elected - senate - 1970

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

Is this a form of civil conscription of the Australian people by members of the medical profession designed to impose upon the people a medical service that is not approved by their elected representatives? [More…]
I ask the Minister, as I have done previously, whether he would now nol agree that parliamentarians who are elected and entrusted with the responsibility of looking after the affairs of the Australian people would command much greater respect and the confidence of those people if the whole of their income, including share holdings, were made available for public scrutiny - a practice which at present operates in many States throughout the United States of America and in Singapore under the Prime Minister, Mr Lee. [More…]
three members of theteaching staff of the College elected by that teaching staff; [More…]
two students of the College elected by the students of the College; [More…]
If he was expressing a personal opinion, does the Government believe that it is inviting further disunity in its ranks if he is elected to the Federal Parliament? [More…]
The fact of the matter, is that we now have a new Prime Minister who was elected strictly in accordance with the constitutional provisions of the Parliament and of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Could other honourable senators who were not fortunate enough to be elected to the committees be assisted in a consideration of the Estimates by being supplied with the explanatory notes? [More…]
But, as the Senate appreciates, these are all matters for determination in the light of priorities, which is what the Government is elected to do. [More…]
Where will this new move end and what can be done to identify these people and give some protection from unwarranted interference with democratically elected leaders? [More…]
I know Senator Prowse will uphold the dignity of this chamber and the office to which he has been elected and 1 fed sure that he will work very closely with you, Mr President. [More…]
It is our wish, Sir, that you shall be long spared to occupy the position to which you have been elected today and that the Senate of this national Parliament will benefit considerably as a result of your elevation. [More…]
and that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board could have invoked section 119 of the Act if it had elected to do so. [More…]
Is the Minister a former elected president of the Students Representative Council of the University of Melbourne? [More…]
Will the Territory of Papua New Guinea security and intelligence service maintain surveillance of elected members of the Territory House of Assembly and of members of the Mataungan Association. [More…]
The President was elected for life. [More…]
A system of proportional representation implies multi-member constituencies, for example, taking the whole State as in the case of the Senate, or setting up regional type electorates within each State with a number of members elected for each electorate. [More…]
When I objected he said that the elected or selected members of the committee had priority to ask questions over all other honourable senators irrespective of the time that they may have waited at their seats at the table in order to ask questions of the Minister or of the public servants in attendance. [More…]
In this case we are to have a Corporation which is not a body elected on the basis of the capability of its members to decide questions relating to wages. [More…]
It is to be a body elected on the basis of its knowledge of the wool industry. [More…]
I think that the words ‘and until the newly elected House of Representatives is summoned’, or words to that effect, should be inserted. [More…]
This Government was elected on 2nd [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: Because of the obvious necessity for the community to have clear knowledge of the Government’s policy, will the honourable gentleman clarify a statement by Prime Minister Whitlam that the Australian Labor Party federal authorities - the Executive and the Conference - can be expected not to alter policy on which the Government was elected, at least until after the next general election? [More…]
In view of the ludicrous situation that has been exposed again by the results of the Victorian State elections, where the Victorian Liberal Government had 46 members elected to the State Parliament by 42 per cent of the vote, whereas 42 per cent of voters supporting the Australian Labor Party enabled that Party to obtain only 18 or 19 seats, will the Minister consider having a White Paper issued by the Commonwealth Electoral Office to point out the grave inequity of the Victorian Electoral distribution and so inform the people of Victoria and the rest of Australia of facts that the Australian Press has suppressed of a cynical, opportunistic, perversion of democratic electoral justice? [More…]
One of the first acts of the newly elected Labor Government was to establish the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
One of the greatest tragedies is that a great nation like the United States of America has been able to move into other countries, particularly in South America, in order to create revolution, the destruction of human beings and the assassination of persons who have been elected to leadership. [More…]
As for what was said by Senator Poyser, it is a great tragedy that the leader of another country who was democratically elected has been overthrown by the military forces of his country and has taken his own life. [More…]
For this to have happened after a relatively short time would cause grave concern to everyone who hears that a democratically elected leader has been overthrown by illegal military forces. [More…]
1 ) Did the present Government, when in opposition, assert that if elected to the Treasury benches it would promptly remove the existing 25 cents per gallon excise charge applicable to wine, and would not impose any alternative form of taxation on the wine industry. [More…]
As Mr Neruda was not only one of the greatest poets of the century and the holder of the Nobel Prize for literature but also a diplomat in the service of the Chilean Government and a supporter of the previous democratically elected Government of that country, will the Minister ask the Department of Foreign Affairs to make inquiries as to whether the allegation by the Chilean junta that he died of natural causes is in fact correct? [More…]
Is the reason for applying to the High Court to ensure that 6 senators are elected in Queensland at the next Senate election or to ensure that Senator Gair goes to Ireland as ambassador? [More…]
It refers to people standing for elections who purport to represent a particular Party and who, upon being elected, repudiate that Party and claim to represent some other Party, as National Alliance candidates in Western Australia have done. [More…]
The first task of the Government which was elected in 1972 was to put air travel on a self-supporting basis. [More…]
I bring this matter to attention again, and I ask that, in keeping with the standard of competence and adherence to duty on the part of Ministers, these 3 matters be the subject of decisive statements in response to my request as representative of people whom I am elected to represent. [More…]
-I am glad that Senator Sir Magnus Cormack has become engrossed in the possibility of an Australian being elected president of the General Assembly next year. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States’ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign states formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources for their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
As at 2 August 1974, the latest date for which comprehensive statistics are available, 4,252 retrenched persons had submitted applications for Income Maintenance and of this number 8 were proprietors of small enterprises who had elected to be treated as employees. [More…]
If his attention and his Party’s attention to Tasmania is preceding an early election, I suspect and I would expect that his pronouncements about Tasmanian transport would be something that he would fulfil or would try to fulfil if his Party were elected to office. [More…]
May I point out to the Senate- I think it is very relevant that I do so here this evening- that when we talk about the Queensland legislation we should remember that the Aboriginal councils in Queensland, elected by the Aboriginal people from all Aboriginal communities, looked at the Queensland legislation and told the Queensland Government the changes that they want in that piece of legislation. [More…]
The people who are changing the Act in Queensland are elected by the Aboriginal people who are affected by the Act. [More…]
I remind Senator Webster that this chamber is a House of the people, not of the persons who are elected to it. [More…]
He has had his successess because like other people, including myself, he has been able to get high enough on the Party ticket to be elected. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘Order of the day’, insert ‘ for the first sitting day in March 1975 to enable the Government to consult with the Aboriginal people living in the reserve communities in the State of Queensland and their elected councils and other bodies and further to ascertain by poll taken within those communities the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those community areas’. [More…]
So this person is a government nominee and not a person elected by the Aboriginal people living on the reserve concerned. [More…]
-When the Allende Government, the properly elected government of Chile, was overthrown the Australian Government recognised the new regime. [More…]
They were not prepared to show the slightest degree of interest in upholding the Speaker of the other place whom they elected some 2 years ago and whom they so ignominiously dismissed- I suppose the expression is ‘summarily executed ‘-this morning. [More…]
I think it is quite incomprehensible that the Minister for Manufacturing Industry (Senator James McCelland) should suggest that an elected government of a State should not be trusted. [More…]
-The Government intends to stand by the policy on which it was elected. [More…]
After all I think he was the tenth elected senator in South Australia and he was elected on Labor preferences. [More…]
He made Mr Dunstan Premier of South Australia and in return for that, I suppose, the Labor Party helped him to become the tenth elected senator from South Australia. [More…]
I point out to the Senate, as I have had to do on numerous occasions because of statements by Senator Webster, that during the 1970 election campaign I gave an undertaking to the electors of South Australia that if I were elected to the Senate I would open an electorate office in Murray Bridge and continue to live in Murray Bridge. [More…]
I believe that there is an indication in this legislation that this Government intends to work in close and amicable co-operation with the people of the Northern Territory and their elected representatives to give birth to Australia’s seventh State. [More…]
If so, does such loan carry with it any conditions disallowing expanded social welfare programs and benefits to the Australian community, such as have been laid down in the past to dictatorships such as Chile which received funds from the Fund after the coup which overthrew the elected Allende Government on 11 September 1973. [More…]
So far as those 2 nominees are concerned, in the first instance they will be elected by members of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
The original legislation required that officers- that included the President, etc.- had to be elected by and from the college. [More…]
-That letter points out how over the years those office bearers have been very democratically elected. [More…]
Although members of the Opposition claim that it is not democratic, it is the way they are elected. [More…]
Under the collegiate electoral system of voting do all officers of the college have to be elected by direct vote of the rank and file? [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that this Senate in Parliament assembled should help the Hungarian speaking community to regain confidence in the democratically elected Senate known for its conscientious and wise judgement in restoring peace and faith in democratic principles, which unfortunately are missing from the present management set-up of the Ethnic Radio broadcasters. [More…]
The petitioners aim is to help with advice, and not to control the broadcasting, and for this we would very much appreciate the opportunity for a small selected delegation to meet the Ministers concerned. [More…]
John Armstrong was not a member of this Senate at the time I had the fortune or misfortune to be elected to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
Three years later he was elected to the Senate, taking his place here in 1 938. [More…]
In view of the fact that the American Congress, the Australian media and officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs were permitted by Indonesia to visit Timor recently, will the Australian Government take the matter up with the Indonesian Government in Jakarta for visas to be issued at the earliest possible time so that elected members of Parliament, who represent many thousands of Australians interested in the present circumstances of Timor, may go on this mission? [More…]
I lay on the table the certificates for the election of senators for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, elected at the General Election held on 10 December 1977, as follows: [More…]
by leave- I inform the Senate that, as a result of a decision Senator Chaney made in the middle of last year, he has this day resigned as Government Whip and Senator Baume has been elected in his place. [More…]
by leave- I take this opportunity to advise the Senate that this day Senator Knight was elected Assistant Government Whip. [More…]
Members of these Committees have met and a chairman and a deputy chairman in each State have been elected. [More…]
I believe in and support the view that the representatives who are sent to the Constitutional Convention ought to be representatives of the Parliament who are duly elected by both sides of the Parliament to represent our interests in what I believe could become a quite significant quorum and not representatives of the Executive. [More…]
In that case a senator has been elected for those six-year terms but he has not served those six-year terms. [More…]
If a person is elected for six years and he serves one year we do not regard that as being a six-year term. [More…]
We could have a situation in which a senator was elected in 1974 for a six-year term, being number one on the ballot paper and was elected again at the 1975 election for another sixyear term and at the end of the second six-year term had completed only seven years. [More…]
The other category of person who has not been named is a senator who is elected to fill a vacancy which has occurred. [More…]
The person about whom we are talking is the senator who is elected for a six-year term, who needed this amendment to clarify his rights and equate them with the rights of members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
They said that anyone who came here would see a guard box housing a uniformed policeman who was possibly armed and argued that that would have the effect of keeping the people away from the politicians, that the people would have to pass by this form of officialdom before they could see their elected member of parliament. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 197S after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; it is the current intention of the same Government to legislate for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence- [More…]
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respect.fuly showeth that the term of the current staff Elected Commissioner expires on the 22nd October 1978. [More…]
What are the responsibilities and duties of the elected members of the Joint House Committee? [More…]
Bearing in mind the high importance of having a situation where the Parliament is able to function as a parliament so that we can do that which we were elected to do, to the best of our ability, I made very strong representations for increases in staff ceilings. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser government was elected in December 197S after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly consumer price index figures; [More…]
I was one of those along with Eric Bessell who were elected in 1974 for the first time to this place. [More…]
When Eric was elected to this place and I first met him, after talking to him for a short time I realised that I had met a man who was capable of great warmth and who would be capable of giving of himself not only to those with whom he worked but also to this Parliament. [More…]
Senators are elected periodically, by secret ballot, with universal franchise, and the quota-preferential method of proportional representation ensures that the vote values within states are equal as nearly as can be. [More…]
They threaten confrontation over what they see as some form of injustice in the socalled penal provisions in legislation, which has been enacted by universally and freely elected governments. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) soon after he was elected talked consistently about ‘a steady enlargement of self-reliance and defence capability’. [More…]
The Paramount Ruler- the head of state of Malaysia- is elected by his fellow rulers for a five-year term, after which he resumes his position as ruler in his home State. [More…]
I acknowledge that this was an important matter and elected to be here to hear the remarks. [More…]
by leave- I am very pleased to announce that the newly elected Prime Minister of Great Britain, the Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher, M.P., has accepted an invitation to visit Australia and will be here on 30 June and 1 July. [More…]
I am always annoyed when I hear Government senators severely criticising trade unionists for going on strike to get some justice, as the very same senators who are so vocal and critical of the trade union movement were quite happy to go on strike in the Parliament and hold up a duly elected government, a government that had been elected twice within three years. [More…]
In doing so, I remind the Government of what it did some years ago in blocking Supply and bringing down the elected government of the people. [More…]
That is why the people of Australia rejected the Whitlam Government and elected the Fraser Government. [More…]
The Act now requires one member of the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority to be a member of the Legislative Assembly who has been elected by the Legislative Assembly as its representative. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; [More…]
The main changes made at that time provided for increased participation by elected members in the executive government of the Territory through a system of Ministerial offices and the replacement of the former Administrator’s Council by the Administrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
1 hest ellice holders were selected from elected members of the House jointly by (he Ministerial Nominations Committee of the House and the Administrator before being nominated to the Minister for External Territories for appointment. [More…]
There will also be changes in the procedures by which the Territory budget is framed so that elected members of the House of Assembly will have a greater say in the budget. [More…]
Throughout the period during which the budget is being framed it is expected that the Estimates Sub-Committee of the Council will keep in touch with the existing Budget Committee of the House of Assembly - a body made up wholly of elected members - with a view to informing themselves of any points which members of the House may wish to have considered in the “draft estimates for the following year. [More…]
Nevertheless the Government considers steps should be taken now so that the elected representatives of the people take on additional responsibilities in the government of the Territory. [More…]
The changes I have outlined reflect the Government’s approach of progressively transferring responsibility to elected members of the Territory House of Assembly. [More…]
We believe also that there should be an extension of the local government system with enlarged powers and increased finance by subvention from public funds and contribution by States, and an expansion of elected municipal councils. [More…]
Whatever we may feel about the lifting of the embargo, the decision was made by the government of the day constitutionally elected by the people. [More…]
Under British democracy as we know it the elected representatives of the people have the final say. [More…]
If one examines that speech one finds that the Prime Minister said that a Labor government must not be elected because it would sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. [More…]
We have heard comment in the past about the Government making promises in order to be re-elected but then immediately forgetting its promises. [More…]
I do not doubt that the Labor Party would have honoured its promises within the life of the Parliament if it had been elected. [More…]
1 was interested to note that Senator Cameron, whom I congratulate as the newly elected senator for South Australia, stipulated in the last few words of his speech that he believed that legislation should be introduced by the Government to restrict the inflow of overseas capital. [More…]
A threat has been made to doctors about what will happen to them if a Labor government is elected to office. [More…]
The people of America, having elected their President with, I think, the greatest majority in the history of the country, turned round and drove him out of office so that he could not stand for a second term. [More…]
My memory goes back to 1922 when I was a youth and when my late father was elected to the State Parliament in Tasmania. [More…]
In tragic circumstances the opportunity came and the Liberal Party elected him as Prime Minister. [More…]
At the following election the people re-elected him. [More…]
The Party re-elected him as Prime Minister and as Australia enters the swinging 1970s we have at the helm a Second World War veteran. [More…]
It was very refreshing to hear two newly elected senators express ideals and ideas of a practical nature and, with the courage of their convictions, put before the Senate a way in which Australia should live in the future. [More…]
The Senate has an asset in these two newly elected senators who down through the years will continue to make their contributions. [More…]
My question is in relation to expenses incurred in voluntary work performed by elected members of councils in local government which is the third tier of government. [More…]
However, I have elected not to make that statement today because, as honourable senators have been advised, we are under some pressure to pass certain legislation within the next 48 hours. [More…]
Two assisted Aborigines to be elected by the resident assisted Aborigines of the Reserve in respect of which the Council is established; [More…]
Even if it can be shown that a complete mistake had been made or that there had been an error of judgment, that would not necessarily prove that the Government, which is composed of Australian people and which is elected by Australians, is out to smash the Aboriginal organisation. [More…]
If he is nominated and is elected, he will join his brother. [More…]
He was elected in the general elections of 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1966 and again in 1969. [More…]
I can remember, perhaps much better than some honourable senators who have recently been elected to the Senate, when the time taken to obtain a war service home loan was from 20 months to 30 months. [More…]
In case some newly elected senators have lost sight of the purpose of the War Service Homes Act, I shall refer to what was said by Senator Millen of New South Wales, the then Minister for Repatriation, in introducing the War Service Homes Bill. [More…]
Because of his untimely death last year I had the privilege of being elected Chairman in his place. [More…]
Although Parliament was elected last October, here we are in the middle of April and no meetings of the Committee have been held. [More…]
They are elected by the normal democratic adult franchise method in a secret vote. [More…]
I have seen these people exercising their democratic rights as elected representatives. [More…]
It is all very well for you to say that this is a sham but later I shall mention something about a select committee of the House of Assembly which visited Australia and we will see whether it is a sham or whether these people are being given the opportunity to be responsible and whether the members of the House of Assembly are elected by democratic methods. [More…]
I have mentioned that indigenous people are elected to the Parliament. [More…]
Yet honourable senators opposite have the audacity to say that we do not show much regard for members of the House of Assembly and that they are not democratically elected. [More…]
The councillors are elected by the democratic system of secret ballot in adult franchise. [More…]
The members of the House of Assembly are elected in a democratic way. [More…]
They are elected by secret ballot. [More…]
The principal object of the changes now proposed is to provide increased participation by elected members in the executive government of the Territory through the establishment of a system of ministerial members. [More…]
calls upon the administering power to take all necessary steps to transfer full powers in the executive and legislative branches of government to elected representatives of the people, in accordance with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples. [More…]
All elected members of the Legislative Council supported the resolution, the terms of which are as stated above. [More…]
Statements by two elected members carried this kind of import. [More…]
I am prepared to debate this issue because I believe in democracy and in government by the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
The real objectives are to intimidate the police, to undermine authority generally and to foster a disregard of and a disbelief in the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
Does he use his own feelings or preferences, his own thoughts on a particular subject that concerns him and about which a law has been made by a democratically elected Government? [More…]
After all, the good of the community and its wishes are intended to be reflected in a democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
Senator Lacey should keep interjecting; he might have himself re-elected. [More…]
If the honourable senator went to Vietnam and saw the way in which those people have made a magnificent effort in recovering their country from destruction and foreign control by the North Vietnamese, and from the control of the disruptive elements in the community which are attacking the lawfully elected Government, he would know that of the more than 1 million troops which the South Vietnamese now have a very large number have been recruited and trained since the Tet offensive. [More…]
Faculty groups were elected from the faculties of Arts, Science, Law, Medicine and Engineering and the Diploma of Education. [More…]
It is not an elected body, apart from its members having been elected to Parliament. [More…]
The representatives are elected to their State organisations from which they are then elected to the federal bodies of the organisations. [More…]
Tracing the process further back, the growers in the States are elected to the various executive bodies in the States. [More…]
I remind him that 5 Western Australians are elected as representatives of the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
They are elected as members of the Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
As a representative of his State, he goes to the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation where, because he has been elected by his State, he almost automatically becomes a member of the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
After all, we all appreciate that government is the carrying out of policies which are determined by the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
Such elected representatives of the people are accountable to the electors every 3 years at free elections. [More…]
Senator Greenwood said that he believes in government by the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
Since 1965, when the conditional duties were first imposed, all importers and marketers from the largest international companies to the newest entrants in the retail marketing of petroleum products have elected to purchase indigenous crude oil and thereby not pay the conditional duties. [More…]
As all companies have elected not to pay the conditional duty the increases in this duty should not affect the competitive position in the marketing of motor spirit. [More…]
If members of the Labor Party are prepared to justify, in the House of Parliament to which they have been elected, their support for the Moratorium, I think they will take the opportunity to do so on this occasion. [More…]
Members of Parliament are elected to the Parliament because, in the eyes of the people who elect them, they will discharge within the Parliament the duties which are incumbent upon them as part of their office. [More…]
That is not what they are elected to Parliament to do, nor is it what Australians expect of their members of Parliament. [More…]
Part of it is the existence of parliamentary institutions elected by the people to give expression to matters of concern and to engage in debates that affect the national interest. [More…]
I say to every member of this Parliament: Your duty to the Australian forces and to Australian security demands that any judgment that is to be made upon this conflict be made here by the elected members of the Australian people and not by mass, mob movements that may be promoted in cities for the purpose of dislocating our ordinary national life. [More…]
He was elected to the South African Parliament to represent a seat which had been held by the Nationalists until that election. [More…]
We find that in South Africa a white man elected to represent a wholly white electorate in that Parliament is prepared to take a more honest and honourable stand in support of Western democratic values than any of the representatives of this Government who sit before us today. [More…]
The present Government of South Vietnam claims to have been elected, but in the elections that were conducted Communists and neutralists were not allowed to stand for election or to enter into debate. [More…]
What we are saying, in effect, is: ‘Let us get the best brains of the people who have been elected to both Houses of the Federal Parliament to examine the situation, with politics cast aside, to see whether they can come up with a proposition which is better than the 1 which has developed out of the present system’. [More…]
They come to Canberra to meet the various representatives of the Government and the elected representatives of their particular areas to impress upon them the nature of the very great difficulties they are facing. [More…]
We propose joint secretariats in each area of common interest between the Stales an.l the Commonwealth to ensure maximum involvement of all elected persons and the public in decision milking. [More…]
I am here as an elected senator supporting a Government which has twice been re-elected to authority since the engagement in Vietnam commenced. [More…]
If there is any legislator who cannot bring himself to the degree of conviction as to his undivided loyally to the armed forces which the democratic, freely elected Government of this country compels in part and organises in another part to engage in that conflict - if there is any legislator who cannot bring himself to the degree of conviction that his duty is to support them, he is wanting then those elemental human qualities of judgment and character which alone can create the defence of this country. [More…]
Indeed, I only despise it because it is the duty of an armed soldier to kill in defence of the likes of you and me and in defence of the principles that this country elected a Parliament to decide who were our enemies. [More…]
At that time the then Government of South Vietnam certainly was not even a partly elected government; it was a government of changing military juntas. [More…]
We know very well that Senator Wood would very much like (o sec the present Government defeated and the Australian Labor Party elected to office. [More…]
I would have a little more faith in the Australian people who elected them to the Senate. [More…]
How are the Aboriginal Councillors at Yuendumu elected, and on whom does the Minister rely to contradict allegations that have been made about incidents on the Reserve. [More…]
Councillors are elected by adult Aboriginals voting by secret ballot. [More…]
We say also that when a Labor government is elected the Australian people will receive a truly national health scheme which will provide economically and equitably hospital services for all, and that the scheme will be financed by graduated contributions. [More…]
Unfortunately, the Minister elected not to allow leave to have that table incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
It is not something that has happened only since the Menzies Government was elected in 1949. [More…]
That responsibility rests very heavily on a responsible elected government. [More…]
ls it to be tabled in this Parliament so that the elected representative of the people will be able to examine it? [More…]
It becomes solely a question of whether we believe in ministerial control or whether we believe in the right of the elected representative of the people to decide these issues. [More…]
Mr Joshua was elected to the House of Representatives for Ballaarat in 1951 and 1954 and was defeated in the general election in 1955. [More…]
After passing from the parliamentary scene he was elected President of the Australian Democratic Labor Party in 1955 and he remained the President of that Party until he passed away. [More…]
He was elected to the House of Representatives as the member for Ballaarat in 1951 and reelected in 1954. [More…]
The Leader of the Australian Labor Party (Mr Whitlam) in his last policy speech made it very clear that if we were elected as the government we would move into the development banking field, but we certainly envisaged going much further than this Bill does. [More…]
