them to think clearer and along better lines, this country would be all the richer and all the better for it. [More…]

• 1 was one who did not have the opportunity of a secondary education having left school at the age of 12 years and 10 months, but I know the value of education. [More…]

• I know that people of their own volition can educate themselves in various ways after leaving school, but there are many people who probably require education in a more compulsory manner, by their parents sending them to the schools which they think are necessary and which they think sometimes are of a higher standard. [More…]

• As I have said before, I think that the Government’s action in cheeseparing to the disadvantage of worthwhile citizens who send their children to schools in order for them to have a higher standard of education, indicates just how mean it has become in relation to certain very important aspects of the development of this country. [More…]

• The other matter I want to mention briefly is the reduction in the education allowance from $400 to $150. [More…]

• In this regard one of the biggest worries that the Opposition has is the possible slanting of education. [More…]

• In education the socialistic policies of this Government are designed to eliminate completely the private schools, whether church or other private schools. [More…]

• Once private schools are eliminated, as we have seen in many other countries, education can and will be slanted. [More…]

• Impress them then and they go on to secondary education and become part and parcel of a socialist or communist organisation in our own country. [More…]

• They have not been taught that and they will not be taught it, and that is what will happen in this country if we get complete socialism or communism in education. [More…]

• So the Opposition moves that the education allowance be restored from $150 to $400 and so give help to a lot of people. [More…]

• We have the spectacle of many people who live 50 or 60 miles from town having to run 2 homes- one in a village with a high school so that they can send their children for secondary education, and their other home. [More…]

• We do not want education slanted to suit the teaching of communism and socialism. [More…]

• We want a fair and reasonable education. [More…]

• It is most noticeable when one travels the world that people from this country, as a result of the broad and true system of education they have had, have more knowledge of the rest of the world than many people they meet on their travels overseas. [More…]

• People overseas perhaps have heard of Australia or Sydney but that is all they know whereas the average Australian child, through the comprehensive education system we have had in the past and which we want to keep, knows all about the rest of the world. [More…]

• That is all I wanted to mention, death duties and the allied capital gains tax which is coming in next year to make the position even worse, and the education allowance which has been reduced from $400 to $ 1 50 but which, as soon as the Government is changed, will go back to $400 at least. [More…]

• Briefly I pass through the area of education where it is unbelievable to me, and I believe to a very large number of members of the Government, that the Government should have brought down legislation which will reduce from $400 to $ 1 50 the allowable tax deduction of money spent on a child’s education. [More…]

• This seems to be an incredible attitude to take at a time of spiralling inflationary costs and at a time when the pressures on education are growing continually. [More…]

• Is not this virtually denying everybody across the board a real measure of aid in education? [More…]

• What do we gain if, through taxation, we destroy the right of this community to have freedom of choice in education as we imagine the community would require freedom of choice in so many other areas? [More…]

• What do we gain by establishing a situation were it may be impossible for an independent stream of education to survive? [More…]

• Let us hope that the Government of this country is not viewing education as being indoctrination rather than education. [More…]

• He went to Cherbourg and he completed his education at the Cherbourg school. [More…]

• It could possibly mean that some of them will have to forgo education that they have in mind for their children. [More…]

• I wish to make only one comment on the undertaking given by Senator Carrick that in the event of a return of a Liberal-Country Party Government it would increase the deduction from taxable income of educational expenses from $150 to $400. [More…]

• I would have been more impressed had he also, in the same breath, given the same commitment that that Government would maintain the same level and rate of expenditure on education that this Government has. [More…]

• Within 2 years of this Government’s coming to office it has helped solve the financial problems of the States in relation to education. [More…]

• This was done after many years of extreme difficulty which the States suffered in relation to education. [More…]

• I refer briefly to the matter of education expenses. [More…]

• It should be borne in mind that the Budget proposal to reduce the maximum amount claimable for each student for education expenses has been thoroughly examined by the Government. [More…]

• The amount has been reduced from $400 to $150 mainly because the Government’s programs involve substantial increases in direct expenditure on education. [More…]

• The actual annual increase in expenditure on education in 1973-74 was 94 per cent and the estimated increase in 1974-75 is 78 per cent. [More…]

• In these circumstances there is no longer a case for providing substantial indirect assistance through the taxation system which is not based on needs or any other criteria of relevance to the Government’s own educational programs. [More…]

• However, the Government does appreciate the difficulties faced by people living in remote areas and has accepted responsibility for improving educational opportunities for children whose families live in isolated areas far removed from normal school facilities. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), is responsible for the administration of this scheme and as he announced in a statement tabled in the House of Representatives on 24 September 1974, the rates of allowance and means test are to be adjusted as from the begining of 1975. [More…]

• I do not know whether the honourable senator would want particulars of his education in Manitoba or that he obtained the GovernorGeneral’s Silver Medal in Canada during his education, or particulars of his other services. [More…]

• Its functions will include education of park rangers and the provision of assistance to other countries in nature conservation matters. [More…]

• For the purposes of section 6, the Minister may approve major building projects undertaken or proposed to be undertaken during the period to which this Act applies in connexion with institutions of technical and further education in a State, and may, with the concurrence of a State, vary any such approval. [More…]

• It is a far cry from the view of Federation which would say that a handsome and proper sum of financial assistance should be given to the States to work out a technical education program to come to this point where the Minister not only approves but also may revoke. [More…]

• I come from a State which has a proud record in education. [More…]

• It has a proud record in much of technical education also. [More…]

• Senator McLaren would be aware that the Liberal Country League Government in South Australia in 1968 dramatically restored capital expenditure on education which had been reduced dramatically by his Party when it was in office from 1965-1968. [More…]

• No papering over of the dramatic reduction in capital expenditure on education by his Party when it was in office from 1965 to 1968 will hide that fact. [More…]

• We come from a State which revised education. [More…]

• I am pleased to say that a subsequent Labor Government followed that lead and continued to help education in South Australia. [More…]

• So we have nothing to fear in South Australia from our development of education. [More…]

• I rise only to reply to a few of the remarks that Senator Hall has seen fit to make in endeavouring to denigrate the South Australian Labor Government in respect of education. [More…]

• Of course, Senator Hall naturally would say that education in South Australia was at its pinnacle when he was Premier. [More…]

• But when he mentioned that he did not tell the Senate that he had reason to sack his Minister for Education because of the mess she was making of the job, or because of her incompetence. [More…]

• I want to put it on record that when Mr Loveday was the Minister for Education - [More…]

• He does not have the support of the people who are most concerned about the education of the young people of this country and particularly the people who want a technical education and people who are more qualified than Senator Steele Hall is. [More…]

• The news release put out yesterday by the Australian Teachers Federation carries the heading: ‘Senator’s Amendment Threatens Technical and Further Education Program ‘. [More…]

• The Federal Government’s $115m program to upgrade Technical and Further Education over the next two years has been jeopardised by lone independent Senator Steele Hall. [More…]

• All of those organisations and all of those people who have seen fit to oppose what Senator Hall is trying to do are telling the people who are interested in education that they want this legislation passed. [More…]

• I know that we want to get the legislation through, but I thought it my duty to repudiate what Senator Hall said about the South Australian Labor Government’s record on education and also to read into the record this Press release which has been put out by the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]

• I rose to make that clear and to read into the record what the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said in a Press release which he issued last Friday indicating quite clearly the way he and the Government view the situation. [More…]

• The Australian Minister for Education, Mr Kim Beazley, said today Australian Government payments to the States Tor technical and further education would be jeopardised by amendments foreshadowed in the Senate. [More…]

• About $l08m is to be made available by the legislation and would enable the States to implement the Kangan programs for technical and further education. [More…]

• The Press statement continues: lt will be necessary for me to warn the State Premiers that there will bc no money forthcoming for technical education at the beginning of 1975. [More…]

• That is the view of the people intent on upgrading technical education in Australia who need this assistance. [More…]

• For the record, clause 5 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill 1974 as drafted by the Government states: [More…]

• For the purposes of section 6, the Minister may approve major building projects undertaken or proposed to be undertaken during the period to which this Act applies in connection with institutions of technical and further education in a State, and may revoke or vary any such approval. [More…]

• For the purposes of section 6 the Minister may approve major building projects undertaken or proposed to be undertaken during the period to which this Act applies in connection with institutions of technical and further education in a State, and many with the concurrence of a State vary any such approval. [More…]

• -The States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill is a Bill which has followed the presentation of the report of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education- the Kangan Committee. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to provide funds for post-school technical education in the States in accordance with the general program of development which was recommended by the Kangan Committee. [More…]

• Some of these goals were that we hoped that we would be removing all barriers to give unrestricted access to recurrent education, that is, that entry requirements should progressively be eased, and that technical and further education should be seen as an alternative, neither inferior nor superior, to other streams of education in this country. [More…]

• It should be remembered that we are now in the month of December, that almost half of the period that is covered by these grants has already expired and that the States have had some difficulty in making progress with many of the goals that they had decided should be priorities in the field of technical and further education. [More…]

• It was noted when the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) made his second reading speech to this Bill that he stated that the States will be expected to continue their own support for technical education. [More…]

• In other words, the purpose of these grants is to be an additional source of development for this form of education and is to be regarded as additional to what would be the States’ normal programs in these matters. [More…]

• When my colleague the shadow Minister for Education in the other place dealt with this matter he introduced 2 amendments from the Opposition parties. [More…]

• It states that the Senate is of the opinion that the system proposed by the Bill for the development of technical and further education imposes intolerable and unacceptable administrative burdens upon the States and their education systems. [More…]

• It deplores the fact that Parliament has had no opportunity to debate the Kangan Committee’s report with regard to technical and further education and notes with concern the departure by the Government from the recommendations of the Committee. [More…]

• It asserts that the provisions of the Bill for the extensive use of ministerial discretion will prove to be vexatious and will limit the States in their own education programs. [More…]

• It calls upon the Government to implement a scheme of grants to the States for technical and further education that gives to the States the control of expenditure of such grants and requires them to report annually to the Minister for Education as to the manner in which such grants have been expended. [More…]

• In the case of this technical and further education Bill there is a requirement for information with regard to all programs of technical education- not just those programs that are the subject of recurrent grants under the Bill, but all the States’ activities in this field. [More…]

• We wonder where it has been shown necessary for a provision of this type to be inserted in the Bill, and we wonder what acceptance there is by the Federal Government of State accountability and of State governments and their own responsibility in the field of education, when a grant that has been approved by the Federal Minister and may be determined by him not to be fulfilled, thus placing an indebtedness on the State to the Commonwealth Government, lt seems to us to be a new relationship; we question it and its desirability. [More…]

• It was the subject of an amendment moved by the shadow Minister for Education in the other place. [More…]

• It is a requirement for the States to furnish information required in respect of the provision of technical and further education in the States during that financial year. [More…]

• I give notice that, although an amendment was moved in the House of Representatives, the opposition in the Senate has considered the position with regard to it and has decided that, because of a ministerial statement that was made by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) last Friday, the Opposition will not proceed with the amendment in the Senate. [More…]

• As evidence of capacities in developing technical and further education relative to funds provided by the Australian Government, the States should be requested to report each December as to the actual distribution of the expenditure of these funds and in a form that will enable comparisons to be made of uses of the funds over a period of time. [More…]

• believes that the system as proposed by the Bill for the development of technical and further education imposes intolerable and unacceptable administrative burdens upon the States and their educational systems; [More…]

• deplores the fact that Parliament has had no opportunity to debate the Kangan Committee’s report with regard to technical and further education, and notes with concern the departure by the Government from the recommendations of the Committee; [More…]

• calls upon the Government to implement a scheme of grants to the States for Technical and Further Education that gives to the States control of expenditure of such grants and requires of them to report annually to the Minister as to the manner in which such grants have been expended. [More…]

• One of them is clearly stated in the provisions before us, which provide assistance for technical education. [More…]

• This is clearly indicated in the provisions of this Bill which so tie the States hand and foot as to make them subservient and completely unnecessary except for the administrative aspects of this particular assistance to education. [More…]

• In specific areas it seeks to give the Minister for Education the power to revoke already approved decisions. [More…]

• The one great factor which dominates the passage of this Bill mechanically through this House is that the House of Representatives is not sitting and those of us who believe in the system of federation are being held to ransom by those who so ardently want this assistance to be given to education and by the Government of the day, which has said: ‘If you touch this Bill- if you amend it- there will be no action forthcoming from it until the House of Representatives meets in the middle of February. [More…]

• That is the attitude of the members of the Australian public who are concerned with this education procedure. [More…]

• The intention of the Bill is to assist in very many and various ways the establishment of technical education on a level footing with other forms of education in Australia which have received assistance prior to this recognition. [More…]

• The causes are noble and we would expect a very great upgrading in technical education to result in Australia. [More…]

• One of those amendments is to the clause to which Senator Guilfoyle referred earlier relating to the request by the Federal Minister for Education to obtain information. [More…]

• But I will proceed to put and call for a seconder to my amendments which request the Senate to remove the revocation power of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I warn the Senate that if it turns down these amendments and approves the inclusion of revocation clauses simply because the Senate is under pressure and has been told that the education system will not get this money because the Government will not recall the House of Representatives, the States are dead and they no longer exist in the thoughts of Australians nor in the thoughts of the Senate. [More…]

• The Bill’s essential determinations to help technical education are a necessity. [More…]

• I understand that those who make up the technical education profession want this Bill badly and the assistance that it will give to their profession. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to provide $ 108m to the States over 2 years from 1 July 1974 for technical and further education. [More…]

• These funds are being provided in accordance with the general program of development recommended in the Kangan report which is the report of the Committee on Technical and Further Education that was established by the Labor Government shortly after it was elected to office. [More…]

• The Kangan report has proposed a national program to substantially upgrade technical and further education with the Australian Government providing the funds additional to a maintained effort by the States. [More…]

• Previous governments provided funds for the development, firstly, of universities and later of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Since the Labor Government came into office we have broadened the whole approach to the funding of education. [More…]

• We have abolished tuition fees for tertiary and post secondary courses and we now seek to give technical education access to substantially increased funds to improve its acceptibility, to make it more readily available and to enrich its quality. [More…]

• In short, the Bill before the Senate is aimed at meeting national needs for both an adequately educated and skilled work force and for satisfying community needs for continuing education for the adult population. [More…]

• The Bill is patterned on the corresponding States Grants legislation providing funds for universities, for colleges of advanced education and also for schools. [More…]

• I would like honourable senators to know that on the Kangan committee there were, for example, 2 State Directors of Technical Education and that there was a third member who was a senior officer of a Department of Technical Education. [More…]

• The development of technical education requires a co-operative approach but the Minister responsible for making the payments to the States must be accountable for the purposes on which those funds are spent. [More…]

• Mr Ryan said in his telegram that it is of the utmost importance to Australia that the long-awaited technical and further educational program be implemented without further delay. [More…]

• The Government undertook at the last election to give technical education a proper and honoured place in a changing society and to prevent it from being the Cinderella of Australian education. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, may I seek the indulgence of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) and suggest that we might deal with this Bill and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill in a cognate debate? [More…]

• The Senate is looking at 2 Bills, one relating to States grants for universities and one relating to States grants for advanced education. [More…]

• Sp taking it quite simply, this Bill and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill recognise the fact that inflation is taking its toll in the education program as well as in all other sections of the community and that a Bill must be introduced to take care of this situation. [More…]

• In my view these have drastically reduced the effectiveness of additional funds for education. [More…]

• This is one of the occasions on which it is unfortunate that a Bill of this nature comes before us so close to the end of the session because a wide variety of matters relating to university education and the role of universities in our community would have merited an opportunity for a sound, intelligent and helpful debate. [More…]

• In looking at the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill I observe that the Minister, in his second reading speech, pointed out that the major purpose of the Bill was to provide a program of financial assistance in a number of instances. [More…]

• The Minister referred to some nongovernment teachers colleges and suggested that this measure would provide for variations in both capital and recurrent costs for all colleges of advanced education which were not allowed for when the triennium program for 1973-75 was adopted. [More…]

• I looked at the Minister’s second reading speech for a moment where he made the claim that the Government amended the States Grants Act to give effect to a decision that as former State Government teachers colleges moved towards autonomy they would be funded by the Australian Government as colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The Minister referred to the fact that the Government had relied on the report of the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Minister also referred to the undertaking given by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) being met by the extension of student allowances and recurrent funds in the non-government teacher education area. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that it was suggested in the second reading speech that the Government was concerned to adapt tertiary education, technical education and further education to the needs of country people. [More…]

• But, whilst I applaud the idea of the extension of colleges of advanced education and facilities related thereto to country areas, the Government must take very great care that standards are maintained. [More…]

• It is not of much value if the standards of education within the metropolitan areas close to the centres of education, universities, libraries and all the other facilities of this kind are better than or different from the standards that are provided in country or rural areas or in areas that are further from the centres of education. [More…]

• As we give support to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, let us sound not only a note of warning but also a note of encouragement that the Government and the relevant department will ensure that standards are maintained so that any government’s program of education has a standard right across the board that is good and so that any program of decentralisation will not suffer because standards are different. [More…]

• The Senate will recall that the establishment of colleges of advanced education was undertaken during the time the previous Government occupied the treasury bench. [More…]

• As I remember it, that program was designed to cater for a very special area of education. [More…]

• I am told that there are something like 50 colleges of advanced education in Victoria alone. [More…]

• I hope that the Government will continue to improve the educational facilities for all of the people. [More…]

• However, I think that it would be wise for the Government and the Parliament in particular at some stage- maybe in the next year- to conduct a review and to watch the development of this phase of our educational system. [More…]

• The rapid growth of the colleges of advanced education system is causing an enormous amount of money to be allocated to it. [More…]

• I for one am becoming increasingly disturbed at the growing number of people who are concerned at the enormous amount of money being allocated in this area of education. [More…]

• This is not good for the discipline of education and certainly it is not good for the Government or the Department of Education that this kind of claim and feeling should be abroad in the community. [More…]

• For example, if one looks at the Budget Speech for 1973-74, it will be seen that the Government claimed that it was providing something like $843m for education. [More…]

• If one looks further into the documents entitled ‘Payments to or for the States ‘ one finds this kind of quotation relating to tertiary education: . [More…]

• in March 1973 the Australian Government offered to take full financial responsibility for tertiary education and to abolish fees at tertiary institutions and technical colleges from I January 1974. [More…]

• Therefore the claim of the Government in relation to the increased allocation for education is, in my view, not a totally accurate one. [More…]

• He has secondary education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The help will be extended to students dissatisfied with present courses who wish to transfer to a teacher education course. [More…]

• -We know that Senator Rae is very sensitive on the issue of transport for King Island and Tasmania in general, just as he is very sensitive on the issue of education. [More…]

• It is rather interesting that yesterday the teachers organisation said, in effect, that we might be right about States’ powers but the money involved was so important to them that they wanted us to allow the subjugation of the States to be put into legislation concerning grants and assistance for technical education in Australia. [More…]

• For institutions in the States its function is to recommend salary levels to be used as a basis for making grants to the States for recurrent expenditure in institutions of tertiary education. [More…]

• To provide funds for these recommended salary levels to be paid to academics in the States, it is necessary to amend States Grants legislation in respect of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1 974 [More…]

• States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill 1974 [More…]

• In 1973 Council recommended that education programs in case detection and management should be prepared for those involved in health education and welfare of young children. [More…]

• Police Department and the Department of Education Counselling Services. [More…]

• I have now been informed by my colleague the Minister for Education that the questions raised by Senator Rae refer to a survey of further needs in education and attitudes to current Australian Government programs conducted on behalf of the Schools Commission by a firm of research consultants as a minor part of the Commission’s many faceted information gathering process. [More…]

• I do not believe that there is any Australian who would say that we should have spent less money on education, pensions, health services or a whole range of other matters. [More…]

• Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Department of Education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• A meeting was recently held between representatives of the New South Wales and Victorian State Governments, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation to discuss the establishment ofthe university at AlburyWodonga. [More…]

• I have been advised by my colleague the Minister for Education that assistance under the Tertiary Education System Scheme, including the special concession to two and three year trained teachers wishing to obtain degrees is not available to students who arebonded or party to a training agreement with an employer. [More…]

• No special arrangements have been made by us to extend the concession to bonded teachers employed by State Departments of Education. [More…]

• It should be remembered however that in most States the Education Departments themselves have in-service courses and grant study leave to enable teachers to undertake further study. [More…]

• That the reduction of the allowable deduction of education expenses under section 82J of the Income Tax Assessment Act from$400 to $ 1 50 is $50 below the 1 956-57 figure. [More…]

• The proposed reduction means an additional financial penalty is imposed on parents who try to exercise this choice and discourages them from making an important financial contribution to Australian education over and above what they contribute through taxation. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of the Commonwealth respectfully showeth: whereas the Treasurer of the Australian Government has proposed that the concessional deduction for education expenses be reduced from $400 to $ 1 50, we, the undersigned, humbly petition the Senate to return any legislation which could give effect to such a proposal to the House of Representatives and request that the concessional deduction for education expenses be restored to $400 for each child attending an approved school or college. [More…]

• For the honourable senator’s information, not only was I there but also Senator Guilfoyle, representing the Opposition, and the New South Wales Minister for Education, Mr Willis, were there. [More…]

• When Appropriation Bills are introduced to provide funds for education, social services and other things members of the Opposition get up and say that the amounts ought to be increased. [More…]

• Do they suggest that we should restrict money which has been allocated to education? [More…]

• The Opposition parties have the poorest record in the field of education and honourable senators know it. [More…]

• They have been criticised in their own councils for the lack of interest in education. [More…]

• We have poured money into education because the people of Australia demanded a better system of education throughout Australia. [More…]

• We would love to see an election campaign in the near future when we could say to parents and citizens associations that the advent of the Liberal government will mean a cutback in education expenditure. [More…]

• We said that there would be more money spent on education and health, in the cities, on pensioners and so on. [More…]

• Last October he gave evidence to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which was inquiring into all aspects of radio and television. [More…]

• Apart from a handful of countries in Asia and the Caribbean democracy exists only in countries where there is a relatively high standard of living and where there is a relatively high standard of education, and it does not exist in all of them. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Will he obtain from his colleague a statement giving details of reasons for the non-payment of travelling and other expenses incurred by private citizens assisting either the Schools Commission or the Department of Education on committees such as the Building Priorities and Finance Committee and those committees which deal with libraries and science facilities for independent schools? [More…]

• It is true that there have been some delays in the processing of travelling allowance and consulting fee claims that have been submitted by private citizens- some of whom in fact are retiredwho assist the Schools Commission and the Department of Education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has advised me that in some instances these delays have been caused by the late submission of claims by the people concerned. [More…]

• Regular overtime is now being worked and additional accounts staff will be appointed or recruited by the Department of Education in the near future. [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Education has advised me that it is anticipated that all outstanding claims for 1974 and January of this year in respect of retired private citizens who assist the Schools Commission and the Department of Education will be processed by 26 February. [More…]

• Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education aware that at a $25 a head luncheon in Melbourne yesterday the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden, told people that a Liberal-Country Party government would abolish the Labor Government’s fee-free tertiary education and the present structure of living allowances for tertiary students? [More…]

• Does this statement mean that the thousands of students who were deprived of the opportunity of tertiary education under the previous Liberal-Country Party Government can expect to be dispossessed of the wherewithal for further education if by some disastrous twist of political fate Mr Snedden were to become Prime Minister? [More…]

• In response to Senator Brown’s question let me say that one of the great reforms under the Labor Government has been the amazing developments in education. [More…]

• From recollection, this Government is spending about 4 times more on education than the previous Government did. [More…]

• About $ 1,500m has been allocated this financial year for educational purposes. [More…]

• As a result of this Government’s educational policy no longer can any person be kept out of university because of his insufficiency of funds. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education and follows on a question asked by Senator Brown earlier today. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Has the Government any plans for cutting education expenses at this time. [More…]

• At this stage the Government has no intention of cutting expenditure on education. [More…]

• Indeed, expenditure on education in this financial year was increased by, I think, about $400m over and above the amount apportioned for that purpose last year. [More…]

• I would envisage that next financial year, under this Government, there will be a considerable increase in subventions for educational purposes. [More…]

• Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate nominating Senator Button to be a member of the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• That Senator Button, having been nominated in accordance with the resolution of the Senate on 17 September 1974 be appointed to fill the vacancy now existing on the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDYesterday, in my capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Education, I was asked a number of questions as to whether Mr Snedden, as Leader of the Opposition, had said that a prospective Liberal-Country Party government would consider restoring fees for university students. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for the Media to his answer to a question addressed to him yesterday by Senator Brown in which he substantially adopted a statement by Senator Brown suggesting that the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Snedden, at a luncheon on Monday proposed that a Liberal-Country Party Government would abolish the Labor Government’s fee-free tertiary education and the present structure of living allowances for tertiary students. [More…]

• -And because I had a State school education. [More…]

• That statement is very biased because I had both a State school education and a convent school education in a small country town. [More…]

• Probably abolish fee-free tertiary education and the present structure of living allowances for tertiary students. [More…]

• When one reads the words ‘would probably ‘ one is entitled to assess that as meaning that a Liberal-Country Party Government would probably abolish fee-free tertiary education. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Education ask the Minister for Education to make inquiries and later inform the Senate whether, as alleged to me, there is a shortage of trained personnel and necessary teaching facilities in the Australian Capital Territory to help slow readers, particularly those in the 6 to 12 years age group? [More…]

• I certainly will make inquiries of my colleague the Minister for Education to see whether he knows anything about the matter and, if there is a shortage, to ascertain the steps that are being taken to ameliorate the circumstances. [More…]

• However, I will take the matter up with my colleague the Minister for Education and let the honourable senator know. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the final report of the Committee on Open University to the Universities Commission dated December 1974, together with a statement by the Minister for Education on that report. [More…]

• I say that because of the situation to which Senator Webster referred concerning various elements of society that have views on our education system. [More…]

• Increasingly, a citizen’s real standard of living, the health of himself and his family, his children’s opportunities for education and self-improvement, his access to employment opportunities, his ability to enjoy the nation’s resources for recreation and culture, his ability to participate in the decisions and actions of the community are determined not by his income, not by the hours he works, but by where he lives. [More…]

• It is an involvement with the State authority- in my own State of Tasmania through the Minister for Education, who is also the Minister of Sport and Recreation. [More…]

• In the area of education we have the child care scheme which is administered by the Australian Department of Education under the Child Care Act but having an involvement with local government bodies throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• The community health program aims to provide co-ordinated community based health services covering preventive medicine, early treatment, health education and after-care, in the patient’s neighbourhood wherever possible. [More…]

• In the migrant education program adult continuation classes will be provided. [More…]

• Through its financial hegemony it can create better conditions in transport, housing, education and health. [More…]

• We find it mentioned under the headings of Housing, Education, Roads, Rail, Power and Water, Development and Superintendence of the Private Sector. [More…]

• The Government believes there has long been a need to restructure and improve government machinery for assistance to the arts if they are to keep pace with the needs and aspirations of a growing population and rising levels of education. [More…]

• His airing of his legal education and his historical education beginning somewhere at the time of the French Revolution forced me to interject and Mr President, at the time, quite properly rebuked me by saying that all interjections are disorderly. [More…]

• If the people of this country require health care, education, roads or any other services they will pay for them. [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate the matter, and if adjustments cannot be made by the Department of Education will he examine the possibility of increasing allowances from funds available to his Department? [More…]

• I have had a conference with the Minister for Education on this matter. [More…]

• He probably would do away with a lot of the Government expenditure on education, health services and pensions- a whole range of things- if he had the opportunity. [More…]

• with new departures envisaged for the management of health and education. [More…]

• In regard to other important functions such as health and education the responsibility elsewhere of State Government we see no reason why they should not pass eventually to local control. [More…]

• There is no doubt that films play a very important part in communication and in education. [More…]

• lm for the Department of Labor and Immigration for additional staff; $ 1.35m for the Australian Film Corporation; $723,000 for the Interim Committee for the Children ‘s Commission; $650,000 for additional staff for members and senators; $500,000 for grants to eligible organisations under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act; $537,000 for Expo 75 at Okinawa; $ 1 m subsidies on ship construction; and amounts of $6.2m and $5.3m for the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory education services respectively for additions to staff establishments and other increased costs. [More…]

• Studies include consideration of TV as a community facility for special interest transmission and for education. [More…]

• What action can be taken by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, in the interests of a national manpower policy, to curb the press gang policy of the New South Wales Education Minister which is compounding teacher redundancy by seeking to import additional teachers from overseas? [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present a report by the Minister for Education on the meeting of the Australian Education Council held in Perth during 1 7 and 1 8 April 1 975. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Education to an apparent anomaly in the tertiary allowance scheme. [More…]

• It appears that the Moore College Diploma of Arts course is the only course within the Colleges of Advanced Education in New South Wales which does not attract assistance for students under the tertiary allowance scheme. [More…]

• If not, would he refer it to the Minister for Education and seek reconsideration of the decision which appears discriminatory and has led to hardship for the students concerned? [More…]

• Similarly the Business Law Education Centre of Victoria organised a public seminar on this Bill in early March of this year at which the Attorney-General (Mr Enderby) spoke. [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…]

• 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…]

• 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…]

• My question, which I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, refers to reports of the Government ‘s policy decision to relocate commissions in regional growth centres. [More…]

• Can the Minister advise to what extent it is intended to fragment the Department of Education to implement Government plans for decentralisation? [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to provide for the establishment of a Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• Since it came to office, the Government has pursued a policy of establishing a complete range of expert, independent bodies to advise the Government on needs and priorities in the various sectors of education. [More…]

• To complement the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education, we are now establishing, through this Bill, a Commission which will give the long underdeveloped area of technical and further education the same assurance of skilled and impartial consideration of its needs as have the areas of primary, secondarly and tertiary education. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Commission is the last of these 4 Commissions to be established; but it is by no means the least. [More…]

• It will be concerned with the quality of education that is to be received by something like half a million students throughout Australia. [More…]

• The new Commission will continue and build upon the valuable work of the existing Interim Committee, the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education, which as honourable senators will recall was appointed in April 1973. [More…]

• Its major recommendations were accepted by the Government and substantial funds are now being made available under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]

• The Commission will be concerned not only with technical education but also with adult education in technical colleges, evening classes and classes conducted by adult education organisations such as the Workers’ Educational Association. [More…]

• Through a combination of provisions in paragraphs 3, 4 and 6 of the Bill, the Commission will be able to concern itself with technical and further education in the sense just mentioned, whether it is conducted in technical colleges, or by government or government, non-profit adult education organisations. [More…]

• A most important area of concern for the Commission will be the fostering of opportunities for recurrent education. [More…]

• The technical and further education sector will be responsible in large measure for the provision of facilities to meet this growing need. [More…]

• In April 1974, when he presented the Interim Committee’s Report on Technical and Further Education in Australia, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said that the report takes a long step in the direction of lifelong education and of opportunities for reentry into education. [More…]

• It recommends unrestricted access for adults to vocationally oriented education. [More…]

• In establishing the Commission we are providing the permanent machinery for the development of these ideals and the creation of a flexible technical and further education system which will supply opportunities for education and training where and when these are needed, and not merely for a limited period early in the lifetime of students. [More…]

• The Commission will thus be a vehicle through which, in co-operation with the States, technical and further education can be developed with the aid of Australian Government funds, to achieve the objectives I have outlined. [More…]

• The States will retain their existing responsibilities for administering programs of technical and further education. [More…]

• effort in providing for technical and further education, so that the maximum benefit may flow from the Australian Government’s contribution in this area. [More…]

• Appointment of members of the Commission and their conditions of service will be the same as for the other education commissions. [More…]

• The functions of the Commission, as set out in clause 6, are to advise the Minister on the general development of technical and further education in Australia, on needs and priorities in the provision of facilities, on desirable standards for those facilities, and on financial assistance to the States for and in respect of institutions of technical and further education. [More…]

• The Commission is required to perform its functions with a view to promoting the balanced development of technical and further education in Australia. [More…]

• The Commission will also promote the wide access of intending students to technical and further education facilities, on the basis of equal opportunity for all. [More…]

• The establishment of the Technical and Further Education Commission is an important event in Australian education. [More…]

• It represents a continuing commitment by the Government to a vital area of education. [More…]

• From now on, there will be a permanent body which will concern itself solely with the national development of technical and adult education. [More…]

• An aim of curriculum development is to relate education to the needs of the individuals. [More…]

• A characteristic feature of education today is its diversity- in the range of student abilities and interests, in the degree of responsibility being accorded to individual schools, in the design of school buildings themselves. [More…]

• In Australia each of the State education departments has created facilities for curriculum development. [More…]

• Further the Department of Education has over a period, received many specific proposals for curriculum and materials development on a national scale, indicating that there would be ample work of a national character for a Curriculum Development Centre, now and in the future. [More…]

• The proposed Centre has been discussed with the State Ministers for Education, who are my colleagues on the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• The Bill provides that 3 nominees of the Education Council be included in the membership of the Council of the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]

• Education Project, for which a total of $940,000 was contributed from Federal funds over the 5-year life of the project; secondly, to the program to stimulate the teaching of Asian languages and cultures in schools, for which $1.5m are being allocated, again over a 5-year period; and also to the National Committee on Social Science Teaching. [More…]

• I wish to acknowledge the part played in implementing these projects by previous Ministers having responsibility for education- in particular the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• A wide range of bodies was consulted in the formation of the Interim Council, including the State Directors-General of Education, the Schools Commission, nongovernment school authorities, parents and teachers organisations, the Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education and institutions involved in teacher education. [More…]

• The largest of these, the Social Education Materials Project, is being undertaken by the Centre at the suggestion of, and jointly with, the National Committee on Social Teaching. [More…]

• The project will develop 8 substantial units of teaching materials over 3-year period, and all State education departments and the Catholic and other non-goverment school authorities are participating in it. [More…]

• In its administrative provisions, including such matters as grants, appointments, remuneration, accounting and auditing, the Bill follows the pattern of similar measures relating to other bodies and commissions in the education area, such as the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The Centre is to have dealings, often of a business nature, including sale and purchase of teaching materials, and as it will be engaging in the production and sale of educational materials it will need to hold copyright. [More…]

• Apart from its permanent staff, it is expected that the Centre will wish to draw on the knowledge and experience of other persons, such as officers of the State education departments and the staffs of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Clause 47 requires the Centre to consult and co-operate with other bodies with an interest in its general area of work, such as the Schools Commission and the State departments of education. [More…]

• Large sums are being spent annually by the State and Australian governments and by non-government education authorities on the physical and manpower resources for schools. [More…]

• In establishing the Curriculum Development Centre the Government emphasises its recognition of the importance of curriculum development in improving and enriching the education of children and young people. [More…]

• Working closely with the Department of Transport the Authority will seek to do this through improvement programs, formulation of national standards and traffic codes, the certification of vehicles and components, research into all relevant factors, education and publicity campaigns and a comprehensive information service. [More…]

• When they come here it sometimes takes a deal of time and education to wean them from the system they have been using for so long and to teach them how ours works. [More…]

• Perhaps I can digress for a moment to relate to the Senate that numbered among the officials whom I had on my staff at that time were the present Australian Minister for Defence, the Attorney-General of Tasmania, a senior officer of the Education Department of Tasmania and a senior health inspector in the State of Tasmania. [More…]

• The Government boasts each year of the enormous sums of money it is spending on education, and we do not object to that expenditure, but at the same time it is saying that the end result of all that education is that people cannot fill in ballot papers, numbering them from 1 to 4, that they do not have sufficient intelligence or interest to find out prior to going to the polls the names of the candidates of the party of their choice, and that they do not have enough sense to read the newspapers. [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education relates to the secondary school libraries program which operates under the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973-74. [More…]

• -I bring up the third progress report on all aspects of broadcasting and television, including the Australian content of television programs, from the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• I take much pleasure in presenting the third progress report on all aspects of broadcasting and television from the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• As a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, I desire to support Senator Georges in the tabling of the report, and I want briefly at this stage to make a number of comments. [More…]

• As the Minister for the Media would know, the whole philosophy of communications is changing, not merely in the orthodoxy of television and broadcasting as we know it now but also with regard to the ability of individuals, whether at home, in an office or in an educational institution- a school or a university- to communicate either way, the one with the other. [More…]

• I direct to the Minister representing the Minister for Education a question relating to the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• -The Minister for Education has not mentioned to me a delay in the payment of tertiary scholarships, but I will take into account the matters raised by Senator Guilfoyle and refer the question to my colleague the Minister for Education for advice. [More…]

• Adult Secondary Education Assistance [More…]

• The new scheme, operative from the beginning of 1 975, provides means-tested living allowances and other benefits similar to those available under the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• Child Migration Education Program [More…]

• The cuts I have spoken of include the big spending but politically sensitive areas of education, health, urban and regional development, and social security. [More…]

• He is also saying that there will be a reduction in the education grant for isolated children. [More…]

• I would be interested to hear the Country Party’s comments on that proposition advanced by a former Leader of the Opposition that education grants for isolated children should be reduced and likewise on the proposition that funds for the States and for rural roads would be reduced and presumably that the price support for the wool industry would be liquidated. [More…]

• Not one honourable senator has suggested that the defence quota in these Bills should be reduced, or that we should reduce the money paid to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Accounts, or to education areas, or to foreign affairs whether in areas of food assistance or aid to other countries. [More…]

• We would give great priority to the continued improvement of education and to the provision of facilities for the disadvantaged. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education the following question, without notice: [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Education ask the Minister for Education to make inquiries and later inform the Senate whether, as alleged to me, there is a shortage of trained personnel and necessary teaching facilities in the Australian Capital Territory to help slow readers, particularly those in the 6 to 12 years age group? [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Schools Authority has released a number of remedial teachers to undertake a course in special education at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, one unit of which is remedial reading. [More…]

• The Government has given a massive boost to education. [More…]

• Fifty years ago, when educational opportunities depended upon a parent’s pocket rather than upon a student’s intelligence, many of those who in today’s circumstances would have become the country’s leading lawyers, scientists, academics or professionals gravitated to leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]

• We still have men and women working on the factory floor who are there for reasons of lack of education. [More…]

• I feel sure the Senate will agree that trade union training should not be excluded from the many fields of training and education which a responsible Government supports and assists financially. [More…]

• I can certainly see some possibility in the long term of the proposed Trade Union Training Authority coming together with management education bodies to run joint programs. [More…]

• Most industrialised countries are providing organised education and training for unions. [More…]

• Before I turn to the present union training developments in Australia there is one further issue I would like to raise- paid education leave. [More…]

• The 1974 Conference of the International Labour Organisation adopted a convention and recommendation on paid educational leave. [More…]

• The Australian Public Service and the State Public Services in South Australia and Tasmania have taken the lead through the provision of paid educational leave for trade union training. [More…]

• For instance, in the vehicle industry there is already provision for paid educational leave for shop stewards attending union training courses. [More…]

• As further evidence of this, I would like to draw to the attention of honourable senators the fact that when the Bill was before the House of Representatives the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) accepted an amendment moved by the Opposition to include in the Australian Council for Union Training one member of Parliament appointed by the Prime Minister, another member appointed by the Leader of the Opposition and a member of the Council appointed on the nomination of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It is based on the proposals of many experts in the union movement, training, education and government. [More…]

• Important State rights were given away by this side of the House when it did not pursue amendments to an education Bill because we would have delayed the passage of it if we had proceeded with the amendments. [More…]

• Bearing in mind the level of expenditure and costs, especially in Government programs where expansion is rapid- and expansion has been rapid under this Government in a number of areas, especially in the education and social security areas- it was inevitable that it would be necessary to re-assess the amounts of money involved, and in particular the advance that is made to the Treasurer. [More…]

• I want to take just a few more moments to examine a matter which has arisen in South Australia with regard to the Department of Education. [More…]

• He informs me that the college headmaster, Brother Columbanus, wrote to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) early in April but as yet has not received a reply. [More…]

• In my capacity as Minister representing in this chamber the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), I took up the matter with Mr Beazley as a result of Senator Jessop ‘s inquiry. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has advised me that when the former Government made grants concerning libraries it made offers in some cases in an ambiguous manner. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has advised that there is no legal obligation on the Government to meet these promises but he is concerned that a moral commitment may be involved. [More…]

• The Minister for Education further advised that it is understood that the Schools Commission will be recommending on this matter for the coming triennium. [More…]

• In the case of the Somerton Park Sacred Heart College- the school to which Senator Jessop made reference- the letter of the former Liberal Minister concluded with words that the headmaster has not quoted in correspondence to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The then Minister for Education wrote to the school on 4 August 1970, I am told, in the following terms: [More…]

• We have increased them in the areas in which it is necessary to increase them, such as education’, social security, health, and urban and regional development. [More…]

• The people on whose behalf I want to speak are the unfortunate people who did not have the opportunity to get a good education, people with failing eyesight and people getting on in years. [More…]

• I think it is most unfortunate that because of our education system in years gone by and because of other circumstances these unfortunate people cannot vote. [More…]

• In some cases they were living too far from schools to get even a primary education. [More…]

• They are deprived of the right to cast a formal vote because of their low standard of education. [More…]

• I submit that this act of education may have assisted significantly to produce the relatively good results obtained with such mammoth ballot papers and under trying conditions. [More…]

• I suggest that the answer lies not in destroying the voting system but in working on this aspect of education and information. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask: What arrangements have been made with the Minister for Education to respond to questions directed to him through his representative in the Senate? [More…]

• In particular I have received no answers to my specific questions concerning the tertiary education assistance scheme and the secondary school library grants. [More…]

• I can assure Senator Guilfoyle that every question she directs to me in my capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Education is immediately sent by my staff to the office of the Minister for Education and replies are constantly requested. [More…]

• I will certainly take up the matter with my colleague the Minister for Education and endeavour to expedite the provision of replies to the questions. [More…]

• One calls to mind that such departments and sections of departments as the Commonwealth Employment Service, the Department of Social Welfare and the Department of Education- there are various others- may very well be able to open and staff even part-time an office somewhere on the eastern shore to facilitate contact between the Commonwealth Government and people living on the eastern side of the Derwent River. [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…]

• The most dangerous effect of the Bill will be to discriminate against Australians; for example, in the field of education. [More…]

• Except for the Colombo Plan, Commonwealth and State grants for their education have never been shown as foreign aid in the Commonwealth Year Book. [More…]

• Formerly these students were required to return to their countries of origin so that those countries would benefit from the education they had received, but in May 1973 the then Minister for Immigration altered the regulations so that they could stay in Australia, thus robbing their own countries of their services. [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…]

• The role of education in eradicating social discrimination cannot be over-emphasised, and the Bill does precisely that. [More…]

• This is particularly unfair when one considers how much power, prestige, affluence and education in the white community has been built on the exploitation of land from which the whites ousted blacks. [More…]

• If the problems are to be overcome by research and education programs such biased, emotive racially discriminatory material ought not to be tolerated if its effects are to foster racism. [More…]

• The Bill seeks to foster education programs and settlement programs which may deal effectively in time with some of the minor breaches of the Act. [More…]

• After all, something can be done about economics, education, culture, skills and so on but no one can change his or her race or colour. [More…]

• I believe that conciliation and education, which I see as the prime tasks of the Race Relations Commissioner will have far more effect than the form of judicial action which may be taken by him in accordance with the proposals of the Bill which is at present before us. [More…]

• As a fourth principle the Bill emphasises the importance of the use of education and other programs to combat racial discrimination. [More…]

• The provisions relating to education and research in fact distinguish this legislation from the legislation in the United Kingdom which has not perhaps been as successful as the Government of that country might have wished. [More…]

• A need is seen for the use of positive programs as a supplement to the provisions of the Bill- positive programs of education, cultural exchange, research and activity at a local community level in relation to racial problems. [More…]

• Laws are important, but if they are not backed up by a program of education and research it is felt that this legislation will not be able to go to the length that is desired in helping to solve this problem in Australia. [More…]

• As I have said before, we lay particular emphasis on education and research in that regard. [More…]

• So much for the general principles of the Bill, which are, firstly, that for the first time in the history of this country other than in the State of South Australia we have a defined statement of rights; secondly, that there is a comprehensive set of legal remedies for enforcement; thirdly, that there is to be emphasis placed on conciliation; and, fourthly, that there is to be emphasis placed on education and research. [More…]

• All sorts of forms of subtle discriminations are at work in an institution of education situated in that inner suburb of Melbourne. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I do not know the arrangements which the Minister for Education will make when he has received the report of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Review of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• In conformity with the Government’s policy of open government, as far as I am aware, all other reports that have been received by the Minister for Education to date have been tabled in the Parliament. [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Education ask the Minister for Education to make inquiries and later inform the Senate whether, as alleged to me, there is a shortage of trained personnel and necessary teaching facilities in the Australian Capital Territory to help slow readers, particularly those in the 6 to 12 years age group? [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Schools Authority has released a number of remedial teachers to undertake a course in special education at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, one unit of which is remedial reading. [More…]

• Through the Children’s Commission the Australian Government will provide assistance to a variety of organisations, groups and individuals for programs including full day care, family day care, pre-school education, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, playgroups and any other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]

• It was part of the Government’s policy in marine education to ensure a higher competence of serving marine staff. [More…]

• I will give figures which go back to 1969-70, and from them we will see whether, if the quantum argument is the key argument, this Government is doing more than it should reasonably do, bearing in mind its massive programs under way in the areas of education, health, social security, urban development- such as Albury-Wodonga- and many other initiatives taken by this Government which I am sure the majority of Australians would agree were long overdue. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister of Education and for the information of honourable senators I present a report on the National Seminar for Teacher Educators, held at Macquarie University, New South Wales during the period 28 to 31 August 1974, entitled ‘The Multi-Cultural Society’. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), in an announcement on 5 March of this year, stated: [More…]

• In Australia each of the State Education Departments has created facilities for curriculum development. [More…]

• The fact that the Curriculum Development Centre could act as a clearing house for the curriculum development which has been achieved throughout the States is something which we believe would be in the interests of using fully the work that is done by the educationists in the various States of Australia and within the various education bodies. [More…]

• I think it was the understanding of many people connected with education in Australia that the Centre would be comparable with the Australian science education project and the way in which that project was developed and used. [More…]

• The report of the Interim Council which was issued in September 1974 reinforced that view by stating that the Centre expected to participate in large State programs mainly in conjunction with the States, the Commonwealth and the independent education authorities. [More…]

• I think that statement has not been confirmed by experience in most recent months, and there is an absence in the Bill of any definite provision for State involvement in education curriculum projects in the future. [More…]

• Unlike the ASEP projects, the State Ministers are not represented on the Council nor does there seem to be any distinct provision for involvement by State education authorites in the future work that will be undertaken. [More…]

• I think that view would be shared by educationists in this country. [More…]

• It seems somewhat inconsistent to us for a federal Minister for Education to talk about diversity of education and at the same time to argue for what amounts to a centralised nationalised curriculum and to ignore the diversity inherent in separate State operations. [More…]

• I also wish to refer to clause 6 (f) which states that the power of the Centre is- to arrange for the printing and publication of, and of information relating to, school curricula and school education materials. [More…]

• We believe that our amendment, which suggests that there should be representation by State Ministers on the Council of the Curriculum Development Centre, could have been one way in which greater co-operation between the State and Federal education bodies of this country would be achieved. [More…]

• We note that some of these have been requested by the Victorian Universities and Schools Examination Boards, the Australian Council for Educational Research and other bodies. [More…]

• We hope that that sort of co-operation with the education bodies will continue and that the Centre does not see itself set up as a body which will originate without consultation or without request. [More…]

• We can see a purpose in this role of an enabling organisation which gives an opportunity for curricula to be developed and exchanged throughout the various centres of education. [More…]

• This has been given emphasis by people who question opportunities in education and who question the role of women in Australian society. [More…]

• It would seem to the Opposition that the way in which the Australian Science Education Project was presented and developed would be a desirable way for this Centre to function and produce its curricula in the future. [More…]

• I again relate it to the function of education in the States. [More…]

• Some concern has been expressed that such a location would make it remote from many of the educational bodies which would be able to offer expert assistance. [More…]

• Again, I would be interested to know, if it is the proposal of the Government that this Centre be located in a new growth centre, such as Albury-Wodonga- or wherever it might be- whether it has thought that that would be the best way in which the Centre could work and whether it would be using the resources of education to the greatest extent. [More…]

• It has some bearing on our attitude with regard to the composition of the Council itself because unless those things are given the emphasis which would be desirable in the educational process, it could be that the development of curricula may not have the practical purposes and be the accessory and facility to education that the whole concept may have envisaged. [More…]

• The previous Government in this country recognised the necessity for this sort of thing when it helped the Australian Science Education project and other projects in Asian languages and in social science teaching. [More…]

• So much is happening here and overseas in the field of education that the development of such a Centre to act as merely an information gathering and coordinating Centre, the clearing house function of which Senator Guilfoyle spoke would alone seem to me to make the development of such a Centre justified. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) frequently oppose such a concept, and we have espoused at various times the development of regionalisation of educational facilities. [More…]

• The former is a task appropriate to the Curriculum Development Centre and the latter is the responsibility of such agencies as State Departments of Education, schools commissions and the schools themselves. [More…]

• There are many children- I think it applies to most children- who for reasons of intellect, environment and psychological and other reasons do not proceed to matriculation, colleges of advanced education or to university level, are left doing courses which in some States and in some schools are merely watered down versions of the academic level courses. [More…]

• The aim described in the report of the Interim Council for the Curriculum Development Centre is to relate education to the needs of the individual. [More…]

• I think that provided the Centre is retained with this flexible approach, provided that it does not become a rigid conformist centre of propaganda to produce curricula that every child in the country must swallow daily in large doses, it can develop useful and very important concepts in the education of our children. [More…]

• If it can take one small step towards changing the rigid approach to education that some of us knew, and perhaps few of us overcame, it will do more for the children of this country than many similar provisions. [More…]

• Anything pertaining to education in our community is of immense importance and if we are basically of a similar view it is something about which we should be nothing but pleased. [More…]

• That is a wide field of research and it will involve proper correlation in many fields hopefully to produce curricula which will tend to improve the educational capacity of schools, universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges throughout this country. [More…]

• I suggest that it is immensely important that such centres should concern themselves not only with the standard of education as represented by some sort of technical achievement, whether it be in the academic field, the professional field, the technical field or what have you. [More…]

• I believe that a development centre should concern itself not only with the establishment of specific technical standards but should regard with great importance the relevance of education to the society and the community about us. [More…]

• This is one of the areas of education which perhaps has not received the accent that it should receive. [More…]

• I refer to the relevance of the educational system to the socio-economic society in which it finds itself. [More…]

• Let us make it clear through our curricula that the purpose of education surely is not purely and simply to enable students to reach points where they have through diploma, degree or whatever achieved a meal ticket. [More…]

• Let us hope that the curricula of Australian education will be such that when people have passed through it they have developed their capacity to assimilate facts, to think logically and to come to conclusions that are of real value to a free society. [More…]

• That is what education is all about and I hope that the Curriculum Development Centre envisaged will contribute to bringing that sort of reality to education in Australia. [More…]

• It was the Leader of the Opposition in this Parliament, Mr Malcolm Fraser, who, when Minister for Education in the previous Government, provided for the first time Commonwealth financial assistance in this area of curriculum development. [More…]

• Under his auspices and the auspices of the Government of which he was a member, there was established the Australian Science Education Project, the program to stimulate the teaching of Asian languages, and the National Committee on Social Science Teaching. [More…]

• Originally it was conceived that it should concern itself with education from pre-school to post secondary education inclusively. [More…]

• I would imagine that this is properly related to some sort of totality in the area of education. [More…]

• It is my understanding that the Bill concerns itself only with that area which lies between pre-school and post secondary education. [More…]

• The Centre will, among other things, lend itself to the development of prototypes and demonstrations in the course of education. [More…]

• This is a proper and necessary field in which we need a central authority able to assimilate the results of research relating to a quite widespread area of education in Australia. [More…]

• In that form it can be- I believe it will be- of real value to the Australian educational scene. [More…]

• If they are involved in the development of a curriculum, it is reasonable to assume that they will have a very pertinent interest in moving that curriculum, that particular area of education, to the pupils whom they instruct. [More…]

• I believe that is important, if for no other reason than that it should be thereby certain that the Centre will not become some form of Canberra-based bureaucratic dictatorship in the educational world. [More…]

• I believe that this Centre, if properly developed, must tend to bring a greater measure of diversity to education because of the involvement- and I believe it must involve- of teachers and, indeed, pupils and parents. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) to the book entitled ‘The Renewal of Australian Schools’ in which J. P. Keeves has written a chapter concerning the actual educational achievement of some of the Catholic schools in Australia. [More…]

• The point he makes is that the Catholic school system, working with fewer resources in the way of teachers, fewer physical resources, larger classes and poorer assistance in terms of curriculum material, was achieving better results in terms of educational output than was the State education system. [More…]

• So we have just got to be careful about assuming that money resources, attractive as they seem to be, will necessarily be converted into some kind of educational output at the end of the line. [More…]

• It is argued in the book to which I have referred and in the chapter which I mentioned that if we do increase the resources available to some of these schools- for example, those in the Catholic system- which are disadvantaged as regards their physical facilities what we might end up doing is in fact widening the educational gap, because this school system seems to have some secret, having nothing to do with physical resources, which leads to good educational performance. [More…]

• For that reason whatever kinds of programs it brings in, whatever kinds of centres it starts, it has to have proper evaluation procedures to know whether something like a curriculum development centre is doing anything worthwhile or whether in fact it is doing nothing more than providing salaries for people producing materials which in fact may be doing very little in terms of educational impact. [More…]

• The National Schools Council, which has the executive, financial and general overview control of education, has elected to decentralise curriculum development. [More…]

• He has given them freedom and a flexible curriculum and the result has been that they are now improving their school performance; they are improving their motivation; and they have been encouraged to go back and become involved in achievement in the kind of education system in which we work. [More…]

• If that happens and if we have the imposition of a grey kind of educational uniformity, that would be a great pity. [More…]

• Education in Australia today is already too highly centralised. [More…]

• If our system is compared with other systems around the world it is seen that we do have a pretty centralised education system. [More…]

• Any effort to impose national curricula or to impose national examinations, or to use the Curriculum Development Centre to indicate what will be taught in different education systems would be unfortunate and would be resisted. [More…]

• The only other comment I wish to make refers to the multiplicity of bodies being set up in the educational field by the present Labor Government. [More…]

• Depending upon the degree to which it extends in that direction, it could even impinge on the functions of the Commission on Advanced Education or possibly on the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• At the present time we have in Australia a whole series of bodies, each of which is responsible for some educational function. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that in Australia at the present time there are some 30 comparatively small bodies and 4 quite major bodies which directly advise the Minister for Education on matters related to his portfolio. [More…]

• They cover a wide range of subjects and many functions, but the 4 major bodies- the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, the Schools Commission, and the Commonwealth Teaching Service- together with the Commission on Technical and Further Education, and now the Council of the Curriculum Development Centre, all exercise functions independently although these functions tend to overlap, and what is concerning many very senior educationalists- this morning I took the trouble to telephone a number of universities to talk to professors of education- is the total lack of any mechanism for coordinating, even informally, the activities of these different branches of Government. [More…]

• The same thing applies when we consider the different functions in post-secondary education and the lack of co-ordination in the grey areas of overlap which are becoming more apparent and which are going to give rise to more tension and more confusion. [More…]

• At present, the only point common to all those groups is the Minister for Education himself, and I would make the suggestion to the Minister representing that Minister that there may be a need for a coordinating body to examine some of the problems that are going to arise from the operations of all these independent groups in what should be an integrated area. [More…]

• The educational programs being proposed by the Labor Government have been extensive. [More…]

• In the end, they will be sustained in the public mind only if they can be shown to have some effect upon educational achievement. [More…]

• I would like to know that every program being put up by the Labor Government is to be subject to evaluation, not just in terms of whether the service is set up and exists, because that is meaningless, but also in terms of whether it is achieving anything to help Australians to better education, helping them to fulfil their capacities as individuals, and helping them to prepare themselves to live in the present society. [More…]

• Regardless of whether it is a Curriculum Development Centre, a Schools Commission, a Technical and Further Education Commission, or whatever it is, this Government has a duty to offer and present to the Australian people regular evaluations to show that the bodies concerned are actually achieving something. [More…]

• I remind the Minister that already doubts are being expressed whether this Government, with all its good intentions, is getting the return for the dollar that it hoped for in educational terms for some of the quite ambitious and quite original programs it has introduced. [More…]

• As the Minister in the Senate representing the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), I am appreciative of the Opposition’s attitude in giving support to this Bill at the second reading stage, although I am aware that Senator Guilfoyle will be moving an amendment in the Committee stage. [More…]

• I think that unanimity of opinion has been expressed in the Senate this afternoon that this step proposed by the Government for the establishment of a Curriculum Development Centre is a tremendous step forward in the Australian educational system. [More…]

• Several matters have been raised by Senator Guilfoyle and Senator Baume, speaking on behalf of the Opposition, and also by my colleague Senator Grimes, but I think it fair to say that the establishment of the Curriculum Development Centre is a logical development of the policies of previous governments in regard to the fostering of curriculum development at the national level, policies which have led to the establishment of the Australian Science Education project, to which Senator Guilfoyle referred, the program to foster the teaching of Asian languages in schools, and the establishment of the National Committee on Social Science Teaching. [More…]

• I have just been looking at the membership of the Interim Council, and I note that there is a wide cross section of people representative of the educational system throughout Australia who are members of it. [More…]

• He is Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Queensland. [More…]

• The other members of the committee are: Mr Alan Anderson, First Assistant Secretary, Australian Department of Education; Sister Mary Britt, CoordinatorDesignate of Secondary Education for the Dominican Congregation, Sydney, who has since been replaced by Brother Peter Butcher, Director of Teacher Education, Mount St Mary’s College, Strathfield, New South Wales; Mr George Berkeley, Director, Special Education Services, Department of Education, Queensland; Mr Robert Coggins, Principal, Salisbury College of Advanced Education, South Australia; Mr Desmond Davey, Principal, Eltham College, Victoria; Mr Denis Driscoll, Principal Lecturer, Canberra College of Advanced Education; Mr Athol Gough, DirectorGeneral of Education, Tasmania; Mr Rupert Granrott Supervisor, Arts and Craft, Education Department, Victoria; Dr Gregory Hancock, Member, Australian Schools Commission; Dr David Mossenson Assistant Director-General of Education, Western Australia; and Mr John Tozer, Lecturer, Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education, New South Wales. [More…]

• Not only has there been a diversity of educationists represented on the Interim Council of the Curriculum Development Centre but I also suggest there has been a wide diversity of representation from the States. [More…]

• I suggest that that will depend very much on how its role is developed by the Council that is appointed, the membership of which is intended to represent a wide range of interests relevant to Australian education. [More…]

• The functions statement to which Senator Guilfoyle referred of course was prepared by the Interim Council and has the endorsement of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In respect of State participation, and I understand that the Opposition will be moving an amendment on that matter in the Committee stage, I am advised that the State Education Ministers fully support the concept of the Curriculum Development Centre and also the manner in which it is intended it shall operate. [More…]

• The matter was fully discussed by the Minister for Education with the State Ministers in meetings of the Australian Education Council before June 1973 when my colleague, Mr Beazley, announced that it was the Government’s intention to proceed with the establishment of the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]

• Two members of that Council are lecturers in colleges of advanced educationteacher education institutions. [More…]

• The Chairman, Professor Evans, is Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Queensland. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle, during the course of her remarks, referred to the relationship that might exist or is likely to exist between the Centre that will be established by this legislation and other educational institutions such as the Schools Commission. [More…]

• He said that doubt is growing as to whether the Government is getting value for the money it is outlaying in all of its diversities, such as commissions, which are being established, as it were, under the umbrella of education. [More…]

• So far as scope of activity is concerned the Centre will concern itself with education in schools. [More…]

• It is intended that the Centre will complement and supplement the work that is done by State education departments or other educational bodies. [More…]

• I know it is taking place in every other area, in a large number of schools where a diversity of curricula in education is occurring. [More…]

• For instance, my own son who attends a State high school at Blakehurst has a much more diversified form of educational pursuit available to him than was available to his sisters who left school about 4 years ago and who have since gone to universities. [More…]

• On behalf of the Minister for Education I thank members of the Opposition for the manner in which they have made constructive suggestions concerning this legislation. [More…]

• Their ideas and thoughts will be conveyed to my colleague the Minister for Education and they will be taken into consideration because, after all, education is of vital concern to all Australian children and to the Australian people. [More…]

• 1 member nominated by the Secretary of the Department of Education; [More…]

• 3 members nominated by the Australian Education Council; [More…]

• 1 member nominated by each State Minister who is a member of the Australian Education Council; [More…]

• The way in which we envisage the Curriculum Development Centre operating is such that it would seem to us that a very close relationship between State Ministers for Education would be desirable. [More…]

• It will be seen that in paragraph (d) we have specified that one member nominated by each State Minister who is a member of the Australian Education Council shall be a member of the Curriculum Development Centre Council. [More…]

• We believe that education in general has much to gain from the involvement of the community in educational processes. [More…]

• The Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland), when winding up the second reading debate, said that the State Ministers for Education supported the establishment of the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]

• It is principally at the request of State Ministers that we have moved the amendment which seeks to include as a member of the Council a person nominated by each State Minister who is a member of the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• If we look at the work which is to be undertaken by the Centre, the functions which it will have in developing projects as a clearing house in field development and in services which it may give to education, it can be said that a representation of the areas which will be using these support services would be desirable. [More…]

• The setting up of a close relationship between the Council and those bodies in the States which will be using the educational curricula seems to us to be sufficient reason to warrant the formation of the Council in the way we have specified. [More…]

• Perhaps it would be appropriate to pose the question why there is no provision for the Technical and Further Education Commission to have members nominated to a Curriculum Development Centre Council. [More…]

• It may be that this Bill was drafted before the formation of the Technical and Further Education Commission, but it would seem to me that if the Curriculum Development Centre is to do the work that we hope it would do on the broad range of educational opportunities in Australia it might be broadened to include some representative of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• I think we should realise that under the Bill 3 members of the Council are to be nominated by the Australian Education Council, which is made up of the State Ministers for Education. [More…]

• I would express some concern at the very grave danger of the 6 members on the Council who are appointed by the State Ministers for Education being senior administrators from each State who are sent to the Council to keep watch for their Ministers. [More…]

• I am told by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that at the meeting of the Australian Education Council before this Bill was written the Council approved of the Curriculum Development Centre Council. [More…]

• As the Australian Education Council is to nominate 3 members to the Council of the Centre, I do not see that the amendment will achieve very much. [More…]

• One thinks of some of the projects that one hopes might be developed, for instance, in environmental education and other things. [More…]

• I do not think that the State Ministers for Education would see that as the representation that they are seeking; rather, in the development of the curricula and the innovations which they hope will be introduced, the Ministers may see some special need for their States to have a voice on the Council. [More…]

• The crux of the proposal is the addition to the Curriculum Development Centre Council of one member nominated by each State Minister who is a member of the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• In view of the provision already made for State representation on the Council, on behalf of the Government I suggest that the amendment as well as virtually, for want of a better term, stacking the Council would be seen as unnecessary, because clause 11 ( 1 ) (c) provides for 3 members to be nominated by the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• It is intended that the Council should be an expert body with a policy and management role to perform and it would include in its membership people drawn from a range of educational interests. [More…]

• It has been pointed out to me that none of the other education commissions that have been established has State representation on the basis that is now proposed by the Opposition’s amendment. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle also mentioned that provision is made for representation for the Schools Commission on the Curriculum Development Centre Council and raised a question as to why the Technical Education Council was not represented. [More…]

• I am advised that the main activities of the Curriculum Development Centre Council are intended to be at school or pre-school level, that the report of the Committee for Technical Education proposed the establishment of a body at the technical and further educational level which would be a body in much the same sort of vein as the Curriculum Development Centre is intended to be at the school level. [More…]

• Admittedly, as I am advised, no decision has been taken on that recommendation of that Committee, but that in short is the reason why provision has not been made for representation of the Technical Education Council on this Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]

• -The Opposition supports the Bill now before the Senate to form the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• We recognise that this is the fourth education commission which has been established and we welcome the opportunity that this will give for the funding of technical and further education in this country. [More…]

• We recognise that this Commission is comparable to the Schools Commission in the way that it will relate to technical and further education. [More…]

• We understand, of course, that it is not comparable to the Commission on Advanced Education or the Universities Commission which provide total funds for their areas of education. [More…]

• However, we would want to emphasise that we recognise the need for technical education to have some priority when competing for funds for education in the near future, because it is fair to say that there is need for improvement in many of the opportunities in technical education which we would like to see available to the Australian people. [More…]

• I want to refer to the Bill which we did pass some months ago, that is, the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill. [More…]

• It will be recalled that when we were dealing with that Bill we outlined our attitudes in regard to the means by which technical and further education would be funded under this Bill. [More…]

• It will be recalled too that while we did not deny that Bill a second reading we did express the view that we believed that the system proposed by the Bill for the development of technical and further education imposed intolerable and unacceptable administrative burdens upon the States and their education systems. [More…]

• We also asserted that the provisions of the Bill made extensive use of ministerial discretion and would limit the States in their own educational programs, and we contended that the grants proposed to be made to the States for the purposes proposed in the Bill should be made without being subject to the conditions as were prescribed. [More…]

• At that time we called upon the Government to implement a scheme to grant money to the States for technical and further education that would give the States control of expenditure of such grants and require them to report annually to the Minister as to the manner in which such grants had been expended. [More…]

• It is appropriate at this time to refer to those attitudes which we expressed when dealing with the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill because it is very much a part of the future of technical and further education to ensure that we are not simply duplicating the administration of this form of education. [More…]

• It will be recalled that the Bill had very definite specifications in regard to arrangements for funding, and it was our concern that this would require a good deal of duplication in administrative action and, of course, it would be a means of administratively absorbing funds which otherwise may have resulted in improved quality of technical and further education actually reaching the students. [More…]

• It is perhaps in this area that we can see dangers in regard to the detailed functions which are specified for a body at the Federal Government level which relates closely to the States in their administration of education. [More…]

• In clause 7 we have noted that there are requirements in respect of consultation with the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, the Schools Commission and the authorities in the States and the Territories. [More…]

• We welcome that consultation because we believe it is essential that if this Bill is to work where we would want it to work, that is in the areas in which educational opportunities exist, consultation will be required as a means of effective functioning of the Commission. [More…]

• The provisions in this Bill relating to the establishment of the Commission adopt a similar approach to the other related Commonwealth enactments such as those relating to the Commission on Advanced Education and the Universities Commission. [More…]

• The provisions in the Bill reinforce the power of the Commonwealth to direct the lines of development of technical and further education by recommending or withholding recommendations for financial support. [More…]

• On page one of the Bill ‘college of advanced education’ is defined as: . [More…]

• an institution or proposed institution that is an institution providing advanced education for the purposes of the Commission on Advanced Education Act 1971-1973. [More…]

• As colleges of technical and advanced education in some States are engaged in the provision of advanced education courses, this definition would seem to include these institutions. [More…]

• There are also some reservations in that State in respect to the definition on page 2 of technical and further education’. [More…]

• Technical and further education is defined as: . [More…]

• education provided by way of a course of instruction or training- [More…]

• that otherwise meets the educational needs of persons who are not enrolled in a full-time course of primary or secondary education at a school. [More…]

• In spite of the inclusive nature of paragraph (b) in that definition, there is some doubt in New South Wales as to whether the phrase ‘trade, technical or other skilled occupation’ in paragraph (a) adequately covers a wide range of occupations for which courses are provided in institutions of technical and further education. [More…]

• There has been a good deal more interest in technical and further education since the release of the Kangan report and the study that was undertaken in the report. [More…]

• In fact, articles may now be written to say that the charter under that report gives us a new word, that of TAFE- Technical and Further Education Commission- in recognition of this new emphasis on technical and further education. [More…]

• I think that the matters which have been outlined in it can well be used as the blueprint for accent on technical and further education in the near future. [More…]

• It has been drawn to my attention that the salary range for the Chairman of this Commission is lower than that for the Chairman of the Schools Commission, the Chairman of the Universities Commission, the Chairman of the Colleges of Advanced Education Commission; indeed I understand it is in a lower range than that proposed for the Chairman of the Children ‘s Commission. [More…]

• What is the reason behind the thinking that this position should be in a lower salary range than those which apply in respect of the chairman of the other education commissions through which we work. [More…]

• We seek the inclusion of one member from each State nominated by the State Minister responsible for education. [More…]

• Our reason for suggesting the inclusion of a member from each State, nominated by the State Minister concerned with education, is simply that if this Commission is to work in conjunction with State Government programs in the States throughout Australia it would be an advantage to have at the level of the Commission’s work some expertise directly concerned with State governments and their responsibilities in education. [More…]

• The Opposition supports the formation of the Technical and Further Education Commission and we wish the Bill a speedy passage. [More…]

• This Bill represents another very important milestone in the history of education in Australia. [More…]

• The Bill under discussion is the Technical and Further Education Com: mission Bill. [More…]

• As was said in the second reading speech I presented in this chamber on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), the establishment of this Commission will complement the three other commissions that already have been established, the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Commission will give the long under developed area, as we see it, of technical and further education the same sort of assurances in regard to skilled and impartial consideration of the needs of technical and further education that have been given to the areas of primary, secondary and tertiary education. [More…]

• As a result of the passage of this Bill and the establishment of the Commission on Technical and Further Education, the Commission will be a financial adviser to the Australian Government on applications from the States and areas of technical education for financial assistance and support. [More…]

• When speaking on behalf of the Opposition she said that the current technical education program tends to restrict the freedom of the States in determining their priorities. [More…]

• She pointed out that the proposed salary of the chairman of this Commission is in a lower range when compared with the salary payable to the chairmen of the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission and the Colleges of Advanced Education Commission. [More…]

• I appreciate the speedy passage that the Opposition has given to the second reading of this very important Bill on education. [More…]

• 1 member from each State nominated by the Minister of the State concerned responsible for education; and [More…]

• As with the Curriculum Development Centre Bill, which we dealt with earlier today, we consider that the membership of the Commission is very important because, as the Minister has already said, it is part of the State’s educational program with regard to technical and further education. [More…]

• It would seem to us that there should be at the decision-making level of the Commission a member from each State nominated by the State Minister for Education. [More…]

• We believe that this would give an opportunity to have a commission which was able to deal with the realities of funding for technical and further education, and that such a commission would have an awareness of the programs which the States were initiating and funding as their own responsibilities. [More…]

• To decide that the Commission could have this sort of representation we believe would also point to the difficulties which are envisaged by the States in working under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill. [More…]

• Whilst the States may have welcomed the opportunity to get additional funds for technical and further education, the analysis of the funding Bill that we had to do showed a predominance of ministerial approval for projects that were to be undertaken, and a great deal of detailed requirement administratively. [More…]

• If we understand that in the realm of technical and further education various streams of education are involved- and we note that there are the professional streams, the para-professional, the trade, the other skilled, the preparatory and the adult education streams- it would point to the fact that a very wise commission in its membership would be the sort of commission which we think could best deal with the new emphasis that we would like to see placed on technical and further education. [More…]

• For these reasons we have moved this amendment, hoping that the Government will see our reasons as being constructive, will accept the proposed Commission, and will add to the commissioners a member who would be nominated by each State Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Government does not accept the amendment that has been moved by Senator Guilfoyle on behalf of the Opposition, primarily on the basis, as I mentioned in reply during the second reading debate, that this Commission that is being established is basically an advisory committee to the Australian Government and to the Minister for Education on how funds provided by the Australian Government, or the Commonwealth, in regard to technical and further education should be spread out within the States having regard to the applications that the States might make from time to time. [More…]

• It has been pointed out to me that, as in the case of the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Schools Commission, the Technical and Further Education Commission should be a working body compossed of experts chosen for their capacity to bring independent expertise to the task of making recommendations about national policies and priorities. [More…]

• It is suggested that they should be chosen from a range of interests including, in the case of the Technical and Further Education Commission, technical education, adult education, employers and unions. [More…]

• It has been pointed out to me that none of the other 3 major advisory commissions in education, namely, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education or the Schools Commission, has the kind of State representation proposed in the amendment moved on behalf of the Opposition by Senator Guilfoyle. [More…]

• The Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education were established when the present Opposition was in government, and that government did not then make arrangements for such State representation. [More…]

• In speaking on a similar amendment to the Schools Commission Bill, my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said: [More…]

• My colleague the Minister for Education states that there will be ample opportunity for State interests and views to be heard in the deliberations of the Commission, without formal representation of the kind now proposed in the amendment. [More…]

• He points out that at least one member from each State was appointed to the present interim committee- the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education- at the time it was established, and in general it could be expected to be the aim in the future with the establishment of a commission of this nature. [More…]

• Clause 7(1) of the present Bill obliges the Commission, which is being established by the passage of this legislation, to consult with State educational authorities in the course of its deliberations. [More…]

• Also, my colleague points out that as a member of the Australian Education Council he, the Australian Minister for Education, naturally may expect to receive direct feed-back from State Ministers on progress in technical and further education in each of the States. [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 realise that education is the kernel of this issue and that there are several organisations in the community which are quite well aware that the only cure is education and conciliation. [More…]

• Each of the International Conventions on which the bills are based recognise the vital role of education. [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…]

• At a 2-day conference held in Sydney in April 1974 the United National Association of Australia touched on the field of education and moved the following motion: [More…]

• This year Mr Walter M. Lippmann, M.B.E., in an Australia Day address touched on education. [More…]

• The most important challenge for the community relations program however lies in the field of education. [More…]

• is an essential part of the enterprise of education which alone can end prejudice. ‘ [More…]

• Many statements have been made by Government supporters and indeed by Government Ministers which indicate that it is the view of the Government that this Bill ought to proceed by way of education, by way of research, by way of conciliation, with law being brought in only as a last resort. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• Courses at theological colleges have not been approved for Tertiary Education Assistance. [More…]

• If a theological course is conducted by a university or college of advanced education, there should be no obstacle to approving the course for benefits under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• If a theological training institution obtains State recognition as a university or college of advanced education or makes suitable affiliation so that a course is effectively conducted by a university or college and attracts Government funding, it is possible that the course could be approved. [More…]

• Under the appropriate State legislation, Moore College has not obtained recognition as a corporate college of advanced education. [More…]

• This legislation empowers the State Minister to declare an institution a corporate college of advanced education. [More…]

• As far as the Diploma of Arts course is concerned, the College submitted it to the New South Wales Board of Advanced Education for an assessment of its standard. [More…]

• The Board is empowered to approve courses as courses in advanced education in corporate colleges of advanced education and also in colleges not so declared. [More…]

• Neither institution has been declared a corporate college of advanced education. [More…]

• The criterion of a place among our fellows should always be ensconced in the abilities arising from education and experience. [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…]

• 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…]

• If we talk about this we have to remember that we must undertake a vigorous and active program of education not only for our students and young people but also for our adult community. [More…]

• This must require that education be broad and flexible. [More…]

• We talk about education and we talk about other matters, but the Bill should have what I will call social support. [More…]

• Long term education is really the only way in which this can be achieved. [More…]

• The various other parts of this Bill- the protection of legal rights and the education angles which have been mentioned already- are, I think, worthy and, as Senator Davidson pointed out, will have a more long range effect in this community. [More…]

• On 17 April 1975, Senator Guilfoyle asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Education, the following question, without notice: [More…]

• My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education relates to the secondary school libraries program which operates under the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973-74. [More…]

• In my answer to the question I undertook to refer the matter to the Minister for Education for his advice. [More…]

• That because of the excessively high inflation rate, the Government decision to decrease the taxable allowance for education expenses from $400 to $ 1 50 per student will create unreasonable financial pressures upon many families and will cause great difficulty for such families to provide their children with an adequate education. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• On the one hand there are groups in the community that rightly believe that the kindergarten years, broadly between the ages of three and five where the emphasis is on education, should be expanded. [More…]

• But the Opposition believes that it would be far better to establish a children’s bureau whose functions would be to faciliate achieving the objectives of pre-school care and education. [More…]

• Traditionally pre-school education exists for the age group 3 to 5 years, although there is an overlap in the last 6-month period with the primary school system. [More…]

• Within child care centres there has been a shift away from the purely custodial care of children, as it is becoming increasingly obvious that in the earlier years the child is learning at the fastest rate during his whole educational span. [More…]

• Therefore there have been these two organisational streams in the pre-school education and care sectors, and as a long term objective these streams will converge as the need to provide full time education programs becomes more relevant. [More…]

• This relevance is due to the fact that there is an increasing demand for full time education and care. [More…]

• In the lower socio-economic areas the demand for this is increasing and there is an increasing awareness in the community that children need more than just care- that they need a certain amount of educational content in the day’s activity. [More…]

• It should be a clear objective that pre-school education should be complementary to the family unit. [More…]

• It also should be feasible for parents not only to control the administration of these centres but also to be involved in an advisory capacity, as already occurs in so many areas connected with the care and education of children. [More…]

• This may be done by establishing workshops with parents periodically discussing problems with people skilled in various aspects of child education and welfare. [More…]

• The need to enable parents to obtain access to the latest pre-school education and care thinking is another important role to be undertaken by the Children’s Commission or the children’s bureau. [More…]

• We believe that the development of the play group and the involvement of parents in the pre-school care and education are things which will have their effect not only directly upon the child but also indirectly upon the child by making the mother a happier person and a person better able to participate in the child’s development from a favourable point of view. [More…]

• In discussing industry one must, I believe, have regard to the fact that there are dangers as well as benefits in linking child care and education directly with a particular industry. [More…]

• Benefits are to be obtained by siting child care facilities close to large places of employment; but to have them totally tied is to run the risk, we believe, of tying the mother and reducing her right of choice of employment because she may experience the fear that if she exercises the right to change her employment she will have to change the child’s place of care and education and the child will have to get used to new people, and that may be to the child’s disadvantage. [More…]

• Consistent with all of the policies of the Opposition is that all children should have an equal right to adequate pre-school education, especially if one realises that it is in this area that educational advantage first becomes manifest and the whole problem of social deprivation and subsequent delinquency has its origin. [More…]

• We believe that pre-school education should be treated as a co-operative effort between the Federal Government, State governments and local government, together with all voluntary organisations and all commercially run associations involved in the provision of pre-school care and education. [More…]

• Policies and programs, which vitally affect families and children, are already spread over several departments including Social Security, Health, Tourism and Recreation, Labor, Aboriginal Affairs and Education. [More…]

• It will be recalled that a committee comprised of the health, education, social welfare, youth, sport and recreation and local government departments in Victoria as well as representatives of the voluntary sector was set up so that an overall State program could be placed before the Commonwealth Government for the support of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• Since the change of” government in 1972 this particular part of government responsibility has been handled by several Ministers- the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) and now the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen). [More…]

• Pre-school care and education is regarded as being essential to the work of the Children’s Commission. [More…]

• In the Schools Commission there is emphasis on providing the highest standards, making education available to all children at such standard without fee. [More…]

• I have another area of responsibilityeducation. [More…]

• In that regard I would like to say that I would have expected more definition of the program that the Federal Government may have had in mind to implement the promise of the Prime Minister of one year’s pre-school education for every Australian child. [More…]

• I recognise that there is a provision in this Bill which deals with pre-school education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education spoke to that Bill. [More…]

• The Minister shall appoint persons with qualifications in pre-school education, pediatricians, psychologists, educationalists and child psychiatrists. [More…]

• The Federal Government intends to move into the fields of full day care, family day care, preschool education, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, play groups and any other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]

• As was stated by the Government in another place, the Children’s Commission will take its place beside the School’s Commission, the Technical and Further Education Commission, the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission of Advanced Education. [More…]

• In the other place the word ‘education’ was used in its widest sense, meaning the total development of the personality of a child. [More…]

• The Hansard of the other place indicates that it was stated that ‘education’ means not just education but the total development of the personality of a child. [More…]

• What we are aiming for is a co-ordinated and integrated approach to the health, education and welfare of young people. [More…]

• For example, paragraph (b) refers to ‘the education of pre-school aged children’, paragraph (f) refers to ‘assistance to, and counselling of, parents in relation to the raising of children’, and paragraph (g) refers to ‘other services’, and obviously applies to all children. [More…]

• to ascertain the needs of the Australian community for services for children and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs, including recommendations in relation to- (iri) the education and training of persons involved, or to be involved, in the provision of services for children; [More…]

• It seems to me that we could be reaching a stage in this Bill at which we are talking about child care taking priority over pre-school education. [More…]

• Is it being suggested that preschool education is to take a lesser priority? [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle raised the point, I took it to be, of just how this thing might develop in a practical situation and not what is the intention of the legislation and as to whether there would be some rub between pre-school education and the provision of child care facilities. [More…]

• We would seek to have established in appropriate educational institutions programs specifically designed to meet the needs of trade unionists. [More…]

• To assist in that purpose, we support the concept of a National Council of Trade Union Education whose task it would be to develop special relationships with the appropriate educational institutions to see that the content of courses specifically met the needs of trade unions. [More…]

• We strongly believe that appropriate courses should be conducted as far as practicable in existing educational and training institutions. [More…]

• Trade union education and training should not be shut off from other forms of education. [More…]

• We would have hoped that a trade union training authority could have been incorporated basically within the existing educational arrangements in our community, naturally with special reference to the curricula requirements of the trade unions. [More…]

• We say that because it seems a shame, in establishing a necessary form of education in our community, that we should be tending to establish an institution such as the envisaged authority which in some real measure appears to have the capacity of shutting itself off from the rest of the educational fields in Australia. [More…]

• If they are interested in the total integration of a great, free Australian society it is clear that advantages are to be gained from having a government educational institution that relates to trade unionism involved as part of the institutions which have a wider educational horizon. [More…]

• I think of various universities, colleges of advanced education, technical colleges and the like. [More…]

• It seems to me somewhat of a shame that this sort of educational project, important as it is, cannot become part of the wider educational field in the Australian circumstance because I believe immense value is to be gained, as a nation and as a people, from providing facilities which enable students in whatever faculty they may be interested and in whatever area of the economy they may be involved to mix and to gain from mixing, from discussion and from the thoughts of students who may be applying themselves to any of a dozen or a score of other faculties or other lines of occupation. [More…]

• The fact that that sort of inter-mix of students is not possible in a circumstance in which a trade union training authority isolates itself from the other educational areas of this country, I believe, is unfortunate. [More…]

• It seems to me that, if it were conceivable that this Authority would be part of the greater educational horizon, there would be more possibility- indeed probability- that a proper measure of relevance of trade union training to all the other entities and departments in the Australian society would be obtained. [More…]

• We must ensure that education in any field- certainly in the trade union field- will produce, or will aim to produce, a flexible and reasonable society, because it is only in this circumstance that a free democracy can survive. [More…]

• If we were to introduce a set of circumstances which would enable the isolation of trade union training, we would run the real risk of establishing a situation in which the training concerned itself not truly with education but more significantly with indoctrination. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that the trade unions themselves will not hold too tight a control or too tight a rein over the type of trade union student who will undergo training provided by this educational authority. [More…]

• It is immensely important that in this area of industrial relations we should be mindful, as far as training and education are concerned, of the importance of education, not merely in gaining a grasp of rules, producing a log of claims or interpreting Acts. [More…]

• As I have said, the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Government in the other place are each to nominate a member of Parliament to this Council; the Minister for Education in the Federal Parliament also is to nominate one member to the Council. [More…]

• I certainly believe that this is a step in the right direction, because it involves the people with this educational authority in some real measure and it is essential that the people be involved. [More…]

• It is in that concept that the addition of members of this Parliament to the Council can best be seen to act in something of a liaison character between the Council and the community which supports this college as it supports most educational facilities in Australia, in order that the community may feel a direct link with the establishment and control of education in virtually all fields. [More…]

• Once more let me refer to the necessity for the Authority, when established, to concern itself- it will be more difficult for it to concern itself because it is to be divorced from so many other educational fields in the community- with a relatively wide area of education and certainly to ignore the attitudes of indoctrination. [More…]

• As I draw my remarks to a conclusion I say once again that in supporting the concept of this Trade Union Training Authority and in supporting this Bill we are concerned that the yardstick of the Authority- the yardstick of education in this field, as in any field- should be its relevance to the community as a whole. [More…]

• We support the Bill but, as I have indicated, we have a number of problems about it; problems that arise from the possibility of it being an isolated and not an integrated entity in the Australian educational scene. [More…]

• They are, broadly speaking, to undertake and carry out the planning and development of trade union education and training in Australia per medium of training centres and other institutions and bodies. [More…]

• The framework of the clause seems to suggest to me that it is not envisaged that these activities will be carried on in a sort of intellectual and educational ghetto such as Senator Scott fears. [More…]

• The purpose of the legislation, as I said, is to establish a national authority to carry out these functions and to provide continuing education facilities for trade union officials and their members. [More…]

• I said there were 2 views of the function of this education authority. [More…]

• But there is of course a much broader view of what the legislation and the authority should effect and it arises, as I pointed out earlier, from paragraph (b) of the definition of trade union training, which refers to much wider aspects of education. [More…]

• I express this as a broader view because we live at present in a country that is espousing with tremendous enthusiasm on all sides notions of technical and further education, the concept of free tertiary education and management training schemes, and the provision in numerous universities and colleges of advanced education of management training courses. [More…]

• If I may express a personal view I think it is perhaps time that we came to reconsider our educational priorities. [More…]

• I am not making any pre-Budget comment; I am just saying that in philosophical terms it is perhaps time we began to reconsider educational priorities and the vast sums of money that are poured into institutions of the kind to which I have referred. [More…]

• Notions of continuing education are constantly being discussed and there is a rapidly changing technology. [More…]

• I have confidence that these things will happen because I know some of the personnel involved, particularly Mr Mathews, the Interim Director of the Authority, and I know that from a vast experience of trade union education and training he accepts the importance of the cross fertilisation of ideas between all sections of the community, and so on. [More…]

• Senator Scott said that trade unionists should mix with doctors, lawyers and others in the course of these educational training programs. [More…]

• True, there are industrial relations courses in various institutes of advanced education. [More…]

• I wish to quote briefly from a study of the Swedish trade union education system contained in an article in the ‘Journal of Industrial Relations’. [More…]

• A great deal of the undoubted Swedish success in seeking progress through discussion must be ascribed to a healthy respect for education . [More…]

• but in fact the emphasis on education is broadly based. [More…]

• The informed discussion and evolution of policy stem from the large investment in education on both sides at all levels of labour market activity. [More…]

• There are some who think that you understand these things from yesterday’s newspaper or from the current news sheet printed by the job foreman, but there are others who think that if the training were intensified in trade unions principles and purposes we would have a much more productive effort from trade unions in association with their employers so as to minimise inflation and to create a society of greater egalitarianism and a society of much better mutual production, one for the other, in goods and services, education and amenities of life. [More…]

• Therefore our society should establish a trade union training authority to enable those who are studying the processes of industrial education and training to see whether this prosecution of the class war has any merit. [More…]

• The Liberal and Country Parties put forward the suggestion in the House of Representatives that included in the membership of the Council there should be 2 representatives of the Parliament- one representing the Government and the other representing the Opposition- and a special appointee from all the educational institutions and personnel under the contact of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I welcome the fact that the Government acknowledges in the formation of the Training Authority that, whilst massive sums have been spent on education in all of the fields that we have been able to devise as being necessary, very limited attention has been paid to trade union training. [More…]

• The formation of the Authority leads us to expect that greater educational opportunities will be available to people who require specialised training for their activities in trade unionism. [More…]

• In clause 1 9, which deals with the formation of the State Councils for Union Training, I was interested to see that one member will be appointed to the State Council by the Minister after the Minister has consulted with the Minister of State responsible for education. [More…]

• I wish that that concept could have been more readily accepted when other councils relating to education have been formed. [More…]

• I need go no further than to repeat the comments that I made a few days ago regarding the formation of the Technical and Further Education Commission and the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]

• There are many existing facilities in the way of educational opportunities that could well be used for a specialised trade union training function. [More…]

• I would like to think that the colleges of advanced education with management courses or industrial courses or other functions might also be used in conjunction with whatever syllabus is devised by the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]

• We are not talking now of trade unionists as being exclusively those who left school at an early age and had no opportunities for training or education; we are talking of the person who may wish to develop more fully his skills as an advocate, as a negotiator, as a person who represents large numbers of people, as a shop steward or as someone higher in the trade union movement. [More…]

• I conclude by saying this: We are following a false road in thinking that education will do what only the enforcement of democratic principles finally will do for the Australian trade union movement and the decent Australian trade unionist who is so subject to the strong arm tactics of union personnel today. [More…]

• In fact in every university throughout this country there is some management course and in every college of advanced education there is such a course that is supported by the many thousands of dollars provided by the Government. [More…]

• Why is the training to be done outside the usual areas where tertiary education takes place? [More…]

• I think it will give an opportunity for so many more people in the industrial movement to get the education and a better understanding to deal with the various aspects of industry and commerce in which they are operating. [More…]

• One might look at what is happening in New South Wales where the power of the Teachers Federation is being used in an attempt to overthrow the authority of the State Government, the teachers tribunals and the Department of Education in that State. [More…]

• In this debate every senator has pledged support for the Bill, which is a Bill about trade union education, to set up a college and to set up administration- an Australian and a State council- and it dennes what trade union education is. [More…]

• He said that he was concerned that this training should not be in isolation and should not be separate from the general movement of education in the community or from the educational seminars which are conducted and which bring management and workers together. [More…]

• In addition, of course, he said that the training should be conducted in the framework of the existing educational institutions. [More…]

• In addition the Government has accepted an Opposition proposition to put on the Australian Council- and there will be an amendment following- a representative from each side of the Parliament, which means that Parliament will have some involvement in the activities of the Australian Council in respect of trade union education. [More…]

• ( 1a) A member of the Australian Council appointed on the nomination of the Minister for Education may resign his office by writing under his hand delivered to that Minister, but the resignation does not have effect until it is accepted by that Minister. [More…]

• I submit that the representative of the Prime Minister, the representative of the Leader of the Opposition and the nominee of the Minister for Education will be put there as members of Parliament for the specific purpose each has in his own field. [More…]

• The representative of the Prime Minister will be put there to represent the Government, the representative of the Leader of the Opposition will be put there to represent the Opposition and the Minister for Education’s nominees will be a member of Parliament who represents educational interests. [More…]

• I wish to express the view that that is where the matter should rest and that once a member of the Council ceases to be a member of Parliament he no longer represents the Government, the Opposition or the educational interests in this Parliament on the Council. [More…]

• A total of 10 669 grants were made available last year for Aborigines for continuing education, compared with 2379 grants in 1970. [More…]

• I ask him: How long will the Minister tolerate the agent provocateur role being pursued by the New South Wales Minister for Education, Mr Willis, in creating a surplus of school teachers in New South Wales and thereby placing United States nationals in the role of professional cannon fodder? [More…]

• Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in its recent third progress report on television and broadcasting made a unanimous recommendation that licences should be granted to public broadcasting bodies, including community access and ethnic activities, only after a full public inquiry by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and after a recommendation from that Board? [More…]

• I am very much aware of the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science, and the Arts in relation to the 2 matters to which Senator Carrick refers. [More…]

• I ask: Is the Minister aware that the New South Wales Minister for Education feels a responsibility to fill vacancies for teachers in all schools in New South Wales? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -My colleague the Minister for Education has provided me with some information on this matter. [More…]

• He has advised me that the Interim Committee on Technical and Further Education, which is commonly referred to as the Kangan Committee, has recommended the provision of $4m for residential halls associated with technical colleges. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has advised me further that Tasmania has received an allocation for a residential college and that it is to be constructed ar Burnie. [More…]

• The Australian Minister for Education expressed the hope when he was in Burnie that it would be built in 2 years, but the realisation of that hope is one for the State Government. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, in his statement tabling the report, expressed disappointment at the lack of a specific fund for such colleges. [More…]

• In 1973 the Australia Government set up 5 schools for bilingual education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• We find that by the use of bilingual education in schools Aboriginal children no longer begin their education at a disadvantage to European children by being taught in a foreign language. [More…]

• The planning and research section of my Department recently advised me that it thought that there was a considerable amount of research going on throughout the various universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary organisations that might be involving themselves in media affairs. [More…]

• We believe that the scheme would be more appropriately funded by the Department of Education. [More…]

• -Does the Minister representing the Minister for Education recall that earlier this month I asked him about the outstanding balance of the grant promised by the Liberal-Country Party Government to the Sacred Heart College in South Australia, pointing out that $49,000, the balance of the grant, had been borrowed by the school for the construction of a library on the assumption that the remainder of the grant, which I think originally was $74,500, would be forthcoming? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that I wrote to the Minister for Education on 14 April, and subsequently on 12 May, asking him for sympathetic consideration and requesting payment of this money, and that as yet I have had no substantive reply? [More…]

• -No, I am certain a reply was provided to me by the Minister for Education and that I in turn presented it to the Senate. [More…]

• -In an article in the ‘Age’ yesterday, headed ‘Media’s fate hangs on a door in the Deep North ‘ I have been gravely misrepresented, and the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, of which I am Chairman, has been similarly treated. [More…]

• Queensland ‘s Senator Georges has become Chairman of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• The report quotes fairly accurately and substantially from a draft report that was placed before and subsequently amended by the Committee on Education, Science and Arts. [More…]

• The main purpose of this Bill is to provide supplementary grants for increases in costs which were not allowed for when the 1973-75 triennial capital and recurrent programs of colleges of advanced education and non-government teachers colleges were adopted. [More…]

• In addition, the Government has approved a supplementary recurrent grant of $3,716,000 for the State College of Victoria’s constituent colleges and central office and colleges of advanced education affiliated with the Victoria Institute of Colleges. [More…]

• An amount of $185,000 is included for the establishment, development and conduct of an associate diploma course in welfare studies at North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Caulfield Institute of Technology and the South Australian Institute of Technology. [More…]

• Also, a grant of $140,000 for recurrent expenditure and $265,000 for capital expenditure is included to provide for the accelerated development of the Albury-Wodonga Study Centre of the Riverina College of Advanced Education in 1 975. [More…]

• In summary, this Bill provides for an additional $83m to be made available in respect of the 1973-75 triennium to colleges of advanced education and approved nongovernment teachers colleges. [More…]

• During 1974 the Australian and Victorian Governments agreed that a new university should be established at Geelong, to incorporate the 2 existing colleges of advanced education in that city in the manner proposed by the Universities Commission in its ‘ Report on the Proposal of the Government of Victoria for a Fourth University in Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo’. [More…]

• Grants made on the recommendations of the Interim Committee have been used to acquire land and buildings, to restore historic property and to provide programs of public education. [More…]

• If you take up a modern volume of the reports of the Queen’s Bench Division, you will find that about half the cases reported have to do with rules of administrative law; I mean with such matters as local rating, the powers of local boards, the granting of licences for various trades and professions, the Public Health Acts, the Education Acts, and so forth. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present 2 reports prepared by Mr N. J. Thomson on means tests applying under schemes of student assistance as follows: ‘The Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme- Means Test’, and ‘Schemes of Assistance to School Students- The Means Test’. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present a report on educational turbulence among Australian servicemen’s children by Lindsay Mackay and Brian Spicer of the Faculty of Education, Monash University. [More…]

• In our current education system everybody has the idea that their sons should have a university education, and that is a good thing. [More…]

• They include land use, wildlife, parks, coastlines, built environment, Aboriginal sites and special areas, historic sites, geological sites, caves, museums, historic shipwrecks, archives, export of cultural property and education. [More…]

• 1 ) Did Mr Ray Piesse, Director of the National Acoustic Laboratories, address a meeting of the Forum for Deaf Education and Welfare held in Sydney on Tuesday, 8 April 1 975. [More…]

• Did the areas of concern include testing of hearing, the working relationship between audiologists and teachers, training programs for audiologists and teachers, parent education, the selection and fitting of suitable aids, the need for improved ear mould making techniques, the need for more effective checking and maintenance of children’s aids. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the Fourth Triennial Report on Advanced Education by the Commission on Advanced Education together with a statement by the Minister for Education on that report. [More…]

• Ministerial statement by my colleague, the Minister for Education, the Hon K. E. Beazley, incorporated in Hansard. [More…]

• TRIENNIAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON ADVANCED EDUCATION FOR THE TRIENNIUM 1976 TO 1978 [More…]

• It is important to remember that since the last triennium of the Commission on Advanced Education the Commission has taken under its aegis a very significant component of the nation’s structure of education- the teachers’ colleges and pre-school teachers’ colleges. [More…]

• This, and growth, have led to the following increases in the student clientele of the colleges of advanced education: [More…]

• The Report recommends a total program, covering both capital and recurrent expenditure, of $1,681 million, to be allocated to 85 colleges of advanced education throughout Australia which by 1978 would be providing tertiary education for 175 000 students. [More…]

• It also includes major capital development of $37,933,000 at the New South Wales Institute of Technology; $26,132,000 for the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology; $13,222,000 for the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education; $26,324,000 for the Western Australian Institute of Technology; $ 1 5,563,000 for Canberra College of Advanced Education; $10,094,000 for Tasmanian College of Advanced Education; $18,061,000 for the South Australian Institute of Technology; $13,937,000 for Torrens College of Advanced Education; $11,727,000 for Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education, and $2 1 ,88 1,000 for the Queensland Institute of Technology. [More…]

• As noted above, in 1975 there are approximately 123 000 students (full-time, part-time and external) enrolled in colleges of advanced education, rising from about 28 000 in 1968. [More…]

• Although the addition of 39 former State teachers ‘colleges and pre-school teachers’ colleges in 1973 accounts for some of this growth the figures reflect the increased student demand for places in advanced education courses. [More…]

• College programs provide courses in agriculture, applied science, art and design, building, surveying, architecture, commercial and business studies, engineering and technology, liberal studies, music, para-medical studies and teacher education. [More…]

• Teacher education constitutes the largest single field of study in the advanced education sector. [More…]

• Approximately 42 per cent of all students enrolled in colleges in 1974 were pursuing courses in teacher education. [More…]

• Although by 1978 the proportion of students enrolled in teacher education is expected to fall to 39 per cent the Commission considers this area of study will remain one of major significance to advanced education. [More…]

• In considering the capital requirements of colleges of advanced education the Commission has taken into consideration each institution’s present stage of development, its capital program for the 1973-75 triennium and its projected pattern of growth. [More…]

• Among the projected developments for the 1976-78 triennium the Commission has supported the establishment of a new college in Queensland, the Gold Coast College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• This decision follows on that Government’s plans for the location of a university in Geelong which will become responsible for the tertiary education activities of the Gordon Institute of Technology and the State College of Victoria, Geelong, from the beginning of 1979. [More…]

• Thus for the coming triennium the Commission envisages a period of rationalisation and in some cases sharing of facilities to obtain maximum benefits without detriment to the total provision of tertiary education. [More…]

• These include $4.0m for the construction of various types of student residences in all States, in addition to sums provided for this purpose in the capital programs of regional colleges; $6.3m to enable college staff to take special leave in order that they may acquire further qualifications which will assist them in their teaching role; and $5.3m to enable colleges to plan and develop community education activities. [More…]

• These latter programs would enable colleges to meet a known community need for continuing education in fields where the college s existing expertise can be made available. [More…]

• Given the increased availability of funds from other sources for educational research the Commission has not, as previously, proposed that special funds be allocated for this purpose. [More…]

• Rather, it is proposed that a sum be provided to enable the Commission to initiate special investigations into issues of major importance in the advanced education sector. [More…]

• The Commission has made its recommendations after consideration of submissions from each college and after it received recommendations from, and had discussions with, the State co-ordinating authorities in advanced education. [More…]

• To conclude: the Fourth Report of the Commission on Advanced Education affirms its belief that colleges of advanced education have made and should continue to make a significant contribution to the broadening of educational opportunities for Australians. [More…]

• While framing its recommendations against the background of the need to rationalise resources, the Commission has also supported the diversification that has taken place in the advanced education sector. [More…]

• Recent developments have included courses in such areas as nurse education, welfare studies, urban studies and recreation leadership. [More…]

• That the Government make available a sum of $5,364,000 to assist colleges to plan and develop community education activities. [More…]

• That the Government make available a sum of $250,000 to enable the Commission to fund special investigations of major significance in the field of advanced education. [More…]

• That the Government make available a sum of $4,000,000 to provide up to $6,000 in respect of the cost of each student place to be provided in student residences or affiliated colleges where at least 25 per cent of the total cost of construction will be borrowed by, or donated to, the college of advanced education or affiliated residential college concerned. [More…]

• Student Residences- a basic grant of $6,500 per annum per college of advanced education; and a per student allowance of $105 per annum in relation to the number of resident full-time tertiary students (including university students) who are residents of the student residence. [More…]

• That the Government make available a sum of $11,016,000 to meet, on the basis of an annual grant of $66,000 plus $26.50 per equivalent student place, the operating costs of the State coordinating authorities in advanced education. [More…]

• When the Government introduces measures on matters such as health, welfare and education it receives tardy and qualified censure from the Opposition members. [More…]

• His many interests included adult education, the Prisoners’ Aid Society and the working conditions of apprentices. [More…]

• He was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Primary Industry and Secondary Industry and Trade, a member of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the Library Committee, the Joint Standing Committee on the Australian Capital Territory, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, and the Select Committee on the Canberra Abattoir. [More…]

• He was a member also of the Board of Adult Education, a member of the Pensioners ‘ Aid Society and a member of the committee that selected people for Churchill fellowships. [More…]

• Albury-Wodonga: National education, environmental studies, transport, agencies with a national ‘market serving’ role (e.g. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• In drawing to the attention of the Minister the textual disparities between the Treasurer’s printed Budget Speech and the Minister’s printed speech presented in the Senate last night, I ask: What was the reason for the Minister’s printed speech containing on page 6 only 3 paragraphs on education outlays when that presented in another place contained on pages 7 and 8 ten paragraphs, including very important references to altered funding arrangements for tertiary institutions and commissions? [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that we should have heard in this chamber that part of the Treasurer’s speech which indicated proposed abandonment of normal triennial funding arrangements for the financing of education? [More…]

• It would be a body which could help in promotion and the education of persons in the departments as to suitable purchasing policies, but not one with the overwhelming power provided in this Bill. [More…]

• I refer to the idea that governments know better than people how they should do things, how they should spend the money on education, health and other factors. [More…]

• That is not entirely the fault of the insurance companies but it has a great deal to do with the system of education which will now change quite naturally over the next few years. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Clause 4 of the Bill provides for a clarification of the term ‘matriculation’ occurring in the principal Act in order to allow for the increasing opportunities for entry to university and college study which enable intending tertiary students to apply to institutions on the basis of studies or experience not directly related to traditional matriculation qualifications gained at the end of formal secondary education. [More…]

• The major purpose of this Bill is to provide for the abolition of certain types of fees payable by undergraduate students at the Canberra College of Advanced Education and for parallel amendments to be made to the Australian National University Act. [More…]

• While it has been the responsibility of the Commission on Advanced Education to effect this policy with respect to the majority of Colleges of Advanced Education, the Canberra College is, unlike other colleges, constituted under an Act of the Australian Parliament and a special amendment to that Act is required to abolish tuition and tuitiontype fees. [More…]

• Some of them have made great contributions to living standards, increased opportunity, education and growth in all kinds of countries around the world. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report of a survey conducted in 1973 by the Department of Education in conjunction with the Australian Union of Students, entitled: ‘Why Students Reject Tertiary Places’ [More…]

• Education will be cut in every area. [More…]

• Estimated outlays for 197S-76 include $2.9 million for the first full year of operation of the new Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme under which means-tested allowances are made available to adults who, subject to certain conditions, are undertaking full-time studies in the final year of the secondary school system. [More…]

• Assistance by the Australian Government for the education of special groups is estimated to increase from $65.7 million in 1974-75 to $78.4 million in 1975-76. [More…]

• Aboriginal education has not been overlooked, and in those areas where it has been necessary to increase financial spending this has been done. [More…]

• The Australian Government has direct responsibility for the education of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory and, in accordance with its policy of preserving Aboriginal languages and cultures, has introduced a program under which Aboriginal children living in Aboriginal communities receive primary education in their own language and instruction in traditional Aboriginal arts, crafts and skills. [More…]

• Total outlays by the Government for Aboriginal education in the Northern Territory are estimated at $21.9 million in 1975-76, compared with $16.6 million in 1974-75. [More…]

• The Opposition has criticised this Government for neglecting education in this field, as it has in every other field, but the Opposition proposes to cut education expenses by 50 per cent. [More…]

• In relation to migrant education it is stated: [More…]

• Expenditure under the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-73 on special English language instruction for child and adult migrants in 1975-76 is estimated to cost $23.6 million, compared with $2 1.3 million in 1974-75. [More…]

• Labor has offered free tertiary education to these people. [More…]

• It has taken many actions which it purports have increased the availability of the benefits of education in our community. [More…]

• Housing, education, transport and health are now at risk under this Government. [More…]

• The overwhelming strategy of the Budget is to combat inflation, to restore confidence to the private sector, to maintain the essential aspects of the Government’s program in education, urban development, health and social welfare and to redistribute the burden of taxation. [More…]

• Since then Mr Fraser has said that the Budget penalises those who save through life or superannuation policies and who want to provide a different kind of education for their children. [More…]

• We reject enforced equality in the work place, in the economy, in education. [More…]

• Let us look at his allegation that ‘we reject the notion of enforced equality in education’. [More…]

• Let us look at what the notion of equality or equality of opportunity means in the context of education. [More…]

• Mr Fraser went on to say that people should have freedom to choose what kind of education they wanted for their children. [More…]

• The fact is that in attacking this Government Mr Fraser said: ‘We reject enforced equality in education’. [More…]

• Clearly what Mr Fraser means when he talks about freedom in education is that freedom of people to send their children to private schools with the benefit of big concessions which favour the rich. [More…]

• It is not the sort of equality of opportunity about which this Government is concerned and it is not the sort of freedom or equality of opportunity which thousands of Australians who benefited from these programs in education, health and matters of that kind have achieved in the last two or three years. [More…]

• My colleague from Victoria, Senator Button, in his usual lucid style, referred to the vast injection of educational opportunities. [More…]

• When we went through all these traumatic experiences and disputes about the ratio of education funds from Canberra to the needs concepts schools, we said then and we say now that the idea was to lift up- I do not use the term disparagingly- the lower grade urban schools to some reasonable parity with schools which in the main had pupils whose parents were on a higher income. [More…]

• I do not run away from the Opposition ‘s criticism about our reducing the individual deduction for education. [More…]

• He has also enabled the Government to continue with its welfare policy, particularly in the fields of education and health. [More…]

• Mr Calder then went on to question whether Australia could afford to spend billions of dollars on health, education, Government insurance and- this is the crunch point- compensation. [More…]

• Do we hear any suggestions from the Government that the user should pay in the area of education? [More…]

• Nobody suggests that the user pays in the area of education. [More…]

• Yet a very special and fairly small percentage of the community is catered to by the most expensive forms of education. [More…]

• I mention also education and decentralisation. [More…]

• -May I suggest that the Australian National University Bill 1975 and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Bill 1975 be dealt with as cognate measures? [More…]

• In speaking to both of these Bills, which relate to tertiary level education, I indicate that the Opposition does not oppose either of them. [More…]

• The Bills essentially provide for amendments to the Acts relating to the Australian National University and to the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• It is important to note at this time that tertiary level education has been provided without fees. [More…]

• It is important to recognise the increasing opportunities that have been provided for tertiary level education in both the universities and the colleges. [More…]

• It is perhaps of interest to note at this stage the Government’s proposal to amalgamate the 2 commissions which have dealt with tertiary level education. [More…]

• It is perhaps appropriate when dealing with these Bills relating to tertiary education that we speak of the tertiary education allowance system. [More…]

• It abolished the previous scholarship scheme which made opportunities for qualified students to undertake tertiary education and instead provided them with an allowance. [More…]

• In particular it recommended that a base level of $42 a week would allow a student to continue his tertiary level education without the hardship which would otherwise be felt by him. [More…]

• So we point to the difficulty that will be felt this year by many students at tertiary level throughout Australia because of the inescapable increases in costs which they will incur in travelling, in postage, in fares and in those other matters that are the necessities of any student who has to travel from a place of residence to a place of tertiary education. [More…]

• Although we talk of opportunity for education at tertiary level it must also be recognised that economic hardship could make it almost impossible or extremely difficult for many students who wish to do so to use the educational opportunities that are now developing more fully in Australia. [More…]

• They implement our own policy of removing fees for tertiary level education. [More…]

• We hope that the Government will find some way to ensure that those who do avail themselves of opportunity through qualification for tertiary level courses will obtain some relief in the future with the tertiary educational assistance scheme. [More…]

• Furthermore, my colleague the Minister for Education has advised that if the cadet corps did not exist, they would not be introduced today for educational reasons. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• There was certainly no intention to conceal from the Senate the changed arrangements for the funding of education in 1975-76. [More…]

• 8-Education 1975-76. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Panel to Advise on Arrangements for Amalgamating the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education dated August 1975, together with a statement by the Minister for Education on that report. [More…]

• It would be self-defeating if the system of wage indexation were to attempt to insulate the community from tax measures designed to redistribute resources for the benefit of the community in the form of improved public facilities in fields such as education, health, welfare, personal benefits urban improvement and so on. [More…]

• Let us look also at the Budget allocation for education. [More…]

• Go out and tell that to the thousands of students and the thousands of mums and dads who for the first time in their lives see some opportunity for equality in education across the globe instead of having opportunity centred on the private schools, as was the case in 23 years of Liberal-Country Party rule. [More…]

• I think at some time or other the people of this nation will make a decision about who is playing with defence, who is playing with the rural industries, who is playing with health and who is playing with education, as against who is being completely honest about those things. [More…]

• I want to spend some of my time this evening talking about education, the matter with which I am most closely concerned on behalf of the Opposition. [More…]

• It is something about which the education lobby has been singularly silent since this year’s Budget was introduced by the Treasurer. [More…]

• It makes me wonder whether the education lobby which was so vocal prior to the bringing down of the Budget, which was such a pressure group throughout the term when we were in government and, when it suited it, during the term of this Government, is a Government lobby, a Labor Party lobby, or whether it is essentially an education lobby. [More…]

• If it is an education lobby, there ought to have been the headlines and the pressure with regard to what has happened to education in this year’s Budget. [More…]

• There should have been the screaming headlines that the Federal Government had thrown education into Umbo for the next triennium. [More…]

• There should have been the screaming headlines that this Government had reduced expenditure in real terms on all aspects of education. [More…]

• The Treasurer has glibly said that he has, in consultation with the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), deferred the programs of the education commissions. [More…]

• In fact, the Government has asked the education commissions to produce for it some new recommendations by March of next year to take effect from 1 January 1977. [More…]

• We are talking a long way ahead when we talk in terms of educational opportunity because there is now no program for education after the end of this year. [More…]

• One need go no further than read what some of the people who are vitally interested in education believe this will mean. [More…]

• It may be somewhat inappropriate for the Chairman of the Schools Commission to issue the sorts of Press releases that he has been issuing, but it seems that no one else is prepared to make them on behalf of the Government or of anyone who is close to educational responsibility. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Schools Commission, Dr McKinnon, has criticised the Federal Government for abandoning for a year triennial education spending. [More…]

• The Premier of Victoria- I am sorry that Senator Primmer is not in the chamber to hear me say this- has said that it has virtually meant that he has had to curtail all of his education planning for the next triennium until he understands where the Federal Government is moving with regard to educational commitment. [More…]

• It seems appropriate that at a time when we have heard the vilification of the Hamer Government I should recall that just today we have seen the same politics being played by the Minister for Education against the Victorian Government and a statement by a responsible Federal Minister to the effect that he does not see why he should give funds to Victoria for education. [More…]

• What sort of discriminatory practice in terms of educational opportunities for the children of Australia is that? [More…]

• What sort of Party politics are being played with regard to the Victorian Hamer Government in using education as the means of disrupting the economic planning of that State Government? [More…]

• What of the education lobby? [More…]

• The 2 major parent organisations- the Federation of State School Parents and the Victorian Council of School Organisations- have accused the Federal Minister, Mr Beazley, and the Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Thompson, of withholding information. [More…]

• What sort of basis have we constructed for the development of this country’s educational programs when there is a sense of rivalry between 2 Ministers who ought to have the same objective- the pursuit of excellence, quality and standards in educational opportunities? [More…]

• I would like to see the Federal Minister for Education come forward with some information on his plans with regard to an educational program. [More…]

• Has he asked the 4 commissions which advise on education to reconstruct their recommendations within a different framework? [More…]

• It has been said in the education lobby that this is why it is keeping quiet. [More…]

• I believe that these things are important to those people who care about education. [More…]

• For no longer can there be stop-go programming because one of the things that this Government has prided itself on above all is that all levels of education are now subject to recommendations to government from statutory commissions. [More…]

• I believe the Federal Minister for Education needs to clarify as soon as possible why the reports presented by the 4 commissions have been completely disregarded and why they have been asked for new recommendations. [More…]

• The only State that I see being attacked by the Federal Minister is the State of Victoria, and that is because it has a government which cares about education. [More…]

• It is a State which is attempting to decentralise educational administration, a State which has many plans for the development of technical and further education. [More…]

• I would not have expected it to come from the Federal Minister for Education as we know him. [More…]

• There was very little assistance towards education; and housing could not have been at a lower ebb. [More…]

• It is high time that Opposition senators got out on to the hustings to ask pensioners whether they are prepared to turn the clock back 3 years; to ask the workers whether they are prepared to turn the clock back 3 years to the conditions they had then; and to ask the workers whether they are prepared to turn the education assistance program back 3 years. [More…]

• Senator Guilfoyle talks about the effects that are going to be felt in the field of education in which the Government has blithely abandoned the triennial funding program. [More…]

• But no, this Government, faced with severe economic problems, has undertaken to spend an additional $ 1,100m according to its costing- its costing will be a gross underestimate- just to add to our problems and to make it quite certain that many other programs, education being one of them, are going to have to be abandoned or truncated, and all this in a country in which our July deficit was $800m compared to $180m one year ago. [More…]

• In speaking to the Budget I should like to talk about education and to refer to Victoria which, according to a previous speaker, is a State that cares, a State that has done so much, the State which is the most progressive in Australia. [More…]

• This year that State is to receive $49,854,000, and not even with the mathematics that the Minister for Education in Victoria professes to follow could one describe that as a 60 per cent cut. [More…]

• But that is not odd when one knows a little more about the Minister for Education in Victoria. [More…]

• Yet the Minister for Education in Victoria goes on bleating about the fact that he will be able to do nothing for education in Victoria this year because he has not got the money. [More…]

• This is 30 per cent more than Victoria received last year, and it could be spent entirely on education if the priorities in Victoria were as one would hope they would be. [More…]

• There is much talk about economic planning when it comes to managing governments, but when it comes to managing education in Victoria that is a great big giggle. [More…]

• One might have thought that a government could have been caught unawares then and that it would have planned for when those children went on to tertiary education. [More…]

• There was the same hotch-potch of accommodation for children; there was the same hotch-potch of accommodation for their education. [More…]

• Even in a State which cares as much about preschool education as Victoria does, if it had not been for the money that this Federal Government had given to Victoria we would not have been able to get our children into pre-schools. [More…]

• Honourable senators may be surprised to know that there are areas in Victoria where practically nothing has been done for education for a quarter of a century. [More…]

• This happened under a Minister who has the infernal cheek to turn around and blame the Federal Government which has poured more money into education than he has ever dreamed of. [More…]

• He says that it is because of the Federal Government that he cannot plan a decent education for our children in Victoria. [More…]

• In parts of Victoria there are still schools which can get no library grant or no additional assistance because the parents of the children attending those schools cannot raise the first little bit of money that is needed before the Victorian Education Department will match the grant. [More…]

• If it had not been for this Government which said that all children are entitled to an education, those migrant children would still be struggling along with no assistance whatsoever. [More…]

• I turn to technical education in Victoria. [More…]

• Technical education was not just the Cinderella of education in Victoria; it barely existed because, after all, the children receiving technical education came from families who did not matter much. [More…]

• After all, what sort of an education does a process worker need? [More…]

• The Federal Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has gone on record as pointing out that the Victorian Government is the most incompetent of any government in Australia when it comes to constructing school buildings. [More…]

• No Commonwealth Minister for Education is justified in recommending capital grants for the Victorian Government until it rectifies the chronic incompetence which causes the cost of a state school to be 30 per cent to 50 per cent dearer than better buildings put up by independent schools in the same State. [More…]

• So much for this very caring Minister for Education in Victoria! [More…]

• This Government believes that all children are deserving of education, irrespective of whether they are mentally retarded, and that it is the responsibility of government to provide that education and not the responsibility of flower hatted ladies. [More…]

• After all, one would think that a Liberal-Country Party government would have taken into account that there are children, that there are parents and that there are women who live in extraordinarily isolated circumstances and who have as much right to a good education and to converse with their fellows as has anybody else, but what did it do about it? [More…]

• We believe that people have a right as human beings to be treated as human beings, to have an income, to go to a doctor when they are sick, to go to a hospital when they are sick and to have an education because they are human beings. [More…]

• Students now wonder what is the value of higher education if they cannot get a job when they leave school or university. [More…]

• One of the reasons was that the level of social services, the level of welfare and the level of education in this country had slipped miles behind those levels in comparable countries in other parts of the world. [More…]

• We were elected to office after 23 years of conservative government in which this country had fallen well behind comparable countries in the fields of social welfare and education. [More…]

• I refer to fields such as social welfare and education. [More…]

• That is something which we have tried to remedy by bringing about Australian ownership of Australian industry and by seeing that the people of this country are receiving adequate social welfare and adequate education. [More…]

• We hear a great deal about the proposed expenditure on education. [More…]

• What steps has the Government taken to see that the huge amount of money that will be spent on education this year, $l,900m-odd, will be used to educate people? [More…]

• Another educationist, Betty Archdale, says that half of our teachers should not be doing that job. [More…]

• Mr Beazley, the Minister for Education, said that the Queensland education system was the best because it is more old-fashioned. [More…]

• We are not getting a proper education system. [More…]

• An education system has been set up, but we are not getting true value. [More…]

• The Opposition has criticised the increase in the education program and has said that we should not have it. [More…]

• We have encouraged advancements in the education of young children in Australia. [More…]

• There was no revenue as a result of better health benefits or better education benefits and we got to the stage at which in this Budget there had to be, one could say, a curtailment of the ambitions of Ministers. [More…]

• it is increasingly difficult for people to save the deposit on a house, pay for their children’s education and to assist aging parents. [More…]

• How does the Minister justify the widespread and extensive handout to the total education system whereby thousands of people who could well afford to pay for tertiary education are getting this education free today. [More…]

• There are people who are on the lower brackets of income who through indirect taxation and other matters are providing revenue for the Government to enable it to hand out all manner of educational benefits to people who are well able to afford it. [More…]

• It is taking money from the poorer section of the community in order that the rich may have advanced education when they can well afford to pay for it. [More…]

• So this seems to confirm, in my mind, that the proposed rebate system in the Budget clearly discourages any form of thrift, any form of selfhelp, any form of encouragement by providing tax benefits to individuals whether those individuals seek to help themselves through life assurance or spending on health, education or other matters. [More…]

• For instance, I have heard a lot said this evening about education. [More…]

• For the first time in this Parliament members of the Opposition have come in here and said that we are spending too much on education. [More…]

• I remember it being claimed proudly in this chamber by Senator Wright, who was a Minister in the then Government, that in the Budget introduced by Mr Snedden in that year there had been a record increase in the expenditure on education of some $70m, bringing the expenditure on education up to $400m. [More…]

• In response to Senator Wright’s claim that a record amount of money was being spent on education, we said at that time that it would be necessary to spend at least 4 times as much to give Australian children a standard of education equal to that given to those attending schools in the United States of America, Sweden, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom or any other advanced nation. [More…]

• So it was that in our first year of office we spent $800m- twice the amount that the previous Government had spent- on the educational needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• Prior to Senator Wright drawing attention in typical fashion to the state of the Senate- he sits here day after day calling for quorums, taking points of order and adopting one of the most negative attitudes of any honourable senator- I was pointing out that in its first year of office the Labor Government increased from $400m to $800m the expenditure on education during the last year of reign of the McMahon Government In its second year in office the Labour Government increased that expenditure to $ 1,500m. [More…]

• Prior to the introduction of the Budget this year rumours were flying around that the Government would not increase its expenditure on education any further. [More…]

• I can remember the hue and cry from members of the Opposition about the claim that we would not do anything to increase further the educational standards in Australia. [More…]

• We have since increased the expenditure on education to some $ 1,900m because we believe that the children of Australia and the people of Australia are entitled to enjoy the same educational standards as people in other countries. [More…]

• Now that we have done that, we are being accused of overspending in the education area. [More…]

• I daresay that if Mr Fraser were to cut back government expenditure by another $ 1,000m the education area would be one of the areas upon which he would have his eyes. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education, relates to the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• In my capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Education I know that Senator Guilfoyle raised questions of a similar nature at the last Senate Estimates Committees meeting. [More…]

• I now have a set of statistics relating to the tertiary education assistance scheme as at 30 June 1974 which I will be glad to provide to Senator Guilfoyle and which I expect will answer her question in relation to 1 974. [More…]

• 1 am asking the Department of Education to arrange for similar figures relating to 30 June 1975 to be made available. [More…]

• I understand that the information Senator Guilfoyle wishes to obtain consists of the following: The number of recipients of the tertiary education assistance scheme in the following categories- [More…]

• It occurs to me that at the end of question time it might be more convenient if I were to seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the details that have been provided for me by the Department of Education in respect of the year 1974-75. [More…]

• Notwithstanding all those things, we had to await the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts of which my colleague, Senator James McClelland, was the then chairman. [More…]

• I think that was a significant step forward in self-government, because for a range of matters which extended from taxation and education to a host of other matters the decisions were to be made by the people in the Territory. [More…]

• In doing so, as many of my colleagues have pointed out, it has drastically cut back a number of things which it might consider to be socially necessary, but in the broad field of social and welfare commitment it has more than honoured its objectives by way of its education proposals and so on. [More…]

• These social demands- social welfare, education and so forth- are recognised on this side of the chamber as well as on the Government side. [More…]

• The other day Senator Button- I was listening to him- when referring to education said that the drive of the Government was to provide equal opportunity for education. [More…]

• We began to subsidise, quite heavily, schools of advanced education. [More…]

• So today we have this enormous sum of money being poured out into the education field. [More…]

• Some disturbing illustrations have arisen in the last week or so showing what is the end product of these vast sums of money being poured into the educational system. [More…]

• I suggest that in this honest endeavour- and it was an emotional, honest endeavour by the Government when it came into power- to reform matters in the welfare and social structure all over the place- in the arts, in education and so on- it completely forgot that the money to pay for these things had to be found. [More…]

• i.e., what we now call ‘the social wage’- so-called free’ education, health services, heavily subsidised public authorities’ housing- mounted astronomically, and were not covered by contributions. [More…]

• We have increased the amount to be expended on education over that spent during the previous 2 years. [More…]

• When we came into government the annual expenditure on education was approximately $250m. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• With reference to the statement of the Minister that the Education Commissioners will be asked to review their triennial reports and to make recommendations by March 1976 for new triennial programs to commence in January 1975, what reason has been applied to this course of action and what instructions have now been given to the four Commissioners who have so recently presented comprehensive reports recommending triennial programs. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable senator’s questions: (1), (2) and (3) The current general economic situation means we must defer the introduction of new triennial programs until 1977. [More…]

• During the interim period to December 1976 we will continue the programs of the education Commissions and I expect soon to be able to announce details of these programs for the whole of 1976. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Will the Minister representing the Minister for Education inform the Senate how many 1974 school leavers returned to school because they were unable to find jobs? [More…]

• Education was the Cinderella of public spending in this country, and drastically increased expenditure was needed merely to create a base on which we could form a decent education system and give everybody equality of opportunity. [More…]

• Another honourable senator complained bitterly that the education lobby, as it is called, was too quiet after the Budget, that it should have howled the Government down, that it should have demanded more money. [More…]

• The 2 areas to which I refer are, firstly, the field of education and, secondly, the field of the abolition of the means test. [More…]

• In the field of education, I refer to page 8 of the printed Budget Speech for those who wish to check. [More…]

• Instead of retreating from the great initiatives that we have taken in a whole range of areas- in education, in social security, in Medibank and so on- we have continued our advance in those areas. [More…]

• health and education services to be extended; [More…]

• Apart from some minor improvements in education made earlier, this is the only significant change which Australia has achieved in the Cocos community in Australia’s 20 years of administration of the Territory. [More…]

• There are, of course, other matters which need attention- for example, aspects of education, labour conditions, citizenship, and so on. [More…]

• In recent newspaper reports attention has been drawn to the fact that funds for the anti-smoking education campaign have been sharply curtailed while the allocation for tobacco leaf research has been maintained. [More…]

• It is a fact that there is an anti-smoking education campaign being conducted by the Government which is aimed at discouraging adults and younger people from smoking. [More…]

• I mention that in relation to the in-service education program it has not been possible for all States to provide the information about all individual courses which is stipulated in section 59 (1) (u). [More…]

• Nevertheless, this report overall is remarkably comprehensive and is a significant contribution to the provision of comprehensive information on educational programs for public use. [More…]

• I therefore urge upon the Government that as quickly as it can it should look to the redirection of its funds in this regard, to ploughing back money into infrastructure, to research, and, above everything else, to getting an education process throughout Australia so that in everything we touch with regard to coal we start now using new forms of boilers and new forms of treatment so that we can use our coal wisely. [More…]

• The Opposition will reduce grants for education. [More…]

• I refer particularly to our young people who, for the first time in history, over the last two or three years have had the opportunity to go on to higher education even if they have no personal funds. [More…]

• It was part of the policy of the Liberal Party to cut down expenditure on education wherever possible over many years. [More…]

• Education, health, repatriation and social security were the areas in which the Liberal Party would never bend in favour of the underprivileged in the community. [More…]

• I want to support him on some of the dangers surrounding the use and abuse of alcohol in our society and to relate those to the Government’s cynical action in increasing this excise at the same time as it cut out almost completely the amount of money which it is going to provide for anti-smoking programs, for drug education or for the care of people who cannot cope with those 2 drugs of abuse. [More…]

• We are dealing with blood money and with a government that will take money and will prevent people from having a fair go at getting education or assistance in coping with smoking. [More…]

• In the past 10 years we have seen mounted a program of public education. [More…]

• In 1 974 a report was published by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare entitled ‘The Health Consequences of Smoking’. [More…]

• If we go to the Particulars of Proposed Expenditure for the Department of Health we find under division 325.3.09 that the appropriation for anti-smoking education has been decreased from $319,000 to $75,000. [More…]

• The effect in relation to anti-smoking education has been to cut the allocation from $500,000 last year to $100,000 this year. [More…]

• We have a Government which should know what are the effects of smoking on the health of our society and which is prepared to take an extra $75m in excise but which is not even willing to give any of it back in terms of money for education. [More…]

• In the same way what do we find if we look at what is happening to the program in relation to drug education? [More…]

• The drug education program has been held steady at $750,000 in a situation in which the Labor Government has given us inflation rates of 15 per cent to 20 per cent. [More…]

• It is part of the Government’s Budget that all the preventive programs- all the programs directed towards education and towards good community preventive care- have been slashed. [More…]

• I do not think it is unreasonable to demand that society take some interest in making available resources for education and for extra institutional help. [More…]

• Until these Bills are matched by some commitment from the Government to provide something extra for anti-smoking programs, for support for the Australian Council on Smoking and Health and for drug education programs and unless we have a program to give help for alcoholics in industry, I think the Government must accept the fact that it is taking blood money from the victims in Australian society who will die and suffer on the roads and in the hospitals from tobacco and alcohol abuse in the years ahead. [More…]

• I support their claim that insufficient is being done by way of remedial action such as by education. [More…]

• It is being done through education, through rehabilitation centres, by the setting up of detoxification centres, and through publicity and some restrictions on smoking advertisements. [More…]

• There are representatives of the Queensland Health Education Council, the National Trust and the Keep Australia Beautiful Council. [More…]

• I ask whether the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, was stating Government policy when he wrote by letter dated 2 June: [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• As the Government is spending large sums on education at the tertiary level and as the Adelaide report would seem to reflect seriously on education in Australia, will the Government take the necessary steps to assist in any corrections? [More…]

• A lot of young people who went back to tertiary education or secondary education for another year to overcome the problem of joining the work force last year, when no doubt they would have been unemployed, will be forced this year into the work force because of necessity and will face the horrible situation of finishing their education and going out into life at a time when they cannot be employed. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2), (3) and (4). [More…]

• States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1 973 [More…]

• Mr Justice Campbell and the members of the Tribunal are currently undertaking an extensive program of visits to and discussions with institutions of tertiary education throughout Australia. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 14 of the Schools Commission Act 1973, on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Education, I present the Schools Commission report for 1976, together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to that report. [More…]

• The benefits which the Bill confers are limited to a particular group whose position was affected by the Australian Government’s decision to accept direct responsibility for the provision of primary and secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Within the Australian Capital Territory, technical education has been provided by an arrangement between my Department and the New South Wales Department of Technical Education. [More…]

• As part of the decision to establish an Australian Capital Territory Technical and Further Education Authority, the Government has decided that the teaching staff of the technical colleges in the Territory should be employed under the Teaching Service legislation. [More…]

• Present education and training arrangements for the Australian maritime and fishing industries are quite inadequate. [More…]

• The Australian Maritime College will give courses for deck, engineer and radio officers and will have many of the characteristics of a college of advanced education; but it will also be concerned with the provision and co-ordination of courses at technical college level for ratings, fishing boat crew and others. [More…]

• It will be a new and unique institution in the education system of this country, and there are many details of its functions and governance which will call for careful planning. [More…]

• In this planning process, it will be particularly important to involve those who know the special needs involved- the relevant unions, the ship owners, the fishing industry- as well as educationists. [More…]

• My colleagues, the Ministers for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) and the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt), naturally have a special concern and interest in this, and recent maritime disasters have underlined for all of us the importance of providing the best possible training and education for personnel in the maritime area. [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate nominating Senator Mcintosh to fill the vacancy now existing on the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• That Senator Mcintosh, having been duly nominated in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of 17 September 1974, be appointed to fill the vacancy now existing on the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• For those who do not know Hobart or who may think that we may be parochial in complaining about the problems this bridge has caused I shall refer to an independent survey into the Tasman Bridge disaster prepared by the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania. [More…]

• Further, you will be aware of the importance to the State of the special Commonwealth support programs in financing a number of essential social services- for example, Karmel Grants for Education; Medibank payments for Health and Hospital Services. [More…]

• Since March there had been 3 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, 3 Ministers for Defence, 3 Ministers for Health, 3 Ministers for Education and Science, 3 Attorneys-General, 2 Treasurers, 2 Ministers for Labour and National Service, 2 Ministers for Immigration, 2 Ministers for the Navy, 2 Ministers for Housing, 2 Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and 2 Ministers for Supply. [More…]

• -Senator Grimes and Senator Walsh might take notice of this because it could well be that they might profit from some education by somebody like Sir Robert Menzies who knows something about the matter. [More…]

• Of course, in this same Budget the basic essentials show that 37 per cent of the funds are earmarked for the Government’s health, education and welfare programs. [More…]

• While I am dealing with this subject I should like to refer to what Mr Fraser himself had to say in an address to a Liberal Party group conference in April 1972 when he was Minister for Education and Science. [More…]

• The definition of student for the purpose of the higher of the two rebates for children is to be extended from the present definition to include any child under 25 years of age receiving full-time education at a school, college or university. [More…]

• I should, however, refer to education expenses. [More…]

• The concessional allowances for both education expenses for a child and for so-called self-education expenses are, of course, to be absorbed into the rebate system. [More…]

• But the limit on the amounts to be taken into account is to be increased from $ 1 50 to $250 and, in the case of self-education expenses, the range of expenditure is to be widened beyond the cost of fees, books and equipment, so as to include all expenses necessarily incurred in connection with a prescribed course of education. [More…]

• Self-education expenses in excess of $250 will fall for consideration under the general deduction provisions of the income tax law. [More…]

• It just happens that less than an hour ago in an earlier debate I referred to the education which honourable senators got when they sat on the Senate Select Committee on the Civil Rights of Migrant Australians. [More…]

• The Prime Minister should go to the people and ask them whether they want to have a choice of vocation, whether they want to have a choice of education, whether they want to have a choice of health services, whether they want to have a choice of the type of house and place in which they live and whether they want to be able to own their own homes. [More…]

• What we are concerned about is to get the Budget back before the Senate and to get it passed in order that the things that the Opposition expressed concern about in months gone by- inflation, unemployment, lack of business confidence, education- could be proceeded with as a matter of the normal processes of Australian government. [More…]

• Of an entire cl.ass of 34 interpreter-translators trained this year under the government’s NEAT scheme at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, not one can find a job. [More…]

• Of an entire class of 34 interpreter-translators trained this year under the government’s NEAT scheme at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, not one can find a job. [More…]

• My Department is pursuing with State governments, private organisations, the Department of Education and the Public Service Board the question of employing these students, and prospects are quite good. [More…]

• The Interim Commission was also asked to examine general issues pertinent to consumer protection, to encourage the formation of a federation of consumer organisations, to investigate consumer education, to arrange liaison between Federal and State consumer officials and, most importantly, to make recommendations about a permanent body that should ultimately take its place. [More…]

• They believe that only the better off classes have the right to proper legal representation before the courts, proper medical and hospital treatment and benefits, that only their children should have the right of access to pre-school care and kindergartens, that only the wealthy classes should have those benefits and that only the wealthy classes should have the benefit of the best education that this country can afford. [More…]

• We only have to go back and look at their record in education and at the valiant fight they put up to return to that system of education whereby the privileged were educated and the un-privileged were used as factory fodder. [More…]

• health and education) and it may be either conceptually misleading to allocate them to one or another; or a group might devote their time partly to one program and partly to others and it would be practically difficult to allocate their cost to the different objectives they serve. [More…]

• This has in fact been experimented with in the case of education, roads and defence. [More…]

• The report of the Commission on Advanced Education for 1976-1978. [More…]

• The recommendations of the Commission on Advanced Education for 1976. [More…]

• The report of the Committee on Technical Teacher Education for 1976-1978, and [More…]

• The report of the Commission on Advanced Education is tabled in substitution for the draft version of this report tabled in the Senate on 1 1 June 1975. [More…]

• Due to the limited number available reference copies of the report of the Committee on Technical Teacher Education have been placed in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]

• We do not make any apology for the fact that, in a period when there is obviously excess money in the community, tax money should be collected for the purpose of redressing the deficiencies in the areas of education, sewerage, roads, the National Estate and so on, in respect of all of which I need make no more than a passing reference, and of providing the essential welfare program which has been a characteristic of this Government ‘s policy during its term of office. [More…]

• I challenge the Opposition to the view that the Australian people do not want Australian Government funding to go in larger sums to the State and local governments but they do want larger sums of Commonwealth funding to go to the areas of education and public works in the total sense as well as to the improvement of the welfare programs. [More…]

• I have never heard any honourable senators opposite suggest that we should be cutting back on the fourfold increase in expenditure in the area of education generally, both in the public sector and the private sector. [More…]

• It has been said that the provision of a minimum rebate of $540 for taxpayers whose eligible rebatable expenditure is $1,350 or less, will operate as a disincentive to saving through life insurance and will discourage families from spending on the education of their children. [More…]

• For example- and this is what concerns the specific matter to which Senator Jessop referreddivision 527 funds, from which repatriation payments for nursing homes, local medical officers, special medical officers and paramedical services, pharmaceutical services and education allowances are paid, are for all practical purposes already exhausted as a result of the Opposition’s actions. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to set up, in place of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education, a Tertiary Education Commission assisted by 2 Councils which are to advise the Government on the development and support of higher education in Australia. [More…]

• The establishment of a Tertiary Education Commission has been a possibility for a number of years, but the importance of greater co-ordination has recently become more apparent. [More…]

• Since 1965, when the advisory body on advanced education was set up in parallel to the Universities Commission, a number of significant changes have taken place. [More…]

• The Panel, whose recommendations the Government has accepted in deciding to establish the Tertiary Commission, has pointed out these factors: there has been very considerable growth in tertiary education, particularly in the advanced education sector, which has matured and is now comparable with the universities sector in terms of the resources committed to it; teacher education has been accepted within the advanced education program; tuition fees have been abolished; and the Australian Government has taken on full financial responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]

• A great deal of consultation takes place between the two existing Commissions, but their formal responsibilities remain separate, and no amount of consultation can guarantee the degree of overall co-ordination and rationalisation in tertiary education programs which is now clearly desirable. [More…]

• The Government recognises the importance of maintaining the two existing systems, and this is reflected in the present Bill, which defines universities and colleges separately, and provides for the Commission to have the assistance of two Councils- a Universities Council and an Advanced Education Council- each with a special concern for its own area. [More…]

• As the claims of universities and advanced education on resources have become enormous, the co-ordination of these claims- especially capital claims- through a Tertiary Education Commission has become essential. [More…]

• For example, whilst the schedules to the present Bill have been drawn up on the basis of the existing situation, the new Commission will be expected to give careful consideration to the lists in the schedules, and the position of some institutions may need to be reappraised, now that there is a Technical and Further Education Commission operating. [More…]

• The Government will look to the Commission and its Councils to take steps to increase the chances for higher education throughout the nation in diverse ways, including through what has become known as Open Tertiary Education. [More…]

• The Bill enables the Minister for Education to appoint committees to assist the Commission in relation to specific matters. [More…]

• Open Tertiary Education is clearly a matter worthy of such special attention. [More…]

• I would like to make special mention of the extent to which the Commission will be expected to consult with all those bodies which have a concern with tertiary education and its interface with other areas. [More…]

• Section 7 (2) of the Bill provides that the Commission shall consult, as appropriate, with the Technical and Further Education Commission, with universities and colleges of advanced education and with the States, as well as with other appropriate persons and organisations. [More…]

• Tertiary education capital planning calls for skilled building labour, a great flow of building material, and the prevention of wasteful competition between programs. [More…]

• Education and the Arts: [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• As it is a fact that as early as last October all educational bodies in Australia were sent a letter inviting their participation in the innovation grants scheme funded from special projects grants and that in January of this year a further circular had to be sent advising all those bodies that, as there were so many applications, those applications received after 15 February would have to be returned to the senders until more funds were made available, I ask: How can the Minister explain his recent Press release in which he justified the cut of $800,000 in special projects grants in each 6 months of this calendar year by saying that the innovation scheme was slow to start for a number of reasons and that it was unlikely that the total funds for the year would be spent? [More…]

• -Due to the aberrations and bad government of the previous Administration, inflation and unemployment in this country have posed an enormous strain on all great issues, including education. [More…]

• But we must, within the education programs, deploy our funds as best we can. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware of allegations made during the recent Federal election campaign by parliamentary and other members of the Australian Labor Party that it was the intention of the Liberal Party to abolish tertiary allowances and to re-introduce tertiary fees. [More…]

• As Education Minister, he laid the basis for Malaya’s national education system. [More…]

• The Australian Capital Territory enjoys high standards in the field of education. [More…]

• It has its own university, college of advanced education, technical college and many schools. [More…]

• Its student/ teacher ratio is the most favourable in Australia and its standards of education are amongst the highest. [More…]

• I especially welcome the Governor-General’s announcement that the relevant Government commissions will be asked to give close attention to measures designed to achieve greater equality in education facilities and particularly to provide better educational opportunities for the disadvantaged, handicapped, Aboriginal, isolated and migrant children. [More…]

• It would be the activity of the statutory body that I have mentioned to promote education in the fields of small businessmen, both lenders and borrowers, and to use the various bodies that do offer these financial services. [More…]

• I think that there is an important area of education to be looked at and to be promoted by the statutory body that I am suggesting. [More…]

• This college will do a great deal to enhance the total tertiary education opportunities for the whole of Tasmania. [More…]

• I think few can look back now and say that it was not a disastrous mistake to place the college of advanced education in Hobart next door to the university and that it should in fact have been placed in the most decentralised State in Australia in one of the decentralised areas. [More…]

• Those buildings cannot be removed and so the next thing is to provide opportunities for decentralised tertiary education by some other means. [More…]

• One of the important ways is by locating some national education institution, such as the maritime college, in an area which is ideally suited for it, and that is Launceston. [More…]

• I believe that the maritime college is not only important from the point of view of the function which it serves in the Australian educational system but also it is of tremendous importance to the development of educational opportunities throughout Tasmania. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• We will be responsible also for providing general supportive and welfare services to the refugees once they have arrived in Australia.The migrant services section of my Department will liaise with the Department of Immigration and EthnicAffairs indeed with all other departments such as the Department of Education, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- to enable any difficulties to be overcome with regard to the refugees on their arrival in this country. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Can he therefore tell me how many applications have been received by the Department of Education since such applications were first invited in October of last year? [More…]

• The benefits which the Bill confers are limited to a particular group whose position was affected by the Australian Government’s decision to accept direct responsibility for the provision of primary and secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Within the Australian Capital Territory, technical education has been provided by an arrangement between my Department and the New South Wales Department of Technical Education. [More…]

• As part of the decision that the Commonwealth will itself provide technical and further education in the Australian Capital Territory, the Government has decided that the teaching staff of the technical colleges in the Territory should be employed under the Teaching Service legislation. [More…]

• The advances in education, in social security benefits and other areas which were foreshadowed by Labor in the 1972 Address-in-Reply debate and which immediately were implemented are in contrast to the present Address-in-Reply debate which follows from an address by the GovernorGeneral which foreshadowed very little new legislation to be introduced by the Government. [More…]

• I do not know comprehensively about the other States but I do know that in my own State of Western Australia we do not have a comprehensive sex education program in our high schools. [More…]

• In Canberra it is hoped to form a coaching committee similar to the national body, comprising experts in such fields as administration, physical education, sports medicine and coaching, and to appoint a technical development officer for the ACT Australian Football League’. [More…]

• The SANFL sponsors, through the S.A. Department of Further Education, the two lower levels of courses planned by the NFL. [More…]

• The long term aim of the present Government is to shift the balance of funding for children’s services from an emphasis on the single pre-school and kindergarten function to a balance between the full range of services, including full day care, occasional and emergency care, toy libraries and parent education programs. [More…]

• College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In a recent Press release the Minister advised that funds provided for major education programs were essentially unchanged but that minor adjustments had been made to government spending in some areas. [More…]

• Will the Minister advise why the cuts had to be made in the innovation programs and were they made at the instigation of any of the State Ministers for Education and, if so which Ministers? [More…]

• The situation is that the total education program, which was the subject of considerable disruption between 1975 and 1976 due to the previous Government, was taken out of the triennium and made a single calendar year program for the year 1976. [More…]

• There will be no change in the year 1976 to the Universities Commission program, the Colleges of Advanced Education program, the Technical and Further Education Commission program or the Schools Commission program, with one exception. [More…]

• That is that some cut-backs have been made within the Department of Education itself where, in terms of upper ceilings, travelling and overtime, the ordinary restrictions have applied. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education confirm whether the plans to establish a regional education office in Armidale have been abandoned? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Parliament whether the education office will not now be established because of the failure of the Federal Government to keep its promises on education needs? [More…]

• If ever a government failed to keep its promises in the field of education it was the former Labor Government, with its splurge and its freeze. [More…]

• It cut into education violently in the August Budget of last year and, as a result, created great distortion and disruption throughout education in Australia. [More…]

• Let me make it perfectly clear: The only government that violently put its hand with disruption and distortion on education was the former Whitlam Government when, on 19 August of last year, it abandoned triennium budgeting and brought in only a calendar year budget. [More…]

• We keep our promises in the field of education. [More…]

• On the subject of education in Victoria I need say little except to refer honourable senators to the annual headlines in the newspapers, which Senator Missen could write. [More…]

• In the past 20 years of Liberal Government many changes have taken place; but in the area of public expenditure, in the area of public responsibility accepted by both the Liberal Party and the Labor Partymatters such as transport, education, health, care of old persons, the environment and so on- there has been really nothing which anybody, I believe, could report with pride as a matter of political management. [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…]

• Until very recently, women in our society, through a variety of formal barriers, traditional prejudice, and sheer neglect by policy makers, were denied equal access with men to education, health care, job training, employment, wage justice- in all, to the possibility of real independence. [More…]

• These few statistics should remind honourable senators who need to be reminded that in education, training, employment and income, most women have been seriously disadvantaged. [More…]

• Through the Schools Commission a study group was set up to report on girls in the education system. [More…]

• I am sorry that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, is not here because I wanted to point out my surprise and disappointment that he has not yet seen fit to comment publicly on this report or to give any undertaking in respect of its recommendations. [More…]

• Inadequacies in education, job training, and child care services remain. [More…]

• But honourable senators may agree that improvements in education, training, legal aid services, welfare services and child-care, benefit the whole of society and not just women. [More…]

• While such fields as defence, foreign affairs and some areas of national resources and trade are logically handled nationally, I feel that the Commonwealth should reduce its interest in such fields as health, housing, education and the environment. [More…]

• One of these is education. [More…]

• After I left that sphere I did full time university work, again in the field of education. [More…]

• After finishing that I returned to the education sphere and did some research work. [More…]

• So, education will be one of the fields on which I think I will have some competence to speak in this chamber and it will be one of the fields in which I will pursue my interests here. [More…]

• While I was carrying on with my education studies, while I was a teacher, later a guidance officer and then research worker in the field of education, I carried on in parallel a part-time career. [More…]

• As well as assisting to ease the isolation experienced by the people in these regions it would be invaluable to enable isolated children to watch the regular school broadcasts and thereby to greatly increase their education. [More…]

• What costs do we take into consideration when looking at the education of our children and our young people? [More…]

• The Government is firmly committed to furthering the equality of opportunity for women in education, employment and in public life. [More…]

• After all, a college of advanced education is situated at Wagga Wagga and is growing in repute and stature. [More…]

• One area that brought a new light to the field of education was the introduction of innovations grants. [More…]

• So many new ideas have been brought forward in the field of education. [More…]

• Education has to take in those things. [More…]

• I know that the scheme was intensely disliked by the State departments of education. [More…]

• But I am very sad that that is the area that this Government found it necessary to cut in education. [More…]

• Because ordinary people in Australia at last were getting close to living decent lives, with decent wages, with an education system that was starting to educate them and not turn them out as factory fodder, and with a health scheme which meant that people did not lie awake at 2 o’clock in the morning wondering how on earth they were going to pay the medical bills and wondering whether it might not be better if people who were ill died. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education seen the report in today’s Canberra Times concerning the School of Automotive Engineering at the Canberra Technical College which alleges that the building was not ready, stores and equipment remained unpacked and storemen were not available, shelving was not ordered, teachers were not available and an office had no lighting? [More…]

• Education and the Arts; [More…]

• The committees that Senator Withers has suggested should be established are the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, the Education and the Arts Committee, the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, the Social Welfare Committee, the Trade and Commerce Committee, the National Resources Committee and the Science and the Environment Committee. [More…]

• May I interpolate at this stage and say that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts inquired for some considerable time into all aspects of broadcasting and television. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, which inquired into all aspects of broadcasting, recommended amongst other things a general inquiry by the government of the day into the introduction or otherwise in Australia of frequency modulation broadcasting. [More…]

• As a result of that independent inquiry being established by the Government on my recommendation, which flowed from a recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, frequency modulation broadcasting was established in Australia. [More…]

• Those reports related to death duties, the Family Law Bill, a national compensation Bill, television and broadcasting, teacher education, Japan, Indonesia and a whole host of other subject matters. [More…]

• b) Education and the Arts; [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Government determined its policy on tertiary education fees for 1 977 and succeeding years? [More…]

• If not, what is the Government’s policy on tertiary education fees for this year? [More…]

• The Government is in process at this moment of developing a program for the whole of education for the triennium 1977-1979. [More…]

• As to our policy today with respect to tertiary allowances, the present Government in the course of the last election campaign undertook that it would maintain the whole of the education programs that the former Government had announced in the Budget presented on 1 9 [More…]

• I think all honourable senators should understand that that Budget contained a very sharp cutback in education expenditure to the extent that in the calendar year 1 976 there is a cutback of 6 per cent in real expenditure figures. [More…]

• Included in that decision in August by the Government which was of the philosophy of the Leader of the Opposition was the maintenance of tertiary education assistance allowances at what are 1974-75 values. [More…]

• They cannot be so, not because of any unwillingness by my Government but because in the last Budget the then Government sought to overspend some $5,000m, creating that level of deficit, on other areas, with the result that expenditure on education and other vital issues has had to be pruned and now those areas must carry the burden of those cutbacks. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a report in the Courier-Mail newspaper of 1 March 1 976 in which the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, is quoted as saying, ‘Education would be one of the fields to suffer from government economies’? [More…]

• If his prediction is correct, what areas of expenditure on education are likely to be affected? [More…]

• First, the education budget for the calendar year 1976 will be precisely the same, with all its warts and all its blemishes, as the one the then Labor Government brought in on 1 9 August 1 975 including the education allowances and other measures. [More…]

• Education would be one of the fields to suffer from Government economies, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anthony, said at the weekend. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he will ask his colleague what he actually meant by this comment? [More…]

• I wish to address my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister has just informed the Senate that there will be no cuts in the education budget as allocated under the Labor Government. [More…]

• It is, of course, natural that the Opposition should be so unhappy that it cannot get a breach in the walls of the education program and cannot cry ‘misery me’ for cuts which, in the whole of the Government’s economic policies, have been due to the disaster of 3 years of Labor government. [More…]

• What I said was that the overall budget of the program for education of $ 1,770m would be maintained and even exceeded, and that each of the broad programs would be maintained precisely, as with the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education and the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Is it not right that the States which are close to the people in relation to education, health, housing, the law, police and municipal affairs should have the right to adequate money and freedom of action in spending that money? [More…]

• It is very disappointing to the people of Australia that although only one Minister has spoken in the debate on the Address-in-Reply to the Governor-General’s Speech- the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick- no one on the government side of the chamber has made any reference to the events that led to the Australian Labor Party’s defeat last year with the exception, of course, of Senator Missen. [More…]

• An example of this is the way we push our sons’ education just a little harder than we push our daughters’ education and, by so doing, make it harder for girls in their later years to reach their full potential. [More…]

• It is this: in modern countries, opportunities for all citizens- the opportunity for a complete education, opportunity for dignity in retirement, opportunity for proper medical treatment, opportunity to share in the nation’s wealth and resources, opportunity for decent housing, the opportunity for civilised conditions in our cities and towns, opportunity to preserve and promote the natural beauty of the land- can be provided only if governmentsthe community itself acting through its elected representativeswill provide them. [More…]

• Territorians will be pleased to learn that the Government believes that an education system must be based on equality of opportunity. [More…]

• Educational facilities for children in the Territory have improved considerably over the past few years. [More…]

• If these officers are not appointed the whole program will be put at risk and the children concerned, as well as the others in the classroom, will not receive appropriate education. [More…]

• If the present Government wishes to make a significant contribution in the field of education it might look to the area of vocational training of Aboriginal and other rural youth. [More…]

• The whole system of post-primary education of Aboriginal children is in danger of collapse because of the lack of both employment opportunities and appropriate training. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education ascertained whether the Government will carry out proposals which emanated from the Labor and Immigration Ministry under the Whitlam Government to create an authority to protect and enhance the status of interpreters and translators? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and relates to an article in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald, which states in part: [More…]

• The facts reveal that Sir Eric Willis, as Minister for Education, reached the correct decisions upon the advice given to him. [More…]

• So that it shall be understood, I say this: The Schools Commission special education program includes recurrent grants for Government special schools, in addition to recurrent grants which the State may use either to subsidise nongovernment special schools or to facilitate their takeover if the institutions wish it. [More…]

• It was because in 1975 the then Whitlam Government, of which Senator Douglas McClelland was a member, rejected the triennium proposals and cut back education expenditure by 6 per cent and then refused to give any forward guarantees at all. [More…]

• Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDSenator Carrick, during the course of a reply to a question posed to him by a colleague of mine from Queensland, stated that I, as a Minister in the Whitlam Government, knew that that Government in the presentation of its 1975-76 Budget had cut back on educational expenditure. [More…]

• I could not possibly have known that because the Whitlam Government increased its expenditure on education in the 1975-76 Budget compared with the 1974-75 Budget. [More…]

• I believe it is ironical that the conservative governments in this country, which made such a fuss about the allegedly centralist policies of the Labor Government, vigorously and almost invariably opposed such Australian Labor Party initiatives as direct aid to local government, the innovations program in the field of education and the Australian Assistance Plan, which gave to local government areas and local government groups the power to make decisions. [More…]

• For the last 3 weeks the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is a member of this chamber, has been blaming everything that is happening in the field of education on the Labor Government, while he takes away from the primary schools and the retarded children in this community the sums of money that they so badly need. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and refers to the resignation of education staff in the Northern Territory and the current non-replacement of such staff. [More…]

• The Committee was established in April 1975 to report on the promotion, development and coordination of post-secondary education in Tasmania having regard to future needs. [More…]

• The Committee’s recommendations include a major restructuring of tertiary education in Tasmania. [More…]

• The Committee has not made financial recommendations on the future development of post-secondary education in [More…]

• Tasmania as these are the responsibility of the national education commissions and the Commonwealth and State governments. [More…]

• The Committee concentrated its efforts on major issues affecting the longer term development of post-secondary education in Tasmania. [More…]

• The Committee was concerned that there should be reasonable opportunities for post-secondary education at various levels throughout Tasmania and sought ways to raise the level of participation in post-secondary education as much as possible. [More…]

• The Committee also discussed a number of general issues which affected the development of post-secondary education in Australia as a whole. [More…]

• For this reason the Committee did not feel bound by pre-conceived principles or rules, but put educational considerations first. [More…]

• In particular, while different funding mechanisms applied to universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges, the Committee took the view that these arrangements should not influence its approach. [More…]

• The Committee concentrated on formulating the most effective educational solutions to the educational problems which it encountered. [More…]

• The report just tabled by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is a report which I am sure will be welcomed by everyone interested in education in Tasmania. [More…]

• It has not taken a long time for the report to come to hand since the setting up of the Committee on PostSecondary Education in Tasmania, but it did take quite some time for an approach to be adopted towards a rationalisation of tertiary or post-secondary education facilities in Tasmaniathe decentralised State which has suffered from an over-centralisation of education facilities. [More…]

• In 1966 the Northern Tertiary Education Committee was set up. [More…]

• It was because of the agitation of that Committee that Professor Burton and Professor Clark were given the task of looking at the tertiary education facilities as they then were. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that the decision was taken during the early 1960s to establish the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education right next door to the University of Tasmania. [More…]

• It was regarded for a long time as precluding decentralised educational development in the State at a level which was desired by most people in the State. [More…]

• I emphasise in referring to this the importance of the decision taken by the former Government and by the present Government to go ahead with the development of the Maritime College situated at Launceston to be constructed in conjunction with the College of Advanced Education at Newnham. [More…]

• The Liberal Party announced its policy before any other party to develop both the Maritime College and the autonomous educational institution at Newnham. [More…]

• I personally look forward to the day when that development, which now appears so close, will lead to the development of similar facilities for tertiary education on the north-west coast. [More…]

• Recommendation (1) states, amongst other things: (ti) To achieve these objectives, the existing programs of the Mt Nelson campus of the TCAE should be transferred to the University or to a fully autonomous college of advanced education at Newnham (or as necessary, to the Hobart Technical College), and the site and buildings of the TCAE at Mt Nelson transferred to the University. [More…]

• It also recommends that existing legislation relating to the Tasmanian Council of Advanced Education and the TCAE should be replaced by new legislation establishing a fully autonomous college of advanced education at Newnham. [More…]

• A similar Bill was, in fact, introduced under the previous Government in the House of Representatives on 15 October 1975 by the then Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who fulfilled a distinguished role in that office. [More…]

• The second reading speech which was delivered in this place by the present Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, is almost identical with the second reading speech which was made in the House of Representatives by the former Minister for Education. [More…]

• If I might gently chide the Department of Education, I feel that it has been rather remiss in that after some 5 months it was not able to alter even one word in the speech- apart from changing the word ‘Australian’ to the word Commonwealth ‘. [More…]

• Another minor, but in some ways important, consequence of the passing of this Bill will be that the Commonwealth will assume responsibility for the provision of teachers of technical education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The background of the Bill has already been outlined by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech. [More…]

• Views have been expressed in some places that standards of education in the Australian Capital Territory perhaps are too high when compared with teaching standards in other parts of Australia and that there is no need to persist with those high standards. [More…]

• During the December 1975 election campaign Senator Guilfoyle, the then shadow Minister for Education, expressed the view that there would be no undermining of educational standards in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I hope that the present Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, will endorse that view. [More…]

• If this trend continues, I think it is fair to say that there will indeed be an undermining of educational standards in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I hope that in the next Budget there will be a sufficient allocation of funds for education in the Territory to permit the previously high standards to be maintained. [More…]

• I welcome their inclusion into the Commonwealth Teaching Service because it appears that in this way we will be able to continue to attract teachers of a very good standard to the technical section of education in the A.C.T. [More…]

• There are plans for rapid development of technical education. [More…]

• I think all honourable senators present will be aware of the past neglect of technical education in this Territory and in the rest of Australia and will be aware also of the need to rectify this neglect. [More…]

• To reach the problem perhaps at a preventative stage we should be looking to technical and further education and should offer an opportunity to our young people to gain useful technical skills when they leave school. [More…]

• Technical education should be a genuine alternative to academic education. [More…]

• It is an alternative which should be funded adequately and it should not be just a poor relation of academic higher education, as it has been in the past. [More…]

• Therefore, I am pleased to see that the Commonwealth Teaching Service will now include teachers of technical education in the Territories. [More…]

• This, in turn, should help us to establish here in the Territoryas well as in other areas within the responsibility of the Federal Government- a very sound and useful kind of technical education. [More…]

• In conclusion, I should like to say that I sincerely hope that the change of government will not mean an interference or an obstruction of the plans for technical and further education in this Territory. [More…]

• I hope also that it will not mean- there are some signs now that it might mean- a lowering of the previously high standard of education enjoyed by children in the schools in the Territories. [More…]

• Since the establishment of the Commonwealth Teaching Service- I speak particularly for the Northern Territory- education has gone ahead in leaps and bounds. [More…]

• All in all, education has gone a long way in the Northern Territory in the last few years but many problems lie ahead. [More…]

• I was pleased to see that in the last week Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, spent a week in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• One problem, which is not peculiar to the Northern Territory but affects also some of the States, is that of Aboriginal education. [More…]

• These children need to be given an education. [More…]

• In the Northern Territory today there is very little opportunity for many of the children- particularly the Aboriginal children- to receive an education. [More…]

• They have to be given an education so that they can join in our way of life. [More…]

• I think the Territory has enjoyed a very good share of funds for education. [More…]

• I agree with the honourable senator that the Government should spend vast sums of money on education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The education of many of this generation of children whom we would have expected to come forward and join in the life of the Northern Territory will be wasted. [More…]

• I believe that we will lose a complete generation with respect to education if steps are not taken to correct the situation. [More…]

• I understand that, very soon, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will receive the report of that inquiry. [More…]

• The picture that I have painted can be viewed in this way: Senator Carrick is the Minister responsible for education and his Department has an immense responsibility ahead of it. [More…]

• For the good of the Department of Education and for the children of the Northern Territory, I hope that this matter can be reconsidered and that the teaching service will be allowed once again to grow. [More…]

• In February of 1972, the then Minister for Education and Science introduced the Commonwealth Teaching Service Bill. [More…]

• The other system was the Aboriginal Education Branch of the Welfare Division of the Department of the Interior. [More…]

• It would be of interest to senators to know that a short time ago he was made a Fellow of the Australian College of Education for his work in this field. [More…]

• This Aboriginal Education Branch looked after Aboriginal schools, on settlements, on pastoral properties in remote areas, post primary education, Aboriginal colleges and Aboriginal preschools. [More…]

• The second reason might have been that with South Australia going, some structure would be needed to organise education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The third reason was to provide that equality of education which Labor saw as being necessary. [More…]

• I have said before in this place that the Territory has unique problems in education. [More…]

• They have had 3 years training at a college of advanced education or something of the sort down south; but their training is not appropriate to the needs of the Territory, particularly in respect of Aboriginal schools. [More…]

• The Minister will know that some excellent work is being done at Batchelor, in the Aboriginal teacher education centre. [More…]

• It is unfair not only to the people in the positions; it is unfair also to the Education Authority in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Perhaps some of the Acting Commissioners might have seen the Commission’s role as going a little beyond this and as becoming involved in the day-to-day running of the Education Authority. [More…]

• It is now into its fourth draft and the Education Authority has not yet seen the document. [More…]

• I think that it is a great pity that the Advisory Committee on Education in the Northern Territory was not proceeded with. [More…]

• The lack of motivation within the schools is the greatest problem facing Aboriginal education at the present time. [More…]

• Education has little relevance for them. [More…]

• The needs of the Education Authority in the Northern Territory are not being met at the present time. [More…]

• We on this side of the Senate pledge any assistance which we can give to ensure that all children of the Northern Territory obtain that equality of education which is the present Government’s avowed aim. [More…]

• I invite all honourable senators, when debating the various enabling Bills that will be coming before them in the near future in respect of the universities, the colleges of advanced education and the Schools Commission- Bills which essentially are funding Bills for this calendar year- to develop the kind of dialogue we have had in this debate. [More…]

• There are none more profound than education, particularly in relation to Aborigines. [More…]

• I believe that the Senate and its committees ought to develop an intellectual debate so that we can get for Australia and for all Australians the highest standard of education that this country can produce. [More…]

• Over past decades the Australian Capital Territory has had a rising standard, and in many ways quite an exciting standard, of education. [More…]

• If the Australian Capital Territory is ahead of the States in education, then our job is to bring the States up and to the standard of the Australian Capital Territory and as well to let the Territory move forward. [More…]

• I agree entirely that that has been a somewhat underprivileged child of education in Australia. [More…]

• Certainly my Government will be looking to the TAFEC, as it is called- the Technical and Further Education Commission- to develop and to expand throughout Australia. [More…]

• We believe there is a great need for our young people to achieve the benefits that can come from Western education. [More…]

• We have to recognise that not all the education that we give to the Aborigines is good education. [More…]

• We have to realise that throughout the Northern Territory there are entirely different stages of education which make entirely different demands. [More…]

• Katherine, Darwin and Gove I spoke to secondary school principals and to their teachers and tried to establish how best we can not only establish matriculation classes but also raise the quality of matriculation to so high a standard that no Australian in the Territory would want to send his children south for their education in preference to sending them to Darwin or to any of the places I have mentioned. [More…]

• Of course, the cost now of sending children south for their education is prohibitive, particularly for people in the grazing industry. [More…]

• But it would be profoundly expensive for an education department to be in fact the boss of a company town, as it were -in other words, to provide continuously the whole of the facilities of the town. [More…]

• They need to understand the difficulties of distance, space and time in projecting education. [More…]

• I am aware that a previous Minister for Education said in, I think, February of last year that his Government would set up an advisory body called ACENT- the Advisory Council of Education in the Northern Territory- to bring the community together in advising on education. [More…]

• Without committing my own Government in any way let me say that the policy of my Government is to bring in community involvement in education and to get an involvement in advice, recommendations and participation because education for the future is totally community education. [More…]

• I acknowledge also the point that little apparently has been done by any government of the past- this is not specifically in relation to education- in trying to ascertain the employment outlets for the school leaver, whether a Caucasian Australian or an Aboriginal. [More…]

• Senator Robertson mentioned that we should make their education more meaningful in order to ensure- I willingly join with him in using the words he used- that we maintain the dignity of the Aboriginal. [More…]

• Whatever else we do not know about Aboriginal education, it is certainly our task in no way to harm them willingly, in no way to destroy their dignity and in no way to patronise them. [More…]

• I repeat that I hope that through the Senate committees, particularly the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, some of these subjects will be pursued in detail. [More…]

• I will welcome debate in the education Bills coming forward. [More…]

• Honourable senators will remember that when I was Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, it was necessary for me to expose the now Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and Senator Baume for their false assumptions, their faulty reasoning, their ignorance and their lack of knowledge of the Treasury Regulations and procedures in respect of the Budget Estimates. [More…]

• After all, governments collect money in order to put it into areas, such as education, that we believe are necessary. [More…]

• I refer to the Schools Commission, the first decent national funding of education for children throughout Australia; the interim committee on child care of the Children’s Commission, which was to establish for the first time high standard, properly funded government child care services. [More…]

• The Special Projects Program contains two main components: the school level innovations program and projects relating to special fields of educational interest such as school/community involvement, aboriginal education, the education of girls. [More…]

• My question which I direct to the Minister for Education refers to the report on post-secondary education in Tasmania which was tabled in the Senate yesterday. [More…]

• Recently the inauguration of the first pilot on-line library-based education information service, linking Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, took place. [More…]

• Such a service is going to be of great value in assisting the cost-effective development of education. [More…]

• Clear statements were made that there would be no cut-backs in the expenditure on Medibank, social security, Aboriginal affairs, education and so on. [More…]

• Many young men and women who have a tertiary education probably are unable to obtain a job in society. [More…]

• Firstly, what should be the future of expenditure and plans formulated within the framework of the previous forecasts; for example, for education, growth centres and so on? [More…]

• This movement of people, who seek education and a higher standard of living, is taking place within the context of the declining position and potential of small country towns. [More…]

• The role of the Government in this sense is to provide opportunities and education in respect of the existence of these facilities. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education inform the Parliament of the total amount of cuts in funds for education in the Northern Territory? [More…]

• In that position, a woman in the low income family, particularly if it is low income related to a general low level of education of both parents, is put severely at risk. [More…]

• I suppose we could talk about problems of education or communication or some other common interest factor in relation to which people have found, quite quickly, that united they stand, whereas formerly divided they fell. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education give an undertaking that he will honour an assurance given by the then shadow Minister for Education, presently the Minister for Social Security, to students at the University of New England on 15 September 1975 to the effect that a Liberal-National Country Party government would immediately review the tertiary education assistance scheme with a view to increasing allowances paid to students? [More…]

• In regard to the tertiary allowance, the honourable senator will know that the specific statement in the policy speech of the Fraser Government was that we would maintain the 1976 education programs, which include the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister may be aware that the Health Education Council in Western Australia has a publication entitled, ‘How Clanger Molloy caught the clap and gave it to his girlfriend’. [More…]

• As reports indicate that the incidence of venereal disease is increasing throughout Australia, as the Premier of Western Australia has declared the publication pornographic without reference to the State-appointed Indecent Publications Committee and as there is a great need for constructive advice to be made available to all sections of the community on this matter, will the Minister give consideration to approaching the Health Education Council in Western Australia to obtain the ‘Clanger Molloy’ series and assist in the distribution of the same on a national basis through the Department of Health? [More…]

• The list of reports was circulated and unless I have a different list from other honourable senators it shows reports by the Minister for Administrative Services, the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, the Minister for Education, the Minister for Science and the Minister for the Capital Territory. [More…]

• In other words NEAT was an integral part of Government manpower policy and all Australians would ultimately have benefited from such improvements in skills and education in the work force. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Again I refer to the report of the Karmel Committee on postsecondary education in Tasmania. [More…]

• If the report is implemented, will the Government give an assurance that funds will be made available to the Government of Tasmania to continue the employment of those members of the staff of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education who will be affected as the result of the adoption of the Committee’s recommendations? [More…]

• At the moment the matter rests primarily with the Premier of Tasmania to assess the report and to decide whether it should be implemented, because the constitutional power over such colleges of advanced education lies with the States. [More…]

• I believe that there is a sound case to protect staff and 1 will take up with the Tasmanian Government and with the Commission on Advanced Education the matters which the Leader of the Opposition has raised. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that 5 years ago the Senate referred a similar inquiry to the then Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts? [More…]

• In response to the honourable senator’s question I will endeavour to seek further information from my colleague the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and also from my colleague the Minister for Education who, I think, has some knowledge in this area. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It is particularly important with regard to colleges of advanced education because those colleges are or should be more specifically vocation oriented than universities. [More…]

• I believe in the words of a gentleman named Hagerty, who wrote in the Journal of Medical Education in 1971 and was quoted by Dr Sidney Sax in an article appearing in the Medical Journal of Australia of 2 August 1975. [More…]

• ; to prevent illness (which increasingly requires complex alterations in personal ways of living and changes in such social problems as poor housing, lack of jobs, and poor education); and only finally to treat specific breakdowns in the human machine. [More…]

• I believe that this will come about only by self-examination within the profession, by education of the community and by a careful examination of the methods that we use in training our doctors. [More…]

• Better still, I believe, let us change the situation by education and by letting the patients into our confidence. [More…]

• I want to take this opportunity to speak briefly about a subject that is very important to the Australian Capital Territory and that is education. [More…]

• Education is important in any community. [More…]

• In the last couple of years that very growth has given rise to some problems in planning and these have affected education especially. [More…]

• The statement by the Government yesterday announcing works to be carried out by the National Capital Development Commission includes several important projects relating to education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• On this matter I would like to take the opportunity to commend the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for the energy that he has shown, his decisiveness in approaching this problem in the Australian Capital Territory and his understanding of it. [More…]

• I would like especially to acknowledge the sympathy with which the Minister has approached this critical problem of education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• But I know that he is very well aware that as these buildings go ahead there are still other problems in front of us in the field of education. [More…]

• I rise to follow my colleague Senator Knight who commented on the decision to allocate $50m for educational buildings in the outer Belconnen area of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• As Senator Knight has seen fit to draw the attention of the chamber to the problems surrounding education in the Territory, I think we should see this reprieve of $50m in its full context. [More…]

• After the change of Government we had a complete stoppage of all building programs, including those to do with education, in the Territory. [More…]

• Although I express satisfaction that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) saw fit to visit this area and recommend this minimal funding, there was really no other decision he could have taken, I suggest, because otherwise children from pre-school age to technical school agc would have been sitting in the gutters or waiting at home because they had nowhere to go to school. [More…]

• I admit that this action is satisfactory but I think that this stop-go policy of the Government on this matter does not inspire confidence in those concerned with education in the Territorythe planners, the teachers, the students, the parents and the administrators. [More…]

• A number of other outstanding matters are of great moment to the community concerned with education in the Territory. [More…]

• Some are still controlled directly by the Department of Education. [More…]

• Having studied with some interest the federalist policies of the Government, it would seem to me that the Government would not be anxious to preserve an area in which there is centralist control of education. [More…]

• I acknowledge the interest of the 2 honourable senators from the Australian Capital Territory in the education problems of the Territory. [More…]

• Every day since I have been a Minister in the Senate I have received representations from honourable senators and honourable members regarding the complete neglect of vital thingsmaintenance and general services- by the former Government in the Australian Capital Territory in the field of education. [More…]

• I direct myself purely to the question of education. [More…]

• I hope that those who have education problems to raise will continue to come to my door- it is my job to see whether we can get them fixed- and that by this building program we can make sure that in the years ahead the people, particularly in Belconnen, will be well served in education. [More…]

• The Bill is associated with the States Grants (Universities) Amendment Bill 1976, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1976, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill 1976 and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill 1976, all of which I intend to introduce presently. [More…]

• The previous Government decided that the year 1976 should be treated outside the normal triennial progression and asked the 4 education Commissions to recommend separate programs of funding for 1976 within certain guidelines. [More…]

• This Bill and the related ones represent the implementation of the announced decision of the Government in its caretaker capacity in November last that the programs for 1976 approved by the previous Government for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education should proceed on the basis announced by the previous Government. [More…]

• This undertaking assured the States and the educational institutions concerned of the level of financial support they could expect in 1976 even though the prorogation of the Parliament in November 1975 made it impossible until now to enact legislation appropriating funds for the 1 976 programs. [More…]

• The Bills in respect of universities and colleges of advanced education provide for reimbursement of the States where they have made payments under the special interim financial arrangements. [More…]

• This provision was not necessary in the case of technical and further education where existing legislation provides financial assistance to the States until 30 June 1976. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to provide for programs of financial assistance to the States for the funding of advanced education in respect of the year 1976. [More…]

• In addition the Bill provides for recurrent grants on a formula basis to assist in meeting the administrative costs of student residences and affiliated residential colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In the intervening period since the 1976 program was approved by the previous Government, a committee on post-secondary education in Western Australia, headed by Professor P. H. Paltridge, has made a report to the State Government recommending that the School of Mines at Kalgoorlie should not continue at the tertiary level and that consequently the Kalgoorlie capital projects listed in Schedule 2 to this Bill under the heading of the Western Australian Institute of Technology ought not to proceed. [More…]

• My remarks there on the background to the funding arrangements for tertiary and technical and further education in 1976 apply to this Bill as do my remarks there on interim financial arrangements. [More…]

• This Bill amends the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-1975 to adjust the approved program of grants to the States for colleges of advanced education and nongovernment teachers colleges in the triennium 1973-1975. [More…]

• The additional funds provided by this Bill total $21m bringing the funds available for colleges of advanced education for the 1973-75 triennium to $743m. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to amend the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 so as to extend its period of operation from the present termination date of 30 June 1976, to 31 December 1976, and to provide additional funds to the States for the extended period. [More…]

• My remarks there concerning the background to the Government’s decisions on the 1976 education programs apply to this Bill. [More…]