Under the Constitution, and by the decision of the people, we are elected to make laws. [More…]
We are elected to make the laws which govern the community. [More…]
I think that every honourable senator, in fact every member elected to the Parliament, genuinely desires to give the utmost of his time, energy and ability to the service of the Parliament and the institution of the Parliament. [More…]
Our system is a parliamentary system which is essentially a Cabinet system with Ministers and leaders selected from the elected representatives of the people, in the United States the committee system has been going for a long lime and over a period of years the committees multiplied to such an extent that a few years ago a legislature reorganisation Act which reduced the number of Senate committees from 33 to 15 and the number of House committees from 48 to 19 was introduced because the system had reached the stage at which the com.mittees were usurping the power and the right of Congress and of the Senate, which comprised elected people who were entrusted to carry out particular duties within the framework of the established congressional system. [More…]
There has been some mention by honourable senators opposite of the Government elected by people of Queensland being not fit to look after the interests of Queensland. [More…]
and have elected to take up a share of Australian crude oil production. [More…]
The Labor Party says it is Socialist and then before every election promises that, if elected, it will not do anything socialistic. [More…]
The mover of this motion referred to the tremendous impetus that work in this field gained in the United Slates of America because a man was elected President who had had the problem in his own family - if it should be called a problem. [More…]
The lad elected to take punishment by the Commanding Officer and admitted that he had been absent without leave for the period in question. [More…]
Obviously it would be completely subversive of his duty to represent the community - the duty which a member of parliament undertakes when he is elected to parliament - if his right of freedom of speech were to be restricted or .subordinated by a party caucus or junta, unelected by the people. [More…]
It was decided also lo increase the student representation by appointing the President of the Students Representative Council ex-officio to the Council of the University in addition to the existing elected member thai the students have. [More…]
Il is true that in the recommendations of the Council there was a suggestion for a further elected student member. [More…]
Then he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1931 and, after the reconstruction of the Council, was elected for 6 years in 1934. [More…]
The late Senator Grant was elected to the Senate in the 1943 general elections, taking his place in 1944. [More…]
He was re-elected in 1949, 1951 and 1953. [More…]
Since it was contemplated on all hands that a Liberal would be appointed or elected as successor to Senator Hannaford it hardly seemed fair that the Commonwealth Liberal Government should be deprived of the services of a senator while the necessary steps were taken. [More…]
He is a man who has never missed an opportunity to berate the tradeunion movement and its elected officers; a man who, on the discussion of the Stevedoring Industry Bill in 1965, said that he wanted to destroy ‘this wretched Federation’, referring to the Waterside [More…]
I have no doubt that he was elected to his position by a section of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
I do not say he was elected by the members of the Union because, as I understand the position, a fraction of the members of certain unions vote in the election of office bearers. [More…]
His political career began in his home state of Victoria when he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as the honourable member for Kew in 1927. [More…]
Sir Wilfrid was elected to the House of Representatives by the electorate of Chisholm in the general elections of 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1966 and 1969. [More…]
Sir Wilfrid did both, winning selection for the Victorian Parliament and later being elected to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
The Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs, Dr Coombs has had discussions with elected representatives of the Moa Islanders regarding ways in which we might assist them to submit an effective proposal to the Queensland Government for development of the wolfram deposits. [More…]
Is it not a fact that Prince Sihanouk was removed from office by a unanimous vote of the democratically elected Parliament of Cambodia? [More…]
It is a fact that Prince Sihanouk was removed from office by the unanimous vote of both Houses of the Cambodian Parliament which was elected in 1966 when Prince Sihanouk was still Head of State. [More…]
Will you ascertain why this happened, Mr President, and will you give an assurance to the Senate that representatives of all responsible public bodies, such as these organisations, which have legitimate business that they wish to discuss with elected members of the Federal Parliament, are not hindered in future from going about their lawful business inside Parliament House? [More…]
Lieng was asked if Thieu is re-elected and American troops stay in Vietnam for 3 years or more, as seemed likely, what did he foresee as the impact? [More…]
Mr John Lindsay, the Mayor of New York, despite the fact that he lost the endorsement of his Party - the Republican Party - and was opposed by the party machines of both the Republicans and the Democrats, was re-elected as Mayor of New York in the mayoral elections towards the end of last year. [More…]
He was elected to the United States Senate, from the State of Oregon, with an overwhelming majority. [More…]
I think that the simple counting of numbers of elected personnel should be the decisive factor in any house of parliament, subject, of course, to a lot of limitations. [More…]
In other words, it would not be done every week but would be done at the beginning of the session for the whole of the session, until the Senate elected to change the sessional orders. [More…]
Whatever party may be in power or whatever issue may be in dispute, Parliament is here for the people and it is elected by the people. [More…]
1 will leave that to the elected Government. [More…]
Farmers and their elected parliamentarians who have been in government for 21 years should realise that the continued decline in wool prices is the cause of the crisis in the industry; the crisis has not been brought about by the relatively small increases in costs through automatic wage adjustments. [More…]
Unfortunately in past years it has been the tradition for elected representatives of Parliament who sit on the Opposition side to be the ones who criticise - and who supposedly constructively criticise - the budget, but on this occasion it has been taken out of their hands and their bosses outside the Parliament have decided that those inside the Parliament on the Opposition side are not capable of convincing the people of Australia that this Budget is of no use. [More…]
In our Caucus today we elected responsible people to this Committee. [More…]
Peter James Nixon was elected as a member of the Country Party to the House of Representatives for the division of Gippsland, Victoria, at the general elections of 1961, 1963, 1966 and, of course, 1969. [More…]
Mr President, honourable senators, it is indeed an honour arid a privilege to have been elected as an Australian Country Party member to represent the State of New South Wales in this distinguished House. [More…]
I would be quite pleased if the Opposition would adopt the general attitude that we have a government elected by the people in control of this country’s affairs. [More…]
The Party on the other side of the chamber proposes that an elected Government in this country should not have the right to say to any individual: ‘We do not wish to hand you a licence to come into Australia’. [More…]
The central theme in the concept of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, which consists of a self elected, self selected and self directed group of people, is that if it thinks a law of the country is bad people are entitled to break it. [More…]
That is what I believe identifies the elected member with responsibility for asking a question with regard to public affairs and obtaining an answer. [More…]
For example, Sir, when the President is elected it is mandatory that he stand on the top step of the dais. [More…]
Therefore we must protect one safeguard that the people have, that is, that at all times elected senators should have the right - and obtain more rights if possible - for free and open discussion. [More…]
Of course we will use it because I think it is high time that members of the Australian Labor Party who are elected to represent the rural constituencies faced up to their electors and told them on whose side they are. [More…]
This system is so obnoxious that it must be humiliating to the recipients of social service benefits to have their income debated from the hustings every election time and a bidding process engaged in, with one candidate saying: ff we are elected we will give you so much’ and the other fellow saying: ‘If we are elected we will give you more.’ [More…]
It is true that this morning I met the Ministers and those honourable senators whom I anticipated would be elected as chairmen of the committees. [More…]
I was elected to consider or raise questions affecting electors. [More…]
I can understand that departmental officers would not be required when a chairman is being elected - obviously he had been appointed in the Government party room before the Committee met - but I cannot understand why honourable senators were refused entry to the meeting to listen and to perhaps make suggestions in relation to procedures to be adopted. [More…]
-I would not hope to be elected chairman because I do not belong to the same political party as Senator Young. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, I here and now publicly resign from both of the committees to which I have been elected because I am not going through this sort of shambles. [More…]
I will have nothing more to do with any of the Estimates Committees and the Senate can accept my public resignation from the 2 committees to which I have been elected. [More…]
The other could have elected instead to pursue a good time during his life and not to save a penny piece. [More…]
When I was first elected to the Senate 1 was occupying a building on the corner of Hindley Street and King William Street. [More…]
Surely it is the responsibility of the elected representatives of the people to decide the nature of the legislation. [More…]
The attack is a serious infringement of the rights of the Senate and of those citizens who elected the honourable senators to this chamber. [More…]
The University Council has approved the request of students and recommended to the Government that two elected undergraduates and the President of the Students’ Association be members of that Council. [More…]
The workload involved, the representation required, and the acknowledged necessity for continuity at Council level, demand that at least two elected undergraduates in addition to the President of the Students’ Association, represent the Student Body on the Council. [More…]
The University Council has approved the request of students and recommended to the Government that 2 elected undergraduates and the President of the Students’ Association be. [More…]
The workload involved, the representation required, and the acknowledged necessity for continuity at Council level, demand that at least 2 elected undergraudates in addition to the President of the Students’ Association, represent the Student Body on the Council. [More…]
When I was elected 17 years ago, I would leave Canberra airport at. [More…]
I think that one of the features which over the years has suggested that the people of this country merit the government which they have elected is the fact that responsibility in these measures has always been one of this Government’s characteristics. [More…]
We are building up a big and powerful bureaucracy and executive to govern this country without any real reference to those elected to this Parliament to make decisions for the country. [More…]
It is because the Australian people elected 2 members of the Democratic Labor Party to the Senate almost 6 years ago and 2 further members almost 3 years ago, making the number 4 and giving it a decisive mathematical position in the Senate, that we come here very conscious of the trust that has been reposed in us by the Australian nation. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party has always taken the stand throughout its history - it owes its very genesis .to this point - that its elected members in the Parliament will not take directions from any outside body. [More…]
If the resistance of the members of the Australian Labor Party to the pension provisions contained in the Budget was generated by that type of direction 1 believe that they have a totally incorrect appreciation of their responsibilities as elected members of the Parliament. [More…]
The proposal before us is the best way to put into their minds the thought that even those who are elected have no respect for the institution because they want to spend as little time here as they possibly can. [More…]
We warn you here and now that this is the sum total of what will occur finally if the sittings of this democratically elected Parliament are shortened and the use of force of numbers is continued to the stage when Parliament will not need to sit at all. [More…]
In Parliament the people’s elected representatives have the right to say whether a law is correct and whether it should be put into operation. [More…]
Great consequences flow from neglect or disinclination on the part of the elected government to apply the necessary restraints and limitations upon the insidious forces which run in the nation’s economy. [More…]
I nominated for and was elected to 2 of the Estimates Committees. [More…]
The Bill therefore provides for two students to be elected to the Council by the student body and for the Council, should it wish, to arrange for separate representation of part time or full time students. [More…]
The Government was elected by the people of Australia as their custodian and protector. [More…]
I do not see any reason why, just because (his clause happens to have been carried in another place it has to be persisted with here, because I feel that the rightful person to give consent is the Minister who is responsible to the elected representatives of the people in this Parliament [More…]
The Superannuation Board, which includes a member elected by the contributors, who is a party to all investment decisions, enters into private negotiations when a loan is to be secured by a mortgage of land or real property. [More…]
The Superannuation Board, which includes a member elected by the contributors, who is a party to all investment decisions, enters into private negotiations when a loan is to be secured by a mortgage of land or real property. [More…]
He was elected by the conference of the wool section of the Farmers Union. [More…]
If a wool grower did not agree with the selection of a representative he had the opportunity to go to his branch meetings be elected and go to the conference and have his say. [More…]
The Superannuation Board, which includes a member elected by the contributors, who is a party to all investment decisions, enters into private negotiations when a loan is to be secured by a mortgage of land or real property. [More…]
These are but 2 resolutions which indicate the consistent view of the House of Assembly that the laws which the elected members make should be respected. [More…]
The laws are those of the Territory people, made by the chosen representatives elected by those people. [More…]
Thai we the elected representatives of the people of Papua and New Guinea desire to convey to the Parliament of the Commonweatlh of Australia, the Trusteeship Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation the expressed wish of the people that they, the people, and they alone, be allowed to decide when the time is ripe for self-government in Papua and New Guinea, and Ihe form that such government will take and the people’s further firm conviction that the road to self-government can best be travelled with one guide - and that guide the Administering Authority, and that undue pressure from without can lead only to that disruption, chao? [More…]
2 Aborigines selected by the Administrator in Council ‘for their interest in and knowledge of Aboriginal affairs in the Territory’and 2 Aborigines (selected by the Administrator in Council) ‘who reside on or within reasonable proximity’ to the particular land under consideration. [More…]
No provision is made for elected Aboriginal representatives, nor for local Aboriginal councils to be formed to consider the disposition of their land. [More…]
I pledge that the Australian Labor Party when elected to office - which will be at the next Federal election - led by Mr Whitlam will repeal the excise on the wine industry. [More…]
The council consist of 4 assisted Aborigines only 2 of whom are elected. [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…]
), before paragraph (a) insert lhe following paragraphs: (aa) two Senators elected by the Senate; (ab) two members of the House of Representatives elected by that House;’. [More…]
), after paragraph (b) insert the following paragraph: (ba) three representatives of the community of the Australian Capital Territory elected in a manner to be prescribed; [More…]
Clause 5 provides that section 8 of the Act shall be amended so that the Council of the College shall consist of the Principal, the Vice-Chancellor, 3 members of the teaching staff, 2 students of the college elected by the students of the college, persons not exceeding 8 in number appointed by the Governor-General, persons not exceeding 4 in number appointed by the Council and, if a person other than a person who is already a member of the Council is appointed, in accordance with section 13 of the Act, to be the Chairman of the Council, the person so appointed. [More…]
It is our view that even if, as it may happen, some or all of those persons whom the Governor-General appoints may be residents of the Australian Capital Territory, for the people of Canberra to feel that they are really participating in the life and the development of this College the people of Canberra are entitled to be represented upon the Council of the College by persons elected by the citizens of the Australian Capital Territory. [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…]
That enables me to say, just to round off my proposition, that, although he accuses members of the Country Party of misrepresenting the people by whom they are elected, the statements that we have heard here tonight on the initiative they have taken in this regard and the initiative Mr Anthony has taken with regard to the Australian Wool Commission show that, so far from their lacking initiative in making representations, it is the Labor spokesmen who are so misguided as to be incapable of understanding any problem in relation to the rural industries. [More…]
The votes are what concern me, and votes 1 shall get because f believe 1 have devoted myself to the job that the people elected me to do and that I have done it well and conscientiously. [More…]
He was elected in the general election of 1957 to fill a periodical vacancy, taking his place on 1st July 1959. [More…]
He was again elected in the Senate election of 1 964, for the normal term. [More…]
Later in the same year he was elected to the Senate in his own right. [More…]
A number of pensioners who contributed to the cost of erecting these cottages by deductions from their pensions have elected to live away from the homestead area and two of these have now been identified as living at Wattie Creek. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs issued a Press statement in which he indicated that the Department of Foreign Affairs had elected to buy 11 aircraft, six of which were to be purchased from a com.pany named Jetair Australia Ltd. 1 made it perfectly clear yesterday that the Department of Supply would come into the matter only after a decision had been taken as it was the department which was responsible for completing the transaction. [More…]
That we the elected representatives of the people of Papua and New Guinea desire to convey to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Trusteeship Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation the expressed wish of the people that they, the people, and they alone, be allowed to decide when the time is ripe for self government in Papua and Ne.v Guinea, and the form that such government will take and the people’s further firm conviction that the road to self government can best be travelled with one guide - and that guide the Adminis tering Authority, and thai undue pressure from without can lead only to that disruption, chaos and bloodshed which the people have observed with great alarm in certain newly independent countries. [More…]
In the middle of 1970 a wider responsibility Wai conferred upon the elected members of the House of Assembly who comprise the Administrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
That is Australia: to prescribe, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, a specific timetable for the free exercise by the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea of their right to selfdetermination and independence and to report to the Trusteeship Council and to the Special Committee on the action taken in that regard. [More…]
The United Nations has called upon Australia to prescribe, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, a specific timetable. [More…]
The appointed members are in the position where they can dominate the thinking of many of the elected representatives. [More…]
So that the kiaps and others can control and dominate the thinking of other elected members in the House of Assembly, they, in conjunction with the appointed members, are able to get through the sort of resolution that their counterparts in this country need and want. [More…]
First of all, they can do so through the House, of Assembly, the members of which are elected by the free vote of the people and which represents the people of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
calls upon the administering power to take all necessary steps to ‘ transfer full powers in the executive’ and legislative branches of government to elected representatives of the people, in accordance with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples. [More…]
calls upon the administering Power to prescribe, in consultation with freely elected representatives of the people, a specific timetable for the free exercise by the people of Papua and the Trust Territory of New Guinea of their right to self determination and independence . [More…]
In the interim we have to give them true democratic government, all members of the Legislature being elected by the people for the people. [More…]
We are playing the charade of having selected members in the Legislature of the Territory who in turn are answerable to ‘ and are dominated by Canberra. [More…]
Would the Government accept a vote of the New Guinea House of Assembly if the officially nominated members were excluded and the locally elected members were permitted to decide for themselves? [More…]
The House of Assembly now consists of 84 elected representatives and 10 nominated representatives.- Last July the Prime Minister made a significant’ statement in which he- said that legislative authority having been exercised with such credit to the local Assembly, we had come to the conclusionthat the responsibilities and authority of the local Administrator’s Executive Council should bc extended and that it should be responsible only to the indigenous elected members of that - Assembly, that it should take sole responsibility for educational matters, public health, tourism, cooperatives, -business advisory services, workers compensation, industrial training, posts and telegraphs and other matters, reserving to Australia responsibility in matters of external security, enforcement of law and order, the judiciary, defence and matters of that sort, I do not wish to repeat the complete statement of the position. [More…]
It said that Australia should prescribe, in consultation with the freely elected representatives of the people, a specific timetable. [More…]
The freely elected representatives of the people have insisted that they are not yet ready to prescribe a specific timetable. [More…]
Now in the minds of many people they are also suffering from the same blemishes as the Government, which had before it the clearly expressed opinion of the elected members of a House of the Parliament but was not prepared lo clarify the situation further before it acted. [More…]
The real issue on this question of the merino rams is whether a Government elected by and responsible to the nation is to govern this country or whether it is to be a group of unionists with no greater responsibility than that which they assume in their own judgment they owe to their union members. [More…]
I agree that the Senate is elected by the people and that is one of the virtues of the Senate. [More…]
But equally the House of Representatives is elected by the people and Parliament consists of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. [More…]
If this Government ever allows the country to get to a stage where unions determine what policies are to take effect then it is a stage at which the Government is abnegating the task which it has been elected to perform. [More…]
The opinion expressed by this chamber is of value because it is the only opinion that has been expressed by the elected representatives. [More…]
The real issue before the Senate is not whether rams should be exported - that decision was made constitutionally in a proper place - but whether the elected representatives of the people or the people outside who are not responsible to the community should govern the country. [More…]
Most thinking Australians - certainly most that I have talked to - even if opposed to the ban have applauded the action of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in ensuring that the decisions of the elected representatives of the people were carried out. [More…]
It is a shocking indictment against this country that pressure groups from outside, no matter of what type they may be, should dictate to the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
The Farmers Union elected 5 members and a similar number was elected from the Pastoralists and Graziers Association. [More…]
During the past 3 years, how many 20 year old youths have elected to serve their Army callups in countries other than Australia. [More…]
Proposed section 1 1 (I) provides that the person to be elected shall be: a student of the University elected by the students of the University enrolled for study for degrees of Bachelor and by such other students of the University (not being students referred to in the last preceding paragraph), if any, as the Statute, provide. [More…]
and inserting in their stead the following paragraphs: “(i) two members of the academic staff of the Institute, not being professors, elected by the members of that staff other than the professors; [More…]
two members of the academic staff of the School, not being professors, elected by the members of that staff other than the professors; (ja) the President of the body known as ‘The Australian National University Students’ Association’; [More…]
a student of the University elected from among their number by the students of the University enrolled for study for degrees other than degrees of Bachelor or for courses of research; [More…]
a student of the University elected by the students of the University enrolled for study for degrees of Bachelor and by such other students of the University (not being students referred to in the last preceding paragraph), if any, as the Statutes provide;”. [More…]
A student of the University elected by the students of the University enrolled for study for degrees of Bachelor and by such other students of the University … if any. [More…]
The Council has discussed the matter and has come to the conclusion that it should recommend that 2 students be elected. [More…]
1 do not know, because 1 have not been able to gain the information from the Minister, why the Government feels it to be so terribly important that the recommendation that 2 students be elected should be rejected and that only one student should be elected. [More…]
lt knows the problem that it has with numbers; it knows the size of the Council: it is familiar with the administration of the University and the handling of its own domestic problems, and it believes that 2 students should be elected. [More…]
Senator Rae is the Government representative from this chamber who was elected to the Council of the Australian National University to see how -the University operated and to lake part in the Council’s deliberations. [More…]
For the benefit of Senator Rae, I was suggesting that it was my recollection, understanding and information, although 1 may be incorrect, that he agreed wilh the view of the Council that there should be 2 students elected from among their number by students at the University. [More…]
Party nominations to these committees should await the apearance of the newly elected senators. [More…]
Will the Minister cause special investigations to be made into this incident with particular emphasis on the extent to which the outrage was politically motivated and the precautions that might be necessary to protect people who have been democratically elected to the Commonwealth Parliament? [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI am sure we all agree with Senator Bishop’s suggestion that this was a monstrous outrage, even against any person, lt is even more terrible when it happens to somebody who has been democratically elected to be a senator or to a person who has been democratically elected to any office in which he serves the community. [More…]
But one of the contentions of the leaders and elected governments of the States at the moment is that the provision has been inadequate for the actual expense in which the States have gradually become involved. [More…]
I wish to inform the Senate that on 10th March, consequent on the resignation of the Right Honourable J. G. Gorton as Prime Minister, His Excellency the GovernorGeneral commissioned me, as the newly elected leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, to form a Ministry. [More…]
The establishment of the estimates committees enabled direct confrontation between the elected members of the Parliament and those working in the various sections of the parliamentary system who are responsible for preparing the Estimates. [More…]
If Senator Little, an elected senator for the State of Victoria, is prepared to accept a second rate position on a Senate committee, it would suggest that he is prepared to accept that Victoria is of less importance than the other States. [More…]
I am elected by the people of South Australia and should be treated on an equal footing with the Leader of my Party. [More…]
However, I am in the position of being able to say that I am probably the longest serving parliamentarian in Australia today, having been first elected to a parliament on 11th June 1932. [More…]
Today, for the first time since I was elected to this chamber 9 years ago, I discovered that when a function of the type held in this Parliament today occurs the staff dining room is closed down. [More…]
I believe that any member of the national Parliament who really thought deeply about this subject and kept politics out of pensions would say that there is no doubt that we do not want a tribunal of outsiders telling us what this nation shall give as pensions, that the Parliament which is elected by the people lo govern should make the decision and should rise or fall by its triumphs or mistakes. [More…]
This platform is formulated by a federal conference, democratically elected. [More…]
I believe that that would be a very unsafe and very unwise thing to project into the industry and that it could result very quickly in a complete programme of defiance by those who elected to move outside the requirements of the law. [More…]
So far as I know that Committee has not elected a chairman. [More…]
Ceylon is a member country of the Commonwealth of Nations and its Government is democratically elected. [More…]
In 1961 this Government was elected with a majority of one as a result of the support of the DLP and, in the electorate of Moreton, the help of Communist Party preferences. [More…]
When would it be necessary for the employee to hand in a temporary resignation and if not elected when would he or she be able to resume his or her normal duties? [More…]
On resignation the person ceases to be a public servant but, if he is not elected, he may within 2 months after the declaration of the result of the election apply for reinstatement. [More…]
However, we do claim that Chiang Kaishek’s Government was the last freely elected government in mainland China. [More…]
If Chian Kai-shek’s Government is still the freely elected Government in Taiwan I hope that we will continue to recognise it. [More…]
I said if that is the freely elected Government in Taiwan. [More…]
That would give us about 10 days off in which to look after the business for which we were elected and other business such as committee work. [More…]
It has kept until the last week all the legislation that may cause heated debate or amendments to be moved so that it can do what it did with the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, which was gagged and rushed through without proper consideration being given to it and without permitting members of the Senate to put the points of view which they have been elected to put. [More…]
I was elected to come to Canberra and deal with the legislation affecting this country and I am prepared to be here. [More…]
It wants the elected representatives of the people to have no sayin the government of Australia. [More…]
I come to the point of the attitude that has been taken by the newly elected President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in Melbourne, Mr Hawke. [More…]
However, it was very much the business of this Parliament, and of the Department of Civil Aviation in particular, why Mr Barton elected to get into the airline business. [More…]
The Council was originally composed of 21 contracting states elected by the Assembly of the Organisation, at which all contracting states are entitled to be present. [More…]