• In considering amendments to the principal Act, the Government has sought to make only the minimal changes necessary to implement the 1976 programs in technical and further education. [More…]

• Countless numbers of people came from the colonies to Britain to attain a higher education, and there they came into contact with this Fabian socialism, particularly if they had any contact with the London School of Economics. [More…]

• Socially, they were given health benefits and education benefits which they would otherwise not have had. [More…]

• Funds will continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health, legal aid etc. [More…]

• Funds to continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health, legal aid, etc. [More…]

• Will give priority to extra Ahoriginal field workers and advisers in health education and community development. [More…]

• Priority to expansion of education in Aboriginal languages. [More…]

• Aboriginal parents to help in education programs. [More…]

• Another of the areas that we wanted to look into was the effect of the education system on women’s self-image. [More…]

• That was partly due to the education system they had gone through which had seen them as only filling in their time at school. [More…]

• A wife left with a house and children pays the same for rates, electricity, shoes, food, education and living as does the husband who is left. [More…]

• In addition, the then Minister for the Media, Dr Cass, announced on 20 August 1975 after consultation with his colleagues the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, and the Postmaster-General, Senator Bishop, that he had made offers of twelve additional licences to educational institutions which were selected by Dr Cass. [More…]

• Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Mitchell College of Advanced Education, Bathurst. [More…]

• Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, Hobart and Launceston, Tasmania. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the report of the Schools Commission, which was to be due this month, will not be finalised until June? [More…]

• I refer to the matter of radio licences, described as experimental licences, which are to be made available to educational institutions, such as universities, institutes of technology and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Will he refer this matter to his colleague and press for an early decision so that educational radio stations can begin programming and serving the members of the organisations concerned? [More…]

• My understanding is that prior to the dissolution of this Parliament in November last year the then Minister for the Media had offered some 12 licences to educational institutions. [More…]

• They had not been operated on at that time and my further understanding is that, during the period of the caretaker Government, the then caretaker Postmaster-General issued 2 licences, one to the University of Queensland Union and the other to the Mitchell College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I am advised that there are some four under consideration at this moment- for the University of Western Australia, the Western Australian Institute of Technology, the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education and the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I think there are some 5 applications from educational institutions awaiting consideration.This is the advice that I have received, but I will refer the full substance of the honourable senator’s question to the Minister for further information. [More…]

• This applies both to policies involving government services to the Australian people, such as education or social welfare, and to policies in which population is treated as a resource, such as the gearing of manpower to economic development. [More…]

• Far from improving our standard of living and improving the quality of life, this approach with its result of an aging population will require the transfer of resources away from education and training and investment in productive processes to the needs of a proportionately increasing population of aged persons. [More…]

• The agreement for which this Bill is appropriating funds is inter-related with the policies we introduced in the whole area of transport, urban and regional development, education, social welfare and many other fields. [More…]

• No special programs existed to improve the standard of education or the standard of welfare services. [More…]

• -The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has agreed with me- this agreement has the approval of his colleague, the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers)that this Bill should be debated cognately with the other 4 Bills which are concerned with the situation of post-secondary education in Australia. [More…]

• The fact that they are taken together is helpful because it provides us with the opportunity to look at the spectrum of post-secondary education in the one debate. [More…]

• In the educational scene 1976 is a special year because it is not part of a normal educational triennium in any of the 3 areas of post-secondary education with which we are concerned. [More…]

• The legislation also provides for some major new facilities in certain educational institutions. [More…]

• The second important Bill- the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill- deals with the same matter in respect of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The sum of $296m is provided for recurrent expenditure, $56m for capital expenditure and $lm for administration to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The third Bill- the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Billperforms the same sort of function in relation to techncial education, except that in this area it carries the funding through from 30 June of this year until the end of the calendar year. [More…]

• The 2 other Bills- the States Grants (Universities) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill- are basically concerned with the reimbursement of funds paid out of consolidated revenue by the States in the interregnum between 20 November last year and this year. [More…]

• I shall comment briefly on a couple of matters in relation to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill. [More…]

• I think it is important to emphasise when discussing education that we live in times of very rapid social and technological change when the need for planning for the future becomes more and more obvious and when the task becomes more and more difficult. [More…]

• The structure which we have to deal with that situation in the educational area is perhaps in its infancy in a sense and not proven, but perhaps it is a satisfactory structure if one examines some of the problems which are likely to arise. [More…]

• In saying that I mention also that the Government cannot put education on the long finger as perhaps it has tended to do in relation to the suggested establishment of an inquiry into broadcasting and television or as it tended to do with ethnic radio or as it tended to with something like tax indexation. [More…]

• In the area of education decisions have to be made by the time of the Budget this year. [More…]

• At that time we will be able to assess the results of talk which went on last year from then Opposition spokesmen and from the now Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) about resistence to what was called enforced equality in education. [More…]

• I said that it is perhaps important to speculate about the role of education and the form which education administration is likely to take and which it should perhaps take in the next few years. [More…]

• Before I do that I draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that this legislation provides for grants to the States in order that they may carry out various educational functions. [More…]

• I make the point that one cannot under-estimate the role of a national Parliament and a national government in assessing educational needs and priorities. [More…]

• Gradually in Australia, over the last 20 or 30 years, education has become a national obligation. [More…]

• The product of education constitutes part of the wealth of the nation, not the wealth of particular States. [More…]

• I hope that this view will not even be floated in the next few months, although one does hear noise of that kind during contributions to so called education debates. [More…]

• The structure which, for better or for worse, has now been inflicted on the educational scene in the guise of various commissions is, perhaps at first glance, complex. [More…]

• But the structure of the commissions in each of the areas with which we are concerned and the tasks of those commissions have been to look at educational needs in various areas. [More…]

• I believe that this Government, and indeed any Government in the present time and in the immediate future, must be diligent to assess and to be constantly aware of what are the real needs of the community and not just the wishes of various education establishments in the community. [More…]

• There seems to me to be little doubt that there are entrenched education establishments in this community which, irrespective of the sorts of changes which might take place in this society, will continue to seek to remain as establishments. [More…]

• As I say irrespective of those changes there are education establishments which may be dealing with situations or purporting to deal with situations which are no longer real in terms of the goals and objectives of the sort of society in which we live. [More…]

• The point I am trying to make is the very real danger of self-perpetuating education establishments, particularly in the university field, which are indeed contrary to what I believe to be the aims of the various commissions, the aims of the Opposition which I represent and, I believe, the aims of the present Government in its view of priorities which should be given in educational expenditure. [More…]

• We are not thinking in wider terms about a society in which each member of the work force perhaps has some sort of arrangement like that in his lifetime in order that he may indulge in retraining, further education, or whatever he wishes. [More…]

• I should like to make one or two comments about colleges of advanced education and the legislation relating to those bodies. [More…]

• It does seem to me that while there has been a proliferation of colleges of advanced education in Australia and while there has been a continuing sort of status battle between colleges of advanced education and universities and between one college of advanced education and another, the role of colleges of advanced education has been, by no means, defined at this time. [More…]

• The sort of question which we should perhaps properly be asking when considering this type of legislation is this: What sort of courses are colleges of advanced education providing and what sort of courses should they be providing? [More…]

• Should they be research institutions or should they provide a general education, particularly for those who return to full time education or part time education on an involved basis later in their lifetime? [More…]

• These questions, I think, are important when this Parliament is making substantial grants to the States for the purpose of financing colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• We are making those grants, generally speaking, as an act of faith believing that all educational institutions are somehow in some particular way per se worthy institutions and per se fulfilling a worthy purpose in society. [More…]

• I am concerned that in this Parliament, at least, there should be a continuing debate about the role of these colleges of advanced education and some attempt to define their purposes and what thenfunctions should be. [More…]

• The third area we are discussing is that of technical education. [More…]

• I suspect that the role of technical education in Australian society should and must become more and more important and, at the same time, more and more flexible in the types and variety of disciplines which it offers in the next decade. [More…]

• I want to discuss them under the guise of indulging in a little speculation about the sort of society we might be living in in the next 10 years or so and thereafter, and the sort of effect that might have on our thinking about education and our educational priorities. [More…]

• There will be more demand for diverse special skills which can be attained only by technical education rather than by the sort of education which is offered now by universities. [More…]

• Because of these things I believe that the capacity of educational institutions to adapt to change is very important. [More…]

• In the manpower sense, I believe there will be a great move against what the Marxists call ‘alienation’ in employment but which perhaps can be described in more contemporary terms as the sense of divorcing education from any involvement in a work situation of a constructive and fulfilling kind. [More…]

• What I am really suggesting is that factors which may now be compartmentalised into the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations are going to have a significant bearing in the future on the matters which are now departmentalised into the Department presided over by Senator Carrick, the Department of Education. [More…]

• I think that that will be reflected in the educational sphere in there being more need for ongoing or continuing education throughout one’s lifetime. [More…]

• Of course, one of the ways in which they will have to be fulfilled is by education. [More…]

• One wonders particularly about the role of colleges of advanced education and institutions of that kind in providing that way of using increased leisure time, in providing a way of improving the quality of life and in providing a way of enriching the human personality which is what people consider they are doing in seeking to continue their education right throughout their life in a variety of ways. [More…]

• I listened with interest to Senator Button and in particular to his remarks indicating his ideas as far as goals in education are concerned. [More…]

• I wonder whether in the past we have not been too preoccupied with tertiary education and have not concentrated enough on proper teacher training at the pre-school, primary, secondary and technical levels in order to encourage children into a work area where they will be most happy and where their particular IQ or talents will enable them to fulfil a job that will bring them satisfaction. [More…]

• The Labor Government asked 4 education commissions to recommend separate programs for funding for 1976 within certain guidelines. [More…]

• This Bill and the related ones with which we are dealing represent the implementation of the announced decision of the present Government in its caretaker capacity in November last year that the program for 1 976 approved by the previous Government for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions should proceed on the basis announced by the former Government. [More…]

• He is not, for instance, allowed to claim any expenses incurred in their education or for their board and lodgings, and he is not allowed to claim wages paid to the housekeeper, unless he happens to be registered as a company. [More…]

• That committee of inquiry consisted of Mr Horton, the Librarian of the University of New South Wales, as Chairman and Executive Member, the other members of the Committee being Mr A. Harris of the Department of the Treasury; Mr W. Brown, State Librarian of Tasmania and the President of the Library Association of Australia; Professor D. Lamberton, Professor of Economics, University of Queensland; Professor D. Pickering, Senior Special Education Officer, Department of Education, Victoria; Professor P. Tannock, Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Australia; and Mrs M. Trask, Principal Lecturer in Librarianship, Kuringai College of Advanced Education and Vice-President, Library Association of Australia. [More…]

• In its report the Committee of Inquiry should pay particular attention to: the development of methods for evaluating the effectiveness of public libraries and library systems; the relationship between proposed public library policies and the Australian Library Based Information System feasibility studies; the Australian Assistance Plan and the policies planned or implemented by the Departments of Urban and Regional Development and Tourism and Recreation; the relationship between public libraries and libraries in education centres. [More…]

• in which Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education etc. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Have the various education authorities been consulted? [More…]

• I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, by saying that I know the Minister is aware of concern that has been expressed in the Australian Capital Territory about the provision of remedial teaching staff, particularly for remedial reading, at schools in the Territory. [More…]

• As the Bill provides, the college will be concerned with the education and training of officers of merchant and fishing vessels and of people who are otherwise engaged in the shipping or fishing industry such as ratings and deckhands. [More…]

• Thus, while the college will offer courses at the advanced education level, it will also be involved with training at the technical college level. [More…]

• I also pointed out to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) the importance of phase 4 of the building project on that campus to provide a 710-bed hospital. [More…]

• Such a body ought to be under the jurisdiction of one Ministry; whether it be the Minister for National Resources, the Minister for Education or the Minister for Science, I do not know. [More…]

• 1 hope that the Minister for Education will take note of this fact. [More…]

• Advanced Education for the purposes of allocating funds to universities, colleges of advanced education and institutes of technology from a common pool. [More…]

• I would appreciate it if the Minister for Education when he sums up in replying to this debate could furnish me with an answer on that question. [More…]

• With this legislation before us, we are given the opportunity to look at some aspects of university and post-secondary education in Australia. [More…]

• I wish to confine my remarks principally to university education. [More…]

• Before I do so, let me point out some of the increases which have occurred in Commonwealth expenditure on education throughout Australia. [More…]

• I ask for leave of the Senate to incorporate in Hansard a table which shows Commonwealth grants to the States for education as a proportion of State government expenditure on education for 1959-60 to 1973-74. [More…]

• An examination of that table reveals that in 1959-60 the current expenditure on education by the Commonwealth was $25m. [More…]

• It is important to look at that expenditure by the Commonwealth as a percentage of total expenditure on education by the States. [More…]

• Current expenditure on education by the Commonwealth as a percentage of State government expenditure on education increased from 10 per cent in 1959-60 to 29 per cent in 1973-74. [More…]

• In the area of capital expenditure on education, the escalation of Commonwealth expenditure is even more apparent. [More…]

• As a percentage of State government expenditure on education, capital expenditure by the Commonwealth in 1959-60 was 14 per cent and had risen to 53 per cent by 1973-74. [More…]

• I indicate this to bring back to mind the amount of money that is being spent by this Government on education throughout Australia. [More…]

• These were: Arts, agricultural science, engineering, commerce and economics, science, law, music, social work, dentistry, medicine, architecture, education and veterinary science. [More…]

• Following the report of the Committee on Open Tertiary Education in Australia a good deal of optimism prevailed amongst the administration and staff associated with external studies at the University of Queensland. [More…]

• As a lawyer, I regret particularly the postponement of construction of a law building, which in company with buildings for psychology and education, was at an advanced planning stage when the axe fell. [More…]

• Included in this amount was the sum of $5.6m for an education, psychology and law building. [More…]

• As an educational psychologist I am equally saddened that the buildings for education and psychology have not gone ahead. [More…]

• Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Amendment Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill are part of a package deal covering further federal grants for 1976 in the post-secondary field of education. [More…]

• Of course, this includes universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges. [More…]

• I make these comments because I think the time is opportune, when we have these 5 cognate Bills covering the whole field of post-secondary education, to look critically, if not in depth, at the whole scheme and to suggest a few guidelines for the future, if possible, before the next triennium. [More…]

• Apart from this scheme in its initial stages such students would not have had the opportunity to reach the higher fields of education. [More…]

• But the long term aim- I think it would assist these people more if we had an ultimate aim- ought to be to set up the necessary institutions of advanced education in their own countries. [More…]

• I envisage that the money which is spent herefigures are available on how much it costs to produce a graduate in various faculties at every university in Australia- would be spent in setting up colleges of advanced education or universities in other countries. [More…]

• I accept and endorse the principle of free university education. [More…]

• Of course, on the other side of the coin we have a changing front in education. [More…]

• There may be a case for introducing new faculties in some of these areas in either colleges of advanced education or universities. [More…]

• I think a similar concern was expressed by Senator Button as to the direction in which we are going in some of the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I think there are 2 considerations: Firstly, is there really a demand for the new faculty which is sought to be established in a college of advanced education? [More…]

• If that is satisfied, the second question is: Will the resources be spread too thinly if new disciplines are opened up in colleges of advanced education? [More…]

• I think that research ought to be confined to universities for the reason which I trust I have made clear to the Senate- that simply not enough funds are available under the existing arrangements to allow for proper research to be carried out in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I do suggest however that this is not the province of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The Bills were, of course, legislation prepared by the Labor Government and mainly serve the purpose of implementing the Labor Government’s decision to index the added expenditure for educational purposes brought about as a result of inflation. [More…]

• I think the fact that the Labor Government was prepared to index inflation, so as to enable the recipients of education grants to have value for money, was a demonstration of the good faith of the Labor Government in respect of the funding of educational institutions. [More…]

• I mention that point because there has been a great deal of criticism and innuendo in respect of the Labor Government’s education program. [More…]

• It has been said that the Labor Government appeared to be pouring money into education but that in fact it was an accounting trick, and that because of inflation and so on the Labor Government really did not increase the funds available to education very much. [More…]

• I think anybody who has been involved in the grass roots of education at any level, including the tertiary levels with which we are concerned in these Bills, will be aware that there was indeed a vast increase of real funds available for educational purposes during the period of the Labor Government. [More…]

• I am very pleased to see that the present Government has decided te continue the procedure laid down by the Labor Government of indexing the cost of inflation to educational grants. [More…]

• I hope we are not meant to infer from the statement ‘till the end of 1976’ that the Government will not continue to index inflation in educational funds beyond 1976. [More…]

• The question of providing increased funds for education in tertiary institutions has been, as I have said, criticised in the community. [More…]

• I think that colleges of advanced education have been a successful innovation in the Australian tertiary education scene. [More…]

• In saying that, I mean that they have provided an alternative type of tertiary education from the traditional education offered in universities before the introduction of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• We now have the situation in most colleges of advanced education where the demand for places is ever increasing, whereas we have the situation in some universities where the demand for places in some courses is decreasing. [More…]

• I do not want to imply any criticism of the traditional universities because of those figures, but I suggest that the great demand for places in colleges of advanced education, which are to a large extent vocationally orientated institutions, is significant. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will agree with me when I say that it is a question of there being too many overcrowded classrooms in New South Wales. [More…]

• Another area in which I think funding has never been adequate in the past and only looks like starting to be adequate now is the area of technical education. [More…]

• Similarly, I think it has been an elitist mentality in the administrators and policy makers in education in the past that has resulted in technical education being the poor relation. [More…]

• I have made some remarks about this earlier in this session of Parliament, but I again exhort the present Government to ignore completely the elitist situation of the past with regard to technical education and to invest as much money as possible in the area of technical education. [More…]

• In fact, I think that at this stage technical education should have the highest priority in education. [More…]

• I draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that in the past women have been extremely severely disadvantaged in obtaining access to technical education. [More…]

• However, the time has come in our society when women are called upon for a number of reasons to support themselves and, as that time has come, it is incumbent upon a responsible government to ensure that technical education is available equally to women as it is to men in our society. [More…]

• I argue very strongly that for the foreseeable future we shall have a need for educational institutions which offer training in useful skills. [More…]

• Even if educational institutions as they now exist can accommodate all the children coming from schools in the next 1 5 or 20 years there is still the very serious matter of those persons who at this time are adult and have virtually no education. [More…]

• I hope that even if we could envisage the day when our present educational institutions would accommodate our school leavers, we could give thought to those people in our community- those adults, some of them maybe in their fifties but most of them are a little younger than that- who have no skills and who could benefit from an opportunity of recurrent education. [More…]

• These people could benefit from the opportunity to go back to school, to a technical institution, to a university or to a college of advanced education and obtain qualifications which would lead to their being at once more independent in their personal lives and more useful in the society. [More…]

• A significant report on the subject of recurrent education, called Learning To Be, was put out by a United Nations agency in 1974. [More…]

• I think that ever since that significant report was published all responsible educational authorities throughout the world have been giving very serious thought to the need for recurrent education, that is, the need for educational training systems which are open to adults to re-enter, at whatever stage of their adult lives, to obtain either skills that they never had the opportunity to obtain in their youth or skills that they need when their current skills become obsolete through technological change. [More…]

• So I exhort the Government not to consider education as an area which is shrinking in its demand on the public purse but to consider it rather as an area of public expenditure which inevitably will increase and which will increase in the interests of the community. [More…]

• Talk of wastage, duplication and unnecessary expenditure only gets at the periphery of the maladministration of some areas of education in Australia. [More…]

• But I do not think that those small areas of inefficiency and duplication should be seen as an excuse to reduce the level of funding of education which was established so creditably, I believe, under the Labor Government. [More…]

• I hope that the present Government will continue the high level of public expenditure on education that was established by the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• -At the outset of my remarks on the Bills dealing with education I would like to make a couple of comments on the speech made last night by Senator Button. [More…]

• In that speech he said that perhaps it is time for a little speculation in the Senate on the role of education and specifically on the role of post-secondary education in Australia. [More…]

• It made a contribution to the education debate in Australia that is probably long overdue. [More…]

• It has been a matter of some concern to me since I have been a member of Parliament that we in the Parliament can pass Budgets which allot so much money to education without a proper debate here on what we are trying to achieve with the money involved. [More…]

• Education has become something of a sacred cow in the Australian community. [More…]

• The education establishment as such has grown enormously in recent years and we ought to be looking at the justification for that. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that only a small amount of that development is justified but I am alarmed that we have gone as far as we have and simply accepted that any expenditure on education is good expenditure, that any sum larger than the sum for the previous year is therefore justified. [More…]

• This evening I intend to limit my comments mainly to the tertiary levels, involving universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Universities and colleges of advanced education are the areas to which I would like to give some attention tonight in supporting these Bills. [More…]

• In the debate this afternoon Senator Tehan made some comments relating to the education of overseas students. [More…]

• The matter of the education of students from overseas at Australian universities has been commented on by different people over the years. [More…]

• I suggest that Australian governments would do well to take a serious look at putting some of its resources towards the education of some of these students in their own countries. [More…]

• In certain areas of education- such as pure science or the arts- it hardly matters which country a student is in when he undertakes a tertiary education. [More…]

• There may be some differences in courses offering national literature, national history or something like that, but in the essentially ‘pure’ disciplines it does not matter much which country the student is in, but it does matter if he is studying a subject like agriculture, veterinary science or even education. [More…]

• They go back and they make a very valuable contribution at that level but they make little ongoing contribution to education in that area in their own country. [More…]

• I would like to give a few of my viewpoints in relation to universities and colleges of advanced education in the Australian context as they apply to the future of our country and to the education of our students today. [More…]

• It seems to me, as somebody who had been involved with education certainly for all my working life and obviously before that for all my life apart from my pre-school life, that tertiary institutions in Australia have had a certain number of difficulties imposed on them by the community. [More…]

• Before the colleges of advanced education were accepted as an important concept in education it was very common for an employer group to say, in relation to a particular industry: ‘We need specialists trained in a particular area and therefore the universities ought to provide such courses’. [More…]

• We ought to rationalise so far as we can just what we expect from a university and what we expect from a college of advanced education. [More…]

• We have made big progress in recent years in relation to colleges of advanced education, in what we ask from them and what we expect from them, but what we have not necessarily clarified is our thinking on what we should be expecting from each of these fields of tertiary education. [More…]

• Nevertheless, we ought to be looking fairly carefully at other areas of university education and what we expect from them. [More…]

• It will mean a fair shift of resources if we are to shift community thinking and thereby the sons of things that influence young people to decide whether they go into universities or into colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I am afraid that we have built up a rigid educational ‘establishment’ in this country. [More…]

• The working of the Australian Universities Commission has been excellent and has contributed a lot to the development of tertiary education. [More…]

• We ought not to be afraid to involve ourselves in the debate on education against the so-called experts. [More…]

• Mr President, I have a general reluctance, you may even like to call it a prejudice, but I hope it is not, to put the matter of advice on education exclusively into the hands of educationists. [More…]

• If you ask an educationist what education in Australia needs, I think that you have about a 90 per cent chance that the educationist or the group of educationists will set up a committee and will say: ‘What you need is more educationists, that is, more people like us’. [More…]

• Other valuable advice has been given with it, but there has been a reluctance with the growth of this ‘sacred cow’ notion of education for anybody to get up and challenge its experts regardless of whether the experts are involved in education administration, in educational psychology, or are headmasters, teachers or whatever. [More…]

• There has been this reluctance because there has been a general acceptance that education is a good thing, and because there has been a general acceptance that education potentially can be an enormously important social determining factor in the future, many of us have been overwhelmed by all those concepts and have felt that education obviously is a good thing generally. [More…]

• However, we need to examine first the attitudes of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• That will be a difficult debate to start, but I would like to think that what is said in the Parliament may cause ripples or have some effect on that outside education establishment, so that educationists might feel obliged to react, not in a knee-jerk way but in a reasoned way which will contribute something to the overall debate. [More…]

• I am well aware that there are many people within that education establishment who know the faults and who are not happy about them but who individually cannot take the lead. [More…]

• When talking about universities and colleges of advanced education, we have to look at student priorities; by that I mean undergraduate versus post-graduate priorities. [More…]

• In the time available to me it has been possible to touch on only a couple of points relating to tertiary education; but I suggest that they are the sorts of questions that have to be asked. [More…]

• I do not wish to denigrate other senators; but that has not been the tone of education debate so far. [More…]

• The Parliament may decide that that is not the tone of education debate that it wants; but I suggest very strongly that this Parliament is abrogating its responsibilities to the citizens of this country, the people who provide the wherewithal, if it is not prepared at least to think about asking these sorts of questions. [More…]

• It is rather fortunate, as far as I am concerned, that the Senate is debating cognately a number of Bills dealing with education as I wish to address myself particularly to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill in that group of Bills. [More…]

• Certainly technical and further education is a particular interest of the Northern Territory, because we have so little of it. [More…]

• The situation in the Northern Territory in this respect is of specific concern, so I will address myself to the Bill dealing with technical and further education. [More…]

• The background to the situation in the Northern Territory at present is that prior to 1972, as honourable senators will know, we had 2 systems of education operating within the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The technical and further education component for the Europeans, if I can use that word, was handled by South Australia, funded by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• This was mainly at the Darwin Adult Education Centre, which obviously was centred in Darwin. [More…]

• At this stage, I wish to pay a tribute to the then principal of the Darwin Adult Education Centre, Mr Harold Garner, an educator and innovator of the first order, whose contribution to education in the Northern Territory has not been adequately recognised. [More…]

• Mr Garner was responsible for developing technical and further education in the Northern Territory, that is, in the Darwin area. [More…]

• Yet, he was able with the facilities at his disposal to introduce excellent technical and further education on a limited basis. [More…]

• At that stage, the Darwin Adult Education Centre provided tertiary tutorials. [More…]

• The Adult Education Centre provided apprenticeship training and trade training and, that very important aspect for an area as isolated as Darwin is, the recreation and creative or leisure time activities. [More…]

• A good many of the accountants at present operating in the Northern Territory would have been trained at the Adult Education Centre. [More…]

• Not only this, but also he was not able even with the best of intentions to give the sort of education that was needed. [More…]

• That was operated by the Aboriginal Education Branch. [More…]

• That was known simply as Adult Education. [More…]

• It comes well within the definition of technical and further education. [More…]

• Various courses were offered to the people out on the missions and settlements including general education, literacy courses and leisure activities. [More…]

• Obviously the teachers were limited in what they could do in the way of adult education. [More…]

• To conduct an institution for the provision of Darwin and other such parts of the Northern Territory as the College considers necessary or desirable of education and training of such kinds as the Council with the approval of the Minister determines or as the Minister requires; [More…]

• To make assessments from time to time of the kinds, fields and levels of education and training that in its opinion should be provided by the College to meet the educational needs of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• So, the College was set up and virtually took over the duties of the Adult Education Centre, and expanded them. [More…]

• The College had leisure and creative activities, the same course as the old Adult Education Centre provided. [More…]

• The Department of Education expanded its Aboriginal education centre. [More…]

• The Department appointed Aboriginal adult educators who were Europeans but who worked in the Aboriginal education field. [More…]

• -The community identified the need and the Education Department met the need. [More…]

• I think the question relates to the important involvement of the community in any decision-making in education. [More…]

• The Department of Labor set up a committee to investigate vocational training and technical education, not technical and further education but within the field. [More…]

• On the committee was an assistant secretary from the Department of Labor, Miss Stephen, for whom the committee was named, a representative from the Department of Education and 2 representatives from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• A council was established to say exactly what sort of technical and further education was needed in the Territory, and the Darwin Community College was the result. [More…]

• As I indicated earlier the Education Department has worked very well in the area of general education, literacy, social education and some supporting work for the trades that are being learnt. [More…]

• There is only a part of the program and not technical education in its narrow sense. [More…]

• Dr Anderson of the Educational Research Unit of the Australian National University has been commissioned by the Darwin Community College to investigate the needs of postcompulsory education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Those honourable senators who know the work of these 2 people, who are Canberra residents, will know that they have a very solid background in Aboriginal education. [More…]

• My colleague, Senator Button, had some interesting things to say about the philosophy of education. [More…]

• Whatever one’s philosophy of education happens to be, surely any system must meet the needs of the student and, through him, the needs of the community. [More…]

• That is why the Advisory Council on Education in the Northern Territory is so important. [More…]

• More and more students are going on to various forms of higher education. [More…]

• I do not want to move into Senator Button’s field of philosophy, but surely education is the changing of attitude. [More…]

• I see three alternatives at which we might look, namely, a council of community colleges, a board of technical and further education or a technical and further education branch of the Department. [More…]

• A board of technical and further education has been suggested. [More…]

• Basically, it would be a co-ordinating or advisory body which would promote, encourage, develop and maintain but it would not run technical and further education. [More…]

• The body I suggest is a technical and further education branch of the Education Department. [More…]

• If the Minister looks at the Education Department he will see that it is geared to setting up immediately a technical and further education branch within the Territory. [More…]

• That is why I went to some pains to explain the work being done by the Aboriginal Adult Education Section. [More…]

• I have tried to show that there are technical and further education needs in the Northern Territory, particularly in the remote areas. [More…]

• I make a plea to the Minister, as other honourable senators in the chamber have done today, to make technical and further education one of his priorities. [More…]

• In the longer term he could set up some sort of machinery to give that equality of education which is the aim of the present Government. [More…]

• in reply- The debate in the Senate and in the other place has related to 5 funding Bills, namely, the States Grants (Universities) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Amendment Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill. [More…]

• The Bills which provide funds for education in the post secondary and tertiary institutions have given an opportunity which has been availed of by honourable senators to approach education in the best of ways; that is, in a by-partisan way and in depth. [More…]

• I hope that in other education Bills which come forward we can have debates with similar depth and penetration. [More…]

• I think it is imperative for the future- not just because we are in a period of major economising- that we look towards the qualitative approach towards education rather than the quantitive. [More…]

• We should ask whether they are getting fulfilment in the widest sense because the aim of education is surely human fulfilment. [More…]

• We should be testing this, and certainly in looking at it we should be testing whether the delivery of education, in whatever college or institution, is capable of adapting itself to a future which has been identified as one of rapidly changing technology and one with which the disciplines in the present universities and colleges may not be geared to cope. [More…]

• We must always remember that education does not exist for any purpose other than the individual fulfilment of the student in a total, whole-of-life fashion. [More…]

• One of the things we must keep in mind is that the tendency to believe that a lower lecturer-student ratio will necessarily create better education has no foundation in any research evidence in the whole of the world. [More…]

• -I note that Senator Robertson, who has practised in education, acknowledges that. [More…]

• There is no substitute in the world for the 3 main ingredients of education. [More…]

• The addition of physical resources does not necessarily add to education, although one would want to help in every way. [More…]

• I am advised that the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education have considered the national need for additional optometrists. [More…]

• I find it one of my major challenges to work out techniques and ways in which postsecondary and tertiary education can move in their specialised and vital channels against a Parkinsonian desire to create empires, and not simply proliferate various faculties or disciplines or build great institutions but keep quality and preserve their distinctive characteristics. [More…]

• There were moves under the previous Administration and there are moves currently to rationalise this situation and to see whether some merging can occur, as has occurred in Tasmania between universities and colleges of advanced education, in Ballarat between colleges, and in Geelong between 2 colleges in the formation of Deakin University. [More…]

• To me, it is utterly important that we should measure the institutions not by the numbers they have but by the quality of delivery of education that they can produce to the students. [More…]

• A number of honourable senators referred to technical education and the fact that over the years it tended to suffer neglect in comparison with other education. [More…]

• I hope that this Parliament and this Government will move steadily to upgrade the amount of national resources that goes into technical and further education so that this vital part of our education can take its place fully alongside other types of education. [More…]

• I acknowledge the fact that to undertake technical education or to be trained in a trade is in no way inferior to being trained in a discipline or a profession. [More…]

• A number of honourable senators have identified the fact that originally the idea was that students from abroad should come to Australia, receive an education and then go home and give the benefit of that education to their own countries. [More…]

• It has been indicated in this debate, and it is true, that a growing number of private Asian students now come to Australia to get their education and then seek and obtain citizenship status in Australia. [More…]

• He pointed out, quite rightly, the immense problems which the Northern Territory presents for us, particularly in regard to Aboriginal education, but also in regard to other education. [More…]

• I take the opportunity to rise on the first reading of this Bill to speak briefly on matters that were raised in this chamber as a result of questions that were asked of the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, some days ago. [More…]

• Then a series of licences were issued to educational institutions. [More…]

• The first institution was the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education at Toowoomba, the second the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education in Victoria, the third the Mitchell College of Advanced Education in New South Wales, the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education in New South Wales, the University of Queensland Union in Brisbane, the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education in Hobart and Launceston, the University of Western Australia, the Western Australian Institute of Technology, the Australian National University, the University of New England, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the University of Newcastle. [More…]

• -The Minister for Education will be aware that the Commonwealth Teachers Federation held a stopwork meeting in Darwin yesterday to protest about the shortage of single teacher accommodation in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Will the Minister advise the Senate what action is planned to overcome the shortage of accommodation which threatens the quality of education available to the children of the Northern Territory? [More…]

• It is imperative that we deliver the best educational services possible. [More…]

• 1 hope that we can achieve a solution to the accommodation problems by co-operation with the teachers involved and that they will not find it necessary to resort to stoppages or a disruption of education in order to underline something that they discussed with me a week or so ago and in respect of which I have given an indication of my good intent to carry out investigations and to help wherever possible. [More…]

• This traditional structure has also been broken down by economic growth, higher education, emphasis on individuality and many other factors. [More…]

• adult education opportunities covering the broad spectrum of Japan and its culture. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to deepen or strengthen the mutual cultural comprehension in the 2 countries through the process of reciprocal education. [More…]

• The Committee also looked at the problem of education. [More…]

• In Singapore now there is mandatory free education for 7 years but this does not exist in Indonesia. [More…]

• Great problems will be created for families who may never see any cash as such and who are accustomed to dealing only in goods if they suddenly find that they have to provide 100 rupiahs a week to ensure that their children receive some form of basic education. [More…]

• I think it is important not only from the Australian point of view but also from an Indonesian point of view, that the Government take stock of the situation and realise that Indonesia has to develop its own country to a large extent and particularly in the area of education. [More…]

• Today Australia is giving assistance in the area of infrastructural development and education. [More…]

• Australia is now involved in some 30 development assistance programs covering telecommunications, roads, railways, port rehabilitation, irrigation schemes, plant quarantine, animal husbandry, water supplies, public health, education and so forth. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of claims by the New South Wales Teachers Federation that the New South Wales Government is deliberately increasing the size of classes in order to reduce the number of teachers employed in New South Wales schools? [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s constant claim that Federal Government education grants to the States are essentially unchanged, why is the New South Wales Government now claiming that it has insufficient funds to maintain education facilities at the same level as 1975? [More…]

• Will the Minister ascertain the true facts from the New South Wales Premier with the purpose of ensuring that Federal moneys being paid to that State for education are, in fact, being used for education, and advise the Senate accordingly? [More…]

• As anyone who had been a Minister in a government must know, the moneys given for education must be spent not only on education but also in the categories and programs as delineated under the specific purpose grants. [More…]

• I am not aware that only the New South Wales Government is making claims with regard to alleged shortages of Federal funds for education. [More…]

• I am not aware that the State Government has failed to spend the money provided, nor am I aware that New South Wales has made the claim that it is not receiving the money allocated in the 1976 education program. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware that the Parents and Citizens Association of New South Wales, perhaps prompted by the Teachers Federation, plans a protest operation in Canberra for Thursday 29 April. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the source of concern appears to lie around a 3-year expenditure program in education? [More…]

• Could the concern stem from the Whitlam Government’s abrogation of its commitments to education in the current triennium? [More…]

• It is non-partisan, non-political work and their devotion to the true objective in education, which is the welfare of the student, is well known. [More…]

• I share with it the concern at the splurge and squeeze on education in recent times as a result of the former Government ‘s policies. [More…]

• I share with both bodies grave concern at the necessity this year and the year immediately ahead of major economies not only in education but also in all great social programs in Australia. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that a fear has arisen in certain quarters of the University of Tasmania that if the Karmel report on tertiary education in Tasmania is not implemented the Australian Universities Commission funding to our State will suffer severe cuts? [More…]

• The matter of the Karmel Committee report relating to post-secondary education in Tasmania is primarily one on which a decision must be made by the Premier of Tasmania, in whose constitutional responsibility the decision reposes. [More…]

• If, indeed, the Premier decides, as it seems he will decide, to proceed then the Commonwealth Government will assist with funding, as it must do anyhow, in a sensible rationalisation which will be, according to our goal, in order to strengthen 2 great institutions in Tasmania- the Hobart University on the one hand and the Launceston College of Advanced Education on the other hand. [More…]

• Will the Minister urge his colleague to refer this proposed inquiry to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts which is already conducting an inquiry of this nature? [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education give information on the proposed Devonport technical college? [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to promote mutual understanding, cultural co-operation and reciprocal education between Australia and Japan and, in so doing, to deepen the long standing close economic links which exist between our 2 countries. [More…]

• There are 16 universities and institutes of advanced education teaching it. [More…]

• One has only to look at some of the major areas- the Australian Assistance Plan, local government, the States Grants Commission and education- to see that in those 3 years the Australian Labor Party Government placed its emphasis upon the area of need. [More…]

• The problems associated with rural proverty are, social problems which are associated usually with widowhood, desertion, single pregnant girls, geriatrics and also long-term unemployment, generally poor employment opportunities, poor education opportunities and so on. [More…]

• The Honourable Senator may wish to consult the report to Parliament by the Minister for Education on Migrant Education Programme for the Financial Year 1974-75 which was tabled on 19 February 1976. [More…]

• He also rationalised that the 4-fold increase in education expenditure under Labor had made a dramatic improvement in the education facilities at many country schools, his own included. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Did the previous Minister for Education say on the television program ‘Federal File’, on Sunday, 31 August 1975, ‘I am assured in certain high schools . [More…]

• For general observations on the problem of literacy, I would again refer the honourable senator to ‘Education News’ (Volume 1 5, Nos 2 and 3, 1975), as did the former Minister in his reply of 29 October 1 975 to Senate Question No. [More…]

• The Australian Council for Educational Research is currently undertaking a national survey of the levels of literacy and numeracy among the 10 and 14 year old age groups. [More…]

• The survey was commissioned in 1975 by the Education Research and Development Committee in response to a request from the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties; this Committee of course lapsed when Parliament was prorogued in November 1975. [More…]

• The Education Research and Development Committee is currently supporting a number of research projects in this area. [More…]

• 7, presented with the 1975-76 Budget, sets out information on expenditure in each State on the programs of the education Commissions, grants made to States for child migrant education and recurrent expenditure under the Education Research Act 1 970. [More…]

• They do not, however, include expenditure which is provided under a central appropriation such as Student Assistance Programs or Migrant Education Services. [More…]

• The relevance of European education to Aboriginals who wish to live in the culturally satisfying environment of their own traditional country is questioned by some tribal elders. [More…]

• A program of adult education has also begun which has an emphasis on vocational training as well as basic skills such as literacy. [More…]

• Planning is being undertaken to increase the vocational content of courses for Aboriginal children to make the education they receive as relevant to their likely future lives as possible. [More…]

• In addition my Department has taken significant steps towards providing educational facilities for Aborigines who have moved to their tribal lands from established settlements. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Again I refer to the report of the Karmel Committee on postsecondary education in Tasmania. [More…]

• If the report is implemented, will the Government give an assurance that funds will be made available to the Government of Tasmania to continue the employment of those members of the staff of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education who will be affected as the result of the adoption of the Committee ‘s recommendations? [More…]

• I am now able to advise that the Premier of Tasmania has announced the appointment of Mr Henry Cosgrove, Q.C., as Chairman of a committee which will develop detailed proposals for changes in the existing patterns of tertiary education in Tasmania. [More…]

• Naturally the Committee will wish to discuss with the Commonwealth Education Commissions the implications, particularly the financial implications, of its proposals. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• How many (a) full-time, (b) part-time and (c) external students have enrolled for courses at each University and College of Advanced Education in Australia this year. [More…]

• My question also is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Must a student violate his or her conscience in order to receive an education? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education a question arising from his last answer. [More…]

• I address to the Minister for Education a question which refers to a statement in the Sun-Herald of 4 April 1-976 in which it is suggested that the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission, the Commission for Technical and Further Education and the Commission for Advanced Education may be abolished. [More…]

• I point out that the former Government was in the process of bringing about an amalgamation of the 2 tertiary commissions, namely the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• In due course the Senate and the Parliament will have before it what proposals, if any, are necessary in our view for the general reform and consolidation of post secondary and tertiary education. [More…]

• Such governments established the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that in the whole system of post secondary education the question of what we do with the Australian Commission on Technical and Further Education and how we rationalise education has exercised the minds of previous governments and, at the moment, it is exercising the mind of my Government. [More…]

• Petitions relating to education needs in Australia and taxation relief for education expenses which were given to the Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on 30 April and 18 August 1971 have, to a large extent, been overtaken by events such as the setting up of the Schools Commission, recommendations in the [More…]

• Karmel report, free tertiary education and allowances available under the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• The petitions relating to the state of the arts in Australia which were referred to the Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on 1 7 and 18 August 197 1 will be retained as the Committee may wish to examine the matters raised in them after it has completed its inquiry into the Australia Council. [More…]

• Prior to the double dissolution of the Parliament on 1 1 November 1975, the former Committee on Education, Science and the Arts had begun preliminary inquiries into a reference on measures necessary to ensure that the Australian Council for the Arts- now known as the Australia Counciland its boards, carry out their task of overall promotion of the arts in Australia. [More…]

• First, as past Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, I thank members of the Committee for the letter which they sent me acknowledging my services to the former Committee. [More…]

• Certain information that has been circulating makes it even more important that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts should give priority to its reference on the Australia Council. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) Which programs are the Technical and Further Education Commission conducting or supporting with respect to disadvantaged persons wishing to participate in technical and further education with particular reference to Aborigines, the physically handicapped and those with problems relating to literacy. [More…]

• 1 ) Five projects are being supported through the Technical and Further Education Commission research grants in the areas in question- one on the needs of Aborigines for technical and further education; three related to literacy problems of adults; and one in connection with the employment of disabled people who have qualified through technical and further education. [More…]

• In addition to research grants, funds are available to the States under the current Commonwealth grants program for technical and further education which may be applied to programs designed to improve community access to technical and further education particularly by disadvantaged groups. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Commission is not directly responsible for the implementation of these programs which are administered by the State technical and further education authorities. [More…]

• In the Australian Capital Territory, the Technical and Further Education Commission is supporting a research project at the Canberra Technical College, designed to assess the efficiency of a remedial intervention teaching program in numeracy and literacy at Canberra Technical College, using as an experimental group all apprentices in the School of Building. [More…]

• Other Technical and Further Education Commission programs for which funds are available to the States through Commonwealth legislation do not apply to the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Technical and Further Education Authority has considered the need to make adequate provisions for access to further education by persons who are semi and fully illiterate, and who are mildly intellectually and/or physically handicapped. [More…]

• In March this year the Interim Authority commissioned its Committee on the Coordination of Further Education to mount a research program into the needs for further education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The Department and the Interim Australian Capital Territory Technical and Further Education Authority regard this project as one which requires a high priority and it has been included in the draft 1976-77 Capital Works proposals. [More…]

• asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Were they originally offered jobs by the New South Wales Department of Education and has the Department reneged on its undertaking. [More…]

• Has the New South Wales Department of Education refused to take responsibility for the matter with the excuse, reported in the February edition of the New South Wales Teachers’ Federation Journal, Education, that they are the Commonwealth’s responsibility and the Commonwealth has been totally irresponsible: if so, what action is the Minister taking to assist these four young people to obtain teaching positions. [More…]

• As I indicated in my reply to a Question without Notice by Senator Bonner on 26 February (Hansard page 255) these teachers were not offered employment by the New South Wales Education Department. [More…]

• They were not bonded to the Education Department which had no contractual responsibility to them. [More…]

• Furthermore, the students did not lodge applications for employment with the Education Department until well past the closing date. [More…]

• The New South Wales Education Department had to take cognizance of the employment situation for teachers at the time the students lodged their applications for employment. [More…]

• With study grant assistance, Mr Thorne is completing his diploma at Armidale this year, and Mr Lester has entered a Bachelor of Education degree course at Macquarie University. [More…]

• Misses Mumbler and Carriage have entered Bachelor of Education courses at Canberra College of Advanced Education occupying student places funded by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• In Opposition we supported the passage of the legislation which established the School as an independent statutory authority, and in Government we recognise the place of the School as a specialized tertiary training institution serving the rapidly developing and changing film and television industries, and education needs in these areas. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• -Does the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs consider it desirable in the national interest for the States to have the sole responsibility of raising revenue for education and hospitalisation? [More…]

• The present Federal Government does not consider it at all desirable that the States should have the sole responsibility for raising the finances for education and hospitalisation. [More…]

• Indeed, it is clearly stated in its health and education policies that the Federal Government will maintain its national concern for these great issues. [More…]

• In view of the tremendous national importance of education, the widespread interest in and concern throughout Australia for the retention of the Australian Schools Commission, the Children’s Commission and so on, and the maintenance of Karmel-type funding at present value, and in view of the fact that representatives from the total spectrum of education will be visiting this Parliament on Thursday next to see members and to state the case to the widest possible audience, will the Minister for Education take steps to have the sittings adjourned for, say, 2 hours to allow the principal spokesmen and spokeswomen to put their views to members in an orderly, dignified and organised way and to receive assurances of the Government’s intentions concerning future federal funding of education? [More…]

• I confirm that their goal, the maintenance of the highest possible standards of education throughout Australia, is the goal of the present Federal Government. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s acknowledgment earlier today that he is aware of the grave concern being expressed by many responsible people in the education field at the continued reports that the Government intends to curtail expenditure on all facets of education, can the Minister inform the Senate when he intends to table the recommendations of the Schools Commission and the Technical and Further Education Commission on federal funding for the next 3 years and whether the Government intends acting upon those recommendations? [More…]

• I did not say that I reflected the grave concern of people at the threat of the Government’s cutting of education expenditure. [More…]

• I said that I shared their concern that education in Australia should be of the highest standard possible. [More…]

• The fact that ought to be stressed is that the real cut in expenditure commenced last year when the then Labor Government rejected the triennial reports of the commissions, forced guidelines and brought in its own education ideas which contained cuts of a real value of 6 per cent. [More…]

• The questioner himself belonged to a government which cut back education within the last 12 months. [More…]

• We recognise that we must say to them: ‘Within the difficulties created by the previous Government it will be necessary to set these parameters of education expenditure and within those parameters will you give us your general recommendations and priorities, as you are perfectly free to do’. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware that the Tasmanian Minister for Education, Mr Batt, last Friday claimed that the future of the maritime college to be situated at Launceston is now in doubt? [More…]

• -I am aware that the Labor State Minister for Education, Mr Batt, made that totally untrue statement. [More…]

• Lest anyone should be looking for the tardy people, I should point out that the very nature of what the Newnham College of Advanced Education is to be in Launceston, and therefore its qualifications and capacity to function alongside the Maritime College, rests not with the Federal Government but with Mr Batt, the Labor Minister for Education in Tasmania, and his Government. [More…]

• We are waiting eagerly at this moment upon a committee of inquiry which Mr Cosgrove, Q.C., I think, is conducting in Tasmania so that we will know what is the intention of the State Labor Government regarding its College of Advanced Education in Launceston. [More…]

• In connection with the Department of Education, evidence was taken on a number of unsatisfactory matters relating to the tertiary allowance scheme. [More…]

• Again in connection with the Department of Education, the Committee took evidence relating to errors in the compilation of salary records and the assessment of salary entitlements. [More…]

• The Committee has criticised the Department for the incidence in excess of 50 per cent of error detected in the calculation of salary entitlements in the Northern Territory and for its failure to take effective action to stop duplicate payments being made to an education adviser overseas. [More…]

• I recently foreshadowed the introduction of this Bill when introducing Bills relating to other sectors of education. [More…]

• The background to this Bill and aspects of it are common to the Bills introduced earlier for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• It is our aim to ensure, by consultation and co-operation with the States and other education authorities, that Commonwealth funds are made available in such a way as to reflect local priorities. [More…]

• To this end, the Schools Commission, in preparing its report to the Government for the proposed triennium 1977-79, has been consulting with the States and other authorities in order to take full account of the priorities and needs of the various education agencies. [More…]

• As with the other education Bills I have already introduced, provision is made in this Bill for grants in relation to building and equipment projects to be met, if necessary, from the Loan Fund. [More…]

• There are to be 6 programs in 1976 - general recurrent grants, disadvantaged schools, special education, services and development, special projects and capital grants. [More…]

• It is the policy of this Government to establish as much flexibility and initiative as possible for systems and school in using education grants. [More…]

• Decentralisation of decision making is desirable to permit maximum responsiveness and local involvement in education. [More…]

• There is a recognised need to inform this Parliament and the Australian people how moneys granted for education purposes are spent. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that when we came into Government the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said that we would maintain essential programs in health, education, welfare and matters of this kind. [More…]

• We all know that although the moneys for education were increased the number of schools and classrooms, and effectively the amount of advantage to be gained by the people of Australia from the amount of Government money, people’s money, spent tended to diminish. [More…]

• The development of this policy relating to training and education on the subject of restricted articles has been discussed on several occasions between Captain Salfass and Officers of the Department. [More…]

• They have said that it was impossible to provide the finance to develop the services which they were required to create in their States in the enormously expensive areas of education, health, public transport, roads and so on. [More…]

• In a country such as Australia with a history of broken railway gauges, incompatible education systems, erosion of uniform company legislation, disagreement about trade practices legislation, failure to achieve uniform manufacturing and building standards, and arguments about the marketing of minerals and other primary products, it is surprising that we still give credence to the view that interstate co-operation can resolve national economic policy issues. [More…]

• It does not like the idea of being responsible for national programs of education, development, health, roads and a whole range of other things which should be the responsibility of a Federal government, not matters which it hands over to the States, saying to them, as the Liberal Party document says: ‘If you want these things, then you pay for them ‘. [More…]

• I will read from that document, because Senator Wriedt said that it proves that the Government will abdicate its responsibilities on education, health and social welfare and that it will not take the responsibility any more; it will give it to the States. [More…]

• if the great issues of national and local concern such as education, health, social welfare, housing and urban development are to receive maximum intelligent attention . [More…]

• Our concern for education, our concern for social welfare, our concern for health will be as strong as or stronger than ever, but will not bring about the duplication, the waste, the extravagance, the standover tactics of the Labor Party; we will not ourselves tie up the States and local government in bureaucratic trivia; we will work out a co-partnership which will be more efficient, more economic, which will save the taxpayer’s money, which will define the responsibilities of Federal, State and local government, which will show the taxpayers where their money is going and which, because of the responsibility of government, will bring about more efficiency and less taxation.’ [More…]

• In his windy Billy Graham style the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has made it clear that he proposes to repeat the miracle of the loaves and fishes. [More…]

• I believe that under the Fraser Government’s federalism policy the States will now be obliged to assume responsibility for the administration of many programs in the areas of health, education, welfare, transport and urban and regional development, without being provided with the financial capacity to fund these programs. [More…]

• In the field of education the new federalism policy has already forced the cancellation of the Australian Government’s innovations programs in schools. [More…]

• Unless Federal assistance is provided the New South Wales education system will deteriorate further and all the gains made under the previous Federal Labor Government could be lost. [More…]

• States raise moneys for specific reasons including further development in education or communication or whatever the case may be, or, as I said before, to reduce the damaging impost of indirect taxation. [More…]

• I remind the Senate and the people who may be listening to the broadcast of these proceedings that in the State of New South Wales- that is the matter which the Labor Party has debated in this chamber today- in 1 1 years of Liberal-Country Party Government, there have been great advances in the areas of education, health and hospital facilities, decentralisation and communications. [More…]

• The present Federal Government does not consider it at all desirable that the States should have the sole responsibility for raising the finances for education and hospitalisation. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education tell us whether the Government’s new federalism policies envisage a power resting with State governments to impose their own income tax? [More…]

• Dr Wilson’s role was to advise the College on needs in the area of continuing medical education, which would include self assessment by physicians. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• -Is it the intention of the Minister for Education to maintain the system of cost supplementation in order that the value of educational grants administered by the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, the Technical and Further Education Commission and the Schools Commission will be held at the same level as that determined by the previous Government? [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education received a circular issued by the Primary Teachers Association of South Australia? [More…]

• Is he aware that the Association states that ‘although the Fraser Government has not committed itself to cutting educational expenditure in the next financial year it is logical in the light of recent Government pronouncements concerning general curtailment of expenditure to assume that this may be the case’? [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether, under the new federalism policy which was recently acclaimed by the States, there is a lump sum guaranteed for education? [More…]

• I share, as does my Government and all of its members, the concern and desire expressed by teachers and parents of this country to maintain and expand the optimum education system. [More…]

• Consistent with that, it will maintain for education the highest possible priority with the aim of maintaining and raising standards. [More…]

• If we look at it, the simple situation at the moment is that last year the then Government- the Labor Government- made what amounted to a 6 per cent cut in real values to education in Australia. [More…]

• So the cutting of education was set by the previous Government. [More…]

• It will be our aim, consistent with returning Australia to economic stability, to full employment and to abated inflation, to maintain education to the highest possible standards. [More…]

• Surprisingly enough, my question also is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Does the Government intend to adhere to the concept of defining particular schools as disadvantaged and positively providing the means for the enrichment of education in disadvantaged areas? [More…]

• I applaud the new found interest in education of the Australian Labor Party today. [More…]

• It will be, as always, the intention of the Government to look towards education policies in the federal sphere and in the States aiming to help the disadvantaged. [More…]

• It has been my pleasure since I became the Minister for Education to have a number of formal and informal consultations with the Council. [More…]

• Of course, it is fundamental to the duties and responsibilities of any Minister for Education that he will work in day to day contact with the 4 commissions which are there to advise him. [More…]

• That contact will be continued in relation to disadvantaged schools as it will be in relation to every other aspect of education. [More…]

• I simply remind the Senate and the people of Australia that it was a LiberalNational Party government in the past which set up the idea of federal commissions to give advice on education. [More…]

• They were commissions such as the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education confirm that he has not received the updated reports of the 4 education commissions that were due at the end of March? [More…]

• I will give the Minister for Education a rest by directing my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Health. [More…]

• -Would the Minister for Education inform the Senate whether the Government adheres to the objective in the Karmel Report that over a period the resource level of schools should be raised by a defined percentage? [More…]

• In other words, has the Government an objective of raising the quality of education in government and non-government schools? [More…]

• Our belief is that our goal should be to achieve a standard of excellence for education for all- not in any elitist sense- with a full understanding that there must be equality of opportunity; that we must help to raise up the underprivileged as much as we can, but that we ought also to stimulate all education so that whilst there is a great genetic diversity in the intellectual and physical capacities of persons there will be equality of opportunity from the grass roots upwards. [More…]

• By way of introduction to my question, which is directed to Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, I refer to the Minister’s Press release of 4 February where he announced that the innovations program would be cut by $ 1 .6m but that the rest of the program would continue until the end of 1976. [More…]

• The innovations program was the only program of the Schools Commission that permitted a direct measure of local decision making in educationthat is, it permitted parents and teachers to initiate a local program and to have it, after favourable assessment by peers, directly funded by the Federal Government. [More…]

• In view of that fact, what assurance can the Minister give that the innovations program will continue after 1976 and that it will continue with its basic objective unchanged, that is, the objective of stimulating desirable educational change through direct funding of local programs in schools? [More…]

• I was about to say that as to the general principle of stimulating innovations, diversity and experimentation in education our policies are quite specific. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns the provision of education for the handicapped child. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware that in some States the responsibility for the education of the blind, the deaf and the mentally retarded rests with the parents. [More…]

• Will the Minister encourage State governments to assume responsibility for the education of handicapped children within State schools and, on the recommendation of the Schools Commission, make funds available for this purpose? [More…]

• The Government gives very high priority to the education of the physically or mentally handicapped. [More…]

• I will wait with bated breath to see whether the Minister for Education comes to her defence. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of State governments and education authorities to provide teachers for every school for which they are responsible. [More…]

• I preface my question, which just happens to be directed to the Minister for Education, by reminding the Minister that on 5 April 1976 I wrote to him requesting information on 9 specific areas where massive cutbacks had been made in education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• As it is a matter of urgency and as most of the questions concern cutbacks in Aboriginal education, I ask the Minister to inform the Parliament whether it is his policy to withdraw most of the education funds from the Northern Territory only in those areas where the majority of pupils are Aborigines? [More…]

• To suggest that this Government would give a low priority to the education or the general welfare of Aborigines is to fail to understand both our policies and our actions. [More…]

• I and my Government are endeavouring to do the best we can to maintain the real standards of education for Aborigines and others in the Territories. [More…]

• I hope to be able to announce in future weeks some substantial innovations or reforms aimed to give to the Aborigines a greater facility and quality of delivery of education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether it is a fact that ancillary staff in Australian Capital Territory schools will take strike action next Monday. [More…]

• The Government of the day and I as the Minister for Education agreed that our first priority was to maintain the pupil-teacher ratio at the 1 975 level, and I am happy to say that we have done so. [More…]

• Can he say whether the estate provides free housing, free light and power, free medical treatment and free education for 2 children in the family and whether it also provides material to enable those who wish to do so to build their own outrigger canoes which were valued at that time at about SA800? [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware of the lack of any higher education facilities on the Islands? [More…]

• It was the former LiberalNational Country Party Government of which the honourable senator was a member which decided to enter the area of education, I say, for purely opportunist reasons. [More…]

• That is why it acceded to the demands for Commonwealth involvement in education. [More…]

• I support substantially the principle upon which the Australian Labor Party need concept was injected into the area of education. [More…]

• But if we examine the position back in the 1950s, we find that there was no Commonwealth involvement of any substance in education, except within its territories and for very limited moneys made available to the States. [More…]

• In his wisdom Sir Robert Menzies recognised the need for the Commonwealth to spend more on education. [More…]

• Of course, the position substantially is that in the 1972-73 Budget-the last Budget of the conservatives before the change of government- the Australian Government made available $442m for education. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators to compare this amount with the amount of $ 1 ,908m which is the amount which my Party when in government allocated for spending on education in its 1975-76 Budget. [More…]

• That amount represents a 5 -fold increase in funding to the States for education. [More…]

• I find it inconceivable that during a period in which we have a large number of protest groups and different interest groups- whether they be composed of teachers, parents, sociologists or educationalists generally- requiring the maintenance of this sort of allocation for education, members of the Government Parties, such as Senator Baume and to some extent even the Minister for Education, can decry, as Senator Baume did yesterday, the degree to which the previous Government became involved in increasing funding to the States in particular areas such as education. [More…]

• As I said, it increased spending in education 5-fold. [More…]

• I was pointing out that in the area of education, for example, the Whitlam Government contributed 5 times the money that was made available in the last year of the previous LiberalCountry Party Government. [More…]

• At the same time Senator Carrick is out on the hustings, out on the steps of Parliament House, assuring the teachers and parents of this country that there will be no reduction in education expenditure and that the Government will recognise the plight of education, of the remedial teachers and the handicapped children, and extend the many benefits which we have become more aware of as a result of the establishment of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• If more money is to be made available to the States I want somebody from the government benches to tell me how it is that a dollar spent by State governments in the public sector is more inflationary than a dollar spent by the Australian Government in allocating the money in the way that it has to education, welfare and so on. [More…]

• However, to get results extensive education programs coupled with regular farm inspections are required, and these cost money. [More…]

• Minister for Education: Is it a fact that with the availability of Government educational grants the traditional role of parents and citizens associations in Australia is changing? [More…]

• If this is so, what role does the Government now see these associations playing in the education field? [More…]

• What the Government sees is an ever widening role for parents and citizens organisations to play in education. [More…]

• The fact that grants may be made to schools, the fact that money may be directed towards schools or school boards will widen rather than narrow the role of parents and citizens associations, lt is Government policy- and one which I commend- to ensure the fullest possible community participation in education and that means that the parent, the teacher and the community in general should play an increasing part. [More…]

• The real challenge for them now is to confront the great problems in education and, in co-partnership, help to resolve them. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Are tertiary allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme available to Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees now living in Australia as settlers? [More…]

• Arrangements have been made for the education of both Vietnamese and Cambodian students in Australia and they are receiving Government assistance under both the Colombo Plan and a special scheme set up for private students from Vietnam and Cambodia who have been cut off from their sources of funds at home following changes of government in their home countries. [More…]

• Allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme are in general available to Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees and there are academic and means tests applied. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he has been able to reconsider his original decision to suspend country sittings of student assistance review tribunals? [More…]

• Has the Minister been able to give consideration to the request of the Australian Union of Students that it be permitted to represent country students who are disadvantaged at metropolitan sittings of student assistance review tribunals which are hearing appeals against tertiary education allowance scheme decisions? [More…]

• The advances that were possible in Australia in areas such as education, health services and employment opportunities were not for their generation. [More…]

• Rightly or wrongly, I am told that the pill is compulsory for all young girls upon reaching the age of puberty and that there is a system of education- this matter was mentioned by Senator Jessop by way of question the other day- which provides education for only 2 children in each family. [More…]

• I thought that as Australians we were insisting that education for all citizens of this nation be compulsory. [More…]

• I cannot see any reason why a child who is continuing in fulltime education should have more rights than a young person who decides to take an apprenticeship. [More…]

• The Bill provides for expenditure on 8 categories of activity: Building and equipment projects and recurrent expenditure in government schools; building and equipment projects and recurrent expenditure in non-government schools; recurrent expenditure on migrant education; assistance for recurrent expenditure in nongovernment schools, disadvantaged schools and special schools; special education teacher training courses; and development of service activities. [More…]

• During our term of office we established the Schools Commission, the purpose of which was to ensure the proper allocation of Federal moneys to the States for educational purposes. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said: [More…]

• It is imperative that we receive from the Government through the Minister for Education an emphatic confirmation that that principle will not be interfered with in either this financial year or subsequent years. [More…]

• I do not like to use the word but possibly deals could be made between Federal and State governments whereby provision was made for educational expenditure which was not based on need. [More…]

• Mathews spells out some principles which not only are pertinent in the light of the overall federalist proposals of this Government but also as they would affect specifically education and the transfer of responsibility to the States. [More…]

• I suggest that they are a warning to the Government that if it intends to proceed with the course which it has outlined whereby it will transfer authority to the States, not only under its general policies but specifically in relation to the Schools Commission and education payments, then it should recognise the difficulties it will experience and which the State governments will experience. [More…]

• Over the last 3 years we have seen adequate representation on that Commission to ensure that all aspects of educational thought and responsibility have been included in the Commission. [More…]

• On the matter of local priorities I shall read an extract from the speech of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It is the policy of this Government to establish as much flexibility and initiative as possible for systems and schools in using education grants. [More…]

• Decentralisation of decision making is desirable to permit maximum responsiveness and local involvement in education. [More…]

• As I made the point earlier, the basic concern of the Opposition and, I believe, of the great majority of people involved in education in Australia is: What will happen to the needs principle of the Schools Commission? [More…]

• Last Thursday in Canberra we had an education lobby. [More…]

• During the course of the debate in the House of Representatives on this Bill a number of comments were made by Government spokesmen such as: ‘Too much money is being spent on education’, or ‘the salaries being paid are too high’. [More…]

• In relation to evaluation, the report of the Commission sets out the difficulties in evaluating the success of education programs and the steps that it proposes to take to improve methods of evaluation. [More…]

• I do not wish to range over matters though I suppose one could take licence and debate other aspects of education. [More…]

• But I stress how important we in Opposition regard the initiation of a new concept in educational responsibility by a Federal Government. [More…]

• If for any reason at all, if simply for the reason of taking a different course from that adopted by the previous Government, whether it be for philosophical reasons which are inherent in Liberal Party philosophy- no matter what- and if we see the concept of needs destroyed or departed from by this Government we will see the greatest damage done to the educational system in this country that we could possibly imagine. [More…]

• When we were in government we were criticised for allegedly putting too much money into education to ensure that every child in this country- government pupil or nongovernment pupil- received the standard of education that the Commission sought. [More…]

• I rise to support the States Grants (Schools) Bill 1976 and in doing so I stress the importance of education to this nation. [More…]

• Education is now very big business in the economy of the country, the total vote being 10 per cent of the Budget outlay. [More…]

• I think that the importance of education to the nation is underlined by the fact that teachers and parents came here in such large numbers on Thursday last to press their case. [More…]

• I think that education is a topic which is very alive in the minds of the people of Australia today. [More…]

• I think that he was somewhat critical of the statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech that decentralisation of decision-making is desirable to permit maximum responsiveness and local involvement in education. [More…]

• I think it is true to say that in education, as in other fields, it is not always possible in the rarefied atmosphere of Canberra to get to the meat of a situation or to have ears to the ground to know just what the people who are affected in a particular situation are thinking and doing and what their real requirements are. [More…]

• We do pay tribute to the work of the Schools Commission since it was founded as an independent and impartial body with the necessary expertise to advise the government of the day on these very vexed and complex problems which are arising in this very wide field of education. [More…]

• Whilst we acknowledge the dramatic growth of the education budget during the first 3 years which, I think, motivated the previous Government as a matter of economic necessity to abandon the thoughts of a further triennium and to limit the expenditure to the year 1976 only, I think it is fair to say in a debate on a Bill such as this that the triennium system must be reintroduced. [More…]

• When we look at the various fields of educationtertiary, secondary and primary- we realise that it is fairly impossible to try to live from year to year. [More…]

• As I said, I think that we have to aim at restoring the triennium system- to programming for 3 years- so that the government of the day, the people involved in education and the citizens of Australia will know where they are going in this very wide field. [More…]

• Education in Australia today faces a challenge. [More…]

• I and other people in the employment field who over the years have engaged in employing secondary and even tertiary students are somewhat concerned at the fall in the standards of some of the essentials of what I think are properly termed a ‘basic education’. [More…]

• One of the more exciting innovations is that of more parent and teacher involvement in the day-to-day educational process. [More…]

• The tendency is to involve the parent and pupil as much as the teacher in the educational process. [More…]

• This again, I think, is a move in the right direction because of the large expenditure in the education budget. [More…]

• Concern has been expressed by people who are interested and who hold office in organisations in Victoria that although the Schools Commission can make firm recommendations the State Minister for Education might not necessarily carry them out. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Education is aware of that sort of situation and will take the steps necessary to ensure that when the Schools Commission makes a recommendation in respect of particular amounts of money for disadvantaged schools, in-service training or some of the other aspects covered by the legislation the funds do not become buried in the general revenue of the Education Department of a State but are used for the purpose for which the Schools Commission has recommended them. [More…]

• -Senator Button, I was speaking earlier of the importance of the Schools Commission in relation to education, and I think that what I have just said emphasises the point that it is not much good setting up an expert commission to make recommendations if somewhere along the line, particularly in the States, the recommendations are lost sight of. [More…]

• In some sense, new ground is being broken in the implementation of policy and the provision of funds, and there is a challenge to the Department of Education and to the Minister in this new area, to ensure that the moneys are spent on the purposes for which they were allotted. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) pointed out in his second reading speech the various aspects which are covered by this Bill and the fact that it is indeed part of a series of Bills, of which two at least have already been before the Senate, dealing with universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• It is our aim to ensure, by consultation and co-operation with the States and other education authorities, that Commonwealth funds are made available in such a way as to reflect local priorities. [More…]

• The Development News Digest is published by the Education Unit of ACFOA about 4 or 5 times a year. [More…]

• That the Australian National University Library and the Canberra College of Advanced Education have only limited collections, both requiring to be complemented by the Australian National Library collections. [More…]

• 1 ) The present level of Federal Government Education Expenditure is increased to the level recommended by the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The role of the Schools Commission as an independent statutory authority free to make its own assessment of the needs of Australian Education is maintained. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education or the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Is it a fact that the Victorian Education Department plans to bring 100 British teachers to work in State schools from September? [More…]

• I shall inquire of the State Minister of Education whether this is a fact. [More…]

• I am unaware whether any research is being conducted in this area, but I am aware of the difficulties that parents have in dealing with the question of education and the other matters which relate to children suffering from this condition. [More…]

• Education was carried on in Portuguese. [More…]

• Dr O ‘Grady and Dr Hale, both world authorities on bilingual education, visited the Northern Territory to observe the bilingual program in action. [More…]

• In all, we feel that the bilingual program is very successful academically, and, equally important, that it is destined to bring about a productive integration of the education system into the communities it serves. [More…]

• In addition to these reports, a film on the program, Not to Lose You, My Language, was produced for the Department of Education by Film Australia in 1975. [More…]

• This film, intended to make the general public more aware of an important development in Northern Territory education, was considered by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to be sufficiently interesting to be shown as an episode on its A Big Country documentary series. [More…]

• Second progress report on the Bilingual Education Program in Schools in the Northern Territory- Ministerial [More…]

• As has been indicated by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) the bilingual program in the Northern Territory is in its infancy. [More…]

• I suggest we look at what we mean by ‘bilingual education’. [More…]

• In the United States of America when an Act was being prepared on bilingual education the drafters of the Act used this definition: [More…]

• Bilingual education is the use of 2 languages, one of which is English, as mediums of instruction, for the same pupil population, in a well-organised program which encompasses part or all of the curriculum and includes the study of the history and culture associated with the mother tongue. [More…]

• I suggest that the first step will be that the people who are involved in the education program must learn to recognise and to respect the language and culture of the community. [More…]

• They had to have the same standard and type of clothing, housing, education, food, etc., as white Australians and even the same attitudes. [More…]

• It is only fair to say that for secondary schooling and for later studies- either university or other types of tertiary education- books are available only in English for use by the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• But as we know, some communities are not involved in education, although programs are introduced only when they are asked for. [More…]

• Perhaps the community is not as committed to education as the upper middle class of which we hear so much in our own communities. [More…]

• Parents, if asked whether they want education, will say they do but they do not really understand the time factor involved. [More…]

• The Director of Education in the Northern Territory, Dr Eedle, has said that finance is not always the problem, and of course it is not always the problem. [More…]

• The bilingual program is a great step forward and I can say very sincerely is a breakthrough in Aboriginal education. [More…]

• I rise to congratulate the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on his presentation of this, the second progress report on the bilingual education program in schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• To me, and I am sure to many people of my race, this is perhaps one of the most exciting and most important measures ever taken with regard to the education of Aboriginal children. [More…]

• They have great difficulty when they go into schools which are conducted under the white man’s educational system. [More…]

• I think that this issue is very important because it is something that I have advocated within the Aboriginal community for a long time, not only in the field of education but also in respect of many other aspects of Aboriginal advancement. [More…]

• Last night we were concerning ourselves, as I recall, with the provisions of the States Grants (Schools) Bill which provides for the payment of the sum of $431 m to the States for expenditure on education in respect of government and nongovernment schools for the year 1976.I must say at the outset that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech fairly pointed out that what is encompassed by this legislation is largely the product of the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]

• It carries forward for the year 1976 the revolution in attitudes to education at both primary and secondary level implemented by the Labor Government in 1 972. [More…]

• When speaking of the Schools Commission legislation and the 1973 legislation of the Labor Government I said that it had brought about a revolution in education in Australia. [More…]

• If I were to define in more explicit terms what I meant by that expression I would seek to do it in simple terms in these ways: The 1973 legislation of the Labor Government recognised the right of every Australian child to the best possible educational opportunity which a wealthy society such as ours is capable of providing. [More…]

• It meant the end of that system of per capita grants and it meant the beginning of the end of educational ghettoes in a country as wealthy as Australia. [More…]

• It meant in essence an emphasis, if one can put it in sloganeering terms as we now tend to do, on the fulfilment of needs in education rather than a totally different allocation of priorities. [More…]

• As any system devised by man must be imperfect in some ways, so is the education system which stems from the Schools Commission legislation and this legislation which is now before the Senate. [More…]

• Honourable senators have to recall only the visits of parents and teachers and other people to the Houses of Parliament last week to understand the raised level of anticipations and hopes and aspirations of thousands of people throughout this community who are involved in education and who were involved in that visit last week. [More…]

• However, my concern in this debate is to see that we make the judgments according to certain criteria which I believe are fundamental to the importance of education in this country. [More…]

• As honourable senators will know, in this place I have been not uncritical of the educational lobby- I call it that advisedly- in regard to post-secondary school education. [More…]

• I am much less critical of the educational lobby that exists in relation to school children. [More…]

• By the same token, I am not unmindful that in the area of education, as in every other area, governments have to make decisions in the broad, relating to questions of priority in spending. [More…]

• Whether it be in the field of tertiary education, primary or secondary education, defence or elsewhere, governments have to make decisions about priorities. [More…]

• Last night I was provoked into saying certain things by certain passages in the second reading speech Of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• So, the second reading speech, full of very important statements on education, in some degree is qualified by comments such as: [More…]

• As I say, it is regrettable that these sorts of ideological hang-ups exist in a discussion and an important contribution which the Minister himself has made to the question of education in Australia. [More…]

• There is one area which I wish to mention because I think it is very important and which perhaps illustrates in a sense the role of the needs concept in education, the role of the Schools Commission, and the importance which the last Government and this Minister by his answers to questions in this place have attached to the priority which has been given to education in the last few years. [More…]

• I think that during this week or last week most honourable senators will have received a letter from Father Martin, the Executive Director of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria. [More…]

• The Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV) has directed me to request you to consider the following points in any discussions which you might have in connection with the decisions of both Australian and State Governments on education issues in the near future: [More…]

• The benefits of a total operation of this kind extend far beyond the obvious material benefits which additional expenditure on education has provided. [More…]

• He speaks on behalf of an education system in which the percentage of religious persons in the teaching vocation has decreased from 48 per cent to 20 per cent in the last decade; that is to say, in Catholic schools the one time great vocation of teaching has become the profession of teaching in the last decade. [More…]

• That recommendation follows paragraph 19.26 in the Schools Commission report, in which attention is drawn to the difficulties which the Commission and indeed the then Minister for Education encountered as a result of the failure of State governments to account for the money that they were receiving. [More…]

• With all the pious talk we hear in the Senate about good housekeeping- talk which makes Malcolm Fraser appear to be a sort of economic equivalent of Mrs Beaton and her cookery book- surely in the educational context Federal money which is spent on education should be accounted for in a proper way. [More…]

• As I read the clause, it gives a State Minister, after money has been allocated to a State for education and expenditure, the power in the last analysis to determine whether that money shall be spent on capital expenditure or recurrent expenditure. [More…]

• We had a unique situation in 1973 in my State of Victoria when the then Minister for Education, suspecting what might be in the Karmel report but without actually knowing, went around Victoria promising that every school would have a library if the Liberal Government was returned to power in the State election. [More…]

• So I am most anxious that that sort of situation should be clarified and that we are not left in a position in which a State Minister, having received an allocation in respect of education, should be able to indulge in the exercise of determining needs on a different basis from the needs as determined by the Schools Commission. [More…]

• I am saying that it really seems insufficient that Lindsay Thompson, the State Minister for Education in Victoria, should telephone Senator Carrick, the Federal Minister in Canberra, have a chat with him about what he thinks he should do with his money and that be the end of it. [More…]

• What I am saying is that whatever cuts are made, we rank the question of education and educational priorities in Australia very highly. [More…]

• If cuts have to be made in education, we hope that in making those cuts the Government will be diligent to ensure that the cuts are so made as to protect the most needy in Australia; that they protect the most needy children; that they protect the most needy schools; that they protect the most disadvantaged. [More…]

• That can only be done, in the last resort, through the educational system in this country. [More…]

• This is one of a number of Bills that have been introduced by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) during the last few weeks which represent the allocation of many millions of dollars to the States for educational purposes. [More…]

• Senator Button referred to the educational lobby. [More…]

• During recent weeks considerable interest has been shown in education because we are leading up to the Budget session. [More…]

• It occurs to me that there have been some misrepresentations- I do not think deliberate misrepresentations- but most of the representations I have had from various parent bodies and school teacher bodies seem to suggest that the Minister intends reducing money for educational purposes. [More…]

• It was quite obvious last week during question time that many representations had been made to honourable senators about cuts in education expenditure. [More…]

• The Minister, I thought, pointed that out clearly in his answer when he said that the Government will maintain for education the highest possible priority with the aim of maintaining and raising standards. [More…]

• He also went on to point out, quite properly, that the Labor Government made what amounted to a 6 per cent cut in real value to education in Australia. [More…]

• So the cutting of education was set by the previous Government. [More…]

• It will be our aim, consistent with returning Australia to economic stability, to full employment and to abated inflation, to maintain education to the highest possible standards. [More…]

• In other words, has the Government an objective of raising the quality of education in government and nongovernment schools? [More…]

• Our belief is that our goal should be to achieve a standard of excellence for education for all . [More…]

• We do believe that education is a prime means of promoting individual self-development and the pursuit of excellence. [More…]

• We believe the individual can benefit most from the educational process if there is freedom of choice in schooling. [More…]

• We believe encouragement of freedom of selfdevelopment and striving for excellence in education is the foundation for a truly pluralistic society and an enterprising nation. [More…]

• We also believe and recognise very clearly that among other policy areas education is suffering and has suffered because of inflation. [More…]

• This is pointed out in the Liberal and National Country Parties ‘ document on educational policy. [More…]

• The greatest danger to educational development in Australia today is inflation. [More…]

• We are dismayed that the present inflationary trends have resulted in the abandonment of triennial funding in education. [More…]

• Because we propose to abandon the practice of indulging in extravagances in many other areas, it does not mean that we are not placing a high priority on education. [More…]

• That fact has been borne out repeatedly by the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It gives State Education Ministers some flexibility with respect to the measure, and it gives the Commonwealth Minister a capacity to take notice of requests from State Education Ministers. [More…]

• That is why the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has quite correctly included clause 7 in the Bill. [More…]

• Sub-clause (2) of clause 7 provides: the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of the State Education Ministers for 2 or more States, direct that- [More…]

• We believe that it gives the State Education Ministers the capacity to consult with the Commonwealth Education Minister from time to time on matters relating to this Bill. [More…]

• Attention is being given to migrant education. [More…]

• South Australia will receive $ 1.85m for migrant education for both government and non-government schools. [More…]

• Attention also is being given to special education teacher training. [More…]

• In my opinion this demonstrates that the present Governmentadmittedly following the pattern that was laid down by the previous Government, as Senator Button has said- is continuing to place a high priority on educational matters. [More…]

• It is my firm belief that in the forthcoming Budget, consistent with what the Minister for Education has said, education will continue to receive the highest possible priority. [More…]

• I, together with my colleagues on this side of the chamber have demonstrated in the past our interest in this matter, and we will continue to support the Minister in his efforts to achieve the aim of giving the highest possible priority to education. [More…]

• In my introductory remarks I would like to address some attention to the sentiment quite often expressed of late by some government supporters, that money does not buy a good education, that a lot of the money allocated through the Schools Commission programs has been wasted and that we must look to other means to improve the educational standards of our children. [More…]

• I say in rebuttal to this that money can improve the educational opportunities of children. [More…]

• In fact, money provided by way of Schools Commission grants has improved the educational opportunities of many children throughout Australia. [More…]

• Of course, the programs are in their infancy, but nonetheless there is evidence to show that these specific programs which have been formulated by experts consulting with all interested parties have led to the development of better educational opportunities for children and have demonstrated that where more money, particularly more federal money, is available benefits can be achieved. [More…]

• I direct the Senate’s attention for a moment to the sorts of things that go on in schools and to the sorts of things that schools need so that perhaps there will be no repetition of the rather slick remark that money does not buy education. [More…]

• Money can be used to provide for in-service training of teachers so that they are constantly improving their skills and thus constantly improving the quality of the education that they are imparting to the students in their care. [More…]

• But of course, the provision of ancillary staff requires money, and again we are back to my first contention, that if we are to improve the standard of education available to Australian children we must be prepared to spend money on it. [More…]

• Some things have been said in this debate which have led me to believe that some government senators are under a misapprehension as to the relationship of the Schools Commission to State education departments and to the actual functions of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The Schools Commission is not an education department. [More…]

• It was never meant to be, and it does not perform the functions of an education department. [More…]

• It does not interfere with the functions of education departments or attempt to take them over. [More…]

• First of all, it consults with all interested parties in the education process in all States and Territories in Australia. [More…]

• Secondly, it draws up, for the benefit of the Australian Government, recommendations as to what funds should be made available to schools and school systems throughout the country in order to ensure the development of acceptable standards for Australian education. [More…]

• This is not a function which State education departments are geared to do. [More…]

• Clearly, State education departments are fully occupied in administering education resources in their own States. [More…]

• No one State education department or territorial authority is in a position to make this national survey of needs or to provide this comprehensive advice to an Australian government. [More…]

• So, clearly in the first important function of the Schools Commissionthe provision of advice regarding educational standards and needs to Australian governmentsthere is a specific role for the Schools Commission and it is a role which cannot be performed by departments of education. [More…]

• One in which I had a particular interest was its inquiry into the educational situation of girls in Australian school systems. [More…]

• It looked at related areas such as vocational guidance, training schemes and tertiary education. [More…]

• This study group has examined ways of making the very expensive educational facilities provided by Federal and State governments more accessible to the community. [More…]

• Perhaps the most important and most innovative study group set up by the Schools Commission is one concerned with Aboriginal education. [More…]

• It is comprised solely of Aboriginal people who have had experience in this field and who will contribute a great deal to the Australian Government’s knowledge of the needs of Aboriginal people in education. [More…]

• This was the responsibility of the Australian Government to fund education according to needs. [More…]

• Nonetheless, it is still a very important and desirable objective in any funding program for education. [More…]

• It does not involve in any way the Schools Commission encroaching on the traditional role of the State departments of education. [More…]

• The Schools Commission is not a department of education. [More…]

• Another important, in fact, key concept in the Schools Commission philosophy has been the pursuit of equality of opportunity in education. [More…]

• The pursuit of the objective of equality of opportunity in education does necessitate a needs-based approach. [More…]

• I was somewhat confused to hear the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) say in the Senate last Thursday that his Government has the objective of continuing to improve all standards of education and of continuing to provide improved educational resources overall. [More…]

• I am concerned about the pursuit of this objective of equality of opportunity in education. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Education in speaking to this Bill will clarify the position of his Government with regard to the pursuit of the objective of equality of opportunity in education and, specifically, that he will clarify whether his Government intends to pursue a funding strategy of closing gaps between the poor schools and the well provided for schools. [More…]

• Although many questions have been directed to the Minister in this chamber and, I believe, by delegations of parents and teachers, about the Government’s intentions in regard to the Schools Commission, there is still some uncertainty in the minds of those concerned with education as to the kinds of modifications the Government intends to make to the functions and composition of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• I hope the Government does not intend to carry out an earlier suggestion and reconstitute the Schools Commission in such a way to include all State ministers for education. [More…]

• I say this with no intention to detract from the excellent work done by State ministers for education. [More…]

• I think that if we are to pursue this idea of a national strategy for education with recommendations to a national government based on investigation into national needs, we need a body which does not involve itself in the problems of States competing for resources and things of that kind. [More…]

• If we had a Schools Commission composed of State ministers for education, inevitably this kind of competitiveness betweeen the States- perhaps it is a competitiveness which they must have in order to perform their duties to their State constituentswould militate against the idea of an objective and professional assessment of needs. [More…]

• Mr Viner, in the other chamber, spoke of the intention of his Government to depart from the recent trend towards centralism in the administration of funding of education. [More…]

• I have observed a marked and deliberate trend towards community involvement- that is towards decentralisation of decision making in education. [More…]

• This program permits and encourages groups of teachers or parents to formulate education projects which they would like to see in their local schools. [More…]

• Perhaps more characteristic than was anticipated was the development of entirely new and innovatory techniques in education. [More…]

• I do not think many entirely new and innovatory techniques in education emerged through the innovations program. [More…]

• Specifically, this is the provision in the Bill which permits State ministers for education to transfer funds received from the Schools Commission from capital to recurrent expenditure or from recurrent to capital expenditure with no reference to the Schools Commission. [More…]

• That would be a serious interference with the national strategy for education. [More…]

• The resources in recurrent education could remain very low and new schools which were not needed in that part of the State could be built. [More…]

• I should like to clarify something which may have been understood, and that is that the bulk of Australian Government allocations for expenditure in the States on education is not tied in any way. [More…]

• A lot was said last year, when attacks were being made on the Labor Government for the dramatically increased funding of education, about the undesirability of having a Schools Commission telling the States what to do with their education funds. [More…]

• The Schools Commission has never told the States what to do with their funds for education and it was never intended that it should do so. [More…]

• The bulk of educational funds goes to the States for use at their discretion and according to their needs. [More…]

• As we know, that special report of the Schools Commission was endorsed by Senator Guilfoyle when she was spokesperson on education during the 1975 general election campaign. [More…]

• We are aware that she has some background in education. [More…]

• But I suggest to Senator Ryan that she needs to be a little more objective in her approach to debates on education, and that a debate on education should not be devoted to protecting the Schools Commission and the previous roles of this person and that person and different governments. [More…]

• Senator Ryan put to us at great length and very forcefully the proposition that only a federal body is necessarily responsive to needs in certain areas of education. [More…]

• Last year I put to the previous Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, personally and in a debate on educational matters in the Senate that there were particular needs in the area of education of isolated children of which and to which the Government was ignorant and unresponsive. [More…]

• We have heard much about buildings that are too crowded, buildings that are too cold or too hot, too many children per teacher and so on, but what of the student who has no education at all? [More…]

• However, I point out to Senator Ryan, as a particuarly strong defender of the Schools Commission, that in the Commission’s report on the triennium 1976-78 there is a special section reporting the problems of education of isolated children. [More…]

• One good thing that has happened recently in debates in the Senate on these subjects- and indeed it is happening this evening- is that there has been constructive debate on the subject of education. [More…]

• As an ex-educationist, I grew increasingly frustrated during the last Parliament to hear debates on education couched in the Senate solely in terms of money spent. [More…]

• There seems to be an idea in our community that money spent on education is necessarily money well spent. [More…]

• Senator Ryan said that money can improve education and that money has improved education. [More…]

• It is not enough to say that money can improve education. [More…]

• It is not enough to say that money has improved education in Australia in recent years. [More…]

• But many people would dispute that the money has necessarily been well spent; that the needs have necessarily been well identified; that there has been a weighing up against other areas of need of the sorts of problems that I mentioned in relation to isolated children who have no education available to them at all, let alone sufficient education. [More…]

• Frankly, as an ex-educationist, I have been concerned for a long time about the sort of advice that people with responsibility for decisions seek and accept. [More…]

• I think that more people who are involved in different areas of education are now realising that they too ought to be a little more concerned, that they ought to ask more questions about the advice they are given. [More…]

• If the children were to have those sorts of basic educational equipment then the teachers had to buy them out of their own pockets. [More…]

• I am simply saying that in the past the whole attitude towards education has been so simple but essentially so muddled, that the consequence is many examples of wastage where there was need which had not been met. [More…]

• Essentially, what I am trying to draw fairly quickly is a thesis that we have a responsibility to look at who should be advising on education and who should be criticising, and whether they should be the same people. [More…]

• If there are shortcomings in education, that is, if there are particular needs, one would expect that as long as there is available a sufficient body of people who are interested, then that will lead to public criticism. [More…]

• A lot of muddled thinking on the matter of who ought to be responsive and who ought to have responsibility and authority in the whole area of government, but specifically in the area of education, has led us into some error. [More…]

• Some time ago there was a very strong argument abroad- it is now rather more limited because much more money has since been spent on education- which virtually based the whole educational argument on the substance of staffstudent ratios. [More…]

• Certainly as long as we had in our schools a staff-student ratio of 50 : 1 , 40 : 1 or perhaps 30 : 1 those of us who were involved in education knew that there was a problem. [More…]

• But parents however are aware that an enormously increased amount of money, not just in the last 3 years but comparatively over the last 10 or 20 years, has been spent on education. [More…]

• They are aware that a larger amount of the public resource has gone into the area of primary, secondary and tertiary education, and in latter years into pre-school education. [More…]

• Of course, an educational backlash is going on and there is a very real risk that we might throw out the baby with the bath water in this area. [More…]

• As a result of pressures for literacy rates to be improved, we might undertake some retrograde steps in the area of education. [More…]

• We have to be very careful of that reaction, and the only real defence that those of us who care about education are going to have against it is if we have properly thought out, debated and researched the area. [More…]

• I suggest that State education departments do have a role to play, but they are probably not the only ones involved. [More…]

• In the past we have depended very heavily on educationists and other academic students of the subject of education but who have no responsibility in the field, or on researchers. [More…]

• But I suggest that we have bent our education departments and have reacted to them far too much in the past. [More…]

• We must look to society because society must want education for it to exist, if it is going to continue to contribute this massive resource. [More…]

• As I said, until just recently the attitude has been that the assumption was to be that education was a good thing and that therefore money spent on education was money well spent. [More…]

• I believe that the Federal Government has a very definite on-going role, but I do not accept the thesis that State education departments are necessarily more rigid than the Federal Education Department, that State education departments are necessarily less responsive. [More…]

• Senator Ryan said, I think I am quoting her correctly, that no State education department is in a position to provide for research. [More…]

• Various State education departments are carrying on substantial research from which a worthwhile reading of the effect ‘at the coal face’, which is very important, can be fed back to those who are making decisions. [More…]

• The State departments are aware of special needs in particular areas of education and of particualr diversities within their own States. [More…]

• On the particular aspect of the education of isolated children that I mentioned earlier, I say again to Senator Ryan that it is possible that one of the reasons that the Commonwealth Government was not aware of that problem is that it occurs in just a couple of far-flung areas of Australia- north-west Queensland and northern Western Australia in particular. [More…]

• That sort of information, that sort of knowledge, had to be available and it is more readily available to State education departments. [More…]

• I hope that under our federalism policy it will be no longer good enough for a State government to say: ‘We cannot do the things that you the public would like us to do in the area of education because the Federal Government has all the money.’ [More…]

• There are many inbuilt historic factors affecting education. [More…]

• The fact is that there was an inbuilt historic lag in many areas of public concern in Queensland, and some provision had also to be made in areas other than education to ensure that those immediate problems were met in the short term. [More…]

• It may be necessary to have continued involvement by Federal governments in areas of particular educational need, but I would not like to see arise a situation in which a State government would know that it could allow its education system to lag a little behind because ultimately it would be the responsibility of the Federal Government to provide even more money to that State to make up that gap. [More…]

• It is terribly important that State governments justify the priorities they put on education as against other areas when they make their own decisions in relation to their own State Budgets. [More…]

• Because the Government desires to pass the States Grants (Schools) Bill tonight and to get the money flowing, time will not permit me to debate the whole question of education. [More…]

• If the moneys payable to non-government schools fall $250,000 short, that lowers the general standard of education in the State of Tasmania. [More…]

• Additionally, I have asked the education and welfare group in the Parliamentary Library to prepare for me some material which would explain the operation of the Schools Commission, the SRR index and its inter-relationship with the level of assistance provided by State governments. [More…]

• I am aware that the Association of Independent Schools of Tasmania has written to the Commonwealth Minister for Education about this problem. [More…]

• I am most concerned that this Bill does not provide to Tasmania its fair share of expenditure for education. [More…]

• I am concerned about this aspect not only for the needs of education within Tasmania but also for the workers of that State, many of whom would have been employed in building and equipment programs had an appropriate and proper disbursement of funds been provided for in this Bill. [More…]

• -The States Grants (Schools) Bill which is presently before the Senate has far reaching consequences not only for education in Australia but also for the future of Australia itself. [More…]

• Some years ago any debate on education would have received a tremendous amount of coverage. [More…]

• But because of what has been done over the past few years in education, the subject seems to have become somewhat a non-issue. [More…]

• So I do not intend to speak in detail on any of these matters but on some more basic matters dealings with education in Australia. [More…]

• In general, I want to speak about 3 areas in which there are problems in Australia’s educational system. [More…]

• Of course, I will be doing no more than scratching the surface of the problems in Australia’s educational system. [More…]

• In fact, the previous speaker, Senator Harradine, said that time would not permit him to debate the whole educational question. [More…]

• Last week we had a great show of strength in Canberra from people who are concerned with education throughout Australia. [More…]

• I commend the people who came from my State- not only those people who came from Brisbane where I live but also those from the northern areas whose expenses to travel to Canberra would have been far greater- to speak to the members of the Parliament and to show them what they thought were some of the deficiencies in the educational system. [More…]

• I mention this because the 3 areas that I will speak of might not be areas mentioned by the people who came here last week as involving specific problems in their schools, whether those persons be teachers, parents or simply those who are concerned with education generally. [More…]

• They see that the hopes for their children and for the people in their districts rest with the education received in the schools. [More…]

• In mentioning the problems that I shall refer to in a moment, I should say at the outset that I do not think it is time in Australia to consider reductions in funds for education, despite what may have been said by some honourable senators and members in another place as well. [More…]

• But if we are to cut back in educational spending, I think that we will reduce much of the impetus that has been given to education over the last few years. [More…]

• In fact, when I began teaching some 19 years ago the emphasis was no longer on the 3 Rs; it was placed more on an educational program that would fit the child for a place in the then society. [More…]

• The educational system has moved in a better way over the last 19 years to equip the child to take his or her place in society and to live a happy and full life. [More…]

• When students leave school, there are certain basic gaps in their education. [More…]

• For example, many of our children leave school with no tuition in consumer education. [More…]

• How many students who leave school nowadays have a satisfactory citizenship education, if one can call it that? [More…]

• I refer to an education which allows them to examine the workings of a place like the Parliament, to examine the various political arguments that are put before them and weigh them up properly? [More…]

• How many students who leave school now have an adequate sex education? [More…]

• Much criticism has been made lately of fundamentals in education, especially the skill of literacy. [More…]

• The figures are revealed in the interim report of a study by Dr Judith Goyen, a lecturer in education at Macquarie University, Sydney. [More…]

• These things, of course, are important for us to look at even though they are the very basis of our educational system. [More…]

• Last night Senator Tehan said that he was somewhat concerned at the fall in the standard of some of the essentials of what he thinks are properly termed ‘ basic education ‘. [More…]

• Therefore, we should make every effort possible to have research conducted in this area so that we can make sure where we are going and we can make sure that we are providing the best possible education for our pupils. [More…]

• This is what is happening in some aspects of education. [More…]

• We have unacceptable waste in many areas of education. [More…]

• They experience 2 or 3 years of frustration in these courses and at the end of it leave school with no skills and probably a hardened attitude towards education which will prevent them taking further steps to improve themselves in later years. [More…]

• They too have gone through university and have this bias towards an academic type of education. [More…]

• While the Bill we are debating does not cover technical education, I mention this because I think that the root cause of what I am about to point out happens in the schools themselves where students were not given guidance before they went into an occupation. [More…]

• I refer to the educational problems facing country children. [More…]

• A similar situation prevails with respect to the number of children receiving correspondence education. [More…]

• Although there is some overlapping, the figures for the number of students receiving correspondence education show the same trend. [More…]

• The number of children receiving correspondence education in Queensland was 5056. [More…]

• If we look at the recommendations of the Schools Commission we see that the Commission originally suggested for the triennium that we are discussing that money should go into teacher housing and also to the States so that they can provide for pupils who are educationally disadvantaged by living in the country. [More…]

• I have barely mentioned the tip of the iceberg in regard to some of the problems that are facing education in Australia. [More…]

• Government not to jeopardise the future of education in Australia by cutting or freezing expenditure in this vital area. [More…]

• After one year as a trainee, inadequately trained I was sent out into the educational world. [More…]

• I think that the improvement that I have seen during the years that I have been associated with education has been, to a large extent, due to the fact that we have had professional bodies with experts who have looked at education and have been able to make recommendations to government on a non-political basis. [More…]

• I am hopeful that this trend will continue, and that the Government will be able to do for education what has been done during the last few years in Australia. [More…]

• In the years to come I think that we will be able to face the question of education much better than we have faced it, say, in the last 20 years because demographic analyses seem to indicate that as far as school numbers are concerned, there will be a rapid deceleration in growth rates. [More…]

• I make a final plea to the Government not to jeopardise the future of education by cutting or freezing expenditure in this vital area. [More…]

• The States Grants (Schools) Bill 1976 gives an opportunity for both a narrow debate in the terms of the Bill and a wider excursion into the whole philosophy and methodology of education. [More…]

• First of all, one would have thought from the arguments of the Opposition that it alone had invented a statutory authority to advise the Federal government of the day on education; that it had hit upon a model of an authority to advise, investigate and recommend. [More…]

• In fact, history shows that it was Liberal Federal governments of the 2 decades before which set up the models for Federal intervention in education and for intervention by advisory commissions. [More…]

• It is widely acknowledged by people of all political faiths that the initiatives taken, firstly, in setting up the Australian Universities Commission and, secondly, in setting up the Commission on Advanced Education provided new frontiers of progress in education on the Federal level. [More…]

• I also draw the attention of honourable senators to the intervention then of the government of the day in many aspects of post-secondary education, technical education, and secondary education, in respect of science blocks, libraries, scholarships and bursaries- a whole range of commitments. [More…]

• Never once did the Opposition relate the facts of education today to the circumstances of today. [More…]

• Never once did it indicate that it had said emphatically- it is recorded for all time- that in a situation of gross inflation it was necessary to cut back all programs and to cut back education decisively. [More…]

• Here tonight we have the plea by Senator Colston, the Opposition’s last speaker, which echoed the plea made by others: Do not cut back or freeze education. [More…]

• We must cut that in half and we must cut back programs, including education.’ [More…]

• With not one word of what it did in the past, the Opposition has said that to cut education would be a mortal sin; but not one word has been said about the fact that it set aside the recommendations of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• I simply say in fairness to the Minister that to my knowledge he has not seen the letters which I will be seeking later to have incorporated in Hansard, but I will do so with the rider that the Minister for Education will ask Mr Robinson to intervene in this matter and advise the director of the program- I think that Mr White is no longer there- that because he gives a little bit of publicity to a particular section of an ethnic community and to its football club, it does not mean that it is an oration on politics, whether it be politics of the far left or the far right. [More…]

• That Quality Education and Equality of Educational Opportunity for all Australians depends on continuing financial support for Education from the Commonwealth Government; [More…]

• I pointed out that they said, and said emphatically, with all the tears and in the most ersatz fashion that an Opposition can manage: ‘Do not cut, do not freeze, education expenditure’. [More…]

• They had been massive cutters and freezers of education expenditure. [More…]

• I do this because the Opposition has said to the Government: ‘Do not cut education expenditure’. [More…]

• The previous Government made cuts which resulted in a net reduction of 8000 enrolments in the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Yet, the Opposition is now saying to the Government: ‘Do not cut expenditure on education. [More…]

• -I repeat for the benefit of Senator Mulvihill that it was governments of Liberal faith which created federal intervention into education and the concept of statutory corporations to advise and make recommendations to the Government. [More…]

• The very government that cut education expenditure, shattered education and created unemployment is now squealing and saying that we must not cut expenditure on education. [More…]

• It will not compromise people and press them downwards as is the socialist concept of education that Senator Mulvihill supports. [More…]

• What we will do across the whole field of education is seek to create and maintain excellence for all individuals wherever they are. [More…]

• We regard it as the responsibility of government to provide the best education possible for all students in all schools. [More…]

• At any time, and from time to time, during the year to which this Act applies, but subject to sub-section (4), the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of the State Education Minister for a State, direct that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 opposite to the name of the State were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commonwealth Education Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this sub-section and sub-sections (2) and (4)), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied. [More…]

• I think it is intended under this legislation- but the insertion of the amendment I have moved would ensure- that the Commission would have the opportunity firstly to consider the request by a State education Minister and then to advise the Federal Education Minister accordingly and report to the Parliament. [More…]

• If we are to maintain the standard of education which so obviously has been improved over the past 3 years, bearing in mind the needs principle, it is important and, I believe, essential that this amendment be accepted by the Government. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has said on many previous occasions that he intends to maintain the Schools Commission. [More…]

• I do not wish to be provocative Mr Chairman, but I must say that I am becoming increasingly concerned about the manner in which the Minister for Education is handling the legislation. [More…]

• It is quite wrong to suggest that under the educational program, which was implemented by the Labor Party, the Labor Party reduced expenditure on education in the 1975 year. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting for lunch I had to challenge the Minister on his continued statements that the Labor Party reduced expenditure on education. [More…]

• It is a different thing to talk about a reduction in expenditure on education as a totality and then, when challenged, to say that the reduction in expenditure was in respect of schools. [More…]

• As I was virtually challenged by the Minister to do so, let me put on record the figures for expenditure on education over the past 4 years. [More…]

• If he is not prepared to challenge them- if he cannot disprove them- I ask him in future not to make the assertion that the Labor Government reduced expenditure on education in 1975-76, because the truth is quite to the contrary. [More…]

• I do not impute motives to any State Minister of Education- nor do I impute motives to a Federal Minister for Education- of any impropriety in the disbursement of these funds. [More…]

• the relevant financial assistance will, as soon as is practicable, be applied by the State, according to the respective needs of the schools concerned, for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of the year to which this Act applies in connexion with government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State and, in particular, will ensure that such part of the relevant financial assistance as is not less than the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 3 opposite to the name of the State is applied in respect of” recurrent expenditure in relation to migrant education provided at those schools; [More…]

• In sub-clause (2), after paragraph (a), insert the following paragraph: (aa) after consultation with the Schools Commission, the Commonwealth Education Minister may permit the allocation of a specific amount from a school’s allocation to be spent at the discretion of the school board;. [More…]

• In doing so, I disagree very strongly with the suggestion by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that that amendment is contrary to the recommendations in the Schools Commission report. [More…]

• But I think that something as novel in the Australian education scene as school-based decision making will not occur naturally. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has pointed out already that there is nothing in this Bill that prohibits the devolution of discretion to school boards. [More…]

• (aa) after consultation with the Schools Commission the Commonwealth Education Minister may permit the allocation of a specific amount from the schools allocation to be spent at the discretion of the school board. [More…]

• I am pointing out that I have an objection to a Bill being made to look like nonsense just for the sake of having inserted in it an opinion on an aspect of educational theory. [More…]

• What I was saying- perhaps Senator Button was not listening very closely at the time- is that if honourable senators opposite want an expression of general opinion on the matter or if they want to take a moral stance in the chamber and tell the State education departments what they should be doing in this area, there are alternatives open to us other than amending the Bill. [More…]

• I trust that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who is handling this Bill in this place may be able to indicate to me what the Minister meant in his reply to Mr Calder’s question. [More…]

• But I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to take this matter to the Minister for Defence in the hope that he may be able to give us some satisfactory reply in due course. [More…]

• Before that election Senator Guilfoyle, I understand, as Minister for Education, made a ruling in relation to some private tertiary education organisations and that ruling appears to have caused a great deal of difficulty in the running of those organisations. [More…]

• While in the somewhat interim position of Minister for Education, Senator Guilfoyle indicated to the Hale’s organisation last December that the payments made on behalf of students this year would be subject to the absolute ceiling of that amount which was paid last year. [More…]

• I am told that between 45 per cent and 50 per cent of the students at the 3 schools are receiving living allowances under the Commonwealth tertiary education scheme, which seems to be a remarkable recognition that these colleges are fulfilling their proper role in the community as tertiary education centres. [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…]

• The situation simply is that the government of the day decided that certain non-government institutions would be funded by way of student assistance fees if, indeed, the equivalent courses were not being provided satisfactorily by colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• This decision was in keeping with the Budget decisions of the previous Government to hold allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme at the 1975 level and to defer triennial funding for government institutions. [More…]

• 1 ) The present level of Federal Government Education Expenditure is increased to the level recommended by the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The role of the Schools Commission as an independent statutory authority free to make its own assessment of the needs of Australian Education is maintained. [More…]

• Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Treasurer, Mr Lynch and the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick will carry out this Petition. [More…]

• That the Immigration of teachers recruited from outside Australia be prevented while students with similar University qualifications are refused entry into Diploma of Education courses, and school leavers are refused entry into the state colleges of Victoria. [More…]

• That Teachers recruited outside Australia by the Victorian Education department have their income taxation exemption for the period of their stay in Australia cancelled. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education and ask him to take his mind back some 6 or 8 weeks when he said that it was the intention of the Government to take the authority proposed to enhance the status of interpreters and translators from what was the Department of Labor and Immigration under the previous Government and give it to the Department of Education. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that the special services division of the Victorian Education Department has advised Victorian schools that the National Film Library has imposed a reduction of lending services to schools, the reasons given being the recently imposed staff ceilings and budgetary restraints. [More…]

• In view of the importance of audio-visual aids in education, will the Minister examine the position to see whether the cost savings involved justify deprivation of benefit to Australian schools and Australian school children? [More…]

• I am not aware that such an assertion has been made by the special services section of the Department of Education in Victoria nor am I aware of the accuracy or otherwise of the events which would flow from it. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) Government funding for indoor recreation facilities has been confined generally to those associated with education institutions. [More…]

• The Government’s first priorities for development have been and must continue to be land development, housing, and health and education facilities. [More…]

• Those schemes providing direct payment of wages and salaries and superannuation to individuals have been excluded, but the whole range of social welfare and compensation pensions and payments, and allowances such as in the fields of education and Aboriginal advancement have been included. [More…]

• 2 EDUCATION [More…]

• Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Pre-School Teacher Education Allowances. [More…]

• Adult Migrant Education- full-time accelerated courses. [More…]

• Soldiers Children’s Education Scheme. [More…]

• A wide range of grants-in-aid to health, education and welfare organisations. [More…]

• the Secretary, Department of Education, or the Commonwealth Scholarships Board for the purpose of the administration of any law of the Commonwealth relating to financial assistance to students. [More…]

• The major difficulty encountered in obtaining accurate information on the rejection of applications for admission to tertiary institutions is that there is no satisfactory way of establishing that a student rejected at one university or college of advanced education is not accepted by another university or college for the same or another course. [More…]

• The only sources of information which may throw some light on the honourable Senator’s question are the central admission agencies which operate in three States; in Victoria, the Victorian Universities Admission Centre (VUAC) processes applications to all Victorian universities and most of the colleges of advanced education; in New South Wales, the Metropolitan Universities Admissions Centre processes applications to the three Sydney metropolitan universities only; and in South Australia applications to the two universities and the South Australian Institute of Technology are handled centrally. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Entry to tertiary courses is normally the completion of full secondary education. [More…]

• There is no scheme of assistance administered by the Department of Education which caters specifically for students undertaking courses in tourism. [More…]

• However, students in such courses and those undertaking related studies in recreational courses may be assisted by my Department under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Benefits under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme are available to students who are Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia and who are undertaking full-time study in approved courses at tertiary institutions in Australia. [More…]

• Applicants must meet the same residential requirements as for Tertiary Education Assistance. [More…]

• Benefits available under these awards are free of a means test and are of the same level as the maximum allowances provided under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• and (10) Scholarships are provided by international organisations and education institutions for a wide range of disciplines. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• and (2) A program for metric conversion in schools was developed by the Education and Industrial Training Advisory Committee of the Metric Conversion Board. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• I understand that the population projections in the National Population Inquiry Report are being used as a basis for policy formulation in a wide range of fields, including education, community development, aboriginal affairs, housing, social security and the environment as well as immigration. [More…]

• As the migrant education function is now part of my responsibility, I am able to say that a special six weeks course for use with migrants in industry at the work site, preferably in employer time, was developed by the former Department of Immigration towards the end of 1971. [More…]

• Education Expenditure in the Northern Territory [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education inform the Parliament of the total amount of cuts in funds for education in the Northern Territory? [More…]

• 1 ) The present level of Federal Government Education Expenditure is increased to the level recommended by the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The role of the Schools Commission as an independent statutory authority free to make its own assessment of the needs of Australian Education is maintained. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I wish to ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether he will place on the record some clarification of the meaning which is intended as a matter of policy in relation to the definition of local government authority. [More…]

• I should like to ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) a question. [More…]

• I do not wish it to be inferred for one moment from what the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) might have implied that a Labor Government was forcing on the States or on local government the concept of regionalism as a result of an arbitrary determination by any Minister of the Australian Government. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) may be able to enlighten me on a question I have. [More…]

• I believe strongly, however, that after so many years of Australia’s fiddling with training for the maritime industry it is time for the Australian Government to take the stand that it wants a much better and much more effective system and provide funds for improving training and education. [More…]

• The College should be set up as part of an existing College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The college of advanced education is already established. [More…]

• I hope that, with the implementation of the Karmel report on postsecondary education in Tasmania, the site will become even more attractive and the acquisition of the maritime college will considerably upgrade the college of advanced education. [More…]

• I believe, that the proposed siting will also perform the function of establishing in Tasmania, especially at the college of advanced education, a national institution. [More…]

• I hope that this institution will be a worthy one and will inevitably provide a base for the further development of the college of advanced education as an autonomous tertiary institution of which Australia and the northern part of Tasmania can be proud. [More…]

• I believe strongly that there is every reason why education, above all industries- if we can call it an industry- can be decentralised without great difficulty, certainly without much pollution, certainly without much of a transport problem being created and can, in some small way, help to remove the burden of population pressure from some of our bigger cities. [More…]

• It is obvious that some of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world are well away from the capital cities and away from the large areas of population. [More…]

• I hope that the siting of this college in northern Tasmania and the application of the Karmel report on postsecondary education will do this in Tasmania. [More…]

• It was quite an interesting experience and, I believe, an education. [More…]

• There seemed to be a fair amount of bipartisan support, politically, but some of us- certainly myself, who at the time had not been in politics very longreceived an education in Establishment politics. [More…]

• I was amused all through the publicity battle over the siting of this college by how rough- I believe that is the best term- some of the gentlemen of the various educational establishments in this country can play the game. [More…]

• The maritime college is of importance in that it will provide the services outlined both by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech and by Senator Grimes. [More…]

• The college is of importance to the development of the area of Launceston as a centre of learning- that is, its association with the College of Advanced Education- and the opportunity that presents to the balanced development of educational opportunities for the State of Tasmania. [More…]

• One of the important aspects of this matter is that, irrespective of whether the full Karmel report in relation to the development of colleges of advanced education in Tasmania is implemented exactly as recommended, the establishment of this maritime college will assist in enabling the much earlier creation of a suitable college of advanced education or tertiary educational institution in the third region of Tasmania- the one which is not currently served, namely, the north west coast of Tasmania. [More…]

• I see the establishment of the college as an important part of the way in which the educational opportunities of all of the people of Tasmania can be enhanced, whilst at the same time the interests of the whole of Australia are being enhanced by the provision of the training opportunities which are to be made available by this maritime college. [More…]

• It must be understood that there arises also a profoundly important consequence of the Cosgrove Committees ‘s deliberations in relation to this maritime college, because one of the recommendations of the Karmel Committee, as honourable senators will know, was that the Newnham campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education be made an autonomous body called the Tasmanian Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I hope that will be possible, but it should be understood that if this maritime college is to achieve a quality of excellence, which it must, then, of course, the Newnham campus and the college itself will have to provide between them quite a range of specialist and technical and scientific education. [More…]

• I have read the categories to illustrate the enormous range of educational facilities that we must have from the senior tertiary functions to what might be termed the trade functions in some technical institutes. [More…]

• As soon as I received the report of the Committee I wrote to each of the 3 commissions for which I am responsible, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commissioninviting them to study the report and to be prepared to give recommendations. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Education a little while ago objected to my using the example of Medibank. [More…]

• In fact, this may be the first step towards the re-education, to which I have referred in this chamber many times, of my conservative colleagues. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• To what extent is reciprocity granted in Australian tertiary institutions between subjects credited in Colleges of Advanced Education and Teachers’ Colleges on the one hand and Universities on the other. [More…]

• To what extent do Universities recognise Colleges of Advanced Education degrees and diplomas as creditation for (a) entrance, and (b) admission, to post-graduate degree courses. [More…]

• However, in Victoria, Deakin University, Geelong, which is expected to commence teaching in 1978, will incorporate two existing colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The following Colleges of Advanced Education have recently or are currently in the process of amalgamation: [More…]

• Wagga Agricultural College- Riverina College of Advanced Education [More…]

• State College of Victoria, Ballarat- The Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education [More…]

• The Commission on Advanced Education in its Fourth Report commented on the transfer of students between postsecondary courses in the same or in other institutions in that rigid subject requirements should not be imposed upon students moving from one course to another’. [More…]

• Transfers are also possible between colleges of advanced education and universities although, at present, they are not common. [More…]

• Diploma of Education at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• There are a number of students undertaking higher degree studies in universities on the basis of qualifications obtained at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In 1 974 sixty-one students commenced higher degree study at universities on the basis of a qualifying degree gained at a college of advanced education. [More…]

• That the Australian National University Library and the Canberra College of Advanced Education have only limited collections, both requiring to be complemented by the Australian National Library collections. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister will recall my recent question concerning the Victorian Government’s intention to bring in teachers from overseas for the Victorian Education Department. [More…]

• If there is a surplus of teachers in New South Wales who are able to fill the vacancies which apparently have arisen in Victoria, will the Minister arrange a conference between the 2 State governments to see whether the New South Wales surplus can be absorbed by the Victorian Education Department? [More…]

• 1 am now able to advise that the Victorian Education Department had approval from the Department of Immigration and Ethinic Affairs for the planned recruitment. [More…]

• I am advised that a joint immigration-labour team subsequently had discussions with the State departments of education and teacher industrial organisations. [More…]

• The issue of visas was resumed, with the intention that there would be consultation as required with the State education departments and teacher industrial organisations in respect of future recruitment proposals. [More…]

• The subject areas for the secondary teachers will be in the areas where there are shortages- in English, mathematics, music, physical education and art. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education noticed considerable comment in recent times from leading educational personalities related to the fact that today the students of this country are uneducated to the extent that they are considered illiterate, that is, they cannot spell, read or add up and they do not have the basic requirements pf education? [More…]

• In view of the great sums of money that the Government is providing for education and of the concern in the community for this subject, will the Minister and the Government make it mandatory that children are taught those basic elements of education? [More…]

• There is a worry that I hold in relation to this matter, namely, the belief held by some people in respect of education that one can by innovation and experimentation abandon totally the orthodoxies of the past. [More…]

• My question also is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Given the repeated protestations of the Minister for Education that education will not be a victim of the Government’s economy cuts, can he give an undertaking that the Government is prepared to continue the Labor Government’s policy of Commonwealth funding of tertiary education fees? [More…]

• Is the Minister prepared to state his own unequivocal support for the Commonwealth funding of all tertiary fees as the key concept of equality of educational opportunity for all, irrespective of personal or parental income? [More…]

• -It will be to the prospective and infinite pleasure of the honourable senator if he bides his time until 8 o’clock tonight when my colleague on my left, the Minister for Industry and Commerce, will give the Treasurer’s statement, and if he bides a little longer, until I give a statement as Minister for Education, and the secrets of all hearts are disclosed. [More…]

• These reports were the 144th report which related to the then Department of Education and Science and the 146th report which dealt with items from the Auditor-General’s report for 1971-72. [More…]

• In the 144th report the Committee recommended that a review then in progress to establish the training needs and organisation requirements of the Department of Education should be concluded and acted upon as a matter of urgency. [More…]

• Spending on essential Education, Health and Welfare programmes will be protected against inflation. [More…]

• In his second reading speech, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) pointed out one or two aspects of the Bill on which I wish to elaborate as these are quite significant with respect to the Government’s policy in this area. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who is at the table to convey that thought to the Minister with the view that in the future perhaps we may establish and finance pilot intersection programs in capital cities where this type of intersection could be tried. [More…]

• -My question also is directed to Senator Carrick, in his capacity as the Minister for Education and as the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications. [More…]

• Education and the Arts. [More…]

• Is it envisaged that the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s role in the education field is to be abolished? [More…]

• 4, relating to a statement by the Minister for Education on guidelines for triennial reports of Education Commissions and other measures, and the Order of the Day for the resumption of the debate on the motion to take note of papers tabled this day by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, being discussed during the debate on the motion for the second reading of the Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]

• In other words, the general centralist philosophy was to be rejected and the machinery which had been established to grapple with so many of the national problems in fields such as education, health, roads and regional development had to be brought down as much as possible, or destroyed as much as possible, under the federalist policies of this government. [More…]

• That was to be expected in view of the very big increase in our expenditure in a whole range of areas but notably in areas such as education and social security. [More…]

• If a person cannot afford to give his child the education that he feels his child should have, is that child to be deprived of that education? [More…]

• After we have established what I believe the overwhelming majority of Australians accept as a good principle- that is, equal chance in education for everybody- is that to be thrown away? [More…]

• Despite the assurances which have been given in this chamber by the Minister for Education and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs, Senator Carrick, the States will find that their revenues are not going to be maintained at the levels that obtained over the past 3 years. [More…]

• Probably every honourable senator will wish to participate in it so I shall confine the remainder of my comments to education. [More…]

• The statement made by Senator Carrick identifies the 4 main areas of education expenditure, namely, universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education and the schools. [More…]

• If we look at the reality, at what was put aside or appropriated under the last Labor Budget, we find that an amount in excess of $200m more was made available to Australian education. [More…]

• Yet we are told that in real terms the expenditure on education is increasing. [More…]

• The same remarks apply to the educational proposals. [More…]

• We will see a net decline in the Federal payments to the States in the education field. [More…]

• The other matter that I would like to mention is education. [More…]

• It was not really an introduction of reasonable planning in the education area; it was a re-introduction. [More…]

• It chose to do so abruptly and this has had a drastic effect on certain areas of education planning. [More…]

• The facts are that in the tertiary education area, where a long lead time is necessary for the employment of new staff either for new positions or to replace staff who retire, universities and tertiary institutes were in a difficult position when it came to staff planning. [More…]

• They did not know beyond the current educational financial year just what they would be getting. [More…]

• The fact is, of course, that education budgeting is done on a calendar year basis. [More…]

• December 1975 would seem to be a reasonable base on which to talk about calendar year planning for education in 1976 and 1977. [More…]

• The Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton) and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in their statements made it clear that the increase in spending will be in real terms as against money terms. [More…]

• We are not opting out of education, as Senator Wriedt said. [More…]

• We have re-introduced long range planning in education on a slightly different basis- a basis which is well known, which people are familiar with and which operates elsewhere. [More…]

• I suspect that some educationists will complain about it, although I know that many will not. [More…]

• There were many disadvantages educationally and for the community under the old system. [More…]

• This way the Government has a far better chance of knowing what capital expenditure will be undertaken in the next financial year with money allotted to education. [More…]

• Finally, in the time allotted to me, I wish to say a few words about education. [More…]

• I want to congratulate the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on the details of his proposals which were disclosed in his statement to the Senate. [More…]

• We heard Senator Wriedt saying: ‘The Minister is opting out on education’. [More…]

• In a difficult financial climate- in a tight budgetary situation- the Minister for Education has produced a remarkable document which actually increases the expenditure on education above the expenditure of the previous Government on education. [More…]

• The important thing about the education program is that we will be returning to triennial funding. [More…]

• Of course, our friends on the other side of the chamber when in government finished up in as bad a situation in respect of education as they did in other areas. [More…]

• Having sat on a government education committee in recent weeks and having heard the views of the people of the Schools Commission and of other experts in the field of education I want to say that all these people indicated that they considered the triennial system to be the only one. [More…]

• It is important for an education program to be for 3 years because there cannot be a stop-go POliCY from year to year in education. [More…]

• The fact is that there will be an increase in real terms of $47m in expenditure by the education commissions in 1 977. [More…]

• It is only under triennial funding that educational institutions can engage in the planning which is necessary to ensure the efficient utilisation of resources over the whole field of education. [More…]

• We do not know what the cuts are in education, because nobody is telling and I forecast that we will not be told until these cuts are implemented or are about to be implemented. [More…]

• Surely the trade union movement, as has been clearly evidenced, already is sharing with all the other people of the Commonwealth in the greater amount of public funds spent on education, health and welfare and other matters to the detriment of the Budget. [More…]

• I am referring particularly to education. [More…]

• Colleges of advanced education will receive an additional 5 per cent, technical and further education institutions an additional 7 per cent, and schools another 2 per cent on a real basis. [More…]

• We know that a change in educational preference has occurred over the last few years, when more emphasis has been placed upon education towards bachelors of arts degrees and other such degrees than has been placed upon providing plumbers, electricians, carpenters and so on, who are now in short supply. [More…]

• Although the Government has made great play of the fact that the education budget has not been reduced significantly, when one turns to the Territory one finds that the $8m needed for the construction of new schools has been withdrawn and that the building of those schools will be postponed indefinitely. [More…]

• Under the previous Government, over $100m was allocated to the Aboriginal people for various things- education, housing, improvements in settlements and so on. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, will take note of the submissions which concern the Homebush Bay region of the Parramatta River. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, who is aware of the employment problems in this area of Sydney and who is no doubt aware that Hanimex, an Australian company, is a very large employer of local labour, takes note of these remarks tonight. [More…]

• The commitment required from NEAT funds, and from the Commonwealth Department of Education, in respect of these two courses to date, is of the order of $ 1 76,000. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Education by reminding him that during the election campaign the LiberalNational Country Parties, as part of their promises to the people of the Northern Territory, said that there would be no expenditure cuts in education. [More…]

• No firm decision with regard to the specifics of the overall expenditure for education in the Northern Territory, school by school, has been reached as yet. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to comments by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Queensland, Sir Zelman Cowen, published in the Courier-Mail last Saturday, 22 May, that universities will be in a more uncertain position as a result of changes to the triennial funding system? [More…]

• In the light of Sir Zelman Cowen ‘s statement, will the Minister agree to an urgent meeting between himself and the Vice Chancellors of all Australian universities to discuss the future of university education in Australia before the changes announced by the Treasurer are put into effect? [More…]

• Spending on essential Education, Health and Welfare programs will be protected against inflation. [More…]

• We know too that, despite the assurances of the Prime Minister, the education, health and welfare programs all have been cut and that all the Labor initiatives which had been developed and which were so progressive have been hamstrung and almost eliminated. [More…]

• There were cuts in expenditure on construction, the environment, housing, education and many other areas about which we all know. [More…]

• Before the general election they said that the future of Medibank would be ensured; there would be an improvement in employment and our education and general welfare policies would be maintained. [More…]

• It should provide education for migrants who want education. [More…]

• Last year the Whitlam Labor Government cut by $105m the amount of funds available to the 4 commissions which are responsible for allocating funds in the education field. [More…]

• The former Labor Government cut expenditure on education in real money terms by 6 per cent, yet Opposition senators are now horrified at cuts in government expenditure. [More…]

• It cut the amount of funds available to universities by $21m, to colleges of advanced education by $32m, for technical and further education by $9m and to schools by $43m. [More…]

• That represented-a total cut of $ 105m in expenditure on education last year. [More…]

• It forced the universities to take in 9000 fewer enrolments than the year before, and it reduced the ability of matriculants to receive tertiary education. [More…]

• It created mayhem in the field of education and in other fields and slashed specific purpose grants to the States, yet Opposition senators now get up in this chamber and have the gall to say that cutting government expenditure through government departments is wrong. [More…]

• I am able to come before the Senate, as the present Minister for Education, and report that my Government regards education as having such a high priority that not only have we stopped cutbacks in education and set aside as being wrong the actions of the previous Labor Government but also we have provided real growth in education in real money terms. [More…]

• I am able to come before honourable senators and say that with all the difficulties of inflation in the world my Government has introduced an imaginative and effective system of rolling triennial funding which guarantees minimum growth, real growth in money terms for the future, and allows real planning for the future in each of the areas covered by the 4 education commissions. [More…]

• The survival of education programs in the midst of wide ranging expenditure cuts is a significant achievement for many thousands of concerned parents and teachers throughout the nation. [More…]

• When faced with the hard realities the government recognised that further cuts in education would have caused long term damage to children and the nation as a whole. [More…]

• Given the state of siege on welfare programs, Education Minister Carrick has clearly won a major battle to hold the line and provide some growth in real terms. [More…]

• The survival of education programs in the midst of wide ranging expenditure cuts is a significant achievement for many thousands of concerned parents and teachers throughout the nation. [More…]

• When faced with the hard realities the government recognised that further cuts in education would have caused long term damage to children and the nation as a whole. [More…]

• Given the state of siege on welfare programs, Education Minister Carrick has clearly won a major battle to hold the line and provide some growth in real terms. [More…]

• The 7.5 per cent real growth rate announced for technical and further education is badly needed in an area which had been sadly neglected until 3 years ago. [More…]

• Federal funding of education remains, for the second year in a row, at a ‘holding’ level, although there is some provision for a small amount of real growth. [More…]

• There is some danger in the announcement that supplementation for education programs will no longer be automatic. [More…]

• I am delighted too that education departments can plan forward in real terms for the 3 years ahead. [More…]

• Colleges of advanced education will be given 5 per cent this year and a minimum 2 per cent for the 2 years afterwards. [More…]

• Technical and further education about which the Australian Government has very real concern for expansion has been given 7.5 per cent this ye.” [More…]

• I repeat to the Senate that they are members of the former Government which last year cut education in the 4 commissions not by some petty cash figure but by $105m or 6 per cent, and denied an intake of some 9000 students to universities. [More…]

• But we have said to the people of Australia: ‘We will give you improvement in education’. [More…]

• I was saying that, amongst the great reforms together with tax indexation, the family allowance and education growth, was the introduction of an entirely new deal for local government. [More…]

• Did Mr Neilson, the Premier of Tasmania, complain when $ 105m was cut from special purpose grants for education? [More…]

• I gently remind them of a little matter of $105m pruned off the education budget last year. [More…]

• Honourable senators will remember that the former Government said on E-day, ‘Do not cut schools’ on education day, and cried its eyes out, cut $43m off the schools budget last year. [More…]

• We have different priorities about education. [More…]

• In a sense we congratulate the Government on its very substantial commitment to education, although we would have preferred the commitment to have been better in certain areas, particularly the areas of technical schools. [More…]

• But whatever the speculation about these matters is- and we can have our entertainment either by radio or by television or by Senator Wright, or in the bar or wherever we happen to be- the fact of the matter is that the level of community entertainment and education which is provided by the ABC is very widespread and important. [More…]

• There has been a consensus that one of the most essential roles of the state is to see that the poor, the sick and in fact all citizens are protected in their basic needs and that the state plays a role to see that everybody is entitled to the fruits of education and to the fruits of the culture of the civilisation within which they live. [More…]

• 4), which covers largely the capital works area; the economic policy statement which was introduced in the Senate last Thursday evening and took something like 1 Vi hours to read; the legislative measures that come out of that statement, such as the education proposals and the general area of health and Medibank; and the statement on defence policy. [More…]

• Senator Carrick dealt at length with the general proposals dealing with education, Senator Guilfoyle dealt with the proposals in relation to health and Medibank and Senator Withers put down a statement on defence. [More…]

• Equally, we want to protect and as far as possible to increase the major areas of government activity, including spending on pensions, family allowances, education and defence. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he has been able to reconsider his original decision to suspend country sittings of student assistance review tribunals? [More…]

• Has the Minister been able to give consideration to the request of the Australian Union of Students that it be permitted to represent country students who are disadvantaged at metropolitan sittings of student assistance review tribunals which are hearing appeals against tertiary education allowance scheme decisions? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Are tertiary allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme available to Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees now living in Australia as settlers? [More…]

• The availability of assistance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme is governed by the application of the means test as laid down in the Regulations to the Student Assistance Act. [More…]

• Education: Funds for non-Government Schools in Wannon Electorate (Question No. [More…]

• Funds for non-Government schools in the electorate of Wannon are made available under programs administered by the Department of Education and the Schools Commission. [More…]

• A Programs Administered by the Department of Education [More…]

• Funds administered by the Department of Education were made available under the following acts: [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick will carry out this petition. [More…]

• That Teachers recruited outside Australia by the Victorian Education department have their income taxation exemption for the period of their stay in Australia cancelled. [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts for inquiry and report- [More…]

• The need for the creation of employment opportunities for music graduates of conservatoria and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is the establishment of a selective scholarship scheme to replace the tertiary education allowance scheme contemplated? [More…]

• Is there any proposal under the Government’s federalism policy that may involve the devolution of total financial responsibility for tertiary education back to the States? [More…]

• There is no intention to do anything to replace the tertiary education allowance. [More…]

• It may well be that the investigations that we have started upon on the question of student loans will lead in the future to our being able to bring about a student loans scheme which would be a supplement to but in no way a diminution of the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• There is no intention under federalism of the Federal Government abdicating its overall responsibility for education in Australia. [More…]

• It is not being asked to do anything more than, shall we say, the departments of education in all States were asked to do last year when the Schools Commission bid was chopped back by $43m. [More…]

• -(New South WalesMinister for Education)- For the information of honourable senators, I present a report entitled Literacy and Numeracy in Australian Schools’. [More…]

• To answer questions about changes would require regular testing with appropriate time intervals in between, such as has been undertaken in the United States through the National Assessment of Education Progress. [More…]

• I have asked the Education Research and Development Committee to examine the complex problems involved in any such program of national assessment. [More…]

• The most important of these are payments for life insurance or superannuation for which the present limit is $1200, education expenses for which the present limit is $250 per person, and rates on private dwellings for which the present limit is $300. [More…]

• 9m in 1973-74 to $33m last year; Department of Education general services rose from $3 1.5 m to $50.9m; and Department of Health general services expenditure rose from $ 15.6m to $27. [More…]

• The key was farmer education. [More…]

• Probably the most serious anomaly is that in several States there is a serious lack of farmer education. [More…]

• Senator Thomas drew attention to the need for farmer education. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education in my State of Tasmania is still talking about Federal education cuts and as this has inspired many letters to both myself and other honourable senators from schools in our State showing concern regarding those supposed cuts, will the Minister once again spell out the facts in relation to the maintenance of the Schools Commission and the proposed spending on education, with particular reference to the Karmel report. [More…]

• The Tasmanian Minister for Education should be informed of one thing: The only government which has cut expenditure on education is the former Federal Labor Government. [More…]

• That Government cut education for the calendar year 1976 by a total of $105m compared with the calendar year 1975. [More…]

• 1 repeat that the Federal Labor Government cut expenditure on education for the calendar year 1976 by $105m. [More…]

• By contrast, the present Fraser Liberal Government has increased expenditure on education in all areas. [More…]

• This year there has been a 2 per cent growth in real money terms for universities; a 5 per cent real money growth for colleges of advanced education; a 7 per cent real money growth in the area of technical and further education; and a 2 per cent real money growth for the Schools Commission area. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the parlous financial position of students in receipt of the tertiary education assistance scheme allowance, is it proposed that the allowance be increased from its present level of $30 a week? [More…]

• The honourable senator will know that his own Government over a period of 2 years made a decision to maintain the tertiary education assistance scheme allowance at exactly the same level. [More…]

• That the Immigration of teachers recruited from outside Australia be prevented while students with similar University classifications are refused entry into Diploma of Education courses, and school leavers are refused entry into the State Colleges of Victoria. [More…]

• Did some 384 American school teachers arrive in Melbourne secretly last Wednesday at a time when 650 Victorian teachers have been declined entry to the Diploma of Education course? [More…]

• The question is properly directed to me in my capacity as the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Let me make this clear: The problem of teachers coming to Australia is, first of all, for the State governments which have sovereignty regarding education in the primary and secondary fields. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Education, follows a question asked by Senator Wood concerning the decline in standards of basic mathematics amongst students. [More…]

• Is the Minister further aware of the grave concern felt by senior Tasmanian Government educationalists that the Schools Commission’s recommendation short changed the Tasmanian education system by $1.5m as a result of the fact that it was based on unsatisfactory mathematical criteria? [More…]

• In view of this error, will the Minister ensure that the Schools Commission undertakes a compulsory course in basic mathematics or, alternatively, will he ensure that his headmaster makes the Schools Commission write out ‘we owe a debt to Tasmanian education’ 1.75 million times? [More…]

• The planning Committee sees the facilities required to enable the college to fulfil its objectives as including educational, administrative, residential and communal. [More…]

• The Planning Committee was chaired by Mr Les Dodd, a former Deputy Director of Education in South Australia who has had wide experience in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Its membership was wide ranging and included persons from the fields of rural education, administration, the pastoral and agricultural industries and the wider Northern Territory community. [More…]

• Those of us who have an interest in technical and further education, particularly that of the Aboriginal people, have looked for some time for provision for the rural areas. [More…]

• The report on postcompulsory education in northern Australia presented by Dr Anderson and his team raises some doubts. [More…]

• Without any doubt there is a need for some sort of training and further education for all people of the region, both Aboriginal and others, and I look to the Government to provide appropriate education at all levels. [More…]

• That if the Senate be not sitting when the Standing Committee on Education and the Ans has completed its report on the education of isolated school children the Committee may send its report to the President of the Senate or, if the President is unavailable, to the Deputy President who are authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation, and in such event the President or Deputy President shall lay the report upon the table at the next sitting of the Senate; and [More…]

• The reference on the educational problems of isolated school children was given to the previous Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in September 1972. [More…]

• I recognise of course, that all Standing Committees have had their work seriously disrupted because of these events but they have been particularly frustrating to this Committee on Education and the Arts because they have occurred at crucial stages of the inquiry resulting in field trips having to be postponed on at least two occasions. [More…]

• Senator Davidson gave me, as manager of Opposition business in the Senate, notice that he would be moving this motion as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• We made it clear before the election that in order to win the fight against inflation we would need to cut government expenditure in all sectors except education. [More…]

• We had to bear certain restraints in education, schools, roads, and other utilities in order to keep the system intact. [More…]

• The Government has undertaken between now and 1 October to conduct an intensive scheme of education and information for the public so that members of the public will understand what their alternatives are and what steps need to be taken by them to ensure that they have the type of cover which they choose for themselves and their families. [More…]

• It involves more than the Department of Social Security with its relief, because child care, transport, education, housing, health and legal aid are all involved in getting over this problem. [More…]

• I hope that as the Government proceeds with its education program on Medibank between now and 1 October there will be no doubt in the minds of the Australian people as to what decisions are available to them. [More…]

• In directing my question to the Minister for Education, I refer to the Minister’s statement on financial grants to universities and in particular to the following statement: [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he proposes to review the tertiary education allowance scheme? [More…]

• In the first place, he asked whether the Government proposes to review the tertiary education assistance scheme allowances. [More…]

• The basic situation is that the tertiary education assistance scheme allowances were devised as a worthwhile supplement to students who could further supplement their incomes by working in the Christmas vacation and at weekends and earning in this way some $ 1 ,600 a year without means test. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators and pursuant to section 9(1) of the Education Research Act 1970, I present the annual reports of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education for 1973-74 and 1974-75. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the report on the National Committee on Social Science Teaching Research and Development Grants 1 973-74 and 1974-75 administered under the Education Research Act 1970. [More…]

• Education) Act 1974, 1 present a statement relating to financial assistance granted to the States in respect of that Act in the financial year 1974-75. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report entitled Access to Education- an Evaluation of the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme. [More…]

• The main recommendations relate to the continuation of the scheme, the appointment of specialised personnel in addition to the education officers already involved, adjustment of the level of the allowance, and the convening of a national workshop on Aboriginal secondary education. [More…]

• Discussion on the implementation of these recommendations took place among officers of the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs and Education, Professor Watts and members of the Aboriginal Consultative Group to the Schools Commission in February 1976, and appropriate action is proceeding. [More…]

• This has been the first major evaluation study to be directed to current educational programs administered by the Department of Education. [More…]

• In accordance with the Government’s policy, we will be proceeding with the evaluation of other programs in the area of education to assess their efficiency and effectiveness. [More…]

• I commend the report as a sensitive and objective approach to the evaluation of educational programs designed to improve access to education among disadvantaged groups. [More…]

• I point out to the Senate that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) mentioned in the first paragraph of his statement that the report was the culmination of the evaluation study of the Aboriginal secondary grants scheme which his Department commissioned in June 1 973. [More…]

• We have a big problem in Queensland and in fact in some other parts of Australia- but particularly in the Torres Strait area of Queensland- where children have to receive their education through teachers who are not properly qualified. [More…]

• The fault lay, first of all, with the Queensland Department of Education, and probably still lies there. [More…]

• Probably this is not quite in the education field, but it does have a long term bearing on education and I hope that the Government will review its decision. [More…]

• That, subject to the wish of State education authorities, Federal financial support be provided for the establishment of a teacher with special responsibilities on the staff of schools with high Aboriginal and Islander enrolment; [More…]

• That the Australian Department of Education convene a national workshop of Aboriginal/Islander secondary education so that senior officers of State and Australian Departments of Education and the Aboriginal Consultative Group might consider possible future developments and priorities in this field. [More…]

• That the Public Service Board give approval to the Australian Department of Education^ application for the creation of the positions of Aboriginal Students’ Officers. [More…]

• That the Australian Department of Education, in collaboration with the Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs and in consultation with Aboriginal people, keep the question of application of a means test to the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme under constant review; [More…]

• I hope that there will come a time in the history of this nation when all people who are underprivileged will be able to ensure that their children have every opportunity to achieve a first class education and that the foundation being set in the field of Aboriginal secondary school grants may lay the guidelines by which this can be applied to the whole community. [More…]

• Dr R. T. Fitzgerald: Education [More…]

• On the other hand, there seems to us to be considerable point in transferring the audio-visual functions of the Postal and Telecommunications Department to the Australian Film Commission, particularly as those audio-visual functions have a particular relationship to education and an increasing use in the education area. [More…]

• I enter briefly into this discussion, particularly in my capacity as the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts and to welcome the statement that the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) has put down in this place today on behalf of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]

• The statement will be received with a great deal of interest by the members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• The statement which has been brought down today will be of considerable interest to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, which deals with this area. [More…]

• As a member and a former Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the Committee which is now chaired by Senator Davidson, I was very much concerned about the misuse and mismanagement which was becoming evident at regular periods in the administration ofthe funds which the Australian Parliament made available to the people of Australia for their cultural advancement and benefit. [More…]

• I resented it when I was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• Future of Tertiary Education in Australia. [More…]

• It was provided with administrative support by the then Department of Education and Science and latterly by my department. [More…]

• The Labor Government, which was a responsible government, started to do many things in the areas of improving educational opportunities for women, in providing training opportunities for women so that when they went into the work force they could take skilled and rewarding employment, and in such things as removing tertiary fees which allowed women who had never had the opportunity to undertake tertiary studies to do so. [More…]

• This was a radical departure from what had been the attitude of previous governments towards the care and education of young children. [More…]

• Other sorts of pressures that caused women to go out to work in the 1 950s and particularly in the 1960s included the fact that Federal funding of education was so low that women felt they had to go to work to be able to improve the educational opportunities of their children by sending them to private schools, which they considered at that time to be better, or by supplementing their children’s educational resources through the purchase of books, extra lessons, tutoring and things of that kind. [More…]

• I am glad that Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, is here while I am speaking because it bears some relationship to a matter on which he spoke this morning in the Senate. [More…]

• I am a little worried, and some of the students who were lobbying here last night in respect of the tertiary allowances were worried, that by extending, in terms of the definition, the period of childhood to 25 years for the purpose of allowing a mother to claim the child endowment benefit the legislation may be jeopardising the possibility of those students gaining full living away from home allowances or full tertiary education allowances. [More…]

• The other aspect which concerns me about the tenor of the debate and some of the claims which have been made is that the Government may find justification in this legislation for cutting down on other kinds of public services such as the provision of health services, education services, community facilities and housing, to name a few. [More…]

• After all, with the $ 10 or even $20 a week that a mother will receive by way of child endowment, she cannot buy good education for her children; she cannot purchase housing; she cannot get access to community facilities. [More…]

• Access to good education and good health care and the availability of reasonably priced housing will also improve, perhaps even more significantly improve, opportunities for poor families. [More…]

• Senator Ryan mentioned also the problem of housing, which is still with us, and the problems related to the education of children. [More…]

• Despite the fact that motherhood is the most responsible job that I have undertaken, my professional skills and knowledge gain no accreditation from any educational or professional body. [More…]

• There is no specific training available to mothers, yet to become a competent mother I have found it necessary to study child psychology and education, elementary nursing and human physiology, cookery and nutrition, general housekeeping and domestic economy. [More…]

• Although I have to do this at my own expense (or that of my husband) I am ineligible to claim a tax allowance for textbooks, educational courses or ancillary aids and equipment necessary for my work (nor may my husband claim on my behalf although I am classified as his dependant! [More…]

• The objectives that parents have for their children should be those that lead them to undertake the responsibilities that lead to sound education, to adequate health and care and to the other opportunities which only parents are able to make possible for their children for their future development. [More…]

• I intend to put forward a point of view for the purpose of comment by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I feel that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) with undue flippancy passed over the comments that were made in the second reading debate. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has drawn attention to the fact that the Government has had a series of negotiations with the trade union movement about the legislation and that the legislation has in part been modified in line with those negotiations. [More…]

• I suggest that, in the long term, the capacity of this Government or of any government to operate in the enormously important areas of defence, social security, education or local government, across the whole canvas, is directly related to its capacity to control inflation. [More…]

• I refer to the statement of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in regard to the collegiate system when he said that the Government accepts in principle a form of collegiate voting, but the system adopted must be consistent with its policy of the fullest participation by members.’ [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Education to explain to the Senate when replying in the debate why there has been haste in introducing this legislation and why it is being forced through the Senate so quickly when there are already ample provisions in the trade union movement for members to request a secret postal ballot. [More…]

• I am particularly interested in the point raised by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech with regard to the collegiate system. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), when introducing the Bill, mentioned this subject, and the Minister in the other place gave an undertaking concerning it. [More…]

• The fact ofthe matter is that, as I put earlier, Senator Harradine is talking about an Act ofthe Parliament and the amendments to that Act which, as the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, well knows, deals with subject matters different from the sections of the Act which the Senate is debating. [More…]

• Loban (Qld) Culture and Education. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the Government is considering the introduction of education vouchers? [More…]

• Is this despite the fact that voucher schemes have been generally abandoned in the United States and that they increase educational inequalities and are administratively very difficult? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that the principal of John Flynn College at James Cook University, Mr James Martin, in a report debated in Brisbane on Wednesday, blamed the Radford scheme for an increase in the failure rate of first year university students? [More…]

• Can the Minister advise whether the Universities Commission or the Australian Department of Education has undertaken any research on the effect the Radford scheme is having on first year university students, particularly with regard to study techniques and the evaluation of lecture material? [More…]

• Finally, has the Queensland Government sought any assistance or guidance from the Minister relating to the announcement last Tuesday that it intends establishing a committee to inquire into the standards of primary, secondary and tertiary education in that State? [More…]

• My own Department and its subsidiaries- the Education Research and Development Committee, the Curriculum Development Committee and other elements of the Department- are enormously interested in all reports that come forward, including the Radford committee report and other material. [More…]

• I should add that I think it is timely, both in the States and in the Commonwealth, to open up one’s mind from time to time to the whole question of the success or failure of our education systems at all levels and, I think the honourable senator will agree, to challenge existing beliefs and orthodoxies to see whether we can do better. [More…]

• Just as last year when the Whitlam Government in its Budget announced major cutbacks in public welfare programs and education programs, including a $105m cutback in the programs of the 4 education commissions, so when this Government exerts its duty and responsibility to make alterations in its own programs there will be some public comment. [More…]

• Last year I did not hear Senator Gietzelt suggest austerity when his own Government cut education programs by $ 105m and the Schools Commission program by $43 m. He sees austerity now where he saw great joy last year. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I have taken the view- I am sure that my Government also takes the view- that the question of the need for teachers in a particular State is one for the State government concerned since, I think everyone must agree, sovereignty regarding primary and secondary education in Australia lies with the State governments. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he has been able to take action to remedy any of the anomalies that exist between the support provided to students attending private secretarial colleges, and whether he has been able to assist the particular college that [More…]

• I made it clear to the Senate at that stage that this Government, faced with the position, as the previous Government was, of placing limitations on the amount of money available for various programs of education, had placed a limitation on the program to which Senator Steele Hall has referred and advised all nongovernment tertiary institutions, before December of last year and before the recruitment of students for this year, that the amount of money available to them for this calendar year would be the same as the amount available last year and no greater. [More…]

• Investigation will continue on the need for a national body to co-ordinate education in social welfare in Australia. [More…]

• The Opposition does not oppose the Bill but I want to make a couple of comments, in particular with reference to statements made in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) as recorded on page 2210 of Senate Hansard of 2 June 1976. [More…]

• I wish to direct a question to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) relating to that part of the second reading speech which says: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What is the current Government policy towards the proposition of the previous Government, favouring the amalgamation of the Australian University Commission and the Commission of Advanced Education. [More…]

• What are the new deadlines for the submission of amended recommendations of the Australian University Commission and the Commission of Advanced Education io the Australian Government for drafting the education segment of the Budget. [More…]

• Have any instructions been given to the funding Commission on the issue of triennial planning of education expenditure. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Isolated Childrens’ Parents Association requested the Minister to initiate an immediate upgrading of the means tested allowances covering fees and other costs for parents of high school children who board away from home in order to complete their education. [More…]

• The Department of Education: to facilitate the processing of claims for financial assistance to students. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The First World Conference on Gifted Children held in London in 1975, was attended by the Counsellor (Education) of the Australian High Commission, London and a senior officer of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• A summary of the conference was received by the Department of Education from the Counsellor (Education) til’ the Australian High Commission, London and the Schools Commission’s officer prepared a report for the Commission which included a number of recommendations. [More…]

• The Schools Commission is presently preparing its report to cover the period 1977-79 for the Government and will be considering all aspects of primary and secondary education, including the education of students with special aptitudes and talents. [More…]

• Community Health Services conduct Health Education programs in schools and the Education Department is currently reviewing the effectiveness of the program. [More…]

• The Aboriginal Medical Service provides health education at the AMS Centre. [More…]

• 16) (a) Effective consultation takes place between Adult Education, Technical Education of W.A., Education Depanment and Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• The Department of Education is now reviewing the health education program for schools and communities in conjunction with the Community Health Services with a view to upgrading the service as required. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Responsibility for the distribution of these grants rests with the Queensland Minister of Education. [More…]

• The Ministers were accompanied by Mr A. Ridge, Minister for the North-west, Perth; Mr B. Dexter, Secretary, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Canberra; Mr F. Gare, Director, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Perth; Mr K. Maine, Director, Department of Community Welfare, Perth; Dr L. Holman, Director, Community Health Services, Perth; Dr J. Rowe, Assistant Principal Medical Officer, Medical Department, Perth; Dr W. Langsford, First Assistant Director-General, Australian Department of Health, Canberra; Mr K. Jones, Secretary, Department of Education, Canberra; Mr J. Booth, Senior Social Work Supervisor, Kimberley Division, Department of Community Welfare, Perth; Mr M. Hepburn, Social Work Supervisor, Kimberley Division, Department of Community Welfare, Derby; Mr D. Cavanagh, Private Secretary to Minister for Aboriginal Affairs; Mr Z. Kovacs, Journalist, ‘West Australian’, Perth. [More…]

• The West Australian Government placed 23 additional staff in the Kimberleys (Education- 1, Preschool Board- 8, Community Welfare- 14). [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Is it a fact that no new students will be admitted to quota places at the University of Queensland in the second semester of 1976; if so (a) have any other Australian universities or colleges of advanced education placed similar restrictions on student intakes in 1976, (b) can the Minister estimate how many (i) full-time, (ii) part-time and (iii) external students will be affected by the restrictions imposed by the University of Queensland and other universities or colleges of advanced education and (c) have these restrictions resulted from any financial cut-backs imposed by the Australian Government. [More…]

• The level of quotas set by universities and colleges of advanced education to achieve recommended student numbers and the method of application of those quotas are matters for determination by individual institutions themselves. [More…]

• Recommended student numbers on which the funding of universities and colleges of advanced education was based in 1976 are set out in the reports of the two tertiary Commissions for that year. [More…]

• In respect of students with pre-school children undertaking courses at technical colleges and tertiary institutions, will the Government ensure that courses of study will not be disrupted and that Government money already expended on their education will not be wasted as a result of a change in government policy midway through the academic year. [More…]

• to (5) The Commonwealth Government’s direct assistance to apprenticeship is currently in excess of $40m a year, quite aside from its support in the area of technical and further education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• That pre-school education is the right of every child, irrespective of financial circumstances; [More…]

• full day care, occassional day care, sessional pre-schools, family day care, residential care, play groups, parent education programs, holiday programs, toy libraries, mobile pre-school units and any other areas concerned with the total development of the child. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware that the School of Social Sciences at the Western Australian Institute of Technology recently jointly sponsored a Third World Conference at the Institute? [More…]

• Were any federal education funds supplied to the Institute used to pay any of the costs of the solidarity week conference? [More…]

• If educational funds were used, in what manner were they used and who authorised their use? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has he received a copy of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts relating in particular to the education of isolated children?Has he read the report and arranged for a departmental study of its contents, particularly its recommendations? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -Negotiations are taking place with the States at the present time with regard to future funding for pre-school education. [More…]

• It is necessary to discuss with the States their programs for pre-school education and the manner in which the Commonwealth Government may participate with them in the future. [More…]

• -Was the Minister for Education correctly reported in the University of Queensland publication Varsity News of 14 July 1 976 as having said on the occasion of his July visit to the University of Queensland that ‘the 1976 calendar year has seen an absolute decline of 8300 students in the tertiary sector’? [More…]

• -Whilst I do not recall whether in fact in that speech I used such a reference, I have on occasions- and presumably then- made reference to the fact that in the costing of education in the 1976 calendar year, from evidence given to the Department of Education through the various commissions by the institutions concerned, the effect would be that the number of first year enrolment places in both universities and colleges for the calendar year 1976 would be some 8300 fewer than in 1975. [More…]

• The effect of this was to cut back the program of the 4 education commissions for the calendar year 1976 by a total of $105m compared with 1975. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• People who intend to return to school or to some other form of education are not regarded as being unemployed. [More…]

• He is a fellow of the Incorporated Phonographic Society, London, and a member of the Council of the Commercial Education Society of Australia. [More…]

• Lest the Labor Party should try to pin on us the cutback I remind it that the only government that has ever cut back education at the federal level was the Whitlam Government of last year. [More…]

• It cut back the education budget by $ 105m. [More…]

• I remind the Labor Party that its thesis in the whole of that argument was: ‘We must cut back on capital works in education because if we put money into capital works in education that will create inflation and that will destroy the cost structure. ‘ [More…]

• Anybody who was listening to the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, the previous speaker in this debate, would have heard a fairly hysterical outburst which revealed his somewhat halucinatory vision of the policies of the LiberalNational Country Party Government. [More…]

• The balance was to be expended by other departments with which the Department of Aboriginal Affairs acts in close collaboration such as the Department of Health, the Department of Education for study grants, secondary grants and special programs in the Northern Territory, and the Department of Housing and Construction in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In conjunction with his colleagues the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and myself, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) is reviewing the relationship between widespread Aboriginal unemployment and the social consequences, in many cases disastrous for communities in remote areas, of the payment of unemployment benefits. [More…]

• In conjunction with my colleagues the Minister for Education and the Minister for Health, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs is considering and reviewing the needs of Aboriginal people in those areas against the background of the coalition parties’ policy statement. [More…]

• There have been significant developments in the field of education and the attention which has been given to programs in this area is beginning to show results. [More…]

• That the Senate take note of the Report of the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the Education of Isolated School Children. [More…]

• All of this was of particular value to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts which is one of a number of Senate committees involved in a wide range of activities and one which is devoting itself with some intensity to the references that are currently before it. [More…]

• At the same time I want to express our appreciation to you, the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, and the staff of that committee, for the work that went into compiling the report on Isolated children. [More…]

• In addition to that the release of the report of the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts at the time received a great deal of interest and favourable Press coverage for which, of course, members of the Committee are particularly appreciative. [More…]

• In speaking at the Broken Hill meeting specifically about the report of the Senate Committee I not only referred to the details of the recommendations in the Senate Committee’s report but also had a few things to say in relation to the wide field of education. [More…]

• In this connection I made the point that the major purpose of education is to provide opportunity for selffulfilment and personal development. [More…]

• I also pointed out that for some considerable time it has been generally felt that free access to education was a powerful instrument of social mobility and for this reason governments everywhere had given a great deal of attention to the provision of free public education. [More…]

• These governments had tried to ensure that facilities at a given level of education were equal for all people. [More…]

• I made the additional point that education should really ensure that all children in their growth from a dependent to an independent status in our society should have the opportunity to find their own identity as social beings and that if all these arguments had any weight at all it surely followed that they must be applied to the situation of what we know as isolated school children. [More…]

• As honourable senators will see, the report discusses possible courses of action which might be taken by education authorities at both Commonwealth level and State level so that there can be an alleviation of the educational disadvantage or hardship which is suffered by what we call isolated children. [More…]

• I would say that if these recommendations are implemented they will go a long way towards giving assistance to parents of isolated children, parents who are endeavouring to give their families the same educational opportunities as other children. [More…]

• I direct this question to Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education received representations from the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association claiming injustice or inconsistency in the introduction of fees for second or higher degree courses while pre-school teacher trainees are to be exempt from such austerity measures? [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the very great impetus to tertiary and post-graduate education in the 1950s and 1960s came under governments of Liberal faith. [More…]

• I am happy to tell the Senate that a document that I will be tabling today- the report of the Commission on Advanced Education- signifies that the Commission will be able to take in some 10 per cent of the new first year enrolments next year. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to the area of migrant education and to what appear to be cutbacks in the proposed program. [More…]

• I ask: Will the Minister give me some information on the migrant education program? [More…]

• I further ask: Has his Department done any research on both the continuing needs and the changing new requirements which are evident in the migrant education field? [More…]

• I am happy to inform the Senate that all the reports which I have read or heard in the media suggesting a 50 per cent cutback in migrant education are based on a complete but natural misunderstanding of the Budget papers. [More…]

• In fact, what the Budget papers do not disclose in that column is that in the past year there has been a transfer of child migrant education from the Department, which funded that program in the first half of last year to the extent of some $10m, to the Schools Commission program. [More…]

• Taken overall, the position is that a substantial amount of money will be made available by the Government to migrant education, particularly for the child migrant. [More…]

• I therefore ask the Minister: Will special attention be given to the education of those departments and officials in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory who apparently either do not know of child abuse or else do not understand the need for proper community monitoring to detect the true incidence of the abuse by adults of defenceless children? [More…]

• With regard to that part of the question relating to education of officials in the Departments of the Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, I can say only that where programs were able to be developed information would be given to officials of the departments concerned. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 1 5 of the Commission on Advanced Education Act 1971-1973, I present the report of the Commission on Advanced Education for the Triennium 1977-79. [More…]

• 5m in December 1975 prices, among colleges of advanced education for recurrent expenditure in 1 977. [More…]

• The Australian Government provided, and I understand still provides, significant finance and /or meets operational expenditure for education and health services, and the existence of the Territory Administration, the airfield and other related services on Cocos provide indirect benefits to the Home Island community and the Estate. [More…]

• It was a matter of urgency because for so long undertakings had been given to the people of the Cocos Malay community-by the McMahon Government as well as by the Labor Government- and to the United Nations by governments, and apparently nothing had been done other than the introduction of primary school education on Home Island and the appointment of an administrator. [More…]

• health and education services to be extended; [More…]

• The purposes for which funds are provided under this program are education, research, support of national family planning bodies- the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations and the Catholic Social Welfare Commission- and for the non-clinical costs of State family planning associations. [More…]

• The Commonwealth role will be one of co-ordination, rationalisation, education and research. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that erroneous statements have been made by the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate to the effect that Tasmania’s education system has been one of the biggest casualties of the Budget and that the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education had been the biggest sufferer? [More…]

• -I take it that Senator Walters is referring to the report in the Hobart Mercury of yesterday under the heading ‘Education Hit Hard ‘. [More…]

• The simple truth is that he sought to compare the figures for the latter half of 1975, which contain significant education expenditure, with the figures for the first half of 1976, which faced the only and the major cutback in expenditure. [More…]

• The honourable senator should know that the figures he used reflect the severe cut by the previous Government of nearly $ 1 70m in the 1 976 capital programs of the 4 education commissions. [More…]

• Whereas in the 1976 calendar year, the final year in which Senator Wriedt’s Party had control, education institutions had $5. [More…]

• As to the colleges of advanced education, I am happy to say that whereas in this calendar year $ 1.48m will be spent, next year $2. [More…]

• Some of the issues go to the fundamental matter of transition from education to work. [More…]

• This affects all young people leaving full time education, not just those in tertiary institutions. [More…]

• Growing concern is being expressed at the educational system, particularly that the pattern of postsecondary education is not matching the employment needs of many young people or the demands of the labour market. [More…]

• As the honourable senator will know, work experience is seen as part of the educational process in a number of overseas countries. [More…]

• Of these measures, the Government regards as the most far-reaching the provisions in the Bill for the subsidising by the Government of pre-marital education programs. [More…]

• However, the presentation of set programs or courses of pre-marital education that are not related to the particular circumstances of the persons attending them falls outside the concept of counselling. [More…]

• While the Government recognises, and will continue to support, the invaluable counselling work of both the approved counselling organisations and the Family Court counsellors, we feel that pre-marital education programs and courses can, if supported and made more widely available, also play an important part in helping to reduce marital instability. [More…]

• Accordingly, the Bill enables grants of money to be made to approved organisations for the conduct of pre-marital education programs. [More…]

• In the same way as under the relevant provisions of the Family Law Act, the amendments provide for approved organisations to furnish annual financial statements and reports on their premarital education activities. [More…]

• Honourable senators would be aware that already several organisations are conducting worthwhile pre-marital education programs. [More…]

• It is envisaged that in the first instance, the funds available will be applied towards some pilot programs to determine the relative effectiveness of various types of pre-marital education programs. [More…]

• An important corollary to assisting the provision of pre-marital education is the need to increase public awareness of the existence of these programs. [More…]

• This Bill therefore inserts a requirement in the Marriage Act for a celebrant to hand to the parties to an intended marriage a document, in a form to be prescribed, outlining the obligations and consequences of marriage and indicating the availability of both pre-marital education and marriage counselling. [More…]

• I have already indicated that the proposal to subsidise pre-marital education does not imply any diminution in the importance that the Government attaches to individual marriage counselling. [More…]

• Consistently with the policy of the Family Law Act towards the use of counselling, the Bill does not go to the extent of imposing a more general requirement of compulsory attendance at premarital education or counselling. [More…]

• I understand that it is the view of most marriage counselling experts that counselling or education is most likely to be effective where it is sought voluntarily. [More…]

• I hope that the combination of the amendments to extend the period of notice of intended marriage and to require celebrants to hand the prescribed document to the parties on giving notice will encourage more engaged couples to consider the value of attending a pre-marital education course. [More…]

• Because of the urgency of the situation we decided to adopt the course that we followed, lt was a matter of urgency because for so long undertakings had been given to the people of the Cocos Malay community- by the McMahon Government as well as by the Labor Government- and to the United Nations by governments, and apparently nothing had been done other than the introduction of primary school education on Home Island and the appointment of an administrator. [More…]

• We talked to the mothers and learned of the lack of educational opportunities. [More…]

• We heard of the frustrations of the younger ones who, off their own bat, had been able to educate themselves to work in some position, like the young lass working in the doctor’s surgery who wanted to go on further with her studies but found that under the existing laws she could not get into Australia to further her education. [More…]

• I suppose the people who had the greatest impact were the mothers who appealed to us to do something to allow their children to receive a better education. [More…]

• Education is not compulsory. [More…]

• The students have primary education but provision is not made for secondary or tertiary education. [More…]

• I have received letters from 3 people on the Island who wish to further their education. [More…]

• They only asked me to see whether we could do something about them furthering their education. [More…]

• Therefore, we can be God and say that your level of education can stop at 12 years of age’. [More…]

• We have to provide primary, secondary, technical education and, in selected cases, tertiary education on the mainland. [More…]

• As Senator Mcintosh stated earlier, the Mission regretted that primary education was not yet compulsory on Home Island and that the curriculum was limited in its scope. [More…]

• It referred to the necessity to institute compulsory education throughout the territory. [More…]

• Another problem that I believe the Commission had is that the welfare field in general and the social security field in general does not only involve the Department of Social Security but also involves departments dealing with education, housing, the environment, urban and regional development and in particular the Attorney-General’s Department in respect of legal aid. [More…]

• The assumption that was made because the Department of Education has certain policies with regard to new initiatives is not a correct one. [More…]

• The Budget deficit is being loaded on the shoulders of 3 groups in the community- the very young who have had to accept financial sacrifices in the field of education, pre-school training and so on; the very old, including the frail aged to whom Senator Baume referred, and the people in between- the gathering numbers of unemployed. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education or to the appropriate Minister. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Education in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• By way of preface I inform the Minister that I have in my possession a 1 7-page review and position paper on education vouchers prepared by the staff of the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]

• As this Centre comes within the responsibility of the Minister’s portfolio, I ask: How can he justify the involvement of the staff and of resources of the Centre in the preparation of a document basically critical of the education voucher proposal when the functions of the Centre, according to section 5 of the Curriculum Development Centre Act, are confined specifically to school curricula and school education materials? [More…]

• Further, because of the interest of the Minister and of the Prime Minister in the matter of education vouchers, is the Minister able to enlighten me as to what the staff of the Centre meant when it described the proposed models for voucher systems as having ‘aggressively ideological underpinnings’? [More…]

• -Recently I was sent a copy of a document- presumably the same document to which the honourable senator has referredby the Director of the Curriculum Development Centre in relation to education vouchers. [More…]

• It is quite appropriate for any section of the Department of Education and its ancillaries to respond to any problems. [More…]

• We encourage them to put their minds to the issues to which education responds as a whole, so this would not be outside their charter. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that section 5 ( 1 ) of the Act sets out the functions which are limited to devising, developing and promoting and assisting in the devising and development of school curricula and school educational material? [More…]

• Could the Minister advise the Senate what relationship the document which the Centre has prepared regarding education vouchers has to the Centre’s functions under the Act? [More…]

• It is a body existing for the primary purpose of advising the Department of Education and, through it, the Minister and the Government of the day. [More…]

• Indeed, the legislation enables the Minister to invite the body to undertake very wide educational activities. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and is in response to the answer he just gave to Senator Harradine. [More…]

• It would mean the destruction of the whole concept of education. [More…]

• Of course the statutory bodies must be encouraged to think in the concept of education as a whole, and that the Government is encouraging them to do. [More…]

• They pointed to the percentage of funds expended on pre-school education in the past year and expressed the need for development of child care facilities in the various States. [More…]

• It will be understood by honourable senators that as I have announced earlier, discussions are at present taking place with State governments with regard to funding arrangements for pre-school education in the next year. [More…]

• -I present a report on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, relating in particular to outstanding references. [More…]

• In relation to the reference by the Senate to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts relating to broadcasting and television, the Committee has already tabled in the Senate 3 progress reports on this matter and currently a government inquiry into television and broadcasting is being undertaken. [More…]

• It only remains for me to observe that the reference on the education of isolated school children has recently been completed and, as you know, Sir, our report has been tabled in the Senate. [More…]

• As a past member and past chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts I regret that the Committee has decided not to continue with the Australia Council reference. [More…]

• This Government has already reduced the amount of assistance for the education of isolated children by $l.lm in this Budget. [More…]

• I will endeavour to enlighten a few of the Government senators who are present about the possible ramifications of the Budget in the areas of Aboriginal welfare, housing, education and employment. [More…]

• Funds will continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health, legal aid etc. [More…]

• That cut concerns the health, education, welfare and employment of people. [More…]

• I am sure that all those Aborigines who are deprived of satisfactory health care, welfare benefits, education and housing while the Government determines the ‘indiscriminate spending’ will be eternally grateful. [More…]

• We have seen it in the area of education where there have been real increases in expenditure for this year. [More…]

• There have been cuts in education programs which the ABC alone gives to the people of Australia. [More…]

• They are important to the whole spectrum of the development of culture in this country and the development of a diversity of education facilities. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a letter which appeared in the Melbourne Age this morning from Professor Ronald Goldman, acting Dean of the La Trobe University School of Education, relating to the supply of teachers for Australian schools? [More…]

• Will the Minister dispel Professor Goldman’s fears that the interim report will be used as an excuse by the Government to cut back funds for teacher education? [More…]

• Far from that; it has been submitted through the Australian Education Council to the 6 State Ministers for Education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education for complete re-examination. [More…]

• For example I refer to the whole pupilteacher ratio, the use in future of teachers in various ways-their use in the technical and further education field; their use in the pre-school fieldand the question of whether Professor Borrie ‘s projection on immigration will be correct in the long term. [More…]

• These are particularly housing, health, employment and education, all of which are interdependent. [More…]

• Among other things we have to contend with education systems and health services which inadequately serve our real needs, with the meanest standards of housing and, especially where Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders live in isolated communities and settlements, deficient community infrastructure services. [More…]

• I wish publicly to say ‘thank you’ to everybody who assisted the Committee in those 2 areas, particularly the specialists in the various fields of anthropology, health, education and so on, who went to very great lengths to produce documents setting out their views in specialist areas which assisted the [More…]

• The Opposition will not be opposing this Bill for reasons which emerge partly from the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in which he sets out in some detail the main purposes and effects of the legislation. [More…]

• In the second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said: [More…]

• He will recall, as will Senator Douglas McClelland, that it was the bipartisan approach to FM radio of this Senate, through the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, of which I was a member at the time, which led to a recommendation on FM radio being made to this Senate. [More…]

• The isolated children’s education allowance has not only been reduced in absolute terms but also the Government has failed to increase it in terms of the individual grant. [More…]

• In education we see a circumstance in which, in spite of the fairly tight guidelines in which we find ourselves as an economy, the actual expenditure is up by 1 5.3 per cent and we are returning to triennial funding. [More…]

• The Committee’s reports will be considered along with all other submissions from the public and from the Government when the Government undertakes reforms in education. [More…]

• The Government has made it abundantly clear that it proposes to retain the Schools Commission in its role as a statutory commission along with the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education to conduct inquiries and to make recommendations to the Government. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Is the Minister aware that the South Australian Budget will be presented in the South Australian Parliament today? [More…]

• Also, has the Minister seen a report in today’s Australian that the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, is likely to cut back on education with reported likely savings of some $50m? [More…]

• I was quite surprised to read a suggestionI have no knowledge of whether it is accurate- that there would be substantial cutbacks by Mr Dunstan in the Budget and that a large one, to the extent of $55m, would be made in education. [More…]

• If it chooses to make cutbacks in revenue items such as education then that is a decision of its own accord and is in no way related to the volume of funds available to it. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Social Security: Has the Government made a decision to transfer all the pre-school functions and funding from the Office of Child Care to the Department of Education? [More…]

• As has been announced previously, the Government is considering the future funding of pre-school education. [More…]

• With regard to advice from State consultative committees and other groups concerning the separation of child care from pre-school education, I am not aware of any recent advice along those lines because no such advice has been requested from State consultative committees. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and refers to the report of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education for the triennium 1977-79. [More…]

• In view of this alarming forecast and the need to consider urgently an interim form of action pending realistic financing for technical education, will the Government give consideration to the possibility of utilising any spare capacity in tertiary education institutions so that all applicants for technical education courses will be catered for immediately rather than that they should have to postpone their enrolments. [More…]

• I have stated in the Senate before that technical and further education has been neglected by Federal and State governments of the past when contrasted with other areas of education. [More…]

• It is acknowledged also that there is a need to put much more emphasis on and thrust into the technical education area. [More…]

• In any case there is under contemplation a major co-ordination and rationalisation of post, secondary and tertiary areas of education and there may well be ways in which surplus facilities can be distributed. [More…]

• In short, without reconditioning the reserve people, without devising a new program of intensive psychological propaganda, a new education, all lesser efforts must fail. [More…]

• We have increased education expenditure by 15 per cent and social security and welfare expenditure by 23 per cent. [More…]

• This evening I intend to direct most of my comments to education, because I believe that this is an area which has been neglected in the Budget. [More…]

• Despite widespread comments to the contrary and protests by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), there has been a great deal of condemnation of certain aspects of the Budget with relation to education. [More…]

• In fact I intend to quote from publications of the 4 education commissions which contain criticisms of the guidelines which form part of the Budget. [More…]

• The Commission on Advanced Education in its report for the same triennium, 1977-79, said: [More…]

• This Commission has been charged with the responsibility of providing advice on the needs of advanced education. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Commission report for the same triennium mentioned that increased enrolments are not catered for by the projected growth rates in Commonwealth grants. [More…]

• These remarks were made by the 4 education commissions which had to report to the Government. [More…]

• Before making any further comments about what has been done in the Budget to education throughout Australia, I wish to make some comments about statements which have been made by the Minister for Education because I believe that he has been totally misleading. [More…]

• In its issue dated 14 July it reported the Minister as saying: the Minister said that when he inherited the portfolio 7 months ago, education spending had been cut already by $ 105m by the previous Government. [More…]

• It was the Whitlam Government which in August 1 975 cut the 4 education commission budgets by $ 105m for the calendar year 1 976 compared with 1975 . [More…]

• It was a shortfall between the 1976 component of the 1976-78 triennial funding recommendations made by the various education commissions and the 1976 interim year allocation for education subsequently announced in the 1975 Budget. [More…]

• Incidentally, in 1975-76 there was a real increase in expenditure on education over that of 1 974-75. [More…]

• 1 shall go a little further about the Minister’s comments relating to cuts in education. [More…]

• I was speaking about some comments which had been made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and was going to speak on 2 comments in particular. [More…]

• I referred firstly to the statement, which he has made consistently, that the previous Government cut $105m from the education vote. [More…]

• I pointed out that he had made the statement in a number of places but that the cut was not really a cut in the normal sense but was a shortfall between the 1976 component of the 1976-78 trienniel funding recommendations made by the 4 education commissions and the 1976 interim year allocation for education subsequently announced at [More…]

• The Government grant for education in 1977, which has been allocated in this Budget, is $508m in December 1975 prices. [More…]

• So if the same sort of argument is used as the Minister for Education uses with regard to the cutting of expenditure by the previous Government there is a shortfall of about $200m for just one Commission, the Schools Commission. [More…]

• I invite the Minister for Education in future, if he makes claims similar to his previous claim that education spending was cut by $ 105 m by the previous Government when he took over the education portfolio, to go one step further and say: ‘But we have done better than that: In just one Commission, the Schools Commission, we have cut education expenditure by $200m’. [More…]

• On 18 August I asked of the Minister for Education in this place a question about his claim that there were fewer students at tertiary institutions this year than there were last year. [More…]

• Was the Minister for Education correctly reported in the University of Queensland publication Varsity News of 14 July 1976 as having said on the occasion of his July visit to the University of Queensland that ‘the 1976 calendar year has seen an absolute decline of 8300 students in the tertiary sector’? [More…]

• from evidence given to the Department of Education through the various commissions by the institutions concerned, the effect would be that the number of first year enrolment places in both universities and colleges for the calendar year 1 976 would be some 8300 fewer than in 1 975. [More…]

• For colleges of advanced education 26 536 students enrolled for the first time in 1975. [More…]

• But on 24 August, 6 days after the Minister gave me an answer to my question, the Parliamentary Library said that the figures for first year enrolments for colleges of advanced education for 1976 were not yet available. [More…]

• If they were available there would have to have been a drop of over 8000 students in colleges of advanced education; in other words, going from 26000 students down to about 16 000 students. [More…]

• I invite him to give correct figures and to give correct figures on what the Budget has done for education this year. [More…]

• It is worthwhile repeating what the Minister for Education said at the time. [More…]

• We will have returned to where we were before the Labor Government came to power and abolished fees at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The investigation will also cover the question of the reintroduction of tertiary education fees for those classes of students mentioned in my statement of 20 May. [More…]

• In answer to a question in the House of Representatives only recently it was stated that the Minister for Education had said that statistics on the total number of persons enrolled for second degree courses in Australia were not available. [More…]

• In the department of Education at the University of Queensland there are, at the moment, a total of 140 part-time post-graduate students. [More…]

• In 1976, of a total of 24 post-graduate students in the Department of Education at the [More…]

• Of 16 students pursuing a master of education degree, thirteen are part-time. [More…]

• The same situation holds with master of education and administration degrees. [More…]

• There are 105 students undertaking master of educational studies and ninty-one of these are part dme. [More…]

• We have decided to continue to have free university education, without fee, as introduced by the previous Government’. [More…]

• I want to outline something that the Minister for Education has said on this subject. [More…]

• Finally I want to make some comment about the allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• A similar situation holds for colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Also there is a cut in student assistance for technical education. [More…]

• In the field of technical education $20.2m was allotted last year and $20.2m has been allotted this year. [More…]

• On 24 August the Minister for Education made this announcement in a Press statement: [More…]

• Tonight I have mentioned quite a number of aspects in which I believe this Budget is deficient in the field of education. [More…]

• Education is an investment in the future. [More…]

• The Government would be well advised to make education one of its major priorities. [More…]

• Much was said about the cuts to the migrant education program and to problems which we migrants have, but the fact is that the Commonwealth has a migrant education program which will be maintained in 1976-77 at the same level of activity as in 1975- 76. [More…]

• In addition expenditure is proposed for capital works and services in connection with education centres in hostels and migrant education centres in the capital cities. [More…]

• The Press widely reported the cuts in education and the migrant education allowances but that was a misunderstanding. [More…]

• Since the last Budget the responsibility for reimbursing the States for moneys spent on child migrant education has been transferred from the Department of Education to the Schools Commission. [More…]

• In 1975-76 an amount of $ 10.3m was spent by the department on child migrant education. [More…]

• In addition to these amounts the Department of Education has also estimated expenditure in 1976- 77 of $691,000 on child migrant education to be spent on the production of material, conferences, special arrangements for refugee children and a language test development project. [More…]

• The Department of Education also estimates that it will spend $7,920,000 on its adult migrant education program. [More…]

• They failed to discuss vital issues such as education and immigration. [More…]

• Senator Colston spoke just before I did about education. [More…]

• He said that education has been neglected. [More…]

• He also cited 4 bodies which criticised the Government for the so-called cuts in education. [More…]

• I would like to refer to the problem of education later in my speech. [More…]

• The Government has done extremely well to encompass in this program the tools of growth, welfare and recovery and accompany these with radical taxation measures, social welfare and rural reforms as well as to begin implementation of new policies in areas such as education. [More…]

• As Senator Colston said previously, education is an area which deserves top priority. [More…]

• As a matter of fact, our Government gives top priority to educational problems. [More…]

• Senator Carrick addressed an international conference on our Government’s view of existing problems in education. [More…]

• It we fail to do this, education is no longer relevant or alive. [More…]

• The dean of the faculty of education at Sydney University, Professor W. F. Connell, told the same conference that these changes were dangerously overdue as education was just not keeping up with the times. [More…]

• The proposals contained in the Budget amount to a 15.3 per cent boost on the previous year in education. [More…]

• Technical and further education institutions will receive a 5 per cent growth in real terms. [More…]

• I wonder how many honourable senators really appreciate the situation that exists at the moment with respect to the replacement of any Australian Public Service position, say in education. [More…]

• I shall mention ceilings a little further on but let me take a look at education, because it is the area I know best in the Northern Territory, and see what effect this Government’s policies- part of the package- are having on education. [More…]

• The situation has developed whereby the physically and mentally handicapped children are going to be told to stay home because the Department of Education cannot cope with them. [More…]

• I think I have spoken before in this place on the way in which the system in the Northern Territory is structured for making education available to the physically and mentally handicapped within the schools but requiring the use of teacher aides. [More…]

• Obviously this would mean a lowering of the standard of education provided. [More…]

• This is particularly important in the area of the Aboriginal teaching assistants and the other Aboriginal people working within the Department of Education. [More…]

• I see it no lesser terms than being a vicious and unnecessary attack on the wonderful advances that were made in these 2 areas during the last 3 years- the areas of Aboriginal education and special education. [More…]

• May I stay with the Department of Education and indicate one more area of Government policy which is causing a lot of concern, that is, the lack of co-ordination in the Budget cuts. [More…]

• The Department of Education has been given plenty of money to hire vehicles. [More…]

• The Plant Hire Organisation in Darwin which handles vehicles for hire has had its money cut so that it can make available to the Department of Education only 3 cars a year for all the senior officers and 60 advisers to travel throughout the Territory. [More…]

• I turn briefly to education. [More…]

• I have already spoken about the problem of staff ceilings in education. [More…]

• I just make the point to the Minister for Education that we in the Northern Territory are interested in staff and not money. [More…]

• I mention once again the shortage of staff at Darwin Community College which means that courses cannot be made available and apprentices are forced to travel interstate for theneducation. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister will be aware that the Executive Member for Education in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly has called for an inquiry into all aspects of education in the Territory. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate of the projected completion date for the construction of the Maritime College in Launceston, Tasmania? [More…]

• The report arises from a request by the former Minister for Education, the Honourable Kim E. Beazley, that the Commission report to him on several matters relating to the teaching of migrant languages and cultures, and linguistics, particularly Aboriginal linguistics, in Australian universities. [More…]

• So the unions are now to be made the scapegoat for that just as in June, the Prime Minister experiencing some feeling that perhaps his economic policies were not working, for which there was then abundant evidence, sought to make the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission a scapegoat and responsible for the level of inflation which we now have; and just as in the Senate in the last 2 days the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, in answer to questions, has sought to make State governments for the first time in Australian history responsible for the level of unemployment. [More…]

• Positive consideration of such matters as child endowment and basic education costs (fares, books, clothes) need attention. [More…]

• But of the total Federal and State funds available for post-secondary education this sector currently receives 25 per cent of the total funds available to meet recurrent costs and only 13.7 per cent of capital funds. [More…]

• Yet the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who is a member of this chamber says that he is giving more money than ever to education. [More…]

• I am very pleased with the wide range of items covered in the Budget in the field of education. [More…]

• I believe that in many cases we have built up many fallacies in respect of higher education and in fact most areas of education. [More…]

• We went through a phase a few years ago when it was believed that if one did not have a university education one did not count at all. [More…]

• But I believe that we have to look at higher education generally and we have to ask: ‘Does it provide a livelihood; does it provide fulfilment for the people engaged in it; and does it give them satisfaction?’ [More…]

• So often all that people who go on to higher education wind up with is a document on the wall. [More…]

• The view was held that if one was not good enough for university one went to a college of advanced education. [More…]

• It was long said that education was a process produced by academics to develop academics. [More…]

• The big fields for employment opportunities even now are in the areas where greater education is needed. [More…]

• If we examine a list of persons unemployed, we find generally that those with the least education are the first on that list. [More…]

• I was pleased to see that the expenditure for technical education has increased by $20. [More…]

• 4m; university education by $69.2m; and colleges of advanced education by $7 1.6m. [More…]

• In examining these figures, I was interested to find that the cost per student per annum is now $4,555 at universities and $4,428 per head at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I refer to the funding of education. [More…]

• Whilst all honourable senators in this chamber are aware of the various demands by the different sectors of education placed upon the taxpayers’ money and are aware of the various needs throughout the education community one very clear fact emerges from this Budget. [More…]

• There is to be a contraction and not an expansion in education opportunities in Australia at all levels. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has repeated in this chamber and outside the claim that education expenditure is to be increased. [More…]

• Education expenditure is not to be increased; it is to be reduced. [More…]

• The increases were specified as 2 per cent for universities plus an additional $2m for capital expenditure, 5 per cent for colleges of advanced education, 7.5 per cent for technical and further education and 2 per cent for schools. [More…]

• Not one of the four education commission reports which have been brought down recently- the reports of the Schools Commission, the Technical and Further Education Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Universities Commission- sustain the Treasurer’s claim that there will be real growth in education. [More…]

• All of the commission reports have been critical of this Government’s approach to the administration and the funding of education. [More…]

• For example, the Schools Commission points out that by imposing guidelines upon it as to what could be spent in the area of education the Government in fact was imposing on the Schools Commission a function which was not contained in its legislation. [More…]

• That legislation required it to advise in a objective way on the needs of education throughout Australia. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has repeatedly pointed out in this chamber that the Labor Government interrupted the process of triennial funding. [More…]

• All of the education commission reports acknowledge that the cessation in triennial funding for the period of 1976 was temporary and they rightfully assumed that had the Labor Government remained in office triennial funding would have been reinstated. [More…]

• If honourable senators look at the comments of those people who have to try to administer education programs under these rolling triennial funding programs they will see that these people express these views much more strongly and perhaps much more expertly than I am in a position to do tonight. [More…]

• All of the education commissions have condemned the failure of the Government to continue the Labor Government’s policy of automatic indexation of education costs. [More…]

• But when we look at the real strategies for assisting bodies such as the educational institutions to cope with inflation, what do we find? [More…]

• The Government has failed to continue automatic indexation, thus leaving these educational institutions in a position where they will be the victim of inflationary spirals, where they will not be able to plan and where they will have their so-called increases eaten up by the inflationary process because of the lack of indexation. [More…]

• Its main objective and the main objective of the Labor Government in setting it up was to work out a strategy whereby equality of opportunity in education for all Australian children could be achieved and could be achieved within a specific period. [More…]

• The Commission, through its federal programs, was working towards those objectives, but now, as a result of the change of education policy- the change of objective in education funding- of the present Government not enough funds are being provided to achieve that objective of equality of opportunity. [More…]

• Those are the words of the Schools Commission, the body which was set up to advise the Government on needs in education. [More…]

• When an economic crisis occurs with a situation of high unemployment, it is those lowest down the education and skill ladder who miss out. [More…]

• So those schools will be able to maintain high standards of education and the children attending those schools will continue to gain sound education which will qualify them for higher education or trade education and so on. [More…]

• So, by the withdrawal of these funds or by cutting down the objectives of the Schools Commission program, the Government demonstrates that it is prepared to allow educational inequalities to persist. [More…]

• The 1977-79 report by the Commission on Advanced Education is similarly critical of what the Government has done in regard to education funding. [More…]

• This Commission has been charged with the responsibility of providing advice on the needs of advanced education. [More…]

• The Government’s guidelines indicated that, within the funds available for 1977, there should be an increase in new enrolments in colleges of advanced education of 10 per cent between 1976 and 1977. [More…]

• the Commission gave consideration to the level of growth in advanced education which the Government’s guidelines would permit. [More…]

• The report of the Commission on Advanced Education states that because of financial restriction other matters will have to be neglected. [More…]

• Those honourable senators who have rural colleges of advanced education in their States will be aware of the absolute necessity of residential accommodation at such colleges. [More…]

• Similarly, there will be no research and investigation into colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• After all, colleges of advanced education are relatively new institutions. [More…]

• But no money is provided for research into the effectiveness of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• We find again cause for serious reservations about the Minister’s claim that there is a 2 per cent real growth permitted in education. [More…]

• Honourable senators, I have quoted that extract particularly because yesterday in the Senate in answer to a question from Senator Knight the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, insisted that a report in the Canberra Times regarding the plight of the Australian National University was wrong. [More…]

• The Minister suggested that there was no contraction of staff or of educational opportunities at the ANU. [More…]

• I now would like to turn the attention of the Senate to what I think is the most significant of the 4 Education Commission reports published recently, the report on technical and further education. [More…]

• We in this chamber have all agreed that the area of technical education in the past has been the most neglected area of education. [More…]

• The Kangan report of 1974 was the first comprehensive report of the needs of technical education. [More…]

• I suggest to the Senate that if this Government were really serious in its efforts to combat unemployment, if it were really serious about having a long term work force policy, if it were really serious about giving to the community the skills that members of the community need to be able to maintain employment under difficult circumstances, we would find evidence of this serious intent in the allocation to technical and further education. [More…]

• A reading of the technical and further education reports shows that not only will there be no increase, that the 7.5 per cent increase promised earlier by the Minister does not exist, but there will be a deterioration of education available in the technical area under the present Budget. [More…]

• I ask honourable senators opposite who are sceptical about what I am saying to read this report and to take very seriously the evidence put forward that there is something like a $78m shortfall in the Budget allowed for technical and further education if the target of only maintaining the standards of 1974 is to be achieved in 1979. [More…]

• We are moving to a situation which we knew very well in this country until the advent of the Labor Government, the situation where tertiary education is the prerogative of the elite. [More…]

• In this time of serious unemployment the Government could have taken a very constructive attitude to the whole question of training in education. [More…]

• Because of its preoccupation, the ideological bias it has against public sector spending, it has reduced education funding to a point where those responsible for the administration of education programs are in total confusion. [More…]

• The beneficiaries of education programs, the students, are unable to plan for their future because they do not know whether places will be available and they do not know whether they will be able to afford to study. [More…]

• It is perhaps fortuitous that the first Budget Paper with which I will deal is the one related to education. [More…]

• Senator Ryan devoted her speech exclusively to the subject of education. [More…]

• I suggest that the test is the provision of money for education. [More…]

• Commonwealth expenditure on education in 1976-77 is estimated at $2204m, an increase of 15.3 per cent. [More…]

• We heard a story about the education commissions. [More…]

• The great thing, in addition to the increase in the money available, is that the Government has restored the triennial program in education on a rolling basis, which allows for flexibility and adjustment at the end of each 12 months of the 3-year period. [More…]

• All the experts in education say that triennial funding is absoluetely necessary if there is to be a planned program. [More…]

• We know the unfortunate story of education under the previous Government. [More…]

• I pay tribute to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for his excellent work in restoring order to a significant portfolio in such a short period. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and I have been discussing whether an appropriate course could be instituted in Australia at one of the colleges of advanced education to train people in this field. [More…]

• The resettlement scheme will provide a resettlement allowance, free fares and other assistance such as scholarships for further education and training. [More…]

• The same approach had been taken in the field of education, which has already been dealt with very adequately by members of the Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]

• The moneys available for the education of the Australian people have been slashed in a most outrageous manner. [More…]

• I merely wish to say that the attack on the ABC- I must confess if one were to attack the ABC one could not pick a better mark than Alvin Purple- is part of an attack on something which the Australian people have become used to, that is, that the Commonwealth, through a statutory corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, should be providing to the Australian people entertainment and education of a type which they could not expect to obtain from commercial radio and television stations which operate only on the basis of making profits. [More…]

• I think this has been shown quite clearly in this Budget by the attitude adopted towards education, housing and social security. [More…]

• There certainly are countries which have much more lavish social services and much higher expenditure on education and health than Australia has. [More…]

• by leave- I wish to inform the Senate that the Government has decided to appoint a Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• The Committee will deal with a number of fundamental issues related to education. [More…]

• In particular, the Committee will examine the whole field of postsecondary education. [More…]

• It will also examine the broader problem of the relationship between education and the labour market. [More…]

• In the latter area the Committee will be asked to expand its review into secondary education as appropriate. [More…]

• I will deal firstly with post-secondary education. [More…]

• It is now more than a decade since the Martin report on tertiary education in Australia. [More…]

• In that decade there have been major changes in post-secondary education- changes which were strongly influenced by the Martin report itself. [More…]

• The whole system of colleges of advanced education has been developed. [More…]

• Recently the Commonwealth has become more heavily involved in technical and further education. [More…]

• Not merely has the structure of education altered. [More…]

• During this period also there has been a vigorous debate about the role of education in our society, about the purposes of education and in particular about the appropriate relationship between education and the economy. [More…]

• The developments in the structure of post-secondary education, the growing interest in concepts such as open education, recurrent education and retraining, the growing recognition of the importance of technical and further education and the question of education’s relevance to a person’s working life have led the Government to conclude that there is a need for a wide ranging review of the whole area of post-secondary education. [More…]

• The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is at present conducting a review of Australian education, focussing on the transition from school to work or further study. [More…]

• A national working party established by the Australian Education Council has recently completed a report on the problems of school leavers in making the transition to employment. [More…]

• This review will complement, not duplicate, the various State and other inquiries by taking a broad and long term perspective on the development of post-secondary education and by examining the relationship between education and the labour market. [More…]

• I have mentioned that one important reason for this review is the changing structure of post-secondary education. [More…]

• These developments have raised questions about the most appropriate allocation of responsibilities between the different sectors of post-secondary education. [More…]

• Particularly because of the establishment of separate commissions in post-secondary education there has grown up a tendency to treat the universities, the colleges of advanced education and institutions for technical and further education in isolation from each other. [More…]

• More than that, there is a need to consider how post-secondary education as a whole relates to the needs of individuals and to the linkages between education and employment. [More…]

• Because Australia has an advanced industrial economy and because the aspirations of our people demand it there is a need for a substantial share of the nation’s resources to be devoted to education. [More…]

• Because this share is so large it is vital that resources devoted to education should be used to maximum effect, that unnecessary duplication should be avoided and that integrated forward planning of educational provision be given every encouragement. [More…]

• The Government wishes to set in train the extensive work required to anticipate needs for post-secondary education over the medium and longer term. [More…]

• Issues of major concern to this inquiry will include the coordination and rationalisation of existing types of post-secondary institutions, the relevance of new kinds of institutions and the capability of both existing and possible new structures for meeting the educational needs and preferences of the individual, the community and the economy. [More…]

• In addressing itself to the provision of educational facilities and services it will examine amongst other things the overall pattern of institutions and courses including their objectives, the magnitude of the provision including the desirable balance between sectors, the relationship of educational provision to community and individual needs and preferences and the accessibility of education and training including reentry and transferability and the problems of special groups such as the handicapped, ethnic groups, Aboriginals and women. [More…]

• It will also examine the responsibility of State and Commonwealth authorities in relation to the nature and location of institutions, preparation for employment including skilled and semi-skilled groups, the provision of recurrent education and the means of evaluating the quality and efficiency of the system. [More…]

• Education has a vital role in achieving the objectives of the Government and the Australian people for an Australia in which everyone has a realistic opportunity to seek personal fulfilment. [More…]

• It is not only through the educational system that this objective will be achieved. [More…]

• I now turn to the second major aspect of the inquiry- the relation between education and the labour market. [More…]

• If an educational system fails to provide people with relevant skills- skills which they can use in their work- it is at the same time diminishing their chances of achieving satisfying lives. [More…]

• The inquiry will need to consider the view that the education system, and particularly the pattern of postsecondary education, is not matching satisfactorily the employment needs of many young people with the demands of the labour market. [More…]

• Some have argued that the existing pattern of education and training in Australia has led to bottlenecks in the economy- shortages of critical skills which inhibit the creation of job opportunities in other areas. [More…]

• In considering the relationship between the labour market and the education system the committee has been asked to extend its review into secondary education as appropriate, having regard to the fact that a significant number of children do not proceed beyond year ten in secondary schools. [More…]

• The committee of inquiry will be required under its terms of reference to have regard to the Government’s objectives in the area of education. [More…]

• These include widening educational opportunity, including access to education for those with the ability, but lacking the means; expanding educational and occupational choice; developing quality and excellence in all spheres of education and encouraging community participation in education and training matters. [More…]

• Our educational system has a central role in increasing the capacity of people to adapt to change. [More…]

• It includes also providing opportunities for re-entry into formal education for the updating of old skills or the acquisition of new skills relevant to new needs and new demands. [More…]

• In this context the inquiry will be asked to examine the variety of linkages between education and employment. [More…]

• The Committee is being asked to examine: The role of the educational system in preparing people for work and influencing their choice of occupation, both for new entrants to the work force and for existing members; the extent of and trends in unemployment and underemployment expecially amongst the young; the interaction between the labor market and rising educational standards of new recruits to the work force, including the role of educational qualifications in credentialling or selecting people for jobs; the needs of special groups with special regard to government services for special groups; the manner in which manpower forecasts may be made- their reliability and their application in educational planning. [More…]

• I wish to emphasise, however, that this inquiry will extend its consideration to a wide range of fundamental issues in education. [More…]

• The committee will take as given the arrangements for financing and co-ordinating post-secondary education agreed between the State and Commonwealth governments except insofar as such consideration is essential to the main theme of the inquiry. [More…]

• The Budget recognises the demand of education and the Government’s responsibility to social security. [More…]

• This afternoon Senator Carrick talked about an inquiry into education. [More…]

• I also believe, and I referred to this in a question I asked in the Senate recently, that students who are completing courses of tertiary education and need experience ought to be able to get jobs with employers. [More…]

• Through contributions provided by the Government, employers could be persuaded to take them on and to give them training before they finish their degrees or courses of tertiary education. [More…]

• I would join with the honourable senator in stressing the importance of an education campaign with regard to direct viewing of the solar eclipse. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister for Education follows an answer which he gave to Senator Gietzelt a few minutes ago and in which I understood him to say that the Australian Labor Party Government stacked Commonwealth statutory organisations. [More…]

• In view of comments made again during question time today about payments to the States it ought to be borne in mind that the so called Whitlam formula that the Minister for Education and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs (Senator Carrick) refers to so constantly concerns only a section of the total payments to the States. [More…]

• According to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when announcing the committee of inquiry into education and training, 36 per cent of the total unemployed are under the age of 20 years. [More…]

• In a survey carried out by the Department of Labor and Immigration in 1 975 it was found that nearly 50 per cent of unemployed youth had not attempted any education beyond the ninth year, in other words they were leaving school at 14 years of age, or the tenth year, which means they were leaving at 15 years of age. [More…]

• Those of us on the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts investigating the isolated children’s reference are very well aware of the problem in country areas where youngsters, having no real prospect of advancement and seeing no further than their local horizons, left school at an early age to do the work that was available in that area- work which needed very little cultural skill- to their great detriment. [More…]

• I do not give his example to gain sympathy because he needs no sympathy- at present he is driving a cab- but the point ought to be driven home that he is not isolated in this tragic situation in having an education which he cannot properly apply. [More…]

• I have spoken about the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• We then had a lot of flamboyancy and emotionalism in the debate, particularly from the present Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, and Senator Baume who were leading the pack. [More…]

• Heavens above, the former Labor Government was subjected to arrant criticism in this chamber, particularly by Senator Carrick, because in its last Budget it made some changes in the arrangements concerning Commonwealth outgoings to the States and CommonwealthState relationships and because there was a minor reduction in expenditure and a change in the arrangements in respect to education. [More…]

• You 11 find that more and more frequently nowdays, programs of the various Federal and State Department of Education are enabling students from small Aboriginal communities to take up opportunities for better education. [More…]

• As with education facilities, medical assistance generally is concentrated in city or regional areas and thus Aboriginal people and their families need to visit these centres to obtain health care. [More…]

• If I may just repeat these points, temporary accommodation is needed to enable Aboriginal individuals and families to move to new areas to take up opportunities in education, employment, rehabilitation and medical treatment or to travel for personal purposes while maintaining a decent standard of living at a price they can afford. [More…]

• Usually the difficulties of living jeopardise the persons performance in education or employment and they drop out and fall prey to the alcohol and social problems of urban living. [More…]

• Without temporary accommodation there is very low cost effectiveness on the following programs: the Department of Education- Aboriginal Secondary and Study Grant the Department of Employment and Industrial relationsTrade training courses and individual placements in employment [More…]

• Appropriate accommodation and support services can help significant numbers of Aboriginals to take up education and employment opportunities and to avoid getting trapped in this poverty cycle. [More…]

• The cost of ineffective education, health and employment programs which are rendered ineffective by the lack of suitable accommodation for the Aboriginal client group [More…]

• Education needs- 266 beds already provided by AHL and 550 additional beds urgently required [More…]

• The Company also intends to make representations to the Departments of Education and Employment and Industrial Relations for increases in the living-away-from-home-allowances paid to students. [More…]

• Education will be funded at the same level so that existing programs should be maintained. [More…]

• The suspension of capital works for Aboriginal development normally carried out by the Departments of Health, Education and Construction was also reflected in the balance of the reduced figure- in line with the Government’s decision to limit Capital Works . [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Does he agree that it is time that the Government revealed what it means by ‘less automatic’ indexation of education grants? [More…]

• When the various reports of the 4 commissions are brought into this chamber in the weeks immediately ahead I will be happy to make a clear and precise statement on what the Government means with respect to this and all other aspects of education. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Education, refers to a report by the Australian Capital Territory Teachers’ Federation in the Canberra Times on 25 August 1976 and to a letter from Mr J. Fleming, Principal of the Canberra Technical College, to the Department of Education on 10 August wherein it is claimed that the new staff ceiling restrictions will lead to a reduction from 167 teachers in 1976 to 126 teachers in 1977, and that this will result in cancellation of some existing classes and services and postponement of services and several new courses planned for 1977. [More…]

• How can the Minister reconcile these claims with his own claim, made often in this chamber, that there are to be no cuts in technical and further education funds for 1977? [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Carrick either in his capacity as Minister for Education or in his capacity as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs. [More…]

• Difference in language, education, culture, and general background between Aborigines and Islanders and their interrogators makes the safeguards proposed by this Bill worthy, I believe, of the support of all honourable senators in this chamber. [More…]

• Honourable senators would be aware that many Aborigines and Islanders have problems understanding the English language because of differences of language, culture and education of society in which they live, where the English language spoken may bear very little resemblance to that used in this House, or, wherever English language concepts cannot be accurately translated into Aboriginal language. [More…]

• In the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s brief history since 1 932 it has built up a high reputation for providing a comprehensive range of services to the Australian people- services in education, the arts, music, drama, current affairs and news. [More…]

• The ABC has done this consistently in the fields of music, drama, religion, education, current affairs, opera, and many other areas where the commercial stations are relatively inactive. [More…]

• In some departments, such as drama, science programs and education, the ABC has now developed skills and talents to a level where significant and high-quality programmes could be produced in greater quantity. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, in replying in this debate on behalf of the Government, went into great detail in outlining the history and the vagaries of the ABC and the controversies it got itself into over the years. [More…]

• In conclusion I would like to quote from a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in 1973 when the matter of public broadcasting was very thoroughly investigated. [More…]

• As education and exposure to other media foster diversity, the range is likely to become wider. [More…]

• We allowed a little bit of leeway as far as education and social welfare were concerned but the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as with most other departments, was told that it had to pull its horns in. [More…]

• In the reply which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) made to the opening case of the Opposition, a significant event took place- that is, some interjections made by Senator Georges disclosed what was in fact the reality of the Opposition’s argument. [More…]

• Since March we have had 3 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, 3 Ministers for Defence, 3 Ministers for Health,’ 3 Ministers for Education and Science, 3 Attorneys-General, 2 Treasurers, 2 Ministers for Labour and National Service, 2 Ministers for Immigration, 2 Ministers for the Navy, 2 Ministers for Housing, 2 Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and 2 Ministers for Supply. [More…]

• I am now advised that the Bureau has a close working relationship with the NDO in providing warnings on an operational basis and in supplying information to be used in public education programs. [More…]

• The Bureau has provided information for NDO public education programs on tropical cyclones and floods. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister received a letter from Professor Badger, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, concerning student allowances and expressing the view that the tertiary education allowance is now well below the poverty level? [More…]

• I read it and noted his comments regarding the present tertiary education allowance scheme and the effect of the level of allowance on those who are wholly supported by it. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it a fact that at present the Government exempts from the means test the first $350 of the education allowance to primary and secondary students from geographically isolated areas? [More…]

• Is it also a fact that the present tertiary education assistance scheme imposes a means test on the excess allowance of $600 per annum for tertiary students in this category? [More…]

• I understand that television advertising and information were also part of this education campaign. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the great interest in this matter by the thousands of students experiencing hardship under the present tertiary education allowance scheme levels, can the Minister confirm yesterday’s report? [More…]

• It very much regrets that the Whitlam Government used figures based on the June 1974 cost of living in determining its 1975 Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme allowances and then did nothing to up-date them for 1976. [More…]

• If the honourable senator will contain his patience for a few more weeks the broad co-ordination, rationalisation and federalism policies of the Government with regard to education generally will be made known to him and to the Australian community. [More…]

• It is the intention of the Federal Government to achieve in Australia a co-operative federalism in education. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I accept it also because in my own duties as Minister for Education I find myself, in common with the Minister for Health and the Minister for the Northern Territory, constantly associating with the health activities in the Territory. [More…]

• I make it perfectly clear that those who tend to say in the first place that the Aborigines are not involved in government mattersin health, education or otherwise- are in fact not accurately reporting the scene. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Since the Australian Teachers Federation is talking about the backlog of capital building of classrooms, I should remind the Senate that the substantial reason for the backlog is that in August last year the then Whitlam Labor Government decided to cut education in its 4 education commissions by $105m for this year, and it did so. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Department of Education has had to have the title page of 3000 copies of the report entitled Literacy and Numeracy in Austraiian Schools reprinted because of incorrect spelling on that page? [More…]

• In August this yearabout 3 weeks ago- the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a document entitled Forward Planning for Health, Fiscal Years 1978 to 1982. [More…]

• I return to the United States document Forward Plan for Health, issued last month by the United States Departments of Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]

• In 1974 under the previous taxation schedules taxpayers could deduct amounts for a dependent wife, dependent children, medical costs, council and water rates, superannuation, education and a lot of other expenses from their taxable income before the imposition of the levy. [More…]

• Consequently they have had an opportunity to advise not only the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, rather than Senator Withers, but also members of the Opposition of the problems that they see in the report. [More…]

• I understand that the Government was requested by the appropriate bodies, in particular the Federation of Staff Associations of Australian Colleges of Advanced Education, to refer the report back to the Academic Salaries Tribunal for further consideration. [More…]

• It appears that the general problem arises from a downgrading of the staff of colleges of advanced education when compared with the staff of universities. [More…]

• In looking at the proposed salary scales which have been researched, there appears, I am sure to many members of the Parliament, to be a position in which lecturers, particularly in colleges of advanced education, who are presently on a scale which would enable them to reach the top of the scale in a comparatively short number of steps- I think 4 steps are involved to reach the top of the scale- will now find themselves 7 rungs from the top of the new scale. [More…]

• Our Government is to be congratulated on a wonderful achievement in the fields of education and social welfare. [More…]

• If honourable senators opposite do not want a contributory scheme for Medibank we will have to cut the vote for education and social welfare. [More…]

• Yesterday’s attack by Senator Sim, concealed in a series of impertinent questions to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), debased this Senate in a way that I as a newcomer to the Senate would not have believed possible until I heard it. [More…]

• There is no meaningful way in which the term ‘fascist’ could be applied to Professor Manning Clark, yet it was so applied yesterday by Senator Sim in his question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Let me proceed now to the reply made to that question by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I found it entirely improper that a person who is not only a Minister in this Government but also the Minister for Education should treat such an improper question so improperly. [More…]

• Senator Carrick is the Minister for Education and one would imagine that, as such, he would have some familiarity with the institutions of education and therefore he would not be entirely unfamiliar with the work of Professor Manning Clark and the status that he holds in the academic community in Australia. [More…]

• The Minister for Education asserted: [More…]

• I proceed now to the question which I think this chamber should consider: Why is it that 2 members of the Government Parties, one of them a Minister- indeed, the Minister for Educationshould stoop to this crude, low and unsubstantiated attack on a person who has such a central and creditable position in Australian history and Australian culture? [More…]

• The question asked by Senator Sim and the reply given by the Minister for Education embody the very things of which they were so unjustly accusing Professor Manning Clark. [More…]

• I listened with a great deal of interest tonight to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• He asked his question without notice and the Minister for Education responded. [More…]

• That is the person who was the subject of the vilification of the Minister for Education yesterday and tonight. [More…]

• If I were an academic I would be concerned at the attitude adopted by the Minister for Education tonight, because in the Australian Parliament he has expressed the view that if anyone dares to state a view different from the views expressed by the Australian Government he is to be considered anti-Australian or anti-democratic. [More…]

• Senator Sim asked the Minister for Education: [More…]

• Senator Carrick- the doyen of the university students, who give him such an enthusiastic welcome when he goes along to see them on matters of education, this authority of the open-the-door-Richard of 1949 fame and the black coated bureaucrats whom he denigrated in 1949 when he was first earning to light in the Liberal Party and was able to embark on a campaign in this country that was almost equal to the campaign recently launched with great success- answered in this way: he will know also that it suggested that Professor Manning Clark said that perhaps history might find some justification and some support for what the GovernorGeneral did on 1 1 November. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Has the Minister received a submission from the Executive Member for Education and Law in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly concerning staff ceilings imposed on the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• A submission concerning staff ceilings for the Darwin Community College has been received from the Executive Member for Education and Law in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• That the recent budgetary allocations endanger the quality of Australian education, especially for disadvantaged groups and in particular for migrants, Aboriginals and tertiary students from poor backgrounds. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe that all persons admitted to institutions of tertiary education in Australia have a right to adequate living conditions and that it is the responsibility of Government to ensure that sufficient funds are allocated to protect that right. [More…]

• That the quality of education in schools and tertiary institutions be not eroded but extended through the provision of adequate funds. [More…]

• under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme to the level of a living wage, and further that the needs-based grants scheme be in no way jeopardised by any other programme of student assistance. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Can he inform the Parliament whether the Neal-Hird staffing inquiry report- which is the Northern Territory report but which also applies to both territories- has been completed? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer particularly to Press statements today relating to student allowances and to other educational schemes. [More…]

• I inquire specifically about the tertiary education assistance scheme and about the matter of isolated children. [More…]

• Can he give the Senate any information in relation to the 2 particular areas of education regarding allowances and funding? [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education offer an assurance that the Government is not planning to reinstitute fees for all forms of tertiary education in Australia, particularly for students undertaking undergraduate degree courses at a university level? [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to the fact that the demonstration by students from the University of Western Australia was led by a member of the Communist Party who is not a student at that university but who came to demonstrate and whip up emotions, and finally succeeded in leading the students on an unauthorised march through the city? [More…]

• Aboriginal assistance programs, as honourable members are aware, have in recent years received massive injections of funds, with each succeeding year showing ever increasing allocations in an attempt to relieve the very serious handicaps in housing, education, health and employment under which Australia’s Aboriginal people suffer. [More…]

• In conjunction with my colleagues, the Ministers for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), Education (Senator Carrick) and Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), I have been studying both short and long-term measures which will be brought forward quickly for consideration by the Government including possible ways of converting the payment of unemployment benefits within communities into the funding of worthwhile work projects. [More…]

• The link between education and employment is possibly of greater importance to Aboriginals than others as formal education is brought more within their reach. [More…]

• An extra $3m was provided to the Aboriginal Loans Commission for housing because of the importance the Government places on home ownership; grants-in-aid to the States for health and education programs were reduced and grants to Aboriginal organisations working in these fields increased because of our commitment to working through Aboriginal organisations; an extra $ 1.56m was provided for employment support programs which will enable funding support of a new initiative in placing Aboriginals with private employers; the Aboriginal Advancement Trust [More…]

• Also the Community has access to and services available from other State public services such as Education, Health, etc., costs of which cannot be separated in relation to the Aboriginal Community and these are not specifically identifiable’. [More…]

• Yes; the Ministers for Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Education and Aboriginal Affairs have begun a joint examination of the report in detail, prior to determining action which will be taken as a result of the working party’s findings. [More…]

• The lack of adequate medical facilities and the complete absence of Health Education and paramedical services is a tragedy for the St Albans population which is comprised of about eighty per cent (80 per cent) migrants arrived within the last five years and with an overall majority of mothers and young children for whom the proposed Community Health Centre would provide an essential service in this underprivileged area. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that on 20 May he made a statement to the Senate to the effect that the Government had decided to replace the existing cost supplementation arrangements by less automatic provisions for unavoidable increases in costs in the funding of education. [More…]

• We have heard the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) deliver a statement on the increase in allowances. [More…]

• From the moment the Minister was sworn in as Minister for Education he endeavoured to switch the attack from his Government to the Hayden Budget, the Whitlam Government and, in general to the Labor Party in government. [More…]

• When the economic stringency developed in 1975 the Labor Government, which had increased Commonwealth educational expenditure from a minor part of the nation’s educational spending to a Commonwealth action financially equal to all the States put together, decided that tertiary student allowances would stay steady for one Budget. [More…]

• When the Labor Government took that view, it was probably a doubtful decision but in the light of the political situation at the time and the harassment that was being displayed by the then Opposition against the elected Government, it was felt that per capita expenditure for the education of tertiary students was overwhelmingly greater than for primary and secondary students. [More…]

• As from January 1974 fees were abolished in universities, colleges and advanced education and technical colleges. [More…]

• In October 1974 my colleague in another place, Mr Beazley, the then Minister for Education, appointed a committee to review the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]

• It also recommended that student allowances should be adjusted twice a year to apply from the beginning of January and July and that the adjustment, if possible, should be based on the figures for the immediately preceding quarter of a student allowance adjustment index to be devised by the appropriate branch of the Department of Education. [More…]

• The report of that Committee was not rejected by the Labor Cabinet but the Labor Cabinet could not in the Hayden Budget face the quite onerous increase involved because it was felt that there were higher priorities in other areas of education. [More…]

• It was not that we took money away from the field of education. [More…]

• It was a high powered committee consisting of, apart from Dr Williams, Emeritus Professor G. A. Barclay, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Macquarie University, Mr N. K. McLean, President in 1974 of the Australian Union of Students, and Mr E. S. Rolfe, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education. [More…]

• The Government has merely pretended that it has restored triennial funding of tertiary education. [More…]

• Its so-called ‘rolling triennium ‘ is in fact an annual assessment and the Minister for Education admitted as much just a few moments ago. [More…]

• In addition, the assistance a student may receive from another award without affecting his or her Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance will be reduced from $600 to $150. [More…]

• 1 quote just 2 instances of the people who will be affected by this: There are 5800 students in Victoria and 2600 students in South Australia who receive a non-bonded State education scholarship. [More…]

• The means test that is going to be apllied in regard to Aboriginal education assistance is not welcomed greatly by me. [More…]

• They need this educational assistance and if they do not get it there will be children who will be forced to drop out of school. [More…]

• At a recent lecture at a college of advanced education I was asked what was the basic difference in philosophies between the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party. [More…]

• Today the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), made a statement about education allowances. [More…]

• So there are lots of young people who, due to economic circumstances, will not be able to continue with their education and will have to abandon promising careers. [More…]

• Finally in this regard it is important and relevant to mention the inquiry which the Government is setting up into the relationship between education and the provision of skills for the labour market. [More…]

• We are also looking at the ways people can benefit from employment opportunities provided through the education system. [More…]

• We have provided in this Budget for a higher growth rate for expenditure in the technical and further education field than in any other field of education. [More…]

• This, of course, in itself is a very important area in which the Government is providing training for those who are leaving school and who are capable of benefiting from such education. [More…]

• We have also set up an inquiry to relate the needs of employment to the present education system. [More…]

• I realise that this is going to take extra consideration of special training, special education and special considerations generally. [More…]

• We have to consider, though, that this will probably need education and we have to get at it very quickly. [More…]

• We have announced today that students in need will have increased allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance scheme. [More…]

• Apparently the Federal Government got into difficulties with the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• 1 ) What money has been made available to Queensland under grants for technical and further education for the 1975-76 financial year? [More…]

• How much of this Technical and Further Education Commission money has been directed to adult education in Queensland in the last financial year? [More…]

• 3 ) What proportion of the total expenditure on adult education in Queensland came from the Commission? [More…]

• Has the Commission any policy on the merging of the Technical Education Branch of the Department of Education in Queensland with Queensland’s Board of Adult Education? [More…]

• In the event of any competition between the Queensland Technical Education Branch and the Queensland Board of Adult Education to provide adult education in Queensland, which body will receive financial assistance from the Australian Government for providing adult education in Queensland? [More…]

• A total of $7,801,300 comprising $3,159,000 for capital grants and $4,642,300 for recurrent grants was made available to Queensland for the 1975-76 financial year under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]

• These grants are supplementary funds to the State’s own expenditure on technical and further education. [More…]

• and (3) The Board of Adult Education and the Technical Education Branch of the Department of Education share responsibility for the provision of adult education in Queensland. [More…]

• Commonwealth grants have not been made for adult education specifically. [More…]

• The extent to which Commonwealth TAFE funds are used in the adult education area is decided by the individual States. [More…]

• The organisational relationships between the education bodies in Queensland are the responsibility of the Queensland Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the recent budgetary allocations endanger the quality of Australian education, especially for disadvantaged groups, and, in particular, for migrants, Aboriginals and tertiary students from poor backgrounds. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe that all persons admitted to institutions of tertiary education in Australia have a right to adequate living conditions and that it is the responsibility of Government to ensure that sufficient funds are allocated to protect that right. [More…]

• That the quality of education in schools and tertiary institutions be not eroded but extended through the provision of adequate funds. [More…]

• That in view of the sub-standard living conditions forced upon many tertiary students as a consequence of a totally inadequate student assistance scheme, there is an urgent need for a substantial increase and indexation of grants provided under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme to the level of a living wage, and, further, that the needs-based grants scheme be in no way jeopardised by any other program of student assistance. [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…]

• I remind the Senate that, nevertheless, the then Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which was inquiring into broadcasting and television reached a recommendation which was tabled in the Senate and which was unanimous from representatives of both sides of the Senate to the effect that FM facilities should be equally available to commercial stations as to new licensees. [More…]

• Naturally, I am speaking in my capacity as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts and, as might be expected, I am referring to the Industries Assistance Commission report on the performing arts. [More…]

• There has been simultaneously a new awareness of the potential role of radio in education and community affairs. [More…]

• The Film and Television School was established with dual responsibilities, both to the film and broadcasting industry and to education. [More…]

• It is proper therefore that its charter should include audio-visual communications in the light of increasing awareness of the importance of sounds and images, either alone or in combination in the process of education. [More…]

• But, even allowing for the likelihood of getting greater value for every dollar, the department will be hard put to make much impact on the four main problems of Aborigines- housing, health, education and employment. [More…]

• His early schooling took place at Hartwell State School and Mont Albert Central, before he won a scholarship to Scotch College for the last 4 years of his secondary education. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education seen reports in today’s Sydney Morning Herald headed ‘Parents Say their Role in Schools is Thwarted ‘? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the President of the Australian Council of State School Organisations has claimed that the present Government has changed the policy of the previous Government and is now withholding certain education reports from public view. [More…]

• The report was requested by the Australian Education Council, was submitted to it on completion, and the Council has agreed to the Department of Education publishing it. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education how he justifies to the Senate and to the people of the Australian Capital Territory the failure of the Government, after 10 months in office, to implement legislation establishing a permanent schools authority for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the funding and administration of education in the Territory will continue to be inefficient and confusing until the long-promised legislation is introduced? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My colleagues inform me that members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts have copies, that witnesses who appeared before the Industries Assistance commission have copies, and evidently every news agency has copies; but we as members of Parliament cannot receive copies. [More…]

• -I ask a question of the Minister for Education, in the light of the answer which he gave to Senator Douglas McClelland in which he said that the transcripts of the Premiers Conference speak eloquently of the support of the Premiers for the new federalism policies. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Teachers Federation has claimed that technical and further education institutions in the Australian Capital Territory will not have sufficient ancillary staff to maintain current standards and services? [More…]

• staff for the new year ought to enable the delivery of technical and further education without cutback. [More…]

• I am advised that in technical and further education next year we should be able to deliver the services we hope to deliver and that the staff, both professional and ancillary, will be adequate. [More…]

• My question which is addressed to the Minister for Education arises from the Minister’s remarks this morning during his broadcast. [More…]

• As I recall it, as part of his general philosophy on total education he referred to an inquiry relating to the development of technical and vocational training with emphasis on craft and craftsmanship. [More…]

• I ask: Does the Minister recall that in 1971 and 1972 the then Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, of which he was a distinguished member, conducted an inquiry into the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education, drew attention to the importance of this very area of education and warned against separation between labour and industry on the one hand and education on the other? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Senate Committee’s recommendation on that occasion was for action relating to the development of programs for vocational education? [More…]

• It is well to remind the Senate in a bipartisan fashion that a substantial number of the recommendations made in that report have been adopted and have shaped the nature of post secondary education today. [More…]

• They were in fact adopted at a time when the present Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, was the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The profoundly important recommendation was, in relation to teacher training colleges, that they be upgraded in quality and status and that they become colleges of advanced education and, if possible, multi-purpose. [More…]

• One of the very great journeys in postsecondary education has occurred because of it. [More…]

• First of all, we are increasing the amount of money that will go to the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• We are looking at new arrangements that might be brought about between the Commonwealth and the States to enhance our proposals, but the overall inquiry of the committee into education and training will make a nice balance between education in terms of human fulfilment and education in terms of vocational training oriented to commerce and industry and the outside world. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it a fact that under the Tertiary Education Assistance scheme arrangements a student will be eligible for a full independent allowance only if he or she has been in the work force or unemployed for a period of 2 years? [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education received a letter from the Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee of the AustralianGreek Welfare Society concerning the need for the establishment at a national level of an advisory committee on migrant education? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the need for Aboriginal teachers’ assistant on the settlements, does the Government intend to ease the staff restrictions on the Department of Education establishment to allow these most needed assistants to be employed? [More…]

• I wish to ask the Minister for Education a question regarding the St Albans curriculum development project in Victoria. [More…]

• I advert to a question asked earlier today by the Leader of the Opposition about a letter which he suggested had been written to me by the Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee of the Australian-Greek Welfare Society. [More…]

• The letter thanked me for having brought to the attention of the migrant community the fact that we had not cut expenditure on migrant education; it drew attention to the lack of good communication between the ethnic community and the Government, and it suggested that an advisory committee on migrant education might be set up. [More…]

• There was consolidation of pre-school, primary and secondary education so that now the Asian and European students all have the same teaching standards on the Island. [More…]

• Technical education on the Island was extended to girls and health standards generally were stepped up. [More…]

• It undertakes to establish scholarships to enable those people who move to another country to further their education and in particular to further their technical qualifications to equip them to fit into the community in which they find themselves. [More…]

• Luckily for Christmas Island, the technical school there is run by the Centre for Educational Technology of the Department of Education of Western Australia and has Western Australian teachers. [More…]

• I urge the present Government and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) not to cave in to the Queensland Premier on that issue. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Education has often said that we provided $79.9m in untied grants to local government last financial year compared with this Government’s allocation in the Budget for this financial year of some $ 1 40m, an increase of 75 per cent. [More…]

• It is assumed that the citizens of Australia will understand that the aim of the policy is to make decisions in very important areas such as education and health more easily accessible to them because more decisions will be made in the State sphere than previously. [More…]

• I refer to health, education, welfare, the environment, urban improvement and transport. [More…]

• During these years the Australian Government willingly shouldered its responsibilities in the vital social areas that are close to all Australians- that is, health, welfare, housing, urban and regional development, and education. [More…]

• The letter is signed by Mr H. Marshall, Assistant Secretary, International Training and Education, at the Australian Development Assistance Agency. [More…]

• I believe that that situation applies also to those Thai students who are receiving their education in Australia. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has this lack of practical teaching techniques led to a decline in the standard of literacy in the Australian education system? [More…]

• There has been only one in modern times and that was generated by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties through tests done by the Australian Council for Education Research. [More…]

• The fact is that throughout the whole of the education system more people are now moving up through the later years of education and therefore we are seeing a different cross-section of people. [More…]

• I regard the matter as important and of course we will concentrate on it because it is vital to the whole of the development of educational skills to have a base from which to start. [More…]

• He received his education in the Charters Towers area. [More…]

• The Academy has two basic objectives; to provide a sound education as a foundation for further professional development and to provide that education in a military environment appropriate to the 3 Services. [More…]

• It is required as soon as possible because of the imminent expiry of the present agreement with the University of New South Wales and because, while some 16 per cent of Service officers receive a university level education now, the Chiefs of Staff require a substantially enlarged proportion of officers to hold degrees in the future. [More…]

• Facilities at Point Cook now occupied by the Royal Australian Air Force Academy will meet a need for other RAAF educational and training purposes. [More…]

• Other forms of officer training and education for the Navy will continue to be provided at Jervis Bay. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has expressed the point of view of the Government but I suggest, with respect to the Minister, that he fails to appreciate the words of the amendment. [More…]

• I doubt whether any Minister, including the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), could give the Committee a definition of the composition or the constitution of the Australian Council of Local Government Associations. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is in charge of this Bill, lectures us daily on the virtues of his Government in that it wants to democratise every system of public life in this country. [More…]

• In view of the answer that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has just given to Senator Devitt, I query again his statement in which he referred to the 6 best possible persons being nominated by the Australian Council of Local Government Associations. [More…]

• Education: [More…]

• The State Department of Education employs two Departmentally funded teacher aides at Kempsey schools [More…]

• The New South Wales Department of Technical and Further Education is conducting an 1 8 week course in office-training for 1 5 Aboriginal girls at Kempsey [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether the grants funded by the Federal Government for Master of Science research number 600 for universities but only 25 for colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Can the Minister justify or explain this disparity, especially in the light of the apparent equality of facilities and quality of teaching afforded by both universities and colleges of advanced education? [More…]

• The situation of course is that, traditionally, greater emphasis has been placed on research and post-graduate work in universities than in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• It is true that colleges have high standards of distinctive education, but equally, by its nature, the college is directed primarily to vocation and vocational training rather than to other matters. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education been made aware of alleged proposals that in order to avoid the conditions applying to the award of Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances students should consider entering into marriages of convenience? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The future of these people was a significant reason for our setting up the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Has his attention been drawn to numerous reports, including the headlines in yesterday’s Australian newspaper, calling for government initiatives to combat Australia’s illiteracy problem? [More…]

• The Australian Council for Educational Research recently conducted tests on 10-year olds and 14-year olds which showed a significant and appreciable degree of illiteracy, about which we should be concerned. [More…]

• We are aware that as more young people come forward and continue in the stream of secondary and senior secondary education, so the cross-section of people in years 10, 11 and 12 changes. [More…]

• What one might have been expecting in the past from what were perhaps the academic elite by the misfortunes of fate now are altered because, thank goodness, more students are receiving a higher education. [More…]

• I simply say to honourable senators that the Government appreciates that the basis of all education must be a sound grounding in basic skills. [More…]

• Without the basic skills of literacy and numeracy no kind of imaginative adventure and no kind of innovation in education can be successfully embarked upon. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education and refer to the NeilHerd report on staffing at Australian Capital Territory schools. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and follows the answer he gave to a question asked by Senator Walsh in which he said that the increase in payments to local government this year will be about 8 per cent. [More…]

• They are not going to work to provide the wall-to-wall carpets, the second car or the second refrigerator- I am not saying that those things are not needed- and they are not going to work to provide for their children’s education because, as I say, most of them will never have children. [More…]

• There has been a community awareness of the potential role of radio in education and community affairs. [More…]

• The Senate may recall that earlier in this session I reported on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts in relation to the number of inquiries which the Senate had referred to our Committee. [More…]

• I shared with Senator Davidson the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• I think perhaps it would have been advisable for the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, which Senator Davidson chairs, to have continued with its inquiry into the Australia Council, because unless certain reforms of administration are taken within the Australia Council this Bill will be of little use. [More…]

• -I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Commonwealth Department of Education did not give the funding of Dripstone High School sufficient priority to enable it to be included in this year’s estimates? [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education provide assurances that the announced 2 per cent growth projected for education throughout the next 2 years of the current triennium will be maintained? [More…]

• I should remind the Senate that this is doubly important because of the cutback made in education funds by the previous Government. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to a report of a statement by an officer of the Department of Education concerning apprenticeship training in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• I ask whether the Minister will have examined the proposals contained in the statement, particularly with respect to a possible shortage of skilled workers in the future and the need to expand opportunities for careers education? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware that the present ceiling of 650 ancillary staff for Australian Capital Territory schools and 147 ancillary staff for technical and further education institutions in the Territory has left Australian Capital Territory schools and technical institutions 100 positions short of the number required to maintain 1975 standards? [More…]

• In view of the Government’s promise to maintain education standards in the Australian Capital Territory, will the Minister undertake an immediate review of the present arbitrary staff ceiling policy so ceilings can be raised to a level adequate to fulfil the Government ‘s promises? [More…]

• The honourable senator may also know that in order to keep good faith the Department of Education cut its own ceilings very significantly, to make available further ancillary staff by transfer to the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• For the information of honourable seantors pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967 I present the annual report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 3 1 December 1975. [More…]

• The matter with which I concern myself is the administration of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Department of Education. [More…]

• The other matter I want to raise is one which I have already mentioned to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) I would raise in this chamber. [More…]

• It concerns the administration by his department of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Frankly, if the case that I am about to cite is any indication of the way in which that Department regards students who come under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, then I must say regrettably that it is a pretty bureaucratic organisation which seems to overlook human feelings and not to consider the students and which sets out to impede rather than assist students in its administration of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• I make my remarks with particular reference to the way in which the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme relates to students who also are entitled to receive assistance under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme, which applies to the children of servicemen who have died, children whose mothers are war widows, or unfortunate children who are orphans. [More…]

• Whilst I am critical of the way in which the Department of Education is administering its affairs so far as that scheme is concerned, let me say at the outset that the young lady has received, as far as I am aware, every possible assistance from the Department of Veterans ‘ Affairs. [More…]

• Earlier this year the young girl was advised by the Repatriation Department, as it then was, that because she might be eligible to receive under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme assistance supplementary to that available to her under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme, she should lodge an application with the Department of Education. [More…]

• She was further told by the Repatriation Department that her university admission fees would not be paid through the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme unless she presented a formal advice from the people administering the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme that she was ineligible for benefits under that scheme. [More…]

• So there we have a situation in which there are 2 schemes operatingthe Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme and the Tertiary Education Assistance Schemeand in which the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme cannot or will not pay benefits until a person makes application for assistance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme; and when that matter is decided those people administering the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme can determine the amount that they might be able to pay to a person under the latter scheme. [More…]

• Having been told by the Repatriation Department that she should make an application for assistance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, she thereupon made application to the Department of Education. [More…]

• After some correspondence had been exchanged between the Department of Education and her concerning the courses to be undertaken and details of income of the mother and of the young lady, she eventually received advice on 8 April from the Repatriation Departmentnot from the Department of Education but from the Repatriation Department- in the following terms: . [More…]

• I wish to advise you that the maximum amount you may receive from the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme is $600. [More…]

• I emphasise those words- under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme, including an education allowance of $1,000 per annum, so that the necessary adjustment may be made. [More…]

• She immediately forwarded that letter dated 8 April which she received from the Repatriation Department to the Department of Education so that it would be fully aware of all the benefits she was receiving from the Repatriation Department. [More…]

• On 21 April she received a formal acknowledgement from the Department of Education in these terms: [More…]

• So the Department of Education had been made fully aware ofthe fact that she was receiving full benefits under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme. [More…]

• She having forwarded that letter to the Department of Education, the Department, as I say, acknowledged receipt of the ‘letter re benefits from Repatriation Department’. [More…]

• Then she received advice dated 3 May from the New South Wales office of the Department of Education in these terms: [More…]

• Your application for tertiary education assistance has therefore been reassessed and you are entitled to $600 per annum or $46. [More…]

• However, she chose to accept the statement ofthe Department that her allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme had been reassessed, that she was entitled to $600 or $46. [More…]

• Much to her chagrin and surprise, a month later, despite the fact that that amount was being deducted from her monthly cheque, she received a letter again from the Department of Education- I emphasise that it was sent by certified mail- in these terms: [More…]

• I refer to my letter of 3 May 1 976 requesting repayment of an overpayment of $123.08 under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• I refer to the payment of benefits under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS) in 1976. [More…]

• Bear in mind that she had notified the Department of Education that she was in receipt of full benefits from the Department of Repatriation under the Soldiers Children Education Scheme. [More…]

• However, this figure did not take into account the Book and Equipment allowance which you will be reimbursed as a beneficiary under the Soldiers Children Education Scheme (SCES). [More…]

• I draw these matters to the attention of the Senate to show the cavalier way in which the Department of Education is handling its administration of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, particularly as it relates to students who might be eligible for assistance under that scheme as well as under the Soldiers Children Education Scheme. [More…]

• I believe that there is something wrong with the administration of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Housing, education, transport - [More…]

• It was extremely low when compared with the cost of other public services such as education, health, roads, transport, etc. [More…]

• We have heard that phrase in respect to the so-called increases in the tertiary education allowances, which in many cases, of course, amount to reductions. [More…]

• Recently this happened in Queensland with regard to Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme payments. [More…]

• I am not aware of the full extent of the occurrence, but I think it is sufficiently important to bring it before the chamber and sufficiently important for me to ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) some questions about this occurrence. [More…]

• They told me that when they inquired they were informed that the allowances had not arrived because of a blunder in the Education Department office in Brisbane. [More…]

• I was in contact with the Education Department in Brisbane and was informed of 2 basic things. [More…]

• That the recent Budgetary allocations endanger the quality of Australian education, especially for disadvantaged groups and in particular for migrants, Aboriginals and tertiary students from poor backgrounds. [More…]

• All persons admitted to institutions of Tertiary Education in Australia have a right to adequate living conditions and that it is the responsibility of Government to ensure that sufficient funds are allocated to protect that right. [More…]

• That the quality of education in schools and tertiary institutions be not eroded but extended through the provision of adequate funds. [More…]

• That in view of the substandard living conditions forced upon many tertiary students as a consequence of the totally inadequate student assistance scheme there is an urgent need for a substantial increase and indexation of grants provided under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme to the level of a living wage and further that the needs based grants scheme be in no way jeopardised by any other program of student assistance. [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…]

• -I direct a question to Senator Carrick as Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that on the recently appointed committee of inquiry into education and training both teachers and parents’ and friends’ organisations are not represented? [More…]

• The committee has been praised throughout Australia as being a highly balanced committee of all forms of education. [More…]

• He would find that they include teachers, parents, former high school teachers and a former Assistant Director-General of Education who fully understood and still understands primary and secondary education and who is now involved in further education in South Australia. [More…]

• Indeed, every section of education is covered. [More…]

• Senator Carrick said that in selecting members of the committee the Government had balanced interest and experience between the various sectors of education and the links between the education system and the labour market. [More…]

• I can understand his point that it is essentially an inquiry into post-secondary education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister again: Would he not agree that parents’ organisations and teachers’ organisations are very much part of the education system, and it is for that reason that they are requesting the balance on the committee which the Minister himself seeks? [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It refers to an Australian Broadcasting Commission news broadcast of a statement reported to have been made at the weekend by the South Australian Minister for Education that, as he called it, the Federal Government’s commitment to education funding was under threat. [More…]

• Is there any accuracy in Dr Hopgood’s statement that a 2 per cent increase in real terms for education funding, as promised, was under a Treasury threat of being cut? [More…]

• There is no truth at all in the statement that the Federal Government’s education policies are under threat. [More…]

• The only time that education was under threat in Australia was by the decision announced in the August 1975 Budget of the then Whitlam Government. [More…]

• It is not true that education funding is under threat. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• If, as the Minister said in answer to a previous question, education in Australia is not under threat, how can he explain the considerable apprehension amongst education authorities and organisations concerning the future of technical and further education in Australia? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that this concern has been expressed because of several factors which include, firstly, the slashing of funds for the Technical and Further Education Commission for 1977 to an extent that the allocation falls well below the projected needs of the second report of the Commission; secondly, the high incidence of chronic unemployment amongst youth; and thirdly, the need for considerable retraining amongst the work force, taking into account the fact that in 1971 more than 71 per cent of males and 88 per cent of females held no formal post-school qualifications of any kind? [More…]

• If there is apprehension about TAFE and if TAFE is not performing its functions, it is because of the August 1975 cut in the TAFE allocation, as there was throughout the whole of education, by the then Whitlam Government. [More…]

• Equally, when in due course the Government spells out in detail its plans for the general coordination and development of post-secondary education in Australia the honourable senator will discover that it intends to increase the significance of technical and further education. [More…]

• As I understand it, some 70 per cent of males and some 80 per cent of females receive no further formal education. [More…]

• It is deplorable that only a handful- about 20 per cent to 25 per cent- of the population of Australia receives post-secondary education. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Education, follows the question asked by Senator Georges. [More…]

• Does the Minister remember saying to Senator Georges that the Australian Labor Party Government cut spending for technical and further education in Australia? [More…]

• 7 which outlines spending on technical and further education by the Labor Government as follows: In the first year $29m; in the second year $45m; and in the third year $65m. [More…]

• I also ask him whether he recalls saying that his Government is keen to cure the problems of technical and further education in Australia. [More…]

• If he is so keen will he give us an assurance that the increase in the level of expenditure on technical and further education under this Government will not fall below the level of increase under the Labor Government? [More…]

• But I shall be happy to provide the figures showing the whole of the cuts in all the 4 areas of education amounting to - [More…]

• I shall be happy to provide for the honourable senator the information, including information on technical and further education, to disclose the cuts amounting to $ 105m in education by the Whitlam Government in its August 1975 Budget. [More…]

• As to the program of the Government for technical and further education, the Bills will be before this Parliament fairly soon. [More…]

• I repeat that I shall table and indeed have incorporated in Hansard the details of how the Whitlam Labor Government cut the 1976 calendar year education expenditure of the 4 commissions by a total of $ 105m. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the statements of the Minister this afternoon that he would provide to Senator Wriedt information regarding an alleged $105m cut in education funds by the Whitlam Government, in preface to my question I remind the Minister that on 1 7 August this year I put a question on notice which read as follows: [More…]

• What was the shortfall between the 1976 component of the 1976-78 triennial funding recommendations made by the various education commissions and the 1976 interim year allocation for education subsequently announced in August 197S by the then Minister for Education, Mr Beazley? [More…]

• Mr President, you will recall that the emphasis of Senator Wriedt ‘s question was to deny that there had been a cut by the Whitlam Government in technical and further education expenditure. [More…]

• I shall seek to incorporate in Hansard a table prepared by the Commonwealth Department of Education based upon December 1975 figures which show incidentally that for the 4 education commissions for the calendar year 1975 the Whitlam Government’s expenditure was $l,595m. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and relates to the table which he has just had incorporated in Hansard in response to the question asked by Senator [More…]

• What I said was that the table produced and published by the Department of Education is correct and it, being correct, shows that in the calendar years of which I spoke it supports the figures I asserted, namely, that the Whitlam Government cut education by $105m, including a significant cut in respect of technical and further education. [More…]

• He proposes that there be the letting of a contract for the provision of additional terrapin units for education purposes. [More…]

• It has provided an education system which has been very suitable for Senator Rae. [More…]

• It has established the council of the college, and that council, in consultation with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), is now actively engaged in selecting a site. [More…]

• The recommendation is that this matter is of such national importance that something should be done to establish a specialised training school in this area and that the matter should be drawn to the attention of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers), the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Public Service Board. [More…]

• I shall cite one example connected with education. [More…]

• Yet if we look in the special appropriations for the Department of Education we find sums in excess of $540m. [More…]

• Health centres have a comprehensive role including primary medical care, health education, population screening, public health and staff training. [More…]

• It might also be directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to advice being tendered by the Chairman of the Overseas Professional Qualifications Committee that education authorities throughout Australia will be asked to accept certain qualifications from a number of countries as grounds for recognition as a teacher. [More…]

• Is it proposed to use such teachers for the special needs of migrant education? [More…]

• I am certain that the question will be of interest also to the Minister for Education and to the Minister for Industry and Commerce. [More…]

• A Press statement was issued yesterday with regard to the future funding for pre-schools, and the questions which have arisen therefrom can be answered briefly in this way: The Federal Government is continuing the policy of the former Government with regard to conditions of grants which are being made for pre-school education in this country. [More…]

• That means that from 1 January 1975 grants for pre-school education had a condition attached to them that other services would be integrated wherever this was possible. [More…]

• Early meetings have been arranged between the Federal Government and State governments to discuss the future funding for pre-school education after 30 June next year and to determine other ways in which the children’s services program of the Federal Government may be implemented at State government, local government and community levels. [More…]

• The capacity of the Launceston College of Advanced Education to deliver certain technical education cannot be stated at this moment. [More…]

• -I draw the attention of the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Federal Affairs to a statement, reported in the West Australian yesterday, by the President of the State School Teachers Union, Mr Bennett, in which he said, among other things, that the setting up of a committee of inquiry into Australian education was merely a token gesture towards youth unemployment. [More…]

• Since its establishment the Bank has lent about US$3 billion for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communication, industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]

• He indicated his interest in the subject and said that he had taken it up with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• My understanding is that the idea of establishing a course for conservators is now being considered by the Minister for Education in consultation with the Minister for Administrative Services and also by an interdepartmental committee. [More…]

• I am still actively pursuing this matter with my colleague, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• Even if we could get the College of Advanced Education in Canberra to commence a course in 1977, it is doubtful whether people taking that course would come into the work force as conservators for at least 3 years. [More…]

• The Joint Committee of Public Accounts is one, the Industries Assistance Commission is another and the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts has before it a reference concerning the Australia Council. [More…]

• But the new responsibilities I have as Opposition Whip- some people say they have gone to my head- have given me a considerable amount of extra work and it is not possible for me to participate on committees or even to remain on the committee in which I was interested, the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• While I was Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, and we had before us the Australia Council reference, messages were coming in an indirect way to me that we should not carry on with the investigation, that the Australia Council had been subjected to too much investigation and that it had so many inquiries to answer that its normal work was being interfered with. [More…]

• I imagine that the present Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts would also strongly object to being misused. [More…]

• On 25 August in this chamber- I made some comments at the timeannounced that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, of which he is Chairman, was not proceeding with its Australia Council reference. [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• I remind the Minister handling this matter- it is now Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education- that when the Labor Government was being challenged by the High Court’s decision as to the validity of certain arrangements for another statutory authority- in that case, the Pipeline Authority which the High Court invalidated under the Constitution- the Minister of the day boastfully bragged publicly that in anticipation of an adverse decision a company had been incorporated in Canberra to carry on the Government’s proposals. [More…]

• The Minister made that statement because it was revealed a few weeks ago that Mr Keith Smith, the chairman of the Australian National Railways Commission, in discussions with a union representative in Port Augusta indicated that there was a likelihood- the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has just referred to this-that the railways were looking at the feasibility of putting a rail head at Manguri Bore while the line was constructed from Manguri Bore to Alice Springs. [More…]

• I thank the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for the answers which he has given. [More…]

• by leave- Earlier in this session I tabled in the Senate the 1977-79 reports of the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, the Technical and Further Education Commission and the Schools Commission. [More…]

• For the second and third years of the triennium, the commissions were asked to proceed with plans based on minimum growth rates of 2 per cent per annum in real terms for universities, colleges of advanced education and schools, and a higher rate of 5 per cent per annum for technical and further education. [More…]

• Before going on to deal with each sector, I wish to emphasise that the Government has no intention of retreating from its undertaking to support real growth in the education programs on which the commissions make recommendations. [More…]

• For this reason, we will be urging the States, relevant education authorities and institutions to use every endeavour to identify savings and to practise good housekeeping without detriment to the effective implementation of the programs. [More…]

• I wish to make some comments in regard to the estimates for the Department of Education set out in division 270.4.0 1 in relation to post-graduate awards. [More…]

• My comment to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is that I am hopeful that there will not be any further decrease in the number of awards in future years. [More…]

• It is true that in the May 1976 decisions one of the measures of economy, and one of very few suffered by education, was a reduction of 100 such scholarships. [More…]

• One of the priorities has been essentially the aim to ensure that all matriculants leaving schools or colleges should be able to find places in tertiary institutions, whether they be colleges of advanced education or universities. [More…]

• Most of those honourable senators to whom I refer are educated people, people who have had the benefit of high school and university education. [More…]

• What we have to do is to adopt an education program. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• School Organisations relating to inadequate education funding for new schools and the maintenance of existing schools? [More…]

• In general, the term tertiary education has applied to universities and to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Post-secondary is a term which has applied to those forms of education which follow upon secondary education. [More…]

• Upon completion of year 12 at a matriculation level a person may go on to tertiary education but, alternatively, after leaving school he may go to a technical college or a community college. [More…]

• So post-secondary would be inclusive of tertiary education but would include also institutions such as technical colleges, community colleges or colleges of that nature which do not necessarily require a matriculation pass for entry to the college. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of the generally held view that children with mental deficiency should be treated in special school situations with less ambitious goals, later starting ages and less sensory input than normal children? [More…]

• Can he detail some of the quite incredible educational goals being achieved by certain children with Down’s syndrome at a special school in Sydney? [More…]

• Can he advise the Senate whether the unit at Macquarie University which is carrying out this work enjoys funding support from the Department of Education or any other Federal department? [More…]

• Senator Baume raises what is, I think, a matter of growing importance and of very considerable significance in special education. [More…]

• I think Senator Baume is referring to an experiment that I have seen at the special education unit at Macquarie University and which I think all honourable senators would find quite remarkable. [More…]

• I suggest that whilst we are trying to find employment for Aborigines in the Northern Territory, encourage them and assist them in education and health, gradually their numbers in the Northern Territory are dwindling and the across the board cuts in the Northern Territory are a washout, are not working and are not good for the health of the Northern Territory community. [More…]

• The Department of Education has indicated that it can do its bit. [More…]

• While I was visiting that community the head teacher indicated to me that there was a shortage of teaching assistants, those Aboriginal people who are so vital in the education program and who assist the teachers. [More…]

• As soon as I got back to Darwin I went to see the Director of Education who told me that there were 40 vacancies for teacher assistants but that the applications for those vacancies could not be processed through the Public Service. [More…]

• What point is there in having an education program if there are no employment opportunities at the end of that program? [More…]

• I agree with what my colleague, Senator Ted Robertson, said a few moments ago, namely, that the areas of health and education, in particular, will have a big effect on the kids of the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I do not know whether honourable senators know that there are problems in relation to education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• If one reads some of the reports- I must admit that they are not yet official, but I shall make copies of them available to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to keep its files up to date- one will see that there are problems in relation to some of the new systems of education which are being introduced or which are about to be introduced in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The Department has now established a task force, under the direction of the health education specialist, comprising a senior matron, health inspector, dietician, personnel officer and a visual aids officer which will be seconded full time to prepare detailed plans for the upgrading and expansion of Aboriginal health worker training in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In particular, on page 68 he will find a breakdown by States and a comparison of this year’s expenditure with expenditure last year under the headings of housing, health, education, employment, welfare, enterprises, town management, recreation and so on. [More…]

• The Bureau has provided information for NDO public education programs on tropical cyclones and floods. [More…]

• That failure to complete a fourth high school in Darwin by 1979 will create severe accommodation problems and prejudice the opportunities of Darwin’s secondary school age students receiving a fair and reasonable education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education noted the headlines in the latest issue of Education, the journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation, stating that migrant education for adults and children is still at the end of the educational queue? [More…]

• Would the Minister again inform this chamber and the people of Australia of the facts on migrant education spending by the Fraser Government in language which could be understood even by the editors of the journal? [More…]

• Natural misunderstanding arose because people looked at a line entry in the Budget and thought they saw that an expenditure of some $20m last year on migrant education had been reduced to $ 10m this year. [More…]

• So a great deal of criticism was engendered which was entirely wrongly based on the thesis that the allocation for migrant education had been cut in half. [More…]

• In fact what had happened was that in the interim essential funding of child migrant education had been passed to the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The overall situation is that migrant education, rather than suffering is in fact being sustained- and being sustained at very real levels. [More…]

• Cycling will be promoted as a transport mode by the construction of a metropolitan cycle path system serving education, work and recreational areas. [More…]

• The Schools Authority Ordinance will operate from the beginning of 1977, and the composition of the new Authority will be as follows: Fourteen part-time members nominated as follows- three by the Australian Capital Territory Teachers’ Federation; two by the Australian Capital Territory Council of Parents’ and Citizens’ Associations; one by the Canberra Pre-School Society; two by the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from its elected members; six by the Minister for Education; and one full-time member who will be the Chief Education Officer. [More…]

• Changes in the composition of the Authority will strengthen the basic philosophy of education in the Australian Capital Territory in having even more community involvement in the decision-making body administering the Australian Capital Territory government school system. [More…]

• A high degree of community involvement was proposed in the 1973 report entitled A design for the Governance and Organisation of Education in the A.C.T., prepared by a panel which was chaired by Mr Philip Hughes, who is Chairman of the Interim Authority. [More…]

• The Department of Education will continue to be responsible for relations with and policy concerning non-government schools in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• The second major issue with which I wish to deal is that of arrangements for further education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• In accordance with the Government’s policy of decentralisation of decision making and community participation in education, the major feature of the new arrangements would be councils for the four further education institutions which the Australian Capital Territory will have in 1977. [More…]

• These comprise the Canberra Technical and Further Education College, Bruce Technical and Further Education College, Canberra School of Art and Canberra School of Music. [More…]

• In addition the system will include adult migrant education which will be integrated within the services provided by the Canberra TAFE College and the Bruce TAFE College. [More…]

• The Department of Education will be responsible for the administration of Further Education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• To co-ordinate present activities and future developments a Director of Further Education will be identified within the Department. [More…]

• Changes in the administration of technical and further education have been made necessary by the decision of the Commonwealth Government to assume wider responsibility in this area. [More…]

• For many years the New South Wales Department of Technical Education has administered the Canberra Technical College, in conjunction with the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]

• Developments overseas and elsewhere in Australia indicate a growing need to co-ordinate the administration and operations in the post-compulsory and further education areas. [More…]

• A standing committee on further education will be established to co-ordinate the activities of the councils and to deal with some of the wider aspects of further education. [More…]

• The standing committee will be convened by the Department of Education and will have responsibility for advising it on the operation of the further education system. [More…]

• The standing committee on further education will include the chairman of each council and the principal or director of each of the 4 institutions. [More…]

• There will be representation from other areas involved with further education including the relevant activities of the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority. [More…]

• For broad planning purposes in Australian Capital Territory education, the Department will develop consultation arrangements involving other educational agencies including the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the non-government schools, as well the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, the Department of the Capital Territory, and the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]

• Arrangements are being made for teachers in the further education field to have the opportunity of transferring to the Commonwealth Teaching Service and to work in a satisfactory professional career situation. [More…]

• The employment of teachers under the Commonwealth Teaching Service Act will allow the flexibility needed to meet the diverse needs of teachers in further education. [More…]

• The conditions which will operate for further education teachers from 1977 can be regarded only as a beginning. [More…]

• The councils of the institutions, the Commissioner of the Commonwealth Teaching Service, the Department of Education, and the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation will continue to explore the requirements of further education staff and develop conditions which are most suitable for the institutions and staff” working in them. [More…]

• The Government has recognised the need to provide adequate funds for further education in the Australian Capital Territory and will continue to give this priority consideration. [More…]

• As an indication of what has happened in this area expenditure on the defined government further education system in 1976-77 will total about $16m compared with $ 14m in 1975-76 and $8m in 1974-75. [More…]

• Changes to Education Administration in the Australian Capital Territory- Ministerial Statement, 10 November 1976. and move: [More…]

• My question is addressed to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications and also in his capacity as Minister for Education. [More…]

• I further ask: Does the Minister regard it as appropriate that there should be substantial cuts in education programs on the Australian Broadcasting Commission? [More…]

• Our proposal for the future is that pre-school education will be dealt with on the basis of block grants instead of on the basis of individual payments for approved salaries. [More…]

• I have now been informed that for the financial year 1 976-77 it is proposed that a grant in aid of some $ 1 40,000 is to be made to the Western Australian Catholic Education Commission for the employment of Aboriginal teacher aides, including a number of aides in the Kimberley Region. [More…]

• The authorities at the Kununurra Catholic Primary School should therefore take the matter up with the Catholic Education Commission in Perth. [More…]

• There are a number of Bills providing funds for education which are of the utmost urgency. [More…]

• These Bills implement the programs recommended by the Universities Commission, the Commission an Advanced Education, the Technical and Further Education Commission and the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The funds to be appropriated by these Bills are essential to maintaining existing education activity. [More…]

• Similarly, some 8 Bills relate to the Government’s proposals on education. [More…]

• In July 1976 the Universities Commission presented to the Government its Report for 1977-79 Triennium, in accordance with the guidelines determined by the Government for the tertiary education Commissions, which I announced in the Parliament on 20 May 1976. [More…]

• States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Bill 1976 [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to provide $4 1 5m for the approved programs of financial assistance to the States for the funding of colleges of advanced education in respect of the 1977 calendar year, following the acceptance of the financial recommendations made in the 1977-1979 Report of the Commission on Advanced Education, which conform to guidelines announced by the Government on 20 May 1976. [More…]

• The programs are based on the financial recommendations contained in the Commission’s Report after transferring to the university sector $6.6m for allocation to the Deakin University on behalf of the Gordon Institute of Technology and the State College of Victoria, Geelong, which will be absorded into the Deakin University in 1977, and $3m to the Technical and Further Education sector for advanced education courses in TAFE institutions. [More…]

• States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• The main purpose of the Bill is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-1976 and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1976 to provide, in accordance with the established policy and procedural arrangements, supplementary grants totalling $33,284,880 to cover cost increases not allowed for when the 1973-1975 triennial and 1976 programs in respect of colleges of advanced education and approved non-government teachers colleges were adopted. [More…]

• The grants contained in the existing Act were based on amounts set out in the Commission on Advanced Education’s Report, Recommendations for 1976. [More…]

• The additional funds provided by this Bill bring the total Commonwealth financial assistance provisions for colleges of advanced education in the States to $744m for the 1973-75 triennium and $385m for 1976. [More…]

• States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Bill 1976 [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to provide financial assistance to the States for technical and further education in respect of the year 1977. [More…]

• The Bill gives effect to the recommendations relating to 1977 contained in the Report of the Technical and Further Education Commission for the triennium 1977-79. [More…]

• The prime responsibility for technical and further education rests with the States and these amounts are supplementary to the States’ own efforts in this area of education. [More…]

• Most of the projects are located in the State capitals where the Technical and Further Education Commission considers that the greatest demand for new training facilities is to be found. [More…]

• These areas are staff development and the improvement of the collection of data on the enrolments, staffing and resources of technical and further education so that firmly based planning decisions can be made. [More…]

• Particular purpose grants are being provided to enable the States to achieve desirable improvements in the effectiveness of technical and further education. [More…]

• The Bill also provides the first grants for programs to be carried out by non-government adult education bodies. [More…]

• States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• This Bill amends the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974-76 to adjust the approved program of grants to the States for technical and further education for the period 1 July 1975 to 31 December 1976. [More…]

• The Government has agreed that cost supplementation of grants for technical and further education should be applied from 1 July 1975. [More…]

• The Bill gives effect to this decision and provides additional funds totalling $5.633m, bringing the funds available for technical and further education since 1 July 1 974 to $ 1 37m. [More…]

• The Government issued guidelines for the triennial programs of the education commissions on 20 May of this year providing expenditure in 1977 of $508m, in December 1975 prices, on schools in the States. [More…]

• The Government has considered recommendations of the Schools Commission against the background of its own education policies for schools. [More…]

• These include widening educational opportunity and promoting equality; parental choice in schooling; encouragement of community participation in education policy development and implementation; and special assistance to the educationally disadvantaged. [More…]

• Principal among these are programs for disadvantaged country areas, to which I have just alluded, emergency aid for nongovernment schools in temporary financial difficulties, particularly in country areas, and grants for the education of children living in institutions. [More…]

• The Government will be continuing the special purpose programs in 1977, generally at about the same level of activity as in 1976- for migrant and multi-cultural education; for disadvantaged schools; for handicapped children; for educational services and development; and for special projects. [More…]

• The provisions incorporated in the Bill will contribute significantly to maintaining and improving primary and secondary education in both government and non-government schools in the States. [More…]

• How often in this chamber have we seen the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) don the shining armour, mount the prancing steed and become the champion of the sacred autonomy and sovereignty of the States? [More…]

• This is less than the 1.6 per cent which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) previously stated in April would be paid to local governments. [More…]

• -The statement of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) does not clarify much. [More…]

• Quite apart from what the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said - [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his reply to me said that it would be an act of sheer impertinence for the Commonwealth Government to instruct a State government on how to conduct its affairs. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick): What will be the position in the event of those areas becoming incorporated? [More…]

• I was hoping the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) would answer my query when he replied to the second reading debate. [More…]

• In common with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), we know the vital role that the National Trust plays in each State. [More…]

• I say that sincerely, because if the Schools Commission or the Universities Commission, for example, had to refer every matter to the Minister for Education for approval valuable time could be lost. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, who is a fellow New South Welshman of mine, would know that with a combination of Liberal and Labor State governments and with changes in the Federal Government we still have a long way to go before we can undertake the establishment of a national park on the foreshores of Sydney Harbour. [More…]

• At that time I was a State public servant working in the Queensland Department of Education. [More…]

• He raised the standard of general education of the police in Queensland. [More…]

• He endeavoured to uplift the standard of education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• On the basis of the reports for the triennium 1976-78 of the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, and the Technical and Further Education Committee in Australia, what was the recommended spending in each of the four areas for (a) 1976, (b) 1977 and (c) 1978. [More…]

• The financial recommendations of the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission in their 1976-78 reports covered the whole triennium without specifying grants for individual years. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows: ( 1 )- (2 ) I refer the honourable senator to my statement in the Senate on 4 November 1 976 on the programs of the Education Commissions for the 1977-78 triennium, where I emphasised that the Government had no intention of retreating from its undertaking to support real growth in the education programs on which the Commissions make recommendations. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Which statutory authorities come under the control of the Department of Education. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education about vocational training for Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• One of the sad facts can be demonstrated in this way: In Australia at the moment more than 1 3 000 Aborigines are receiving secondary grants under ABSEG- the Aboriginal Secondary Education Grants scheme- out of a total recognised population of no more than 150 000 Aborigines. [More…]

• The Senate has before it a set of 8 Bills all dealing with education. [More…]

• I indicate that later the Opposition will move an amendment to the motion for the second reading of the Bill relating to technical and further education. [More…]

• In fact, I think it fair to say that the greatly increased role of education in Australia, which was exemplified during those 3 years, has been recognised by this Government. [More…]

• I think it important in considering these 8 Bills that we look back over the developments in the education area in recent years. [More…]

• I am sure most of us are aware that when the Australian Labor Party came to office in 1972 it did so on the basis of a strong commitment to inject a much higher proportion of our resources into the education area. [More…]

• We believe- I think this Government is recognising this-that the opportunities for Australian children must not in any way be hampered by their inability to receive an equal opportunity in education, no matter what vocation they have in mind. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Commission was also established during that time. [More…]

• On the recommendations of the interim committee that was formed to assess the needs in this area it became obvious when the first report was available that if we were to achieve any sort of development in our education fields in Australia, particularly in our schools, it was necessary for the Federal Government to have a much greater financial involvement in our investment in education. [More…]

• In the last year of the previous McMahon Government and the first year of the Labor Government federal expenditure on the total education system was in the area of only some $400m. [More…]

• We recognised that any government which undertook to increase funding in any area whatsoever at the rate that we did in education could not be expected to do that indefinitely. [More…]

• We had given a lift to education in Australia. [More…]

• The program instituted by the Labor Government meant that these children would have an equal opportunity with children of parents who were better able to afford an education. [More…]

• Our program ensured that all Australian children would be able to get a standard of education which I am sure all of us would wish to see. [More…]

• Without doubt, the most fundamental achievement was to lift education in this country to a new threshold from which this Government has been reluctant to depart. [More…]

• I dare say that the second most important achievement was that we took out of education in this country to a very large measure the sectarian issue which had become so apparent in previous years. [More…]

• We believed that to plan ahead for development in education in Australia it was necessary that the education system as a whole be able to make its projections over a period of 2 or 3 years. [More…]

• It invites the question: Is it possible for any government to give an open cheque to any commission of education, to any commission or to any government body? [More…]

• 1 refer to the Tertiary Education Commission Bill which, unfortunately, was not passed by the Senate in that year. [More…]

• This is where I think it is apparent that the present Government differs from the previous Government on education philosophy. [More…]

• They had to rein in the increase in expenditure on education, to provide for other government services. [More…]

• It has given an undertaking of a certain growth factor in real terms for the 4 spheres of education- the 4 commissions. [More…]

• Even if a 2 per cent increase is allowed, for example, in schools in real terms it is quite apparent, as the Schools Commission pointed out, that this will not be sufficient to enable the Commission to improve the standard of education in this country. [More…]

• Turning to the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission, we find that it states at page 14: [More…]

• Those 3 quotations, from the Schools Commission’s report, the Universities Commission’s report and the Technical and the Further Education Commission ‘s report, all indicate that the financial restraints which have been imposed by this Government on education will have a detrimental effect on the programs which those bodies had initiated and had been enabled to initiate under the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• General purpose revenues which have been used to maintain, amongst other things, funds for schools and technical education by the States have been kept at a rate comparable only with the rate of inflation. [More…]

• In fact, quite apart from the restrictions that have been imposed on education spending, we find that, throughout the whole of the program of Commonwealth funding to the States, the same picture emerges with the States being left to accept more and more of the financial burden. [More…]

• If they are not prepared to do that, obviously there will be less money for schools and less provision will be made for education purposes. [More…]

• On the question of technical and further education, the Opposition will be moving an amendment, which I think has been circulated in the chamber, the purpose of which is to draw attention to the fact that insufficient resources are being directed into technical education. [More…]

• We will recall that the establishment of the Technical and Further Education Commission was delayed because of the total absence of data. [More…]

• This was a direct legacy of the previous McMahon Liberal Government and other Liberal governments before it which were not interested in the development of technical education in Australia. [More…]

• Consequently, when the Whitlam Government set about this program of assisting technical education in Australia there was very little data on which it could work. [More…]

• It is important to remember again what the Technical and Further Education Commission has pointed out in respect of the consequences for the future of failing to provide for skilled manpower. [More…]

• Deputy President, that in an increasingly technological age when we need highly trained people in the technical area this aspect is the Cinderella of Australian education and the one aspect which has been neglected most. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Commission had something to say on this matter. [More…]

• I acknowledge the problems that this Government has had in endeavouring to meet all the commitments upon it, but if there was one area to which it could have directed more of its resources- not just education resources but more of its total resources- that area should have been the technical area. [More…]

• There is a commitment for a marginally higher rate of increase in technical education; it is Vh per cent. [More…]

• We will seek to make it quite clear that we believe in a much greater emphasis being placed in the future on technical education. [More…]

• I finish on a note of uncertainty for the future of education in Australia. [More…]

• There is uncertainty because, as I pointed out at the beginning, this Government does not have the same commitment to education as the previous Government had. [More…]

• It is known that the Government is considering the whole of education funding with a view to transferring some of it to the States. [More…]

• To what extent the States are aware of what is in store for them under the federalism policy, and specifically for education, I do not know. [More…]

• Obviously education will be one of” the major areas in which this will take place. [More…]

• In fact it puts the future of education under a cloud. [More…]

• The Government at present does not seem to be prepared to spell out the precise relationship of its education policies to the total federalism policy, but I think it is quite clear that there will be no more reason why education will escape the clutches of the federalism concept of this Government than any other area of expenditure. [More…]

• I can only close by saying that if the Government sees fit to break down, destroy or dismantle the massive gains that were made for education under the Whitlam Government it will be a tragedy for Australia. [More…]

• At the end of the motion add ‘but the Senate is of the opinion that insufficient resources are being directed into the technical education area ‘. [More…]

• The Senate is debating in a cognate arrangement a series of Bills dealing with education. [More…]

• The items within the 8 Bills include universities, advanced education, technical and further education, to which some extensive reference has been made, and non-government schools at several levels. [More…]

• In the series of 8 second reading speeches which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) put down the matters of funding, salaries and administration, residential accommodation and the important matter of community involvement are included. [More…]

• There are also references to migrants and multicultural education and education for the handicapped. [More…]

• But this is such a comprehensive survey of education in Australian that I fear it becomes impossible to examine in detail or in principle any particular area. [More…]

• Of course, the substance of the Bills is finance for education. [More…]

• Education is a matter which, as everybody knows, is administered by the States. [More…]

• It is some 20 years ago that the State Premiers were placed in the position of very great difficulty as they faced up to the need for expanded education and the limits of their own revenues. [More…]

• The Australian Education Council, after a series of surveys and reports, alerted the Australian community to the national nature of education problems. [More…]

• As a consequence of the reports of those committees legislation committed the Commonwealth Government of the day, a Liberal-Country Party Government, to considerable long term expenditure on tertiary education. [More…]

• In short, the LiberalCountry Party Government long ago grasped the nettle of Australian education, the need for greater funding, the need for better standards and the need for greater availability of education to the widest possible range of the Australian people. [More…]

• The implication of the Murray Committee and the Martin Committee, and the legislation which flowed from their reports, has been that the Commonwealth Government has been involved in funding education and the development of education ever since. [More…]

• In a very recent statement the Minister said that education has been given the top priority by the Fraser Government. [More…]

• There will always be argument in a federation about the role of the Commonwealth in a matter that affects the total community in the way education does. [More…]

• Another important aspect is the increasing priority which is being afforded to expenditure on education and, within that expenditure, the differential growth of the various sections of educational enterprise. [More…]

• This does not mean to say that the answer to all educational problems is met simply by showering funds upon a given area or a given discipline. [More…]

• In his speech this afternoon the Leader of the Opposition placed emphasis on the fact that the previous Administration’s contribution to education was achieved simply by showering funds upon it, without any particular attention to what those funds might produce or what effect the lavishing of those funds might have on other sections of the Australian community. [More…]

• But above all what has flowed from this earlier involvement of the Commonwealth in education has been the enormous public expenditure on education which has produced the ever-present query about value for money. [More…]

• To some extent we are dealing in intangibles and there is always a question of whether education is for a vocation and is therefore related to income and to the economy, or whether it is for some quality of life or just the enjoyment of society. [More…]

• The Minister’s second reading speeches spell out the financial grants to the States and list allocations to a wide range of educational interests and benefits. [More…]

• I accept the fact that these speeches, the clauses of the Bills and their purpose fulfil an historical connection, but more importantly they make a bold, constructive, creative, adventurous, extending and growing contribution to education in Australia. [More…]

• I think it is important to draw attention to the fact that the present Liberal Government, upon assuming office, found a number of serious major problems in the area of education. [More…]

• The matter of inflation is not unrelated to an education program. [More…]

• Education is of course related to employment. [More…]

• When the present Government came to office it found that of the 300 000 people unemployed 40 per cent were young people, most of them under 21 years of age and all of them closely associated with programs of education. [More…]

• Since assuming office the Fraser Government has restored education funding. [More…]

• It has provided real money increases in each of the four important education commission areas. [More…]

• The grants for universities and schools will increase by about 2 per cent, for colleges of advanced education by about 5 per cent and for technical and further education, which is the subject of today’s amendment, by the highest amount, Th. [More…]

• This is a matter of some interest because it is calling for some questioning and some consideration by a whole range of people who have an attachment to the education discipline. [More…]

• This will mean that educational planning not only has been proceeding in spite of the difficulties which the Fraser Government inherited, but also is providing for a constant review and constant opportunity to upgrade and improve and at the same time preserve the basic and practical principle of 3-year funding so that those involved in the education area will know where they are going and will know how to plan in their own particular areas. [More…]

• As I said earlier, it is quite impossible even to make a comment on the whole range of education areas that are covered in these 8 Bills. [More…]

• The Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts has been busy for some considerable time on an educational matter. [More…]

• The recommendations and conclusions which it presented to the Minister for Education have resulted in a response from the Government and from the Minister. [More…]

• I am thinking of the Committee’s inquiry into the education of isolated school children, the report of which was presented to the Senate only a few weeks ago. [More…]

• Included in those reasons are not only educational reasons but also personal and social reasons which relate to the whole of Australian development. [More…]

• It must be remembered, and indeed it is well known, that the rising educational expectations in the Australian community are shared by people in all areas- whether they live in urban areas or in remote areas. [More…]

• The Committee’s report pointed out that, in spite of what the experts say, there is an awareness on the part of people generally who live in remote areas that lack of education is a limiting factor in occupational mobility. [More…]

• Whilst education facilities are provided, and whilst governments may fund educational facilities, it is extremely important in today’s complex society and in a society which I believe will become more complex in the next decade, that opportunity must be provided to all people to choose a second or even a third career or to go into some other area in which they might apply themselves either for economic purposes or for the purpose of personal satisfaction. [More…]

• As the report of the Senate Committee pointed out, isolated children do not have equal educational opportunity with those children who are not isolated. [More…]

• As I said earlier, while money is extremely essential it is not the only answer for all phases of education. [More…]

• It concerned technical and further education. [More…]

• If honourable senators turn to the Minister’s second reading speech on the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Bill they will find that the Bill makes available to the States for 1977 more than $79m, of which $3 7m is for capital expenditure and $41m is for recurrent expenditure. [More…]

• Whilst the prime responsibility for technical and further education lies with the States, these amounts are supplementary to what the States provide and are for the purpose of enabling the States to achieve desirable improvements in the effectiveness of technical and further education. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that the Kangan report dennes technical and further education to include all programs of education that have a vocational purpose. [More…]

• I find as I study the area of technical and further education, for which I am an enthusiast, that it is a creative area of what is sometimes described as a ‘non-institutionalised adult educational program’. [More…]

• However, surely its aim is to provide an educational strategy and a greater opportunity for development, and to promote and sustain those changes that are necessary in our social and economic scene. [More…]

• I believe that properly developed and administered technical and further education complements very readily all other development strategies in our community. [More…]

• Rather, technical and further education should be a process by which people acquire a greater mastery over their own destiny. [More…]

• Technical and further education, in its non-formal character, provides a cornerstone for general development, for a lifelong education, for community education, and for the development of human resources. [More…]

• It provides a wealth of courses and opportunities and, when all of these are taken up, it will undoubtedly produce the characteristics of which I have just spoken in relation to lifelong community education. [More…]

• In conclusion I turn to the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition in the area of technical and further education. [More…]

• At the end of motion, add ‘but, the Senate is of the opinion that insufficient resources are being directed into the technical education area ‘. [More…]

• I presume that when he spoke of the technical education area he was talking about that area of education which we describe as ‘technical and further education’. [More…]

• As mentioned in the Kangan report and in the Minister’s speech, one of the hallmarks of technical and further education is its widespread application and its involvement with the community. [More…]

• I take the liberty of telling the Leader of the Opposition that at the opening of the South East Community College at Mount Gambier the keynote of the speech made by the Premier of South Australia, who performed the opening ceremony, was that the whole basis and value and virtue of technical and further education was its community involvement, the benefit it obtained from local awareness, and the benefit and progress which it obtained from cooperation with local government and community organisations. [More…]

• I think we should point out to the Senate this afternoon that the previous Government reduced the appropriation for this area of education by some $9m from $74m in 1975 to $65m in 1976. [More…]

• In short, the Leader of the Opposition is putting to the Senate this afternoon an amendment to the effect that insufficient money is being allocated for technical and further education, when it was the Government of which he was a member which took money away from the field of technical and further education. [More…]

• It may be recalled that of all the increases in expenditure on educational programs, that represents the largest of them all. [More…]

• That is the kind of emphasis which the present Government is placing on the whole field of technical and further education. [More…]

• I call the attention of the Senate to the statement made by the Minister in this place on 9 September when he made an announcement in relation to a committee of inquiry into education. [More…]

• They are the findings upon which the Commonwealth has moved into involvement in education today. [More…]

• They are the basis on which the then Liberal-National Party governments started on the long road of funding, improving and standing with education. [More…]

• The Government has asked that account be taken of the relationship between education and the economy, the relationship between education and employment, and all of the groups in our society who require and deserve special educational opportunities. [More…]

• So it ill becomes the Leader of the Opposition to conclude his speech by saying that there is an uncertainty in the Government’s education program. [More…]

• It ill becomes the Leader of the Opposition to say that the present Government has no commitment to education. [More…]

• Why, the facts outlined in the 8 second reading speeches we are debating today and the figures which I have just quoted as an argument against the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition give an absolute assurance that the Government has a great certainty about education. [More…]

• It has a great commitment to education. [More…]

• This afternoon the Senate is debating 8 education Bills. [More…]

• The fact that we are debating so many education Bills indicates quite clearly the major role that the Federal Government now plays in Australian education. [More…]

• The fact that we are debating 8 education Bills also means that we will have limited debate on each one. [More…]

• The major role of the Government in education throughout Australia is well indicated if one looks at the expenditure the Government incurs. [More…]

• I have a table which shows the Commonwealth Government outlay on education from the years 1966-67 to 1976-77. [More…]

• They will see that the outlay on education by the Commonwealth Government increased from $141m in 1966-67 to $l,912m in 1975-76. [More…]

• Perhaps of greater importance in this table is the proportion of the total outlays of the Government which is spent on education. [More…]

• For the year 1966-67 in which the outlay on education was $141m the proportion was 2.5 per cent of the total outlays of the Government. [More…]

• In 1975-76, the last year for which we have final figures, the outlay on education was 8.75 per cent of the total outlays of the Government. [More…]

• The proportion of total outlays which will be spent on education this year is estimated to be about 9 per cent. [More…]

• I was reminded of the consequences of such outlays on education only last weekend when, Mr Acting Deputy President, I was in your area of Queensland. [More…]

• I noticed in Innisfail, as you have probably noticed, an education resource centre which had been built from Commonwealth funds. [More…]

• Although the Commonwealth Government has increased its outlay on education, not only in terms of total outlay towards education itself but also as a proportion of the total Budget strategy, I believe that there is no room for us to be complacent about the money we are spending on education. [More…]

• We should be sure that the people who are providing money for education in Australia- the taxpayers- get value for money. [More…]

• If we obtain value for money we will also obtain ever better resources for education. [More…]

• I now seek leave to incorporate the second one which shows public expenditure on education as a percentage of gross national product for 4 countries- the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America and Australia. [More…]

• -Even accepting the point that we must take care when looking at percentage figures on education from varying countries, because of the different ways in which they are compiled, it is illuminating to look at the figures for the 4 countries I mentioned. [More…]

• For instance, in the year 1960 the percentage of public expenditure on education as a percentage of gross national product in the United Kingdom was 4.3 per cent; in the U.S.S.R. it was 5.9 per cent; in the U.S.A. it was 4 per cent; and in Australia it was 2.9 per cent. [More…]

• Until 1972 there was a backlog in the amount of money spent on education in Australia as a percentage of GNP, compared with the other 3 countries. [More…]

• The argument I wish to develop from this point is that although we may have increased the amount of money we have spent on education, as a percentage of GNP since 1972 there has been, at least in relation to the 3 countries I have mentioned, somewhat of a backlog in the amount of money spent. [More…]

• We should not be complacent at this stage and think that the amount of money we are spending is sufficient, and that perhaps when better times come we can allocate more money to education. [More…]

• I believe that, considering the amount of money we are spending on education, we must continually evaluate our education programs. [More…]

• We must continually ensure that what we are spending our money on does give us the type of educational programs that we require to produce the educated citizen we are looking for in this society. [More…]

• There has been a number of comments recently on the various levels of education in Australia querying whether we are getting the right results. [More…]

• For instance, there has been much debate recently about whether the basic education we are providing at the primary school level is satisfactory. [More…]

• I am of the opinion- and this probably is different from the opinion of many honourable senators- that we are certainly not doing any worse in the primary education sphere. [More…]

• In secondary education the debate has been not so much on the basic skills but perhaps on the relevancy of courses which are provided at the secondary education level. [More…]

• In the tertiary field I think the arguments have been mainly in respect of the relevancy of the courses which are available and whether we are providing a surplus of graduates in the various fields not only through universities but also in colleges of advanced education and also whether we should be putting our resources into other areas. [More…]

• Even though large amounts of money are being provided for education in Australia I believe that there are still some serious deficiencies in specific areas. [More…]

• I do not want to appear as though I am being parochial but I do want to mention some of the aspects of education within the State of Queensland which I represent which show that perhaps we need to spend additional money or there needs to be some evaluation of priorities. [More…]

• In talking about the evaluation of priorities I think it is well to comment that in the field of medical education in my own State of Queensland a report was presented to this Parliament some time ago which talked about the expansion of medical education. [More…]

• It commented on the possibility of medical educational facilities being provided at 2 universities in Queensland which at present do not have them. [More…]

• There was also a proposal that educational facilities for medicine be provided at the James Cook University of North Queensland. [More…]

• I mention this because one of the important facets of this report was that the priorities that should be given to medical education in Queensland- indeed, throughout Australia, but I am speaking specifically of the State that I represent- were evaluated and the priorities were laid down. [More…]

• This is a good example of how one should look at the priorities in education and make sure that the programs being pursued are in fact worth while. [More…]

• I would like to mention some aspects of the deficiencies which I think exist in education. [More…]

• The fact that the Commonwealth Government is spending large sums of money on education- does not mean that we can be complacent at this stage about that which we are spending. [More…]

• I should like to mention some aspects of technical education and to refer specifically to apprentices. [More…]

• I consider that that is an area that we can look at particularly in the technical education field. [More…]

• We need excellence in the area of technical education. [More…]

• We need excellence in that area as much as we need it in the colleges of advanced education and in universities. [More…]

• I am sure that all of us, if we want a tradesman to do a job for us, hope that he has been trained as best he possibly can be within the educational system in Australia. [More…]

• They require tradesmen who have had the best possible opportunity for education in Australia. [More…]

• In conclusion, I should like to say that education in Australia, as far as this Government is concerned, is now a major business. [More…]

• We should be doing all we possibly can to make sure that education in Australia receives the funds that it deserves and that the youngsters who are looking for a sound education receive it because this Commonwealth Government has taken the care that it needs to take in this area. [More…]

• I rise to support these 8 Bills which are being debated cognately by the Senate and which, in broad terms, give effect to the Government’s initiatives in relation to education during 1976-77. [More…]

• 1 do not propose to deal in detail with the matters raised by the Bills but they do afford an opportunity of looking at the various areas of education- in fact, the whole field of education- just to see where we are going. [More…]

• I think perhaps the starting point in a debate of this nature is to look at the position of education when our Government assumed office after the December 1975 elections. [More…]

• The position in the education field at that stage was chaotic and consistent with the position in a number of other areas of government activity at that time. [More…]

• Two major problems confronted the Government in the field of education. [More…]

• I think, when we take these and other factors into account, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is to be congratulated on the order he has restored from the previous chaos. [More…]

• We now have a return to triennial funding and an orderly forward program in the education area. [More…]

• After examining the 4 different areas of education, as represented by the 4 different commissions in that field, I think every fair-minded Australian would recognise and acknowledge that the Minister has a very difficult and delicate task in balancing the needs of the 4 areas because a need can always be demonstrated when one is dealing with government funds. [More…]

• This is true in the education field. [More…]

• I should like to refer briefly to the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition in the Senate asking that further resources be directed to the area of technical education. [More…]

• As I have already said, the Minister for Education has a difficult task. [More…]

• Whatever he did, if he were to favour the university area or the advanced education area, he would be criticised equally in either case. [More…]

• When I quote some figures in a few moments I think it will be realised that they show that the Minister has given a larger percentage of funds in the field of technical and further education than in the other 3 areas. [More…]

• As I said in an earlier debate in the Senate relating to education, despite the tight financial position we were able to increase the actual funds for each of the Commissions. [More…]

• In the case of the Commission on Advanced Education, its expenditure for 1976 is $385m, as against a figure of $404m proposed for 1977. [More…]

• For the Technical and Further Education Commission the expenditure for 1976 is to be $65m, and that is to be increased to $70m for 1977. [More…]

• It is reasonably obvious to any intelligent person that if we were to increase expenditure on technical and further education this money would have to be taken from one of the other 3 fields. [More…]

• I want to refer briefly to a number of matters relating to each of these 4 areas of education. [More…]

• I think it fair to say that when university education became free there was a considerable upsurge in the number of people who sought to embark on university courses. [More…]

• But the point must be taken now that we have had some years of experience of free tertiary education and people in the education field should be looking ahead to make certain that positions will be available for graduates after they qualify. [More…]

• I make a brief comment in relation to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I note with interest that the Government supports the proposals of the Commission on Advanced Education for a review of assistance to non-government teachers’ colleges. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has stated that he proposes to issue a request in specific terms to the Commission on Advanced Education to conduct a review and to recommend on the assistance which might be required. [More…]

• I turn now to the field of technical and further education. [More…]

• The first comment I make in relation to that field, in the context of the amendment which has been moved, is that it is primarily a State field of education. [More…]

• Senator Davidson referred to the Martin inquiry and to another inquiry, both of which were held 10 years or more ago, into specific areas of education. [More…]

• The Williams committee will be the first fully comprehensive inquiry into the whole field of education. [More…]

• There are areas of concern in education apart from the financial aspects on which I have dwelt largely today. [More…]

• I congratulate the Minister on his excellent work in the field of education, exemplified, I think, by the appointment of the Williams committee. [More…]

• While we acknowledge that the present system is not perfect- if it were, there would be no need for the Williams inquiry- we at least have triennial funding, forward planning and a situation in which people in the education field know the Government’s intentions clearly and unmistakably for some time ahead. [More…]

• These 8 Bills represent the Government’s program for funding education, via the 4 education commissions, for the next financial year. [More…]

• We consider that there has not been proper provision in these Bills for technical education. [More…]

• Because there has been such criticism by members of the Government, by other sections of the community and by some sections of the media, of the rapidly increased expenditure on education under the Labor Government, I refer to the latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development publication on public expenditure in education which was published in July 1 976. [More…]

• 1 do this because I think it is important to get an international perspective on the matter of funding of education programs and to get some kind of comparison between Australia and similar countries with respect to expenditure on education before we start saying that there has been too much or too little expenditure on this vital area of social policy. [More…]

• The study recently conducted by the OECD found that all OECD countries had increased their expenditure on education in recent times. [More…]

• The report discerned from the various countriesthere are developed and developing countries in the OECD group- 2 major different objectives by countries increasing their expenditure on education. [More…]

• It extrapolates also into the future in regard to education expenditure. [More…]

• If a major preoccupation in the years to come is going to be with output and productivity, then compensatory education can help by allowing a fuller use of the potential of under-privileged groups, pre-school education by freeing mothers for work, and recurrent education (whatever the short-run output losses) by making higher education more responsive to the needs of the economy and by spreading learning through a larger share of the population. [More…]

• So, whichever objective a government haseither that of increasing productivity or that of working towards equality- there is a case to be made for increased expenditure on education, particularly in the area of compensatory education for disadvantaged groups. [More…]

• It does seem to me that the present Government may be more interested in the first objective, that is, of increasing productivity and linking the education system more directly to the requirements of the market. [More…]

• I say that it may be the case that the Government has this objective because, really, the Government has not made its education policy very clear. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has engaged in a great deal of criticism of Labor’s education program and has raised again and again in this chamber the claim that it was the Labor Government that started the erosion of education programs by reducing financial support for them. [More…]

• But, despite all these negative comments and assertions by the Minister for Education to which we have been subjected in the course of this Parliament, there really has been very little by way of a positive statement on just what this Government intends to achieve by funding education and how the contraction in education funding that we see in the Budget that was brought down recently by the Treasurer of this Government, Mr Lynch, can be related to whatever objectives the Government may have in education and the amount of money and resources that it is prepared to allocate to education. [More…]

• I do hope that the Minister, when he participates in this debate, might say something positive about what his Government intends to do in education rather than just continue in a tirade of abuse against the inadequacies, as he alleges them to be, of the Whitlam Government in this respect. [More…]

• There have been some changes that we can observe very clearly in the approach of the present Government to education. [More…]

• Although I and many of my colleagues have stated this before, I think it is most important to state again that the Labor Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, did not cease the triennial system of funding completely. [More…]

• But as evidence of the fact that the Labor Government never intended triennial funding to finish completely, I point out that, at the same time as it announced that there would be a year’s suspension of triennial funding and that there would be just a 1976 allocation for education, the Labor Government announced also that the 4 education commissions were to be invited to come up with new triennial reports, that is, for the triennium 1977-1979. [More…]

• So, education administrators will really only know from year to year what resources they will have at their disposal and what planning they will be able to undertake. [More…]

• I wish to address some remarks to the Minister for Education who, I am pleased to see, is in the chamber, about his claims that there was a reduction of federal support for education in the Hayden Budget of 1975-76. [More…]

• 1 would say bluntly that there was no reduction in federal support for education in that Budget; there was an increase. [More…]

• The total figure allocated for education in the Hayden Budget was $ 1908.2m for the 1975-76 financial year- an increase of $237m over actual expenditure for the 1974-75 financial year. [More…]

• The falsity of the claim that the Labor Government intended to reduce its expenditure on education should no longer be a matter for dispute. [More…]

• First, the expenditure on capital projects that had already been undertaken in education was continued. [More…]

• Thirdly, the proportion in 1975 of each age group proceeding to tertiary education was to be maintained for the following year, and sufficient funds were allocated for that purpose. [More…]

• As well as those substantial efforts to maintain and increase education expenditure there were specific increases in the funds allocated for student assistance. [More…]

• There was a specific increase for migrant education. [More…]

• There was a large specific increase for other kinds of educational research. [More…]

• There were specific increases for Aboriginal education. [More…]

• During the period of Labor Administration expenditure on education doubled nearly twice. [More…]

• In 1 972-73 expenditure on education was $443m; in 1973-74 it was $859m; in 1974-75 it was $ 1,672m; and in 1975-76 it was $ 1 .908m. [More…]

• As well as that, during the period of the Labor Administration cost indexation of capital and recurrent grants was adopted for universities, colleges and schools and was agreed upon for technical and further education. [More…]

• In 1971-72, when we were coming to the end of 23 years of coalition rule, Australia spent 4.7 per cent of GNP on education, compared with 8.9 per cent in Canada, 6. [More…]

• In 1972-73 Australia’s figure was increased to 4.8 per cent, in 1973-74 to 5 per cent, in 1974-75 to 6.2 per cent, and in 1975-76 6.4 per cent was to have been spent on education. [More…]

• The achievements of the Labor Government in the field of education cannot simply be stated in terms of money. [More…]

• At this point I agree with those who say that more than money is needed to improve the education system. [More…]

• There was a tremendous impetus in school education caused mainly by the setting up of the Australian Schools Commission with its various national co-ordinated and innovative programs. [More…]

• There was a great improvement in morale in the teaching profession generally and in the school teaching profession in particular brought about by the new recognition of the national importance of education. [More…]

• The education system was failing to equip school leavers with skills they needed to be competent in subsequent areas of work and in life generally. [More…]

• Before the suspension of the sitting I was attempting to establish, I hope beyond dispute, that the Labor Government had increased education funding at every stage and in all forms. [More…]

• Even in the 1975 Budget- the Hayden Budget- there had still been an increase in funds available for education and not a reduction, as has been claimed by honourable senators opposite. [More…]

• I was also saying that, apart from the very great increase in money resources that the Labor Government put into education, it put other things into education such as a greatly improved impetus, a greatly increased morale and the circumstances in which constructive and useful changes in education environments and techniques could be brought about. [More…]

• One of the other achievements of the approach of the Labor Government to the funding of education- I think that this was mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition, Senator Wriedtwas that finally we were able to solve the bitter sectarian dispute over State aid. [More…]

• We resolved that by establishing a very simple and, I think, very right principle that funding of all kinds of education and funding of schools and students in schools should be not on the basis of whether they were government or private schools but on the basis of need. [More…]

• I am unhappy to see, particularly in the statement made today by the Minister for Education, that there is an attempt at eroding that very important principle that was established. [More…]

• The justification given by the Government for this new balance in the funding of education is the necessity of making the exercise of choice by parents a financial possibility. [More…]

• Whilst we in the Opposition do not dispute that parents and students if at all possible should exercise choice, we would disagree with the present Government as to the extent to which that choice should be subsidised from the public purse when it is being subsidised at the expense of a poorer sector of education. [More…]

• It would increase the awareness of the community about the cost involved in education and the difficulties involved in the administration of education, and would generally lead to a more informed and aware education community. [More…]

• If State governments can freely alter their use of money allocated for specific purposes, then there is no guarantee that desirable targets in education- I refer to those outlined in the original Karmel report- will ever be reached. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has claimed on many occasions that there will be a 2 per cent growth rate for universities. [More…]

• When we get to the area of technical and further education, we get to an area which has been controversial in this chamber. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has claimed that last year there was a reduction in Federal support by the Labor Government for technical and further education. [More…]

• By way of correcting those charges, I point out that during the period of the Labor Government expenditure on technical and further education increased by 350 per cent- and most justified it was. [More…]

• Another very important measure introduced by the Labor Government was that which made technical and further education free. [More…]

• I think there is a causal relationship between the decision to make technical and further education free and the rapid increase in the number of enrolments. [More…]

• Although the fees charged by technical and further education institutions were not high -perhaps there are people in the Senate who would not believe that they would be beyond the reach of anybody- in fact, they were a deterrent to many people to undertake technical studies. [More…]

• In supporting these 8 Bills dealing with the Commonwealth Government’s support for education, I begin by saying that education is probably the most fundamental service provided by or supported to varying degrees by governments. [More…]

• Clearly the quality of the nation that we build will probably depend to a greater extent on the quality of the education provided than on any other single factor. [More…]

• I suggest that there is a perennial problem with such matters, and that is the question of providing a most effective system of education within the limits of the resources available to governments and to the community generally. [More…]

• I therefore begin by simply referring to the total expenditure on the 4 areas of education in 1976 and 1977. [More…]

• This year expenditure on education will amount to about $1.49 billion, and it is estimated that next year expenditure in these 4 areas of education will increase to $1.54 billion, providing for real growth, after inflation is taken into account, of about 3.2 per cent. [More…]

• Education (Senator Carrick), including the statement that he made on 4 November in which he said: [More…]

• The Government has no intention of retreating from its undertaking to support real growth in the education programs on which the commissions make recommendations. [More…]

• It contrasts, for example, with the reduction in the 1975 Budget and for the 1976 calendar year of $105m in funds for the education commissions. [More…]

• I add in passing that that is also consistent with recently announced increases in tertiary education assistance scheme allowances, which range roughly from 24 per cent to about 40 per cent. [More…]

• I think one of the most important questions to which all those involved in or interested in education must address themselves is that of the employment of school leavers. [More…]

• The Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training which the Government has now established will play an important role in assessing some of the problems and perhaps suggesting some of the solutions to obviously serious problems which are developing in our society and in our educational system. [More…]

• It was given by the Minister for Education as follows: [More…]

• The Committee will deal with a number of fundamental issues related to education. [More…]

• In particular, the Committee will examine the whole field of post-secondary education. [More…]

• It will also examine the broader problem of the relationship between education and the labour market. [More…]

• In the latter area the Committee will be asked to expand its review into secondary education as appropriate. [More…]

• One important issue relating to university education is the growing problem of the potential over-supply of graduates. [More…]

• When we are looking at these large sums of money which are being put into education, that is one problem which we have to take very seriously indeed and which has to be examined. [More…]

• When we consider the problem of an over-supply of graduates, there may be a need for some re-emphasis in our approach to university education. [More…]

• It is significant that the real increase in spending on advanced education in 1977 compared with 1976 will, in fact, be 5 per cent, with expenditure estimated at $4 1 5m next year. [More…]

• 1 now turn to an area which is, in some ways, related to advanced education. [More…]

• I think it is the most significant area in the current consideration of education in Australia. [More…]

• It is the field of technical and further education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in his statement on this subject: [More…]

• This gives effect to the recommendations relating to 1977 contained in the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission for the triennium 1977-79. [More…]

• As the Minister noted in his statement, it is recognised that the primary responsibility for technical and further education rests with the States and the Commonwealth effort, in effect, is supplementary to the efforts of the States. [More…]

• It is important not only that the Commonwealth continue to increase its emphasis on technical and further education as it has in this Budget, but also that other governments do likewise. [More…]

• The Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training is also to take into account the growing recognition of the importance of technical and further education. [More…]

• It is worth recalling what the Minister said on 9 September when he was announcing the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training because it is relevant to the importance of technical and further education: [More…]

• One important reason for this review is the changing structure of post-secondary education. [More…]

• These developments have raised questions about the most appropriate allocation of responsibilities between the different sectors of postsecondary education. [More…]

• Particularly because of the establishment of separate commissions in post-secondary education there has grown up a tendency to treat the universities, the colleges of advanced education and institutions for technical and further education in isolation from each other. [More…]

• More than that, there is a need to consider how postsecondary education as a whole relates to the needs of individuals and to the linkages between education and employment. [More…]

• That emphasises the importance of all aspects of post-secondary or tertiary education but particularly technical and further education. [More…]

• The committee of inquiry which has been established will obviously have relevance to the growth and development of technical and further education and its role along with other post-secondary education in Australia. [More…]

• I hope that in the future technical education in this country is given a higher status which is more in accord with other tertiary and post-secondary institutions so that more people are attracted to technical education as a means of ensuring that Australia builds up its store of technical and related skills. [More…]

• It is worth noting that the largest area of real increase in the Government’s education budget for 1977 is, in fact, in the area of technical and further education. [More…]

• The terms of reference and the purposes of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training indicate the importance that the Government attaches to this area and related areas of education. [More…]

• The real increase in expenditure on technical and further education for 1977 further emphasises the commitment of the [More…]

• Government to ensure that technical education is given the support it needs for Australia to build up the store of technical skills which will be required in the future. [More…]

• I mention in passing that recurrent funds for technical and further education in the Australian Capital Territory have increased by 3 1.5 per cent this year. [More…]

• This again reflects the priority given by the Government to technical and further education, both in the national capital and in the nation as a whole. [More…]

• I make the point also that the technical and further education system in the Capital Territory is currently in the process of transferring from the New South Wales education system to the Commonwealth system. [More…]

• All these factors indicate the emphasis being placed by the present Government on education as an important area of community development; as a means of building up skills within the community which will be required in the future; as a means of providing greater choice and freedom for individuals as they expand their knowledge and therefore their ability to make choices of employment within the community. [More…]

• In concluding, I think it might be appropriate to refer to a summary of the Government’s objectives in education. [More…]

• In referring to these on 9 September the Minister for Education said: [More…]

• These include widening educational opportunity, including access to education for those with the ability, but lacking the means; expanding educational and occupational choice; developing quality and excellence in all spheres of education and encouraging community participation in education and training matters. [More…]

• Our educational system has a central role in increasing the capacity of people to adapt to change. [More…]

• It includes also providing opportunities for re-entry into formal education, for the updating of old skills or the acquisition of new skills relevant to new needs and new demands. [More…]

• I rise to support the amendment which the Opposition has moved with respect to technical and further education. [More…]

• It comes from the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission: [More…]

• None of those responsible- employers, the Victorian Department of Education or the Apprenticeship Commission in Victoria- can escape the blame for that position. [More…]

• The Department of Education stands condemned because it allowed the facilities for apprenticeship training to run down and run down very badly. [More…]

• Yet the Department of Education in Victoria did absolutely nothing about bringing this situation into order. [More…]

• So apprentices were going through the technical schools under the training of the Department of Education in Victoria knowing little or nothing of modern workshop practices. [More…]

• Their instructors had absolutely no chance to give them a critical evaluation of new material or new methods because the Department itself was 30 years behind the times and as much as the instructors endeavoured to bring their apprentices up to modern day methods they had absolutely no way of doing it under the Victorian Department of Education. [More…]

• Because this is the only apprenticeship school in Victoria for hairdressing that gives women any sort of go there is obviously no hope at all for it in respect of funding for technical and further education. [More…]

• In that field in Victoria the impetus for funding from the Technical and Further Education Commission was the only hope we had and despite the lack of movement in the apprenticeship field there was a need for experienced manpower and technician courses were set up in Victoria. [More…]

• This is all because technical and further education has had the funding cut off to this area. [More…]

• Migrants form a very large proportion of the people who enter the technical and further education field. [More…]

• We cannot have the teachers or the counsellors needed unless more money is granted to the technical and further education area. [More…]

• At the moment, one of the directors of education in Victoria is overseas endeavouring to recruit more migrant teachers for Victoria. [More…]

• There are people in the ethnic community in Victoria who have the ability to give that sort of counselling, that sort of technique and that sort of education to people in their own language. [More…]

• Girls and woman have been ignored in the area of technical education. [More…]

• The Federal Government needs to inject money into the technical and further education area to make sure that crash courses are made available and to make sure that women undertake courses and go out into the community and become part of the workforce. [More…]

• In the past Victoria has not accounted in any way for the money that it has been granted for education. [More…]

• So far the Department of Education in Victoria has made bungling, futile attempts to cope with the twentieth century. [More…]

• The Victorian Department of Education has given no indication that it even knows that these women and girls exist or that they should do anything for them. [More…]

• We need teachers with other languages in the area of technical and further education because we have a great number of people with a great number of skills who, as I said earlier, are lost between 2 worlds. [More…]

• They were the children who came from disadvantaged homes; they had language difficulties; and they had a dislike of learning because of the way they had gone through the education system. [More…]

• But with the record that the Victorian Department of Education has there will be no hope of them getting out of that area unless someone provides more funds so that their skills can be developed. [More…]

• As I have said, many teachers believe that this is a real area of education. [More…]

• But those teachers in the Victorian education system are not getting a great deal of encouragement. [More…]

• To emphasise my point I point out that 16 per cent of youths between 16 and 19 years are unemployed and while $150m is being spent on their unemployment grants only $70m is being spent on technical and further education. [More…]

• I applaud the amendment which the Opposition has proposed and hope that we will press on for more funding for technical and further education in Australia. [More…]

• -In my short time as a senator I have observed some rather interesting things, particularly in relation to education debates. [More…]

• I was elected to this Senate with a fair sort of background in the area of education. [More…]

• I came into a parliament which was spending enormous sums of money in the general area that we refer to as education. [More…]

• If one judges by the debates on education that take place in this Parliament it would seem that all one needs to be capable of making decisions on policy in relation to education is firstly to have been to school oneself; secondly, preferably to have had children who have gone to school; and thirdly- this is purely an option- to have witnessed at some stage or another students in an educational institution. [More…]

• We hear things expounded in this Parliament which more closely relate to poetry than policy on the subject of education. [More…]

• I do not mean this personally, but I say in all sincerity that a lot of it would have been more appropriately set to music than delivered in a debate on education. [More…]

• It would have been more interesting to hear some comment on the subject of what education is all about. [More…]

• This evening we are debating a large number of Bills which give great scope to the Senate to have a debate on the broad issues in education. [More…]

• I hope nobody will accuse me of oversimplification, because public debate on education is obviously a vexed and a difficult one. [More…]

• We are continually seeing articles on the subject of education in newspapers and in news magazines. [More…]

• We are hearing more and more, through letters to the editors of newspapers or letters to members of parliament, a cry of concern about what on earth is happening in education in Australia today. [More…]

• We ought not to gauge any of our policies according to that interest group which is most successful at producing Press releases or at mobilising numbers of people to write certain stereotyped letters on the subject of education. [More…]

• There is a suggestion that at the end of the motion certain words ought to be added in relation to technical education. [More…]

• It very much interests me- somebody who has been here a mere Vh years- to thus be informed what officially is the new sacred cow in education. [More…]

• In my life in the area of education, which is virtually the whole of my life, I have seen a great herd of them lumber through the Australian society. [More…]

• I have worked in educational institutions and in the educational establishment and ! [More…]

• have observed educational establishments as an administrator and as a practitioner. [More…]

• What a lot we have to learn about modern Australian society from the education establishment and how much indeed are other establishments learning from the precedents set by the educational establishment. [More…]

• We have had endless commissions of inquiry into education in Australia. [More…]

• But surely it is not surprising that when one turns to educationists and asks them: What is really wrong with education in Australia, that the answer one invariably receives is: There are not enough educationists; that is what is wrong with education in Australia. [More…]

• Members of the Government have never, I hope, said anything which would lead anyone to suggest that we do not recognise the needs in the technical educational area. [More…]

• However I am curious about why that issue above all the great educational issues which arise naturally or superficially in public debate today, has been chosen. [More…]

• I remember a time not very long ago when the voguish sacred cow was Aborigines and Aboriginal education. [More…]

• I believe the Minister can deal in detail with any challenges made to the Government in the area of technical education. [More…]

• I want to look next at the most recent sacred cow in education in Australia, that of Aboriginal education, of which we have heard nothing from the Opposition so far. [More…]

• I think it would be salutary to look at what happened to the people who have been subjected to various changes of policy in that area and at what they have gained educationally. [More…]

• While the analogy might be limited because of very particular social factors, in political terms it is not limited if we can learn a lesson about how to proceed with policies in relation to any area of education. [More…]

• The matter of education of Aborigines, a very specialised area, was in great vogue just a few short years ago. [More…]

• The Labor Government undertook some measures in relation to Aboriginal education, specifically in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Because this debate has been used largely as a vehicle for debating what State education departments are or are not doing- conveniently those involved in the debate have overlooked the fact that the Commonwealth Government has a full responsibility for education in the Territories- it ought to be pointed out that before any member of the Commonwealth Parliament can point the finger he ought to look at the Commonwealth Government’s record in that area in which it has an exclusive responsibility. [More…]

• He has a very particular experience of education in the Australian Territories. [More…]

• He has treated the Senate to some very valuable contributions on specific areas of education on previous occasions. [More…]

• As somebody who is interested in education- not as somebody from the Northern Territory, but as somebody who recognises that all members of the Commonwealth Parliament have a very particular responsibility for what happens in education in the Northern TerritoryI feel morally obliged to make a statement this evening on the subject. [More…]

• My experience of the educational situation in the Northern Territory is not as long as that of somebody like Senator Robertson, but I have a fairly general experience in education. [More…]

• We have had too many sacred cows and too many easy, glib answers on education in Australia. [More…]

• Nothing shows that better than the parlous state of education of Aborigines. [More…]

• In my opinion, what has led to failures in the system has been lack of planning; lack of care; lack of recognition of the objectives of education anywhere, but particularly in relation to this group in our society; lack of a clear understanding of the terms in which we are accountable to our country for any educational policies which we pursue; and lack of understanding of where education policy fits into a general social policy. [More…]

• One thing that can be said very easily about Aboriginal education, as perceived in the Northern Territory, is that education cannot be isolated. [More…]

• If one wishes to talk about this subject, wishes to make a contribution or wishes to make some suggestion about what ought to happen, one cannot do it in purely educational terms. [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…]

• I am saying to Senator Melzer that trendy ideas of what ought to happen in education in that area have not been related to a proper, careful study of the factors which should operate. [More…]

• If the training which is given in them does not equip those people to go back into their own community- a type of transition community between the ‘noble savage’ state and the white society by which they are surrounded and with which they are constantly in contact- if it does not give them the means of coping with that situation, it is a failure in educational terms. [More…]

• If we take young people from their families, a great cost to their race, and separate them from their families, if we teach them to read and write and do not give them any means of living by those skills but send them back to a society in which those skills are not used but are forgotten we have somehow or other failed those people educationally. [More…]

• The reason why that single child was attending school was that both its parents had a certain minimal level of education, and they were of the few, as far as I could gather, of their race who still believed that education for their children meant something for the future of the childrenthe opportunity of a decent life. [More…]

• The important aspect surely is that, having tried a transitional stage, all that we achieve is that their education ceases. [More…]

• Education must be part of the key. [More…]

• We must recognise that each step should be based on the best possible knowledge and that we ought to act with the best possible motivationnot the pursuit of the political ‘sacred cow’ of education, not the pursuit of a mere handful of votes, but the pursuit of that which will vindicate this society some time in the future through the only reasonable basis of judgment- the benefit to the people to whom it is directed. [More…]

• Senator Martin also questioned the emphasis that we place on technical and further education. [More…]

• I thought it would be fairly obvious by comments which have been made by many speakers today that technical and further education has been chosen for special attention because it is an area of great need, and the area is one which has been overlooked for many years. [More…]

• The only comment that I could make is that one would never know because, until fairly recently, very little had been done in the field of technical and further education. [More…]

• Senator Martin also spoke at some length about Aboriginal education. [More…]

• I can understand her interest in the subject when I look at the standard of Aboriginal education in the State from which she comes. [More…]

• The first comment that I wish to make is to mention ACENT- the Advisory Committee on Education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I have mentioned this before, but I must again bring it to the attention of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I ask the Minister once again to give serious consideration to the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I make a plea to the Minister to look again at the establishment of an advisory committee on education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The second area I would like to look at is the involvement of parents and the community generally in education. [More…]

• We will recall, of course, that the Labor Government set aside a certain amount of money in its Budget to support and encourage parental involvement in education. [More…]

• We all know, because of a report that has been presented to the Minister, that a very good committee was set up to look at the needs of technical and further education and agricultural education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• It came up with some very clear indications of a need for training in the Northern Territory and the need to provide agricultural and technical education to all young people in the Northern Territory- not only the Aboriginal people but also the European people, but it did identify a special need for Aboriginal people. [More…]

• We recognise that a serious problem exists in the field of technical education with regard to Aboriginal people. [More…]

• In our experience one feature of successful schemes for the education of Aborigines has been the recognition that a special approach is necessary. [More…]

• If training is offered within the Territory young people will not be forced into taking education in the long blocks but rather can perhaps attend on a day basis if that is thought to be desirable. [More…]

• I move to the education of the isolated children. [More…]

• I was very pleased to hear Senator Davidson, who is the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, comment on this subject. [More…]

• In the area of education and what was offered to the children, particularly the older students who were looking perhaps at secondary education up to matriculation level the basic problems for parents were finance and the picking up of their children and so on. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government review its educational policy in the Northern Territory to ensure equal education opportunity for both Aboriginal and European children. [More…]

• The payment of benefits under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme to be continued and that levels of assistance and application of the means test for additional allowances be reviewed annually so that allowances are paid at a rate commensurate with education expenditure. [More…]

• Obviously education in remote areas cannot be based on correspondence without using the mail system. [More…]

• The mail system has made the cost of correspondence education prohibitive to some parents. [More…]

• I recommend strongly to him, as Senator Davidson did, that he look at these recommendations which have been put forward in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• I move to the area of special education, particularly as it relates to the Northern Territory, although it is something which applies to the whole of Australia. [More…]

• I was very pleased to hear the Minister outline his philosophy on special education. [More…]

• Honourable senators may recall that he suggested in the case of a child needing special assistance or special education that he should be given a number of alternatives. [More…]

• There is some sort of suggestion that the training may be a lower level than the education. [More…]

• In fact the Northern Territory chapter of the Australian College of Education has been moved to mount a survey to find out whether teachers have been adequately prepared, how they themselves see their training, how the children see the training and how the administrators or supervisors see the training. [More…]

• I know that that is said in relation to every State but we must look at the situation in the Northern Territory, we must think of the numbers of Aboriginal schools, we must think of the problems of special education where the teachers are removed from contact with their colleagues and are unable to get advice and assistance as can perhaps be done between Sydney and Melbourne or between Melbourne and the suburbs. [More…]

• I think that I ought to say something about migrant education because the funds in this area have been cut. [More…]

• There is need for special assistance with home education. [More…]

• We ought to be able to provide education for these people, not only in English but also perhaps in general broadening of civic knowledge. [More…]

• To sum up, I ask the Minister when he is considering these Bills to look at the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Northern Territory as a step towards our own authority within the Territory and as an involvement of the parents and the community generally in the education scene in Darwin. [More…]

• I ask him to look at special education and at the particular needs of the Northern Territory where at the present time it looks as though the philosophy which he espoused is not currently being followed. [More…]

• The last area that I mention is that of teacher education. [More…]

• I conclude my few words tonight with a quotation from Dr Anderson who would be well known to the Minister, who gave an address to the May conference of the Australian College of Education. [More…]

• The address was entitled Labor’s Achievements in Australian Education 1972-1975. [More…]

• At the beginning of this paper I referred to the general sense of excitement which permeated education circles in the early days of a Labor Government. [More…]

• In the wake of a euphoria of spending has come the more sober mood in education today. [More…]

• At this point, however, there appear to be important new directions in Australian education, directions embodying partnerships which in former dmes were only dreamt about. [More…]

• I have listened to the many suggestions that have emanated from the Opposition as to what should be done for education. [More…]

• Honourable senators opposite devoted their attention particularly to technical and further education. [More…]

• This makes it far more difficult to inject graduates from technical institutions and further education areas into the work force. [More…]

• Rather than help education, the Whitlam Administration, as Senator Tehan reminded us, abandoned the triennial system of funding which resulted in a reduction in expenditure on education. [More…]

• Its economic management has enabled it to provide additional finance for education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in May this year gave guidelines for the benefit of the various commissions that have been established to make recommendations to the Government with respect to this important and growing area of expenditure. [More…]

• In his speech on 4 November he indicated that the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, the Technical and Further Education Commission, and the Schools Commission, as a result of an examination of needs, subject to the guidelines laid down by the Minister, had been able to recommend programs for 1977 totalling $l,537m at December 1975 prices. [More…]

• For the second and third years of the triennium the commissions were asked to proceed with plans based on minimum growth rates of 2 per cent per annum in real terms for universities, colleges of advanced education and schools, and a higher rate of 5 per cent per annum for technical and further education. [More…]

• I commend the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts for its report on the problems of isolated children. [More…]

• Dental practitioners from Government Health and Education Department, Universities and from private practice agreed on the ratio of 1:2000 for planning purposes. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister for Education to the matter. [More…]

• One of the problems that face doctors and medical graduates is that their education is gained in the cities, and is specialist orientated. [More…]

• I have listened to those on both sides who are more expert than I putting their points of view as to which government has had the better education policy, which government has spent more on education, which government has spent that amount of money more wisely. [More…]

• Before the Labor Party came to office in 1972 there was a great concern in this country for the lack of expenditure on education and the apparent lack of progress and planning and the lack of any idea of where we were going in education in this country. [More…]

• I do not believe that anyone can deny that the former Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, and the Government that was in power from 1972 to 1975 greatly changed the education system in this country. [More…]

• It increased expenditures which were necessary and which were necessarily large to make up for the neglect in education in the past. [More…]

• The fact that the present Government is continuing at about that increased level of expenditure- there have been cuts in some areas and there have been increases in some areas, but there has been no attempt as yet and I hope there will be no attempt in the future to drop the level of expenditure on education back to the percentage of the gross domestic product which applied before 1972-1 believe is further evidence of the justice and the need for the policies that were introduced by Mr Beazley and by the Labor Government. [More…]

• Mr Beazley was the overseer of a new concept in education m this country. [More…]

• It was the concept of the establishment of national guidelines at all levels of education, the provision of adequate funds by the government best able to produce those funds- the Federal Government. [More…]

• One hopes that the reintroduction of per capita grants, so prominent in the statement of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), will not take us away fom this concept of need, this concept of getting some sort of equality of opportunity in education in this country. [More…]

• There had to be mistakes in what was a revolution in education and a revolution in expenditure over those 3 years- over those two eighteen-month terms of government. [More…]

• It is better to make a few mistakes in areas like that than to neglect the whole system and deny our children a proper education. [More…]

• In the case of technical education I have said in this place that the Government in office before 1972 and perhaps the Government which I supported should have put technical education on a slighty higher level but as I will come to later there is a reason why we could not go ahead as rapidly with technical and further education as we could with the other forms of tertiary education, namely universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Before I do that I would like to talk generally for a moment about the sort of things that has been talked about in education over the last few months. [More…]

• Evaluation in education, I believe, is very difficult. [More…]

• There are some people who judge the success of an education system on the ability of the few people they come across to spell correctly or to count correctly or to do differential calculus correctly. [More…]

• There are some who judge it by the degree of acceptance of the products of that education system in the society in which they live. [More…]

• People have judged the products of the education system by the degree with which the students or the graduates accept the status quo in our society. [More…]

• I believe that where possible we should carry out evaluation in education the same as we should carry it out in the field of social security, in the field of medicine and in every other field of activity. [More…]

• Not all areas of education are able to be judged on objective measurements and known standards. [More…]

• The standards that are used must not be based on the philosophical, ideological, moral or any other prejudices of the people in power or the people influencing the education system. [More…]

• I am not saying that there is no concern about the education system in this country; I am not saying that there is no reason for any concern about the education system in Australia; but the way we evaluate a system and the way we get the answers, if there are answers, Will not be by glib articles in newspapers or magazines or anything else, written quickly, full of cliches, full of ‘good hard news’ as it is called, full of eye-catching phrases which are of no assistance to any of us in debate and which can mislead considerably. [More…]

• There are those people in the community who have a genuine concern about education. [More…]

• I have said that I have always been concerned about where we place technical education in this country. [More…]

• I expressed the view when we were in Government that perhaps technical education had too low a priority. [More…]

• But I realise that one of the reasons why technical education had a low priority- apart from the usual reasons in the community that universities and later on colleges of advanced education were the prestige institutions, that people who went to them generally did not get their hands dirty and all the other reasons that we know about- was that when an investigation was held into technical education in Australia and the Kangan Report came out, as in so many reports we found that he asked many difficult questions. [More…]

• This inquiry was really the first close look at technical education in this community. [More…]

• I can remember that in one State there was great difficulty and I do not think the people there ever found out exactly how many technical and further education students there were. [More…]

• In some States there were no real plans about where technical and further education would go. [More…]

• But we did know that the equipment was inadequate in most States, that the buildings were inadequatein come cases they were highly dangerousin some States and that technical education had been left behind. [More…]

• In technology and in technical education in general as a result of the various reports on education we do know more. [More…]

• We need to give technical education a higher priority. [More…]

• Therefore the Opposition is disappointed that the increase in this area of spending was not as great as we would have liked and was not as great as I believe the people in technical education would have expected. [More…]

• One can expect that the universities, the schools and the colleges of advanced education in some way would have the increase in their level of expenditure level out. [More…]

• I do not believe that exhorting the States to spend more on technical education and getting away from the very real federal responsibility is worthwhile. [More…]

• This does not mean that I advocate necessarily a cutting back in the levels of expenditure on general education courses, of courses in the liberal arts. [More…]

• The concept of continuing education through the lifetime, I believe, is a good one. [More…]

• It will be assisted if we can expand this area of education. [More…]

• I refer to the situation of post-secondary education in general in Tasmania, in particular the College of Advanced Education in Tasmania. [More…]

• Previous Ministers for Education, in both the Federal Government and the State Government, had been made aware by many members of Parliament, by many citizens of Tasmania and by members of both sides of this House that there seemed to be a problem. [More…]

• A college of advanced education was developed in Tasmania. [More…]

• It was felt by some of us that because of its lack of autonomy, because of its distance from the main campus, because of the natural tendency, about which I heard Senator Martin speak in this place on other occasions, of some people in education to indulge in empire building- a tendency that is not confined to education, a tendency that I believe is probably worse in medicine and even occurs in Parliament - [More…]

• To get an unbiased assessment of what was going on, to get a dispassionate look at the situation, both Ministers for Education established a committee of inquiry under Professor Karmel into postsecondary education in Tasmania. [More…]

• Both parties agreed that a maritime college should be established at or about the College of Advanced Education and that this may be the basis of a specialised course around which an autonomous college could arise, in the way that the University of New England and other universities grew. [More…]

• It recommended, among other things, a transfer of the centre of advanced education from Hobart to the north. [More…]

• It is a salutory lesson to those who have to deal with the education establishment. [More…]

• It sent its education officer to Hobart. [More…]

• I praise those rational men of both political parties, including Mr Batt, Senator Rae, the present Minister for Education Senator Carrick, who looked at the problem and made their judgments after a dispassionate look at the problem. [More…]

• I believe that those who take a blind, parochial view and who adopt the blind principle ‘what we have we hold at any cost ‘, without looking at the facts, do none of us a good service and certainly do not make the future of education planning in this community any easier. [More…]

• I have given my reasons, by referring to technical and further education, for supporting the amendment moved by Senator Wriedt. [More…]

• It is an expression of our genuine concern that more assistance will be needed in the technical field in future, both to provide us with the technicians to keep our society going and, if I can extend it, to provide the increasing pleasure and the increasing use of the concept of continuing education which I believe have been well established in this country. [More…]

• There is no doubt that education is regarded as being of the highest priority. [More…]

• It is a simple fact that over the whole of the post war years the governments of the day have given to education a very major place in the political sun. [More…]

• The great pioneering of education was done by the Menzies governments of the 1950s and the 1960s which established the way by setting the path first with the Universities Commissions which embodied the concept of a statutory authority, followed by the establishment of the Commission of Advanced Education which reached towards indirect supports into post secondary and secondary education. [More…]

• It is true- and I say it not in a partisan waythat the calendar year 1 976 as determined by the Whitlam Government of 1975 was a setback for education. [More…]

• The simple fact is that all governments have accepted that education figures are laid down by the calendar year and not by the financial year. [More…]

• The decision in the Labor Government’s 1975 Budget, made in terms of the calendar year, on which indeed all education commissions operate, showed a cutback of $ 105m for all 4 education commissions and a significant cutback for technical and further education. [More…]

• I was surprised, therefore, that the Labor Party should seek tonight to move an amendment to suggest that it has some special interest in technical education that it has treasured over the years. [More…]

• Statements on education covering the broad philosophy of these 8 Bills have been made by me on a number of occasions lately. [More…]

• Of the 8 Bills, four are simply supplementation of previous legislation while the other four are implementation of the new philosophies within the 4 different education commission reports and the Government’s initiatives. [More…]

• I foreshadow further statements all in a progress plan for reform in education. [More…]

• In a world in which other countries are tending to cut education expenditure, what we have done is to give education a forward plan in the form of a triennial concept or a triennial plan. [More…]

• Those who tend to decry the rolling triennium nevertheless fail to realise that when one picks up the triennial reports of the 4 education commissions one finds proof of the rolling triennium principle which provides a plan for the year immediately ahead and the projection for the 2 years after that. [More…]

• Taken under these circumstances, the action that we have taken to restore the cuts in education, to restore triennia, to overcome the freeze in student allowances and to introduce new concepts of allowances and new policies represents a story of very considerable achievement and indeed is to be allied to future policies foreshadowed for even greater reforms. [More…]

• This action must be viewed against the announcement by the Federal Government of its plan to have the most comprehensive inquiry into education in Australia’s history. [More…]

• It must be understood that here is a Commonwealth initiative to look towards the goals of education for the year 2000 and beyond, to look to the goals of human fulfilment, to the things of the spirit and of the heart as well as of the mind, and to look to the real things also of education and its role in vocation and in vocational orientation and fulfilment. [More…]

• Having said that here is an exciting panorama of these great gains for education at a time of economic recession, I comment that we will reject the amendment moved by the Labor Party because we have recognised more than the Labor Party that technical education deserves a better go. [More…]

• We have asked that, in the Williams Committee inquiry, considerable significance be given to post secondary education in terms of vocation. [More…]

• I have indicated to the State Education Minister that I would welcome making available my own officers from the commissions for discussions. [More…]

• I conclude by reiterating that I believe that the 1 1 senators who spoke made a very worthwhile contribution; that the points that they made will certainly be considered; that it is good to see that both sides of the House support the principle of high priority for education. [More…]

• Perhaps one of the most heartening things I heard tonight was the expression of a number of Labor senators commending the disappearance of bigotry and sectarianism in education in Australia. [More…]

• For my part, for some 20 years, I have sought to see that all Australian students, from whatever families, from whatever socio-economic or religious grouping, should have the highest education that Australia can afford. [More…]

• It is a goal of the Government to provide true equality of opportunity for all, whether handicapped or not, and to provide equality of freedom of choice as between the streams of education. [More…]

• During his reply the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) reintroduced the matter of expenditure by the Labor Government on technical education. [More…]

• During the period the Labor Government was in office there was a quite spectacular increase in technical education expenditure at the Federal level. [More…]

• In 1972-73 the Labor Government inherited an expenditure on technical education of approximately $ 1 3m. [More…]

• We in the Opposition say, of course, that there should be a greater allocation of funds to technical education; but the principle is recognised now by this Parliament as a whole, and to that extent at least we have made progress in the Parliament. [More…]

• ) At any time, and from time to time, during the year to which this Act applies, but subject to sub-section (4), the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of the State Education Minister for a State, direct that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 opposite to the name of the State were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commonwealth Education Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this sub-section and sub-section (2) and (4)), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied. [More…]

• the relevant financial assistance will, as soon as is practicable, be applied by the State, according to the respective needs of the schools concerned, for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of the year to which this Act applies in connexion with government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State and, in particular, will ensure that such part of the relevant financial assistance as is not less than the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 3 opposite to the name of the State is applied in respect of recurrent expenditure in relation to migrant education provided at those schools; [More…]

• *(aa) after consultation with the Schools Commission, the Commonwealth-Education Minister may permit the allocation of a specific amount from a school’s allocation to be spent at the discretion of the school board; ‘. [More…]

• They all confirmed that the Chinese people in Dili were in no way identified with the People’s Republic of China but were in fact supporters of Taiwan and all their children were sent to Taiwan for their secondary school education. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to teacher education which the Minister mentioned in his statement in the Senate on 4 November. [More…]

• Within the section of his statement headed ‘Colleges of Advanced Education’ the Minister observed that enrolments in teacher education courses in 1977 would be contained. [More…]

• The Senate will recall that earlier this year my Department, in conjunction with the 4 education commissions, put out a preliminary working paper aimed at initiating discussion throughout Australia on the supply of and demand for teachers in Australia in the next decade or so. [More…]

• Having done that, it is then necessary to decide whether we should adopt a manpower approach and keep the numbers down by some kind of quota or whether we should warn the public of the expected intake of teachers and then let students receive an education and take the risks. [More…]

• The matter is with the States at the moment, it is being examined and we would hope to make some announcements of conclusions probably after the next Australian Education Council meeting. [More…]

• I want to ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) a question concerning the report of the Department of Transport which was tabled in the Senate this morning. [More…]

• The 150 per cent increase in penalties provided for in this Bill have not been justified by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) or by the Minister in the other House, other than to suggest that the Government will restore the deterrent value of fines and penalties. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) could indicate the present percentage recoverable from all charges made upon the airlines, not just air navigation charges, but fuel charges and meteorological charges. [More…]

• From Senator Sim’s remarks I gained the impression that the first Bill was concerned only with charges for providing navigation services, whereas the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) makes it clear that the Bill relates to aerodromes, airway facilities, meteorological and search and rescue services. [More…]

• The second day was washed out by rain- by a veritable flood of education Bills. [More…]

• It requires funds for it to be opened to the public as part of the general education program and the community awareness which honourable senators spoke so much about last year and in the present debate. [More…]

• Yet time and time again he has criticised the Labor Government for having reduced expenditure in some area of education for this reason or for that. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) referred to efficiency, and other speakers raised their eyebrows about our solicitude for State governments. [More…]

• 1 ) In response to a request by the then Minister for Education, the Honourable Malcolm Fraser, M.P., the [More…]

• In July 1973 the Committee made comprehensive recommendations on the expansion of medical education in Australia and its major recommendations are now being implemented by the Government. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of a letter circulated to Thai students studying in Australia by the Thai Embassy calling for students to spy upon other students? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The State Minister for Education on 20 October, when asked when the grants would be made, agreed that there had been some delay in making available to schools these funds which are to be provided in that general area. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and follows a question I asked previously regarding a student at the Australian National University who has a conscientious objection to paying fees to the student association. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in the debate earlier on the motion for the second reading of the Bill that the commissioners would have access to expertise, which is true. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether he could clarify figures which are contained in the second reading speech and which were not subject to debate during the second reading stage. [More…]

• I am sorry to continue this, but the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is not answering the question. [More…]

• I would not have intervened in this debate but for the attitude that is being adopted by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I was interested to hear the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), when speaking to the States Grants (Housing Assistance) Bill, accuse the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt) of using sleight of hand. [More…]

• -Besides of being working at the university level I was acting at the city where I was living, Pena), where I was the Socialist Party’s Sectional Secretary of Education. [More…]

• I ) and (3) The Education Departments of Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia expect some 333 teachers from overseas to arrive during 1976-77 in specific subject areas. [More…]

• The Education Departments in New South Wales and South Australia have not put forward proposals to recruit teachers overseas. [More…]

• Teachers, in general, are not included in the categories of workers accepted for migration but they may be considered for migrant entry in specific subject areas or specific locations for which teachers are not available in Australia on request by education authorities or nongovernment schools. [More…]

• A preliminary estimate of public sector expenditure on education in 1975-76 in relation to gross domestic product puts the percentage at 6.0. [More…]

• The level of Government support for research in this area must be viewed in the light of known research as reported in the ‘Fifth Annual Report to the U.S. Congress’ from the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education received or made a decision on a submission that was made in September to the Interim Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority by a group of Canberra teachers and parents to establish a modern traditional government primary school that was not open-plan and had a structured approach in areas such as reading, spelling, language, reasoning and communications? [More…]

• I believe that my Government is keen to encourage, where possible, community groups to get together and, where we can do so, to allow them to establish schools conforming to the principles of education that they hold to be the vital principles. [More…]

• There is a general tendency now- one which we would encourage- throughout Australia to seek innovation not only in one sphere of education but throughout the education spectrum. [More…]

• Obviously Tasmania was not mentioned among the States listed by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• In education, teaching in all grades is now in metric units though some imported texts, notably from the United States, use non-SI metric units. [More…]

• They are not of a fit state of mind and have not had sufficient education to be able to cope with the intricacies of life in a society that is totally different from their own. [More…]

• In short, the many facets of this important and growing industry contribute to the Australian economy through: urban and rural development; decentralisation; new and expanded employment outlets; contribution to foreign exchange earnings; avenues for profitable short and long term investment; a contribution to education; new avenues for improving community health and welfare, both physical and mental; a deeper understanding of different cultural standards and community attitudes; a wider base for international understanding and goodwill. [More…]

• -I rise to respond to an invitation by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• But I was amazed when the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) today was grabbing at crumbs to start a first class brawl in this chamber just for the sake of his own ego and his own paranoia. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) referred to my remarks about having one airline throughout Australia. [More…]

• -The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) probably did not understand the other questions I asked him. [More…]

• I am aware that, if they fail to observe their bonds, they will be held responsible by the Thai Government for twice the cost of their education, and it obviously will be impossible for them to meet such claims. [More…]

• It was brought to my notice then- I think this is the typical position in which students find themselves- that on breaking the bond students are required to pay twice the amount of the cost of their education in Australian terms. [More…]

• Apparently twice the cost of the education has to be paid, and I am informed by the students that if it is not paid the Government will bankrupt the guarantor back in Thailand, who would be a parent. [More…]

• It was raised earlier today, as Senator Primmer mentioned, and information was given by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• The creation of an Establishment to initiate, research, promote, co-ordinate, fund and produce material for children’s consumption through the medium of television, as recommended by Australian Children’s Television Action Committee in its submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and The Arts 1973; The Australian Broadcasting Control Boards Advisory Committee Report 1974 and the Television Industry Co-ordinating Committee 1975, as a positive step towards providing better quality television for Australian children. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that the short term inflationary effects of devaluation will necessitate further allocations to ‘cost supplement’ education funding if serious reductions in spending levels are to be avoided? [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s undertaking of 4 November 1976 that ‘the Government will continue to supplement programs to meet unavoidable cost increases’, will the Minister now give an undertaking that the Government will provide full cost supplementation to education funds to cover the reduction in spending levels caused by the devaluation? [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Education by remarking that I have noticed that some post-secondary educational institutions in Brisbane are competing for students by offering courses of a similar nature. [More…]

• Whilst there may be some value in such competition, I question whether this is in the best interests of the community, given the scarcity of resources available for education. [More…]

• Can the Minister advise whether any mechanism is available to the Commonwealth to ensure that unnecessary duplication of courses does not occur at postsecondary educational institutions in Australia? [More…]

• Primarily, the matter is one for the higher education authorities in the Queensland State Government because, as the honourable senator will know, the primary constitutional responsibility for such colleges rests with the State governments. [More…]

• I am looking forward to the report of Professor Williams’ committee on education and training, as that committee will have to look at the whole question of co-ordination and rationalisation. [More…]

• I propose to take up with the State Ministers at the next Australian Education Council meeting the question of duplication, excess competition and the fact that it is competition for valuable resources with matters of higher priority. [More…]

• This has been a great problem in America in the housing voucher experiments which were started there and which, despite the claims of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the department, are still continuing and have not been evaluated. [More…]

• Thirdly, the Government has instituted an inquiry into the relationship between education and the labour market. [More…]

• Finally, officers of my Department have been working with officers of the State Departments of Labour and Technical Education on a review of aspects of apprenticeship in an attempt to develop initiatives aimed at improving the effectiveness of the Government’s incentives to employers in relation to the employment and training of apprentices. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware that a community organisations course for Aborigines at Swinburne Institute of Technology in Victoria has been abolished allegedly for one year, in order that an assessment of the value of the course may be made. [More…]

• The block grant to the States was calculated on the basis of reports provided regularly to the Commonwealth Government by State Treasuries on behalf of the various State departments concerned with pre-school education. [More…]

• It had regard to the extent of provision of pre-school education in each State and the costs of meeting that provision, and it took into account new pre-school centres commencing operations during that period as a result of capital grants made under the Commonwealth children’s services program. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and it follows several questions I have asked previously in this chamber regarding a student at the Australian National University who for conscientious reasons has refused to pay the student union fees. [More…]

• -Did the Minister for Education recently receive a letter from the University of Queensland Academic Staff Association which states, amongst many other things, that in particular the situation concerning supplementation remains unclear and if devaluation were to occur it would add to the University’s difficulties? [More…]

• Should it be your intention to not take up any further form of full-time education or training, you should advise the Department to this effect when your intentions in this matter are firm. [More…]

• It has been found in the past that in many cases students who complete their secondary education in November or December have not made firm decisions on the question of their future full-time education until well into the new year. [More…]

• Persons who left school at the end of the school year, who are not planning to undertake full-time education or training and who are still seeking employment at the end of the school vacation will be eligible for unemployment benefit from the date of the commencement of the new school year. [More…]

• Cutbacks in health, education and social welfare programs are adding to the disadvantages of those who live in isolated areas. [More…]

• I have noticed that reference was made in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to certain preliminary action in the House of Representatives. [More…]

• It has made a number of decisions, the most significant of which is the precise determination of the site for the College, that site being adjacent to the Newnham campus of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• In my capacity as Minister for Education I have written to the appropriate Minister, the Minister for Administrative Services, asking that his Department take the steps necessary to obtain the land. [More…]

• The Council will be looking also at the use of the facilities of the College of Advanced Education and the technical college to provide additional help by way of running courses for the College. [More…]

• implementation of a program of public education aimed at ensuring a proper understanding of the factors affecting the development and use of water resources and a sense of responsibility in relation to these matters; [More…]

• maintain a program of research, studies, dissemination of results, education and such other measures as may be required to enable the water management goals set out in this Statement to be achieved; [More…]

• The implementation of a program of public education aimed at ensuring the proper understanding of the factors affecting the development and use of water resources and a sense of responsibility in these matters. [More…]

• In his second reading speech, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said: [More…]

• I asked the Minister for Education whether he was aware that 12 people had already left the Bureau of Roads and I asked whether in his mind this was a significant loss in respect of the expertise that could have been available to the department. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has said that since 1964 a total of 362 952 people have benefited under the old homes savings grant scheme. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Mr Newman, in the Senate yesterday retracted his original statement that no such letter had been received by Mr Newman. [More…]

• I recall the article referred to by the honourable senator but I am unaware of any plans that the Minister for Health may have initiated with regard either to an education program or to any other requirements relating to the best form of skin screen against skin cancer in this country. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has already mentioned, the problem of finance is not really difficult, because the parent will be in a position to put his title into a bank and guarantee the advance which will be necessary to enable the house to be built. [More…]

• Funds to continue to be made available for housing education employment, help Legal Aid etc. [More…]

• Will give priority to extra Aboriginal Field Workers’ and Advisors in help, education and Community development. [More…]

• Priority to expansion of Education in Aboriginal languages. [More…]

• Aboriginal parents to help in education programmes. [More…]

• A revised policy and programming is essential and urgent in such needy areas as: (a) housing (b) health (c) education (d) employment (e) legal service (?) [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• In terms of their housing, their employment, their health, their education and their prospects they do not have access to the things we regard as proper and normal in today’s Australia. [More…]

• We had a situation in which the Department or the Welfare Branch attempted to provide clothes, European education, European food, health services and so on to the Aboriginal people in the same quantum as would be supplied to a European community. [More…]

• I finished on the point that serviceshealth services, clothing, food, education and so on- had been provided. [More…]

• The bilingual program introduced education in Aboriginal languages. [More…]

• The foothill woodlands have considerable educational value in their flora, fauna, geology and geography in close proximity to students of diverse age in the formal and informal education process. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, is related to the study of human nutrition in Australia, especially in the light of the widespread occurrence of problems of over-nutrition and poor nutritional practice in our society at present. [More…]

• Does the Government place a high value on the study of human nutrition and are there any plans for the Government, possibly in the form of collaboration between the Department of Education and the Department of Health, to attempt to match this private endeavour and to extend the study of human nutrition within our universities? [More…]

• The sorts of matters referred to me were the substantial support it had found in the community for the establishment of an institute and the discussions which it had held with the Canberra College of Advanced Education regarding the siting of an institute in that establishment. [More…]

• Perhaps my colleague the Minister for Education has some knowledge of the progress of that matter. [More…]

• The changes in the capital allocation referred to by Senator Melzer and attributed to the Victorian Minister of Education, relate to the comparable legislative provisions of the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973-74-that is the biennium legislation- and the States Grants (Schools) Act 1976. [More…]

• In 1974 and 1975 the Commonwealth Government specified through legislation how much was to be expended on capital projects in government schools for each of libraries, special education, disadvantaged schools and general buildings. [More…]

• The matter therefore is one for the Victorian Minister of Education. [More…]

• But the essential fact is that the matter is specifically one for the Victorian Minister of Education. [More…]

• The major recommendation of the Committee is that education authorities should create widespread opportunities for children to study migrant languages and cultures in schools. [More…]

• Such consultation would help the school to be able to respond to the expressed educational needs of the children in its area. [More…]

• The Committee also suggested that education authorities consider establishing a co-operative program, of limited duration and with defined funding, to implement its detailed recommendations for the teaching of migrant languages and cultures in schools. [More…]

• The Government’s policy on Immigration and Ethnic Affairs states that Australians should be encouraged to develop an understanding of the cultures, language and history of migrant source countries, that appropriate ethnic studies should be introduced into teacher training curricula and that ethnic communities should be consulted and supported in their own programs of ethnic education. [More…]

• I think every honourable senator appreciates the importance of this project I think the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will appreciate the comments I want to make. [More…]

• The Committee has been told of the need for more effective music education at the primary and secondary school levels aimed not only at instrumental instruction but also at educating future generations for a better understanding and appreciation of fine music. [More…]

• An integral part of all of these Bills is the housing, welfare and education of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• We could then find out how much was paid to each State for Aboriginal housing each year and how much was paid to them for health and education. [More…]

• -(New South WalesMinister for Education)- Pursuant to section 30 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 I present a statement of payments to the States authorised under that Act for the financial year 1975-76. [More…]

• As the Minister responsible for the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, for the information of honourable senators I present the fifth main report of the inquiry entitled Poverty and Education in Australia. [More…]

• Because of this Government’s very great interest in educationan interest which is reflected throughout the whole community- I am sure that Dr Fitzgerald’s report will command a great deal of attention by education authorities, teachers and teacher organisations, parent groups and educationalists generally. [More…]

• For its part the Government regards Dr Fitzgerald ‘s report as an important contribution to the consideration of education development and policies and I can assure honourable senators that the recommendations made in the report will be given full consideration by the Government. [More…]

• The report is of more direct concern to several of my ministerial colleagues but by far the major portion of it lies within the area of responsibility of the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick. [More…]

• At this time when we have 40 per cent of those unemployed in this country aged between15 and 19 years and in view of the great possibility that opportunities for school leavers will be fewer in the next few years, the recommendations and findings of Dr Fitzgerald and his colleagues will be of the utmost importance to the Minister for Social Security, the Government and particularly the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in his second reading speech, he regards this legislation as being transitional legislation because many more things need to be done. [More…]

• That means that we have kindergarten programs, so called family comedies, educational programs put forward by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and some other little programs designated as ‘education for children’ programs. [More…]

• There are 3 te hours of educational television; that is, material put on by the Department of Education in Victoria, and it is repeated in the afternoon. [More…]

• From them all we have cartoons for an hour at a time; we have family comedies- I am not sure whether honourable senators opposite watch television but McHale’s Navy and Gilligan’s Island, both of which must be 4200 years old, are the sorts of programs that go into that family viewing time- we have half an hour of documentary, with a question mark, and a half hour deemed children’s educational programs’. [More…]

• However, it did promise that by its third year educational, programs would occupy 1.75 per cent of its viewing time. [More…]

• However, in its third year there were 30 minutes of children’s programs and, because we are all concerned with education just as we are concerned with motherhood, 30 minutes of educational programs in its first and second years and one hour in its third year. [More…]

• God knows what the one hour of educational television may have been. [More…]

• HSV7 promised 3 hours of children’s programs in its first year and 4 hours of educational programs but has never got to that point. [More…]

• Of Australian films that were shown in the hours that children could watch television there were 29 hours- one hundred per cent from the ABCand they included films that are called educational; that is, put on by the education departments. [More…]

• I welcome greatly the report this week that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts is going to concern itself with the part played by television in children’s lives and education. [More…]

• This followed a question relating to the costs of various programs which I asked in the Senate of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• Drug Education Programs in Queensland (Question No. [More…]

• What funding assistance has the Commonwealth Government made available to the Queensland Government for drug education activities in each year since 1970-71. [More…]

• Are there any specific qualifications or provisos on the expenditure of funds provided to the Queensland Government for drug education programs. [More…]

• Has the Australian Government provided any other assistance for drug education programs in Queensland. [More…]

• 1 ) The funds allocated by the Commonwealth Government to Queensland each year since 1970-71 for drug education are: [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray that Senate in Parliament assembled will take urgent steps to revise current plans for the education of our children with a view to the provision of a government primary school in Fraser. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education had the opportunity of examining the report on poverty and education produced by the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty under Dr Ronald T. Fitzgerald which was tabled in the Senate this week? [More…]

• If he has examined it can he indicate whether the Government has made any decision with respect to the numerous detailed recommendations in the report relating to poverty and education? [More…]

• I, as Minister for Education, have had the opportunity to study it only briefly. [More…]

• Those questions are borne out by studies elsewhere by a working party from the Australian Education Council on transition from secondary schooling to work, by the study at the moment in dialogue in Paris at the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development on transition from school to work based on study done in Australia. [More…]

• Perhaps we have oriented education over decades more towards a general and special kind of education that would aid the 20 per cent or 25 per cent that go on to matriculation and tertiary education than towards the great bulk of students. [More…]

• There are the questions of whether primary and secondary education are effective; whether technical education has been underprivileged and even neglected. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is the Department of Education in contact with the study? [More…]

• I point out as a general background that the OECD undertook to make a study of a particular aspect of education in Australia this year. [More…]

• May I say in passing that, as to the general standard of Australian education, whilst they saw detailed deficiencies in other categories they expressed a view that measured against standards elsewhere we were performing reasonably well. [More…]

• I think this will be important as will the study of the working party of the Australian Education Council on the subject Secondary education to work’. [More…]

• Along with the documentation of Dr Fitzgerald they are starting to produce a mosaic of the whole field of education which poses a series of questions at which we will need to look. [More…]

• From 1967-71 he was a Research Scientist with CSIRO and from 1972-74 was Secretary to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• It was during that period that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, produced one of the Senate’s most monumental reports on an inquiry into broadcasting. [More…]

• There was a curiously convoluted illogicality in the reply which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) gave to Senator Button. [More…]

• I remind the Senate of what the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has said today, that is, that the Tribunal is going to hold a public inquiry so that the people of this country can come forward and give evidence and pass comment. [More…]

• Senator James McClelland often has expressed the view- he expressed it when he was a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts- that it is important not to have standards so rigid that they do not express the contemporary viewpoint. [More…]

• Earlier in the day, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in summing up the second reading debate said that the aim of the legislation was to make broadcasting free from political interference. [More…]

• We should not assume that this Bill is merely an interim measure, and I ask the Minister for Education whether he can envisage when alterations to this legislation will be introduced. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the Council will be largely comprised of representatives of the national and commercial public sectors of broadcasting. [More…]

• The decisions involve the education of children. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• This arrangement was made in 1974 when certain functions authorised by the Social Development Ordinance were distributed amongst the Departments of Health, Education, Aboriginal Affairs and the Northern Territory. [More…]

• 1 ) What cuts have been made in Australian Broadcasting Commission radio education programs in the past 6 months. [More…]

• What further reductions in education programs have been foreshadowed by the Commission. [More…]

• 1 ) In Norfolk Isalnd, Island, of the three inhabited Island Territories whose administration falls within my portfolio, education is compulsory for children between the ages of six and fifteen years. [More…]

• While education is not compulsory in either Christmas or the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the majority of children do in fact attend school. [More…]

• The United Nations International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which came into force for Australia in March, 1976, requires the Australian Government, within two years and wherever compulsory primary education has not been secured, to work out and adopt a plan for its progressive implementation within a reasonable period. [More…]

• Working Party on the Transition from Secondary Education to Employment (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Government in agreement with the eleven recommendations made by the Working Party on the Transition from Secondary Education to Employment [More…]

• The Working Party on the Transition from Secondary Education to Employment was established by the Australian Education Council (the Commonwealth and State Ministers for Education), with the agreement of the Commonwealth and State Ministers for Labour. [More…]

• Action arising from recommendations of the Working Party will therefore be considered initially by the Education Council. [More…]

• This was achieved without reducing pre-school education for all 4- year-olds requiring it in the areas served by these older preschools. [More…]

• This means that a few double unit pre-schools have not been operating to full capacity but nevertheless all 4- year-olds whose parents desire it, are receiving the normal pre-school education program. [More…]

• In 1977 the resources available will be so utilised to ensure that every 4-year-old, whose parents so desire it, will have the normal pre-school education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Can the Minister provide the figures for Education Commissions expenditure programs in December 1975 prices, for 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975, along the lines of those presented for 1976 and 1977 in the Senate by the Minister on 4 November. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]

• Is the Government considering reducing allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme by an amount corresponding to that money earned by a student during vacations. [More…]

• The Government does not intend to reduce students’ living allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme by an amount corresponding to that earned by the student during vacations. [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…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The media release of the Australian Teachers’ Federation of 9 February 1977 titled ‘Crisis in Aboriginal Education’ charges the Government with broken promises in regard to the withdrawal of moneys and the upgrading of schools in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• -In general terms, happily throughout Australia and in the 2 Territories the education year has opened with relatively few problems; indeed, it could be said, with many fewer than in recent years. [More…]

• Proposals to upgrade the educational facilities at Elcho Island are included in the current Department of Education civil works program; that is, the one for 1976-77. [More…]

• A Department of Education officer from Darwin has been at Elcho Island since last week. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education seen reports of physical violence and intimidation by left wing elements at the conference of the Australian Union of Students? [More…]

• Does the Minister for Education agree that the report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties makes some excellent suggestions for action in what has been a relatively neglected area? [More…]

• I was pleased to attend a meeting of the Australian Education Council in Hobart last week. [More…]

• Attention was drawn to the recommendations at the meeting of the Australian Education Council, where considerable discussion occurred. [More…]

• Towards that end this particular report is under study by each of the commissions associated with my Department, by the Department itself, by the Education Research and Development Committee and the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]

• The representation on the Schools Commission now, both in a general sense and in a widespread sense, is in accordance with the previous guidelines laid down by the Australian Education Council and has the active support of the 6 State education Ministers as well as of the Commonwealth. [More…]

• 1 ) Dairy Research in Australia is undertaken by CSIRO, State Departments of Agriculture, Colleges of Advanced Education, Universities and a number of industrial companies. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education and I preface it by reminding the Minister that he made certain statements in relation to the school on Elcho Island when replying to a question from Senator Kilgariff in this chamber yesterday. [More…]

• He heard from the group complaints about the fall in the number of jobs, the inadequate funding of outstations and education services and the use of vacant Government houses. [More…]

• They refer to housing, education and health. [More…]

• The matter has been referred to the Minister for Education, the Minister for Health and the Treasurer for their comments. [More…]

• The Association is engaged also in negotiations with the Canberra College of Advanced Education with a view to developing an association between the 2 bodies, including the siting of an institute on the college grounds. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to an article which appeared in the Age on 8 February 1977 titled ‘The Missing Migrants’? [More…]

• If so, can the Minister comment on the following claims that were made in the article: Firstly, that no Australian education authorities are notified of the arrival or existence of school aged migrant children, and secondly, that there is at present no procedure for finding out the number of non-English speaking migrant children, particularly teen-agers, who are not going to school? [More…]

• Will the Minister undertake to investigate these claims and if necessary take steps to rectify the situation so that the older migrant children are given the educational opportunities to which they are entitled? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, follows the question asked yesterday by Senator Walters concerning alleged physical intimidation of delegates to the Australian Union of Students conference. [More…]

• I went to the eastern goldfields, for example, which is a place where people tend to be very independent and to believe that they should be independent and should stand on their own 2 feet and where, at the same time, they are asking for the extension of television and radio services, health services and education services. [More…]

• Throughout the metropolitan area one gets requests for more expenditure on education. [More…]

• I believe that the election next Saturday therefore has a national significance, not only for those who are interested in development as development but also for all those who want to see better education, better social security, better health and better welfare. [More…]

• All the talk in the world about welfare, education and all the rest, if it is not underpinned by economic expansion is, in my submission, so much cant. [More…]

• However, there are a number of company towns where there are specific demands for increased television services, telephone services and education services and for the maintenance and creation of roads. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to questions asked this week by Senator Keeffe and myself directed to the Minister in regard to Aboriginal educational facilities at Elcho Island. [More…]

• I am not quite sure whether my question should be directed to the Minister for Education or to the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• I am not sure whether my question should be asked of the Minister for Education, the Minister for Social Security or the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]

• I conclude by saying that in terms of the survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and in terms of the working party set up by the Australian Education Council this Government is now focusing major attention upon the problems of juveniles. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Western Australian Tertiary Education Commission agreed to accredit the undergraduate course in nursing at bachelor degree level and in December last year the Australia Council on Awards in Advanced Education accepted for registration a Bachelor of Applied Science (nursing course). [More…]

• I have been informed that now the Commission on Advanced Education is not prepared to fund the course at degree level. [More…]

• We were conscious of the fact that, as a result of this slowing down in business activity and as a result of the increased expenditure that we had found necessary for social welfare, education and other long overdue necessities for the Australian people, we were faced with a very considerable problem. [More…]

• It is a government which subscribes to the doctrines of Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand- that the only things which ought to function are those which are paid for by somebody out of his own pocket; that you do not even have public education. [More…]

• Other areas of assistance include the pre-apprenticeship and accelerated training scheme, the relocation assistance scheme, further funds for technical and further education, the recasting of the National Training Council program, the establishment of the inquiry into the Commonwealth Employment Service to see what further efforts can be made to match people with job opportunities and to provide that service to those who are unemployed or to those who are seeking wider opportunities in employment. [More…]

• An inquiry into education and training has been established, as well as a program aimed at assisting secondary school students to make better career choices and to plan for their entry into the world of work. [More…]

• I am very well aware that the reference which the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts undertook in relation to isolated school children afforded the opportunity to representatives of the isolated children’s community to present to the Parliament, and thereby through the Parliament to the Government, a whole range of opinions and a whole range of circumstances and situations in which this section of the Australian community is involved and about which it is concerned so that the Committee could bring down a report. [More…]

• On 18 August last year the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts presented to the Senate its report on isolated school children and there was put before the Senate a motion that the Senate take note of the report. [More…]

• On 13 September 1972 the Senate resolved that this reference on isolated children be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]

• That Committee is now known as the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• When I asked for leave to continue my remarks I was pointing out to the Senate that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts had received a reference relating to the education of isolated school children. [More…]

• The report indicates that the reference related to children who, for geographic reasons, have no reasonable daily access to an appropriate school or who cannot be afforded equal education opportunities with other children, or who cannot be provided with an education suitable to their talents and interests to equip them for employment in the occupational field they select. [More…]

• Another part of the reference invited the Committee to investigate the means by which these disabilities can be overcome, by extension and deployment more widely of schools or institutes of tertiary education and the provision of financial aid to isolated children. [More…]

• The decision was reached under the influence of a submission which came to us from the Australian Department of Education. [More…]

• When the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts was talking about reasonable daily access, consideration was given to the availability of transport services, and I point to the regulations governing compulsory school attendance. [More…]

• I return to the discussion of the very important report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• I was making the point that the Committee which was dealing with the matter of education for isolated school children had to look very early at defining the meaning of an isolated school child or a group of people known as isolated school children. [More…]

• I move now to that very important and needy group of children who require remedial instruction and who do not have access to special educational facilities in the region in which they happen to live. [More…]

• We must never overlook those children who suffer from short-term or long-term illness, or physical disabilities, or mental disabilities and who are isolated from the appropriate education facilities which might render them some assistance or opportunity. [More…]

• The Committee decided that because of the unique problems associated with this group of children it would be preferable to conduct a separate inquiry into Aboriginal education. [More…]

• I point out to the Senate that when the Committee reached that decision it was not opting out of the very important issue relating to Aboriginal education. [More…]

• The Committee was not seeking in any way to escape from the responsibilities which it had, but it did take the opportunity to point out that the matter of Aboriginal education was being considered at that time by the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as part of its inquiry into environmental conditions. [More…]

• I take leave to point out that the Committee decided to confine the inquiry to pre-school, primary and secondary levels of education, encom- passing the age groups of early childhood to adoescence. [More…]

• The Committee considered that the very important matter of post-secondary education facilities which might serve the inhabitants of isolated areas of Australia could be more effectively examined in a separate inquiry into tertiary education. [More…]

• We received submissions from a wide range of educational, social and other community groups. [More…]

• We contacted education authorities in other countries because we felt that some countries appeared to have similar problems in providing education for children in geographically isolated areas. [More…]

• We had to bear in mind the scattered nature of the communities with which we were associated and the scattered nature of education facilities in a country as large as Australia. [More…]

• We received submissions from education, social and community organisations. [More…]

• The matter was suspended in part but in 1975 the Committee decided to continue the inquiry in order to make an assessment of the adequacy and effect of the financial assistance being provided under the Commonwealth Government’s scheme as a means of alleviating the educational disadvantage of isolated children. [More…]

• While dealing with the problems of isolated families and isolated children, I thought it was pertinent to point out to the Senate that there were matters relating to the major purpose of education. [More…]

• After all, we were engaged not only in an educational exercise but also in an inquiry which had social and national implications. [More…]

• We were also very much concerned about the major purpose of education in any society, whether it be an urban society or one removed from the general urban and densely populated areas. [More…]

• I pointed out on that occasion that in my view as Chairman, and the Committee supported the view, the major purpose of education was to provide opportunities for self-fulfilment and personal development. [More…]

• It is important to say, and say again, that this basic human right of education should yield satisfaction not only in those years which we regard as being school years but throughout the lifetime. [More…]

• I pointed out that for some considerable time it had been generally felt that free access to education was a powerful instrument in social mobility and that for that reason governments everywhere had given a great deal of attention and a high priority to free public education and had tried to ensure that facilities were equal for all people. [More…]

• Once upon a time this demand was required of only a few, and I think it is true to say that the balance of all educational spending should be slanted towards those years when children are at school. [More…]

• Therefore, the education of isolated school children is not only an educational matter but also a national matter and a social matter of the greatest possible importance. [More…]