Australia has been an elected member of the Council since ICAO came into being. [More…]
He was said to be not fit to con trol the affairs of the Labor Party in the State of Victoria, which he had been elected by the members to do. [More…]
Until we have elected a government which will put into effect a national health insurance scheme the people of Australia will have to carry the burden of this Government. [More…]
In a statement made by the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes) which I tabled in the Senate on 27th April the Minister indicated that the Government had accepted the Select Committee’s recommendations as adopted by the House of Assembly and foreshadowed the early introduction of legislation to deal with those recommendations concerning a change in the elected representation in the House of Assembly. [More…]
At the present time the House of Assembly consists of 94 members of whom 84 are elected and 10 are official members. [More…]
The 84 elected members are returned from 69 open electorates and 15 regional electorates. [More…]
These representatives will be elected by the Federation itself. [More…]
He will be elected by the vice-chancellors of the universities of Australia. [More…]
You have had a record period as President of the Senate, a position to which you were first elected in 1953. [More…]
Senator the Honourable Malcolm Scott who was elected as a Liberal senator for Western Australia in 1949 has also had a long and enviable record of service with the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
Senator Dame Ivy Wedgwood, D.B.E., was elected as a Liberal senator for Victoria in 1949. [More…]
Senator the Honourable Patrick John Kennelly was elected as an Australian Labor Party senator for Victoria in the Senate election of 1953. [More…]
Senator James Philip Toohey was elected as an Australian Labor Party Senator for South Australia in the Senate election of 1953. [More…]
Senator George Howard Branson was elected as Liberal Party senator for Western Australia at the general election in 1958. [More…]
Senator Clement Frank Ridley was elected as an ALP senator for South Australia at the general election in 1958. [More…]
Finally, and certainly by no means least, Senator Robert Herbert Lacey was elected as ALP senator for Tasmania in 1964. [More…]
I would like to mention that after 30th June I will be the only surviving member of the Australian Labor Party team that was elected in 1958 under the team leadership of Senator Jim Toohey. [More…]
1 feel that I must show my appreciation to Senator Jim Toohey, because I feel that it was because of his popularity, the high esteem in which he was held in South Australia and the workthat he had done for the Australian Labor Party that enabled me to be elected as the fifth candidate at that election. [More…]
I recall that in 1961, after the honourable member for Moreton was narrowly re-elected on certain preferences, he walked into this Parliament and the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, referred to him as Killen the Magnificent. [More…]
But when the present Prime Minister was narrowly elected to office one of the first things he did was to depose the honourable member for Moreton as the Minister for the Navy. [More…]
We had not yet received the 100 per cent increase in our representation as a result of the 1967 Senate elections and we did not then have the presence of Senator Kane from New South Wales who was elected only last year. [More…]
All of these problems will continue to exist until there is elected a government which has a real national policy which is designed to cater for all sections of the Australian community and to make this nation a unified, concerted nation working as a team for the benefit of all Australians. [More…]
New Guinea Bill is to increase the number of elected members of the House of Assembly for the Territory of Papua New Guinea and to enact certain consequential provisions. [More…]
Of these 84 are elected members and 10 are official members. [More…]
The 84 elected members are returned from 69 open electorates and IS regional electorates. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack is therefore elected President of the Senate in accordance with the Standing Orders. [More…]
I declare Senator Prowse of Western Australia elected as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Senator PROWSE (Western Australia)Mr President, F thank the Senate for the honour of being elected to the position of Chairman ‘ of Committees. [More…]
This is a very great office to which he has been elected ‘by the Senate, and the Opposition is confident that he will carry out the duties of that office in the manner in which they have been carried out, that is, with impartiality and with due regard to the rights and susceptibilities and failings of every one of us. [More…]
Is there any constitutional impediment to the introduction of a Bill to make it compulsory that at least SO per cent to 90 per cent of every Ministry be elected by its parliamentary members? [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack was elected only today to the position of President of the Senate, lt was not my intention to attack him as President of the Senate. [More…]
I had made up my mind to bring this matter before the Senate long before Senator Sir Magnus Cormack was elected President. [More…]
I have received private answers to questions but I have elected to ask them publicly. [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial Trade Union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or having the effect of improvingthe industrial conditions of the members of these organisations and not directly and immediately related to industrial issues but for the purpose of affecting political decisions, properly resting within the Constitutional power of the Commonwealth through its elected Parliament and its instrumentalities and thus usurping the functions of Government. [More…]
We even had a strike called because this Government saw fit to introduce legislation for the protection of law and order in this country, which legislation was passed through the Parliament with the approval of the majority of the elected representatives. [More…]
I would have thought that, so far from espousing this line of operation, those who had any solicitude for the existence and welfare of the trade union movement would see in this course of conduct a most divisive factor which, if persisted in, cannot be tolerated by any democratic community that puts its faith in a parliament elected by the majority of the people. [More…]
In this Parliament and in the other parliaments of Australia, those who are elected make the decisions by which this country should be governed. [More…]
The developing practice of using industrial Trade Union organisations to effect purposes of a political character, not designed to or having the effect of improving the industrial conditions of the members of these organisations and not directly and immediately related to industrial issues but for the purpose of effecting political decisions, properly resting within the Constitutional power of the Commonwealth through its elected Parliament and its instrumentalities and thus usurping the functions of Government. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite cannot do so because they are wedded to a system which will permit the use of industrial power to thwart the wishes of the Government elected by the people of Australia and claiming the electoral authority which comes from having a mandate given at ah election. [More…]
It is not that the people of Australia through their elected government must determine what are the laws, what are the limits of action, what are. [More…]
If they ever seriously hope to take the reins of office in this federal Parliament, as they so aptly proclaim across the chamber every day or so, they will have put to them the points that they have argued for this evening, namely, that unions should have the right to take political action and so force a government into taking actions which the elected majority of individuals would not desire. [More…]
Many unionists are against the ACTU becoming too involved in political issues and appearing to usurp the functions of the elected Government. [More…]
Is this a matter to be decided in the factories, in the workshops, in the trade unions, on the streets, at the football matches or at the cricket, or is Australian policy to be decided by the elected members of Parliament? [More…]
Sir Frank was informed by Mr McNicoIl that there seemed little likelihood of- Mr McMahon’s being elected leader, and that Mr Gorton was favourably regarded. [More…]
After all, the function of this place is not merely to pass statutes or resolutions; it is a forum in which the opinion of the people may find expression through their elected representatives. [More…]
I make this appeal knowing that over the years some people of conscience have elected not to comply with the terms of the Act and that many of those young men are no longer in Australia. [More…]
There are many reasons, but I think none is better than the fact that this country has now elected to withdraw from the Vietnam conflict. [More…]
1 can only urge upon the Senate that it ought not to adhere to a course which will involve the national Parliament, properly concerned with the consideration of national matters, in having to give some place in national priorities to what would be regarded as the legislation of the Australian Capital Territory, or to give the legislation of the Australian Capital Territory such pride of place that it would displace matters of national importance which are the primary concern of the persons who are elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I do not have to wait for a Party ticket to be elected to the Senate. [More…]
If on this occasion the gentlemen con cerned elected to find a different home tor their vote from the one they chose the other day, it would be very unfair to suggest in any sense that it was because of a lack of courage or anything that did not register the highest motive in the gentlemen concerned. [More…]
Mr President, I stand here tonight a senator elected by the people of Western Australia for one express purpose - to convince this Government that it is high time that the death tax laws throughout Australia should be abolished or drastically revised because they are causing hardship, distress and humiliation to thousands of Australians, the majority of whom are women. [More…]
I realise of course that there are many other matters to which I must pay attention now that I have been elected to the Senate. [More…]
I suppose I am the only man who has ever been elected to Parliament on one platform only and for that very reason I must, and will, concentrate on that platform. [More…]
As a standing committee it is a committee of this Parliament, elected by this Parliament, and its duty is to serve Parliament, and Parliament serves the people. [More…]
The crew of the TAA aircraft did not observe the lights of the DC8 at the commencement of take-off and, when they did recognise that the DC8 was an obstruction in their take-off path, they elected to continue with the take-off in the hope of being able to overfly the obstruction. [More…]
Let me say at the outset that I am deeply sensible of the honour of being elected to the Senate. [More…]
Their only reward is to see their representatives elected to the parliaments of Australia. [More…]
Honourable senators who have just been elected to this Chamber have made excellent speeches. [More…]
These promises have been made by a government which, although it has $630m to spare, has done nothing whatever to honour the promises which it made and upon which it was elected. [More…]
My attempts to gain this office parallel the history, in the time factor, of the Fill aircraft in that I made my first attempt to be elected to this place in 1963. [More…]
The security of this building has been a preoccupation of mine since you elected me to the Presidency. [More…]
I am a democratically elected representative of the people of this country, and I believe that a parliamentarian ought not to be restricted in any way. [More…]
Without the willing assistance of such dedicated people it would be extremely difficult for any one of us to be elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I take the opportunity to congratulate Senator Sir Magnus Cormack on being elected to the very high office of President of the Senate and also to congratulate Senator Prowse on his election as Chairman of committees. [More…]
Sir William Refshauge did attend the 24th Assembly of the World Health Assembly in Geneva in May of this year and was, incidentally, elected President of the Assembly. [More…]
I want to say that 1 am deeply conscious of my responsibility U the Parliament, to my Party and to the electors of South Australia who have sent me here as their representative, ft is a great honour to be here as an elected member of the great Australian Labor Party, the Parly which I have been proud to serve continuously through good times and bad since my youth. [More…]
It was largely due to the efforts of these people that I was elected. [More…]
Obviously the United States authority implementing the Omega project has elected not to await confirmation of all proposed participants before proceeding with equipment procurement The latter action could not be said to imply agreement on any or all of the locations at which the equipment might be installed. [More…]
Provision has been made in the Bill to increase, as appropriate, a pension that became payable, on or before 30th June 1971, to a person who elected to have the preservation provisions of the Superannuation Act 1971 apply to him and who took his preservation benefit in the form of a deferred pension. [More…]
It is regrettable that a man, even if he is elected on second hand votes, is able to indulge in gutter language of that nature in the hope that he will get some cheap notoriety out of it, and the sooner he is removed from this chamber the better this country will be. [More…]
Whether or not there should be daylight saving in the Northern Territory is a matter which the Government believes should be decided by the views of the elected representatives of Territory residents in the Legislative Council. [More…]
Until somebody can convincingly prove that the existence of the sentence of capital punishment is not a deterrence against crimes of violence, I would think that a parliament elected to protect the people who constitute the society should be very cautious before accepting a Bill in these wide terms. [More…]
I made the point that every person who has gone to Vietnam has elected to do so by leaving himself in the ballot and not opting for service in the Citizen Military Forces or registering as a conscientious objector. [More…]
I feel that there is already every right for the elected government of Australia to consult any country on any matter which it feels merits consultation. [More…]
It should be written into the Constitution that if this nation goes to war it does so upon a decision of the Parliament - the elected representatives of the people - and not by 12 persons tied up in a Cabinet or by an indivindual who can direct the Governor-General to proclaim a state of emergency which will mean the calling up of all 20-year-olds whether they have been called up for national service, whether they have opted to serve in the Citizen Military Forces or whether they have been members of the Regular Army Reserve, which was referred to by Senator Sim. [More…]
1 have not seen a report of the comment made by Sir Ewen, but 1 worked with him for some years before I was elected to the Senate. [More…]
Alternatively, if in deciding to continue the take-off, he had also elected to vary the normal take-off techniques so as to achieve a better initial climb angle, once again the collision would have been avoided. [More…]
We were told that opposed to these commissars was our great and powerful ally, the United States of America, steadfastly determined to oppose Communism and to support democracy even if supporting democracy meant sending troops into the Dominican Republic to depose a democratically elected president. [More…]
1 can recall some years ago, before I was elected to the Senate, an investigation at the top parliamentary level into the price that the overseas drug companies in particular were charging. [More…]
1 ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service: On 30th September I asked whether because of the alteration to the National Service Act personnel who elected to serve for 6 years in the Citizen Militray Forces in lieu of 2 years national service training would be discharged after 5 years service, whether they would be permitted to resign, or whether they would be automatically discharged. [More…]
It has become a problem since I have been elected to this office by honourable senators. [More…]
I ask: Would the Minister agree that it is the responsibility of an elected member to make known disturbing rumours of this nature if they came to his ears? [More…]
Does the Minister acknowledge the Secretary’s statement to be a crude and unconcealed threat to, and most disturbing intimidation of, a duly elected member designed to prevent him from discharging his public responsibilities? [More…]
Does it include the surveillance of elected members of the House of Assembly? [More…]
The level of wage rates paid to indigenous employees is a matter of strict policy adopted by the elected representatives in the House of Assembly in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
If so, does this indicate that departmental and military advisers are usurping the role of the elected representatives of the Australian people? [More…]
What progress has been made bythe Joint Study Committee inquiring into an increased role for elected representatives in the administrative arrangements for the Northern Territory, and will the report of the Committee be made available to the Parliament. [More…]
The Government has agreed to Ministers meeting with elected members of the Council if [his is sought when the Legislative Council has been reconstituted after the general elections held on 23rd October 1971. [More…]
If ever I see its 5 elected representatives wearing their jungle greens in here, on leave from Vietnam, I might be tempted to take a bit of notice of them. [More…]
It said before the election that one of the first things it would do if elected to government would be to conduct a proper investigation into the feasibility and desirability of the Bell Bay rail link. [More…]
When an elected politician cannot get the figures from the responsible Minister and when those who think that they have some claim under the Act cannot get them, there is no alternative. [More…]
Tn the main they were members of the permanent armed forces of this country who volunteered to serve in a military capacity wherever the elected government thought that it was necessary that they should serve. [More…]
After this meeting I sent another message to President Yahya Khan urging upon him once again the need to deal with the elected representatives of East Pakistan and with Sheikh Mujibur Raman. [More…]
The Menzies Government, which was elected in 1949, refused to follow through the important forward planning proposed by that earlier legislation. [More…]
A second danger is that we are proposing to give .away the rights of the elected representatives of the people to Executive control. [More…]
The Government also placed before the Parliament in May 1971 amendmentsto the Papua and New Guinea Act which gave effect to the Select Committee’s recommendations on changes in the elected representation in the House of Assembly. [More…]
The Select Committee recommended that the House of Assembly should, after the next elections, be composed of not less than 104 members and not more than 107 members, as follows: 18 persons elected by the people to represent regional electorates; 82 persons elected by the people to represent open electorates; up to 3 nominated members, nominated by the House of Assembly for special purposes; and 4 official members, appointed by the GovernorGeneral on the Administrator’s nomination; and clause 16 of the Bill so provides. [More…]
The recommended increase in the elected membership from 84 to 100 was provided for in the amendments to the Papua and New Guinea Act earlier this year and these provisions are merely reenacted now. [More…]
The inclusion of non-elected nominated members in the House is a new concept in Papua New Guinea but there is a widespread feeling in Papua New Guinea of the need to provide a means for the representation of special groups, for example, women, or persons having a special expertise, in the legislature. [More…]
Once a person has accepted nomination to the House, he will hold office on the same basis as if he were an elected member of the House. [More…]
Those who were elected were not elected by a majority of voters but by a majority of those on the roll. [More…]
As long as this situation continues, we shall be heading fast to the position where a civil service bureaucracy rather than the elected Parliament of the people controls this country. [More…]
If so, does the Minister agree that it is the responsibility of an elected member of the Territory of Papua New Guinea House of Assembly to make known matters of this nature. [More…]
Was the statement by Mr Curtis a threat to and intimidation of, an elected member of the House of Assembly, and was it designed to prevent Mr Tammur from discharging his responsibilities? [More…]
An elected member of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly should make known matters of this nature but in making statements of this kind he should exercise the degree of responsibility expected of an elected representative of the people. [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…]
The pilot-in-command of VH-TJA elected to continue lire take-off and attempted to overfly the obstructing aircraft. [More…]
The provision as drafted retains as far as possible the status quo of the present elected component of the Administrator’s Executive Council, which is made up of Ministerial Members who are appointed to that office by the Minister for External Territories. [More…]
It needs to be kept in mind that the Student Representative Councils are composed of representatives elected by the students themselves. [More…]
He was later elected at the general elections in 1937, 1943, 1949, 1951 and .1955. [More…]
When I was elected to the Senate in 1958 it was my privilege and pleasure to get to know Senator Courtice and to recognise in him the qualities that earned him his appointment as Chairman of Committees and as Minister for Trade and Customs from 1946 to 1949. [More…]
Apparently, there is at least one person on the Government benches who supports our proposal, or who did so before he was elected to the Ministry. [More…]
I was elected by the people to the Senate for a specific purpose. [More…]
Since I was elected as President of the Senate I have made it a practice that direct questions requiring considerable statistical evidence and questions on policy matters addressed to a Minister who is only representing a Minister who sits in another place should go on notice. [More…]
I see no reason why a person who has been democratically elected to this chamber cannot appear in the chamber in suitable, neat attire. [More…]
As I have stated, it is accepted by the South Australian Parliament, which is democratically elected, just as this chamber is. [More…]
We elected to do this because we knew that an existing Committee of the Senate had the right to look at this aspect. [More…]
He claims the right to be elected to the position of a legislator. [More…]
What hypocrisy it is Ibr him to say before he is elected to the Parliament that he can choose for him self what laws he will obey but ‘please elect me to the Parliament so that I can pass the laws which everybody else will obey.’ [More…]
ALP members have to understand that they cannot unilaterally declare a law invalid until they are elected into a position to do so. [More…]
ALP leaders should understand that it is absurd for a party which is askingto be elected to constitutional power to involve itself in actions and statements which negate the whole basis of constitutional power itself. [More…]
Australia faces no discernible threat, in the words of the Liberal’s ex-Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, for at least the next 10 years and an election is to be held in the next few months as a result of which a government will be elected which is pledged to repeal the law under which Mr Johnston has been charged. [More…]
It was agreed to by all parties, including members of the Opposition who obviously were elected by their caucus to take their places on that Committee. [More…]
Is it the Australian Parliament elected by the people, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or three or four people who view themselves as superior planners? [More…]
As a responsible person in this Parliament who has been elected by the citizens and taxpayers of this country I share with other people concern at the way money is expended. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate at the general elections of 1949 and 1951, the Senate election in 1953 and the general election in 1958. [More…]
Senator Kendall was elected to this Parliament in 1949 and was with those of us who took our seats here in the period from 1950 to 1965. [More…]
This, I think, is a tremendous disgrace, when he is the first member of the Aboriginal community to be elected to a Parliament in this country. [More…]
I am shocked to learn that Senator Keeffe does not understand that a senator is elected to represent the people of his State, black or white. [More…]
That is the reason why Senator Bonner will not be elected next November. [More…]
Has the Minister seen reports that the Singapore Government is particularly concerned about the attacks made by Austalian Labor Party spokesmen on the five-power pact and the indication by the Labor Party that if elected to office it would withdraw from the pact? [More…]
Accordingly the Bill provides for the producer representatives to be elected by a poll of honey producers in each of the mainland States. [More…]
This poposal is not acceptable as it is considered that as provision is being made for the election of producer members it should be left to the producers to decide by a majority vote whether a beekeeper with packer interests should be elected. [More…]
These will comprise a person elected by teachers and a person nominated by the Commissioner together with an independent chairman appointed by the Minister. [More…]
This Disciplinary Appeal Board will comprise an officer elected by the teachers of the Service, an officer appointed by the Commissioner and an independent chairman appointed by the Minister. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation believes that the Service should be administered by a Commission of 3 members, one of whom would be elected by the teachers. [More…]
a member to represent honey producers holds office for a period of 3 years commencing on the first day of July after the declaration of the poll at which he is elected . [More…]
I cannot help feeling that this attitude has been due largely to the most unsatisfactory way in which the producer members of the Board have been elected or appointed. [More…]
The position as it exists and as it has existed since the Honey Board was set up over 9 years ago is that the producer representatives were nominated or selected by the State associations of honey producers. [More…]
The change which is proposed is that the producer members of the Board - they do not represent exactly a majority of the Board but they are a dominant force on the Board because they are 5 members out of 10 - will be representatives of each State elected by the honey producers in each State who are the owners of at least 200 hives of bees. [More…]
The figure has been selected because it represents a person who would be making his living as a honey producer. [More…]
We do not accept the argument that the provision that people can be both producers and packers and be elected by the producers to represent them, constitutes a handing over of the Board to packers. [More…]
Statements I have received from the President of the Association, Mr Kane, and Mr Archibald, Secretary of the Association, show that they agree with the principle that producer members of the Board should be elected by producers. [More…]
One producer representative is managing director of one of the largest honey packer-exporter companies in Australia who is elected by Queensland which has about 75 commercial honey producers. [More…]
On the other hand, it must be recognised that the time that is taken on this prevents the Senate giving time to national matters which really should be the preoccupation of persons who are elected to the national Parliament. [More…]
for the provision of a Commission of 3 members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service, one of whom shall be elected by teachers; [More…]
For that reason and in order to provide for this representation, paragraph (a) of our amendment suggests that the Bill should provide for the establishment of a commission of 3 members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service, one of whom shall be elected by teachers. [More…]
We are not suggesting that the single commissioner should be an elected representative of the teachers. [More…]
We believe that a commission of the Commonwealth Teaching Service should consist of 3 members, one of whom should be elected by teachers. [More…]
One member of this commission of 3 should be a representative elected by the teachers employed by the Service. [More…]
I draw attention to the fact that clause 30 sets out that a promotion appeals board shall consist of a chairman appointed by the Minister, an officer appointed by the Commissioner and an officer elected as prescribed by the officers of the Service. [More…]
The board shall consist of a chairman appointed by the Minister, an officer appointed by the Commissioner and an officer elected as prescribed by the officers of the Service. [More…]
It seeks to have one member of the commission elected by the teachers. [More…]
Commonwealth Teaching Service, one of whom shall be elected by the teachers. [More…]
It is on that point that there are divisions In the sentiments of many of us who happen to be unionists but who have also been elected by the people of this country to protect public moneys and the public purse. [More…]
Until those who are interested in labour, the Labor movement and the trade unions are prepared to recognise that an abuse of that philosophy must ultimately bring the repercussions that it is bringing now, not only the current Government but also whatever government replaces it will be forced, if it is the government elected by the people for the people, to resort to action to ensure that public moneys are not thrown away because people use what I describe as industrial blackmail. [More…]
It is elected by the people to protect all the people, not only people who have approval from the secretary of the union to get their telephone repaired. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate for Tasmania in the general elections of 1937 and 1943. [More…]
The late senator was here before most of us who sit in the Senate at present were elected to this place and therefore many of us, except perhaps the Tasmanians, would not have known him personally. [More…]
Secondly, before anyone elected to a democratic parliament can seek to impose this Bill upon workers he should refute the allegations that were made in my speech. [More…]
In addition, the group campaigned for a ‘new policy approach’ by the recently elected Government. [More…]
He is elected only some days after the vote is held. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators that, first of all, ITT attempted to prevent the election of the Allende Government - although we do not like that type of government, nevertheless it was democratically elected - and, having failed to prevent that Government’s election ITT set out then to destroy the Chilean economy as a means of destroying that Government. [More…]
In a world dominated by large and powerful MNEs to whom would non-elected boards and management of multi-national enterprises be responsible? [More…]
Certainly, when a Labor government is elected to office in the next federal election it will take action to stop this flood of capital coming into this country. [More…]
After all, we have been elected to look after the interests of the Australian people. [More…]
The importance of his speech is underlined by the fact that he was elected as an independent senator to represent Western Australia without any party support whatsoever. [More…]
It would appear that the coalition government which has been elected will be a very stable government. [More…]
If elected in the forthcoming elections as the government of Australia, the Australian Labor Party will take steps to ensure the orderly and secure transfer of Papua New Guinea to self-government and independence in its first term of office. [More…]
It was elected on that policy as a major party in the House. [More…]
The difficulties of those who have been elected to the House of Assembly can be appreciated only by people with some knowledge of the inhabitants of the Territory. [More…]
I have been told that these bookmakers have now elected an executive and that the executive has been elected for a 5-ycar period, but that no-one can say how or by what means. [More…]
I have been told also that this executive which has been elected for a 5- year period and which is now asking its fellow bookmakers to contribute $1,000 towards a fidelity fund will handle the $500,000 that will be in this fund. [More…]
He said a few minutes ago that he is proud of the fact that the elected representatives of the Queensland people had come to the Commonwealth Government and said: ‘We are broke. [More…]
When the present Queensland Government was elected its supporters said: ‘We ate people of business acumen - people who can manage the finances of the State.’ [More…]
Yet, 3 months after he was elected, the Queensland Premier announced that the State liquor laws were to be amended. [More…]
Since he was elected to the Senate he has watched, listened and learned. [More…]
The petition was sent to an elected member of the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory by an Aborigine from Snake Bay, a Mr Eric Brook. [More…]
Will the Minister advise this representative of a communist dictatorship that this is a free country and that the question of Australian passports will be determined by its democratically elected government without communist assistance? [More…]
Now we have it in the accursed committe system which takes away the rights of the elected people in this chamber. [More…]