• I am pleased to note that on this occasion the conference is expected to be opened by our Minister for Education, Senator Carrick. [More…]

• We paid special attention to the matter of education by correspondence. [More…]

• Having said that, we paid tribute to the great contribution which the correspondence system had made to education in Australia, particularly in isolated areas. [More…]

• However, from the evidence submitted, it seemed to us that the correspondence system, one way or another, had not made the kind of progress one would have expected in a society like Australia, where progress in technical and other facets of education was moving ahead very rapidly and very efficiently. [More…]

• In the matter of special education, one was very much aware of the number of children in isolated areas who suffer from some disability and who do not have access to special facilities such as those available to children in urban areas, and recommendations have been made along those lines. [More…]

• In October 1976, on the basis of the Committee’s recommendations, new education allowances for isolated children were provided and these became effective from 1 January this year. [More…]

• The means test applicable to the additional boarding allowance is the same as for tertiary educational allowance schemes except that the abatement rate has not been changed and remains at the figure of $2 for every $ 10 of excess income. [More…]

• The Commission believes that through what it calls imaginative and radical development of the present correspondence schools and schools of the air, a network of unlimited schools could be developed to provide greater educational opportunities without restriction on age, place of residence, previous education, size of school income and a variety of other characteristics. [More…]

• Thus, while greatly improving educational services to isolated school children, such schools will also perform a wider function and open up a variety of possibilities throughout any given State. [More…]

• Therefore I am prepared to claim in the Senate tonight that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts has by its work on the inquiry into this reference relating to isolated school children opened up a range of public interest in education for isolated school children. [More…]

• As I have said during the course of my remarks, our inquiry did not deal only with education but with a range of social, economic and national interests. [More…]

• I am sure that the work which the Committee has done has produced a response from the Minister for Education and from the Government which is widely appreciated. [More…]

• The inquiry has opened up a range of new thought processes so that those people who make their homes and vocations beyond the furthest fences will be able to enjoy the same educational and vocational opportunities as those people who live in urban areas. [More…]

• I have received and read in detail with great interest the report on isolated children of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• One is hopeful that one of the methods of improving education of isolated children, particularly in the Territories, could be the upgrading of high schools in places such as Darwin and Katherine to full matriculation level thus providing wider opportunities so that there would be no need to send student children to places further away thus incurring considerable expense. [More…]

• It is important to understand that, apart from the state schools the nongovernment schools play a significant role in the education of students from isolated areas and a doubly significant role in providing boarding facilities. [More…]

• A grant has been made to the Tasmanian Education Department for a major study of the Huon Valley area. [More…]

• A grant has been made to the South Australian Education Department to establish a countrycity liaison unit designed to link schools in urban and rural areas. [More…]

• Another grant has been made to the Western Australian Education Department to establish a pilot guidance scheme in a remote area. [More…]

• A grant has been made to the Queensland Education Department to carry out a survey of the provision of residential facilities in hostels and other boarding schools. [More…]

• The majority of the recommendations contained in the report on education of isolated children referred specifically to action that can be taken only by State education authorities. [More…]

• Whilst those sums in isolation are large in terms of amounts that are made available in education allowances in an urban area or a near-urban situation, they nevertheless are of very useful assistance to the parents themselves. [More…]

• Information in response to the honourable senator’s question is provided in respect of the Department of Education, the Education Research and Development Committee and the Universities Commission. [More…]

• In relation to ERDC funded projects, the fifth annual report of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education (now the Education Research and Development Committee) and the Sixth Annual Report of the Education Research and Development Committee provide the information for the period 1974-75 to 1975-76. [More…]

• The tables also show a schedule of research reports commissioned by the Research Branch of the Department of Education for the years 1974-75 to 1976-77. [More…]

• The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the recent budgetary allocations endanger the quality of Australian education, especially for disadvantaged groups, and, in particular, for migrants, Aboriginals and ternary students from poor backgrounds. [More…]

• Your petitioners believe that all persons admitted to institutions of tertiary education in Australia have a right to adequate living conditions and that it is the responsibility of Government to ensure that sufficient funds are allocated to protect that right. [More…]

• That the quality of education in schools and tertiary institutions be not eroded but extended through the provision of adequate funds. [More…]

• That in view of the sub-standard living conditions forced upon many tertiary students as a consequence of a totally inadequate student assistance scheme, there is an urgent need for a substantial increase and indexation of grants provided under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme to the level of a living wage, and, further, that the needs-based grants scheme be in no way jeopardised by any other program of student assistance. [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…]

• -It is a fact that under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme those students who are of very limited means and who receive the TEAS allowance are eligible for an additional $100 for incidental expenses. [More…]

• Sir Hugh Ennor, an extremely eminent Australian scientist, came in 1967 from the John Curtin School of Medical Research to the position of Secretary of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of a statement he made concerning the Independent Schools (Loans Guarantee) Act 1 969 in which on page 1 it is stated: [More…]

• Although this matter is more in the field of my colleague the Minister for Education, I also refer to the inquiry into the ability of the educational system to meet the requirements of employers for new skills that are sought by them. [More…]

• Applicants are required to provide references, to pass a basic educational test and to undergo a strict medical test. [More…]

• Nevertheless, it would be true to say that there is no requirement of any high order apart from those relating to basic education and health and the provision of suitable references from previous employers. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister written to the Premiers about sharing the costs of all post-secondary education? [More…]

• Minister proposed that the States will now be responsible for paying the costs of all postsecondary education in Australia? [More…]

• I reaffirm that I, as the relevant Minister, have been in constant contact with the States and State Ministers, particularly at the Australian Education Council in recent times, talking about the federalist arrangements as between the Commonwealth and the States in regard to both functions and cost sharing. [More…]

• One clear point is that the Commonwealth does not intend in any way to move away from its present commitments, financial or otherwise, in the sphere of education. [More…]

• It regards a national responsibility for education as a major responsibility. [More…]

• My question which is directed to the Minister for Education refers to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts in relation to the education of isolated children. [More…]

• I am well aware of the work of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the subject of the education of isolated children. [More…]

• 1), in response to some questions by Senator Knight I informed honourable senators that I was pursuing this matter with my colleague the Mininster for Education and I had had the benefit of his views. [More…]

• I could not possibly go against that proposition put forward by Senator Carrick, the present Minister for Education. [More…]

• Members of Commonwealth and State parliaments, Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities, local government, universities and colleges of advanced education, academic and public libraries, sports, youth and environment organisations, media, secondary schools and special interest groups. [More…]

• My Government and I are very much aware of what has been in relative terms the neglect by all governments- Federal and State- of technical and further education over the years and of the urgent need for improvement in that field. [More…]

• Our technical and further education funds were increased by Vh per cent. [More…]

• We have indicated in setting up the co-ordinating commission in the post-secondary sphere that by bringing technical and further education in alongside colleges and universities we are developing an intended co-partnership to focus a more significant light on the technical and further education area. [More…]

• We will be giving that kind of focus, that kind of preference, to technical education in our policies for the future. [More…]

• I direct a queston to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the recommendatons of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Northern Territory relating to the transfer of powers, what are the present situation and future plans for the transfer of repsonsibilities in regard to education? [More…]

• In respect of education, the first step of course has been to get greater liaison and coordination between the Northern Territory division of my Department and all other Departments within the Northern Territory, but notably the Departments of the Northern Territory, Aboriginal Affairs and Health. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and I preface it by saying that since educational buildings in the Commonwealth and States are a major consumer of energy for heating, air conditioning, lighting and power purposes, has any thought been given to the future use of alternative sources of energy in such institutions? [More…]

• -It is true that the Departments of Education in Australia are massive builders of schools, colleges and universities and, therefore, massive consumers of energy for various uses. [More…]

• In so doing we have enabled a contrary view to be put for the benefit, the education and the information of the electorate. [More…]

• I refer to a Press release dated 28 May 1976 when the Minister announced that a working party would be set up consisting of representatives of his Department, the Department of Social Security, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and the Department of Education to inquire into the problems associated with Aboriginal unemployment, which was then reported to amount to some 50 per cent of the Aboriginal work force. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It concerns a Press report of a meeting of the North Western Tasmanian Committee on Post-Secondary Education, which is based on what is referred to as ‘the replacement of grants by student loans’. [More…]

• -The current policy of the Government is to pursue the various student loans, including what is known as TEAS- the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that tertiary institutions and student unions have not been contacted directly to seek their views on the inquiry into the desirability of implementing a system of student loans? [More…]

• In view of the increasing concern at suggestions that the Butcher report will result in student loans replacing rather than supplementing tertiary education assistance scheme assistancedespite the Minister’s comments earlier today- will the Minister ensure that additional time is allowed for further submissions and, as in the case of Queensland University, for more detailed submissions, to be presented for consideration? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, follows on the one just asked by Senator Colston. [More…]

• These people called a strike on the basis of some alleged rumours which were denied immediately and without reservation by the Victorian Minister, Mr Lindsay Thompson, and the Victorian Director of Education, men of complete integrity. [More…]

• These measures include lengthening the time for notice of intended marriage from 7 days to a minimum of one month and the necessity for the officiating celebrant to give the parties to the intending marriage a document setting out the solemnity of the marriage contract, the obligations it creates between the parties and outlining the obligations and consequences of marriage as well as indicating the availability of both premarital education and marriage counselling. [More…]

• The introduction of the contributory Medibank scheme meant a saving of $2,000m in the Health vote of the nation and meant that the Government was able to maintain and improve the level of expenditure in other important areas such as social welfare and education. [More…]

• As the Minister himself has pointed out that useful submissions have been made by the NACC on matters of education, health and welfare, employment, language, customs and land rights, can we be advised when it is planned to hold the next meeting of the NACC? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware that students in at least one high school in the Australian Capital Territory have been given identity cards with the following words on them: [More…]

• Senator Ryan will know, because she was enthusiastic that it should happen, that education in the Australian Capital Territory is now under the control of a statutory body, the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority, the establishment of which she strongly urged, and that any decisions on such matters would be made by that authority. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he recalls saying yesterday in answer to a question from Senator Colston in respect to student loans: [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education because I am becoming more confused about the student loans issue. [More…]

• The Government has indicated, both in its election policies and subsequently in its Budget decisions, that it supports student allowance schemes of the nature of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and others, and that, unlike the Opposition, it supports those schemes with a realisation of the need for the allowances to be increased in view of increases in the cost of living in times of inflation. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware that at Yuendumu- an Aboriginal settlement in central Australia- attendance of Aboriginal children at school is very poor despite the operation of a bilingual program there? [More…]

• We are undertaking a considerable number of reforms in Aboriginal education, including the recruitment of Aboriginal teacher aides and the upgrading by in-service training of Aboriginal teachers and teacher aides, so that there will be a more direct link between the school and the families. [More…]

• They answered in their own fashion, through translators, to this effect: ‘Yes, we agree that western education has something good to give our people. [More…]

• -On 24 February Senator Wriedt asked me a question without notice concerning the funding of education and whether the Prime Minister had written to the Premiers on this matter. [More…]

• The Prime Minister wrote to all Premiers on 2 1 February 1 977 seeking exploratory talks on the possibility of more even funding arrangements across all education sectors. [More…]

• That is the sum on which these farmers are trying to raise families, to educate children, and to send them to the Adelaide University or to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Leaders of thought, leaders in education, social welfare and community education, also have a responsibility to remind the Australian people that if we talk about having the right to work, when the opportunity to work comes it should be taken and not ignored so that people can live at the taxpayers’ expense. [More…]

• The next aspect of Her Majesty’s Speech which attracted my attention largely because of my association with Senate committees was her reference to education. [More…]

• My Government is improving the existing arrangements in education in pursuit of equality of opportunity for all Australian students. [More…]

• A feature of Australian education in the last 10 years has been the enormous increase in demand on the one hand and the enormous increase in availability on the other hand. [More…]

• A recent edition of Australian Educational Review gives us some idea of the funds and the percentage of resources that have been put into the area of education. [More…]

• I share with the Senate some references from the Australian Educational Review. [More…]

• Expenditure on education compared with expenditure on other public services illustrates the growing priority afforded education in the last 10 years. [More…]

• Education was the largest single consumer of recurrent expenditure of the public services and the rate of growth in expenditure on education exceeded that of other public services. [More…]

• The Australian Educational Review added that this recurrent expenditure for education in 1964 values increased by 161 per cent by 1974 compared with an increase of 130 per cent for health services. [More…]

• It should be noted when comparing expenditure for education and health that, before the introduction of Medibank, recurrent costs of health services in Australia were borne out of private expenditure to a greater extent than was education. [More…]

• With this reservation, however, growth in expenditure for education was greater than the growth in expenditure for all other public services competing for public finance. [More…]

• Education was the most expensive item provided by the public sector. [More…]

• It also throws into public discussion the results of all this public expenditure on education. [More…]

• Education contributes vastly to a nation’s growth. [More…]

• Over the last decade the greater equality of opportunity for education has provided a great many more people with satisfaction in their education programs. [More…]

• I merely point to the money that is involved and the extent of the training and tertiary education which is given. [More…]

• I draw attention to the value of this kind of education to the community and to whether all of the money spent and all the education received is being used for the well-being, growth, development and stability- call it what you like- of the Australian nation. [More…]

• I know that the value of such education cannot be measured easily. [More…]

• I think it is true to make the observation in a debate of this kind that in times of economic restraint priorities in education need to be under constant review. [More…]

• I was interested to read the comments of an education expert from Adelaide. [More…]

• He went on to affirm that there was some lightweight tertiary education going on under the name of sociology and that this could do with some cuts in funds. [More…]

• Nobody would deny the opportunity for any citizen in this country to receive the best possible education. [More…]

• In further pursuit of this emphasis on equality of opportunity, I note with some considerable satisfaction the announcements by the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, relating to technical and further education. [More…]

• Senator Carrick has indicated that there is likely to be a shift of resources into the technical and further education field. [More…]

• He has outlined plans for the establishment of what will be known as a post secondary education commission. [More…]

• Within the structure of this new commission there will be 3 separate councils- a universities council, an advanced education council and a council on technical and further education. [More…]

• I want to place emphasis on the aspect of the commission relating to technical and further education. [More…]

• Because it will be a separate body within the post secondary education commission, I hope it will give greater recognition to the demands of this development in the education field. [More…]

• The Government has a firm intention to pay special attention to technical and further education, particularly in the allocation of governmental resources and in the development of co-operative arrangements with the States. [More…]

• As I read about technical and further education I have a feeling that in recent years it has tended to lag behind the development in university education. [More…]

• All this development of the new post secondary education commission is consistent with the policy announced at the 1975 elections. [More…]

• The Government at that time stressed that it saw a need to reassert the value of technical education and to give due recognition to the contribution that it makes to the community. [More…]

• The importance of technical education is fairly obvious. [More…]

• What appeals to me in this new commission is the emphasis which has been placed on further education. [More…]

• This is extremely necessary because of new approaches to the matter of education for communities and particularly as far as the development of the nation is concerned. [More…]

• In reading a recent publication relating to community education I noted that two or three points were laid down which I think can find their way usefully into a discussion we are having this afternoon. [More…]

• All education requires serious thought by every man about his relationship to society. [More…]

• The failure to think about this leads to educational tyranny which is manifest in the classroom and the community at large. [More…]

• Non-formal educationor forms of further education- can liberate man from the classroom and consequently its tyranny over his life choices. [More…]

• Further education would increase man’s capacity to shape his environment, physical and social, and will give him the opportunity and the capacity to bring about change. [More…]

• The goal of education - [More…]

• Non-formal education is not part of the established economic and social system, therefore it can be a vehicle to assist people in shaping new social orders - [More…]

• The discipline of further education and- non-formal education offers a variety of options and opportunities for the powerless to acquire and use power. [More…]

• I believe that further education provides opportunities for people who live in the community at large or people whose earlier educational opportunities may not have been all they would have liked or for people whose opportunities for further education now are such that it will enable them not only to acquire new skills to take on fresh employment but most of all to get a greater degree of satisfaction out of life. [More…]

• I believe that further education will contribute to community growth and satisfaction. [More…]

• He was Minister for National Development from 1964 to 1969, Minister for Education and Science in 1971 and Minister for Defence in 1971-72. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The tertiary education system has grown so fat, so fast, that academia has become an enormous island of privilege, populated in considerable measure by drones and parasites. [More…]

• Having in mind the concern of the Government and of the Australian community at the abuses presently indicated in the unemployment benefit scheme, does the Government intend to bring about reforms in this area of tertiary education? [More…]

• By that I mean that whilst there remain some points of quite significant criticism which one might have within tertiary education institutions, Mr Samuel has drawn an exaggerated caricature rather than a precise criticism. [More…]

• I understand that the Department of Education is funding the complete operation of the training centre in O’Connor and that the Department of the Capital Territory is funding 2 social worker staff positions on a 100 per cent basis and providing an annual maintenance grant of $8,000. [More…]

• I wish to ask the Minister for Education for some information regarding the staff utilisation review of ancillary staff in Australian Capital Territory schools which was commissioned by the Minister and has been completed. [More…]

• Certainly it has been available to the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority and to all those concerned with education. [More…]

• In late January that paper was circulated to individuals and organisations likely to be interested, including the administration and the student body of each university and each college of advanced education. [More…]

• Unfortunately because of a set of circumstances- this could be related to education among other matters- many people who are elected to this chamber perhaps are unable to collate and put forward an argument that would satisfy the people. [More…]

• He made a great plea for the abolition of this standing order so that all senators could read their speeches, saying that one of the problems was the lack of education. [More…]

• We hear this silly talk about people being able to speak publicly only if they have a high education, if they are academics, and so on. [More…]

• I do not think Senator Cavanagh would ever say that he was a man of high education; yet because of his work, development, initiative and resource he is able to make an interesting and very capable speech. [More…]

• To suggest that a high education is necessary to make a speech is silly. [More…]

• Let me say this: It is not necessary for a person to have a high education to make a speech. [More…]

• There is no necessity for a high education. [More…]

• Maybe there are people in this chamber tonight and maybe there will be people in this chamber tomorrow who, because of their academic education and because of their training in public speaking, are able to put forward a point of view and to sway people to their way of thinking because they have the gift of the gab, as it is commonly called. [More…]

• Senator Wood has remarked that he does not think I have had much education. [More…]

• I have had as good an education as anyone else in this chamber, although because of a childhood disability I spent fewer years in school than possibly anyone else in the chamber. [More…]

• Education does not end at school. [More…]

• That was part of my education. [More…]

• Senator Bonner has not suffered as a result of his lack of education. [More…]

• It is an educational policy that people should be making speeches rather than having someone else prepare them. [More…]

• Education goes on through life. [More…]

• Having been a chairman who has put down a number of reports in this place on a variety of subjects I find it is my job to refer constantly to the report, to ask a Minister if he has noted the recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts or the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution or something like that. [More…]

• The basic reason why theological students are denied allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme is that section 116 of the Constitution states: [More…]

• The lawyers advise me that whereas it is quite justifiable for a theological student to be at an ordinary university studying a range of subjects as a student for the improvement of that students’ education and to be eligible for TEAS allowance, to attempt to provide TEAS allowance at a theological college where section 116 of the Constitution might apply would, in the lawyers’ view, be in breach of the Constitution. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he has studied newspaper reports which have appeared in Adelaide and today in Canberra relating to criticism of the medical school at the University of Adelaide. [More…]

• Does the Minister agree that such reports tend to create disquiet in the community in relation to standards of medical education at a university? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware of reports that classes at Hawker College in the Australian Capital Territory will be disrupted because of rolling strikes by teachers over the need for a kitchen assistant for home science classes? [More…]

• I can only hope that good sense will prevail and that the strike will be resolved so that the education ofthe children will be, as it always should be, the primary responsibility of the profession and ofthe service. [More…]

• We have increased spending on education in real terms. [More…]

• The whole ethos of this country in the 1960s was directed towards higher levels of education. [More…]

• There was an education boom in the 1960s and the early 1970s. [More…]

• There was strong parental pressure in favour of the consequences of that education boom against participation in uninteresting jobs and jobs which were regarded as menial. [More…]

• Inter-related issues arising from smaller families, higher female workforce participation rates, longer periods of formal education, the stress within employment markets on accreditation, the increased affluence of many members of the community, changing life-styles etc., are impacting on youth in complex ways that deserve more careful attention than they appear to have been receiving in the past. [More…]

• The point I am trying to make- I will put it again for Senator Durack- is simply this: With a higher level of education amongst young people in the Australian workforce and with changed parental pressures and values there is less incentive for people to go into jobs of a poorer manual kind. [More…]

• My Government is improving the existing arrangements in education in pursuit of equality of opportunity for all Australian students. [More…]

• Referring to the field of education, Her Majesty said that her Government was going to increase its activity. [More…]

• In fact, in my home city of Townsville there are probably more demountable buildings in which kiddies have to suffer in order to obtain some sort of an education than in any other city in Australia. [More…]

• In the field of education there has been a minor increase but then we must look at the deferrals. [More…]

• I have to agree with him to a certain extent but I know that in my State of New South Wales the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia, the Storemen and Packers Union of Australia and the Health and Research Employees Association of Australia- 3 unions that come to mind very quickly- are doing a lot about migrant education in the trade union movement. [More…]

• I wish to deal briefly with education because I believe that education has gone backwards under this Government. [More…]

• We should look at the fiasco that has occurred in relation to the tertiary education allowances paid to students when the Government was forced to increase the allowances after massive public pressure. [More…]

• Education spending has not kept pace with the rate of inflation in Australia over the past 12 to 15 months, and I think that applies particularly to technical education expenditure. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the Government’s attitude to education is a complete reversal of the priority that was accorded to it by the previous Labor Government. [More…]

• Mr and Mrs Quin, who are both schoolteachers and are employed by the Western Australia Department of Education, had proposed to visit Singapore and Bali as part of one of the package tours which were arranged by Qantas Airways Ltd in January during the last summer holidays. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: When will the Government issue to the Schools Commission and to the proposed PostSecondary Education Commission guidelines dealing with levels of Commonwealth financial assistance for education for the rolling triennium? [More…]

• What is the Government’s timetable for the establishment of the proposed PostSecondary Education Commission? [More…]

• Can the Minister assure the Senate that the Government’s guidelines will be made available to both the Schools Commission and the proposed PostSecondary Education Commission in sufficient time to enable those commissions properly to prepare their reports to the Government? [More…]

• Answering the second part of the question first, I hope that we will be able to introduce legislation for the new PostSecondary Education Commission into the Senate within a week, but certainly within a fortnight. [More…]

• So, in answer to the second part of the question, the Post-Secondary Education Commission should be set up within the next 6 weeks at the latest. [More…]

• My question is addressed to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister for Education or as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs. [More…]

• Has the Prime Minister written to all State Premiers foreshadowing increased financial responsibility for the States in education? [More…]

• The invitation to the Premiers is for a full discussion on the whole of the co-operative effort in education in Australia. [More…]

• The honourable senator will know that I have also said in the Senate that the Prime Minister’s approach to the Premiers, as is pointed out in his letter, is based on 2 premises, namely, that the quantum of effort by the Commonwealth shall not diminish, so the answer to the honourable senator is that there will be no diminution in terms of the Commonwealth’s efforts and the education institutions, the new tertiary co-ordination commission and its councils and the Schools Commission as it exists today should also be taken into account in this framework. [More…]

• As to whether the States should increase their responsibilities, I point out that as they get an increasing amount of untied revenue- recurrent funds- and as their ability to raise and expand revenue widens, of course, it is competent upon the States, if they so desire, to expand their commitment to education. [More…]

• In any case, I foreshadowed this matter at the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• My understanding from each of the 6 education Ministers -although it was not specifically said- was that the general reaction was that there would be a considerable willingness to have such discussions. [More…]

• Since the first Congress in 1955, successive congresses have made an intensive examination of the problem of crime in modern society and have explored a number of imaginative and practical measures to meet this problem, covering such diverse areas as the integration of crime prevention planning with planning in urban development and education, new forms and dimensions of crime, the economic and social costs of crime, alternatives to imprisonment, the human rights of prisoners and the organisation of research to assist in the formulation of policy to deal with crime. [More…]

• The Congress will bring from 1500 to 2000 visitors to Australia, including Ministers, judges, academics and other leading figures in the fields of law, criminology, police, corrections, social welfare, mental health, sociology, education and related areas and disciplines. [More…]

• by leave- For the information of honourable senators, I present details of the establishment of the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• This period has seen the growth of more interest and activity in Aboriginal education than ever before, with Commonwealth funds developing programs and helping education authorities throughout the country to make special efforts for Aboriginal people at all levels of education. [More…]

• Consultations between them and with the Aboriginal Consultative Group, led to a proposal for the establishment of a National Aboriginal Education Committee, with a wholly Aboriginal membership. [More…]

• The Committee will be responsible for providing my Department and me with informed Aboriginal views on the educational needs of Aboriginal people and appropriate methods of meeting these needs. [More…]

• Its advice will be available also to the Minister and Department of Aboriginal Affairs and other authorities concerned with education of Aboriginal people. [More…]

• It will assist the Department of Education and other agencies in monitoring existing programs and in developing programs and policies and will be able to undertake and promote investigations, studies and projects on which to base its advice. [More…]

• I trust it will contribute to policy initiatives which will serve to redress the educational imbalance which Aboriginal people experience and which will recognise the culturally plural nature of Australian society. [More…]

• I hope these initiatives will foster education programs and activities which will assist Aboriginal people to live satisfying lives, sharing in and contributing to the total Australian society. [More…]

• The Committee is headed by a full-time Chairman, with 18 part-time members who will provide a range of expertise in this area of education and an invaluable understanding of Aboriginal needs and problems. [More…]

• He is a qualified tradesman and is currently undertaking studies at a college of advanced education. [More…]

• His experience of traditional Aboriginal education and contemporary Australian education will be of great benefit to the Committee. [More…]

• I report to the Senate that I have received a letter from the Leader of the Government in the Senate nominating senators to be members of legislative and general purpose standing committees as follows: Constitutional and Legal Affairs- Senator Missen, Senator Chaney and Senator Rae; Education and the Arts- Senator Davidson, Senator Collard and Senator Martin; Foreign Affairs and DefenceSenator Sim, Senator Knight and Senator Scott; National Resources- Senator Thomas, Senator Maunsell and Senator Townley; Science and the Environment- Senator Jessop, Senator Bonner and Senator Townley; Social Welfare- Senator Baume, Senator Tehan and Senator Walters; [More…]

• Interestingly enough, the PSI liaison officer and education officer is a person called Mrs Mary McNish. [More…]

• She is the liaison officer and education officer of the clinic that is being established in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• My Government is improving the existing arrangements in education in pursuit of equality of opportunity for all Australian students. [More…]

• There is no doubt that other honourable senators will have comments to make about attacks that have been made on the Schools Commission, the area of technical and further education and so on. [More…]

• I do not have to be told that success in matriculation is not the only yardstick to use in education. [More…]

• But if people go to matriculation classes, it is quite clear that they go for one purpose, that is, to gain the qualification- the matriculation certificate- which will either enable them to enter university, a college of advanced education or, under the new regulations, the Public Service. [More…]

• Can we see any equality of education in a 71 per cent failure rate? [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) alluded last week to comments that had been made about the out-station movement, or what I prefer to call the homeland centres movement. [More…]

• But obviously it must have something to do with the Department of Education which is the direct responsibility of the Federal Minister for Education. [More…]

• Certainly, I am pointing to the lack of equality in education for those young people for reasons which I am happy to discuss but perhaps not now. [More…]

• If we look at the Papunya situation- I mention it only because a group of us went there a couple of weeks ago- we find that there are over 100 children in homeland centres outside Papunya who receive no education. [More…]

• I will finish my remarks on this adult education area by reading a comment from the Northern Territory News concerning the Northern Territory Division of the Arts Council of Australia. [More…]

• Where is the bold vision of the Survey of Education Buildings on Aboriginal Communities, the project that the Minister chooses to denigrate so often? [More…]

• I have looked briefly at the areas of incentive and encouragement to the private sector, assistance to the disadvantaged and the poor, improvments in education, unemployment, political rights and individual liberties. [More…]

• As an example, what opportunity or equality is available to the young lass who came into my electoral office the week before last with a letter telling her that her Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance had been discontinued. [More…]

• The Depanment of Education alleges that she is more than half a year behind the point which it believes she should have reached when, in the first place, she is obliged to travel SO miles to and from lectures and studies each day and, secondly, the faculty in which she receives those lectures and studies passes students on criteria other than those used by the Department of Education; that is to say, that Department in respect of students at colleges of advanced education at the moment is using criteria that apply to universities rather than to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Later last week when I consulted with my research officer on this matter I was informed that at the same rural college of advanced education in Victoria 160 students are in exactly the same position. [More…]

• We must relate this talk about opportunity and equality to the actions of this Government and the Department of Education in denying assistance of the type I have mentioned to every person they conceivably can. [More…]

• When the Labor Government left office, expenditure on education had increased fourfold in an endeavour to bring some equality to the education system. [More…]

• Eighteen months after the Labor Government left office this country is rapidly moving back to a class system of education. [More…]

• Latterly there has been better education and a better realisation of the cold hard facts. [More…]

• Then, due to a lack of education and a lack of hygiene and facilities in those societies, all too often the baby dies because the mother has never been taught that sterilisation of the equipment is extremely important and that there is no point in her taking the baby’s empty bottle to the stinking canal, giving it a rinse, putting the teat back on and giving it to the baby 4 hours later, because that is one way to a short life for her child. [More…]

• I have no intention of placing any blame for the present situation, but I wish to state the position and to indicate, amongst other things, the total inseparability of the figures relaing to employment, education and immigration. [More…]

• I turn to deal with education. [More…]

• I am not one of those people who is not terribly satisfied with the education system that we have today. [More…]

• I believe that education is a mixture of schooling, training and preparation. [More…]

• I do not see education as the end. [More…]

• I do not think that we look at education as a way of preparing and training as much as we should. [More…]

• It has often been said that education is a system run by academics to produce academics. [More…]

• I think that education has to fit children for the life that society has to offer. [More…]

• I think that a system of part education and part work is still most appropriate. [More…]

• I was interested to read in the local Press on 5 March that Senator Carrick said that further education would be made an equal partner with the universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Technical and further education has always been the lame child. [More…]

• We have been told always that universities are the ultimate in education. [More…]

• I see the colleges of advanced education and technical colleges as being at least equal to universities. [More…]

• Mr Ken Jones, the Secretary of the Department of Education recently produced an article on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development investigation. [More…]

• The community at large must broaden the term ‘education’ and also, I repeat, work on the fact that there is no second class education. [More…]

• All education is equal and first class. [More…]

• Industry, education and government alike were similarly caught. [More…]

• We have to forget the snobbery about first and second class education. [More…]

• We have to remember that education is a means and not an end. [More…]

• Does the Government really believe in the right to proper education or does it believe that people need just enough training to turn them into the sort of fodder from which other people’s profits can be made? [More…]

• Does this Government really believe that children have the right to grow up with the same opportunity to love, to a good home, to education and to good health no matter who their parents are or in what circumstances they were born and that all children are bom equal? [More…]

• By way of preface I mention that the subject matter of my question touches on the responsibilities of at least 3 Ministers, namely, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Education. [More…]

• lt may well be that Senator Carrick, as Minister for Education, could be in a better position to answer the question. [More…]

• I shall reply on behalf of the Department of Education. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether there are any firm plans for the use of a larger proportion of higher education funds on technical and further education in the next financial period. [More…]

• It is the stated policy of the Federal Government to place significantly greater emphasis on technical and further education. [More…]

• It has been recognised that over the years governments of all parties in the State and Federal spheres have tended to neglect technical education while favouring the higher education in colleges and universities. [More…]

• In doing so it has joined into that field universities and colleges of technical and further education in equal partnership. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has written to the Premiers inviting them to enter at a Minister for Education level discussions on funding and shared responsibilities, and one of the significant areas for discussion obviously would be technical education, if and when that discussion takes place. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• For the purposes of clarification are we to understand that despite the Vh per cent increase in technical education funds, as was laid down by the Government in the financial guidelines for this year, funds will be further increased? [More…]

• If not, are we to understand that there are to be no additional funds provided for the technical education area over and above what is provided for in the guidelines? [More…]

• Even before then guidelines will be provided, probably within the next month or two, for technical and further education along with the other 3 commission areas. [More…]

• I appreciate the fact that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has been prepared to table figures. [More…]

• The people of that country are deprived, have little education and very little shelter while the country, with gay abandon, spends the money it is making on the instruments of war. [More…]

• After reading the Press release of 18 August 1976 I asked 3 questions in this place of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), the Minister representing the Minister for Transport, concerning the INMARSAT system. [More…]

• Of course, there was a natural link between Vietnam and France, because many of the aristocrats in Vietnam had a French education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact, as asserted by Mr Peter Samuel in a recent article in the Bulletin, that the taxpayer is funding in Australian tertiary education institutions such degree courses as travel and recreational research, photography, secretarial studies and life management? [More…]

• A belief is abroad, which is utterly wrong, that education has been in some kind of a beneficent heyday in recent times. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that the cutback in funding for the 4 education commissions was $105m in the last calendar year. [More…]

• Anyone who believes that at this moment education is in a condition of luxury or extravagance fails to understand a central point, namely that the ratio between lecturers and students at universities in recent years has worsened perceptibly. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education disputing the figures provided by the Treasurer in this year’s Budget papers? [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education advise what bodies have received grants for adult education under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act? [More…]

• No funds have been made available to the States as yet under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 for the purpose of assisting programs offered by nongovernment adult education bodies in 1977, the year to which the Act applies. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education say whether all places at Australian universities have been filled for the current year? [More…]

• There is also some evidence to suggest that students now are not making universities their preferred choice but rather that they may be making colleges of advanced education or technical colleges their preferred choice. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether it is a fact that some officers of the Department of Education will not accept statutory declarations, duly witnessed by a justice of the peace, from post-secondary students. [More…]

• Will the Minister advise whether it is acceptable for a student who wishes to claim independent status under the tertiary education assistance scheme to supply information in relation to past earnings on a statutory declaration form? [More…]

• Finally, are there any situations in which it is normal for students or parents to provide information to the Department of Education by use of statutory declaration forms? [More…]

• Funds will continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health, legal aid etc. [More…]

• They give a comparison on spending for housing, health, education, employment, welfare, enterprises, town management, public utilities, recreation, legal aid and in some general areas for the years 1972-73 to 1976-77, the current financial year. [More…]

• Funds would continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health. [More…]

• This relates to a question which probably should more properly be directed to and answered by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• We have been funded under the Secondary Grant Scheme which is under the Federal Education Department, yet it now appears that no department is willing to take the responsibility of providing this service. [More…]

• The telegram stated that funds would continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health, legal aid and so on. [More…]

• We have been monitoring carefully expenditure on the programs and the indications are that with the exception of portion of the $6.5m which was to be spent on capital works for health and education in the Northern Territory but which has not at this stage been able to be committed fully, the actual expenditure will be very close to the allocations that we have made. [More…]

• If we add to this expenditure by other departments, such as my Department, the Department of Health, the Department of Education and others, we realise that a great deal is to be expended to improve the life and opportunities of the Aborigines in Australia. [More…]

• It is now known that some forms are not directly infectious, and an education program of the Australian community at large is required to show these patterns and the understanding which has now been reached. [More…]

• I accept that we have a great responsibility for the education of Aborigines. [More…]

• Every person should have equal opportunity for education in this country. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has advised me of the formation of the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• The formation of a committee of this nature will be of great assistance to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• He will be able to advise and provide Aboriginal education programs and services so that we can stimulate, co-ordinate and, if necessary, support the extension of existing services to Aboriginals. [More…]

• He can ensure that special measures are taken to enable Aboriginals to overcome any educational disadvantages they may suffer. [More…]

• We support Aboriginal organisations which seek to develop ways of meeting their own education needs. [More…]

• In the area of program responsibility the Minister for Education will be guided by his new committee and the education authorities in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I believe that there will be an increase in the participation in education programs by Aboriginal children. [More…]

• A sum of $36 million is to be spent on education this year. [More…]

• Some reference was made to education study grants. [More…]

• I shall refer to the Minister for Education the matter that was raised to see whether some more specific information can be given about the 104 Aborigines in New South Wales who were refused study grants. [More…]

• I hope that we shall be able to facilitate these if there are young people who are eligible and willing to pursue education under the grants scheme. [More…]

• The delivery of health services, legal aid, employment opportunities and better education so that Aborigines can go into better jobs are the areas on which money has to be expended, and it must be expended wisely. [More…]

• To my knowledge there has been no cutback in the delivery of services to the Aboriginal community in the very important fields of health, education, legal services and housing. [More…]

• The Aboriginal people who are without housing, without adequate health facilities, without proper employment opportunities and without proper education facilities will be very pleased to know that the Government is concerned enough to hold inquiries. [More…]

• I direct the attention of the Senate to the amounts of money which have been expended over the years on Aboriginal assistance in such areas as housing, health, education, employment, welfare, enterprises, town management and public utilities, cultural recreation, sporting activities, legal aid and so on. [More…]

• The syndrome of P-CM - that is protein-calorie malnutrition- described may have important sequelae in terms of mortality, education, chronic disability and employment. [More…]

• When I raised this matter in the chamber by way of a question directed to the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, he gave a rather curious reply. [More…]

• I hope that by raising the matter again in the Senate the attention of the Minister for Education might be drawn to the problem and some small funds might be found to re-open the kitchen. [More…]

• The Government should be looking at ways of taking health, education and social security services out to where the Aborigines are living. [More…]

• I criticise the present Government for taking no steps that I am aware of to bring the necessary health and educational services out to where the Aboriginal people are living. [More…]

• I refer briefly to education. [More…]

• The bilingual education program started during the period when Kim Beazley was Minister for Education is the first serious breakthrough into the real problem of educating Aboriginal people. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, should look to the possibility of giving formal accreditation to those teachers and the appropriate salary, study leave and other benefits which they would receive if they were recognised as teachers in their own tongue. [More…]

• The Refugee Resettlement Co-ordination Committees include representatives from Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Education, Health and Employment and Industrial Relations; from State Departments of Health, Education and Welfare and the Depart.ments responsible for Ethnic Affairs; from voluntary organisations such as Red Cross, St Vincent de Paul, and Salvation Army, and from many other organisations including ethnic and religious associations and from refugee groups. [More…]

• Sub-committees have been formed to cover such areas as Education, Health and Welfare. [More…]

• Good Neighbour Councils, the Commonwealth Department of Education and Voluntary Agencies such as Austcare have also been invited to prepare information papers to assist volunteers and others involved with refugees. [More…]

• I was an active member of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which for a number of years inquired into all aspects of television and broadcasting. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Can the Minister indicate what action he will take on these matters in the interests of education in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• -In the interest of education in the Australian Capital Territory we will proceed with all expedition but with all thoroughness to get the right result. [More…]

• I am sure that Senator Messner for his own education has had a look at that chart this morning. [More…]

• It is alleged, as the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in the statement, that this is an instrument which will ‘further’ the Government’s policy on the new Federalism. [More…]

• I believe the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is to be congratulated for his idealism which I know he holds very dearly in relation to this matter of increasing the efficiency of inter-governmental relations in Australia. [More…]

• They are entitled to elementary instruction in the Slovene or Croat language and to a proportional number of their own secondary schools; in this connection school curricula shall be reviewed and a section of the Inspectorate of Education shall be established for Slovene and Croat schools. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of the statement just made by Senator Webster who indicated that, as he understands the situation, there has been some reduction in solar energy research in universities in Australia? [More…]

• Is it not true that since I last asked a question on this subject speculation has continued and in fact has been widened to include not only the field of social welfare but also education and defence? [More…]

• Has not this speculation been widened by speeches made by the Treasurer and the Prime Minister, such as the speech the Prime Minister made to his electorate yesterday when he said that expenditure would have to be cut and that the fields of social welfare, education and defence seemed the most likely areas for cuts to be made? [More…]

• To the end of December 1976, the Bank had lent about SUS3.4 billion to its developing member countries for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications, industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]

• -When the statement on the National Aboriginal Education Committee was made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) a few days ago we reached agreement that further debate would take place late last week or this week. [More…]

• This period has seen the growth of more interest and activity in Aboriginal education than ever before with Commonwealth funds developing programs and helping education authorities throughout the country to make special efforts for Aboriginal people at all levels of education. [More…]

• One of the big problems until comparatively recent years was the fact that there was no consultation and no involvement of Aboriginal people in working out education programs. [More…]

• Consultative Group, led to a proposal for establishment of a National Aboriginal Education Committee, with a wholly Aboriginal membership. [More…]

• Generally speaking, the Committee will be responsible for advising the Education Department on informed Aboriginal views regarding the educational needs and priorities- that latter word is a very important word-for the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• I hope it will be given virtual responsibility for recommending to the Government those things which will become a matter of policy as far as Aboriginal education is concerned. [More…]

• I hope that this advisory committee will not only look at the formal methods of education but also that it will be able to make recommendations in a whole lot of other areas. [More…]

• The problems of Aboriginal education have been widely canvassed and debated over recent years. [More…]

• In fact, before 1972 there were areas where bilingual education was required in Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• Only one settlement indulged, to a limited degree, in bilingual education in the early 1970s. [More…]

• It was not until the early 1970s, after the December elections of 1972, that bilingual education became an accepted part of government policy. [More…]

• I deviate to say that there are serious educational deficiencies in those parts of Australia where Aborigines have gone back to their homelands. [More…]

• These are areas in which we must have greater consultation because the clans themselves have decided that they need particular assistance in certain areas of education. [More…]

• Australia where Aborigines need and seek consultation and where they need some sort of formal education for their children. [More…]

• The functions and responsibilities of the National Aboriginal Education Committee will be as follows: To be responsible for providing the Minister and the Department of Education with a reliable expression of informed Aboriginal views on the educational needs of Aboriginal people, appropriate methods of meeting these needs, the suitability of particular Aboriginal education proposals as required, the effectiveness of particular Aboriginal education projects and programs as required; to consult with various elements of the Education portfolio, other Australian Government agencies and education authorities in the States and Territories, as necessary; to assist the Department of Education and other agencies in monitoring existing programs and in developing new programs and policies; and to undertake or promote investigations, studies and projects relevant to these responsibilities. [More…]

• I hope that the Committee will be given all the assistance possible by the Department of Education, by the Minister and by other people who are associated with the Committee. [More…]

• You, Mr Acting Deputy President, would know that there are people on the Institute of Aboriginal Studies council who have no formal education but who, when it comes to a discussion on many matters, leave the white councillors well behind. [More…]

• In addition to soliciting the advice of Aborigines at the policy making level, it is vitally important also to ensure that the parents of Aboriginal school children are involved in their children ‘s education. [More…]

• I think it was at Jigalong some years ago that a teacher wanted to stay on as part of the teaching program as he and his wife were committed to the on-going education of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• They do not do so with the zeal of missionaries- I do not say this in a derogatory manner- who are prepared to teach children about God until they reach matriculation standard but only take them to about second grade in the material things in education. [More…]

• One of the most striking inadequacies of the present education system from the view point of the Aboriginal people is that the system operates against the child from the start of his or her education. [More…]

• This results in under-achievement, not to be confused with nonintelligence, and hence the high rate of nonattendance at education facilities. [More…]

• Up in Cape York we found in a local hostel a whole group of disadvantaged white school children who travelled long distances to the hostel in the town to receive their education. [More…]

• The matter has to be looked at because it is all part of the European orientated educational system. [More…]

• The following table gives an indication of the education systems low rate of retention of Aborigines and Islanders above the compulsory school age: [More…]

• Source: Australian Department of Education. [More…]

• It showed that Aboriginal youngsters without any hope of going on to higher education finished up in what the Government calls the queues of dole bludgers. [More…]

• This is what is happening: The Government is taking away grants, particularly in the secondary education area. [More…]

• Consequently children are leaving schools ill-equipped to pursue further education or to enter the work force. [More…]

• The Committee is aware of the complex difficulties besetting Aboriginal education programs. [More…]

• The problem is, of course, how to assess priorities in education. [More…]

• Problems are created in this area because of the inability of the people who run the Australian education system to be able to interact with all sections of the community. [More…]

• Very few schools, universities or colleges of advanced education in Australia provide any special teaching methods for those who are involved in teaching Aboriginals. [More…]

• I hope that this Committee will carry out one of the great pioneering jobs in altering the education system for our ethnic minority. [More…]

• In speaking to the paper on the National Aboriginal Education Committee, firstly I should like to make some brief comments on the matters raised by Senator Keeffe. [More…]

• In the first part of his speech I believe he was quite objective in his approach to the matter, but in the latter part of his speech I thought he was quite unfair and did an injustice to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) when he labelled him with using political karate and said that little black boys and girls would be used in this showcase. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has been done an injustice if that is what Senator Keeffe thinks of him. [More…]

• Quite obviously, the Minister is a sincere man, and the paper he has produced relating to the setting up of the National Aboriginal Education Committee I believe is a major milestone in the education of Aboriginal people in Australia. [More…]

• It will have much influence on the Minister for Education and on government, and I believe that the reponsibilities which will be given to these people will ensure that many of the faults which have occurred in Aboriginal education over the years, possibly through ignorance, will be corrected. [More…]

• I say that the establishment of the Committee is a major milestone in Aboriginal education because for the first time we will have a permanent committee consisting purely of Aboriginal people to advise the Government. [More…]

• There is a long story of Aboriginal education extending over many years, but I am not one of those people who attack what has been done in the past. [More…]

• Admittedly, mistakes have been made, but if one attacks what has been done in the past for Aboriginal people in relation to education, it serves as a slap in the face for the very many dedicated people who have worked with Aboriginal people over the last few decades. [More…]

• Going back to 1900 or possible earlier, we know that that was probably the time when a lot of the missionaries started to give attention to the education of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• When one sees the way that they are able to carry themselves in a white man’s society one can understand the education they must have had over the years. [More…]

• One thinks of Mr Jim Gallagher, a well-known person in the Department of Education, who has written reports and has worked amongst the Aboriginal people and done much for them. [More…]

• Director of Aboriginal Welfare, and the amount of work he did in the development of settlements and of Aboriginal education. [More…]

• We are most fortunate in the Northern Territory to have Dr Jim Eedle as Director of Education. [More…]

• Aboriginal education is now in the hands of these people and, because of that, I believe that we can look to the future with considerable optimism. [More…]

• I have known him in Alice Springs when he was working amongst the Aboriginal people and I have known him since he has come south, doing various work to further his education. [More…]

• I know Mr Stewart who is the education officer for the out-stations. [More…]

• In the field of education this Committee will have the ability to point out problems to Government, to advise it and to ensure that in the future the moneys that are spent on Aboriginal education are not wasted and will be to the benefit of the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• Aboriginal education faces immense problems, particularly when they are compared to the problems of general education of the white children in Australia. [More…]

• During the next few minutes I wish to outline the problems that will confront Aboriginal education in the future. [More…]

• That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to make provision for and in relation to the establishment of a Territory Education Commission. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and concerns the Commonwealth’s annual expenditure in the technical and further education area. [More…]

• Can he supply the Senate with the total of Commonwealth grants for technical and further education for the calendar years 1972 to 1976 inclusive? [More…]

• I cannot immediately supply the Senate with details of expenditure in respect of the Technical and Further Education Commission for the calendar years 1972 to 1976 inclusive. [More…]

• The growing concern at the Government’s retreat from its responsibilities in education. ‘ [More…]

• That in the opinion of the Senate, the following is a matter of urgency: The growing concern at the Government’s retreat from its responsibilities in education. [More…]

• The Opposition launches this urgency motion because we believe that there is a real concern in the Australian community about what is happening to education. [More…]

• I dare say every Australian remembers the condition of federal support to the States for education in the years prior to 1973. [More…]

• We all recall that for those 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government between 1949 and 1972 there was a deliberate policy by the Government of the day, that is, the successive Liberal and Country Party governments, that there was no need for a Federal government to involve itself in education to any great degree. [More…]

• A whole mass of figures can be quoted to prove that government policy was as outlined in 1968 by the then Minister for Science and Education, Mr Malcolm Fraser, when he said that he could see no reason for the federal government of the day involving itself further in education than it was doing at that time. [More…]

• That was the Labor Government- important national initiatives in education were directed to the problems of disadvantaged schools and special education and for teacher development andinnovations. [More…]

• It is clear to every educationist in Australia that this Government has no intention of maintaining the level of support for the education system which was established by the Labor Government. [More…]

• That statement to which I have just referred related specifically to schools, but as another preliminary comment I should like to quote from the current report of the Technical and Further Education Commission for 1977-1979. [More…]

• That is, the Technical and Further Education Commission- is by far the largest of the three major sectors of formal postschool education in Australia. [More…]

• Approximately half a million persons currently undertake some form of technical and further education during the course of a teaching year- or about twice the combined total of students in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• This Government, although it alleges that it is giving preference to the technical sector of education over universities and colleges of advanced education, is in fact going nowhere near maintaining the commitment which was entered into in 1973 by the Labor Government. [More…]

• As a consequence, even greater demands have been placed on the physical resources of many existing buildings which are outmoded and deficient by any reasonable standard of modern educational provision. [More…]

• The capital expenditure assistance provided by the Commonwealth under its program of technical training grants, and more recently under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974, has represented in most States the greater pan of all capital expenditure on technical and further education since 1964-65. [More…]

• It is evident, and it is becoming increasingly apparent, that because of the approach this Government is now taking its commitment not only in the technical area but throughout the whole of education in Australia is going to be at best frozen or at worst reduced. [More…]

• I could, of course, go on and quote more of them but it is quite obvious that even though the Labor Government, with its massive increase in the commitment to education, was able only to lift education expenditure to a respectable threshold of commitment in this country. [More…]

• As a Labor Government, we set out to reverse substantially the problems in education. [More…]

• Whereas the previous Federal Government was prepared to put in $440m to help the States in education, in the final year of the Labor Government that amount had been increased to approximately $2 billion. [More…]

• In doing that we increased the percentage of Commonwealth outlays on education from 4.3 per cent in 1972-73 to 8.7 per cent in 1975-76. [More…]

• In a mere 3 years the Labor Government chalked up some quite remarkable achievements in this area of education. [More…]

• We commissioned a whole series of far reaching and major reports on all aspects of education. [More…]

• We established the Schools Commission, the Technical and Further Education Comission and, of course, the Universities Commission. [More…]

• We instituted a wide range of programs on migrant education, Aboriginal education, rural education, disadvantaged schools, innovation projects and so on. [More…]

• We also raised the morale of teachers and educationists throughout Australia because we gave them hope that at last a government was prepared to commit the resources of this country sufficient to at least enable us to provide educational facilities for all children of Australian parents, whether in the Government or non-government sector. [More…]

• I will refer to some of the selected cases of which I have received advice from all over the Commonwealth about the concern that is felt within the education system. [More…]

• The purpose of the letter is to inform you of the enormous improvements to education that have been made in our area since the inception of the disadvantaged schools program in 1973. [More…]

• It has stimulated community involvement in education where previously almost none existed. [More…]

• I have also a letter from the Chairman of the Burwood Heights High School Council in Melbourne, a copy of which I understand was sent to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• That of course flows from the fact that the State Government- I do not condemn the State Government for it- is being compelled, like all State governments, to rein in its spending on education for reasons which I will go into later. [More…]

• It would be unthinkable that having gained so much in the last few years through Federal assistance education should be allowed to slip back from its present justifiably pre-eminent position in Federal Government priorities. [More…]

• All Australians are counting on you Sir, and your Government to clearly demonstrate that your concern for the education future of Australia is as great or greater than that of the last Government. [More…]

• I suggest that the Minister for Education who is at the table also would not be able to give that commitment. [More…]

• This is the reason why so many people throughout Australia show great concern not only for the area of education but also for a whole lot of other areas. [More…]

• I ask the Senate to consider the submission of the National Catholic Education Commission to the Schools Commission for the 1977-79 triennium. [More…]

• Here we find again the same fear of what is in store not only for the State education system but also for the Catholic education system. [More…]

• The Catholic Education Commission states: [More…]

• He would know better than I and probably the rest of us that no matter how much he might try in submissions to Cabinet to obtain increases in certain areas, such as technical education or even private schools, the fact is that government policy will not permit those increases because it is not part of the overall government strategy. [More…]

• Teachers concerned that Cabinet may not honour commitment to 2 per cent real growth in education funding. [More…]

• We know, as teachers all know, that the commitment by this Government to education is one that it does not intend to keep. [More…]

• It is evident that this Government which has now been in office for almost 1 8 months- that is nearly half the time of Labor’s period in office- has not achieved one-tenth or one-fiftieth of what the Labor Government achieved in the area of education. [More…]

• It has commissioned one inquiry into education which will take about 2 years to produce any results. [More…]

• Again, I quote from a report of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• This Government is not committed to maintain education at the level at which the Labor Government maintained it. [More…]

• The Speech illustrates the difficulty in which education now finds itself in this country. [More…]

• It depends on those things but it does not depend on education. [More…]

• Speech, has shown that it does not even see education as a priority in the building of this nation. [More…]

• But the education system is not a priority for the Government, nor is it part of the private sector. [More…]

• Either way, education will miss out. [More…]

• They do not include the education system. [More…]

• As my time is running out I now come to the essential point of the Government’s involvement in the whole education exercise. [More…]

• We cannot divorce what it is doing in education from its new federalism policy. [More…]

• It should be pointed out again and again that education and the new federalism policy are handled by one Minister, the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick. [More…]

• On the one hand he continues to tell us that the Government will maintain its commitments to education but, on the other hand, he tells us how the Government will contract its spending and how the Government, including the Prime Minister, is encouraging the States to contract their spending. [More…]

• If such is the case, how can education receive the share of resources it so badly needs? [More…]

• We cannot expand education if we contract both Federal and State spending. [More…]

• On 17 March in answer to a question to which I referred earlier today the Minister for Education made it quite clear where the Government’s intentions lie. [More…]

• That is between the States and the Commonwealth- as to whether the States should increase their responsibilities, I point out that as they get an increasing amount of untied revenue- recurrent funds- and as their ability to raise and expand revenue widens, of course, it is competent upon the States, if they so desire, to expand their commitment to education. [More…]

• It is competent upon the States, if they so desire, to expand their commitment to education. [More…]

• In other words, if the States want better education services they will pay for them themselves. [More…]

• The States will then be compelled to levy taxes separate to Federal income tax and to appropriate more moneys out of their own resources into the education field. [More…]

• In a letter to the State Premiers- I have the one to the New South Wales Premier, dated 21 February 1977- the Prime Minister asked the States whether they would be prepared to discuss the whole question of the so-called rationalisation of education. [More…]

• Neither is there any attempt by the Commonwealth to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment, nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]

• So it was appropriate that today we should talk about the retreat of the Commonwealth from education. [More…]

• One could read a number of things into that statement but it is quite clear that the Prime Minister knows what he is talking about because he is saying to the States: ‘We want to talk to you and to tell you that you will tailor your education spending, your road expenditure and your expenditure in a whole lot of other areas, into our new federalism policy. [More…]

• This Government began by making promises that education would be dealt with in a manner that would maintain the needs of the education systems in Australia. [More…]

• For the first 12 months the Government probably was able to convince some of the people anyway that it was sincere in that statement but now the effect of the reductions in education spending are beginning to be felt. [More…]

• Right across this nation there are thousands of educationalists and teachers and hundreds of thousands of parents who realise that they were not given the true story from the beginning. [More…]

• As the effects of the new federalism start to take hold in this country so the task of the States and of parents and of teachers all across Australia will become increasingly more difficult as they try to maintain the education standards set by the Labor Government. [More…]

• The Labor Party, through its spokesman, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) has been endeavouring, by way of this urgency motion, to suggest and to establish that there has been some retreat by the Commonwealth Government from its responsibilities to education. [More…]

• I give the simple lie to his final statement that there have been reductions in education by this Government. [More…]

• The only reduction in education by a federal government in the 1970s was brought about by the Whitlam Government of which the honourable senator was a senior Minister. [More…]

• This debate takes place against a simple background and that is that in the period of the Fraser Government there has been a period of progress and expansion in education which has been offsetting the very turbulent situation of the legacy it received. [More…]

• I remind the Senate and the people of Australia of this fact: Once every year, for a very short period indeed, Senator Wriedt and the Labor Party come out of hibernation in the field of education because they hear of a thing called Education Day. [More…]

• Members of the Labor Party are aware that next week, on Wednesday, 6 April, good people throughout Australia are going to show their desire for the quantity and quality of education to be improved. [More…]

• Just as happened last year, come the end of Education Day, back will go Senator Wriedt and other members of the Labor [More…]

• In the last Budget of the Labor Party, in August 1975, it produced for the calendar year 1976 a massive, record and unique cutback in education totalling $105m for the 4 education commissions. [More…]

• No other government in the past, dreamt of cutting back education in this way. [More…]

• That Government reduced funds for the Universities Commission by $21m, for colleges of advanced education by $32m, for technical and further education by $9m and for schools by $43m. [More…]

• That is the record of this Labor Party which comes before the people of Australia today and says that there is a fear that the present Government might be retreating from education. [More…]

• Now its spokesmen have the gall to get up and talk about a retreat by any other political party from education. [More…]

• There was a cut of $ 105m right across the board in education, a virtual wiping out of the capital building programs of the schools, an abandonment of triennial funding, a freezing of student funds, and an achievement of record inflation running at 1 8 per cent as well as a unique achievement, which only the Labor Government could accomplish, of record juvenile unemployment. [More…]

• Day after day, day after day the Labor Party was peddling some new scare that there were going to be cuts, just as Senator Wriedt said here today, with not a tittle of reason, that there had been cuts in federal education spending. [More…]

• We reversed it and gave a 2 per cent real money growth to universities, a 5 per cent real money growth to colleges of advanced education, a 7.5 per cent increase to technical and further education and a 2 per cent increase to schools. [More…]

• This debate was brought on today for the benefit of Education Day. [More…]

• He said that we did not give education a true priority. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the Fraser Government has given to education the highest priority of any government program. [More…]

• I ask Senator Wriedt to read the terms of reference of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• If Senator Wriedt feels that we have not spelt out the true resources, the true goals and how high we put education, I remind him that in setting up the most comprehensive inquiry ever into education in the history of Australia we have invited that Committee to undertake 2 goals. [More…]

• It has been asked to set out what ought to be those goals of education which would permit the optimum human fulfilment. [More…]

• We have asked also how can we through education help people to fulfil themselves and to burgeon in life; how can we through equality of opportunity, through the helping hand, do so; how can we in this journey help by education to create career orientation and career and occupational development. [More…]

• He conveniently forgot that those were the years of the creation of the Australian Universities Commission which was surely the greatest breakthrough in Federal educational concepts in Australian history. [More…]

• He conveniently forgot that those were also the years of the creation of the Commission on Advanced Education which saw a great expansion of colleges with teachers colleges being changed into colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• This happened under the then Education Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]

• Of course it was logical that the Technical and Further Education Commission and the Schools Commission should follow. [More…]

• Neither is there any attempt by the Commonwealth to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment, nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]

• It shows the high priority commitment of education in the Federal Government sense. [More…]

• This is a commitment to the States that the Commonwealth will accept its present responsibility in education in the future, as it has in the past. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators of the statement I made in the Senate on 4 November last when I brought in the education program for this year. [More…]

• I was able to say that there was provision for an increase of approximately 10 per cent in student intake in colleges of advanced education in 1977 compared with 1976.I said that in 1977 there would be a total increase in enrolments of about 5 per cent while enrolments in teacher education courses in 1977 would be contained. [More…]

• I repeat, there would be a 2 per cent increase in the number of students on university campuses; a 10 per cent increase in intake at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• That is a retreat by the Federal Government from its commitment in education? [More…]

• An interesting point which the honourable senator puts to me as an argument which he supports relates to the funding of 2 per cent, and that what the Government has done in relation to catholic education will result in the abandonment of any improvement in level 6 assistance. [More…]

• He is the purported spokesman on education for the Labor Party. [More…]

• There was an increase in the number of students at universities and a 1 0 per cent increase in the number at colleges of advanced education, even though the cuts made by the Whitlam Government resulted in a net decrease in the number of students in tertiary institutions. [More…]

• At a time of recession, a recession which was created by the Whitlam Government, education has been solidly expanded. [More…]

• When we say that we will give to the States more flexibility, more money and more ability to spend, and since it is a basic rule of thumb that about 40 per cent of recurrent funds given to the States goes to education, are we wrong in then suggesting that there should be a similar percentage increase in education funds? [More…]

• Is the message of E-Day that the Labor Party is saying that State funds for education should be frozen and that even if the States get more money they should not make a comparative percentage increase in education funding? [More…]

• Is he saying that we should or that we should not urge the States to spend more of their extra funds on education? [More…]

• It is an urgency motion conceived basically to try to prove to the people that in the short capsule of time that has elapsed this year they ought to respond to Education Day. [More…]

• I commend the people of Australia for their efforts on Education Day and thereafter, and I want to say to a Party which suggests that the Commonwealth has retreated from its responsibilities, physician cure thyself. [More…]

• Against that record we have in fact made no cuts at all in federal education expenditure. [More…]

• Those who claim here or elsewhere that we have made cuts in federal education expenditure are deliberately misrepresenting the situation. [More…]

• We have expanded education in every field. [More…]

• We have introduced a massive and exciting inquiry into education and training. [More…]

• I will be privileged tomorrow to introduce into the Senate a Bill to set up a tertiary education commission, one of the great advances and great reforms prospectively in education. [More…]

• Only last night the Senate debated the National Aboriginal Education Committee, another exciting concept, a concept of 19 people from those fully tribalised down to the people from the urban areas to be set up from Torres Strait through Arnhem Land to Broome with a fully tribalised and ritually initiated leader, Stephen Albert, leading it and being my adviser. [More…]

• My goodness; in the period that this Government has been privileged to assist in the development of education in Australia, the progress measured both in terms of quality and quantity has far surpassed the progress in the past. [More…]

• The simple fact is that in terms of the quantity of funds provided in every direction, in the quality of delivery and in an understanding of the goals of education, an understanding that we ought to get back to the basics of education, to make sure that we look at the basic skills- numeracy and literacy as well as innovation- this Government is setting a lead. [More…]

• Yet honourable senators who supported the former Government tell us that this Government is retreating in the area education. [More…]

• Government from its responsibilities in education. [More…]

• The Federal Government has made massive and exciting progress in education in the 16 months it has been in office. [More…]

• I, like most honourable senators, felt that Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, instead of acting like a Minister, was acting more like a side show barker at the Sydney show trying to get people to come into the tent to see the fat lady. [More…]

• Senator Carrick referred to the role or the progress of the Whitlam Labor Government in the field of education. [More…]

• Expenditure on colleges of advanced education accelerated from $ 1 92m to $405m. [More…]

• They show also that in 1973-74 the total education vote was about $858m but that it increased to $ 1,67 lm in 1974-75. [More…]

• Let me depart from that ambit of educational expenditure. [More…]

• If we are talking about party politics, surely the Minister for Education will not dismiss the criticism of the Schools Commission and its comment about the lack of funds for education as a comment which is coming from some half baked Marxian source, as he often does. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that that is a true picture of education expenditure. [More…]

• I entered this debate to deal with another facet of education. [More…]

• With technological changes there was a responsibility to gear education for people in relation to different job opportunities. [More…]

• We all should know that extra expenditure is involved when we advocate the introduction of additional technical education or training and adult migrant training. [More…]

• The fact is that with technological advances an added imposition has been placed upon our education facilities to provide the wherewithal to enable people to be adapted to different work. [More…]

• At the present time, the adult migrant education system in New South Wales which is funded by the Federal Government has a budget of about $2,800,000. [More…]

• There is an obligation on the education system to introduce crash programs to equip people for the work force. [More…]

• The New South Wales adult education program for migrants has not been geared to meet an accelerated intake. [More…]

• I want to get back to the whole concept of adult education. [More…]

• I think the figures I gave were conclusive in indicating the injections of money into the education system by the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• An expanded adult migrant education system would be the solution to so many of these problems. [More…]

• I think it is a matter of supreme irony that on the very day on which the extremely capable and efficient Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) gives notice of the introduction of one of the most important Bills on education which will come before the Parliament, designed to set up a tertiary education commission, we should be faced with an urgency motion couched in these terms. [More…]

• The Minister has in very clear and concise terms set out for the record and for the people of Australia what the Government has done in the education field in the 18 months it has been in office. [More…]

• The first thing we ought to talk about is expenditure on education, and the record ought to be set straight. [More…]

• There has been no drop in expenditure on education by this Government since it assumed office. [More…]

• The point I make in citing that figure in this debate is that that saving meant that in areas such as education and social welfare the Government was able to keep up the commitments of the previous Government, and indeed, in some areas- in the area of education- there was increased expenditure. [More…]

• In an area such as this, where the States are primarily responsible for the conduct of the education system, it is as well to look at the situation of the States. [More…]

• I saw schools in the north of the State, and later in the year, at the invitation of the Victorian Teachers Union, I spent 4 or 5 days in the Gippsland area looking at remote schools and colleges of advanced education, and other institutions across the whole range of the education field. [More…]

• It is not the function of the Commonwealth Government in the area of education to go to a particular State school in any State of the Commonwealth and say in relation to spending money on school improvements: ‘We will give you the money directly to do that.’ [More…]

• Government has retreated from its responsibilities in education. [More…]

• This is a very practical illustration of the concern of the Government in the area of education and of its desire to co-operate with State governments in that field. [More…]

• I stress this point because I think it is important when considering the question of education. [More…]

• Neither is there any attempt by the Commonwealth to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment, nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]

• There is no evidence at all of any retreat by this Government from its concern for the responsibilities it has in education, and that is illustrated in the Prime Minister’s letter to the Premiers. [More…]

• Its 1975 Budget was a disaster for education and I again direct the attention of the Senate and the people of Australia to the figures quoted by the Minister, which are very important in this debate. [More…]

• People in the education field who are involved with schools are able to plan ahead with certainty, knowing that the commitments will be honoured. [More…]

• Whatever good the Labor Government did in its first 2 years in office- I concede it took some initiatives which were worth whilewas completely destroyed by the overspending which occurred not only in education but in other fields as well. [More…]

• I do not know which one of the several Treasurers who occupied that important position in the Labor Government had to make the decision- I think it was Mr Hayden who presented the Budget in 1975- but there had to be drastic cuts across the board from which stemmed the disabilities that the education system is suffering from at present. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt referred to various letters but I remind honourable senators that the education lobby is very active. [More…]

• In fact, the large number of letters that come from those involved in the educational field do keep the Government up the mark, if I might put it at way. [More…]

• The Committee will look at the whole field of education and it will look too at the goals of education. [More…]

• I rise to support my Leader’s motion about the growing concern at the Government’s retreat from its responsibilities to education. [More…]

• I will direct my comments to education in the Northern Territory with some emphasis on Aboriginal education, not only because that is a particular interest of mine but also because it is the direct responsibility of the Federal Government. [More…]

• The disadvantage in doing this, of course, is that it means that I cannot comment on what the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has said and what Senator Tehan has said. [More…]

• The Northern Territory Department of Education is the Northern Territory division of the Minister’s own Department. [More…]

• After all, the situation that exists in the Territory- as it does all over Australia at the present time- is a result of Government decisions taken not only in education but also in other areas and the effect, of course, that they have on the education program. [More…]

• Relations and it is partly the fault of the Department of Education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick announced in the Senate on Tuesday IS February the restoration of $1.2m to projects at the Elcho Island school. [More…]

• In November, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Mr Viner announced that there would be $6.5m for Education and Health, capital works in the N.T. [More…]

• In January, the Minister for Education secretly withdrew the money. [More…]

• I did not hear a great deal of commendation for government action in education. [More…]

• In the bilingual section, which was one of the greatest breakthroughs by the Labor Administration in its time of office, the positions of Principal Education Advisor and 3 senior education officers are all empty. [More…]

• You, Mr Acting Deputy President, know the problems faced by the parents of isolated children from the work of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• Out of the 16 educators, band two in the adult education area- a most important area- eleven have been appointed. [More…]

• This is good, but let us look at the people who have to work with the educators, the Aboriginal Adult Education assistants. [More…]

• I am not attacking the Department of Education. [More…]

• Despite the Minister’s bluster, his acknowledged sleight of hand with statisticswe had a delightful performance of this today- and all his attempts to blame Labor for the situation, he cannot disguise the fact that the Government has retreated from its responsibility to education in the Northern Territory, an area where, without doubt, it has full responsibility. [More…]

• The Opposition has moved an urgency motion relating to an alleged retreat by the Commonwealth Government on its responsibilities in education. [More…]

• It would have been interesting to hear some sort of development of the Opposition’s ideas of what constituted a retreat in education under this Government. [More…]

• I concluded, after he had nearly finished talking, that he was referring to migrant education. [More…]

• We all know that Senator Mulvihill has many worthwhile things to contribute on the subject of migrants in Australia but by trying to squash the worthwhile comments that he had to make on migrant education into a false framework he did not do himself justice. [More…]

• In what way could one say that the Government has retreated from its responsibilities in education? [More…]

• I think that there are probably 2 obvious areas of education to look at and on which to make a decision. [More…]

• The Journal devoted a great deal of its space in the most recent issue I have seen to talking about the cuts that the Fraser Government has introduced in government spending on education. [More…]

• If ever there was a policy which dislocated, defied and retreated from all reality in the area of education funding it was the Whitlam Government’s decision in 1975 to abandon the triennium and transfer education funding to a 12 month basis. [More…]

• It gave the post-secondary education area a jerk and a shock from which it is only just recovering in terms of the way in which it can plan. [More…]

• In this context my Government has given preliminary consideration to possible ways of improving the existing arrangements for support for schools, technical and further education, colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• You will no doubt agree that high priority must continue to be given to governmental support for education, and that we should jointly be doing what we can to improve the efficiency and co-ordination of our efforts to get the best value possible from our outlays. [More…]

• From our own preliminary consideration, we have come to the view that there may well be significant room for improving the existing separate co-operative arrangements applying to the various sectors of education. [More…]

• One step we have taken in this context is the recently announced decision to replace three education Commissions with one Commission to cover the whole post-secondary area, which will enable the Commonwealth Government to receive better coordinated advice on the three separate components in the post-secondary area. [More…]

• We are interested in exploring jointly with States possible avenues for rationalisation and better co-ordination, in particular in administration and finance, across the whole education function but we fully appreciate the complexities that any such exercise entails. [More…]

• Neither is there any attempt by the Commonwealth to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment, nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]

• Commonwealth funding in education ranges at present from full support for universities and colleges of advanced education to varying levels of complementary support for the schools and TAFE sectors. [More…]

• We consider it is possible that a new overall system might be devised which would be acceptable to all governments and could significantly improve co-ordination between governments and rationalisation in the provision of education. [More…]

• We see a continuing place for the Education Commissions consistent with both Commonwealth and State responsibilities. [More…]

• I am writing to you, therefore, to seek your agreement to discussion without commitment at this stage being initiated by my Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, with his State colleagues. [More…]

• In the first paragraph he stated some general intentions of the Fraser Government towards education. [More…]

• He said: my Government has given preliminary consideration to possible ways of improving the existing arrangements for support for schools, technical and further education, colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• You will no doubt agree that high priority must continue to be given to governmental support for education. [More…]

• If the Prime Minister had any thought of retreating in the area of education would he be making a statement of policy as clear and as unequivocal as that? [More…]

• Would he say that high priority must continue to be given to governmental support for education, if the Commonwealth Government was giving it a lower priority? [More…]

• We are interested in exploring jointly with States possible avenues for rationalisation and better co-ordination, in particular in administration and finance, across the whole education function but we fully appreciate the complexities that any such exercise entails. [More…]

• Neither is there any attempt by the Commonwealth to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment, nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]

• There is no attempt by the Government to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]

• We see a continuing place for the Education Commissions consistent with both Commonwealth and State responsibilities. [More…]

• In fact, the States and the various areas of education spending are very much better off. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt said that comparatively nothing or very little of any significance happened in education until 1972. [More…]

• There has been no attempt by any of the Labor speakers to bring forward any reasonable basis of comparison between what the Labor Government achieved in education and what the Fraser Government is achieving. [More…]

• The Government has announced policies for a Eost-secondary education commission. [More…]

• It is an attempt to co-ordinate and rationalise education in the post-secondary area. [More…]

• In my experience, the Government statement on policy has been welcomed by spokesmen in all the post-secondary areas of education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) stated clearly during his speech that this debate really is an exercise in politics. [More…]

• It shows no real concern for education because there has been no worthwhile attempt to analyse education direction and policies and needs in Australia. [More…]

• I would just like to say something very briefly in that context about Senator Wriedt ‘s comment that nothing had happened in education prior to 1972.I was at school prior to 1972.I was at school during the 1950s when the Menzies Government was involved in the post secondary area, the tertiary area, but when the States were totally controlling primary and secondary education funding. [More…]

• The only real alternative for people who cared about the education of their children was to send them to private schools which were comparatively very much more expensive in those days than they are today. [More…]

• Just occasionally we ought to look over our shoulder and remind ourselves as to just which party has the best track record pre- 1 972 or post- 1972 in the area of education and remind people of it. [More…]

• It is worthwhile to have debates on education in Australia in this chamber and on previous occasions we have had some very interesting ones which have shown a bipartisan spirit. [More…]

• There is no value at all -for the purpose of good education of young or older Australians- in this sort of political exercise which is geared to a day next week when there will be some demonstrations on the subject of education. [More…]

• I notice that unfortunately approximately only 2 per cent went into the area of education. [More…]

• The Australian overseas student aid program is also influenced by what is called the education aid dollar. [More…]

• As Senator Davidson quite rightly said, the population in these areas is growing at a very substantial rate, and it is interesting to note that the amount spent on education so far as the Bank was concerned was a mere 2.2 per cent. [More…]

• Last night I was discussing this ministerial statement on the National Aboriginal Education Committee but the debate was interrupted when the motion for the adjournment of the Senate was proposed. [More…]

• We all agree that in respect of Aboriginal education we have very many problems and it is going to take quite a long time to overcome them. [More…]

• Last week I asked a question of Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, in which I described the condition of Aboriginal schools and the repairs and maintenance required. [More…]

• That brings me back to my point about this nit-picking attack on the Aboriginal education scheme. [More…]

• I refer the Senate to an answer given to me early last year- I think it was in about April 1976- relating to Aboriginal education. [More…]

• I want to refer to what has happened since 1970-71 in the area of direct Commonwealth expenditure on Aboriginal education. [More…]

• The source of this information is the Department of Education and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Over those years there was a tremendous increase in expenditure on Aboriginal education. [More…]

• It relates to direct Commonwealth expenditure on education from 1968-69 to 1976-77. [More…]

• It deals with Department of Aboriginal Affairs grants to States, grants in aid, Aboriginal study grants, Aboriginal secondary education grants, Aboriginal overseas study grants and direct expenditure on Aboriginal schooling in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Still, all I can do is to refer people who are interested in the matter to this paper which indicates that over the years there have been substantial increases in national expenditure on Aboriginal education. [More…]

• As I have said before, I think it is time that this nit-picking in regard to Aboriginal education should cease. [More…]

• Over the last few weeks many questions have been asked and many comments have been made regarding the lack of finance for Aborigianl education, maintenance and so on in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In a series of questions over the last two or three weeks we have asked Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, about a departmental report which was made in 1973. [More…]

• It has not been my wish that it should be tabled in the Senate, but if there is to be continued criticism of the lack of maintenance to these schools in the Northern Territory, as if this happened only in the last year, then I suggest to the Minister for Education that this departmental report be tabled in the Senate so that the rest of the Senate and the Australian people generally can judge for themselves who is at fault. [More…]

• My next point relates to the provision of teachers in the education scheme, particularly for Aboriginal people. [More…]

• If there is to be some development in the Aboriginal education scheme, we must train many more Aboriginal teachers. [More…]

• At the same time, we have dedicated teachers from the education scheme. [More…]

• But there is a fault within the education system, that is, that we have many young teachers offering their services in the Northern Territory with many going to Aboriginal schools, but in their training facilities, in becoming a teacher, as far as I know there is no curriculum or training in teaching Aboriginal children. [More…]

• If Aboriginal education is to be developed and is to be successful we should have an enlarged training scheme for Aboriginal teachers and for teaching aides so that gradually, over the years, they will take the place of the European teacher. [More…]

• Another problem which makes Aboriginal education very difficult concerns the phase which is developing now- one which I encouraged- involving the fragmentation of large settlements, with which I and many other people have never agreed, with the people moving to outstations. [More…]

• However, whilst I agree with the principle, this move is bringing about problems in education and I do not have to spell out the reasons. [More…]

• The fact is that when there is this fragmentation of families and clans who go into the bush with their children, there are problems associated with bringing health and education to them. [More…]

• The other problem is immense and it is one that will prevent the education of Aboriginal people completely or to our satisfaction. [More…]

• They are forgotten people because there is much more concentration these days on the education of Aboriginal people on missions and settlements with insufficient thought given to these part coloured children who are living under extreme difficulty. [More…]

• They are going to primary and high schools but the type of education that is being offered to them, academic-type education, is not for them and because of this they feel that they are not wanted and start imagining that the teachers are against them. [More…]

• I support the new National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• I believe that it is a milestone because for as far back as I can remember this is the first time that we have had a completely Aboriginal committee to advise the Minister for Education and the Government. [More…]

• Mr Stephen Albert is the full-time chairman of the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, I had hoped to move straight into a discussion on the National Aboriginal Education Committee because I thought that was what the debate was all about tonight. [More…]

• An awful lot of nonsense has been spoken about the SEBAC report- the Survey into Educational Buildings in Aboriginal Communities. [More…]

• It showed up the situation in Aboriginal education. [More…]

• In fact, as he well knows, I was intimately involved with that very work while I was with the Education Department. [More…]

• I am convinced- I will make mention of this when I speak about the National Aboriginal Education Committee- that we should leave a range of alternatives for young people and that we should not limit their choices. [More…]

• It should be the goal for any government in the education system not to limit choices but to provide a range of alternatives. [More…]

• I move to join with my colleagues and honourable senators opposite in welcoming the establishment of the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• I think it is pretty important that we who are as interested as others in Aboriginal education should have an opportunity to meet with the people, perhaps put our points of view and talk with them. [More…]

• I have made a precis of them under 5 headings which are as follows: one- provide informed Aboriginal views on the educational needs of the Aboriginal people and appropriate methods of meeting these needs; two- assist to monitor existing programs; three- assist in developing programs and policies; four- undertake and promote investigations, studies and projects on which to base views; and five- contribute policy initiatives which will serve to redress the education imbalance which Aboriginal people experience. [More…]

• The point is that those white advisers and administrators who, like Dr Coombs, insist that the preservation of tribal society is both possible and desirable, and who for that reason accord a low priority to European education and housing, are not speaking for the Aboriginal people but for a philosophy of simplicity and traditionalism which they themselves find attractive. [More…]

• In curriculum development Dr Don Williams, who was at Galliwinku for many years as head and then moved to work with the Curriculum Development Department, is now in Canberra at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Another phrase that is mentioned is the ‘educational needs of Aboriginal people’. [More…]

• It is vital that we have vocational training and that we have employment opportunities so that young people do not ask the question: ‘Education for what?’ [More…]

• Another area in which there has been an expressed view by Aboriginal people to date- I am sure the Committee will see this- is in the area of adult education. [More…]

• As I have tried to suggest, this Committee will impinge on many areas apart from the area of education. [More…]

• I hope these initiatives will foster education programs and activities which will assist Aboriginal people to live satisfying lives, sharing in and contributing to the total Australian society. [More…]

• It is always more interesting to listen to Senator Robertson when he is non-partisan than when he is political, not because I object to his politics but because he is always on much sounder ground when he talks about education than when he talks about politics. [More…]

• I would just like to pose a couple of points in relation to the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• We have had at least one quite interesting debate in this Senate previously on the subject of Aboriginal education and I think we can find a great deal of common ground. [More…]

• There is a great deal of common concern throughout the community by those who care about education, those who are concerned about the plight of Aborigines in our society, and those who have a particular interest in Aboriginal education. [More…]

• Obviously the Committee will have a particular responsibility for advising the Government on policies in the area of Aboriginal education. [More…]

• Nevertheless, while acknowledging that the Committee has been appointed and welcoming the wisdom of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Government in the appointment of the Committee, I do not think that that is the end of the Parliament’s responsibility. [More…]

• It seems to me that the first question, particularly in relation to education of Aborigines, is: Education for what? [More…]

• There is one sad point which our experience so far in Aboriginal education highlights. [More…]

• Education by itself is not of great value to an individual. [More…]

• If you take an individual and give him an education, no matter how well it be supported by teaching aids, by magnificent buildings, and by the most highly skilled teachers to be found, and do not give that person any objective in his education or anything on which he can subsequently use the skills he has learned, then you have not done very much at all for him. [More…]

• That is a large part of the story of Aboriginal education in Australia. [More…]

• There has been a very willing and sympathetic concern, particularly for young Aborigine people and, growing with that, we have an awareness that adult Aborigines who wish to receive education ought to be able to receive it. [More…]

• We have taken these young people and given them facilities which ought to have led to a good education, given the great restrictions of cultural difficulties, on the part of both teacher and student. [More…]

• One can look at the skills or one can look at the way of life and I think I can say that there is a general consensus that an attempt is being made through the education system to make available to Aborigines those skills that are necessary for survival in the Australian society at large, if that is what they choose. [More…]

• This raises the whole general problem of education at the moment and points up its relevance. [More…]

• It is very nice to say in a flowery way- and this has happened at times in the Senate- how marvellous education is for its own value and what it has to do with developing the individual. [More…]

• Education does have those factors, but if it does not have some larger purpose which gives a very particular relevance to it then those attributes of understanding oneself and developing oneself do not go very far in the real world. [More…]

• Obviously one of the large problems of Aboriginal education in Australia has nothing to do with the education portfolio; it has to do with providing jobs in the areas in which Aborigines tend to live in Australia. [More…]

• One question which must be asked over and over again in relation to experiments in education in all areas of Australiaand again a good example is Aboriginal education- is: According to what guidelines? [More…]

• At the moment in the area of Aboriginal education, and I mean the total area-State as well as Commonwealththe attitudes range from virtually total neglect through authoritarianism and elitism to almost total anarchy. [More…]

• We have yet to settle which of those approaches towards education is of some value to the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• We ought to look to them for some guidance, firstly, for opinions on which of the many philosophies which obtain in Aboriginal education these days is the most relevant. [More…]

• Ultimately, the people on this Committee will play a critical role in advising those who are in power, those who have the means of directing funds, governments and so on in Australia on what the Aborigines want from education, both in the short term and in the long term. [More…]

• In his statement, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the Government was pleased that such a large number of applications had been made for membership of the Committee. [More…]

• in reply- I thank honourable senators on both sides of the chamber for their useful and thoughtful contribution to the debate on the statement which I made on the establishment of the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• It is fair to say that in our attempts to deliver education to the Aboriginal people of Australia over now a very lengthy period we have achieved only a limited measure of success. [More…]

• I would think that none of us would be so foolhardy as to say that we know what ought to be the nature of education for the Aborigines. [More…]

• Australia because when we approach the Aboriginal student we approach not only a problem of education but a problem of health, pastoral care, and welfare. [More…]

• When we look at Aboriginal education we look at a wide range of problems. [More…]

• We have to ask ourselves in the first place: What is the duty of education? [More…]

• Certainly education ought to assist and not to destroy. [More…]

• Whatever education does in this regard we have to understand in these generations immediately with us people uniquely will be demanding our sympathy. [More…]

• Where do we take education? [More…]

• Of that number something like 13 700 are high school students receiving ABSEG- the Aboriginal Students Secondary Education Grant. [More…]

• One can say that if almost 10 per cent of those students are in a high school and their families are receiving payment as an incentive to keep them there a great opportunity exists to deliver education of a practical nature to those students. [More…]

• We must consider this matter against that background and the fact that in Australia in 1 977 thousands of millions of dollars is spent in higher education. [More…]

• What I would like basically to feel for the future in education, if nothing else is, that we put aside cliches and the thrust and parry of the conflict of politics and see whether we can have a bipartisan attempt at looking at education and putting our minds and our hearts together. [More…]

• I say again that in dealing with education in the schools that we meet the children not simply for the delivery of education. [More…]

• In the months and years ahead the movement of the Aboriginal population from the settlements to the outstations and so on will place an enormous logistic strain, if nothing else, upon the education system. [More…]

• Whether education in the Western sense should follow the movement of Aborigines outwards, whether it should be undertaken in a bilingual way or whether teachers should be European or Aboriginal are matters which are part of the adventure of this debate. [More…]

• 1 ) How many graduates of universities and colleges of advanced education were registered as unemployed at the end of 1976. [More…]

• In view of the extraordinarily large number of these tragic operations, which I am sure all Australians will agree are most traumatic to all concerned, can the Minister say what investigations are being undertaken to introduce alternative methods of contraceptive education since those presently undertaken obviously are proving most unsuccessful? [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to establish a Tertiary Education Commission to develop and recommend policies as the basis of Commonwealth financial support for institutions in the whole post-school sector of education throughout Australia. [More…]

• The Commission will be concerned with balanced and co-ordinated development and encouragement of diversified opportunities in post-school education. [More…]

• The new Commission will play a significant role in shaping and influencing the future character of post-school education in Australia. [More…]

• To achieve this goal the three existing education commissions- the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission- will be replaced by 3 Councils of the same names. [More…]

• These Councils will preserve much of the essential qualities of the existing commissions while working with and being subject to the co-ordinating functions and authority of the new Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• The title of the new Commission is a matter which has been given careful consideration and, in the interests of avoiding awkward and negative names such as ‘post-secondary’ or ‘postschool’ commission, the title ‘Tertiary Education Commission’ has been adopted. [More…]

• This decision implies, for the purposes of the Bill, a change in the meaning of the term ‘tertiary education’ as it has generally been used in Australia. [More…]

• ‘Tertiary education’ has normally been used to include only those studies which require, as a minimum entry level, completion of the full secondary school course; that is university and college of advanced education courses almost exclusively. [More…]

• For the purposes of this Bill ‘tertiary education’ will also encompass the wide range of courses in the technical and further education area. [More…]

• The terms ‘primary, secondary and tertiary education’ will thus be used for the Commonwealth’s purposes as purely descriptive terms, with ‘tertiary education’ comprising university education, advanced education and technical and further education. [More…]

• The decision to establish a new commission was taken in pursuance of the Government’s preelection education policy which drew attention to the problems of co-ordinatiOn between the existing commissions. [More…]

• The new arrangements were discussed by me with the State Ministers for Education earlier this year and in the process of drafting the present Bill comment has been obtained from State authorities and from people eminent within the ‘post-secondary education sector, including the chairmen of the existing commissions. [More…]

• The questions of appropriate mechanisms and the involvement or otherwise of technical and further education constitute points of variance. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission represents a major advance on earlier proposals for 3 main reasons: Firstly, it will include the important area of technical and further education; secondly, it recognises the distinct nature and status of each of the 3 post-school sectors; and thirdly, it obliges the Commission to consult with appropriate State authorities in the performance of its functions. [More…]

• To exclude technical and further education from the co-ordinating mechanism would be to fail to appreciate the inevitable working interface between colleges of advanced education and institutions of technical and further education and the continuous need to rationalise functions between the two. [More…]

• It would ignore also the need to upgrade the role of technical and further education in the postschool sector. [More…]

• It is the Government’s firm intention to devote special attention to technical and further education, which has been for too long the area of least consideration to governments in post-school education, particularly in the allocation of resources. [More…]

• The new Commission will have an important role in the development of these resources and of co-operative arrangements with the States for the support of technical and further education. [More…]

• To assist the new Commission in the performance of its functions, the legislation will provide for a separate Universities Council, Advanced Education Council and Technical and [More…]

• Further Education Council, which will be statutory bodies. [More…]

• Clause 37 of the Bill provides for the right of each Council, in addition to responding to requests from the Minister or the Commission, to inquire into and advise the Minister upon whatever matters it wishes within its own sector of education. [More…]

• It is important for the future quality of education that those essentially distinctive and authentic characteristics of the various types of tertiary institutions should be preserved and developed, while recognising that the nature of individual units will change and evolve and the need for new-type institutions will emerge. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission will have a most important task of co-ordination across the whole area of tertiary education. [More…]

• I emphasise the point made in clause 9( 1 ) that the Commission will be obliged to consult with the relevant State authorities in the performance of its functions and is expected to consult with other Commonwealth and State education bodies. [More…]

• We are well aware of their responsibilities in the whole education field and of their importance to the achievement of rationalisation and co-ordination of the funding of post-school education. [More…]

• Clause 44(5) of the Bill ensures in particular that the States must be consulted by the Commission before it makes recommendations as to whether a particular institution should be classified as a university or college of advanced education for the purposes of the Act. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has written to the 6 State Premiers inviting the States to participate at the education Ministers level in detailed discussions with the Commonwealth with the aim of achieving a more effective co-partnership in the whole field of education. [More…]

• Such talks would include the development of any further co-operative measures among Commonwealth and State agencies which might be necessary to strengthen the functioning of the Tertiary Education Commission and its components. [More…]

• I am confident that the new arrangements will permit a truly co-ordinated approach to the funding by the Commonwealth of post-school educational institutions and will provide effective means for preventing wasteful duplication and overlap. [More…]

• The new Commission will maintain close contact with the Williams Committee on Education and Training which is currently inquiring into the future goals of education in terms of human fulfilment and career development. [More…]

• for example the use of resources for teacher education. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission will have the final responsibility for recommending programs for the 1978-80 rolling triennium within guidelines which the Government will issue in the near future. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) In what trades have apprentices been employed in the Department of Education since 1 July 1970. [More…]

• Persons who left school at the end of the school year, who are not planning to undertake full-time education or training and who are still seeking employment at the end of the school vacation, will be eligible for unemployment benefit from the date of commencement of the new school year. ‘ [More…]

• This must be the more so when other, conventional means of learning of applicants’ intentions are not only open to him, but are in fact used by him; the ‘ Record of Applications made for Employment’ issued to school leavers itself contains a form of declaration to be made by applicants that ‘I will not be undertaking full time education or training in 1977’; in the present case, the plaintiff made such a declaration. [More…]

• Indeed, its duration is dictated by and entirely extraneous circumstance, the period which State education authorities happen to have fixed upon as the duration of school holidays in the State, a period which the evidence shows to differ from State to State, the effect of the Director-General’s direction varying accordingly. [More…]

• The Senate has before it 2 Bills, namely, the Tertiary Education Commission Bill and the Commonwealth Teaching Service Amendment Bill which I understand may be dealt with cognately. [More…]

• That Bill is the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1 977. [More…]

• It seeks to change certain structures in the post-secondary area of the Australian education system. [More…]

• Of course, when we deal with education, under this Government we are dealing with an area to which the Government intends to make very substantial changes in the period ahead. [More…]

• We sought to debate in this Parliament the illegal action of this Government, action which was found to be illegal by the High Court, in denying by decree the unemployment benefit to school leavers in this country, many of whom are forced through the economic circumstances of their parents to go directly from the education system to seek work. [More…]

• Since 1974 there have been 3 education commissions, namely, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• The Universities Commission, of course, has been in existence for many years, the Commission on Advanced Education for a lesser time and the Technical and Further Education Commission since 1974 only. [More…]

• In 1975 the then Labor Government introduced legislation into the Parliament which would have effectively combined the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education but not the Commission on Technical and Further Education. [More…]

• We took the view when the Government announced the decision to combine universities and colleges of advanced education under one commission that the Technical and Further Education Commission ought not to be included in that proposal, which is now before the chamber. [More…]

• It should be, and I think is, recognised across the general spectrum of education in Australia that the technical sector has been neglected by successive Commonwealth governments over the years. [More…]

• There was quite a massive improvement in the allocation of financial resources to the technical sector under the Labor Government but we now as an Opposition are concerned that the Technical and Further Education Commission should not be subsumed by the other 2 commissions. [More…]

• However, now that we have this Bill before us, I indicate that the Opposition will not oppose the concept of including the technical sector in this new Tertiary Education Commission because we feel that there have been sufficient safeguards written into the legislation to ensure that the technical sector is not disadvantaged. [More…]

• On behalf of the Opposition before this legislation is finally passed I place on record the roles that have been played by both the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• By calling it a Tertiary Education Commission we hope that it is the intention of the Government to recognise that technical education in Australia will be recognised as tertiary education; that is to say, it should mean a substantial upgrading of technical and further education. [More…]

• The requirement that the Commission shall perform its functions with the object of promoting balanced and co-ordinated development of tertiary education and to ensure that the needs of technical and further education are met is a positive step. [More…]

• The Commission will be composed of certain full time commissioners and part time commissioners and the chairmen of the Councils which will be formed under the legislation to represent each of the 3 arms of tertiary education also will be part of the Commission. [More…]

• The Opposition is concerned about the treatment that technical and further education may receive if it is not properly recognised in the establishment of this Commission. [More…]

• Technical and further education is in a different position from the other 2 areas of tertiary education. [More…]

• Universities and colleges of advanced education now are fully funded by the Commonwealth but most of the funds for technical and further education come from State governments. [More…]

• The roles of universities and colleges of advanced education are fairly clear but the role of technical and further education is much more diverse. [More…]

• It has provided a network of institutions variously known as colleges, schools or centres of technical and further education and these are widely dispersed throughout the country. [More…]

• In 1975, for example, technical and further education was provided in more than 500 separate locations throughout the Commonwealth and there were a great many of these institutions in the metropolitan areas. [More…]

• This is pointed out in the current report of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• The institutions vary greatly in size and in the scope of their educational provisions. [More…]

• That illustrates the diverse nature of technical education and one of the problems with which all Federal Governments have had to deal over the years. [More…]

• In the past the interests of universities and colleges of advanced education have been looked after by fairly powerful and, I suppose, substantially autonomous commissions which have built up a substantial body of expertise. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Commission, being a much more recent creation, perhaps could not be seen to have that body of expertise and experience dealing with the government in quite the same way. [More…]

• I do not question the sincerity of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his concern for technical education in this country. [More…]

• The present guidelines recognise the need for a greater increase in expenditure in real terms for the technical sector over that for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I want to make it quite clear that the statements which have been made by the Minister concerning the Labor Government’s role in financing tertiary education and education generally in Australia are simply incorrect. [More…]

• Three weeks ago in this chamber we had an urgency debate on education in which the Minister made certain assertions, At page 633 of Hansard he is reported as saying: [More…]

• In the last Budget of the Labor Party, in August 1975, it produced for the calendar year 1976 a massive, record and unique cutback in education totalling $l05m for the 4 education commissions. [More…]

• No other government in the past dreamt of cutting back education in this way. [More…]

• But the facts are quite different and I must again take issue with the Minister who continually puts forward the argument that the Labor Government cut back expenditure on education in the 1975 Budget. [More…]

• We know that from the time it came into office it did a magnificent job to lift the standard of education in this country. [More…]

• At no time in the history of Australia has any government done more to assist education throughout Australia. [More…]

• When Labor came into office the Commonwealth was spending $58m a year on colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In the area of technical education, in the year in which we came to office the expenditure by the previous Liberal Government had been $ 13m. [More…]

• All I say is that if this Government in its first 3 years does half what we did for the education system in this country that will be a wonderful performance. [More…]

• But I do not believe there is the slightest chance that that will happen, because we come now into the other area with which we are directly concerned- that is, this Government’s intentions to pass the responsibility for expenditure on education, roads, hospitals, schools and a whole range of areas over to the States. [More…]

• That is the force that will take place and that is what will confront the education systems, both in the schools and technical areas, throughout all the States. [More…]

• If the Government is sincere and really wants to see technical education improve to the point where it meets the standards recommended in the Kangan report, the Opposition will be satisfied. [More…]

• At end of motion, add “but the Senate is of the opinion that in respect of the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977- [More…]

• 1 ) the Senate recognises the disadvantaged position of technical education in Australia and that adequate financial resources will be made available to the technical sector to raise its standards to levels envisaged in the Kangan Report; [More…]

• further measures be taken to ensure that technical education in Australia is not further isolated from secondary education: and [More…]

• every effort be made to ensure full provision for the development of further education. [More…]

• -The Senate is debating in cognate fashion 2 Bills- the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977 and the Commonwealth Teaching Service Amendment Bill 1977. [More…]

• I believe that the measures before the Senate advance our desire to push ahead with the general principles on which our education policies are predicated- a belief in choice, a belief in variety in the kinds of institutions and the kinds of courses available and the place of the non-government sector in education generally in Australia. [More…]

• The main Bill which we are discussing in this cognate debate is, of course, the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977. [More…]

• The Bill can really only be discussed against a background of the achievement of the Fraser Government- the Liberal and National Country Parties in governmentin the field of education. [More…]

• I think it is important to state once again that in a time of economic hardship and of economic restraint it has been possible, because of the commitment of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Government, to continue to support education in a very positive and increasing manner. [More…]

• But the Whitlam Government in its 1975 Budget- its last Budget- reduced expenditure on the four education commissions by $ 105m. [More…]

• Of course, because of the Whitlam Government’s policies- its tariff cuts and its economic management generally- it created more juvenile unemployment and, in fact, created a greater demand for education under the new economic conditions. [More…]

• In this situation in the 1 977 calendar year the Fraser Government- the Liberal and National Country Party Government- has put more money into education. [More…]

• Not only did we provide money to cover inflation but we put in more money again to create real growth in the field of education. [More…]

• We covered inflation and more for all of the four education commissions. [More…]

• We have appointed a most important and significant committee- the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• I pick up the concern of Senator Wriedt and point out that we have given special emphasis to the expansion of technical and further education in Australia in the programs which we are introducing. [More…]

• Commonwealth funding for technical and further education for this year rose in real terms by 7.5 per cent. [More…]

• A number of new initiatives in education have been undertaken during this time as well. [More…]

• These include new initiatives for the education of children in institutions, pilot schemes to cover special problems of country children and isolated children, initiatives dealing with country boarding schools and disadvantaged schools in the country. [More…]

• We have preserved and strengthened specific purpose grants in the area of education. [More…]

• The Fraser Government has preserved its commitment to education. [More…]

• It has increased the money spent on education and it has increased its commitment. [More…]

• In fact, in 1977 the 4 educational commissions have spent between them more than $lA billion- $ 1,537m- an increase of almost $50m on the previous year. [More…]

• All this has occurred in a situation in which we have strengthened the other great funding arm for education-the State governments. [More…]

• That money is available to be used by the State governments, if they so wish, for education as well as other purposes. [More…]

• They have a capacity to respond to the needs of education as they wish. [More…]

• We believe that whatever is done eventually in education must be done in a co-operative fashion with the State and Federal governments working together. [More…]

• I believe that the Tertiary Education Commission Bill serves to extend our initiatives in one more area. [More…]

• The fact is that for some years now we have realised that in the field of education we have had a large number of bodies, each responsible for small segments of education but they have been poorly co-ordinated. [More…]

• In fact, there were some thirty or so small bodies and four or five major bodies which directly advise the Minister for Education on matters relating to his portfolio. [More…]

• The 4 major bodies- I think Senator Wriedt mentioned three of them- are the Schools Commission, which is not affected by the present legislation; the Universities Commission; the Commission on Advanced Education; and the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• The only focal point at which they have co-ordinated their activities has been with the Minister for Education and this has created its own problems. [More…]

• I share the concern of anyone who feels that one or other of the commissions could be placed in a disadvantageous position with regard to future funding and Senator Wriedt mentioned the Technical and Further Education Commission in that regard. [More…]

• If we examine the ways in which we could have approached the problem of bringing some co-ordination and some rationalisation into the plethora of bodies responsible for postsecondary education we find that we could have worked to ensure some joint membership of the different commissions. [More…]

• We could have asked some body- say the Australian Education Council or, the various ministerial councils- to take a co-ordinating role but I do not really think that would have been practical. [More…]

• We could have had one chief adviser on education- one chief officer. [More…]

• This body is, of course, the one which is being set up in this Bill- the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• We are dealing here only with problems of post-school education. [More…]

• 1 suggest to Senator Wriedt that much will depend upon the instructions and guidance given by the Minister to this new Commission as to how the Commission functions to protect the legitimate rights of all branches of postsecondary education. [More…]

• I take, for example, the particular instance Senator Wriedt mentionedthat of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• It is within the capacity of government to ensure that this Commission receives guidelines which will indicate to it the proper concern of government to see that no area of education is disadvantaged. [More…]

• But I am not sure that the present system of independent commissions necessarily protects one or other branch of post secondary education any better. [More…]

• I believe than an independent commission- a coordinated commission such as we are producing -can work well to protect all 3 post-secondary education avenues. [More…]

• I believe that the new arrangement will give us a chance to look in a better way at the competing demands between liberal generalist education and between the highly specialised education which is vocationally oriented, such as the education I received in my day. [More…]

• The Senate is debating the Tertiary Education Commission Bill and the Commonwealth Teaching Service Amendment Bill. [More…]

• I said that I hoped that there would be a balance between the provision in Australia of resources for liberal arts education and resources for technical education in strictly vocational specialties. [More…]

• I was making the point that although we required high quality technology training I hoped that we would not develop in our education system the thrust which sees value only in this kind of training. [More…]

• We need to be aware of any restructuring in our educational commissions which could in any way resemble that done recently in France. [More…]

• It seems that the restructuring in France’s educational commissions was done simply to meet the needs of industry and commerce and perhaps not to meet broader national goals. [More…]

• Let me say a few words about the general role of education and its formal apparatus and how the two should work together. [More…]

• It was pointed out to me informally by Senator Wriedt a few moments ago- this is something I would acknowledge- that it is extremely important for us to acknowledge the influence of home and one ‘s other background in the finished educational product and the quite limited though important role which formal education plays. [More…]

• Nevertheless I would like to think that formal education is relevant and effective. [More…]

• I offer the observation that in those educational activities in which I have taken part either as a recipient or as a teacher there has generally been a lack of goals which are clearly stated and which seem really relevant to the task. [More…]

• There seems to be no evaluation of what goes on in education. [More…]

• I offer the comment that if ever there is an area of activity where consumerism is resented it is education. [More…]

• It does not follow automatically, it does not follow a priori, that education is necessarily good. [More…]

• It does not follow that the activities of an educational commission are necessarily good. [More…]

• Some colleges of advanced education it seems to me are doing the same kind of thing. [More…]

• I hope- other speakers have expressed the hope- that in the field of technical and further education the same thing can happen. [More…]

• Standards have been uneven between the different branches of post-secondary education. [More…]

• The Williams committee on education and training will address itself to precisely these questions. [More…]

• I think we should acknowledge the initiative of the Government in setting up this committee of inquiry to address itself to basic questions of education- where we are going and what we hope to achieve. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) might be interested in a similar kind of experience from New Zealand. [More…]

• The New Zealand community has created the New Zealand Educational Development Conference which attempted to examine some of the basic questions. [More…]

• Before the suspension of the sitting I referred to some figures which indicated expenditure on education by the Fraser Government. [More…]

• The table I have shows triennial expenditure in the calendar years 1975, 1976 and 1977 for universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education, schools and total. [More…]

• The Senate is debating cognately 2 education Bills, the Territory Education Commission Bill 1977 and the Commonwealth Teaching Service Amendment Bill 1977. [More…]

• However, the Opposition has serious reservations about the effect that the Tertiary Education Commission Bill will have on the various sectors of education that will be included in the Commission. [More…]

• At end of motion, add ‘but the Senate is of the opinion that in respect of the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977- [More…]

• 1 ) the Senate recognises the disadvantaged position of technical education in Australia and that adequate financial resources will be made available to the technical sector to raise its standards to levels envisaged in the Kangan Report; [More…]

• further measures be taken to ensure that technical education in Australia is not further isolated from secondary education; and [More…]

• every effort be made to ensure full provision for the development of further education ‘. [More…]

• Honourable senators will be aware that there has been a long disagreement in this chamber about how much was actually spent on technical education in the last 3 calendar years and 2 financial years. [More…]

• I say to honourable senators and particularly to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that if we are looking at calendar years it is fair to look at the calendar year 1975 which was the last year of the Labor Government and the current calendar year 1977 which is the first complete year for which the Liberal-National Country Party coalition has brought down a Budget and compare those figures. [More…]

• On colleges of advanced education, in 1975, $4 17m was expended by the Labor Government. [More…]

• On technical and further education, in 1975 $74m was expended by the Labor Government. [More…]

• I now turn to the Tertiary Education Commission Bill. [More…]

• The Opposition regards this as a very significant Bill because it changes the structure of tertiary education administration by the Commonwealth Government in this country. [More…]

• There has been a Commission for Advanced Education for some time. [More…]

• Only recently, since 1974, has there been a Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• The purpose of the legislation before us is to amalgamate all those commissions in an umbrella commission called the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• We accept the Minister’s argument that there is a need for rationalisation, particularly in the area of colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• However, we have reservations that inclusion of the technical and further education in the university and colleges of advanced education areas may lead to a weakening of that sector of education. [More…]

• The claim that technical and further education has been the Cinderella of education has become a political cliche in the last few months. [More…]

• We no longer have to debate the fact that technical and further education has been most seriously neglected particularly, of course, during the long years of rule by conservative governments in Canberra. [More…]

• What we require from the Minister now is not the admission which we have had already that technical and further education is in a disadvantaged situation, but a real commitment to improve that situation, to bring the funding allocation of technical and further education to a position of parity with other forms of post-secondary education. [More…]

• I have heard general sentiments, which I and people involved in technical and further education were pleased to hear, that he is aware of the problems and is determined to do something about them. [More…]

• Where will technical and further education fit into those guidelines? [More…]

• Since he has been the Minister for Education the Minister has adopted the procedure of issuing to the education commissions guidelines within which they must draw up their budgets and determine their policies. [More…]

• I hope that in issuing guidelines for this new Commission the Minister will make it quite clear just what priority his Government puts on technical and further education. [More…]

• The other reason why members of the Opposition feel some reservation about seeing the Technical and Further Education Commission abolished is that it has done such an excellent job. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Commission, and the Kangan Committee which led to its establishment, cannot be praised too highly for the work they have done in drawing attention to the needs of this area of education and the very serious financial, physical, administrative and other disadvantages it has had to suffer for many years. [More…]

• There has been criticism from some supporters of the Government that the Labor Government did not act quickly enough in the technical and further education area. [More…]

• Whilst we admit that it would have been preferable to have been able to achieve a more rapid improvement in that area, it would have been extremely difficult for any Government gaining power at the end of 1 972 to implement immediately a program for improving technical and further education on a Commonwealth basis because the data was not available. [More…]

• It was not until the Kangan Committee produced that first excellent report that we had national data, that we had State by State and Territory data, whereby we could get a national picture of what was going on in technical and further education. [More…]

• I would like to record at this point my congratulations to the members of the Kangan Committee and to the subsequent Technical and Further Education Commission for the excellent job that they have done. [More…]

• The material they provided in the 3 reports will, I hope, be basic documents from which the new Technical and Further Education Council to be established by this legislation will develop its strategies and advice to the Minister. [More…]

• Having uttered those words of praise about the Technical and Further Education Commission’s third report I would like to quote from it. [More…]

• The information I am going to quote illustrates very clearly the extent of the problem and the numbers of Australian people who are involved or who would wish to be involved in technical and further education. [More…]

• I was interested in Senator Baume ‘s remark that he appreciated the fact that the home environment and home circumstances of a child determine to a considerable extent the kind of educational opportunity that that child will have. [More…]

• No more than 10 per cent of children from what are called working class families in this country get to universities, which I think is an indictment of the inequalities that remain within our education system. [More…]

• The children from working class and lower class income families do not get to universities but usually they get to, or wish to get to, technical and further education institutions. [More…]

• The information from the Technical and Further Education Commission’s triennium report for 1977-79 to which I wish to draw the attention of the Senate at this stage is this: [More…]

• That is a shorthand expression for technical and further education- [More…]

• Departments/ Divisions in 1975 were some 163 500 as compared with some 126 900 in universities and some 98 200 in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Put another way, TAFE is meeting rather more than 40 per cent of the total institutional load of post-secondary education. [More…]

• In 1973-74 and 1974-75, for every $1 of capital expenditure per EFTS in TAFE more than $4 per EFTS was spent on capital facilities in tertiary education . [More…]

• State capital expenditure has probably been adversely affected by the matching requirements until recently of Commonwealth grants for universities and colleges of advanced education and the need for school building in a period of rapid increase in enrolments. [More…]

• I would hope that the Minister for Education, in the course of this debate, will explain quite clearly to the Senate just how the funding of technical and further education is to be affected by his Government’s federalism policy. [More…]

• Although the technical sector is to come into this new tertiary commission it should be remembered that whereas the Commonwealth funds 100 per cent the universities and colleges of advanced education it funds directly only 20 per cent of technical and further education and the great burden, the 80 per cent, is left for the States. [More…]

• In a situation where States have increasing responsibilities, where they do not have increasing financial resources to meet those responsibilities, how are the States to find the additional resources that are so necessary if technical and further education is to be improved? [More…]

• Another point I wish to raise in the debate is the relationship of industry to technical and further education. [More…]

• Industry, we may say, gets the fruits of successful technical and further education. [More…]

• Industry relies on the skills that it requires for productivity being imparted to workers in industry before they enter industry through technical and further education institutions and through the apprenticeship system associated with it. [More…]

• We must relate this unemployment to the inadequacies in technical and further education in the past. [More…]

• I certainly would not suggest that it has been only inadequacies in technical and further education that has given rise to this dramatically high rate of unemployment. [More…]

• Clearly, when we have a situation which members of the Government have described often enough, where there are at least some skilled vacancies available and there are many, many unskilled persons who cannot be employed in those jobs because they do not have the skills, surely we must look again at the whole relationship of technical education and training to manpower policies and employment policies. [More…]

• Perhaps that statement would not be disagreed with by members of the Government, but it is no use saying to people that they have the right to work if educational and training institutions do not impart the skills whereby a person can exercise that right to work. [More…]

• Again I will quote figures from the last Technical and Further Education Commission report to demonstrate this fact. [More…]

• At a seminar held in New South Wales last weekend on technical and further education and on the crisis in technical and further education a lot of time was devoted to analysing the access of women to technical and further education. [More…]

• This is something which I hope the Minister will bear in mind and on which he will be prepared to take positive action when the Tertiary Education Commission starts to work. [More…]

• One of the concerns that we voice in the amendment moved by the Opposition to the motion for the second reading is that technical and further education ought not to become any more isolated from the schools system. [More…]

• In general, our school system had been geared to preparing students for university-type post-secondary education. [More…]

• The poor careers advice has become almost as much as cliche as has the claim that technical and further education is the Cinderella of education. [More…]

• So we have huge numbers of unemployed among school leavers, most of whom leave school with no knowledge of technical and further education institutions, no knowledge of the prerequisites which they should have taken at school to qualify for various courses and no knowledge of the job opportunities that they would have if they acquired certain skills in the technical sector. [More…]

• For this reason we hope that whatever happens to the new Tertiary Education Commission, there will be close liaison between that Commission and the Schools Commission, and close liaison at a State level between the Technical and Further Education Commission and the State Departments of Education. [More…]

• It is absolutely essential that a much closer relationship be developed between schools, vocational education in schools, vocational guidance in schools and the courses available post-school. [More…]

• I hope that we will see appointed to the councils, particularly to the Technical and Further Education Commission, people who represent certain disadvantaged groups in that area. [More…]

• For example, I hope we will see several women from the technical and further education sector appointed to that Commission. [More…]

• I hope we will see appointed people with other specialised knowledge of the particular difficulties our various disadvantaged groups- ethnic groups and women generallyhave in gaining access to post-secondary education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister to state, when he is replying to this debate, how far he is prepared to go in adopting a national strategy in respect of the funding of post-secondary education and how far he sees it possible for his Government, committed as it is to federalism, to adopt such a strategy. [More…]

• If we are to upgrade the area of technical and further education, if we are to rationalise the resources allocated to CAEs and universities, that can be done effectively only if there is a national strategy. [More…]

• We would now like to see a commitment from the Minister to a national strategy in the area of post-secondary education and training. [More…]

• School leavers or any other persons who do not have jobs, instead of getting unemployment benefit, could get education or training so that they might obtain jobs. [More…]

• I would like to see this Government take the initiative, now that it has a new structure, and put sufficient funding and national direction into the whole area of tertiary education so that instead of offering unemployment to school leavers and other persons we might offer education and training. [More…]

• I support these 2 Bills which are being debated cognately and which deal with the very important question of education. [More…]

• In the establishment of the new Tertiary Education Commission the Government is redeeming one of its election promises. [More…]

• Before getting on to that matter I think I ought to state the position of the Government which was outlined by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in a speech he made on 4 November 1976 when he dealt with the forward planning of the Government for the following 3 years. [More…]

• I think it is important that we do this because one of the great achievements of this Government has been to restore the situation of triennium funding for education. [More…]

• But education is such an important and vital area that we cannot plan for just one year, as was attempted by the Australian Labor Party in 1975. [More…]

• For the second and third years of the triennium, the commissions were asked to proceed with plans based on minimum growth rates of 2 per cent per annum in real terms for universities, colleges of advanced education and schools, and a higher rate of 5 per cent per annum for technical and further education. [More…]

• Senator Ryan has been at some pains to cite figures for 1975 and 1977.I think it is fair to say that in the Senate over recent times we have had a sort of running debate between the Minister and Senator Wriedt, who is the Opposition’s shadow Minister for Education, over these figures. [More…]

• For the benefit of those who have come into the chamber I mention again that Labor cut the education vote in 1976 for the 4 commissions by $105m. [More…]

• The Commission on Advanced Education in the 1976 calendar year was allocated $385m and for 1977 the amount is $404m. [More…]

• For the Technical and Further Education Commission a total amount of $65m was provided for 1976 and $70m for 1977. [More…]

• This legislation brings the 3 commissions- the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the [More…]

• Technical and Further Education Commissionunder one umbrella. [More…]

• I think the choice of the title of Tertiary Education Commission is a very happy one. [More…]

• As the Minister has stated, up until now the minimum entry level has required the completion of a full secondary education course. [More…]

• That has been the norm or standard for entry into a university or college of advanced education. [More…]

• Under this Bill the definition of tertiary education is enlarged to encompass the wide range of courses in the technical and further education area. [More…]

• This affords an opportunity for rationalisation in both the funding and the courses in the 3 areas because there has been an interface between the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• I think it important that the Government has seen fit to do this at the present time because, as Senator Ryan has said, there is a growing and increasing awareness of the importance of technical and further education in the Australian commercial fabric. [More…]

• One of the things that has happened as a result of free university education is that a preponderance of students has been seeking university education to the neglect of the technical and further education area. [More…]

• Indeed, the increase of 5 per cent in expenditure on technical and further education as against 2 per cent for the other commissions, as I have already indicated when quoting from the Minister’s speech in November last, is an indication of the awareness of the Government of the importance of giving some greater funds to the technical and further education area. [More…]

• I think we all agree- it would be readily agreed to by the Opposition- that there needs to be a change in emphasis from university education to technical and further education which is the field in which job vacancies are likely to occur. [More…]

• But it is important- and I will have something more to say about this later on- that in education there be close co-operation between the State and Federal governments. [More…]

• It is important also when looking at the general position- and a debate of this kind affords us that opportunity- to consider where we are going in education. [More…]

• We and, I am sure, the people of Australia are aware that the Government has set up the Williams Committee which is conducting a comprehensive inquiry into education generally with particular regard to the goals of education. [More…]

• What is the education system designed to do? [More…]

• The setting up by the Government of the Williams Committee to look at the whole question with a view to recommending to the Government some rationalisation in education is opportune. [More…]

• The Commission will consist of a chairman, a commissioner to be concerned particularly with universities, a commissioner to be concerned particularly with colleges of advanced education, a commissioner to be concerned particularly with technical and further education institutions, plus 5 other commissioners. [More…]

• In the time left to me I wish to say something about colleges of advanced education, particularly in country areas. [More…]

• First of all we should look at Schedule 2 of the Bill which sets out the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard the list of colleges of advanced education in Victoria as shown at page 19 of the Bill. [More…]

• At all events, there are 4 country colleges of advanced education and 19 city colleges in Victoria. [More…]

• In the other States there has been a proliferation of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The 1 1 colleges which call themselves regional colleges are the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education at Rockhampton and the Toowoomba College of Advanced Education in Queensland; the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education at Lismore, the Bathurst College of Advanced Education, the Goulburn College of Advanced Education and the Riverina College of Advanced Education at Wagga Wagga in New South Wales; the Gippsland College of Advanced Education at Churchill, the Bendigo College of Advanced Education, the Ballarat College of Advanced Education and the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education in Victoria; and the Launceston College of Advanced Education in Tasmania. [More…]

• They are well removed from any university or other college of advanced education and have the responsibility of providing a range of tertiary education for the rural region in which they are located. [More…]

• On the other hand, in the city of Melbourne, for example, there are 3 universities and 1 7 colleges of advanced education which complement each other in various ways and offer a very wide range of choices to prospective students from the metropolitan area. [More…]

• I suggest to the Minister for Education that he give earnest consideration to seeing that the country areas where colleges of advanced education are situated receive some representation on the Council so that the problems which I have mentioned which are peculiar to the country colleges can be put before them and recommendations made to the Commission. [More…]

• Last week I was fortunate enough to look over the Bendigo College of Advanced Education in Victoria. [More…]

• I have ascertained that in Bendigo 70 per cent of the tertiary students at the College of Advanced Education have to live away from home, at least from Monday to Friday, whereas the vast majority of students attending metropolitan universities and colleges live within daily commuting distances. [More…]

• In setting up colleges of advanced education it is very important for the Government to look at the question of accommodation of students in country areas. [More…]

• I was dealing with the problem of students in country areas finding accommodation at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In the case of new colleges of advanced education such as in Bendigo there are a great number of other matters which require capital cost. [More…]

• I stress the great importance of co-operation by the States with the Federal Government in this area of education and, of course, in other areas. [More…]

• I commend the legislation to the Senate as an important milestone in the progress of education in Australia. [More…]

• -The previous speaker, Senator Tehan, had one key theme in the speech which he made to the Senate about the tertiary education legislation and that was, as he expressed it, the need to see where we are going in education. [More…]

• Having listened to his speech, I understand his deep-felt need and his confusion about where we are going in education and the confusion which might now be apparent in the Senate as a result of the speech which he just made. [More…]

• The Senate is debating the Tertiary Education Commission Bill. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in his second reading speech, the purpose of the Bill is to bring about greater co-ordination in the area of tertiary education in Australia. [More…]

• Currently we have a Universities Commission, a Commission on Advanced Education, a Technical and Further Education Commission and, outside the post-secondary area, the Schools Commission. [More…]

• It is proposed by this legislation to establish, in effect, one overall tertiary education commission with separate councils dealing with each of the areas of postsecondary education. [More…]

• We agree with the need expressed by the Minister for Education for coordination in the tertiary area. [More…]

• But we do have some qualifications about the structure, particularly having regard to the area of technical and further education and to the needs which we see in that area in its important and unique position in the Australian situation at the present time. [More…]

• It is a comprehensive, thoughtful and very thorough speech which displays an open mind about the issues of tertiary education. [More…]

• The fact that it displays an open mind suggests to me it was not written by the Minister because the Minister’s approach to educational problems has been rather that of displaying an open mouth. [More…]

• Whilst he takes justifiable pride in this legislation, I found it somewhat galling to see that at about the same time as this legislation has come before the Senate the Minister issued a statement-on 5 April this year -regarding the achievements in education by this Government. [More…]

• He said this sort of thing and this is the authentic voice of the Australian Minister for Education: [More…]

• In a time of overall economic restraint the Federal Government has given education top priority. [More…]

• In its last Budget the Whitlam Government cut the 1976 expenditure of the four education commissions by a total of $105 million. [More…]

• That is the authentic voice of the Minister, which is not reflected in his second reading speech in relation to the Tertiary Education Commission Bill. [More…]

• He knows that he is confronted at this time in 1977 with the possibility of expenditure cuts of a quite considerable order in education. [More…]

• He knows that those cuts were made on the basis of the most massive expenditure in education that this country has ever known by a Federal Government. [More…]

• I draw attention to these matters because it seems to me, as it were, that the Minister speaks with a forked tongue about the situation in which he found education. [More…]

• The suggestion of a post-secondary or tertiary education commission for education was first made by the Martin Committee in 1964. [More…]

• It took 3 interrupted years of Labor government to establish the Schools Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• It took a Labor government to raise the needs of each of those major areas of education to issues of public importance and the responsibility of a national government in this country. [More…]

• Senator Carrick can make carping political points in his ego statement- nit-picking points- about the 3 years of Labor government and the Labor Government’s record on education, but the record over the past 10 or 12 years stands quite clear. [More…]

• There is the record of inactivity of LiberalCountry Party governments, the record of activity in the establishment of these new commissions and in acting upon the establishment of those commissions by the Labor Government, which established new education priorities accompanied, as they were, by massive Federal funding. [More…]

• It is a source of regret that the Minister does not show a little more generosity of spirit in introducing into this chamber the Tertiary Education Commission Bill which, of course, really is only possible in its present form as a result of the establishment of two post-secondary commissions by the Labor Government and the priorities and initiatives established by that Government. [More…]

• The Minister quite properly stressed the need for co-ordination at the Federal level on education priority assessment and the level of funding. [More…]

• He seems, with respect- as I suppose we all have- to have grasped in a slow dawning way the simplistic point that in education, as in everything else, the kneebone is connected to the thighbone. [More…]

• The only difficulty I have about that is that in establishing the Tertiary Education Commission doubts still seem to be raised by other activities of this Government as to whether it really understands the relationship between the various areas of education. [More…]

• I hope that in the course of this debate the Minister will explain to the Senate what is the precise relationship between the Tertiary Education Commission and the Williams inquiry into education and training. [More…]

• I suspect that the real relationship is that the Minister, conscientious as I believe him to be, and his Department, in establishing the Tertiary Education Commission as it was to be established by the Labor Government in a slightly less magnified form, are following a consistent line. [More…]

• But if one compares the terms of reference of the inquiry into education and training to be conducted by Professor [More…]

• Williams, one finds that there seems to be a very real confusion between the functions of the Tertiary Education Commission and the functions of that inquiry. [More…]

• The functions of the Tertiary Education Commission are spelt out in clause 7 of the Bill which states: [More…]

• matters in connexion with the gram by the Commonwealth of financial assistance to a State for and in respect of universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions in the State; [More…]

• matters in connexion wilh the provision by the Commonwealth of financial assistance for and in respect of universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions - and so on. [More…]

• I would have thought that none of those recommendations would have been made by the Tertiary Education Commission without reference to precisely the same son of things which the Williams Committee is going to inquire into. [More…]

• One suspects that what has in fact happened is that the Minister, as the responsible Minister, has set up the Tertiary Education Commission to fulfil these functions but earlier this year the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in one of his knee-jerk, off the top of his head, responses to what he saw as a social need in our community and something which something ought to be done about, with that characteristic degree of ad-hockery which characterised the prices and wages freeze last week set up the Williams inquiry to inquire into the sort of matters to which I have just referred and which are set out in the Williams inquiry terms of reference. [More…]

• Even today one finds the Prime Minister making what is apparently regarded as an important statement on science and technology and not, in any way, relating that statement to the sort of things which the Tertiary Education Commission, one hopes, will be about or the sort of things which the Williams inquiry may well be about. [More…]

• It is the same Government introducing the Tertiary Education Commission Bill which last year proposed to abolish the Australian Industrial Design Council and then, in response to pressure, changed its mind about the abolition of the Australian Industrial Design Council. [More…]

• It did so with no apparent understanding at any stage of the relationship of the function of that body to education and the technological situation in which this community now finds itself. [More…]

• There seems to be no understanding of the relationships between these various statements of the Prime Minister and the statements of the Minister for Education in this House. [More…]

• Apart from inertia on the part of the planning authorities, the lack of any rational co-ordination between all sectors of tertiary education, the neglect of careers guidance and the absence of close links between TAFE and the secondary schools, and the misplaced emphasis on the value of university degrees, there has been an unforgivable failure to understand and constantly bear in mind that the creation of the wealth upon which all the people in Australia depend for their livelihood and affluence is primarily the work of the skilled tradesman and the primary producer. [More…]

• So, the whole question of lack of planning and so on is important in the context of this Tertiary Education Commission Bill. [More…]

• I should like to say something, if I might, about the importance of the area of technical and further education because it again comes into this related problem. [More…]

• The urgency of allocating more resources to technical education is underscored by the facts that we can no longer count as much as in the past on the skills brought in by immigrants, on the strong belief that the young in Australia are in for prolonged periods of unemployment, that the demand for skills and for the upgrading of existing skills will increase, and that our technical-education facilities have long been starved of funds for capital equipment . [More…]

• The same article referred to the fact that the Technical and Further Education Commission report reaches the inescapable conclusion that without a rapid development of the nation’s technical education structures and resources, Australia will not be equipped to turn out the qualified manpower it needs. [More…]

• Of course, what that article is saying is borne out by the observations of any honourable senator in this place or any citizen of this country who might wander in to most of the technical institutions in this country and make an impressionistic comparison with the same sort of meanderings in which one might indulge in many universities and many colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Of course, the essence of technical education, quite apart from the quality of the teaching and the facilities available, in 1977 is, of course, the provision of adequate facilities in terms of equipment and equipment which has regard to rapid technological change in the world at large and in a society such as Australia in particular. [More…]

• As I said, one could make an impressionistic judgment of what has been called the ‘Cinderella’ area of education merely by a visit to some of these institutions. [More…]

• Of course, it is not only educationists and people like that who are concerned about this very matter of the Cinderella area of technical education. [More…]

• All of these reasons were astutely summed up in the reference of the Canberra Times editorial to the needs of technical education in this country. [More…]

• Of course, the other factor which has to be borne in mind is the sort of revolution of rising expectations which has flooded Australian universities in the last decade and left technical institutions in the Cinderella situation- again as the poor relation of universities and, lately, as the poor relation of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• That is again reflected, I believe, in the unemployment situation of young people in this country and in the situation of technical education. [More…]

• We must, I believe, in considering this Bill take note of the constant changing needs and demands of education and try to assess those changing demands and needs not only for 1977 but also for the 1980s and beyond. [More…]

• Let me refer the Senate to what I regard as a thoughtful commentary on this issue which was given in an Australian Broadcasting Commission Guest of Honour program by Dr David Armstrong of the Prahran College of Advanced Education in Melbourne a few weeks ago. [More…]

• Dr Armstrong, in discussing this question, drew attention to the fact that many of our institutions in Australia are too small to be educationally or economically viable. [More…]

• He said that last year 64 per cent of the total number of our post secondary educational institutions enrolled fewer than 1000 students. [More…]

• He said that it is possible to justify some small institutions on grounds of access, that is to say availability in areas, but he wondered about the overall cost of the mushrooming development of post secondary educational institutions which number some 470 in Australia this year. [More…]

• At present there are three or four basic institutional types in Australia- universities, colleges of advanced education, technical colleges and in some States single-purpose teachers ‘ colleges. [More…]

• The third and important function in the 1970s and 1980s is providing general interest adult education programs for the community at large and to offer to the community services such as academic counselling and so on. [More…]

• It may not be a matter which this Government or any government would follow up or take seriously, but it is something which ought to be thought about in the context of tertiary education in the late 1 970s and the 1980s. [More…]

• The only other important point which I think should be made about this legislation is that the Tertiary Education Commission will have one tremendously important function- I assume it is a function of this Commission and not of the Williams Committee. [More…]

• On this side of the House we have expressed strong emphasis towards the importance of technical and further education, and so has the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In sorting out these relationships it is worth while having in mind some of the criticisms which have been made of the relationships which exist between the various areas in tertiary education in Australia at the moment. [More…]

• Earlier this year the London Times higher education supplement had this to say in discussing the Australian problem ash was called: [More…]

• To say the universities are to develop the more academic, theoretical side of higher education, while the colleges develop the practical and immediately vocational side, rings hollow when the former are allowed to retain a virtual monopoly over training for law and for medicine. [More…]

• To say that the strength of the colleges is their diversity is little more than an apology for their failure to develop any coherent alternative conception for higher education. [More…]

• That criticism was made in the London Times higher education supplement. [More…]

• I hope that the Tertiary Education Commission will be looking at it in trying to assess the relationships between the various levels of education in this country. [More…]

• Those sorts of changes would, one hopes, provoke us all- I am not making any party political point- continually to try to assess, as one writer has put it, the very elements of education, the theory and the practice, the structures and the methods, and the management and the organisation which all have to be rethought in Australia. [More…]

• It is only through the adoption of fundamental alternatives to our present concepts and structures of education that we will produce an Australia which is a total learning society. [More…]

• As I said, the Opposition hopes that the establishment of this Tertiary Education Commission will be a step along those lines, but it will require the imagination, the flexibility and the thought to which I referred earlier in my remarks. [More…]

• I wondered throughout the debate whether the Opposition has been more interested in the future of education in Australia or the future of the Opposition in Australia. [More…]

• Without a doubt the Government recognises that the Tertiary Education Commission Bill is not a total answer. [More…]

• The Bill itself does not give the total answer to human relationships and the very difficult decisions of educational administration that must be made in the near future in Australia. [More…]

• We have had some reasonably good debates on the subject of education in this chamber but on the last few occasions when we have debated education we have encountered a situation where the Opposition has continually moved amendments related only to technical education. [More…]

• Surely the purpose of this Bill is to try to find some way of putting all these post secondarycumtertiary areas into a context where we can debate them together realistically, where we do not have to divide one area against another, where we can make decisions which are educational priority decisions and not special interest decisions. [More…]

• That is the whole purpose, surely, of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• I am sorry that the Opposition has seen fit to move yet again a pious amendment specifically in relation to technical education at the second reading stage of this Bill. [More…]

• For some time it has been obvious to those who care about education in Australia that there has been a desperate need for some sort of rationalisation or realistic assessment of what has been happening in the post secondary area in Australia. [More…]

• The Martin Committee report led to the expansion and development of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In more recent years there has been a particular interest in technical education which has led to the emphasis on public spending in that area which this Government has followed and subsequently to the emphasis which the Opposition chooses to make almost exclusive in debates on education in this chamber. [More…]

• The area of education and the proportion of federal government spending that has been taken up by it has been rapidly expanding in recent years. [More…]

• We have worshipped the sacred cow of education in Australia for some time- now. [More…]

• It has been dangerous politically ever to ask a question about whether spending money in certain areas of education was right and proper. [More…]

• One could all too easily be labelled anti-education when that was not a fair or true challenge. [More…]

• Recently we have entered a climate in which we can undertake a reasonable assessment in public debate of what is happening in the post secondary area of education. [More…]

• This has assisted us to reach the logical conclusion, that is, to establish the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• A number of commissions have been operating for a greater or lesser length of time trying to carry out to the best of their individual abilities the responsibilities they have been set in their respective areas of education, universities, colleges or technical education. [More…]

• I hope that one of the educational advantages of this Bill is that we will be able to achieve a degree of objectivity in our education debate in Australia which has been generally lacking to date. [More…]

• I hope that a number of reports will come from the Commission on what ought to happenin the opinion of the Commission- in education in Australia, which will be open to public scrutiny. [More…]

• The responsibility of the Government for education objectives will still exist. [More…]

• Governments of the future will still have to make decisions after receiving the reports which will be political as well as educational. [More…]

• Those decisions and guidelines will be continually measured in terms of public documents which will have some objective educational value to the country. [More…]

• I do not agree with Senator Button that all education institutions should be all things to all people. [More…]

• In my own State of Queensland there is a number of education institutions which vary very much in their structure and objectives. [More…]

• I mention, in particular, the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education which was built in response to a community need. [More…]

• This is a college of advanced education offering Arts degrees and courses in government, politics and subjects like that. [More…]

• It is not very helpful to ask: ‘What the devil is a college of advanced education doing offering those courses?’ [More…]

• We have to face the fact, given the patterns of provincial development in Australia, that definitions of universities and colleges of advanced education do not serve us well in terms of what education ought to be doing for all Australians. [More…]

• If the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education did not offer Arts degrees and courses in government the people of the Rockhampton region would have no opportunity to study those subjects. [More…]

• If the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education did not offer a basic Arts degree it would not be possible, for example, for housewives of Rockhampton to receive an Arts degree. [More…]

• If they had to travel to Townsville or Brisbane to undertake university type educations they would not be able to do so. [More…]

• We have to face certain provincial responsibility in education in Australia. [More…]

• If we attempt to do so our tertiary education system will not be serving the country, it will be serving the academics and the politicians, it will not be serving the people. [More…]

• I am sure that all of us who care about education are very interested in the development that is taking place in Launceston at the moment. [More…]

• It has a College of Advanced Education and a maritime college is also being developed. [More…]

• The college of advanced education operates in what appears to be clearly a tertiary area which has been the preserve of universities and colleges for some time. [More…]

• The maritime college offers essentially technical education. [More…]

• It will offer certain subjects of study which will be very much part of the Launceston College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The deliberate development of that particular educational experiment- a college of advanced education and a technical college deliberately overlapping in their courses and resources- is one that I find exciting. [More…]

• I am sure it will teach us much of what we need to know in the development of these 2 areas of tertiary education in Australia. [More…]

• It will probably give us many lessonsunder optimum conditions, I agree, because they are both new institutions- that we need to learn about tertiary education. [More…]

• As I said earlier, those who are interested and concerned about education in Australia have been aware for some time that there has been a direct and pronounced need for rationalisation in the tertiary area. [More…]

• Had their establishment been undertaken in a total tertiary education context, the questions which have been raised which would have led, I believe, to a better development of educational resources. [More…]

• There are examples where courses have been developed in the most unlikely institutions of tertiary education, apparently because they have been promoted as an extension, not necessarily a logical extension, of something that was already happening in those institutions. [More…]

• The students may come and go, but those two enormous factors in our total education expenditure are not variable once they have been committed. [More…]

• We desperately need some organisation such as this commission, some instrument for education planning such as this commission, which can look at what to date have been competing sectors of education. [More…]

• That planning instrument is needed to advise us in areas of competition for resources between universities, colleges and technical colleges on the sensible disbursement of funds and forms of development that would meet national education objectives. [More…]

• That can only be in the interests of those young people, and older people too these days, who seek training and education and in whose interest it clearly is that we make the best possible use of our resources. [More…]

• In this country we have a high level of education. [More…]

• The Australian Universities Commission has been in existence now for decades and it has served the area of tertiary education and the universities, in particular, very well. [More…]

• No matter what happens as a result of this Tertiary Education Commission Bill, regardless of what might happen with funding policies in the future, that situation will not change because there are so few universities. [More…]

• The Commission on Advanced Education is a fairly new Commission. [More…]

• There have been boards of advanced education which have had a direct say in planning. [More…]

• If they are not attended to now we run the risk that the whole area of tertiary education planning may be more involved than it need be and even set back in what we could reasonably expect of it. [More…]

• Nevertheless, with that flexibility there have been actions taken by technical colleges which have not been, I would suggest, necessarily in the interest of tertiary education and which have affected the colleges in particular. [More…]

• The colleges of advanced education go through quite long and very specific processes whereby they get approval of new courses. [More…]

• I do not suggest that we ought to slow down or bog down technical colleges with bureaucracy but I do suggest that they ought to have brought home to them the responsibility that they have in the total post-secondary education area. [More…]

• They should be made to realise that what they do matters very much, not just to the colleges but also to the community which cares about what is happening in that area of education. [More…]

• I said at the beginning that the Opposition has chosen in the last couple of debates on education in this chamber to narrow the debate very much, to narrow it specifically to the technical education area. [More…]

• On the one hand the Opposition is very wobbly on what it thinks about the commission which is inquiring into education and training. [More…]

• It cannot argue, that we need more resources for technical education because people need to be trained for jobs on those particular occasions when it chooses to move an amendmentas it has done today- on that very particular subject, and then on other occasions- as has happened here when we have had an education debate in more general terms- criticise the Government for looking at such problems as education and training. [More…]

• It cannot then say that we really are overlooking, as the Opposition has charged on various occasions, the great, large, stirring and wonderful meaning of education and that we ought to be educating plumbers in music and poetry, as has also been suggested to us on previous occasions. [More…]

• It needs to sort out whether it really thinks that technical educationthat is, the training for jobs- is something that is important and something into which a very much larger proportion of our resources ought to go. [More…]

• If it does, I hope it will desist in other debates on education from saying that we are giving too much emphasis to the technical aspects- that is, the job training aspects- of the whole education system. [More…]

• For some reasons, certain groups in the education arena have chosen to tell continual untruths about the Government’s policy. [More…]

• There would never be a month go by, I do not doubt, but the New South Wales Teachers Federation’s journal has some large article about an alleged reduction in education spending by the Fraser Government. [More…]

• There have been articles in the New South Wales Teachers Federation’s journal which have stated without any qualification that the Government has reduced education spending. [More…]

• They do it either because they really want the Government to reduce education spending or because they do not really care about their credibility with people outside their own political persuasion. [More…]

• This Government is probably very lucky that it has a Minister who genuinely cares about education and who can take debates in the spirit in which they are engaged in in this chamber. [More…]

• I urge upon the Opposition and those who are interested in education or who claim to be- that includes the New South Wales Teachers Federation- that in the narrowing of the whole education debate to only one area they are negating what education is supposed to be about, and what the Opposition and the other people have presented that education is all about from time to time. [More…]

• Education is about the opportunities that it can offer individuals in setting the direction of their own lives. [More…]

• Minister presented and the policy which the Minister presented are matters in which I think most people involved in tertiary education in Australia believe. [More…]

• We have the potential to develop properly, dispassionately, objectively, for the good of our country and for the good of education, policies which will be acceptable to all. [More…]

• The Senate is debating 2 Bills cognately the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977 and the Commonwealth Teaching Service Amendment Bill 1977. [More…]

• I am tempted to use a phrase used by Senator Martin -‘selective truth’- because two of the previous speakers have peddled the well worn and misleading argument that the Labor Government cut $105m off education spending in the 1975 Budget. [More…]

• When the education commissions brought forward their estimates of requirements in 1975 the Labor Government was forced to say that the requests from the commissions could not be fully granted. [More…]

• That was following the rapid expansion of funds that had been provided for education by the Labor Government since it came to power in 1 972. [More…]

• In fact, there was an increase in real terms for education in the 1975 Budget. [More…]

• They were the short-fall between what the education commissions recommended and what the Government decided could be provided for education that year. [More…]

• Then they can boast about the sort of cut which they have made to education. [More…]

• At the end of motion, add ‘ but the Senate is of the opinion that in respect of the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977- [More…]

• 1 ) the Senate recognises the disadvantaged position or technical education in Australia and that adequate financial resources will be made available to the technical sector to raise its standards to levels envisaged in the Kangan Report; [More…]

• further measures be taken to ensure that technical education in Australia is not further isolated from secondary education; and [More…]

• every effort be made to ensure full provision for the development of further education ‘. [More…]

• Does it mean that the Government does not recognise the disadvantaged position of technical education in Australia? [More…]

• Let me return to my principal remarks about the Tertiary Education Commission Bill. [More…]

• I believe that with a Bill of this nature it is pertinent to examine certain aspects in relation to the current education commissions. [More…]

• At the Federal level at present there are 4 education commissions. [More…]

• We shall see how it fits into the development of education. [More…]

• We shall look at the Commonwealth involvement in education and how, since the Commonwealth has become increasingly involved in education, this has been a further development. [More…]

• It will be well remembered that the Australian Labor Party in 1 972 promised to abolish tuition fees at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• That is the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• This Commission was established by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Act of 1971. [More…]

• Similar to the Australian Universities Commission, in 1974 the title of this Commission was changed to the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Commission’s predecessor was the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education which was established as a result of the recommendations made by the 1964 Martin report on tertiary education. [More…]

• The functions of the Commission on Advanced Education are to furnish information and advice to the Minister on matters relating to Commonwealth Government financial assistance to advanced education institutions in the States and Territories. [More…]

• Broadly, the Commission on Advanced Education is to perform its functions with a view to promoting the balanced development of advanced education provisions so that the institutional resources can be used to the greatest possible advantage of Australia. [More…]

• To this end the Commission is required to consult with institutions providing advanced education, with the Universities Commission and with the States. [More…]

• The role of the Commission on Advanced Education is in some ways different from that of the Universities Commission. [More…]

• In general, the functions of the Schools Commission are to recommend to the Minister for Education what Australian Government funds should be made available to schools and school systems throughout the country in order to ensure acceptable standards and also to inquire into and report on any aspect of primary or secondary schooling. [More…]

• I refer, of course, to the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• The broad functions of the Technical and Further Education Commission are to inquire into and furnish information and advice to the Minister with respect to the general development of technical and further education in Australia; the needs and desirable standards for buildings, equipment, teaching and other staff and other facilities, including student residences- to which a previous speaker has referred- the respective priorities for satisfying needs, and the means of attaining and maintaining standards; matters in connection with the grant and the conditions, if any, of financial assistance to the States, and the amount and allocation of such financial assistance. [More…]

• It is worth noting that legislation to give effect to the Labor Government’s decision to amalgamate the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education was introduced in the Parliament on 22 October 1975. [More…]

• In other words, there have been previous moves to amalgamate two of these commissionsthe Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• That Bill, which was termed the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1975, lapsed when Parliament was abruptly dissolved on 1 1 November 1975. [More…]

• In brief, the Commonwealth’s principal involvement in education began with financial assistance to students during and after World War II and this role has expanded to encompass other aspects and levels of education. [More…]

• Following that, as a result of election promises made during the 1960s, the Federal Government’s involvement in education increased. [More…]

• Aid was given to independent school pupils, to secondary school science laboratories and libraries, to technical education and to teacher training institutions. [More…]

• As one who was working in the education sphere at the time I gained the impression, as did many of my then colleagues, that a lot of the increasing involvement of the Federal Government was very much on a politically ad hoc basis. [More…]

• Nevertheless in the 1960s we did see an increasing involvement in education by the Federal Government. [More…]

• The Australian Labor Party believes that the Commonwealth should adopt the same methods to assist schools as it adopted to assist universities and colleges of advanced education- through a commission. [More…]

• In December 1956 he wrote to Sir Keith Murray and some other leading educationists to advise him on the immediate needs of universities and their future requirements. [More…]

• The establishment of commissions in the Australian context of education enables the Government of the day to be provided with specialist advice which otherwise might not be available. [More…]

• For instance there has been the provision of specialist reports on particular subjects such as teaching hospitals and medical education. [More…]

• I mentioned earlier how the Universities Commission looked at the provision of further medical education facilities not only in the State that I represent but also in all other States by commissioning a study and bringing forth a special report on medical education. [More…]

• There have been reports on open universities, language education and management education, and these reports have been a notable feature of the operation of the Commission in addition to its more usual function of furnishing advice on general funding programs. [More…]

• By and large the concept of commissions as sources of specialist advice in fields of education has had general acceptance in Australia, although I remember that there was some debate at the political level over their applicability to the schools sector. [More…]

• Such commissions placed education in a relatively favoured position vis a vis other sectors of public activity. [More…]

• It is well worth remembering this because other areas of Government activity may not receive this expert assessment and thus may be less favoured than education. [More…]

• I believe that educationists have no reason to apologise for this situation but that they must keep it in mind. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, the 3 post secondary commissions will no longer exist with the passing of the Tertiary Education Commission Bill. [More…]

• There will be the 3 councils, the Universities Council, the Advanced Education Council and the Technical and Further Education Council. [More…]

• I and many others have seen in universities and colleges of advanced education duplication of effort where it is not necessary and duplication of courses where such duplication is not necessary. [More…]

• Whilst I am sure that some competition is worthwhile and probably is good in the educational sphere, as it is in many other aspects of life, undue competition which takes away too much of the scarce resources that are available to education probably needs to be examined carefully. [More…]

• It must be remembered- I think that quite often it is not remembered- that resources which can be channelled into any activity including education throughout Australia, are limited. [More…]

• I hope that this will happen with all of our educational institutions in Australia. [More…]

• If the Tertiary Education Commission can fulfil this role in making sure that we use our resources wisely it will be very worthwhile. [More…]

• Although the Opposition wishes to raise some matters in the Committee stage, generally it accepts the introduction of the Tertiary Education Commission Bill and gives it its support. [More…]

• I rise to support the Bills before the Senate and refer firstly to the Tertiary Education Commission Bill, the purpose of which is to combine the 3 existing tertiary commissionsthe Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• Under the Tertiary Education Commission these will be represented in future by 3 councils of the same names. [More…]

• It is important to note that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said: [More…]

• These Councils will preserve much of the essential qualities of the existing commissions while working with and being subject to the co-ordinating functions and authority of the new Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• I think that that is really the essential point- that the reforms proposed by this legislation will provide better co-ordination of educational policies at the tertiary level, and it implements the Government’s election policy on the need to coordinate the work of the educational commissions and in this case particularly the 3 tertiary education commissions. [More…]

• Another point of particular interest and significance is that it will more effectively recognise the significance of technical and further education with respect to other aspects of tertiary education. [More…]

• One hopes that this also will be recognised I am sure that it will be recognised- in the work of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training which is an initiative taken by the Government at a time when such an initiative is clearly necessary. [More…]

• The sort of inquiry to be conducted by the Williams Committee will be of fundamental importance to the future of education in Australia, particularly tertiary education, and will no doubt influence the development of tertiary education in this country for many years. [More…]

• There are particular reasons why at this time in our history it is necessary and very important to develop a more effective tertiary education system. [More…]

• There is a recognised and growing need within the community for continuing education. [More…]

• That applies also to the relevance of skills for which people are being trained both in our secondary schools at junior and senior levels and, more importantly, ultimately in tertiary institutions, particularly technical and further education institutions. [More…]

• It is essential that these developments within our society and the implications with respect to tertiary education be recognised and that reforms be implemented urgently to meet these needs. [More…]

• I believe that this Tertiary Education Commission is one such significant reform. [More…]

• The significance that the present Government attaches to education has been well enough illustrated by the fact that in 1977 Federal funds for education increased by $47m, an increase of 3 per cent in real money terms, in contrast with a reduction of $ 105m in 1976. [More…]

• As I said, that illustrates the son of priority which the present Government is quite properly giving to education. [More…]

• I have already mentioned that the real increase in funds from the Federal Government for education in general this year was 3 per cent. [More…]

• It is of particular significance that the real increase in funds specifically for technical and further education was Vh per cent. [More…]

• Again I think that that quite properly recognises and signifies the importance of technical and further education in our society now. [More…]

• In more recent years colleges of advanced education have also developed relatively rapidly. [More…]

• But in many respects technical education has been neglected, and this Government is giving technical education greater priority at a time when it is essential. [More…]

• This can be done in part through encouraging development and giving the sort of support that the Government is giving to technical and further education. [More…]

• The former Technical and Further Education Authority in the Capital Territory in its report for 1975-76 outlined what it referred to as a ‘Strategy Plan’ for the Australian Capital Territory for the period 1977 to 1 987. [More…]

• That TAFE should be available to all members of the community above school leaving age, and be regarded as an acceptable alternative to other streams of post-secondary education. [More…]

• That funds should be provided in like proportion to other areas of education for facilities, buildings and equipment. [More…]

• It suggested also that by 1987 the following colleges would be required in the Australian Capital Territory: The Canberra Technical and Further Education College at Reid, with some other additions including one at Belconnen, which is now being completed and others at Lyneham and Fyshwick, which are in existence; a college at Bruce, which is now under construction and a further stage of which is required for completion in the period 1979 to 1984; a college at Woden, with further stages to be completed between 1982 and 1984; a college at Tuggeranong, required by about 1984-85 and, of course, the School of Art, with a permanent location currently under consideration. [More…]

• On 10 November last year the Minister for Education announced a number of changes in the administration of technical and further education in the Capital Territory. [More…]

• These are councils for the Canberra Technical and Further Education College, the Bruce Technical and Further Education College, the Canberra School of Art and the Canberra School of Music. [More…]

• I think it should be noted that this administrative system will include adult migrant education in the Capital Territory, which is to be integrated with courses at the Canberra and Bruce colleges. [More…]

• The overall administration of technical and further education in the Capital Territory lies with the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]

• A Standing Committee on Further Education has also been established in the Capital Territory by the Minister for Education to co-ordinate activities of the 4 councils to which I have referred and to deal with other aspects of further education here. [More…]

• The Standing Committee will be convened by the Department of Education and will advise the Department on matters relating to further education. [More…]

• For broad planning purposes in Australian Capital Territory education the Department will develop consultation arrangements involving other educational agencies including the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the non-government schools, as well as the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, the Department of the Capital Territory and the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]

• Again, I think this emphasises the importance which the Government attaches to co-ordination in this very important field of education. [More…]

• The importance which has been attached by the present Government to technical and further education in the Capital Territory has been indicated by the Government’s support for the development of technical and further education institutions in the Territory. [More…]

• These new arrangements to which I have just referred for better coordination of tertiary education, with particular emphasis on technical and further education, have been accompanied by expenditure of $ 1 6m on the defined government further education system this year, compared with SI 4m in the previous year. [More…]

• There is one matter in particular which I should like to raise with the Minister at this point, that is, that the Tertiary Education Commission Bill raises the question of the role of the Tertiary Education Commission with respect to technical and further education in the Territory. [More…]

• At the moment funding, for example, is handled directly between the Department of Education, in its role with respect to technical and further education, and the Treasury. [More…]

• There is a question as to what role the Tertiary Education Commission, which this Bill seeks to establish, will play in that process in the Territory. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether perhaps he might comment on this particular point concerning the role that the Tertiary Education Commission might have in this respect. [More…]

• My question is directed to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister for Education and as Minister representing the Minister for Transport. [More…]

• Will the Minister, in his capacity as Minister for Education, look at the question of including in school curricula, in co-operation with the States, a compulsory subject dealing with all aspects of road safety, including use and abuse of the motor car, so that by the time a young person reaches the age at which he or she can apply for a licence that person will be conscious of the grave dangers to drivers and passengers occasioned by cars on the highways? [More…]

• Will the Minister refer to the Minister for Transport a suggestion that training centres such as the driver training complex at Shepparton in Victoriawhere children at secondary school level, Victorian departmental drivers, ambulance drivers and others can receive comprehensive training in all aspects of road safety- be set up in various States to further this education program and thus bring some reduction in the road toll? [More…]

• I would be very happy to put under further study by my Department and to refer to the Australian Education Council the question of curricula development in terms of road safety and prevention of carnage. [More…]

• I cannot answer specifically now whether one can, in an education system, go far in the development of a prophylaxis. [More…]

• I can say that education in the schools and colleges would not be the total answer but one should not resile from its being a partial answer. [More…]

• I seek from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) clarification of clause 7, although I do not intend any amendment to this clause. [More…]

• As I understand clause 7 (3) (b), it gives the Commission the function of furnishing advice in respect of matters relating to any institution, other than a prescribed Commonwealth institution, established or proposed to be established by the Commonwealth for the provision of tertiary education. [More…]

• This provision is intended mainly to make it possible for the Government to seek advice from the Commission in relation to institutions, such as the National Film and Television School, which are not funded under the tertiary education program. [More…]

• I concede, as the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) pointed out during the course of his reply to the second reading debate, that Bills introduced by the previous Government also were worded in this manner. [More…]

• In his reply a few moments ago the Minister for Education, referring to the 3 councils, said that the 3 councils will do virtually the same work as the commissions. [More…]

• He said that the 3 councils will do virtually the same work as the 3 current commissionsthe Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• Assuming that to be the case, one would also assume that not only the Tertiary Education Commission but also the 3 councils would follow the same practice. [More…]

• The Opposition is seeking no more than the same rights for the new Tertiary Education Commission and also for the 3 councils. [More…]

• I did not respond to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in relation to clause 9 but let me say now that I accept the fact that he would wish to see full reporting and I also accept the fact that there is certain information or advice that he is entitled to seek on a day to day basis from a statutory body which, in some cases, can legitimately be confidential to the Minister. [More…]

• While I acknowledge the assurance that has just been given by the Minister in respect of the Tertiary Education Commission and the councils, I do not feel that the Opposition should withdraw this amendment. [More…]

• I will proceed with it and I trust that, as time goes by, it will be demonstrated that in no way will either the councils or the Commission be inhibited in placing before this Parliament a full account of the activities of the various areas of education under their responsibility. [More…]

• We know that, despite the differences of opinion that may exist about financing education in the future- I do not wish to go into that subject again now- very large sums of Commonwealth money will be committed in the education area irrespective of the emphasis of this Government or of any future government. [More…]

• I will confine my remarks to the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977.I feel that the justification in speaking to the Bill at this stage, towards the end of the debate when so much has been said, can only be that perhaps one can draw attention to the inadequacies of the Bill and suggest some remedies. [More…]

• In his paper Labor’s Achievements in Australian Education 1972-75, Dr Anderson made this comment: [More…]

• This notion of community involvement in policy formation was to become important to an extent that no political party could have foreseen in 1972, in areas such as Aboriginal affairs and urban and regional development as well as education. [More…]

• He commented also on the Kangan report and states: the Kangan Committee on Technical and Further Education reports that ‘ACOTAFE-received more than two hundred written submissions ranging from organisations actively and currently involved in technical and further education to individuals with a concern for but not necessarily any involvement with the field. [More…]

• The only commission I can think of previously of the level of those set up by the Whitlam Government was the Tertiary Education in Australia Commission in 1964 which produced the Martin report. [More…]

• To what extent, therefore, should the education commissions take the general economic climate and the total responsibilities of the government into consideration when making their recommendations? [More…]

• Mr Beazley has stated that ‘the magnitude of triennial recommendations’ of the education commissions ‘shocked’ the Government and were a major factor in its decision to delay the next triennium. [More…]

• The lack of co-ordination of recommendations and financial demands, the apparent ‘massive competition between universities and colleges of advanced education for resources’ and the failure of the commissions to give adequate consideration to the rapidly changing national economic climate when making their recommendations suggest that the usefulness of advisory bodies may be limited unless the commissions are able to adopt a wider perspective. [More…]

• Those comments, as I suggested earlier in my address, were made by Dr Anderson to the Australian College of Education Conference in May 1976. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said: [More…]

• The new Commission will play a significant role in shaping and influencing the future character of post-school education in Australia. [More…]

• The Minister is speaking here of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Education certainly in its institutionalised forms as we know it in the schools, universities and so on, has developed a sort of longitudinal time mode. [More…]

• No one educational or planning group has sought to plan education on a continuing basis through primary, secondary and tertiary years, let alone to continuously support the educational needs of diverse individuals in the life-long learning society. [More…]

• Education should provide appropriate life-long learning experiences for all. [More…]

• We see then a need for an integrated approach right throughout our education system. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission, which is a combination of 3 bodies, should surely look at this matter and investigate the longitudinal and latitudinal approach. [More…]

• The secondary schools should not just prepare students for colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• I think it would be appropriate to make one or two comments on technical and further education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The comment has been made in this place before that this area is the responsibility of our Federal Minister for Education. [More…]

• I have canvassed the problems of technical and further education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• I would like to speak very briefly on 2 aspects in the Northern Territory, the Darwin Community College and the problems of providing educational services to outlying areas, looking only here at the technical and further education field. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the Northern Territory has an additional problem of cultural differences in some of the people who will be serviced by that education system. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that it was suggested that the College would meet the needs of university and college of advanced education students in the Territory by giving some assistance with tutorials and lectures and working towards the possibility of providing full courses later on. [More…]

• It was to provide further education or adult education as we called it in those days, what we perhaps think of as cultural education, social education, recreational education and all those types of education we used to loosely think of as adult education. [More…]

• The Minister will know that Professor Anderson and his team have looked at the needs of post-secondary education in the Northern Territory at the request of the College. [More…]

• The other broad area to which I wish to refer is that of providing educational services to outlying regions. [More…]

• Again, I am speaking of post-school educational services. [More…]

• I have mentioned before in this place that Aboriginals have a need, as others have, to see what the object of education is at the end of it. [More…]

• The people need to see that education will promote employment. [More…]

• Aboriginals do not like to leave home so we must take education to them. [More…]

• With the community involvement concept with which I know the Government agrees we would involve the local people, not only in the planning of courses initially but also in supervising those courses, providing support education and, through the schools, providing preparation for those courses which might be run. [More…]

• It has a significant contribution to make to the Australian educational scene. [More…]

• I suggest that the Minister should look forward to the future to see the need for national planning and for a new role for the primary and secondary schools and, repeating the phrase I used earlier, to release secondary schools from the bondage of preparing students only for colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South Wales)Minister for Education (4.20)-in reply- Yesterday and today the Senate has been debating cognately 2 Bills. [More…]

• The second, a Bill of very considerable significance for the future, is the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977. [More…]

• I think it is very heartening to see the extent of participation in debates on education and the growing bipartisanship in this field. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission Bill is, as I have said, a measure which will provide machinery which will have a significant impact on shaping education in Australia, specifically in the post-school area in the decades ahead. [More…]

• The Opposition has dwelt largely upon one difference, that is the inclusion of technical and further education. [More…]

• That Bill in itself dealt with 2 commissions, the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• It ignored technical and further education. [More…]

• It sought to establish one integrated commission, a tertiary education commission, amalgamating the 2 commissions and leaving no second tier of councils under the commission. [More…]

• As the Senate has recognised it brings into the field of co-ordination and rationalisation a third sector of education, technical and further education, and gives to it equality of opportunity and equality of status along with universities and colleges. [More…]

• I repeat that enshrined in this Bill is a highly significant development, a promotion of technical and further education into the tertiary education field and its promotion as an equal partner. [More…]

• It is equally important that there should be a body, an instrument to look towards the colleges of advanced education and to have a vested interest in developing those colleges into the best colleges that it can devise; not into colleges that would hope to be universities; not into colleges that would hope to be technical colleges, but colleges which are performing the concept and philosophy of a tertiary college and moving forward into higher and higher quality. [More…]

• That is the role which we envisage for the Advanced Education Council. [More…]

• Equally importantly, there should be a body looking towards the subjective viewpoint of technical and further education, collecting its information and its recommendations and bringing them forward. [More…]

• This framework, not being an amalgamation, is a two-tired system- in the first place a Tertiary Education Commission co-ordinating, rationalising, a visionary body in itself, a body which will look forward to the future; look forward to the dreams and hopes of men and women; look forward to the things of the heart, the soul and the mind in the quality of education and its fulfilment; look forward to vocational orientation, and in doing so recognise a changing world; recognise the need for changing institutions, recognise that in a world of limited resources there is a need for a balance, a rationalising or a co-ordinating. [More…]

• This will be a great adventure in education. [More…]

• It represents a recognition that the clients ought to be there, that education is not the captive of institutions or academics but that it is an instrument for the people, for the individuals, and as such this advice brings the clients into major association with the specialists. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission will be looking towards the Williams Committee on education and training which is now in full progress of its research. [More…]

• For example, Senator Button asked the relationship of the Williams Committee to the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• I see the Tertiary Education Commission working closely with it but carrying on in future in the wide sense. [More…]

• I have said these things not simply to repeat or to elaborate on my second reading speech but because the debate took largely a specialist line with regard to technical and further education. [More…]

• However, now that we have this Bill before us, I indicate that the Opposition will not oppose the concept of including the technical sector in this new Tertiary Education Commission because we feel that there have been sufficient safeguards written into the legislation to ensure that the technical sector is not disadvantaged. [More…]

• So along with the assurances of the Government in my second reading speech, of which I remind the Senate, and Senator Wriedt ‘s acknowledgement, it is unnecessary to write into this legislation any further reassurances about technical and further education, I repeat that it has been made an equal co-partner. [More…]

• I repeat that so much is the Government concerned that technical and further education should be advanced that it has given it a very special place. [More…]

• To exclude technical and further education from the coordinating mechanism would be to fail to appreciate the inevitable working interface between colleges of advanced education and institutions of technical and further education and the continuous need to rationalise functions between the two. [More…]

• It would ignore also the need to upgrade the role of technical and further education in the post-school sector. [More…]

• It is the Government’s firm intention to devote special attention to technical and further education, which has been for too long the area of least consideration to governments in postschool education, particularly in the allocation of resources. [More…]

• The new Commission will have an important role in the development of these resources and of co-operative arrangements with the States for the support of technical and further education. [More…]

• The Commission and the councils will say: ‘Within the financial purse limitations of the Commonwealth, there is an amount of money for the whole of the postschool education. [More…]

• Without qualification, the Commonwealth Government indicates that it will provide, in terms of guidelines, a directionalism towards a significant approach to technical and further education. [More…]

• The basic nature of the amendment is the inherent need to reinforce the specific purpose of technical and further education. [More…]

• The resources of the Commonwealth will be directed in the best way to technical and further education. [More…]

• However special and however important one sector is, it would be wrong if, in our desire to recognise the failure we as a people and as parliaments have made to upgrade technical and further education, we allowed the passionate swing of the pendulum to disregard or to give insufficient regard to the other great institutions- universities and colleges. [More…]

• These things have bedevilled education in its seeking after fashions and passions. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt felt that there must be insecurities or threats to the situation, particularly to technical and further education, in the Government’s federalist policies. [More…]

• I think I am right in suggesting that he was insinuating that the Commonwealth Government’s aim was to abdicate from paths of education and to pass the buck, as it were, financially or otherwise to the States. [More…]

• Incidentally it talked about the need to upgrade technical and further education. [More…]

• We are interested in exploring jointly with States possible avenues for rationalisation and better co-ordination, in particular in administration and finance, across the whole education function but we fully appreciate the complexities that any such exercise entails. [More…]

• Neither is there any attempt by the Commonwealth to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment, nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]

• It would be intolerable if those who advocate the enhancement of technical and further education were not to identify the fact that whereas we finance 100 per cent universities and colleges, consistent with the Whitlam Government’s policies which set up the Technical and Further Education Commission, there is still only a topping up by the Commonwealth of technical and further education. [More…]

• Senator Knight drew attention to the relationship between the new Commission and Canberra institutions, specifically technical and further education in Canberra. [More…]

• It is true that clause 7 ( 1 ) (a) (ii) provides that the new Commission will advise the Minister on financial assistance to technical and further education in the Australian Capital Territory as well as to the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• In the past by legislation the Commission had to advise on the Australian National University and on the Canberra College of Advanced Education and so too today the Commission will be asked to advise on technical and further education. [More…]

• But in no way will that alter either the relationship between technical and further education institutions in Canberra, the Department and the Minister or the fundamental importance of the co-ordinating bodies or council which are in Canberra. [More…]

• I believe that the Darwin Community College deserves encouragement as it is a specific and new type of venture in education. [More…]

• Of course, the new Tertiary Education Commission will not be bound to existing institutions. [More…]

• It was appropriate, as I understood Senator Robertson, that he should make an appeal in which I join for a betterment or for an increasing quality towards education institutions. [More…]

• Last night Senator Button, misguidedly, in mentioning the birth or creation of the various commissions, as I understood him, indicated that the Commission on Advanced Education was of Labor origin. [More…]

• I simply remind the Senate that the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education are of Liberal origin. [More…]

• But I do not want to be in any way combative because I believe that both the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal and National Country parties over the decades have done much to further the cause of education in Australia. [More…]

• Having talked about the fact that we have some 280 000 young people in universities and colleges, which is a high rate per capita when compared with many parts of the world, I point out that we have some 700 000 in technical and further education institutions which are not as well equipped. [More…]

• It is true to say that some 70 per cent of boys and some 80 per cent of girls having left school in this present day and age will not, in the ordinary process, receive any more formal education. [More…]

• I had a later opportunity to make a brief study of the educational system of Timor. [More…]

• As a result of that I sent education material over to the group of friends I was making in Timor. [More…]

• My colleague, the Minister for Education, recently indicated in reply to similar representations from the then Executive Member for Education and Law in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, that the proposed transfer of responsibility will take place at the earliest appropriate time. [More…]

• However, in circumstances where employers do not release apprentices to attend or study trade courses of technical education, no rebate is payable. [More…]

• In some States and for some trades technical education courses are not available in all locations, particularly in country areas. [More…]

• The provision of technical training for apprentices is the responsibility of the State and Territory technical education and apprenticeship authorities. [More…]

• These authorities have indicated their readiness to discuss with employers the provision of technical education courses on a day release, block release, or correspondence basis for those apprenticeships for which suitable courses are not currently available. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 15 March 1977: [More…]

• The remainder of claims have either been withdrawn, as a result of the applicant returning to full-time education or finding employment, have been rejected or have been re-submitted by appeal. [More…]

• How many copies of (a) the report of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry; (b) the report of the Inquiry into Australian Broadcasting; and (c) the Green Paper on Immigration Policies and Australia’s Population, were made available for distribution respectively to (i) members and senators; (ii) the Australian Government Publishing Service for sale to the general public; (iii) public libraries throughout Australia; and (iv) libraries of universities and other tertiary education institutions throughout Australia. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is the Government currently studying an appraisal of Australia’s education system by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that due to her not having permanent residence Mrs Santos has been barred from receiving a tertiary education assistance scholarship to enter Prahran College of Advanced Education? [More…]

• As I understand it, the Spastic Welfare Association has a large project in view, some of which will involve other departments such as the Department of Education. [More…]

• Issues which is located at Richmond, Victoria and which provides a national service, utilised across Australia, in education, welfare, industrial, health and community relations programs. [More…]

• An interdepartmental committee comprising representatives of the Department of Social Security, the Department of Education and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has been evaluating the need of this clearing house. [More…]

• I direct a question concerning another newspaper report to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to page 3 of the Australian of today, Wednesday, 27 April, and to an article entitled ‘Top college left to die’ in which a university researcher claimed that a successful college of advanced education was being abandoned because of careless and inadequate education reports. [More…]

• He cites Mount Nelson College of Advanced Education and Victoria’s fourth university, Deakin, as examples. [More…]

• In view of the somewhat serious charges made by Dr Neil Nillson, that inquiries into post-secondary education are in jeopardy because of shoddy educational theorising, etc., will the Minister state whether the claims made by this researcher have any foundation? [More…]

• I note that it purports to be a report of evidence given by 2 university people, Dr Neil Nillson and Mr Peter Sheldrake, to, I understand, the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• The problem with post-secondary education in Australia is that no-one has thought through what types of needs exist and how institutions should deal with the needs that exist. [More…]

• The simple fact is that the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training fundamentally is seeking to do the former. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission (Amendment) Bill which has passed through the Senate is seeking both to do the latter and to continue the former. [More…]

• The inquiry into education in Tasmania was carried out by a number of very distinguished academics and the report of the inquiry has been examined thoroughly. [More…]

• The newspaper report suggests that there have been too many inquiries into post-secondary education. [More…]

• Until recently State Government departments were largely organised in directing themselves to primary and secondary education in government schools. [More…]

• It is a matter of great interest and, I think, of great value to the Australian people that there has been a development of the higher education authorities throughout Australia and that there has been a tendency by State governments to set up inquiries into post-secondary education. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education say what further progress has now been made with proposals to establish a course at tertiary level for conservators of cultural and historical materials? [More…]

• This question overlaps 2 responsibilities, the responsibility of Senator Withers in the task of looking after museums and other institutions and the responsibility of the Department of Education in providing training for materials conservators. [More…]

• The Canberra College of Advanced Education has given some thought to this and has suggested that a course could be started in Canberra. [More…]

• The question of whether we can embark on further courses depends upon the supply of money in the education purse. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Education recall my question yesterday in which I asked whether it was the Government’s intention to reintroduce tertiary fees and his reply, referring to a statement of last October, that the Government’s intention had been stated. [More…]

• This money is going into general projects, into education and also into food aid. [More…]

• Whether it is in the form of education, road construction, assistance for harbour development, general infrastructure, general agricultural development or anything else, there is a need for close examination, discussion with the countries concerned and a follow-up to make sure that the aid is being utilised to the greatest benefit of the recipient country. [More…]

• Ironically, in the same issue of the Mercury, there was a statement by an education officer with the Australian Council for Overseas Aid. [More…]

• I say ‘ironically’ because it highlights the difference in approach between the Director of Austcare and an education officer with the Australian Council for Overseas Aid. [More…]

• Some of Australia’s aid money should be redirected into an Australian education program, it was claimed in Launceston at the weekend. [More…]

• In an address on development education, Mr Peter Lee, an education officer with the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, emphasised the need for Australians to educate themselves and become more aware of the complexities of Third World issues. [More…]

• A substantial part of taxpayers’ money which was paid to the Australian Council for Overseas Aid last year on the recommendation of the Australian Development Assistance Agency went to education and much of that went into the production of what is called the Development News Digest. [More…]

• Support for the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) has been maintained with a grant this financial year of $90,000 which includes finance for development education activities in the Australian community. [More…]

• As I said, much of that money goes into the education unit of the ACFOA. [More…]

• At about the same time as that statement was made, one issue of the official paper of the ACFOA Education Unit, the Development News Digest- I am using one issue as an example- contained the following articles: Focus on Liberation’, ‘Victory in Timor’ by Chris Santos, ‘Peace in Timor’ by Jill Joliffe, Liberation’ by Germaine Greer, ‘Aid to Liberation Movements’, ‘Arukun Land Rights’ and interviews with a number of people including an article on the end of the Australian Development Assistance Agency. [More…]

• Support for the Australian Council for Overseas Aid has been maintained with a grant this financial year of $90,000 which includes finance for development education activities in the Australian community. [More…]

• The 59-year-old stalwart of the campaign since it started in 1961 said too much money was being spent inside Australia on education programs. [More…]

• Dame Phyllis said she was resigning because she was ‘out of step’ with the accepted philosophy of overseas aid organisations that ‘vast amounts of money’ should be spent on the education programs. [More…]

• Many of them do a remarkably good job, but this job is denigrated by the activities of a small minority such as the people engaged in the education unit of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, and the people responsible should have regard to that. [More…]

• The Bureau provides assistance to the sponsored students in various matters relating to their education, training and welfare. [More…]

• If the honourable senator asks whose responsibility it is to initiate research, I can only say that the responsibility must go to a number of portfolios, including that of the Minister for Education, and the Minister for National Resources as well as to various State universities and State educational authorities that may be carrying out work of this type at present. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Amalgamation of James Cook University and the Townsville College of Advanced Education (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 March 1 977: [More…]

• Have there been negotiations between the Commonwealth Government, the Australian Universities Commission, the Queensland State Government, the James Cook University and the Townsville College of Advanced Education, with respect to the amalgamation of the latter 2 institutions; if so, what are the details, including the present state of any negotiations. [More…]

• The question of the amalgamation of James Cook University of North Queensland and the Townsville College of Advanced Education was first raised by the Commission on Advanced Education’s Special Committee on Teacher Education, 1973, and was subsequently the subject of study of a joint Working Party of University and College representatives. [More…]

• The Universities Commission has not been involved in any formal negotiations concerning the amalgamation of the James Cook University and the Townsville College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• However the matter has been raised with the Commission in discussions with the University and with the Queensland education authorities. [More…]

• The Commission stated that a firm decision not to amalgamate would be unfortunate, given that both institutions were small and were unlikely to grow significantly in the foreseeable future particularly given the general restraint on teacher education enrolments. [More…]

• I would expect the question of rationalisation of existing tertiary educational institutions to be an issue for consideration by the new Tertiary Education Commission, legislation for which is currently before the Parliament. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 April 1 977: [More…]

• Did the Department of Education provide Government members and senators with a brief outlining how criticisms against the Fraser Government’s performance in education funding should be rebutted; if so, (a) at whose instigation was the document prepared, (b) when was it prepared and by whom, (c) to whom was it sent, and (d) what was the full text of the document. [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Following the allocation of $3.5m of Commonwealth funds for 1977 to support projects relating to innovations and change in primary and secondary education, can the Minister say whether the approved projects will be made public, in view of the fact that this area is of great concern and interest to parents? [More…]

• I wrote to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on 8 March and received a substantive reply on 1 5 April. [More…]

• Mr Smith was a trainee teacher bonded to the Education Department of Western Australia. [More…]

• In December 1976 he notified the State Education Department of his intention to transfer to Murdoch University to undertake a history and economics course, and became a fulltime student this year. [More…]

• The State Education Department did not terminate its bond until 9 March 1 977. [More…]

• Mr Smith did not receive the training allowance from the Western Australian Department of Education from 30 December to 9 March because he was no longer continuing with teacher training, and he did not receive any assistance under the Student Assistance Act of 1973 because regulation 34 ( 1 ) (c) states that a person is not eligible for assistance if he is a party to a training agreement. [More…]

• As I understand it- I have in front of me a copy of correspondence from Senator Walsh to me and my reply to him of some weeks later- Mr Howard Smith was for 2 years a bonded student of the Western Australian Department of Education. [More…]

• I think it should be understood that as a bonded student- whilst I am not clear on the specific bond conditions in Western Australia, they would be similar to those in other States- he would have been receiving special privileges, special payments higher than provided for in the Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme. [More…]

• Howard Smith approached the Department of Education and sought to terminate his bond. [More…]

• It is clear that the Department of Education terminated his bond on 9 March. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 March 1977: [More…]

• Does public sector expenditure on education in 1 975-76 in relation to gross domestic product put the percentage at 6.0 per cent. [More…]

• Does the 6.0 per cent in 1975-76 represent the first decline in public sector expenditure on education in relation to gross domestic product. [More…]

• Are any projected figures on public sector expenditure on education in relation to gross domestic product available for 1976-77. [More…]