He wrote: Do not rubbish him because what he is doing is enabling somebody elected by the people of Australia to say what he thinks in the light of the advice he has had from his people. [More…]
They get elected to the Senate as a result of a secret ballot so 1 do not know what they find so objectionable about secret ballots. [More…]
I commend to honourable senators the fact that a wise and common sense electorate has elected a pro-Liberal government for 54 of the 71 years of federation. [More…]
He went on to say: lt is also pertinent to note that in federal parliamentary elections it is not required that a candidate must obtain the support of 50-plus per cent of all voters on the voting role to be elected. [More…]
The situation in New South Wales now is that in many local government areas people are elected to govern the affairs of local communities on the vote of 11 per cent to a maximum of 35 per cent of those eligible to vote in those areas. [More…]
But he failed to carry out his responsibilities as a member and elected official of that union in that he did not attend the Council meetings. [More…]
It is a self-perpetuating oligarchy because no-one can become a member of the Council where he has some controlof the management of the organisation unless he is elected to the position by the existing members of the Council and is a medical practitioner. [More…]
When they were counted, they elected Mr Killen as the Liberal member for Moreton and kept the Menzies Government in office. [More…]
Senator Gair knows as well as I do that it was the Communist Party’s votes in 1961 that elected Jim Killen as the member for Moreton and returned the Menzies Government. [More…]
I am suggesting that in future, with the larger amalgamated trade unions, it will be more difficult for the communists to be elected to office in those larger organisations which are and which will continue to be controlled by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In later years ballots were conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer in which members elected delegates to attend the annual convention of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The principle that country has followed is that if the majority of workers within those unions, the elected officials, delegates and the governing bodies of those unions decide that they wish to have a merger, that is entirely up to them and it is nobody else’s business. [More…]
1 have assumed that the honourable senator wishes to have only the names of those members elected to the Executive Committee of the Good Neighbour Council in each State and Territory, and these are listed hereunder. [More…]
It is 25 years and 8 months since I was elected to the Senate. [More…]
I have been elected to be the Tasmanian radio representative on this committee, and the principal aim of this committee will be given our complete support. [More…]
Because they have made a decision there is a risk that representatives elected by the people may not be able to change the Bill. [More…]
what we, as the people’s elected representatives here think should be the Commonwealth terms. [More…]
How are the medical members of the Council of the Fund elected. [More…]
How are the contributors’ representatives elected to the Council of the Fund. [More…]
I have previously paid a tribute to my fellow members, but as a result of the intercession of Senator Gair, I feel I ought to say that from the moment I was elected Chairman of that Committee, I received the greatest nonparty support and loyalty that any senator could hope for from any 7 other senators from different political parties with different outlooks on life. [More…]
I want only to express my complete dismay that an elected Government should seek to supply essential shipping services to its own State with the consent of the union bosses; that it should seek to make arrangements with the union bosses when the people who voted the Government into its responsible office expect it to represent and service them. [More…]
As the Liberal Party member for one of the metropolitan seats of Brisbane said the other day, a massive newspaper poll has just disclosed that the great majority of the people of Brisbane do not want their council interfered with either in terms of boundaries or in relation to the manner in which the Lord Mayor, Alderman Clem Jones, was elected or the number of aldermen, and the aldermen have been joined by their Liberal Party counterparts in the Brisbane City Council itself. [More…]
It was unfortunate that when Mr Hawke was elected President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions he said that he was going to take strike action. [More…]
I was elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 1966. [More…]
While we endeavoured to pevail upon the people to accept that as part of our policy and elect us as a government, wc were not elected. [More…]
Then the people of Western Australia got fed up and elected another government. [More…]
The people had elected a government of enterprise and initiative that got the State moving again. [More…]
That is one of the reasons - it is only one of the many reasons - why my State would suffer were a Labor government to be elected to office later this year. [More…]
The people of Western Australia did their job when they elected me at my first attempt to become an independent senator. [More…]
The arrangement was made on the condition that Senator Bonner elected to speak for 10 minutes and that Senator Negus elected to speak for 10 minutes. [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…]
We are well aware that, to use his own words, he will resort to prayer to see that this Government is re-elected. [More…]
If the Government is returned to office I hope the promise is put into effect because if we are elected it will be put into effect. [More…]
When I was elected to the Senate 1 closed up my poultry farm and now I have it sitting idle. [More…]
The purpose for which the Budget has been used, particularly by Senator Jessop, is to criticise the South Australian Government on the basis that, he says, it has not been carrying out ils duty to the people who elected it. [More…]
How much better it would have been if our elected representatives had taken the initiative and come to grips with this vital issue. [More…]
Because Senator Murphy was being irked about it he elected to make some sweeping allegations and charges about people not having sufficient courage, capacity, ability or mentality to arrive at a decision. [More…]
A freely elected Croatian parliament, the repository of the nation’s sovereignty, will decide this and all other fundamental issues. [More…]
We are told that in Queensland there is complete freedom to come and go as you like and that the councils are elected at regular intervals. [More…]
Queensland so that Senator Bonner would not be endorsed or elected. [More…]
Must protest against your acceptance these people and emphasise that groups who have demonstrated Brisbane and recently Canberra claiming to represent Queensland Torres Strait Islands do nol in fact represent Queensland Torres Strait Islands who have their own elected group as advisory council of which I am chairman. [More…]
One would have expected that to be one of the first things that a Liberal Government would have done when it was elected to office in 1949, not that it would do it at the end of its term of office, after 23 long weary years. [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…]
He said that if the Labor Party were elected it would legislate for abortion, homosexuality and pornography. [More…]
Since I was elected to the Senate I have found that on most of the occasions on which [More…]
He has been elected to office by more than 53 per cent of the electors of South Australia. [More…]
Although we received between 52 per cent and 53 per cent of the votes in an election for the lower House, we can get only 4 members out of 20 members elected to the upper House. [More…]
Although we want to get legislation through the Parliament in order to govern the State as it should be governed, in lots of cases the legislation is blocked by the upper House which is elected by a minority of the people; if is elected by people who have a vote according to the acres they own and not according to the number of people who live on those acres. [More…]
I want to remind honourable senators that when I spoke in the Senate last week on the Budget I quoted an article from the ‘Australian’ - the very same newspaper from which Senator Jessop quoted tonight - which referred to what the Labor Party would do in regard to taxation if it is elected to office. [More…]
Senator Jessop went on to say that the Australian people would be very sorry if they elected a Labor government at the next election. [More…]
Of course, Senator McManus does not speak very often in this place, and he would deny the right to any other honourable senator who is elected to this place by democratic franchise to stand up and say what he wants to say on behalf of his constituents in this Parliament. [More…]
Senators are elected for 3 years. [More…]
Those migrant members are elected by their national groups and they meet, I think, monthly with representatives of the Libera] Party at the Federal, State and local government levels to exchange views on their problems and to get help. [More…]
Equally I believe it true to say that Mr Lovokivic was a delegate elected by the Croatians, though I do not know whether he is still a delegate. [More…]
As that was part of the social services policy of the Government elected at that election one would have thought that there would have been considerable movement towards abolition of the means test or towards establishing a national superannuation .scheme by the enactment of a national insurance bill as a matter of conscience. [More…]
If it is re-elected it proposes to abolish the means test by 1975. [More…]
It should be stated that difficulties accrue to all political parties if they do not carry out the policies which they espouse and on which they are elected and they will face crises of the kind which have plagued many political movements in Australia and currently are plaguing the Liberal Party. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt, in what I imagine to be typical Opposition form, criticised the amounts that are paid and said that a Labor government, if it were elected, would certainly contribute more to those in the community who were in need. [More…]
A member of this Parliament, who has been elected by the people of Australia;, makes accusations in this Parliament. [More…]
It is most dangerous in this country, when Australia’s elected government has a clear, purposeful policy, if that policy can be undermined by the Opposition, not only at home but also abroad. [More…]
whenever an alteration is made in the number of members of the House of Representatives to be elected for the State; and [More…]
Does it not seem, therefore, that Western Australia is entitled to have 10 members elected, as a constitutional right, at the forthcoming election? [More…]
a candidate who is a Commonwealth Public Servant should not be required to resign at the time of nomination but only if elected; [More…]
In 1961 the DLP received 472,578 votes, which was 9.82 per cent of the total vote, but it was not able to have one candidate elected to the Senate. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party received 433,51 1 votes and 2 of its candidates were elected. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party received 2.3 million votes and 14 of its candidates were elected. [More…]
Paragraph (4) of our amendment reads: a candidate who is a Commonwealth Public Servant should not be required to resign at the time of nomination but only if elected. [More…]
I have always understood that members in that House were elected by proportional representation. [More…]
It is the very old political maxim: Do not change an act that gets you elected to Parliament. [More…]
I suppose that one of the real tests of a democracy is whether a person sent here by his electorate is allowed to vote as he thinks best for his electorate or whether he should vote as he is told to vote by somebody who has not been elected. [More…]
We have the peculiar situation these days where upper House members are elected on exactly the same franchise, by exactly the same people and on exactly the same day, yet the Labor Party says that an upper House should not be entitled to frustrate the will of the lower House. [More…]
They will also give legal status to elected Aboriginal or Islander Advisory groups. [More…]
I think the Senate is entitled to know what is, in the opinion of the legal advisers of the Commonwealth, the constitutional position in relation to the representation of Western Australia and whether, in fact, one more representative should be elected at large from that State or whether some other method needs to be adopted in order that the requirements of the Constitution can be met in relation to this election. [More…]
I understand that Senator Murphy has declared that if the Labor Party is elected to office it will recognise Scientology. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Aboriginal Council, which is comprised of two elected members and two appointed members, was deadlocked on the matter and that the local Departmental manager apparently took the final decision to exclude the entertainers. [More…]
In the event that there are inescapable reasons why the Senate should not continue to operate even in a nonlegislative role pending the calling of the newly elected House of Representatives, will you ascertain whether it is the will of the Senate that Parliament should be called as soon as practicable after the return of the writs for election to the House of Representatives so that the Senate committees can proceed with their processes of investigation and report? [More…]
1 hope that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) takes note of what the Senate has said and on 14th November announces this as an objective for the incoming Liberal Government which will be elected on 2nd December. [More…]
If 4 candidates were standing for election it would be mathematically possible for a candidate to be elected to Parliament on 25.1 per cent of the vote. [More…]
As I say, mathematically it is possible there for a person to be elected on 25.1 per cent of the vote. [More…]
Even to be elected by 30 per cent or 33 per cent means the candidate is the choice of a minority only. [More…]
They are more interested in these matters than those matters of State which interest a lot of old fogies, as they would describe those who have had the honour to be elected to represent the people in these halls of legalisation in which we determine the laws that are imposed upon those who elect us. [More…]
Nobody can be elected with a minority of votes. [More…]
Each person elected must be able to say before taking office that he was elected by 50 per cent plus one, or more, of the voters in his electorate once the contest is resolved. [More…]
Proportional representation was for many years the system under which many parties were elected to the Assembly of the French Parliament. [More…]
In effective terms, if there were some 5 or 6 candidates standing, there could be a situation where the one who polled 21 per cent of the votes was the candidate who was elected. [More…]
I do not think that because a committee is inquiring into this matter the Senate should hesitate to do what the elected members of the Senate think is right. [More…]
That agreement will bind a federal Labor government when it is elected at the end of this year to actions which probably it would not have taken had the legislation not been passed at that stage. [More…]
The other point about Labor’s amendment which needs to be understood with crystal clarity is that in its last words it is intended rather circuitously to express the fact that whereas the Government wishes to provide an assured period programme of 5 years under the Bill, the Labor Party gives notice that if it is elected to office it will terminate the benefits of this Bill, and it will not permit the grants to go on in any year after 1973. [More…]
Labour will re-constitute the AWIC and the Australian Wool Board on a democratically elected basis and have an investigation and evaluation of wool promotion and research. [More…]
I hope that there will be elected a Labor government which will put trade commissioners into those parts of the world where 1 am sure there are markets and so bring our fruit industry and our other primary industries back into the stable condition they once were in. [More…]
I pledge that the Australian Labor Party when elected to office - which will be at the next Federal election– [More…]
I say to the Committee that, if it is not removed now, then if, as we confidently expect, a Labor government is elected on 2nd December, we will remove the excise and it will not be replaced by any substitute in the shape of sales tax or any impost of that nature. [More…]
Appropriate provision will be made for the purchase of past non-contributory service by present serving members including those members who in 1948 elected to remain on deferred pay rather than enter the DFRB scheme. [More…]
I remember - it seems a long time ago - attending in Hobart a conference of lawyers from all over Australia not long after I had been elected to the Senate- [More…]
The others ara elected from those who have done media work for and on behalf of the Commonwealth in the preceding 2 years. [More…]
Five members are elected biennially on the votes of agencies which, during the preceding 2 years, have participated in (he planning, originating or production of Commonwealth advertising. [More…]
I ask those listening to this debate to realise that if a Labor government is elected its primary consideration in any appointment to any position apparently will be that the person under consideration is sympathetic to the political standpoint of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In 1955 he was elected President of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, by acclamation, after he had been President of the Victorian Trades Hall and one of the best presidents in its history. [More…]
The Premiers have been elected by the people in the States and I believe that they wish to develop the States in the interests of the people. [More…]
Commonwealth finance will be made available for selected growth centres on terms agreed with the State Premiers. [More…]
My recollection of the statistics in relation to that country, where women have been working and perhaps working without choice for a very long time, is that with the introduction of a home care allowance some 75 per cent of the women, or an even greater percentage, elected to accept the home care allowance rather than employment outside the home. [More…]
The Labor Party’s current proposal, which Mr Cameron has announced, will form the basis of legislation which we will introduce if we are elected to office, provides for the payment of $26,936 for the loss of 2 eyes. [More…]
I have adverted to this matter to indicate that the Senate is conscious of the position, that the Senate contemplates that it may be necessary to have the position examined in greater depth and that at some stage steps will have to be taken to ensure that the functions of the Senate in the important field of committee investigations and things of that character will not have to stand in abeyance for a number of months until the newly elected House of Representatives is called together. [More…]
The House of Lords is a non-elected House whereas the Senate is a House which has emerged by formal contract from the Constitution as a body which has protective rights over the States. [More…]
Jack Mortimer was elected at a by-election and held his seat during 2 subsequent federal elections. [More…]
The Country Party candidate forgot to nominate and Mr Jones was elected unopposed. [More…]
However, on the second occasion he was elected in his own right. [More…]
He was a bank clerk, farmer, artillery captain in the First World War, and a county judge before being elected to the United States Senate at the age of 50 in 1934. [More…]
A Texan, born on 17th August 1908, he was elected to the Congress in 1937 and later became a senator and Senate majority leader. [More…]
Lester Pearson led Canada’s delegation to the United Nations General Assembly to 9 sessions and was elected as President of the General Assembly. [More…]
During the course of the recent federal election campaign the Prime Minister gave an undertaking that should a Labor government be elected, a royal commission would be established to inquire into all facets of the Australian Post Office. [More…]
Firstly, on behalf of the Government I congratulate Senator Negus from Western Australia upon his recent marriage.In reply to the honourable gentleman, I am aware that many Australian citizens have been complaining for a long time about the manner in which their telephone accounts have been assessed.Indeed, they have been complaining since long before this Government was elected to office. [More…]
Finally, I repeat that the issue is not a question of what the situation is tonight because in a very short space of time the Queensland Government will not have responsibility for this matter; it will be the responsibility of a properly elected government of Australia dealing with an independent Papua New Guinea which will be relying on us in all sorts of ways. [More…]
The islanders have democratically elected councils. [More…]
I rise as one of the 10 senators “elected to this place to represent the State of Queensland, and I ask honourable senators opposite to take particular note of those words ‘elected to represent the State of Queensland’. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party was not elected on its platform; it was elected on the policy speech which its leader made to the people of Australia. [More…]
If the Government says that a man who works in a particular industry shall receive benefits only under certain conditions; if an organisation representing pensioners, invalids or blind people were to gain a promise from a political party that it would implement a particular proposal if it were elected to office, why, to carry the matter to its logical conclusion, should it not be that only those who have seen fit to join the organisation which carries out the agitation shall be the beneficiaries of any legislation resulting from that agitation? [More…]
1 think a government also should recognise the fact that the members of the Senate were elected by the people of Australia, and it should take note of and heed the advice offered by the representatives of the people. [More…]
Then we will have the deprived, under-privileged citizen class 2 who has failed because that citizen has elected not to join a union. [More…]
Let us reflect and remember this: Of all the men and women in Australia who are eligible to join a trade union, despite the abilities of the trade unions to bring their facilities to the attention of these people, approximately half of them at this moment have elected not to join. [More…]
This represents the supremacy of the people’s elected representatives over the Arbitrator. [More…]
Mr Whitlam told members of the Public Service and the country that, if his Party were elected to government, all public servants would receive a fourth week’s annua] leave. [More…]
He was elected to the House of Representatives for Bourke, Victoria, in 1943 and defeated in 1946. [More…]
He was re-elected as the member for Wills in 1949, 1951 and 1954. [More…]
I served on his electoral committee when he was first elected to Parliament. [More…]
He was first elected for 3 years in the time of Mr Curtin. [More…]
The trade union movement has elected to this Parliament and other Parliaments of the Commonwealth many union officials who know what their members want. [More…]
It came at a time when, after a succession of leaders who had the characteristics of having been bureaucrats and having had a feudal origin, the Japanese people, through the conferences of the Liberal Democratic Party, elected for the first time a leader who is not a bureaucrat, who is not of feudal origin and who, although I understand he is now affluent, is essentially a man of the people - Mr Tanaka. [More…]
We were all elected on the same franchise, as is the House of Representatives, by proportional representation which is undoubtedly a far more satisfactory method of determining the will of the electorate than the House of Representatives preferential system, but I realise that proportional representation for the House of Representatives would present more difficulties than it would solve. [More…]
Unfortunately, it is dependent on the attitude of the Party organisation of the Labor Party, not the Government which the nation has elected to handle its affairs. [More…]
Labor was not elected to power to single out for privileged treatment the members of the unions which support it and traditionally contribute to election funds. [More…]
What that means is that within 3 months of being elected the Government has come to the moment of truth, which is this: When a party is in government responsibility is essential. [More…]
On the one hand, the legitimate right to criticise and seek to change the Government’s defence policy by democratic process: on the other, the illicit claim to perform acts designed to destroy defence measures undertaken by the elected Government, responsible to a democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
This is the significant point - to predict the international strategic context when and if a Labor Government is elected. [More…]
To save the Dickensian situation to which the Attorney-General made reference in answer to questions, an elected scale of costs is available and this is normally availed of. [More…]
Does the Minister not realise that the democratically elected Palm Island Aboriginal Council, not the Queensland Government, issues permits to visit Palm Island? [More…]
The Australian Labor Party said that if it was elected it would tie the basic pension rate at 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
The Shire of Maroochy is governed by a chairman, a deputy chairman and councillors elected by popular vote. [More…]
He has been elected by popular vote on more than one occasion and he is now Deputy Chairman of the shire. [More…]
In his policy speech the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) stated that if Labor was elected to office there would be an attempt to control land prices. [More…]
That ship has lain idle for 6 months despite the Australian Labor Party’s promise that if it was elected it would immediately institute a shipping service to King Island. [More…]
My understanding is that the issue which arose shortly prior to the last federal election was whether, if the Australian Labor Party were elected to govern^ ment, it would introduce legislation for first past the post voting in place of the preferential system. [More…]
That was a matter for the electors to decide and they have elected me on 3 occasions as a member of a minority party. [More…]
I have not been elected to this chamber, as have most honourable senators opposite, as representatives of a majority party who were picked either first or second on the ticket so that they could not lose. [More…]
We have been elected as the Government of Australia and we should be able to persuade the Senate [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have arrogantly combined to tell the elected Government of the Commonwealth what it should do. [More…]
The Government which has been elected by the people of Australia ought to be able to say who is to control its affairs. [More…]
I am rather glad to have the opportunity to indicate early in the administration of the new Government what I believe should be the attitude of an Independent senator now that the people of Australia have elected a new government. [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite think that the Americans will quiver and quake because we make these arrangements because a sovereign government made it clear before it was ever elected that this is exactly what it would do? [More…]
Our intention to take this action has been clearly demonstrated to the world, not over the last 6 months but over the 3 years before we were elected as a government. [More…]
After we were elected as a government, we kept these countries fully informed of what we were doing. [More…]
Documents relating to the Conference of Croatian National Resistance held in Toronto early 1972, which indicate that Rover was elected at that Conference to the position of Deputy World Leader of HNO. [More…]
At that meeting we proceeded to elect a Chairman, and I take advantage of this occasion to make the announcement that Mr Speaker was elected Chairman of the Committee. [More…]
In view of the ruling which you have made, what does the practice of the Senate permit to enable the representatives of the people elected to this place to ask questions, as is their right, when the Ministers have, refused when the Senate is not sitting to answer any questions until the Senate actually resumes? [More…]
I am informed that the Regulations and Ordinances Committee which was reappointed by the Senate has elected Senator Devitt as its Chairman. [More…]
All of us here are well aware of Senator Wood’s devotion to the responsibilities he has as an elected representative of the Australian people. [More…]
His primary concern has always been that the rights of individual Australians be upheld through their elected represenatives, such as himself, working through the institutions of the Parliament of Australia. [More…]
After I was elected as Chairman the late Senator Rex Pearson asked one of the gentlemen who helped to write the Constitution what were the actual aims of the Committee. [More…]
Why should there be a refusal to give any information whatsoever as to why these events had occurred, particularly from a Government which was elected on its pledge that it would provide open government? [More…]
They are suggesting to us that the Attorney-General of a democratically elected government - a government democratically elected only last December - should not have available to him information in the possession of an office which was allegedly created for the protection of security in this country. [More…]
The mind boggles at the audacity of people who say that there is a police state in existence when a democratically elected Minister knows what the police are doing. [More…]
A police state is a state in which the police or quasi police organisations have authority over the democratically elected government. [More…]
The reverse of a police state is that society in which democratically elected officials have authority over the police. [More…]
They are complaining about the fact that the AttorneyGeneral of a democratically elected Labor Government should know what the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is doing. [More…]
When the Government was elected to office in December 1972 the level of unemployment was unacceptably high. [More…]
1 priority of the newly elected Labor Government. [More…]
We make no apologies for recommending to the Parliament and to the people of Australia that members of Parliament receive an adequate salary commensurate with the importance of the task they are elected to perform. [More…]
An advisory council does provide some means whereby the representative opinion of certain elected persons in the Australian Capital Territory can be heard and considered before the legislation comes into force. [More…]
We still believe that as people elected to this place to make decisions we ought to take responsibility for our decisions. [More…]
We are a new government that has been elected with a mandate to do certain things. [More…]
We are dealing with a motion moved for political purposes in an attempt to embarrass the elected Government of this country. [More…]
If that is allowed to persist, the real rulers of this country will not be the elected Government but those who stay while elected governments come and go. [More…]
Yet tonight members of this Parliament who were elected by the people in their respective States are not prepared to defend the right to protection of the Leader of the Government in the Senate, who has exposed many of the matters which were concealed by the last Government, and the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
The most damning thing of all is that although we have been elected by an overwhelming majority of the people of Australia, a combination of small groups can put up this sort of proposition and expect the Senate to approve it. [More…]
The simple reason is that the Attorney-General and the Leader of the Government in the Senate, who has been elected to this place by the people of Australia, had sought to set out to carry out his duty - the protection of life and limb in this country. [More…]
Legislators are elected by, voters not farms or cities or economic interests. [More…]
I think it elected its own Chairman. [More…]
Senator Sim, who was a member, said that the Committee elected a Government member. [More…]
At this stage, I take the opportunity on behalf of myself and, I assume, all honourable senators to congratulate our esteemed colleague, Senator McAuliffe from Queensland, who I understand was elected a life member of the Queensland Rugby League last night. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that at that time it was indicated that if a Labor Government were to be elected in December 1972 then a Bill providing for such improvements would be introduced this year. [More…]
I pledge that the Australian Labor Party when elected to office - which will be at the next Federal election - led by Mr Whitlam will repeal the excise on the wine industry. [More…]
He said that in spite of being taunted frequently by himself, the Opposition still had no policy on wine excise for all the growers knew it might sharply increase excise if perchance they were elected to government. [More…]
I conclude by saying again how proud I am of the Labor Government for honouring quickly that part of the policy on which we went to the people and on which we were elected. [More…]
I make the point that the Democratic Labor Party, in taking the stand it did on this matter, was conscious of the stand that it has always taken in relation to the mandate given to the elected Government. [More…]
But the Government elected to depart from that mandate and the Democratic Labor Party brought the Government back to the strict and honourable observance of the mandate, which has now been done. [More…]
We have also accepted that there was a mandate from the people who elected us to office to give effect to what we have proposed. [More…]