• 1352 on 30 November 1976 1 provided an estimate of final public sector expenditure on education in Australia for 1975-76 in relation to gross domestic product. [More…]

• The figures quoted by the honourable senator for the five years preceding 1975-76 represent public sector outlay on education as a percentage of gross domestic product. [More…]

• There has, therefore, been no decline in expenditure on education as a percentage of gross domestic product, from 1974-75 to 1975-76. [More…]

• Preliminary statistics of technical and further education for 1976 are presently available in aggregate form only for each of the authorities responsible for the provision of technical and further education in Australia. [More…]

• Detailed statistics in respect of individual technical and further education institutions are currently being compiled by the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]

• Of these persons who left school in 1975, 9.S per cent and 8.9 per cent were attending universities and colleges of advanced education respectively in April 1976. [More…]

• Education [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to, or did he hear, a segment of the AM program this morning which was devoted to an alleged attack on Michael Danby by Trotskyite students at a rally. [More…]

• Despite what the Minister for Education said in his second reading speech, and despite the comments he might make in reply, the fact is that the Bureau will be downgraded to the limited status of the Bureau of Transport Economics, rather than the amalgamated body being upgraded to the independent status of the Bureau of Roads, operating under its own legislation. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) began his second reading speech by saying: [More…]

• I turn to the second reading speech of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I say to the Minister for Education that I am sure that many honourable senators on this side of the chamber will be following the progress of the new arrangement with great interest. [More…]

• I should like to go through the points that were raised by local government associations in a document I have before me and the points which were contained in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I have been assured by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and by various researchers in universities that a great deal of information is passing between researchers on the individual projects that are being undertaken in nearly every university and college of advanced education in Australia. [More…]

• Another problem in this area was explained quite well by the Minister for Education in answer to a question many months ago when he said that generally research in universities is quite considerable. [More…]

• There is a degree of research as there is a degree of funding in the educational field. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Department of Education requires an additional $32.5m to meet increases in students’ living and other allowances and relaxation of means tests as from 1 January 1977 and also because of greater student numbers than were anticipated. [More…]

• The bulk of the Commonwealth’s expenditure on education is on the programs of the Education Commissions which operate on a calendar year basis. [More…]

• -My question is also addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It relates to current public interest in various phases of education expenditure in the future as well as the report just issued in the United Kingdom by the Central Policy Review Staff which states that big changes in education policies will be required to meet ‘dramatic development in population trends over the next 25 years’. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s Department made any survey of education needs in Australia during that period ahead, taking into account the findings of the Australian Population and Immigration Council? [More…]

• Has it researched possible needs for that period in such areas as technical and adult education insofar as they are related to likely employment and social circumstances? [More…]

• A great deal of work has been done in recent months in relation to not only population trends in Australia as they affect education but also changes in the trends of community attitudes and technological demands and requirements. [More…]

• The result has been that we have set up, for example, the Williams Committee of inquiry into education and training. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission will have the responsibility of setting up various inquiries along these lines. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 9 of the Education Research Act 1970 I present the sixth annual report of the Education Research and Development Committee 1975-76. [More…]

• Education Research Act. [More…]

• Another example occurred in the Department of Education where it failed to consider the financial and accounting implications of the introduction of a new pay cycle for beneficiaries under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Australia’s present and future capacity to resettle refugees successfully depends on many factors including: the prevailing economic situation, the level of unemployment, the locations within Australia to which refugees wish to go, the background of refugees to be acceptedtheir capacity for early integration or otherwise, the availability of special post arrival serviceslanguage instruction, education, training, accommodation, health and welfare, the numbers of refugees for which voluntary agencies can care. [More…]

• We have to recognise, however, that there can be refugees with the sort of background, education and skills enabling them to fit readily into the Australian scene. [More…]

• A Standing Interdepartmental Committee on Refugees comprising senior officers of the Departments of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Chairman), Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Finance, Health and Education with other Departments and the Public Service Board to be coopted as necessary, will be established. [More…]

• Senator Sibraa seems to know more than I do about the Government’s intentions in respect of education. [More…]

• I can assure him that the Government certainly appreciates the importance of allocating sufficient funds for education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has given assurances that it is not his intention to reduce in that area to any extent. [More…]

• On the contrary, he has shown that his interest in education is such that there has been an increase in funds since this Government came to office. [More…]

• We are at present training through adult education a team cf bricklayers, carpenters and masons with the aim of employing these people to build their own township complex. [More…]

• Counselling, training courses and seminars will be developed in co-operation with the States and in Colleges of Advanced Education and Adult Education courses. [More…]

• In addition, special arrangements have been made within the NEAT System by which a subsidy of up to $61 per week can be paid to employers who are prepared to provide training and work experience for a period of 6 months to young people in the15- 19 years age group who have been away from full-time education and registered for employment with the CES for at least 6 of the past 12 months. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 15 March 1977. [More…]

• 990 relating to the Report of the Working Party on Aboriginal Employment (Senate Hansard, 5 October 1976, page 1003), what action has the Government taken as a result of the joint examination of the Working Party’s Report by the Ministers for Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Education and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• Are the costs of the salaries debited against the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, or are the costs being met by the Department of Education. [More…]

• Both officers were granted awards under the Scheme of Assistance for Post-graduate Study in Social Work which is administered by the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]

• For the officers mentioned in (1) above who remain officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs while studying full-time, it is administratively more convenient for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to continue to pay their salaries and obtain full reimbursement from the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]

• The number of women appointed to, or promoted to, senior positions in the Department of Education during 1 976 was ten. [More…]

• Senior positions have been taken to include officers at or above the level of Education Officer Class 2 or Clerk Class 7. [More…]

• The following numbers of students were receiving maximum living allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme at 30 June 1 976. [More…]

• 1 ) Does the Minister agree with claims made in a letter to the Age of 27 March 1977 relating to the processing of returns of the 1976 Census signed by 17 of Australia’s experienced academics and social service experts that the proposed delays in processing census materials and elimination of the topics from analysis, in whole or in pan, will (a) save a mere $2m after $7m has already been spent; (b) seriously hamper the work of the Bureau of Census and Statistics in providing materials for effective planning on economics, housing, health, education, welfare, transport and other urban services; and (c) increase the likelihood of error in the allocation of future resources in these areas. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 April 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 4 May 1 977: [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of a brief which was provided to members and/or senators which outlined arguments to be used to defend the Government’s performance on education, if so, (a) at whose instigation was the document prepared, (b) when was it prepared and by whom, (c) to whom was it sent, and (d) what was the full text of the document. [More…]

• I am prompted to ask the question in my capacity as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• People who have been told all though their education life of the rewards they will get for effort and for being keen are left unemployed when they leave school. [More…]

• I share with him the view that it is of serious consequence to enlarge job opportunities and to ensure that our education systems are such that people are trained and ready to accept employment opportunities as they develop in a somewhat changing society. [More…]

• There are difficulties faced by those people who have had very limited education and need some sort of basic training before they are able to embark on any sort of work responsibility. [More…]

• These are excessive rates which are reflected among the youth because fewer employers have been willing to take on untrained people and also because the education system in this country is sending too many young Australians out from school without literacy, without numeracy, without skills and without the capacity to win jobs. [More…]

• In terms of our current attitudes towards education, children who leave school early often leave through economic necessity. [More…]

• Some who were going on to tertiary education applied for and were granted benefit. [More…]

• This area resolves to a discussion of 2 major assertions: Firstly, the question of the viability of an immigration program in the light of the demands it makes on investment in infrastructure- social overhead capital- for instance, welfare, education, housing and so on. [More…]

• I want to take up a point that I was making yesterday in my question to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) concerning education needs in the future. [More…]

• There is some controversy today, and I suppose there always will be, about education expenditure and the matter of value for money. [More…]

• I drew the attention of the Minister to a paper that I read about that had just been issued in the United Kingdom which states that big changes in education policies will be required in that country to meet the dramatic developments in the next 25 years. [More…]

• It is not only a matter of providing funds or equipment for education facilities in the next quarter of a century; it is also a matter of taking account of community needs bearing in mind employment opportunities, social welfare, social outlooks and job and community satisfaction. [More…]

• Before dealing with those I think it is important to highlight, with regard to education in a debate of this kind, that in the developments in the structure of education and the growing interest in new concepts and new styles of education- open education, recurrent education, retraining and the growing importance of the recognition of technical and further education- there is the whole matter of the relevance of education to a person’s working life, social life and family life. [More…]

• I was interested to learn from the Minister that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development a few months ago conducted a review of Australian education, focusing its attention on the important matter of the transition from school to work or to further study. [More…]

• This review takes on an added importance because Australia, as an advanced industrial nation and economy, has aspirations and demands that mean that a substantial share of the nation’s resources must be devoted to the cause of education. [More…]

• When we speak of matters of education in this context we are not thinking so much of studies that may take place in a classroom, laboratory or library but of education in its total and widest possible sense; that is, education for living. [More…]

• If an educational system fails to provide the community with satisfaction and fails to provide people with skills which they can use not only in their vocation and their work but also in a recreational and social sense, then the education system is most unsatisfactory. [More…]

• I think it can be argued that the existing pattern of education and training in Australia has led to some bottlenecks in our economy. [More…]

• So, there is a great need for examining the relationship between the labour market and the education system and the education system and our social system. [More…]

• The role of the education system in preparing people for work and influencing their choice of occupation is, of course, of the greatest possible importance. [More…]

• They are expecting greater educational qualifications than before. [More…]

• This has a particular effect upon young people who leave school at an earlier age, say, at 15 years of age, and who do not pursue any further or later education. [More…]

• I suppose most important of all in the OECD reference to Australian education is that it notes with concern the circumstances of people in the lower economic classes. [More…]

• It is interesting in this matter of education, which always involves a great deal of public discussion, that the wheel of public interest seems to have done something of a complete circle and that we are coming round to discovering that there is a great lack of skill in the community today concerning literacy and numeracy. [More…]

• This does not reflect credit on the plans that were made and carried out in education say in the last 20 to 25 years when a whole range of new ideas, new thoughts and new plans were put forward as being superior for the development of educational skills. [More…]

• Now we find that there is a generation which is starting to learn the simple tables and simple spelling disciplines that were standard education practice a good many years ago. [More…]

• I hope that as this generation receives the benefit of modern interpretation, it will provide those people who are receiving that kind of education with a degree of satisfaction which certainly a great number of people who missed out on that style of education are not getting today. [More…]

• The matter of education is one which in its broad ways has the capacity of providing these facilities and services. [More…]

• They have established large social welfare programs, housing programs and education programs. [More…]

• The situation is still unsatisfactory in that there is still inadequate ancillary staff in the Australian Capital Territory schools and the education of the children suffers. [More…]

• The course at Eagle Farm Technical College is a pre-vocational (trade-based) course which has been established jointly by the Technical Education Branch, Department of Education, and the Queensland Apprenticeship Executive. [More…]

• It also includes general education and personal development elements. [More…]

• The course consists of 5 modules and the 5th module involves the trainee in the completion of the equivalent of stage 1 of a basic technical education course for an elected trade. [More…]

• After the completion of a pre-vocational training course a trainee is eligible for an exemption from stage 1 of technical education for an apprenticeship and up to 6 months credit on a 4 year term of apprenticeship. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education, following numerous comments about surpluses of unused equipment in some schools throughout Australia which it is claimed are a result of the making of capital grants over the past few years. [More…]

• Innovations have been achieved through its Department of Community Medicine with the operation of 3 community health centres and through the establishment of the Foundation for MultiDisciplinary Education where students in medicine, social work, occupational therapy and physiotherapy learn together. [More…]

• The people in charge of education in this community are very concerned that student aid will not be maintained. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) says that it will. [More…]

• It is no good for the Minister to come here and say, as he usually does, with regard to community expenditure on education, that the Whitlam Government cut expenditure on education by $ 170m in one year. [More…]

• He does not go on to tell the people that, when the Labor Government came to office, the previous McMahon Budget provided for expenditure of $460m on education. [More…]

• In its last Budget the Labor Government provided for $ 1,960m for education. [More…]

• Taking into account the amount of $ 1,960m provided in last year’s Budget and the present inflation rate, the expenditure on education in this Budget will have to be an enormous amount. [More…]

• We will see then whether Mr Anthony and Senator Carrick, the present Minister for Education, are correct in what they have said. [More…]

• If we look at total budget expenditure for 1 972-73, we see that the amount of money being spent on health, education and welfare took 33 per cent of the Budget. [More…]

• In the last year expenditure on health, education and welfare took 46 per cent of the Budget. [More…]

• As this covers a wide range of issues including sanitation, the quality and type of education and all the other problems which do affect the people of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands they are matters on which the Government must report to the United Nations. [More…]

• The Canberra College of Advanced Education has taken up this matter and I have had a letter from the principal of the College stating the importance of a course for conservators of cultural materials in Australia to assist in overcoming the lack of such trained people. [More…]

• I have not yet been able to get to Hansard to see what, if any, reply you have received from the Government to your inquiry but it has been suggested to me that I should send to you a copy of a report which I prepared recently for the Canberra College of Advanced Education Council after a survey of facilities overseas. [More…]

• The College Council became involved in this matter when the report of the Museums Inquiry recommended that training should be introduced and that the most appropriate centre, in view of the presence of suitable national collections here, would be the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The present situation with these proposals is that the College has applied to the Minister for Education and the Commission on Advanced Education for leave to introduce the course and is seeking supplementary funding to enable the College to proceed without eroding our capacity to carry on with our existing regular programmes of work in other fields. [More…]

• -I would simply like to point out to the Committee that Dr Richardson, the principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, made a trip overseas to examine this question. [More…]

• I understand that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has been approached about the possibility of establishing such a course in Australia. [More…]

• During the course of the Estimates hearing I discovered that certain Aboriginals who were originally considered to come under the Aboriginals Study Grants Scheme were temporarily taken off that scheme and placed under the Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme. [More…]

• Is it the wish of the Committee to postpone discussion on the Department of Education or to ask other questions or make other comments on the Department? [More…]

• I suggest that we continue consideration of the Department of Education on the understanding that the Minister will obtain the information for Senator Colston as soon as he is able. [More…]

• Are there any further questions relating to the Department of Education? [More…]

• I take this opportunity to ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) a question concerning the Great Barrier Reef Authority and the Consultative Committee. [More…]

• -Perhaps it is difficult for the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is in charge of these Estimates, to take up the responsibility of the Minister for Social Security. [More…]

• Its purpose is for health and education services and counselling services. [More…]

• One was the circumstances of 42 Aborigines who, having applied for Aboriginal study grants, were temporarily placed upon Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme grants because all the funds allowed for the study grants had been consumed. [More…]

• Administrative and financial arrangements for health and welfare programs: Bailey and Holmes reports Education: Shared funding [More…]

• Share Funding in Education [More…]

• The Commonwealth proposed discussions between Commonwealth and State officers with a view to their reporting on possible: means of improving arrangements for the provision of policy advice to the Commonwealth in this area including through making the Education Commission more responsive to differential local needs among the States; improvement in the delineation of the respective functions of the Commonwealth and the States in this area; and changes to the basis of cost sharing in particular areas of education (particularly the tertiary area) but within a context where the present overall balance of cost sharing of education expenditures between the Commonwealth and the States was preserved. [More…]

• The discussions are to be preceded by a meeting shortly between Commonwealth and State Education Ministers that will, inter alia, consider terms of reference for officers. [More…]

• States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1977 [More…]

• The main purpose of the Bill is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1976 and the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976 to provide, in accordance with the established policy and procedural arrangements, supplementary grants totalling $15,612,080 to cover cost increases which have occurred since the 1976 and 1977 programs in respect of colleges of advanced education were adopted. [More…]

• States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1977 [More…]

• This Bill amends the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 to adjust the approved programs of grants to the States for technical and further education, to provide for cost supplementation to December 1976 price levels. [More…]

• This Bill completes the cost supplementation process for the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]

• Further amendments to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 will be necessary as information becomes available on movements in costs during 1977.I commend the Bill to the Senate. [More…]

• Last night the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) gave an explanation about some of the questions that I had raised in respect of division 270.4.09, which relates to Aboriginal Study Grants. [More…]

• A further query I have relates to the explanatory notes which the Estimates Committee had in front of it when considering the estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]

• What happened was that when it was discovered that the demand was bigger than the budgetary allocation provided for, a short term device employing the Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme was used and a longer term device to obtain more money was used. [More…]

• Those who were placed on the Tertiary Education Allowances Scheme as a temporary measure have now been taken off it. [More…]

• Can we take it from what the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has just said that the estimate of students that was used for providing the funds available under this appropriation was less for 1976-77 than for 1975- 76. [More…]

• As one who is not too sure of how government finances are made available when there is a shortfall, as happened in this case, may I ask: In respect of those students who were placed on the Tertiary Education Allowances Scheme because sufficient funds were not available, how has money now been made available to place those students on the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme and payments made retrospective? [More…]

• 1 ) Under the provisions of the Tertiary Education Commission Act which was recently passed by the Parliament, tertiary institutions’ include universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions. [More…]

• Universities and colleges of advanced education are listed in Schedules 1 and 2 of the Act respectively. [More…]

• In regard to technical and further education institutions, see my answer to Question No. [More…]

• Information on enrolments at universities and colleges of advanced education for 1 976, in the form requested by the honourable senator, is set out in Australian Bureau of Statistics Publication No. [More…]

• 1 3.7 in respect of universities and in the Commission on Advanced Education’s 1977-1979 Report in respect of colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• 10 provides statistics relating to academic staff in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns the Australian Union of Students and its executive. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and concerns the increasing number of unemployed teachers in Australia. [More…]

• In other words, the answer is that the Commonwealth Government has provided through its revenue sharing funds a sufficiency of money to take up the slack in education if the Government of New South Wales has the will and the desire so to do. [More…]

• I have a document which, unfortunately, I have not had time to circulate to the Minister for Education, who represents the Minister for Transport in this chamber, or to you, Mr President. [More…]

• I notice that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) refers in his second reading speech to the multitude of awards, as though the State governments had hoodwinked the then Federal Government when it took over the State railway systems. [More…]

• It is rather revealing and quite strange to read these words in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick): [More…]

• Senator Carrick may find problems with education agreements into which he has to enter if he on the one hand is prepared to say on behalf of the Minister for Transport that his Party agreed with the agreements and his own Minister says in the other place that he tried to get out of them. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said earlier, the unions are still negotiating on matters associated with the amalgamation. [More…]

• In response to the explanation given by the Minister for Education (Mr Carrick) I thank the Minister for his ready reply to the questions that I raised this morning. [More…]

• The Bill adds to the existing road grants for the year 1977-78 in this way: To create totals, as outlined in the speech by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) - [More…]

• I want to ask a question of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• When the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is considering the case put to him by Senator Missen will he also consider the amount of fuel tax that is paid by the States? [More…]

• I would like the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to explain to me if he can why this year the funds for Western Australia will be in excess of the amount recommended by the Bureau of Roads. [More…]

• I have much appreciated the reply of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to the rather short case I made. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Did the Commission on Advanced Education recommend funds in the last Budget for the construction of an engineering building at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education? [More…]

• Has the Victorian Minister for Education informed him that the building is essential not only for the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education but also for the Yallourn Technical College? [More…]

• The Commission on Advanced Education has approved the project for an engineering school at Gippsland College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• As to the remaining questions, the Victorian State Government set up a committee of inquiry, the Partridge Committee, into higher education and the committee is proceeding with that inquiry now. [More…]

• Therefore, clearly the committee set up by the Victorian Government to recommend to the Government the development of institutions of higher education in Victoria needs to have information from the Newman Committee before it can form a viewpoint. [More…]

• Whilst we are forming the Tertiary Education Commission there is an interim committee of the Commission at the moment comprising my departmental head and the 3 chairmen of the commissions responsible for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education. [More…]

• I have given an undertaking that I will refer the findings of the Newman Committee to the interim committee or to the Tertiary Education Commission and seek an early decision on the matter. [More…]

• The Senate has before it 4 Bills, namely the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Amendment Bill, the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill, the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Amendment Bill. [More…]

• However, we find it an occasion on which we can give some thought to the current position of education in the community. [More…]

• 1 would not anticipate, nor do I propose to make, any high powered contribution to this debate because we are not dealing with the substance of Federal payments to the States in respect of education but with comparatively lesser amounts involved in what has become known as cost supplementation. [More…]

• I think it is fair to say that there is great concern and uncertainty in the community about the way this Government is handling its education policies, lt would be idle to deny that throughout the country spokesmen in the education area are expressing the gravest concern as to the Government’s intentions in this area. [More…]

• The Bills themselves provide for these cost supplementation programs in relation to the Government’s total education programs. [More…]

• The principle of cost supplementation was introduced by the Labor Government in 1974 to ensure that the programs of each of the education commissions would be able to be maintained at their proper values in real terms. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has made some previous announcements which give us cause for doubt as to the future of cost supplementation. [More…]

• If that is not done, we can assume that all the commissionswhich involve schools and colleges, both advanced education colleges and universitieswill find themselves in a difficult position. [More…]

• For this reason, we will be urging the States, relevant education authorities and institutions to use every endeavour to identify savings and to practise good housekeeping without detriment to the effective implementation of the programs. [More…]

• It is of vital importance to the States and their education programs that they can be assured that the increases in costs which naturally occur after the main Bills go through each year will be met by supplementation by the Federal Government. [More…]

• The purpose of the guidelines was to ensure that the commissions had sufficient time to make recommendations to the Government in relation to the allocation of education expenses in the August Budget. [More…]

• The guidelines which were brought down last year indicated that the minimum growth would be 2 per cent for universities, colleges of advanced education and schools but that technical and further education colleges could look forward to an increase in real terms of 5 per cent. [More…]

• One can only go by persistent reports which one reads, I dare say mainly in the Press, and from conversations one has with educationists throughout Australia that there are grave doubts in the minds of many that the Government program of continual pruning of expenditure will be directed particularly at education during the course of the Budget deliberations. [More…]

• I think I have said before in this place that we do not expect this Government to increase spending at the rate at which the Labor Government did mainly because it does not see education in the same light as we do. [More…]

• Notwithstanding the fact that this Government is prepared to forgo revenue to the extent of $ 1,000m a year to the business sector, a business sector which is recovering and in fact almost has fully recovered its profitability, it is not finding additional sums in real terms for education. [More…]

• The transfer of responsibility from the Federal Government to State governments is very much a real issue in education. [More…]

• Only recently the Minister wrote to the State Ministers for Education asking them to discuss with him next month some sharing arrangements the details of which I do not know. [More…]

• This would certainly suggest that on that agenda the Commonwealth will be putting to the States a proposition involving them sharing part of the costs of running universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I would appreciate very much from the Minister an assurance that I am wrong and that the Commonwealth will continue its commitment to fully fund the universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The Government’s record in education in totality is not one of which I believe it can be proud. [More…]

• It is fair to say that up till now education has been one area in which there have not been cuts in the same degree as in other areas. [More…]

• But it is important also to realise that the spending on education this calendar year is still not as great as it was in 1 975. [More…]

• This is not a time to make any major statement on education, particularly with the crowded list of legislation before us in this last week of the autumn session. [More…]

• I am hopeful also that in the course of this week I shall announce in the Parliament the names of the members of the Tertiary Education Commission and its associated councils. [More…]

• Of course the guidelines will be put to the new Tertiary Education Commission and its councils. [More…]

• If that can be donethat is my expectation- I see no reason why the Tertiary Education Commission and its councils cannot supply a basic report or reports in time for the Budget session. [More…]

• Obviously that expansion must progress if we are to do justice to that area of education. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt made reference to the letter written by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to the Premiers, inviting discussions at the Minister of Education level in the atmosphere of a meeting of the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators that in that letter the Prime Minister gave an undertaking that the Commonwealth had no intention of abdicating the position it has taken in education or its share of the general responsibilities. [More…]

• Consistent with that and consistent with the establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission, the councils and the Schools Commission, desirably there should be discussions between the Commonwealth and the States to see how, in the spending of perhaps some $6,000m of taxpayers money, the Commonwealth and the States together can deliver a better system of education which will enable the clients- the students and the families- to receive a better quality of education and which, at the same time, will allow us in that journey to remove whatever administrative conflicts, overlaps, duplications or wastages may occur. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt pointed out that the Commonwealth pays entirely for the maintenance of universities and colleges; but he failed to point out, of course, that the whole constitutional power and responsibility for all areas of education, except that of student allowances, resides in the States. [More…]

• Consistent with aiming to get the highest possible quality of education, I think no honourable senator would quarrel with the idea that discussions ought to take place between the Commonwealth and the States in order to find out what better co-partnership should exist. [More…]

• Those disappointments stem from reasons other than perhaps political education. [More…]

• Anyone who has attended a meeting of the Australian Education Council will agree, I think, that that body is maturing in the quality of its deliberations, in the range of the subject matters with which it deals, and in the sheer practical co-operation and results that are being achieved between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]

• Anyone who knows of the discussions with the State Ministers of Education over the years- indeed, over the decades- will know that the constant theme of those State Ministers has been opposition to the thumb screws in relation to uniform taxation and the central planning of the Commonwealth, and that there has been a strong, aggressive and understandable desire on the part of the State Ministers to obtain wider, untied funds to enable them to make more sovereign judgments in the field of State education in which they operate. [More…]

• They are the fundamentals to which the 6 State Education Ministers have directed their attention over the years or, indeed, as I say, over the decades. [More…]

• The simple fact is that in everything that the Commonwealth is doing in the field of education we are consulting with the States. [More…]

• When recently we reconstituted the Schools Commission, following the retirement of some 8 part-time members, that was done not only in terms of our own stated policy but also in line with the policies enunciated by the 6 State Education Ministers on the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• I remind the honourable senator that, as Senator Wriedt has recognised, the Government of which he was a supporter in its last Budget cut education expenditure by $ 105m, turned off the triennial principle and froze student allowances. [More…]

• The concept which is being carefully nurtured by the Labor Party, that the Commonwealth is the bulk spender on education, is fundamentally wrong. [More…]

• In Australia something like $6,000m a year is spent on education, of which about $2,200m is spent federally and the remainder in the States. [More…]

• About $1,000 of every one of 6 million taxpayers’ tax each year goes to education. [More…]

• Do they intend to destroy the decision-making power of the States in terms of primary and secondary education? [More…]

• Speaking to the point of order, the Leader of the Opposition, who I take it is Senator Georges’ leader, raised the question of the discussions between the Commonwealth and the States as to revenue sharing and function sharing in education. [More…]

• I think that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• What troubles me is this: In spite of all the discussions about which the Minister has spoken, in spite of all the dialogue, in spite of all the responsibility thrust back to the States, no real progress is being made to solve the structural problems of education in this country. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister, in his discussion and dialogue and in making his recommendation that moneys should be paid by way of a variety of grants to the States etcetera, should consider the problem that we are facing at all levels in the education system. [More…]

• Perhaps he should look at one or two of the reports which seem to show that we have reached a period of zero population growth in Australia; that our maternity hospitals on the one hand are empty and, on the other hand, our geriatric wards are packed; that every item of expenditure that we decide upon now should take into account the grave problem that we may be facing, particularly in respect of the education system; that there may be an oversupply of teachers, for instance, or an oversupply of buildings or of graduate students which the community cannot absorb; that much of the money being expended by virtue of these Bills may be wasted in the long run. [More…]

• We have had a number of discussions with the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Secondly, what is he going to do to correct the situation in which many students and graduates are emerging from colleges of advanced education, technical colleges and universities and have nowhere to go? [More…]

• The honourable senator will know that the Australian Education Council has faced up to this and has been working on a report to be released in the future to identify this. [More…]

• The first issue we shall invite the Tertiary Education Commission to look at will be that of the supply of teachers, both quantitatively and qualitatively, so that we may look at all the ramifications. [More…]

• Clearly it will be shown in the future, as it has been shown this year, that there will be a voluntary lessening of intake of students into universities and colleges because some 22 per cent of all students in tertiary education colleges and universities are teacher trainees. [More…]

• The Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training- the Williams Committee- has been charged with looking at all the problems which the honourable senator has raised. [More…]

• I wanted to give the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) an opportunity to reply to a few queries that I made concerning what I consider to be a very serious problem that is facing the education systems throughout Australia. [More…]

• During the reply of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to Senator Georges, on a couple of occasions he made some remarks which provoked the Opposition Whip to make further remarks. [More…]

• I want to refer to some of the statements that the Minister has made on many occasions in this Parliament dealing with the amount of money which has been made available to education by this Government and by the previous Government. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister can give us some clarification of the remarks that he repeatedly makes that the Whitlam Government actually cut expenditure on education during its last year of office. [More…]

• I want to remind the Minister that in the 1972-73 McMahon Budget the total amount of money made available for education was $442.6m. [More…]

• We find that in our Budget of 1975-76 the estimated expenditure on education was $ 1,908.2m. [More…]

• I want now to ask the Minister why he repeatedly has claimed in this Parliament-both in debates and when answering questions- that under the Whitlam Government expenditure on education was diminished by $170m, when the [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he can give us some explanation as to why he continually claims that the Labor Government reduced expenditure on education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has not answered my question. [More…]

• He is continually claiming that the Whitlam Government made a reduction in expenditure on education. [More…]

• He refuses to tell the public at large and this Parliament that the Whitlam Government actually increased expenditure on education fourfold from the last year of the McMahon Budget to the last year of the Whitlam Budget. [More…]

• Despite what the Minister may say and despite what any tables which he may have incorporated in Hansard since he has been the Minister for Education may indicate, he cannot prove that we decreased expenditure on education. [More…]

• It is a complete fallacy for him to claim that the Whitlam Government did reduce expenditure on education. [More…]

• It is also relevant to note the work of the hearing centre of the National Acoustic Laboratories in the Territory with its long-term program of development of specific techniques for assisting hearing-impaired Aboriginals and of a joint committee established by my Department and the Department of Education to examine the problems of those with hearing handicaps. [More…]

• The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that all people have the right to education,’ irrespective of class, age, sex, sexuality and ethnic background, and that it is the responsibility of Government to ensure that sufficient funds are allocated to protect that right. [More…]

• Education is a right and not a privilege to be paid for. [More…]

• If all students were eligible for the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and received an adequate TEAS allowance there would be no need for student loans. [More…]

• Students should not be forced to incur debts in order to receive an education. [More…]

• The Australian Education Council, comprising the 6 State Ministers and the Federal Minister, have been continuously, over the last 8 months, deliberating on that point with the aim of finding a figure of intake which on the one hand will supply the need fully and on the other hand not be too rigid in manpower. [More…]

• I point out that the universities and colleges of advanced education have this year, and will continue to do so next year, voluntarily slowed down the intake to the extent that one would expect that the total number of students on campus in universities and colleges will be no more than this year’s figure. [More…]

• I will in the immediate future be inviting the Tertiary Education Commission to make a study of teacher training, not only in terms of teacher numbers but also in terms of all the factors that are demanded of a teacher and teacher training so that we can work out the number for the future. [More…]

• Having received representations for additional staff in the guidance division of the Department of Education in North-Western Tasmania, I ask whether the Minister for Education can advise whether under any of the functions of his portfolio he can provide assistance, or is the staff allocation entirely a matter for the State authorities? [More…]

• The functions of the Federal Government with regard to primary or secondary education in the States lie within the Schools Commission ambit. [More…]

• Further evidence called for orchestral involvement in music education, training programs and the heightening of public appreciation. [More…]

• I agree substantially with the comments that have been made by Senator Davidson as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on behalf of the Committee. [More…]

• It was made to the Senate Standing Committe on Education and the Arts when the Government announced that it would make certain cuts in the budget of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• With regard to unions trying to improve education, which is something outside the normal rights and conditions which the Government tries to impose on unions, 61 per cent of all people felt that the unions ha ve the right to try to improve education. [More…]

• It is negotiating with the Tasmanian Government for the acquisition and provision of 2 sites- one at the Newnham College, the Launceston College of Advanced Education, for the general courses; the other, in the area of Beauty Point, for a seamanship course. [More…]

• With the report I also present a document which I have received separately from Mr Michael Gallagher who is the Education Research Officer to the Australian Union of Students and who was a member of the Committee. [More…]

• Report by the Committee on Post Secondary Education in Tasmania. [More…]

• As I said, the Bill before the Senate has its genesis in a committee known as the Swanson Committee which was set up last year under the chairmanship of Mr T. B. Swanson, who is a former deputy chairman of ICI Australia Ltd and a former chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]

• As a result the Labor Government sent Mr Dunkley to Christmas Island to look at the education facilities. [More…]

• It ensured that the Christmas Island education system was brought into line with the Australian education system so that the children of workers on Christmas Island, be they Malay, Singaporean, Australian or of any other nationality, received the same education as other children received at Commonwealth expense in Australia. [More…]

• Those things had never been done until the Labor Government came into office and took up the recommendations of a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, of which Senator Davidson was Chairman at that time and which presented an eminent report to the Senate. [More…]

• Under Portuguese rule, there were virtually no advances in education, medical care, or economic development. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, refers to the guidelines for the 1978-1980 rolling triennium for education funding which the Minister has just released. [More…]

• Mr President, I seek leave to make 2 related statements, the first on the membership of the Tertiary Education Commission and the second relating to the guidelines for the education commissions for the 1978-80 rolling triennium. [More…]

• I wish to inform the Senate that the new Tertiary Education Commission is to be established on 22 June 1977, and I wish to announce the membership of the Commission and its 3 associated councils. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission Act 1977 provides for the Commission to have a full-time Chairman, three other full-time members, and five part-time members. [More…]

• The other full-time members will be Mr H. K. Coughlan, who is at present Chairman of the Technical and Further Education Commission, Professor D. N. F. Dunbar, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, and Dr H. S. Houston, Assistant Principal, Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Mr Coughlan will be Chairman of the new Technical and Further Education Council, Professor Dunbar Chairman of the Universities Council and Dr Houston Chairman of the Advanced Education Council. [More…]

• THE TERTIARY EDUCATION COMMISSION AND ITS COUNCILS MEMBERSHIP [More…]

• Mr Coughlan has been chairman of the Technical and Further Education Commission since its inception in 1975. [More…]

• He was formerly a senior assistant secretary in the Department of Education and Science from 1968 to 1972 and an associate commissioner with the Cities Commission from 1973 to 1975. [More…]

• Dr Houston has been assistant principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education since 1973. [More…]

• He is an expert in the field of teacher education. [More…]

• He is a member of the Technical and Further Education Commission and a member of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• He has been a part-time lecturer in the Department of Child Health at the University of Queensland for the past ten years and a member of the council of the North Brisbane College of Advanced Education for the past three years. [More…]

• He is a member of the South Australian Board of Advanced Education and a member of the South Australian Teachers Classifications Board. [More…]

• Professor Fensham has been Professor of Education at Monash University. [More…]

• Professor Fensham is a member of UNESCO and its Australian national committee for education and has represented Australia at UNESCO conferences overseas. [More…]

• She is a trustee of the Australian Museum, a member of the Council of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education and president of the Australian Council for Educational Standards. [More…]

• Advanced Education Council [More…]

• Dr Barker has been director of the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education since 1 967. [More…]

• He held a number of teaching, lecturing and administrative posts in the Victorian Department of Education from 1958 to 1967. [More…]

• He is a fellow of the Australian College of Education and a member of the Australian Institute of Management. [More…]

• Dr Fraser has been a part.time member of the Commission on Advanced Education since 1973. [More…]

• He has been director of the Queensland Institute of Technology since 1966 and a member of the Queensland Board of Advanced Education since 1971. [More…]

• He is currently a member of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• Dr Jecks has been principal of Churchlands College, Western Australia, since its inception in 1971 and was previously senior lecturer in educational administration at Sydney University from 1968 to 1971. [More…]

• He is chairman of the Western Australian Council for Special Education and vicepresident of the Australian Association of Principals of Colleges of Teacher Education. [More…]

• Mr McMullen has been a part.time member of the Commission of Advanced Education since 1974. [More…]

• Professor Newstead has been a member of the Australian Council for Awards on Advanced Education since 1972. [More…]

• He has been a member of the Tasmanian Council of Advanced Education and an associate commissioner of the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania. [More…]

• She is a member of the Board of Studies and the Board of Examiners in the School of Business Studies at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Technical and Further Education Council [More…]

• He was a member of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education from 1973 to 1975 and the Technical and Further Education Commission from 1975 to 1977. [More…]

• He was chairman of the committee which surveyed training needs in industry, commerce and government for the South Australian Government in 1 972 and is currently a member of the Committee of Inquiry into Post-Secondary Education in South Australia. [More…]

• Miss Seitz has been an adult education officer with the Victorian Council of Adult Education for the past six years and is a member of the executive of the Australian Association for Adult Education. [More…]

• She is currently working on a project funded by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to develop adult education programs in Aboriginal communities and works part time at Monash University. [More…]

• Melbourne, in a project designed to promote continuing education in the professions. [More…]

• Mr Lees has been a member ot the Technical and runner Education Commission since 1975. [More…]

• Department of Technical and Further Education. [More…]

• Department of Technical Education from 1971 to 1976. [More…]

• by leave- The list of appointees to these various bodies contains some very distinguished names in the academic and education areas. [More…]

• On behalf of the Opposition I accept that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has considered very carefully all these appointments. [More…]

• They are very important because they will have an important influence on the determination of government policy on education in the years to come. [More…]

• We feel certain that those persons who have been appointed will give to the Government their best advice on what is best for education. [More…]

• The further statement which the Minister will be putting down immediately contains the real essence of government policy in respect of education so I shall postpone my remarks until after that statement has been put down. [More…]

• In arriving at its decisions the Government has had to reconcile the aspirations at all levels of education with its policy of containing inflation, which necessarily involves restraint in public expenditure, and reducing the level of the deficit in the Commonwealth Budget. [More…]

• It will be recalled that the previous government in 1975 reduced the total level of expenditure under the education commission’s programs for 1976. [More…]

• This Government restored triennial planning on a rolling basis for 1977 and adopted levels of expenditure for that year which restored real growth to the education programs. [More…]

• In accordance with the rolling triennium principle, the Government has now determined firm guidelines for 1978, to which the education commissions will be invited to respond in presenting their next reports. [More…]

• The guidelines for 1978 which form part of this statement will establish base levels of expenditure for 1 978 at the same real level as for 1 977 in the case of universities, colleges of advanced education- subject to additional funds for nongovernment teachers colleges- and schools. [More…]

• For technical and further education the 1978 base level of expenditure will be 10 per cent higher in real terms than for 1 977. [More…]

• The guidelines provide for a total expenditure on the programs administered by the education commissions of $ 1.740.7m in 1978- expressed in December 1976 cost levels. [More…]

• In arriving at its decisions, the Government has confirmed its intention to assist in maintaining education expenditure in the States at a high level. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission are each asked to present their reports by the end of August. [More…]

• I now turn to the guidelines for the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1978-80 rolling triennium. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission should prepare its recommendations for 1978 and subsequent years of the 1978-80 rolling triennium on the basis set out later. [More…]

• In accordance with the provisions of the Tertiary Education Commission Act, the Commission will have the overall responsibility for recommending programs for each of the sectors within these guidelines; the Commission’s report will incorporate in full the reports of the Universities Council, the Advanced Education Council and the Technical and Further Education Council. [More…]

• by leave- The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has put down a quite lengthy and detailed statement, the implications of which require a considerable degree of study. [More…]

• One thing comes through very clearly, and that is that this is the first evidence and statement by this Government of its retreat from education. [More…]

• When this Government came to office it claimed that it would protect education. [More…]

• It claimed that it would ensure the maintenance of the initiatives which we had taken over 3 years, on a scale never seen before in the history of this country, to lift education from the doldrums it had got into under 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]

• This Government claimed that education would not be allowed to slide back, whether it was government schools, non-government schools or any other part of education. [More…]

• Last year certain claims were made about the real growth which would occur in education over the so-called rolling triennium of this Government. [More…]

• The Minister said that there would be a 2 per cent increase in real terms for schools, a 2 per cent increase for universities and colleges of advanced education, and a 5 per cent increase for technical education. [More…]

• I wish to emphasise that the Government has no intention of retreating from its undertaking to support real growth in the education programs on which the commissions make recommendations. [More…]

• I can remember the Minister coming into this chamber on 30 March of this year, during an urgency debate on education, and stating, with reference to the Australian Labor Party: [More…]

• day after day the Labor Party was peddling some new scare that there were going to be cuts, just as Senator Wriedt said here today, with not a tittle of reason, that there had been cuts in federal education spending. [More…]

• Let every Premier, every State Education Minister, every State Treasurer, every parent organisation and every teacher organisation throughout Australia now know what is in store for them in the years ahead under the federalism policy of the Liberal Government. [More…]

• For months we have had to listen to the Minister, who has had the gall to come into this chamber time after time and tell us how, under new federalism, the Liberal Government intended to maintain its commitment to the education system. [More…]

• This charade of a 10 per cent increase for technical education is designed to look good. [More…]

• We are dealing with 4 areas of educationuniversities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education, and schools. [More…]

• The universities, colleges of advanced education and the schools, which constitute the major part, will receive about $ 1 ,600m. [More…]

• So technical and further education will receive an extra 10 per cent, which amounts to a magnificent $9m out of $ 1,700m, and that is this Government’s commitment to education. [More…]

• I know that it is late in the session and we want to get through our program today, but I am appalled to think that in view of all the stories we have heard over the past few months about how much this Government was prepared to maintain its commitment to, as the Minister used to call them, massive and exciting programs, there will be nobody in the States, in the education department, amongst the teachers and the parents, who will see anything exciting about this little exercise. [More…]

• It shows without question that the future for education in this country under the Liberal Government is bleak. [More…]

• If those States are not able to provide the educational facilities which the children and the parents in those States are entitled to have, that is just too bad. [More…]

• Today at question time I asked him whether he would restate and commit himself- not that the commitments are worth anything, I supposeto the statement he made to Senator Walsh last year that the Government would increase the total payments to the States as did the Labor Government, because education is vitally affected in this area of specific purpose payments. [More…]

• We have been told that we were deliberately scaremongering and trying to create an atmosphere of uncertainty throughout the education systems in Australia. [More…]

• I regret that education throughout this country can now look forward to a bleak future because the States will not be able to do the things they wish to do and to maintain their standards unless the [More…]

• It is my belief that this tendency has been aggravated by the type of medical education we have today and which we have had for some years. [More…]

• It is done in general by a hand-picked upper group of people from our education system in which, in my opinion, scientific methods and values are sometimes overemphasised and the personal approach, the clinical approach, is frequently under-emphasised. [More…]

• We support both those functions; that is, the collecting of statistics and the mounting of public education campaigns. [More…]

• Furthermore the Commission itself is given no role in promoting community legal education, its role being limited to advising the Attorney-General. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on the 15 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) How many adult migrants are attending Adult Migrant Education Service English classes in New South Wales in 1977. [More…]

• 7 ) Is the amount of money provided adequate, or will the Minister consider allocating more funds to Adult Migrant Education Service English classes in New South Wales as soon as possible. [More…]

• 1 ) It is estimated that some 31 650 adult migrants will attend the Adult Migrant Education Service English classes in New South Wales during the financial year 1976-77. [More…]

• Multilingual cards and information sheets on courses are distributed from the Migrant Education Centre at Caltex [More…]

• House, Sydney and from the State office of the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]

• This information material, articles in the local and national press and the English courses broadcast over radio and television channels help publicise English classes and the Migrant Education Program. [More…]

• The Adult Migrant Education Program emphasises oral English although some attention is given to reading and writing in English. [More…]

• The New South Wales Adult Migrant Education Service is developing in conjunction with the New South Wales Ministry of Education’s adult literacy program, a special literacy program for migrants. [More…]

• The amount of money provided for the Adult Migrant Education Program for 1976-77 is sufficient to maintain at least the same level of activity as in 1975-76. [More…]

• I draw the honourable senator’s attention to the statement relating to the appointment of Distribution Commissioners for all States made on my behalf by the Minister for Education on 20 April 1977 (Senate Hansard, 20 April 1977, pp. [More…]

• Policy matters relating to the Commonwealth expenditure on education: [More…]

• Defence, Education, Science and Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• It needs to be kept in mind that there are about 800 post-secondary institutions in Australia; I understand that neither the Department of Education nor the State Education Authorities routinely collect detailed information on research projects undertaken in all fields and disciplines and their sources of funds. [More…]

• I do not believe that the matter warrants my requesting the Minister for Education to authorise the effort and expense that would be required to conduct a survey of each of the 800 institutions. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 29 March 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 April 1 977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 April 1977: [More…]

• A. Allen, Chairman of the Board of Advanced Education and formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle, has predicted a decline by universities and a reduction of institutions of higher education in Australia because of general restraint on Commonwealth funds for post-secondary education, including a possible freeze on funds by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Will the Minister comment on Dr Allen’s suggestion that in future there could be a return to the involvement of the States in partial funding of higher education, possibly in the form of ad hoc rescue provisions; if not, why not. [More…]

• What was the total recurrent and capital expenditure by the Commonwealth Government on ( a ) universities; ( b ) colleges of advanced education; (c) technical and further education; and (d) schools, for the calendar years 1972 to 1976 inclusive. [More…]

• I should add that over the years 1972 to 1974 Commonwealth funds for technical education were provided under the States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1971-1973 which operated on a financial year basis, and under the States Grants (Technical Training Fees Reimbursement) Act 1974, which operated for the first half of 1974. [More…]

• Scholarships and transport costs to enable student refugees to continue their education in Australia. [More…]

• That the decision of the Government to withdraw all forms of financial assistance to students of non-State tertiary institutions in the main, business colleges, is in total conflict with stated Government education policy. [More…]

• The decision will result in a shortage of places for training secretarial and clerical students and an inordinate demand upon the State Government technical education systems. [More…]

• -My question is directed- appropriately, I think- to the Minister for Education who is the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs and who also represents the Minister for Transport. [More…]

• Will the Minister investigate and following his investigation inform the Senate of the number of men and women who are not attending universities or colleges of advanced education and who have been issued with student travel concessions on Qantas Airways Ltd by the Australian Union of Students travel service? [More…]

• -My question to the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications relates to the report on the employment of musicians by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, which report I put down in the Senate in June this year on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education and refer to the recent collapse of AUS Student Travel Service Pty Ltd. [More…]

• -My question, which is also directed to the Minister for Education, follows from the previous question and the answer that has just been given. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education ensure that the inquiry into AUS Student Travel Service Pty Ltd will be broad enough to allow investigation of all financial activities- travel, commercial and otherwise- of the Australian Union of Students so that audited financial statements may be available to members of the student body generally so they will be aware of how their contributions to AUS are spent? [More…]

• We know of course of the significant language difficulties and we know the difficulty that people have in gaining a full education from a language which they do not know or a language which they know imperfectly. [More…]

• In the matter of education, which I believe is at the core of this difficulty in ensuring harmonious relationships between the various ethnic groups, we have first thought whether we ought to have a system of education in this country which provides a full bilingual education system whereby each person is educated, perhaps firstly in his mother tongue and secondly in English. [More…]

• Taking those two questions into account and having viewed with some interest the developments of education in the migrant area in South Australia I take the point that I believe it is of the greatest importance to the development of harmonious relationships in the community as a whole that we develop an effective remedial approach to language education so as to ensure that people can learn as rapidly as possible the English language to enable them to take their full part in the community. [More…]

• That is not to deny the right of any individual, be he a new settler or an Australian, naturalised or otherwise, to be trained in languages other than English, and indeed I believe that the education system ought to provide that alternative. [More…]

• I believe that it should not be established in such a way as to take away the basic aim of the education system, that is, to achieve a proficiency in the English language. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 March 1977: [More…]

• Do many Aboriginal communities in central Australia not support the present Government policy with regard to education, as was suggested by John Edwards in the article entitled ‘Aborigines now have Land Rights- but no Schools ‘in the National Times dated 7 March 1977; if so, (a) what are the details, and (b) what action, if any, is the Minister taking to investigate the claims made in the newspaper article concerned. [More…]

• The Government has recently established a National Aboriginal Education Committee, comprised entirely of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, to provide it with informed advice on the educational needs of the Aboriginal people including the outstations. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has direct responsibility for education in the outstations only in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The approach for a number of years has been to consult very closely with Aboriginal outstation groups about their educational requirements and how these should be met. [More…]

• The Government makes every effort to provide education for Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, however remote. [More…]

• The Western Australian Education Department has established a curriculum development program for outstation situations and elements of this program are currently being mailed at Blackstone. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 June 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 15 March 1976: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 April 1 977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 April 1 977: [More…]

• (a) and (b)- the Department of Education. [More…]

• Mr P. Mosedale, Head of the School of Liberal studies, Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Mr J. Morey, Department of Education. [More…]

• What are the age, sex, skill and education breakdown of the unemployed people in the same local government areas. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 May 1977: [More…]

• Scholarships and transport costs to enable student refugees to continue their education in Australia. [More…]

• Scholarships and transport costs to enable student refugees to continue their education in Australia. [More…]

• That the decision by the Government to withdraw all forms of financial assistance to students of non-state tertiary institutions is in total conflict with stated Government education policy. [More…]

• The decision will result in a shortage of places for training secretarial and clerical students and an inordinate demand upon the State Government education systems. [More…]

• That the decision by the Government to withdraw all forms of financial assistance to students of Non-state Tertiary Institutions is in total conflict with stated Government education policy. [More…]

• The decision will result in a shortage of places for training secretarial and clerical students and an inordinate demand upon the State Government education systems. [More…]

• That failure to purchase, at regular intervals, fine and important an works from around the world as they become available, seriously inhibits the growth of cultural and artistic education in this country, restricting us to an isolationist art background. [More…]

• The Senate should be aware that when we speak of research into solar energy it may be that the work that is carried out by the CSIRO is only a small part of the vast amount of research into solar energy by institutions, universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I often wonder whether that is not due to the famous education system we have in Australia. [More…]

• In the statement which has just been made, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has ranged over a number of subjects. [More…]

• I also point out to the Senate that the last time the Minister made a statement in respect of student allowances the calculations in that paper showed that the number of students who would benefit under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme in 1976 would be 84 000, whereas in the present estimate that figure has been revised to 96 000. [More…]

• Of the other two matters I wish to refer to briefly, the first is the question of migrant education. [More…]

• I hope it is not forgotten that in the Budget last year this Government cut in half the allocation for the migrant education program. [More…]

• If the Minister is getting upset at the facts I am presenting to the Senate, that is understandable, because he is getting upset, and has been for a long time, about this Government’s performance in regard to education. [More…]

• The last time we debated this matter in the Senate he got terribly uptight because we explained the manner in which this Government had gone back on its commitment in the education field. [More…]

• It is another example of this Government’s attitude towards education. [More…]

• It is one which we ourselves built into the education assistance program in this country through the establishment of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• As I indicated initially, the statement reflects the general attitude of the Government towards education, that is, to freeze the funds and where possible to get out of as many financial commitments as possible. [More…]

• Has the Government fulfilled the promise, contained in part 3 (i) of the Liberal and National Country Parties’ Aboriginal Affairs Policy dated 25 November 1975, namely, ‘we will channel all future major expenditure on Aboriginal education, employment, housing, health and legal aid and similar services through a new account to be called The Aborigines’ Entitlement Revenue Account. [More…]

• Has the Government fulfilled the promise, contained in part 4 (i) of the Liberal and National Country Parties’ Aboriginal Affairs Policy dated 25 November 1975, namely, appointment of additional Aborigines to liaison, advisory and training positions in such fields as education, health, and community development’; if so, what are the details; if not, why not. [More…]

• Has the Government fulfilled the promise, contained in part 4 (iv) of the Liberal and National Country Parties’ Aboriginal Affairs Policy dated 25 November 1975, namely, “the expansion of bi-cultural education in those Northern Australian schools with predominantly Aboriginal enrolments”; if so, what are the details; if not, why not. [More…]

• Has the Government fulfilled the promise, contained in part 4 (v) of the Liberal and National Country Parties’ Aboriginal Affairs Policy dated 25 November 1975, namely, the introduction of Aboriginal History and Culture as a full subject in the education programmes available’ to all Australians from primary school in the education -programmes available to all Australians from primary school onwards’; if so, what are the details; if not, why not. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 April 1977: [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government provides substantial funds to the University of Sydney, as to other Australian universities, through the Tertiary Education Commission which comes under the administration of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 May 1 977: [More…]

• (a) and (b) I had proposed to make a visit to South East Asia to coincide with the Twelfth Conference of the South East Asian Ministers of Education Council, which was held in Jakarta from 3-7 March 1977.I was not able to do so and subsequently decided to visit the member countries of the Council from the end of May. [More…]

• Associate Member of the South East Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO). [More…]

• Attendance at this Conference and the extension of my visit to include other South East Asian countries in the SEAMEO region would have enabled me to hold discussions with fellow Ministers of Education in the region and to come to a better understanding of educational developments in South East Asia. [More…]

• I believe such a visit would be of value in promoting further educational cooperation in the region. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware that a series of rolling strikes being conducted by the Victorian Secondary Teachers Association is causing serious disruption and inconvenience in a number of Victorian high schools? [More…]

• According to a letter by the DirectorGeneral of Education in Victoria which appeared in last Saturday’s Age, the issue is: Who should run the schools?’. [More…]

• One of the interesting situations that I have noted in more modern times in the Territories and elsewhere is the growing disenchantment of parents and the community with the attempts to use and to prejudice the future of children and their education by way of industrial disputes by people who wish to further their own industrial self-interest. [More…]

• I have been heartened by the fact that the community has accepted the basic principle that what is primarily needed in education today is an increase in the quality of education. [More…]

• There is a recognition that the amount of money available for education, particularly to schools in Australia today, comes from two streams- that is, from the Commonwealth Government and the State governments- and this year is substantially larger than last year, and will be substantially larger next year. [More…]

• In other words, an increased volume of money will be available for education. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It has approved development credits totalling more than $US 1 1 billion for all the major sectors of economic development with special emphasis on agriculture and transportation as well as projects for education, urbanisation, industry, population and nutrition, tourism, telecommunications and electric power. [More…]

• Mr Justice Fox found that the morale, employment, health and education of these people was at an extremely low level. [More…]

• There are drunken brawls, hardships for mothers and children and interruptions in employment, education and, what is worst of all, in their traditional ceremonies. [More…]

• They were shown earlier to you, Mr President, and to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• It has been shown to you, Mr President, and to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• He was responsible for the development of the north Wollongong education area, the construction of Keira Boys High School and the subsequent transfer of that area of Wollongong High School. [More…]

• In association with his colleagues in the State Parliamentary Labor Party who served in that area at the time, Mr Rex Jackson who is now a Minister in the Wran Labor Government, and the late Mr Howard Fowles, a member for Illawarra in the New South Wales Parliament, Mr Connor secured the establishment of the Wollongong Teachers College which is now the Institute of Education. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Firstly, what indexes, projected or actual, have been applied to base capital and base recurrent programs for 1977-78 in each sector of the Tertiary Education Commission and each program of the Schools Commission so as to arrive at the estimated total of $75m which is provided for cost supplementation of grants made by these bodies in the financial year 1977-78 and which appears in the financial tables in Budget Statement No. [More…]

• Secondly, how is the $75m estimated to be apportioned amongst capital and recurrent programs of each sector of the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission? [More…]

• As to the cost supplementation for the first half of the fiscal year, which is the last half of this calendar year, there will be full cost supplementation for all education programs, including full supplementation for wages and salaries fixed by arbitral authoritiesnot above-award ones- and for approved rises due to inflation and cost increases in capital. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education in his capacity as Minister for Education and in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications. [More…]

• I am equally aware- I am helped by an interjection by my colleague Senator Davidson- that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, which he chairs, has been looking at this matter. [More…]

• We must look at it in the total context of the Australian society, especially our education and social welfare systems. [More…]

• The new Ethnic Affairs Branch of the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, staff for which is now being recruited from inside and outside the Commonwealth Public Service, will have responsibility, amongst other matters, for developing an overview of the position of migrants in the community in relation to health, welfare, housing, education, employment, communications, the law and other matters affecting their integration; identifying gaps in services or programs and, in co-operation with appropriate government and non-government agencies, developing approaches and pointing to action to remedy deficiencies. [More…]

• ii ) Committee on Multi-Cultural Education [More…]

• It will also give advice to education authorities on the content of courses for interpreters and translators. [More…]

• Department of Education- [More…]

• The Adult Migrant Education Program provides a range of English language learning opportunities including full-time courses, courses for migrants in industry, part-time courses and continuation courses, correspondence and radio lessons, classes for migrant women and home tutoring. [More…]

• At the school level, Commonwealth funds are provided through the Schools Commission’s General Recurrent Grants Program to State education systems for migrant and multicultural education. [More…]

• Allocation of the funds within the systems and the determination of priorities is the responsibility of the relevant education authority. [More…]

• Generally, education systems are using by far the greater part of the funds to pay the salaries of teachers of English as a second language. [More…]

• As well as funds provided specifically for migrant and multicultural education, other funds provided under the General Recurrent Grants Program can be used to support activities in migrant and multicultural education according to priorities determined by the relevant education authority. [More…]

• That the decision of the Government to withdraw all forms of financial assistance to students of non-State tertiary institutions in the main, business colleges, is in total conflict with stated Government education policy. [More…]

• The decision will result in a shortage of places for training secretarial and clerical students and an inordinate demand upon the State Government technical education systems. [More…]

• Basically, the Schools Commission is concerned to promote acceptable standards for arts education in Australian schools, as it is in other aspects of education. [More…]

• The Schools Commission and the Australia Council, in collaboration with the State departments of education, since early 1976 have co-operated in the national inquiry into education and the arts. [More…]

• I now turn my thoughts to the question of education. [More…]

• The Government has cut funds for education but has directed the reduced funds to the wealthier members of the community. [More…]

• Under the Labor Government, funds for education were increased by an annual growth rate in real terms of just over 39 per cent. [More…]

• Under this Government there has been no growth in education whatsoever. [More…]

• Indeed this year failure to provide cost supplementation in many areas will result in cuts for schools, universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Only technical education will receive any increase, and that increase is less than one per cent of the whole education budget. [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…]

• At a time of cutbacks in funds for education, this will lead to a marked drift of funds from government to private schools. [More…]

• Under the guidelines delivered to the two education commissions, capital works will also be cut back. [More…]

• This will restrict development of our education institutions. [More…]

• Funds to the States for specific purpose grants and Loan Council programs which provide the bulk of education funds have been substantially reduced in real terms. [More…]

• To top it off, the Government is now insisting that State governments pay up to 60 per cent of the cost of tertiary education. [More…]

• To justify its actions in education, this Government has sometimes resorted to the claim that it has increased efficiency. [More…]

• Tertiary education courses must not be lengthened or upgraded. [More…]

• This is a program to wind back the benefits of education ultimately leading to a situation where a good education will once again be available only to those who can afford it. [More…]

• This year substantial cuts have been made in education, roads, urban public transport, pensioner dwellings and Aboriginal advancement. [More…]

• If we argue that there is to be structural unemployment or a restructuring of industry where we see a need perhaps in the future to have some adjustment in respect of employment opportunities and other factors which may arise, we should still be looking at the effects on economic growth and productivity that will determine whether we are able to do the things that we would wish to do in education, health, welfare and so on. [More…]

• It is providing fewer hospitals, fewer schools, and less money for decentralisation programs, roads, sewerage, education, the arts, farmers and people in need. [More…]

• Education expenditure has not been curtailed. [More…]

• I am of the opinion that we, as members of Parliament, should give close scrutiny to our expenditure on education. [More…]

• Like the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and some other people who have been propounding what a ‘sound’ Budget this is, the Minister for Science said: [More…]

• Expenditure on education has not been curtailed. [More…]

• As I shall outline, expenditure on education has been greatly curtailed. [More…]

• There has been an increase in the amount of money allocated for education but one knows that in days of inflation one cannot look at money values only. [More…]

• The area of education is of extreme importance. [More…]

• Over the past years great advances have been made in education, especially in education spending. [More…]

• But this year, with a definite cut in the budget for education, every advance that has been made in recent years has suddenly been reversed. [More…]

• Any faith they might have had that this Government would look after education spending in Australia will have completely disappeared out the window when they see that this Government has definitely set out to cut education spending. [More…]

• Let us go back over the past few years and look at the figures concerning the financial commitment of the Commonwealth Government in regard to education. [More…]

• In this document I have set out the education expenditure for the years 1970- 71 to 1977-78. [More…]

• First of all, in 1970-71, at current prices, $298m was spent on education. [More…]

• In 1971- 72, $349m was spent on education. [More…]

• These figures have been adjusted to show that until this year there has been a definite increase in the amount of money in real terms spent on education. [More…]

• It goes from $298m in 1970-7 1 to $327m in 1971-72, through to 1976-77 when $l,125m was allocated for education in the Commonwealth Budget. [More…]

• If this is the case it means that education spending has decreased in real terms from $l,125m in 1976-77 to $1,1 17m in 1977-78. [More…]

• Even if one takes an inflation rate of 10 per cent, as I will show later on, there is still a definite drop in real terms in the amount of money set aside for education in this Budget. [More…]

• So much for the statement that education spending has increased. [More…]

• On the night that the Budget was introduced, much play was made of the fact that there was extra money for education in the Budget. [More…]

• Unfortunately, although there was a great expansion of funds in real value spent on education from 1972 onwards, it all changed in 1977. [More…]

• This is a date that will be long remembered when this Government’s approach to education is evaluated. [More…]

• On 20 May 1976 the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, announced guidelines for the Education Commissions in their planning for the 1 977-79 rolling triennium. [More…]

• In 1976 the Minister stated what would be available regarding increases in education spending for those Commissions in 1978. [More…]

• It was the same for Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Technical and further education could work on a 5 per cent increase and the Schools Commission on a 2 per cent increase. [More…]

• Universities, colleges of advanced education, schools and technical colleges had worked on the basis of those percentage increases- they had planned that way- but suddenly they were told that in 1978 they would not be given that son of allocation. [More…]

• Colleges of advanced education were told that they would receive no increase. [More…]

• Technical and further education colleges were told that they would receive a 10 per cent increase. [More…]

• It was against this background of 3 June 1977 that many of us who are concerned about education awaited the Budget with some trepidation. [More…]

• Our trepidation was not without cause because we found, as I pointed out earlier, that, although the amount of money allocated for education in 1977-78 appeared to be greater than that allocated in 1976-77, it was an increase of only 9.8 per cent. [More…]

• It we take an inflation rate of 10 per cent- which I think will be an underestimatethe amount of money that is to be made available this year, according to the Budget, means that in real terms less money will be spent on education than was spent last year. [More…]

• In fact, because of the change in guidelines, including the changes to cost supplementation, estimates have been made- not by me but by members of the staff of the Parliamentary Library who have circulated a paper to those people in the Parliament who are interested in this field- that the total real cut in education expenditure for 1978 and 1979 will be about $ 125m. [More…]

• So much for this Government’s concern about education in Australia! [More…]

• When I mention postgraduate awards, I am speaking of a very limited field- a field which is of interest to a relatively small body of people in the total field of education. [More…]

• In doing this, I do not deny that there are other areas where vast improvement is required in education. [More…]

• Last year the Minister for Education, in reply to some of my comments said: [More…]

• It was kept under review all right, because this year when the Minister for Education presented his paper, the day after the Budget was presented he announced: [More…]

• No study was made to see whether there should be a reduction in postgraduate awards, whether we had an oversupply of postgraduates or whether there was any way in which postgraduates could finance their own education. [More…]

• I would say that if any reductions are to be made in the field of education they should be made only after a proper study and proper consideration. [More…]

• I moved on and pointed out that this Government had also failed the teachers, the parents and the students of Australia by cutting funds for education. [More…]

• The funds for education this year have been decreased, and it is up to the Government to realise this fact, to admit and to make sure that in future Budgets the position is rectified. [More…]

• I hope the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is in charge of the Senate tonight, will take up the matter with the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) and see whether some money cannot be found at a very early date so that we can go ahead with the construction of the animal health laboratory at Geelong in Victoria. [More…]

• The funds for last year were fully committed but as some State governments did not draw on the funds committed to them for pre-school education and child care programs this money was not required in the last year. [More…]

• T. Fitzgerald, Poverty and Education in Australia, Fifth Main Report (AGPS, Canberra, 1976). [More…]

• Research Report Prepared under the Auspices of Dr Fitzgerald (Poverty and Education Series): [More…]

• The Family Centre Project, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Never Had a Chance’, N. Haines, ‘Non-Participation in Continuing Education’; J. Dennison, ‘The Concept of the Community College’: in Lifelong Education and Poor People: Three Studies (AGPS, Canberra, 1 977 ). [More…]

• Research Reports Prepared under the Auspices of Dr Fitzgerald (Poverty and Education Series): [More…]

• Australian Council for Educational Research, ‘Poverty, Education and Adolescents’; R. Stroobant Disadvantage at School and Post-School Experience’; in Outcomes of Schooling: Aspects of Success and Failure- With AGPS. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 59 of the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973,I present on behalf of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) the report of the Schools Commission on financial assistance granted to each State in 1976. [More…]

• Mr Viner expressed his satisfaction at the substantial increases in expenditure on health programs (up by $5m- 25 per cent- to $23m) and education programs (up by $6.8m- 1 8 per cent-to $43 ). [More…]

• We see expenditure going to health and education on a community basis. [More…]

• What guarantees can the Attorney-General give that the functions performed by the Community Relations Office, especially the education function, will be continued. [More…]

• I am advised by the Tertiary Education Commission that there are substantial methodological problems involved in collecting information on solar energy research activities being undertaken in universities. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission will be co-operating fully with the Department of National Resources in those aspects of the survey which relate to research in universities and other tertiary institutions. [More…]

• What developments were made to ensure free and compulsory education for children up to the age of fifteen years on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, in the year ending 3 1 December 1976. [More…]

• Mrs M. Guerbois; Commonwealth Department of Education [More…]

• Mr T. E. Carroll; State Adult Migrant Education Service [More…]

• Mr P. Lovell; State Adult Migrant Education Service [More…]

• Mr G. Falkenmire; State Adult Migrant Education Service [More…]

• I am advised by the Tertiary Education Commission that total enrolments in Australian universities, as at 30 April 1977, were 157,919 (including enrolments at Deakin University for the first time). [More…]

• I expect that the Tertiary Education Commission will comment on this matter in its forthcoming report. [More…]

• That we do not want education to revert to being used for political gain. [More…]

• We call upon the Federal Government to make urgent financial assistance to education throughout Australia. [More…]

• That the decision of the Government to withdraw all forms of financial assistance to students of non-State tertiary institutions in the main, business colleges, is in total conflict with stated Government education policy. [More…]

• The decision will result in a shortage of places for training secretarial and clerical students and an inordinate demand upon the State Government technical education systems. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Further, as the Northern Territory Teachers Federation has directed its members not to serve in schools within the uranium area, will the Minister ensure that parents and children will not suffer because of the lack of teachers by employing teachers now in the Northern Territory within the Education Department who are not members of the Northern Territory Teachers Federation? [More…]

• The Minister for Education will continue with his reply in the manner he deems necessary in response to the question that was asked. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• There are a couple of points that I would like to place before the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• Last February I asked a question relating to the poor state of passenger facilities at Coolangatta Airport and from the reply that was furnished to me at the time by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who represents the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), I discovered that no moneys had been planned for expenditure on capital improvements to Coolangatta Airport during last financial year. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education would realise during the school holidays in May, August and December the influx of tourists to that area is considerable and therefore the demands on the airport facilities are considerably in excess of the normal demands. [More…]

• We are told that regrettably more cannot be spent on housing because the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is giving higher priorities to education and health. [More…]

• The explanation for the increase in the estimates for education and health is that it is to cover the 1 976 national wage increases for a full year. [More…]

• So there is no improvement in education and health services for Aboriginals in this Budget. [More…]

• Rumours were floated around by the Opposition that there would be cuts in the welfare field and that in point of fact there had been cuts in the education field. [More…]

• I might add that there has been a 10 per cent increase m expenditure in the technical education field. [More…]

• Are the ministries of Education and Health effectively involved in the planning for the Year? [More…]

• We have decided- I will be making an early announcement of this-that an interdepartmental committee and a committee of Ministers for a number of departments, including Education, Health, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Aboriginal Affairs and my own department- maybe others as well- will work towards the observance of this Year. [More…]

• The Whitlam Government first issued them in 1975 for all of the Education Commissions when it set aside the reports of the four Commissions for the 1976-78 triennium, suspended the triennial principle and directed the Commissions to present recommendations for 1976 within stipulated financial limits. [More…]

• Experience since the days of the Interim Committee, and also with other advisory commissions in education, demonstrates this fact. [More…]

• I foreshadow that the Tertiary Education Commission, whose report should be available shortly, intends to proceed in a similar fashion. [More…]

• The statement which has been made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) was accompanied by the Schools Commission report which is, of course, quite a detailed document. [More…]

• In the time that I have had to look at it one thing has become apparent and that is that this report slams this Government’s education policies. [More…]

• But I am not going to pass up the opportunity to refer to some extracts in this report so that we can see the collision that has occurred because of the policies followed by this Government in the area of education. [More…]

• I want to put to rest again one argument which we continually hear put forward by this Government, particularly by the Minister, about the way the Labor Government cut expenditure on education. [More…]

• The Government has overlooked the fact that in the last Budget of the Labor Government- the 1975 Budget- there was an increase in the appropriation for education. [More…]

• The allocation for education was increased in the first year of the Labor Government by $237m. [More…]

• In those three years of Labor in office the average increase in real terms in allocations to education was 41 per cent. [More…]

• It has increased the allocation to education by one per cent. [More…]

• Yet honourable senators opposite have the neck to come into the Senate chamber and talk about cuts in education in the third year of the Labor Government when the most they can do is squeeze the entire education system and give it a one per cent average increase over the first two years they have been in office and admit in this statement that funds are now frozen for education. [More…]

• It was divisive to us as a community and it was bad for the education system. [More…]

• It is telling the Government and the whole of the education system of Australia what the position is. [More…]

• I hope that every educationist, every school teacher and every parent in Australia who has a child at school is mindful of what this means. [More…]

• 1 might add that when the Labor government was in power and there was a need for the government of that day to restrict in its third year of expenditure the amount that was being allocated to education- after, as I have just indicated, an average 41 per cent increase in real terms in expenditure on education in those three years, including that third year, compared to the miserly one per cent increase in expenditure provided by this Government- this is what the Minister of the day wrote to Dr McKinnon, the Chairman of the Schools Commission, on 19 August 1975: [More…]

• Mr Beazley, the then Minister for Education, also stated in a letter to Dr McKinnon dated 7 August 1975: [More…]

• Finally, in the statement concerning the 1976 program by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) presented in the House of Representatives he said: [More…]

• Paragraphs 1.11 comes to the heart of what I was saying earlier about the divisive nature of this education debate over the years-divisiveness which the Commission has done so much to remove. [More…]

• This is a major outcome of the Commission’s work over the past four years and indeed may be one of the major achievements of the Commonwealth in its role in Australian education. [More…]

• I personally congratulate the Commission for having the courage to spell out in a document to this Parliament exactly where this Government is taking education in this country. [More…]

• This is a favourite theme of the Minister for Education, who is also in charge of Federal affairs. [More…]

• 7 the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) shows once again the percentage increases in payments to the States for a whole range of matters, including education. [More…]

• Yet we are told that the States will have to pay more and more of their education bills. [More…]

• The Commission is accused of not taking into account what is allegedly the States’ better capacity to finance education. [More…]

• I suggest that this is indicative of where the Government is taking us in the education field. [More…]

• Tertiary Education Commission [More…]

• Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Recognising the Minister’s undoubted talents in enabling him to maintain a favourable allocation for what has obviously been a careful and somewhat difficult Budget for his most important portfolio of education, will he again use those talents in the reconsideration of his statement concerning Commonwealth grants for schools to obtain from the Treasurer additional funds to add to the most desirable program of assistance for private schools rather than reducing the amounts previously available for services and development for special projects and for other purposes? [More…]

• In general terms, there has been a misunderstanding as to the overall picture of funding of education, the interpretation being related entirely to the money going directly to the States from the Schools Commission. [More…]

• If the honourable senator looks at the Schools Commission report, he will notice a very gratifying thing: In the last year the States have been able to increase the proportion that education receives from their total Budget from 28.4 per cent to 29.4 per cent. [More…]

• Education in that area will be largely for Government schools. [More…]

• They bring together the two streams of education. [More…]

• -Because of Senator Lewis’s racist attitude he does not believe that Aborigines have the same right to education as everybody else. [More…]

• He has had his education but he would deprive underprivileged people from receiving an education or the other social benefits which ought to be the right of every person in this community. [More…]

• Also the Federal Government, acting through the Tertiary Education Commission, is of course very heavily involved in the provision of general purpose research funds to each of the Australian universities. [More…]

• That the decision of the Government to withdraw all forms of financial assistance to students of non-State tertiary institutions in the main, business colleges, is in total conflict with stated Government education policy. [More…]

• The decision will result in a shortage of places for training secretarial and clerical students and an inordinate demand upon the State Government technical education systems. [More…]

• That the actions of a member of the Schools Commission, Mrs Joan Kirner, have been a cause of grave concern to many members of the community in that Mrs Kirner has on a number of occasions made use of the public media to direct criticism of an objectionable kind (including the allegation of being ‘deceitful’) against a Minister of the Crown, Senator John Carrick, Federal Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• May I say that the system has had one interesting effect that is worth noting- as studentships are phased out so the teacher trainees pass from being supported by State Government finances to Commonwealth Government finances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• It is worth noting that this will provide very substantial relief for State governments and will allow them to devote the money that they save to other education purposes. [More…]

• Of course, Senator Carrick ‘s assurances to the Senate on this matter will not be honoured, any more than his repeated assurances that the funding for education would be increased by two per cent in real terms was honoured when the Government’s education policy was finally released a few months ago. [More…]

• The Minister for Education said in his second reading speech last night that the level of general purpose assistance provided to local government in any year is known with certainty early in that year. [More…]

• Like so many statements which the Minister has made on this subject and on his other area of responsibility, namely, education, his statement simply is not true. [More…]

• I remind the Senate, as I did at Question Time today, that in the first year of federalism the States were so fluid in their funds that they were able to increase the education allocation from 28.4 per cent to 29.4 per cent of the total Budget. [More…]

• A number of statements were made by the Minister for Education and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs (Senator Carrick) in replying to the second reading debate that I feel should be taken up. [More…]

• -The purpose of this Bill was explained to some degree by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech. [More…]

• They are, of course, quite fundamental to this whole question of educational expenditure which has been the subject of debate here for a long time. [More…]

• This ‘ historical trend ‘ is worth referring to again in the context of an education debate in September 1977. [More…]

• In terms of what the Minister is talking about, the ‘historical trend’ began in 1972 and 1973 with a quite massive injection of funds by the then Labor Government which amounted to something like a 41 per cent increase in real terms on federal expenditure in education. [More…]

• The appointment of the Karmel Committee and its report represent a fundamental disagreement on this question of priorities and the establishment of the needs principle for funding education in schools. [More…]

• We believe that it was the hope of the vast majority of people concerned with education in Australia that this Government would be prepared to accept just one thing, that it would be prepared to accept in a quite undiluted way the principle of needs which was established by the Karmel Committee and which was, of course, at the very basis of the Schools Commission legislation and the establishment of that Commission. [More…]

• Commonwealth aid to education in the first two years of this Government’s term of office, as distinct from the first part of the historical trend as the Minister called it, when there was a 41 per cent increase in education expenditure, dropped to an annual average increase of approximately one per cent. [More…]

• The situation in 1978 to which the Commission is referring of course is that of minimal growth in education expenditure. [More…]

• -The point which is clearly painful to Senator Martin is quite different in the present context because what the Schools Commission has done has been quite clearly to make a stand on the principles upon which it was established- a stand on which it is in diametrical conflict with this Government which, as I said before, has indulged itself in the sorts of remarks which have been made consistently by the Minister for Education in recent weeks in defence of the Government’s position. [More…]

• That is important in the wider context, not only because of the level of funding of education in Australia but because of the philisophical assumptions which underlie both positions. [More…]

• They are in a sense a neat way of providing Commonwealth Government financial support to the building endeavours of the private sector in education. [More…]

• I am quite sure that the Government would be very happy to debate the Schools Commission report but for the pur- pose of the Senate’s deliberations I remind honourable senators opposite that we are debating a Bill about which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) stated in his second reading speech: [More…]

• Immediately there is a hue and cry and all sorts of extraordinary statements are made about the relevance of that marginal amount of money to the total development of education in Australia. [More…]

• Then the Schools Commission report says that it will not make some recommendations in relation to a further $5m out of $57 1 m. It is not very convincing when the Opposition uses that argument and tries to claim that the Government is therefore overturning a needs funding of education, overturning education policies in Australia. [More…]

• As I said before, the Minister has pointed out that the States are in a very much superior position under the Fraser Government than that during the term of the Whitlam Government with regard to making their own contribution and some determination of their own priorities in their spending on education in government schools. [More…]

• Queensland had the worst education system in Australia under a Labor government which expected that it was never going to be turned out of power. [More…]

• The Labor Party cannot claim that it is the Party of education. [More…]

• I fear that we are being pushed, by an education establishment which is as broad as it is strong, into a situation in which any school which is not as well off in some terms or other- goodness knows which terms- as a category 1 school, is termed a disadvantaged school because it is disadvantaged in relation to the very best school. [More…]

• There is no point, in present day Australia, in just talking about a never ending demand for funds for education, an open ended policy, and endless rate of increase, without some justification in terms of what is the standard of education in Australia today, what is the standard of our schools today and what effect that has on the standard of education. [More…]

• First of all, I would have thought that those who are interested in education are interested in education not in terms of the facilities of government and non-government schools but in terms of what is provided for children, whether they attend a government school or a nongovernment school. [More…]

• Parents of children at non-government schools, in my experience, overwhelmingly accept that they must make a contribution towards the cost of their child’s education because they choose something different. [More…]

• It was because of that disparity that the Schools Commission itself outlined that nonstate education was available only to the wealthy. [More…]

• Senator Button said that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) protests too much. [More…]

• Senator Georges ought to be aware of the importance of the non-government schools sector to the education of children in the many isolated areas of Queensland. [More…]

• He ought to be aware that the closure of 21 boarding schools in three years in Queensland is an educational catastrophe. [More…]

• If they choose to stand by and watch it happen, they know that they do it at the cost of an overwhelmingly larger injection of government funds into government schools to try to meet the imbalance that that sort of change in our educational patterns in Queensland must bring about. [More…]

• The Bill seeks to give independent schools, non-government schools, a guarantee of loan so that they can proceed with certain educational projects and certain expansionary projects. [More…]

• I would have thought that the Australian people accept- I believe that they do- the importance of the alternative system of education in Australia and also that there is a responsibility on government ‘s State and Federal, to provide a minimum level of funding, which is all the Government has sought to do. [More…]

• It is important that we keep people who are motivated in a very particular way towards education. [More…]

• It is important to the government schools sector that it has a reasonable basis of competition in the education system. [More…]

• In fact, certain sections of the independent schools system are noted for being rather more traditional in their attitude towards education. [More…]

• But its attitude towards other thingsnot schoolroom education, but standards and citizenship training- is indeed different. [More…]

• As long as parents are chosing that alternative system of education in substantial numbers, it is clear that there is a substantial proportion of the Australian public which believes that competition is important for what it means in educational and personal terms. [More…]

• The divisiveness of this debate is not because the Government has moved to support a necessary area of education. [More…]

• They need to recognise, as I believe the Australian community overwhelmingly does, that the non-government school sector plays a critical role in the educational and social development of our nation and as such it is surely not unreasonable that this Bill ought to provide guarantees for a maximum of $ 10m a year for non-government school expansion. [More…]

• However, the Opposition does see fit to regard the debate on this Bill as an opportunity to express our very sincere concern about the destructive effect of Government policy on all sectors of education. [More…]

• Senator Martin chose to characterise the Opposition’s concern as two things- as a trivial and petty concern with technicalities of guidelines, and as a prejudiced and hostile onslaught on the private sector of education. [More…]

• It is understandable that Senator Martin and other supporters of the Government, including perhaps the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, himself should wish to characterise our concern with what is happening in education in these demeaning and distorted terms. [More…]

• The concern felt about the destructive effect of the Government’s most recent policies and actions in respect of education funding in all sectors is snared by all sectors of the community throughout Australia. [More…]

• It is shared by all sectors of education. [More…]

• I remind Senator Martin and all honourable senators in this chamber, and I would remind all those people who are interested in the education debate, that if it had not been for the greatly increased funding of the non-government sector under the Labor Government’s education program many more than the 25 non-government schools referred to by Senator Martin would have had to close. [More…]

• It is a well known fact to all of those who are concerned with education in the nongovernment sector that the parochial school system in all States was on the verge of collapse. [More…]

• There is no doubt that if the Whitlam Government had not been elected with its pledge to fund education according to needs the parochial school system in most States would have collapsed. [More…]

• As evidence of the claim that what we are concerned about now is the entire education sectionthe government school section and the non-government school section- I would point to the fact that the criticisms emanating from the most recent Schools Commission report are not the criticisms of one sector. [More…]

• The Commission, as the Minister for Education would know seeing that he has recently appointed people to that Commission, represents the entire cross-section of those concerned with education in Australia. [More…]

• The Commission has on it representatives of those concerned with special education for the handicapped. [More…]

• It is that body which unanimously has brought down these criticisms of the Government’s action in regard to the funding of education that we cite in support of our case that there is indeed universal concern in this country about the detrimental effects of the Government ‘s education policy. [More…]

• It is that we have very wide-ranging concern with what is happening in education. [More…]

• Let us look at what is happening in education under the Fraser Government and under the administration of the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick. [More…]

• It is a fact that during the period of the Labor Government education averaged a real growth of 39 per cent in each of its three years [More…]

• We are not simply pursuing a big spending argument that more money means better education. [More…]

• There is no growth to better education; no growth towards more equality. [More…]

• That is why we are concernednot with the amounts of money involved but with the fact that the objectives of the original Karmel Committee which were to bring all schools in Australia, to which all Australian children have access, up to a standard which would give roughly equal educational opportunity to all children in Australia. [More…]

• If we like to think that those things are the case, then surely to aim at providing roughly equal opportunity in education for all Australian children is not an extravagant or unreasonable objective, but the progress towards that objective which was started so magnificently during the period of the Whitlam Government when Kim Beazley was Minister for Education has now been stopped, and that is the main basis of our concern. [More…]

• One is the fact that forward planning in education has been destroyed by the Minister’s failure to honour his promises- given many times within this chamber and outside- to maintain real growth in education and to maintain a rolling biennium funding system under which during this next financial year there would be a 2 per cent real growth in education. [More…]

• No planning, other than hand-to-mouth annual ad hoc planning, is now available to the education institutions in this country. [More…]

• Again I remind honourable senators that the implications of that in terms of children’s education are very serious. [More…]

• Education is not something which can be turned on and off like a tap. [More…]

• Education programs take years to develop, to trial, to evaluate, to modify in terms of changing needs, changing demands of employers, of post secondary institutions and so forth. [More…]

• It is simply not possible to plan sound education on a yearly basis. [More…]

• All planning in education, if it is to be sound and productive, must be long range planning. [More…]

• The Minister’s failure to secure funds to maintain the forward planning that he promised when he spoke about the rolling triennium is disastrous and will mean that there will be no constructive planning for education; therefore the education of many children in Australia will be fragmented and will stop and start. [More…]

• The fact that the Minister, whether deliberately or otherwise, has misled teachers, parents and administrators in education with regard to future growth and planning is in itself a source of serious concern to all of us who wanted to see education removed from a party political haggle into a central area of social policy where ongoing adequate resources would be provided. [More…]

• He is Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs and he is Minister for Education. [More…]

• It seems to us that there is a direct conflict in those two areas, a conflict which has not been resolved in the guidelines issued to education commissions by the Minister. [More…]

• On the other hand, the Minister in his role as Minister for Education has said: ‘Yes, there is a decreasing funding for the State with respect to government schools, but the States can assume that responsibility themselves’. [More…]

• Even the Minister has not claimed that education standards should not be maintained, and if they are not going to be maintained by Federal funding clearly they have to be maintained by State funding. [More…]

• This is a major outcome of the Commission’s work over the past four years and indeed may be one of the major achievements of the Commonwealth in its role in Australian education. [More…]

• So we have the unanimous report from the Schools Commission, a body which represents a full cross-section of education in Australia, voicing concerns that we in the Opposition can only endorse and reinforce. [More…]

• Contrary to what was suggested by Senator Martin, the Opposition is not interested in opening up sectarian disputes with regard to the funding of education. [More…]

• The whole purpose of the needs-based approach to the funding of education in Australia instituted under the Labor Government was to remove that sectarian division. [More…]

• It is that kind of direction to that kind of redistribution that we regard as divisive and as raising again the sectarian issue in the funding of education. [More…]

• However, I think we should remember that it is not the Schools Commission which should be the focus of our concern or the focus of any controversy surrounding the funding of education. [More…]

• After all, the Schools Commission is a statutory body of persons appointed by the Minister- by two Ministers now- to advise nationally on needs in education. [More…]

• So any criticisms of and concern we feel about and any controversies arising out of what is happening in education must be properly directed at the Government. [More…]

• It is the policies of the Government which will mean that there will be a no growth situation and, indeed, a deterioration in some of the more disadvantaged sectors of education. [More…]

• We must not allow the debate about education in Australia to focus on a statutory body when it is the Government’s policies and practice which are the central area of concern. [More…]

• At this stage of the debate I would like to ask what exactly is the Government’s policy with respect to the funding of all sectors of education in Australia. [More…]

• I am aware, as no doubt all honourable senators are aware, of the contents of the official policy of the Liberal and National Country parties in respect of education. [More…]

• On paper, the policy probably does not look significantly different in some of its emphases from the policies of the Australian Labor Party with respect to education. [More…]

• There is no serious attempt to move towards equality of opportunity in education. [More…]

• There is no growth in the areas most in need of growth in education. [More…]

• The current redistribution of funding that the Schools Commission has been forced to carry out by the Minister is simply reinforcing existing inequalities in our community and in our education system. [More…]

• There is no planning which would allow the development of new and more constructive approaches to education. [More…]

• No innovations mean that no money is being allocated for thinking and re-looking at the basis of education in order to make education more accessible to more children in our community. [More…]

• It is a well known phenomenon of education that those children who get the most out of traditional methods of education are those children who come from the most advantaged families. [More…]

• It is a well known phenomenon of education that children who are disadvantaged generally in socio-economic terms also find themselves disadvantaged when they go into our school system because the school system until now has been a traditional conservative system which did not take account of the special needs and the special difficulties of children from lower socio-economic groups or, in the case of Australia, children from particular ethnic groups or children from the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Innovation is essential not simply to improve the sort of traditional education which is available and suitable to middle class children in Australia; innovation is absolutely essential if teachers are to achieve some sort of breakthrough in the teaching, for example, of Aboriginal children, in the teaching of non-English speaking migrant children, in the teaching of handicapped children and so on. [More…]

• It is in those areas that the traditional education methods have been a complete failure and it is in those areas that innovation is needed. [More…]

• Earlier this year the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts brought down a very far reaching report on the needs of children in isolated areas. [More…]

• If supporters of the Government are seriously concerned about the lack of education facilities for children in isolated areas, I suggest that they should be particularly concerned by the no-growth policy of the present Government. [More…]

• In the area of the education of isolated children, there is clearly and patently a need for an input of a significant amount of resources if those children are to achieve anything like equality of opportunity in education with children living in city areas who have access to good government and good nongovernment schools. [More…]

• I would make this point finally: Whilst the Opposition does not oppose the loan assistance arrangements contained in the Bill we are debating tonight, it does oppose in general the approach taken by this Government to education because it is a retrograde step. [More…]

• It is an approach which will merely entrench inequalities, and it is an approach which runs the very dangerous possibility of opening up the sectarian issue of education funding again. [More…]

• Opposition senators who have spoken in the debate so far- Senator Button and Senator Ryan- have turned it into a debate on the Schools Commission report which was brought down in the Senate last week and in respect of which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) made his statement. [More…]

• I think that he was followed on that occasion by Senator Wriedt, the Opposition spokesman on education matters, who also had something to say about it. [More…]

• Labor Government that did this when it cut the total education vote by $105m in the 1975 Budget. [More…]

• This Government- I congratulate the Minister for Education on this move- has reintroduced triennium funding and planning. [More…]

• The Whitlam Government first issued them in 1975, not only for the Schools Commission but for all the education commissions, when it set aside the reports of the four commissions for the 1976-78 triennium, suspended the triennial principle and directed the commissions to present recommendations for 1976 within stipulated financial limits. [More…]

• Of the total funds which States spend on education, 85 per cent comes from the State governments themselves and only 15 per cent comes from the Commonwealth. [More…]

• When people are shouting calamity’, I remind the Senate that since the Budget was delivered, in my experience, there has not been much protest at ail against what was said in the Budget about education. [More…]

• I am assured that the State Government in its education vote- I am speaking of Victoria only, because it is the only budget on which I have been given information- has more than picked up this tab which is such a worry to the Opposition. [More…]

• The Minister for Education may have the precise figure before him. [More…]

• I commend the Bill to the Senate as an excellent initiative by the Government in the education field. [More…]

• That statement is directed at those persons who are criticising the Government over its present education policies. [More…]

• One of the things that he said was that in the Hayden Budget of 1975 the Labor Government cut funding for education. [More…]

• If the honourable senator looks at page 33 of the Budget Speech of 1976-77, a document the accuracy of which I am sure he would not question, he will find that the Treasurer, Mr Lynch, pointed out that education funding in the last year of the Labor Government increased by $240m. [More…]

• Let us put to rest once and for all the assertion that the Labor Government cut funding for education in the Hayden Budget. [More…]

• If your Minister has a fight with Mr Lynch about education funding in 1975-76 it is not my worry. [More…]

• I could go to the figures for the colleges of advanced education and use the same argument. [More…]

• But even by that time the non-government school sector had got into very grave trouble, especially the Catholic education system, because those schools were mainly low resource schools. [More…]

• The Commission itself said that the Commission may prove to be one of the major achievements of the Commonwealth in its role in Australian education. [More…]

• We have never argued that a government does not have the right to determine the totality of funding for education or any other sector. [More…]

• It is their job to find out where the needs lie in Australian education. [More…]

• This is a major outcome of the Commission’s work over the last four years and indeed may be one of the major achievements of the Commonwealth in its role in Australian education. [More…]

• The last point I raise is on the related matter of the States capacity to take up the leeway in education. [More…]

• I close my remarks by saying that we are seeing a move away from justice and equality in education in this country. [More…]

• We believe this is a disaster for education. [More…]

• I have listened to the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt) and I have listened to the reply of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in justifying rejection of the amendment said that it is not necessary because the Acts Interpretation Act gives power to either House of the Parliament to disallow a regulation. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bills is quite apparent from the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and from the brief contents of the Bills themselves. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Senator Robertson will know very well that one of the tragedies is that whilst we have through, in particular, ABSEG- the Aboriginal secondary education grants- some 14,000 students or more in secondary schools, which is about one-tenth of the Aboriginal population of Australia, no real school work orientation has been done in the past. [More…]

• The result is that the youngsters who gam some education are not helped in particular ways to get jobs. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to advertisements from colleges of advanced education appearing in the Sydney Sun, for example, advertising in the following terms: [More…]

• Will the Minister agree that the Kuring-gai College is indeed a very pleasant place and a very fine college of advanced education? [More…]

• The proposals envisage the delegation of wide policy and executive responsibility for important functions such as health, education and welfare services, public transport, the Australian Capital [More…]

• It should be expected that the Government would be looking to the same general processes of refinement in high expenditure areas including education, welfare and health. [More…]

• We therefore ask that the Government and the Minister for Education take notice of the splendid work done by Mrs Joan Kirner in her capacity as part-time member of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate whether there have been any recent incidents which limit the capacity of Australian citizens or others to express views freely in this country to audiences anxious to hear them? [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government, through myself as Minister for Education, has in fact discussed the matter of freedom of expression and freedom of action on campuses with vice-chancellors and principals. [More…]

• -It is like the position in respect of education. [More…]

• Everybody claims to be an expert on education just because he went to school. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall from my statement of 3 June 1977 that the principal elements of the guidelines for the base programs for 1978 were the maintenance in real terms of the 1977 level of expenditure for universities and colleges, plus an additional $3.1m to cover increased responsibilities for recurrent support of certain non-government teachers colleges and an increase of 10 per cent in real terms in the base program for technical and further education. [More…]

• This transfer arises from the Commission’s review of capital projects required by the guidelines and represents its estimate of likely cashflow for the building program in the advanced education sector in 1978. [More…]

• In making this adjustment, the Commission has departed from the advice of the Advanced Education Council by providing for a lesser rate of expenditure on capital projects in 1978 by $5m, but has not varied the list of projects recommended by the Council. [More…]

• Total enrolments in technical and further education institutions are estimated to increase by 9.2 per cent in 1978. [More…]

• In making firm recommendations for the year 1978 only, the Tertiary Education Commission has deferred recommendations about certain matters in the guidelines until it presents a further report early in 1978. [More…]

• This report will constitute Volume I of the Commission’s report for the 1 979-8 1 triennium and will contain advice on the funds required for tertiary education for those three years. [More…]

• Within the context of advice on the co-ordination and development of tertiary education over that period, the Commission intends to comment on a number of matters, including supply and demand for teachers, the completion of the review of advanced education building projects, the Australian Maritime College, the review of capital contribution for nongovernment teachers colleges and forward trends in the provision of opportunities for tertiary education. [More…]

• The report of the Tertiary Education Commission, which has just become available in its printed form, is being passed to the States for their consideration. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education and Minister assisting the Prime Minister in Federal Affairs: Has he seen reports of the Budget brought down in Western Australia yesterday by Sir Charles Court? [More…]

• How does that Budget fit in with the Minister’s recent claims that the revenue sharing grants made under the new federalism policy have given the States the ability to make both tax reductions and generous provisions for education? [More…]

• Not only has the Premier cut State taxes and balanced his Budget, but he has increased expenditure, especially on education. [More…]

• There will be an 18 per cent increase in spending on education in Western Australia. [More…]

• This gives the clearest possible denial to those honourable senators opposite who are trying to suggest that the allocation for education in Australia, particularly in the schooling area, is being cut. [More…]

• As each Budget comes down- the Victorian Budget, the Tasmanian Budget and the Western Australian Budget- we see that not only did the States cut taxes last year and improve their position, but that this year they are again cutting taxes and are able to have further money to apply to education and other policies. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education seen an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today by Sarah Monks, the education reporter for that newspaper, claiming that there is a financial crisis in child and adult migrant education services in New South Wales and that it has been caused by cuts in Federal Government funds? [More…]

• What are the comparative levels of Commonwealth funding for child and adult migrant education under the Fraser Government and under the former Whitlam Government? [More…]

• I do not reflect in any way upon her as a person, but the actual basis of the article- that there are cuts in Federal funds for migrant education, whether adult or child migrant educationis wrong. [More…]

• One of the bases for error in assessing this situation, as I have pointed out before in the Senate, is that a year ago a new basis for funding of child migrants occurred whereby child migrant education was taken over and funded under the Schools Commission. [More…]

• To the extent that the article indicates that there are cuts- and substantial cuts- in funding of migrant education, the article is based on inaccuracy. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Education to Press reports that teachers in outback New South Wales are now on strike because of what they say is inadequate housing, the blame for which they place at the door of the Federal Government. [More…]

• In a sense the question follows the Dorothy Dix question posed by Senator Martin regarding education for migrants and the unsatisfactory answer given by Senator Carrick. [More…]

• Indeed Labor supporters might be wondering about a former Labor stalwart in Sir John Egerton who very recently of education said: [More…]

• Nowhere in Australia do we waste money to such an extent as in education. [More…]

• They were therefore subject to Australian laws and rights, including what I regard as the right to freedom of movement, to freedom of speech, to self-determination, to compulsory education, to official legal tender and to comparable conditions of employment including wages and certain standards of health, hygiene and housing. [More…]

• I mentioned that provision would be made to issue local ordinances and to establish better facilities for the administration of justice, that health and education services would be extended, and that rates of pay and employment conditions on Cocos would be aligned progressively with Australian practice and International Labour Organisation conventions. [More…]

• Again, the same as the Labor statement of September 1975. the improvement of education and health facilities and general upgrading of living standards; [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of the continuing concern of many Australians about the state of health and nutrition among Aboriginal people, especially Aboriginal children? [More…]

• Can the Minister tell the Senate whether any recent steps have been taken in the field of education to improve Aboriginal health and nutrition, especially in the Northern Territory? [More…]

• The matter, of course, is one of conjoint action between the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the Minister for Health and myself as Minister for Education. [More…]

• Since the schools are a focal point in which there is congregated a very significant number of Aboriginal people and since health and nutrition are related so much not only to the education of the day but also to the long term future the school itself is quite vital. [More…]

• Apart from anything else, it means that the child so suffering is ill-equipped to be responsive to education and of course unequipped to enjoy the experience of living. [More…]

• The question which the honourable senator asks is of profound importance in education and in general welfare. [More…]

• -I address my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The fact that the Minister is opening a further stage in the development of the Kormilda Aboriginal College in Darwin this coming weekend and the fact that the Ti Tree school in the Northern Territory is to be used as an Aboriginal teachers training college indicate a growing awareness of the necessity for an expanded program of Aboriginal education. [More…]

• Having in mind the national Aboriginal employment policies being developed by the Government and having due regard to possible staff ceilings within the Department of Education, will the Government ensure that the soul destroying concept of unemployment benefitssit down money’ as it is recognised by Aboriginal people- is removed by giving impetus to the training of Aboriginal teachers? [More…]

• The fundamental question which the honourable senator raised was the last one, that is, the relationship between education itself in the schools and colleges and the ultimate purpose in life of the Aborigine. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and arises, in a way, from the question asked by Senator Mulvihill. [More…]

• Has he read an article in it headed: ‘Carrick Denies Program Cuts’, dealing with the adult migrant education program? [More…]

• Is it true that the Sydney Morning Herald’s education reporter again confirms her original report in yesterday’s Herald that there has been a 5.8 per cent cut in real terms in Commonwealth funds to the New South Wales Adult Migrant Education Service? [More…]

• Will the Minister clarify the situation and again set out the true position with respect to the Commonwealth’s generous treatment of the New South Wales Adult Migrant Education Service? [More…]

• I should have sought the permission of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) earlier in respect of their incorporation but if there are no objections I will, when I get to the appropriate stage in the debate, seek their incorporation. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) informed us that in determining each State’s allocation the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) has taken into account the relative availability of funds from current appropriations and existing State commitments. [More…]

• I do not know whether the Minister for Education can give me an answer later in the debate as to whether it would be possible, bearing in mind the importance that the Federal Government places on this highway, to obtain a special grant at least sufficient to seal the 50 kilometre section to which I have referred and to make a start on the survey and planning of the road further to the north. [More…]

• Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), that we agree on what clauses 6 and 7 mean. [More…]

• These matters include particular issues such as the question of assistance to the fishing industry and the stimulation of the engineering industry as well as the broader concerns of unemployment, technical education, structural adjustment assistance measures, government purchasing, incentives for small businesses and ways to encourage tourism. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) was kind enough to give me a copy in the last two or three hours and I have endeavoured to go through it as much as possible to get an indication of the effect of the report. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 August 1977: [More…]

• What was the amount of financial assistance, both recurrent and capital, to the Riverina College of Advanced Education for the years 1975-76 and 1976-77, and the estimated amount for 1977-78. [More…]

• The amount of Commonwealth financial assistance to New South Wales provided under States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Legislation for capital and recurrent expenditure at the Riverina College of Advanced Education for the financial years 1 975-76 and 1 976-77 was: [More…]

• The Government is currently considering the detailed recommendations on the allocation of capital and recurrent funds to tertiary institutions throughout Australia contained in the Tertiary Education Commission’s report, ‘Recommendations for 1978’. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware of radio reports this morning that the staff association of the colleges of advanced education plans to mount a campaign to force the Government to abandon the present system of funding education on a rolling triennium basis with yearly reviews? [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the present system is causing any uncertainty in the planning or delivery of education? [More…]

• Is it his intention, or that of the Tertiary Education Commission, to restore annual funding for colleges of advanced education? [More…]

• I am happy to be able to say, for example, that education spending is up $5 1.2m or 12.9 per cent to $447.8m. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the Sydney Sun oi 21 September last in which the Wran Government is accused of breaking an election promise on education funding for New South Wales independent schools? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it true that the Australian Territories Accreditation Committee for Advanced Education has recommended the accreditation of a four-year course in teacher education to be offered at the Darwin Community College? [More…]

• When I was in Darwin last week I was very happy to announce that the Accreditation Committee had recommended to me the adoption of a four-year degree course in education at the Darwin Community College and that the Government had acceded to the recommendation. [More…]

• I am very happy to say that the Accreditation Committee of Dr Burton made very pleasant comments about the quality of the delivery of education at the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• Again this is a very useful thing for the development of education in the Territory itself. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article in the Adelaide Advertiser stating that the South Australian Premier, Mr Dunstan, is claiming that the Federal Government had reduced spending on further education and that the South Australian Government has been forced to carry the extra load? [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Federal Government has increased spending in the technical and further education area this year and has also provided much more revenue for South Australia under the new federalism arrangements so that the State Government should provide more from its own resources to be spent according to its own order of education priorities? [More…]

• I am aware that the Premier of South Australia claims, quite wrongly, that the Federal Government has cut education expenditure in the further education field. [More…]

• I want to say- it is not new to this Senatethat the only government that cut expenditure in technical and further education was the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• I repeat that the Labor Government cut technical and further education expenditure by $9m back to $65m in the 1975 Budget. [More…]

• Quite apart from that, the viability of the State governments now through general revenue funding is such that it would be a severe act if the Dunstan Government did not expand its funds to the further education field. [More…]

• If South Australia does not bring down a Budget which substantially increases funding to all aspects of education it will not be because it is short of funds. [More…]

• It is quite within its capacity to spend revenue on education. [More…]

• Therefore one looks forward to South Australia using the money that it has for greater increases in education expenditure. [More…]

• -Mr President, I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• All education funding is conducted on the basis of calendar years. [More…]

• This is done by the Schools Commission, by the Tertiary Education Commission and by all the education councils. [More…]

• I will give the honourable senator the figures with respect to technical and further education. [More…]

• In the calendar year 1975 under the Whitlam government, expenditure on technical and further education was $74m, and it was cut in the subsequent Budget to $65m. [More…]

• These are the figures that all educationists in Australia use. [More…]

• A former Minister for Education in the Western Australian Government not so long ago said that he was quite sure that women really should not have higher qualifications because they were not going to be used in the main, and therefore, were not of any benefit and were only tying up funds that could be better used for other purposes. [More…]

• It teaches them about modern living facilities, health and education, welfare, population control and family planning. [More…]

• The churches and missions have contributed greatly to the health, education, welfare and spiritual upbringing of these people but the churches are not highly regarded by the Bantu because the churches’ giving has been all one way. [More…]

• The blacks recognise that their salvation is in education and they prize it highly. [More…]

• I met mothers who would even go without food so that their children could get education. [More…]

• A certain standard of education is required or the possession of a certain amount of moneywhich is not much- or the possession of a certain amount of property-which is not a lot- and one has to have lived in Rhodesia for a prescribed period. [More…]

• We have given people today a higher level of education. [More…]

• In the Victorian Budget no less than a 12.3 per cent increase in expenditure on education was made possible at the same time as that Government was able to abolish estate duty, as it has been abolished in Queensland and as the Premier of Western Australia has undertaken to do within the life of his present Government. [More…]

• The only and perhaps the best way to control infiltration of this nature is through education. [More…]

• I am not going to speak at length on education in statistical terms in this Budget debate. [More…]

• I am going to talk about education just for a moment to suggest that it has to be relative to the end product if it is going to provide the sort of braking force that is necessary in a democratic society. [More…]

• We must recognise in education not merely a yardstick which means how many million dollars was spent or what facilities were provided. [More…]

• The basic yardstick of education in a free society surely must be its ability to produce at the end of the tunnel people who are prepared, willing, able and keen to amass details and facts and, having done that, to analyse them. [More…]

• On education we have spent $2.37 billion. [More…]

• Similarly, in the area of education funding there has been an abrogation of federal responsibility at every level. [More…]

• The burden for the major funding of education- that is with respect to the funding of school education, pre-school education and child care education- has been put back on the States. [More…]

• With regard to tertiary education, of course, there has been virtually a nogrowth situation. [More…]

• Not only that, but the promises of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) with regard to a rolling triennium and the 2 per cent real growth in this sector have been broken. [More…]

• I do not need to refer again to the criticisms from the various commissions and various vicechancellors as evidence that that commitment has been broken, that planning has been destroyed and that, of course, access to higher education and, indeed, access to quality primary and secondary education will be significantly reduced as a result of the Budget. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education seen the September-October edition of the Queensland P. & C. Guide which in its editorial claims that the Government has moved against children in State schools with a cynicism that must shock all thinking people in Australia? [More…]

• States themselves, in the first year of the Fraser Government, were able to increase the percentage that education represents of State budgets by a factor of 1 per cent. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• They comprise a disadvantaged education group. [More…]

• But even if they had great academic records they could well be destined to be included in the 20 per cent of people with tertiary education who cannot get employment. [More…]

• There is, of course, a major change and improvement in the new apprenticeship support scheme, known as the Commonwealth Rebate Apprenticeship Fulltime Training scheme, to support apprenticeship training through reimbursing employers for wages paid to apprentices attending basic technical education; subsidising additional off-the-job training to raise skills; and training additional apprentices by use of facilities in government departments. [More…]

• The Minister for Education Senator Carrick) is committed to training and employment for Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The lack of employment is ruining the education program in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Once we were able to say to Aboriginal children: ‘Come to school, get a good education and you will be able to leave school and get a good job’. [More…]

• As Senator Walsh pointed out, such words were used by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who now takes umbrage whenever honourable senators on this side of the chamber cany on a precedent which was created by members of the present Government, that is, using certain derogatory words about members of the then Labor Government and, in particular, about the Prime Minister of that time, Mr Whitlam. [More…]

• He referred to the statements made by the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, and other members on the other side who are now Ministers. [More…]

• Last night I am given to understand that the Minister for Education in that great State of Queensland got on the telephone to the Director of Education who then got on the telephonepresumably they were frightened to commit anything to paper in case someone leaked it- to regional directors of education, who in turn got on the telephone to various principals of high schools and I presume tertiary education institutions who were given instructions that the building society problem was not to be discussed within the ambit of the school. [More…]

• Yet I understand that this Government has done nothing by way of education programs to improve employer attitudes in this area. [More…]

• What happened in the meantime was that many of these families, particularly migrant families who came to Australia to establish themselves, to get themselves a home- which perhaps was one of their main objectives in leaving the country of their birth- during the period of the 1950s and 1960s committed themselves to large mortgage repayments and to education expenses for their children and so forth. [More…]

• I fail to see that the Government’s setting of the broad areas and parameters by which the Schools Commission can consider the guidelines for determining the expenditure on education is interfering in any way with the Commission, when it is known that only a certain amount of money is available in the coffers to meet the commitments. [More…]

• Nothing could be further from the truth, because it is quite obvious that the Government will still bear the responsibility for whatever decision it makes in regard to the total amount of money spent on education. [More…]

• Qualifications of Members of Tertiary Education Councils (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) What are the (a) secondary, and (b) tertiary (if any) qualifications of each of the members of the Universities Council, the Advanced Education Council and the Technical and Further Education Council, the appointments to which were announced in the Senate on 3 June 1977. [More…]

• On 3 June 1977, in announcing in the Senate the membership of the Tertiary Education Commission and its Councils, I provided biographical information on the members of the Universities Council, the Advanced Education Council and the Technical and Further Education Council. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a column in yesterday’s Sydney Daily Mirror by a State political reporter, Dennis Ringrose, entitled ‘Education a Poor Relation?”? [More…]

• Does Mr Ringrose say in his report that ‘Education is fast becoming the poor relation of the Wran Government’s many financial responsibilities’? [More…]

• Will the Minister give the Senate his views on the very real threat which cutbacks in the Wran Government’s spending on education pose for the children of New South Wales? [More…]

• It is an item which is headed ‘Education a Poor Relation? [More…]

• The simple fact is that the decisions of the Wran Government are decisions that it must make itself politically, in terms of value judgments as to how high or otherwise it regards education in its spectrum. [More…]

• It has the money to increase the programs of education if it so desires. [More…]

• My understanding is that education represents, in capital works, only some 8 per cent and, therefore, is a poor relation in every sense. [More…]

• Government wants to face up to education it can do so. [More…]

• If it does not, it demonstrates what a low priority it holds for education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and relates to the question he has just attempted to answer. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the Schools Commission itself in respect of education alone has indicated that it will not be possible for State governmnents to maintain the level of commitment to education as they have done in the past? [More…]

• I say to him that the overwhelming evidence is that if all States in the first year of the Fraser Government could balance their Budgets and cut taxes then they had more money than necessary to carry out education programs. [More…]

• The Schools Commission said that in the first year of the Fraser Government the States were able to increase by one per cent the percentage that education occupied of total State budgets, and that meant literally tens of millions of dollars more for education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and arises out of questions asked previously by Senator Wriedt and Senator Lajovic concerning education in New South Wales. [More…]

• Is it a fact that to date the New South Wales Government has failed to obtain full funds for the adult education migrant service for which the Federal Government has been responsible since 1947? [More…]

• Is it also true that migrant education services are so overloaded in New South Wales that they cannot be advertised and that the Federal Government has rejected a request for funds for teaching equipment for the services? [More…]

• In more recent times, particularly in the last year, a number of refugees has come to this country from places such as Lebanon, South America, Vietnam, and Timor, to name four, and the demand for adult migrant educationEnglish language education- has increased beyond the normal trend in previous years. [More…]

• Funds for education have fallen by one per cent in real terms whereas under Labor they grew annually by 39 per cent. [More…]

• It has a first class physical education program for all children. [More…]

• I should like to make a few comments now about education. [More…]

• The Budget provides for Commonwealth expenditure of $2,371m on education for 1977-78. [More…]

• It must be remembered also that funds for education flow to the States in a two-fold stream. [More…]

• Relating it back to the context of education, to which I am addressing myself, it gives the States further capacity to increase their spending on schools if they so desire. [More…]

• I will point to specific areas of successive Budgets that have been put down in this place, particularly the area of education. [More…]

• In doing so I will give the lie to Senator Carrick ‘s repeated assertion in this Parliament that the Labor Government in fact reduced expenditure on education. [More…]

• He is playing on the use of a complete misnomer when he says all the time that we decreased expenditure on education. [More…]

• In fact, as the Budget figures prove, we made massive increases in education expenditure. [More…]

• We had to do that because the philosophy of previous Liberal governments had been that there should not be any education for the masses and that education should be only for the wealthy section of this community. [More…]

• -I will prove to Senator Baume by referring to the Budget figures that we had to provide massive increases in expenditure to bring education standards up to what the people of this country require, in particular the people in the lower standard of living group. [More…]

• I have raised the matter in Senate Estimates Committees in relation to aspects of compulsory education for children under 14 years of age and the replacement of plastic token currency with official Australian currency. [More…]

• In the meantime I have placed on the Notice Paper questions concerning the proposed replacement of plastic token currency; questions on the introduction of a form of compulsory education; questions relating to the Cocos community fund; questions regarding the establishment of a form of local government in the area; and questions concerning health and hygiene so far as the Cocos Malay people are concerned. [More…]

• The broad details of Australia’s Cocos policy are as follows: a representative form of local government for the Cocos community to be established with the ultimate aim being the creation of a fully elected body; arrangements to be made allowing a transfer to the Cocos community of the village area ofHome Island; the replacement of token money by Australian currency; establishment of a new form of fund to assist the financing of community activities’, there should be freedom of movement and communication within the Territory; the improvement of education and health facilities and general upgrading of living standards; the framing and implementation of laws which could be clearly applied and enforced, taking into account local institutions and customs; the progressive introduction of a wages economy appropriate to Cocos conditions; appropriate means by which Australian citizenship can be provided to residents of the Territory who wish to take up Australian citizenship; the provision of financial assistance to Cocos Malays who wish to move from Cocos to Australia; and the ownership by the Australian Government of all land on which its facilities are located. [More…]

• Clunies Ross estate provide for direct payment of appropriate sums of money in Australian currency to the Cocos community; a separate Cocos community fund be established for this purpose to be administered by and for the sole benefit of the community; the use of token money eventually be discontinued and replaced by Australian currency, taking into account the complexities involved; provision be made to issue local ordinances and establish better facilities for the administration of justice; health and education services be extended; rates of pay and employment conditions on Cocos aligned progressively with Australian practice and International Labour Organisation conventions; provisions be introduced to permit freedom of movement for members of the Cocos community and provision for granting Australian citizenship to Cocos Islanders born there before 1955 who did not apply for citizenship in the prescribed time with a view to making it easier for the citizens of Cocos to take out such citizenship if they wished to do so. [More…]

• We are entitled to know what steps the Government has taken to ensure freedom of movement and communications within the territory and to improve education, health facilities and general living standards. [More…]

• It will meet a need in the community in the Katherine area and will be an integral part of the education system. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the Karmel report regarded these objectives as minimum acceptable targets’ and in no way suggested that the achievement of those targets would produce a satisfactory standard of education in Australia? [More…]

• In view of the Government’s decision to freeze expenditure on education this year and to effect cuts in certain areas, are we to assume that the Government has no intention of trying to improve Australian schools over and above the minimum targets set by Professor Karmel? [More…]

• In the two years of Fraser Federal Government the volume of funds that has flowed from the Federal level, through the Schools Commission and by tax reimbursement, into education has shown very real growth and for next year increased real growth. [More…]

• I showed that the schools Commission report, rather than talking about cuts indicated that the States had all been able to improve upon maintenance of effort and indeed had increased education expenditure as a percentage of their budgets. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask: Is it not true that the capital requirements of the education systems in most States remain acute and that unless the Commonwealth is prepared to maintain the level of capital payments to the States at the level for the past few years their capital programs will start to decline? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In my judgment, any cut in education is a pity and a disappointment to myself and the Government. [More…]

• In answer to a question from Senator Baume on 7 September this year, the Minister for Education said: [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education and refers to his assertion last Thursday, in response to a question from my colleague Senator Sibraa, that the New South Wales Government has not failed to obtain full funds from the Federal Government for its adult education migrant service. [More…]

• I ask the Minister Did the New South Wales Government seek $5m in April of this year for its adult education migrant service and was that application rejected by the Federal Government? [More…]

• Did the New South Wales Government then seek a reduced amount, namely $3.4m, for its migrant education service to accord with the requirement that funding be maintained in real terms at 1976-77 levels, but did it receive only $3.09m? [More…]

• Is it a fact that in subsequent discussions the Minister for Education offered a further $150,000 to the adult education migrant service to bring the total level of Federal funds for the service to a mere $3. [More…]

• If so, how does the Minister explain his answer to Senator Sibraa that the Federal Government has funded the adult education migrant service in New South Wales at the same level in real terms as was provided in 1976-77? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that in 1976-77 the Tasmanian Minister for Education, Mr Batt, underspent the loan funds appropriation for primary schools by $1.7m; that in respect of the Consolidated Revenue appropriation for 1976-77, out of 39 items, in 22 cases the Minister for Education spent less than the estimated amounts appropriated by the Tasmanian Parliament in the 1976 Budget; and that one of those items cut was the State’s contribution towards the cost of meals for children at special schools? [More…]

• In the light of the above facts is there any truth in Mr Batt s assertion that in some way Tasmanian education has been disadvantaged by any decision of the Federal Government? [More…]

• -To respond to the last part of the honourable senator’s question first, let me say that the only disadvantaging of the Tasmanian people by way of education is due to the Tasmanian Labor Government. [More…]

• I want to make these points perfectly clear The Tasmanian Government was the only government in the years 1975-76 and 1976-77 not to increase the percentage that education occupied in its Budget. [More…]

• Education expenditure in the whole of Australia otherwise went up one per cent. [More…]

• In a revenue budget of something like $396m that means that the revenue for education was sold short by at least $8.5m. [More…]

• The only people who are failing to provide money for education in Tasmania are Neilson and Batt in the Tasmanian Labor Government. [More…]

• The fact is that that Government has decided of its own free will to make education a lesser and lesser thing inside the State budget. [More…]

• Education occupies a very low percentage of the State budget. [More…]

• Education, obviously to Mr Batt and to the Neilson Government, is a lesser thing. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that Mr Santos’s visa expired on 30 April 1977 and that Mrs Santos has been refused a tertiary education assistance scheme application on the basis of not having a current visa? [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I understand that the Government has introduced a scheme to give further education to unemployed young people through technical schools. [More…]

• -If I understand Senator Thomas’s question correctly, he would be referring to the scheme known by the acronym EPUY-the education program for unemployed youth. [More…]

• It has a potential to teach the educators the defects of the education system. [More…]

• For my part, I hope we will be able to expand it because it is the one way in which we can generate very genuine concern for those people who are under privileged and, at the same time, learn ourselves where the community, the family and the education system are in defect. [More…]

• We find Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, standing in this place time and time again, and also when he goes around the country talking to educationists and everybody who is interested in education, claiming that the Labor Government reduced expenditure on education. [More…]

• The total amount spent on education by the Federal Government in 1972-73 was $442.6m. [More…]

• lm, which is very near a doubling of expenditure on education in the first year of the Labor Government. [More…]

• Let us have a look at education expenditure in 1974-75. [More…]

• In the last year in office of the Government which Senator Cormack supported expenditure on education was $442.6m. [More…]

• The next year expenditure on education, under Labor, was $860. [More…]

• The total actual expenditure for education was $1,67 1.6m. [More…]

• Expenditure was getting very near to twice the actual expenditure on education in the first year of the Labor Government. [More…]

• We went out of office in 1975-76, the year in which we estimated in our Budget that we would expend $ 1,908.2m on education. [More…]

• Yet we find Senator Carrick getting up here day after day and saying to Senator Wriedt that he is twisting the figures, that he is not being truthful about expenditure on education and he has not been able to prove it except perhaps in only one area of education where there may have been a slight decrease. [More…]

• So it is no good Senator Carrick getting up in this place, and going around the hustings as he might be doing in two or three weeks’ time if the pundits are right, claiming that we reduced expenditure because he will not fool the people who are closely associated with education. [More…]

• They know full well who gave the large increases in expenditure for education- the Labor Government. [More…]

• It was spent on education. [More…]

• In 1976-77, under a Liberal-National Party Government, the actual expenditure on education was $2,160,000- an increase of approximately $3m. [More…]

• So it is no good honourable senators opposite claiming, as Senator Carrick likes to do, that we neglected education, because we did not. [More…]

• As I said here in a speech the other day, until we came to office it was always the philosophy of the Liberal Party that the children of the masses, of the working class, were not entitled to a decent education in this country. [More…]

• This Government’s expenditure on education m this Budget bears out what I said. [More…]

• A Liberal-National Country Party has never provided the necessary money for working class families to have an education. [More…]

• It has always been concerned that it should only be the silvertails and the bluebloods that get a decent education. [More…]

• But we set the standard for providing a decent education. [More…]

• The people of this country well realise that we are concerned with giving every person in this community who desires an education the opportunity to have it. [More…]

• Unlike the silvertails and the people who come from Burnside, Toorak- where Senator Cormack lives- and up on the North Shore, who go overseas for a trip and send their daughters to finishing school whenever they have some surplus money, the working man spends his surplus money on getting a decent house to live in and a better education for his children, something that is of lasting benefit to the community. [More…]

• He left out such items as education, where the increase this year is $2 10m, and health, where the increase this year is $27 lm. [More…]

• Under the heading ‘Training Programs in the Budget Speech the Treasurer points out that such programs include the recently introduced community youth support scheme, the education program for unemployed youth and the special youth employment training program, all of which are proving their worth. [More…]

• I want to say a word about education, although basically I am not speaking on that subject. [More…]

• Day after day we hear complaints from the Opposition in an attempt to indicate that developments in education are not good, but we know that there has been a continuing and steady development of education. [More…]

• The Government has also relaxed the means test by increasing the marginally adjusted family income for tertiary education and related schemes and for the additional boarding allowance for isolated children from $8,200 to $8,700 in 1978. [More…]

• Consequently, in a number of important areas, areas where people are greatly endangered in their efforts to obtain education for their children, there have been increases even in a year when the belt-tightening will have to continue. [More…]

• Education expenditure, as all honourable senators know, has risen- largely due to the efforts of the Labor Government between 1973 and 1975- from 2.8 per cent of total government outlays in 1967-68 to 8.9 per cent, which is the estimated expenditure in the current Budget. [More…]

• In the Budget there have been increases in expenditure for health, education and Aboriginal affairs in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• One wonders why they should not make contributions to the community consistent with their skills and education if that is the best way to make them happy. [More…]

• We therefore ask that the Government and the Minister for Education take notice of the splendid work done by Mrs Joan Kirner in her capacity as part-time member of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Technical and Further Education has been a neglected area of education for many years. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Education and refer to comments made today on the AM program in which the author of a book on finding a job blamed the schools for, I think the words were, churning out people who have no idea how to seek employment, and claimed that many of them were illequipped and unrealistic. [More…]

• If not, can his Ministry initiate moves to close this serious gap in our very expensive education program? [More…]

• There is evidence of insufficient career advice and vocational guidance throughout the education system and of a growing need for such counselling and advice. [More…]

• The Australian Education Council set up a working party on the same subject of transition from school to work. [More…]

• That matter has been under study and will be the subject of discussion by the six State Education Ministers and myself when we meet in Canberra in early November. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• McClelland and wherein he stated that refugees were the cause of the increased demand for English language instruction by the Adult Education Migrant Service. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that 1,000 people are presently on the waiting lists of the Adult Education Migrant Service in New South Wales to learn English and that most of those people come from the traditional countries and have been in Australia for periods varying between five and ten years? [More…]

• In view of the Minister’s statements last Thursday and again yesterday, can he explain why an application for $250,000 for teaching equipment for the New South Wales Adult Education Migrant Service has been rejected by the Federal Government? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Can the Minister say whether the forward planning in his Department in relation to all activities in the education field, including, particularly, planning for future buildings and teacher training, gives due weight to this projected figure? [More…]

• The demographic figures have been available to my Department and to the State Ministers of Education now for some time. [More…]

• Part of the projection of those figures has been taken into account by the working party of the Australian Education Council in trying to find a projection for the supply and demand of teachers for the future. [More…]

• The Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training will have the wider perspective of looking to the needs of education both in institutions and in terms of student population for the decades ahead and into the year 2000. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education and refer to the Minister’s reply to Senator Ryan’s question yesterday when, in relation to the services and development program and special projects program he said: [More…]

• But overall, this argument tends to look at only one area of education funding. [More…]

• In point of fact, there will not be any cutback in education. [More…]

• The education system must be continually examined and monitored to ensure that those preparing for entry into the work force are suitably equipped. [More…]

• There are too many reports tending to suggest that the products of our education system are completely unsuitable for gainful employment in today’s economic climate. [More…]

• Inquiry into Education and Training Needs is a useful start in formulating an overall approach to meaningful manpower planning because well developed manpower plans are a fundamental element in any serious long term strategy to alleviate youth unemployment. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, Professor Karmel, has emphasised the growing academic concern over the problem of youth unemployment. [More…]

• He has mentioned the inadequacy of basic education programs; the low productivity of early school leavers; the changes in the structure of industry which have reduced the number of unskilled occupations; and as a general consequence, as I mentioned earlier, the growing disillusionment of the young. [More…]

• Some of the problems stem from the education system itself. [More…]

• In addition to those schemes the Government is already very conscious, as I have said, of the impact of the education system on the problem of youth unemployment and its contribution to youth unemployment. [More…]

• Only the other day the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, announced a new scheme, which is to be known as the education program for unemployed youth and which hopes to give further education to unemployed young people through technical schools. [More…]

• In September of last year the Government set up a committee of inquiry into education and training under Professor Bruce Williams. [More…]

• Its terms of reference included the co-ordination and rationalisation of existing types of post-secondary institutions, the relevance of new kinds of institutions and the capabilities of both existing and possible new structures to meet the educational needs and preferences of the individual. [More…]

• Despite the education of young people and attempts of the Government to bring about a very substantial increase in educational opportunities, the fact is that the great majority of the people walking the streets in Italy are suffering from the lack of employment. [More…]

• Another scheme announced recently, the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, is the latest and perhaps in its way the most important of all the initiatives we are undertaking to assist in solving the problem of youth unemployment. [More…]

• It is a sad fact that the educational system in this country is a failure in certain ways. [More…]

• Any system that will send young Australians out from school, unable to read or write at a level that gives them an opportunity to find and hold a job, is an educational system which has failed. [More…]

• While that system lasts it is incumbent upon our educationists to re-examine the relevance of what they are doing and their competence as educators. [More…]

• After looking at a lot of youth who have no jobs, the Government has found it necessary to start training them again, giving them education to teach them to read, to count and to compete on the job market. [More…]

• We in the Opposition see the unemployment of youth as being far different from the general run of unemployment in this country because of the far reaching consequences that can spring from that unemployment- the sorts of consequences that were referred to in the poverty and education report which stated: [More…]

• Those children do not have a place in the education system or in society. [More…]

• Additionally a special rate of subsidy is available for employers who train young people of between 15 and 19 years of age who have left full time education for at least six months in the last 12 months, who have been unemployed for at least six months in the last 12 months and who are registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]

• It provides tax free rebates to employers for apprentices released to attend or study a trade for State-authorised full time basic technical education courses and for apprentices undertaking approved full time off-the-job training. [More…]

• In February of this year the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) together announced grants totalling $ 1 . [More…]

• 5m for 1 977 for the development and conduct of courses specially designed for the young unemployed who have educational qualifications that are low and inadequate for today’s labour market conditions. [More…]

• Wehave had many debates in this chamber on education and in a number of them the subject of literacy and numeracy amongst school leavers has been raised. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Having said that, let me simply say that the whole question of compulsory levies has been raised in a series of discussions with the vice-chancellors of the universities and the principals of the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of a report that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday headed New South Wales Teachers Demand Jobs for All1? [More…]

• Is it also a fact that a unanimous resolution highly critical of the New South Wales Minister for Education was carried at that meeting? [More…]

• There is a very considerable feeling of concern that a government which could bring down a capital works program showing an overall increase of 1 8 per cent in expenditure on capital works should find it possible to provide only an increase of some 8 per cent in expenditure on education, therefore really indicating that it was bringing down a negative works program, since inflation must be running at about nine per cent to ten per cent. [More…]

• I think there is a growing degree of disaffection within the teaching and parent communities regarding the Wran Government’s approach to education. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the answer he has just given, in which he referred to the apparent reluctance of the New South Wales Government to engage in further capital works programs for education, I ask him: Is it not a fact that the Fraser Government has reduced capital payments to New South Wales by a figure of $90m in the last two years, as shown in the Budget Papers? [More…]

• It also showed that the Wran Government holds education in such low regard that it has given it an 8 per cent increase. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister representing the Treasurer or to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In other words, when there is an estimates committee and a Federal Minister for Education there is the opportunity to say to the responsible Minister that he, with his officers, should be subject to examination concerning the accounts of all institutions, including the ANU, and I accept that responsibility. [More…]

• The Australia-wide need for a lift in the standard of education in the principles and practice of small business operators became an immediate objective for the Government. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask: Did he invite the Tasmanian State Minister for Education, the Honourable Neil Batt, to submit a list of names of people suitable for a position on the Federal Technical and Further Education Council? [More…]

• Has the State Secretary of the Tasmanian Technical College Staff Society, Mr Stronach publicly criticised the appointment because Mr Rickard was completely unknown to technical education and had no connection whatsoever with education in Tasmania? [More…]

• Was not Mr Rickard ‘s appointment to the Council a gratuity for services rendered and not because of any contribution to the development of technical and further education? [More…]

• When the Tertiary Education Commission and its three councils were set up the Commonwealth Government and I, as Minister, invited a number of people and the States to put forward names of persons to be considered for appointment. [More…]

• I think it is generally agreed that the appointments to these jobs- technical people throughout Australia have complimented the Government on the appointments- have made the Technical and Further Education Council a first class Council with first class people. [More…]

• Tertiary Education Commission or its councils. [More…]

• Mr Rickard is a fine person and the reports about him from the Technical and Further Education Council are that his contribution is outstanding. [More…]

• I take it that these are not eminent qualifications for the Technical and Further Education Council because implicit in Senator O ‘Byrne’s question is a criticism of the man himself. [More…]

• My own view is that Mr Rickard walks with equality alongside those other excellent people on the Council, and it is the view of the Technical and Further Education Council that he does so. [More…]

• I presume that he has no objection at all to my putting the Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Cliff Dolan, on the Tertiary Education Commission, or the Secretary of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council on the Technical and Further Education Commission Council. [More…]

• If we take the Tertiary Education Commission apart from the four full-time members there are only five places and it is demonstrable that one could not manage to satisfy six States’ nominations in five places. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The other States have increased the percentage of their Budgets allocated to education. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall- Senator Grimes is strangely silent nowthat Tasmania reduced by 2 per cent the percentage of its Budget allocated to education. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he said in the Senate on 1 1 October 1977, as recorded on pages 1222 and 1223 of Hansard, when referring to the Government’s decision to pay additional moneys to wealthy private schools: [More…]

• Is it not true that in the three years of the Labor Government there was an average annual increase in spending on education of 4 1 per cent and that in the two years of the Liberal-National Country Party Government there has been an average increase in education spending in real terms of one per cent? [More…]

• The sentence quoted by Senator Wriedt is taken out of a series of answers which taken together state that what we have aimed to do is to raise the education standards of all students in Australia- government and nongovernmentas high as possible. [More…]

• A Freudian slip has come from Senator Grimes who comes from a State in which education spending, taken as a percentage of its State Budget, has decreased. [More…]

• Who would know better than Senator Grimes how to deflate education spending? [More…]

• My question, by way of change, relates also to education and investigation, but to an entirely different aspect of it. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he has seen a report in the Sydney Sunday Telegraph of 16 October, stating that the Federal Government is considering a radical plan to give parents money vouchers to pay for their children’s education. [More…]

• Education investigating these new proposals as reported in the Sunday Telegraph? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a new 47-page booklet entitled The Aims qf Primary Education in New South Wales, which has been described in Press reports as a glossy, coffee table publication written in a slick style? [More…]

• Could the Minister inform the Senate of his views on the aims of primary school education as set out in the booklet and the attitude of Dr John Vaughan, the New South Wales Assistant Director-General of Education, who is reported to have commented on the new booklet in the following terms: [More…]

• Presumably it is a 47-page booklet under the authorship, I think, of Dr John Vaughan, regarding the aims of primary education in Australia. [More…]

• Education itself cannot be polarised. [More…]

• Mr President, I understand that it might be an opinion on Senator Georges part because he would never acknowledge that knowledge oriented education would have any part in his brief but an hedonistic principle might encourage him. [More…]

• I said that it is utterly wrong- this is not an opinion- to suggest that education can be polarised as either basic skillsnumeracy and literacy- or the wider innovations and experimentation. [More…]

• If the situation is that there is a polarisation, it would in fact do injustice to education in Australia. [More…]

• It has been estimated that as a result ofthe real decreases in government assistance to the States the capacity of the home building industry in New South Wales- the State which I have the honour to represent and which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is at the table, has the honour to represent in this Parliamenthas decreased by approximately 1,000 dwellings a year over the past few years. [More…]

• Family Law Court counselling service; education programs- including after-school care - [More…]

• It does not matter how paranoid the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) sometimes gets in this chamber when he is trying to explain away the cuts in education spending, those cuts are very real. [More…]

• The time allotted for the education- if one might use that term- of the Aboriginal populace of the country was not laid down. [More…]

• One can make available to people, whether Aborigines or not, opportunities for better education and health facilities, but unless their children can come home to a decent home with an environment where they can sit down and do their homework, it is all to no avail; so housing is a very important factor for consideration. [More…]

• In Darwin, $4.86m will be spent on education; in Alice Springs, nothing. [More…]

• In addition to this there is the Canberra College of Advanced Education, the Australian National University, the National Library and departmental libraries. [More…]

• There also has to be what I would call a heavy right foot syndrome education program. [More…]

• Renovations and reconstruction of the Alice Springs gaol have been approved and will provide improved facilities for education and housing. [More…]

• New education training and work programs are also operating successfully at Gunn Point. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Why has demolition work on the Beauty Point wharf, which was being carried out in connection with the development of the maritime college in Northern Tasmania, come to a halt? [More…]

• Is this because of a repudiation of what I am informed was an understanding by the Port of Launceston Authority that it should dismantle the old wharf structure on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Education to enable facilities connected with the Maritime College to be commenced? [More…]

• While I am still a member of the Senate I would like to ask a question of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The working group comprises representatives of the Bruce and the Canberra colleges of technical and further education, Jobless Action, the Department of Education and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a report in this morning’s Canberra Times of a new concept in bi-lingual education for migrant children? [More…]

• I imagine that Senator Lajovic is referring to a report concerning educational innovations and experiments being undertaken in Griffith Primary School. [More…]

• As I read the report and from my knowledge of the school it has all the ingredients of good education moving forward. [More…]

• I think that it is one of those kinds of experiments which, translated more widely in the multi-culture of education in [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to a speech made yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition in another place about the Federal Government’s excellent education policies. [More…]

• I simply draw from the official Budget documents of the Neilson Government which state under ‘Education Grants’: [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government laid down certain criteria to be followed by the four education commissions in determining the 1976 program. [More…]

• Secondly, when the Leader of the Opposition talks of political elitism and accuses us of it, may I remind the Labor Party that when in Government it kept technical and further education for the 750,000 under-privileged students of Australia in what it considered to be its proper place- in isolation- and without any equality with universities and colleges. [More…]

• To show our view in the egalitarian approach to education, we brought it under a Tertiary Education Commission, increased the percentage of spending upon it, and in fact we have demonstrated equality of opportunity in a meaningful and purposeful way, which we will continue to do. [More…]

• Indeed, as the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in his second reading speech, very substantial sums have been made available over the fiveyear period from 1973-74 to 1977-78 and the States will have received concessional interest rate advances totalling $ 1,734m for welfare housing. [More…]

• Included in this figure is $900,000 for the first stage of the Woden Technical and Further Education College which, in total, is estimated will amount to $6.4 million. [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…]

• I further cite the substantial amounts which are available throughout Australia for academic training at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Whilst I recognise the essential character and need for much of tertiary education I draw attention to some of the less practical faculties particularly those producing graduates who are now finding their degrees neither a means of gaining employment nor a contributory factor to national productivity. [More…]

• The standard of living of the Australian people depends upon the strong demands of the unions to improve conditions, social services, education, housing and a host of other things. [More…]

• He should be entitled to free medical treatment, free education for his children, guaranteed employment and a decent home. [More…]

• The working man has not forgotten the education he has got over the past 45 years. [More…]

• Other objectives are to assist the educational, social and cultural- not political- activities of students. [More…]

• It seeks to defend the right to education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 September 1977: [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of concern being expressed at some universities about the future of academic study leave? [More…]

• The facts about study leave are: The Federal Government set up, firstly through the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education and subsequently through the Tertiary Education Commission, which is their successor, an independent study of study leave by people who are independent and expert in the field of tertiary education. [More…]

• The whole basis of a statutory body such as the Tertiary Education Commission is that it shall seek objective evidence. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -I will, some time today with leave of the Senate, be making a statement on education which incorporates information on this whole matter. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, in view of the continuous controversy in the media about adult migrant education, inform the Senate of the latest situation with respect to the supply and demand for adult migrant education services. [More…]

• by leave-In September I tabled in the Senate, the reports prepared by the Schools Commission and the Tertiary Education Commission in response to the Government’s guidelines for the 1978-80 rolling triennium. [More…]

• The wages and salaries components of recurrent grants which, of course, comprise the major part of education expenditure, will be fully supplemented for cost increases in 1978. [More…]

• The effect of the guidelines has been to establish base levels of expenditure for 1978 at the same real level as for 1977 in the case of universities, colleges of advanced education and schools. [More…]

• For technical and further education the 1978 base level of expenditure will be 10 per cent higher in real terms than for 1 977. [More…]

• -by leaveThe Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the programs for country areas will be continued at the same base level as in 1977. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- The disadvantaged schools program in the metropolitan area nas been in existence for some years. [More…]

• As a result of doubtful benefits of compulsory education introduced in the last centurynone of which I have seen evident in honourable senators opposite in the 1 1 years I have been here-we have abandoned those medieval procedures. [More…]

• I am saying that with proper education, sympathy and interest much more can be gained these days without creating a permanent whirlpool of emotion. [More…]

• It relates also, in part, to his role at present as Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Therefore, I doubt whether in some ways this really is a matter for the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In my own shadow ministry of education I became aware only this week of research which is being done in this country and which shows that the brighter young lads who come out of school are not entering the metal trades. [More…]

• That means that less and less money is being made available for education, roads and hospitals. [More…]

• One of the products of our education system is a better educated trade union movement. [More…]

• It has become a popular pastime to suggest that cuts are being made in funding for migrant education in English. [More…]

• In regard to adult migrant education in South Australia, the actual expenditure in 1976-77 claimed as reimbursement by the Department of Further Education was $349,820. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that I have said here from time to time that a substantially increased demand for adult migrant education is emerging for a variety of reasons, including the nature of refugees, the nature of migrants, the emergence of women in the field and, to some degree, unemployment. [More…]

• I hope to be making a statement in this place either today or tomorrow indicating that, in recognition of this, the Government will make a further expansion in the field of adult migrant education. [More…]

• I should have thought that, if there were to be a uranium debate in Australia, especially in a magazine entitled Education at least it would have been put on a level that educated people could understand. [More…]

• At present he is the acting head of the maritime crews and services branch of the Department of Transport, which is concerned with education, training and competency examinations for marine crews. [More…]

• In 1969, while an officer of the Department of Transport, he was awarded a Commonwealth post-graduate scholarship to undertake research at the University of Wales into the development of nautical education and training. [More…]

• He was awarded a Master of Science degree in nautical education for his work. [More…]

• Second, there is a discussion of several general matters including education and general policy issues. [More…]

• Education, often advanced as a necessary new and major avenue of intervention, poses many uncertainties and problems. [More…]

• There is little evidence that education achieves these aims; there is some evidence that it can increase drug use. [More…]

• The Committee seeks support for effective programs of education which encourage broad values for living as well as for any specific drug intervention programs which can be shown to work. [More…]

• Diversionary programs in the form of medical or psychological treatment or education are now being encouraged and we support fully the use of appropriate diversionary programs. [More…]

• I might say to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that, although he talks about future consultation with the Leader of the Opposition, I do not believe that that is necessarily the answer. [More…]

• I notice that in the statement of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick)- I was prompted by my colleague from Tasmania, Senator 0 “Byrne, to mention this- reference was made to people of the far left. [More…]

• I think the Minister for Education will appreciate that I did not have a chance to see these reports until about five minutes to eight tonight. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- by leave- I do not have any instructions on this matter as to the Government ‘s programming. [More…]

• by leave- I wish to inform honourable senators on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), and myself of the Government’s decision today to allocate an additional $2.3m for migrant education programs for the remainder of the 1977-78 financial year. [More…]

• During the past few months it has become evident that there has been a substantial increase in demand for migrant education services. [More…]

• The additional funds will bring the total available for the Adult Migrant Education program in 1977-78 to $1 1.82m. [More…]

• The funds will be used to maintain the program generally in the face ofthe increased demand and to provide English language classes for refugees and further accommodation for classes at education centres in migrant hostels. [More…]

• In each of the two years 1974-75 and 1975-76 the total national enrolments in adult migrant education were 75,000 persons. [More…]

• -As honourable senators will be aware, my colleague Senator Wriedt, who is the Australian Labor Party spokesman on educational matters, unfortunately is indisposed this week. [More…]

• Acting temporarily in his stead, I wish to make one or two remarks on the statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) this evening on the subject of migrant education. [More…]

• I want to say at the outset that the Labor Party, by its record in government, proved itself beyond doubt to be very much concerned with and interested in the problems of migrant education in Australia and the problems of migrants in general. [More…]

• The Minister says in his statement that in each of the two years 1974-75 and 1975-76 the total national enrolment in adult migrant education was 75,000 persons and that this was increased to 88,000 persons, a gain of 17.3 per cent, in 1976-77, the first year of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• I draw the attention of honourable senators to a table relating to education set out on pages 44 and 45 of Budget Statement No. [More…]

• In 1976-77, the year in which the Minister states there was a gain of 17.3 per cent in the total national enrolment in respect of adult migrant education, the amount of expenditure dropped to $ 10.3m. [More…]

• It is proposed in the Budget that $ 10.4m will be spent on migrants for educational purposes. [More…]

• Whilst the Minister states that between 1975-76 and 1976-77 the number of people enrolled in adult migrant educational programs increased from 75,000 persons to 88,000 persons, it can be seen from the table that there was an expenditure of $2 1.4m in the 1975-76 Budget and an expenditure of $ 10.3m in the 1976-77 Budget. [More…]

• Having made those remarks, I might say that the Opposition is pleased to note from the Minister’s statement that the Government has taken cognisance of the constant efforts of honourable senators to get a better deal from the Government for migrant education. [More…]

• It is interesting and pleasing to note that the Government has allocated an additional $2.3m this financial year for migrant education programs over and above the amount which was set out in the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch). [More…]

• Referring to migrant education services in New South Wales he asked: [More…]

• Is it a fact that to date the New South Wales Government has failed to obtain full funds for the adult education migrant service for which the Federal Government has been responsible since 1947? [More…]

• Is it also true that migrant education services are so overloaded in New SouthWales that they cannot be advertised and that the Federal Government has rejected a request for funds for teaching equipment for the services? [More…]

• The Minister for Education replied: [More…]

• In more recent times, particularly in the last year, a number of refugees has come to this country from places such as Lebanon, South America, Vietnam, and Timor, to name four, and the demand for adult migrant education- English language education- has increased beyond the normal trend in previous years. [More…]

• I am pleased to note that following those questions in this Senate and the answers that were given by the Minister the Government has decided to provide, over and above the amount already allocated in this year’s Budget, an amount of $2.3m for migrant education programs for the remainder of the 1977-78 financial year. [More…]

• I am pleased that the Minister has been able to extract some additional amount from the Treasurer, niggardly as it may be, for the provision of migrant education services. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- Before moving a motion for the resumption of the debate I seek leave to make a brief statement in explanation. [More…]

• So we have officers moving in from education and other areas to assist. [More…]

• I refer to the dramatic increase in the spending on education, which was the No. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Does the Commonwealth Government have any role in paying the levy to the Australian Union of Students which is charged compulsorily to all students enrolling in universities and colleges of advanced education? [More…]

• An incidentals allowance is paid under the Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme. [More…]

• It relates also to pre-school teacher education allowances and to the adult secondary education assistance scheme and post-graduate awards. [More…]

• The rates of payment for this allowance are: Universities, $100; colleges of advanced education, $70; and technical colleges, $30. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, refers to the cut up of adult migrant spending in New South Wales. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the increasing importance of technical education in Australia, will the Minister inform the Senate of the major conclusions drawn by the national conference of directors of technical and further education held in Canberra last week? [More…]

• -I understand that Senator Lajovic is referring to a conference of technical and further education directors held in the Australian Capital Territory some days ago. [More…]

• I was interested particularly in their decision that the primary purpose of their meeting should be one of self evaluation- that they should look at TAFE and its delivery of education and ask themselves whether what they were doing was relevant in relation to quality, quantity and the priorities. [More…]

• I think that is refreshing and good news because technical and further education makes a direct approach to more than 750,000 members of our population. [More…]

• The directors also had with them, very importantly, Mr Eric Wilmott from the National Aboriginal Education Committee, who gave them some indications of the needs of Aborigines as a migrant group and, of course, reflected upon the importance of a - [More…]

• We look so much now to TAFE for the upgrading of our basic skills, and indeed for lifelong education, because that in itself is a fundamental thing. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware of recent reports containing allegations of the misuse of funds by the Australian National University? [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and follows the question asked by Senator Knight. [More…]

• We transformed the educational scene and increased education expenditure from $400m in round figures when we came to office in 1972 to $ 1,700m in 1975. [More…]

• We made all university education free for Australian citizens irrespective of where they came from, irrespective of their place in society. [More…]

• Has he seen the editorial in the 12 October edition of Education, the journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation? [More…]

• we only cater for 80% of the nation’s educational needs, including the wogs and abbos and all the other ethnic rubbish . [More…]

• Senator Martin has shown me a copy of an editorial in a journal known as Education, which is published by the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]

• This editorial is concerned with what it calls the ‘erosion’ in regard to the provision of education and contains the following statement in relation to the State school system, which it covers: . [More…]

• we only cater for 80% of the nation’s educational needs, including the wogs and abbos and all the other ethnic rubbish carefully screened out of the elite system . [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of allegations made in the House of [More…]

• Representatives, and again in the Senate on Tuesday night, that the Government has cut funds for migrant education? [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate of the details of expenditure in recent years on both child and adult migrant education? [More…]

• Will he also inform the Senate of the latest increase in expenditure on adult migrant education, so as to allay the fears aroused in the migrant community by the allegations put forward by Opposition members. [More…]

• -It is a fact that both in another place and in this chamber allegations have been made that funds for adult migrant education have been cut. [More…]

• For child migrant education the figures are: 1974- 75, $13.11m, followed by an increase in 1975- 76, following a change to funding through the Schools Commission, to $2 1.81m and in 1976- 77, $25.99m. [More…]

• Overall, therefore, there has been a combined expenditure on adult and child migrant education as follows: for 1975-76, $30.04m; and for 1 976-77, $34.95m. [More…]

• In regard to additional funding, the honourable senator will know that in recent months a growing demand has emerged, for a variety of reasons including the specialised needs of refugee migrants, because of women seeking more education, and becuse of the desirabilitywhich the Government fully supports- of upgrading the ability to speak English of those seeking jobs. [More…]

• In recognition of this I was able to announce in the Senate several days ago that the Government had allocated a further sum of $2.3m, a significant increase, for adult migrant education. [More…]

• That figure is in addition to the $150,000 that was provided at my direction some weeks ago for adult migrant education in New South Wales. [More…]

• The sum of $2.3m will be broken down as follows: $800,000 is to go to expanding existing programs, amounting to $226,000 in New South Wales; $270,200 in Victoria through the adult migrant education service; $159,000 in South Australia, through the Department of Further Education; and $31,400 in Western Australia, through the adult migrant education service. [More…]

• It is worth noting that with the continuing use of special purpose grants parliaments should consider the development of new techniques to ensure more effective parliamentary overview, especially in those areas where there is 100 per cent Commonwealth funding, such as tertiary education, in which the legal as well as the financial overlap between Federal and State resonsibilities may require further clarification. [More…]

• Similarly, Orange and Bathurst have a community of interest ranging over a wide field, including education and research. [More…]

• Health, and of the Aboriginal Education Branch within the Department of Education, principally in terms of their staffing and focus, and in the range of activities and services covered. [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…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware that, in its latest annual report to his Queensland counterpart, the Queensland Board of Advanced Education stated that there was a continuing lag in Queensland’s tertiary participation rate in relation to the national average and that the Commonwealth is continuing to give relatively inequitable treatment to Queensland in the funding of tertiary education? [More…]

• Is it a fact that, due to Federal Government restrictions on education funding, a reduction of the order of 8 per cent had to be made in the number of student places envisaged for colleges of advanced education in Queensland in the three years 1977 to 1979? [More…]

• If the report suggests what Senator Colston says it suggests then it suggests that the former Commission of Advanced Education, which is now the Council of Advanced Education, and the Tertiary Education Commission, both of which are statutory, objective and independent bodies, are in fact being partisan against Queensland. [More…]

• My understanding and the Government’s understanding is that the colleges of advanced education in Australia should be capable in the years ahead of absorbing those who apply. [More…]

• But the honourable senator must keep in mind that 43 per cent of the students who attend colleges of advanced education are teacher trainees. [More…]

• So voluntarily fewer teacher trainees automatically will be going to colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I repeat that some 43 per cent of the places in colleges of advanced education are held by teacher trainees. [More…]

• There is no reason at all why students in the post-school area cannot find a place appropriate to their qualifications and academic achievements in universities, colleges and the technical and further education field. [More…]

• There will be, of course, by voluntary choice a movement of young people and others from universities and colleges to the technical and further education field. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate of the details of New South Wales share of the $2.3m in additional allocations for adult migrant education programs announced last Tuesday night? [More…]

• Funds provided by the Commonwealth to New South Wales for its Adult Migrant Education Service in the last 3 program years are as follows: In 1975-76, the last year of the Whitlam Government, $2,626,260; in 1976-77, the first year of the Fraser Government, $2,957,026; this year, 1977-78, including the amount provided in the Budget and additional allocations, it is $3,466,000 which is an increase of 17.21 per cent. [More…]

• So there has been a significant increase in the money flow to adult migrant education as well as considerable diversification in the program. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware that an international conference that is supported by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, with assistance from the Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs, has reportedly been forced off the campus of the Australian National University as a result of threats of demonstrations? [More…]

• Without transgressing Standing Orders, I presume from what the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has said that if we are elsewhere we will get copies of the report? [More…]

• After all the millions of dollars that we have poured into education, I would have thought that we had a more educated, more highly sophisticated society than at any other time in this centuryor so many people inform me. [More…]

• We can argue about the IQ of voters, but I think even people with a reasonable education become a bit bored, impatient and so on when so many candidates are listed. [More…]

• For example, the report of the Committee on Medical Schools ‘Expansion of Medical Education’ estimated that in 1972 some 24 per cent of the doctors in active practice in Australia had graduated in overseas countries. [More…]

• My inquiry of the Minister for Education is based on the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts and in particular its recommendations concerning the education of isolated school children. [More…]

• I may add that it represents the study and practical experience of people from isolated areas with a concern for the education of their children. [More…]

• -To answer fully the honourable senator’s important but multifaceted question would take longer than Question Time would permit, but I well recall my membership of that Committee, travelling extensively throughout Australia and meeting some first class people who, in the isolated areas, take a lively interest in the education of children. [More…]

• It was sent also, for example, to the Curriculum Development Centre and the Schools Commission, and was given overall review by my Education Policy Group. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a statement by Bishop F. P. Carrol, the chairman of the National Catholic Education Commission in The Leader of 16 October 1977 in which he stated: [More…]

• One would need to look at the whole report to understand the purport of the statement made by the chairman of the National Catholic Education Commission. [More…]

• I point out that the Labor Party has taken a stand against some of the principal policies of the National Catholic Education Commission. [More…]

• Mr President, under the preBudget system introduced by our predecessors the practical situation, despite appearances to the contrary, was that taxpayers did not really get any rebate for certain expenditures- superannuation, municipal rates, education expenses and the like- unless their total expenditure exceeded $1,690. [More…]

• Any Federal Government makes payments to the States for a whole range of matters such as hospitals, housing and education. [More…]

• It is important that we understand that there are three distinct divisions because we have been told over the past 12 or 18 months particularly by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who is Minister in Charge of Federal Affairs and also by the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) that the States have never had a better deal than they are getting now under the new federalism policy. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education indicate the stage reached in the preparation of legislation for the Permanent Council for the Maritime College? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Further to my question of 1 November concerning the removal of the Williamsburg Conference from University House at the Australian National University to the Lakeside Hotel, I ask the Minister for Education whether he can now provide the further information he then undertook to seek concerning the reasons for such transfer. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- For the information of honourable senators I present the report on Urban Transport: Capital Requirements 1977-78 to 1979-80’. [More…]

• Today I asked the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is the Minister responsible in the Senate, this simple question: Does the Government intend to proceed with stage two of federalism? [More…]

• The Minister for Foreign Affairs signed the agreement on behalf of the Australian Government, while Dr Abdul Sala ‘am Majali the Jordanian Minister of Education and Minister of State for the Prime Minister’s Office signed on behalf of Jordan. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• During 1977 fee subsidies have been paid to some 18 business colleges for some 4,000 full time students and about half of those students have attracted Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission will be invited to examine the position and report on rationalised arrangements for assistance in the longer term. [More…]

• Cyclically, each year, a series of rumours circulates about a number of aspects of education. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Using firstly the guidelines for the education commissions as announced on 20 May 1976 and, secondly, the guidelines as announced on 3 June 1977, can the Minister advise what is the estimated total difference between projected expenditures for 1978 and 1979 for the various education commissions under these two sets of guidelines? [More…]

• Those facts prompt me to recall some words of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech, when he said: [More…]

• I refer to the second reading speech made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) because it mentions factors that ought to be taken into account. [More…]

• The other interesting item I found in the newspaper report this morning was that the Queensland Teachers Union has already made complaints that the State Government has withdrawn education funds from Labor electorates and transferred them to school buildings in Government electorates. [More…]

• How many are employed by the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs, Health, Education, and any other Department in each of these settlements. [More…]

• -I address my question to the Minister for Education in his capacity as the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It was reported that the Minister recently visited an Education Program for Unemployed Youth course in Melbourne. [More…]

• This program at Footscray Technical College is one of some 30 programs throughout Australia under what is called the EPUY- the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• I believe that this scheme is now opening up an entirely new challenge in the education and training field. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Has he seen reports of an Australian [More…]

• The simple situation is that in primary education in government schools four States already have reached the targets set for 1980, and the other two States are ahead of target. [More…]

• In secondary education three States already have reached the targets set for 1982 and they are at level 2. [More…]

• So I take it that in objecting to this proposal, the Labor Party will say in its education policy that it is opposed to any more money being provided for capital development in new growth areas through planning and finance committees. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, follows on from the question asked by Senator Ryan. [More…]

• I regret to say, and I remind the Senate, that the Tasmanian Government was the only State government that reduced the percentage of its total Budget represented by education spending in recent years. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In the course of the answer given by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to the last question, he said words to the effect that honourable senators should note the hatred of members of the Opposition of the nongovernment sector. [More…]

• In recent years many claims for unemployment benefit have been made during the summer vacation by school leavers prior to their making serious efforts to obtain employment and by others who claim to be unemployed but who actually intend to resume school or go to tertiary education after the vacation. [More…]

• The Government has decided that a period of six weeks is reasonable, and the Bill provides that, in the case of school leavers, unemployment benefit is not payable for six weeks after the date of ceasing full-time education. [More…]

• A person who has completed a course of secondary education apart from sitting for examinations will be deemed to remain a full-time secondary school student until after the completion of the examinations. [More…]

• The figure for the former scheme will be available at the end of the technical education year when the employers claim reimbursement from the Government for employees’ time off to attend courses. [More…]

• There is another program called the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, in which 500 juniors are involved. [More…]

• These people are born of working families which have had no opportunity to provide them with a higher education to fit them for a job which would bring in a high income. [More…]

• When people leave school at the end of their secondary education there are, of course, a few who claim and receive the unemployment benefit during their school holidays knowing that they have every intention of going back to school. [More…]

• When some people leave school at the end of their secondary education they do in fact have a holiday. [More…]

• Although the applicant may have completed or substantially completed his course of education, apart from sitting for his examination he will be still considered a full-time student until that examination has been held. [More…]

• -Firstly I think Senator Grimes asked for a definition of the words ‘good and sufficient reason’ and whether an undergraduate who had ceased his tertiary education could receive unemployment benefit within the interpretation of those words. [More…]

• This clause represents a major change to the Social Services Act to prevent school leavers and students in tertiary education institutions from receiving the unemployment benefit in circumstances in which they leave school or leave that institution before their course is finished. [More…]

• When we asked for clarification of the good and sufficient reasons for the DirectorGeneral to pay benefits to those people who leave tertiary education courses before their course is completed we found that the reasons were so wide that it was hard to imagine someone not qualifying. [More…]

• These are: General resources programs- general recurrent grants, including funds for child migrant and multicultural education, emergency aid for nongovernment schools, and capital grants and specific purpose programs- disadvantaged schools and schools in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development including education centres, and special projects. [More…]

• The base program for migrant and multicultural education is the same in total as for 1977, but has been adjusted between States and systems to bring the payments more into line with the actual distribution of migrant children. [More…]

• States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill 1977 [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to provide financial assistance to the States for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education for 1978. [More…]

• The Bill gives effect to the financial recommendations contained in the Report of the Tertiary Education Commission for 1978. [More…]

• The amounts provided for each of the three tertiary education sectors are: [More…]

• It will be recalled that the guidelines for 1978 provided for base levels of grants at the same real levels as for 1977 in the case of universities and colleges of advanced education and an increase of 10 per cent in real terms for technical and further education. [More…]

• The amounts now provided in the Bill take into account the small adjustments to capital expenditure recommended by the Commission in the light of its assessment of likely cash flow for the advanced education sector building program in 1978. [More…]

• The full building program proposed by the Advanced Education Council and recommended by the Commission is incorporated in the legislation to enable all projects to commence in 1978. [More…]

• In the past, separate Bills have been required to implement the approved programs of the three tertiary education sectors. [More…]

• Following the establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission, replacing the three previous Commissions concerned with tertiary education, it has been possible to consolidate the necessary legislation in one Bill. [More…]

• The new arrangements will permit a greater degree of flexibility in the administration of approved programs, thereby assisting the Commission in its functions of coordination and rationalisation for the tertiary education system. [More…]

• The effect of this provision is to withdraw appropriations for projects for which the States are not seeking support and for four projects in the advanced education sector which were included in the review of capital projects not under contract which was conducted by the Commission at the request of the Government under the guidelines for 1978-80. [More…]

• In addition to appropriating funds for 1978, the Bill amends the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Act 1976, the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976 and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 to provide for adjustments to approved programs of grants for 1977, for movements in costs between December 1976 and June 1977. [More…]

• That the decision by the Government to withdraw all forms of financial assistance to students of Non-State Tertiary Institutions is in total conflict with stated Government education policy. [More…]

• The decision will result in a shortage of places for training secretarial and clerical students and an inordinate demand upon the State Government education systems. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I am pleased to see that the Government is developing specific purpose programs within its plans for future education needs of the Australian community. [More…]

• The essential thrust of the Fraser Government’s education policy is towards overcoming disadvantage and underprivilege and the establishment, where possible, of equality of opportunity. [More…]

• I take it that Senator Wriedt is objecting to guidelines which invite the Schools Commission to expand disadvantaged schools into country areas which will bring about a new education initiative for students in institutions, otherwise his interjection would have no relevance. [More…]

• -I invite the attention of the Minister for Education to statements made by the Minister in this Parliament yesterday. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware whether there has been a decline in recent years in the number of students attending non-government schools? [More…]

• What impact does this situation have on the education system as a whole? [More…]

• In relation to government schools we have surpassed the Karmel and Schools Commission targets, to the great misery of those who hope that education will fail so that they can prove something. [More…]

• My Government has responded both to its observation and to the observation of the Schools Commission report for the 1976-78 triennium which was designed to show what ought to be the main trends in education policies. [More…]

• A key feature of the Fraser Government’s policy for Aboriginal education has been to increase the emphasis on using Aborigines in education and on advancing their status and education, both as teachers and teaching aides. [More…]

• We propose to increase this number because we believe that it is of great importance that the Aboriginal people should have the European forms of education in numeracy and literacy conveyed to them more and more, if possible, through the eyes, minds and feelings of those people who understand their full culture. [More…]

• I believe that a great deal of improvement in Aboriginal training and education can be achieved if we allow those people who understand the Aboriginal culture and are able to interpret it to teach the education standards. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• What are the Government’s plans for Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances for next year? [More…]

• -It is expected that next year Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances will be available to some 107,000 tertiary students, compared with approximately 100,000 this year and some 95,800 last year. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it likely that there will be increased competition for university places in Australia due to a combination of such factors as high youth unemployment, increased retention rates in upper secondary schools and, as outlined in the Government’s guidelines to the Tertiary Education Commission, no growth in new enrolments? [More…]

• -I think Senator Colston has failed to appreciate the main trends in university education. [More…]

• Over recent years members of the general public have decided, by their own decision-making, that universities are not necessarily preferable to either colleges or technical and further education institutions for the students in their families. [More…]

• There will be ample opportunities within the total tertiary education systemuniversities, colleges and technical and further education institutions- for all who are qualified and for all who seek to come forward. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the recent decision of the Government to assist non-government schools in categories 1 and 2 by increasing grants to approximately 12 per cent of per capita government schools costs still does not approach the level of IS per cent for similar aid to those schools provided by the South Australian State Labor Government? [More…]

• -It is not surprising that there should be a conditioned reflex as between question and answer in regard to education because results have been so good that a pattern has now been established. [More…]

• The Government has claimed credit for the establishment of the National Committee of Aboriginal Education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, will recall a question I asked some time ago when it was obvious that a FM licence was to be granted to, I think, the University of Melbourne. [More…]

• I refer now to the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in which he said: the Government believes it has a responsibility to determine the components of the system . [More…]

• Again, this is quite alarming, given that the whole function of the Tribunal, as claimed by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), is to conduct public inquiries. [More…]

• -At the outset I would like to express to both the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is at the table, and the Minister in the other place, as well as the departmental officers, my gratitude for all the help they have been to me with regard to this Bill. [More…]

• The Minister for Education said in his second reading speech: [More…]

• It is perhaps even more disappointing in that it does not do what the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has said it does, and attention already has been drawn to that by Senator Button and some other speakers. [More…]

• At the moment a number of honourable senators are members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts which is inquiring into the effect of television on children. [More…]

• I have been calling for indigenous language broadcasts for Aboriginal people not only for their pleasure and entertainment but also for education purposes. [More…]

• The Special Broadcasting Service could continue educational broadcasts and telecasts covered by the ABC although I do not know why it would want to do this. [More…]

• The only area the ABC is not covering fully at the present time- although it does some of this- is in respect of adult education and the open university area. [More…]

• It follows a Bill which I am afraid came rather hurriedly upon the scene at the end of last year and it is obvious from the statements made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that there will be further legislation next year when such matters as the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal’s report on selfregulation and other matters are considered. [More…]

• I am unable to go into detail concerning the fields of education which are mentioned, but I note that the Minister was careful in her statement to say that the recommendations of Dr Fitzgerald could be only partly implemented, that is, in the Territories in which the Federal Government had direct power to act. [More…]

• We know what has happened in the States, where education funding has been cut, because of the failure of this Government to maintain its supporta subject that is raised every morning at Question Time in this chamber. [More…]

• What will it do about their commitments on their homes, about their children’s education which will be disrupted and all the other things that go to making a happy family? [More…]

• On the eighth page of the statement of the Minister for Social Security mention is made of how the Government is concerned about school leavers and that the Australian Education Council has set up a Commonwealth-State working party of education and labour officials to examine matters such as the special difficulties faced by early school leavers. [More…]

• That is the distinction which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who represents the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) in this place, apparently does not understand. [More…]

• It is no good the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) saying, as he did in reply to the second reading, that the Labor Government did not do much better in 1973. [More…]

• In the second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the stations would not be able to carry on normal commercial advertising. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask: How many Aboriginal secondary education grants are being made available this year? [More…]

• My recollection is that in 1975 under the Whitlam Government there were about 11,500 ABSEC or Aboriginal secondary education, grants. [More…]

• Within the portfolio of Education there is a concentration now upon the revision of curricula to make the training and education of Aborigines more meaningful, whether they choose their traditional or the European style of life. [More…]

• Did the Minister for Education write to the Chairman of the Australian Council of Independent Business Schools on 19 July informing him that fee subsidies would be terminated? [More…]

• Eighteen of them receive some kind of per capita grants and attract tertiary education assistance. [More…]

• It has asked the Tertiary Education Commission to look at the matter m longer term. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Government recently announced an extra allocation of funds for adult migrant education, a matter which is important to Western Australia, as my State absorbs a higher proportion of migrants than does any other. [More…]

• -It is true that recently the Commonwealth Government announced that an additional $2.3m would be spent on adult migrant education beyond the increase already made in the Budget. [More…]

• My question follows upon an earlier one put to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I understand that as part of that policy there has been a review of the Aboriginal education field with a view to training more Aboriginal people as aides, teachers, et cetera. [More…]

• States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance ) Bill 1 977. [More…]

• At the time when the Committee adjourned consideration last evening there was a number of questions asked of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) which had not yet been answered. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has said that the Government will look at the question. [More…]

• The arguments concerning education have during the last 12 months or so been canvassed widely in the Parliament and no doubt will be again during the course of the coming election campaign. [More…]

• I want to place on record that there have been two achievements of the Fraser Government in the field of education. [More…]

• The first has been that it has killed any hopes that have existed in this country, initiated by the efforts of the former Labor Government, to raise education in this country to standards which would enable every child at a government or nongovernment school, and later in the tertiary institution, to obtain the kind of education which that child wants. [More…]

• In the last few weeks we have had question after question being put in this chamber to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) by Government senators- we call them Dorothy Dixers- in response to which he has made it quite clear that he is happy to see the old State aid debate reactivated in this country, to the detriment of all school children in Australia. [More…]

• It is sufficient to say, without going into all the details of the education debate, that the States are now being starved of funds for education by this Government. [More…]

• In the three years in which the Labor Government was in office it undertook the biggest task in education of any government in this country. [More…]

• We knew when we came to office in 1972 that, for the first time, a Federal government had to take it into its hands to stimulate education spending in this country. [More…]

• In those three years we increased the allocation to the States for education by an average each year of 41 per cent in real terms. [More…]

• This Government, which claims to have done so much for education, has frozen the funds for education this year. [More…]

• The Minister for Education comes into this chamber and talks day after day at Question Time about how standards have been improved in the various States and claims credit for it for the present Government. [More…]

• Every educationist in Australia knows that the things that have been achieved in recent years have been achieved almost exclusively by the Whitlam Government -not by the Fraser Government. [More…]

• Every educationist and every parent in Australia should realise that what they have had over the past two years is only a taste of what they will get in the succeeding three years if the present Government happens to be in power after the next election. [More…]

• To make matters worse, the Government is also intending to transfer to the States so much of the expenditure in the tertiary sector- universities and colleges of advanced education- and it will do the same in respect of schools if it can possibly get away with it. [More…]

• A clear majority of Australians accept the fact that this Government has cut into education spending to the detriment of the government schools, the non-government schools and the tertiary sector. [More…]

• This is a major outcome of the Commission’s work over the past four years and indeed may be one of the major achievements of the Commonwealth in its role in Australian education. [More…]

• Is it any wonder that the Commission, which is composed of educationists from across the whole spectrum of education in Australia, including the Catholic schools and the government schools, the governments themselves, universities and academic people, unanimously decided on the recommendations made in this report? [More…]

• I close by saying, as I said earlier, that the Australian people are awake to what is being done by this Government in the educational field. [More…]

• We are dealing cognately with two Bills, namely, the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill. [More…]

• That, in respect of the Sates Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill 1977, the Senate is of the opinion that: [More…]

• there is insufficient funding for technical education in Australia; and [More…]

• the Government’s intention to transfer a major secdon of tertiary education funding to the States will be to the detriment of tertiary education’. [More…]

• For the calendar year 1976 the Whitlam Government in its last year cut education in Australia by $ 105m- the only cut which education has suffered. [More…]

• What a pity he did not read or hear the speech which the very distinguished Australian Labor Party Minister for Education in the Whitlam Government, Mr Beazley, made two days ago. [More…]

• It reversed the cuts in education and gave in fact a two per cent real money growth. [More…]

• The fact is that opportunities are now available for all students in the field of tertiary education. [More…]

• The Government has brought to the under-privileged education groups- the 750,000 people in the technical and further education field in co-partnership with universities and colleges-something that the Labor Party profoundly rejected. [More…]

• During a time of great economic restraint due to an economic condition created artificially by the Labor Government, the present Government has given top priority to education and will continue to do so in the future. [More…]

• In two years the Government has introduced more major reforms, through the Williams committee, through the Tertiary Education Commission and through a whole range of reforms, than the Labor Party ever dreamed of. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has been at considerable fault in this case. [More…]

• I. take the opportunity at the Committee stage to correct a statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) during the second reading debate. [More…]

• I would like certain aspects of the State Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill 1977 to be clarified. [More…]

• Clause 17 (4), on page 19 of the Bill, contains no reference to post graduate students in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I imagine that there are now post graduate students at colleges of advanced education, even though they might be few in number. [More…]

• If there are post graduate students at colleges of advanced education, why would a similar situation not prevail for them as applies for university students at affiliated colleges? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 March 1977: [More…]

• 1 ) Do State Departments of Education allow teachers of foreign languages leave without pay to travel overseas for the purpose of improving their knowledge in the subject. [More…]

• I am advised that the various State Departments of Education grant the type of leave specified by the honourable senator in the following manner [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 12 October 1977: [More…]

• What was the nature of the advice received by the Minister from the Department of Education regarding the proposed removal of teachers from Occasional Care Centres in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 4 November 1977: [More…]

• What is the estimated total difference between the projected expenditures for 1978 and 1979 for the various education commissions under the guidelines announced on 26 May 1976 and 3 June 1977. [More…]

• As I stated when I announced the guidelines for 1978-80 on 3 June 1977, the Government in making its decisions, had to reconcile the aspirations at all levels of education with its policy of containing inflation, which necessarily involves restraint in public expenditure, and reducing the level of the deficit in the Commonwealth Budget. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 August 1 977: [More…]

• 1 ) How many students, in the years 1974, 1975 and 1976, commenced studies under (a) the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme; and (b) the Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Statistics of students commencing under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and the Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme, and of whether these students stop studying before completing their courses are not maintained. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 August 1 977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 August 1977: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 August 1977: [More…]

• How many students had withdrawn from studies at the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education by the end of the first semester 1 977, from the original 1977 enrolment of 1st year students, 2nd year students, and 3rd year or later students. [More…]

• Will the Minister provide: (a) the names and addresses of the 82 or more colleges which were not receiving assistance; (b) the total number of students enrolled at the 82 or more colleges; (c) the number of students who are undertaking courses comparable to those which met the criteria set down by the Department of Education for approval of fees assistance; (d) and the names of 30 or more private business colleges which made inquiries concerning, or unsuccessful applications for inclusion in the scheme, and the number of students undertaking comparable courses at these colleges. [More…]

• Consistent with this approach, full-time students in the colleges concerned will continue to be eligible for Tertiary Education Assistance Allowances. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 September 1977: [More…]

• Funds for non-government schools in the electorate of Bendigo in the period in question are made available under programs administered by the Department of Education and the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Programs administered by the Department of Education: Funds administered by the Department of Education were made available under the following acts: [More…]

• In the shadow portfolios, I will be responsible for Foreign Affairs; Senator Button will be the shadow Minister for Education and Science; Senator Gietzelt will be the shadow Minister for Administrative Services; Senator Grimes will be the shadow Minister for Social Security; Senator Ryan will be the shadow Minister for Communications and the Arts; and Senator Walsh will be the shadow Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It should be understood in respect of student children that the Social Services Act specifically provides that family allowance payments cease from the end of the four-weekly payment period in which the full-time education ceases. [More…]

• Education and the Arts: [More…]

• That type of education just does not work. [More…]

• The third group was involved in individual education. [More…]

• The fourth group was left alone completely; there was no education whatsoever. [More…]

• The main result of that survey was that a simple educational approach to such complex and widespread social behaviour is, at best, likely to have limited success. [More…]

• The survey also found in a follow-up that some of the education was counter-productive because the first form boys participating in the groups that had received any of the drug education and the first form girls participating in the individual group education all had significantly higher levels of recruitment to drugs than those who had been left alone completely. [More…]

• It emphasised that it would ‘continue its efforts to improve the status of women in the Australian society’, that it wished to contribute to the ‘further development of internationally accepted principles of human rights’ and that it would ‘work to improve the quality of education at all levels.’ [More…]

• Mr President, I despair of the Federal Government ever acheiving anything at all in either of these areas or in the areas of human rights and quality of education if it continues in this vein. [More…]

• The rights of children to the best education system possible- as distinct from the best education system available- will be similarly glossed over if governments both State and Federal, Liberal and Labor, continue to provide material items and resources in preference to providing human resources. [More…]

• People who have finished their period of education and who in many cases are not properly trained for jobs in the community in the first year or so after they complete their education are in a tremendously important formative stage. [More…]

• I wish to ask a question of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- I apologise to the honourable senator that that was not done on this occasion. [More…]

• I do not believe that Senator Rae was referring to this when he spoke about the education system, but teachers have been reprimanded for telling school leavers who are facing unemployment- we have an extraordinary unemployment situation with school leavers- how to handle the social security system and how to lodge unemployment benefit applications. [More…]

• As Senator Rae said, it is important that we analyse the problems facing us with unemploymentwhy people are unemployed; whether unemployment is in fact structural; how much it is regional; how much of the unemployment is due to the education system- so that we have some basis on which to plan. [More…]

• It may need to be job creation, plus reform of the education system, plus reform of our social security system. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether, in view of the enormous sums that this Government directs to university education, it is not overdue for the Government to insist as a condition that student unions exist for the benefit of students in their student affairs as distinct from political ends. [More…]

• I want to say a few words on education. [More…]

• This sum will be used to improve technical education facilities in inner city areas and country towns. [More…]

• It is good to see technical and further education, which Tor many years has been the Cinderella of education services, at last receiving some due recognition. [More…]

• The initiatives of the Government in taking action to ensure that parents of handicapped children will pay no more for the education of their children than the parents of other children pay and also in providing further facilities for the education of children in isolated areas are also to be commended. [More…]