It is the desire of the Government to protect and to preserve the individual rights of members of the Senate, including the 3 Independent senators - 2 of whom have been elected by the people of Tasmania and the other by the people of Western Australia. [More…]
They may be able to justify it on the basis of democracy or as related to the role of each honourable senator who is elected from the States. [More…]
On 10th October Mr Ron Davies sent a telegram saying that he was authorised by the Australian Labor Party to say that if it were elected it would require the Australian National Line to take over the vessel and to start immediately shipping operations to King Island which would carry a separate subsidy account. [More…]
The Labor Party, when elected to office, agreed to do something. [More…]
But we in the Senate are elected on the same franchise as are the members of the House of Representatives and are voted for by many more people than vote for any individual member in the House of Representatives. [More…]
Our opinions as elected representatives of the people should not be formed on the basis of whether persons, groups, organisations, law enforcement agencies or indeed members of Parliament might be brought into criticism, or worse, by an inquiry. [More…]
Then the Australian Government which had been elected only 4 months ago to carry out the will of the people, had to take time off from the important affairs of business to express in the House where a motion of this sort really mattered, a motion of confidence in a man who has done a great service to the Australian community. [More…]
They voted to censure a Minister of the Australian Government who was elected unopposed by his fellow members of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
In short, it is as though the worm had turned and found a voice, because it was not until a Labor government was elected and until Senator Murphy became the Attorney-General that 2,000 pages of documents were laid open to the Australian nation and to the Australian Parliament when he tabled them in the Senate 2i weeks ago. [More…]
One would expect nothing else than that the head of this important Organisation is in every way responsible to the elected government of this country. [More…]
I knew him before he was elected to the State Parliament on 11th June 1932, on which day I too was elected to the State Parliament, and while we were there we consolidated the acquaintenance that had existed between us up till then and we became good friends. [More…]
Sir Arthur was a particular friend to me from the time I was elected to the Senate. [More…]
The Committee has met and elected a very efficient and experienced Chairman in Senator Drury. [More…]
The chairman of a committee must be elected by the members of the committee. [More…]
I wonder whether the wording which Senator Withers used in relation to paragraph (5), which referred to the Prime Minister nominating one Government member as Chairman of the Committee, will show up correctly in Hansard because I think it was the view that the Chairman should be elected by the Committee itself. [More…]
30 from the other place, it is well to draw attention to the 11 seats which are held by elected members in the Legislative Council. [More…]
Its amendments were not of the type that have been moved by the present Opposition which seems merely to wish to conduct a filibustering contest to hold up the passage of legislation designed to enact the policies on which my Government was elected. [More…]
his time the first elected. [More…]
A democratically elected government of the United States of America, which has always been condemned, went to the aid– [More…]
1 think the honourable senator knows that when this Government was elected to office the Prime Minster stated that the Government would not put up with unnecessary unemployment. [More…]
It was inherent in the proposal that the Chairman should be elected by the Committee from one of the members nominated, in effect, by the Government, but by inadvertence it was restricted to one of the members nominated by the Prime Minister, and the only members nominated by the Prime Minister would come from the House of Representatives. [More…]
My early recollection was that the amendments moved by Senator Withers in respect of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and by Senator Marriott in respect of the Joint Committee on the Austraiian Capital Territory were an attempt by the Opposition, I thought, to take away from the Prime Minister or the Leader of the Government in the Senate the right to nominate the Chairman of each Committee and to provide that the Chairman should be elected by the members of the Committees. [More…]
Members are nominated and then, as I understand it, they are elected by the 2 chambers. [More…]
The purport of this provision is that the Committee elect a chairman who is one of those members who has been elected to the Committee as a result of a nomination either by the Prime Minister or by the Leader of the Government in the Senate; in other words, he is a Government member. [More…]
By agreeing to this motion we are falling in with the principle that in general the chairman should be able to be elected by the committee from its members, whether they come from one House or the other, and we are also following the principle that the chairman should come from the Government members from either House. [More…]
I am very happy to participate in the debate and to support the remarks of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) because on the last day of the previous Parliament the then Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Greenwood, and myself each had a 7-minute burst about the merits of what his Government was proposing and what the Opposition, if elected, would do. [More…]
The act of punishing involves the relationship between a society on the one hand and its appointed or elected authority on the other hand. [More…]
When I talk about the ‘appointed or elected authority’ 1 am talking about the membership of that authority - in this case a Parliament. [More…]
It has not been fixed and so the situation bas gone on from month to month, from the time just before the election when the Labor Party assured the people of King Island that if it were elected it would immediately reintroduce that ship and it would be operated by the ANL. [More…]
When Senator Townley was elected to the Senate, the Tasmanian Press must have been wrong if it said that Senator Townley was a Liberal. [More…]
But I ask the Opposition please to give to the elected Government of the country at least the right to determine its own affairs in this matter. [More…]
This is a practice that goes back many years before I was elected to this place. [More…]
The Government has been elected to carry out the wishes of the Australian people and to govern this country. [More…]
But it is a curious situation to relate that on that occasion, while the Labor Party - the Opposition of the day - elected members to the Committee, the Government of the day declined to do so. [More…]
As soon as the Labor Government was elected we convened meetings of the Service specialists in this connection, reviewed what had been proposed and improved upon that. [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…]
When the present Victorian Government was re-elected in 1970 it established a committee to advise on the development of the fourth university. [More…]
In a clear democratic process the Government was elected by the people for the House of Representatives at the last Federal election held in December 1972. [More…]
I noted during the course of the last election campaign that the Prime Minister indicated that when a Labor government was elected it would be Government policy to implement the general principles embodied in the recommendations contained in the report dealing with the problems of mentally and physically handicapped persons. [More…]
Senator Townley said that he thought that a government, having been elected and having a mandate from the people of Australia, should have the carriage of the business of the Senate. [More…]
The Opposition is so used to being in government that it cannot understand why the Labor Government, having been elected, should decide the order of the business of the Senate. [More…]
Senator Townley, a former Liberal Party member, said tonight that he accepted the proposition that in this place, because the Labor Party had been elected to government, the Government should have the responsibility of telling the Senate what is the Government business for the day. [More…]
In the general context, if a government is elected in another House but cannot carry through its policies in the Senate, obviously a minority of senators is frustrating the work of that government. [More…]
This is being done by members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, who have been elected by people in the States of Victoria, New South Wales ‘ and Queensland, by Country Party senators such as Senator Web ster and by., senators like Senator Hannan from Victoria. [More…]
At least I was elected on my own merit, not because I ani a bureaucratic member of a Party who crawls around the committee in order to be selected first or second on the ticket so that I can be elected. [More…]
Three independent senators have been elected. [More…]
I have been elected twice. [More…]
If the honourable senator were not first or second, he would not be elected. [More…]
I do not know who will be elected chairman of this committee once it is appointed. [More…]
The chairman will be a senator elected by the committee. [More…]
We know that yesterday the control of Government business was taken out of the hands of this Government and tonight, when the Senate debated general business, again the Opposition took control out of the hands of the Government, not because it is the elected Government but because by way of tripartite arrangement - .the Liberal Party, the Country [More…]
This Government was elected on 2nd November. [More…]
It was elected by the people of this country to carry out a program of legislation. [More…]
And the Opposition wanted the chairman elected. [More…]
We are still elected by the people to the authorities which are within the powers of this chamber. [More…]
The situation we have today is that the Labor Government has been elected by the people. [More…]
There has been - and no one can say otherwise - an attempt to frustrate the will of the electors and the elected Government. [More…]
Now that it has been drawn to his attention, I am sure that Senator McManus will recall, as I do, that Senator Withers moved a procedural motion which provided that the Chairman of the Committee should be elected by the Committee. [More…]
Originally it was proposed that the Chairman should be nominated by the Prime Minister, but the view was taken that as this was a parliamentary committee, the Chairman should be elected by the Committee. [More…]
A person who exercises management functions, or functions relating to the making, alteration or enforcement of rules, or who occupies a position with duties substantially the same as those of an elected office, becomes the holder of an ‘office’ for the purpose of the Act and, subject to certain qualifications, will have to be elected by the rank and file. [More…]
The Bill provides that no officer elected by the rank and f: may be dismissed during his period of office unless he is guilty of misappropriation of union funds, a grave breach of rules or gross misbehaviour or gross neglect of duty. [More…]
The Committee believes that as long as governments are democratically elected and there is full parliamentary responsibility to the electors, the protection of personal rights will, in practice, be secure in Australia. [More…]
to ensure that the House of Representatives and each State House of Parliament is composed of members directly elected from electorates in each of which the number of people is as nearly as practicable the same . [More…]
I said then that if the Australian Labor Party was elected to government it would fiddle the electoral system and would do it by bringing in optional preferential voting. [More…]
My own personal hope is that the day will come when not only will the Senate be elected by Proportional Representation but when the House of Representatives will also. [More…]
Seven members were elected from each group under the quota-preferential system. [More…]
The fact is that the Labor Party holds the 2 largest seats in the Commonwealth and its members do not complain that the work is too heavy, because they are able to do it, they are willing to do it and they do it, and they are re-elected election after election to these 2 largest seats in Australia. [More…]
We believe that the person who does the job will be elected under any system of that nature, and we are not afraid to go to the people with a recommendation that, as was indicated earlier by Senator McAuliffe, was brought down by a joint parliamentary committee, which included members of the [More…]
The figures that I will give represent the number of electors enrolled for the State election to be held in Victoria on Saturday next, when a new Victorian Government will be elected. [More…]
I really believe that a Labor government will be elected there. [More…]
The situation was reached with respect to Kara Kara that at the last election, despite the completely gerrymandered nature of the electorate, the handful of voters - fewer than 18,000 - elected the Labor Party candidate. [More…]
All I know is that a consultative committee comprised of Aborigines and elected from Aborigines is to be formed. [More…]
If the Government does not live up to its promises, and that is likely, then those who elected it are to be exterminated in case they use their power to defeat it. [More…]
The Labor Party’s, policy, which we are pledged to carry out iri dub course, states that our Government ‘ is pledged ‘to ensure that the House of Representatives and each State House of Parliament is composed of members directly elected from electorates in each of which the number of people is as nearly as practicable the same’. [More…]
What has to be considered is that elected governments should be truly representative of the will of the people, but there is sufficient evidence to show that that is not the case in a number of State government areas. [More…]
The plight of the people living in cities occupied the attention of the Labor Party and resulted in the Labor Party being elected to office. [More…]
But to suggest that the Labor Party is committed to a firm policy on this matter, that it is seeking to ignore the expressed will of the people and that it is seeking to bring about a situation where there will be elected a government that will not reflect the will of the people is quite contrary to the expressed views of the Leader of the Labor Party, of the platform of the Party and of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Review which found sufficient weight of evidence to make a unanimous recommendation to the Parliament in 1959. [More…]
The method by which they are elected has nothing to do with the end result. [More…]
The tactic used on that occasion by the DLP was that if the people elected the Australian Labor Party to government it would change the electoral system and would stay in power indefinitely. [More…]
In fact, where there are 5 candidates it offers a better chance for a candidate representing a minority party to be elected. [More…]
I wanted the Australian Labor Party candidate to be elected. [More…]
He was the strongest candidate and be topped the list, but when it came to counting the votes I found that he was not elected. [More…]
Can I say that since John Smith, the Australian Labor Parry candidate, has not been elected, I do not want Billy Jones but 1 want Clarrie Harvey, or some other candidate? [More…]
To the House of Representatives will be elected a multiplicity of parties to be bought and sold, as has happened in many European countries which have endeavoured to use that system. [More…]
They frustrate not only the will of this place but also the will of the government which was elected by the people. [More…]
He would stifle their influence, nullify their preferences and eventually evolve a system under which only 2 parties would be elected to the Parliament. [More…]
Contrasted to this, it has been claimed that the Tasmanian system is as near as possible to perfection, even with all its disabilities, inasmuch as the percentage of people who vote for the Labor Party, for example, is reflected in almost the same percentage of Labor members elected. [More…]
In the United Kingdom it is hard to imagine such a system when comparing the number of electors who voted for a particular party with the number of members of that party who were elected to the Parliament. [More…]
The Committee believes that as long as governments are democratically elected and there is full parliamentary responsibility to the electors, the protection of personal rights will, in practice, be secure in Australia. [More…]
The federal executive then dismissed those who had been elected in the ballot it had conducted and replaced them with those who were rejected, and Senator Mulvihill had the honour, if I might say that, of replacing me as the Assistant Secretary of the party in New [More…]
As has been mentioned, the Federal Executive of the Labor Party is selected on an equal basis among the States, irrespective of the population in the States. [More…]
I do not say that that is a bad system, that the organisation should not say: This is the policy’, and the members who are elected to the Parliament should not carry out that policy. [More…]
But the fact is that the Federal Executive is not elected on a population basis. [More…]
I repeat that a serious situation exists when, by any means at all, an Opposition seeks to depart from its normal role of moving amendments to legislation, seeking the setting up of committees and opposing Bills and puts itself into the position of attempting to take over, by one form or another, the business of a government that has been elected by the people of Australia. [More…]
As 1 indicated in the earlier debate that ensued on this matter, the course which has universally been taken in our Party is that members of the Party are elected to committees by the caucus of the Party. [More…]
was defeated by Labor In 1965 and elected a new ‘young-image’ leader, Steele Hall, possibly to counter Labor’s expected election of Don Dunstan. [More…]
I will not cover the ground he traversed but he pointed out that a State government elected on a gerrymander and a minority vote could nominate a person to this House who could control the Government of this country. [More…]
It intends by this legislation, firstly, to eliminate some of the provisions which attempted to bring equality of voting to people who did not have that equality when viewed in the light of great distances that they had to travel to have communication with their member of Parliament, the difficulties caused by sparseness of population in the great area of an electorate and the difficulty of an elected member of Parliament in giving justice, fair consideration and representation to some of those people who lived in the great outback areas. [More…]
In Tasmania there are electoral divisions and 7 members are elected from each of them. [More…]
whenever an alteration is made to the number of Members of the House of Representatives to be elected for the State; and [More…]
The Senate can never be a House democratically elected by the people on a popular basis. [More…]
This domination would occur except for the system by which the members of the Senate are elected. [More…]
Special provision is made for the number of members of the House of Representatives to be elected in Tasmania. [More…]
That principle will not be introduced as part of any Bill relating to electoral matters until it has been reintroduced into Labor Party policy and the Labor Party has been returned to government with that policy as part of the platform on which it was re-elected. [More…]
The voter would support those candidates only if the wish was to see one of them elected to Parliament. [More…]
It was deliberately planned that half the number of senators would be elected each 3 years. [More…]
Senators are elected by the people of Australia, the same as the Prime Minister and members of tha House of Representatives are elected. [More…]
They are elected by the popular vote - by the adult franchise - of the Common wealth. [More…]
The Labor Party was elected on 2 December last with a mandate to introduce the legislation that is contained in the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill which is now before the Senate. [More…]
I do not believe that any opposition can move responsibly to defer legislation of this nature for which an elected government clearly has a mandate. [More…]
The honourable senator knows that we were elected and given that mandate on 2 December last year. [More…]
We were elected on the undertaking that we were going to introduce a Bill such as the Bill which is now before the Senate. [More…]
Once that decision is made by the Parliament, there should never be freedom within an organised community which has elected the members of that Parliament to defy the decision of the Parliament or to interfere with and destroy the work that is to be performed by a body such as the proposed Authority. [More…]
A Labor government was elected. [More…]
It was elected on 2 December 1972. [More…]
I repeat that within 3 days of the Minister for Social Security having been elected to the Ministry of a Labor government, he established the Health Insurance Planning Committee. [More…]
The Premier of every one of the States has been elected with a clear mandate and he might have an entirely different policy. [More…]
It appears that he believes that if Mr Gorton and Mr Whitlam, who are politically on different sides of the fence, have reached a particular conclusion, honourable senators, although elected to represent the rights of the States, should seek endorsement from those 2 honourable gentlemen rather than from the people who represent their political machinery in the States and who later will submit them to the will of the electors. [More…]
If Mr Whitlam cannot do a better job than Mr Gorton in negotiating, why were they crusading to have Mr Whitlam elected? [More…]
We are elected by the States as a whole. [More…]
It is not an elected body; it is an appointed body. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains Authority had overriding powers during its operations and it too was not an elected body. [More…]
Every honourable senator who spoke tonight favoured decentralisation but until this Government was elected Australia had never had a policy on decentralisation. [More…]
It is clear that the present Government was elected to office with a commitment to introduce legislation incorporating the principles included in this Bill. [More…]
Senator DOUGLAS McCLELLANDTrue it is that during the course of the last Federal election campaign the Prime Minister said, amongst other things, that when a Labor Government was elected to office it would adhere to the timetable for the introduction of colour television as laid down by the previous Government and that it would endeavour to expedite the introduction of frequency modulation radio broadcasts in Australia. [More…]
I would like to be assured that at least half a dozen of the Ministers who have said nothing of consequence since the Government was elected are alive and well. [More…]
Despite any faults which there might have been in our method of administration since we were elected to Government on 2 December last - I suppose it is only natural that there must be faults because we are mere mortals - this Government is getting on with the job of building a nation. [More…]
It seems to me deplorable that the Government which has been elected on the principle of open government should operate in this fashion of closed government. [More…]
But overriding that consideration is the responsibility of an elected Government to govern according to its own philosophy. [More…]
But we are conceding to the elected Government the right to have a philosophy different from our own. [More…]
But the philosophy of the elected Government does not lean that way at present. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill are to, (a) provide for 2 members of the House of Representatives for the Australian Capital Territory elected on the basis of single member electorates, with effect from the first sitting of the twenty-ninth Parliament; (b) provide for full voting rights for both members for the Australian Capital Territory with all the powers, immunities and privileges held by other members of the House of Representatives; (c) divide the Australian Capital Territory into 2 single member electorates, of which one electorate shall embrace part of the Australian Capital Territory proper and the other electorate shall embrace the remaining part of the Australian Capital Territory plus the Jervis Bay territory - to be effective immediately following the expiry or dissolution of the Twenty-eighth Parliament; and (d) provide - (i) for the setting up of a distribution committee; (ii) for the inviting of suggestions and objections and preparation of a report to Parliament, along similar lines to that provided for the distribution of a State into electoral divisions. [More…]
Of course there are 8 elected Advisory Councillors for the Australian Capital Territory but they can only advise the Minister in local matters. [More…]
However, because a doubt does exist about the matter, the Government considers the wisest course is to defer the election of the additional member until the next general elections for the House of Representatives, particularly as separate legislation is being introduced to provide for 2 senators for the Australian Capital Territory to be elected before that time. [More…]
The Bill provides for the election of 2 senators each for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and that such senators have the same powers, immunities and privileges as senators representing the States; that the first election of Territory senators be held at the same time as the next Senate elections in the several States or at the same time as the next general elections for members of the House of Representatives, if such is held before or in conjunction with the next Senate elections; that the term of the first Territory senators be from the date of their election until the eve of polling day for the ensuing general election for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election for Territory senators, elections be held at the same time as the general elections for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election of Territory senators, the terms of Territory senators be the period between each House of Representatives election; and for the Territory senators to be elected under the same system of proportional representation as that currently applicable to the election of senators representing the States, except in the case of a single casual vacancy when such vacancy shall be filled by the holding of a by-election adopting the procedures used for filling a single casual vacancy for a State senator, as far as may be applicable. [More…]
It would appear then to be more democratic to have an even number elected each time for each Territory thus following the pattern of the major parties providing that each would have a representative in the Senate. [More…]
Both senators will be elected every time there is a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Government has not repealed the National Service Act primarily because it wishes to ensure preservation of the rights of those men who are serving at the date the Government assumed office, including those who have elected to continue their service under the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
Has the Minister been informed of the phenomenon that happened yesterday in elections held in Ireland when Mr Erskine Childers, an English Protestant, was elected President of Ireland? [More…]
1 put it to honourable senators that not only the previous Government, but also this Government since it was elected to office - in our social services legislation and our repatriation legislation - have established a new concept in relation to dependancy. [More…]
Taking it all in all and attributing to the parliamentarians some degree of selfdiscipline, a member of Parliament gets his full emolument while injured for that term of Parliament, and if he is re-elected the payments continue. [More…]
He does not receive the payments for life but for the time he is elected to the Parliament. [More…]
It simply means at this point of time that the Queen has accepted the advice of a legally elected Prime Minister. [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…]
It always believes that it can do things better than the people who are elected right on the spot* - so it does - ‘whereas exactly the opposite is the case’. [More…]
They are elected councils which look after their own affairs. [More…]
As members of the Parliament, honourable senators are elected to try to present to the people what they consider to be the best possible changes that can be made through legislation. [More…]
It was only after Mr Carmichaels union had extracted the promise from Mr Whitlam that the Australian Labor Party would abolish all the penal provisions from the present legislation if it were elected to office that it was prepared to, and in fact did, hand over $25,000 to the Labor Party for its election campaign. [More…]
Surely any person who claims to be a democrat will agree that union officials ought to be elected only in properly supervised ballots, and that those ballots which are open to rigging ought to be properly supervised. [More…]
We have decided to make sure under this legislation that trade union officials have to be elected to office. [More…]
Does the Leader of the Government in the Senate agree that all members of Parliament are elected by the people to act for the people and in the best interests of Australia as a whole? [More…]
Prior to the election the present Government stated that this Ordinance would be repealed if it were elected to office. [More…]
These are the expressions of the elected representatives of the Northern Territory but their wishes and desires are completely overridden and completely ignored by this Government’s action. [More…]
I say at least 4 years because I have been elected for a term of 6 years. [More…]
Against that, some of us were impressed by the statement that this plan was unanimously opposed by the elected members of the Legislative Council. [More…]
The point is that the Legislative Council is a body elected by the people of the Territory. [More…]
That Senator Davidson be elected to fill the vacancy on the Council of the National Library of Australia for the balance of the term of office of Senator the Honourable Sir Magnus Cormack K.B.E., namely until 18 August 1974. [More…]
Senators are elected by the people of each State to represent that State in the national legislative body,. [More…]
If one were to carry that argument to its logical conclusion one would see that it would not be very long before someone would be suggesting that the other 60 senators should be elected for a period of 3 years to tie in with the House of Representatives. [More…]
He, a man who has been elected democratically by the people and by his Party as its leader, has been reduced to nothing. [More…]
I was referring to the influence of outside interests on the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
The person to whom I referred - I know this because I was on the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party in 1955 - was responsible for the destruction of the Labor Party and the Labor movement in Australia because he placed himself over and above the elected representatives of the people on that Executive and in other places. [More…]
Senators are elected by the people of each State to represent that State in the national legislative body. [More…]
Senators are elected by the people of’ each State to represent that State ia the national legislative body. [More…]
Our Party put to the people in the last election campaign that if elected to government we would allow the representation of these 2 territories in the Parliament in the way which is proposed by this Bill. [More…]
It has been conceded that those who will be elected to this chamber will not be senators in the sense of senators representing the States; the nexus between the Senate and the House of Representatives will not be affected; altogether, it is a good proposal and is in accordance with the provisions of the Commonwealth Constitution. [More…]
Thereafter, both Senators for each Territory will be elected at each General Election of Members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is proposed that the term of the first elected Territory Senators will be from the date oftheir election until the date of the next expiry or dissolution of the House of Representatives. [More…]
The term of Territory Senators elected subsequently will be the period between each General Election of Membersof the House of Representatives. [More…]
Territory Senators will be elected under the same proportional representation system used for electing State Senators. [More…]
I was elected to this Parliement in 1961 and at that time I was given the task of organising in the Eyre Peninsula area. [More…]
Elected to the House of Representatives as the member for Melbourne in 1 940, he retained this seat for the Labor Party at 11 consecutive Federal elections until his retirement last year. [More…]
He was one of the youngest men ever to take on the onerous tasks associated with Labor Party officialdom, being elected to a post within the Victorian Branch of the Party in 1914 at the age of 18. [More…]
Within 3 years of being elected to Parliament in 1940, Arthur Calwell rose to the Ministry, acting as Minister for Information from 1 943 and also as Minister for Immigration from July 1945 until the defeat of the Government in December 1949. [More…]
Within 2 years of that defeat, he had become Deputy Leader of the Labor Opposition in the House of Representatives and remained so until March 1960 when he was elected Leader of the parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
As the Leader of the Government has said, he was first elected to the Senate for Queensland as far back as 1928. [More…]
Whilst defeated in 1931, he was re-elected in 1934 and then served continuously for 33 years, retiring in 1968. [More…]
I was first elected to this place as Sir Walter was going out. [More…]
I recall that in 1966 Mr Dugald Munro and I were elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister to do so because a tape recording of his speech at Melbourne’s Festival Hall on 2 May 1972- the tape recording can be made available to him- reveals that he said that if elected ‘we will not repeal or reduce any educational benefit which is already being paid. [More…]