• Budgetary expenditures on welfare, health and education have grown from 25 per cent of the Federal Budget in 1966-67, 10 years ago, to 47 per cent in 1976-77, the overall expenditure in the 1966-67 Budget being $5,640m whereas in 1976-77 it was $24, 124m, almost 5 times as great. [More…]

• This meant serious cutbacks in housing, health, education and employment programs. [More…]

• She is determined that no controversial type of education will be introduced into Queensland and, because she has very close personal ties with the Premier, is able to persuade him to dictate to his Cabinet that if something has to go, it has to go and that is it. [More…]

• He was a member, as I was, of the Senate committee that looked at the problems of the education of isolated children. [More…]

• Also their children ought to have reasonable access to a decent education. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 9 of the Education Act 1970 I present the annual report of the Education Research and Development Committee for the financial year 1976-77. [More…]

• In early 1 977 groups were appointed to advise the Education Research and Development Committee on research and development programs for each priority area. [More…]

• The four areas identified were multicultural education, the impact of social and demographic factors on education, recurrent education and ‘what is happening in the classroom’. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has to accept responsibility for bringing these people up to a recognisable standard of education. [More…]

• Among the sociological problems created by unemployment are education problems, communications problems, problems with health and welfare services and problems caused by the lack of retraining in other occupations. [More…]

• Before going on to the general topics I wish to refer to a matter brought up here, I think by the first Opposition speaker, concerning a Mr Bill Wood in Queensland and the fact that he was not re-engaged in the Queensland Department of Education. [More…]

• Mr Bill Wood was a member of the Department of Education until he resigned to contest the State seat of, I think, Cook in 1968 or 1 969. [More…]

• He was re-employed by the Education Department but then, a year later in 1975, he decided to enter politics again so he resigned from the Department to contest the seat of Leichhardt. [More…]

• He was defeated at that election and was reemployed by the Education Department. [More…]

• I think the position in the Education Department in Queensland should be stated here. [More…]

• At present the Education Department in Queensland is overstaffed according to the levels that have been authorised by the Government. [More…]

• The other point that I think should be made is that during the whole period his wife has been employed by the Education Department, so it is not as though the family is without means. [More…]

• I am quite sure that the emphasis she placed on a variety of matters but particularly on education and its practical needs will find a ready and interested response. [More…]

• I noted with appreciation the reference in His Excellency’s Speech to the Government’s proposal to provide further assistance for education of children in isolated areas. [More…]

• The matter of the education of children in isolated areas was referred from the Senate to the Senate Committee on Education and the Arts, which later brought down a report. [More…]

• Everybody, except perhaps Fraser, his cohorts, and his few supporters in the Parliament, would accept the proposition that improvements in the quality of life are needed in activities such as helping handicapped and disadvantaged citizens, adapting education to ensure personal fulfilment, improving working and playing conditions in the cities, extending modern amenities to rural areas, and reducing environmental decay. [More…]

• Honourable senators should not forget that this was paid for by slashing back on health, welfare, education, Aboriginal programs and urban improvement projects in the Budget. [More…]

• The answer to the first part of the question is yes, the Commonwealth Government considers that it has a collective responsibility for standards of education in Australia. [More…]

• It is part of the functions of the education commissions in their inquiry and recommending capacity to draw attention to quality and the uplifting of standards. [More…]

• Recently a sample of these programs was set up at the Catholic Education Office in Canberra. [More…]

• I think that elements of education in all States will purchase and use these programs. [More…]

• Any decision on a state education system is within the sovereignty of the State. [More…]

• It ought to be considered also in conjunction with other schemes, including the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• The aim of the Government is to bring to the attention of all unemployed youth the ways in which, through various schemes, particularly educational schemes, they can lift their qualifications and therefore make themselves more readily employable. [More…]

• It is not to be thought that the education system in Australia is or should be defensive about its own role. [More…]

• Specifically, such people were asked to indicate whether they were handicapped in education, getting or holding a job, getting about alone, doing housework, sporting and recreational activities, acts of daily living- such as dressing and bathing- or in any other way. [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Education concerns the reference in the Speech of the Governor-General, which I mentioned last night, to the provision of further assistance for the education of children in isolated areas. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the subject there are a number of recommendations calling for assistance in several areas? [More…]

• I can indicate to Senator Davidson that we are very conscious of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts and the work that was done on isolated children. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education advise whether a meeting of the Australian Education Council was held recently in New Zealand? [More…]

• Can he advise whether New Zealand is a member of the Australian Education Council? [More…]

• -It is a fact that earlier this year a meeting of the Australian Education Council was held in New Zealand and that I, as the Commonwealth Minister for Education, attended that meeting. [More…]

• The six State Ministers of Education, the Commonwealth Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the appropriate representative from the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly also attended. [More…]

• For the past two years, in eager response to our invitation the New Zealand Government has sent its Minister for Education and its Director-General or Assistant Director-General to all the meetings of the Australian Education Council in Australia. [More…]

• Due to the intervention of the election it was necessary to postpone the meeting of the Australian Education Council which was to have been held in November in Canberra under my chairmanship. [More…]

• At the same time, the New Zealand Government issued an invitation to the Australian Education Council members to come to New Zealand in early 1978 to take part with the New Zealand Government in a commemoration of 100 years of national education in New Zealand and. [More…]

• following that, to spend some four days investigating in detail New Zealand ‘s education systems so that there could be a complete interplay between the two countries. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government and the six State governments readily agreed that it would be logical to combine the two meetings; to have the Australian Education Council meeting first, followed by the New Zealand Government’s meeting. [More…]

• This was one of the most productive meetings of the Australian Education Council that I have attended. [More…]

• The Grants Commission figures show that total South Australian expenditure on education, health, welfare and law and order has risen the fastest of all States in the years up to 1975-76. [More…]

• I refer to unemployment, education and, ultimately, to national pride. [More…]

• For instance, it relates to education. [More…]

• An ailing House of Representatives affects adversely the political education of all of us, and it has restrictive effects upon the capacities of our Ministers of State to keep abreast of the complex problems of government. [More…]

• My Government will work to improve the quality of education at all levels. [More…]

• I am pleased to comment on this and am sorry that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has left the chamber. [More…]

• The Director-General of Education must also think that it is important, that there is room for improvement. [More…]

• He sends three of his own primary school age children to England for their education. [More…]

• Hopefully, some of the $250m that is to be set aside for technical and further education will be applied to improving this situation. [More…]

• There is a glimmer of light, and I am sure that Senators Davidson and Martin, as well as other senators on both sides of the chamber, will be pleased to learn that further assistance will be provided for the education of isolated children. [More…]

• The fact is that one of the Government’s own experts in the field- Mr Paul Kirby, the First Assistant Secretary, Manpower and Economic Policy, in the Department of Employment and Industrial Relationswarned as long ago as August 1976 in an address to the first National Conference on Technical and Further Education that it has long been recognised that insufficient resources and attention have been given to the study of the nature of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, in Australia. [More…]

• I am sorry that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is not in the chamber because, as Senator Haines said, much of the problem can be sheeted home to the education systems and the quality of education in Australia today. [More…]

• I wish the Minister for Education was here. [More…]

• I note from an article in the journal entitled ‘What’s Happening in Education’ No. [More…]

• 12 published in December 1977 that an adviser on women’s affairs has begun work in the Department of Education. [More…]

• For too long in our society and in most others handicapped children and adults have faced not only the physical, visual or intellectual handicaps that they may have but also the additional handicaps they encounter within society with problems ranging from the cost of medical care and education to simpler but no less important matters such as access to buildings. [More…]

• The Speech referred appropriately to the expansion of services for migrant welfare, health and education programs and very significantly to the development of an ethnic television service. [More…]

• Without going into detail on those and the various allowances which have been increased and facilities which have been improved, I shall quickly refer to a few areas where I think the Government might examine further initiatives in accordance with the sorts of proposals and ideals expressed in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech relating to the equality of facilities for handicapped persons with respect to education, for example. [More…]

• I wish to make some comments concerning Senator Maunsell ‘s remarks on the sacking from the Queensland Education Department of Mr Bill Wood, who was the Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Leichhardt. [More…]

• I would say that Mick Miller would have less than Buckley’s chance of getting his job back in the Queensland Education Department. [More…]

• He was appointed to a job by the Department of Education and dismissed from it by that Department. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education seen the third and final volume of a publication known as Australian Studies in School Performance which was prepared by the Australian Council for Educational Research? [More…]

• Some students, not a large proportion but nevertheless a significant number, are being denied the opportunity to learn to read, to write and to calculate confidently and accurately by a failure on the part of the schools and on the part of Australian society which must make the necessary provision for education in its schools. [More…]

• Can the Minister tell us the initiatives, if any, which are available to him to restore the ‘three Rs’, as they are colloquially known, to their rightful place as a necessary provision for education in schools in Australia? [More…]

• In response to the first part of Senator Tehan ‘s question, I am aware of the reports of the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]

• Also it will be surveyed by the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• Another direct initiative is the setting up of a study group under the Education Research and Development Committee to investigate the feasibility of monitoring educational standards and progress on a regular basis. [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Education, follows the question asked by Senator Tehan concerning literacy. [More…]

• The honourable senator will recall that it was this Government which set up the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, which has revealed a significant lack of basic skills in a significant number of those who are unemployed. [More…]

• This finding supplements the Australian Council for Educational Research report following which the Commonwealth was quick to set up its monitoring systems. [More…]

• Also, the Tertiary Education Commission is studying the upgrading of the quality of tertiary education. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Education by saying that I realise that the Commonwealth Government is only acting as a centre for dispensing the Social Education Materials Project to state schools. [More…]

• I will be glad to raise this matter at an Australian Education Council meeting. [More…]

• However, in the national inquiry into teacher education we will be looking fundamentally at the methods of selecting teachers, of training teachers and of training teachers to be skilled, accurate and honest in social education, perhaps the most sensitive, delicate and difficult task required of a teacher. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Assistant Director-General of the Queensland Department of Education, Mr George Berkeley, resigned from the council of the Curriculum Development Centre? [More…]

• When talking about the fact that Mr Wood was out of a job and would not be reappointed to a job in the Department of Education, which he required, Senator Georges said: [More…]

• Is the honourable senator saying that the case of Mr Bill Wood is debatable when, having been appointed by the Education Department to a job at a school, he was subsequently dismissed at the direction of the Executive? [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education seen an article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald which claims that government school teachers have lost their voice on the Schools Commission? [More…]

• As a result, as the then Minister for Education I wrote on 7 October last year, some four months ahead, to the Australian Teachers Federation requesting that it submit a panel of names from which the Government would choose. [More…]

• The Government accords a high priority to housing; but, having regard to priorities for the allocation of available funds, it also has been necessary to place a high emphasis on employment, health, education and other services. [More…]

• Has the Australian Government cut out the grant to the Canberra Childbirth Education Association of $500? [More…]

• -(New South WalesMinister for Education)- Pursuant to paragraph 11 of the Third Schedule of the Airlines Agreement Act 1952 I present the annual financial report relating to the operation of air services by Ansett Transport Industries for the year ended 2 July 1977. [More…]

• The Coast Guard minimises the risk of fatalities, injuries, and property damage associated with the operation of recreational boats through a boat safety standards program, boater information, education and compliance programs, support of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, and increasing financial and technical support of the individual state boating safety programs. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It concerns the relationship between unemployed teachers and Federal Government expenditure on education. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education a question which follows from the question he has just answered. [More…]

• The article says simply that the number of unemployed teachers is the result of cuts by the Federal Government in education spending. [More…]

• I repeat something that I think Senator Wriedt has heard me say before: The only cuts in education spending by a Federal government were those made by the Whitlam Government of which Senator Wriedt was a Minister. [More…]

• In the first instance I wish to take up the statement in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that the new legislative procedures in regard to water resource projects would not in any way restrict the flow of information or reduce the opportunities for debate. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) pointed out in his second reading speech, the Bill provides a legislative framework which enables the Commonwealth to make agreements with the States. [More…]

• I relate that example to this Bill because it provides opportunity for the Minister for Education who represents the Minister for National Development to explain the Government’s position in relation to the agreements to which the Bill refers. [More…]

• It asks again for the implementation of a program of public education, ensuring a proper understanding of the factors affecting the development and use of water resources. [More…]

• I would like to remind Senator McLaren and other Opposition speakers who support the amendment that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in his second reading speech: [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the purpose of the legislation is to provide what is described as a legislative framework to enable the Commonwealth to make arrangements with the States for the provision of financial assistance for water resources projects. [More…]

• In his second reading speech the Minister for Education said that a copy of every agreement with a State must be tabled in Parliament and that in addition the Parliament will need to consider separately the appropriation of funds for the purposes of the agreements. [More…]

• I refer to what the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in his second reading speech on page 274 of Senate Hansard. [More…]

• I simply mention to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who in this chamber represents the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) that perhaps some thought could be given to whether there is not room for some addition to the definition of project. [More…]

• Many do not have in Australia a father or husband, as Senator Button has pointed out, who can adopt the role which is natural in a Timorese community where the father makes decisions about education, the home and other matters. [More…]

• Another case deals with a young boy who was sent from Timor to Taiwan before the war to complete his education. [More…]

• I further ask: How does the Minister square up the Northern Territory Minister’s attitude with the attitude displayed in this chamber by the Minister for Education on the vision splendid of the Kakadu National Park with its large wilderness areas? [More…]

• Is it not a fact that the education and health needs of the communities of Aurukun and Mornington Island are responsibilities of the Queensland Minister for Health and his Department and the Queensland [More…]

• Minister for Education and his Department and not the responsibility of the Uniting Church in Australia and, if there is deterioration in both these areas, surely the responsibility lies with those two Ministers and not with the Church? [More…]

• It is a statement of fact that the education and health of all communities and of all residents within States are the responsibilities of the State government instrumentalities. [More…]

• The Queensland Act must be eliminated if Aborigines in Queensland are to receive their just due- their lands, adequate welfare and improvements to health and education. [More…]

• Our interest is to see that the matters of health, education and community development are dealt with in a way that enhances the environment of Aboriginal life and the opportunity for enrichment of Aboriginal life in these parts of Australia. [More…]

• At Question Time today Senator Wood and Senator Bonner referred to education and health problems in the two communities concerned. [More…]

• In answer to Senator Bonner’s question I indicated that education services were the responsibility of the Queensland Department of Education and not of the Uniting Church and, likewise, that the health services for all people living within a State are within the responsibility and interest of the respective State Departments of Health. [More…]

• I indicated at that time also that in matters of the education and health of all Australians the Commonwealth Government has had supportive programs and funding arrangements with the States, which lead us to expect standards of education and health which we believe are demanded by Australians for all Australians. [More…]

• These programs are for housing, health, education, employment and town management. [More…]

• There was the suggestion, which was referred to in a question asked today in the Senate, that somehow the Uniting Church was responsible for education and so on in Aurukun and Mornington Island when in fact it is the responsibility of the Queensland Government. [More…]

• A smokescreen has been thrown across the scene by members of the State Parliament, the Minister for Health, Dr Edwards, the Minister for Education, and the Minister for Mines and Energy, Mr Ron Camm, and I will touch on what they have had to say later on in the debate. [More…]

• We have unhappily had a long history in these two communities of problems involving education, school numbers have fallen drastically, the health reports from our own Health Department teams and the Royal Flying Doctor sources are bad. [More…]

• It is the two Ministers concerned for those areas of responsibility- the Minister for Education and his Department and the Minister for Health and his Department. [More…]

• We are told by Mr Porter that there has been a deterioration in the health and education provided to the children and the people of Aurukun in general. [More…]

• As Senator Bonner has pointed out quite clearly today, and as was confirmed by the Minister, the responsibility for the provision of health and education services to the people of Aurukun lies with the State Government, assisted by some funding from the Federal Government. [More…]

• If the standards of health and education in this area are dropping the responsibility lies with the State Government, just as it lay with that Government in June 1 977, when in fact the people there were concerned about the problem of lawlessness in their community. [More…]

• The crux of the matter is that we have Mr Porter, the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, saying that this attempted takeover has nothing to do with bauxite and nothing to do with the possibility of mining in the area but that it has to do with the provision of health and education in the area. [More…]

• Aboriginal and Island Affairs Minister (Mr Porter) said yesterday that both communities were facing rapidly mounting health, education, maintenance and other problems. [More…]

• It is worth examining what evidence we might have that there are special problems at Aurukun or Mornington Island in relation to health or education, to take just a couple of examples. [More…]

• The same thing applies in the field of education. [More…]

• Mr Porter says that there are increasing educational problems in these communities. [More…]

• Are they increasing over the general education problem facing Aboriginal people? [More…]

• Any honourable senator who reads the Senate Select Committee report will be reminded that there is a general failure of education in this country to cope adequately with the aspirations and requirements of Aboriginals. [More…]

• We have no evidence that the educational performance at Aurukun or Mornington Island is worse than in any other Aboriginal community. [More…]

• Education also is provided not by the Federal Government- although it provides the funds- but by State instrumentalities and if there has been a failure in education the State Government involved should look to its own performance to see what has happened. [More…]

• I would be grateful if the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who in this chamber represents the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) could give these matters some attention during the course of the Committee discussion. [More…]

• They were caused by such things as increased capital expenditure on under-tree sprinklers, furrow and grading machines and increased drainage; by increased labour used for installing and operating such improvements; by the loss of crops, particularly apricots and citrus fruits; by semi-permanent and permanent damage to plantings and soil; and by increased water use, interrupted irrigations, and the costs of drainage disposal and grower education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for some explanation on that aspect. [More…]

• I do not want the Minister for Education to say the good offices of the relevant State Minister are a requirement in this respect. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech said: [More…]

• I thank the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for his reply to the two questions I raised. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether he has paid regard to what I had to say yesterday afternoon during the second reading debate on the Bill. [More…]

• In replying a short time ago to my earlier remarks, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the hydro-electric scheme at Dartmouth was to be funded solely by Victoria. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), as a senior Minister in the Government, has recognised the emphasis which the Senate is placing on this Bill to indicate to him and the Government that the important matter of water resources is occupying the attention not only of honourable senators from South Australia but also of honourable senators from other States as a major ingredient in our national development. [More…]

• I want to thank the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who represents the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman) for putting on record after this matter has been under debate in the other place and in this House- I think this is the third day if you take the two Houses together- some clarification of the statement made by Mr Newman. [More…]

• Whilst all sorts of areas were nominated where locally elected people could make decisions- education, health, public transport and so on- no suggestion was made as to who should pay for what. [More…]

• It was to provide a new, innovative, progressive, autonomous education system. [More…]

• There are many other examples in the education area where Government cutbacks are imposing hardships on students. [More…]

• It is virtually a compulsory fee, despite the fact that the state education system, the government education system, is supposed to be free. [More…]

• One cannot rush into the transference of such powers as govern health and education. [More…]

• The third opportunity reads: to direct and co-ordinate education in criminology, especially in relation to the criminal justice services; [More…]

• Probably the best illustration I can give is that of the letters CAE, which before I came here I knew in Victoria to be an abbreviation for the Council of Adult Education. [More…]

• Of course, here in Canberra it is short for the Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I was present because I believe that education has a role in this whole field of crime prevention. [More…]

• If education is anything, it is attitude change. [More…]

• Nevertheless educators do tend to stick to this concept of attitude change; that the child has come in and if there has been no change there has been no education. [More…]

• to provide facilities for university education for persons who elect to avail themselves of those facilities and are eligible to do so; and [More…]

• I offer that comment in no criticism of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whom I know is giving consideration to this matter. [More…]

• But I do not think that to criticise universities generally, particularly the Australian National University, in a way which seems to have become relatively common of late and to use them as some sort of whipping boy for what are seen as the misfortunes of education is a desirable trend. [More…]

• As Minister for Education for the moment, I am privileged to have an overview of it and other institutions. [More…]

• So in concluding my remarks, I ask honourable senators to apply their minds quite regularly in these kinds of debates to the fundamentals of education. [More…]

• Australia today nearly $6,000m on education across the board. [More…]

• -The arrangement under the regulations for the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme was that the deadline for students seeking a full year payment would be 3 1 March. [More…]

• It is a small matter to remind the Senate that the total amount of money for the construction of this building is provided through the Tertiary Education Commission and, of course, through the Advanced Education Council. [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications aware that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts is currently conducting an inquiry into the impact of television on the learning and behaviour patterns of children? [More…]

• I am aware of the inquiry being conducted by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• -I ask Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, this question in view of the half answer that he has just given to Senator Walters: Will he now supply the Senate with the figures for the total payments for Tasmania that were referred to by Mr Batt? [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Education about the Committee of Inquiry into Nurse Education and Training- the Sax Committee. [More…]

• Miss Patten is a nominee of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Having completed the Diploma in Nursing Education at the College of Nursing Australia in 1957, Sister Paulina was appointed as Principal Nurse Teacher, Preliminary Training School, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne from January 1958. [More…]

• In 1959 Sister became Director of Nursing .Education at that institution being responsible for the basic program and advising on the design of curricula for post basic inservice nursing courses. [More…]

• In 1963 Sister was appointed Director of Nursing Education, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney which position she held until her appointment to the Commonwealth Department of Health. [More…]

• Because of university commitments (Sister was undertaking a doctoral program at Macquarie University), Sister had to give up her teaching commitment from 1972 whilst still retaining responsibility for the conduct of the basic program at the hospital, as well as advising on the design of curricula for post basic in-service nursing education. [More…]

• Nurses Education Board (1973-1975). [More…]

• She is currently a member of the Health Services Committee which advises the Superior General and Council on matters relating to the conduct of the Congregation’s health institutions, in particular matters relating to nursing practice and education. [More…]

• As the twenty participants are to be chosen from nurse educators currently working in training programs for health personnel in the countries of the South East Asian region of the World Health Organisation and as Sister has acted on several occasions as a nurse consultant for WHO, it can be assumed that the present invitation is based on expertise Sister Paulina is believed to have in nurse education and training. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware of the reported expenditure of $30,000 of Commonwealth funds on a sailing boat or yacht in Western Australia under the Schools Commission’s innovations program? [More…]

• Can he, and does he, justify the expenditure of taxpayers’ funds on this educational innovation? [More…]

• It is a fact that a grant of $45,000 was approved in July 1977 under the Schools Commission’s innovations project to fund the purchase and upgrading of a schooner as part of” the Western Australian Department of Education ‘s maritime education project. [More…]

• The Western Australian Department of Education initiated this project and continues to support it strongly. [More…]

• Since October two staff members from the Western Australian Physical Education Branch have been engaged on the project and some 950 students have participated in the practical sailing as part of the scheme. [More…]

• The Department of Education is producing a film on the project and all three local television stations have produced or are about to produce segments on it. [More…]

• Category E licences will be issued to educational bodies intending to program for continuing and adult education. [More…]

• In the capital cities, category E licences will normally be issued only to consortiums of educational institutions in phase I. [More…]

• They may also be issued to a single institution with the proviso that other educational institutions be allowed reasonable participation. [More…]

• Category E Licences: will be issued to educational bodies intending to provide programs of continuing and adult education, but including material designed to enrich the cultural life of the audience. [More…]

• Category C Licence stations (community groups) may well feature ‘programs of continuing and adult education’ relevant to their community. [More…]

• The Opposition welcomes the statement on public broadcasting which has been made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner, I was making some comments on the statement brought down by the Minister for Education, on behalf of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley), relating to the Government’s intentions for the development of public broadcasting in Australia. [More…]

• I assure the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that I welcome the statement. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education to approach his colleague in the other place to see that some priority is given to the holding of hearings in those cities where FM broadcasting facilities do not exist, in particular, Brisbane. [More…]

• As a college of advanced education it will be subject to general oversight by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• The College will be concerned with the education and training of maritime and fishing industries personnel and is the only college in Australia established solely for this purpose. [More…]

• Since the College is being established to serve Australia-wide needs, the Government intends that it will develop standards of education and training which will be acceptable at international level. [More…]

• The Bill confirms Launceston as the location of the College and there will be unique opportunities for co-operation between the College and its neighbouring educational institution, the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• In fact a sound basis of co-operation has already been established and I look forward to a situation where many educational facilities will be used by both institutions to prevent the unnecessary duplication of resources. [More…]

• It will provide a centre in Australia for the co-ordination of professional maritime education and training which at present are fragmented and deficient in many respects. [More…]

• For example, children of deceased contributors aged 21 to 25 years undergoing full time education will now be entitled to benefits in the same circumstances as the children of pensioners who died prior to 1 July 1976. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education say whether it is a fact that Western Australia has already legislated to make student union fees voluntary with the students obliged to pay only service fees and that Victoria is also to follow this example in the next couple of weeks? [More…]

• Once the results of the court cases or the appeals are known a number of States will have to take action themselves merely to assert the authority of universities, and presumably colleges of advanced education, to impose sporting and recreation fees as well as other fees. [More…]

• Of course, the Government has the Canberra College of Advanced Education as part of its responsibilities. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education although again the ministerial responsibility for a reply is blurred. [More…]

• How does the Minister justify the Government’s apparent lack of positive action on the problem in view of the Governments avowed intentions with regard to improved Aboriginal status and selfmanagement and educational standards generally? [More…]

• There is no dispute that the aim of the Government is to provide the best education we can for the Aborigine. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1979-8 1 triennium, Volume 1, Recommendations and Guidelines. [More…]

• This report by the Tertiary Education Commission makes recommendations on the allocation of resources for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions for the triennium 1979-81 and includes the separate advices of the councils for the three sectors. [More…]

• Honourable senators will remember that the Government accepted the proposal by the Tertiary Education Commission that its advice to the Government for the 1979-81 triennium should be in two stages. [More…]

• The Commission’s financial recommendations are on the basis that the Commonwealth fully funds universities and colleges of advanced education and tops up States’ funding of technical and further education. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in his policy statement in November 1977 that the Government would add to the total technical and further education program an additional $50m for capital facilities in the States over the 1979-81 triennium. [More…]

• The report’s financial recommendations are consistent with the indicative planning guidelines of 2 per cent per annum growth for 1979 and 1980, together with allocations for those years from the additional $50m for technical and further education. [More…]

• The Commission has recommended that the balance of the $50m for technical and further education be applied in 1981 and 1982 to ensure the most effective utilisation of the additional funds. [More…]

• For 1 98 1 , the third year of the new rolling triennium, the Commission has recommended a level of grants amounting to an increase of 1.3 per cent, which would include an allocation from the additional funds for technical and further education capital facilities. [More…]

• In all States, education, health and community welfare departments, for example, provide services to Aboriginal communities in the same way as they do to other citizens, There is no reason why these and other State Government services should be affected if reserve communities in Queensland choose self-management under this legislation. [More…]

• In Queensland as in other States, the Commonwealth Government provides grants through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to support the special programs of State education, health and other departments in Aboriginal and Island communities. [More…]

• The honourable senator mentioned the fact that extra money would have to be spent in areas to improve the health and education of Aborigines. [More…]

• It meant a cutback in employment, a cutback in education and, worst of all, it meant a cutback in health services. [More…]

• We say the Commonwealth is pursuing a policy of apartheid in the Northern Territory- a policy of separate lands, separate development, separate funding, separate education, health and other programmes. ‘ [More…]

• Two sets of education aids- the Social Education Materials Project and Man a Course of Study- have been banned. [More…]

• I suppose the Uniting Church could be accused of giving the Aborigines the wrong education but it was caught in a political web. [More…]

• The Queensland Government would still be responsible for the provision of health, education, law and order in the communities, as at present. [More…]

• If we are to have the old system which this Bill seems to perpetuate we will once again have, say, an education system introduced from outside and rather than it being an education system to meet the needs of the community it would be white dominated, probably not bilingual and with very little appreciation of the special needs of the community. [More…]

• I have mentioned already the provision of education. [More…]

• When one goes to find out what are the defined functions in relation to the responsibility of the Council one sees that they are to provide services such as housing, health, sewerage, water supply, electricity supply, education or training, roads and associated works and other matters. [More…]

• In regard to education, what are the rules of discipline and attendance? [More…]

• In supplying education services, what would be the level and content of education? [More…]

• Imagine a reserve on which the Aborigines prescribe a particular level of conduct for drunken driving, to take one instance, or education, to take another, and that is frowned on by the State Government. [More…]

• What Alice in Wonderland thinking it is to suppose that a responsible State government will continue to allow its funds to be devoted to the fields of health, education and police control when it is to have no authority to seek responsibility and accountability for that expenditure. [More…]

• I know there are people on the other side who deny that these people have rights as the original owners of this country, but let us not forget that our race bashed them, burnt them, raped them, murdered them, tortured them, poisoned them, starved them, cheated them, denied them education- it still does- denied them good health- it still does- and destroyed or commercialised their places of religion. [More…]

• Mr Porter, was that there had been a breakdown in standards as regards health and education on the settlements. [More…]

• I repeat: As in the case of law and order, education and health on those settlements are State responsibilities. [More…]

• The Queensland Government said that it was nothing to do with bauxite: It was to do with health and education. [More…]

• Health, education, welfare, housing and law enforcement are all managed by the States. [More…]

• Senator Robertson made comments about education. [More…]

• It was suggested that perhaps there was a need to have an education system that met the needs of the community. [More…]

• It should be placed on record that Aurukun has a State school which provides bilingual education with the help of linguistics services subsidised by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• I think we would all acknowledge the need for adequate and suitable education systems for the communities and we hope this will be able to be achieved with the cooperation of the Queensland Government in the future. [More…]

• State being absent, what will the Commonwealth do in respect of funding; what will it mean from the point of view of actual arrangements for education and health? [More…]

• I heard Senator Grimes make reference this morning to the fact that it is the responsibility of the State to overcome the problems concerning the poor condition of health of Aboriginals and the unsatisfactory education standards of Aboriginals. [More…]

• In all States- I think Senator Chaney made this point stronglysuch services as education, health and community welfare are provided by State governments and it would be expected that they would be provided to Aboriginal communities. [More…]

• Nothing in that sub-clause means that the communities may not provide additional or supplementary services in areas such as health, education, and those other services that are mentioned, where the State may also be providing services. [More…]

• The clause does not give powers with respect to housing, health, education, sewerage and so on but does give authority in regard to the provision of the services that I have mentioned. [More…]

• Departments-Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, Attorney-General’s, Business and Consumer Affairs, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Health, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Development, Northern Territory, Postal and Telecommunications, Primary Industry, Productivity, Science, Social Security, Trade and Resources, Transport, Treasury, Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]

• Amongst other things, it has recommended to the Government that for the International Year for Disabled Persons scheduled for 198 1, the theme ‘Access to Community Life’ be adopted, with education as an integral part of the program. [More…]

• I direct a question to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister for Education and possibly in his capacity as Minister representing the Treasurer. [More…]

• The Government initiated an inquiry into study leave through the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission would have had no reason to approach the Australian Taxation Office. [More…]

• The New South Wales Higher Education Act provides for the establishment of universities and colleges of advanced education and the awards of degrees. [More…]

• The New South Wales College of Osteopathy is not a university or college of advanced education. [More…]

• Any such organisation may award diplomas in New South Wales, and the awarding of such diplomas is not controlled by the New South Wales Higher Education Act. [More…]

• Clause 6 of the Bill provides, for example, that children of deceased contributors, where the children are aged 21 to 25 and are undertaking full-time education, will now be entitled to benefits in the same circumstances as the children of pensioners who died prior to 1 July 1976. [More…]

• There was a survey by the Australian Council for Educational Research as a result of a House of Representatives committee inquiry into special learning difficulties. [More…]

• The problem was of” course that there was no way to compare the result because there had been no past experience of measuring and in any case the stream of people coming through the education system had varied. [More…]

• When we implement the national inquiry into teacher education in the weeks ahead- and this will be a vitally important inquiry- we will invite people to bring before that committee their evidence as to basic skills and Senator Harradine, who interjected, might consider making a submission to that committee. [More…]

• All persons within the community who are concerned about the teaching of basic skills to children in schools will regard this inquiry into teacher education as vital in this and other respects. [More…]

• The week before last the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts met in Sydney and held some public hearings. [More…]

• On page 12 of the report there is a paragraph dealing with the nature of training and education. [More…]

• One of the policies to which reference was made at that time was that the Liberal and Country parties in government would confer with shipowners and unions on improvement of careers at sea and the need for a merchant maritime college open to all ranks and providing technical education and qualification courses. [More…]

• On 18 March 1975 it was my pleasure and privilege to be able to announce on behalf of the then joint Opposition partiestrie Liberal and National Country parties- and on behalf of the then Leader of those parties, Mr Snedden, now Sir Billy Snedden, that it was the firm policy of the Liberal and Country parties that in government they would site the maritime college in Tasmania adjacent to the northern division college of advanced education; in other words, at Launceston. [More…]

• At that time, the then Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, announced that his Labor Government would site the college at Launceston adjacent to the college of advanced education, as had already been envisaged by the Liberal and National Country parties. [More…]

• Launceston had particularly strong claims for the siting of the Australian Maritime College, including the fact that it had a College of Advanced Education with room to expand next to it. [More…]

• There was ample room on an excellent site for the Maritime College to be built adjacent to the existing and rapidly expanding College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• One of the other important points made by Mr Summers was that any Australian maritime college would need to be built adjacent to and in conjunction with a college of advanced education. [More…]

• At no time has it been envisaged that many of the courses would not be run using joint facilities and that students would not attend jointly the facilities of a college of advanced education. [More…]

• Edwards, who has been a member of the Interim Council and who is also a member of the Council of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The new Government restored the matter and, as a matter of fact, it was as early as 23 January 1 976 that the new Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, announced that the Government had agreed to the establishment of the Maritime College at Launceston. [More…]

• Planning of the sites, planning of the facilities, planning of the courses, planning of the co-operation with the College of Advanced Education, planning of the co-ordination and the introduction of co-ordination systems with the industry were all important matters which were dealt with during this planning period, as was the ascertaining of the future needs of the industry so that they could be catered for. [More…]

• The College is designed basically along the lines of colleges of advanced education which have been created in other parts of Australia as well as the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• For instance, it is very similar to the Canberra College of Advanced Education in its autonomous structure. [More…]

• Launceston is a city which is developing into one of the education centres of a decentralised Australia. [More…]

• It is large enough to have full city amenities such as hospitals, theatres, professional services, tertiary education for children and all the rest. [More…]

• The site is next door to and immediately to the north of the headquarters of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The courses will therefore be vocationally oriented at each level and can be expected to: Cover the academic requirements for certificates of competency; lead to a recognised education qualification; include commercial and managerial training in subjects not covered by certificates of competency; and provide practical experience in use of modern equipment and instrumentation. [More…]

• In order to provide the education and training envisaged the Interim Council considers that the College will need well equipped laboratories, instruments, simulators- including shiphandling, engine-room and cargo-handling simulatorsand training vessels, lifesaving equipment and the like. [More…]

• In respect of those who may not be sponsored by shipping companies, it appears that they would no doubt come within the provisions of the Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme and they would be entitled, if they passed the means test, to what is known as the TEAS allowance. [More…]

• As I have said, it will have more than 500 full-time students and an average of perhaps 100 part-time students, and it will increase the staff at the College of Advanced Education as a result of the increased activities at that College. [More…]

• I only wish it well and compliment, as I did earlier, the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, for the assiduous manner in which he has pursued this matter to ensure that it reaches finality by the time it was originally intended to open for the full intake of students; that is, at the commencement of the 1 980 academic year. [More…]

• I remember the interesting battles we had, which I think were described in the last speech, on the educational establishment with people from other States and sometimes people from our State as to the best site. [More…]

• The potential for such a college has long been suggested and indeed I remember that it was mentioned in speeches by the Honourable Kim Beazley, a former Minister for Education, in about 1955 and by Mr Whitlam in the 1 960s. [More…]

• I think it is worth pointing out to Senator Wriedt who made some comment on this aspect that in fact Mr Summers and those people who have considered the report agreed that the site required access to conditions of suitable weather, climatic and tidal changes which included navigational hazards both at sea and in an estuary and close proximity to an active port, the fishing industry, a population centre and a College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Institute of Advanced Education will gain a nearby specialist school which will help utilise its facilities and assist in expansion. [More…]

• I hope that the College will become a centre of further education for mariners which is terribly important in these days of rapid technological advancement and the need to cope with the very real problems of going to sea. [More…]

• We have heard that it is intended to develop standards of education and training which will be acceptable at the international level. [More…]

• We have heard too that the main site of the College will be at Newnham in Launceston, near the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I believe that is being done on the advice of the Advanced Education Council of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Quite a while ago the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) announced the appointment of Captain D. M. Waters as Principal of the College. [More…]

• I have noted that the Tasmanian Minister for Education, Mr Holgate, has said that we are dragging our feet a little with this enterprise. [More…]

• No doubt the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education in the north also is looking forward to the establishment of the Maritime College and most probably at present is assisting in its plans and proposed future developments. [More…]

• I believe that they can be expected to cover the academic requirements for certificates of competency; that they will lead to a recognised education qualification; that they will include commercial and managerial training in subjects not covered by certificates of competency; and that they will provide practical experience in the use of modern equipment and instrumentation. [More…]

• In order to provide the education and training envisaged, the Interim Council considers that the College will need well equipped laboratories, instruments, simulatorsincluding ship-handling, engine-room and cargo-handling simulators- and training vessels, lifesaving equipment and so on. [More…]

• In that way we will build towards the education centre that Senator Rae spoke about a little while ago. [More…]

• I believe that its association with the northern campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education will provide great benefits to both bodies. [More…]

• In particular, the Maritime College will provide a lot of strength to the College of Advanced Education in areas such as engineering and mathematics. [More…]

• The Newnham section will provide education for graduates with an associate diploma, a diploma or a degree in nautical science, radio engineering, marine engineering, electronics and matters of that sort. [More…]

• The College will give them the opportunity to capitalise on the new limit by giving them better qualifications and a better education to start with. [More…]

• I have long been of the opinion that a State with the geographical features of Tasmania could be in certain specified areas the centre for an education industry, for the want of a better term, for the whole of Australia. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and refers to the report of the committee appointed to examine the desirability and feasibility of introducing a system of loans for Australian post-secondary students. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the committee recommended that a system of loans for needy students at the post-secondary level of education be established as a supplement to existing grants schemes? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that the majority of texts on educational psychology booklists in Australian colleges of advanced education seem to be American in origin and relate to American conditions, needs and issues? [More…]

• Does the Minister approve of this, bearing in mind that Australia is not yet an American State and in any case it has social, educational and cultural issues and needs different from those of the United States of America? [More…]

• The real nub of the question is whether the majority of the textbooks available in colleges of advanced education are of American origin. [More…]

• As to the final part of the honourable senator’s question, there is a continuous stress by my Department, and indeed by me, to seek research done by Australians into Australian educationparticularly into social science and social educationto see whether material of authentic Australian origin is available for students. [More…]

• The work that is done by the Education Research and Development Committee is of enormous importance. [More…]

• I will take up the matter and ask my Department in the first place to examine it, refer it to the Council of Advanced Education and perhaps to the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• I must apologise to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) because I have not had the time to seek his concurrence. [More…]

• I suppose we could be thankful for the fact that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) was the first speaker for the Government in this debate, because we were able to see him again on his hobby horse- a hobby horse which I think is best described as a rocking horse- going up and down in the one place. [More…]

• For many years, a former distinguished Minister for Education, the Honourable Kim Beazley, had proposed that Tasmania was an ideal place for tertiary institutions and for educational institutions generally. [More…]

• I seek from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) confirmation that that is so, firstly, because some concern has been expressed that the senior teaching staff might get two bites of the cherry and, secondly, to make sure that everybody knows who it is who gets two bites of the cherry. [More…]

• As I understand it this clause is similar to a section in the Act incorporating the Canberra College of Advanced Education, the Australian Film and Television School and, I think, the Darwin Community College. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to the last line of clause 18(2) which states: [More…]

• -I refer to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) the matter which I raised last night concerning the possibility that this legislation should contain limitations on the terms and conditions of the staff of the College. [More…]

• I understand that this does not apply so much in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I have invited the Tertiary Education Commission in the past year to look at a wide range of subjects relating to the matter. [More…]

• I know that the matter of tenure is in the mind of members of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• I shall be having talks with the Ternary Education Commission about the whole matter of tenure and all that it means in respect of all tertiary institutions. [More…]

• I think that honourable senators will find that the Tertiary Education Commission is now treating as deadly serious its responsibility in terms of ensuring the efficient administration of our Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• I do not wish to hold up the passage of this Bill in any way, but I do wish to register both a query and, prima facie, subject to any answer the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) may give, a protest about that provision. [More…]

• In the technical and further education colleges, for example, we do not charge fees for the vocational courses, but we do charge fees for certain non-vocational courses. [More…]

• One only has to be a Minister responsible for Australian Capital Territory education to understand what happens with school boards. [More…]

• No doubt the College will be staffed and operated at an annual recurring cost of considerable dimensions, no doubt accruing to the benefit of a student personnel who will derive a lifetime of increased emoluments due to the education that the College gives, not merely a literary education or an abstract education but a utilitarian education. [More…]

• The cost of an institution of this sort and the cost of tertiary education generally requires that those people who qualify for the higher emolument occupations should pay in a moderate degree for the education that is given. [More…]

• Will the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) confirm that it is his understanding that clauses 33 and 34 can and should be read together and that ‘costs and expenses ‘ will be governed by ‘purposes ‘ of the college and, therefore, it is the broad and not the narrow interpretation which ought to be applied? [More…]

• In clause 39(1) we are introducing for the first time the Minister for Finance as opposed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Although it is not stated in the Bill we know that the funds for the College will only be supplied provided the Council of the College has ensured that it has kept accounts and made submissions to the Tertiary Education Council. [More…]

• Only after the Tertiary Education Council has received budgets and other appropriate documents, approved them and recommended them to the Minister for Finance, will the Council of the Maritime College receive the necessary funds to enable it to keep going in relation to recurrent or capital expenses. [More…]

• The point I raise is that if the financial statements which are required to be provided under clause 39(1) must be in such a form as the Minister approves, may this not lead to a situation in which there is a duplication and an unnecessary cost because we have created a separate body, the Tertiary Education Council, by legislation in this Parliament? [More…]

• We have given it the responsibility to make recommendations to the Government and now we are going to say that whatever the Tertiary Education Council may require by way of accounts, the Council of the Maritime College may also be required to submit accounts in perhaps an entirely different form which would be determined by the Minister for Finance. [More…]

• I raise this again simply to obtain a comment from the Minister for Education. [More…]

• As a former member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts and being aware of the necessity for institutions such as the Tertiary Education Commission to be responsible to the Parliament either directly or indirectly through the sorts of committees we have set up, I too query whether this sort of innovation- I believe it is an innovation- is a good thing. [More…]

• It is true that the Tertiary Education Commission is a body which seeks to find out what is the state of education in a particular institution or groups of institutions year by year and for triennia or otherwise, and then recommends the spending of the money. [More…]

• Frankly, there will always be the intervention of the Minister for Education himself who, collectively with the Cabinet, will be interested to see that there is no conflict in this regard. [More…]

• In the end, the efficiency of the tertiary institutions is the primary and essential responsibility of the Minister for Education of the day. [More…]

• 1 have very little doubt about the fact that the Tertiary Education Commission might find it a useful document to use in its own journey. [More…]

• In order to help the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) appreciate the point I was making let me say that there has been a recent example, which I do not wish to cite specifically, of an authority which was created by the Parliament in 1975 and which has not yet reported to the Parliament. [More…]

• I think that, where something such as a statutory authority is set up with the Tertiary Education Commission or something else over the top of it and with the Auditor-General having a responsibility to look at the accounts as well, the Minister for Finance should be left out of it for once. [More…]

• -This institution, through the Tertiary Education Commission, is responsible to the Parliament for the expenditure of its funds. [More…]

• I request the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), as Senator Wriedt has already done, to endeavour to obtain for our information an accurate, up to date and preferably audited balance sheet showing just what the trading operations of the Cooperative have been recently and an outline of its other debt commitments. [More…]

• I was attracted to the Labor Party’s amendment requiring as a condition of the loan that a representative of the Government should be on the board and advised the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that I wished to hear his answer to that suggested amendment. [More…]

• Senator Wright has now cast even greater doubts in my mind about the safeguards which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said are embodied in this Bill. [More…]

• I have a further question, Mr Deputy Chairman, in view of the statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in that both the Victorian and the Commonwealth governments would have a hand in the restructuring of the board. [More…]

• -(New South WalesMinister for Education)- For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Australian Education Council Working Party on the supply and demand for teachers in Australian primary and secondary schools 1978 to 1985. [More…]

• -(New South WalesMinister for Education)- For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the meeting of the Australian Education Council which was held in Auckland, New Zealand, on 27 January 1978. [More…]

• -(New South WalesMinister for Education)- On behalf of my colleague the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) and pursuant to section 38 of the Australia Council Act 197S I present the annual report of the Australia Council for 1976-77. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that in announcing in the Senate on 20 October 1977 the financial programs for 1978 for both the Schools Commission and the Tertiary Education Commission I indicated that the Government had accepted the proposal that each Commission present a comprehensive report early in 1978 on the needs and priorities in its area for the 1979-1981 rolling triennium. [More…]

• I have already tabled the report of the Tertiary Education Commission, and I now present the report by the Schools Commission which makes recommendations in relation to the needs of schools and the allocation of resources for the triennium 1979-81. [More…]

• In relation to migrant and multicultural education, the Commission has recomended a substantial increase in funding for both government and non-government schools to overcome the remaining imbalance of funding and to upgrade the services provided. [More…]

• In special education, the Commission has proposed continuation of the present level of funding, and contemplates additional amounts as a contribution to the [More…]

• The special projects program, including individual innovations grants, and the support for education centres are recommended to receive small increases. [More…]

• The Commonwealth will examine the various proposals in the present report against the background of its own basic policy for the education of children in both government and non-government schools. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his concluding remarks referred to the desirability of all honourable senators taking note of the details of the report and considering the issues raised by the Schools Commission in its recommendations. [More…]

• I join with him in making that commendation to the Senate because the report is complex and difficult, but it has in it recommendations which are of fundamental concern to the future of education in this country. [More…]

• I think that everyone concerned with education would welcome having the same opportunity to consider the report as the Minister suggests to honourable senators, because in the Opposition’s view it is essentially a very responsible and comprehensive report which makes a quite valiant effort to grapple with some of the difficult problems inherent in the development of education in Australian schools. [More…]

• In the sometimes complex and irrational debate which takes place about education in the community at large, there are ill-informed assertions to the contrary. [More…]

• Toying with the truth to assert that only government schools have done well out of Schools Commission funding does not enhance the quality of the debate on education in this country. [More…]

• I mention that because, in a sense, the two statements throw into sharp relief the respective roles of the Schools Commission and the Government and highlight questions of responsibility in relation to education. [More…]

• If it ignores them it runs the risk of lowering educational standards in Australian schools and the very real possibility of engendering again into the Australian community a divisive debate about education in government and non-government schools, a debate which plagued this country until 1973. [More…]

• All Australian children have a right to an education of the highest standard and until all schools are up to that standard we should concentrate on the poorer schools, whether they be Catholic schools or State schools. [More…]

• A fourth factor which is constantly a source of public discussion in the Australian community is the quality of education in Australian schools. [More…]

• Everyone who is interested in education expresses a concern about quality. [More…]

• I should mention this in the context of the report because in some matters which may very well properly relate to the quality of education, mainly concerning the roles and functions of schools, their committees, their staffs and so on, the Commission’s report embarks on some new and perhaps in a sense speculative suggestions about guidelines for the development of procedures in schools which perhaps will do something to alleviate the apparent confusion which exists because of changes which have taken place and which are taking place. [More…]

• I emphasise the concern of the report throughout by implication with the question of education quality. [More…]

• The Government, in the statement made by the Minister, has set out the basis of the Government’s education policy. [More…]

• On the seventh page of his statement, the Minister for Education gives what he purports to be a summation of the Government’s position. [More…]

• The first of those is the question of a number of specific proposals made imaginatively by the Commission in relation to migrant education and schools which are disadvantaged because they are in the country. [More…]

• There is no doubt that country areas are still disadvantaged in a major way in regard to education and that the position has been made worse by unemployment in rural areas. [More…]

• In addition to housing, the Commission undertook massive expenditures in the areas of education and health. [More…]

• We know the effect of the education system. [More…]

• It is important to observe, when one looks at reports of this kind, that the arrival on the education scene in Australia of the Commonwealth Government some years ago has brought not only a greater expenditure in terms of funds and an increase in the standard of education but it has also brought a questioning throughout the community of the age-old phrase ‘value for money’. [More…]

• A great deal of money has been spent and is being spent on education. [More…]

• At the same time, there is concern amongst people in certain areas about the quality of education. [More…]

• Not all of those are defects that it is alleged are the fault of the education system or the school. [More…]

• The influences of the home, the new influence of the media, the new outlooks and new areas of activity in which children and students are engaged all have an effect on the education system as a whole. [More…]

• I would hope that the Department of education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education, with the vast amounts of money that are being spent and the great amount of interest and support activity that is going on, will look to these various areas of quality and take note of the comments that are being made by leaders in the community. [More…]

• In that way education will be not only education for degrees but education for life, which involves community living, communication, and all the other new and wonderful facets that are emerging from our society. [More…]

• This is unlike the other Act because, instead of being a single piece of legislation, it is a multilateral program which provides grants for a number of educational areas. [More…]

• They include migrant education, disadvantaged schools, special schools for handicapped children and special projects as well as building and other developments. [More…]

• The multilateral program is yet another area in which Commonwealth expenditure on education is reaching out into all sections of the community. [More…]

• In our society there are certain kinds of people whom we might generally call disadvantaged, who are in just as much need of appropriate education as any other section of the community. [More…]

• On the other hand it is the duty of the country, and that means the duty of the Commonwealth and the States, to provide educational and other opportunities which will enable them to live satisfying lives and also, where possible, to provide them with opportunities to earn an appropriate income and to enjoy a standard of living that is appropriate and one that will keep them on a level with the rest of our society. [More…]

• The two areas which were of interest to me in the reports were the general field of migrant education and only one of the sectors of the disadvantaged schools, which I am relating to the isolated children situation. [More…]

• In the first instance I refer very briefly to the migrant education problem. [More…]

• In an answer given by Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, to a question in the Senate towards the end of last year he pointed out that over the last four years funding for migrant programs had risen from just over $6m in the 1974 period to a figure of over $9.5m in the 1977-78 period. [More…]

• In dealing with matters of child migrant education the Minister went on to say that the allocations had moved from $13m in 1974-75 to $2 1.8m in 1975-76, following a change to funding through the Schools Commission. [More…]

• This is the general trend in the Government’s allocations for migrant education. [More…]

• With it not only goes the whole matter of the English language but also other areas of education which, in addition to allowing for advancement in the field of communication, provide for a general understanding of our style of life and opportunities for integration into the Australian community. [More…]

• The funding for migrant education is also distributed throughout the States so that there is an allocation according to needs of the various States. [More…]

• But migrant education is not only confined to those people who come here as migrants in the accepted term. [More…]

• It was not only an inquiry relating to the education of children living in isolated areas; it was also shown to be an inquiry of some national importance. [More…]

• Of course, these four areas are very much a part of any education program in which a government may involve itself. [More…]

• As long ago as 1972 when the present Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, was the then Minister for Education, he interested himself in the problems of the education and advancement of isolated children. [More…]

• He went on to point out that he had had several discussions in connection with the education of people who live in remote areas and that it was his objective to achieve such improvements as were possible. [More…]

• As recently as a few weeks ago the Minister for Education announced a considerable number of improvements in the extension of financial assistance to people who live in isolated areas. [More…]

• A great deal has been said about funding increasing standards in education, the concern the community has for value for money which Senator Davidson quite rightly pointed out, and the concern that we all have for quality in education and for increased numeracy and literacy. [More…]

• Whilst I agree that it is very necessary to keep educational standards high- and we will do this only if the Commonwealth justifiably provides money to be spent by the States- I do not agree that the way the money is being spent is necessarily in the best interests of the student. [More…]

• But I question very seriously whether it is helping to lift the general standard of education in a period when literacy and numeracy- skills involved in reading, writing and adding up- are being queried by such a large percentage of the population. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware of the proposal by the Canberra College of Advanced Education to withdraw the Italian translator interpreter course from the course of studies at the end of 1978. [More…]

• Will the Minister call for a report from the Canberra College of Advanced Education on the proposed withdrawal of the Italian course with a view to taking any necessary steps to retain the course? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister may recall that on 2 March last I asked him a question relating to graduate employment and whether the Department of Education kept statistics on the number of university graduates who were unable to obtain employment in their chosen profession immediately after graduation. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has provided me with the following information: Statistics on the number of university graduates who are unable to obtain employment are published in the publication of the Graduate Careers Council entitled ‘First Destinations of 1976 University and College Graduates’. [More…]

• I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard two tables setting out the Tertiary Education Commission’s information on graduate unemployment. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission estimates that there were approximately a quarter of a million people with university or college degrees in the labour force in 1977. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether the Government is concerned that a substantial proportion of the academic staff of the Australian National University are likely to remain in their positions during the next twenty years? [More…]

• Senator Ryan asked me about an interpreters and translators course at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 February 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) How many students receive the full tertiary education assistance allowance at present. [More…]

• Are there special circumstances whereby persons undertaking second degree courses receive the full tertiary education assistance allowance; if so, what are those special circumstances. [More…]

• If the above applies, how many students at present receive the full tertiary education assistance allowance for undertaking second degree courses. [More…]

• How many students, since January 1976, have been denied the full tertiary education assistance allowance for the purpose of undertaking a second degree course. [More…]

• There are no special circumstances whereby persons undertaking second degree courses receive the full tertiary education assistance allowance. [More…]

• These include recognised combined courses, such as Arts/Law, and post-graduate studies such as a Diploma of Education following a B.A. [More…]

• Further details may be obtained from the information booklet on the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme available from my Department. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 March 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Who were the delegates and staff from the Commonwealth who attended the meeting of the Australian Education Council in New Zealand this year. [More…]

• The regular meeting of the Australian Education Council earlier this year was held in New Zealand at the invitation of the New Zealand Minister for Education to coincide with the commemoration of 100 years of national education in that country. [More…]

• There was a series of related meetings as follows: 26 January- Australian Education Council Standing Committee 27 January- Australian Education Council Meeting 30 January- Meeting on common administrative issues among Australian and New Zealand Directors-General of Education, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Education and the Chairman of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• Recent Developments in New Zealand Education; [More…]

• Decentralisation of Decision Making; 2 February- Seminars for Ministers and Advisers on the Education of Minority and Migrant Groups held in a Maori Community. [More…]

• J. L. Carrick, Minister for Education; The Hon. [More…]

• Mr K. N. Jones, Secretary, Department of Education; Professor P. H. Karmel, Chairman, Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Mr B. Milligan, Assistant Secretary, Education Planning Group, Department of Education, participated also in the meetings from 3 1 January to 2 February. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has now provided me with the following information in response to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate whether the section on alternative life styles in the social education materials program is intended by the originators of the project for the education of 17 and 18- year-old students? [More…]

• It must first of all be approved by the State Department of Education concerned or by the independent school sector - [More…]

• But having said that, wherever social education is dealt with, it is profoundly in the hands of the teacher who projects the material. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I put the caveat on it: We are in the hands of those who teach social education. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Each of the universities and colleges of advanced education appears to have different approaches on these matters. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he has seen a report in yesterday morning’s Daily Telegraph relating to a statement by Dr. A Healey of Wollongong University to the effect that Australian universities have one of the highest drop-out rates in the world; that many students are inadequately prepared for university study; and that a sizable proportion are not even literate, are incapable of making use of the facilities available to them, and are lost from the time they enrol. [More…]

• The only thing that matters is whether we are producing students, at all levels of the education journey, of rising educational quality, and sufficiently effective to take the next step in the journey. [More…]

• The Williams Committee of Inquiry itself, which will bring in its report in July or August, is looking at all aspects of education in terms of goals, both for human fulfilment and vocational training. [More…]

• The training of students will be a focal point of the national inquiry into all aspects of teacher education which the Government will be setting up in the immediate future. [More…]

• There has been in the post-war years an erroneous belief that we gain better education by gaining more education. [More…]

• We gain better education by increasing the quality and relevance of education. [More…]

• If my memory serves me correctly, the article suggested that universities and colleges recruit students of lower levels of education to keep up their numbers. [More…]

• The grants from the Commonwealth Government to universities are based on levels of student load set by the Tertiary Education Commission and, at present, are based on constant intakes. [More…]

• So the inference that one is chasing numbers in institutions may be refuted by the fact that the Tertiary Education Commission is a watchdog which tends to watch that situation. [More…]

• As the question relates to the whole area of leave, so it would also concern my colleague the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government, through the Office of Child Care, makes a contribution to pre-school education. [More…]

• In relation to the forthcoming Budget, the Commonwealth Government will have these matters under consideration in determining what contribution it will make to pre-school education, but I would remind the honourable senator that the State of South Australia is always contending that its capacity to manage its financial affairs is such that it has a surplus of funds for many services which other States are finding it difficult to provide. [More…]

• It could be that pre-school education is not receiving the emphasis in that State that many people would desire. [More…]

• As I said earlier, it may be that the State of South Australia does not accord to pre-school education the priority that it is accorded in, for instance, the State of Victoria. [More…]

• Earlier I tried to contact you, Mr President, and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) but you both were engaged on other matters. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: To which organisations or types of organisation has the Minister written to invite comment on the Schools Commission report for the 1979-81 triennium? [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he has seen a report in yesterday’s Melbourne’s Sun entitled: ‘Parents: Let us choose the school’. [More…]

• Will the Minister inform the Senate of the situation in the Australian Capital Territory with respect to choice for parents of schools for the education of their children? [More…]

• One of the major needs in education is to extend the rights of parents within the system. [More…]

• The major need is for the parents to be among the arbiters and auditors of the education system. [More…]

• I say that I commend to the States and to parents’ organisations any such extension, which I believe would be one of the very valuable reforms that could take place in Australian education. [More…]

• 1 accept the statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that it was a requirement under section 32 of the AlburyWodonga Development Act to obtain the approval of the Treasurer to the form of the financial statements. [More…]

• Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has asked for permission for the Public Works Committee to sit on two days while the Senate is also sitting, but has given no reason why is should be so privileged. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I preface it by reminding the Minister that, as a result of the recommendations of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties, the Australian Council for Educational Research surveyed the skills of Australian 10- year-olds and 14-year-olds in October 1975. [More…]

• Throughout Australia there is now a dialogue, particularly on the part of the Australian Council for Educational Research, endeavouring to seek ways in which we can correct the basic skills. [More…]

• One of the important terms of any national inquiry into teacher education will be to attempt to ensure for the future that all teachers are given basic training in remedial teaching. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Schools Commission, in its report for the triennium 1979-81, suggested that the opportunity now exists for the Northern Territory to plan an educational organisation which will be appropriate to both present and future needs of students in the Territory. [More…]

• I ask whether the Commission has been asked to carry out studies in the Northern Territory to assist in structuring an appropriate education organisation. [More…]

• The integration of different uses such as conservation, scientific research, education, fishing, tourism and mining will be a complex but rewarding task. [More…]

• The position in relation to school leavers is that, following the amendments to the Social Services Act last year, unemployment benefit is not payable until six weeks after leaving school or ceasing full time education. [More…]

• Mr President, the articles to which I referred were in the magazine the Bulletin with such headings as ‘Education’, ‘Plundering the Public Purse’ and ‘The Scandal of our Universities’, and they are available for people to read. [More…]

• I regret that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) was not here to have taken note of them, but I realise that Senator Rae did not need him to be here. [More…]

• My recollection is that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts has, or had, as a reference, children’s television. [More…]

• From an educational point of view I regard the provision of suitable children’s programs as a very important matter, although I must say that I feel personally that television, because it sees more than it hears, is not necessarily a good, rational educator. [More…]

• Nevertheless, I must say that the programs have tended to be poor and have detracted from the real source of education, that is, reading, in order to learn abstract concepts. [More…]

• It could be that pre-school education is not receiving the emphasis in that State that many people would desire. [More…]

• it may be that the State of South Australia does not accord to pre-school education the priority that it is accorded in, for instance, the State of Victoria. [More…]

• It will be recalled that when Senator McLaren asked the question I referred to the fact that the Commonwealth Government makes a block grant to the States as a contribution to pre-school education. [More…]

• I believe that the Labor Government of South Australia, as it has been termed by Senator McLaren, would insist that pre-school education would be its responsibility and that it would be responsible for its own program in that State. [More…]

• In fact, it has made many consultative arrangements with regard to pre-school education throughout the South Australian community. [More…]

• The Federal Government has made a contribution to preschool education. [More…]

• When I said that it could be that pre-school education had not had the priority in South Australia that it had in Victoria, for instance, I pointed out to the honourable senator that the Victorian Government had promised free pre-school education to every Victorian child. [More…]

• That is a commitment made by the Victorian Government and it shows the priority that that Government places on preschool education. [More…]

• Future funding for pre-school education for the South Australian Government or for any other State Government is a matter of budgetary consideration. [More…]

• It is from that general funding that any State Government is able to make whatever contribution it chooses to pre-school education. [More…]

• If it so chooses, it can see that pre-school education is available to every child in its State. [More…]

• What I was implying was that a State Government would insist that pre-school education is its program to be developed in the way it chooses throughout that State. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to a report in the National Times of 24 April 1978 which describes a campaign by Canberra residents to prevent schools in the Australian Capital Territory from charging supplementary education fees. [More…]

• Is it true that education in government schools is supposed to be provided without cost and that no existing legislation authorises the collection of school fees? [More…]

• I hope that during the course of the remainder of this debate in the Senate today we will point to these past two months as being ones in which there has been a great deal of education and in which a great deal of public opinion has been developed. [More…]

• That second reading speech was also delivered in this chamber by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• In the previous debate the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) referred to co-operation and a bipartisan approach and to taking politics out of some of the more emotional matters that come before this chamber. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech stated: [More…]

• Significantly, the Minister at the table, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) made a very similar remark in answer to a question I asked him on 4 May. [More…]

• I have taken the liberty of giving the Minister at the table, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), a copy of a letter from Mrs Walters, the very energetic and competent secretary of that organisation. [More…]

• In many cases the problem arises because we have a very complex system, a system which people who may not have had a very good education, who may not be used to coping with the bureaucracy or who may be unemployed for various reasons, have difficulty in handling. [More…]

• She is well educated and it is because of her education and her ability to realise what was happening and to put down in words what is happening to her that I think she is a good case to demonstrate some of the problems that might face some of the less articulate, less intelligent and less educated people who are often in this position. [More…]

• In the meantime, not knowing what to do about her unemployment benefit, or her lack of unemployment benefit, and because of her nature, her education, and not being willing to lie down and take this sort of thing, she contacted the office of the Department of Social Security. [More…]

• The original procedures initiated by the Commonwealth Government to fund Migrant Education Television services were letters of agreement between the responsible Commonwealth Department and a number of persons to produce or contribute to the production of the program. [More…]

• Funds were provided through the normal appropriations of the Department responsible for the adult migrant education program. [More…]

• There have been a number of surveys and evaluations of the Migrant Education Television service since the beginning of the project and these have indicated a growing acceptance and a substantial increase in the number of persons regularly viewing the program. [More…]

• It also draws attention to the success of television education where sufficient resources- both human and financial- have been available and refers to experiences in a number of overseas countries. [More…]

• (4), (5) and (6) The administration of the Migrant Education Television program is undertaken as a part of the adult migrant education program. [More…]

• Both the evaluation study referred to above and the present Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services to Migrants have also provided opportunities for consultations with ethnic communities about the broader aspects of the Migrant Education Television Program. [More…]

• Does radio station 2XX still operate under an education licence with certain restrictions which state that it can broadcast only material of an educational character? [More…]

• Can the Minister explain to the Senate the educational character of a record which contains the refrain: I went with some friends to rape a girl ‘? [More…]

• Yesterday 1 asked the Minister whether she had received a letter from Dr Hopgood, the Minister for Education in South Australia, setting out the problems which exist in South Australia because of the decrease in Commonwealth funding. [More…]

• I am not in the slightest degree equipped by education or experience to pass a judgment upon the issues to which Senator Haines- adopting the views of others as well as speaking for herselfhas referred with so much concern but I have tried to follow them and I have formed my own judgment in the light of the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry and the debates that have been held. [More…]

• The State committees will provide grass roots contact with industry, centres of education, and the community generally. [More…]

• There are however some changes in emphasis, particularly in the reorganisation of the policy formulation mechanisms of CSIRO and to the Organisation’s relationships with government instrumentalities and industry and community interest groups as well as universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Another change to be made by the Bill will benefit taxpayers who have dependent children for whom payments are made under the Isolated Children’s Education Assistance scheme. [More…]

• States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1978 [More…]

• This Bill adjusts the approved programs of grants to the States for tertiary education for the years 1977 and 1978 by amending the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Act 1976, the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976, the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) [More…]

• Amounts provided by the adjustments to legislation for 1977 for each of the tertiary education sectors are $5m for universities, $4.2 m for colleges of advanced education and $0.4m for technical and further education. [More…]

• These adjustments, which represent the final supplementation to the 1977 programs, bring the total amounts provided to the States for tertiary education in respect of 1977 to $56 1.8m for universities, $439. [More…]

• 5m for colleges of advanced education and $85. [More…]

• 4m for technical and further education. [More…]

• Additional amounts provided for 1978 by adjustments to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 are $28m for universities, $18m for colleges of advanced education and $3. [More…]

• 6m for technical and further education. [More…]

• 2m for universities, $460.8m for colleges of advanced education and $101. [More…]

• 2m for technical and further education. [More…]

• It may, however, be necessary to revise current legislative proposals presently being drafted in the light of the proposed code sent by the Commonwealth Minister to the Northern Territory Minister because 1 July 1978 is the date when the Northern Territory gets responsible self-government and takes over all State-like responsibilities except health and education. [More…]

• Senator Kilgariff, would you please show it to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to Senator Carrick who, of course, is the Minister for Education in the present Government. [More…]

• He nominated his Government’s encouragement of tertiary education and the development of the national capital. [More…]

• He was convinced that all Australians should have opportunities to share in a full educational experience and his Government presided over a vast expansion in tertiary education in this country. [More…]

• His commitment to the development of the Australian university system saw considerable advancement in tertiary education during his time as Prime Minister. [More…]

• He was a man of great stature, both mentally and from the aspect of education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Basically the only key information that anyone had on this was the report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties which commissioned the Australian Council of Education Research to prepare a report. [More…]

• The profoundly more important approach will arise from the establishment of a national inquiry into all aspects of teacher education which we propose to undertake in the weeks and months ahead. [More…]

• If there had been a bad health situation, as I said in the debate in this place a fortnight ago, it was the responsibility of the State Government to ensure that the health and education standards in the community were brought up to the highest possible levels. [More…]

• The groupings in our many country towns are in the lower socio-economic level because the people are unable to secure employment: Firstly, because of insufficient education; secondly, because frequently their health is not good; and, thirdly, because in most parts of Australia, particularly in small country towns, there is racial bias. [More…]

• Mr Bjelke-Petersen says the reason the Queensland Government wants to take over management of both communities is because education and health had suffered under the Uniting Church. [More…]

• The policy statement then referred to health, housing and education services. [More…]

• I would proudly under proper safeguards earn dollars for Australia to turn them into better education, better health, better social services and better housing for the people of Australia and, to help the people of the world towards more energy for peaceful purposes. [More…]

• I wish to bring to the attention of the Senate, particularly the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) an issue which I believe raises many fundamental questions which need to be addressed with some urgency because of a particular situation which has arisen. [More…]

• It is out of those general issues that a specific situation has arisen at the Austraiian National University which needs to be drawn to the attention of the Senate, particularly the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister for Education to a judgment delivered in November 1977 in the Supreme Court of Victoria which related to the use of funds by the Australian Union of Students. [More…]

• The issue is the purpose to which those contributions are put, the actions which they, in fact, support and whether they are relevant to the process of education, which obviously is the primary purpose of the tertiary institution. [More…]

• The Senate may recall that on Thursday, 1 1 May, I directed a question to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) about a record played on the Canberra educational radio station 2XX. [More…]

• The management of radio station 2XX grabbed the educational licence when it was made available but, really, it operated station 2XX as a socalled community station. [More…]

• But, having been alerted about station 2XX by the woman who approached me with great concern about the song which 2XX has now banned, I arranged for the station to be listened to more closely to determine the type of education material which it was broadcasting. [More…]

• It is not just the Minister or the Department of Education who have ultimate responsibility about the matter. [More…]

• I understand that the Australian National University Students Association gave $7,000 to 2XX and that the Canberra College of Advanced Education Students Association gave $3,000. [More…]

• The University Centre for Continuing Education assists 2XX and a Mr Brendan O ‘Dwyer from that Centre is the University representative on the 2XX board. [More…]

• Senator Harradine has invited me as a Senate representative on the Australian National University Council to respond as well as inviting the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to respond. [More…]

• The Queensland Board of Advanced Education submitted the following courses to the Tertiary Education Commission for consideration for approval for funding purposes for 1978: [More…]

• Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Mount Gravatt College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• North Brisbane College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Bachelor of Education (Primary), Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations, Graduate Diploma in Secretarial Studies. [More…]

• Of the 17 course proposals submitted by the Queensland Board of Advanced Education, 9 were approved for introduction in 1978. [More…]

• Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Under the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance ) Act 1 977, the Tertiary Education Com mission may approve for funding purposes, courses of study in colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In carrying out this function, the Commission takes account of advice from its Advanced Education Council which consults with and receives advice from the State authorities responsible for advanced education. [More…]

• The Government Guidelines issued to the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1978-80 triennium referred to the need to examine, in a rigorous way, any proposals for the lengthening and upgrading of courses, and to ensure that intakes into colleges of advanced education should not exceed the 1977 levels. [More…]

• It its report, Recommendations for 1978, paragraph 2.27, the Commission expressed the view that the time had come for consolidation in the advanced education sector and indicated that it would be reluctant to approve new courses for 1978 unless there was a strong case for them and they could be mounted without requiring additional financial resources. [More…]

• Accordingly, in considering new course proposals for 1 978 the Commission and Council took into account the Government ‘s Guidelines and the need for consolidation in the advanced education sector, together with the need to ensure that there was no duplication of course offerings and that resources were being used in an efficient manner. [More…]

• After consideration of the proposals from the Queensland Board of Advanced Education set out in (a) above, the Advanced Education Council recommended to the Commission that the courses listed in (b) above should be approved for funding purposes in 1 978 and that consideration of the other proposed courses should be deferred. [More…]

• Education and [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 16 March 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education the following question, upon notice, on 10 April 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Did the Queensland Teacher Board of Education give approval in 1977 to the North Brisbane College of Advanced Education to institute a Bachelor of Education course in 1978: if so. [More…]

• Do similar Acts in America and Sweden contain sections which permit the reproduction of publications, in Braille or by phono-record, to non-profit organisations engaged in education when the use of the material is for the blind, disabled or others with reading problems. [More…]

• Has the Victorian Council for Handicapped Readers written to the Attorney-General, asking for amendments to the Australian Act to permit republication by recognised organisations in Australia catering for the education of the disabled. [More…]

• Department of Health, Education and Welfare [More…]

• -My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate what percentage of Australia ‘s gross domestic product is represented by State and Federal public expenditure on education? [More…]

• How does Australia’s public expenditure on education compare with that of other countries? [More…]

• But it is possible to say that in Australia over a three-year period total outlays on education, represented as a percentage of GDP, were as follows: in 1973-74, 5 per cent; 1974-75, 6.2 per cent; and in 1976-77, as an estimated figure, 6.4 per cent. [More…]

• The figure is showing a very considerable movement and compared with the past it shows that in Australia a major and significant amount of the total budgets of Australia is being allocated at the State and Federal level to education. [More…]

• As to the second part of the honourable senator’s question-that is, public expenditure on education as a percentage of either GDP or GNP- we have a variety of figures for Australia. [More…]

• For the calendar year 1976, Japan, a country that has devoted itself intensively to education, spent 5.7 per cent of its gross domestic product on education. [More…]

• For the year 1976-77, the United Kingdom spent 7.3 per cent of its gross national product on education which, expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product, shows that Australia’s expenditure compares favourably with that of the United Kingdom. [More…]

• In the year 1976, France spent 4.7 per cent of its gross domestic product on education. [More…]

• Clearly on any quantitative measurement Australia in recent years has devoted to education a percentage of its gross domestic product which is comparable with or greater than that of any country. [More…]

• The Minister for Education used the term consultative role’. [More…]

• The Opposition moves this amendment as it considers that the co-ordinating committee as proposed, and even as expanded by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the amendments he has just moved, will still not be representative enough of all the bodies which will have an interest in this matter. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will anticipate part of my remarks. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to consider the inequality of the membership brought back by the delegation that visited the north, what it is now asking us to pass- apparently we have passed it- and the effect that this will have on the Aboriginal community. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) when speaking to clause 18(2) said that it had been a long time since he had studied legal interpretations. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who is in the chamber may be able to tell me what it means. [More…]

• I suggest that during the suspension of the sitting for dinner the Minister for Education should take the time to see that those two clauses are remoulded. [More…]

• I do not know how far the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) can go in giving this matter consideration. [More…]

• I agree with the interpretation of that clause by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• Before the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) replies I wish to comment on what Senator Wright said. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), with his sanctimonious voice and his pleading does not influence me at all. [More…]

• Minister for Education, or that anyone in the Fraser Government, has made on Aborigines. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) acknowledges my sincerity on the Aboriginal question, as does Senator Kilgariff. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is correct. [More…]

• If the Minister for Education were responsible for seeing that they did and we had a guarantee that he would remain responsible for that we could rest assured that the Aborigines would get them. [More…]

• However, we embody strict guidelines in legislation to ensure that, if some other Minister with less responsibility than the Minister for Education is made responsible for this matter, he will not do something that the Minister for Education would never anticipate being done. [More…]

• Therefore, when we provide security for the Parliament and for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in respect of this matter we should give security also to the Aborigines just in case the next Minister is not as reputable as the Minister for Education. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education has demonstrated, the Fox report said that the area should be made a national park under a perpetual lease to the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]

• Before the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) comments on the amendment, I feel that the remarks of Senator Cavanagh and the forebodings of Senator Kilgariff necessitate some explanation. [More…]

• I noticed that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech referred to the vision of the Kakadu National Park. [More…]

• I shall await with interest the reply by the Minister for Education to see whether he will be able to give me an iron clad assurance that if the Government has its way with the three mining enclaves it will not in either phase 1 or phase 2 of the project mine in areas which will destroy the concept of a national park but that it will be influenced to emulate the feelings which prevail in the United States of America. [More…]

• On one memorable occasion, when the Minister for Education took carriage of legislation dealing with the environment he indicated to me- I accepted it in good faith- that the national view on the custody of the Kakadu National Park would prevail. [More…]

• I can see gaps in the case put forward by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech, but I fear most of all the sinister figure of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony). [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech said that the Government has taken the appropriate action in introducing stringent requirements with regard to environmental protection in the Alligator Rivers region. [More…]

• 1 ) With the exception of South Australia, State Education Departments have not kept separate figures in regard to children of non-English-speaking backgrounds enrolled in Government Schools. [More…]

• The number of Migrant English teachers employed by the Education Department in each State as at 30 June each year from 1972-1975 under the Child Migrant Education Program is as follows: [More…]

• Since 1976 Commonwealth support for activities related to Migrant and Multicultural education has been provided through the Schools Commission’s General Recurrent [More…]

• The funds have been made available to support a wide range of activities in the general Migrant and Multicultural education area. [More…]

• State Education Departments are responsible for the administration of the funds and for the setting of priorities in relation to expenditure. [More…]

• However, following discussions with Education Departments in 1977 the Schools Commission estimates that as of September 1977 the following teachers working specifically in the area of Migrant and Multicultural education, were employed by Education Departments. [More…]

• Given the figures stated above then the percentages of Migrant English Teachers currently employed in the Education Department in each State would be as set down below. [More…]

• It needs to be remembered however, that the percentages related to those teachers working in a ‘special capacity’ in the Migrant and Multicultural education area and do not take into account teachers working in the ‘normal ‘classroom environment who may have expertise in the education of migrant children. [More…]

• Expenditure under the Child Migrant Education Program includes funds made available to non-government schools and State Education Departments as well as funds expended by the Commonwealth for production and distribution of ESL materials, teacher exchange schemes and national conferences and seminars. [More…]

• I have written to the Queensland Minister for Education explaining the position I have taken with regard t o curriculum materials in the social studies area, with specific reference to the SEMP and MACOS programs. [More…]

• I also drew his attention to the many approachcs I have had from local and national education bodies, academics, education authorities, teacher associ- ations and parent groups on this issue which overwhelmingly s upported the work of the Curriculum Development Centre a ind the SEMP materials, with some reservations about small s ections of SEMP. [More…]

• I have provided the Queensland Minister with a ample list of the national and local bodies supporting SEMP, and asked him to make the list and the supportive views of these bodies known to the Queensland Parliamen- t ary Committee of Education Review. [More…]

• State Departments of Education [More…]

• The Queensland Catholic Education Council [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, refers to the recent media reports that an estimated one million Australians are functionally illiterate, that is, they cannot cope with the basic reading and writing tasks that the community requires of them, such as the reading of road signs or the writing of their own name. [More…]

• Since the report states that only 2 per cent of these people are receiving remedial help, can the Minister say whether a proportion of the budget of the Curriculum Development Centre has been spent on supplying both schools and adult education centres with the necessary materials to rectify this appalling state of affairs? [More…]

• The most noteworthy evidence we have to support this claim is the Australian Council for Educational Research report which does show some significant degree of illiteracy. [More…]

• The other evidence which is not quite as expert is the evidence before our eyes, particularly as regards the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• I believe, for example, that my colleagues the six State Ministers for Education are aware of this problem and are striving to solve it. [More…]

• In my view, the fundamental approach to this matter must be in the form of a national inquiry into teacher education. [More…]

• I am bound to say we are concentrating on this aspect, but the real situation will come when the Australian people press upon the education system to ensure that the basic skills and the core curricula are directed towards proper goals. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to an announcement by the State Minister for Education in Western Australia, Mr Peter Jones M.L.A., which was reported in the Press last Monday in which he criticised the Schools Commission report on per capita funding of government schools. [More…]

• I have of course seen the reports of the purported statements on this matter by the Western Australian Minister for Education, my colleague Mr Peter Jones. [More…]

• The Schools Commission having reported, the Commonwealth Government through me has invited all States, and indeed all those interested in education, to respond. [More…]

• As to the specifics, Mr Jones apparently was referring to legislated amounts for general recurrent grants, which include migrant education money and which reflect transfers between capital and recurrent funds made at the request of the States. [More…]

• The migrant education component reflects the migrant population and the allocation prevailing in 1976, so there is a lag to be considered. [More…]

• The Commission also proposed that there be increases in funding for migrant education which would increase the amounts for Western Australia. [More…]

• I refer particularly to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts relating to broadcasting, the recommendations of which have never been implemented. [More…]

• It can consider the activities and technological problems of higher education institutions and private enterprise. [More…]

• On my interpretation of it, proposed new sub-section (2) does a bit more than the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has indicated it does. [More…]

• I do not think that the remarks of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) can go unchallenged because yesterday he made the same comment that no one has a monopoly of the interests of the welfare of Aboriginals. [More…]

• I would like to raise a matter with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) while we are dealing with section 7 1 of the principal Act. [More…]

• -I rise to speak because the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) referred to the functions of the Law Reform Commission. [More…]

• Upon being confronted by some opposition from the States, the Government has gone to water and has signified its intention of introducing amendments which I presume the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will later be moving, which in effect give the States power to veto any code of practice which may be laid down by regulation pursuant to this Act. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) told us only a few moments ago that in the letter sent out today by the Prime Minister to the Premiers the Prime Minister referred to the general consensus that we need a strong national code. [More…]

• Following Senator Cavanagh ‘s remarks, I should like to get a definitive answer on this question from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I want to express concern in view of the answers given earlier by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• A few minutes ago the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) referred to the relevance of some of the matters the Opposition is bringing up in this discussion. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in reply to my queries reinforced most strongly the amendment which we have put forward. [More…]

• I wish to take further the comments which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has made. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether any thought has been given to prescribing cut-off levels of the type I have suggested to clarify this definition. [More…]

• -I direct to the Minister for Education a question which follows on from the one he has just answered. [More…]

• I ask: In view of the Government’s decision to prohibit the entry into Australia of any migrants of the Ananda Marga sect for reasons which I understand involve acts of violence or alleged acts of violence on the part of that organisation, can the Minister indicate why the Government is prepared to continue to assist the financing of this organisation through its educational institutions? [More…]

• Until such time as further evidence comes before the Government, purely in the educational field- certainly evidence that would indicate that what is happening is foreign to the standards of Australia and perhaps promotes violence- I think that we should look at the three schools as being schools that provide secular education for young children, although we may not hold the views of this sect or its religion. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he has seen a report in the Sydney Morning Herald of 24 May in which Mr Van Davy, the President of the Australian Teachers Federation, is quoted as saying: [More…]

• The current criticisms of the education system . [More…]

• I think the quick answer is that those who have been seeking simply by finance to solve the problems of upgrading education have failed to reach their goal. [More…]

• The Opposition’s attitude was not as the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has outlined. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) referred to my earlier comments about dealing with the States. [More…]

• It is quite obvious that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is not going to answer either Senator Wright or Senator Missen, who have asked for some explanation, because, if I had not risen to speak, Mr Chairman, you would have put the question and it would have passed. [More…]

• -It is becoming patently obvious that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) takes our point that, until all the States have accepted a code, we will not have a code. [More…]

• Two specific points were put to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) by Senator McLaren. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) still has not answered the question that I posed to him, so I am forced to speak further. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has said that consultation will continue after the passage of the legislation. [More…]

• I am indebted to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for the terminology in his advice. [More…]

• I am indebted to the Minister for Education for the terminology that he used. [More…]

• Could I suggest to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that in the last line the phrase ‘an order’ be altered to ‘that order’? [More…]

• He was employed by the Queensland Department of Education. [More…]

• He therefore sought to resume teaching in the Queensland Department of Education. [More…]

• Undaunted, I tried to arrange to see the Acting Minister for Education in Queensland, Mr Newberry. [More…]

• Unfortunately, our schedules did not permit a meeting while Mr Newberry was Acting Minister for Education. [More…]

• When I realised that Mr Newberry and I would not be able to discuss the matter, I considered that my next move should be to see the Queensland Minister for Education, Mr Bird, on his return to Queensland. [More…]

• I then went to the South Australian Minister for Education, Dr Hopgood, to get some information. [More…]

• In December 1972, under the Whitlam Government, the Australian Government policy announced in a pre-election speech stated that pre-school education would be made available within six years to every child. [More…]

• the Government to recommend ways in which the policy of universal pre-school education within six years should be implemented. [More…]

• We want pre-school education for every Australian child . [More…]

• On 6 May the Prime Minister, speaking in New South Wales, promised that pre-school education would be free for all children, that promise was reported in the Adelaide Advertiser on 7 May 1974. [More…]

• On 14 May the Prime Minister, speaking in Victoria, repeated his promise of free pre-school education for all children, and that statement was reported in the Adelaide News on 15 May 1974. [More…]

• We believe that pre-school education has important social and educational functions . [More…]

• In March of that year in a letter to Dr Hopgood, the South Australian Minister for Education, Senator Guilfoyle stated in part: . [More…]

• The budget for 1976-77 was to be reduced to $73.3m and priority was to be given to day care projects as opposed to preschool education. [More…]

• The Prime Minister also announced that the Government was reviewing the then basis of the Commonwealth’s recurrent assistance for pre-school education and would renegotiate the funding formula for pre-schools with all States. [More…]

• In March 1978 Senator Guilfoyle sent a letter to the State Minister for Education. [More…]

• In her letter to the State Minister for Education, Senator Guilfoyle went on to say: [More…]

• The table relates to pre-school education. [More…]

• So it can be seen that although the Commonwealth has reduced its contribution to the State’s funding for preschool education by 22 per cent, the contribution of the State has had to be increased by a like amount. [More…]

• The block grant has in fact done nothing to assist the South Australian problem in keeping our pre-schools open and in providing a facility for children to fit them to go on to primary school education. [More…]

• It could be that pre-school education is not receiving the emphasis in that State that many people would desire. [More…]

• Those are the figures which have been given to me by the South Australian Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister of Education Dr Don Hopgood said the Federal Government’s attitude made a mockery of its preelection funding arrangements. [More…]

• The Federal Government is sliding away through the back door from its obligations to pre-school education. [More…]

• Getting back to Senator Guilfoyle ‘s claim that it could be that South Australia was not placing proper emphasis on pre-school education, I have some figures on this matter. [More…]

• The education of our pre-school children is a priority. [More…]

• It has often been said that education has the most lasting effect in the first seven years of a child ‘s life. [More…]

• Children need pre-school education before they go to primary school. [More…]

• I know of the great difference between my education and the education of my children, whom I could afford to send to pre-school. [More…]

• I know that pre-school education gave my children a better start along the road to life. [More…]

• He has to solve housing and employment difficulties and arrange education for his children. [More…]

• It points out that, since about 20 per cent of our community are currently ‘ migrants ‘, a similar proportion of the Commonwealth’s general expenditure on education, health, social security and welfare and other areas should be for the benefit of migrants. [More…]

• Honourable members will be aware of the current Commonwealth programs and services directed specifically to migrants, covering migrant education, migrant welfare, interpreting and translation and other programs and services. [More…]

• The Review found that the main areas of need (such as for fluency in English and for better communication and information) are common to virtually all areas such as health, welfare, education, employment and the law. [More…]

• This will cover classes in English and formal orientation courses including advice and assistance in housing, education, employment and other areas of need. [More…]

• There will also be provision for better education for teachers of adult migrants, additional funds for training such teachers and for the provision of teaching materials. [More…]

• The adult migrant education program will be established as a three-year program and an extensive survey of the needs for English of the various migrant groups will be conducted to improve planning and monitoring. [More…]

• We agree that schools are the key element in achieving such a goal and we will allocate $5m over the next three years to develop multicultural and community language education programs. [More…]

• I think that if we made more use of ethnologists in Australia rather than health, education and welfare workers with these people we would be a lot better off and so would our Aborigines. [More…]

• It is wrong to think that nurture is more important than nature; to think that education and improved social conditions will beat nature. [More…]

• The vernacular is used in communications and education. [More…]

• Furthermore, a fairer system of education is possible under separate development. [More…]

• It is immoral to force blacks into the same educational sausage machine that the whites have to suffer. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware of the fact that the States Grants (Universities) Act 1976 sets out as one condition of Federal grants to States for universities that the States ensure that no university charges fees? [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the advice of the Australian Vice Chancellor’s Committee and the Tertiary Education Commission been sought on whether this number could be accommodated in existing universities and colleges? [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Education in replying to my remarks will give us some indication, because so far all we have had from Mr Staley is this statment of principle. [More…]

• If my memory of the evidence given before the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts some years ago is correct, the total staff of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Australia at that time was equal at least to all the staff of all the commercial radio and television stations in Australia. [More…]

• In answer to that charge, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who represents the responsible Minister in this place, offered three defences. [More…]

• I, with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), take exception to the way in which Senator Ryan made statements in relation to the Australian Broadcasting Commission and cast aspersions on the commissioners and the senior management of the ABC. [More…]

• The word appears frequently in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, in which that Committee reported to the Senate on the employment of musicians by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• Despite the lofty tone adopted today by the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, the attitude of the conservative parties towards the Australian Broadcasting Commission can only be described as paranoid. [More…]

• Dr Rupert Goodman of Queensland, another member of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, is an educationalist. [More…]

• His specialty is the progressive plot in education. [More…]

• Committees of Council are responsible for examining and commenting on specific aspects of rehabilitation, including the education and training of rehabilitation personnel, research needs in the field of rehabilitation, rehabilitation engineering, medical and vocational aspects of rehabilitation, priorities within the handicapped persons assistance program, consultation with handicapped people and review of the invalid pensions scheme. [More…]

• In this regard, Council has concentrated a good deal of attention on the education, training and continuing professional development of staff associated with services for handicapped people and on the evaluation of the impact of services. [More…]

• Council produces a national rehabilitation digest which is published quarterly and distributed to Commonwealth and State departments, universities and other educational institutions, hospitals and health centres, organisations providing services to handicapped people and individuals with handicaps. [More…]

• Improved access of handicapped people to education is another matter which Council regards as of utmost importance. [More…]

• In the 157th report the Committee had been critical of the Department of Defence, the Department of Education, the then Department of Manufacturing Industry and the then Australian Council for the Arts. [More…]

• The Department of Education failed to obtain ministerial approval to extend the broadbranding of incomes when calculating living allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Such is the nature of the individual in this society, who seeks to protect beyond his death the assets that he has accumulated, having made no provision in his own time for the protection, education and support of members of his family who have had to survive themselves by their own efforts. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) stated in his second reading speech, the purpose of both Bills in the different areas of education is to amend the relevant Acts to provide, as it were, topping up grants in respect of education expenditure for the last year. [More…]

• Insofar as tertiary education is concerned, the Bills also provide supplementation for cost movements from July to December 1977. [More…]

• While speaking about the question of education funding, I take the opportunity to make one or two comments about the situation of schools, and perhaps the tertiary education area, in relation to funding. [More…]

• It is to be hoped also that the Minister will take account of the expressed views relating to the needs of the tertiary education area of universities and other institutions, particularly in relation to capital expenditure. [More…]

• Some noises about suggest that the Government may not be able to find the funds necessary to fulfil the Schools Commission recommendations or to meet even some of the requirements of other tertiary education institutions in Australia. [More…]

• Having regard to recent survey material, to material contained in the Schools Commission report and to the expressed need of the schools system, it might well be recommended to the Government through the Minister that a very substantial proportion of the Government ‘s capital works program should be devoted to schools because, whatever the current economic difficulties, I think the Minister would share the view that the long-term wealth of this country in a very real sense depends on the education system, the way in which it works and the product of it. [More…]

• In spite of that expenditure, there is no doubt that funds provided for government school capital works have fallen far short of meeting the needs of the State education systems, especially in relation to the urgent upgrading needs and the replacement of old schools. [More…]

• I just want to establish that as far as the Opposition is concerned, when one is considering this sort of legislation, it is appropriate to draw attention to the very pressing needs of the schools system and of the tertiary education system. [More…]

• I know that the Minister for Education is aware of these needs. [More…]

• In no sense do I criticise the Minister for non-awareness of the sorts of problems with which the education system is confronted. [More…]

• As Senator Button stated, these two Bills, the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill have one purpose only and that is to provide the supplementary finance to take the funding of the whole field of education, from primary through to tertiary, to the end of this financial year. [More…]

• In the technical and further education sphere there has been a very significant expansion. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission and its councils have proved highly successful. [More…]

• The Government is eagerly awaiting the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• I am, I hope, in the not too distant future, about to launch an inquiry into teacher education. [More…]

• There is an inquiry into nurse education under way at the moment. [More…]

• Therefore, the story of the funding of tertiary education, as witnessed by this Bill and by the students in their faculties, is a good and successful one. [More…]

• The real situation in relation to capital funds for schools is that in 1975, the last year of the Whitlam Government, that Government reduced the education budget for the following year by $ 105 m. The effect of that was that the Whitlam Government cut capital works for schools by $85m. [More…]

• But the fundamental thing the community is saying to this Parliament is this: We thought that the application of massive amounts of funds would have produced better education. [More…]

• One of the basic jobs that is necessary in education is to see that the economy is returned to normal from the disaster of its wreckage by the Labor Party so that jobs can be created again. [More…]

• So when the community judges what we are doing in education let it judge us, yes, that we have reached and surpassed our targets in schools. [More…]

• In a moment I will be seeking leave to incorporate in Hansard an official table of actual budgetary expenditure shown both by financial years and calendar years, prepared not by me but by the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]

• I take it that no one is suggesting that the Commonwealth Department of Education is putting down false figures. [More…]

• -I ask Senator Wriedt whether he accepts a statement prepared by the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]

• -If there is a difference, would he say that the Department of Education is wrong? [More…]

• In the second year of the Whitlam Government, 1974-75, in its second last Budget the total amount spent on universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education, and schools, was $ 1,556m. [More…]

• I have quoted them quite often in this chamber to rebut remarks made by the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick. [More…]

• Tonight, Senator Carrick has incorporated in Hansard a document which he said was prepared by the Department of Education. [More…]

• He talked about the amounts allocated to education during financial years and he referred to the last financial year under the Labor Government, when that Government was unceremoniously sacked. [More…]

• In those Bills an amount of $ 1,908m was allocated for education. [More…]

• If the expenditure in 1 975-76 was less than the amount spent in 1974-75 the blame lies with the Fraser Government and with Senator Carrick, as the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Senator Wriedt quoted the expenditure on education in the first Budget of the Labor Government. [More…]

• Of course, we all know that in the last Budget of the McMahon Government the expenditure on education was about $450m. [More…]

• In the following year, as Senator Wriedt said, we appropriated an amount of $ 1,908m for education. [More…]

• It was not the fault of Mr Beazley, the then Minister for Education. [More…]

• He should go out and talk to people who are concerned about expenditure on education. [More…]

• They know who allocated the most money to education. [More…]

• Even if Senator Carrick were right, even if his figures were correct and our expenditure on education in one financial year was somewhat less than it was in a previous year, he cannot argue that that was not substantially more than it was when the Liberal and Country Party Government went out of office. [More…]

• We on this side of the chamber can prove, by using the actual Budget documents, that in fact the Labor Government did set the standard for education. [More…]

• I think we will find when we look at the percentages of increase in appropriation by this Government that they are very much less than the percentage of increase in expenditure on education by the Whitlam Labor Government immediately after we came to office. [More…]

• We only have to look down the table in which the expenditure on education are itemised, as I did a moment ago, to see this. [More…]

• Yet every time a matter dealing with education comes up in this Parliament Senator Carrick has the audacity to claim falsely that the Whitlam Government did not do the right thing by education and that we reduced expenditure on education. [More…]

• I have said before and I will say it again and again, in this place, on the public platform and when I talk to educationalists, that our record of expenditure on education is a proud one. [More…]

• Even the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), when he replied to me that night, agreed that certain aspects had to be examined. [More…]

• I discussed this matter last night with the President and the Minister for Education. [More…]

• On 14 May, in one of the squares of Kaunas, Romas Kalanta (born 1953), who had finished secondary education and was the son of a college lecturer died by selfimmolation, under the banner ‘Freedom for Lithuania’. [More…]

• -I think that at all times the idea to establish an Australian Defence Force Academy was regarded as being a matter for the Department of Defence and the Minister for Defence rather than for the Ministry of Education. [More…]

• However, one cannot deny that the Department of Education is concerned with the establishment of the Academy as there is a similar educational content in both. [More…]

• From my recollection, certainly the Tertiary Education Commission in 1977 would not have had any reason to contemplate whether or not there ought to be a Casey Defence Force Academy because it had not been suggested to the Commission that there might be one. [More…]

• Of course, the fact is that while we had put a caveat on the development of further universities and colleges of advanced education, we went ahead with the establishment of the Australian Maritime College. [More…]

• I think that the narrow answer to the honourable senator’s question is that the establishment of this institution is a matter for the Department of Defence and for the Minister for Defence and not one for the Minister for Education in terms of the institution. [More…]

• I have no reason to believe that the Tertiary Education Commission had the matter in its purview at the time that it brought down its report. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education, and I put it understanding that recurrent and equipment funds for the Maritime College in Launceston are to be provided each year from the education vote, to be decided by the Advanced Education Council in the normal way, having regard to the priorities of all the colleges. [More…]

• I therefore ask: Is it a fact that funds for the operation and maintenance of the proposed Casey university will not be provided through the Tertiary Education Commission but through a separate defence vote? [More…]

• If that is so, why is the university to be treated differently from other universities and how will its priorities compare with those of tertiary education generally? [More…]

• The Maritime College is a non-military totally civilian college which will be run as a college of advanced education. [More…]

• It will therefore come under the Advanced Education Council, which is part of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Each year and menially the Tertiary Education Commission will make a study of the Maritime College and report to the Government on the matter. [More…]

• It may well be that the Tertiary Education Commission will be given some kind of review or oversight of aspects of the Casey Defence Force Academy. [More…]

• I ask: Does the Minister know that since that time the departmental representatives in Adelaide of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations have rejected a complete and comprehensive union retraining scheme and that the scheme which has been proposed is one to retrain 40 employees under the auspices of the Department of Further Education, as a result of which there is currently a dispute and representations have been made to the Government? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Post and Telecommunications whether he is aware that the frequency modulation broadcasting station at the College of Advanced Education in Hobart, station 7CAE, which has been operating now for two or three years and which I think most people who live in Hobart would agree provides an excellent service to the Hobart community, has been advised by the Department that to maintain its licence it must invest in a whole range of new equipment and take up a site which will make it extremely difficult for it to continue its operation. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of recent reports of State inquiries into post-secondary education? [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate whether the latest report of the Tertiary Education Commission contains information bearing on this matter? [More…]

• Perhaps I can expand on it in future education debates. [More…]

• I am very well aware of what the Tertiary Education Commission has reported. [More…]

• The Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training is looking at all aspects of education in the post-school area and therefore is looking at the aspects of universities, colleges, and technical and further education. [More…]

• At the same time the State governments, acting under their constitutional powers, have set up a series of committees to look at post-secondary education. [More…]

• The three Ministers were Mr Viner, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Hunt, the Minister for Health and me, the Minister for Education. [More…]

• These are called dual appropriations and they relate mainly to capital grants to the States for purposes such as education, housing, roads and urban and public transport. [More…]

• He is particularly looking to cut back funds to the States for major programs such as education and social security. [More…]

• 6m are sought for migrant education services, and $6m for aged persons homes and hostels. [More…]

• Your officials yesterday proposed an ad hoc scheme under the facilities of the Department of Further Education. [More…]

• by leave- Honourable senators will be aware of the Government’s concern with the question of compulsory membership of student organisations in universities and colleges of advanced education and with the expenditure of funds by these organisations on activities many of their members would find offensive. [More…]

• National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I have informed the ViceChancellor of the Australian National University, the Principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education and representatives of the Vice-Chancellors Committee and the Conference of Principals of Colleges of Advanced Education of the Government’s decision. [More…]

• I was told that State workers compensation legislation applies to the families involved and that the Government was setting up a trust” fund for the education of the children. [More…]

• The fact is that besides the education of the children concerned, the widows of the men who were blown up in that Hilton bombing have received no ex-gratia payment. [More…]

• I remind honourable senators opposite of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, which is a competent one. [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, refers to the statement he brought down in the Senate last night foreshadowing legislation to abolish compulsory membership of student associations at the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• When the Commonwealth and State governments, in this case proudly, accept that responsibility to provide that money for the secular delivery of compulsory education in those sectors of the community that by conscience and by freedom of choice elect to support non-government schools, we are not in any way infringing principles; we are in fact providing secular education inside non-government schools. [More…]

• Those people who advise him ought to look at the Declaration of Human Rights which calls upon the signatories, including Australia, to do exactly what we are doing, that is, to provide equal education in government and nongovernment schools. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Does the Minister regard himself as a spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on education matters or does he regard Senator Button as the spokesman for the ALP on education matters? [More…]

• -While one glimmer of sanity remains in me I would never want to be regarded as a spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on education matters. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Following Senator Wriedt ‘s statement that the Australian Labor Party does not support compulsion in the payment of fees to certain organisations on university campuses, does the Minister welcome that adoption of a bipartisan approach to this matter? [More…]

• -Evidently, Senator Colston did not hear the answers given yesterday by the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, who was asked a series of questions on this matter by Senator Georges. [More…]

• The statement which has been made by the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, on behalf of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) give the impression that the Government is concerned about the indexation commitments which it made in 1976. [More…]

• It has been pointed out that a trust fund has been set up for the education of the children. [More…]

• I understand that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has made a statement on this matter and has provided information, but I will see that Senator Colston is advised of the matters in the way that he has raised them. [More…]

• This body is the standing interdepartmental committee on refugees, comprising senior officers of the Depanment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (which chairs the committee), Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Finance, Health and Education, with other departments and the Public Service Board being co-opted as necessary. [More…]

• -My question, which I direct to the Minister for Education, concerns an article and an editorial in the [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education, ls the Government considering the introduction of a student loans scheme? [More…]

• If so, will it supplement or replace the existing Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and the adult secondary allowance scheme? [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware of a report on rural schools prepared by the Australian Teachers Federation and the Australian Council of State School Organisations which was presented to the Deputy Prime Minister last week? [More…]

• Is the Minister also aware of Press reports based on a national survey conducted by the Australian Teachers Federation alleging major deficiencies in Australian education, with particular respect to school sizes, backlogs in school building programs and a lack of specialised teachers? [More…]

• I understand that officials of the union have agreed to meet again officers of the Minister’s Department together with representatives of the South Australian Automobile Chamber of Commerce and the Department of Further Education in the week commencing 12 June. [More…]

• by leave- I do not intend to canvass the matters raised by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I inform the Senate that I have received letters from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Wriedt) requesting that Senators Button, Devitt, Tehan and Wheeldon be discharged from further service on the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and nominating Senators Cavanagh, Keeffe, Lewis and O’Byrne to be members of the Committee. [More…]

• The example which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) gave in his second reading speech, I believe, points out just how corrupt some of these schemes have become. [More…]

• With regard to the home tutor scheme, I understand that in the major States, New South Wales and Victoria, the reponsibility is already with the adult migrant education authorities and the Good Neighbour Council. [More…]

• In other States the scheme operates jointly and involves both the adult education authority and the Good Neighbour Council. [More…]

• -I preface my question to the Minister for Education by reminding him of a letter he wrote to me on 26 April relating to the Adelaide Aboriginal Community College. [More…]

• In that letter the Minister indicated his support for the initiatives taken in Aboriginal education by that College and noted the funding problems faced by it. [More…]

• He undertook to seek advice from the Tertiary Education Commission and his colleague the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs with regard to those problems. [More…]

• The Minister for Education may recall that continual questions have been asked about the situation at Whyalla following the announcements of the termination of shipbuilding activities. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• If so, are training colleges and colleges of advanced education accepting any responsibility by tuning their intakes to the projected future needs? [More…]

• Some time ago I informed the Senate of the contents of the document produced by the working party of the Australian Education Council which analysed the possible supply of and demand for teachers in Australia up to and beyond the mid-1980s. [More…]

• The bulk of funds going to the States in specific purpose grants are earmarked for education, health, housing and roads. [More…]

• They want to reduce funds to pay for the running costs of hospitals; they want to reduce funds going to schools and tertiary education institutions; they want to cut back on the welfare housing program; and they want to cut back on expenditure on roads. [More…]

• In the areas of roads, housing and education, substantial sums are spent on capital works. [More…]

• The suspended Minister for Finance demonstrates how little he knows about these issues by saying that he is also going to cut large areas of Commonwealth spending and nominates expenditure on health and education as the ones which will have to suffer reductions. [More…]

• If the Minister for Education, the Prime Minister, the Treasurer (Mr Howard) and the suspended Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson) come out and say that as a result of their policies inflation has been tackled successfully one may ask, on behalf of wage and salary earners of this country: ‘What is happening to the jobs? [More…]

• I bet the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) cannot tell me what the Minister’s answer was. [More…]

• We need to capitalise on the huge investments that have taken place in education over the last 10 or 1 5 years to ensure that we develop a higher level of technology allied to a lower cost structure in order to ensure the progress of manufacturing and of our whole industrial base. [More…]

• Perhaps it would be wise for the Opposition to recall the record of the Labor Government in this area, especially since the Labor Party is denigrated from day to day by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who takes every opportunity he can find to denigrate the period in which Labor was in office. [More…]

• The impression one gains from reading the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is that the States were given a free hand to determine what the projects would be. [More…]

• For a year the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts has been inquiring into the question of children’s television programming in Australia. [More…]

• A couple of senators opposite who are members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, I must say, do not attend meetings very often. [More…]

• We are constantly told in this place by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that what the people of Australia are saying to him about education is that they do not want so much quantity, as he puts it, but they want quality. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) should be concerned with increasing communication and consultation with, and increasing the education of the Aboriginal community as to the reasons why he makes a decision against an application by Aboriginal councils to alter the functions of an Aboriginal council. [More…]

• The former Maryport Rehabilitation Centre at Mount Martha is leased at a nominal rental to the Victorian Association of Curative Education of Rudolph Steiner pending completion of the Association’s new accommodation at Seville. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 3 May 1978: [More…]

• and (2) It is understood that Mr Berkeley saw a conflict of interest in membership of the Curriculum Development Centre Council following his Government ‘s decision about the Social Education Materials Project. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 978: [More…]

• 1 ) Which of the recommendations of Chapter 3 ‘Children at Risk ‘ of the fifth main report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, Poverty and Education in Australia, presented to the Prime Minister on 13 August 1976, have been accepted by the Government, and which were rejected. [More…]

• The answer to the honourable senator’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) As responsibility for education is shared by the Commonwealth and the States- and in relation to schools, the non-government school authorities- the bulk of the recommendations in the chapters specified in the Fifth Main Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty (the Fitzgerald Report) requires active participation by all these authorities. [More…]

• These include special provision for children at risk including migrant and aboriginal children and in the latter respect, the establishment of the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• In relation to ‘learning and work’, the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training (the Williams Committee) has been established and will be reporting shortly. [More…]

• Under the aegis of the Australian Education Council, a Commonwealth/State Working Party has been set up to examine transition from school to work and further study. [More…]

• Teachers are a key factor in educational improvement, and I recently announced the setting up of an inquiry into teacher education in which the emphasis will be on the qualitative aspects of teaching and teacher preparation. [More…]

• While disadvantage and education are sensitively discussed in the Report, no priorities are indicated nor has any attempt been made to cost the implementation of the recommendations. [More…]

• The Report does not focus on important matters such as the particular education situation of women and girls, and the inner city environment which affects education. [More…]

• Whilst the Report makes it clear that education in itself is not a remedy for poverty, the precise relationships between poverty and education are only tentatively explored. [More…]

• Very little reference is made to non-government education which has an important role to play, particularly in the education of migrant and disadvantaged children. [More…]

• Nevertheless it is a valuable addition to the information available to the Government on needs in education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1 978: [More…]

• 1 ) Which of the recommendations of Chapter 2, ‘ Unequal Outcomes of Schooling’, of the fifth main Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, Poverty and Education in Australia, presented to the Prime Minister on 13 August 1976, have been accepted by the Government, and which were rejected. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Which of the recommendations of Chapter 4 ‘School Policy’, of the fifth main Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, Poverty and Education in Australia, presented to the Prime Minister on 13 August 1976, have been accepted by the Government, and which were rejected. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Which of the recommendations of Chapter 5 ‘Learning and Work’, of the fifth main Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, Poverty and Education in Australia, presented to the Prime Minister on 13 August 1976, have been accepted by the Government, and which were rejected. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 February 1978: [More…]

• I ) Which of the recommendations of Chapter 6, ‘Aboriginal Education’, of the fifth main Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, Poverty and Education in Australia, presented to the Prime Minister on 13 August 1976, have been accepted by the Government, and which were rejected. [More…]

• ) to (4) The Government, tertiary education and private sectors will all have an important role to play in the provision of alternative energy fuels for Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 April 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 May 1978: [More…]

• and (3) The recommendations of the Schools Commission in its June 1975 Report covering the 1976-78 triennium were based on a presumption of the likelihood of continuing real rapid growth in the level of Commonwealth education expenditure. [More…]

• As you will recall in September 1975 the then Minister for Education requested revised recommendations for 1976 which the Whitlam Government had decided would be a year of no growth. [More…]

• Whilst I appreciate the importance of adequate teacher housing in country areas I must point out that State Governments are responsible for the administration of primary and secondary education in government schools. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The main powers that will be transferred at a later time relate to health, which I understand will be handed over to the Northern Territory as from 1 January 1979, and education, which will be handed over from 1 July 1979. [More…]

• and a Committee of Commonwealth Ministers comprising the Ministers for the Northern Territory, Education (representing the Prime Minister for Federal Affairs) and Finance and Treasurer and the AttorneyGeneral. [More…]

• Senator Kilgariff and I, and many others, have said, not in this place but outside, that when we have a Northern Territory Public Service let us make sure that we learn from the past and do not duplicate all the mistakes of the past; and if we are to have an education authority in the Northern Territory let us have a unique education authority and not simply follow what has been done everwhere else. [More…]

• When I was working with the Department of Education and was responsible for setting up a new section I spoke to my colleagues in the various States about it and they said: ‘You are lucky, you can learn from our mistakes. [More…]

• The Senate is considering certain amendments to the Commonwealth Banks Act which would enable the Commonwealth Development Bank of Australia, as the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) mentioned in his second reading speech, to lend to all kinds of businesses. [More…]

• I shall not detain the Senate for very long, but there is a matter that I wish to raise on behalf of a constituent concerning what appears to be, from the evidence presented to me, a case of faulty administration or maladministration within the Department of Education. [More…]

• I notified the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) of this matter earlier in the day. [More…]

• It concerns a Mr Fred Ward of 83 Blencoe Street, West Leederville, Western Australia, and the regulations which govern eligibility for the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• 1 notice that the Minister for Education is not in the chamber. [More…]

• The Japanese Vice-Minister for Education, who was in Canberra the other day, told me that in his country students are held in school as a form of education in terms of difficulties in employability. [More…]

• I am tempted to stir the Minister for Education further, but I shall try to stir another Minister instead. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to the report recently released to the Tasmanian Government concerning the drinking, smoking and vitamin pill consumption of secondary school students in Hobart? [More…]

• The Professor of Child Health at the University of Tasmania, Professor Lewis, pointed out that the report shows that drinking and smoking habits, particularly of 13-year olds, have increased alarmingly since 1 97 1 despite all the money spent on education in this area. [More…]

• He said that this proved that the type of education presently being undertaken had been a complete failure and, he believed, positively counter-productive. [More…]

• I ask the Minister: Before any further education is undertaken in this area will the Minister encourage pilot schemes to bc implemented to ascertain the type of education and the type of educators that will give the results that the community desires? [More…]

• Repeatedly the State and Federal departments of education are approached by health and welfare authorities and asked whether, within the scope of education curricula, we can undertake various preventive and remedial courses in areas such as nutrition, drugs, ingestion of alcohol and other matters. [More…]

• So I have invited people from the Commonwealth Department of Health to talk to people from my Department to see whether we can develop between us a plan for a total health education concept in terms of the human fulfilment of the total person, not some episodic thing done on a wet sports day. [More…]

• I am bound to say that whilst not in any way retreating from the responsibility of education, the primary responsibility in these very important matters is that of the family and the community. [More…]

• It may well be that the establishment of a pilot scheme will be one of the recommendations that will come out of the joint consultations between the Department of Health and the Department of Education. [More…]

• The NAEC is one of the most potentially useful and imaginative reforms that has happened in the field of Aboriginal reform, whether in education or otherwise. [More…]

• When in the course of the next few weeks the Commonwealth Government establishes the national inquiry into teacher education one of the major sources of information and assistance will be the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• Senator Kilgariff will know that Mr Stephen Albert is not only the Chairman of the Committee but is also a permanent member of the staff of the Department of Education. [More…]

• So in the day-to-day decisions relating to Aboriginal education he is available to give advice. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that Mr Michael Farrell, who is a student at the University of New South Wales, claims that his first semester examination results might be withheld because of unresolved arguments over his claim of conscientious objection against the payment of certain student union fees? [More…]

• The Prime Minister has written to each of the Premiers indicating the Commonwealth’s intention for student bodies at the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• by leave- In April I tabled volume 1 of the Tertiary Education Commission’s report and the report of the Schools Commission for the 1979-81 rolling triennium. [More…]

• In taking its decisions on the reports, the Government has had to weigh needs and standards in education against other high priority areas. [More…]

• In the education sectors, as in other major areas of spending, the Government is looking to maintain a balance between its commitment to support important programs and its concern to contain the deficit. [More…]

• In the current financial year, expenditure on education is estimated to be almost 9 per cent of total Commonwealth outlays. [More…]

• It is inevitable therefore that in the current economic situation the Government, in the interests of maintaining a responsible overall fiscal policy, should exercise close control over education expenditure. [More…]

• We have had regard also to the financial responsibilities of the States in education, particularly for schools, and to the capacity which the States now have to contribute to their own priority areas of expenditure from their own revenues. [More…]

• The Government continues to give high priority to technical and further education and it has accepted the Tertiary Education Commission’s recommendations for an increase of about 19 per cent in technical and further education funding in 1979. [More…]

• It has been necessary to impose substantial restraint at this stage on the capital programs for universities and colleges of advanced education in 1979. [More…]

• In recognition of the problems faced by the Tertiary Education Commission, the Government has responded to the Commission’s recommendations by agreeing to fixed recurrent funding for the 1979-81 triennium, apart from equipment. [More…]

• There will be an increase in the special grants for migrant and multicultural education in line with the recommendations of the Galbally Committee for the first year of its special program. [More…]

• I now turn to details of the guidelines for the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1979-81 triennium. [More…]

• I hope the Australian Education Council will shortly agree to make public the report of the recently completed study on comparative capital costs of government and non-government schools in Australia. [More…]

• The Government wishes to encourage choice and diversity in education and to assist parents to exercise the right of choice of schooling for their children in either government or non-government schools. [More…]

• I will make one or two brief observations on the statement brought down by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• The essence of the Minister’s statement indicates the Government’s continuing stand that no longer will it accept its responsibility in the education area. [More…]

• We see now a complete freeze on Federal spending and education. [More…]

• Anyone who has had any experience of the work of the Schools Commission knows that any figure below a 2.2 per cent increase in real terms means an effective reduction in education funding in Australia. [More…]

• The Minister made it quite clear two years ago that if the States want to improve their education facilities, they can no longer look to the Commonwealth for increased funding. [More…]

• I hope that the parents and teachers in the education profession will get the message that I and others have tried to convey in this place over the last couple of years and finally realise the real intention of this Government. [More…]

• Unfortunately this is the sort of deal that is to be given to education in Australia for as many years as this Government may be in office. [More…]

• Over the past two and a half years we have heard from Senator Carrick- who is responsible not only for education but also for the new federalism policy- all the hoo-haa and the stories about the great deal the States are getting from the Fraser Government. [More…]

• At that time we were told, and repeatedly so by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who was the architect of this policy, that this would be a most generous deal for all the States; they would do better under this arrangement than they had ever done under any previous government, in particular, the Whitlam Government. [More…]

• It is quite obvious that at that time neither the Minister for Education nor the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) imagined for one moment that they would need to invoke the provisions of the Whitlam formula. [More…]

• We have listened on many occasions to the argument put forward by the Minister for Education that the States are doing better now than they were doing under the Labor Government. [More…]

• These payments were for State government projects in the fields of education, health, roads, hospitals and so on. [More…]

• Before the sitting of the Senate was suspended for dinner, and during the course of the cognate second reading debate on this Bill and the two previous Bills, I asked the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to clarify answers he had given to questions that I had put to him on 20 April and 7 June. [More…]

• We have heard a great deal of rhetoric from the Minister for Education over the last couple of years about the rights of the States and how this legislation is based on cooperative federalism or the new federalism, as he calls it. [More…]

• I was hoping that we would have had something fresh from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) instead of the rhetorical claptrap about centralism which we have listened to for the last two years. [More…]

• In many cases they have become a focus for general health consciousness programs such as exercise programs, clubs, discussion groups and bicycle clubs, and they have the facility for a teaching role if at some stage we move into a more communitybased system of education and training for doctors and paramedicals I believe that the maintenance of health centres where they have been established and the development of new ones in areas where they can serve the needs of particular communities are most important factors to be taken into account. [More…]

• If we are looking for other sources which would tell us what has happened in the amount of our resource going into health- perhaps the second question to ask is what we receive for it- we could look to Professor Kenneth Cox from the Centre of Medical Education at the University of New South Wales, a very eminent medical educator, who said in a very fair article entitled ‘Who owns the problem of health cost care ‘: [More…]

• We do not believe in general that people choose to be ill or choose to be well, although we thoroughly support community education programs which will lead people to adopt healthier life styles. [More…]

• One person will represent the division of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Association for the State; one person will represent the division of the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations for the State; one person will represent the branch of the Confederation of Australian Industry for the State; and one person will be appointed by the Minister to promote the interests of technical and further education. [More…]

• The remaining membership will be made up of the following: The Secretary or, in his stead, another officer of the Department appointed by the Minister, five representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a representative of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, a representative of the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations, a representative of the Confederation of Australian Industry, a representative of the Commissioner of the Tertiary Education Commission- such representation being an innovation- and, as a further innovation, a representative who will be a member of the Parliament appointed by the Prime Minister, and one who will be a member of the Parliament appointed by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) pointed out in his second reading speech, it has been traditionally accepted that this is an area in which the Arbitrator’s determinations were not intended to operate and should not operate. [More…]

• I mention in particular her interest in the work of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts in respect of the Committee’s hearing on aspects of television. [More…]

• Over the years he has had association with the Commonwealth Department of Education, the South Pacific Commission, the Commonwealth Literary Fund, the Commonwealth Arts Advisory Board, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation and many other bodies. [More…]

• I did not have a good education. [More…]

• Therefore I did not come in here professing to have any great educational qualifications. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 3 May 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Have any guidelines or other instructions been issued by the Government or by any statutory body to tertiary education institutions on the admission of students from oversea’s; if so, what instructions or guidelines have been issued. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 February 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Which are the ‘other developed nations’ of which the Minister claimed, in his statement of 3 February 1978 upon his return from the Australian Education Council, that class sizes are comparable to those in Australia. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 4 May 1978: [More…]

• The Report on this study, which will be considered by the Australian Education Council at its meeting next month, contains recommendations and data relevant to school building standards. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Government conducted an evaluation of the Child Migrant Education Program; if so: (a) what are the results of the evaluation; and (b) were ethnic communities consulted in relation to it; if so, which communities. [More…]

• What arrangements have been made by the Commonwealth Government to fund Child Migrant Education programs on a State basis. [More…]

• 1) (a) There has been no formal evaluation of the Commonwealth’s Child Migrant Education Program. [More…]

• Commonwealth support for migrant education at the schools level from 1971 to 1975 was provided under the Immigration (Education) Act, 1971. [More…]

• This support was provided under the program known as the Child Migrant Education Program. [More…]

• Since 1976 Commonwealth funds for the support of activities in the area of migrant and multicultural education have been provided through the Schools Commission’s General Recurrent Grants Program. [More…]

• While no formal evaluation was conducted on the Child Migrant Education Program and no evaluation has yet been undertaken in relation to the Schools Commission’s Program the matter of the evaluation of the current Migrant and Multicultural Education Program is under consideration by the Schools Commission and some discussions have been held with State and non-Government Education authorities in an attempt to ascertain the most effective and appropriate way of undertaking such an evaluation. [More…]

• However, English teaching and learning materials which are being prepared by the Department of Education have been evaluated through trials wilh migrant students in classes and various teachers’ views on the materials. [More…]

• In March 1973 the ‘Report on the Survey of Child Migrant Education in Schools of High Migrant Density in Melbourne’ was tabled and in 1975 the Report of the ‘Inquiry into Schools of High Migrant Density: 1974 study bases on schools selected in New South Wales and Victoria ‘ was tabled. [More…]

• In addition, for the years 1970-71 through to 1975-76 the Annual Migrant Education Program Reports have been tabled. [More…]

• Current child migrant education research projects which are being conducted or supported by the Department of Education or funded by the Education Research and Development Committee are: [More…]

• A study of a bilingual education project. [More…]

• The teaching of migrant languages in schools, Research Branch, Department of Education, published 1977. [More…]

• The Education Research and Development Committee has appointed an advisory group to advise on and co-ordinate research into multicultural education, one of its four identified priority areas for the 1 978-80 triennium. [More…]

• Since 1976 the Schools Commission, through its General Recurrent Grants Program, has been providing specific support for migrant and multicultural education at the school level. [More…]

• It is the responsibility of the appropriate education authority to administer the funds as well as to set priorities for expenditure within the funds available as provided through the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Act 1977. [More…]

• 1 ) When was the Language Teaching Branch of the Education Department established. [More…]

• 1 ) Commonwealth involvement in the teaching of English to migrants began in October 1947 when a significant program of instruction for displaced persons was begun by the Commonwealth Office of Education at the request of the Department of Immigration. [More…]

• These functions were taken over by the Department of Education and Science on its creation in 1967. [More…]

• A Language Teaching Branch, responsible for the preparation of teaching and learning materials, was included in the administrative structure of the Department of- Education when it was established in 1 973. [More…]

• Child Migrant Education Development Section. [More…]

• The Branch is concerned with the development of policy proposals and advice on child migrant education, and on the English language teaching aspects of the Government’s programs of education for immigrants, Aboriginals and overseas students. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 May 1 978: [More…]

• 1 ) Will the staffing levels in Northern Territory schools be brought up to acceptable standards before the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly accepts responsibility for education. [More…]

• Discussions are continuing between the Northern Territory administration and the Commonwealth concerning arrangements for the efficient transfer of responsibilities in the education area. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 May 1978: [More…]

• Will the Minister give immediate consideration to having his Department approve Tertiary Education Assistance Allowance to eligible participants in the Foundationsponsored intensive Japanese language course being conducted at tertiary level at the Australian National University. [More…]

• The Student Assistance Act 1973 stipulates that courses require approval of the Minister for Education for the purpose of Tertiary Education Assistance benefits. [More…]

• To be approved, a course must meet certain criteria such as being full time (at a university, college of advanced education or technical college) leading to a recognised qualification, and being clearly identified as either an undergraduate or a postgraduate course. [More…]

• Grants for Education: Expenditure in Electorates of Casey, Diamond Valley and Deakin (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 May 1 978- [More…]

• Canberra College of Advanced Education: Italian Interpreter/Translator Course (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 29 May 1 978: [More…]

• How many persons applied for admission to the Italian Interpreter/Translator Course at the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1 978. [More…]

• What were the changes made by the Canberra College of Advanced Education administration to the selection procedures for students applying to enter the Italian Interpreter/Translator course in 1978, and what were the reasons for those changes. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 June 1978: [More…]

• Is the Minister in the process of deciding if the Intensive Japanese Course at the Australian National University can bc approved for Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS) grants; if so, when is the Minister’s decision expected to be made. [More…]

• The representations which Senator Melzer made to me also suggest that there is a need for a general programme of electoral education. [More…]

• The honourable senator will I am sure be pleased to know that the Electoral Office, in conjunction with the Curriculum Development Centre, is developing a basic electoral education kit which should be distributed to every secondary school in Australia before the end of this year. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- Mr President, on behalf of Government senators- and I am sure I speak on behalf of all honourable senators- I congratulate you upon your re-election to your high office. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- I wish to inform honourable senators that His Excellency the Governor-General will be pleased to receive the President and such honourable senators as desire to accompany him in the Senate Opposition Party Room forthwith. [More…]

• That as citizens of New South Wales and the parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• That as citizens of New South Wales and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 3 April 1 978: [More…]

• 1 ) What is the estimated number of students studying Indonesian history and culture, other than language, in Australia at: (a) secondary level; (b) universities; (c) colleges of advanced education; and (d) other tertiary institutions or facilities for continuing education. [More…]

• That the citizens of New South Wales and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• following discussions and review by the Queensland Government, it has been decided that the hospitals and health services will be the responsibility of the Health Department and the Education Department will be responsible for schools. [More…]

• It claimed that the health standards had dropped, that educational facilities were insufficient and that children were not getting a proper education. [More…]

• Health and education are again State Government areas of responsibility. [More…]

• This is probably a matter which ought to be referred to Senator Carrick in his capacity as Minister for Education dealing with literacy and numeracy matters. [More…]

• In the case of government schools State Education Departments carry responsibility both for the determination of priorities for building projects and for the approval of plans. [More…]

• The planning and approval procedures vary from State to State and involve other authorities besides the Education Departments. [More…]

• No details of any delays which may have occurred in relation to these schools are held at the national level and such information would have to be sought from the State Education Departments themselves. [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 25 May 1978: [More…]

• Will the Minister advise the total number of places available in each State and Territory as at the commencement of 1978 at (a) universities; and (b) colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• What are the total number of students enrolled in (a) universities; and (b) colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• 1 ) (a) Before the commencement of each academic year, the Tertiary Education Commission specifies a planned level of student load for each university for the following year, expressed in terms of equivalent full-time students at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. [More…]

• Payments to Queensland Board of Advanced Education in 1977 (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 June 1978: [More…]

• Was the Queensland Board of Advanced Education faced with considerable difficulties during 1977 in obtaining prompt payment of its entitlement under the States Grants legislation to meet operating and capital commitments of colleges, as claimed in the Board’s annual report of 1977; if so, why. [More…]

• In relation to the comments in the Queensland Board of Advanced Education’s annual report of 1977 I am advised that while some delays have occurred in the administration of States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) legislation these have been only minor in nature. [More…]

• Colleges of advanced education in Queensland have not experienced any significant difficulties in obtaining their full entitlements under the relevant legislation. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 June 1978: [More…]

• Was the period preceding the establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission and its three associated Councils characterised by a high degree of uncertainty as the outgoing Commissions tended to fulfil caretaker roles, as claimed in the 1 977 Annual Report of the Queensland Board of Advanced Education; if so, why did this occur; if not, what occurred to suggest to the Board that such uncertainty existed. [More…]

• It is fair to say that there would have been a degree of uncertainty in the period preceding establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• As the three Commissions, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission, were aware that their existence was to be terminated it was inevitable also that there should have been some tendency for them to take caretaker roles in relation to some aspects of their responsibilities. [More…]

• The establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission was an action of far-reaching consequence for Australian education. [More…]

• In order to facilitate transition from the previously existing arrangements, an Interim Committee for the Tertiary Education Commission consisting of the Chairman of the three Commissions and the Secretary of the Department of Education, as Chairman, met in the period before the establishment of the new Commission. [More…]

• Colleges of Advanced Education in Queensland: Course Approvals (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 June 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Why did the Tertiary Education Commission not consult with the Queensland Board of Advanced Education, as stated in the Board’s 1977 Annual Report, on the Board’s request for approval in 1978 of seventeen new courses. [More…]

• Were nine ofthe requested seventeen new courses approved; if so: (a) which courses were approved, (b) what were the reasons for not approving the remaining eight courses, and (c) were the reasons for non-approval conveyed to the Queensland Board of Advanced Education; if so, when. [More…]

• 1 ) The decision by the tertiary Education Commission not to approve for funding purposes in 1978 eight new courses recommended by the Queensland Board of Advanced Education was made in October 1977 on the advice of its Advanced Education Council. [More…]

• ) (c) The Commission ‘s original decisions on the seventeen proposed new courses were conveyed to the Queensland Board of Advanced Education on 28 October 1977. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 June 1978: [More…]

• Did the Queensland Board of Advanced Education make known its views to the Commonwealth Government, prior to the publication of the Board ‘s 1 977 annual report, of the implied criticism in that report of the ‘relatively long delay in establishing the new bodies (the Tertiary Education Commission and its three associated councils) after public announcement of the Government’s intentions’; if so, what was the Commonwealth Government’s response; if not, does the Commonwealth Government now intend to respond to the Board ‘s comment. [More…]

• While it is possible that in the period before the Tertiary Education Commission was established reference was made in day-to-day contacts between the Queensland Board of Advanced Education and the Commission on Advanced Education to timing ofthe establishment of the TEC, there is no record of any formal complaint from the Queensland authorities to the Commonwealth Government; and it would not be appropriate for the Commonwealth Government to respond to the Board’s comment on the basis of a report made by it to the Queensland Government. [More…]

• That as citizens of New South Wales and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• With the current debate and concern in the community regarding spending on education, can the Minister inform the Senate what share of the national wealth has been spent on education in the last few years? [More…]

• In very recent years, and indeed over the past 10 to 15 years, there has been an enormous expansion in the real expenditure on education and the relationship of that expenditure to total public expenditure. [More…]

• In 1964-65 public expenditure on education took up 3.3 per cent of the gross domestic product. [More…]

• Some 10 years later, in 1974-75, education took up 6.2 per cent of the GDP. [More…]

• So education has been progressively increasing its share of the national wealth. [More…]

• In 1 966-67 the total expenditure on education by all governments in Australia was estimated to be $800m or 10.9 per cent of total outlays by government. [More…]

• Some decade later, in 1976-77, total expenditure on education by all governments in Australia was $5,240m, representing 1 6.5 per cent of total outlays. [More…]

• In dollar terms, these are massive increases in the share of our national wealth given to education and of course we need to look beyond the spending of more money on education, which has been achieved- as I have repeatedly said in this Senate- to the increased quality and relevance of education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Science (Senator Webster) who is in the chamber at present to convey to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who represents in this chamber the Treasurer (Mr Howard) who is responsible for those Acts what I have to say on this topic. [More…]

• The Committee dealt with urbanisation, employment, education and health. [More…]

• Again the matters of education and the concept of international relations and co-operation have all developed very considerably and have invoked the interest and involvement of more and more Australian people. [More…]

• I move from the aid program to a segment in the report which deals with education. [More…]

• The report says that the Committee endorses the move by island governments to make education curricula more relevant to island life. [More…]

• The Committee further welcomed regional co-operation in education and it made a special reference to the University of the South Pacific and its role in educational matters throughout the islands of the South Pacific. [More…]

• As one who has had the opportunity of visiting the University of the South Pacific, I have observed a very great interest in Australian educational methods and the role of Australian education as such in the development of that University not only in Fiji but also in its extension throughout the area that is covered by the Committee’s report. [More…]

• The provision of effective education and information is the provision of an asset of incalculable value, and if I may say so I think it is also of permanent value. [More…]

• It is true that our aid programs over the years have had their aspects of well-meaning, but I think the time has come when there has to be a new approach and a new flexibility in relation to educational programs from the point of view of not only providing opportunities for students but also making available facilities in the adult and community sense and taking advantage of world developments both technically and educationally, including developments in education which make various information and resource material available in a form which is most useful to the people who are receiving it. [More…]

• They are well aware of the values of education and of information resource material. [More…]

• They wanted assistance; they wanted advice; they wanted education; they wanted opportunity; and above all they wanted the nation of Australia and the Parliament of Australia to be interested in them and to help them. [More…]

• 1 ) To which part of the Social Services Act 1947 was the Minister referring when she said (Senate Hansard, 22 February 1978, page 20) that ‘the Social Services Act specifically provides that family allowance payments cease from the end ofthe four-weekly payment period in which the full-time education ceases’. [More…]

• Other areas such as the maintenance which is received from the father of the children and paid to a former wife, incomes from scholarships and Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances, need clarification since the announcement of the Budget decision. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, refers to study leave in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The Minister will recall that on 1 1 May, when presenting the draft report of the Tertiary Education Commission, he made an announcement to the Senate in this regard. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the Tertiary Education Commission set up from amongst its numbers a committee of inquiry into study leave. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission will be in the process of putting together its final report after study of all submissions. [More…]

• Mr Weir was one of the early appointments to the Legislative Research Service where has was in charge of education and welfare research from early 1968 to mid- 1973. [More…]

• We have also the Special Youth Employment Training Program; the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Fulltime Training; the Community Youth Support Scheme, a relocation scheme which assists people, particularly young people, to move from areas where there is no employment to an area where they are likely to find employment; a fares assistance scheme; a scheme of training for industry and commerce; an education program for unemployed youth and now an upgraded Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]

• That as citizens of N.S.W and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Progress has been made in defining and acquiring the site alongside the Launceston College of Advanced Education, the Newnham campus. [More…]

• So much for the defensive approach the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) took in this debate. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the building industry is in disarray. [More…]

• It is fundamental that the greater growth in education outlays should be in the areas of greater need. [More…]

• But in order to ensure that the community is well served by these firms the nation should be taking the further step of participating in the ownership and management of these enterprises, whether they are dealing with our natural resources or those resources which simply flow from our community expenditure on education, research and technology, as with [More…]

• That recommendation is that all drug education programs be evaluated. [More…]

• They say: ‘All right we will spend more on education’. [More…]

• They think that education will solve the problem. [More…]

• Governments and people involved in the social welfare field say that the only answer is education. [More…]

• Let us have a look at education. [More…]

• What is educational about science and why do we teach it? [More…]

• Basic education in the schools is aimed at making children interested, at getting them to experiment a little and to encourage them to read more. [More…]

• This is the basis of education. [More…]

• Why do we expect moral education to be different? [More…]

• Education in this field takes place but not evaluation of drug programs. [More…]

• We expect children to be knowledgeable about drugs and to be interested in drugs because we give them this education, but we do not expect them to experiment. [More…]

• But heavens, if we did that perhaps we would realise that our education system is not working. [More…]

• I should like to refer to a few of the reports that I have received from overseas because in Australia we have done very little evaluation of this education. [More…]

• We have spent a lot of money on drug education. [More…]

• New South Wales alone has allotted $800,000 for drug education alone during 1978-79. [More…]

• Not one penny of that money was for an evaluation of the drug program; it was all for drug education. [More…]

• That State thinks that education is the answer. [More…]

• We think education is the answer because everybody in Australia has said that education is the answer. [More…]

• I quote what Richard Stuart of the University of Michigan claimed in the Journal of Education Psychology. [More…]

• He said that there has been a widespread increase in reliance upon drug education as a preventative measure. [More…]

• He went on to say that drug education may not impede the use of drugs and may actually exacerbate drug use. [More…]

• He also said that in an effort to measure the effects of drug education upon the uses of drugs and attributed related uses as well as evaluating the effects of differing and structural patterns 935 seventh and ninth grade students in suburban junior high schools were randomly assigned to either experimental drug education or control groups. [More…]

• He pointed out that the results of that evaluation indicated that relative to control groups- that is, the groups without any drug education- those students who had drug education significantly increased their knowledge about drugs but also increased their use of alcohol, marihuana and LSD. [More…]

• He also said that education increased their desire to push drugs but that their worry about drugs decreased. [More…]

• Another evaluation was made by Mr Lane in an article he wrote in the Journal of the National Foundation for Education Research. [More…]

• Mr Lane who is from Britain quotes a study in the United Kingdom carried out by the National Association of Youth Clubs which indicates that the information given in present drug education lessons incites many people who might otherwise not have done so to want to try drugs. [More…]

• Another study was carried out by Dr Richard de Lone who is Assistant Commissioner for Education and Training in New York city’s Addiction Services Agency. [More…]

• Why drug education may increase drug use (and recent studies have indicated this) is a . [More…]

• Dr Guy Wrigley, the medical adviser to the Greater Council and Inner London Education Authority said: [More…]

• George Birdwood ‘s comment that ‘only education enjoys the dubious privilege of having the power to make matters worse ‘ is not just a smart quip, but the plain truth. [More…]

• All I am saying is that there is so much proof from overseas that education in this area is just not working. [More…]

• Yet we are spending hundreds and thousands of dollars in this area and still pushing the same old line that education is the be-all and end-all while overseas experiments prove that this approach is not working. [More…]

• Dr Irwin said that the results of that experiment also proved exactly the same thing- that is, that drug education can be counter-productive. [More…]

• He points out that supposedly preventive education about sex in Britain and about alcoholism in Sweden seems to have done much to popularise these ‘products’ and has done little to counterbalance abuse. [More…]

• That Commission came out with exactly the same old solution, namely, that education will cure our social ills. [More…]

• Perhaps we can study what has happened in Sweden to gain a little advice because compulsory education on human relationships has been provided in that country for at least the last 10 years. [More…]

• Let us have a look at what this education has done for human relations. [More…]

• These are the results education is producing in this country and overseas. [More…]

• The Government has just spent $1.4m on the Social Education Materials Projects, which is know as SEMP. [More…]

• When I was critical about this fact in my home State of Tasmania the State education department said: Well, we have had human relations for some time and we have done our evaluation on it in a report entitled “The Effects and Effectiveness of the Social Sciences, Personal Relationships Subunit in Trial Schools During 1973”.’ [More…]

• The Curriculum Centre of the Education Department of Tasmania in its report on the effects and effectiveness of the social sciences stated: [More…]

• I am not suggesting that we should interfere with drug education. [More…]

• Finally, whatever else happens there must be major public resources devoted to improving the education and skill levels of youngsters leaving school and the counselling and job-placement help which they can get while still there, and also to on-the-job and off-the-job training and retraining programs. [More…]

• However, in part answer to the matters raised in the question that impinge upon my Department I point out that within the limited resources that have been available over past years my Department has developed a pilot edition of a directory to research projects in the higher education sector, which is compiled from Project SCORE data collected by the Department and is published in conjunction with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]

• It is hoped that the directory will provide a comprehensive description of projects being carried out in the higher education sector. [More…]

• It took me quite some time in the debate in this chamber to extract from the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, that in fact it was not a grant to the States. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, said: ‘I imagine the cost would be confidential to the committee and not for Hansard. ‘ [More…]

• When Senator Young asked for the information- I ought to indicate that Senator Young in not a member of the Committee but was present as a senator asking questions, as is his right- the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, said: [More…]

• If honourable senators are interested, they ought to look at a letter from Mr Duckmanton addressed to Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who is in charge of the Bill what account has been taken of the attitude of the doctors. [More…]

• Parents will not be eligible for a family allowance in respect of children receiving student allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme and other educational scholarships. [More…]

• At page 62 of the same document we are told that TEAS and other education scholarship recipients would be excluded also from 1 January 1979. [More…]

• As In indicated during the course of the second reading debate, the Opposition will ask a series of questions which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has indicated he will refer to the Treasurer (Mr Howard) for answers. [More…]

• Honourable senators may recall also that in the United Kingdom the Alcohol Education Centre and the Medical Research Council did a survey about the relative risks from alcoholrelated diseases. [More…]

• Then the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts took up the matter. [More…]

• Mr Paul Kirby, the First Assistant Secretary of the Manpower and Economic Policy Division of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, gave that very warning that there were insufficient resources being devoted to the study and nature of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment, in Australia as far back as August 1976 when addressing the first national conference on technical and further education. [More…]

• The Ministers refuted criticism that had been directed towards the family and particularly towards the education of children within the family context, and I agreed with that. [More…]

• Honourable senators know as well as I do that there is no institution within society which is more capable or better equipped than the family to provide educational or a social welfare and health delivery system. [More…]

• This applies in particular to children ‘s education, especially in the first years of life [More…]

• On the other hand, stresses within the family due, for instance, to the change from hierarchical family relationships to relationships based on equality of spouses and a greater autonomy of children, or problems in relations between parents and educational institution, or specific educational problems, such as sex education, may be found in all countries. [More…]

• The Ministers gave priority to parents’ education and family-related counselling services- particularly parents’ education because they believed that preventive measures should be given preference over curative measures. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to his ministerial statement on education guidelines of 9 June in which he said that after further consideration of Budget priorities the Government might find it possible to review the capital allocation for tertiary education for 1 979. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the uncertainty that that statement has introduced into the area of tertiary education planning? [More…]

• I am aware of the statement made by me in June in the ministerial statement on education guidelines. [More…]

• I hope that in the early future I will present to the Senate the report of the Tertiary Education Commission setting out the capital construction programs in the various areas for 1979. [More…]

• However, I now find that Estimates Committee A is to examine two further departments- the Department of Education and the Department of the Treasury. [More…]

• Estimates Committee A, of which I will be a member, now will be confronted with the estimates for the Department of Education- a very important department- and the Department of the Treasury; but members of that Committee will not have done any research into those estimates because those departments originally were not to go before that Committee. [More…]

• I thank honourable senators for their contribution and I am pleased, speaking on behalf of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), whom I represent, to note that it finds support from both sides. [More…]

• The Adult Migrant Education Program is developed, funded and co-ordinated by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]

• State adult migrant education services, some tertiary education institutions and the Commonwealth Department of Education are involved in the development and delivery of a range of diverse services. [More…]

• The recent Review of Post Arrival Programs and Services for Migrants under the chairmanship of Mr F. E. Galbally, CBE, examined and reported on the Adult Migrant Education Program. [More…]

• Survey of Abandonments from Migrant Education Classes in Victoria, 1965 [More…]

• Adult Migrant Education, New South Wales 1968-69 [More…]

• (This study is being undertaken by the Commonwealth Department of Education and is expected to be completed before the end of 1 978. ) [More…]

• Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Migrant Education Television Program ‘You Say the Word’. [More…]

• Ethnic community organisations assist in other studies, for example in the development of samples of respondents for use in the migrant education television study. [More…]

• The Australian Ethnic Affairs Council which is an advisory body to me has a special committee dealing with education matters. [More…]

• 1 ) What is the total number of personal and ministerial staff attached to each of the following Ministers in the Fraser Government: (a) Minister for Trade and Resources; (b) Treasurer; (c) Minister for Education; (d) Minister for Health; (e) Minister for Primary Industry; (0 Minister for Immigration; (g) Minister for Home Affairs; and (h) Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs. [More…]

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• Some of the initiatives proposed by the AMA include the further development of pilot projects, training workshops and the linking of peer review activities to hospital accreditation and to medical education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 7 June 1978: [More…]

• I believe there is scope to extend existing opportunities for the employment of Aboriginals in the Northern Territory education system, and I will continue to pursue this aim. [More…]

• Aboriginal Secondary and Study Grants (but applicants have to declare their Aboriginality and where there is any doubt, following interview by Department of Education officers, enquiries are pursued with recognised Aboriginal organisations); and [More…]

• Some applications for assistance for Aboriginal students administered by the Department of Education have been rejected on the grounds of non-Aboriginal descent. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 15 August 1978: [More…]

• In the meantime, it might be noted that the levels of benefit and means-testing requirements under the scheme are aligned to those which are applicable under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and which are thus provided for under existing legislation. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 5 August 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) What has been the total cost of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS) in each financial year since its inception. [More…]

• 1) Are single students who claim the full independent allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS) because of ‘difficult conditions at home ‘ required to provide a detailed floor plan of the family home; if so, why. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 16 August 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Was a recent survey conducted into educational needs in Central Australia by the Alice Springs Community College; if so, does this show strong demand for a wide range of post-compulsory education facilities almost totally lacking in Central Australia. [More…]

• Does the Five Year Development Program proposed by the College represent a significant attempt to remedy the educational disadvantages suffered by people in isolated areas of Central Australia in Aboriginal Education, Vocational Training, Continuing Education and Community Development. [More…]

• Will the Minister support the establishment of an independent Community College of Central Australia as recommended by the Northern Territory Further Education Council. [More…]

• The Alice Springs College undertook an educational needs survey recently as pan of its development of a submission to the Northern Territory Further Education Council on the future of the Alice Springs College. [More…]

• and (3) As the Alice Springs College is an annexe of the Darwin Community College, the Council of the Darwin Community College will be providing advice on the issues raised in the survey for the consideration of the Further Education Council. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 August 1978: [More…]

• Was a control group used in a survey evaluating the success of an education program in its first six months, which, according to the Minister’s statement in the Australian, 18 August 1 978 ‘indicated that about 38 per cent of respondents had succeeded in gaining employment’; if so, what are the relevant details of the control group. [More…]

• A rela tively small scale internal evaluation project designed to monitor early experiences with the Education Program for Unemployed Youth (EPUY) was carried out by my Department. [More…]

• Against this background, the Australian Electoral Office in consultation with other appropriate authorities, is developing programs of electoral education aimed at ensuring that Aboriginal people are better equipped to meet their electoral responsibilities should they choose to enrol. [More…]

• Both the posters and the leaflets were made available to officers of the Aboriginal Adult Education Section of the Department of Education in the Northern Territory to assist them in the electoral education of Aboriginals; and [More…]

• In early 1979 the Australian Electoral Office expects to begin a continuing program of electoral education for Aboriginal people living in non-urban areas. [More…]

• Expenditure details for Aboriginal electoral education for the financial years 1975-76. [More…]

• That expenditure was part of the Australian Electoral Office’s overall initiative in the areas of information and electoral education for which the following financial provisions were made in the three years. [More…]

• and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of the case of a student, Michael Farrell, of the University of New South Wales? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The report covers a number of areas of education, but apparently makes no reference to the area of pre-school or kindergarten, or what I prefer to describe as childhood education. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall an important reference to this area of education, which was made in a report on teacher education by a Senate committee in which the committee stressed the value of childhood education to communities? [More…]

• Has the Minister noticed a Press report yesterday which links these communities with literacy and libraries, or total education? [More…]

• Does the Minister have any information on the apparent omission of childhood education from the report he tabled yesterday? [More…]

• Has the Government any plans or does it envisage setting up any inquiries relating to this area of education? [More…]

• If not, will the Minister give consideration to ways by which the needs of childhood education might receive inquiry and public attention? [More…]

• Within education circles, particularly amongst those people who could properly be regarded as educators, there is a growing volume of support for the idea that the most important area of education is that in early childhood- that is, from birth, through those formative years, until school age. [More…]

• Indeed, there is a growing support for the argument that the primary school teacher must be the parent and that in the evolution of the young person towards adulthood and marriage there should be an understanding of education in the equipment of these people for parenthood and to be teachers. [More…]

• That is emerging now against a preoccupation throughout the world in the past with postsecondary and secondary education as the primary areas of education. [More…]

• The basic reason that in the report I tabled yesterday no reference is made to early childhood is that the Commonwealth Department of Education does not have that responsibility. [More…]

• Sometimes they fall within the area of health, sometimes that of social security and sometimes that of education. [More…]

• At the initiative of the Commonwealth, in the Australian Education Council we are moving through a working party to obtain uniform information throughout Australia towards the evolution of policies which would do two things- place greater emphasis on this area and bring some degree of uniformity of approach. [More…]

• I do recall the Senate standing committee report on teacher education and its insistence on the importance of this matter. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education not concerned at implications to Australian research programs of provisions in the 1978 Budget which would reduce payments to Commonwealth research grant scholars with families to little more than what a man with similar family responsibilities would receive on the dole? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I wish that the Senate Labor Opposition would show equal enthusiasm for other avenues of education. [More…]

• Firstly, the facts are that the Centre for Equal Opportunity in Melbourne is a Victorian Government centre operated by the Victorian State Minister of Education, Mr Thompson, who no doubt, upon proper application, will supply the necessary documents to the Labor Opposition. [More…]

• Secondly, the Centre was established and made possible by a Schools Commission grant of $18,000 following an application by the Victorian Department of Education, which is the official grantee. [More…]

• The Director-General of Education in Melbourne has assured the Schools Commission that the Centre is in close contact with his office and he believes, that its publications are proper. [More…]

• The Government has subsequently expressed, through my colleague the Minister for Education, an attitude to this problem in an endeavour to resolve the issue by means other than legal process. [More…]

• The Committee is also of the opinion that Islanders in general are not fully aware of existing community programs and benefits and that a systematic effort should be made to ensure that such programs, particularly those concerned with welfare and education which are available to the community as a whole, are brought more directly to the attention of, and are utilised by, eligible Islanders. [More…]

• The achievements of Islanders are low with regard to both education and career. [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…]

• I certainly believe some assistance is warranted, particularly in those areas where they suffer the same handicaps that we suffer- in education, health, housing and job opportunities. [More…]

• I want to talk about education in the Budget context. [More…]

• I want to deal with that very brief section of the Budget Speech which relates specifically to education. [More…]

• The Budget provides for Commonwealth expenditure of almost $2,500m on education . [More…]

• It goes on to say where that money is to be spent, that is, in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In April a Working Party of the Tertiary Education Commission issued a draft report recommending that present arrangements for study leave in universities and colleges of advanced education be tightened up; the Government proposes to take action, effective from1 January 1979, to that end but will await the Commission’s final report before announcing its decisions. [More…]

• The only other reference in the Budget Speech to education, apart from those passages, relates to taxation of postgraduate awards. [More…]

• During Question Time in the Senate today Senator Carrick was asked a number of questions about education, particularly in the 1978 Budget context. [More…]

• One of the questions he was asked was about student involvement in universities andhe gave a very interesting answer which showed quite clearly that the Minister for Education does not as yet understand the concept of university autonomy about which he so frequently talks. [More…]

• University study leave has been the subject of an inquiry by the Tertiary Education Commission which has not yet finally reported. [More…]

• The second specific reference to education in the Budget is the Government’s decision to tax postgraduate allowances, a decision with which I do not personally disagree, but one which I find extraordinary in view of the fact that in January 1978 the Government said that postgraduate allowances were not enough and increased them to $4,200. [More…]

• I have mentioned these two specific matters which were dealt with in the education part of the Budget Speech just to illustrate some simple points. [More…]

• The Government’s policies in relation to education are confused and result from ad hoc decision making. [More…]

• These two issues are quite illustrative of the Government’s confusion about education policy and the importance which it continually attaches to the lip service it pays to its ideology. [More…]

• At the same time as it is talking about good housekeeping in respect of these quite peripheral education issues, it still has on board plans to develop Casey University at a cost of $ 100m, a socalled university to cater for 1,450 students belonging to the Services, students who could be accommodated equally well elsewhere. [More…]

• This policy also is characterised by ad hockery, the pursuit of narrow sectional interests- a traditional avenue of Liberal Party governments- and, more specifically, by the total absence of a foresighted commitment to Australian children, something which has characterised all Federal Liberal Party government education policies for many years, in favour of the piecemeal pursuit of a narrow ideology. [More…]

• It has always been difficult for Federal governments to grapple with education. [More…]

• There are always difficulties about grappling with the education policy. [More…]

• One should look at the Liberal Party tradition of government in relation to the involvement by the national Government in education policy. [More…]

• The point I make simply about all this is that these offers of electoral bait at three elections brought about federal involvement in the Australian educational scene, as far as schools are concerned. [More…]

• There was no real education policy involved in any of those matters. [More…]

• The only policy which was reflected at that time was reflected in letters which the then Minister for Education, Mr Malcolm Fraser, wrote to constituents. [More…]

• I refer to the sorts of total inegalitarian assumptions in these remarks which were made by Mr Fraser as Minister for Education. [More…]

• The first time that this country had a national educational policy that could possibly be called so, as distinct from a whole series of ad hoc emotional gestures in response to perceived electoral threat, and which was concerned in a foresighted way with the needs of every Australian school child was in 1973 when the Karmel Committee adopted the needs policy. [More…]

• For the first time we put an end to the attitudes which were very prevalent in this country- in a sense they still are, particularly amongst government members- in which education is seen as a means of advancing one’s own child as against other children in the community. [More…]

• It recognised that the primary obligation in relation to education was for governments to provide and to maintain systems which are of the highest standard and which are open to all. [More…]

• But, more importantly, the national policy on education of the Labor Government stimulated the States to invest more in education. [More…]

• There was a national surge forward in education spending and in interest in education, sponsored by the Federal Government of the time, sponsored by the Schools Commission and followed by the State governments. [More…]

• There is nothing new in questioning the approach to educational values, to raising again and again the question of concern to all Australians, namely, the question of quality in education. [More…]

• But Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education in the national Parliament, keeps saying again and again that Australian people are more concerned now about quality in education. [More…]

• They are not concerned so much about educational expenditure and things of that kind; they are concerned about quality. [More…]

• I do not know what that means in terms of a Greek migrant child in the inner suburbs of Melbourne who is told that Senator Carrick is concerned about quality in education, but I know that it is very important for that Greek migrant child to have the benefit of multilingual teaching in the school, to have the benefit of teachers who can speak in his language and in that of his family, who can speak to his parents, and who can help him to assess his identity in a difficult situation and in a difficult environment. [More…]

• It is repeated again and again by people in Australia that there is a swing back to concern for the three Rs in education, to concern about standards and to concern about the product. [More…]

• The latest issue of Education News gives a very strong pointer in an article on the core curriculum in Australian schools to some of the difficulties about that simplistic approach to the problem of standards, to the alleged decline in the three Rs and so on. [More…]

• The point I am making, which I thought you would have been able to follow, is that what your Government’s policy in relation to education and everything else is concerned about is to try to turn this country to the sort of simplistic situation of the mid 1960s, for example. [More…]

• The point I am trying to make is that society has changed very much since that time, the educational environment has changed since then and there are very great difficulties in confronting the sorts of simplistic solutions which people, like Senator Baume, would probably like to advance in answer to some of these problems. [More…]

• The second point I make about the initiatives of the Labor Government in relation to education and the development for the first time in this country of a clear national policy, as distinct from a set of ad hoc responses, is simply this: There is now a very real threat to the social compact by the actions of this Government over the past two and a half years. [More…]

• There was an agreement about educational needs in this society. [More…]

• It was an agreement which united people concerned in education. [More…]

• As I said before, the ideology was revealed by the present Prime Minister when he was Minister for Education in 1969 and wrote to constituents saying that he supported the wealthy schools in this country because they produced the leaders of our society. [More…]

• The trend of this Government in trying to reverse that social compact and to introduce diversiveness into the Australian education system has been very clear in the last sets of guidelines given to the Schools Commission. [More…]

• That is the most classic illustration within the nongovernment sector of this Government’s commitment to inequality in education, a divisive commitment which tends to divide the Catholic child in this community from the Protestant child. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister should have his attention drawn to a survey made last year by the New South Wales Department of Education which showed, for example, that some 9,225 children in New South Wales schools who responded to a survey in the last year of their school education said: ‘Yes, I would have liked to have left school last year but I could not leave school because I could not get a job’. [More…]

• It is important, as a current issue in education, to consider what the education system is in fact doing for those children, rather than to consider it as some glorified form of keeping the deficit as low as possible, of keeping down the unemployment figures. [More…]

• They are of concern to them after they leave school, and they ought to be of concern to all senators and to all who have a serious worry about the future of the educational system in this country. [More…]

• I refer to the provision of adequate social security benefits to help those who cannot support themselves, the availability of a high level of education to all and the insistence that health services are within the reach of everyone. [More…]

• In these welfare and education services the dignity and freedom of choice of every individual must be ensured. [More…]

• Provided he can make a link between his own values, norms and beliefs, and one of the political parties, he will tend to give his loyalty to that party regardless of occupation, income or education. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald of Tuesday, 12 September, headed ‘217,000 illiterate people in Sydney’? [More…]

• Further, do the findings of Dr Coyen confirm the fact that there are deficiencies in our past or present educational methods that have led to this apparent failure to teach basic reading skills? [More…]

• For example, the report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties in Children and Adults has received very close attention by my Department and other agencies in the portfolio, such as the Education Research and Development Committee. [More…]

• In particular, the study of the Australian Council for Educational Research on literacy and numeracy in Australian schools identified the extent of mastery of literacy in Australian 10- year-old and 14-year-old children. [More…]

• This study has had the effect of increasing the awareness of State education authorities of the extent of the problem. [More…]

• The Schools Commission, however, has also set up the Special Education Advisory Group. [More…]

• Another very relevant initiative is, of course, the first teacher education inquiry which was established in June this year. [More…]

• 5m provided in the Budget are funds for adult and child migrant education programs which will help to improve the literacy rates. [More…]

• Some of the children who have undertaken this scheme have gone right through the education system and have graduated from university with qualifications higher than people who had never suffered brain injury at all. [More…]

• The activities and responsibilities of welfare officers vary according to local needs and priorities, but in general include determination of the needs of the aged population and the development of services and facilities to meet these needs; liaison with committees of senior citizens ‘ centres and service clubs for the purpose of establishing or extending the centres’ services and facilities; supervision of the services provided; fostering co-operation and liaison among various welfare activities for aged persons and encouraging interest in these activities; and providing an education program which will encourage senior citizens’ centres to promote purposeful activities. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) outlined in the Budget Speech various Government initiatives in support of rural industry, including the provision of an amount of $ 10m for continuation of this subsidy for a further year. [More…]

• I refer, firstly, to a letter from Robert L. DuPont, M.D., who is the Director of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• in the 1978;79 financial year to ensure our children receive the quality of education available to children in other education systems. [More…]

• and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• That committee is inquiring into education and training and the relationship between education and training and employment. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Can the Minister explain why, in view of his numerous public assurances that he and the Fraser Government would maintain education standards in the Australian [More…]

• It is important that we change- if necessary by publicity and education- society’s attitude to these people from the narrow thinking we have had in the past, the tendency to push them away into alleys in certain sections of the city, to keep them away from our comfortable existence. [More…]

• and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• That as citizens of New South Wales and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and I refer to the Senate standing committee report on isolated children. [More…]

• As to help to special groups, in this Budget year a total of $66m is provided for the education of special groups. [More…]

• The income that will be exempt from family allowance testing will be maintenance payments received on behalf of children, scholarship income including Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances, superannuation compensation, pension income, and trust income derived from deceased parents. [More…]

• He did not tell us that education expenditure was at rock bottom. [More…]

• To the credit of Australian Liberals belong the following firsts: National old age pension system; arbitration system; tariff protection of local industries; federal railway system; compensation legislation; Commonwealth involvement in education; votes for women and 18-year-olds; free compulsory and secular education; the free Press; the secret ballot; the opening of our land to free settlement. [More…]

• There has to be a quantum leap forward in the thinking of all Australians, politicians and non-politicians, for us to cope with the problems of the advances of technology, the inequality of education, the Aboriginal problems and the surplus of teachers. [More…]

• We feel that the comments that have been made about certain injustices in relation to pension rates, education grants and the like are not merely carping criticism. [More…]

• That as citizens of New South Wales and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Postgraduate awards, unlike allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, are not subject to a means test. [More…]

• Whatever tax is payable could be reduced or even eliminated where a student has substantial self-education expenses. [More…]

• I recently received the report from the Tertiary Education Commission and it will be studied at an early date by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate of the total cost of the construction of the Ryde College of Catering Studies and Hotel Administration in Sydney? [More…]

• Of that cost, $10,769,376 has been provided by the Commonwealth Government through the Technical and Further Education Council of the Tertiary Education Commission and its forbears. [More…]

• Basically, buildings such as this are an instance of the success story of the development of the technical and further education area of the Commonwealth Government, through the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• In giving emphasis at the Commonwealth level to technical and further education we are making a significant contribution to the development of education in Australia. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1979-81 triennium, Volume 2, containing recommendations for 1979. [More…]

• This report of the Tertiary Education Commission makes recommendations for the allocation of Commonwealth funds to universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions for 1979. [More…]

• The Organisation is encouraged to co-operate with tertiary education institutions in this area. [More…]

• The State committees will provide a link with industry, centres of education, and the community generally at a grass roots level. [More…]

• I have spoken in the Senate on a number of occasions on issues related to education. [More…]

• Education is one of my main interests of government policy. [More…]

• One area of education has not been debated while I have been in the Senate. [More…]

• The fact that it has not been debated I find quite sad, because in my opinion it is one of the most pressing areas of need in education in Australia today. [More…]

• I refer to multi-cultural education. [More…]

• I have had a lengthy and, I think I can fairly say, extensive association with education groups throughout the Australian community. [More…]

• I have been interested in the subject of multi-cultural education for quite some time. [More…]

• However I now discern a genuine groundswell within the Australian community on the subject of multicultural education to which all governments, State and Federal, will have to address themselves very quickly. [More…]

• I will outline a couple of ideas that I have on the subject which arise partly from my own thoughts and partly from the points of view put to me by a large number of people who are very interested in what happens in education in Australia today and specifically in the education of migrants. [More…]

• I want to make it quite clear that when I talk about multi-cultural education I am not talking just about migrants. [More…]

• The proposals for multi-cultural education are an attempt to try to bring to the attention of Australians who have been a little complacent on the subject the role that migrants play in our community today. [More…]

• Our education system does not prepare us for this at all. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government has some responsibility in migrant education but the essential responsibility lies with the States. [More…]

• Many things can be said on the general subject of multi-cultural education. [More…]

• Much, or nearly all, of the discussion on multicultural education has turned on the subject of the children of migrants and of migrants themselves. [More…]

• I would like to see the term ‘multicultural education’ also include the Aboriginal culture. [More…]

• But along with other people who care about education, I am very sorry that it has taken so long for us to recognise this fact. [More…]

• It is very easy to go into areas of high migrant population and to see education conditions which obtain which it is difficult to believe still obtain in this country. [More…]

• That as citizens of New South Wales and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• Present arrangements will continue with regard to student children, with the exception of those who receive a Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the current concern about progress in Aboriginal advancement, particularly in the field of education in the Northern Territory, can the Minister inform the Senate of recent initiatives in education taken by the Government in the Territory? [More…]

• For example, with regard to the Northern Territory Consultative Group on Aboriginal Education, funds have been provided for 1978-79 to support the operation of such a group which will provide advice on the provision of education for Aborigines in the Territory. [More…]

• A second initiative is the Training Resources Co-ordinating Committee of the Northern Territory Further Education Council. [More…]

• Thirdly, there is the development of the Ti-Tree educational complex. [More…]

• This complex north of Alice Springs has been developed as a centre for Aboriginal teacher training and adult education. [More…]

• Sixthly, the Department of Education has assumed responsibility from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs for providing capital assistance to Northern Territory mission schools. [More…]

• The Department is also responsible for assisting the overall development of mission schools activities as an integrated part of their education system. [More…]

• I preface my question by informing the Minister for Education that the newly elected president of the student body at Sydney University is being prevented from carrying out his duties by students who are opposed to him. [More…]

• One can only wonder at the extent to which the over-pricing of imports raises the final sale price of commodities and thus generates inflation and reduces the tax base in Australia and the revenue available for public expenditure on housing, health, education and other publicly-provided goods and services. [More…]

• He assumes that young people will continue in full time education at no more than the present rate. [More…]

• This may be right, but it is worth noting that the level of participation in education by our 16 to 25-year-old age group is very low by the standards of other developed countries. [More…]

• We are not investing much education capital in our future. [More…]

• Given these assumptions- I hope that the Minister is wrong in his assumption about education rates- the Minister estimates that the labour force will increase by 1 10,000 people a year between now and 1 985. [More…]

• Two important studies have been commissioned by the Government- one on education and training by Professor Williams and one on structural problems by Sir John Crawford. [More…]

• This was necessary because the Government has a long history of building inappropriate houses, a hangover from the days when there was a feeling that Aborigines should become like other Australians, have the same lifestyle, the same clothes, the same education, the same work habits and so on. [More…]

• Honourable senators may recall that I have drawn attention in this place to the effect of that sort of attitude, well meaning as it was, on the education system. [More…]

• As I mentioned earlier, I have discussed this approach to education and the effect it had. [More…]

• When we turn to the education system in the Australian Capital Territory we see a very sorry sight indeed. [More…]

• It was hoped that the Australian Capital Territory would be able to develop more options in regard to the education of children from all backgrounds and that it would be able to introduce educational innovations in areas such as assessments, the kind of education offered to senior secondary students, alternatives to traditional academic education and so forth. [More…]

• The Australian Capital Territory had become a focus for educational innovators and educational thinkers. [More…]

• We now find that the education system is foundering because of the cutback in funds by the Federal Government and more particularly because of the totally irrational, across the board, rigid, inflexible staff ceilings policy. [More…]

• If we are to have in the Australian Capital Territory the son of education system for which people across the community express support we cannot operate on a rigid staff ceilings basis. [More…]

• Another element which is of significance in the provision of educational services in the Australian Capital Territory is the high proportion of children in our schools who were not born in Australia or whose parents were not born in Australia and do not speak English in the home. [More…]

• This is one of the factors which makes it very desirable that there be a particularly flexible and community-responsive education system, but again the ideals of providing multi-cultural education for children from different ethnic backgrounds in the Australian Capital Territory has foundered because of the staff ceilings policy. [More…]

• Of course, the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has been extremely defensive and perhaps less than frank in his responses to criticism from teachers and parents in the community in the Australian Capital Territory with regard to the staff ceilings policy. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has claimed that the staff ceiling for the next year will be the same as for last year, but if schools are to be run on the same formula and staff-student ratio as has been established in the Australian Capital Territory then currently there is a need for at least an extra 34 staff members. [More…]

• It would appear that the Minister for Education intends to change that formula and to reduce the staff-student ratio. [More…]

• It would also appear that it is the intention of the Minister for Education that there will be cuts in regard to the secondary colleges. [More…]

• I point out that at the moment the secondary colleges are not only serving in the traditional way that final school years institutions have served- that is, to prepare students for higher education or subsequent education- but also are serving, because of the wide range of courses they are able to offer students, as a preparation for the work force. [More…]

• Yet it would now appear to be the intention of the Minister for Education to cut back in this very vital area of the last two years of schooling of Australian Capital Territory students- the years which are crucial to them, particularly if they are to leave the education system and seek employment. [More…]

• As a locally elected representative of the Australian Capital Territory, I am contacted daily by parents and citizens organisations which are expressing their concern about the disorganisation, the decline in standards and the failure of the Government to respond to the real education needs of the children of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• Some of the major complaints that I have received from parent and teacher organisations are as follows: Firstly, teaching standards or educational standards are under threat because of staff ceilings. [More…]

• Serious deficiencies in Australian Capital Territory education can be found also in areas such as the textbook allowance and additional staff for literacy and numeracy, multicultural education, career education and counselling. [More…]

• The situation in regard to the basic services in the Australian Capital Territory- education, health, employment opportunities and employment training opportunities- has become totally chaotic. [More…]

• Mr Viner said he was perturbed by a public statement by Dr Joseph Camilleri reported in the press, suggesting that health and education spending would be deliberately cut to offset royalty payments to Aboriginals. [More…]

• I am unaware of the identity of the people ‘high up’ in my Department who Dr Camilleri claims told him that education and health spending would be cut, but if this was said then it is untrue. [More…]

• Even disregarding the fact that it will be a number of years before substantial amounts of uranium royalties are available, it will also be a long time before the handicaps which Aboriginals suffer in health, education and other areas will be overcome. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Perhaps it would be justified if the conditions of education in the Australian Capital Territory were poor or falling. [More…]

• I stress that the conditions in all aspects of education in the Australian Capital Territory are higher than those that prevail generally elsewhere in Australia and are very high by world standards. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Legislation as outlined in my statement in June is being prepared with respect to the areas directly within the responsibility of my portfolio, that is, the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• With regard to the tertiary education institutions of the States, which come under State law and over which the Commonwealth has no power to legislate, the Prime Minister wrote to the Premiers suggesting that they consider introducing similar legislation where they have not already acted along the lines proposed by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to the Aboriginal Community College in North Adelaide and the important contribution it continues to make for Aboriginal education and for personal and community development not only in South Australia but also with good effect throughout our country. [More…]

• The College principal, Mr Finch, wrote to me earlier this year seeking long-term funding for the College through the Ternary Education Commission. [More…]

• Since that time, officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Tertiary Education Commission and my Department, together with officers of the State Department of Further Education, visited the College in early May to explore more fully the possible range of alternatives regarding future funding. [More…]

• This is particularly so, I suppose, as descriptions become rife of Budgets, of specific pieces of legislation, of education itself, of the problem of unemployment and other matters of this type. [More…]

• We are three years ahead of the scheduled program of the Schools Commission in primary and secondary education. [More…]

• Let us look at what happened to education, for example, in the three years under Labor Government. [More…]

• Outlays on education increased by $994m. [More…]

• Under the Liberals the outlays on education have risen by $338m. [More…]

• In this way there may be a greater evenness of decisions that are made not only in relation to business, finance and economics but also in relation to education and social welfare. [More…]

• Let me turn now to the speech delivered by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on behalf of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) when he presented the Budget in the Senate some weeks ago. [More…]

• In one of the many areas within the Budget Papers there was a reference to the matter of education. [More…]

• Budget provides for Commonwealth expenditure of some $2,5O0m on education. [More…]

• When tabling the Budget Papers that night the Minister for Education said: [More…]

• Our decisions in this area will maintain current total intakes of students into universities and colleges of advanced education in 1979 and reflect, in a major way, greater support for technical and further education. [More…]

• The Budget Paper relating to education are quite extensive and detailed and in places quite complex. [More…]

• Provision is made for a wide range of educational services, such as the opening of new schools and the continuation of special programs, and I think particularly of the bilingual programs relating to the Aboriginal sector of our community. [More…]

• It is not only an educational measure; it becomes an economic measure, and it also becomes a social measure of very real importance. [More…]

• The development of technological services and the arrival upon the scene of great technical development have posed not only problems of an educational nature but also problems with a social content, to which the whole community will be, must be and, I believe, is devoting its attention. [More…]

• Some of these I have seen in my movements in South Australia in my association with educational institutions. [More…]

• It is on-going work, and I think it is significant to pay tribute to the Commonwealth Government for its financial management, which has been able to arrange for increases in the amounts of money so that the standards and services of education can be maintained. [More…]

• The Commonwealth education for unemployed youth program is to be extended, largely because of the increased funding announced in the Budget Speech. [More…]

• South Australia and Victoria will be cooperating with the Australian Council for Educational Research in an evaluation of the program, which has been established to help young people up to 24 and 25 years of age to overcome any low educational qualifications they may have, any inadequate educational qualifications they may have. [More…]

• Those of us associated with people who write letters and work for us are concerned at what I would call certain defects in the literacy area of our education. [More…]

• Many areas of education have received attention in the Budget, including the ones relating to the special or disadvantaged groups in the community. [More…]

• The Minister for Education drew attention in the Senate recently to the sums of money that have been devoted to Aboriginal education- an increase of $3.1 m, or 1 1 percent, over the 1977-78 program. [More…]

• In addition, under the migrant education program, provision has been made for child migrant education through the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The problem of isolated children is one with which the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts has had a great deal of association because of its inquiry into the education of isolated children. [More…]

• An amount of $ 14.6m has been provided this year for education assistance for isolated children, which is an increase of $10.5m over the 1977-78 figure. [More…]

• I am interested to endorse and to underline a point made by the Minister for Education in the Senate the other day in answer to a question I put to him in relation to the next phase in educational development and educational programs. [More…]

• He pointed out- and my own experience has led me to confirm this-that there is in the world of educators today a growing volume of support for the idea that the most important area in education is that of the primary school or early childhood. [More…]

• In the last few years there has been a pre-occupation with secondary and postsecondary education, but today, from my own observations and from my reading, I am of the view that there is growing support for this early childhood sector. [More…]

• Indeed it has been stated from time to time that the school teacher must be not only the school teacher but also the parent and that in the evolution of the child towards adulthood, marriage and parenthood there must be an understanding of the role of education as well as the role and influence of schools and teachers. [More…]

• I hope that the Australian Education Council, which I believe is gathering information on this subject, because of the diversity of responsibility throughout the country and because of the diversity of authorities in the Commonwealth sphere as well as the State sphere, can put together material which will be helpful in reaching some solutions on this area so that governments and the education authorities can go forward with a constructive program. [More…]

• On a personal note, I hope that the Senate Standing Committee on the Education and the Arts, of which I am the chairman, will have the opportunity of doing some work on this subject in due course. [More…]

• Then, if time permits, I hope to follow on some of the comments made by my colleague, Senator Button, as to the effect of government policies on education as indicated by the Budget. [More…]

• I look first at education because that is of particular interest to me. [More…]

• The Director of Education said that funds provided for the operation of the Department reflected the no growth or limited growth policies being applied by the Federal Government at the present time. [More…]

• In real terms the education expenditure has been increased by 0.05 per cent, and this is completely inadequate to bring Northern Territory schools up to, for example, ACT standards by July 1979. [More…]

• The Senate will remember that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that he would hand over in the Northern Territory a system which was viable and which was comparable with any in Australia. [More…]

• In some areas there have been massive cuts in education expenditure. [More…]

• These cuts would drastically affect the quality of education offered in the Territory. [More…]

• The Federation finds the proposed cuts particularly cynical on the part of the Education Minister, Senator Carrick . [More…]

• 1 ) Will the staffing levels in Northern Territory schools be brought up to acceptable standards before the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly accepts responsibility for education. [More…]

• Discussions are continuing between the Northern Territory administration and the Commonwealth concerning arrangements for the efficient transfer of responsibilities in the education area. [More…]

• I think that we might term that the off-loading of responsibility for education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• In the time left to me I wish to look very briefly at the effect of Government policies as demonstrated by the Budget in the field of education. [More…]

• Federal governments, whether they like it or not, play a significant role in shaping the education of our children and, through them, moulding the future of our country. [More…]

• Words are cheap and almost anyone can frame what might be called a good educational policy. [More…]

• We cannot confine ourselves only to education. [More…]

• In other words, in the few minutes that I have, I would like to do a Freeman Butts on assumptions underlying the policies of the Government as Freeman Butts did on assumptions underlying education in Australia. [More…]

• The direction is backwards or what I would call a return; a return to the elitist system, a return to a situation in which public schools, meaning the private schools, give the real education and the Government just gives the rest; a complete rejection of the needs concept in the guidelines given to the Schools Commission, and this, we all know, is the strength of it; a return to the divisiveness part of the elitist system. [More…]

• In his speech to the Australian College of Education he said: [More…]

• As Anderson comments, the lack of dogma is a strength because it puts the decision for education back where it belongs- back in the community, back in the hands of the commissions, back in the hands of the experts and away from the policy that government knows best. [More…]

• We are now back to political decisions, back to making education a political football. [More…]

• A return of education to the States can mean a return to the past, a resistance to change. [More…]

• It is so easy to ‘carry on’ and the consequence of this carrying on is a tendency to what we know as traditional education or academic-type education. [More…]

• We tend to educate those who are responsive to this sort of academic or traditional type of education. [More…]

• We will have all this, despite the fact that if we have learned anything over the last few years it is that university oriented education at the primary and the secondary levels, which is what it amounts to, is not appropriate for the bulk of the population. [More…]

• Good education, if I can use that phrase, is not a matter of facts to be stored or even skills to be acquired, although these are important. [More…]

• We get another sort of rationalisation from the Minister that it is the quality of education that counts. [More…]

• Of course it is the quality of education that counts, but what do we mean by the ‘quality of education’? [More…]

• What is the definition of ‘quality of education’? [More…]

• The simple fact is that the standard of education, by whatever criteria we want to use, is falling in the poorer non-government schools. [More…]

• Class sizes are increasing, there is a lack of range of educational opportunities available and there is a lack of resources. [More…]

• I would like to speak of the services to migrants, the disadvantaged, adult education and technical and further education but I do not have time to do so in this debate. [More…]

• Remedial work is so important in all areas of education. [More…]

• Finally I would like to refer to the comment of Professor Anderson to the Australian College of Education when he said: [More…]

• The Government stands condemned for steering education away from sound movement forward- an action for which the young people will pay now and the country will pay later. [More…]

• I refer to the provision of adequate social security benefits to help those who cannot support themselves, the availability of a high level of education to all and the insistence that health services are within the reach of everyone. [More…]

• I think there is a sad situation in respect of youth education. [More…]

• The education vote has not been cut down. [More…]

• The major areas of expenditure are: Housing $ 1.987m, which is up 38 per cent on last year; health $729,000, which is up 75 per cent; education $83,000, which is up 35 per cent; welfare $86,000, which is up 27 per cent; town management $ 1.992m, which is up 11 per cent and which includes mission and essential services which are funded through the Northern Territory Government; and legal aid $101,000, which is up 19 per cent. [More…]

• Some criticisms have been made by the Opposition regarding education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has stated that recurrent expenditure on government schools in the [More…]

• This clearly indicates that in the area of education - [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• I preface a question to the Minister for Education by drawing the Senate’s attention to the very substantial Commonwealth education funds allocated to New South Wales each year and to the widespread concern being expressed in that State at the Labor Government’s proposal to hand over the administration of education to an unrepresentative education commission. [More…]

• Nevertheless, with regard to primary and secondary education, the Commonwealth has a major responsibility, which is fully accepted I think by both sides of the Parliament and fully accepted in terms of trying to ensure by consultation or otherwise that no detriment occurs. [More…]

• It is true that in that field of education the Schools Commissioners reported recently that New South Wales has some ground to catch up in education. [More…]

• It is not within my compass to have any influence upon the shape of an organisation that lies within a State, but suffice to say that a wide range of influential people and bodies that are interested in education have expressed the gravest concern that the approach will weaken education. [More…]

• For instance, the National Catholic Education Commission has expressed its opposition; so have the independent schools. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In brief, the task force was required to take into account the use of such a system to provide high quality radio and television broadcasting and other telecommunications services to all Australians; its application in the areas of health, education, science, transport and defence; its use by the private sector for improved communication information and other services; and the implications of a satellite to current radios and television services and the terrestrial communications system. [More…]

• That, subject to paragraph (2), the Archives Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts for inquiry and report as soon as possible. [More…]

• The second paragraph of the amendment deals with the question of the Archives Bill being referred to the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts for inquiry and report as soon as possible. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Education and the Arts has considered over a long period that libraries and other information sources are within the province of that Committee. [More…]

• In pursuit of its function in relation to both education and the arts the Committee is concerned to deal with aspects of the information system of this country provided by libraries, resource centres and other institutions which disseminate information, and it is in respect of those aspects that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, I envisage, would examine this reference. [More…]

• From the point of view of the Committee it might be quite a small reference and it may be that from time to time the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts would want to consult with the Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs about the matters which it is considering in relation to the Archives Bill. [More…]

• Criticisms have been made by some members of the community and those are matters which much more appropriately ought to be investigated by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• I speak quite seriously and genuinely, as all honourable senators will understand, from my position as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts to which the Archives Bill is to be referred. [More…]

• That, subject to paragraph (2), the Archives Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts for inquiry and report as soon as possible. [More…]

• I think it is fitting that the Archives Bill be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts for inquiry and report. [More…]

• There are many other areas relating to the Archives Bill, and I hope that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts can examine not only the Bill but also alert the people at large to the role of archives in the total circumstances of community thinking, which should be in relation to documents and other materials that concern archives generally. [More…]

• Certainly, speaking on behalf of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, I look forward to co-operation and conversation with the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs. [More…]

• We would give our attention to the matters which are of particular concern and importance to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts and on which we could obtain information and make appropriate decisions. [More…]

• I make these few observations in the name of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts and as its Chairman and give support to the motion which is before the Senate. [More…]

• I, in rather elliptical and vague terms, sought to explain earlier why the matter should be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• Senator Davidson, with his customary skill, went straight to the heart of the matter and, speaking in terms of the National Library, explained exactly why this sort of matter should be referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• All the surveys, such as the one carried out by the ANOP Market Research Pty Ltd in April and May 1973, show that it is a political issue, in that attitudes towards the use of this substance, that is, marihuana, are a function of age, education, urban residence, church attendance and voting intention. [More…]

• Such productions have not resulted in a decrease in its use, nor have the penalties that we have introduced in our community; nor have the education methods that we have attempted to use. [More…]

• Education on drugs will consist of a competition between the two extremes instead of an examination of the facts and effects and an evaluation of programs to do something about this problem. [More…]

• That is why it sought a careful examination of the methods that we have used in the past, particularly the methods of education we have used to cope with drug abuse in this country. [More…]

• I would like to draw the attention of the Senate to a handbook prepared by the Division of Health Education of the Health Commission of New South Wales which was published in 1 973 and which is called ‘The Use and Abuse of Drugs’. [More…]

• I have found that the Tasmanian Education Department uses this book as its own. [More…]

• As a matter of course I obtained a flag from the Department of Education which supplies flags to senators and members. [More…]

• I can post the flag to the school, I can go to the school uninvited or I can return the flag to the Department of Education. [More…]

• The education discussion paper that was put out by the same royal commission, at page 2 1 reads: [More…]

• Therefore the adult world, rather than that of the school, must be the first target for drug education if the ‘drug problem ‘ is not to await its solution for a very long time. [More…]

• Even the prospect of a criminial conviction can be disruptive of a career, particularly when an employer suspends an employee, as most often occurs in the Public Service or education areas, until the matter is determined in court; to say nothing of the adverse personal effect of the anxiety generated by the prospect of criminal conviction. [More…]

• My question is addressed to Senator Carrick as Minister for Education and also as Minister representing the Minister for Defence. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education some views about the desirability of establishing an isolated educational institution? [More…]

• Nevertheless, because it has tertiary institution qualities and because the role of the Tertiary Education Commission is important there will be some liaison and some flow of dialogue between the Tertiary Education Commission and the institution and also those who, in seeking to found the institution, want such information. [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Education pursues previous questions relating to the matter of literacy and the research which his Department has been conducting. [More…]

• As Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, he has taken a very deep interest in the question of literacy. [More…]

• It has been taken before the Australian Education Council and has been subjected to the scrutiny and examination of the States. [More…]

• The most important thing that I can say to Senator Davidson is that in the national inquiry into teacher education- the full committee will be announced very soon and will be chaired by Professor Auchmuty- one of the major thrusts of examination will be to determine what kind of training of teachers would be necessary to deal best with the problems of literacy and numeracy. [More…]

• There is no challenge whatsoever to the quality of education. [More…]

• The Commission believes that in the interests of maintaining proper balance in resource allocation there should be no increase in real per student expenditure on secondary education in the ACT in the immediate future. [More…]

• They are totally unnecessary, particularly as the quality of education in the Australian Capital Territory, on the say so of the Schools Commission, is the highest in Australia and is not in any way being challenged. [More…]

• In the light of the answer the Minister for Education just gave, I ask him whether he said on 16 March 1 976: [More…]

• If the Australian Capital Territory is ahead of the States in education, then our job is to bring the States up and to the standard of the Australian Capital Territory and as well to let the Territory move ahead. [More…]

• Where the quality of education is the best in Australia, it can only be jeopardised by industrial action. [More…]

• Where the review form is returned in time to be processed prior to 26 December 1978 indicating that the child will be continuing full-time education in 1979, there will be no interruption to family allowance payments. [More…]

• However, if the review form is not returned in time to be processed by 26 December 1978, payment of family allowance will then be suspended but arrears will be paid back to 26 December if the form is subsequently returned indicating that the child will be continuing full-time education in 1979. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 9 September 1 978: [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has advised that there is no academic body other than the Australasian College of Dermatologists which co-ordinates research in the field of dermatology. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has advised that it has received no proposals from any university for the establishment of a Chair of Dermatology. [More…]

• In 1976 the world spent on the military something of the order of $325-5400 billion, at least as much as it spent on health and more than it spent on education. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Tertiary Education Commission carried out any assessment of the adequacy of research and teaching facilities in Australian tertiary institutions in view of the likely increase in activity in this 200-mile area? [More…]

• I will seek information from my own Department, the Tertiary Education Commission and other departments, and let Senator Button know. [More…]

• Is it possible that mothers of some students who complete their full time secondary education in November this year will not receive family allowance payments for those students in December? [More…]

• Will full time secondary students who complete their education in November but who cannot find a job not become eligible for unemployment benefit until January? [More…]

• That election undertaking was one that jointly concerned Senator Carrick as Minister for Education and me, and our two departments have been working closely on a submission to the Government. [More…]

• The promise of the Government with regard to education of handicapped children is a commitment by the Government which it wishes to see put into effect. [More…]

• But because of the nature of education services and the services provided through many of the centres supported by my Department it is one on which we needed consultation with groups outside of government and with State governments. [More…]

• 2) 1978, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech, which is found on page 1 1 64 of Hansard, stated: [More…]

• I mention another matter which is of concern to a much more limited group of people in Australia but is of concern to me as Opposition spokesman on education. [More…]

• But as a small sum is involved one would have thought that the Treasurer and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who sits in this place might have examined the whole question a little more closely. [More…]

• As we know, under-graduate students who receive allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme receive approximately $1,600 a year if they have no dependants. [More…]

• To suggest, as did both the Treasurer (Mr Howard) in his Budget Speech and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech, that the provision operates otherwise than retrospectively is to engage in the worst possible form of logic chopping. [More…]

• Although conceived as a compensatory measure mainly for the benefit of the less fortunate, the need for increasing tax collections to service the areas of social welfare, education and health has been shown on occasions to bring by way of response demands for more pay. [More…]

• I find it rather hypocritical of Government senators to suggest that somebody who is receiving under a post-graduate award $4,200 a year, which is only about $80 a week, can afford to pay any taxation for the privilege of higher education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I repeat what needs to be repeated: The only government which cut education funding was the Labor Government; the only government which seriously set back the funds flowing to education as a whole was the Labor Government. [More…]

• The fact is that there has been a substantial increase in expenditure at all levels of education. [More…]

• We have encouraged expansion of education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate in his capacity as either the Minister representing the Prime Minister or as Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has it been brought to the Minister’s attention that Mr Sinclair, who works for the State Education Department, for no apparent reason has had his job transferred away from the vicinity of Fraser Island to Brisbane? [More…]

• The fact is that Mr Sinclair is an employee of the State Department of Education. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that students at the Darwin Community College are concerned about the future of the College when responsibility for education is transferred to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in July 1979? [More…]

• A post-secondary development or a further education development in the Northern Territory is of vital importance, particularly in the technical and further education field. [More…]

• In the first instance the Community College will be part of the responsibility of a Minister in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and will become an integrated part of the education responsibility of the Director of Education. [More…]

• Advice on its financing will be of interest to the Advanced Education Council of the Tertiary Education Commission and therefore to me as Minister for Education and to the Federal Government. [More…]

• In its capacity as a post-secondary education institution it will remain a continuing and significant interest of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]

• There is also a third category of award- post-graduate awards at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• They are for full time study in courses leading to a degree of master by either course work or research at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• In fact during Question Time I thought I heard the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) say that while the Labor Government was in power there was no increase in the amounts payable under this scheme. [More…]

• For studies at colleges of advanced education it is $70 a year. [More…]

• The types of expenses that can be claimed under concessional expenditure are education expenses for dependants- most students would not have these- rates and taxes, life insurance premiums and so on. [More…]

• Thus the $250 they might list for self-education expenses would not amount to anything and they would not be able to deduct this amount. [More…]

• The first relates to an answer that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, gave this morning in the Senate. [More…]

• For example, we could say that money devoted to education is in fact squandered on salaries for teachers and that in turn part of that is a loan that the teachers pay back to the Government in tax. [More…]

• Senator Colston made the point that the first $250 is to be dealt with under the self-education provision and that when a student is within the general rebate he in fact gets no financial benefit from that $250 deduction. [More…]

• In other years he would receive $ 100 incidental allowance, if at a university, or $70 a year if at a college of advanced education. [More…]

• We object very strenuously to the retrospectivity of the Bill but, more than that, we are a little angry about the weak and feeble attempt in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to justify or to deny retrospectivity. [More…]

• There is a great variety of such bodies, including the Council for Christian Education in Schools, the various national trusts of the States and the Sydney Myer Music Bowl Trust. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 14 September 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) What was the percentage of technical and further education students enrolled in each of the following academic streams: (a) professional) (b) para-professional; (c) trades; (d) other skilled; (e) preparatory; and ( f) adult education, in each year from 1974 to 1978. [More…]

• What percentage of recurrent technical and further education expenditure was spent on each academic stream in each of these years. [More…]

• The table below provides the information sought for the years 1 974 to 1 977 in respect of courses conducted by the major government authorities for technical and further education in the States. [More…]

• Comprehensive statistics for this period are not available in respect of other technical and further education authorities. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Is the basis for the abolition of fees for tertiary education at least in part a desire to make such education more accessible to the socially and economically disadvantaged? [More…]

• Finally, if the study is confirmed, is he able to say whether examination of alternative propositions is anticipated which might more effectively open up to students from a wide variety of social and economic backgrounds the whole field of tertiary education? [More…]

• That means that one must look at the socio-economic structure of those seeking education. [More…]

• It is, I would imagine, part of that principle of equality of opportunity that led to the abolition of fees, that led to the development of scholarships and bursaries and then to the stucture of the Tertiary Education Assistance scheme, as such. [More…]

• The question of achieving equality of opportunity inside education lies not only with fees or allowances: It lies also, of course, with our moving Australian families as far as we can up the socio-economic scale in terms of standards of living so that their conditions are conducive to further study for the young. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention also been drawn to the comment from the Queensland Education Department that Federal members of Parliament, including Cabinet Ministers, had no right to go around handing out holidays to Queensland school children? [More…]

• I am not aware of any specific measures that are available to provide assistance to those families which are particularly reliant on the mails for providing education for their children. [More…]

• That is a matter which I will take up with the responsible Minister, who already administers extensive programs of assistance for education in remote areas. [More…]

• A number of quite significant initiatives has been taken in the field of media education. [More…]

• In research in collaboration with the Australia Council it has sponsored a national study of education and the arts, including media education. [More…]

• The study was conducted by national and State committees and its findings are reported in a document entitled Education and the Arts. [More…]

• Secondly, I refer to special projects of the Schools Commission in which a number of media education projects have been funded through the Special Projects (Innovation) Program, through the Disadvantaged Schools Program and through the Disadvantaged Country Areas Program. [More…]

• One is a tape-slide set showing the importance of mass media education in schools. [More…]

• It was organised through the Catholic Education Office in Sydney. [More…]

• The other project involved teaching modules on different aspects of media education. [More…]

• This is being produced through the South Australian Education Technology Centre. [More…]

• Earlier Senator Baume asked me a question about a report on the social composition of students in Australian higher education. [More…]

• The funds which the Government is providing also include increases in programs for migrant and multi-cultural education. [More…]

• Additionally and also arising from the Galbally Report, the Government has accepted the Commission’s recommendation that a new joint program should be established with funding of $5m over three years for multi-cultural education. [More…]

• The Government has decided, on the recommendation of the Commission, that the special purpose programs for special education and disadvantaged schools should continue at their present levels in 1979. [More…]

• The services and development program, including schools travel and exchange and education centres, will be reduced by $349,000 to $ 15.8m and the special projects, innovations, program by $525,000 to $3.4m next year. [More…]

• The Schools Commission will cooperate with education authorities and school communities in drawing up plans for the effective use of these funds. [More…]

• In the absence of Senator Button who normally would speak on education matters, I wish to make a few comments in respect of the statement put down by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I know that this is not the time for a full debate on the education issue in this country but I do feel that it is incumbent on me to expose the misleading intent of the Minister’s statement. [More…]

• In paragraph 2.8 on page 17 the Commission had this to say about the Government’s policies on education: [More…]

• Such a reexamination must take into account the general pattern of Commonwealth-State financial arrangements and take into account recent statements on Commonwealth financial commitments to school-level education. [More…]

• Continued operation on the basis of present assumptions will in effect not raise nongovernment schools to minimum resource standards and, by default will gradually redefine the balance of the Commonwealth’s existing role as one of reduced direct commitment to general resource standards in government schools and as one in which the needs of non-government schools for recurrent grants will inhibit the possibility of more general national educational initiatives designed to encourage improved educational processes and to underwrite the claims of target groups of students having special needs. [More…]

• How could anyone remotely interpret that statement by the Schools Commission to mean that its recommendations are in line with the policies of this Government on education? [More…]

• It takes some delving into these reports to realise how different is the education policy of the Government to what the Commission itself is indeed recommending. [More…]

• The Schools Commission is saying that there is no possibility of this Government maintaining even present standards of education in this country. [More…]

• Then on the following page of the report we see projections of needs which the Commission has estimated it will require to meet the needs of Australian education. [More…]

• It illustrates the degree to which the Government has allowed funding for education to decline in this country in the last three years. [More…]

• That is this Government’s concept of a needs basis and fairness in the education system of this country. [More…]

• The Government has decided, on the recommendation of the Commission, that the special purpose programs for special education and disadvantaged schools should continue at their present levels in 1 979. [More…]

• The education of country children requires a considerable mobilisation of effort in Australia, a mobilisation in which local communities should play a significant part. [More…]

• If the Government wishes to pursue this course of gradually destroying the needs principle of the Australian education system which was set up by the previous Government through the machinery of the Schools Commission, it had better hurry up because it has only two years left in which to do it. [More…]

• The total Australian education system is to suffer as a result. [More…]

• The Opposition, of course, stands firmly by the principle that we introduced in 1973 of allocating funds on the basis of need and being as frank and as honest to the Australian people about the education system as should be required of any government. [More…]

• The Bill gives effect to the Government’s decision that family allowance will no longer be paid for students receiving TEAS allowances or other related Commonwealth education allowances. [More…]

• In order to compensate for the loss of family allowance, the rates of TEAS and other related Commonwealth education allowances are being increased by $5.25 a week. [More…]

• This Bill provides for amendments to the Repatriation Act and associated Acts to give effect to the Government’s decisions covering: Nominations of persons to repatriation determining authorities by organisations representing dependants of deceased veterans and exservicewomen; the provision for pulmonary tuberculosis to be dealt with in the same way as other disabilities; automatic adjustment of the main repatriation pensions in accordance with movements in the consumer price index only once a year; the provision of an upper age limit of 25 years for student children undertaking full time education, in respect of whom service pensioners receive additional allowances to their basic service pensions; the provision for incometestfree pensions to be frozen at their present cash level and additions to income-test-free pensions to become subject to the normal income test as applied to pensioners under 70 years of age; and the removal of references to sustenance allowance. [More…]

• Currently, service pensioners can receive in addition to the basic service pension, additional allowances to assist support of a student 16 years of age and over undertaking full time education but no upper age limit is specified. [More…]

• It is the Government’s view that the child of a service pensioner will have had sufficient time to embark upon and complete his full time education and attain appropriate qualifications to facilitate entry into a chosen vocation by the time he attains 25 years of age. [More…]

• However, allowances already in payment in respect of student children 25 years and over will continue while students are undertaking full time education. [More…]

• I would only want to say that I believe that each government needs to build on what has been done by the government preceding it and that it is a long and continuing program that will see the benefits that we all hope to achieve in education, health, housing and generally in making Aboriginals equal members of our society. [More…]

• To assist in providing more employment and education for Africans by allowing normal growth and expansion of industries. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• This humble petition of certain citizens of the Australian Capital Territory respectfully showeth their grave concern that the right Honourable the Minister for Education has directed the ACT Schools Authority to comply with certain arbitrary cuts in the staffing and financing of the ACT Schools System which, particularly in the case of staffing, are contrary both to established practices and to prior undertakings of the Government. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education and refer to the Government ‘s policy in relation to compulsory membership of student organisations that has been enunciated in the Senate. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education and refer to the payment of student fees. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Carrick) alluded to that today in answer to a question and also when he took part in this debate. [More…]

• I include the Minister for Education and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Carrick), who explained the factual situation as he saw it. [More…]

• As Senator Button has just suggested and as the Minister for Education and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Carrick) pointed out in his remarks, all the facts relating to this case are not entirely clear at present. [More…]

• One must remember that tertiary education allowance scholarships are in fact heavily means tested. [More…]

• She points out that the tertiary education allowance has been increased by $3 odd and that this in fact makes up for this means test. [More…]

• However, Senator Grimes went on to say that the family allowance had been abolished for those parents whose children were getting a Tertiary Education Assistance scheme allowance. [More…]

• The family allowance will not be paid in future to students who are recipients under the student tertiary education scheme but the TEAS allowance will be increased to take care of that disability and will be increased to compensate completely for the loss of that benefit. [More…]

• Recipients under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and recipients of adult secondary education allowances will be precluded from receiving family allowances. [More…]

• I am sure that members of the Government parties as well as members of the Opposition have received letters from parents who are endeavouring to further their education under TEAS or under the adult secondary education allowances scheme. [More…]

• Senator Grimes questioned some matters with regard to the payment of the family allowances to those who are receiving the tertiary education assistance allowance. [More…]

• I am able to advise him that tertiary education assistance recipients have had their tertiary education assistance payments increased by an amount of $5.25 a week which takes into account the fact that there will no longer be dual payments of the family allowance and the tertiary education assistance allowance. [More…]

• An increase of $5.25 per week has been made to the tertiary education assistance. [More…]

• Will the Minister, together with the Minister for Education, give urgent consideration to taking new and positive initiatives to attract a substantial increase in teacher aide trainees from the beginning of the 1979 year? [More…]

• Also, will the Minister not limit the definition of ‘teacher aide’ in this context to that applying in the majority of Australian schools, but relate this career directly to the practical needs of the Aboriginal community where these trainees will serve, so that there may be training not only in educational skills but also in health, social work and community development skills? [More…]

• The article concerns education. [More…]

• When you get the Education Minister, Senator Carrick, saying government schools were for poor people it certainly shows a lack of commitment, ‘ she said. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the recommendations of the Tertiary Education Commission for recurrent grants for universities and colleges of advanced education for 1980 and 1981. [More…]

• -In September I tabled volume 2 of the Tertiary Education Commission’s report for 1979-81 which contained recommended financial allocations in respect of 1979 in response to the Government’s guidelines for 1 979 to 1981. [More…]

• The statement just made by the Minister represents Government decisions which are in response to the detailed recommendations for expenditure made by the Tertiary Education Commission after- I stress ‘after’- the Government had already set overall limits on expenditure. [More…]

• To that extent there is a certain sleightofhand in the statement which shows an admirable quality about it if one is an admirer of poker players, but a less admirable quality about it if one is concerned about the level of expenditure on education in this country. [More…]

• The point I would make is that the essential limitations have already been imposed prior to the Tertiary Education report upon which the Government has now pronounced in the statement just read by the Minister. [More…]

• A reduction of S39m (1) for the university and advanced education sectors for 1979 (a reduction of $12 million in operating expenditure and $27 million in capital grants)- [More…]

• In addition, the Government indicated: that, although the allocation for capital works in the university and advanced education sectors is significantly below the level recommended, the Commission might explore the possibility of commencing, some new capital projects in those sectors in 1979. [More…]

• It did, however, recommend funds which would have imparted some flexibility to the university and advanced education sectors and enabled some developments to take place after the virtual freeze on new developments that had existed since 1 975. [More…]

• That is a very important statement by the Tertiary Education Commission in view of the Minister’s oft repeated concern in this chamber about the Government’s addiction to the notion of quality in education which the Minister frequently tries to contrast with levels of expenditure. [More…]

• As I said earlier, the statement now brought down by the Minister reflects earlier decisions made by the Government in preparing the guidelines for the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• The comment made by the Tertiary Education Commission on the guidelines applies very strongly to the statement which the Minister made today and which only reflects the earlier indication of the Government’s position. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission is not asking for more and still more money, but it is asking for reasonableness to enable it to cope with that sort of changing situation. [More…]

• I will refer to that situation in a moment, but before doing so I just comment again on the very significant consequences of the reduction of $39m which is referred to as the main concern of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• What are some of the problems of flexibility with which bodies such as the TEC, and particularly the universities and the colleges of advanced education, have to be concerned at this time? [More…]

• One of the factors which are important in terms of staff and quality of teaching and research is the increasingly high proportion of contract staff now teaching or working in universities and colleges of advanced education with little effort being made in terms of Government initiative or Tertiary Education Commission initiative in relation to the problem of the security which those staff on fixed term appointments now have. [More…]

• Secondly, it is of great concern that the situation of no growth in universities and colleges of advanced education which is talked about a great deal does not mean that there should not be growth in particular areas of academic endeavour. [More…]

• The question of the areas in which growth should be allowed to occur again requires some degree of flexibility, which is what the Tertiary Education Commission by implication is asking for in the passage which I read from page 24 of its report. [More…]

• Not only the Tertiary Education Commission in the passage which I read but also the University Vice-Chancellors Committee have recommended already that there should be flexibility in this regard and have even gone so far as to suggest that it may not be necessary to wait for Professor Williams’ report, like waiting for Godot, before decisions are made about many of these important matters. [More…]

• Even worse than not allowing the flexibility which the Tertiary Education Commission has asked for, the Government is introducing a great deal of confusion into the tertiary education area. [More…]

• I illustrate this by quoting a statement which was made by the Tertiary Education Commission in paragraph (e) on page 20 of its last report. [More…]

• in addition the Government indicated: that, although the allocation for capital works in the university and advanced education sectors is significantly below the level recommended, the Commission might explore the possibility of commencing some new capital projects in those sectors in 1979; [More…]

• This Government has continually told us that in relation to matters such as unemployment and we are again being told this in relation to capital expenditure in the tertiary education sector. [More…]

• In a sense, it is a redundant statement because real decisions were made at the time the guidelines were given to the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the final report of the Tertiary Education Commission on study leave in universities and colleges of advanced education, and seek leave to make a statement. [More…]

• Honourable senators will recall that in May, I tabled a draft report by the Tertiary Education Commission on study leave. [More…]

• The Commission’s recommendations have been framed against a background of the growth and development that has taken place in Australian higher education institutions since the war. [More…]

• To maintain the quality of Australian higher education institutions and research, the Government has accepted the Commission’s view that continuing opportunity should be available for study leave for those staff who require regular contact with overseas scholarship, research and professional experience. [More…]

• The Government has accepted the recommendations in the Commission’s final report and expects universities and colleges of advanced education to modify their study leave arrangements from 1 January 1979 so as to conform with the Commission’s recommendations. [More…]

• Firstly, in future, study leave should be more selective- it will not be automatic but should be based on the needs of the institution, the nature of the project proposed and the capacity of the staff member to make effective use of it; secondly, the maximum limit on study leave should be 7 per cent of available man-years for universities and 5 per cent for colleges of advanced education; thirdly, study leave should in future be restricted to members of the academic staff; fourthly, in general, individual absences on study leave should be restricted to periods of not greater than 6 months; fifthly, the present emphasis on overseas study leave should be reduced; sixthly, the use of study leave as the means of upgrading academic qualifications should be eliminated; and finally, there should be greater accountability on the part of individual staff members and institutions. [More…]

• I desire to make a brief statement about the contents of the statement just made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• When one considers the savings which are set out in the Minister’s statement and which the Government envisages will be made as a result of the vast initiative which the Department of Education and the committee of inquiry seem to have taken in relation to study leave, one really wonders where all the economies are going to be effected. [More…]

• If one looks at the annual budget of Australian universities of between $600m and $700m and at the energy which has gone into research on this one little aspect of academic life and government expenditure on tertiary education, et cetera, the result really is quite extraordinary. [More…]

• Most particularly, those preconceptions and misconceptions are illustrated by the Prime Minister’s hazardous guess at the cost of study leave in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• If one looks at the statement by the Minister for Education today, one sees that it also contains all sorts of rather strange assumptions. [More…]

• Page 2 contains a summary of the effect of the Tertiary Education Commission’s final report. [More…]

• The great advantages which flow from tertiary education can be seen in the quality of Senator Grimes’ interjections. [More…]

• The second conclusion suggests that the maximum amount of study leave should be seven percent of the available man-years for universities and five percent for colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• I think that we would generally agree with that, although it is possible that as a result of that less attention might be given to the art of education administration in this country than ought to be given to it. [More…]

• I do not think that we are highly successful in training education administrators, particularly university administrators. [More…]

• In the conclusion contained in the Commission’s next recommendation a special serve is retained for the colleges of advanced education, that is, that study leave should not be used as a means of upgrading academic qualifications. [More…]

• The universities and colleges of advanced education in Australia are continually being described as moving into a ‘no growth’ situation. [More…]

• That is the message that the Tertiary Education Commission and the Government have been giving. [More…]

• It is a very real problem for the academics concerned- the young academics who will be unable to get jobs or the young academics who have fixed term appointments for three years which will never be renewed, because there is no proper method of teaching assessment, for example, in Australian universities or colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• We would agree essentially with most of the points on page 2 of the statement of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• The source of our objection is the definition of prescribed educational schemes. [More…]

• These include the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, the Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme, the Pre-School [More…]

• Teacher Education Assistance Scheme, the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme, the Commonwealth Teaching Service Scholarship Scheme and the Post-Graduate Awards Scheme. [More…]

• Data for the Higher Education sector were collected by Project SCORE for the calendar years 1969, 1974, and 1976. [More…]

• Individual objectives such as solar energy were not identified in the 1973-74 Private Enterprise and Higher Education surveys. [More…]

• Again, these figures do not contain the contributions of the Private Enterprise and Higher Education sectors. [More…]

• In addition a total of $1 4.9m was expended on R & D in the medical sciencies in the Higher Education sector, while $8. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Nurse Education and Training to the Tertiary Education Commission, entitled ‘Nurse Education and Training’. [More…]

• The Committee which was chaired by Dr Sidney Sax was established to inquire into and make recommendations to the Tertiary Education Commission on possible developments and changes in nurse education and training. [More…]

• The Committee was asked to include in its inquiry whether nurse education should take place in hospitals or educational institutions or both. [More…]

• In carrying out this task the Committee was concerned with both basic and post-basic nurse education. [More…]

• The Government’s decisions on the report’s recommendations will await the advice of the Tertiary Education Commission and the reactions of State and Commonwealth health and education Ministers and authorities. [More…]

• Rather I am inclined to the view- I would like the Minister for Science (Senator Webster) to remark on this matter- that an Australian research and development corporation should be established which had access to promising discoveries made in government laboratories, such as the CSIRO or defence laboratories, and which also had access to tertiary education establishment laboratories and research establishments as well as to industrial research and development, provided industry is prepared to offer to the corporation a part interest in the discovery in return for development funds. [More…]

• This joint partnership consortium venture type proposal is undertaken by some tertiary education institutions in Australia, The Western Australian Institute of Technology, I believe, has such an organisation, as does the University of New South Wales. [More…]

• There should be planning for scientific manpower, for the information-gathering function to which other honourable senators have referred, for education of the general public, which has to live with science and the scientists. [More…]

• We are rapidly reaching a position in Australia which is similar to that position reached in many other countries which have an advanced education system where a flow of graduates comes out from tertiary institutions with no place to go. [More…]

• ‘the Tertiary Education Commission be asked to allocate funds to Colleges of Advanced Education and Institutes of Technology to offer suitable courses of theoretical and practical education for managers, supervisors and residential staff of facilities of handicapped people’. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following information: [More…]

• A proposal for a new course in a college of advanced education is, in the first instance, the responsibility of the State co-ordinating authorities for tertiary education. [More…]

• The Commonwealth authority, the Tertiary Education Commission, gives consideration for funding only to those courses which are referred to it by the responsible State authority. [More…]

• These include an Associate Diploma in Residential Care at the Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education in Brisbane; and courses in Rehabilitation Counselling at the Cumberland College of Health Sciences in Sydney and the Lincoln Institute in Melbourne.’ [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education and refer him to my earlier question asked on 13 September concerning the case of a student, Michael Farrell, at the University of New South Wales. [More…]

• During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Slovenes had already made progress in local government and in education, that is, there was adequate Slovene language training at elementary schools, although higher education was still dominated by German. [More…]

• Slovenes pay great attention to the education of their children and themselves. [More…]

• The cultural need of the Slovenes was realised in the 1 8th century by the Austrians who introduced an education reform in 1760 which led to the proliferation of Slovene textbooks and consequently the Slovene renaissance which spurred Slovene nationalism during the French occupation. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and relates to the recommendations of the Sax Committee on Nurse Education and Training that selected colleges of advanced education should be required to undertake the future education of nurses. [More…]

• Will the Minister ensure that if that recommendation is implemented Tasmania will be used as a centre for nurse education, in line with the recommendation in the Callaghan report, which advises thai Tasmania should be used as a centre for all limited specialised education? [More…]

• Indeed it suggests for a period of years a ceiling for people taking nursing courses at colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Senator Walters was also correct in saying that, for a State with the unique difficulties of Tasmania, education as an industry is a vital one. [More…]

• The small reduction to be made in secondary college staffing, as called for by the Neal-Hird report and the Schools Commission report will have only a minimal effect on the options available next year in the secondary colleges, lt is the Government’s view that the staff ceiling of 2,772 for 1979 can be applied without any adverse effects on the quality of education in the Capital Territory. [More…]

• My question to the Minister for Education relates to an answer he gave earlier concerning his Department ‘s involvement in the Year of the Child program. [More…]

• Also, will he initiate discussions with all State governments and Education Ministers at the next meeting of the Australian Education Council to ensure that this mediaeval practice of corporal punishment in the Australian school system is abolished once and for all? [More…]

• -It is very true that I, as Minister for Education, have a significant responsibility, which I welcome, in terms of the International Year of the Child. [More…]

• I would be very happy to take to the Australian Education Council the wider concept that we should all look- I am sure most teachers do- to the minimisation of any witting or unwitting traumatic experience upon the student child. [More…]

• I can show honourable senators special education units around Australia where we are having to modify the results of traumatic experiences that were not of the gluteus maximus but cerebral. [More…]

• This added burden will be felt not only by workers on lower incomes but also by other disadvantaged sections of the community, in particular the children of this country, who will suffer as a result of the severe cuts in education that have been made in this Budget. [More…]

• Cuts have been made, no matter how much it is denied by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is also the Leader of the Government in the Senate, although, as my colleague Senator Evans pointed out this morning at Question Time, apparently he has a precarious hold on that position. [More…]

• The Minister for Education is in a very difficult situation because he has to manipulate the figures, which is what it amounts to. [More…]

• Severe cuts have been made in education expenditure no matter how much attempts are made to camouflage that fact. [More…]

• The teachers on a number of these islands are not covered by either the Commonwealth or the Queensland education system. [More…]

• This ought to be a matter of urgent investigation by the Government, but more particularly by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• I respectfully submit that it is a matter for urgent investigation by the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My recollection is that there are three non-government schools in Australia of Ananda Marga origin which are duly certified by the State governments concerned as conforming to the State laws and the standards for secular education of the children concerned and which are in fact inspected by those States. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister become aware that the continued decline in the score of the scholastic aptitude tests taken in the United States by candidates for higher education has not been uniform and that some schools have maintained their scores in that test? [More…]

• Has it been possible to show differing educational practices in those schools whose candidates have been successful in gaining entrance to the preferred facilities from those whose candidates have been unsuccessful? [More…]

• Has the difference shown a different educational philosophy in those schools whose students have succeeded? [More…]

• As to the first question, I am aware that the decline in the score of the scholastic aptitude tests taken in the United States by candidates for higher education has not been uniform and that some schools have maintained their scores in the SAT. [More…]

• However, I have several groups funded by the Educational Research and Development Committee investigating the effects of differing educational practices on the learning of children. [More…]

• I also have a study group looking at the feasibility of introducing a national program of educational assessment in Australia. [More…]

• In answer to the fundamental point raised in Senator Baume ‘s question, I point out that the simple fact is that the basis of any good education must be a strong grounding in numeracy and literacy. [More…]

• One cannot proceed to innovation or experimentation, or indeed to the adventure of education, without the building blocks. [More…]

• In announcing the guidelines for the education commissions on 9 June, I indicated that the Government welcomed the Commission’s intention to produce a public discussion paper on funding issues affecting both government and non-government schools in Australia. [More…]

• At the June Premiers Conference a special meeting of the Australian Education Council was foreshadowed to discuss administrative and financial arrangements in education, at both the schools and post schools levels. [More…]

• In the meantime I will be studying the Commission’s paper and I encourage education authorities, parent and teacher organisations and members of the public to make their views known. [More…]

• The dairy education scheme involves training, post-graduate studentships, travel grants, dairy industry bursaries, study grants and awards for 1978. [More…]

• The National Librarian invited the Papua New Guinea Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Science and Culture, Mr Kore Maor, to speak and he invited Mr Fraser to present the National Library. [More…]

• From its concept to its design and to its construction this Library stands as a fitting monument- and a reminder- of Papua New Guinea’s search and desire for knowledge and education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In the light of the rapid advancement of new technology, it is becoming increasingly obvious that new mechanisms are needed to facilitate the transition from education to work. [More…]

• The matter that Senator Messner raises is one of the most significant ones that are today before educationists and, indeed, Ministers for Education. [More…]

• The fact that Senator Georges is sitting on the Opposition benches means that the people of Australia rejected him not only as a Government senator but also as an authority on education and everything else. [More…]

• The Chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, Professor Karmel, at this moment is leading an OECD evaluation study on related matters in the United States. [More…]

• My own Department, in co-operation with the States, is looking to see what can be done in relation to what I regard as one of the most significant problems confronting education. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns educational standards in Australian schools. [More…]

• Is it true that Commonwealth Department of Education surveys show that of 10 year-olds, 8 per cent cannot state correctly the letters of the alphabet and 10 per cent cannot perform simple, everyday calculations with whole numbers? [More…]

• Is it true that at the root of the malaise lie false doctrines of teacher education? [More…]

• Finally, what is currently the status of the proposal to introduce a voucher system of education funding to individual families which would have advantages by way of greater accountability in schools, freedom of choice and greater incentive for schools to achieve basic educational standards? [More…]

• I imagine that Senator Teague is referring to the very well known survey on literacy and numeracy in Australian schools which was carried out by the Australian Council for Educational Research following an approach made by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties. [More…]

• My Government has set up the Auchmuty Committee to inquire into all aspects of teacher education. [More…]

• I stress that education, being of such significant value to the community, is one of the few essential products that offers very little consumer choice. [More…]

• One of the things that we could do in the Territories and in the States is to develop first of all a real freedom of choice as between government schools and then as between the two streams of education. [More…]

• The committee will examine the aims, the content and the structures of the pre-service teacher education programs. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Also, does the Minister favour a school examination at national level which the Professor proposes and, if so, will he have some consultation with the State departments of education? [More…]

• A greater stream of students than ever before is moving through the education age groups and onwards to matriculation. [More…]

• The paper urged the party to sympathetically consider equalising costs of communication, transport, health, housing, welfare and education between cities and country areas. [More…]

• We do not have a very developed arts education program in this country. [More…]

• The three areas that are covered in the report are: Firstly, immigration, which has occurred very substantially since 1945; secondly, the influx of married women seeking and finding employment within the work force; and thirdly, the fluctuations in the proportion and number of young people who are entering the labour market, accompanied by a trend towards longer average periods of full-time education. [More…]

• Of course, that has occurred through positive government policies at State and Federal Government levels to encourage tertiary education to a degree higher than had previously applied and to provide better opportunities for children at the secondary level. [More…]

• From 1966 onward education started to have longer-term significance. [More…]

• The trend was for young people to stay at school longer and to take on full-time education in the new colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The number of teenagers continuing their education grew considerably. [More…]

• Because of changes in the education system, teenage labour did not find opportunities to obtain jobs in industry. [More…]

• One of the pressures during that period in the United States of America and Canada, unlike Australia perhaps, came from that fast growing teenage labour force which within Australia was being absorbed very largely into the education system. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 26 September 1 978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 12 October 1978: [More…]

• 1 ) Will the Alice Springs Community College remain the responsibility of the Minister’s Department when the Northern Territory Department of Education is transferred to the Legislative Assembly on 1 July 1979; if so, what is the future of the Alice Springs College and, in particular, its relationship to the Darwin College. [More…]

• ) Will the Minister make available to the Senate the two reports ofthe Further Education Council making recommendations on this matter. [More…]

• The reports of the Northern Territory Further Education Council are internal documents and are not normally made available. [More…]

• 1 ) Did Dr Judith Wright, an Australian poet, comment, in the Courier-Mail, 22 August 1978, that she was ‘starving’ and blamed an unfeeling education system and ‘a pirate photocopying machine’? [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]

• Where the review form that is returned indicates that the child will be continuing full time education and is received in time to process the January payment, there will be no break in the continuity of payments. [More…]

• Where there are no examinations or the students have advised the school authorities in writing that they do not propose to sit for the examinations, the date of ceasing full time education is the date the student actually leaves school. [More…]

• Where there are no examinations or the students have advised the school authorities that they do not propose to sit for the examinations, the date of ceasing full-time education is the date the student actually leaves school. [More…]

• -Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware of the statement on 4 October 1978 by Joseph Califano, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States, concerning a goal in that country for the elimination of measles there by 1 October 1982? [More…]

• The Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health produced a report No. [More…]

• The remaining recommendations of the report covered proposals to establish a self-contained abortion clinic within the grounds of a public hospital, the procedures for the operation of that clinic, counselling and support services and sex education, including contraception advice. [More…]

• b) to enable the Government to take such other administrative and legislative steps as are necessary to implement the recommendations of the ACT Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health in its Report No. [More…]

• 1 think it would be understood by anyone that the Government does not need to move for disallowance and then amend a motion if it wishes to adopt recommendations of the ACT Legislative Assembly on matters relating to education and health. [More…]

• As a result of that undertaking, accordingly the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly set in train a public inquiry, which inquiry was carried out by the Standing Committee on Education and Health. [More…]

• It also referred to a number of ancillary matters relating to contraception, sex education and so on. [More…]

• There were also a number of recommendations with respect to such matters as contraception, counselling and sex education. [More…]

• to enable the Government to take such other administrative and legislative steps as are necessary to implement the recommendations ofthe ACT Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health in its Report No. [More…]

• I am prepared to support the recommendation of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health. [More…]

• The Assembly commissioned the Standing Committee on Education and Health to report on the matter. [More…]

• The capacity for choice is a very real and important question and it bears on the substance of the report of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health on this matter. [More…]

• I think the report of the Standing Committee on Education and Health should be considered by honourable senators in their deliberations on this matter. [More…]

• Indeed, it is a fact, as stated at page 38 of the report of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health that 1,106 applications for abortions were received between October 1970 and March 1 977 and that only 49 of these applications were not approved. [More…]

• Of course, we know that two tests of opinion are contained in the very detailed and considered report of the Standing Committee on Education and Health of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• That is, the report of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health- made 47 recommendations; the Government has not agreed to implement 45 of those recommendations which proposed the establishment of an abortion clinic by the Capital Territory Health Commission, the procedures for its operation and the setting-up of counselling services on abortion, contraception and sex education. [More…]

• I am particularly attracted to what Senator Evans has sought to add to the motion, namely, the recommendations that the report of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health be adopted. [More…]

• The Assembly recommends in regard to sex education that at least all Australian Capital Territory secondary level schools should conduct comprehensive human relations courses. [More…]

• The Assembly recommends that appropriate education authorities and the Capital Territory Health Commission should liaise to determine guidelines for such courses. [More…]

• Finally, I simply want to refer the Senate to the fact that the only recommendation for an ordinance made by the Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health was for this Ordinance. [More…]

• Paragraph (b) of Senator Evans’s amendment reads: to enable the Government to take such other administrative and legislative steps as are necessary to implement the recommendations of the ACT Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health in its Report No. [More…]

• 26 regarding pregnancy termination of the Standing Committee on Education and Health of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]

• We should be debating where the funds are coming from, how we will go about getting the most efficient staff and how we are to start to establish sex education clinics where we can teach people the facts of life instead of all this stupidity, darkness and ignorance that still exists in our community. [More…]

• In that regard I refer to the report of the Standing Committee on Education and Health of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly- the report that really raises the subject of this debate. [More…]

• 26 of the Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Education and Health. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether his attention has been drawn to letters which have been written by school councils of government schools in South Australia to senators and federal members expressing concern at the reduction in equipment grants to their various schools by the South Australian Government. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the South Australian Government has been blaming its cuts in these funds on what it calls reductions in Commonwealth funding for education in South Australia? [More…]

• We have spent billions of dollars on education in recent years. [More…]

• Australia needs to capitalise on that education expenditure. [More…]

• The education of the work force in Australia is far superior than is the education of the work force of any other nation in this part of the world. [More…]

• It seems to me that that must be where we start in defining our education and training directions so that we can match properly our skills with the future work force that we will need. [More…]

• It seems to me that that sort of activity indicates the direction which the Federal Government ought to take in ensuring that government policies in respect of protection- in respect of support for private enterprise throughout Australia- are aimed clearly towards developing more economic structures in our industry, towards better training of people who need to seek more skills or better skills, and to capitalise on the huge investment in education which has been made over the past 10 or 20 years in this country. [More…]

• This year, without notice, we were told that the departments to be reviewed by Senate Estimates Committee A would now include those of the Parliament, the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Foreign Affairs, as formerly, but also those of Education and Treasury. [More…]

• I had no secondary education. [More…]

• Department of Education [More…]

• 712) rk Senator Knight asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]

• What action has been taken, or is proposed, concerning the recommendations in the Second Report of the National Advisory Council for the Handicapped that: (a) notwithstanding the Council’s preference for the establishment of Chairs of Rehabilitation Medicine in lieu of Co-ordinators of Rehabilitation Studies, ‘the Tertiary Education Commission be enabled to implement, as a matter of high priority the recommendations of the Working Party on Rehabilitation Medicine and Geriatrics, in order to promote the teaching of rehabilitation medicine and geriatrics within university medical schools’: (b) ‘the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training (Williams) take special account of the need to analyse rehabilitation tasks, and to assess manpower requirements accordingly, in its examination of the requirements of special groups such as handicapped people ‘. [More…]

• The Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, as one of its terms of reference, was asked to address itself to the problems experienced by special groups, including the handicapped. [More…]

• There has not been a withdrawal of funds from my Department’s Aboriginal Adult Education Program. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Has the Tertiary Education Commission written to Australian universities indicating that from the beginning of 1980 they should achieve a level of study leave which, averaged over the two years, 1980 and 1981, will not exceed 7 per cent of available man-years in staff time? [More…]

• Does this request not imply that the Tertiary Education Commission in this letter has adopted an approach different to that of the final report of the Tertiary Education Commission and the statement by the Minister which indicated that study leave would be phased in over three years, including the year 1981? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of the letter from the Tertiary Education Commission to the universities and did he instruct the Commission to write in those terms? [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Despite the fact that it is the Government’s wish to hand over the Northern Territory branch of the Department of Education in good condition to the Northern Territory Government on 1 July 1979, is it not a fact that the Public Service Board has rejected submissions for increases in staff in regional areas? [More…]

• I cite as an example the position of senior education adviser for Tennant Creek and new positions to enable the training of Aboriginal youth as teachers and teacher’s aids, to be placed in isolated areas and outstations where conditions for the placement of white staff is difficult. [More…]

• It is also correct that the Public Service Board has decided not to create these positions because the transfer of the responsibilities of the Department of Education to the Northern Territory Government will take place shortly and it has been decided to put the Northern Territory in a holding situation regardless of what this lack of action may create? [More…]

• -Senator Kilgariff asked a series of questions relating to the preparations for the handover of responsibilities in education to the Northern Territory Government as from 1 July 1979. [More…]

• There is no question that the Government is taking all possible steps to hand over the functions of the Department of Education in the best condition possible. [More…]

• Only a few days ago I had a very lengthy conversation with Mr Robertson, the Northern Territory Minister for Education, on these matters. [More…]

• We have had considerable success, particularly with the full time departmental course at Batchelor Teacher Education Centre. [More…]

• The Education Department in the Northern Territory itself is a signficant employer of Aboriginal labour. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the average teacher load of Victorian secondary school teachers is already only 16.2 hours a week compared with an average of between 2 1 and 25 hours a week in the United States, Canada and England, the further fact that the overall student population is now on the decrease in Australian schools and the final fact that no evidence supports a contention that lower teacher loads provide any better quality of education anyway, I ask: What action has been taken or is being considered to encourage these potential surplus teachers to transfer to other activities which offer reasonable job prospects and which would assist in containing soaring education costs? [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has published figures showing that the intake of trainees is being regulated. [More…]

• It is quite clear that those persons who might otherwise have gone into teacher training are going into other areas of tertiary education. [More…]

• These election statistics form part of the information and electoral education services of the Australian [More…]

• Also, for the information of honourable senators, I have a statement outlining the information and electoral education services which the Australian Electoral Office has been developing over the last two years and in particular the most significant advances that have occurred in the areas of ethnic groups, Aborigines and school children. [More…]

• F. M. CHANEY, MINISTER FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, ON THE TABLING OF ‘ELECTION STATISTICS’ AND ON ELECTORAL EDUCATION SERVICES, NOVEMBER, 1978 [More…]

• Election Statistics’ forms part of the information and electoral education services which the Australian Electoral Office has been developing, particularly over the last two years. [More…]

• This activity of electoral education- the development of programs designed to assist people to give meaningful effect to their rights and obligations under the electoral law- is one to which I would like to refer now. [More…]

• In the ABC’s Notes on News’ in June of this year, Dr Dean Jaensch, Senior lecturer in Politics at Flinders University, commented that ‘notable progress is being made in the area of political education of Aboriginal voters in the north. [More…]

• Honourable Senators are also aware that funded by the Commonwealth Government, a special electoral education program was conducted in the Kimberley area of Western Australia by the Adult Aboriginal Education Section of the Technical Education Division of the Western Australian Education Department. [More…]

• In the longer term, however, the Australian Electoral Office has recognised the need to develop programs of electoral education on a continuing basis for Aboriginal people in order to consolidate on the important and significant results which had already been achieved. [More…]

• It will involve two mobile education teams which are planned to include Aboriginal members. [More…]

• The program has been designed by the Australian Electoral Office which has been working in close co-operation with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]

• I mentioned earlier, Mr President, the responsibility seen for the development of electoral education programs for school children. [More…]

• In conjunction with the Curriculum Development Centre, the Australian Electoral Office has been developing a special electoral education kit for secondary schools. [More…]

• Mr President, speaking now as the Minister responsible for the Electoral Office, I can say that I personally am particularly pleased with the work that that quite small organisation has been doing in the area of electoral education. [More…]

• There is a great deal of electoral education to be undertaken. [More…]

• In other words, there are very efficient and acceptable methods of family planning about which there have been international conferences and which only in recent yearsindeed, over the past 18 months- have been developed to a point which makes them easily understood and acceptable to the people who are in most need of that type of family planning education. [More…]

• There are methods which are now acceptable in the types of communities which have a perceived need for the type of family planning education that is required. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) might have been given an indication that this subject was going to be raised today although it was dealt with by the Committee of the Whole yesterday. [More…]

• -In the light of that answer from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), perhaps he could seek some further information which could follow on from the advice he might receive. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present the report on the operation of the Act in relation to the adult migrant education program for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]

• There are the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the Department of Education and the Department of Health, so there is a considerable overlapping of authority by those departments. [More…]

• One action that can be taken to help- and this is a point that I pursued with respect to education- is for more and more Aboriginal children to be trained as teachers aides and teachers to work among their own people. [More…]

• In its report the Committee said that, in response to a request for further information, the Department replied that there had been little research conducted in Australia into the incidence of drug use and on measuring the impact of drug education programs on the level of drug abuse. [More…]

• Another recommendation was that all drugeducation programs be evaluated against the stated aims of the National Drug Education Program. [More…]

• In that report, we advised that we knew that one of the problems about Aboriginal people and white Australians was a problem of education, about where they stood and what they were all about. [More…]

• In that report, we said, for instance, that Aboriginal studies courses embracing contemporary and traditional culture and, if possible language, should be instituted in all Australian colleges of teacher education. [More…]

• We recommended that the participation of Australian people in the education curriculum be part of the Government’s responsibility in this area. [More…]

• At present the following State Government departments and authorities offer concessions to card holders: The South Australian Housing Trust, the Hospitals Department, the Public Department of Health, the Engineering and Water Supply Department which deals with water and sewerage rates, the Land Tax Office, council rates, legal aid services, the South Australian Gas Co., the Department of Lands, the State Transport Authority Bus and Tram Division, the Department for the Environment, the Department of Further Education, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, the State Opera Company of South Australia, the South Australian Theatre Co., the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australia Motor Registration Division and the State Transport Authority Railway Division. [More…]

• However, the matter which has been raised in this way tonight and which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has refuted can in some way be supported by the document which I have. [More…]

• This will inevitably lead to deterioration in the standard of education in ACT schools. [More…]

• If not, should not the Family Planning Association of the Australian Capital Territory condemn abortion rather than support its expansion and, indeed, concentrate its efforts on the necessary education of the community concerning the true family planning methods of contraception. [More…]

• The transfer of the land at Newnham, adjacent to the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, from the State of Tasmania to the Commonwealth will be effected in the very near future. [More…]

• The honourable senator may accept that, so far as the Department of Science is concerned, it is quite simple to prepare a science budget on those matters which are within the control of my ministry, but in the Federal area a great deal of scientific research and technological research is done not only by other departments but also by universities and colleges of advanced education, which of course have a basis of Commonwealth funding. [More…]

• I do want to remind all other honourable senators who have an interest in providing the good things for Australians- the social welfare, the health, the education and the defencethat those things come from the mainspring of both company tax and personal income tax. [More…]

• On 1 January next year, responsibility in the field of health will be transferred to the Northern Territory and on 1 July 1979 education responsibilities will be transferred. [More…]

• Department of Education, ACT [More…]

• Avondale College of Advanced Education [More…]

• Canberra College of Advanced Education [More…]

• Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education [More…]

• Kuring-Gai College of Advanced Education [More…]

• The very first thing is that I hope that no educational authority wilT become defensive about this. [More…]

• We should approach this with open minds and ask ourselves why it is that a significant proportion of the consumers of education- that is, the private employers- feel that the tests we are providing and the information we are providing from them by way of certificates are not adequate for the private employers to evaluate the qualifications of the students concerned. [More…]

• What we can say is that, quite apart from education for human fulfilment, one of the major requirements is that education for vocation must contain the necessary quality that what we are doing is acceptable to the marke. [More…]

• For example, I am happy to say, the New Zealand Minister for Education and his Director-General meet, as very welcome observers, always when the Australian Education Council meets. [More…]

• This provision conferred upon the Minister for Education a discretion to determine transfer allowances for members of the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has agreed with the Committee that the discretion is unnecessary and has given an undertaking that the regulations will be amended so as to remove that discretion. [More…]

• Since its establishment the Bank has lent about $US4 billion for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications, industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]

• With great interest we have noted, that the main trust of the Federal’s Government policy in Aboriginal Affairs is aimed at Education; Employment and the provision of housing. [More…]

• In his second reading speech, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) sought to persuade the public that although there had been restraint in Commonwealth payments to the States, the States were still doing particularly well. [More…]

• As the Minister for Education pointed out in this Parliament only last week, the Government now claims that the infrastructure arrangements with the States are part of the new federalism policy. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• As a consequence, an interdepartmental committee comprising representatives of the departments of Health, Employment and Industrial Relations, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and Education, and the Tertiary Education Commission has been established and is at present studying the question of medical manpower in detail. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report on progress in education since 1976. [More…]

• This report will be of assistance to honourable senators when debating the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill, which I will introduce to the Senate later this week. [More…]

• In Darwin, the Committee heard evidence from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Department of Education on their failure to carry out a Cabinet decision relating to the rental of Commonwealth-owned houses in the Territory. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that certain items of Commonwealth expenditure have been taking a larger proportion- areas such as health, education and welfare in particular have had an increasing share of Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]

• It is a matter for the States whether they allocate those funds to roads, to the health, education and welfare fields. [More…]

• Therefore, if one looks for example, at the education budgets of the States one would conclude that the States have chosen to give a massive priority, say, to that area. [More…]

• We do not want Mr Nixon in the House of Representatives or the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who represents him in this chamber to state that the funds must come out of the States’ ordinary allocation. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that provisions for membership of student bodies at the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education should not be altered. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• They are seeking jobs because they cannot afford further education. [More…]

• I think that the emphasis on educational and employment qualifications is so great these days that any family which can possibly keep young people at school and support them to the end of their schooling and then into post-secondary training or education does so. [More…]

• It has been considering the relationship between education and the needs of employers in this day and age. [More…]

• There is also the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• Professor Karmel, the Chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, has said that youth unemployment is probably the most serious problem to be faced by Australia in the next 25 years. [More…]

• The Community Youth Support Scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth all assume that somewhere out there work is available. [More…]

• In my view education has been too specially geared to narrow job training, with the result that rapid technological change has rendered the talents obtained by that education obsolete. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech gave no good reason for the abolition of the one week’s paternity leave. [More…]

• I notice that the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Chaney), who is representing the Minister for Education, is exhibiting some amusement at my claim. [More…]

• I believe that in those situations the one week that the father could take off to assist his family was necessary and I dispute the claim of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Minister for Education further claimed as some sort of justification that staff who wish to take leave around the time of the birth of a child would have available to them other forms of leave. [More…]

• Anyone who wishes to be further enlightened about the actual steps which this Bill seeks to achieve legislatively should consult the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) or the House of Representatives Hansard, where the Opposition’s attitude to this matter is clearly spelt out. [More…]

• This Conference recognises that the question of access is of fundamental importance to handicapped people, particularly access to health services, employment, education, social and recreational facilities, means of transport and stresses the need to urgently improve access to these areas for the handicapped. [More…]

• That this working group arrange for the wider distribution of information of health, welfare and education services as well as employment opportunities in the A.C.T. [More…]

• That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act to amend the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1 967. [More…]

• If not they carry on with a form of education and acquire skills which greatly improve their chances of obtaining work. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he has noted the concern expressed by South Australian teachers that there is a considerable surplus of equipment- teaching aids and the like- in South Australian schools which is largely unused from one end of the year to the next because the South Australian Government chooses to order the priorities of its expenditure in favour of departments other than its Education Department, thereby depriving of funds the training of teachers in the utilisation of this material. [More…]

• It is a fact that one of the necessities of any proper funding and planning of education is to equate the equipment that exists with the specialist trained teachers who are available. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to page 17 of the Minister’s report entitled ‘Progress in Education Since 1976’ which was tabled in this place on Tuesday. [More…]

• -I have said, I think, recently in the Senate that education, which is a vital service to the community, has been for the most part one of the few services in which virtually no consumer choice has existed in the past. [More…]

• Specifically in response to Senator Lajovic, the Government has now approved the development of a program in 1979 to assist State education departments in the encouragement of greater choice for parents and pupils within government systems. [More…]

• The Commonwealth’s activities in respect of the language teaching branch of the Department of Education and the Curriculum Development Centre are also contributing to the opportunity for government schools to develop their most appropriate curriculum and teaching programs. [More…]

• Finally, I would like to say that the Government believes, as I certainly do, that in the future development of quality in education it is essential that there be a partnership involving the government, the education system, the parents, the community and the school and that, wherever possible, that there be freedom of choice within that situation. [More…]

• It is not for educators to force upon the people their ideas of what ought to be the optimum education system. [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It relates to the brief statement he made immediately before Question Time dealing with legislation in regard to the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Education to a question asked earlier by Senator Knight. [More…]

• The Minister has announced today that he intends to introduce legislation concerning the payment of student fees at two institutions- the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• -I present a report from the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on its inquiry into the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children. [More…]

• Another important issue that I would like to discuss is media education. [More…]

• Educationalists told us that television had emerged as a more powerful educative influence than the schools. [More…]

• Their concern was that we continued to spend large sums of money each year on conventional forms of education while showing an almost total disregard for television. [More…]

• The Committee was also aware that, whilst there was interest in introducing courses in media education among educationalists at the teaching level, this interest was not always shared by those at the decision making levels. [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…]

• The basic objective of media education is to train the child to be an appreciative and critical viewer. [More…]

• Since today’s media students become tomorrow’s adult viewing audiences, the long term aim of media education is to produce more discerning audiences that will demand higher standards in broadcasting services. [More…]

• We have supported the concept of media education and have recommended that State and Commonwealth educationalists confer with the object of formulating a national curriculum for media education to be introduced in all schools throughout Australia. [More…]

• As far as we are aware there is little or no activity in the area of adult media education outside the experimental courses that have been offered at Kilkenny College of Further Education in Adelaide. [More…]

• We believe that in order to maximise the benefit of media education in the schools, we should be fostering a similar effort at the adult level. [More…]

• We have recommended that the appropriate machinery be set up for national discussions by colleges of further education and other interested organisations with a view to formulating guidelines for appropriate courses. [More…]

• I have participated in the work of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts which has been described by Senator Davidson in detail. [More…]

• As a result of the political debate in this place our society is committed to vast expenditure on education. [More…]

• I believe that this report raises the very important question of whether television is a counterculture in our society which is running quite contrary to the values which the education system may well wish to instil or encourage. [More…]

• The report laid a good deal of stress on the question of media education, particularly media education for adults. [More…]

• I find difficulty in answering the question of why the average Australian would go to a course on media education when he can stay at home and watch television. [More…]

• Delegates from many different countries asked, for instance, for recognition of the United Nations Declaration of Rights to SelfDetermination, larger and more comprehensive programs of education on contraception and more committal to the allocation of resources to overcome the overwhelming social and economic problems that lead to abortion. [More…]

• I for one was most impressed with the program for adult education that the Jamaican Government is carrying on and I was pleased to learn that the Australian Government contributed to it. [More…]

• From my observation, the people and the Government of Jamaica are firmly committed to raising the level of education in that country and to giving the entire population basic skills. [More…]

• They are handicapped by being immigrants from an impoverished country and even by the standards of their own country they would have received little or no education and no job training. [More…]

• I hasten to say that it was not put out by the Uniting Church in Australia but by people within the church and by people who were employed by the Department of Education and other departments and who, because of the facilities available to them and the fact that they lived among the Aboriginal people, had an influence on the Aboriginal people. [More…]

• The specific purpose programs are for child migrant education, disadvantaged schools and students in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development and special projects. [More…]

• Until now the child migrant education program has operated as a part of the general recurrent grants program. [More…]

• The Bill provides for the introduction of the new multicultural education program in 1979. [More…]

• States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill 1978 [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to provide financial assistance to the States for universities, colleges of advanced education, and technical and further education. [More…]

• It will be recalled that the guidelines for assistance to tertiary education in the 1979-81 triennium provided for the introduction of fixed recurrent funding for the triennium. [More…]

• Recurrent grants for 1980 and 1981 for advanced education and technical and further education will be provided by legislative amendment in the 1979 autumn sittings after the Government has considered supplementary advice from the Tertiary Education Commission, in relation to advanced education, and the Report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training in relation to TAFE. [More…]

• The amounts provided for each of the three tertiary education sectors for 1 979 are: [More…]

• Recurrent grants to each State for advanced education in respect of those years were set out in my statement to the Senate on 19 October 1978. [More…]

• The amounts provided are based upon the programs of the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1979-81 triennium which I announced in the Senate on 19 October 1978. [More…]

• The amount provided for technical and further education includes the first component of the additional $50m for capital works in that sector which was announced in the Government’s Guidelines for the Education Commissions 1979-81 Triennium. [More…]

• As announced in the Senate on 19 October 1978 a shortfall in expenditure of the 1978 capital program will enable additional university and college of advanced education capital projects to commence in the second half of 1979. [More…]

• In addition to appropriating grants for the 1979-81 triennium, the Bill amends the States Grants (Tertiary Education assistance) Act 1977 to supplement approved 1978 grants for cost increases between December 1977 and June 1978. [More…]

• 8m for universities, $3.4m for colleges, and $lm for technical and further education. [More…]

• It also amends the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976 to allow for the transfer of $782,000 between capital and recurrent programs for Queensland in 1977 to enable colleges of advanced education in that State to meet unavoidable increases in superannuation contributions. [More…]

• The statement issued by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on the 21 November under the heading ‘Progress in Education’ ignores some of the Government’s commitment to inequality in the Australian schools system. [More…]

• The States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill 1978 provides funding to Australian universities for the triennium and funding to the colleges of advanced education sector and the technical and further education sector for the year 1979. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that funding for the colleges of advanced education and the TAFE sector for the years 1980 and 1981 is not provided, because their funding will be considered for these years after consideration of the Williams Report on Education and Training and after the receipt of other advice by the Government. [More…]

• As the Minister indicated, the amounts provided are based on the Tertiary Education Commission’s report for the 1979-81 triennium, subject of course to the overriding factor of Government guidelines. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: When will the nursing degree programs for registered nurses at the Western Australian Institute of Technology and the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences be approved by the Tertiary Education Commission? [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education, I refer to the recommendations of the Tertiary Education Commission, under the chairmanship of Professor Karmel, relating to the consideration of claims for government assistance to non-government business colleges and their students. [More…]

• -Professor Karmel, the Chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, recently supplied his report to the Government. [More…]

• -I direct a question to Senator Carrick in his capacity either as Minister for Education or as the Minister representing the Treasurer. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report by the Curriculum Development Centre entitled ‘A Parents Guide to Social Education Materials Project’. [More…]

• Dissemination of the SEMP materials continues with increasing demand from State Departments of Education, Catholic education offices and independent schools. [More…]

• In Queensland a series of workshops was conducted for teachers by the Catholic Education Office. [More…]

• Support for SEMP from educational and community groups is still overwhelmingly in favour of SEMP. [More…]

• In response to community and parent demand and the widespread interest in the materials, A Parent’s Guide to SEMP has been published by the Centre and distributed to all schools, parent and community associations and educational authorities throughout Australia. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- I share the worry of honourable senators concerning the delay in the presentation of some reports. [More…]

• The Government has been concerned for some time with the question of compulsory membership of student organisations in universities and colleges of advanced education, and with the opportunities for expenditure of moneys by these organisations on activities which many students and their parents find offensive. [More…]

• It has commended the principles embodied in these amendments to the States for application to their own universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1978 [More…]

• Following on the amendments which I have outlined for the Australian National University Act, the Government also intends to introduce similar legislation for the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1978 makes the same provisions with regard to student organisations as the Australian National University Bill, with the difference that the college Bill takes into consideration the relationship between the Minister and the College which already exists in its Act. [More…]

• It is well to recall some words of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech. [More…]

• Education Funding [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• In addition, the State Government will spend monies to the benefit of the two communities from their general allocation for Health, Housing and Education services. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 12 September 1978: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 18 October 1978: [More…]

• and (3) The estimate given by the Prime Minister relates to the total costs of the study leave system for both universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• On 19 October 1978, 1 tabled the Report of the Tertiary Education Commission on Study Leave in Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The revised arrangements which will apply from 1 January 1979 will not prejudice the quality of Australian higher education and research. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 October 1 978: [More…]

• What is the estimated cost to the Commonwealth Government of the Williams Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• What is the estimated duration of the Auchmuty Inquiry into Teacher Education. [More…]

• What is the estimated cost of the Auchmuty Inquiry into Teacher Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 7 November 1978: [More…]

• The Guide for Applicants made available to applicants for an award under the Commonwealth Teaching Service Scholarship Scheme points out that award-holders are expected on successful completion of their teacher education course te teach in either the Northern Territory or the ACT. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 November 1 978: [More…]

• 1 ) How many recipients of the Tertiary Education Allowance have been affected by the 1976 amendment to Regulation 44(1974) of the Student Assistance Act 1973 in a manner similar to Mr Ward of West Leederville, Western Australia (see Senate Hansard, 8 June 1978, page 2646). [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]

• In the Tertiary Education Commission’s Draft Report on Study Leave it was estimated that indirect costs (salary and salary-related costs) of university staff on study leave in 1975 amounted to $13. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has written to universities and State co-ordinating authorities in advanced education confirming that institutions are expected to modify their study leave arrangements from 1 January 1979 so as to conform with the Commission’s recommendations in paragraph 4.3 of the Report. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask: Does the Minister recall the recommendations pf the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts in its report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education? [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that some of these recommendations called for the integration of course subjects, education subjects and practical teaching and called upon the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education to encourage the establishment of integrated courses? [More…]

• The comments which I made on this matter are part of an overall concern on the part of all persons connected with education in Australia about the problems of transition from school to work. [More…]

• It was part of the concern that the students in the school should be given on the one hand a balanced education and on the other hand proper vocational equipment and, just as importantly, the capacity for advice from teachers in the form of vocational counselling. [More…]

• The Australian Education Council has been interested to pursue this matter of developing vocational guidance. [More…]

• The Council and I, as the Commonwealth Minister for Education, are looking at ways in which we can perhaps provide inservice training for existing teachers as well as pre-service training in the teacher training colleges so that teachers concerned shall have a detailed overview of the nature of commerce, industry and tertiary industries themselves. [More…]

• Equally I remind Senator Davidson that recently we set up the Auchmuty Committee to conduct a national inquiry into all aspects of teacher education. [More…]

• As would be understood, State governments also fund pre-schools, and the Commonwealth grant is a contribution to pre-school education. [More…]

• So education becomes important and detection methods become . [More…]

• If it were, we would be living in a dream time and a dream country; but unfortunately the fact of the matter is that, while the country requires these vast resources to be spent in the fields of education, health and social security, someone has to pay. [More…]

• student and researching the child and law in Queensland; has published and presented papers on rights of the child, emotional needs of young children and care of sick children; President, Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital, Queensland; member, sub-committee on co-ordination of Pediatric Services, Queensland Pediatric Advisory Committee; member, sub-committee revising legislation in Queensland for handicapped children, Queensland Special Education Department; member, Women Lawyers’ Association, U.N. Association Human Rights Committee, Federation of University Women. [More…]

• Wendy McCarthy (New South Wales)- Director, New South Wales Family Planning Association and home duties; previously a teacher, including teaching women re-entering the workforce; member of the Education Committee of the NSW Women’s Advisory Board; has also worked as a media consultant; Family Life Movement, Women’s Electoral Lobby and Childbirth Education Association. [More…]

• Judith Roberts (South Australia)- Trained nurse; associate member of National Council of Women of SA; member of number of local community organisations (in the fields of health, welfare and education) including Unley Mothers and Babies Health Association ( former President, Secretary and Treasurer), Unley Royal Institution for the Blind, Unley Auxiliary of Crippled Children’s Association, Royal District Nursing Society, Red Cross, Good Neighbour Council of SA, State Committees of Schools’ Commission, Council of Governors of Walford CEGGS, Federation of Parents and Friends Association of Independent Schools in SA. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State School children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• That as citizens of Victoria and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our school be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Has the Minister any indication of when the Government will receive the report from the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, which was commissioned 2! [More…]

• In answer to Senator Walters’ question as to whether we have any indication when the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training will come to hand, my understanding is that the Committee completed its report within recent days or weeks. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education: In 1977 the Government introduced a new program aimed at extending education services available to children living in country areas. [More…]

• Under the program, 16 areas have been selected throughout Australia on the basis of their relative poverty, their special need for improved educational provisions and outcomes, and their lack of opportunities for employment and further training of young people. [More…]

• Broadly-based State and area committees support and stimulate rural communities in their search for new and improved ways of providing education for their children. [More…]

• Labor’s concern in the area of social security quite obviously is for need, as it is in the area of education. [More…]

• Those are fine words and yet some children on pensions are paid a larger children’s allowance than others, some children on pensions receive an education allowance and some do not, and some children on pensions receive the cost of school requisites, fares and other educational expenses. [More…]

• As the value of the pension goes down there is less money in these homes for education and so the children get worse and worse educations and a harder and harder start in life. [More…]

• Honourable senators should imagine these people trying to find money for a private education. [More…]

• Yet this Government has said so much about the freedom of choice in education. [More…]

• In the private education area the situation would be absolutely appalling. [More…]

• When one looks at other areas of involvement, such as education, health, defence and communications, one can see that the Government’s program is quite immense. [More…]

• Changes and adjustments will continually be made in this area, just as they will be made in areas such as defence and education. [More…]

• The success achieved in the movement of people, goods and services and in the matters of education and leisure depends upon a proper functioning urban public transport system. [More…]

• In fact, the record of the dismal Menzies epoch- those long 23 years- shows that public transport, public education, public health and public services generally in Australia deteriorated to a marked degree. [More…]

• It was not until the late 1950s that the parents and teachers in the various States took up the cudgels and agitated to such an extent that finally even Mr Menzies was forced to take cognisance of the change in the public opinion and to begin to accept some responsibility for Federal funding for education. [More…]

• It was the Whitlam Government’s intention to make improvements, whether it be to the sewerage program, to education, or, as in this particular case, to the urban public transport system. [More…]

• Has the Minister’s attention also been drawn to the comment from the Queensland Education Department that Federal members of Parliament, including Cabinet Ministers, had no right to go around handing out holidays to Queensland school children? [More…]

• I now have information from all State education authorities. [More…]

• This scheme is administered by the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In fact, the States remain responsible in fields such as health, education, welfare and, of course, land, which is of vital importance to Aboriginals. [More…]

• -My question is directed to the Minister for Education and refers to recent newspaper reports which suggest that the number of students opting for primary teacher training as a first preference for tertiary places in Victoria has dropped by approximately 70 per cent in the past three years. [More…]

• Does the extent of the decline indicate that the prediction of the Australian Education Council of a surplus of approximately 40,000 primary school teachers by 1985 is probably wrong and should not be used as a basis for manpower predictions in the near future? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Of course, the whole aim, which is certainly a part of my Government’s philosophy, is that education ought to have consumer choice. [More…]

• Again, this is in conjunction with the attempt throughout Australia, which is warmly supported by parents and citizen bodies, to have parents participate in the education process including, of course, some understanding and some decision making in the curricula in individual schools. [More…]

• This variety in education implies that within practicable limits students should be able to choose the school and the type of education best suited to their needs. [More…]

• I think that what is being ventured upon in terms of diversity and choice in education is one of the major qualitative ventures that have been demanded by the community. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, is about the thesis allowance paid to post-graduate students in their final year. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education verify that the following anomaly exists in the administration of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance? [More…]

• If this is so, could the Minister put the onus on the student claiming the allowance to inform the Education Department if his or her financial position changes for the better in the current year? [More…]

• The Government attempts to mitigate and reduce anomalies under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme but I suppose that there always will be anomalies while there are alert and fertile minds considering this matter. [More…]

• Both in my capacity as Minister for Education, where the question of school leavers and youth unemployment is uppermost in my mind daily, and in my representative capacity, I do have some information on the matter which I think ought to be given to the Senate. [More…]

• In my speech in the second reading debate I called also for a renewed emphasis on research into the whole area of urban public transport and its connection with the development of cities and land use, whether it be for education, for commerce, for business or for recreation. [More…]

• health and education services to be extended; [More…]

• Each party receives a subsidy for the purpose of party research and educational institutions. [More…]

• Party education is important because it improves the general understanding of politics and government within the community. [More…]

• This has provided the education by experience which almost overnight can cure the confusion created when two types of weighing and measuring are used. [More…]

• For example, I suggest that if one reads closely the statement of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) one will construe it not as a peace-making statement but one which is critical of a number of countries and which to some extent can be read as encouraging military action. [More…]

• Has it been used for a purpose other than that for which it was granted, namely, trade union education and, in particular, a State government supplement to Commonwealth Government funds for the Trade Union Training Authority? [More…]

• In January 1974 the State Government paid $15,000 to the TTLC for an Education Program to employ an Education Officer who subsequently went on to the Commonwealth Payroll when the Interim Trade Union Training Authority was set up in April 1974. [More…]

• Since then the State Government has paid the TTLC $10,000 each year to the end of 1977 for Trade Union Education purposes, making a total of $55,000 in State Government Grants. [More…]

• How much of the $55,000 and Interest is still available in this account and if any payments have been made from it, what TTLC Education Program received the money and who authorised the payment. [More…]

• 1 ) If the TTLC received $5 5,000 from the State Government to use for trade union education, why weren’t the Officers of the TTLC told about it? [More…]

• Who authorised the expenditure of moneys from this trade union education account’? [More…]

• Who were the TTLC Officers who ‘late in 1977’ gave consideration to the ‘calling of applications for a union education officer separate from the TUTA “? [More…]

• Who are the members of the ‘trade union education committee’ and who appointed them? [More…]

• Both men received and signed for cheques issued by the Tasmanian Department of Education. [More…]

• The first cheque of $15,000 was paid to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council in January 1974 for an education program to employ an education officer who subsequently went onto the Commonwealth payroll when the interim Trade Union Training Authority was set up in April 1974. [More…]

• Since then, the State Government has paid the Trades and Labour Council $10,000 each year to the end of 1977 for trade union education. [More…]

• Mr Watling admitted to the meeting that the State Government grants for trade union education were intended to be administered on behalf of all unions in Tasmania, not only those affiliated with the TTLC. [More…]

• The only new information that Mr Watling provided to the meeting was that he had spoken to the Director-General of Education that day and would soon meet him to explain details of the fund and its operation. [More…]

• If any payments have been made from it, what Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council education program received the money and who authorised the payment? [More…]

• I refer the Minister to the United Nations declaration which states that it is the fundamental right of all children to have equality of educational opportunities’. [More…]

• In view of this, will the Minister investigate the possibility of the children of civilian widows being paid an education allowance similar to that paid to the children of war widows? [More…]

• I note what was said by Senator Missen with regard to the education allowance for the children of civilian widows. [More…]

• Comparable data for 1976-77 for the Commonwealth Government, State governments, higher education and the private non-profit sectors again will be published shortly by my Department. [More…]

• I address my question to the Minister for Education and refer to the high degree of concern within the community and the Government at the problems of youth training and employment. [More…]

• Is the Department of Education represented on a task force set up to help establish a national voluntary youth community service scheme? [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns the provision of facilities for continuing education for nurses in Tasmania. [More…]

• This matter is particularly important to my State of Tasmania as there are no facilities there for continuing nursing education. [More…]

• The matter that Senator Walters has raised is being considered in the context of the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Nurse Education and Training- the Sax Committee- which I set up in co-operation with my colleague the Federal Minister for Health. [More…]

• The report will be considered by the Government following advice from the Tertiary Education Commission and the States. [More…]

• It is important that post-basic nurse education courses in such fields as community health are widely available in all States. [More…]

• I will certainly bring Senator Walters ‘s question to the attention of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• One of the problems, of course, is the problem of a lack of education. [More…]

• Some time ago- I do not have the date with me- the Government established a most important committee under the chairmanship of Professor Williams, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, to report to it on the relationship between education and training. [More…]

• I think part and parcel of the problem we face is the difficulty young people from educational institutions experience in endeavouring to move smoothly into the work force and to acquire the skills necessary to meet the modern demands of employers. [More…]

• There are the problems associated with technological change and proper education, training and employment. [More…]

• Its huge size gives it in many ways an emormous potential- for tourism, for recreation, for education and for research. [More…]

• The childish whisperings by the friends of Senator O ‘Byrne suggesting that I used education funds for my Senate campaign are laughable. [More…]

• To suggest that funds provided since 1973 by the State Government specifically for trade union education for all unions and associations in Tasmania should somehow be part of TTLC funds shows his ignorance of the basis upon which the funds were provided originally. [More…]

• Expenditure from the Tasmanian Trade Union Education Fund has been strictly in accordance with the purpose for which it was provided. [More…]

• Expenditure was provided only for those courses approved by successive training councils, upon which the State Education Minister was represented. [More…]

• To suggest that Doug Lowe sought information last year on the Tasmanian Trade Union Education Fund is just not true. [More…]

• Why would Mr Lowe seek such information on the Tasmanian fund activities when the information is readily available through the proper channels of the State Education Department which provided the funds? [More…]

• Their aim now is also to capture control of the accumulated funds of the Tasmanian trade union education account, which they know contains considerable amounts of money, and to build their own counter course of political indoctrination. [More…]

• They seek to obtain these funds to establish a counter training course of political indoctrination not subject, as the present courses are subject, to rigorous scrutiny by bodies upon which the State Education Department is represented. [More…]

• But, worse still, this action represents a veiled attack on successive State Labor governmentsthe Reece Government and the Neilson Government- which were instrumental in negotiating for trade union education. [More…]

• The State Government gave these sums of money for trade union education to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council in good faith. [More…]

• The only public knowledge of any of this money being given to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council prior to this year was when the initial $15,000 grant was made in January 1974 to enable Mr Sean Kelly to be employed in the trade union training field as the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council’s education officer prior to the commencement of operation of the Trade Union Training Authority, to which he was transferred in April 1 974. [More…]

• Senator Harradine was the executive officer responsible for moneys disbursed from the $15,000 grant and was subject to the abovenamed Trade Union Education Committee. [More…]

• When later TUTA got under way, Mr Bill Mcpherson, the Regional Director of the Commonwealth Department of Labour and Immigration and Mr John Evans, representing the State Education Department together with Messrs. Currie, Harradine, Lavey. [More…]

• It was believed that TUTA had replaced the Trade Union Education Committee. [More…]

• The Australian Trade Union Training Authority’s first annual report of 1975-76 makes no mention of Tasmanian Government financial assistance to trade union education and the same is the story in the second annual report of TUTA, for 1976-77. [More…]

• consideration was given to the calling of applications for a union education officer separate from the federally-funded Trade Union Training Authority but the plan was not feasible because there was not enough money due to the refusal of left wing unions to pay affiliation fees. [More…]

• Rex Hevy, recognised in the Tasmanian community as an industrial moderate union official and senior vice-president of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council during the years 1974 to 1977, the period of the State Government education grants, asked Senator Harradine and the TTLC officers who it was late in 1977 who gave consideration to the calling of applications for a union education officer separate from the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I draw the attention of Senator Evans to the fact that the second reading speech in this place of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and in the other place of the Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson) consisted of a closely typed 12-page explanation of this particularly important subject. [More…]

• Only recently the Government agreed to commit funds to education of a pre-marital nature, the object of which very obviously is of a preventive nature. [More…]

• It has been an education not only to the Senate Standing Committee members but to the whole of Australia. [More…]

• I would hope that our education system, with the total development of our society, can proceed along the lines that people will be able to withstand advertising, interpret advertising, receive advertising and not be destroyed by advertising. [More…]

• Senator Walters asks whether there is any evidence that education has produced any answer at all. [More…]

• If that requires debating then let me simply say to those who do not believe it can achieve: Let us cut $2 ,200m off the deficit immediately by cutting out expenditure on education. [More…]

• If it has failed it is because of the mode of delivery and the message, not because education cannot achieve. [More…]

• I am not suggesting that our current education system is providing the answer; but I am suggesting that we stop thinking about repressive measures and start thinking about education measures as an approach to our problem. [More…]

• I do not disagree with this report in its detail but I do think it needs to be seen in a context in which there was greater emphasis on the education of our society so that people can make well informed individual choices and less emphasis on repressing some activity in our society. [More…]

• -The honourable senator has made some statements about education. [More…]

• The fact is that most people who have studied the behavioural effects of drug education have found either no effect or an effect opposite to the one they want. [More…]

• In other words, drug education put into many areas increases the use of drugs. [More…]

• What that says is not that education is no good but that we have not yet learned the right kind of educational techniques or application to cope with the problem. [More…]

• The advertising industry puts tens of millions of dollars into increasing the use of drugs, but minuscule amounts are put into any efforts, whether they be educational or anti-drug use programs, designed to have the opposite effect. [More…]

• The report introduced by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts entitled ‘Children and Television’ tries to come to grips in large measure with a recent phenomenon that is shaping society in a way substantially different from the way in which societies have developed in the past. [More…]

• It is quite some years now since Marshall McLuhan’s work first came to public attention; yet that work made it quite clear to anybody who was prepared to read and study it and to absorb McLuhan’s conclusions that it was about time social planners and people interested in education and similar pursuits paid attention to the actual means by which information was communicated instead of paying attention just to the type of information communicated. [More…]

• We know that raising the standard of public taste, or indeed providing quality education, is something that can be done through the medium of television. [More…]

• I have no doubt that the production of programs such as In The Wild has done more to bring about the real education of Australian children and adults about the country in which they live than just about any other undertaking. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether, in view of the Queensland Government’s arbitrary decision to ban the social education course known as the Social Education Materials Project, including its component The Consumer in Society’, from the curriculum of Queensland schools, he would consider making available in all Queensland schools a copy of the book produced for the Trade Practices Commission entitled Shoppers Rights- A Guide Book to Consumers’ Problems. [More…]

• We arranged for a display of the Social Education Materials Project to be made available in Brisbane for the public to see. [More…]

• My Government and I thought that since there was a controversy over social education material- this material is often controversial- the best thing to do was to make it publicly available, and we did so. [More…]

• In a number of cases, the Study Group’s analysis of particular issues will, as it recognises, be complemented by related studies commissioned by the Government such as the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, the Inquiry into the Process of Technological Change in Australian Industry and the Inquiry into the Australian Financial System. [More…]

• Other members will be the Ministers for Primary Industry, Education, Industrial Relations, the Treasurer, Employment and Youth Affairs, Productivity, Business and Consumer Affairs, and Special Trade Representations. [More…]

• I wonder whether that is the reason that this pro-China bias is apparent in the statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and in the speeches made by Government senators. [More…]

• Yet the Minister for Education talks about an energy crisis and a shortage of oil. [More…]

• I commence by referring to the section at the bottom of page 5 of the statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), in which the Minister drew attention to the very low posture that the United States of America has maintained in the present conflict. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1 979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer him to a statement reported to have been made late last year by the Queensland Minister for Education in which he said that static Commonwealth funding for the triennum 1979-81 will cause a halt in progress towards bringing the State’s participation rates in tertiary education up to the national average. [More…]

• Is it correct that widely differing participation rates in tertiary education exist between the various States of Australia? [More…]

• If so, does the nogrowth decision with respect to universities and colleges of advanced education made in 1976 and 1977 mean that differing participation rates between States will be perpetuated and that the inequality of access of Australians to tertiary education will remain? [More…]

• Has the Government received any advice from the Tertiary Education Commission on this matter? [More…]

• -I direct Senator Button’s attention to a considerable amount of information contained in the various reports of the Tertiary Education Commission which is relevant to the question he has asked. [More…]

• There are widely differing participation rates in tertiary education between the States. [More…]

• The decisions of the Commonwealth Government on its financing of education in the years ahead take into account an almost static rate of population growth on the one hand and a changing rate of free demand by students as to the forms of tertiary education they seek on the other hand. [More…]

• Some go to colleges of advanced education but many attend colleges of technical and further education. [More…]

• From memory, the Tertiary Education Commission has looked at the comments of the Queensland Minister on this matter. [More…]

• I will obtain from the Tertiary Education Commission its response to the assertion of the Queensland Government that it may have had an unfair deal. [More…]

• My instincts, which I think will be borne out by the various reports, are that there is nothing to halt the continuing process within the tertiary education system. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns Commonwealth post-graduate awards. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education and refer to a question I asked on 2 1 February concerning the staffing of schools in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• In addition, the Authority will be able to make provision for planning staff for new institutions opening in 1980 and to provide for an expected increase in enrolments in special education institutions and classes. [More…]

• In September 1978, the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a report which stated that 40 per cent of all cancer deaths in the United States were due to exposure to occupational carcinogens such as asbestos, uranium, benzine, nickel oxide, chromium and petroleum factions, to mention just a few. [More…]

• As a result of that, as Senator Chaney will well remember, I then sought from him, as the Minister representing the Minister for Transport in this chamber, and also I think from the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, as the Minister representing the Treasurer in this place, an unqualified commitment that this Government in fact would fully finance the cost of the bridge. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The philosophy in regard to enrolments is that, within practical limits, students should be able to choose the school and the type of education best suited to their needs. [More…]

• Will the Government review the case for a special education allowance for the children of single parent families? [More…]

• He also mentioned the education allowance which is payable under some of the repatriation benefits and is not paid to civilian single parents in the same way. [More…]

• The Opposition raises this matter now because this week, which is the start of the academic year for most tertiary education institutions, some 200,000 students who are theoretically eligible for allowances will be returning to universities and other tertiary institutions throughout Australia. [More…]

• The points which the Opposition feels it is appropriate to make at this time relate to the inadequacy of allowances made available under various schemes, but particularly under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• In regard to the position of the Government on this matter, I refer the Senate to a statement made by Senator Carrick as Minister for Education on 6 October 1976 in which he said, when referring to student assistance: the Government . [More…]

• The only official study made of the socio-economic composition of the tertiary student body in Australia was undertaken jointly by the Department of Education and the Australian Union of Students in 1974. [More…]

• Another important and interesting point which emerged from that survey in 1974 was that students from low income backgrounds who reached tertiary education generally nominated teaching as their career choice. [More…]

• In 1974 and for at least two years afterwards many certainly made that choice, and the most logical and reasonable explanation for it is that teaching studentships, as they were then offered by State government, and are still offered in some States generally offered a student more income to enable that student to undertake tertiary education. [More…]

• The Committee has taken the view that the public purse should not be expected to bear the total costs of tertiary education. [More…]

• In view of the significant benefits which generally accrue to the individual from such education, the student and/or his family should bear pan of these cost. [More…]

• There is a nice judgment to be made in certain circumstances as to whether one takes up tertiary education in the current unemployment situation or whether one, for example, is attracted by higher allowances which are paid to people for doing nothing. [More…]

• I do not see why a person who undertakes tertiary education in circumstances in which there may be considerable poverty in the family should receive less than his brother, for example, who is on the dole. [More…]

• I refer the Senate to an article which appeared in the Melbourne Age on 12 April 1978, entitled ‘Marrying for Money and an Education’ and which dealt with this matter. [More…]

• Another area of anomaly relates to the assumed capacity of middle income families to contribute to their children’s tertiary education. [More…]

• It is generally assumed that people in the middle income bracket can easily afford to pay for part of their children’s education and living costs. [More…]

• Perhaps I should start my response to Senator Button by indicating that I respond to this matter of urgency as the Minister assisting Senator Carrick who is the Minister for Education. [More…]

• They affect the Department of Education as much as any other. [More…]

• It is interesting to note, having made that comment, that in fact education and student allowances have faired well under this Government and I will be mentioning a little later in this speech some of the comparative figures of the last few years which show quite substantial adjustments to student allowances. [More…]

• However, we are aware of the planned conference at Melbourne University later this month concerning the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and it is intended that the Department will be represented at that conference. [More…]

• Senator Button referred to the Williams Committee summary of TEAS and criticised what he saw as the Government’s assumption that the TEAS allowance is intended as nothing more than a contribution towards the cost of education of a tertiary student. [More…]

• Since the abolition of fees the student has been receiving the advantage of quite costly education facilities at the expense of his fellow taxpayer, usually equipping himself to earn a higher income than those of his fellow citizens who have not had the same advantage. [More…]

• The difference between the two is that the brother who is receiving the tertiary education is getting what the Taxation Office has always regarded as a capital asset and what I think all studies show generally results in a substantial subsequent income advantage. [More…]

• For Senator Button to suggest that the student who is getting the benefit of expensive public facilities in an educational institution and getting a tertiary allowance is worse off than somebody who is unemployed and seeking employment I think shows a considerable lack of judgment. [More…]

• Well, I think that any student in that position who examined the facts would have to agree that he is in a rather better position than a person who is not able to gain the advantage of a tertiary education. [More…]

• On the evidence that is available, the point that was made also by Senator Button about the failure of Labor programs to change the socio-economic mix by the abolition of tertiary fees and by the introduction of more student allowances is a matter which ought to give cause for concern about throwing further resources into education as a means of levelling out social inequalities. [More…]

• I think that a great deal more work needs to be done to demonstrate that education does in fact have that effect before it can be argued that the allowance should be increased to serve that purpose. [More…]

• Looking at the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, which is of course in numerical terms the most substantial scheme we are considering, in the last year in which the allowances were set by the Labor Government, 1976, the living allowance for a student at home was $1,000. [More…]

• In the last year set by Labor, in the 1976 educational year, the living away from home allowance was $1,600. [More…]

• Allowances under the Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme have been substantially increased. [More…]

• Senator Button has looked at the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances. [More…]

• The Martin report about that time suggested that there should be development of advanced education. [More…]

• So, we had the University Scholarship Scheme which looked after 6,000 recipients and the Commonwealth Advanced Education Scholarship Scheme which looked after 1,000 recipients. [More…]

• It is most interesting for those of us who have an interest in technical education to see that the Commonwealth Technical Scholarship Scheme was introduced in 1965. [More…]

• The function of education in a world in crisis is to develop people who can fashion a new and inspiring civilisation- people who have the moral and intellectual qualities, and the sensitivity to produce a renaissance. [More…]

• He introduced this scheme which, of course, at that time dealt basically with senior secondary scholarships, postgraduate awards and tertiary education. [More…]

• He said that the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme was a major step taken by the Government in its program to produce a revolution of access to education. [More…]

• So there is an indication here of a difference of attitude in the philosophy of education, as between the Labor Government and the present Government. [More…]

• The AUS maintained that improved accessibility to tertiary education was dependent not only on’. [More…]

• The AUS viewed the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme as ‘. [More…]

• considerable alteration and restructuring if it is to cope with the changes education will experience in future years’. [More…]

• As a result of the criticisms, and recognising that there were some difficulties, the Minister set up the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, which came out with a number of recommendations. [More…]

• Surely we do not see here a return to the Menzies days of pork-barrelling whereby we give assistance to a small number and say: ‘Look, we are doing wonders in the field of education’. [More…]

• I would like to look briefly at non-tertiary education in the sense of non-university education. [More…]

• This sort of cosmetic approach is not sound thinking in education. [More…]

• It is unfortunate that Senator Davidson is not present in the chamber because as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts which investigated isolated children he would be particularly interested in what we have to say here. [More…]

• Funds be made available through State education authorities in the form of increased per capita grants to registered residential establishments to subsidise the cost of upgrading and maintaining the existing hostels in country areas. [More…]

• The payment of benefits under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme be continued and that levels of assistance and application of the means test for additional allowances be reviewed annually so that allowances are paid at a rate commensurate with education expenditure. [More…]

• The Government policy appears to be to keep education- hence power, because education is related to power, there is a quite clear connection- in the club and to deny access to those who wish to break out of their situation of disadvantage. [More…]

• The basic political philosophy be: hind the Government’s policy is a continuation of the Menzies approach which has been criticised by almost every advanced thinker in the field of education. [More…]

• In every speech that I have made in this chamber on education I have come to the same conclusion and have ended with the same comment: The Government is regressive in its approach to education. [More…]

• In discussing the matter of urgency put forward by the Opposition I think it is wrong to attempt to discuss student allowances in total isolation from the overall approach that the Government has adopted towards education and education funding. [More…]

• I think, therefore, it ought to be incumbent on us to have some regard to the level and nature of expenditure which the Government has dedicated towards education in general terms. [More…]

• 1 for the most recent Budget that the total outlays on education are estimated to increase by 6.1 per cent in 1978-79 to $2,497.6m, this total being equivalent to 8.7 per cent of estimated total outlays. [More…]

• When Senator Robertson talks about keeping education ‘in the club’, when he makes an attempt to imply that pan of the policy of this Government has been to restrict access to education or to limit the number of persons having access to education, it is perhaps worth remembering that the last Budget introduced by the Australian Labor Party when it was in government did not devote 8.7 per cent of total outlays to education expenditure, but the lower figure of 8.4 per cent. [More…]

• The progress in terms of both real expenditure and progress as a proportion of total Budget expenditure on education has increased substantially during the period that this Government has been in office. [More…]

• Indeed, if one wants to establish the point at which the real erosion of student allowances may be said to have become evident, one only has to refer to the 1975 Budget provisions for education, the last Budget in which no allowance was made for any increase in student allowances. [More…]

• It is not true to say that we are keeping education within the club when one can see that in 1975 approximately 135,000 students were receiving benefits and when it is expected that by the end of this year that number will be something like 1 70,000. [More…]

• The number of students involved in tertiary education assistance in 1975 was a little over 67,000. [More…]

• The number of students receiving adult secondary education assistance was 1,021 and is now 2,233. [More…]

• Expenditure on tertiary education assistance increased from $ 109.6m to $ 167.2m. [More…]

• I suppose it is equally encumbent on Senator Button in presenting his case to try studiously to avoid those schemes that have been introduced or very substantially expanded by this Government, in order to portray a false picture that student assistance is restricted almost exclusively to the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance. [More…]

• For instance, one of the most imaginative, innovative and, in the long run, most important schemes to have been introduced- in some ways it can be regarded as a scheme of student assistance-is that connected with the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• In 1977, out of a program totalling $ 19.51m for disadvantaged education areas, $4.1m was devoted to disadvantaged country areas. [More…]

• That is the sort of attitude which they take, and I think it is one that ought to be drawn to the attention of people who have any concern for education. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill was stated by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech in the following terms: [More…]

• The education system of this country and indeed the aspirations of Australians in the last 30 to 40 years have been very much directed towards creating a nation of clerks in which the manual skills, the trade skills, tend to be despised in favour of the so-called white collar skills, the clerical skills of pen pushing, filling in documents, and things of that kind. [More…]

• Most of that is spent on research, not on much-needed education. [More…]

• Between 1972-73 and 1974-75 the Labor Government gave $500,000 a year for smoking education; but in 1975 Commonwealth grants ceased and very little anti-smoking information is now being disseminated. [More…]

• If the Government is really concerned about national fitness, as it purports to be by bringing this Bill before the Senate today, it should impose a total ban on all tobacco advertising and promotion, end all general and specific subsidies to the tobacco industry and make adequate funds available for anti-smoking education programs. [More…]

• Fluency in English, standard of education and literacy. [More…]

• Mick Miller- a well-known black activist, a qualified school teacher and a man who has been around- was sacked from his position as a school teacher because the Education Department demanded that he transfer from Cairns to another centre many miles away. [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…]

• However, I would like to go further and refer to that section of the report which deals with discrimination in education. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: In view of the Government’s concern at the level of youth unemployment, can he inform the Senate whether consideration has been given to encouraging more young people to stay longer in secondary education? [More…]

• by leave- The Opposition does not actually oppose the statement that has been put down by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• If Senator Baume ‘s committee and the people who agree with him feel so strongly on this matter, why do not they enter into an education program to try to educate the people of the pitfalls if they continue to smoke and drink? [More…]

• The Government should branch out in an education program but should leave sponsorships and advertising alone until such time as it can come up with an alternative to replace the lack of funds if such action were taken. [More…]

• I would suggest that the honourable senator and his committee stop before they go too far, adopt a more realistic approach and embark on an education program showing people in this community what injuries can occur from smoking or drinking. [More…]

• If it is wrong, as has been suggested by the Senate Committee, to have this emphasis on cigarette and alcohol advertising, it seems to me that it is wrong for us to give any credence to a suggestion that in this country we should divert resources from what is needed in education, community health and public facilities generally into subsidising the whim of a person who sees a chance to get in on the ground floor in respect of a communications satellite. [More…]

• Details of the incident are contained in Aviation Safety Digest 104/78, a publication which is produced by my Department for safety education purposes. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]

• Did an article in the Brisbane Telegraph, 19 February 1979, report a claim by Professor Ralph Doherty that the University of Queensland ‘ might be forced to cut the number of medical students as a result of initiatives from the Tertiary Education Commission’; if so, has the Tertiary Education Commission made any suggestion to the University of Queensland that the number of medical students should be reduced. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has not made any request of the University of Queensland to reduce its intake of medical students. [More…]

• In its Report for the 1979-8 1 Triennium, Volume 1 , the Commission considered that in the light of the current assessment of the supply of and demand for medical manpower it would be difficult to justify any expansion of medical education. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns early school leavers and youth unemployment. [More…]

• Because this has concerned the Federal Government and myself I was given the opportunity by the Government to approach the Australian Education Council and raise the matter in discussion with the six State Ministers. [More…]

• The Australian Education Council has expressed a keen interest in the proposals and has set up a working party to investigate them. [More…]

• I believe that there will be within the high schools a significant necessity for the identification of people who may feel that the generalist stream of education is not attractive to their particular attitudes, and for secondary education, whilst not departing from its general philosophic concepts to reach out and help such people. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the Federal Government is effectively providing a large proportion of the income of every tertiary student union in Australia, including the Australian Union of Students, through the payment of the incidentals allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme? [More…]

• Within the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance is a component for the payment of fees should that be necessary, but let me make it perfectly clear that the Commonwealth Government has expressed the view that whilst the payment of fees for authentic sporting and recreational amenities should be compulsory, fees paid to student bodies for socio-political purposes should be voluntary. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education seen a report in the Launceston Examiner of 13 March 1979 under the heading ‘Federal Government damaging Uni’, in which the Tasmanian Minister for Education, Mr Holgate, is reported as saying that Federal Government financial policies were forcing damaging cuts in services offered by Tasmania’s only university? [More…]

• Is it not true that the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education have been generously provided for by the Commonwealth Government in recent years and, coupled with the development of the Australian Maritime College in Launceston, provide an excellent range of tertiary level opportunities for Tasmanians? [More…]

• I have read the reported comments by the Tasmanian Minister for Education. [More…]

• Following reviews of tertiary education in Tasmania in recent years, there has been a re-arrangement of the total provision of tertiary education in that State including the further development of the Launceston campus of the Tasmanian Council on Advanced Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• At the last Australian Education Council meeting there were very wide ranging discussions on the problems of transition from school to work- the problems of the young person leaving school and finding a vocation, and a suitable vocation. [More…]

• I therefore raised with the Australian Education Council the thought that we might work towards some kind of upgrading of experience of teachers, particularly teachers in high schools and particularly those who should do vocational counselling. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to the disclosure that the number of students proceeding from secondary education to tertiary education has risen from about 10 per cent in 1963 to about 30 per cent in 1 979 and that during the same period the failure rate among first year tertiary students has declined from about 40 per cent to about 1 8 per cent. [More…]

• It is true that a much larger percentage of the Australian population has been proceeding to tertiary education, and that in itself must be a good thing. [More…]

• My Government and I as the Minister for Education have been very keen to ensure that course evaluations should be established throughout the tertiary institutions to ensure that the highest quality in courses and delivery of lectures is achieved. [More…]

• If this is so, then no doubt the Government and the Tertiary Education [More…]

• In general we are aiming to upgrade the quality of delivery of education and to reduce any suggestion anywhere that there be a lowering of standards. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in his reply that the standards of the Labor Government were so low that Labor senators could not criticise the Government until it got down to that level or below. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators, I present the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training and seek leave to make a statement on the report and to move a motion to take note of the paper. [More…]

• The Committee of Inquiry was chaired by Professor Bruce Williams, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, and its membership included: Mr M. H. Bone, the former DirectorGeneral of the Department of Further Education in South Australia; Mr C. O. Dolan, the National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, Senior Vice President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Tertiary Education Commission and a member of the National Training Council; Dr A. M. Fraser, the Director of the Queensland Institute of Technology, a member of the Advanced Education Council of the Tertiary Education Commission and a member of the Queensland Board of Advanced Education; Miss Pauline Griffin, an Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commissioner, and a member of the Council of the Australian National University; Miss E. M. Guthrie, a Regional Director of Education in the New South Wales Department of Education; Mr J. [More…]

• A. L. Hooke, C.B.E., Chairman of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd; Sir Peter Lloyd, formerly chairman of Cadbury Fry Pascall Australia Ltd, and a member of the Council of the University of Tasmania; Dr W. D. Neal, Chairman of the Western Australian Postsecondary Education Commission; and Mr D. R. Zeidler, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director of ICI Australia Ltd. [More…]

• The Committee commented that the quality and range of the system of education are of great importance to the future of our country, and it hoped that its report will contribute to understanding of the problems and possibilities and help to raise both the quality and the efficiency of the system. [More…]

• Recognition of the importance of education is highlighted by the fact that expenditure on education has more than doubled as a percentage of the gross domestic product in the last 20 years. [More…]

• In presenting the report to the Government the Committee has pointed out that its review of education and training in schools was restricted to the problems of transition to work or further study. [More…]

• Its main recommendations in regard to schools relate to greater emphasis in teacher education on ways of teaching reading and number work, further studies by the Australian Council for Educational Research to specify the range of performance levels to be expected of pupils of varying abilities at particular ages, and the accountability of schools for achieving specific objectives. [More…]

• The Committee’s most important general recommendations in post-secondary education, as conveyed in the letter of transmittal, are: [More…]

• that specialisation between sectors should be maintained, but that access to education in areas too small to sustain specialised institutions should be extended by contract arrangements between institutions; [More…]

• that plans for growth in the number of students should be related to prospective growth in gross domestic product, and that most of the expansion in numbers in the Committee’s projection, which is based on an assumed 2 per cent annual growth in productivity, should be accommodated in colleges of advanced education and technical and further education; [More…]

• that undergraduate entry to universities should be related more closely to the statistical probability of success in degree studies, and that in universities there should be a greater concentration of honours and post-graduate activities, including non-award courses for graduates, and more research centres; (0 that in view of high attrition rates in ad vanced education, colleges of advanced education should give greater attention to curriculum planning and the selection of the appropriate levels of study for their students; [More…]

• that there should be a national centre for research and development in technical and further education to analyse the skills required for various occupations in the middle level and trade fields, and to prepare modular programs that could be used for original training, retraining and further training; and [More…]

• Each State will need an authority capable of coordinating advanced education and TAFE activities in the middle level field, and for this and other reasons the Committee has recommended that the State authorities be given a greater responsibility for allocating recurrent funds to the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Education and employment [More…]

• The Committee commented that the links between education and employment are complex. [More…]

• The Committee has noted that unemployment is high among teenagers and especially high among those with least education. [More…]

• The Committee’s suggestions for dealing with that problem relate partly to schools but mainly to technical and further education: In particular they suggest an extension of some of TAFE’s least conventional activities. [More…]

• The Committee’s proposals for changes in education to improve the employability of young people therefore concentrated on the general tendency for youth unemployment to be higher than for all persons and on the problems of special groups. [More…]

• The Committee argued that a considerable part of the demand for post-secondary education, and of the demand for the products of post-secondary education, is a consequence of the rise in material wealth. [More…]

• This was taken into account in projections of student numbers, in the Committee’s conclusions on the limited role of manpower planning, and in its interpretation of ‘credentialism’ The report concludes that the major factor in credentialism is the extension of opportunities for education. [More…]

• The report discusses the future of some of the smaller universities and colleges of advanced education and has suggested the merger of [More…]

• The report goes on to point out that there has been a continuing process of rationalisation in the advanced education sector involving a few closures and many amalgamations. [More…]

• Consultation with the States will be essential on many of the matters raised, and the Australian Education Council is already planning to hold a special meeting to discuss the report, probably in June. [More…]

• Lastly, I wish to thank all members of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, and especially the Chairman, Professor Williams, for the task which they have so ably performed in preparing this major report. [More…]

• The report will be of great assistance to the Government and, indeed, to all those concerned with education, training and employment. [More…]

• -The report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training has been Vh years in preparation and has cost the Government and the taxpayers some three-quarters of a million dollars. [More…]

• At the outset the inquiry had the most wide-ranging and ambitious terms of reference which raised immense hopes of producing, in the words of some Ministers, a blueprint for Australian education until the year 2000. [More…]

• Since the Williams Committee was established, its existence has been used continually by Government spokesmen as a reason for putting off consideration of a number of very important issues of concern to this country, particularly issues relating to youth unemployment, the relationship between education and work and things of that kind which were fundamental to the terms of reference. [More…]

• Its great merit seems to be that it is painted, as it were, on a broad canvas; that it canvasses many of the issues of fundamental concern in relation to education. [More…]

• Certain recommendations of the report at first sight, and probably at second sight also, commend themselves to anyone concerned with the future of education in Australia. [More…]

• Also, it is consistent with the recommendations of two Tertiary Education Commission reports, but one upon which no action has been taken by the Government. [More…]

• Secondly, the report deals with the rational transferring of credits between tertiary institutions- another important recommendation towards inducing greater flexibility in the tertiary education system. [More…]

• Yet others relate to the endorsement of migrant education programs, to the need for women to have wide access to skilled trades, to the need for special efforts to improve numeracy and literary skills, and to the need for greater flexibility in the staffing of Australian universities. [More…]

• For several years now they have been discussed in the course of the education debate in Australia. [More…]

• On the fundamental questions which were asked in the terms of reference of the inquiry, such as that concerned with the relationship between education and work, about which we have heard so much rhetoric in the political debate, the report is of course at its weakest. [More…]

• The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), in his statement to the House of Representatives on 9 September 1976, when the Williams Committee was established, rightly stressed the problem of youth unemployment in Australia and announced that the inquiry would examine the relationship between the pattern of youth unemployment and the role of our education system. [More…]

• I say in all fairness that I do not know whether or not it is a correct newspaper report, but the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who tabled this report in the Parliament, is reported in the Sydney Morning Herald of 5 February 1979 as saying: [More…]

• It is sad to note that one can survive in an education system for 10 years and beyond and yet lack the basic skills necessary for preapprenticeship training. [More…]

• There have been many attempts to explain the very sharp increase in youth unemployment in terms of poor standards of education, a relative increase in award rates of wages for juniors, the high labour turnover rates of young workers, a large increase in unemployment benefits relative to post-tax earnings from 1973 onwards and its effect on the incentives to accept employment in the less pleasant or stimulating jobs, or by some combination of these factors. [More…]

• There are very real problems involved in terms of capital investment in institutions and things of that kind, quite apart from the political problems which led to the establishment of the college of advanced education in the Wannon electorate and in the area of the Northern Rivers, in another area which is regarded as important. [More…]

• One of the things that the Committee discussed was the necessity for cutting down on confusion and complexity in educational administration. [More…]

• The Committee quotes a distinguished overseas educator, Dr Barbara Burn, as saying that every time she comes to Australia there seems to be an additional layer of control in tertiary education. [More…]

• I do not know when she was last here, whether it was before or after the establishment in most States of post-secondary education commissions, but of course what she has said is true. [More…]

• The report goes on to recommend a greatly increased role for the Australian Education Council, which is a council of all State Ministers and the Federal Minister of Education. [More…]

• Some reliance might be placed on the Government’s notion of federalism and its implicit criticism of federally established education commissions than to any rational or more rational consideration. [More…]

• When one is reading this report one is repeatedly concerned with the question why the Tertiary Education Commission, perhaps restructured as the Williams Committee suggests, might not be a more appropriate body to deal with this matter than a rival administrative body such as the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• I would join with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in commending a close reading of the report by all members of the Senate, largely as I say because it canvasses the issues in the important area covered by the report with which we have been concerned. [More…]

• Department of Health, from the Departments of Education, Employment and Youth Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and from the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• This is ten years earlier than anticipated in the report ‘Expansion of Medical Education’ which has been adopted by successive governments as the planning basis for the intake of students into our medical schools. [More…]

• I continue my remarks on the report presented by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• I drew particular attention to some of the findings of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts which attempted, very successfully I believe, to bring into perspective the role of television in the process of learning, socialisation and the shaping of attitudes, behaviour and beliefs of children in Australia. [More…]

• The inescapable conclusion is that unless the Tribunal is prepared to either act on a majority opinion or to delegate to the Committee its power of regulation in this field of programming, we shall yet again be faced with a continuing saga of frustration identical in both its terms and its tone to those expressed by the Australian Teachers Association in 1 944 and witnesses to the Royal Commission on television in 19S3, the Senate Select Committee on The Encouragement of Australian Production for Television (the Vincent Committee)) in 1963, the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts looking at Broadcasting in 1972-74, the Broadcasting Tribunal ‘s Self Regulation Inquiry in 1 977, the Senate Standing Committee looking into the impact of Television on Children in 1978, and a repeat performance of the two previous Children’s Advisory Committees. [More…]

• He told the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts: [More…]

• On page 160 of the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts this recommendation is put: [More…]

• He is now Professor of Education at Flinders University. [More…]

• If library facilities (building, stock, staff, research, equipment, promotion) matched the developmental level in Australia of formal education and the mass media- the usage factor could easily be nearer to six million. [More…]

• I make an appeal to the Minister at the table, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who I know has some concern about education in this country, to take up the matter with his colleague, the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) to see whether we can get the matter into Cabinet, to see whether we can get a decision, and to see whether the Parliament can be told what is to happen about the matter. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), in his second reading speech, said: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education seen the editorial in today’s Australian Financial Review which describes the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training as being below standard and having room for improvement? [More…]

• Is he aware that the editorial alleges that the thrust of the Williams Committee’s report will guarantee the further decline of the education system in Australia, in particular of the universities, and t licit lt describes this rs port us being irrelevant te the real issues of education and training? [More…]

• -We now know that Senator Button has not done so because by inference he has excluded himself, and he happens to be the Labor Party’s spokesman on education. [More…]

• It is inconceivable that recommendations which seek to do the following things would lower education standards in Australia: The Williams Committee seeks to upgrade the basic skills in schools. [More…]

• Does anyone believe that that will lower education standards? [More…]

• One by one each of the 116 recommendations aims at improving quality in education. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that cutbacks already approved by him and his predecessor, Mr Viner, during the current financial year have proved to be disastrous for Aboriginal programs in housing, employment, land rights and land development, education, legal problems and health and in the latter case are the cause of a dramatic rise in Aboriginal infant mortality? [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of the article that appeared in the Monash Review of December 1978 indicating that many new teachers do not acquire information about or mastery of basic teaching techniques during their first year of duty? [More…]

• It is a description of a research project which was commissioned by the Education Research and Development Committee in 1976. [More…]

• The research team, which was headed by Professor Tisher of Monash University, concluded its program late last year and presented a substantial report on its findings, which is being published in two volumes by the Education Research and Development Committee. [More…]

• The ERDC has made the report available to the National Inquiry into Teacher Education- the Auchmuty Committee. [More…]

• The terms of reference of the inquiry range over all aspects of teacher education and the Committee has been charged with making recommendations on any changes that might assist in achieving improved teaching and learning in Australian schools and pre-schools. [More…]

• In education, $2.950m was provided this financial year, as against $2. [More…]

• In education, the payments totalled $6.398m last financial year and $6.255m this financial year. [More…]

• -All the fulminations of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), all the synthetic, sanctimonious passion that he brings to bear on occasions such as this, cannot disguise the fact that the misuse of Federal funds by the Victorian Government has been a long-running scandalous sore in Australian politics for the last four or five years. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, is as appalled by that statement as he was by the statements, the truth of which he questioned, made by Senator Wriedt. [More…]

• The situation is the same in the education field. [More…]

• Money has been given to the Victorian Government for Aboriginal education. [More…]

• It is interesting to read the 1 979-8 1 report of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• The Council is conscious of the efforts being made by the Victorian State Council for Technical Education to ensure that in future TAFE planning receives the necessary impetus. [More…]

• In other words, the Victorian Government is so outstanding in its achievement, it is so responsible in the field of education, it is so responsible for the training of the thousands of young people in Victoria who are now out of work, that it nas not even put in the plan to use up the money that the Federal Government has made available for technical school building funds. [More…]

• The Technical and Further Education Council of the Tertiary Education Commission presented a report last year in which it said that Victoria faced an increasing reliance on temporary class accommodation. [More…]

• This letter may be a bit of an education for Senator Rocher. [More…]

• I have asked the State Ministers for Education whether they would look towards ways in which they could identify these people in the schools and give them special care, pastoral care, special guidance, special counselling and special instruction to see whether we can hold them and upgrade their skills or, failing that, whether we can transfer them to technical education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It concerns the Williams Committee report and its discussion of changes in access to post-secondary education that may have followed the abolition of fees and the establishment of the current system of tertiary student allowances. [More…]

• The Williams Committee referred to two important surveys carried out on this matter- one by Dr Anderson, suggesting that the access was improved by 25 per cent and another by Professor Blandy, who came to the conclusion that, ‘educational opportunities have not been widened’. [More…]

• What is the Government’s own assessment of the extent of widening access to education and of the improved quality of student performance as a result of the abolition of fees and the now highly developed Tertiary Education Assistance scheme? [More…]

• Anderson indicated that some 20 per cent or more of students said that they would not be undertaking tertiary education today if fees had been imposed. [More…]

• Jobs are disappearing from the health, education and welfare areas. [More…]

• I did not detect in the statements of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) anything that would encourage me to the belief that this sort of expert advice will be followed. [More…]

• In making this statement, I should, at the outset, remind honourable senators that an advisory committee on Science and Technology was set up in 1972 when the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was Minister responsible for Education and Science. [More…]

• I remind the Senate that the Australian Institute of Marine Science was established under a previous Coalition Government when the Prime Minister was Minister responsible for Education and Science. [More…]

• Dr Lang is a member of the Committee Council for Rural Research and Extension, and also a member of the Universities’ Council of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Not merely to remain competitive with the civilian sector and provide wage equality, but in terms of training, retraining, specialisation, broader education, higher education. [More…]

• I have mentioned some of them: Retraining, new specialisation and higher education. [More…]

• We have today a Joint Services Staff College providing mid-career education for the senior officers of the future. [More…]

• The Minister for Defence or the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who represents him in the Senate, should undertake a review of this matter urgently and tell us how many Defence Department staff we have stationed in Washington. [More…]

• That the Senate is of the opinion that the practice of corporal punishment should be abolished throughout the Australian education system. [More…]

• I raise again tonight in the Senate the use of corporal punishment in the Australian education system- a matter which I raised in the Senate about nine years ago and which subsequently I have endeavoured to promote. [More…]

• The National Catholic Education Commission, to which I wrote on this matter, advised me that it had not formulated any policy on corporal punishment in Catholic schools and had not considered any of the details about which I asked. [More…]

• Discipline in a Catholic school is the responsibility of the Principal and usually guidelines for the direction of Principals are issued from the Catholic Education Office in the capital city of each State. [More…]

• Mr Dwyer is the Principal Lecturer in Education at the Good Samaritan Teachers College at Glebe Point, New South Wales. [More…]

• I know that the Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) shares my views in this matter, as he said in the Senate not long ago. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a scheme recently initiated in an Adelaide suburban high school in which 27 school leavers are being paid to remain at school and to participate in a work study course comprising furniture repair, book repair and industrial sewing work which thereby equips the school leavers with useful work skills? [More…]

• Here we have the case of ASIO agents asking a young girl to break the law by not stating this income on the declaration required in respect of her Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance- an allowance payable under legislation enacted by this Parliament. [More…]

• One of the things that I raised during a hearing of an Estimates committee was that after that bombing the Government made funds available to shopkeepers or those people who had lost business because of the closing of the Hilton Arcade and a small fund was set up to provide for the education of children of the parents who were killed in an explosion. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, relates to a recommendation in the report of the Williams Committee on Education and Training. [More…]

• I recall that a working party was established in 1977 with the Kindergarten Union to look at the way in which we may be able to assist the Union in programs of pre-school education in a number of areas in New South Wales. [More…]

• The working party was established by us to offer assistance to the Kindergarten Union because of the level of fees that it was concerned it would need to charge low income families for pre-school education. [More…]

• We are concerned that the children’s services program should, as far as possible, be directing attention to the range of services which are required in addition to the assistance which we give to State governments for pre-school education. [More…]

• 13 Education Research and Development CommitteeAnnual Report 1976-77- Ministerial Statement. [More…]

• 48 Tertiary Education Commission- Study Leave Draft Report- Paper. [More…]

• 104 Tertiary Education Commission- Recommendations for 1979-81 Triennium-Paper. [More…]

• 125 Tertiary Education Commission Programs 1979-81 -Paper. [More…]

• 126 Tertiary Education Commission- Study Leave Final Report- Paper. [More…]

• 130 Tertiary Education Commission- Nurse Education and Training- Paper. [More…]

• 1 50 Education- Progress since 1 976- Paper. [More…]

• 182 Adult Migrant Education Program- Annual Report 1977-78, and Migrant Education Program- Annual Report 1976- 77-Papers. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, refers to the many different types of scholarships, bursaries and awards that are available to young people in Australia from such diverse sources as governments- State and Federal- industries, private schools, trusts, foundations, lodges, the Returned Services League, service clubs and unions. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, follows from one I asked earlier this year relating to postsecondary education for nurses in Tasmania. [More…]

• The answer the Minister gave then was that the Government’s decision would be taken after advice from the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Given the deprivation experienced by nurses in Tasmania due to lack of access to further education, I ask the Minister whether an external studies course could be made available as an immediate interim measure until the Government’s decision on post-secondary nursing education is finalised. [More…]

• There is considerable interest throughout Australia in the Sax Committee of Inquiry into Nurse Education and Training. [More…]

• Senator Walters will know that that Committee submitted its report to the Tertiary Education Commission on 31 August last year and that it was tabled by me in this Parliament on 24 October. [More…]

• The Government’s decisions on the report’s recommendations must await advice from the Commission and from Commonwealth and State authorities in the fields of health and education. [More…]

• I note the suggestion by Senator Walters for an external studies course, and I will ask the Tertiary Education Commission to give consideration to that. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Does the Government accept that there are advantages in a longer term appointment to the position of Chairman of the Academic Salaries Tribunal for a period of up to five years as allowed by the legislation? [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether his Department is introducing pre-apprenticeship courses in the Australian Capital Territory during 1979? [More…]

• Was the concept of the courses earlier opposed by a committee which consisted of representatives of the Department of Education, the Apprenticeship Board, the Trades and Labour Council, employer groups, unions, the Canberra and Bruce technical and further education colleges and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations? [More…]

• It is true that in the Australian Capital Territory the Department of Education has initiated a number of preapprenticeship courses as pilot courses. [More…]

• I gather from the notes that he is making that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will reply. [More…]

• Substantial interpretation and education activity will be initiated by the Park service both for visitors to the Park and also for the substantial number of people who will be resident there. [More…]

• The integration of different uses such as conservation, scientific research, education, fishing, tourism and mining will be a complex but rewarding task. [More…]

• in setting the long term goals and objectives which the government should pursue and the programs it should adopt in such areas as Aboriginal education, housing, health, employment and legal aid; [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Education by referring to pages 199 and 200 of the Tertiary Education Commission’s report of September 1978 which, in reference to technical and further education funding for Victoria for 1 979, said: [More…]

• In addition, the Tertiary Education Commission gave the Victorian Government until March of this year to produce a firm program which would incorporate realistic target dates for action to provide new places and overcome deficiencies if Victoria was to receive adequate funding for 1980. [More…]

• I ask the Minister when it is anticipated that the Victorian technical and further education strategy plan will be completely finalised to the point where it is entirely acceptable in all details to the Commission. [More…]

• To understand that comment in the report one must know, as I suspect Senator Robertson does, that in Victoria technical education is carried out somewhat differently from that in other areas. [More…]

• For example, in its secondary system of education there are technical high schools, so it has a different set-up altogether. [More…]

• A great deal of progress is being made in technical education improvement and reform in Victoria and that, of course, has been essentialy at the initiative of this Federal Government. [More…]

• Minister for Education aware that the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, in renewing the licences of commercial television stations in Sydney, has expressed criticism of children’s program arrangements by the commercial stations and has said that it intends to lay down guidelines for commercial stations to follow in the future? [More…]

• In view of the Tribunal’s criticism of programs for children, particularly educational programs, will the Minister be prepared to discuss with the Minister for Post and Telecommunications the appointment to the Tribunal of someone with special interest in the educational welfare of the younger generation of Australians before hearings for other licences in Australia take place? [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education seen the report in the Canberra Times today to the effect that Wanniassa High School and another new high school at Charnwood in the Australian Capital Territory will not open in 1980? [More…]

• The report is based on a Press release of yesterday’s date by the Acting Chief Education Officer of the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority, Mr Brian Peck. [More…]

• The Authority itself is, of course, charged with administering education in the Territory. [More…]

• It made that decision on what it considered were good educational grounds. [More…]

• good education. [More…]

• Pursuant to section 9 of the Education Act 1970, 1 present the annual report of the Education Research and Development Committee for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]

• In recent years the extent of public debate about education has increased noticeably and invariably one of the outcomes of such debate has been a call for more research into identified problems; in many cases it is implied that much of this research ought to have been done already. [More…]

• However, I am pleased to be able to comment that the Education Research and Development Committee has enjoyed a measure of success in this crystal ball gazing exercise. [More…]

• I cite a few of the more notable instances: I understand that the Committee has provided the National Inquiry into Teacher Education with more than 30 research reports and that several more will be available within a few months. [More…]

• The Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training also benefited from data gathered through ERDC research funding initiatives as did the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties. [More…]

• In early 1977, the Committee appointed an expert and ongoing group to advise it on strategic research thrusts in the area of multicultural education; ERDC is thus well prepared to respond quickly to the Galbally report recommendations concerning research into aspects of multicultural education. [More…]

• Finally, a report of a study group which ERDC commissioned to examine the feasibility of a scheme of national assessment of educational progress, together with the Committee’s evaluative comments on the report and the concept, provided a substantial basis for discussion at a recent meeting of the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• Because they address such a wide range of educational matters, it seems likely that honourable senators will find individual topics to be of particular interest, for example, the School and Work Report by C. Blakers described on page 25 of Fensham, Powell and Anderson’s report concerning the social composition of tertiary students and the effect of the abolition of fees, on page 32, and the report on future trends in medical education in Australia by Sheldrake et al, at page 43. [More…]

• Briefly, I concur with the observations of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) about the work of the Education Research and Development Committee. [More…]

• I am not prepared or able to make any observations about Dr Sheldrake’s report on medical education in Australia. [More…]

• 1 think it is important, however, that the work of the Education Research and Development Committee be recognised. [More…]

• While I do not share the Minister’s view, which I find profoundly optimistic, that the Committee has had success in crystal ball gazing, which I think is an almost impossible educational task, it is important that this work is being done. [More…]

• During 1977-78 over $128,000 was provided from Adult Migrant Education Program funds for child care. [More…]

• No English language courses in the Adult Migrant Education Program are restricted to women only. [More…]

• Victoria: The Adult Migrant Education Service in that State advises that 24 of the 119 community day classes have paid child minders and 20 of the classes have a variety of voluntary arrangements. [More…]

• Queensland: Child minding is available at the migrant education centre in Brisbane as well as at Wacol Hostel. [More…]

• South Australia: Child care facilities are available at The Village’ education centre in Adelaide and at one country and five suburban locations where English language classes are conducted. [More…]

• Western Australia: Six suburban classes have paid child minders while a nearby child care centre may be used by persons attending courses at the Perth migrant education centre. [More…]

• Northern Territory: There is a withdrawal room for children and parents at the Darwin migrant education centre. [More…]

• ACT: Child care facilities for day-time classes are available at the Narrabundah Adult migrant education centre, Canberra TAFE College, Kaleen High School, Copland College and Wanniassa High School. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 March 1979: [More…]

• If the ASCIS project proves successful then the Commission will consult with all education authorities likely to participate on ways of funding for a national scheme. [More…]

• All education authorities have been kept informed about the development of ASCIS through their representatives on the Steering Group. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 March 1979 : [More…]

• Has the Minister or the Tertiary Education Commission enunciated any policy relating to the employment in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education of overseas academic personnel. [More…]

• Universities and colleges of advanced education are autonomous institutions, responsible for their own academic affairs, including the selection and appointment or academic staff, lt will be appreciated that to maintain the quality of their teaching and research, universities and colleges must be free to select the best qualified staff available for academic positions. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 March 1979: [More…]

• Did the University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor’s 1978 report state: ‘We have acute accommodation problems in Psychology, Education, Law, Student Services, Computer Science and many other departments’; if so, when can the University of Queensland expect to receive funds to provide this necessary accommodation. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission has been informed of these problems through submissions to the Universities Council. [More…]

• Funds for university building projects arc provided annually on the recommendation of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• The advancement of this project to a construction program will depend not only on the level of funds available at the time but also on the priority accorded to it by the Universities Council and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• This conforms with nutrition education programs in Australia which provide information in terms of suitable food choices, e.g. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It relates to the investigations which are being conducted at the Australian National University and which are being funded by the Department of Education. [More…]

• -I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• As the Federal Government’s intention to transfer the Department of Education in the Northern Territory to the Northern Territory Government on 1 July this year will mark the last of the major responsibilities to be transferred under the transfer of powers arrangements, in the matter of the future supply of teachers for the new Northern Territory education system has agreement been reached as to whether teachers will continue to be supplied by the Commonwealth Teaching Service or will it be the responsibility of the Northern Territory Government? [More…]

• What are the attitudes of the parties concerned in the transfer of the education services to the question of the supply of teachers for the future? [More…]

• With the exception of a visit to New Zealand with the Australian Education Council, which I think he would accept as compulsory, I have not been overseas at the Government’s expense either as a Minister or as a private senator. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education a question concerning the 1 978 report of the Australian Education Council working party which estimated that the number of fully trained teachers in Australia in that year who were either unemployed or working in positions other than teaching was between 9,750 and 14,700. [More…]

• Will the Minister give me an undertaking that he will convene an urgent conference of State Education Ministers and their senior officers to find constructive ways of employing these surplus teachers and of taking steps so as not to compound the surplus in future years? [More…]

• Not only has the Government made massive cutbacks in education, roads, health, housing and many other areas, but also has it transferred to the State governments responsibility for financing other programs. [More…]

• However, there is a limit to which any government can cut funds for education, roads, health and housing without causing a major public outcry. [More…]

• In the field of education there is a proposal to set up State boards and regional education boards. [More…]

• It is also proposed to employ extra primary school teachers and to establish an ethnic education council. [More…]

• For the fringe-dwellers, whose education is usually poor, hygiene is virtually an impossibility. [More…]

• Therefore it is more than probable that the granting of land rights, with the spiritual satisfaction that that would confer, together with adequate standards of education, employment and housing, with their concomitant social security, are necessary adjuncts to medical treatment. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education seen the Press report that the Australian Union of Students has launched a national appeal for part time work for students? [More…]

• However, accepting that what Senator Walters says is a true reflection of the statement, I would commend any appeal to employers to allow students to undertake sufficient part time work to enable them to sustain themselves, particularly as a supplement either to their family incomes or to their Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances. [More…]

• Does the Minister for Education recall his answer to a question in February 1977 in which he assured me that he had asked the universities, through the vicechancellors, to ensure that procedures were available and that, if necessary, reforms would be made to ensure that democratic procedures could apply on campus? [More…]

• I also indicated to this Senate and to the people of Australia that I was discussing with vicechancellors and principals of colleges of advanced education the need for fair and democratic procedures to operate in student affairs. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government continued its efforts to improve the conduct of student affairs through discussions with educational institutions. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education seen a report in today’s Canberra Times based on letters apparently made public by the Australian National University relating to the Government’s proposed legislation on student fees? [More…]

• I ask a question of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I am concerned that children with invisible handicaps such as dyslexia or specific learning difficulties be given sympathetic and professional assistance by special education programs within our schools. [More…]

• Indeed, I hope that the national inquiry into teacher education will take up this matter in depth. [More…]

• However, the Government pursues, through the Schools Commission, special education programs which are funded through the States. [More…]

• The States also provide funds both for special education and for special schools. [More…]

• A listening device may be placed in a public hall in which people may talk about the right to life, against abortion, about aid to Vietnam, about peace and war issues or about aid for education. [More…]

• Education and Employment and Youth Affairs aimed at assisting those undertaking training. [More…]

• On 7 March (Hansard, page 547) and 8 March (Hansard, page 622) Senator Button asked me two questions, without notice, concerning tertiary education participation rates and the provision of middle level courses in Queensland. [More…]

• I have sought advice from the Tertiary Education Commission on these matters and am now able to provide the following answers to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• The table below shows actual participation rates from 1975 to 1978 for universities, colleges of advanced education and, where available, technical and further education institutions: [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Tertiary Education Commission’s report on nongovernment business colleges recommends, among other things, that each privately run college should submit a statutory declaration at the end of each quarter setting out enrolments in approved courses? [More…]

• If so, will Australian universities and institutes of advanced education also be required to submit statutory declarations attesting to their enrolments? [More…]

• They have been brought under the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Prime Minister, Mr Hoveida, two Speakers of the Lower House of the Iranian Parliament, Mr Riazi and Mr Sa’eed, an Information Minister, a distinguished Foreign Minister and even a former Minister for Education? [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education seen a circular from the Australian Teachers Federation in Canberra dated 8 May which purports to be seeking by survey the views of members of Parliament concerning education and the economy? [More…]

• Today in Australia the standard of education in Government schools has reached a level equivalent to level 2. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware of a dispute amongst primary teachers in Victoria? [More…]

• They regularly advocate a cut in government expenditure in the fields of welfare, health and education. [More…]

• Sir Roderick Carnegie and others also dutifully advocate cuts in the fields of health, welfare and education. [More…]

• The aim of this motion is to draw the attention of the Senate and the Parliament to the fact that a campaign is being conducted in the Press, by leaders of industry, by senior ministers of the Government and by back benchers in the Government to reduce the amount of expenditure on welfare, health and social security in particular, but also on education, in the Budget this year. [More…]

• -My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, concerns the course for social workers being conducted at the Darwin Community College by a senior lecturer, Mr John Tomlinson. [More…]

• In light of these findings and the reports of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on advertising in children’s programs, will he ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to give urgent consideration to enforcing stricter guidelines for advertising during children’s television programs? [More…]

• -Mr President, I seek leave to table certain evidence taken by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts during its inquiry into the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children. [More…]

• -I lay on the table of the Senate, volumes 3, 4 and 5 of the transcript of evidence taken by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts during its inquiry into the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children. [More…]

• Volumes 1 and 2 of the transcript of evidence taken by the former Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in relation to earlier hearings into all aspects of television and broadcasting, including the Australian content of television programs, were tabled in the Senate on 8 December 1976. [More…]

• Newspaper editors, public authorities, education and social leaders have enthusiastically endorsed the Committee’s recommendations. [More…]

• Others have commended the concept of media education in schools which would be designed to train children to be appreciative and critical viewers. [More…]

• by leave- I rise briefly to endorse the remarks of Senator Davidson, the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, in respect of the transcripts which he has just tabled of the inquiry into the effects of television on children’s learning and development. [More…]

• This follows agreement with the Minister for Education and the Minister for Home Affairs whose separate departments presently distribute the free-issue of the flag to the groups currently eligible to receive it. [More…]

• I anticipated before I went that a number of these places could be presented with a flag, so I put in a request to the Department of Education, which at that time had the responsibility of issuing flags, to see whether 1 could take about 12 flags with me. [More…]

• Senator CHANEY (Western AustraliaMinister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Education)- by leave- I think that Senator Button has been adequately answered by the various speakers, including Senator Georges, Senator Colston and, from the Government side, Senator Jessop. [More…]

• In compiling its report, the Committee has been assisted by Mr John Goldring, college fellow in law at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• I studied a little law in my education but not as much as the learned gentlemen who have spoken. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 February 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) How many students receiving a Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme (TEAS) allowance in 1978-79 applied successfully for the spouse allowance. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 February 1979: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 March 1979: [More…]

• The Government considers that universities and colleges of advanced education should not require students to be members of an organisation as a condition of their enrolment, continuation in courses of study or graduation. [More…]

• I refer, firstly, to the Department of Education. [More…]

• Those items cover, amongst other things, Australian participation in education programs. [More…]

• Some of the items relate to international organisations, some to scholarships for travel and some to migrant education and other forms of education. [More…]

• Mr Deputy President, you will recall that in November last year, in my capacity as Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, I presented a report on the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children. [More…]

• They were criticised greatly in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, to which I referred. [More…]

• However, I am optimistic- possibly that optimism is tempered with some caution- in stating that we should offer every encouragement to those who have the responsibility of providing this form of communication, entertainment and education for the younger members of the Australian community. [More…]

• On 1 July the functions of the Department of Education relating to the Northern Territory, which have been the responsibility of Senator Carrick, are to be transferred to the Northern Territory. [More…]

• They were forced into these particular areas in the belief that it was for their own good, for their education and health. [More…]

• It improved Aboriginal health and it provided education for Aboriginal children. [More…]

• I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Authority is currently considering future arrangements for secondary education in Canberra. [More…]

• adopting new approaches to the provision of secondary education in areas affected by declining enrolments. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Is the Education Research and Development Committee offering research training fellowships for 1 980? [More…]

• I am not sure what stage the Education Research Development Committee has reached with regard to its offers to various people. [More…]

• The Opposition believes that there is a serious need for the provision of telephone, radio, perhaps television, and certainly a need for improved health and education services which could flow from satellite facilities. [More…]

• A system which can enhance Australia’s defence communications, its aeronautical and maritime communications, its public telecommunications both national and international, its broadcasting services, which can offer high potential for improvements in the delivery of health care services, in education, in helping our Aboriginal settlements and the people of the remote outback, offers advantages which cannot be measured solely in financial terms. [More…]

• It will be used for health, welfare, education, defence, communications and transport. [More…]

• As I have said, it should be capable of use in the fields of health, welfare, education, defence, ordinary communications, transport and so forth. [More…]

• One practical manifestation of that concern, of course, was the isolated children’s education grant introduced by the last Federal Labor Government after Liberal-National Country Party governments had had 23 years in which to initiate such a move to overcome the financial disadvantages educationally of people living in the country. [More…]

• Following 23 years in which Liberal-National Country Party governments did nothing, within less than a year of the Labor Government’s being elected it provided for those people complete financial compensation in relation to education. [More…]

• Thus, we propose that in Schedule II there be added exclusive powers for the local assembly over referenda, electoral law, the recruitment and management of a Norfolk Island public service and education. [More…]

• that matters specified in Schedule 2 to the Bill include referendums, electoral law, the recruitment and management of the Norfolk Island Public Service and education; [More…]

• What normal accountability procedures are used by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs under the Housing, Health, Education, Employment and Welfare States Grants Program for the performance of State Government Departments. [More…]

• The strategy plan referred to is that which the Technical and Further Education Council requested the Victorian Authorities to prepare in connection with the allocation of capital funds for 1980 and which is referred to on page 200 of the Tertiary Education Commission’s Report for the 1979-81 Triennium. [More…]

• In early March 1979 the Victorian Department of Education forwarded to the Technical and Further Education Council of the Tertiary Education Commission an outline of its Facilities Strategy Plan for 1980-82. [More…]

• This plan is intended to set the pattern for the future development of technical and further education operations in Victoria as they affect facilities. [More…]

• I preface my question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, by reminding the Senate of the many unemployed teachers in each State and of the difficulties that many isolated children have with education. [More…]

• Further, will the Minister investigate the possibility of establishing art and craft education centres in small rural towns where there are many unemployed, especially among the Aboriginals? [More…]

• We have demonstrated over a period that the States have been able to apply and have applied a much higher part of their Budgets to education than they have in the past. [More…]

• In the first two years that this Government was in office, the percentage of its Budget spent on education compared to the total Budgets of State governments rose by 1 per cent. [More…]

• There is a need for an urgent education program to be undertaken to explain the likely implications and the conclusions reached in the report including a phasing out of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]

• The Government says continually that funds for such things as legal aid, housing and education have not been reduced. [More…]

• The very education of the Aboriginal people has brought about certain expectations and raised in them the desire for material things. [More…]

• This was advanced in the other place as one of the suggestions that had been made by Turnbull; that eventually the royalties would be sufficient to ensure that no money from the taxpayers need be spent on Aboriginal communities for education, health, welfare and so on. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) told us tonight that the Government is basing its calculations on a growth rate of 4 per cent. [More…]

• For example, in respect of education - [More…]

• The Minister for Education will shortly issue detailed guidelines for the programs of the Education Commissions in 1980. [More…]

• Only today I asked the Minister for Education whether he would give a guarantee that under any taxation increase proposals the States would get their 40 per cent. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 5 April 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) How many members of the academic and senior administrative staffs of the Australian Colleges of Advanced Education have been recruited from overseas since January 1976. [More…]

• How many of these staff members are employed by each College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• ls consideration given, when seeking to fill vacancies, to a provision that Australian Colleges of Advanced Education should be encouraged to give preference to those applicants who are resident in Australia. [More…]

• I ) and (2) No Commonwealth authority collects statistics of the number of staff members appointed to colleges of advanced education who are not residents of Australia at the time of appointment. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education a question concerning a dispute in Victoria, about which I asked him a question on 9 May to which he gave me a most hopeful and helpful answer. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware of claims by the President of the Australian Teachers Federation, Mr Van Davy, that the Government’s education policy bears no relationship to the needs of schools, that it will add to unemployment among teachers and other education personnel, and will reduce the capacity of schools to respond to the social pressures placed on them by youth unemployment? [More…]

• The fact is that, when I became Minister for Education, the Australian Teachers Federation asked: ‘Will you give us a firm undertaking on one important thing, that is, that you will maintain a degree of progress which will enable the resource targets of the Schools Commission to be achieved on time? [More…]

• That is our test of success in school education’. [More…]

• The fact is that the Australian Labor Party has not a feather to fly with in regard to education. [More…]

• As to the question of skilled labour, the years of neglect by the Labor Government, running down technical and further education, and cutting funds to technical and further education, protracted the shortages. [More…]

• If anybody has been despicable it has been the Minister, for attempting to defend an indefensible policy of his Government, that of cutting back expenditure on Aboriginal affairs, health, welfare and education, and in regard to land and mining rights. [More…]

• This information is taken from a report by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and is authorised by the most distinguished governmental scientists in carcinogenesis statistics. [More…]

• When one has an hereditary head of state, one is really saying that access to decent living conditions, proper health care and a stimulating and full education for one’s children, depends on the family into which one is born. [More…]

• After all, in Australia we believe that everyone, into whatever family he or she is born, ought to be given a fair go with access to living conditions of a decent standard, adequate health care and proper education, without regard to family ancestry. [More…]

• The Commonwealth did, however, establish a Trust Fund for the education and general benefit of the children of the Council workers killed in the explosion. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• More specifically, why is Mr Coughlan, Chairman of the Tertiary and Further Education Commission, attached to the mission as an observer? [More…]

• It was at my request, as Minister for Education, that the Chairman of the Tertiary and Further Education Council, Mr Coughlan, was invited to join the mission overseas. [More…]

• By a series of inquiries and by moving already into the areas covered by the Williams report and the Crawford report, we have shown that we are determined not only to bring Australia to the fullness of human fulfilment in education but also to make ourselves vocationally equipped to compete and to be a pacesetter on the world scene. [More…]

• In view of the fact that children reliant on pensions from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs receive $10.50 a week plus an education allowance, will the Minister consider increasing children’s allowances to bring them all into line, and giving an education allowance to all children dependent on pensions. [More…]

• I refer to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts in relation to the employment of musicians by the Australian Broadcasting Commission and, further, to the Minister’s references to the Committee yesterday. [More…]

• I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Two months has now passed since the Williams Report on Education and Training was tabled in the Senate by the Government. [More…]

• In particular, will the guidelines that the Minister will shortly announce for the education commissions be related explicitly to relevant areas of the findings of the Williams report? [More…]

• One of my jobs will be to go to the Australian Education Council at the end of June to seek a dialogue with State Ministers for Education over the whole range of relevant matters. [More…]

• It is also my job to ensure that the Tertiary Education Commission shall look towards the relevant things. [More…]

• Since Senator Teague asked me about education guidelines, I should indicate to the Senate that I hope early next week- probably on Monday- to be able to present the guidelines to the Senate. [More…]

• There is very little private accommodation available as this is in general taken up by the students from the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education and because of the shortage rentals are very high and the cheapest places for rent are in flood areas. [More…]

• For example, in the 1972-73 Budget- which was the last Liberal Budget before Labor came to power- $442m was spent on education. [More…]

• In reply to questions from time to time to the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, honourable senators have heard that he would do all that he could to maintain that level of expenditure on education. [More…]

• He was forced to swallow his words when, in the document presented last Thursday night, the Treasurer indicated that the Government proposed to prune expenditure on education. [More…]

• If honourable senators look at the ratio of spending on education in those years, it was lifted from 4.3 per cent of Budget income to 8.4 per cent in 1975. [More…]

• Yet, education is one area which is to be cut back. [More…]

• That the following matter be referred to the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts: The effectiveness of Australian schools in preparing young people for the work force, with particular emphasis on literacy and numeracy. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware that there is to be a public meeting held in the Australian Capital Territory this evening to be attended by parents, teachers and students from schools all over the Australian Capital Territory protesting against threatened closures of high schools and Narrabundah College in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]

• As to the question of closure or otherwise of schools, the Labor Party has always informed me that the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority was the body that should have the primary and essential responsibility for determining the administration and decision making of education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question, which I address to the Minister for Education, concerns a report in today’s Australian showing that Queensland school children are the brightest in Australia and perform better in almost all categories of tests involving the traditional three Rs. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts gave attention to this situation in its report on children’s television? [More…]

• I am aware of the recommendations contained in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware of what is referred to as a ‘staffing agreement’ made in 1977 between the former Premier of Tasmania, Mr Neilson, and the Tasmanian Teachers Federation, in which it was agreed that 642 extra teachers were to be appointed. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- by leave- I want to be absolutely fair in this matter, and provide no obstruction at all. [More…]

• The basic concept of the Defence Force Academy was to replace the degree stream component of the Royal Military College, the Royal Australian Air Force Academy, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the Darling Downs Institute and the Royal Australian Navy College with a single academy which would provide a balanced and liberal university education in a military environment for officer cadets of the three Australian Services, concurrently with a program of professional military training. [More…]

• The Committee believes that each Service should be free to determine its own method of educating officers and there should not be an enforced uniformity of education. [More…]

• The Committee received conclusive evidence that there is insufficient use of tertiary education institutes and recommends that full use should be made of these institutes. [More…]

• The Committee has put forward a number of suggested arrangements for the three Services which should be examined as a means of providing cost-effective tertiary education towards the training of highly skilled professional officers of the Defence Force. [More…]

• Quite frankly I suspect from answers the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has given in this place that he also is not greatly enamoured of the idea of Casey University. [More…]

• The question is whether, with the current economic stringencies being imposed by this Government on the education sector, the project justifies this sort of expenditure at all in view of the criticisms which have been made. [More…]

• I was making the point that this is a golden opportunity for this Government, for once, to get its priorities in order and to decide what the priorities are in terms of education expenditure in particular. [More…]

• I would draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that the Committee agreed that there was a need for tertiary education of military officers in each of the Services. [More…]

• This point is quite obvious if one looks at the level of sophistication of education of United States naval officers, for example, compared with that currently available to their Australian counterparts. [More…]

• The report acknowledged that there appears to be capacity in existing educational institutions to take additional students. [More…]

• Hopefully Senator Carrick will have an extra $ I m to play with in respect of educational institutions when he makes a statement on education guidelines next week. [More…]

• We would hope that he would have available more money for expenditure on legitimate tertiary education institutions; that money will no longer be wasted by this Government on this absurd Dr Strangelove academy which the Minister for Defence and the Prime Minister have been pursuing; that the money will be allocated more appropriately in the course of the education budget to enable Senator Carrick to fulfill some of the promises he has made in the past about education; and that the country will not suffer in any sense by the abandonment of this pet project. [More…]

• This Bill does not increase any of the nongovernment schools general recurrent and migrant education grants as the necessary adjustments to these grants have been effected previously. [More…]

• States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment B il 1979 [More…]

• This Bill amends the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978. [More…]

• The Bill adjusts the approved programs of grants to the States for tertiary education for the years 1978 and 1979 by providing additional amounts in the light of variations in costs between June and December 1978. [More…]

• In addition to supplementing the grants for 1979 in respect of approved advanced education level courses in technical and further education institutions, the Bill provides a further $485,000 for these courses. [More…]

• It also modifies the conditions relating to the provision of funds for special initiatives in the training of TAFE teachers in order that State instrumentalities as well as colleges of advanced education may become eligible to receive grants. [More…]

• In my statement to the Senate on 19 October 1 978 I noted that a shortfall in expenditure of the 1978 tertiary education capital programs would enable additional university and college of advanced education capital projects to commence in the second half of 1979. [More…]

• In accordance with the Government’s decision to restore fixed triennial funding for recurrent expenditure the Bill also provides recurrent grants for colleges of advanced education in respect of the years 1 980 and 1981 at the same real level as for 1 979, and supplements the recurrent grants to universities, for these years, which were provided previously in the Principal Act. [More…]

• The total provisions for recurrent expenditure- other than for equipment- for universities and colleges of advanced education are $6 15.8m and $422. [More…]

• It is expected that arrangements for recurrent grants for technical and further education in respect of 1980 and 1981 will be announced during the Budget sittings after the Government has considered the Report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• The proposed level of assistance, $55 per student per month at December quarter 1978 cost levels up to a maximum of $550 per student per annum, is the rate which was recommended by the Tertiary Education Commission in its Report on Nongovernment Business Colleges. [More…]

• Assistance in 1 979 is being provided in respect of courses which were in existence in 1978 and met the guidelines recommended by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• In approving courses beyond 1979, the Minister for Education will be advised by a small Standing Committee. [More…]

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister Assisting the Minister for Education (Senator Chaney) has now given an undertaking that the regulations will be amended so as to allow for the acceptance of late applications for the benefits concerned. [More…]

• Since March we have had three Ministers for Foreign Affairs, three Ministers for Defence, three Ministers for Health, three Ministers for Education and Science, three Attorneys-General, two Treasurers, two Ministers for Labour and National Service, two Ministers for Immigration, two Ministers for the Navy, two Ministers for Housing, two Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and two Ministers for Supply. [More…]

• The document goes on to cover a number of other departments, including the Department of Commercial and Industrial Development and the Department of Education. [More…]

• Page 6 of the new guidelines states that the following bodies may act as advisory bodies: Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, Department of Commercial and Industrial Development, Department of Education, Department of Forestry, Department of Harbours and Marine, Department of Health, Irrigation and Water Supply Commission, Land Administration Commission, Local Government Department, Main Roads Department, Department of Mapping and Surveying and Office of the Surveyor-General, Department of Mines, National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Police, Department of Primary Industries, Queensland Fisheries Service- that does not necessarily make it a fishy statement- Queensland Water Resources Department, Railway Department, State Electricity Commission, Department of Tourism, Department of Transport and Department of Works. [More…]

• Many honourable senators would know that subsidies were paid to stations for education, if education was not provided by the Department, for health care and for messing. [More…]

• I am happy to tell him that the Tertiary Education Commission did provide a list of high priority building projects amounting to some $5m- those projects included, for example, the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of New South Wales- and that the Government was able to proceed with them. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and seeks to draw his urgent attention to the growing graduate brain drain out of Australia as a result of the Government’s attitude towards post-graduate research grants. [More…]

• The question asked by Senator Kilgariff implies that the Neal-Hird report was specifically on Northern Territory education. [More…]

• The recommendations of the panel on the Northern Territory were considered by a working party composed of the parties involved in education in the Northern Territory, but implementation of the working party’s recommendations was deferred pending negotiations with the Northern Territory Government on the hand-over of education from 1 July. [More…]

• These recommendations have now had the endorsement of the Northern Territory Minister for Education as improvements that he would like to see implemented in the Northern Territory education system. [More…]

• But in the last week I received a reply to a request I made to the Victorian Minister for Education for some details about Victoria’s migrant education program and migrant education teachers. [More…]

• A paragraph in the letter caused me some concern, lt reads: lt is pointed out that a State-wide survey of all schools will be carried out by the Child Migrant Education Service in June. [More…]

• Statistical information regarding the enrolment of children of migrant background in schools which have not sought assistance from the Child Migrant Education Service in the past will then be available. [More…]

• Yet the Minister for Education in Victoria is telling me that next year a survey will be carried out to find out the sort of problem that exists in Victoria at the moment. [More…]

• I was told that the guidelines for entitlement were determined by the Department, and they were determined not to provide an entitlement for migrant teachers where they are needed, but to provide an equitable distribution of the total number of migrant education teachers. [More…]

• This whole field of education has to be undertaken by the children in their spare time. [More…]

• I as a parent- I suppose originally I came from some migrant background, but it is so far back that it plays little part in my life or the lives of my children- resent the fact that my children are growing up alongside children whose background and culture could enrich their lives and my life if the Department of Education in Victoria and if the Federal Minister of Education (Senator Carrick) took a broader view of what we mean and what: we want when we say that we want education funded they make little effort to employ bilingual teachers. [More…]

• On the other hand, as copyright is in the nature of a monopoly, the law should ensure, as far as possible, that the rights conferred are not abused and that study, research and education are not unduly hampered. [More…]

• -As I understand it we are having a cognate debate on two machinery Bills in relation to education matters. [More…]

• At the outset 1 wish to make some general comments about the state of education funding in Australia and to illustrate those general comments by referring to some documents. [More…]

• I wish to be quite brief in my remarks on these Bills because I think it was foreshadowed in the little horror Budget statement of last Thursday week that the Senate would have an opportunity to debate the matter of education funding some time this week. [More…]

• Quite apart from any question of keeping one ‘s powder dry, it is important that we should debate the matter in the context of the cuts which have been foreshadowed by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) and which we assume the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is still working on, having been told that they would take place. [More…]

• There has been much talk in the Senate in the course of a number of debates on education matters about the question of the general level of education funding in respect of two governments- the Whitlam Government and the Fraser Government. [More…]

• I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that in 1971-72 and 1972- 73- the last years of the Liberal McMahon Government- expenditure on education by the Australian Government in constant dollar terms based on 1970-71 values, was $327m in 1971-72 and $390m in 1972-73. [More…]

• In 1973- 74 annual expenditure on education increased by 92.8 per cent. [More…]

• In terms of constant 1971 dollars those figures represent an enormous increase in education expenditure in the years of the Whitlam Government and a tailing off to plus 0.5 per cent in the first year, plus 2.8 per cent in the second year, minus 0.4 per cent in the third year and an estimated minus 1.8 per cent in the fourth year of the Fraser Government. [More…]

• AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT OUTLAY ON EDUCATION IN CURRENT AND CONSTANT 1970-71 DOLLARS 1970-71 TO 1978-79 [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/senate/1979/19790604_senate_31_s81/#subdebate-55-0)

• Those bald figures reflect both the general position in relation to education funding– [More…]

• That survey was conduced under the direction of Dr J. P. Keeves, Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research, Professor Sid Dunn, Chairman of the Education Research and Development Committee and members of the Australian National University Survey Research Centre. [More…]

• The sampling technique was approved by a consultative panel of eminent researchers which included Dr J. P. Keeves, Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research, Professor S. S. Dunn, Chairman of the Education Research and Development Committee and members of the Australian National University Survey Research Centre. [More…]

• I think that is sad for the education system in this country as a whole, and it is a cause of continuing concern. [More…]

• I refer briefly to the question of funding of tertiary education and the relevant Bill relating to it. [More…]

• Before doing so, I draw attention to the fact that in the second reading speech the Minister for Education has made a number of references to the activities of this Government in education policy, which seem to centre around a number of reports. [More…]

• Every time an education issue is raised a new committee of inquiry is appointed to deal with it. [More…]

• We wait with bated breath- as we did with the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, and get a pronunciamento of the most doubtful validity and value. [More…]

• For example, the Williams report, which was described with a degree of euphoria before it was presented as a blueprint for education to the year 2000, seems to have resulted only in a sort of governmental hangover. [More…]

• Much can be said of this method of dealing with education issues by establishing yet another committee, and I refer to some of the committees which have been established and the reports that have been made available to the Government. [More…]

• Regular reports have been received from the Schools Commission and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• Others include the Williams report, the report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties, the Australian Council of Educational Research report on literacy and numeracy, and the report of yet another inquiry, the Auchmuty Inquiry into Teacher Education, which one suspects was stimulated by that debate about literacy and numeracy. [More…]

• Each of those reports make recommendations that one imagines are supposed to be in fulfilment of the Minister’s frequent statements that what this Government is concerned about is qualitative considerations in education in the context of the argument of getting itself off the hook about quantitative considerations. [More…]

• Of course, we are all concerned about qualitative issues in education, but whenever one asks a question about them in this place one is told that yet another committee of inquiry is looking into the problem. [More…]

• Before the Williams Committee reported, any questions relating to tertiary education, particularly the technical and further education sector, were answered in much the same way: ‘The Williams Committee will provide an answer to this question ‘.lam not condemning the Minister for that. [More…]

• I refer briefly to the question of tertiary education funding in the context of these two Bills. [More…]

• We are concerned that the tertiary education sector should not in any sense be made the scapegoat for the Government’s performance in managing the Budget deficit. [More…]

• Of course, the question will arise very nicely at the forthcoming Premiers Conference, both in relation to schools and in relation to aspects of tertiary education funding. [More…]

• It is after the Premiers Conference that we might have the most valuable debate about whether the State contribution in terms of school funding and in terms of funding of certain areas of tertiary education can be maintained and has been maintained, and whether the States will have the capacity to maintain that contribution in the light of general revenue cutbacks and in the light of their expressed concern not to impose the State taxation stage of new federalism. [More…]

• There are some broad facts about which we must be concerned in relation to tertiary education. [More…]

• The Committee said that in 1978 enrolments in universities and colleges of advanced education were slightly greater than the proposed level. [More…]

• There are substantial differences in participation rates, and therefore differences in equality of access to tertiary education, between the States. [More…]

• I make it quite clear that when I say that is a matter of regret and concern in relation to tertiary education, I believe very strongly that the universities themselves have some responsibilies in this matter. [More…]

• Last year the Government reduced by $ 12m the amounts proposed by the Tertiary Education Commission for operating expenditure of universities and colleges and froze that level of funding for 1979 and 1980. [More…]

• lt is perhaps a little glib, with respect, to try to distinguish qualitative from quantitative considerations in the constitutional context of funding education. [More…]

• I refer particularly to what the Minister for Education has said in the past about these matters. [More…]

• For example, in a statement to the Senate on 30 March 1 977 on a matter of urgency regarding education Senator Carrick said: [More…]

• Those who claim here or elsewhere that we have made cuts in federal education expenditure are deliberately misrepresenting the situation. [More…]

• We have expanded education in every field. [More…]

• The simple fact is that in terms of the quantity of funds provided in every direction, in the quality of delivery and in an understanding of the goals of education, an understanding that we ought to get back to the basics of education, to make sure that we look at the basic skills- numeracy and literacy as well as innovation- this Government is setting a lead, lt is a lead that is recognised throughout Australia. [More…]

• The point I seek to make is that it is very difficult to distinguish qualitative considerations- if they are things one just talks about in the Senate- from quantitative considerations in view of the role of the Federal Government in education funding, lt has no real constitutional power. [More…]

• The role has been assumed by Federal governments of both persuasions, creating this somewhat messy situation which we have in which it is difficult to divine a national purpose in education and educational funding. [More…]

• For that reason, we do not oppose it, but it is our desire to draw attention to some of the basic concerns and issues involved in education funding. [More…]

• The States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill 1979 and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1 979, are essentially of a machinery nature. [More…]

• Perhaps the most interesting feature of the changing relationship between the Commonwealth and the States in the whole of the post-war period has been the changing role that the Commonwealth has assumed in the provision of funds for education. [More…]

• There has been a great change in provision of education services and the degree of control in the education sector by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Public expenditure on education, which in 1956-57 was about 2.1 per cent of the gross domestic product, had risen to 5.8 per cent by the 1976-77 period. [More…]

• I think that the changing nature of Commonwealth-State relationships reflected in the education sector is one of the factors that we have to bear in mind in discussions of the Commonwealth’s role of providing the money, as it does in the schools sector, without having much of the constitutional power to see that the money is spent according to its own priorities that it may consider important. [More…]

• Over the last two Budgets we have seen expenditure on education vary slightly. [More…]

• It can be seen that education, as an item, ranks only behind social service and welfare payments to the States and health as the most important single component of a Commonwealth Budget. [More…]

• Education expenditure from this point onwards will undoubtedly be substantially influenced by the recommendations of the Williams Committee. [More…]

• It is proposed that those recommendations, which have given rise to a certain amount of debate throughout the community, will take place in a number of different fields and in a number of fields which I think will change the emphasis of Commonwealth involvement in education expenditure. [More…]

• I suppose this is neither the time nor the place to go in detail into the recommendations that Professor Williams’s report puts before the Government, but I think it is important to note that we are operating in a slightly different educational atmosphere since the tabling of the Williams report and that Government decisions and Government priorities will be very largely measured against the recommendations of that particular report. [More…]

• I want to turn to the sort of proposals that we see embodied in the Bill dealing with tertiary education. [More…]

• This Government has particularly committed itself to a substantial expenditure in expanding the technical and further education sector of tertiary education. [More…]

• I believe there has been a great deal of confusion about the role of different sectors in education. [More…]

• There is a great deal of confusion about the proper role that the colleges of advanced education play. [More…]

• There is a great deal of confusion about the proper position of the TAFE sector within the overall education system. [More…]

• Harking back to Williams we know that technical and further education receives particularly favourable treatment from Williams in terms of his recommendations. [More…]

• We know that in terms of the recommendations that this Government has adopted and has acted upon, once again technical and further education appears to be doing considerably better than other sectors. [More…]

• But even so there is some confusion and uncertainty as to exactly what purpose technical and further education will serve, how it should best be worked into the overall post-secondary education system, and how even the priorities within the TAFE sector should be adjusted. [More…]

• Although I think the Williams report does not analyse in the sort of detail that the Government would need to analyse particularly what trades are referred to, particularly which locations are referred to, and particularly what is wrong with that specific sector of the tradesman’s activities, it does, I think, cause us to pause and examine where technical and further education should be headed, and how it should relate to other sectors of post-secondary education. [More…]

• This Bill, in providing additional assistance for TAFE and TAFE institutions, is a continuing recognition of a policy that the Government embarked upon some time ago in improving the TAFE sector in relation to the universities and to the colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• It is to be hoped that in exactly the same way as governments were motivated to establish and support the Clyde Cameron College, in the belief that people operating in the trade union sector ought to have access to a greater degree of expertise, to greater assistance and to greater resources in order to allow them to fulfil their proper role within the educational and industrial sector, so I am sure that Australian management will benefit from taking a more intelligent and more scientific approach to the role it has to play in the mixed economy. [More…]

• I think this will be one of the more settling and one of the more important aspects of the way in which tertiary education will now be confronted with the necessity to put its own house in order as far as expenditure is concerned; to work on a slightly longer term, and a slightly more integrated program of future expenditure than has been the case in the past, and the way in which institutions reacted to the decision to provide them only with a system of annual funding. [More…]

• This is indicated in the current schedules regarding tertiary education. [More…]

• As this is the first opportunity for debate on educational matters since the tabling of the Williams report it might be appropriate to say something about the question of university fees, if only to indicate that the comments that have been made, particularly the comments that have been made in the newsletter of the Australian Union of Students and elsewhere that the Williams report is a report which urges the reestablishment of tertiary education fees, are not a correct charge. [More…]

• I think it is useful to put on the record, when one is talking about tertiary education, that whatever the decisions that may be made in the future, the Williams report is not a document urging upon the Government the reestablishment of these fees. [More…]

• On 13 October 1978 the Tertiary Education Committee reported on this particular matter to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• He placed on notice the following question directed to the Minister for Education: [More…]

• They relate to the length of time for which courses should attract assistance and state that the colleges should move to become non-profit making colleges, that the rate for 1979 should be $55 per student per month, that the total amount of assistance paid to an individual college in a given year should not be greater than the actual expenditure incurred in that year in the provision of the courses supported, that the course approvals should be made by a special committee to be established and that students should be eligible to apply for living allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme as well as any support that the college might be receiving as far as the direct education of those students is concerned. [More…]

• Although Williams’s brief was initially to inquire into education and training, with particular reference to the postsecondary sector, I think it important that he intruded very substantially into the schools sector to make the following analysis and criticism at paragraph R4.2: [More…]

• It is one criticism which I think will be adequately taken up and analysed under the new reference which has been given to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• That Committee is to look particularly at the role of the school in preparing the student for employment or for post-secondary education. [More…]

• In the Sydney Morning Herald of 13 March 1979, a former very distinguished and undoubtedly very highly regarded Minister for Education, Mr Kim Beazley, wrote an article entitled Needs of the gifted student’. [More…]

• What I am saying in this debate on education, which deals with the provision of money to schools, is that I made the point earlier that the Commonwealth has a very limited constitutional capacity to direct the money it provides to the States for schools assistance into the areas which appear to be the areas of considerably greatest need. [More…]

• Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was making a point, in response to a comment by Senator Robertson, to the effect that the Federal Government found itself in the difficult position of being required to provide very large amounts of money for secondary school education without having very much control over the way in which that money is then distributed and spent within the secondary school sector. [More…]

• As an illustration I want to take up a point about the continuing debate in Australia about what is called bicultural or multicultural education. [More…]

• I note with some degree of regret that the legislation we are considering this evening contains no provision for any expanded finance to be made available to combat the problems which are increasingly apparent within the Australian education system as far as our attitude to bicultural and multicultural education is concerned. [More…]

• In an article entitled ‘Australians: Imprisoned within the four walls of our monolingualism’ which appeared in the Canberra Times of 2 1 May, Professor Ray Cattell, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Newcastle, made a particularly important statement about the lack of effective multicultural education in Australian secondary schools. [More…]

• At a conference in 1976 called ‘Australia 2000: The Ethnic Impact’ a paper entitled ‘Bilingual-bicultural Education in a Multicultural Society’ was delivered by Pino Geracitano. [More…]

• Hence, it has emphasised assimilation at the expense of education. [More…]

• In an article in the Journal of Research and Development in Education of November 1977, Leon Frazier indicated that part of the problem was the lack of perception among trainee teachers of the need to possess greater awareness of these problems. [More…]

• The major and most important single unit in determining the reality of education that is multicultural is the teacher. [More…]

• The teacher generally holds the reins of opportunity in the educational situation and is a key factor in the formation of critical attitudes in students. [More…]

• L. J. Dwyer, in an article entitled ‘Education for a Multicultural Society- What and How? [More…]

• The provision of education for a multicultural society is both a political and a knowledge problem. [More…]

• In discussing it as a political problem Dwyer was at pains to emphasise that the decisions as far as multicultural education is concerned have to be taken at the very highest level. [More…]

• I would particularly commend to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and to the Government the pioneering work done in Australia by Dr J. J. Smolicz of the University of Adelaide, who will be known to many honourable senators. [More…]

• I hope that the provision of additional money for the school system will result in the provision of additional information and the payment of additional attention to the problems of what one can call bicultural or multicultural education. [More…]

• Mrs Frenkel of the Classical Language Teachers Association drew attention to that when writing in the Education Herald of 22 May of this year. [More…]

• Indeed, a paper tabled today- that is, the paper entitled ‘Provision for child migrant education ‘-draws attention to the recommendations made in the Galbally report involving the teaching of English as a second language requiring the provision of an extra $ 10m for funding and the allocation of $5m over the course of three years for multicultural education in schools. [More…]

• In Gilmour and Lansbury’s book entitled Ticket to Nowhere one of the points they make is the crying need for education systems to be what they described as ‘sufficiently flexible to enable individuals to make considerable changes in their work situations at any stage during their working life ‘. [More…]

• No longer should an individual with minimal education be condemned to the secondary labour market forever, while the more fortunate have life-long membership of the primary labour market. [More…]

• Education must broaden people’s life chances rather than restrict them to particular segments of the labour market. [More…]

• This means that education must be for life and not merely for work. [More…]

• The main penalties for failure in the education system are low pay, poverty and unemployment. [More…]

• If one needed any additional information on this one would have to turn only to some of the published documents in the Poverty and Education Series of the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty. [More…]

• Another of the Henderson Commission series entitled ‘Poverty, education and adolescents’ reported in the following terms: [More…]

• I turn to questions which are not addressed in the general debate about education. [More…]

• I believe that the Williams report fails to come to grips with some of the very important aspects of education in the future, including the ability to tell us something about how education will fit in with the new technology. [More…]

• There is no mention of what will happen to the education system when, because of television, cables, optical fibres and all the rest of it, one can be educated almost in isolation at home on the end of a television screen. [More…]

• The quality of education will be second to none but it will be conducted in the isolation of one’s home, removed from one’s peers and without any of those human contacts that are so important. [More…]

• I find it distressing that in a Bill about tertiary education one of the greatest experiments in tertiary education once again receives no mention. [More…]

• It is the largest educational institution in the country. [More…]

• Yet it appears that in Australia, despite the fact that we had a Tertiary Education Commission paper some years ago on the Open University, there is virtually nothing to be said about it for the future. [More…]

• First, there were then few courses open to working adults who wished to take degrees, and those that existed tended to provide for people who already had educational qualifications; second, there had been a tremendous growth in television and radio programmes of a broadly educational kind; third, there was strong political support in certain quarters for measures to increase egalitarianism and combat elitism in education. [More…]

• The University of Paris VIII, otherwise known as Vicennes, is again a bold experiment which appears at the moment to have no place in the Australian education system. [More…]

• At that college there is not only a core of enrolled students but also people who come and go off the streets to receive additional part-time education. [More…]

• The final thing that needs to be said in this respect is that there is some need for a return to what tended to be regarded as basic standards in education. [More…]

• I think that most people who follow the education debate would be familiar with the views of Professor Lauchlan Chipman on why schools appear to be increasingly irrelevant, why parents increasingly are shirking their educational responsibilities and why there is no form of increasing accountability in public education. [More…]

• I believe that unless these issues are confronted the education system in Australia will simply grind along with the deficiencies that Williams and others have exposed year after year. [More…]

• I hope that they will be the last Bills which do not take account of the sort of material which Williams has put before us and of the sorts of challenges which the education system will need to face up to in the 1980s and beyond. [More…]

• Early in his speech he looked at the need for some sort of control of education, as he called it, by the Federal Government because of the funding that has been provided by the Federal Government. [More…]

• Senator Puplick mentioned that he had read through the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training and that he supported many of the contentions in it. [More…]

• We have listened to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who has said that the more he reads Williams the more he finds in it and the more lead it gives him. [More…]

• I was pleased to hear Senator Puplick mention bicultural education. [More…]

• Senator Puplick suggested that the States should shoulder the responsibility for bicultural education. [More…]

• There is certainly a need for migrants to be given some assistance, and the point has been made many times- I have done so myself in this place- that the guidance, instruction and education could be given, or could at least start, in the originating countries and on board ship. [More…]

• Senator Puplick moved then to talk about life-long education and, in one of his quotations, said that education was for life, not for work. [More…]

• It is, I believe, generally accepted that education is a life-long process. [More…]

• I would put the proposition that education is for all. [More…]

• Older senators in this place may recall the New Education Fellowship Conference that was held in Australia in 1937. [More…]

• It brought together educationists from all over the world to look at this topic of education for living. [More…]

• It stressed education of the young, because that was the sort of thing that was in vogue in those days, but it did introduce educationists in Australia to folk schools, adult education, rural education and many of the things that at that time were not part of the Australian scene. [More…]

• It is interesting that in 1937, which was quite a few years ago, we had introduced to the Australian scene this education for living concept. [More…]

• If education has these broad parameters- I do not think there can be any doubt about that- the Government must be involved. [More…]

• If we broaden the parameters of education, obviously the Federal Government has some responsibility, not only for funding but also in the broad policy area. [More…]

• In 1952, the then Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, introduced income tax deductions for education expenses. [More…]

• It was of assistance to those parents who were spending money on the education of their children. [More…]

• These things, although they were innovations at the time, did very little towards achieving the concept of equality of education as we understand it. [More…]

• The Liberal-National Country Party governments have a poor record in the second area, that is, what we might call the social wage area, because cuts in social welfare areashealth, housing and social services- all have an effect upon education. [More…]

• I have selected this range because one might ask: What has sewerage to do with the cost of education? [More…]

• What has aged persons’ homes to do with the cost of education? [More…]

• We just cannot consider funding for education in isolation. [More…]

• It had a clear intention to improve the equality of opportunity and the standard of education available across the board. [More…]

• People such as Kim Beazley recognised that they had to work within the Constitution, because it clearly gives certain educational responsibility to the States. [More…]

• It found that most schools lacked sufficient resources, that there were gross inequalities amongst schools and that the quality of education left much to be desired. [More…]

• Others were: Primary and secondary libraries; disadvantaged schools; special education; teacher development; and innovations. [More…]

• Perhaps bicultural education, which Senator Puplick mentioned, might be one of these. [More…]

• In the early stages of bicultural education a pilot program could be set up. [More…]

• This is a matter at which the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts looked. [More…]

• So, we saw the introduction of the Aboriginal Secondary Education Grants scheme, bi-lingual education and a number of other projects which helped Aboriginal children. [More…]

• After a settling in period, it is fair to say, most States used the money wisely and were prepared to cooperate, and because the people in the State departments saw the needs of the children they were able to clarify for the Federal Department of Education the needs in their areas. [More…]

• In other words, funding which came from the Federal Government acted as some sort of incentive- or perhaps in the educational sense, since the Senate has a Ph.D. in Education in the chair, the motivation to do these things. [More…]