After all honourable senators, who are elected to the Senate and nowhere else, have an obligation to ensure that legislation is considered but not necessarily passed. [More…]
When the Labor Government was elected to office on 2 December, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Banard) took office as a Government. [More…]
Within 10 days of having been elected to office, even before a meeting of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party took place to elect the rest of the Labor Ministry, they took action to establish the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. [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…]
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…]
That is one of the reasons why it was elected. [More…]
In plain words that was a promise and an undertaking to the people of Australia that if a Labor government were elected the per capita grants, across the board, would be equally applied in perpetuity. [More…]
Senator Carrick, as is his wont, saw in this decision another proof that the Australian people elected a Bolshevik government last December. [More…]
I say to the Government that the honourable thing for it to do would be to say that it will retain, as it promised in order to get elected, the basic per capita grants which it insisted it would not deny any school if Labor became the Government. [More…]
If the Government did that, it would be able to say that it had not broken its word, the word that it pledged to be elected as a government. [More…]
Of course, Mr Heath is a conservative Prime Minsiter of England, a Prime Minister elected by the people of England just as Mr Whitlam has been elected in Australia. [More…]
Mr Heath should be entitled to respect from the Heads of Government in every country because he is the elected Prime Minister. [More…]
Has anyone listened to the honeyed words of personal insult and invective poured out by the Prime Minister of Australia against the elected Prime Minister of Britain? [More…]
Since the Labor Party was elected to government, I have had the pleasure of announcing that in forthcoming legislation we will do exactly what my amendment previously proposed should be done. [More…]
The Labor Executive, as a matter of policy decision on 14 October, authorised him to say that Labor government, if elected to office, immediately would instruct the Australian National Line to commission the ‘Straitsman’ and restore it to the service. [More…]
We are elected to this Parliament by the Australian people. [More…]
But it is one of the greatest indictments of the intelligence and sense of responsibility of people who are elected to this Parliament if they do not understand the true significance of what is being done when they destroy the last safeguard provided by capital punishment in the case of those unique crimes. [More…]
But I believe that the Senate in all cases, no matter which party was in power, was doing its job as the elected senators thought it should. [More…]
I shall briefly refer to the situation in Canberra, which has not an elected representative in this chamber. [More…]
This is in accordance with Labor Party policy as enunciated at the last election, when .the proposed national health scheme was one of the main planks on which the Government was elected. [More…]
When in Opposition the present Government asserted that if elected to the treasury bench it would promptly remove the then 25c per gallon excise applicable to wine and would not impose any alternative form of taxation on the wine industry. [More…]
Mr Acting Deputy President, the purpose of these amendments is perfectly clear: The principle of ‘one vote one value’ must be established as the fundamental objective of redistribution and our intentions were publicised before the last elections at which the people elected an Australian Labor Party government. [More…]
The Bill provides that when the School is fully operational the Council will consist of 5 members appointed by the Governor-General, the Director of the School, 2 members elected by the staff from among their number, 2 students elected by the student body, and 5 members elected by Convocation of the School. [More…]
I believe that any member who votes against this amendment fails to realise the importance of this Parliament - the properly elected spokesman of this community - to make its judgment on important matters. [More…]
In other words the Opposition will not give credit to the will of the people who elected the Labor Government. [More…]
We are in the situation where a minority of doctors - not always democratically elected - are claiming as the heads of their respective organisations to be speaking on behalf of every doctor in Australia. [More…]
The present position is that Australia has a great man as leader of its newly elected government. [More…]
We must bear in mind what this Government said in order to get itself elected by the Australian people. [More…]
As reported in this newspaper Mr Crean, as Treasurer-elect, said: ‘As soon as we are elected we will make some cuts in taxes, particularly for the lower incomes. [More…]
Many observations and recommendations have been made in the report but I do not propose to deal with them because, after all, I was only elected to this Committee early in the year. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that the Committee was reappointed on, I think, 14 March this year and the new members were elected to it on 15 March. [More…]
The Government’s wish to establish a fully elected legislative assembly for the Northern Territory by 31 December, 1974. [More…]
The Government’s wish to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory by 31 December 1974, [More…]
Of course, one of the first matters the Committee will consider is the constitution as it stands and it’ will endeavour to bring down a recommendation to this Parliament that it should give the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Council at the next election. [More…]
the Government’s wish to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory by 31 December 1974; [More…]
It is no wonder the Treasurer had to confess failure in his conclusion of the Budget - failure to do the very things that this Government was elected to do. [More…]
I can recall that in 1 949 the Menzies Government was elected to power on the promise and pledge that it would put value back into the pound. [More…]
We were elected so that we could put our policies into action. [More…]
A new government is elected. [More…]
It declined to update those guidelines and its philosophies after it was elected to office in the immediate post-war years. [More…]
Equally we should have the same compassion in relation to the overthrow of an elected government in Chile. [More…]
The President of that great country, a president who was elected democratically by the people, has been forced to take his own life because of the intervention of those who would not accept the decisions of the people who elected a person under the democratic system. [More…]
The intervention of the Central Intelligence Agency in matters involving murder and the overthrow of democratically elected governments should be considered in the same strain. [More…]
Only Aboriginal adults will be entitled to vote in the election, from which 4 1 reprepresentatives will be elected. [More…]
This great Party was elected by the people odAaetralia and it is going about their business. [More…]
I have no doubt that everyone would be appalled that a democratically elected leader was overthrown and caused to commit suicide. [More…]
The action which the Government has started to take to which I have just referred shows that we have started to advance towards the goals and aspirations for the accomplishment of which we were elected. [More…]
I stood for the Senate and was elected to it. [More…]
The next time I stood I was again reelected. [More…]
I say at the outset that at the time I was elected to the Senate I was a practising primary producer. [More…]
At the time that I was elected to the Senate as a member of the Australian Labor Party, Senator Primmer was also elected. [More…]
When I was elected to the Senate it was on the understanding that I would remain living in the country and open my parliamentary office there for the service of country people. [More…]
Some honourable senators from South Australia were living in the country before being elected to the Senate. [More…]
We are proud in the Labor Party that Senator Primmer and I who were elected as country people and as successful primary producers represent primary producers. [More…]
Long before I was elected to the Senate I said to South Australian senators: ‘Look, there is a nigger in the woodpile with Dartmouth, the way that Bolte has pulled the wool over Hall’s eyes. [More…]
After I was elected to the Senate I asked question after question about the feasibility report on a hydro-electric scheme at Dartmouth. [More…]
There has been a lot of criticism today about our Caucus meeting last night but at least when decisions are made in that Caucus they are made by financial members, and elected members, of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Not only the elected members of Parliament are opposing the construction and development of Monarto; a little group of people in our local government is doing so also. [More…]
Does the interest in this aspect of Government policy by Mr Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions suggest an area of disagreement between the elected representatives of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement? [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…]
Prior to the last election the Prime Minister told the Australian people that if a Labor Government were elected he would give an immediate increase of $1.50 a week to pensioners and then would give an increase of $1.50 a week every spring and autumn until the pension rate reached at least 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [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…]
I suggest that the dairy farmers, especially those in electorates which have elected Australian Labor Party members, should sit up and take notice. [More…]
I am honoured to have been elected to the Labor Ministry by my colleagues of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party and this Budget has the unqualified support of each and everyone of us. [More…]
I think that the appropriate approach is to recognise what the Australian Labor Party said before it was elected to government and what it highlighted in its election propaganda. [More…]
I do not see how the Labor Party, having been elected to government on promises that it would not increase taxation and elaborate promises about the money it would hand out, in order to balance the Budget should increase the excise on cigarettes and petrol by 10 per cent and then claim that it is controlling inflation. [More…]
They have elected a government. [More…]
There was an economic recession in 1961 when at a general election they were re-elected with a mere majority of 240 votes in one seat. [More…]
We seek the approval of the Parliament to allow the people of Australia to determine for themselves whether we, as the democratically elected Parliament of [More…]
But the gravamen of their objection to this Bill is that they oppose the Australian people being given the opportunity to express, by referendum, their opinion, as to whether or not the democratically elected Parliament of Australia should have constitutional power over prices. [More…]
The Prime Minister took over- quite rightly, because he is the elected Prime Minister- being in charge of the arranging of the Constitutional Convention which had been mooted by State Premiers and the previous Government and which was held in Sydney early this month. [More…]
It is an extraordinary thing that the so-called democrats are now drunk with power on being elected to office. [More…]
It is most extraordinary to me that senators, when I talk to them about the various Bills and campaigns, say that the Senate is the elected House, it is the States [More…]
It is to their convenience and the convenience of this Parliament that they go back to the jobs we elected them to do. [More…]
It knows that it cannot get that power from the elected representatives of the people, so it uses the back door method of seeking a referendum in the hope that the people, who are very concerned about inflation and who have been sold this great pup that the be all and end all and the cure of inflation is for the Commonwealth to have power over prices, will carry the referendum. [More…]
Perhaps it was reckless in the promises it made to the community to enable it to be elected to office. [More…]
When the present Government was first elected to office the Democratic Labor Party wrote to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and recommended to him that he implement the provisions of the Bill introduced by the DLP. [More…]
Whether that balance of power of 3 in the Labor Caucus necessarily illustrates that the Australian nation is getting what it hoped it would get when the Labor Party was elected to office- that is, the control of inflationary tendencies in the community, and at least control the ones which it has added in the period in which it has been in office- is another question. [More…]
ls it the Government that was elected in the last election? [More…]
The Government says: ‘Let us put the Bill through the Parliament’, without any advice or any assistance, ignoring the views of other people who have also been elected by the people to help run this country. [More…]
We stand for the principle that Government elected by the people of this country should be given the powers that arenecessary to arm itself to act in the interests of thepeople. [More…]
We take the view that the elected members of both Houses are entitled to meet, discuss and decide upon matters. [More…]
Here we have a degrading situation in which the Government that has been elected by the people has got rid of its unemployment problem by putting those people on its own payroll for the rest of the community to keep. [More…]
He gazed skyward and crossed his heart with a ‘hopeIdropdead’ sort of attitude and said: ‘This Government has been elected on a popular mandate and I shall stick with it’. [More…]
I think that if it is fair enough for a person to be represented in a civil court by a member who is trained in the profession of advocacy I cannot see any reason why a personespecially one elected by the people of the countrywho has those qualifications should not go before the tribunal. [More…]
Recently we have seen a democratically elected government in Chile destroyed. [More…]
It was a body quite different which destroyed the democratically elected government in Chile. [More…]
He was elected the first Mayor of Toowoomba. [More…]
He was then elected the first member for Darling Downs in the Federal Parliament, dying in Melbourne 3 months later. [More…]
But the honourable senator would have to agree with me that a government elected by the people of Australia has now thrust upon the people of Australia the most unfair imposts that have been levied for years. [More…]
Each action taken by the Australian Government in moving to self-government in Papua New Guinea has been a deliberate one in a continuing process of transferring responsibility to where it rightly belongs- with the elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
On the timing of independence, the Council noted Australia’s view that there are 2 elements involved in the determination of the question of independence: The view of Australia, and the views of the people of Papua New Guinea as expressed through their elected representatives in the House of Assembly. [More…]
At its meeting last night, the Conference carried a motion supporting the establishment of 2 Senate seats for the ACT, both to be elected at the same time. [More…]
The Bill provides for the election of 2 senators each for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and that such senators have the same powers, immunities and privileges as senators representing the States; that the first election of Territory senators be held at the same time as the next Senate election in the several States or at the same time as the next general election for members of the House of Representatives, if such is held before or in conjunction with the next Senate election; that the term of the first Territory senators be from the date of their election until the eve of polling day for the ensuing general election for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election for Territory senators, elections be held at the same time as the general elections for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election of Territory senators, the terms of Territory senators be the period between each House of Representatives election; and for the Territory senators to be elected under the same system of proportional representation as that currently applicable to the election of senators representing the States, except in the case of a single casual vacancy when such vacancy shall be filled by the holding of a by-election adopting the procedures used for filling a single casual vacancy for a State senator, as far as may be applicable. [More…]
We believe that it would be proper to have an even number elected each time for each Territory, thus allowing representation of the parties to be more evenly balanced than would be the case if only one senator for each Territory was provided. [More…]
Senator McManus, who has been my deputy over that period, has been selected unanimously to fill my position. [More…]
Senator Byrne from Queensland has been elected Deputy Leader. [More…]
Senator Kane has been selected Secretary and Senator Little will be the Whip of the Party, although he will still receive his present salary. [More…]
provision will be made to further strengthen the democratic processes in relation to union elections by providing that all full-time federal officers in an organisation must be elected by direct election of the members of the organisation and that the only officers who can be elected by the collegiate system shall be parttime officers of an organisation’s federal management committee. [More…]
Here we have an elected Government which, certainly in the view of the Opposition, has taken financial action against the interests of various sections of the community. [More…]
One representative is elected from the House of Representatives and one from the Senate. [More…]
The committee was elected at a public meeting at which, incidentally, many of the residents of Darwin were present. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable senator that any elected member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council has a right to listen to arguments and advice of individuals, no matter which section of the community they are in, and to put that view to the Council. [More…]
I did not find in Senator McLaren’s speech, in which he was willing to advise the Senate, a statement that those elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council who are of the same political persuasion as Senator McLaren voted unanimously that the notice of acquisition should be objected to. [More…]
I hope that the vote this evening will serve as a warning to the Government that the view of the people of a particular area should not be disregarded; that the opinion of the duly elected legislative council of an area should not be completely disregarded; and that the opinion of this Senate, so recently expressed in opposition to the Government’s action, should not be treated in such a manner as it has been by the previous Minister for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It lies empty because when I was elected to this Parliament I gave an undertaking that I would devote my full time to my duties as a member of the Parliament and live on the salary that the electors pay me to represent then- not like Senator Webster, who has outside interests. [More…]
There was before the Senate the clearest evidence on which the Senate tonight could have made a definitive judgment, but it has elected not to do so. [More…]
In practice, union representatives on the jobs are elected by the men. [More…]
They are elected, most times with the confidence of the men on the job, because they see injustice in the factory which is never realised in a briefing in a legal office. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Senate derives its constitution and existence in the same way as the other House of Parliament insofar as it is elected by the people of this country by vote? [More…]
If the democratic process is to be observed, then a government which is elected on a clear program which has been put to the people ought, in my view, to be entitled to have that program carried out. [More…]
They take the privilege of being elected to this Parliament and take with it the burdens that go with it. [More…]
This is why senators were elected and why they sought election. [More…]
2 position on the ticket in order to be elected to the Senate. [More…]
I can get elected on my own, without having to worry about little political differences and where I am put on the ticket. [More…]
We think that this problem can be overcome if we get the establishment of the National Aboriginal Consultative Council to which 41 persons will be elected by the Aborigines themselves and that they, we hope, will achieve liaison between the people, the Department and the Minister. [More…]
It equally vests the control of those activities in the hands of people of that country through their freely elected Parliament. [More…]
The Tariff Board was established in 1921 and it has been an important and respected source of advice to 21 of the 28 Parliaments which have been elected since Federation. [More…]
In those days the position was that Ernie Thornton could be elected to represent the trade union movement of Australia at international conferences. [More…]
Ernie Thornton was elected General Secretary of the Ironworkers Association. [More…]
The Chairman shall be elected from the number of members and shall preside at all meetings of the Committee at which he is present. [More…]
But since my suitability as Chairman has been questioned, I point out that both the former Liberal-Country Party Government and the more recently elected Labor Government unanimously appointed me on my own merits to this position. [More…]
He will not take his bat and ball and go home but will continue on the same basis as we have proceeded throughout the months since Labor was elected in December last year, carrying out our policy which we undertook to carry out in our policy speech through the means of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
It is certainly introducing something totally different from what has been proposed in the Bill which is something on which the Australian Labor Party was elected at the last election. [More…]
Again this is a policy on which we were elected. [More…]
Any proposition which was put forward by way of amendment or any other way which suggested that this responsibility did not exist and that there was just a general responsibility to students would be contrary to the policy on which we were elected, contrary to the trust which the Australian people reposed in us and contrary to the interests of the Australian people who voted for this policy when they elected the Labor Government on 2 December 1972. [More…]
I suggest, with respect to Senator Rae, that he has shown some sort of a suspicion that, despite what he is suggesting by way of amendment, the people who were appointed or elected to the Schools Commission, according to his program, would be in grave danger of being a warring body of representatives of pressure groups who would be constantly going back and feeling accountable to those pressure groups. [More…]
It will be an amendment understood to be adopted by the Opposition if elected to government. [More…]
Let me say that I had a pretty unhappy experience as a member on the Joint Select Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House to the extent that I was elected to that Committee in 1966; I sat at one meeting of the Committee which decided to ask all the parliamentary departments what accommodation space they required in the proposed house; and while those letters of inquiry went out to those departments we had an election, and my Party did not see fit to reappoint me to the Committee. [More…]
I think that we have to get some competent people and say to them: ‘Plan us a Parliament House on the designs and the ideas that have been put before us by the committee that was elected by both Houses of the Parliament for this purpose’. [More…]
In other words we would not meet as 2 Houses meeting together; we would meet in what might be called a collegium of elected representatives in the Federal Parliament, as an electoral college, to determine this matter once and for all. [More…]
I feel that if my form of words were adopted and the elected members of the national Parliament were to meet, as it were, in one great plebescite, in a collegium, in an assembly of elected persons to determine this matter and the identity of the 2 Houses was submerged in the totality it would overcome even the most sensitive resistence of those who feel very strongly about this matter. [More…]
I reminded people from the Liberal Party who came to speak to me that the Australian Capital Territory has not only an elected member who is their representative in the Parliament but also another Minister whose sole responsibility is to look after the Australian [More…]
The Bill proposes that such senators will have the same powers, immunities and privileges as State senators and that both senators for each Territory will be elected under a system of proportional representation at the time of each general election of members of the House of Representatives, provided that the first election of the Territory senators will be held at the time of the next election of State senators if such is held prior to a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Secondly, the 60 State senators would be elected for a period of 3 years instead of the present 6 years to tie in with elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
We now have other proposals based on other lines, which I will not debate now because they have yet to come before us, to interfere with the term for which senators are elected. [More…]
I was elected by the electors of South Australia but always I have been prepared to do something for the underdog. [More…]
The people denying them that right are doing so because they are afraid of who might be elected. [More…]
Anyone with any common sense would know that under the present voting system one member from each Party would be elected. [More…]
It is directly elected by the people, its members on a provincial basis of electorates and we on a basis of States. [More…]
I believe that it is inappropriate for senators to be elected from the Northern Territory at this time. [More…]
When he comes up for election in Victoria in the next 6 or 8 months he will have to find some 300,000 first preference votes before he is elected. [More…]
Senator Poyser, who tries to interrupt again, knows that in Victoria a candidate must have 300,000 first preference votes before he is elected to the Senate. [More…]
Senator Webster referred to the number of primary votes that were received by Senator Poyser and myself when we were elected to this place, but numbers do not always have a monopoly on ideas. [More…]
All of us should meet as a college, as an assembly of elected representatives to the Federal Parliament, irrespective of and divorced from our membership of either House, to decide by resolution at that common convocation where in our opinion, should be the site of the national Parliament so assembled in assembly- on Camp Hill, Capital Hill or elsewhere. [More…]
Secondly, it will not bring the 2 Houses into any type of traditional or emotional conflict because members will be meeting as elected representatives of the people and not as members of the Senate or members of the House of Representatives respectively. [More…]
I think this type of assembly divorced from the presence of both Houses as such, or members and senators as such, but as representatives of the people in the federal Parliament to determine what would be the site of the House that represents the political hopes, desires and aspirations of the people, would meet the wishes of the elected persons in another place. [More…]
Senator Byrne’s own words are that we attend as elected representatives of the people. [More…]
We are elected representatives of the people by the very fact that the people voted us into a House of the Parliament, and my plea is that we uphold the dignity of that House. [More…]
As elected representatives of the people that is a duty that we have. [More…]
He, in collusion with some of his doubtful quantity colleagues, has endeavoured to turn the Senate chamber into a circus on more than one occasion since the present Government was elected. [More…]
It is purely a transitional arrangement designed to adjust to the new system the terms of those existing senators whose terms expire on 30 June 1977 and the terms of those who will be elected at the forthcoming Senate election. [More…]
Further, a senator elected at the forthcoming Senate elections for service from 1 July 1974 will have a term running until the 1981 House of Representatives election- again unless there is a double dissolution or earlier election for the House of Representatives. [More…]
This will mean, in normal circumstances and, of course, excluding any senators elected to fill casual vacancies, that the senators serving when the constitutional alteration becomes law could have a term of up to about seven and a half years. [More…]
I should add that when a double dissolution occurs under the new arrangement, the senators then elected will be divided by the Senate into 2 classes as at present, but their terms will be equal to 2 House of Representatives terms in the one case and one House of Representatives term in the other. [More…]
The Prime Minister also said that the Government would want to include a provision that the State Houses of Parliament be elected directly by the people. [More…]
Similarly, in those States with upper Houses elected directly by the people very large inequalities exist as the following examples show. [More…]
The New South Wales upper House is elected not by the people but by the existing members of the 2 Houses. [More…]
The Bill also proposes an amendment of the Constitution so that each House of each State Parliament will be elected directly by the people of the State. [More…]
Thus the amendment will require New South Wales to alter the voting system for its Legislative Council so that all of its members are elected by the ordinary voters of the State. [More…]
One was that elected local government should have both a voice and a vote in the loan council. [More…]
The other was that the Australian Government be empowered to borrow on behalf of elected local government. [More…]
The intention is to grant financial assistance only to elected local government bodies. [More…]
These are not rights to be taken away by those who would petulantly threaten to take their bat and ball home if they are not elected captain. [More…]
As I pointed out earlier, the specific purpose of clause 16 of the Bill is to enable the setting up of boards in the various States and Territories in order to put all these views before the Commission which may, if it is elected on the basis that we suggest, not have people representing various groups. [More…]
The government is a government which has been elected in a democratic election and it is entitled to make such decisions. [More…]
I repeat that there is nothing dogmatic, doctrinaire or authoritarian about a Government which has been elected by the people exercising its power by appointing a Commission as important as this. [More…]
If we take them one by one we find that the principle, rather than the exception, is that they represent specific interests and in many cases representatives of groups are elected to them. [More…]
For example, in the whole of the sphere of primary industry we will find board after board on which there are representatives of special, conflicting groups who are frequently elected to such boards. [More…]
For example, the wheat growers are elected to an Australian Wheat Board or in the case of a state milk board there are the producers’ representatives and the consumers’ representatives. [More…]
One of the first acts of the Labor Governmentwithin 9 days of having been elected- was to appoint the Interim Schools Committee. [More…]
No government which has been elected by the people to carry out a legislative program should be confronted by an Opposition which has not gone to that election but which happens to have a majority. [More…]
They have elected representatives to the House of Representatives; and they would also have representation in this House, if the Opposition had not blocked our legislation, which would have provided for this in accordance with the Australian Labor Party platform. [More…]
I feel that the time has come when I, as the first Aboriginal to be elected as a parliamentarian, should make my thoughts known in this Parliament where decisions are made. [More…]
The only chance they have to be elected to this chamber or to any other chamber is to join one of the 2 major political parties. [More…]
It is public knowledge, I think, that the people who will be elected to these various districts will not be sitting down in big flash offices. [More…]
The people elected will not be the government of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The people elected will have the opportunity to present their case to the Government. [More…]
Where the Senate is attracting unfavourable publicity- and I think there is every entitlement for the public and the Press to comment on the Senate- is obstruction which the Opposition is giving to the carriage of measures which are part of the platform and policy upon which the Government of Australia was elected. [More…]
He was elected to the House of Representatives for the Division of Corio in the by-election in 1940 and he became Minister for War Organisation of Industry in 1941, Minister for Post-war Reconstruction in 1945 and Minister for Defence in 1946. [More…]
I remember when he was first elected. [More…]
380 in which I asked whether the Government, when in Opposition, had asserted that if elected to the Treasury bench it would promptly remove the existing 25c per gallon excise charge applicable to wine and would not impose any alternative form of taxation on the wine industry. [More…]