• A justification which would be implied for any sort of cut in funding- I am afraid we must expect cuts because the Treasurer (Mr Howard) has warned there will be cuts and the Minister for Education has not denied that there will be cuts- would be along the lines that schooling is not effective. [More…]

• Honourable senators say ‘education’, but they mean schooling. [More…]

• There has already been agreement from Government senators that education is for life. [More…]

• Before the Williams report, the present Minister for Education, whenever he was questioned about these things, would always come up with a comment to the effect that it is not possible to compare what is happening at the moment with what was happening 10, 20 or 30 years ago because there are not statistics for those times; we have only the current statistics. [More…]

• Of course it is not but money does mean more teachers and resources, better schools, more aids, supporting staff, counselling, remedial classes and special education. [More…]

• Nobody could possibly say that these things do not represent better education or, for that matter, better schooling. [More…]

• When confronted, the present Minister for Education always trots out comments about the quality of education and says- citing the piece of research done in England- that class size is not important. [More…]

• What do we mean by ‘quality of education’? [More…]

• I wish to quote the Queensland Teachers Union idea of what quality of education is, even though those comments refer to the scene in one State. [More…]

• Quality Education and the Individual Needs of Children ‘ it states: [More…]

• Queensland parents should be entitled to feel confident that the education provided in the state system is of the highest standard, that ample attention is given in the schools to the pupils and students as individuals and that their educational needs will be met by professional people whose ability to meet these needs is not seriously impaired by the imposition of unreasonable funding constraints. [More…]

• We would bc failing in our duty if we did not reiterate what has been stated many times before- that the continuing financial stringencies imposed on this state’s education system have exacerbated the inadequacies in the provision of basic resources, both human resources in terms of professional and non-professional staff, and physical resources in terms of buildings, facilities and equipment. [More…]

• Teachers throughout the world are remarkably consistent in advocating that maximum class size should be set at 25 to 30 pupils for primary and secondary levels of education, with smaller classes at the senior secondary level, infant level, for practical work and for specialist groups. [More…]

• The Australian Teachers Federation, the Australian College of Education, the Council of Government Schools Organisations and so on have all come out with pretty clear statements about what we mean by the quality of education. [More…]

• Professor Pearl, professor of education in California, came to Australian ‘to raise the level of debate on reasons behind growing unemployment problems, particularly youth unemployment’. [More…]

• If education is to play the role it should play what sort of new directions and new approaches would have to be followed? [More…]

• We would have to move away from an essentially static curriculum in which the students arc passive recipients of knowledge for future utility and move towards problem solving education where the knowledges are being directly applied immediately to relevant problems so that the curriculum is organised around seeing the students as participants in life rather than being organised for a preparation for life. [More…]

• The one thing that education doesn’t need to do as our society very rapidly is facing important decisions and undergoing rapid changes is to be forced back into some antiquated notion of educational programs. [More…]

• Education must go forwards, not backwards and it is not going to go forward unless it provides the relevant curriculum. [More…]

• I cannot speak in a debate on education without mentioning the Northern Territory but I will be very brief. [More…]

• The situation is extraordinary in that I wrote to the Northern Territory Minister about this and he wrote back to say that the whole matter will be fixed up ‘when we take over education’. [More…]

• There are still problems with Aboriginal education and with staff ceilings, a shortage of support staff and so on ad nauseam. [More…]

• I will mention one other aspect, and that is the Bill which will oversee education in the Northern Territory after 1 July. [More…]

• This is the Bill which no doubt had its genesis in the Minister’s office, the Bill which should have been the pacesetter for the rest of Australia, this wonderful opportunity that we had to be innovative, perhaps to introduce something completely new in education and to provide, on the experience that we had in the States, a system which hopefully would be without defects. [More…]

• It is a Bill which was to lay the foundations of the Northern Territory’s educational system. [More…]

• Not only were there 70 amendments, but also some of these were collected by the Northern Territory Minister for Education and some were collected by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]

• This wonderful preparation required a joint effort on the part of the two parties in the Northern Territorycommendable though that might be- to make 70 amendments to a Bill setting up education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The Australian Teachers Federation has expressed real fears about the course of education if funds are cut. [More…]

• I call on the Government, when considering future funding, to remember that education is for life. [More…]

• I take advantage of the debate on these Bills concerning the funding of government schools to draw attention to an area in which funding is not being extended, an area of education to which the Federal Government and the State governments have not looked. [More…]

• It was felt that because it was thought that the children were mentally retarded they required no sort of education. [More…]

• So they were given no education; they were just kept in the building. [More…]

• She found that there was no educational program for the children and endeavoured to begin one. [More…]

• The children had lived all their lives there without any education program at all. [More…]

• At the end of 1975 the Education Department conceded that they might need some sort of education. [More…]

• By September of that year- a bare five months later- Anne, who had never had any education or stimulation, had begun using words in sentences and spelling out sentences. [More…]

• After not being given any education until 1977, Anne is now at a most advanced level, and some people say that she is capable of doing third year university mathematics. [More…]

• The Director of Special Education in Victoria was told of the program. [More…]

• The Minister of Education and the Minister of Special Education in Victoria were told of the program that was being conducted for the children and of the advance they had made, but no action was taken, presumably because they were still quite sure that their original prediction that Anne was mentally retarded was right and that these people were fooling themselves. [More…]

• Even though it maintained that no education was necessary, it agreed that the Possum communication device, costing a large amount of money, could be bought. [More…]

• The special education centre at Burwood State College had watched the children work and had watched this particular child work. [More…]

• The Mental Health Authority was not prepared to let anybody else into its area, the Department of Education did not have the strength or the will to move in, and the Ministers could not have cared less. [More…]

• People who were concerned and who worked with them asked the State department for funds in order to give these children proper education and a proper place to live. [More…]

• The Schools Commission was asked for funds from the innovations program to give these children the education and the environment they needed. [More…]

• The case was submitted to the Federal Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and he showed concern. [More…]

• He referred it to the State Minister of Education and to the Minister of Special Education, who replied that it was a matter for the Mental Health Authority and that they should not interfere. [More…]

• The State would like to hide behind the idea that the mentally retarded do not need any education, that the mentally retarded are not the problem of the Education Department, and the Department agrees. [More…]

• These people are not mentally handicapped, but the State and Federal governments and the State and Federal education departments do not want to know about what is happening to them and do not want to look at them. [More…]

• The report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training- the Williams reporthas been quoted to us over the last few weeks and will be quoted to us again. [More…]

• The Committee recommends to Commonwealth and State authorities that existing special education programs for the handicapped bc extended beyond the statutory school leaving agc and provided in the vocational setting. [More…]

• They raised the matter of the future of St Nicholas Hospital, of its children and of its education annexe and its staff. [More…]

• These children are now caught up entirely in the functions of the Health Authority and the Education Department has no word in it. [More…]

• The Union sent letters to the Minister for Health, Mr Houghton, and the Minister for Special Education, Mr Scanlan, in September of last year. [More…]

• The Ministers were advised that education staff in the old building at Drummond Street, Carlton, which was formerly the Children’s Hospital, were jeopardising their health and the safety of the students by carrying the children frequently on a 16-step fire-escape which provided the only access between the dormitories and the education area. [More…]

• At the annexe, five teachers and four full time and three part time teacher aides provide an educational service for children who are multiple handicapped. [More…]

• At a time when only 55 of the 108 children can receive any help from teaching staff, only 38 of them participate in group ward programs and 17 receive any intensive programming, there appears to be prolonged procrastination between the Health, Public Works and Special Education Departments. [More…]

• These people need education. [More…]

• I believe that the Federal Government has a duty to provide education for everybody. [More…]

• I believe that it has a duty to provide education for people who are mentally retarded, and to educate them to the full extent of their capacity. [More…]

• It certainly has a duty to provide education for people such as my friends at St Nicholas. [More…]

• I hope that we will take to heart varying portions of the report of the Williams Committee on Education, Training and Employment. [More…]

• The quality and range of the system of education is of great importance to the future of our country. [More…]

• They are the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill 1979 and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1979. [More…]

• It will be remembered that fees in tertiary institutions were abolished in 1974, and the tertiary education assistance scheme, or TEAS, as it is normally called, was introduced. [More…]

• For those honourable senators who are interested, I would commend to them the report dated October 1978 of the Tertiary Education Commission on nongovernment business colleges. [More…]

• Because the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill 1979, one of the two Bills we are discussing, provides grants to States for government and non-government schools in respect of cost increases, I am taking the opportunity to make some mention of primary and secondary education in government schools in Australia. [More…]

• There is a general opinion fostered by some parts of the media and, I suspect, by some sections of the Government that everything is satisfactory with regard to resources provided to education in Australia. [More…]

• It has been suggested over the past couple of weeks- we will find out in the next two days or so whether or not it is correct- that we are to learn of some real cuts in education funding in the forthcoming year. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has continually stated in this chamber that certain resource targets have been reached. [More…]

• I suspect that he will use this argument to justify the education cuts that he is predicted to announce this week. [More…]

• To back up the argument that I am proposing, that there are certain aspects of education in Queensland for which funds are needed, I refer honourable senators to a document entitled ‘ Report of the National Survey of Conditions in Schools by the Australian Teachers Federation 1978’. [More…]

• Queensland education is characterised by heavy teaching loads, very large infants classes and relatively large secondary classes. [More…]

• I should mention that the schools in the Torres Strait area, except for the schools on Thursday Island, are not under the control of the State Education Department; they are under the control of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. [More…]

• Yet we still hear many arguments from people who say that we should have less funds for education. [More…]

• The Opposition does not oppose these two machinery Bills and we are quite happy to see them passed, but some of us have used the opportunity to outline what we consider should be the attitude of the Government when it is looking at the funding of education in the future, and some of the problems that exist in some of the areas we represent. [More…]

• The Opposition is not opposing these two Bills- the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill. [More…]

• I was disturbed to learn of the concern being expressed in Lismore and the surrounding districts about the failure of the Government to make a positive announcement as to whether the proposed cuts in the Federal Budget will affect the development and construction of the campus of the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• It is all very well for the Deputy Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Richmond (Mr Anthony), to say in Murwillumbah last week that the Government has to look at the amount of unemployment benefits being paid, especially in the area that he represents, when for years the Government of which he is a member has been saying that the northern part of New South Wales will be provided with a college of advanced education. [More…]

• I suggest to the Deputy Prime Minister and to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who also represents New South Wales, that if a positive assurance were given by the Government to the people in the far north of New South Wales that a college of advanced education would be built in the near future in that area, many of the problems, fears and anxieties of the people in that area would be overcome. [More…]

• This financial year the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education was allocated about $300,000 for the planning of the $8.1m campus which is to be built in East Lismore. [More…]

• Many people who are anxious to obtain work in the area have been waiting for an announcement as to whether work on the construction of the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education will commence next financial year. [More…]

• As I understand it, that preparatory work was funded by the Advanced Education Council, at a cost of some $40,000. [More…]

• What the people of Lismore, and indeed of the far North Coast of New South Wales, want from the Federal Government, and particularly the Minister at the table, the Minister for Education, is an announcement as to whether or not work on the construction of the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education will commence in the coming financial year. [More…]

• Certainly, there is a university at Armidale on the northern tablelands of the State and there is a university at Newcastle, but these people on the far north coast of New South Wales have been promised for a number of years a college of advanced education. [More…]

• Because I represent the State of New South Wales, as does the Minister for Education, I should like, on behalf of those who live in the far north coast of that State, an answer from him so that we will all know where we stand. [More…]

• If the Minister cannot answer during the debate on these Bills I would urge him to make a specific announcement later this week when, I understand, he will be making a statement on the general cuts proposed in education expenditure. [More…]

• Employment opportunities- or should I say lack of employment opportunities- and educational opportunities in Lismore and on the far north coast of New South Wales generally, the State that we both represent, really revolve around any such announcement that can be made. [More…]

• It states that the principal of the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education, Dr Whitebrook, had said that it was expected that the new campus would be built in five stages, with completion about 1986. [More…]

• I do not know whether the Minister for Education has been in the area in recent times. [More…]

• The recently tabled Report of the Inquiry into Education and Training recommended that research into the short- and long-term effects of unemployment be undertaken. [More…]

• Apart from the availability of unemployment benefit, programs such as the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Education Program for Unemployed Youths, and the Special Youth Employment Training Program are providing opportunities for young people to cope with unemployment and better equip themselves for the labour market. [More…]

• Department of Health, Education and Welfare [More…]

• What is the particular justification of an ‘Education Allowance’ being provided through the Department of Veterans’ Affairs which is not provided through the Minister’s Department. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• In view of the fact that the report of the Williams Committee on Education, Training and Employment is likely to be widely used for reference for some years to come, will the Minister consider directing that an index be prepared and published to accompany the three existing volumes of the report? [More…]

• So, this Government has set out to see that ordinary men and women have less wages, less food, less education, less health and, in the long run, of course, less security. [More…]

• We are now to have increases in personal tax, increases in health costs, rigorous pruning in the field of education, no benefit to those not genuinely seeking work irrespective of whether the work is there to seek or not, less money for housing and less money for public transport. [More…]

• It is no wonder that we cannot afford the unemployment benefit, health care, care of the aged and decent education for all children in Australia. [More…]

• by leave- In accordance with the practice of recent years, the Government is issuing guidelines to the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission as a basis for their recommendations on forthcoming programs. [More…]

• As indicated by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) in his recent statement on the Budget, there has been a most careful assessment of the education commissions’ programs, in the context of the Government’s commitment to exercising stringency in its own expenditures as a contribution to containing the size of the Budget deficit. [More…]

• The Government, in turn, looks to the States and to education authorities and institutions to review their own expenditure and priorities so as to ensure the most efficient use of available resources. [More…]

• Within the total allocations we have maintained the level of Commonwealth support for the delivery of services in each sector of education. [More…]

• The recurrent grants for universities and colleges of advanced education will be the same in 1980 as in 1979 in accordance with last year’s decisions for the triennium 1 979-8 1 . [More…]

• For technical and further education we have provided a small increase in recurrent grants. [More…]

• The total allocations for tertiary education will be marginally less- by 0.2 per cent. [More…]

• Grants to the States for technical and further education will be increased by 10.7 per cent, including a substantial increase in capital expenditure- a further demonstration of the Government’s high priority to TAFE. [More…]

• These allocations exclude Commonwealth specific purpose funding of education in the Northern Territory which will be determined later. [More…]

• -On Thursday night of last week the Treasurer (Mr Howard) brought down a statement which has been glorified with the description of ‘miniBudget’, and in which he stated that education programs had been more rigorously pruned than on any previous occasion. [More…]

• Yesterday, in the course of a debate on education matters in the Senate, I had incorporated in Hansard a table which showed Australian government outlays on education in current and constant 1970-71 dollars from the financial year 1 970-7 1 to the financial year 1978-79. [More…]

• The point I sought to make from the table was that, in constant dollar terms, there had been a decline in total education expenditure in the last two years. [More…]

• The expenditure and the cuts now announced by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) relate to the calendar year 1 980 and clearly will represent a further decline in that table if it is brought forward to include that year. [More…]

• The statement just made by the Minister for Education reveals the following simple and bald facts in relation to education expenditure: In the 1979 guidelines, expenditure on schools in Australia was up by one per cent, as indicated by the Minister at the time that that statement was brought down, after a great deal of discussion, negotiation and speculation about the level of school funding for the 1979 guidelines. [More…]

• In the 1979 guidelines, expenditure on technical and further education was increased by 19 per cent and in the present guidelines it is being increased by 10.7 per cent. [More…]

• In relation to the colleges of advanced education and universities, expenditure in 1979 was down by 0.5 per cent and in 1980 it will be reduced by 1.35 percent. [More…]

• From those figures, it is clear that 1 980 will be a vintage year in the slide of real expenditure on education by the Fraser Government. [More…]

• Of course, that brings forward quite graphically the fact that, in addition to other areas of government expenditure and activity, such as health services, education is now to be a sufferer as a result of this Government’s economic mismanagement. [More…]

• Education is now to suffer from a two-pronged squeeze: Firstly in the light of specific cuts made by the Government, as outlined in this statement, and, secondly, in relation to general purpose grants made to the States and matters which will become the subject of debate in education circles after the forthcoming Premiers Conference is held, when in our anticipation it will be made quite clear that the money available to the States for education purposes will be less than it has been in the past. [More…]

• Those matters are of importance not only because, as I said, 1980 will be a vintage year in relation to education expenditure but also because of consistent statements made by the Minister in particular over a long period as he- I say this with the greatest respect- has battled to preserve his empire in the face of overall economic mismanagement by the Government. [More…]

• I refer to the fact that in 1 977, in the course of the education debate, the Minister was saying things like this when speaking of the Fraser Government: [More…]

• Education has been given top priority in Fraser Government planning. [More…]

• The sort of top priority which the Fraser Government was giving to education in 1976 has now been totally inverted and stood on its head. [More…]

• As I said, education ranks high among those expenditure cuts. [More…]

• This was in 1976, if you please; it was not the 1979 show- thc Government has honoured its election promise to mainlain spending on essential education programs. [More…]

• The words ‘essential education programs’ beg a large number of questions. [More…]

• In the context of the present statement, it is very interesting to see what are now regarded as essential education programs and what were regarded as essential education programs in 1 976. [More…]

• Further, the Minister in 1 977 had this to say in the Senate about the attitude of the Government and the priority it gave to education. [More…]

• Those who claim here or elsewhere that we have made cuts in Federal education expenditure are deliberately misrepresenting the situation. [More…]

• We have expanded education in every field. [More…]

• Has the Government expanded education in every field? [More…]

• Are those people who accused it of reducing drastically expenditure in education misrepresenting the situation? [More…]

• The simple Tact is that in terms or the quantity of funds provided in every direction, in the quality of delivery and in an understanding of the goals of education, an understanding that wc ought to get back to the basics of education, to make sure that we look at the basic skills- numeracy and literacy as well as innovation- this Government is setting a lead. [More…]

• I wish to make one general observation about the nature of the education debate which has taken place since this Government came to power. [More…]

• He said that this Government gives a lead in an understanding of the goals and the basics of education. [More…]

• A most extraordinary, glib smoke screen has been laid across the education debate ever since the Fraser Government came to office because there have been no new initiatives in education by the Fraser Government. [More…]

• What has the Government done in respect of qualitative considerations in education. [More…]

• Whenever it gets a whiff of a breeze which it suspects suggests a qualitative change in community thinking about priorities in education all it does is to set up a committee of inquiry to investigate that matter. [More…]

• Particularly in the field of education it has been apparent again and again on important occasions that that is the solution to any qualitative consideration in the education debate which has concerned this Government in any way. [More…]

• First of all, let me point out that no Tertiary Education Commission report and no Australian Schools Commission report was available this year prior to the guidelines being presented to the Parliament. [More…]

• In April I tabled volume I of the Tertiary Education Commission “s report and the report of the Schools Commission for the 1979-81 rolling triennium. [More…]

• Secondly, by way of general observation about the statement, I want to refer to the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• The Prime Minister has said on numerous occasions that the Williams report would provide a blueprint for the future in education. [More…]

• For TAFE, the base programs Tor 1980 and 1981, will be determined by the Government alter consideration of the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• There are, of course, funding implications in the Williams Committee report, particularly in relation to TAFE, to training skilled tradesmen for today’s jobs and to matters such as computer education which are vastly important in the context of a modern technological society which I suppose we aspire to be. [More…]

• I have made my observations on the basis of a steady decline in levels of funding, a proliferation of inquiries on various matters, no innovations introduced, no new programs and no new initiatives announced by this Government in the area of education. [More…]

• In relation to universities and colleges of advanced education, recurrent expenditure remains static at the figure of $ 1,103.8m for this year. [More…]

• The interesting argument has been floated that somehow reductions in recurrent expenditure are justified by estimates of student population at universities and colleges of advanced education in the coming year. [More…]

• That is a substantial increase which bears on the amount of recurrent expenditure that is available to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Will they go on to tertiary education or not, and if they do, what sort of facilities will be available to them? [More…]

• I said earlier that in estimating the needs and requirements of all educational institutions we had to reply on figures a year old that had been prepared by the commissions. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission had this to say at page 23 of Volume 2 of its 1979-81 triennium report in regard to recurrent expenditure for universities and colleges of advanced education: [More…]

• The annual percentage increases in recurrent grants Tor the university and advanced education sectors combined, expressed in December quarter 1977 prices, have been and, in accordance with the new guidelines, will bc as follows: . [More…]

• But unless it does, as the Tertiary Education Commission pointed out, the level of activity in research areas will continue to decline. [More…]

• The importance of all that is that it shows, with respect, the total lack of imagination and initiative that this Government has shown concerning important areas of education expenditure. [More…]

• While he is properly concerned with the level of research activity, with its application to industrial policy and the need for this country to develop as a technologically based society, the other arm, that is the education arm, is flapping around in the breeze. [More…]

• Nor is there apparently any real capacity to select the areas in education expenditure which are of most vital importance to the future of this country. [More…]

• It is quite clear, in the context of the level of recurrent expenditure that is suggested here, that there is cold comfort for research in universities and colleges of advanced education- more importantly in universities- in the foreseeable future. [More…]

• They refer to the OECD, the Australian Science and Technology Council and, more recently, the Williams Report on Education, Training and Employment to which one can also add, of course, the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• When one turns to the area of capital funding for universities and colleges of advanced education, again one is forced to rely greatly on the views of the Commission, expressed over a year ago. [More…]

• As indicated by the Universities Council and the Advanced Education Council . [More…]

• It is a short sighted policy which, as the TEC puts it, is not based on balanced development and will inevitably lead to an accumulation of needs in the university and college of advanced education sector. [More…]

• I turn to the question of expenditure on technical and further education. [More…]

• There has been a lot of discussion and many statements have been made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in this place about Karmel resource standards and the fact that the [More…]

• In relation to government schools I repeat the observation which I have just made and say that it is a source of great regret that recurrent expenditure on government school programs and expenditure in the area of disadvantaged school programs- imaginative and important programs in the quest to create a greater degree of equality of opportunity in the Australian educational system- have remained static. [More…]

• The limited and quite insignificant increase to the migrant education program in the context of needs also is a source of regret and concern. [More…]

• The report states that the gap between existing stock of capital facilities and what State education authorities feel they need is very large- well beyond the capacity of the nation to fund in a short term. [More…]

• The suggested sum in respect of multicultural education has been significantly increased. [More…]

• They are very important programs which have been of significance in Australian education since the innovations following the Karmel Committee report. [More…]

• One program concerns teacher librarians and remedial and special education teachers. [More…]

• The service and development section also refers to the program supporting a schools travel and exchange scheme between States and systems which funds 32 education centres initiated and controlled by teachers and community members. [More…]

• An important point about this statementquite apart from the comments which I have made about the overall impact of the Fraser Government’s economic mismanagement on education- is not so much that cuts have followed in the education area from this mismanagement, not so much that in terms of recurrent programs both at school and tertiary level Australian students of one age or another will suffer as a consequence of these cuts, not so much that a backlog of demands for new buildings and capital equipment will be built into the system, as it is that it is quite silent on a number of other important issues. [More…]

• In the context of the overall thrust of this statement, one must be very concerned about a number of important educational issues, about the absence of new initiatives and about the absence of any sense of direction of the education system. [More…]

• The education system might be encouraged towards directions which have much more relevance to the national interests of this country in the remaining years of this decade. [More…]

• It is those absences from this statement which also give very cold comfort to, for example, students who are concerned about the levels of student allowances, academics who are concerned about the levels of research and their competence to compete in the international academic community, and parents throughout this country who are properly concerned about standards in schools and the sort of educational qualifications their children will have in a society which makes increasing demands on them in terms of certification when obtaining apprenticeships and things of that kind, lt gets much harder every year for the ordinary product of Australian schools to get an apprenticeship because the standards become higher and higher and the demands on children become greater and greater. [More…]

• Of course, they are the inadequacies in every statement which this Government has made about education and, for that matter, about anything else. [More…]

• I was saying that I intend to make some remarks about a number of areas within this statement in which there have been positive increases in education funding. [More…]

• Thirdly, I will draw attention to the trends in some of the education sectors that were mentioned this evening in the statement of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• Despite the fact that Senator Button attempted to describe the whole package as a backward step, he at least conceded, as I am sure all honourable senators would, that the increases provided in the technical and further education sector are increases which are in line with educational policy as it has been identified by this Government and by the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• The five per cent increase in recurrent education grants for TAFE, from $52m to $54.6m, and the 14.9 per cent increase in the capital funding for TAFE, from $69.9m to $80.3m, are welcome increases in an increasingly important sector of education. [More…]

• Given what I had to say last night about the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill, I think equally that the increase of $2. [More…]

• 108m for migrant education and the increase of $854,000 for multi-cultural education, although going only a small way towards dealing with the problem, are important areas of increased expenditure. [More…]

• It represents approximately the same amount of money that State Governments have saved or have declined to spend in the last couple of years by withdrawing State Government scholarships for students at secondary schools and by transferring their teacher trainees from their own financial resources of support onto the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances. [More…]

• An article in today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph refers to Mr Bedford, the New South Wales Education Minister, and it states: [More…]

• For instance, the same point was made by the Tasmanian Minister for Education, Mr Holgate, in the Hobart Mercury of Saturday, 2 June 1979, when he said: [More…]

• -Undoubtedly many State governments will be upset that the responsibilities which they so constantly claim are State responsibilities for education are being clearly identified as being just that. [More…]

• For instance, a VicePresident of the Australian Union of Students was reported in the Hobart Mercury of 4 June as having said that education would suffer an $80m cut and that all these matters would have an enormous impact upon students. [More…]

• The Opposition spokesman on education. [More…]

• He is unaware that the Minister for Education said in his Press conference this evening that there will be no reimposition of tertiary fees. [More…]

• -I am saying that the Minister for Education has made it clear that there is to be no reimposition of tertiary fees. [More…]

• But the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme is likely to suffer stringent cuts. [More…]

• As I have said, in such areas as the TAFE and migrant and multicultural education areas there have been considerable and valuable increases. [More…]

• It is all very well for Senator Gietzelt and other Australian Labor Party senators to complain about this matter in terms of cutbacks, but where were they in 1976 when the last of the Whitlam Budgets cut $105m out of the education system? [More…]

• Where were they when the greatest single cutback in education of $ 105m was made by the Government that they trumpet around the country as the greatest thing ever to happen to the education system? [More…]

• Where were they when $ 105m was being pruned out of the whole of the education sector? [More…]

• The Minister’s statement contains a number of valuable forward steps as far as areas such as TAFE and migrant and multicultural education are concerned. [More…]

• As to Jeremiahs such as the New South Wales Minister for Education, the Tasmanian Minister for Education, the Opposition spokesman on education, the Australian Union of Students and just about anybody else who could get himself into the newspapers or onto the radio, they have all been proven to be manifestly false in their statements. [More…]

• It has been treated particularly well considering the sort of record that the Labor Party had in government, particularly its hatchet job towards education. [More…]

• When this statement is analysed it will be seen clearly that the progress which this Government has continued to make in the education field will be continued throughout the course of this year and indeed for the rest of the triennium and that the funding which has been provided to tertiary institutions and the programs which have been developed, supported and brought to fruition by this Government have made a valuable contribution to the education sector in this country. [More…]

• I wondered about his naivety concerning the kites which have been flown this week in regard to the reintroduction of university fees, application of a means test for the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and whatever. [More…]

• I wish I could be as sanguine as Senator Puplick in his belief that this is the end of the proposal to reintroduce university fees or a means test on the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances. [More…]

• I wish I could be as confident as he is, because although the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) gave that assurance tonight- I did not see it but I accept his wordthere is still the Budget to be brought down and possibly another statement will be made before the end of the year. [More…]

• I refer, for example, to the significant increase in the Technical and Further Education allowance. [More…]

• We commend the Government for its activities in the area of pre-service teacher education. [More…]

• I asked him whether the Australian Education Council working party estimated the number of fully trained teachers in Australia who were either unemployed or working in positions other than teacher as being between 9,750 and 14,700, constituting a waste to taxpayers of between $195m and $3 billion. [More…]

• Firstly, there is no real growth allowed in the area of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Since 1975, universities and colleges of advanced education have not been encouraged to take on new staff. [More…]

• Almost every principal of a college of advanced education or the vicechancellor of a university wants to unload certain courses which have outdated themselves because of the advancement in technology or sociological trends, and so on. [More…]

• One of the most serious omissions from the Minister’s statement concerns the serious decrease in the funding for government and nongovernment schools- a decrease of $29.6m for schools and $ 15.5m for tertiary education in the area of capital equipment and works. [More…]

• But with respect to colleges of advanced education I think there is another and more important story. [More…]

• I am not suggesting for one moment that we ought to extend tertiary education to cure the unemployment problem. [More…]

• But do not let us be led into the view that it is good economics to cut back on places in tertiary education to save the deficit. [More…]

• The figures that I have show that in a college of advanced education, as distinct from a university, it costs $40 a week to maintain a student, whereas the unemployment benefit now is well above $50. [More…]

• We believe that that is a breach of trust to thousands of people, particularly those with children at Catholic parish schools- not in the Level 6 variety- who are paying just as much tax as anybody else but who are paying an inordinate amount of their own incomes to subsidise the education of their children. [More…]

• We believe that there is a great deal of duplication between TAFE and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• All over the country one can see examples of a college of advanced education almost a stone’s throw from a TAFE institution, both institutions having libraries, computers and offering the same courses. [More…]

• We believe that some instruction ought to be given to the Tertiary Education Commission to report on how that situation might be rationalised by the time the Minister considers this matter in the context of the Budget. [More…]

• -I rise to speak rather briefly to a rather small section of the statement that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) put down this evening. [More…]

• The year 1980 will be the second year of the migrant and multicultural education program of the Galbally Committee. [More…]

• 1 m for the teaching of English language in schools and $0.9m for the support of activities specifically related to education for a multicultural society. [More…]

• I am no expert on education. [More…]

• I left school too long ago, at the end of about a four foot length of leather strap, to be an expert on education. [More…]

• But I do know that at the present time, as an example, the Victorian Department of Education is relying on non-professional volunteers in the area of remedial reading. [More…]

• Rather than the Government winding down an education system because it believes that school populations are declining, it seems to me that now is the time for the Government to look at our education system to see in what areas it might be remiss. [More…]

• It made me aware of the paucity of my education. [More…]

• Sir John Crawford, the chancellor of the Australian National University and a member of the Australia/Japan Foundation, has frequently stressed the imperative need for Australians to increase the emphasis on languages in all levels of education, not excluding the primary schools. [More…]

• It seems to me that this Government has missed a golden opportunity in this area by declining to open up what I termed that vista for Australian students in our education system today. [More…]

• Tonight we are engaging in what one hopes is a reasonably short debate on a statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) basically on funding guidelines for education in the next year. [More…]

• I would like to make a brief comment on Senator Chipp ‘s speech and compliment him in return for what I think was a useful contribution to the education debate in the Senate. [More…]

• In the last few years we have had an interesting and a useful debate, in parliamentary terms, on the subject of education in this chamber and we welcome another thoughtful contribution, particularly on this vexed subject of the level of funding and the role of the Commonwealth Government in the funding of education. [More…]

• I naturally welcome the fact that Senator Chipp gave due credit to the Government in two very important areas of this statement, namely, increased funding in the technical and further education area and the action the Government is taking on the Galbally report. [More…]

• We have had debates in this chamber in the past on the subject of migrant education and multicultural education. [More…]

• I think all of us who are interested in education have been well aware that these are areas of significant need. [More…]

• That perhaps sums up the main thrust of this statement; that is, while there is a stabilising in demand in certain areas of education, nevertheless the Government has firmed its commitment to areas which are clearly areas of need. [More…]

• I wish to refer to the areas of migrant education, multicultural education, nongovernment schools where we have known for a long time that the average standards are well below those in the State area, and disadvantaged schools. [More…]

• These are all areas where those of us who support an active Commonwealth Government role in education, particularly in the school area of education, would welcome funding. [More…]

• There are certain areas of debate in education where the word ‘stability’ is used in a favourable sort of way; at other times the same word is used to mean something quite different. [More…]

• The demand for education in the tertiary area has certainly grown and it has been necessary for governments- (Quorum formed). [More…]

• I welcome the fact that the education debate has heightened Senator Keeffe ‘s sensitivity to the subject of numeracy but I lament the fact that it has not broadened his tolerance at all. [More…]

• I was making some comments on stability in education populations and the increased demand in some areas. [More…]

• Certainly, there has been an expanding demand for tertiary education. [More…]

• All of us who are interested in education, and have been for many years, would welcome that increased demand and interest in the tertiary area. [More…]

• Senator Chipp made some reference to the fact that tertiary education institutions, notably universities and colleges, have not significantly expanded their staffs since 1 975. [More…]

• We have now reached the stage in the education debate where expansion for its own sake is no longer considered desirable. [More…]

• We have had debates as to what constituted the sacred cow of education and I think that in the last couple of years at least the education debate has focused more realistically on what ought to remain and what ought to change. [More…]

• When it takes that line it opts out of the education debate as far as I am concerned. [More…]

• Therefore, I do not see how, under the hallowed mantle of education, they can claim that unto themselves. [More…]

• I think that all of us who are interested in education welcome the fact that in a time of considerable economic stringency, in a time when this country must examine very carefully its competing national priorities and demands, when it has had to move away from the cargo cult mentality of funding, the universities and colleges have come out of the whole funding situation since 1975 very well indeed. [More…]

• In view of the debates on education that we have had in the Senate on many occasions, I know that Opposition senators would join with me quite heartily in welcoming the fact that there is to be a significant increase in expenditure in the technical and further education sector. [More…]

• As I said at the beginning of my speech, we must all welcome the increased expenditure on migrant and multicultural education. [More…]

• We must also welcome the fact that the Government has been able to hold its line on disadvantaged schools, special education, disadvantaged country areas and children in institutions. [More…]

• I think the Australian public is well aware of the fact that since 1975 this Government has faced its responsibilities on the question of education funding. [More…]

• It has been faced with some difficult choices on occasions but the very high priority that we give to education must be absolutely beyond dispute and must remain beyond dispute in view of the Minister’s remarks this evening. [More…]

• It is unreasonable to demand that we get through the whole of today’s program tonight and at the same time truncate this important debate on education. [More…]

• I can speak to that motion at length because I believe that the statement on education which is before the House is an important one. [More…]

• At 8 p.m. the Government saw fit to introduce an education statement which took up 2Vi hours of the Senate’s time. [More…]

• The Government Leader ought to be reminded that Senator Button, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, and Senator Primmer from our side spoke to the statement on education. [More…]

• As far as the official Opposition is concerned only two Opposition senators spoke to the statement put down by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) tonight. [More…]

• The Minister for Education has just read only half of his second reading speech on the Qantas Airways Ltd (Loan Guarantee) Bill 1979. [More…]

• Medibank, pensions, education and social welfare will all be strengthened by honest, responsible government. [More…]

• The education laws, the liquor laws, the traffic laws and so on must apply. [More…]

• 1 ) Last year the Departments of Education and Employment and Industrial Relations reviewed the allowances payable to pre-apprenticeship trainees. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, relates to the statement on education that was brought down last night. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education a question concerning recent reports that the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority may be considering the closure of some schools and a college. [More…]

• He was speaking in the debate on the statement on education. [More…]

• But the latter half of my speech in relation to the statement on education I think fairly and vigorously attacked that part of Senator Carrick ‘s statement where I believe that it ought to have been attacked. [More…]

• Notwithstanding that continued allegation by Western Australian Liberals, the Western Australian Government has made no attempt to initiate a voter education campaign in the Kimberleys or anywhere else. [More…]

• This can be effected in part by how the polling is conducted and by education. [More…]

• In this area of Aboriginal education, which I put forward as being a very substantial contribution and even more important than the precise form of electoral law, the Commonwealth has been active; and it is important to note that it has been active in co-operation with the States. [More…]

• One of them was that after the election which was challenged, the Commonwealth and the State in co-operation mounted an electoral education campaign in the Kimberley area. [More…]

• Incidentally, our experience in the Northern Territory is that electoral education does appear to have successful results. [More…]

• The answer points out that various activities were carried out by the Electoral Office, both with respect to the conduct of elections and with respect to education. [More…]

• Similarly, tertiary education institutions with their research facilities and intellectual forces, represent a resource for innovation which few industries can match. [More…]

• Yet, although some examples exist of useful co-operation between tertiary education and industry, understanding of each other’s needs, capabilities and points of mutual interest is also poor. [More…]

• The whole area of collaboration between industry and tertiary education is a fertile field awaiting cultivation. [More…]

• The needs and aims of society, including industry, require ternary education institutions to become more involved in interdisciplinary problemoriented research, with university courses related to real as well as abstract problems. [More…]

• Among these recommendations are proposals: That incentive grants be free of tax; that Government departments maximise the contracting of research and procurement to Australian industry; that the influence of science and technology on social development be studied systematically; that staff mobility be encouraged; that relationships between government instrumentalities- particularly CSIRO and Defence- tertiary education institutions and industry be revised; and that patent laws and agreements be reviewed in depth. [More…]

• As was stated in the House of Representatives by the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) and as was repeated in this place in the very brief second reading speech- it was an almost insultingly brief speech of some four paragraphsdelivered by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), the purpose of the Qantas Airways Limited (Loan Guarantee) Bill is to authorise the Treasurer (Mr Howard) on behalf of the Commonwealth to guarantee borrowings raised by Qantas Airways Limited to finance the purchase of its eighteenth and nineteenth Boeing 747 aircraft. [More…]

• We are in this mess because of the way in which the education guidelines were brought into the Parliament. [More…]

• If the Government wants to bring in a mini-Budget and the 10 associated taxation Bills that flow from that decision, if it wants to deal with matters associated with education, if it wants to continue its program in the latter part of this session and wants the co-operation of the Opposition- I believe that is the only way in which the Parliament can work- then the Opposition is entitled to present its viewpoints about the role of the Parliament as distinct from the role of the Government. [More…]

• It is also noticeable when referring to the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that Qantas also plans to increase the number of saleable seats by 455 across its present fleet of Boeing 747 aircraft by the modification of the in-flight galleys to enable more seats to be fitted to each aircraft and by modifying the existing engines to give more thrust to cope with the extra payload. [More…]

• Is the criterion to be prescribed under that open-ended head or, on the other hand, as the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has also suggested, on a situation in which the officer in question loses his licence or some educational qualification and as a result becomes unable to perform the job in question? [More…]

• In its Discussion Paper ‘Secondary Schools in Canberra 1979-1985’ the Schools Office purports to discuss three courses of possible action in the area of Canberra secondary education. [More…]

• Naturally the strong claim of Watson High School to continue to operate is paramount in the minds of its community and as representatives of that community we wish to register our strong disapproval of the lack of opportunity for School Board and community participation in preliminary decision making on the future of ACT secondary education. [More…]

• At a Press conference on Tuesday night I informed the media- and through them the people of Australia- that the Government had decided that its policy which it had stated in the past would be continued, that is, that there would be no reintroduction of fees at any level of tertiary education. [More…]

• Minister for Education in New South Wales put it forward as speculation that the contrary would occur. [More…]

• There is no basis or ground for his fear, any more than there is a basis for the attempt to put fear into people’s minds by the Minister for Education in Tasmania who said that Commonwealth funding reductions would result in the sacking of teachers. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education noticed statements by the Managing Director of Renault (Australia) Pty Ltd, Mr Vernoux that his company is missing out on $30m worth of new car sales because it has been unable to fill vacancies for qualified personnel to assemble Renault and Peugeot vehicles? [More…]

• Is this continuing evidence of the increasing need for more rapid change in priorities in tertiary and skilled areas of education, which the Government already has well under way, as announced by the Minister on Tuesday? [More…]

• That scarcity has occurred over the years because the community has seen higher education in terms of colleges and universities as being preferable to education in technical and further education institutions. [More…]

• The fact is that the Commonwealth Government, in order to give priorities, brought technical and further education inside the Tertiary Education Commission on equal terms with universities and colleges. [More…]

• It has also put forward special policies to fund wider and wider development of technical and further education. [More…]

• It has set up working parties with the Australian Education Council to consider the transition from school to work. [More…]

• It focused upon the whole question of the transition from school to work, upon training and retraining, particularly in technical and further education institutions. [More…]

• -On 28 May, Senator Tate referred to the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts entitled Children and Television’ and sought information on the Government’s reaction to the report. [More…]

• -On 29 May, Senator Davidson sought advice on the Government’s response to the recommendations set out in the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the employment of musicians by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]

• In an enthusiastic burst from Government senators at Question Time today Senator Baume asked a question of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and Senator Walters sought to ask a question on the same subject. [More…]

• Having regard to continuing inflation that means a reduction in the current expenditure on education. [More…]

• I want to make it quite clear that my current understanding- and indeed the understanding of the Schools Commission and the education departments in New South Wales and South Australia, for example- is as follows. [More…]

• So if new staff are engaged by education departments, those new appointments are not covered, nor are increases in other costs, such as increases relating to equipment, travel costs for staff and the cost of relocating teachers. [More…]

• The principle of the matter is that what we are doing is giving to all institutions- universities, colleges, technical and further education institutions and schoolsthe ability to have the same recurrent expenditure, in real money terms, for 1979, even though in the case of government schools there will be some decline in enrolments. [More…]

• Senator BUTTON (Victoria)-by leave-As I recall, when the question was asked by Senator Baume at Question Time this morning, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said in answer that what I had said on the AM program was totally untrue. [More…]

• The essence of the statement put down by the Minister for Education in the Senate the other night is that the supplementation programs which have existed in the past will be carried forward. [More…]

• The reports are: ‘From Vague Ideas to Unfeasible Roles’ by Dr L. J. Tierney, Department of Social Studies, University of Melbourne- I think the Opposition would expect that to be about the Whitlam Government; ‘Australian Assistance Plan Evaluation Report Number 2’, by Dr A. Graycer, School of Social Sciences, the Flinders University of South Australia; and ‘The Australian Assistance Plan in Tasmania: Report of The Second Evaluation’, by Mr J. W. Ife, Department of Social Work, Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Despite the claims by Senator Walters and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that the appeals provisions in the legislation are adequate, let us look at the make-up of the appeals tribunal. [More…]

• I would like it to refer to the three big spending areas- health, education and welfare. [More…]

• We could bring in the best education. [More…]

• But if the Government introduced the best health care system available- with the best technology- the best education system and the best social welfare system, our taxes would go up tremendously. [More…]

• I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and concerns the increasingly inadequate case being made out for the establishment of the Casey UniversityAustralian Defence Force Academy- for the training of defence personnel. [More…]

• In the light of the findings of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, chaired by Professor [More…]

• Williams, on the criteria forjudging the viability of establishing a tertiary education institution, is it now acknowledged by the Government that Casey University would not be viable? [More…]

• Moreover, does the Minister acknowledge the educational and personal advantages which would flow from defence trainees’ inter-mixing on an integrated campus with students from other professions in the course of their studies? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• As I pointed out at a Press conference, if the States are looking for money to deflect to offset any capital cut, the savings they now make by the abandonment of teacher training scholarships and the transfer of the burden of maintenance of trainees to the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme are of the order of $40m a year. [More…]

• I ask this because the Tasmanian Minister for Education, Recreation and the Arts, Mr Holgate, while making a grant to the Tasmanian Ballet Company of $35,000, has also made a grant to the New South Wales Dance Company, which is about to tour our State in competition with the Tasmanian Ballet Company. [More…]

• Recognising the need for considerable restraint in the area of staff ceilings, I ask: Will the Government consider the reallocation of staff ceilings to areas of apprenticeship education and training? [More…]

• -My question to the Minister for Education relates to migrant education and the substance of newspaper reports yesterday. [More…]

• The report is entitled ‘The Educational Experience of Sydney High School Students’. [More…]

• It might be pointed out, however, that the authors emphasise that increasing efforts should be directed towards migrant and multicultural education. [More…]

• Dr Meade is head of the School of Education Studies at the Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The work was funded first by the Commonwealth Immigration Department, and later the Commonwealth Education Department in co-operation with the Academy of Social Sciences. [More…]

• Firstly, it wants to encourage the education system (not only the high schools themselves) to serve children characterised as of low IQ and low SES ‘whom it now does its best to throw off’. [More…]

• and explicit anti-migrant attitudes that appear to be entrenched in some schools, and to develop the capacity of all children to benefit from living in an ethnically plural society- which we take to be the rationale for multicultural education’. [More…]

• One of these would test systematically in Australia recent radical overseas reviews of education, and the relation between educational qualification and the social structure. [More…]

• -Does the Minister for Education recall the claims by the Opposition spokesman on education, Senator Button, in the Senate on Monday and Tuesday this week regarding the level of Commonwealth outlays on education? [More…]

• Can he confirm that the dramatic turnaround in Commonwealth expenditure on education occurred in the 1975-76 Hayden Budget brought down by the Whitlam Labor Government, while the policies of the present Government in contrast show relative stability in funding levels and efficiency in administration? [More…]

• The table which Senator Button had incorporated in Hansard on 4 June, at page 2545, dealt with Australian Government outlays on education in current and constant dollars from 1970-71 to 1978-79. [More…]

• The table did not take account of the tertiary offsets; that is, of the adjustments made to general purpose grants to the States in association with the assumption by the Commonwealth of full financial responsibility for universities and colleges of advanced education from 1 January 1974. [More…]

• The table that I will seek leave to incorporate in a moment was prepared by the Department of Education. [More…]

• The real significance of the table in either version is the dramatic turnaround of Commonwealth expenditure on education which occurred in 1975-76 under the influence of the Hayden Budget and of the Whitlam Government’s decisions about the programs of the education commissions for 1 976. [More…]

• 1 remind the Senate that decisions on funding levels for the education commissions’ programs, which represent 80 per cent of total Commonwealth expenditure on education, are made on a calendar year basis. [More…]

• If we make a true comparison- that is, a comparison between the effects of the decisions taken by the respective governments in issuing guidelines to the education commissions- we see the full picture clearly. [More…]

• Estimates of offsets for later years have been made by the Department of Education, by applying to the 1974-75 offsets (revenue and capital separately) the annual percentage increases in general revenue and general capital funds allocated to the States as shown in Table 3, ‘Payments to or for the States, the Northern Territory and Local Government Authorities, 1978-79.’ [More…]

• The resulting amounts which have been deducted from actual Commonwealth education outlays are: 1975-76, $367m; 1976-77, $426m; 1977-78, $492m; 1978-79, $532m. [More…]

• It relates to the Commonwealth Teaching Service and involves an important item of Commonwealth expenditure on education. [More…]

• I refer to the general question of Commonwealth expenditure on education which was raised in Question Time today, when the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) gave some figures prepared by his Department. [More…]

• Whilst I appreciate the Minister’s explanation of specific purpose and general purpose payments to the States, I draw the attention of the Senate to the actual Commonwealth outlays on education in specific years taken form the Budget Papers. [More…]

• In 1973-74 Commonwealth outlays on education were $858. [More…]

• I also draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that prior to the Australian Labor Party’s coming to power in December 1972, Commonwealth outlays on education were abysmally low compared with Commonwealth outlays on education since. [More…]

• The enormous increase in education expenditure occurred in 1974-75. [More…]

• I point out briefly that in December 1972 the Whitlam Government announced in a preelection speech that pre-school education would be made available within six years to every child. [More…]

• We believe that pre-school education has important social and educational functions . [More…]

• If we look at the 1975-76 Budget Speech of Mr Hayden we find under the heading of education and the sub-heading of pre-schools and child care in the States that in 1973-74 the actual expenditure on pre-schools and child care in the States was $6.8m, that in the next year the actual expenditure was $45. [More…]

• This plea is made not only on behalf of the parents but also on behalf of the children who need pre-school education, which [More…]

• Mr Malcolm Fraser said in his policy speech he believed was an important part of education. [More…]

• Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government increase its allocation for pre-school education immediately to enable the provision of adequate pre-school services in South Australia. [More…]

• In 1972, the Australian Government first promised to make pre-school education available to every Australian child within 6 years. [More…]

• Now, in 1979, pre-school education is free in South Australia. [More…]

• What started in 1974 as a policy of providing pre-school education for all children in the year prior to school entry is now rated as an area of the Budget worthy only of ‘topping up’ by Federal funds. [More…]

• The Murray Bridge South Kindergarten is concerned that pre-school education in South Australia is being adversely affected by cuts in funds from the Federal Government. [More…]

• If tuition fees have to be reintroduced this will preclude many children from the benefits of pre-school education. [More…]

• That sounds like a great deal of money, but it is only as much as we spend on education, it is less than we spend on health and it is only a third of what we spend on social security and welfare. [More…]

• It was written on 30 May 1979 to Mr Graeme Dunn, the President of the Dental Health Education and Research Foundation, in which the ABC admits that there was probably a lack of balance in the program. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 May 1 979: [More…]

• 1 ) What are the aims of the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• 1 ) The Education Program for Unemployed Youth is designed to assist young people for whom low or inadequate levels of educational achievement form a primary barrier to their obtaining stable employment. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 February 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) What amounts were expended by the Federal Government in each year from 1974 to 1978 under the classification Incidental Allowance ‘ which is paid to tertiary students who qualify for the Living Allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS). [More…]

• 1 ) Incidentals Allowance is included in living allowance payments to students under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and hence precise details of expenditure on the former are not available. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 March 1 979: [More…]

• Can students who hold teaching qualifications and who wish to undertake a tertiary course qualify for assistance under current regulations governing the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme; if so, has this always been the case; if not, when were the regulations changed and why. [More…]

• It has always been a provision of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS) that a student who has undertaken one course at the tertiary level may be assisted for a second course if it is at a higher level than the first course, or for the number of years by which a second course at the same level exceeds the duration of the first. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 May 1979: [More…]

• Under the agreement, the Commonwealth accepted full responsibility for the financing of universities and colleges of advanced education from 1 974 on condition that tuition fees were abolished for all formal post-secondary education courses, including TAFE. [More…]

• Tuition fees for adult education courses and other courses not leading to a qualification, were not abolished. [More…]

• It was agreed that the estimates of the amounts of expenditure on universities and colleges of advanced education of which the State Governments would be relieved would be deducted from the general purpose funds provided to the States- more specifically, reductions to the financial assistance grants in respect of recurrent expenditure, and reductions to the States ‘ Loan Council programs in respect of capital expenditure were agreed on. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 7 June 1 979: [More…]

• What information does the Department of Education supply to the Commonwealth Police on students during the course of such investigation. [More…]

• Regulation 85 ( 1) (a) of the Student Assistance Act 1973 requires a beneficiary to notify the Department of Education within seven days if he discontinues any part of the approved course he is undertaking. [More…]

• The Department of Education provides the Commonwealth Police only with information necessary for their inquiries. [More…]

• Between 15 October 1974 when Regulation 85 (1) (a) became effective and 31 May 1979, prosecutions have taken place in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia as well as Victoria for failure to notify the Department of Education of discontinuation of study. [More…]

• Whether the project will improve the quality of primary and/or secondary education experienced by a particular group of learners; [More…]

• The Commission was not able to recommend support for the project submitted by the Specific Learning Difficulties Association of Australia in Adelaide because the Association has previously run similar courses to the one proposed and were seeking funds to continue them, rather than establish a new education program. [More…]

• Tenders for the relocation of a mobile toilet block from the old post primary school site (now used for adult education) to the current primary school site were called on 24 May 1979. [More…]

• That further cutbacks in Commonwealth funding to State Schools and transferral of funds to wealthy independent schools as required under the guidelines to the Schools Commission announced by the Minister for Education in early June are of vital concern in that they mitigate against the interests of the great majority of Australian Children in State Schools. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present a report entitled ‘Education and Training for Social Welfare Personnel in Australia ‘ by Ms Eva Learner. [More…]

• Minister for Education: The following adjustments have been made in areas which are the responsibility of the Minister for Education: [More…]

• The provision of education services and responsibility for education matters in the Northern Territory, excepting those of a national nature for which the Commonwealth has a continuing responsibility, will be transferred to the Northern Territory Government on 1 July 1979. [More…]

• Preschool education- from I January 1977 payments to the States have been made as block grants and not (as previously) on the basis of 75% of preschool teachers salaries. [More…]

• This change has allowed greater discretion to states in the deployment of preschool education resources. [More…]

• Northern Territory government building (other than education buildings)- design, construction and maintenance; [More…]

• Northern Territory education buildings- design, construction and maintenance. [More…]

• What funds have been allocated by the Commonwealth Government for the purpose of family planning education and training in each year since 1 972. [More…]

• Commonwealth Government allocations for family planning education, training and information activities (including associated administrative costs but excluding funds allocated for family planning research) since 1972 were as follows: [More…]

• (a) and (b) Under the Commonwealth Government’s Family Planning Program services embracing information, education and training programs, are provided by State and Territorial Family Planning Associations. [More…]

• medical ) services and information, education and training programs, although there are some common areas in administration and in practical training. [More…]

• As mentioned, Commonwealth funding is made available under the Family Planning Program for information, education and training programs for health and health-related professionals, community groups and the general public. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 30 May 1 979: [More…]

• 1 ) Has the Government considered the Neal Hird Report on Northern Territory Education: if so, are its recommendations to be implemented. [More…]

• Will the proposed transfer of the Northern Territory Department of Education to the Northern Territory Government on 1 July 1 979 have any effect on the recommendations of the report. [More…]

• and (2) The Neal/Hird Report dealt with the professional staffing of government schools, both in the ACT and the NT, and recommendations relating to both Territories were subsequently considered by working parties representative of local educational interests. [More…]

• In the case of the NT the working parties’ recommendations received the endorsement of the NT Minister for Education who saw them as covering a number of improvements he would like to see introduced into the educational system in the NT. [More…]

• As a first step, a food and nutrition policy has been developed by my Department and nutrition education activities have been expanded. [More…]

• I would like to point out that an active nutrition education program at a national level would require a co-ordinated effort from many groups in the community. [More…]

• In its nutrition education program, my Department emphasises the importance of family meals prepared in the home from basic nutritious foods- bread and other cereals, vegetables and fruits, meat and meat substitutes, milk and butter or table margarine. [More…]

• In regard to the recommendations made in the report ‘An Inquiry into the Impact of Television on the Development and Learning Behaviour of Children ‘ of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, this matter has been under consideration by my Department. [More…]

• This Working Party will study the nutritional recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• A program of monitoring the breeding sites of mosquitoes and advice on their control in relation to centres of population has been in existence for some years, together with surveillance of possible human carriers of malaria, and public education measures. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Attorney-General by explaining that, during the parliamentary recess, I received a letter from the office of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The Australian Film and Television School through its open program, which offers extension courses for professionals and semi professionals in the film and television industry and in education around Australia, has initiated a training assistance scheme. [More…]

• Such statements, both of which may have validity but which are inconsistent, are still a sad reflection on how the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, headed by Professor Williams, saw the same issues, as outlined in that Committee’s report. [More…]

• An added problem, of course, is that even if we wanted to train apprentices in a different way, for example, in the technical and further education sector, TAFE has not the resources to do that at the present time. [More…]

• In the second reading speech the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, who introduced this Bill described the differences as being in the following terms: [More…]

• We have to look at drug education. [More…]

• That further cutbacks in Commonwealth funding to State Schools and transferral of funds to wealthy independent schools as required under the guidelines to the Schools Commission announced by the Minister for Education in early June are of vital concern in that they mitigate against the interests of the great majority of Australian Children in State Schools. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education comment on recent claims by the Australian Teachers Federation and other protest groups that funding for education in Australia is inadequate and particularly that government schools are being starved at the expense of nongovernment schools? [More…]

• Further, can the Minister confirm that this propaganda is grossly distorted and ignores the enormous progress made in all sections of education, particularly government schools, in the period of the Fraser Government? [More…]

• I am bound to say that I have seen a wide range of literature, pamphlets and statements put out by various so-called education protest groups. [More…]

• No matter how well planned an education program is, there will be a number of students whose skills cannot be used back in their own countries, either because the course studied was inappropriate or because economic circumstances have changed. [More…]

• On the matter of the three-year rolling program for adult migrant education, I echo the words of the honourable member for Maribyrnong, Dr Cass. [More…]

• It has gone to Senator Davidson’s Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• Firstly, obviously we need effective drug education. [More…]

• The most recent article I have seen is by Kraus in the Australian Journal of Social Issues of February 1979 entitled ‘Drug Education: An Abrogation of Professional Responsibility?’ [More…]

• So, I am referring to drug education which is effective in doing several things. [More…]

• -On Wednesday, 22 August 1979, Senator Sibraa asked me a question without notice concerning alleged interference with a letter to him from the office of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• We ought to be spending not hundreds of thousands of dollars but millions of dollars on drug education. [More…]

• Quite often amateurs involve themselves in drug and alcohol education. [More…]

• For years I have been pleading for a health education program to be introduced into the schools in the State education system to teach young children from an early age about their bodies, their minds and their souls and about these facts of life. [More…]

• The same happens with other health education problems. [More…]

• As I have said, the Government sees education, treatment and rehabilitation as most important parts in the fight against drug abuse and drug problems. [More…]

• Over the past nine years the Government has allocated almost $8m for special drug education programs. [More…]

• The children would have the advantage of education in Australia and would eventually make their contributions, just as their fellow countrymen have made contributions in Australia which we all know are not insignificant. [More…]

• I simply ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to investigate the special case of the wife as the bread winner, as represented by the Tchia family. [More…]

• That further cutbacks in Commonwealth funding to State Schools and transferral of funds to wealthy independent schools as required under the guidelines to the Schools Commission announced by the Minister for Education in early June are of vital concern in that they mitigate against the interests of the great majority of Australian Children in State Schools. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Education to the Budget Speech and the implementation by the Budget of what is called an overseas student charge’. [More…]

• Is it a fact that the Australian Institute of Marine Science, which is expected to be one of the beneficiaries of this increased funding, was an initiative of the Gorton Liberal-National Country Party Government; that the necessary legislation was introduced in 1972 by the present Prime Minister when he was Minister for Education and Science; and that the AIMS is not, to quote from the honourable senator’s speech, ‘a most important institution established by the Whitlam Government’? [More…]

• It is true that Mr Malcolm Fraser, the then Minister for Education and Science, presented the Bill to the House on 23 March 1972. [More…]

• When we came into office there was a program related to pre-school education. [More…]

• While we have maintained a commitment to pre-school education, we have directed this program towards creating a flexible network of services for more disadvantaged children. [More…]

• I have before me a report prepared by Dr Don Edgar, Reader in Sociology at the La Trobe University and Chairman of the Planning Committee for the Victorian Country Education Project, and it has some figures on the unemployment levels for country towns. [More…]

• Evidently this Government does not care because not one thing in this Budget will be of any assistance to those youngsters in country towns; nor will anything in this Budget do anything about the problem of jobs or education in country towns. [More…]

• They, their parents and the wider rural communities demand a new look at how well served are their education needs. [More…]

• Their education needs are for something which will give them some sort of chance of finding jobs in the city, of standing up to the culture that they have to move into in the city. [More…]

• This Budget cuts $50m from the National Education and Training program. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) pointed out that we have a great number of unskilled people in the community who find it difficult to get work. [More…]

• I am pleased to see that when the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) wrote to the Commission and asked for some details on the arrangements for and the level of the provision of Commonwealth specific funding financial assistance for schools in the Northern Territory he had this to say: [More…]

• In providing this advice, the Commission should pay particular regard to any special features of education provision in the Territory which may bear on the appropriate form of Commonwealth financial assistance. [More…]

• As the Minister has commented, the Northern Territory Government took over responsibility for education in the Northern Territory from 1 July. [More…]

• As I have indicated in this place previously, education in the Northern Territory has special problems. [More…]

• Apparently this has the agreement of the Northern Territory Department of Education so one cannot comment on it. [More…]

• In the migrant education program we note that there is a high proportion of migrant children. [More…]

• I move to the area of special education, which was commented on by the Commission. [More…]

• I make a strong recommendation to the Minister that next time he sets out his instructions for the Commission he asks it to look at the area of special education. [More…]

• I also find it most disturbing that no mention is made in the recommendations of the Commission for any money to be allocated for the education of children from birth to pre-school age. [More…]

• But I stress, as I and others have done in this place before, that if we plan to do anything for handicapped children education must start immediately after birth. [More…]

• The final area I wish to comment on is that of the education centres. [More…]

• Like his predecessor, he has taken a great interest in education in the Northern Territory and has shown particular interest in Aboriginal education. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators I present the Tertiary Education Commission report for the triennium 1979-81. [More…]

• This report of the Tertiary Education Commission makes recommendations for the allocation of Commonwealth funds to universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions for 1980. [More…]

• The report also contains the recommendations of the Tertiary Education Commission on the arrangements for and the allocation of Commonwealth specific purpose funds for tertiary education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• The Northern Territory Government assumed responsibility for tertiary education in the Territory on 1 July 1979 and financial arrangements have been developed to bring the Northern Territory within a framework similar to that which applies to the States. [More…]

• The report of the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1979-81 triennium which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has just tabled arises, as the earlier education report did, in a sense, from the guidelines which were imposed by the Government on the Commission on 5 June 1979. [More…]

• The report, being a report from an independent authority of educational experts- I hesitate to use that expression, but do so for want of a better oneindicates quite clearly the restrictions which government policy has imposed in relation to the tertiary education area. [More…]

• In the university and advanced education sectors there is $ 16m less in 1980 than in 1979 for equipment and capital works. [More…]

• Later in the report, in the Commission’s conclusions and recommendations, it referred to its comments on building programs in tertiary education. [More…]

• I refer the Senate to paragraphs 24 and 26 of this report because they indicate very clearly the effects of the Government’s policies on tertiary education in Australia. [More…]

• More particularly, they indicate the problem of the backlog of requirements which is building up in the education system. [More…]

• Commonwealth building expenditure on tertiary education will have fallen in real terms by some $ 104m or 44 per cent in the space of the five years since 1 97S. [More…]

• That is, between 1975 and 1980- the universities’ share of the total program has fallen from 3 1 to 13 per cent, the advanced education sectors’ share has fallen from 32 to 22 per cent, and TAFE has increased its share from 17 to 65 per cent. [More…]

• Again I emphasise that this Government is creating a backlog of needs, and it is doing so on the basis of an allocation of funds between the three sectors of tertiary education for which there has been no articulate and rational justification given at any stage by the Government. [More…]

• What I am saying is that no rational or articulate explanation has been given by this Government for the concentration on technical and further education at the level at which the expenditure runs proportionately to the other sectors. [More…]

• I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training casts some doubt on that. [More…]

• The Government is commissioning reports which, according to the rhetoric of Ministers, will provide blueprints for education until the year 2000. [More…]

• With the greatest of respect, I am not blaming the Minister for Education for this is any sense. [More…]

• The important point about that statement by the Commission is that at the moment this Government is building up problems for the future in the education system. [More…]

• If there is to be, as the wishful thinkers of Australian politics hope, some renaissance in the economic situation of this country and if some sort of national initiative and capacity and some sense of direction as to where we as a society are going are to be developed- they are absolutely necessary if we are to get out of the leaderless and despondent trough into which Australian Society has sunk under the Fraser Governmentthere will be a need for a very important contribution to that process from Australia’s tertiary education institutions. [More…]

• What the Commission is saying, of course, really indicates that these matters- to use the Commission’s phrasewill be seriously impaired’ if something is not done about the levels of expenditure which the Government is prepared to consider for tertiary education. [More…]

• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development examiners, the Williams Committee and the Tertiary Education Commission have drawn attention on a number of occasions to the appalling level of research expenditure and effort in Australia. [More…]

• Research is one of those things, and it is one of those things about which we should not have the Tertiary Education Commission saying: ‘These things will be seriously impaired by the present Government’s programs’. [More…]

• In an area with a population of 17,000, medical attendances last year totalled 36,436, paramedical and welfare attendants totalled 35,498 and health, education and other meetings accounted for 11,677 attendances. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is in charge of the chamber this evening, and other Ministers would be well aware that in recent years one of the greatest bottlenecks that has occurred in the analysis and the preparation of legislative proposals coming before this chamber and before the Parliament in general has been the lack of staff and the lack of expert persons available to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel. [More…]

• He was influenced to the extent that he handed over to the cult his entire life savings of $5,000 and was subsequently advised by his spiritual father to go overseas and enter a temple for further spiritual education. [More…]

• She was offered courses in spiritual education which cost from $25 an hour up to about $650 a day. [More…]

• Questions are also raised about the establishment and conduct of schools and other training centres by these organisations, although I have to say that my own visits to Ananda Marga schools have left me impressed with the form of education and the alternative they offer. [More…]

• At the present moment, the people of East Timor being actively carrying out the development in all fields, among of them education and infra-structure are the first priority, which quite far behind with the other Indonesian provinces, due to the longer period of the colonization in East Timor than other Indonesian territories. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education say whether Senator Button or the Australian Labor Party organised for last Friday, 7 September, at the Caulfield Institute of Technology a very well-publicised meeting about this Government’s education policy and the Budget? [More…]

• Did Senator Button, as the Labor Party’s shadow Minister for Education, arrange to be the principal speaker at that meeting? [More…]

• I can certainly respond on the fact that the Opposition has failed to attract crowds to its rallying points against the Government’s education policies. [More…]

• Mr President, I find the interjections highly interesting because we have no difficulty in getting both good and interested people commending the Government’s education policies. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Education to a report in yesterday’s Brisbane Courier-Mail about the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in which it was stated that the Queensland Minister for Education, Mr Bird, wants difficulties at the Institute ‘cleared up before an already wary Canberra reacts’. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he is aware that rumours are circulating in Queensland colleges of advanced education to the effect that there has been financial and managerial mismanagement at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education and that certain influential persons are attempting to have this mismanagement covered up. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate what is going on at this Institute of Advanced Education and whether he is satisfied that Commonwealth funds are being responsibly used at Darling Downs? [More…]

• On the other hand, as Senator Colston has raised the matter, I will bring his question to the attention of both the Chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, Professor Karmel, and the Chairman of the Advanced Education Council, Dr Houston. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education whether he has seen an article in the Melbourne Age which states: [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Education to reports, including one in the Canberra Times today, that language programs in Italian, Greek, Indonesian and Spanish at four Canberra schools are facing problems. [More…]

• -I am aware of the difficulties relating to the future of bilingual education in Australian Capital Territory schools, which I think are commented on today in an article in the Canberra Times. [More…]

• I regard these bilingual programs as important in the Canberra educational scene. [More…]

• They are very much in line with the Government’s general thrust to improve all facets of multi-cultural education flowing from the Galbally report. [More…]

• Can the Minister for Education inform the Senate whether any Commonwealth money has been used in the production of the resources folder Equal Chance? [More…]

• The folder is published by the curriculum centre of the Tasmanian Education Department. [More…]

• I am advised that in 1977 and 1978 the Schools Commission, through its special projects program, provided a sum of $27,000 as a contribution towards the Tasmanian Education Department’s efforts in the area of non-sexist education. [More…]

• Secondly, the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts has one major report eligible for a ministerial response. [More…]

• I hope this will encourage other people who haven’t got any education to go to a lawyer and find out what their rights are. [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Education to the Budget Papers estimate that the introduction of a charge on private students from overseas countries who enrol for the first time or who change their courses of study at Australian universities or colleges of advanced education will yield $6m in 1979-80. [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• -Is the Minister for Education aware that page 75 of the Budget Papers shows that the total allocation this year by the Federal Government to government schools in the States and the Northern Territory has been reduced by $77.3m? [More…]

• The Government has reduced the capital flow to the States but, at the same time, the States in this coming year will have less expenditure to the tune of some $40m in terms of student scholarships, the large bulk of which will be financed by the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• I give Senator Carrick another opportunity to lift his game in his capacity as Minister for Education. [More…]

• 8m this year, representing a cutback in real terms of some 10 per cent, given the steadily increasing drain of Australia ‘s most qualified researchers overseas, the fact that Australia has already made a massive investment in their education and the fact that stepped up research in many fields in particular, energy and alternative fuels, could not be more vital at this time? [More…]

• It is true that the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training has indicated the desirability of increasing research in universities, and especially in some special research centres. [More…]

• I and, I am sure, other members of the Senate are not satisfied with the answer which was given by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• This fall-back position that is constantly used as a ploy by the Minister in respect of education expenditure through the States simply is not satisfactory. [More…]

• The Budget Papers surely must be taken as the true indicator of what the Commonwealth is spending on education through the various States. [More…]

• They are costly to the community in terms of their education; they set no example in terms of social responsibility in return for those high incomes. [More…]

• This whole question of the over-use of services, which was referred to by Dr Margarey, in fact is an abuse of the health insurance system, an abuse of the public health system of this country, and is being carried out by highly paid professional men who are the most costly people to educate in terms of taxpayers’ input into their education. [More…]

• Every time some company makes a dollar of profit some 46 or 47 per cent of it is taken in company tax for payment out for social services, health or education. [More…]

• The profits of companies are distributed to millions of Australians, firstly in child endowment, pensions and education services and, secondly, in superannuation. [More…]

• Lawyers and accountants, after having had their education paid for through the public sector, the university system, are not now spending all their time on improving the life styles of the Australian people or on making a contribution to the wealth of this country, but are seeking to distort the incomes of those in the top brackets in Australia. [More…]

• We make no apologies for the fact that in our first Budget we increased education expenditure by four times; that in our second Budget our allocation for social security went up by 50 per cent; that in our first Budget we increased by 339 per cent the amount of money going to the States for public housing; that we increased by 1 93 per cent the allocation for urban affairs in the previous Liberal Budget; that we increased the money going to culture and recreation by 85.6 per cent; and that in our third Budget we increased the money allocations for health and welfare by 130 percent. [More…]

• There has been an increase in some education payments. [More…]

• 7, which deals with payments to or for the States and the Northern Territory, at page 1 84 we will see, in the words of the Federal Treasurer (Mr Howard), a reference to housing for servicemen and we will see that the figure for the colleges of advanced education is reduced from $5,177,000 to $4,300,000. [More…]

• That further cutbacks in Commonwealth funding to State Schools and transferral of funds to wealthy independent schools as required under the guidelines to the Schools Commission announced by the Minister for Education in early June arc of vital concern in that they mitigate against the interests of the great majority of Australian Children in State Schools. [More…]

• -Can the Minister representing the Minister for Health advise me whether the National Health and Medical Research Council has standing committees on health education and health promotion? [More…]

• More significantly still, I draw the honourable senator’s attention to the preamble to the table, at page 74 of the Budget Speech, which would have been known to him, in which it is explained that the financial year figures for schools and for technical and further education for 1979-80 are not comparable with the figures shown for the earlier years. [More…]

• Whereas the total expenditures for those sectors are shown in the tables for 1977-78 and 1978-79, only the specific purpose payment components are included in the 1979-80 estimates as a result of the take-over of responsibility for education by the Northern Territory Government from 1 July 1979. [More…]

• These include education, research, control of the exportation of wood chips, and financial assistance to the States in regard to softwood forestry plantings. [More…]

• Fourthly, I believe there is a need for the setting up of a diploma in forestry at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Let us look also at the situation with respect to education. [More…]

• I think that all of us in this place are aware of the statements which have been made over a long period by the Minister for Education, the Leader of the Government in this place, who uses as an excuse for cuts in government spending on education an alleged decline in school populations right around Australia. [More…]

• I just wonder what the Prime Minister might have to say to the Minister for Education about the following letter, which is addressed to the Prime Minister, from the Acting Secretary of the Warrnambool High School Council, dated 24 August 1979: [More…]

• The School Council of Warrnambool High School expresses concern at the Federal Government’s decision to cut back funds for education by over $40 m. [More…]

• Naturally we are concerned at the effect this will have on the students who attend the school and their education, and therefore request that the Federal Government reconsider the reduction in capital funds for government schools. [More…]

• This is the man who claims to care for people and who at one stage in his political career was a Minister for Education or a shadow minister for education. [More…]

• The child who is physically, mentally or socially handicapped shall be given the special treatment, education and care required by his particular condition. [More…]

• The child is entitled to receive education, which shall be free and compulsory at least in the elementary stages. [More…]

• He shall be given an education which will promote his general culture and enable him on a basis of equal opportunity to develop his abilities, his individual judgment and his sense of moral and social responsibility and to become a useful member of society. [More…]

• The best interests of the child shall be the guiding principle of those responsible for his education and guidance, that responsibility lies in the first place with his parents. [More…]

• The child shall have full opportunity for play and recreation, which should be directed to the same purposes as education, society and the public authorities shall endeavour to promote the enjoyment of this right. [More…]

• The child shall not be admitted to employment before an appropriate minimum age he shall in no case be caused or permitted to engage in any occupation or employment which would prejudice his health or education, or interfere with his physical, mental or moral development. [More…]

• Principle 7 speaks of the right to receive an education. [More…]

• This is what education, after all, is all about. [More…]

• The right to education, therefore, certainly cannot be guaranteed to a child simply by ensuring that it has a certain number of hours of schooling of a certain quality. [More…]

• Education is much wider than schooling, as we all know, and as I say the major formation of our children is taking place perhaps in television studios, out of the control of school, parents, and other social influences. [More…]

• It seems quite incredible that in our world, with all its advantages of communications, technology and education- with all the great advances which have been made in recent years- we still have a situation in which a senator of the Australian Parliament can stand in his place in this chamber and outline such conditions, circumstances and cruelties, which we know do exist. [More…]

• As everybody knows, I am privileged to be Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• The Curriculum Development Centre in Canberra has reported progress on the establishment of guidelines for media education in primary and secondary schools. [More…]

• What I saw worried me because I was concerned at what the future of these small children might be, where they would go, what their memories would be, what influence this would have on their lives, their education and their attitude to mankind, the international world and to their fellows generally. [More…]

• As an Australian I am too ashamed to talk about children in Kampuchea and India who have been starved and killed; about children in South America who have been starved, enslaved, left without education and without hope; and about children in East Timor who have been starved and killed and, I believe, abandoned by Australia. [More…]

• Some of those children were fortunate enough to go home to a warm, familiar surrounding with parents who battled valiantly to give them some sort of normal life, without any assistance by way of education, health care or relief from the overpowering 24 hours a day, seven days a week problems that they are faced with all their lives. [More…]

• They find they have to literally abandon them to institutions that are lacking in homely comfort, individual and educational care. [More…]

• There is little or no education for these children and there is little or no training of any kind for them. [More…]

• Annie MacDonald had lived in an institution for 15 years without any education. [More…]

• It found that not only did that mean that they needed help, care, education and assistance; it found that if those services were provided independent people could achieve normal independent lives. [More…]

• Included among the requisite components are: Commencing intervention as early as possible in the child ‘s life; involving parents in their child’s education; using a structured framework for curriculum design and teaching; formulating curriculum objectives around normal developmental sequences; conducting frequent criterion-referenced assessments of performance and using these data as a basis for decision making; having the program implemented by an integrated inter-disciplinary staff team: and providing follow-through programs for children as they advance beyond early intervention. [More…]

• We need direct government assistance to accelerate research in these areas, to open up mental health institutions to new ideas and to education, to bring these people into a world of normal living. [More…]

• The Federal Government, through its Minister for Education, can grant money for research in these areas. [More…]

• The Federal Government, through its Minister for Education, can ensure by means of specific purpose grants that education programs are commenced in these institutions so that the children can give to the world what they have to give. [More…]

• I believe that they did not have the opportunity for education until, perhaps, Miss Rosemary Crossley, among others, came along. [More…]

• I feel a necessity exists for breaking up the huge hospital complexes with large and unsatisfactory wards into small homelike facilities which have adequate staff and services, where education is possible and where the children live as a family and do not have to be just one part of a huge mass. [More…]

• On 29 August I asked the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) a question about the overseas student charge which was imposed by the Budget and which, according to the Budget, will net $6m in fees from overseas students. [More…]

• Students will pay the equivalent of university or colleges of advanced education fees as suggested in the Budget and pay it as a visa fee in order to get Senator Carrick off the hook with his promise made not long ago that no fees for tertiary institutions would be imposed in the coming year. [More…]

• The decision on this matter typifies the Government’s messy and wing and a prayer sort of approach to problems both in education and revenue raising. [More…]

• Commencing with the 1980 academic year, private overseas students who enrol at an Australian university or college of advanced education for the first time, or who change courses, will bc charged between $ 1,500 and $2,500 per year towards the cost of their tuition. [More…]

• This charge is consistent with overseas practice where foreign students attending tertiary institutions are required to contribute to the cost of their education. [More…]

• We know that it had no idea because people from the Department of Education are trotting around Australia now trying to get the answers. [More…]

• For example, does it mean that a student currently doing his Higher School Certificate with the anticipation that he will have free tertiary tuition in Australia changes his course by moving from Higher School Certificate to the university or a college of advanced education? [More…]

• Does it include students who set out to qualify as teachers by doing an undergraduate degree and who will on completion have to enrol for a Bachelor of Education degree? [More…]

• The attitude is taken: ‘We will cut a bit from the education budget. [More…]

• Another matter the Government did not consider and has no idea about is the extent to which the provision of this free education to overseas students was a form of indirect aid to developing countries. [More…]

• Of course, it is not the job of the Australian education system to solve in Australia the racial problems of countries such as Malaysia, but as all honourable senators know, the students do come from countries like that. [More…]

• Certainly the scheme the Government was proposing was not put before the educational authorities, otherwise the Government would not be so mute about how this system will work. [More…]

• Our first commitment, as a political party, is the provision of tertiary education to as many Australian students as possible who qualify academically, irrespective of socio-economic background. [More…]

• I refer the Minister for Education to the proposed introduction of fees for overseas students, which I am sure the Minister will be disconcerted to hear is now becoming known in certain sections of the community rather unsympathetically as the ‘blacks tax’. [More…]

• These measures include continued improvement of environmental conditions, support for outstations, increased support through Commonwealth and State law for Aboriginal communities wishing to limit their alcohol consumption, support for alcohol education programs, and alternative methods for the payment of social security benefits. [More…]

• Assistance is also given by my Department and others to improve non-material aspects of the environment- employment, education and recreation facilities for example. [More…]

• Finance for this purpose is provided by my Department and the Department of Education. [More…]

• What progress has been made in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands towards providing the inhabitants with the rights and responsibilities of Australian citizenship, in particular as regards wage rates, health, education and welfare. [More…]

• A second teacher for the Home Island school was seconded from the Western Australian Education Department and commenced duty on 28 December 1978. [More…]

• Seven Cocos Malay students, who had assisted with teaching at the Home Island school, together with one who had worked as an office assistant, left for Perth on 1 February 1979 to undertake 6 months training to improve their general education and vocational skills including bookkeeping and typing. [More…]

• For instance, how much was allocated to housing, health, education and so on? [More…]

• My attention is also drawn to the fact, in respect of the education funding situation that the Commonwealth has been able to bring about through the Schools Commission, that the Commonwealth provides in real terms the same amount of recurrent funds, even though there is a decline in teachers. [More…]

• It is essential that governments protect consumers from unscrupulous financial operators, from unfair and discriminatory practices, and from themselves, through education. [More…]

• While the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is here, I say that I find the current publication by the Department of Education in conjunction with the Department of Business and [More…]

• Consumer Affairs, Consumer Education Australia, a wonderful publication, but unfortunately it has not dealt specifically with the very important question of consumer education. [More…]

• Therefore, there is a necessity for education of the community about the need to be much more involved in understanding the processes of consumer credit. [More…]

• I believe that beyond the obvious aims of education, which are to provide a facility, a capacity, among young people- (Quorum formed). [More…]

• I was saying that it is imperative for a free society if it is to survive, to develop at the end of the tunnel of education young citizens who are determined and able to analyse the circumstances that they find around them. [More…]

• The same thing has happened in relation to health and education. [More…]

• But a massive education program is needed, and in the meantime many people will be at the mercy of irrational fears and prejudices. [More…]

• In light of these findings and the reports of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on advertising in children’s programs, will he ask the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to give urgent consideration to enforcing stricter guidelines for advertising during children’s television programs? [More…]

• On 11 September 1979 (Hansard, page 516) Senator Colston asked the Minister for Education a question without notice concerning the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The question related to newspaper reports of difficulties between the Council of the Institute and the State Minister and the Queensland Board of Advanced Education. [More…]

• The Queensland Minister, together with the Premier and some of their colleagues have had discussions with the representatives of the Institute and I understand that the role of the State authority in the co-ordination of advanced education in Queensland has been confirmed. [More…]

• As is the case with most colleges of advanced education in the States, the Institute is established under an Act of the State Parliament. [More…]

• Under the provisions of the relevant States Grants legislation, the State is required to certify that the grants made by the Commonwealth to the State for advanced education arc expended in accordance with the conditions set out in that legislation. [More…]

• This certificate has not, as yet, been received by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• The childrenininstitutions program referred to by Senator Walters is a segment of the Special Education Program of the Schools Commission, which makes funds available to government and nongovernment residential institutions for projects which support the education children receive at school and at the same time provide opportunities for a broader program of experience outside the institutions. [More…]

• Projects offering direct support for formal education may be concerned with needs in such fields as tutoring, remedial help, therapy, educational, resources such a books and equipment for study, the development of motor skills, and curriculum support. [More…]

• To enable institutions to complement the education received at school, projects may be funded to provide for opportunities in areas such as the development of social competence and an awareness of the community and its facilities, recreation activities and, among others, the development of creative arts, new skills and vocational training. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and concerns youth unemployment and the transition by young people from school to work. [More…]

• The pilot scheme which has developed rapidly, the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, has given us some very significant clues about these matters, but they are not sufficient. [More…]

• -Has the Minister for Education seen reports of claims by the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations that the Budget this year represents a serious blow to research in universities because of the failure to provide substantial increases in funds for university research? [More…]

• The fact of the matter is that, over quite some years now, there has been an argument by universities that over the past six to eight years in particular their trend towards concentration on primary degree education has tended to weaken their areas of concentration on research, both applied and pure. [More…]

• Certainly, the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, the Williams Committee, drew attention to that aspect and believed that a method of restoring to universities something of their traditional role ought to be developed in the years ahead by creating centres for research and concentrating more on research. [More…]

• The Minister for Education, Senator the Hon. [More…]

• How much has the Office of Road Safety spent on motorcycle rider education since its inception. [More…]

• Dismay at the reduction of the total expenditure on education proposed for 1980 and in particular to Government Schools. [More…]

• We call on the Government to again examine the proposals as set out in the guidelines for Education expenditure 1980 and to immediately restore and increase substantially in real terms the allocation of funds for education expenditure in 1980 to Government schools. [More…]

• -I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the Australian ViceChancellors Committee in a recent statement expressed concern at the reduction in Federal Government support for post-graduate students through the decline in the number and value of awards? [More…]

• Has it also expressed concern at the level of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance? [More…]

• Mr Pilger reports that anyone with education or a modern skill was killed, and that included doctors, teachers, technicians and skilled workers. [More…]

• Early in 1978 Mr Joseph Califano, then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States, had this to say about smoking? [More…]

• This policy restraint was applied also to grants for education, information and training activities supported under the family planning program. [More…]

• However, on the basis of the reports produced by the various State family planning associations, details of grants by the State governments to these associations in 1978-79, for information and education activities, are set out in a list which I have before me. [More…]

• How does the Government see its responsibilities in the areas of health, education, community projects, et cetera? [More…]

• The Commonwealth has retained responsibility for assisting outstations in the Northern Territory, but departments such as Health and Education are closely concerned with the need to provide facilities. [More…]

• They have been raised with me as a matter of concern by a number of State Ministers, including the Minister for Education in Western Australia, Mr Jones, who has urged us to try to restrain movement away from existing centres without a lot of forward planning. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Education to the fact that research funding in Australia has declined in real terms since 1970. [More…]

• The Government set up the Williams Committee to inquire into all aspects of education and training. [More…]

• All aspects of the Williams Committee report are at present under study by a Cabinet committee and also by the Commonwealth and the States in the forum of the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• The Committee’s report is available for scrutiny and study by the Tertiary Education Commission and its councils. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and is about a table, headed ‘Comparison of Ratios of Students in Arts Faculties with Students Undergoing Technical Training’, which was contained in the submission of the Technical and Further Education Council to the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• The table shows the number of students studying the arts, humanities, economics, commerce and education as 54,149 and the number of people employed in the labour force in those fields as 50,643. [More…]

• We have sought by public education and public persuasion to correct this trend. [More…]

• Through the Australian Education Council we have sought also the help of the States, and it is a very ready help, in rectifying this imbalance. [More…]

• 1 am pleased that Senator Carrick is in the chamber because the other matter which I wish to raise relates to education. [More…]

• As I understand it, this is because of a lack of junior technical education facilities in New South Wales. [More…]

• Because something like 200 children are being bussed across the Victorian border for technical education in the city of Echuca, the local school, the Victorian Department of Education, or whoever- I am not quite sure who- has had to issue an edict which virtually bans Victorian children from access to the technical school there. [More…]

• One of the suggestions that have been put to me is that it may be feasible to have built in a hurry in Deniliquin a number of temporary school rooms which could be placed on site adjacent to the facility already in Echuca to allow all the children of that region to obtain their education. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• It has always been regarded by the Government as a matter of immigration and not primarily of education. [More…]

• The job of education is to provide the institutions and quantitative teaching for the student. [More…]

• The fact of the matter is, without any reflection whatsoever on juvenile unemployed and indeed because of a tremendous practical understanding for them, that evidence has emerged, whether it be from the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training or whether it be from the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, that quite a number of young people coming through schools reach the point of leaving school unequipped to get a job even if there were many more jobs available. [More…]

• Through the Australian Education Council I have invited the States to probe through the high schools to locate the young people at risk. [More…]

• Indeed in years gone by we have had an education system which has resulted in the fact that 25 per cent of all 14-year-olds are incapable of independent reading; that something like 15 per cent of all 14-year-olds are incapable of independent arithmetic. [More…]

• The Cosgrove committee was set up by the Tasmanian Government to rationalise postsecondary education in Tasmania. [More…]

• Whatever the decision may be in due course, it will come in terms of a funding recommendation to the Tertiary Education Commission, the Universities Council and the Advanced Education Council. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs have referred to matters which they hope to be studying with regard to enhancing opportunities for training and education, but my Department has not provided any information with regard to this aspect. [More…]

• After they leave school they may be covered by a wide variety of training and retraining schemes such as Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training, the National Employment and Training Scheme or the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• It states in the course of that discussion that: in the latter part of the 1979-80 triennium increasing emphasis will be given to activities and projects relating to primary schooling and to upper secondary, technical and further education . [More…]

• I just make the point that it is gratifying to see that at least at the end of this triennium the Curriculum Development Centre will give attention to those areas of education which, as a matter of public discussion for some time, have been seen to be the most important. [More…]

• Primary education and the upper levels of secondary schooling and technical and further education are areas on which day after day we have discussions in this Parliament. [More…]

• We have discussions about the relevance of education to work, the relevance of training to work and, more particularly, the matter of youth unemployment. [More…]

• I do not blame it for that; I am making a simple point that there is an awful lead time between the emergence of significant educational and social problems and the response of government statutory authorities and other bodies to those problems. [More…]

• It is gratifying to see that the Curriculum Development Centre will be looking at those matters because they are areas which the Curriculum Development Centre identifies in its report as being of crucial importance in any intelligent discussion of education in this country. [More…]

• The report in the review of the program also refers to further projects in primary, upper secondary, technical and further education which will be tackled by the Curriculum Development Council. [More…]

• I notice that in a subsequent chapter of the report, under the heading ‘Science, Mathematics and Technology Education’, there is some discussion of the importance of these aspects of education and training. [More…]

• Unfortunately, there is not much discussion of computer education, which the Opposition certainly regards as important. [More…]

• The report contains also a pretty clear indication of the very limited resources which are available to a body such as the Curriculum Development Council in the area of science, mathematics and technology education. [More…]

• We hope that those matters also will be expedited, perhaps with some government stimulation and assistance, because they are matters of very considerable importance to the future of the education system in this country. [More…]

• Adequate provision for research and education on racial discrimination has also been stressed by Australian– [More…]

• In the case of my own Office, smallness of staff numbers and the steeply increasing workload has precluded research and severely limited community education. [More…]

• As I have said, we have a situation where the expectations of the population with regard to future employment and future education and training have been severely disrupted by the economic policies which the Fraser Government has inflicted on the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]

• In view of the intensive use of Bass Strait and adjoining waters by a wide variety of industries and agencies (fishing, education and training, science, recreation, etc.) [More…]

• -On 13 September 1979 (Hansard, page 665) Senator Coleman asked me, as Minister representing the Minister for Health, a question without notice concerning the National Health and Medical Research Council ‘s activities in respect of health education and promotion. [More…]

• In view of the high priority placed by Council on prevention of disease, both a Health Education (Standing) Committee and a Community Health Promotion (Standing) Committee have been established. [More…]

• The Health Education (Standing) Committee on the other hand examines the problems of arousing community and individual awareness. [More…]

• Health Education (Standing) Committee [More…]

• To advise the Public Health Advisory Committee on matters concerning health education of the public. [More…]

• Mr J. T. Carr, Executive Officer, Health Education Council, Western Australia [More…]

• Dr F. S. Soong, Health Education Specialist, Department of Health, Northern Territory [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 1 August 1979: [More…]

• The ‘Schools’ Priority Index Survey’ relates solely to Victorian government schools and its development and the subsequent use to which it is put is the responsibility of the Victorian Minister of Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 12 September 1979: [More…]

• My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to a question asked of the Minister on 27 September by Senator Lewis, in which he asked about the apparent relative decline in students enrolling in vocational courses in the technical and further education sector compared with students enrolling in what he termed arts and humanities subjects. [More…]

• I ask the Minister whether he was aware when he gave that answer that during the three years of Labor government enrolments in vocational TAFE courses increased by 25 per cent and in arts courses- in spite of the growth of colleges of advanced education- by less than 20 per cent. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and follows the question asked by Senator Button. [More…]

• From my recollection of the question, it asked whether in the past a lack of priority had been given to technical and further education and too much concentration had been placed on the humanities and arts courses. [More…]

• One of the things that the Government must do in respect of its outgoings is to fund education. [More…]

• Education is a very important aspect of funding. [More…]

• I refer not only to the traditional education that is normally thought of, such as primary, secondary and tertiary education, but also to education in the broad sense. [More…]

• I refer to the question of trade union education. [More…]

• One of the matters which is contained in the Budget and for which the Government is providing substantial funds is the area of trade union education through the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]

• The Government has a commitment to trade union education through the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]

• I would like to address a question to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who is responsible for the Loan Bill. [More…]

• The Government has to borrow $ 1,800m on the advice that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has given this chamber to furnish accommodation for the Loan Bills to make up an inadequacy in the Consolidated Revenue Fund. [More…]

• Whilst it would be a departure from the Bill at the Committee stage, the invitation to depart from the Bill was introduced by the Minister for Education. [More…]

• He had sought full information on the matter from the Minister for Education, Mr Holgate. [More…]

• In a letter which is undated, the Minister for Education, Mr Holgate, in replying to a question that was asked in the State, said: [More…]

• I acknowledge your letter dated 2nd February 1979 requesting further information on grants paid by the Education Department to the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council. [More…]

• The grants were initiated by a Cabinet decision on the 27th February 1973 that an annual grant be provided to the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council to provide financial assistance for Trade Union Education. [More…]

• 1 have sought the advice of the Minister for Education as to his intentions in regard to the unexpended balance of the State Government Grants still held by the Council. [More…]

• He is also attacking the Education Department of the State. [More…]

• All I know, as Senator O’Byrne has said, is that the Premier of Tasmania is calling for some definitive statement on it from the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Senator Davidson chaired an inquiry into the effect of television on children by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education and refers to the shortage of skilled tradesmen in Australia. [More…]

• Is the Government taking any action to introduce, in some way, mature age apprenticeship courses, or will the Government consider setting up an alternative to the craft system so that mature age people can obtain trade qualifications, perhaps through the technical and further education colleges? [More…]

• This question overlaps the education and employment portfolios. [More…]

• lt is the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts relating to the Archives Bill 1978. [More…]

• -I present a report from the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on its inquiry into certain aspects of the Archives Bill 1978. [More…]

• That, subject to paragraph (2), the Archives Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts for inquiry and report as soon as possible. [More…]

• In the second reading speech, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the Bill seeks to provide a proper legislative basis for passport policy and a clear legislative framework for the exercise of ministerial discretion. [More…]

• In referring to the impact of those travellers on our relations with other countries it is worth noting that the issue of passports, as this legislation reflects, and as was stated in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), is relevant to our obligations to other countries. [More…]

• I am saying that there is an avenue of appeal on these administrative decisions and that in the process as I understand it- I hope the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will address himself to this in responding to the second reading debate- the Government has under consideration the question of what is the best form of appeals machinery to be applied under this legislation. [More…]

• Whilst the Opposition is in agreement with the main thrust of the Billnamely, removing the issuing of passports or, more importantly, their denial from the realm of administrative discretion and instead providing a legislative guide to authorised officers as to the grounds on which a passport can be denied- the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) provides an opportunity to point to some anomalies between the stated objectives of the Government in introducing this legislation and its actual provisions. [More…]

• One finds on closer examination, though it is not very clear from the second reading speech of the Minister for Education, that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) appears to retain an overriding discretion in the cancellation of passports and may reject an application for a passport. [More…]

• In the second reading speech on this Bill of the Minister for Education (Senator [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), to tell the Senate later what are the special reasons for somebody having two passports. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), in his second reading speech, openly acknowledged that this practice, to which there is no specific reference at all in the text of this legislation, will continue until at least Australia becomes a signatory to the International Convention on the Recovery of Maintenance. [More…]

• I seek the guidance of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on the issue which Senator Tate raised. [More…]

• -As I understand it, Senator Knight sought some elucidation from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in response to what Senator Tate put forward. [More…]

• I appreciate that the answer just given by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to Senator Knight’s question was a qualified answer. [More…]

• -I appreciate the answers I got from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) about the two passport policy. [More…]

• Again I appreciate the answers I got from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South Wales)Minister for Education) (5.21)- During my response at the second reading stage of the Bill, I dealt at length with this matter. [More…]

• -I may have missed the comment by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• As Opposition spokesman on education, I recall that the amount involved in the purchase of the Prime Minister’s VIP aircraft would build 30 schools in Australia. [More…]

• For instance, funding for research and development in education is to be cut from $1,040,000 to $1,025,000 this year. [More…]

• That the present practice whereby research in universities is supported by funds through the Tertiary Education Commission and selected projects are directly funded by ARGC, NH & MRC and through other advisory and funding bodies, be continued. [More…]

• IS million and $ 1 .0 million from investigators in universities and in colleges of advanced education, or combined teams of investigators from these institutions and government laboratories or organisations, in fields of interest other than the medical and dental sciences, be assessed by the ARGC, placed in order of priority and submitted to the Minister for Science with supporting documentation; and that, if such requests are approved, the Government allocate additional funds through an appropriate agency specifically for the procurement of such facilities. [More…]

• That the Category B research grants proposed by the Universities Commission in its Sixth Report (1975) be implemented as soon as possible and that ASTEC and other bodies such as the Australian Research Grants Committee and the National Health and Medical Research Council be consulted when the Centres of Concentration are being determined by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• That ARGC, NH & MRC and the Tertiary Education Commission endeavour to identify fields of research which they judge to be in the national interest, and which need to be stimulated and developed, and forward comments to ASTEC. [More…]

• In the Department of Aboriginal Affairs there is the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; in the Department of Administrative Services there is a commission of inquiry into drugs; the Attorney-General’s Department conducts criminology research and family studies; the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs has the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence; the Department of the Capital Territory has a nature conservation committee; the Department of Defence has a defence science and technology organisation; the Department of Education has the Curriculum Development Centre and the Education Research and Development Committee; the Department of Employment and Youth Affairs has the National Training Council; the Department of Foreign Affairs has all of our international agreements; the Department of Health has the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, the National Acoustics Laboratories, and the Australian Dental Standards Laboratory, et cetera; the Department of Home Affairs has the National Library of Australia; the Department of Housing and Construction has the Australian Housing Research Council; the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the population study; the Department of Industrial Relations has the Trade Union Training Authority; the Department of Industry and Commerce has the Australian Manufacturing Council; the Department of National Development has the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, the Australian Atomic Energy Commission and the Water Resources Council; the Postal and Telecommunications [More…]

• Wool Testing Authority, the Bureau of Meteorology, the Canberra College of Advanced Education, the Australian Chicken Meat Research Committee, the Commonwealth Practitioners Board, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, the Criminology Research Council, the Curriculum Development Centre, the Environment Protection Commissioner, the Fishing Industry Research Committee, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Institute of Family Studies, the Medical Research Endowment Fund, the Metric Conversion Board, the National Health Act Committee, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian National Library, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, the National Standards Commission, the National Television Advisory Committee, the Oilseeds Research Committee, the Pig Industry Research Committee, the River Murray Commission, the Schools Commission, the Supervising Scientist for the Alligators Rivers Region, the Tertiary Education Commission, the Therapeutic Goods Committee, the Whaling Inspector and the Wheat Industry Research Council. [More…]

• Education Minister in the Country Liberal Party Government, Mr Jim Robertson. [More…]

• They would be helped by being given that extra care and a sense that education at school is meaningful and therefore helpful to them. [More…]

• The aim is that whether by special attention at school, by programs of transition from school to work or by new developments of training and retraining in the technical and further education area, we will get to a stage where there will be an understanding in the community that the emphasis should be on training and upgrading of skills rather than have the inertia of the situation of unemployment and unemployment benefits. [More…]

• Is the Minister for Education aware that the Mentally Retarded Children’s Society of South Australia Inc. is of the opinion that officers of the Commonwealth Department of Education who administer the isolated children’s benefit have made an error in claiming that an over-payment was made to the Society for 1978 and for 1979 and that if this claim is persisted with many parents of handicapped children in South Australia will suffer further hardships? [More…]

• by leave- In August I tabled in the Senate the reports prepared by the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission in response to the Government’s funding guidelines for the calendar year 1980, which I announced on 5 June. [More…]

• I noted that both commissions for the first time had also reported, as requested, on the arrangements for and the allocation of Commonwealth specific purpose funds for education in the Northern Territory. [More…]

• Nevertheless, education has maintained a high place in budget priorities. [More…]

• The statement put down by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) shows firstly that in 1980 there will be a reduction- not an increase but a reduction- in Commonwealth funding for education. [More…]

• In almost all categories these levels are down, as I have indicated, but there is no justification in educational terms as to why they are down, nor is there any explanation as to how universities, colleges and schools are to cope in many of these areas. [More…]

• Dealing with the first category, that is, the matters deferred, I note that the statement comments that future funding levels for 1 98 1 and beyond for technical and further education will be determined after the Government considers the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• There has been criticism of the alleged haste of the previous Labor Government in relation to education, it being very often said that too much was done too quickly, but I query whether that was not better than the snail’s pace at which progress is being made now. [More…]

• This is basically due to the long and great work of the previous Labor Government and the amount of finance it put into the education system. [More…]

• We need an indication of where we are going in this area of education. [More…]

• The figures which we have been given today by the Government show beyond any doubt whatsoever that in fact the great stimulus that has been given to education in this country over the past decade commenced in the financial year 1973-74 when capital funding to non-government schools was doubled. [More…]

• Its own figures give the lie to the argument and the rhetoric which we have listened to for so long about what this Government has done about education. [More…]

• It has cut into education programs in every sphere in Australia since it came to office. [More…]

• Senator Carrick guaranteed that his Government would maintain standards of education and funding. [More…]

• He said that this would apply not only in education but also right across the whole gamut of Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]

• My colleague Senator Wriedt has just referred to the cuts in real terms, as well as in actual funding, that have occurred so far as education is concerned. [More…]

• The Government, since it came to office, has made serious cut-backs in education funding and now makes them in respect to road construction. [More…]

• The policy was well summed up by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) when he said: [More…]

• Education in this area is always difficult. [More…]

• He spoke to the important point of the improved education that is required of the Australian population in regard to the problems that can be brought to this country by the unintentional action of people, or perhaps their ignorance in recognising the effects that may follow should some of these diseases that have been mentioned enter the country. [More…]

• Committee, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Council and the Education Research and Development Committee, which are responsible to my colleagues the Ministers for Science and the Environment, Health and National Development and myself respectively. [More…]

• A program of electoral education for Aboriginals living in remote communities is being conducted by Australian Electoral Office staff initially in South Australia and Western Australia and extending later to the Northern Territory and other parts of the country. [More…]

• Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a report in today’s Mercury newspaper which claims that the threatened dismantling of the Mount Nelson campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education is the result of pressure coming from the Federal Government? [More…]

• Subsequently, no doubt, it will have some discussions with the Tertiary Education Commission, but prior to that there is no pressure at all. [More…]

• I draw the attention of the Minister for Education to the report of the Australian Heavy Engineering Industry Advisory Council recently tabled in the Senate. [More…]

• Is he concerned that the report reveals that the number of students graduating with degrees in arts, the humanities, economics, commerce, government and education is some 54,000, compared with the number of such graduates already in the labour force of 50,000? [More…]

• It has been a major subject of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training and is of course inherent in the Crawford Study Group on Structural Adjustment. [More…]

• The purpose of this Bill is to allow the Tribunal to make determinations or reports on academic salaries for: Firstly, newly established Commonwealth tertiary institutions; secondly, new categories of academic staff; and thirdly, particular categories of staff in all States and Territories for either universities, colleges of advanced education or both without having to undertake a general review. [More…]

• The Bill also corrects an ambiguity as to whether the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973 covers technical and further education institutions which resulted from the creation of the Tertiary Education Commission which encompasses these institutions. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has examined them and later I will seek their incorporation in Hansard. [More…]

• I might add that the change to the end of the school year was made upon the application of Mr Davey himself, who pointed out that he had a young family attending school in Fitzroy Crossing and did not want to disrupt the education program of his daughter. [More…]

• Perhaps I should just mention the electoral situation and draw the attention of the Senate to the fact that the Commonwealth is engaged with the Western Australian Government in a joint education exercise to try to ensure that Aboriginals in the Kimberley area are able to exercise their franchise without the difficulties that were experienced in the last election. [More…]

• It is my hope that this education campaign, like the one that preceded the by-election after the decision of the court of disputed returns, will reduce the difficulties which led to the voiding of the previous election. [More…]

• These include a number of Bills concerned with matters in the Budget such as the two Appropriation Bills, the usual States grants education Bills, the income tax Bills and the air navigation charges Bill. [More…]

• Noting that, while millions starve, expenditure on the arms race is $1,000 million per day for the World, and $7m per day for Australia; and noting that the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has listed ‘peace and disarmament’ as a theme for the International Year of the Child; and further noting that a reduction in expenditure on arms could contribute in both developed and developing countries to the eradication of hunger and disease and to the provision of more adequate housing, education, health services, economic security and social welfare for all people: [More…]

• That as citizens of NSW and parents of State school children, we are most concerned that the quality of education available in our schools be of the highest possible standard. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education who represents the Minister for Foreign Affairs, relates to the presence of the King of Tonga in the parliamentary building today reminding us of the relationship of Australian educational responsibilities to areas of the Pacific and in particular the University of the South Pacific in Fiji which I have had the opportunity to visit. [More…]

• Because of the importance of the University of the South Pacific to the total educational program in the area, can the Minister give an indication as to whether Australia is meeting the requests of the University of the South Pacific? [More…]

• Its faculties reflect the priorities of the region- education, natural resources, agriculture and social and economic development. [More…]

• In return the University is involved, mainly in a consultative role, in the conduct and co-ordination of education programs provided by the Australian Government, through universities and colleges of advanced education, to several South Pacific countries. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the Government has cut Commonwealth post-graduate awards by 9 per cent in the current year? [More…]

• Although the Minister claims that there will be enormous benefits in the delivery of health and education services through a communications satellite, there has been no mention of either the Department of Health or the Department of Education or, for that matter, the Schools Commission, and no details at all have been given as to how these Departments could use the technology to improve their services. [More…]

• Earlier today, I asked a question of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), in his capacity as Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, relating to our relationship with educational and other matters in the South Pacific. [More…]

• As I recall, in his reply the Minister gave some indication of the funds that were being expended on educational and other matters within the South Pacific which enabled people to make determinations not only as to their vocations but also in relations to their movement in this world, a world where movement is very readily available and of which we in Australia are very much a part. [More…]

• Therefore, it is not without significance that the Senate this afternoon is considering the Migration Amendment Bill, which relates, among other things, to the well-being of people who are entering Australia and to their circumstances, whether they be cultural, educational, commercial or social, of their remaining within this country. [More…]

• The charge for English language testing overseas is basically a charge which is related to the requirements of the Department of Education. [More…]

• So what we are primarily talking about in this Bill is the requirement of the Department of Education for private students. [More…]

• I think it would be accepted that, in working with the Department of Education, that is a prerequisite of the capacity of a student to undertake the courses for which he wishes to enrol. [More…]

• I was fascinated- maybe I am just becoming suspicious in my old age- when the Minister said that those charges where primarily charges required by the Department of Education for the entry of overseas students. [More…]

• In regard to one matter raised by Senator Grimes, I said that it was primarily a matter for the Department of Education. [More…]

• Since the World Population Conference in 1974, assistance to the population sector is no longer considered to be limited to family planning activities, but instead is considered to embrace activities in all areas that influence population- such as nutrition, sanitation, health, education, the status of women and economic factors. [More…]

• And noting that the U.N. Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has listed ‘peace and disarmament’ as a theme for the International Year of the Child; and further noting that a reduction in expenditure on arms could contribute in both developed and developing countries to the eradication of hunger and disease and to the provision of more adequate housing, education, health services, economic security and social welfare for all people: [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Education by referring to a report headed ‘Criticism of Australian Capital Territory Schools “uninformed” ‘ in yesterday’s Canberra Times, in which the Chief Education Officer of the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority, Dr Beare, is reported to have stated that ‘scare talk about open-plan schools caused public concern’. [More…]

• Is the Minister aware of any research which has evaluated the educational progress of students in open-plan schools, compared with that of students in conventionally built schools? [More…]

• If I were to answer in general terms concerning research throughout the world on the subject of open-plan schools, I would have to say that all research shows that the actual quantity or quality of the physical resources available- their shape, size or nature- is largely irrelevant to the qualitative outcome of the education. [More…]

• Will the Minister advise the Senate what steps have been taken by the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts report on children and television, which was tabled in the Senate last year and which referred to the health and nutrition of children? [More…]

• I advise the Minister that I requested an Australian flag and cassette recording of the national anthem for the Ipswich College of Technical and Further Education on 10 August last. [More…]

• But the governments of the Third World are now spending as much on military programs as on education and health care combined. [More…]

• In all cases, the amount of resources consumed in the military sector is very large compared with the social expenditure of governments, even in such important fields as education and health, indicating the unfortunate priorities that govern the allocation of public funds throughout the world. [More…]

• What is of concern at the moment is that the governments of the Third World, the underdeveloped countries, are increasing their expenditure on armaments at the expense of urgently needed programs for education and health and the development of their infrastructures. [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has advised the Senate that the changes are necessary because of the division of the old Department of Industrial Relations. [More…]

• Especially as they are not allowed to receive training or education if they also receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]

• An important note by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) was that there was no intention presently to appoint the present Tribunal, Mr David Duncan, either to the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or to the New South Wales Industrial Commission. [More…]

• The purpose of the Bill is to put into effect the Government’s decision to introduce an annual charge on overseas students studying in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• At that time the Minister mentioned that the Government has been anxious to make available additional educational opportunities for overseas students. [More…]

• At the same time the Government has been concerned at the cost of providing educational opportunities for overseas students attending educational institutions wholly or partly funded from public moneys. [More…]

• With these considerations in mind, the Government has decided that private overseas students attending Australian universities and colleges of advanced education, which are fully funded by the Commonwealth, should be called upon to contribute towards the cost of their education. [More…]

• The charges do not apply at this time to overseas students attending other educational institutions which receive funds from the Commonwealth. [More…]

• Clause 4 of the Bill defines the term ‘overseas student’ and provides definitions of the courses and educational institutions to which the charge will apply. [More…]

• The charge will apply to persons other than permanent residents who enrol in certain courses at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Post-graduate students who are the holders of a scholarship providing a basic stipend of at least $3,500 per annum awarded by a university or college of advanced education for study at the institution concerned [More…]

• Students who are the subject of approved reciprocal exchange agreements between Australian universities or colleges of advanced education and overseas tertiary institutions [More…]

• They are, firstly, students already in Australia who were admitted specifically to undertake the final two years of their secondary education in Australia as a preliminary to an approved tertiary course, and who commence that course in 1980 and 1981. [More…]

• The Government is aware that by coming to Australia these students have already committed themselves to education in Australia and may have adversely affected their prospects of further study in their home countries or elsewhere, if they are now unable to pay charges in Australia. [More…]

• degree or continuing to a diploma of education on completion of a first degree. [More…]

• Noting that, while millions starve, expenditure on the arms race is $ 1 , 000m per day for the World, and $7m per day for Australia; and noting that the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has listed ‘peace and disarmament’ as a theme for the International Year of the Child; and further noting that a reduction in expenditure on arms could contribute in both developed and developing countries to the eradication of hunger and disease and to the provision of more adequate housing, education, health services, economic security and social welfare for all people: [More…]

• I ask: Having in mind the problems that exist in the fields of Aboriginal health, education and employment and the fact that a large number of organisations, including government departments and authorities and community organisations, participate in these areas, does the Government acknowledge that there appears to be a lack of efficiency and a degree of high cost associated with many, although not all, of these organisations, where consultation and liaison is minimal, and there is much overlapping and duplication of effort? [More…]

• I assure the honourable senator that I do have in mind the problems, which he described in prefacing his question, in the fields of Aboriginal health, education and employment. [More…]

• University makes compulsory fees moneys available to a student organisation for the provision by that organisation of amenities or services, then it is the duty of the Council to ensure that the moneys are applied only in respect of the provision of amenities or services that are not of an academic nature, that are of direct benefit to the University, and that have been declared in university statutes to be amenities or services in respect of that organisation; compulsory fees moneys are not to be paid to a national organisation which represents students but they may be paid to national student organisations whose principal function has to do with sporting or recreational activities, or with a particular education, social or cultural field, or with the interests of post-graduate students; and financial statements are to be prepared and audited each year showing details of the manner in which compulsory fees have been expended. [More…]

• The Council of the University believes that the name School of General Studies, which has the connotation of ‘general’ studies or adult education, is inappropriate as the name of the undergraduate arm of the University. [More…]

• The Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1979 also replaces the Bill which was introduced in November last. [More…]

• This Bill allows for the insertion into the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act of provisions similar to those in the Australian National University Amendment Bill which will give effect to the Government’s policy on membership of student organisations and, in addition, amends the financial provisions in the Act to bring them into line with current Commonwealth provisions. [More…]

• In addition to these provisions, the Bill maintains the relationship which exists in the Act between the Minister for Education and the College. [More…]

• Finally, as with the Australian National University Bill, the opportunity has been taken to amend the financial provisions of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act so that they are in line with current Commonwealth provisions. [More…]

• Commencing with the 1980 academic year, private overseas students who enrol at an Australian university or college of advanced education for the first time, or who change courses, will be charged between $ 1 ,500 and $2,500 per year towards the cost of their tuition. [More…]

• This charge is consistent with overseas practice where foreign students attending tertiary institutions are required to contribute to the costs of their education. [More…]

• Their views on the effectiveness of free education as aid or on alternative strategies have clearly not been sought. [More…]

• Firstly, the Government had introduced the charge without consultations with the universities and colleges of advanced education on the need for the charges or the best way to go about introducing them. [More…]

• Secondly, it became clear that, as the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, had given an undertaking not to introduce fees for tertiary courses, the charge would be made by way of a tax on a visa. [More…]

• Hence I am standing here speaking to this legislation because it is presented by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and not the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I have mentioned the failure of the Government to consult the universities and colleges of advanced education on this matter. [More…]

• Will it be the education institution? [More…]

• Will it be the Commonwealth Department of Education or will it be the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs? [More…]

• In conclusion, the Opposition asks that this Bill be deferred until these questions that I have raised have been answered and until the Government puts before the Parliament, before the people of this country and before the people from whom we get our overseas students a proposal that comprehensively deals with the problem of education as aid. [More…]

• As has been stated by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) in her second reading speech, the purpose of the Bills is to put into effect the Government’s decision to introduce an annual charge on overseas students studying in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• The fourth exemption is students undertaking postgraduate courses who are the holders of a scholarship awarded by the Australian-American Educational Foundation. [More…]

• The fifth is for students who are subject of approved reciprocal exchange agreements between Australian universities or colleges of advanced education and overseas tertiary institutions. [More…]

• The ninth is students already in Australia who were admitted specifically to undertake the final two years of their secondary education in Australia as a preliminary to an approved tertiary course and who commenced that course in 1980 and 1981. [More…]

• It should be noted also that these charges relate to students who are studying at Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• These charges apply to students studying at Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• However, in their case, pan of the cost of their education at tertiary level comes from Consolidated Revenue contributed in pan through tax by their families. [More…]

• No such contribution is made by overseas students or their families although many are well able to afford such costs and, indeed, would have to pay fees if the student undertook higher education in the home country. [More…]

• At the same time it seems unreasonable, as noted by the Minister, to allow the people who are well able to pay- wherever they might go- to be able to take advantage of the free tuition in our colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]

• I wish to refer specifically and, indeed, in some detail to the publication by the Australian Union of Students and the Western Australian Institute of Technology Guild which prepared a submission to the Minister for Education and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]

• It is entitled: ‘The effect of the Proposed Tuition Charge for Overseas Students in Australian Post-Secondary Education, and related matters’. [More…]

• Private students who have been able to enter a higher education in their own countries and have had access to Australian education may not be able to do so under the new selection criteria. [More…]

• They relate to the type of residence, education and occupation and overseas visits by the parents of the respondents to the survey which was conducted among overseas students in Australia; the religious affiliation of and goods and services possessed by the parents of respondents in their home countries; the social and educational background of students in their home countries; the factors which cause overseas students to hesitate about leaving their country of origin to study abroad by country of origin, sponsorship and career plans; the ranking of reasons for studying [More…]

• I note from an article in today’s Melbourne Age that some discussions are not to take place with the Malaysian Minister for Education, Datuk Mutta Hussein bin Onn. [More…]

• I note that in the Economist of 22 September 1979 it is indicated that the 85,000 foreign students in Britain’s statefinanced colleges and universities are now subject to a decision of the Government, which ordered the colleges to raise their tuition fees and set officials working on ways of charging nonBritish students the full cost of their education. [More…]

• The purpose of the Overseas Students Charge Bill is to introduce an annual charge on overseas students studying in Australian universities and colleges of advance I education. [More…]

• Many students who study in Australia need to have some work experience before they go back to their home countries if their education is to be the full education that they expected when they first came to Australia. [More…]

• If that is so, some of those included in the 75 per cent that has been mentioned are students who applied to stay simply so that they could continue their education in the work force and then go back to their home countries after one year or perhaps two years. [More…]

• I refer to the consequences for education in Australia, Australia’s immigration policy and Australia’s foreign policy. [More…]

• In a similar way the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs or perhaps the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), or perhaps both, have had imposed on them these overseas students charge Bills, despite the fact that they introduce clear inconsistency into our educational policy. [More…]

• This measure that we are debating tonight, which imposes fees on students who are going to come from overseas countries to study in our universities and colleges of advanced education, will only reinforce the feelings in overseas countries that we have a racist immigration policy. [More…]

• I refer to Kim Beazley who was the former Minister for Education. [More…]

• When he made the statement to which I referred he was probably under the impression that the Bills would be introduced by the Minister for Education. [More…]

• The action of the Fraser government in cutting out the form of foreign aid inherent in making Australian universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges free to some 3,000 overseas students a year (mostly from Asia) is poor and paltry. [More…]

• The policy made a link with the future leaders of Asia and was inherently right in itself in the sense that tertiary education was made free from January 1974, regardless of race, and won Australia a great deal of goodwill. [More…]

• These people are coming from overseas and they will pay dearly for the privilege of being able to study in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• It represents less than one per cent of the Government’s foreign aid program and it represents less than one per cent of total Federal Government expenditure on universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• After all, the measure means in reality that some students will be paying for tertiary education next year. [More…]

• Despite what it might be called and where it might be collected, these students are being charged because they are to undertake education at a university or college of advanced education in Australia. [More…]

• This is in direct conflict with what the Minister for Education has said. [More…]

• Let me just quote a letter about tertiary education fees that he wrote this year to the Education Vice President of the Australian Union of Students. [More…]

• When the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) was introducing the Bills he pointed out that the purpose of them was to put into effect the Government’s decision to introduce an annual charge on overseas students studying in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• At that time the Minister mentioned that the Government had been anxious to make available additional educational opportunities for overseas students. [More…]

• For some time the community in Australia and the Government, reflecting the opinion of that community, have been concerned at a number of costs in relation to education. [More…]

• One of these has been the provision of opportunities for overseas students attending educational institutions which have been funded wholly or partly from public money. [More…]

• Therefore, the decision which was announced earlier by the Minister has been made and the Government has decided that private overseas students attending Australian universities and colleges of advanced education, which are fully funded by the Commonwealth- a point which should be borne in mind- should be called upon to make some contribution towards the cost of their education. [More…]

• The average annual tuition cost of a full time student at a university has been estimated at $5,500 per annum and slightly less- about $4,000 per annum- at a college of advanced education. [More…]

• Australian students do not pay fees, but funds for their education come from our Consolidated Revenue, which comes from the tax paid by their families. [More…]

• In view of that and because of the Government’s very firm belief that it is in Australia’s interest to develop a cultural exchange and international understanding, these policies have been developed with a view to increasing the number of students who will be admitted for study at Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Australia will continue to provide substantial educational assistance to Colombo Plan students and to students studying under similar educational aid programs so that those programs will continue to be available to students who need them and who cannot afford to pay education costs. [More…]

• The majority of them have come here in the past 30 years, although educational aid programs have been running for nearly 70 years. [More…]

• Government sponsored overseas students who have come here since World War II have been incorporated into a great number of programs, including the Colombo Plan, the Australia Papua New Guinea Education and Training Scheme, the Australian International Awards Scheme, the Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan, the Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme, the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, the South Pacific Aid Program and the Australian-Asian Universities Co-operation Scheme. [More…]

• Those costs are for education only and do not include the vast range of administrative and hidden costs, including the cost of maintenance of facilities, current and other capital costs. [More…]

• The matter of Australia’s program of overseas aid and of developing co-operation, especially in education, is widespread and diverse. [More…]

• Our education program directed towards overseas countries has been extensive. [More…]

• That statement is not mine; it is that of the Minister for Education of Malaysia, whom I met when visiting Malaysia a few weeks ago. [More…]

• Whilst I hope that the Government will always bear in mind its responsibility in providing overseas aid, particularly in areas related to education, at this time, when there is a great interchange of students and of people engaged in activities related to education, when services are rendered- the services which Australia renders are particularly good services- there should be an arrangement whereby some contribution can be made towards the cost of those services. [More…]

• I refer firstly to his statement that there is widespread concern in the Australian community about the subsidising by the Australian taxpayer of the tertiary education of overseas students in Australia. [More…]

• It must be because he realises that the introduction of the Bill is at variance, as Senator Colston pointed out, with the very firm and categorical assurances that he has given to Australian students and universities that no tertiary education fees will be introduced in 1980. [More…]

• One can be sure that no Australian student can henceforth accept any assurances, however categorically, given by this Government concerning tertiary education fees. [More…]

• It is evident that when such people return to their home country they enter- by virtue of their education in Australia- into the very highest decision-making levels, whether it be in industry, commerce, public corporations, the Public Service, professional areas or political life. [More…]

• Yet the Government says that it is its aim to have students in this country to enjoy the benefits of our education system and return to their country to positions of influence in the decision-making apparatus. [More…]

• These families are already finding some $3,000 or $4,000 at least to sustain a son or daughter who is receiving tertiary education in this country. [More…]

• To find an extra $1,500 to $2,500 will put education beyond the limits of certain families and community groups. [More…]

• Of course, not only will this Bill put education beyond the reach of the helping sustenance of families and groups in the communities that the students come from but also it will put certain Australian community aid groups in a position where they cannot offer as much assistance and as much help as they did previously. [More…]

• It will close off for many students who belong to minority racial or ethnic groups the only possibility for acquiring a tertiary education, given the quotas and other devices used by their home governments to exclude them from the benefits of teritary education. [More…]

• We are the country adjacent to the millions in the developing countries of this region and we have an inescapable obligation, perhaps forced upon us but certainly derived from our geography and affluence, to make education available to a number, limited perhaps, of the most talented, not the wealthiest, youth in those countries so that they may return to serve their own people. [More…]

• The Opposition in no way would oppose an effort to ensure that the criteria for admission to our tertiary education institutions are so designed that the most talented come here and that the courses they undertake will be the most useful to them upon their return. [More…]

• Not only are there foreign policy implications in this Bill which makes it a disaster, but also there are educational reasons for expressing concern. [More…]

• Are we offering these overseas students schooling certificates, diplomas, degrees, or are we offering them education? [More…]

• If we claim that we wish to offer overseas students education- even at a price- to say that they must return home immediately upon the completion of their formal studies is to disrupt seriously, to truncate and I believe in almost every field, directly to contradict the educational process. [More…]

• A large percentage of those who apply for this status have been advised by the Government that if they want that very necessary post-graduate work experience they ought to apply for, and will be granted, permanent resident status in order to spend one, two or three years in the work force gaining those skills and completing their education in order to return to their home countries with something reasonable to offer their employers. [More…]

• It is not even good educationally. [More…]

• They are voiceless particularly at this time when the Government brings in this legislation two weeks before the major examinations within every tertiary education institution in Australia. [More…]

• There is no way in which the solidarity among overseas students within those institutions can be marshalled two weeks before the final examination, and Senator Puplick who has benefited from the tertiary education system would well know that that is the fact. [More…]

• It is proposed that a relatively small fee be asked of those private overseas students to contribute to the cost of that education. [More…]

• At the moment the average cost of a university place is estimated to be $5,500 and a place in a college of advanced education $4,000. [More…]

• -As I understand it, the question and my response to it in the past referred to the response of the States in terms of the Australian Education Council and its decisions. [More…]

• I will be making a statement in the Senate in the next few days tabling the Press statements from the Australian Education Council, including a Press statement on the transition from school to work. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall that the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts said the same in its report on children’s television? [More…]

• My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Education, follows a number of questions I have asked him over the last year in which I have sought an admission that government policies of reducing funds for research workers, and especially Commonwealth post-graduate scholarships, are causing a damaging brain drain from Australia. [More…]

• -I have said in this Senate that the - Williams report on education, training and employment had noted that within universities over the’ past decade there had been a tendency to concentrate upon primary degree teaching rather than on research and that it would be desirable for universities to increase their research role. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a statement in the Sun-Herald newspaper of 4 November 1 979 which suggests that there are: increasing enrolment rates at private schools, possibly because more and more parents are becoming dissatisfied with the State school system. [More…]

• I am happy to say that the Australian Education Council agreed to both a Commonwealth Government request and a Williams Committee recommendation that the Australian Council of Educational Research should devise special apparatus for testing numeracy and literacy and that this’ method should be adopted by schools at the State level and for national sampling so that we can in fact place more emphasis on basic skills. [More…]

• One of the fundamental reasons for the unemployment situation in this country is that we simply have not been pursuing those areas of research in terms of geography, general education standards and so forth which we are well equipped to do. [More…]

• That, subject to paragraph (2), the Archives Bill 1978 be referred to the Standing Committee on Education and the Arts for inquiry and report as soon as possible. [More…]

• The Standing Committee on Education and the Arts reported the results of its inquiry into other aspects of the Archives Bill to the Senate on 1 1 October 1 979. [More…]

• by leave- I present a statement by the Tertiary Education Commission entitled ‘Funding of Tertiary Education’ and ask leave of the Senate to make a short statement. [More…]

• Due to the importance of this inquiry, it has decided to table the submission from the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• This submission to the Public Accounts Committee is the first definitive statement by the Tertiary Education Commission, which was established in June 1977, on its functions and operations. [More…]

• The submission not only provides details of the procedures followed by the Commission in recommending Commonwealth funds for tertiary education and in administering approved programs but also describes the respective roles of the Commission, State authorities and tertiary institutions. [More…]

• The Public Accounts Committee and the Tertiary Education Commission’s Chairman, Professor Peter Karmel, believe the early publication of this document will give individuals and institutions a further opportunity to provide comment to the Committee before we formally take oral evidence. [More…]

• The Public Accounts Committee’s inquiry into the funding of tertiary education was initiated in May 1979 to review the arrangements for Commonwealth funding of universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education, with particular reference to the respective roles of the Commonwealth, State and institutional bodies concerned and with the objective of finding whether the administration and co-ordination of funding arrangements are cost effective. [More…]

• To inquire into the system of grants to support tertiary education. [More…]

• To inquire into the operations of the Tertiary Education Commission and its associated councils with particular reference to: [More…]

• The relationships between the Commission and the councils and State education co-ordinating authorities, State departments concerned with education, and tertiary education institutions; [More…]

• the procedures adopted by the Commission and the councils to evaluate, or have evaluated, tertiary education institutions, their courses and the product’ of tertiary education; and [More…]

• the procedures adopted by the Commission and the councils to investigate, report on and recommend alternative action for the allocation of resources in the tertiary education sector. [More…]

• As a result of our Federal-State Public Accounts Committee Conference in June 1977, it was agreed that real advantages might be gained in conducting inquiries into subjects such as education where concurrent responsibilities exist. [More…]

• During the inquiry, the committee sought submissions from several departments and government authorities and held public hearings into matters relating to the Departments of Defence, Education, Primary Industry and National Development as well as the Canberra Commercial Development Authority. [More…]

• In examining aspects of the Department of Education’s control over student assistance allowances, the Committee is aware of the Department’s difficulties in reconciling the need for prompt and regular payment of benefits with the demands for proper control of public moneys. [More…]

• The Committee has recommended changes to the application forms for TEAS- Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme- which it believes will place greater onus on students to recognise and act upon their responsibility to advise the Department of status changes. [More…]

• Senator CARRICK (New South WalesMinister for Education)- by leave- In July 1979, following allegations of leakages of information from an unknown officer of the Sydney office of the Narcotics Bureau, the Government decided it was appropriate to consider general matters relating to the Narcotics Bureau, including organisation, recruitment, staffing and control, lines of responsibility to the Permanent Head and the Minister, and relationship with other arms of government. [More…]

• I hope that this sort of approach by the Government will not mean that it will ignore the need for education, proper prevention and treatment and the need to change the attitude to drugs in this community which is probably at the base of our whole problem. [More…]

• It is a world in which they do not have equal rights to education, employment, health services or even the restrictive freedoms that other Queenslanders have. [More…]

• That means improving their housing, health, education and all of those things which, statistically it is quite clear are manifestly inadequate. [More…]

• I am glad that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has intervened and said that donations to East Timor are tax deductible. [More…]

• To this end the Government is providing various forms of funding and other types of assistance, including the provision of officers for education and coordination work with respect to refugee programmes. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 30 August 1979: [More…]

• 1 ) How many persons have attended courses under the Commonwealth’s education program for unemployed youth at each of the centres in New South Wales where such courses are held. [More…]

• Tertiary Education Institutions in the Australian Capital Territory [More…]

• That the proposed Bill to amend the Australian National University Act and Bill to amend the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act force the governing Councils of those institutions to implement the government’s wishes regarding student organisations, despite those Councils’ opposition to the government on this question. [More…]

• In the second reading speech delivered by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) it was pointed out that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his election policy speech in November 1977 referred to the fact that the share of net personal income tax collections allocated to local government would be increased to 2 per cent by 1 980-8 1 . [More…]

• I take issue with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on one point in particular about this letter. [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to produce a statement by any Premier, ‘ Labor or Liberal, supporting the new Fraser federalism policy. [More…]

• -Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to reported comments of the Australian Labor Party’s candidate for the seat of Canberra, Mrs Kelly, in yesterday’s Canberra Times alleging that at least 20 Australian Capital Territory primary schools will lose their existing principals over the next four years? [More…]

• -Could the Minister for Education inform the Senate of the Government’s strategy in relation to the education and training of young people at risk in Australian schools in connection with youth unemployment? [More…]

• Is it true that under certain circumstances some persons receiving unemployment benefit can also be receiving allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and yet Department of Social Security officers are not able to crack down on the racket by cross matching computer lists from the Department of Social Security and the Department of Education because of confidentiality sections of the Social Services Act? [More…]

• The departments are able to exchange information and, in connection with the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances and the unemployment benefit, they certainly do exchange information to enable satisfactory arrangements to be established to avoid duplication. [More…]

• I preface my question to the Minister for Education by stating that he will be aware that in a decentralised State such as Tasmania the provision of an adequate Tertiary [More…]

• Education Assistance Scheme allowance is essential to enable many young adult Australians to secure their right to a tertiary education; and further, that this is of particular concern to northwest coasters wishing to attend the University in Hobart or colleges of advanced education courses in Hobart and Launceston, who are finding that accommodation costs far exceed the maximum TEAS allowance. [More…]

• The functions of the Commission, to put it broadly, are those of inquiry, investigation, report, research and education. [More…]

• It will also be able to report generally on the effectiveness of existing Commonwealth and Territory law and it will be given a general mandate to ‘promote understanding and acceptance’ and also to undertake and co-ordinate ‘research and education programs in relations to human rights’. [More…]

• The Victorian Government is prepared to spend more than three times the annual budget that the Grassby Community Relations Commission gets for a whole year to maintain its on-going program of investigations, conciliation, education, research and promotion of human rights right around Australia. [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…]

• But the promotional and education research functions under the principal Act will be carried out for the HRC [More…]

• The two other principles relate to programs of education and other special programs to promote that covenant. [More…]

• If Dr Grassby is left only with investigation and conciliation functions and his duties of promoting education and understanding in the community are taken away, will these committees continue to function? [More…]

• This will be divorced from the community education work which has rightly been pan of the Commissioner’s role until now. [More…]

• The provision of public services by Governments, including social services, housing, education. [More…]

• Who would have thought that Article 14 of the American Constitution, which is the equal protection clause, in terms of education could be interpreted in 1 896 in Plessy v. Ferguson as saying that separate educational facilities could be equal and then be overturned in Brown v. Topeka in 1 954 which said that separate facilities are inherently unequal. [More…]

• Has the Minister for Education seen an article by Professor Karmel, who is Chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, on ‘How to Cut the Teenage Dole Queue’. [More…]

• He was present at and participated in the recent discussions of the Australian Education Council in which there was a common agreement amongst all States and the Commonwealth on various matters pertaining to juvenile unemployment. [More…]

• The Australian Education Council has undertaken to set up certain methods of testing skills at regular intervals and to do national sampling in order to put pressure upon the upgrading of skills. [More…]

• Romanians; that they enjoy equal opportunities in such matters as employment, education, use of language and the pursuit of their cultural traditions and heritage. [More…]

• I would like to see it spent in setting up some kind of an education program so that our young people could be educated to understand other people’s cultures. [More…]

• But I believe that we can help to change the attitudes of our younger people, our children, through a program of education in the schoolsthe primary and secondary schools, even going on to the tertiary institutions- to impart a greater knowledge and understanding of other peoples. [More…]

• The Human Rights Commission is to be responsible for the very worthy functions of research, education, promoting respect for rights, et cetera, but what use is it if it is not provided with staff? [More…]

• They have, it claims, the right to affection, love and understanding; to adequate nutrition, medical care and free education; to full opportunity for play and recreation; to a name and nationality; to special care if handicapped; to be the first to receive relief in times of disaster; to learn to be a useful member of society; to develop individual abilities; to be brought up in a spirit of peace and universal brotherhood; and to enjoy all of those rights regardless of race, religion, colour, sex and national or social origin. [More…]

• They should not be written into law as a right, which infringes other people’s rights because they would have to provide, say, the affection, love and understanding; the nutrition, medical care and education. [More…]

• They now contain items of novel interest like the right to marry and found a family, the right to free education and the right to free elections although very few of them can enjoy any of those things. [More…]

• But the preamble to the Declaration requires that it promote friendly relations between nations and that it seek a common standard of achievement for all peoples to be promoted by teaching and education. [More…]

• Because it is a subject of that kind the strength of the human rights movement in any country depends in the end on education, on promotion of those principles and on the philosophy of people. [More…]

• Therefore, in the end the importance of observing these matters is in the area of education, of conciliation and of understanding, and not so much on simply legislative or judicial dictate. [More…]

• Some grotesque intrusions have been made into the freedom of political belief in the conduct of the education system in Queensland. [More…]

• The functions of the Commission, as set out in the Bill, are ones of education and promotion, of investigation and inquiry by reference to the standard of the Covenant set out and adopted by the international community. [More…]

• Thirdly, I believe that the petition received support because there is a widespread feeling in society that, while there is a certain hypocrisy in society, while the brewery barons and the tobacco tycoons are showered with honours and society turns against users of marihuana with this repressive legislation, there will be no widespread community support for a proper drug abuse education program. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 12 September 1979: [More…]

• Have the Minister for Education in Victoria and his Deparment blundered? [More…]

• How much greater is the offence of the Ministers for Education in Victoria and New South Wales who have been conned by their departmental heads for five years to such an extent that in each State there are now 4,000 fully trained teachers, trained at the taxpayers expense at about $20,000 a year, for whom there are no jobs. [More…]

• I can look up the same year book for the expected birth and death rates and estimate reasonably well how many children will need education five years from now. [More…]

• The policies are the means by which government funding goes to education, social security and defence, and a large part of other national and community needs. [More…]

• As we are to have a situation in which race relations in Australia will be severely strained not only, as I have said, by the increasing education of the Aboriginal population but also by the increasing number of Vietnamese refugees and the increasing tensions in the employment situation in this country, the Commissioner for Community Relations ought to be one of the members of the Human Rights Commission, one among many and an equal among many. [More…]

• It is not something that is going to go away without a great deal of effort on the part of members on all sides of the Parliament and without a degree of education of the Australian community. [More…]

• The specific purpose programs are for child migrant education, disadvantaged schools and students in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development and special projects. [More…]

• There has been a broadening of the provision within the multicultural education program to provide for national level projects, to facilitate the program’s administration and to encourage schools to be more responsive to the multicultural needs of all children. [More…]

• State Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• This Bill provides for grants amounting to $225.3m to the States for 1980 for the capital and equipment programs of universities and colleges of advanced education and for the recurrent and capital funding of technical and further education. [More…]

• In addition, the Bill provides for grants amounting to $6.4m to the Northern Territory, for 1980, for advanced education and TAFE recurrent purposes and for major building projects in relation to the provision of tertiary education. [More…]

• 8m for advanced education recurrent purposes in the Northern Territory for 1981. [More…]

• The States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 provided grants to the States for universities, colleges of advanced education and TAFE institutions for 1979 as well as recurrent grants for universities and colleges of advanced education for 1980 and 1981. [More…]

• The Bill puts into effect arrangements relating to the consideration of new teaching developments in universities and colleges of advanced education which have been agreed to by the Australian Education Council and endorsed by the Government. [More…]

• Under the present Act, the Tertiary Education Commission is required to approve, for funding purposes, all courses of advanced education; it has exercised control over major new developments in universities through its financial recommendations. [More…]

• The Bill introduces a new system under which universities and advanced education authorities, subject to State requirements for co-ordination, may introduce new courses of study which do not fall within classes declared by the Minister on the advice of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• It is intended that these classes will cover new developments of national significance involving major financial or educational implications or potential duplication among the three sectors. [More…]

• The Bill provides a definition of courses of advanced education which is necessary in view of the new arrangements for teaching developments. [More…]

• The definition recognises the responsibilities of the States for the accreditation of these courses but provides that the courses be undertaken for awards of a kind determined by the Minister on the recommendation of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]

• It is intended that the kinds of awards determined by the Minister will be the categories currently recognised by the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education. [More…]

• Under the existing legislation, payments of advanced education building grants to the States, must be transmitted to the colleges concerned without undue delay, despite the fact that some projects may run ahead of schedule while others may fall behind. [More…]

• Even disregarding the fact that it will be a number of years before substantial amounts of uranium royalties are available, it will also be a long time before the handicaps which Aboriginals suffer in health, education and other areas will be overcome. [More…]

• If this is taken to the obvious extreme- to absurdium, as the lawyers would say- this sort of philosophy would suggest that everything gets paid for out of the royaltieshealth, education, welfare, legal aid and the whole lot. [More…]

• With respect, I do not suggest that the Minister shares those views, but obviously we need some sort of education program- some sort of statement- to overcome some of that. [More…]

• It seems a little peripheral to the Bill but I would like to say that the recommendations of the Council for Aboriginal Development are in the terms of what is now being done by the Northern Territory Government, namely, the imposition of compulsory voting for Aboriginals, with the exception that the Council has sought a period of delay during which there would be an education campaign. [More…]

• In fact, I have already had a request from the Northern Territory Government seeking an extension to the Northern Territory of the education campaign which is at present operating in Western Australia and South Australia. [More…]

• These two Bills, the Australian National University Amendment Bill and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill, are primarily introduced for the purpose of putting into operation the Government’s policy of membership of student organisations and the expenditure of fees on student organisations by the institutions involved. [More…]

• Notwithstanding this change to the rules, the Federal Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, advised the university that it intended to override the University Council and introduce legislation dealing with student fees. [More…]

• Not only was this Bill criticised by the university, as was a similar Bill to affect the Canberra College of Advanced Education; it was even too much for a number of Government members who, quite rightly and with every justification, pointed out serious objections to the provisions contained in the Bill. [More…]

• I will deal with the provisions contained in the Australian National University Amendment Bill, but the provisions that apply in the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill are similar. [More…]

• I rise to support the Australian National University Amendment Bill 1979 and the associated measure, the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1979. [More…]

• Even when an organisation represents or claims to represent students at tertiary education institutions, there are three provisions to allow the Council of the University to see that compulsorily collected fees are available to them. [More…]

• Those objects listed in the sub-clause are: ‘Encouraging sporting or other recreational activities amongst students or students and other persons’; ‘promoting the interests of students, or students and other persons in some particular educational, social or cultural field ‘-which one would have thought was a fairly broad sweep; or ‘promoting the interests of post-graduate students, or a class of post-graduate students, at tertiary education institutions ‘. [More…]

• He asked Senator Carrick, as Minister for Education, what degree of consultation had taken place. [More…]

• Education, Macquarie University, the State College of Victoria and various other universities have progressively seceded. [More…]

• As I said, a number of amendments to the Bill we considered previously arose as a result of the discussions which took place between the University representatives and the members of the Government parties on the education, science and the environment committee. [More…]

• The reasons I have advanced in terms of supporting this Bill on the basis of the right of free choice for students at the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education bring me quite clearly to a position in which I am happy to give both Bills my total support. [More…]

• If I were making that sort of remark on my own behalf or on behalf of the students at the Australian National University or at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, I guess it would cut no ice with honourable senators opposite and would be regarded as just the outpourings of somebody who was so constantly in the company of students in the course of his career prior to entering this place that he is unable to do anything but be their mouthpiece. [More…]

• It is a student body which attempts to advance in a general way the interests of students within tertiary education institutions in Australia. [More…]

• I refer, for example, to the marshalling of cases for presentation to the Government on the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances or, as we recently experienced in this place, the marshalling of an excellent submission on the overseas student tuition levy. [More…]

• It is against that sort of political activity on behalf of students at tertiary education institutions that this Bill is directed. [More…]

• The Bill covers a number of matters which have been the subject of discussion between the University Council, the University administration, the Department of Education and the Minister for Education (Senator [More…]

• That relates to the way in which the University, as one of the many universities in Australia, and the Canberra College of Advanced Education, as one of many such colleges in Australia, pay fees to student associations and how they can be levied and disbursed. [More…]

• It happens that there has been some argument during the period in which there has been discussion and negotiation- and in a moment I will congratulate the Minister for Education upon the attitude that he has adopted in relation to this- on both sides of Lake Burley Griffin. [More…]

• I congratulate the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for the attitude which he has adopted in relation to this matter. [More…]

• It is fascinating that the one Government member to have anything to say on the Australian National University Amendment Bill and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill which is consistent with the objections that the Opposition has taken, even if not always for exactly the same reasons, is the one member on the Government side who knows what he is talking about in the sense that he is, and has been for a long time, a member of the Australian National University Council. [More…]

• Our objection is to those provisions which do not appear to have satisfied those criteria; namely, clauses 16 and 1 9 of the Australian National University Bill and clauses 5 and 6 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Bill. [More…]

• They are, for all practical purposes, identical except to the extent that the CAE Bill contains, in both those clauses, an additional overriding ministerial discretion which means that even if the Council in question were minded to act in favour of the student organisations in question, the Minister for Education could still override the Council. [More…]

• A similar provision is contained in the Canberra College of Advanced Education Bill. [More…]

• There ought to be no doubt that the Australian National University Students Association- I will take it as the example because I have less information about the students’ association of the Canberra College of Advanced Education; indeed, it seems to be rather less active on all fronts than its university counterparts- is a union-type body from which its members and indeed all those students at the university do in face derive genuine benefits. [More…]

• Education Amendment Bill. [More…]

• It will help ensure that the national union concentrates its energies and attention on what it obviously ought to be concentrating on, and that is education. [More…]

• Among the submissions on the subject of education that have been made by AUS to various authorities this year are pre-Budget submissions on student financing, an 80-page document on the Tertiary [More…]

• Education Assistance Scheme and other fee matters, submissions on the future of the Sturt College of Advanced Education in South Australia- I point that out for the benefit of Senator Teague- submissions on the effect of the proposed tuition fee for overseas students and submissions to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the effectiveness of schools with particular reference to numeracy and literacy. [More…]

• Education Information is a journal produced for all campuses and the Australian Union of Students also contributes to a document called News Notes, with short information summaries for journalists and decision-makers. [More…]

• The AUS is a member of the steering committee overseeing the present Commonwealth Education Department survey of student incomes and expenditures and frequently consults with a whole variety of bodies such as the Vice-Chancellors’ Committee and the Conference of College of Advance Education Principals, the Federation of University Staff Associations and so on. [More…]

• If that is the record of a moribund body in terms of its unquestioned basic role as a representative of student educational interests, I would like Senator Puplick to get up and say so because clearly that is quite inconsistent. [More…]

• One is that as far as the ANU and the Canberra College of Advanced Education are concerned, there has never been any attempt to secede from AUS, even when AUS was operating in its most confessedly extravagant fashion. [More…]

• In speaking in this cognate debate on the Australian National University Amendment Bill 1979 and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1979, 1 state at the outset that I will be very brief. [More…]

• With the passage of this legislation, much will be left to the goodwill of the councils of both the College of Advanced Education and the Australian National University. [More…]

• Furthermore, past practices in most, if not all, Australian universities have demanded payment of other than tuition fees as a prerequisite to obtaining a university education. [More…]

• I interpret the legislation in that way on reading the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• promoting the interests of students, or students and other persons, in some particular educational, social or cultural field; [More…]

• In passing, I think that it is worth assuming that the incidentals allowance component of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme will be spent almost entirely on the proposed Australian National University services and amenities fee. [More…]

• In closing, I urge the Minister for Education to do all that is possible by way of oversight and supervision to see that the spirit of the legislation is observed. [More…]

• One Bill relates to the Australian National University and the other to the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Those Bills relate substantially to alterations to financial provisions and administrative restructuring, relating specifically to the Australian National University, but also to the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 September 1979: [More…]

• What grants by the Department of Education have there been for projects in the Electoral Divisions of Holt and Flinders, and for what purposes, in each financial year from 1975-76 to 1978-79. [More…]

• -Can the Minister for Education indicate the justification for building an additional technical and further education college in Canberra, the Woden Technical and Further Education College, when it appears that educational facilities in Canberra are already well above the national average? [More…]

• There is very good justification for the Woden College of Technical and Further Education. [More…]

• A large portion of the TAFE College’s initial enrolments will be drawn from the Canberra College of Technical and Further Education, the capacity of which is severely strained at present. [More…]

• The fields of study currently planned for the College at its opening in 1980-81 include business and administration, secretarial studies, fashion, home science, horticulture and migrant education. [More…]

• My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, is one of a series of questions on the Youth Transitional Training Scheme. [More…]

• In answer to my last question on this matter Senator Carrick referred me to the about to be tabled findings of the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• Does the Minister recall a recommendation that there needed to be a rationalisation of existing benefit schemes so as to ensure that there were no disincentives to participation in education and training? [More…]

• I well recall the resolution of the Australian Education Council. [More…]

• Under the Education Program for Unemployed Youth- that program has been a conspicuous success in itself- an amount equivalent to the unemployment benefit, plus a fares allowance of $6, has been paid to EPUY students. [More…]

• Alongside that is the general collection of Tertiary Education Assistance schemes. [More…]

• In the ensuing years the legislation has been amended to bring matters relating to salaries as they affect those involved in institutions associated with education and academic studies under the consideration of the Remuneration Tribunal. [More…]

• We are dealing with a particular group of people who, in the sense of their education and development, play a significant part in the leadership of our country in both the private and public sectors. [More…]

• If there are grounds for the Remuneration Tribunal associating itself with and considering academic salaries, which is one of the additional responsibilities which the Tribunal has taken up, it seems logical, reasonable and equitable that it should consider this matter at the level immediately prior to persons reaching the position of becoming academics in the sense of seeking higher education. [More…]

• I think it is logical and reasonable to say that there is one section that has been left aside in this whole area, and that is post-graduate studentspeople who should not be called upon to make financial sacrifices different from those of the rest of the community; a group of people who, having attained a certain level of education and having a tremendous contribution to make to the development of our country in both the public and private sectors, ought to be recognised and therefore ought to have access to some public consideration, to some public tribunal. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme assists a much larger number of students. [More…]

• Education is a classic example. [More…]

• This parliamentary chamber rings with pleas against bringing back fees for higher education, university courses and all the rest. [More…]

• With all the money we spend on education and on subsidising other things, it is a great surprise to me that we cannot find some money to spend on teaching flying instructors in this country how to teach a craft that they themselves know very well. [More…]

• So far as the Commission is concerned, there will be an education role. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 October 1979: [More…]

• Has the Commonwealth received the 1978 certificate from the Queensland Government in relation to expenditure by the State for advanced education under the provisions of the States Grants legislation; if so, (a) what qualifications have been made regarding recurrent expenditure at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education (DDIAE) for 1978; and (b) has any Commonwealth funding been misappropriated by the DDIAE council during that period. [More…]

• 1 ) and (2) In accordance with the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977, the Tertiary Education Commission has received audited statements of expenditure from Queensland in relation to expenditure by colleges of advanced education in that State in respect of 1978. [More…]

• The Auditor-General of Queensland has commented that of the amount shown in the statement as expenditure by the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education on ‘college purposes’, the following amounts were not, in his opinion, college purposes: [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 November 1979: [More…]

• The matter of providing facilities for the tertiary education of deaf children is an important one. [More…]

• Recent surveys conducted by the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee and the Australian Conference of Principals of Colleges of Advanced Education have indicated that there is a definite awareness of the needs of handicapped students, including those with impaired hearing, in tertiary institutions. [More…]

• The surveys have shown also that special facilities for deaf students are being provided by some universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]

• Certain recommendations made by the Williams Committee have also helped to focus attention on the problems associated with participation in tertiary education by students with various forms of disability. [More…]

• Its involvement in the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981 will no doubt provide it with further opportunities to assist actively in the promotion of access by handicapped people to community life including, of course, access to tertiary education by deaf students. [More…]

• The Committee endorses the need for public education in plant quarantine matters to emphasise the reasons for Australia’s strict plant quarantine laws. [More…]

• The Committee considers that contingency plans for control and eradication of exotic disease should be discussed publicly to allow full debate, education and involvement of all persons in the community affected by such plans. [More…]

• There will be a decrease in education spending and a continued attack on those least able to bear it; that is, the 75 per cent of unemployed people who are single. [More…]

• Group A of departments includes the Department of Education, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]

• When I look across the chamber tonight, I see parliamentary officers, officers from the Department of Education, officers from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, officers from the Department of Foreign Affairs and officers from the Department of the Treasury who have to sit here waiting. [More…]

• -I refer the Minister for Education to a recent publication by the Schools Commission entitled ‘Australian Students and their Schools’, for which publication I congratulate him. [More…]

• Is the Department of Education giving any thought to developing programs in schools which seek to promote healthier lifestyles among the young specifically, given that we are doing that for adults, and which specifically seek to discourage young children from taking pills and other medicationa habit which if started at such a young age may prove almost impossible to break at a later stage in life and in fact may lead to long term adverse consequences? [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to a Press report in the Hobart Mercury this morning concerning a statement by the Minister in respect of proposed changes to the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education at Mount Nelson. [More…]

• He is aware that constitutionally education is a State matter. [More…]

• What I have said is that, if what is done affects financing as such and is significant in that regard, the Tertiary Education Commission would have to look at the matter and advise me accordingly. [More…]

• The Government recognises that there remain many areas of inadequacy in the field of Aboriginal affairs- be it health, housing, education or employment. [More…]

• I was assured by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick ) that every effort is made to ensure that there is no overlapping in the publications which are bought by departments. [More…]

• I refer to division 173, subdivision 3, item 04, relating to grants to organisations for pre-marital education. [More…]

• The Marriage Act empowers the Attorney-General to make grants to approved organizations to subsidise programmes of pre-marital education. [More…]

• That would seem to be a factor which ought to have influenced the Government at least to increase the provision for pre-marital education services. [More…]

• It was proposed that the congress be attended by up to 2,000 participants from more than 100 countries, including Ministers of justice, judges, criminologists and leading figures in the field of corrections, police, social welfare, mental health, education and a number of related areas. [More…]

• I wish to put in the record a letter that was written on this matter on 17 October by the Tasmanian Minister for Education, Recreation and the Arts to the Secretary of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council. [More…]

• Harry Holgate Minister for Education, Recreation and the Arts [More…]

• PLANTING CONSERVATION EDUCATION [More…]

• The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick)- that famous Minister who does his ballet dance in this place every Thursday morning; and he will probably do it much more willingly later today- was unable to tell me. [More…]

• I wonder whether it is possible for the Minister for Education either now, if he has the information, or at some subsequent time to indicate to the chamber whether any of those designs is specifically for a vertical short take-off and landing aircraft. [More…]

• Post-Secondary Education in Queensland (Question No. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 9 October 1 979: [More…]

• Has a Committee of the Queensland Parliament, chaired by Mr M. J. Ahern, M.L.A., found that there is a disturbing lack of co-ordination in post-secondary education development in Queensland, and recommended the establishment of a separate ministry for tertiary education in Queensland, as reported in The Courier-Mail, 5 October 1979; if so, how does the situation in Queensland, as found by the Committee, compare with the position of post-secondary education co-ordination in other States, and what action, if any, is the Commonwealth taking to assist in the co-ordination of policy-making in Queensland in this area. [More…]

• The sixth interim report of the Queensland Legislative Assembly’s Select Committee on Education in Queensland, chaired by Mr M. J. Ahern, M.L.A., was concerned with Post-Secondary Education. [More…]

• Among its many recommendations was a proposal for the establishment of a Ministry of Post-Secondary Education separate from the present Ministry of Education. [More…]

• The Committee itself in its Report drew attention to the relevant portions of the Williams Report, ‘Education, Training and Employment’, and quoted recommendation R.7.23 of that Report which reads: [More…]

• The Committee draws to the attention of the Governments of New South Wales and Queensland that efficient programs for the development and rationalisation of educational facilities in small towns, and more general arrangements for contracting with university or advanced education authorities to provide services, depend on the existence of post-secondary co-ordinating authorities in the States as well as in the Commonwealth ‘. [More…]

• The Ahem Report also discussed the situation in other States, which is that four States have established statutory authorities to co-ordinate post-secondary education while New South Wales is considering ways in which the administration of education at all levels may be improved. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government would regard the arrangements made for the co-ordination of post-secondary education in Queensland as matters for the Queensland Government to determine. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1979: [More…]

• Has the Tertiary Education Commission or the Government determined any policy on the matter; if not, when does the Commission propose to take action on the matter. [More…]

• The Tertiary Education Commission is currently reviewing the various superannuation schemes operating in tertiary institutions in terms of their impact on institutions’ recurrent budgets. [More…]

• The Commission considered that it was both legitimate and desirable to use public resources to maintain and promote personal health through exhortation, education and incentives. [More…]

• Other necessary measures included placing a greater emphasis on health education and the development and monitoring of its techniques; a greater involvement of general practitioners and other health professionals in health education; and better in-service training for teachers in health education. [More…]

• For the information of honourable senators and pursuant to section 30 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education ) Act 1 974 and section 20 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 I present a statement of payments to the State under the States Grants Act. [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…]

• My own education in this area has been assisted by his compassionate approach to Aborigines. [More…]

• It is a challenge to their capacity to adjust and develop their education systems to cope with the problems of technology, employment, or indeed, in many cases, unemployment with which they are so significantly involved. [More…]

• by leave- On 22 March the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) tabled the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training and indicated the arrangements that would be followed to coordinate the Government’s handling and consideration of the report. [More…]

• The Committee comprised distinguished representatives of education, employer and trade union interests. [More…]

• Education and training in Australia has been very well served by the contribution made by the members of the Committee. [More…]

• The work of the Williams Committee has constituted the most comprehensive examination ever undertaken in Australia into the provision of education facilities and services for individual development and into the relationship between the education system and the labour market. [More…]

• The comprehensive report of the Committee will be a source of substantial influence over developments in education and its interaction with the world of work for the remainder of the 20th century. [More…]

• I turn now to the aspects of monitoring and adjustment of the education system. [More…]

• There are a number of proposals in the Williams report for monitoring of particular developments in the education system that the Committee regarded as important for the development of both State and national policies. [More…]

• The Government accepts the importance of the education system being kept under continuing review so that the flexibility and responsiveness of the system may be monitored and adjustments may be made in response to social and economic changes. [More…]

• Priority in evaluation studies is currently being given to student assistance, including the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, and migrant education programs, and the Tertiary Education Commission and the Education Research and Development Committee are supporting other evaluation studies. [More…]

• The Commonwealth Government is concerned about the problems of young people in making the transition from school to work or to further education, and is prepared to join with the States and the Northern Territory in developing a comprehensive policy to assist them. [More…]

• It is envisaged that a range of developments in the interests of young people making the transition from school to employment will be stimulated or extended as a result of this initiative and that in the longer term the education system as a whole will’ become better geared to the needs of young people in the changing circumstances of the 1980s. [More…]

• We wish to provide appropriate education and training courses for them and also tackle the problem of those in the schools who are likely to be in similar difficulties when it comes their turn to leave. [More…]

• Expansion and development of transition courses in Technical and Further Education institutions, including pre-apprenticeship, prevocational and pre-employment courses. [More…]

• Expansion of the number of places available in the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]

• Expansion of school counsellor, vocational education and guidance services to provide more intensive and comprehensive assistance for students at risk and their parents. [More…]

• Establishment of after-school and vacation programs of vocational education and counselling. [More…]

• Community education projects to include increasing employers’ and parents’ understanding of school activities and programs to increase teachers’ awareness of specific employment requirements for new employees. [More…]

• It considers, however, that there is a need for substantial changes and development in education, training and preparation for initial employment for a significant minority of young people who have unsatisfactory experiences at this important and formative stage of their lives. [More…]

• The Government has decided, therefore, to commence a program of special action directed to the transition from education to working life. [More…]

• The aim of the Commonwealth ‘s policy is that ultimately all young people in the 15 to 19 years age group would be provided with options in education, training and employment, or any combination of these, either part-time or fulltime, so that unemployment becomes the least acceptable alternative. [More…]

• Progress towards this objective is seen as involving development of improved techniques for identifying children at school who are likely to be at risk in transition from education to work, improved vocational education and counselling services and provision of alternative courses for at risk students. [More…]

• In addition, expansion and development of TAFE programs, such as pre-apprenticeship and pre-employment courses and the EPUY program, which contribute to the successful transition of young people to employment is regarded as an important element of a comprehensive transition education and training program. [More…]

• In the development of programs the Government would wish to see attention given to the particular problems which girls have in making the transition from education to employment. [More…]

• Over a period the Commonwealth wishes to see the pattern of allowances and benefits for young people, and of related assistance to industry, reorganised to ensure that these separate measures provide the appropriate incentives to participation in education and training. [More…]

• They are consistent with the deliberations of the Australian Education Council, which led the State, Northern Territory and Commonwealth Ministers for Education who constitute the Council, at its meeting last month, to endorse the need for a comprehensive policy on transition from school to work. [More…]

• The developments are also a natural consequence of the findings of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]

• They will be provided, as special grants, in addition to the programs of the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission. [More…]

• The particular purposes for which the grants may be spent will be worked out in discussions with State, territorial and nongovernment education authorities to commence immediately the States and the Northern Territory have accepted the Commonwealth’s offer. [More…]

• The Government will invite the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission to take account of this new policy in the development of their program proposals. [More…]

• Employers should develop closer links with education systems, particularly at the local school level, in the interests of, on the one hand, schools understanding better the requirements of the workplace and, on the other hand, of employers appreciating more clearly the education process and the difficulties faced by young people and their teachers in preparing adequately for the complex requirements of life and work in the eighties and nineties. [More…]

• Inquiry into Education and Training- Ministerial Statement, 22 November 1979. [More…]

• 1 wish to confine my remarks to the second, and shorter, of the two statements made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]

• There have been references by the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, the Honourable Ian Viner, in speeches around the country and references by Senator Carrick in this place and outside as to the Government’s new developments in the field of transitional educationeducation to enable people to go from school to work. [More…]

• One can sum up this statement in a very short time by saying that the Government will spend, on an average, $30m per annum if the States will also kick in to increase the amount of money spent on programs assisting in transitional education between school and work. [More…]

• The first section describes a moderate expansion of already existing programs, such as the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, developments for improved services and techniques for identifying early school leavers, the school councillor system, alternative courses in schools and establishment of after-school courses, et cetera. [More…]

• To call this a comprehensive policy for transitional education is utter nonsense. [More…]

• Over a period the Commonwealth wishes to see the pattern of allowances and benefits for young people, and of related assistance to industry, re-organised to ensure that these separate measures provide the appropriate incentives to participation in education and training. [More…]

• All of us want to see something done about the appallingly low take-up rate of our youth in tertiary education as compared with the rates for other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and even for countries outside that organisation. [More…]

• All of us suspect that, if unemployment levels are to remain high because of technological change, of industry readjustments and of economic difficulties in this world, the education period may have to be longer and that we may have to have more people in special sorts of education processes at the tertiary level. [More…]

• We certainly need- I agree- more assistance at the secondary level to ensure that a person’s education fits him more to the world he will go into. [More…]

• It is well to recall some words of the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, in his second reading speech. [More…]

• That must be seen as pretty small by comparison with its ambitious programs of commissioning and conducting research, informing the public, promotions, community education, and that quaint aim of establishing a literature repository, which us mere mortals could assume is a library. [More…]

• The only really worthwhile part of that program, I believe, is the commissioning of research and the provision of community education. [More…]

• It seems to me that the major constructive work of the Institute of Multicultural Affairs is likely to be in the field of commissioned research, particularly if that research is acted upon, and also in the field of community education. [More…]

• If you study the figures you will find that not only do the ethnic community in Australia bear the brunt of over 40 per cent of all industrial accidents (although they make up some 28 per cent of the population) they bear more than double their share of unemployment, fail to take advantage of the advanced education system, earn at rates of pay well below the Australian average, live at conditions which are substandard, bear children at a greater rate than native-born Australians, have a higher level of ill-health, possess fewer skills, and fill the ranks of menial workers when they are able to obtain employment. [More…]

• As Oscar Lewis pointed out in his study ‘The Culture of Poverty’, the interlocking social systems of poverty, poor education and lack of economic opportunity are selfsustaining, particularly if the group concerned is both of significant size and identifiable within the broader framework of the social system. [More…]

• They simply lacked the opportunity of education in their country of origin and lacked the opportunity to learn English adequately- the opportunity to be motivated, involved and participate in their own safety. [More…]

• When Senator Lajovic interjected, I was referring to the fact- it is a fact and we can do something about it but we cannot do anything about the fact that it existsthat amongst some migrant groups, because of conditions in their country of origin and because of lack of opportunity, they have not had much education in their native language and therefore are in considerable difficulty in this country. [More…]

• It claims that multiculturalism is either a mosaic and it is the job of education to recognise and delineate the parts of that mosaic or else should be seen as a goal and in that case the education system should have a mobilising role in promoting the concept of multiculturalism. [More…]

• It is part of the practical research purpose in promoting community education, which must include migrant education and should include research on second language acquisition. [More…]

• There should be research on the backlog in education, that is, those migrants who have not learnt English despite many years of residence in Australia. [More…]

• We still need major research into the areas of migrant disadvantage in regard to health, the law, industrial safety, workers compensation and the cost effectiveness of providing one-year’s full time tuition, say, in English to all English-speaking migrants on arrival and providing them with an acceptable living allowance, as was suggested by the Adult Migrant Education Service in New South Wales. [More…]

• Finally, I mention two of the more serious problems which will be deserving of the Institute’s research and action, particularly community education. [More…]

• The very real problems that have arisen in this country, the resentment, the unfortunate effortscertainly by a minority of people- as a reaction to the arrival of the Indo-Chinese refugees and the boat people is something which I believe community education can assist to overcome. [More…]

• Basically, we would go further than Senator Grimes on this question of education. [More…]

• After all, education should be the wellhead of real recognition that we are a multicultural society in this country. [More…]

• I have written the word ‘education’ alongside that clause because the word is simply not mentioned in the objectives for the establishment of the Institute. [More…]

• This is part of the Australian Democrats’ policy on education, and we would like to see the Government consider a tiny amendment which would include within the objectives of the Institute some relevance to education, and particularly the kind of education which would be recognised in this Bill as having multicultural backgrounds. [More…]

• On reading clause 5, Senator Mason was concerned that he had found no mention of education. [More…]

• I draw his attention to clause 6 ( 1 ) (b) (iv), in which is found a function of the Institute, expressed in the terms of conducting promotional and community educational activities. [More…]

• Reading the objects and the functions together, I think we can assure Senator Mason that his concern about education is covered. [More…]

• Senator Grimes also expressed concern that community education would be one of the most important things achieved through the establishment of the Institute. [More…]

• Therefore, whilst the Institute will not direct its research programs into Aboriginal issues, it is clear that close and co-operative working relationships with the various organisations concerned with Aboriginal issues will be highly desirable and that joint programs and projects, particularly in community education, could well eventuate from such relationships. [More…]

• In 1977 the Australia Council and the Schools Commission jointly published the results of an investigation into the arts in our education system called ‘Education and the Arts’. [More…]

• The report was very interesting and I think very disturbing to people who are concerned about the development of education and cultural life in this country. [More…]

• The report found that arts education in Australian schools is totally inadequate. [More…]

• Because arts education is so inadequate within our education system, very few children are given the opportunity to understand, enjoy and participate in the arts. [More…]

• Until the arts are treated as an integral part of school education they will not flourish in the community at large. [More…]

• An expansion of arts education would provide employment for teachers. [More…]

• I hope that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, facing as he does the present situation of a glut of teachers and teacher trainees for whom there is no employment, will show some awareness of that possibility. [More…]

• There are virtually no courses within the education system to train high level craftsmen and none to enable people to reach master level. [More…]

• That course has only recently started at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]

• Such Aid is saving precious lives, giving undernourished and homeless people encouragement and help, bringing malnourished children to health, education and a better life, giving people friendship and a new hope. [More…]

• My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]

• I refer to the transitional training scheme, with its range of options and combinations of training, education and employment opportunities. [More…]

• Yesterday it was made perfectly clear that the nature of the scheme is that, first of all, it should be preventive; that is, we should try to identify students at risk in schools so that they do not emerge still at riskthat is an absolute key- and so that in their journey through school they can be helped and then, through link courses, work experience courses or advice to transfer to technical and further education, take their place alongside their peers. [More…]

• Schemes such as the Education Program for Unemployed Youth and its variants may be widened. [More…]

• Different allowances are paid under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• Of course, students who are taken from risk in schools and given better training and assistance in developing better attitudes will pass in the normal way into the technical and further education field and will be as eligible as their peers for benefit. [More…]

• The Senate has before it two Bills, the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill 1979 and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]

• The Bills essentially deal with Federal allocation of finance to the States for schools and tertiary education. [More…]

• Recognising that there are some time constraints upon us, I do not intend to involve myself in any lengthy detailed argument concerning Government policy on education, other than to consider the broad aspect of what has transpired in the past four years. [More…]

• I do not think anyone would deny that over those four years and the four Budgets of the present Government there has been a significant decline in the importance of finance to education throughout Australia. [More…]

• In a statement to the Parliament he made reference to the Government’s intentions in respect of education expenditure. [More…]

• The Government has decided on significant further growth in real levels of expenditure in 1977 at each of the 4 levels of education . [More…]

• He went on to itemise that for universities there would be a 2 per cent growth in real terms, for colleges of advanced education there would be a 5 per cent growth in real terms, for technical and further education institutions there would be a 7.5 per cent growth in real terms and for schools there would be a 2 per cent growth in real terms. [More…]

• Tor universities, colleges and schools, 2 per cent growth in real terms per annum for technical and further education institutions, S per cent . [More…]

• This is a fairly obvious reference to the financial arrangements for education that had been obtained during the three years of the previous Labor Government. [More…]

• As everybody knows, during those three years there was the greatest advance in support, by Commonwealth funding, for education in Australia in both the tertiary sector and the schools sector of any period in Australian history, to the point where it may be claimed that the Federal Government of the day was overly generous to the States in providing funding for education. [More…]

• In 1976 we had these commitments about increases in real terms for the education sectors. [More…]

• However, we are building up a legacy of reduced standards of education which we will not feel so much in the immediate years ahead but certainly will be felt in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [More…]

• Due to this neglect, in 1 972 a very large injection of moneys was necessary to raise the standards of education to the levels that have been recommended by the Karmel Committee. [More…]

• I put it to the Government that no matter how easy it may be from a budgetary point of view to freeze funding for education on the grounds that the need is no longer there as it was some years ago, it should consider very seriously the legacy which we, in this period of the late 1970s and early 1980s, will be handing on to other people who will have to deal with these matters in perhaps 10 or 15 years time. [More…]

• Perhaps the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) when he replies can give me some up-to-date information on this. [More…]

• It should be borne in mind that there was a proposal at the Australian Education Council meeting in December 1977 for a cost-sharing arrangement program to be introduced whereby the Commonwealth and the States would share all costs of education. [More…]

• At the present time, tertiary education- universities and colleges of advanced education- are funded wholly by the Commonwealth. [More…]

• A joint sharing arrangement exists already with technical education in schools. [More…]

• As I understand it, a proposal was put by Senator Carrick that there would be some uniform cost-sharing arrangement involving all sectors of education. [More…]

• I do not doubt that if that proposal comes to fruition there will be a greater financial burden on them because the States bearing a greater proportion of financial responsibility, not only in education but in most spheres of government is consistent with the federalism concept. [More…]

• This has very significant implications for education funding by the States. [More…]

• So much of what they are able to do for education, both in recurrent and capital expenditure, is largely dependent on the tax sharing arrangements and Commonwealth payments to the States. [More…]

• At the end of motion, add, ‘ but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should be condemned for (a) the continuing decline in funding of Australian schools by its failure to honour its firm undertaking to provide for a minimum growth rate of 2 per cent per annum in real terms for schools and (b) its failure to respond to glaring deficiencies and developing needs in the education system, highlighted in reports to the Government by its advisory bodies’. [More…]

• In relation to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill I move: [More…]

• At the end of motion, add, ‘ but the Senate is of the opinion that the Government should be condemned for the (a) continuing decline in funding in real terms for tertiary education in Australia and the consequent long-term detrimental effects on the qualiity and standard of tertiary institutions; and (b) continuing pressure being placed on State Governments to share the cost of tertiary education ‘. [More…]

• Suffice to say that the report which I tabled yesterday entitled Progress in Education 1 979-80 ‘ in respect of the period 1976 to 1979 totally refutes the arguments put up by Senator Wriedt. [More…]

• To recite these facts- the huge gains that have taken place in technical and further education and the increase in the number of students- is to give a denial of what has been suggested. [More…]

• I also remind it- however gently in view of the nature of this debate- that the last Budget brought down by the Labor Government reflected a huge cut in funding for education. [More…]

• The material that I presented yesterday in regard to the forward steps proposed by the Williams committee, the transition programs and the progress report for the three-year period demonstrates unprecedented forward movement in education- quite the contrary of what has been claimed. [More…]

• The matter has been discussed between States and Commonwealth and there is a general feeling on the part of the States that they do not wish to alter the present financing arrangements in regard to the three segments of tertiary educationuniversities, colleges and technical and further education. [More…]

• I believe that the documents that I tabled yesterday provide one of the most dramatic stories of education expansion in the history of Australia and these Bills provide for part of the financing involved. [More…]

• I thought that I had tabled previously statements from the Australian Education Council, which has discussed the matter. [More…]

• This was caused in a large part by the reduction in this Government’s spending on capital works in health, education and social services. [More…]

• We hope that through this dispute, the transfer system will be improved and that outside departments will no longer interfere with education. [More…]

• At the beginning of the dispute, a State member of parliament, Mr Underwood, asked in the Queensland Parliament a series of relevant questions dealing with the Hope Vale dispute of the Minister for Education. [More…]

• Incidentally, when the argument developed, nobody could poke the finger of scorn at this teacher for lack of qualifications, inability to do the job or lack of devotion to the cause of education of black children. [More…]

• The DirectorGeneral of the Department of Education then admitted that the Department had received requests from both the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement and the President of the Lutheran Church, Queensland District, to have this teacher transferred. [More…]

• This was an unfair interference by two organisations, neither of which has anything to do with the Department of Education. [More…]

• In situations involving teachers- this appeared to be a disciplinary procedure- one could demand adherence to the procedures outlined by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation and the International Labour Organisation that every teacher should enjoy equitable safeguards at each stage of any disciplinary procedure and, in particular, the right to be informed in writing of the allegations and the grounds for them; the right to full access to the evidence in the case; the right to defend himself and to be defended by a representative of his choice; adequate time being given to the teacher for the preparation of his defence; the right to be informed in writing of the decisions reached and the reasons for them; and the right of appeal to clearly designated competent authorities or bodies. [More…]

• I understand that the church has not been able to provide all its own teachers from within its own ranks, and there are a number of Department of Education teachers there. [More…]

• YWCA ‘The Child in Society’, an Adult Education Course [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 9 October 1 979: [More…]

• Section 23(z) of the Income Tax Assessment Act exempts income derived by way of a scholarship, bursary or other educational allowance by a student receiving full-time education at a school, college or university. [More…]

• Expenses of self-education incurred in carrying out the terms of the Award qualify for deduction against an Award holder’s assessable income except for the first $250 of such expenditure which qualifies as concessional expenditure for concessional rebate purposes. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 1 October 1 979: [More…]

• 1 ) Is the low level of the Ternary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS) allowance a significant cause of tertiary students abandoning their studies because of economic hardship. [More…]

• Fees Reimbursement Scheme: Provides for reimbursement of statutory fees to officers who have successfully completed subjects of approved courses offered by universities, colleges of advanced education, technical colleges and other institutions. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 7 November 1979. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 19 December 1979: [More…]

• Have instructions been issued concerning cases such as the one in relation to the Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme outlined in the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s Second Annual Report 1979, page 83; if so what are the details of the instructions. [More…]

• I am also aware of the statements of the Romanian Government which insists that the Hungarians of Romania are treated no differently from other Romanians and that they enjoy equal opportunities in such fields as employment, education, use of language and the pursuit of their cultural traditions and heritage. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 19 November 1979. [More…]

• No new Awards have been provided under this Scheme since 1973, but former Award holders are entitled, under section 12 (3) of the Student Assistance Act 1973, to continue to have their compulsory fees paid if they do not qualify for a living allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]

• asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 November 1979: [More…]

• The States Grants (Schools Assistance) Acts, under which grants for general recurrent purposes in respect of nongovernment schools are made available, contain the condition that the recipient of grants furnish to the Commonwealth Minister for Education, within a specified time, a certificate by a qualified accountant verifying that the grant money has been applied for recurrent purposes. [More…]

• These facilities are available to exporters for specific product promotion, for agent briefing and education, for staff training or for similar promotional purposes. [More…]

• The Minister for Education and Science has provided the following information in answer to the honourable senator’s questions: [More…]

• The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: [More…]

• I ask the Minister for Education whether his attention has been drawn to a report in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald containing criticism of the Federal Government by the New South Wales Deputy Premier and Minister for Public Works, Mr Ferguson. [More…]

• Can the Minister inform the Senate of the facts surrounding the allegations of delay in the construction of the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education at Oatley in Sydney? [More…]

• -In view of the fact that the Government intends to bring down legislation on this matter, the Opposition will not, through me, make any detailed comment about the contents of the statement which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has just made to the Senate. [More…]

• I have informed the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, the Principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education … of the Government’s decision. [More…]

• I think that all honourable senators will know that as the result of an initiative by the Commonwealth Government there was an acceptance by all six Ministers for Education in the States plus the Minister of the Northern Territory that this was a problem and that action should be taken. [More…]

• What has happened in terms of unemployed youth has become clear over the years through a number of sources, one of them the education program for unemployed youth. [More…]

• Maybe the generalist stream of education does not attract them. [More…]