We will accept responsibility for those who are elected to the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
The people who elected the governments of the States are the same people who put him here. [More…]
If I had thought that I would be elected to such a barn of a Parliament as that instead of a properly effective national Parliament I would have counted it as no honour. [More…]
For the first time in the history of Australia, the Aboriginal people of this country are to be consulted, through a committee elected by them, on what should be done in matters relating to Aborigines so that they, directly through this Committee, can advise the Australian Government and the Australian Parliament on what they, as the people best able to judge, believe to be the interests of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Now that I am dealing with the subject of arbitrary power, let me mention some of the changes that have been made to the uses of excessive and arbitrary power by this Government since it was elected. [More…]
During the course of the election campaign the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made it quite clear that we would take action in this area if we were elected to government. [More…]
The Tariff Board was established in 1921 and it has been an important and respected source of advice to 2 1 of the 28 Parliaments which have been elected since federation. [More…]
If this Bill is passed in its present form, it will be mandatory on the elected Government to go to a non-elected statutory authority for advice and recommendations before it can make decisions on industry assistance policies. [More…]
So we will find that a commission not elected by the people, and therefore not answerable to them, will virtually be the decision maker in an enormously wide range of economic policies. [More…]
It underlines the ignorance of the consultation and negotiation system and even questions the democratic right of Australians to express their point of view to the Government they have elected. [More…]
The general attitude of the Opposition is that when a government has been elected to office and presents its Budget, the Opposition will not oppose or vary areas of expenditure contained in it. [More…]
A lot of people claim that the ALP was elected on the policy which it presented to the people. [More…]
It has been said previously by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy), in reply to a question, that the Senate is elected on the same basis as members of the House of Representatives are elected- by the people of the States. [More…]
Honourable senators will know that an important program we have embarked upon is the creation of nationally elected Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
The second point I wish to make about the constitution of the Senate is that honourable senators are elected for a term of 6 years. [More…]
The DLP in the course of its advertising predicted that the Labor Party if elected would do just this. [More…]
I said to Senator O ‘Byrne, who is a Tasmanian senator: ‘Do you agree, Senator O ‘Byrne, with a situation whereby 10 senators from Tasmania representing 180,000 voters were elected and I did not get a seat although I got 30,000 more votes than the 10 of them’. [More…]
I am disappointed that a neighbouring country in which this system has been practised ever since the acceptance of elected parliaments in that country has not been quoted. [More…]
The newly elected Government has pressed for and secured direct representation for local government on the Constitutional Covention which met for the first time in the middle of this year and which intends to consider various constitutional matters. [More…]
On 1 1 October, the heads of Government met in Canberra to consider the Australian Government’s proposals that there be a voice and vote for elected local government representatives on the Loan Council, and that the Australian Government should be empowered to borrow on behalf of local governments. [More…]
The States have a separate interest to be protected with respect to constitutional change, and it is up to the Senate, composed of senators elected on a State-wide franchise, to ensure that the State interest is protected. [More…]
The present Prime Minister did not give such a bonus last year on the ground that the Government was newly elected and time was too short. [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…]
The Government was elected by the people on 2 December. [More…]
Did not members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party say when the Government was elected to office that they would not be obstreperous and that they would see that the legislation - [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…]
The Prime Minister went on to say that if Labor were elected to office he would write before Christmas to a group of leading educationists, including representatives of the State and Catholic systems. [More…]
So on 26 September 1972, 2 months before the Federal election in which the Australian Labor Party was elected to office, a motion was passed in those terms. [More…]
Here in the record of the Parliament 2 months before this Government was elected to office is his statement that we would continue those grants in 1973 but not thereafter. [More…]
Now we are endeavouring to implement the policy that we were elected upon. [More…]
That, surely, really outlines the difference in philosophy between us on the Government side- those of us who have been elected by popular vote to implement the policy that the Prime Minister espoused at the last electionand them, the collective Opposition. [More…]
It being the end of 1973 we want to implement the policy on which we were elected. [More…]
Now the Opposition seeks to amend the political ideology upon which the Labor Party was elected to government. [More…]
Senator Drake-Brockman has admitted that within 10 days of the Australian Labor Party being elected to office the Prime Minister established the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. [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…]
That is the policy on which we were elected and it is in conformity with the platform of the Labor movement. [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…]
We were elected by the people, just as the members of the House of Representatives were elected by the people. [More…]
Both Senator Webster and myself were elected by the Senate to serve on the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory which investigates problems affecting the Northern Territory. [More…]
It appears to me however that members of the Opposition complain bitterly when any trade union leader, including the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Bob Hawke, appears on television to express the point of view of the industrial organisation by which he has been elected. [More…]
Shortly after the Government was elected it exempted contraceptives from sales tax. [More…]
It certainly was never intended that the Senate be used to obstruct the legislative program of a recently popularly elected government. [More…]
He was referring to the Senate which was elected in 1967- the Government will not have a majority in its own right, though it was, little more than a year ago, given by popular vote, a very large majority in the House of Representatives; a majority which, in the normal course, it will continue to have for the better part of the next 2 years. [More…]
But in the flush of victory and following the terms of the GovernorGeneral ‘s speech the Government acted in order to bring about the radical change in our society which the Austraiian people sought when they elected the Labor Government just over a year ago. [More…]
If the Labor Caucus can make this change in this democratic way, there is no reason why this Senate, which is duly elected by the people of this country- by the same people who vote for the other House- cannot, in the same democratic way as Caucus, change the decision of the Ministers. [More…]
We have to recognise that the people who are opposing are elected by voters just as honourable senators on the Government side are elected. [More…]
I believe that the Senate, as its members are elected to represent States, has a much wider sphere of activity and thinking because each State comprises so many aspects whereas individual electorates can have a very small area of interest. [More…]
I think that as senators we have to take a much wider view of things because of the very basis on which we are elected, that is, by the States. [More…]
In effect, it means that a corporation which is selected by the Commonwealth and the States will have the say over what goes on in that area. [More…]
This means that the elected representation aspect of this sort of development will be ignored. [More…]
All I, as the representative of the Government, need to say is that my colleagues join me in appreciating that the Australian people will now not be deprived of the Australian Schools Commission which, prior to the last Federal election, the Labor movement undertook to establish if and when we were elected to office. [More…]
It was suggested that the proposal does not have the support of those responsible elected sections of the area. [More…]
I did not think I would live to see the day when among the elected representatives of the people, one of those charged with implementing democracy in this country, let alone a man in the highest office of the land, the Senate of this Parliament- [More…]
The Australian Labor Party went to the people at the last election with the clear policy that it would, if elected to office, establish a National Health Insurance Commission. [More…]
When we are elected to government as soon as the present Government is prepared to hold an election, which it is showing a marked reluctance to do- it is making big noises but taking little action- we will immediately re-introduce the base per capita grant. [More…]
Before the last election the Australian Labor Party had spoken of the proposed Corporation having its grower representation elected by the growers. [More…]
elected representation of growers to the Corporation as promised by its spokesmen prior to the last election. ‘ [More…]
elected representation of growers to the Corporation as promised by its spokesmen prior to the last election.’ [More…]
My Party also would have wished that the members of the Corporation be elected and not appointed. [More…]
All those grower representatives were elected. [More…]
The effect of this provision is to ignore the elected industry body of Tasmania which is the State Fruit Board and which, up to this time, has had the direct and acknowledged right to nominate the 3 Tasmanian members of the Apple and Pear Board. [More…]
He has many other qualifications for the position to which he has been elected and we were happy to support him. [More…]
Those contributions always reflected the wealth of knowledge and wisdom which he gained before being elected to the Senate- in the years that he was a teacher and a scholar. [More…]
When I was elected to the Senate in 1956 he was a member of the Senate. [More…]
Sir Geoffrey was elected chairman of the General Commission of the Conference and was also elected a member of the Standing Commission of the Red Cross. [More…]
It follows from the policies that were established by the Labor Party before it was elected on 2 December of last year and which it has carried out since its election. [More…]
Since this Government was elected it has taken certain major steps to see that we in Australia have sensible, logical and amicable relations with other countries. [More…]
The position in the U.S.A. at the present time is that a VicePresident, elected on a policy of law and order, now has not only lost his Vice-Presidency but has been disbarred from legal practice. [More…]
People are now asking the Italian Communist Party- in many respects a very reasonable, sensible and national Communist Party- whether, if elected, it would ban writers and books in the same way as its Soviet friends. [More…]
It might have had some applicability in the late 19th century and even the early 20th century in Great Britain when there was a struggle between an elected House of Commons and an hereditary House of Lords. [More…]
Both federal houses of parliament in this country are elected on a nation-wide franchise- the same franchise. [More…]
We were elected on a mandate which included a better health system. [More…]
I once heard a member of the Australian Labor Party say that if the Australian Labor Party were ever elected to office it would fix up the postal service. [More…]
In his policy speech the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, pledged that the Australian Labor Party would not reduce the defences of Australia if it were elected to office. [More…]
This Government promised, before being elected, that it would not reduce the size of the Army, the Navy or the Air Force. [More…]
I would have thought that it was a piece of unparalleled presumption that the Government should put forward proposals to alter the method by which members of the State Houses of Parliament should be elected. [More…]
Until these propositions are passed by this House of the Parliament, in which the people are now at this moment expressing their point of view through their elected representatives who are in the majority, Government senators cannot complain. [More…]
He will accept here the will of the people expressed by the majority vote of this chamber by the elected representatives of the people. [More…]
The relevant Bills were passed by the chamber which the people elected at that election but were thrown out by this chamber in a contemptuous fashion on 4 December without even being given an second reading. [More…]
Here is a government, elected by the people of Australia, which is in a minority position in this chamber. [More…]
It has been said during the debate on these Bills, both last night and today, that the Senate’s role is to be a supervisory role over the Government and that the Opposition in this place is not adopting an obstructionist attitude towards the elected government. [More…]
Do they want to adopt one policy for an election of the House of Representatives and another policy for an election to the Senate, or do they want an elected government to be supervised by a Senate, or half of a Senate, that was elected 3 years earlier, not on the issues that were current at the time the Government was elected? [More…]
When we have the elections divided they can say anything they like because when they are asking for senators to be elected they know that they have no responsibility for government. [More…]
The simple facts are that the political parties go to the people with a program for which they want to be elected. [More…]
The party elected usually implements that program in a period of 3 years, the normal life of a Parliament. [More…]
Senator Cant asked him rhetorically: ‘Are you suggesting that when the 2 houses were elected at the same time we had weak government’? [More…]
An honourable senator is elected for his term or until a double dissolution. [More…]
Yes, but the senator’s term is reduced independently of his election and independently of what ever period for which the people may have elected him. [More…]
I recall that I was originally elected in 1946. [More…]
The fact of life is that when a double dissolution occurred in 1951 various senators, including Senator Marriott who was elected in 1949 - [More…]
-Well, Senator Wright was elected in 1 949 and he had a 6-year term but had to face the people in 195 1 after 2 years of his 6-year term. [More…]
I think he was elected very nearly at the top of the ticket and he had a full term to serve. [More…]
I have just pointed out that 6-year terms were reduced to about that period when Senator Wright and I were first elected but we could not complain about that. [More…]
Under the present system anybody who is elected to the Senate is not able to take his seat until the following July. [More…]
A public servant or person who holds an office of profit under the Crown has to resign from his job when he is elected to the Senate. [More…]
People who have been elected to the Senate at a democratic election do not take their seats until the following July. [More…]
1 say now that the Queen would have had no compunction at all in repeating the things which the Prime Minister put to the people and on which the Labor Government was elected. [More…]
So when the fourth change of name takes place that will be a change every 5 years, which is not even the full term of an honourable senator who is elected for 6 years. [More…]
We will allow the members elected by electors of this country to decide who will be in the Ministry’. [More…]
The Liberal Party will not allow the elected members of this Parliament to choose the Cabinet as we do. [More…]
Sometimes we are criticised and some people say that some of the Ministers we have elected are not capable. [More…]
But at least those Ministers have the confidence and the majority support of the 93 elected Labor Party members of this Parliament. [More…]
This change of policy has been brought about because the Liberal Party is not happy with the choice of its shadow cabinet elected by its parliamentary members. [More…]
The Caucus is a body of elected Labor Party members of the Parliament. [More…]
For the first time in the history of government in Australia, when this Government was elected it made the pension increase payment retrospective. [More…]
We made the promise that we would increase pensions if we were elected. [More…]
Yet I found in the area where I live that Liberal Party candidates and members of the Liberal Party were going around, before the legislation came in, a week after we were elected- and they knew full well that they were telling mistruths to the people- saying: ‘Oh yes, the Government promised you an immediate increase but it is not going to give it to you’. [More…]
In the first the Prime Minister, as Leader of the Australian Labor Party, made a clear promise that, if elected, he would reduce inflation in Australia. [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…]
What happened when the Labor Party was elected to office? [More…]
Then Labor was elected, and it abused every American, British and French politician. [More…]
A main theme of the Labor Party’s policy speech was that a Labor government, if elected, would look towards control of foreign investment and a plan to achieve Australian ownership. [More…]
As the first and only, to date, elected Aboriginal member of Parliament, I seek the indulgence of the Senate for I feel compelled at this point in time, because of what is happening to my race with threats of violence and the inevitable backlash which will take place, to refer today to 3 sections of the Australian community. [More…]
He made an announcement in advance that a Labor government would, as soon as it was elected, recognise China. [More…]
Being a democrat I always had thought that these decisions were to be taken by the duly elected government but apparently that is a thought which does not commend itself to honourable gentlemen opposite. [More…]
He promised the people that if elected he would tackle the problem of inflation. [More…]
He laid down very firmly that if he was elected as Prime Minister he would reduce inflation. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s policy speech recounts the wonderful things that would accrue to poor suffering humanity in Australia if the Labor Government were elected. [More…]
In view of the statements made by the Prime Minister and various members of the Government since it was elected to govern this country, the Prime Minister at least must have lost all credibility so far as the Australian electors are concerned. [More…]
They have been elected, whereas I have been appointed on behalf of the Government of Western Australia. [More…]
It is true that the Queensland manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, with the approval of the commissioners, has introduced a scheme whereby 7 members of the staff of the Commission in Queensland will be elected from the total staff of 600 to a management committee which formerly consisted of 7 members of the executive of the Commission. [More…]
I believe this present Government should learn to live with the fact that it must be responsive to the will of a democratically elected chamber. [More…]
According to the Constitution the term of service of a senator who is elected at such an election cannot begin until the first day of July of the following year. [More…]
In my view that occurs on the day on which the returning officer declares the person elected and returns the writs. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to hear argument from those who were democratically elected by the people to represent them here. [More…]
I believe that every senator was elected to help carry out the Senate’s function of review and protection. [More…]
Other houses were nominated, others were appointed and others were elected from a restricted franchise. [More…]
But this Senate ever since its inception has been elected directly by the people upon adult franchise. [More…]
I was saying, if I could maintain a simplicity in my presentation, that one of the unique features of the Senate was that it was elected directly by adult franchise. [More…]
If, for example, the Australian Labor Party, having been elected to power in 1972, were to be elected to power a second time in 1 975 and there were to be a half Senate election on the occasion of each election one would imagine that the Senate, at the end of the 1 975 election, would represent the view of the Labor Party as expressed at each election. [More…]
That again, I believe, is a tendency likely to flow from a constitutional requirement that the 2 Houses should be elected at the one time. [More…]
It has occurred when the Senate and the House of Representatives were elected at different times. [More…]
I say that it is fortunate for the workings of democracy that now they are able to be elected at a different time, because the role of the Senate which I have just mentioned as an independent body reviewing legislation is aided by that fact- and notwithstanding that it is seen by some as an annoyance and an inconvenience, the way the Senate is functioning is part of democracy and it aids the democratic processes. [More…]
Because if it must be elected at the same time as the House of Representatives, the tendency- and I put it no higher than that; but in politics that tendency is so often borne out- will be for the Senate to be a replica of the lower House. [More…]
Yet they talk about us as if somehow or other we are running the Senate, whereas every educated child in the community knows that there is a temporary defect in democracy in the community in that the Government, elected by the people, is being frustrated in its will by those senators opposite who are yelping out and not letting me speak freely. [More…]
Why, the Deputy President himself was elected only a week or so ago. [More…]
The nominee of the Opposition parties was elected Deputy President in this chamber. [More…]
Any man who votes against allowing the people to vote on the proposition which the elected Government wishes to put to them can hardly claim to be a democrat. [More…]
The elected Government has its policy. [More…]
The elected Government undertook to the people at the last election that it would put this proposal to them. [More…]
It strikes a responsive chord with me because I remember that before the Labor Party became the Government Mr Whitlan promised that if elected the Labor Party would reduce interest rates. [More…]
That has arisen because a Labor Government was elected by the Australian people with a Prime Minister, a leader, who has consistently advocated that this should be the position. [More…]
One was that elected local government should have both a voice and a vote in the Loan Council. [More…]
The other was that the Australian Government be empowered to borrow on behalf of elected local government. [More…]
Alternatively, and particularly if the seven heads of government cannot agree, the Australian Parliament could sponsor a referendum to insert the words ‘or elected local government bodies’ after the word States’ wherever that word occurs in section 105A of the Constitution. [More…]
1 ) The Commonwealth may make agreements with the State and with elected local government bodies- [More…]
The Commonwealth may make agreements with the State and with elected local government bodies with respect to the public debts of the States and the elected local government bodies including- [More…]
If an Australian Government elected by the people wishes to put a proposition to the people to vote to change their Constitution, will any person in this Parliament deny the right of the Australian Government to go to its own people and say: ‘We ask you to change your own Constitution and we want you to vote in a free and regular election on whether you choose to change your own Constitution’? [More…]
We will go out and we will ask the Australian people to vote against them because we do not agree with them, but never would we deny the right of a government elected by the people to go to its own people and say ‘We, the Government of Australia, ask you to vote to change your Constitution in such and such a manner’. [More…]
Yes, the over-reaching of a temporary majority in this place which dares to intervene between the Government elected by the people and the people themselves when the Government simply desires to seek their vote on whether they would change their own Constitution. [More…]
I would suggest that the more honourable senators of the Opposition put forward this view the sooner the people of Australia will realise that the Government that they elected is going to carry out its program, that it is going to put its propositions to the people and that it will not be deterred in any way by the manoeuvring, the rationalisations and the shabby tricks that are put up by the Opposition. [More…]
I have always understood that one was elected to the Senate to work in the Senate, that one’s first duty was to work in the Senate and that if one had time over from one’s work in the Senate one could indulge in ministerial office, Senate committee work, parliamentary Party work, parliamentary Party committee work, Party organisation work in the electorate, etc., but that one’s first and foremost duty was to work in the Senate. [More…]
In the recent elections in Great Britain a government was elected with about 37 per cent of the total community vote. [More…]
It was not elected democratically at all. [More…]
Then Keir Hardie was elected, and Labour won its first foothold in the Parliament of England. [More…]
There is a great deal in this Bill about Parliament being elected directly by the people, with a vote being guaranteed for everybody over the age of 18 years, including Australian citizens who have had a reasonable period of residence in an electorate. [More…]
In other words, what the Constitution says is that there must be, as it were, a primary scrutiny of proposed referenda proposals by the legislatureby the elected persons. [More…]
In December 1 972 the Australian public elected a Labor Government. [More…]
But the people elected a Labor Government. [More…]
-To answer the last portion of the honourable senator’s question first, I point out that the Government is elected for a period of 3 years and therefore has that period in which to effect the mandate given to it by the people. [More…]
No democrat can object to a procedure whereby the people will make the decision if a conflict exists between 2 Houses equally entitled to claim that they are democratically elected. [More…]
Since the present Government was elected we have actually seen this policy implemented. [More…]
It was rather ironical that I was elected to the House of Representatives and still remained a member of the same council, as did Lin Riches, and that we combined our efforts to attract this industry to the Port Augusta-Redcliffs area. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the President of the Senate can be elected only by a majority vote of the Senate? [More…]
It has shown that it is not a government that cares about principles, it is not a government that cares about honesty, it is not a government that cares about people, it is not even a government that cares about the country it was elected to govern. [More…]
After all, on a fairly simple matter such as how many senators will be elected from each State at the forthcoming Senate election, the number varies from day to day. [More…]
This attempt failed, as it deserved to fail, and the Whitlam Government was elected to office in December 1972. [More…]
The present Australian Government promised the people in 1972 that if it were elected to office Australia would withdraw from the Vietnam war and that national servicemen would be discharged. [More…]
Question- Can you tell us, is there still time between now and 18 May to have the sixth vacancy elected in Queensland? [More…]
The balance of Senator Gair’s term will be taken by a person elected on 1 8 May. [More…]
To declare that any person who was returned as elected was not duly elected: [More…]
What it ought to do is to say that there will be 5 senators to be elected in Queensland, and go on from there. [More…]
I am advised that in the case of Queensland Mr Bjelke-Petersen’s Government was asked to arrange for 5 senators to be elected. [More…]
The Government sent out its own document saying that there were 5 vacancies and 5 senators to be elected. [More…]
No one can accurately predict the result if 5 or 6 senators are to be elected in Queensland because the people themselves will vote on that. [More…]
Perhaps 5 or 6 Liberals would be elected, or 5 or 6 independent or Country Party senators. [More…]
-Mr Deputy President, this Senate is constituted by 60 elected senators, and its first duty is to maintain its own integrity. [More…]
When a person has been elected or appointed, as he can be by a GovernorinCouncil in any of the States- he can be appointed; he does not have to be elected- if any one of the provisions of sections 44 or 45 of the Constitution are contravened, the Senate can meet and determine whether any action should be taken against the person who is sitting as a senator. [More…]
On 5 March the Senate elected its Chairman of Committees. [More…]
It has various powers, including the power to compel attendance of witnesses, to declare an election void, and to declare any person duly elected who was not returned as elected. [More…]
If any person returned is declared not to have been duly elected he shall cease to be a Senator or Member of the House. [More…]
Parliament is the elected body. [More…]
I make no defence of the Government’s position in this matter because I believe that the immorality in the matters that we have been determining over the last several months lies not so much in the appointment of the Honourable Vincent Gair but in those 10 senators who were elected in 1967 and who have sought to sit in judgment upon a government that was elected in 1972. [More…]
Those people who were elected in 1967 were basking in the inability of the Australian electorate to understand the real issues of the Vietnam war. [More…]
In the last 18 months since this Government was elected in 1 972 it has sought to implement the mandate that was given to it by the Australian people but these 10 senators have been sitting in judgment and have been attempting to nullify and to destroy the mandate that was given to the Government by the people of Australia. [More…]
Normally 5 senators from each State come up for election, but in this case it would have meant that 6 senators would have been elected to represent Queensland. [More…]
Suppose the unlikely were to happen and a non-Labor Government were elected in the House of Representatives, could that Government expect supply from the Senate in these circumstances? [More…]
-Is the Attorney-General aware that the multi-national monopoly ITT has seriously interfered in the international political affairs of many countries, even to the extent that this organisation has incited and actively supported the overthrow of elected governments? [More…]
It is simply that as it is no longer if but when a double dissolution is to take placethere is to be an election for both Houses of Parliament on 18 May- it is not possible, as the Act at present stands, for 2 members to be elected from the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
In fact, it is more than possible that no member could be elected for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I am glad that we all agree that the Australian Capital Territory has come of age to the point that we are treating it in a somewhat similar way to that applicable to the States and giving the people in the Territory 2 elected members of the House of Representatives after the next election. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee) in his statement talks about a requirement of urgency but I would not have thought that we would have reached that stage because the Labor Party said, through its leader, now the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), that if elected, it would bring this legislation in as a matter of urgency. [More…]
Even when he was elected to the House of Commons he said that he doubted where it was. [More…]
It is not only governments which have mandates, all honourable senators are elected by a majority of the people when we are elected. [More…]
If that scheme is as bad as Senator Little tries to make us believe it is, it is a wonder that when there has been a change of government in the United Kingdom- there have been many changes of government over the last 30 yearsthe Conservatives, as one of their first actions when elected to Government, did not change the national health scheme to some system that they support. [More…]
It was presided over by Senator Dame Ivy Wedgwood and I had the honour to be elected by my Party which was then in Opposition, to that inquiry. [More…]
From the remarks that they have tendered in the Senate today one would gain the impression that if by some mischance at some future election they were re-elected to government they would continue with the hopeless, maladministered ramshackle scheme that the Australian people have had to put up with for so long. [More…]
Will he take note that the Australian Labor Party in that upper House of fat succeeded in forcing the lower House, the elected House, to an election and that in that election the people overwhelmingly endorsed the action taken to deny supply in the upper House by giving the Labor Party an immense majority which enabled it to become the Government? [More…]
The principle upon which these complainants act comes from Great Britain, and it was based on the fact that the House of Lords was not an elective House and that therefore it should not thwart.the will of the elected House of the people. [More…]
That tradition was brought to Australia because in most, if not all, cases the Upper Houses were Houses of property and again it was contended that the Houses of property should not thwart the will of the fully elected Houses. [More…]
Why should anybody challenge the action of a democratically elected chamber if the result of its action is to ensure that the verdict of the ultimate judges, namely the electors, is thereby secured? [More…]
When a democratically elected chamber does it, and when it will submit itself to the people to have its conduct judged, why should any democrat cavil at what is being done? [More…]
The election is about whether the people of Australia, who elected a government on 2 December 1972 to fulfil a certain program, wish to see that Government have the opportunity to fulfil its program. [More…]
Members of the Opposition have forgotten that they were elected by the people. [More…]
Those who are elected to the Senate are elected by the voters in the same way as are the members of the other chamber. [More…]
I know that in the office to which you have been elected you will follow all the traditions which I am sure you have absorbed in the many years that you have spent in the Senate. [More…]
Naturally we would have preferred our own candidate to be elected. [More…]
I announce that the Liberal Party of Australia has elected me its leader in this place. [More…]
The Liberal Party has elected my colleague, Senator Greenwood, as Deputy Leader, and my colleague, Senator Young, as [More…]
I declare Senator Webster elected Chairman of Committees. [More…]
The name of the senator first elected shall be placed first on the senator’s roll for each State and the name of the senator next elected shall be placed next and so on in rotation. [More…]
Before being elected the member for Adelaide he had been Assistant Secretary-Treasurer of the Building Workers’ Industrial Union of South Australia in the years 1950-52 and then organiser of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
In 1953 he was elected secretary of the South Australian Branch of our Party, a redoubtable training ground for parliamentarians. [More…]
The plethora of commissions, boards and so on that has grown up under the Labor Government raises the question of just who is governing this country- the elected Parliament or the many and varied extraneous bodies that are each staffed with a couple of Australian Labor Party stalwarts just to ensure that the decisions reached are in the Australian Labor Party’s interests. [More…]
In order to examine further this amendment that has been proffered today, apart from comparing it with the one moved only last March which was completely rejected by the Australian people in May this year, let us go to the amendment moved in March 1973, 4 months after this Government was elected to office. [More…]
I appeal to their sense of realism and their sense of responsibility, not just as senators but as elected representatives of the Australian people to reject this amendment forthwith and turn to much more important matters of state, including the normal discussion of the Address-in-Reply. [More…]
I should also like to congratulate Senator Webster upon being elected as Chairman of Committees and to congratulate the other speakers who have contributed for the first time to the debate in the Senate today. [More…]
At the election on 1 8 May we elected 60 senators and 127 members of the other House, a total of 187, and the last position to be filled, the 187th, is the one which I have the honour to hold. [More…]
If a person were borrowing over 15 years and if he elected not to increase his repayments, his loan would not be paid out for 2 1 years- an increase of 6 years. [More…]
I feel both privileged and honoured to have been elected as a senator for Western Australia. [More…]
Notwithstanding the vicissitudes in the political sense that overtake the House of Commons as an elected House, the House of Lords goes on undissolved in any circumstances. [More…]
All this having been said, we want to arrive at the conclusion that the Senate now is no longer what was sneered at by Mr Whitlam for a few months before June as a Senate elected in 1957. [More…]
I am prompted to take part in this debate this evening because the Opposition has elected again on this occasion to move an amendment to the Address-in-Reply that has been proposed by honourable senators on this side of the chamber. [More…]
I know that honourable senators opposite would not want me to have a heresy hunt or to start investigating the events of yesterday when that gentleman was elected to the Presidency not with the support of the Independent members in this chamber but with the support of a Liberal or Country Party Opposition senator who defected, and who defected at a time when the Leader of the Opposition in the other place was endeavouring to castigate the Government for not having complete control over its members or being able to discipline the Party. [More…]
Is it the policy of the Australian Government to allow trade unionists, who are not elected representatives of the people, to intrude into such sensitive diplomatic areas? [More…]
The Bill provides for the election of 2 senators each for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and that such senators have the same powers, immunities and privileges as senators representing the States; that the first election of Territory senators be held at the same time as the next Senate elections in the several States or at the same time as the next general elections for members of the House of Representatives, if such is held before or in conjunction with the next Senate elections; that the term of the first Territory senators be from the date of their election until the eve of polling day for the ensuing general election for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election for Territory senators, elections be held at the same time as the general elections for members of the House of Representatives; that after the first election of Territory senators, the terms of Territory senators be the period between each House of Representatives election; and for the Territory senators to be elected under the same system of proportional representation as that currently applicable to the election of senators representing the States, except in the case of a single casual vacancy when such vacancy shall be filled by the holding of a byelection adopting the procedures used for filling a single casual vacancy for a State senator, as far as may be applicable. [More…]
It would appear then to be more just to have an even number elected each time for each Territory, thus allowing the representation of the parties to be more evenly balanced than would be the case if only one senator for each Territory were provided. [More…]
Under the provisions of the Bill, after the first election of Territory senators, both senators for each Territory will be elected each time there is a general election of the House of Representatives. [More…]
This is the result, we must suppose, of a Government which was elected on the assertion that it knew best how to deal with the unions. [More…]
Therefore, as I have said, it is somewhat ironic that I, having been involved in the particular spin-off of that political infighting, have been elected to an upper House. [More…]
We saw the same thing in South Australia in 1965 when the Walsh Government was elected. [More…]
I make this point because of the large number of new senators who have been elected to this chamber and also because of the number of what I would call ‘old senators’ who have not had a great deal of experience in this place in terms of years. [More…]
When the then Governor-General opened Parliament in February 1973, just after Labor was elected to office, he devoted several early paragraphs of his opening Speech to defence. [More…]
Notwithstanding the comments of Senator Drake-Brockman concerning one newly elected senator, I believe that the contributions of those who have made their maiden speeches have been of as high a standard as we have seen in this Senate for a long time. [More…]
We said that if we were elected to office we would restrict the growth of the Public Service to 3 per cent. [More…]
-I support the motion moved by my colleague, Senator Melzer, and I take this opportunity to congratulate all of the newly elected senators on their first contributions to debate in this Senate. [More…]
Amongst the newly elected senators we heard speak today was Senator Steele Hall from South Australia, who has just been denigrated by Senator Jessop, who just sat down, as one of his political opponents. [More…]
In other words, he complains that this Parliament is elected by people, not acres. [More…]
If they are elected on the basis of the population in the city areas and are not elected on the basis of acres in country areas one can only draw the conclusion that he is objecting to the number of Liberal members in the coalition. [More…]
With the possible exception of Tasmania, which has 5 Federal electorates from which 7 State members are elected under the Hare-Clark system, it can be correctly said that all States have been notorious for their gerrymanders. [More…]
Did he say that to be elected he should require as many votes as are required in New South Wales or Victoria to elect a senator? [More…]
He was elected from South Australia with fewer than half the voting strength of New South Wales or Victoria. [More…]
To cite the United States situation which has been mentioned several times by other honourable senators, the United States House of Representatives is elected by a quota system as nearly as possible equal in each State but the Senate has 2 senators from every State. [More…]
It won 2 extra seats and almost won another in Western Australian when a Mr Reece was nearly elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
The newly elected Senator Hall has more or less told us that we on this side of the chamber do not know very much about political matters and political thinking and that we are all astray. [More…]
The people of this Commonwealth elected this chamber, and the Government did not get a majority in the Senate. [More…]
I can remember when the change was made to provide for the members of this House to be elected by proportional representation. [More…]
New people are inclined to lecture and so on, but I think we have a right to speak for the people who elected us. [More…]
My Party policy is so good, as Senator Milliner knows, that as leader of the Senate team in Queensland I was successful in having 6 senators elected. [More…]
There is nothing in the Constitution to guarantee that all Parliaments must be elected directly and democratically by the people. [More…]
This Bill, far from improving the electoral process and far from improving the fairness of that process, is more than likely going to create an element of unfairness which has never before characterised the electoral system under which members of the House of Representatives have been elected. [More…]
I appreciate that this is a Bill which seeks to ensure that there will be elected from the Northern Territory and from the Australian Capital Territory 2 senators who will take their places in this chamber and will have all the rights which the members of this chamber have. [More…]
the number of senators proposed to be elected from each Territory is appropriate; [More…]
the right to vote of the senators elected by electors in the Territories should be restricted to matters affecting the Territories; and that the senators to be appointed to the Committee be named by a subsequent resolution.’ [More…]
The second matter which is suggested is whether the number of senators proposed to be elected from each Territory is appropriate. [More…]
The third matter which the committee could examine is whether senators elected to represent a Territory should be restricted to voting only on matters affecting that Territory. [More…]
They do not have elected assemblies with authority conferred by the Commonwealth Constitution and they do not have legislation of the Imperial Parliament, as the States have at present. [More…]
The Opposition has also proposed in its amendment that the right to vote of any senators elected by the electors in the Territories should be restricted to matters affecting the Territories. [More…]
If the Opposition would not allow the elected representatives in this chamber to deliberate on all matters it could not very well allow the honourable member for the Northern Territory in the other place to deliberate on the matters which come into this chamber and on which the Opposition has been quite prepared to deliberate- in fact, which it has been quite prepared to throw out on many occasions. [More…]
As reported at page 2525 of the Senate Hansard of 7 June the Leader of the Australian Country Party in the Senate (Senator DrakeBrockman), as he was then although I understand that he is now the Leader of the National Alliance, having been elected as such at the recent election, said at the conclusion of his speech: Therefore we in the Country Party oppose this legislation’. [More…]
He said that despite the fact that the member of the Country Party who represents the electorate of the Northern Territory in the other place has gone on record time and again and claimed credit for being elected on the promise that he would fight for senatorial representation for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory has been elected on each occasion on the platform that he will fight for Senate representation for the Northern Territory but when such a proposal has been put forward in this chamber the members of his Party in this place have deserted him and voted the other way. [More…]
When the Committee has been in the Northern Territory and has been questioning witnesses on the subject of the giving to the people of the Northern Territory of a fully elected legislative council I have asked every witness I have questioned what their impressions or desires were about Senate representation and with only about 2 exceptions they have all agreed that they have been disenfranchised by not having Senate representation. [More…]
Of course, it would not be fair to the Country Party for the Australian Capital Territory to have Senate representation because it would not be able to get a member of its Party elected as a senator for the Australian Capital Territory, but it would be able to get one elected as a senator for the Northern Territory. [More…]
I do not think that there is any doubt that Archbishop Makarios is still the constitutionally elected President. [More…]
There is no move to increase the powers of the Legislative Council, which is the locally elected body of the Northern Territory. [More…]
the number of Senators proposed to be elected from each Territory is appropriate; [More…]
the right to vote of the Senators elected by electors in the Territories should be restricted to matters affecting the Territories [More…]
Clearly the Opposition parties in this place have earned the rebuke given by one of the newly elected senators and certain individual members of the Opposition who said that there should be a more workmanlike approach from the Opposition parties to their parliamentary responsibilities. [More…]
This is the second occasion on which the Government has been elected by the people. [More…]
We would hope that the Opposition would give the Government some opportunity to implement the policies on which it was elected to govern this country for the next 3 years and would give the people of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory representation in this chamber on the same basis as they are represented in the House of Representatives. [More…]
I wonder what Senator Steele Hall’s attitude would be if the present Bill made provision for 10 senators to be elected from the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It might suggest that 2 senators should be elected from the Territory of Norfolk Island. [More…]
It might suggest that a number of senators should be elected from Cocos Island, because that is a territory that requires representation. [More…]
Senator Steele Hall should read the Constitution as it relates to the House to which he has been elected. [More…]
Section 128 of the Constitution should be impressive to the man who has been elected to this Senate and who is a former Premier of an important State. [More…]
Is it a fact, as may appeal to Senator Steele Hall, that if this Bill goes through and that then at the next Senate election 2 senators are elected from the Northern Territory there will be only one member of the [More…]
But now the Government seeks to have elected 2 senators from the Northern Territory and two from the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Only members of the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory which was set up by this present Government to advocate how it should act for a fully elected Legislative Council know that the Labor Party has stepped in over that Committee and has now sent Dr Paterson to say: ‘We will decide the terms of a fully elected Council in the Northern Territory’. [More…]
It will be most interesting to see whether the great Labor principle of one vote one value and Aboriginal representation in that great area of the Northern Territory will be shown up by the present Labor Government’s declaration of what it wants in a fully elected Council. [More…]
The Government proposes that the extra senators would be elected at a Senate election in 2 years time and would contest their election at the next House of Representatives election. [More…]
This would enable these senators, if they are to be elected, to be elected every 3 years. [More…]
But no, under the proposals of the Labor Party, the senators will be elected in 2 years time, they will come up for election in another year and they will come up for election in another 2 years after that. [More…]
The Government has proposed that 2 senators should be elected from each Territory. [More…]
They are to be elected at their first election at the next Senate election, and thereafter as each House of Representatives election occurs two of them shall come out and stand for reelection. [More…]
Firstly, is it not a fact that in this Bill there is the fundamental principle that the representatives shall always, by law of this Parliament, be twinned with the Senate, that is, that the territorial Senate representatives shall always compulsorily be elected at the same time as the House of Representatives? [More…]
-They made up their minds and they re-elected the Government which had obtained a double dissolution in respect of 6 Bills, one of which we are now debating. [More…]
I will say now to the Opposition that it is the wish of the Government, which has been elected by the people to govern this country, that this measure be dealt with and that the Senate determine whether it will pass it. [More…]
Please, senators, did not everybody hear the Leader of the Opposition, Senator Withers, say last year that the Opposition has embarked on a deliberate course of bringing down the Government that had just been elected by the majority of the Australian voters? [More…]
We have consistently maintained that view and it would be unreal, having regard to the mandate upon which each one of us was elected on this side of the chamber, to change a view which we previously have held. [More…]
That is because that was the basis upon which we campaigned and that was the basis upon which we were elected. [More…]
We are here to express policies upon which we were elected, and that is what we are doing. [More…]
We have been talking all the time about redistribution of wealth since the Government was elected in 1972. [More…]
If we go back to the original questions which we asked ourselves when this scheme was promised to us long before this Government was elected, we have to ask: Who would pay for the scheme? [More…]
Mr Hayden, in 1972, also before the Labor Party was elected to Government said: [More…]
Why do not honourable senators opposite face realities and realise that for the second time in less than 2 years the Labor Government has been elected and pass these Bills? [More…]
When the Labor Party was first elected to Government there were a number of doctors who said: ‘We are withdrawing from the pensioner medical scheme’. [More…]
I do not mind putting up with a logical sort of argument but the honourable senator has not looked at a hospital in Queensland since the Country Party was elected to office because that is when they disappeared. [More…]
We have our right by virtue of election to have our say and to be heard, and it would be quite improper for the Senate to demand that these Bills be put through- guillotined through as happened in another place- without new members democratically elected having their say, being heard, and expressing their points of view. [More…]
I was elected by people who support the point of view I adopt, people who believe it is right to oppose this bad legislation. [More…]
We are about to reach a position which was reached in Britain recently when the British Medical Association decided to stop issuing free contraceptives- a measure introduced on social grounds by the duly elected government- until they received an extra fee for service. [More…]
The HBA in Melbourne is run by a committee of 28, only 8 of whom are elected by the contributors. [More…]
We debated it during the 1969 election campaign when we were defeated and the Liberal and Country Parties were re-elected. [More…]
It was debated in 1 972 when we were elected. [More…]
On the first occasion in 1969 they rejected the Australian Labor Party and elected, as they soon found to their cost, a Government composed of the Liberal-Country Parties. [More…]
In 1972 and 1974 they elected the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The elected us here to carry out our policies We have our policies. [More…]
the Government’s wish to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory by 3 1 December 1 974; [More…]
The Bureau was one of those organisations that expressed fears on behalf of the Opposition when the new Government was elected. [More…]
Indeed, Part III of the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill 1973 was rejected by this Senate for the prime reason that we, who are elected to be senators in this chamber, have some obligation as senators. [More…]
We are elected directly by the States to represent the States in this place. [More…]
It would have given members of the Australian Labor Party the opportunity to go back to their electorates and get all the views of the people who elected them, and the views of their Party organisations. [More…]
We have been elected to the Senate to conduct ourselves in a responsible manner, and it is essential that we do that. [More…]
A colleague of mine who sought election to the Senate in I think, 1968, and subsequently was elected to the House of Representatives in 1969, 1972 and 1973, recently made an examination of his financial position and found that he is now approximately $2,000 in debt when compared with his financial position when he started. [More…]
We are elected to this place not to manage the economy. [More…]
That the committee elect as DeputyChairman one of the members nominated by the Leader of the Opposition being a member from a different House than the Chairman, and that the member so elected act as Chairman of the committee at any time when the Chairman is not present at a meeting of the committee ‘. ‘ [More…]
At the present time there are five to choose from, four self-appointed and one elected. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory consisting of 19 members to replace the present Legislative Council comprised of 1 1 elected members and 6 official members. [More…]
The elected members of the Legislative Council unanimously favour a Legislative Assembly of 19 members. [More…]
At present the Administrator’s Council consists of 2 official members and 3 elected members; and clause 16 provides, inter alia, for the continuation of ordinances in force at the time the Legislative Assembly is constituted. [More…]
Recent events affecting the operation of this Parliament have made it necessary for the Government to proceed with this Bill as a matter of priority in these sittings so that elections might be held on that date and the Government’s undertaking to give the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected legislature by the end of this year might be kept. [More…]
-In resuming the debate on the second reading of the Northern Territory (Administration) Bill 1974 I remind the Senate that we are deciding now in this place whether the people of the Northern Territory will be given a fully elected Legislative Assembly on or about 24 October this year. [More…]
If there is to be a Parliament- which surely must have powers- to which 5 Ministers will be appointed who, with the Administrator- who is like a governor- will act only in an advisory capacity, how can the Parliament legislate, administer and rule the people who have elected it? [More…]
All that was said on behalf of the Australian Labor Party during the 1972 election campaign was that if the ALP were elected to office, as it was, there would be self-government for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The only other aspect of the Bill with which I want to deal is that it makes provision for a continuity of administration in between the time of the cessation of the term of office of the official members and the present elected members until the new Parliament is drawn up. [More…]
The President of the Legislative Council, Mr Tony Greatorex, has still to be told how the Territory’s proposed Legislative Assembly will be elected and work. [More…]
He is an elected member- in the council yesterday that he was still waiting for the information from the Minister for the Northern Territory, Dr Rex Patterson. [More…]
Officers of Australian Government departments with great consistency gave evidence- we were assured in most cases that their Ministers had seen their submissions- advocating an elected House of Assembly for the Territory, adding with emphasis, ‘But we should not give any of our powers away. ‘ [More…]
In my belief it is absolutely essential to decide upon the number of Aboriginal representatives, the means by which they are to be elected and from what areas they are to come. [More…]
The facts are, as I see them, that the election is to be held on 24 October, the reason mainly being because the Minister took as fact that the elected members would resign if there was not an elected Assembly by the end of this year. [More…]
Those threats were made publicly and to the Committee by a number but not all of the elected members. [More…]
They were sincere in their desire to force the Government into action because they believed that they should not go on holding office for a longer period than that for which they had been elected. [More…]
Both Houses of this Parliament at the behest of the Government set up the Committee with the one proviso that we inquire into and report on means by which there shall be appointed or elected a Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory. [More…]
I believe that we members of the Committee should theoretically close our eyes to the fact that this legislation has become law, that there will be an election and that there will be an elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
We are all aware that the purpose of this Bill is to give legislative force to the establishment of an elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory. [More…]
We are seeing history being written in that one of the territories of Australia is to be given a fully elected government of some type. [More…]
As a member of the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory I was quite proud of the fact the present Labor Government had capitalised on the pronouncements made by the former Liberal and Country Party Administration that a fully elected Assembly would govern the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Labor Government set up a Joint Committee composed of members from both sides of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in part to report to the Government on what would be the wise way to establish a fully elected Assembly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I can remember well the strong arguments that were put by one group, the Aborigines in the Northern Territory, that here was an opportunity to give those wonderful citizens of Australia, concentrated in greater numbers in this part of Australia than anywhere else, direct elected responsibility on the Assembly. [More…]
The elected members of the Legislative Council unanimously favour a Legislative Assembly of 19 members. [More…]
So it is certain that on the promise of the Labor Party there will be a fully elected Assembly in the Northern Territory before the end of the year. [More…]
It seems to me that something should be set down to explain what the position will be when this Assembly is elected. [More…]
There is not one word to explain what this elected Assembly will do. [More…]
There is no indication of the role of the Northern Territory Administration after the creation of this fully elected Assembly. [More…]
Whatever a fully elected Assembly means in the Northern Territory, its members can bet their last shilling that Mr Connor will not hand over one tittle of power regarding the operation of minerals and energy in the Territory. [More…]
I acknowledge that a statement has been made by the Government to the effect that it hopes to have a fully elected Assembly by the end of this year. [More…]
You can take 19 elected members, 2 teaspoonsful of hope and a dash of finance and you can have instant government. [More…]
These branches can become immediately responsible to the elected representatives of Northern Territory people and not to a far distant Minister who never now even bothers to set foot rn the place or even communicate with the people of the Northern Territory either officially or unofficially. [More…]
The honourable Minister appears to be far too busy of late to come to the Territory to discuss matters with elected members even when they have paid him the courtesy of writing to him and indicating that urgent discussions are needed. [More…]
Whilst one can say it is grand that we are seeing movements towards the establishment of a fully elected Council in the Northern Territory- all would support that view- one has the greatest regret that the Minister and the administration in the Labor Party in Canberra do not have the ability to set a proper foundation for a fully elected Council in the Northern Territory. [More…]
30 came to this House from the other place to set up this Joint Select Committee to look into the very things that we are discussing today, one which is of prime importance being the establishment of a fully elected council for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Northern Territory to have a fully elected Legislative Assembly before 31 December 1974, and the question of referred powers to be one for negotiation and determination before then. [More…]
It is printed in our platform that we would give the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Assembly before December this year. [More…]
So I was able to give attention to the functioning of this Committee, as I was elected to do. [More…]
The Labor Government at present has a majority of members in the Council because we nominate certain members as well as having members elected. [More…]
When we have a fully elected Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory, no doubt this Government will see that its members are adequately remunerated. [More…]
Even though the Legislative Assembly will have been elected, we will have other work to do. [More…]
We all recognise the need for this elected body in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But from listening to the debate it appears that the criticism of the Government’s action centres on the fact that this decision to provide for a fully elected Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory was taken before the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory makes its report. [More…]
We are not debating the principle of the establishment of the elected body. [More…]
But the Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) made it quite clear that the Committee ‘s report, in conjunction with his own discussions with the members of the Assembly when they are elected, will form the basis of the procedures that will be adopted. [More…]
The Minister, and I am sure those who will be elected to the Assembly, will rely heavily on what the [More…]
It also should be made known that the present elected members of the Legislative Council did not want any extension of their terms of office beyond that for which they had been elected, that is, beyond 23 October next. [More…]
So all in all, we have the position where there is unanimous agreement that there should be an elected body in the Northern Territory, and the legislation provides for it. [More…]
An elected body in the Territory is something that we all basically want to see. [More…]
Once this legislation is passed through the Parliament we can say that the Northern Territory is on the road to the thing which I think most of us want to see, that is, a properly elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
In view of the wishes of the elected members of the Legislative Council that the Territory should have a fully elected assembly as a matter of priority and that there should be 19 seats in that Assembly, my colleague the Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) asked the Distribution Committee for the Northern Territory to be ready at short notice to recommend the distribution of the Northern Territory into 19 electoral districts. [More…]
I am not arguing about the ordinary services of government or the power of a government elected to raise revenue for its purposes. [More…]
The first Victorian Parliament was elected under the provisions of the Victorian Constitution Act, 1855. [More…]
The Australian Parliamentary Handbook of 1973 discloses that Mr Nixon was elected to the House of Representatives for the electorate of Gippsland, in Victoria, in 1961 and that he held a ministerial appointment from 16 October 1967. [More…]
As all honourable senators and members were elected to represent the people of Australia, will he guarantee that parliamentarians will be able to reach Canberra to carry out their duties here next week? [More…]
However, the honourable senator is basically right in the latter part of his question because the following year, after a Labor Government had been elected, Australia did support a resolution the basis of which was the resolution to which the honourable senator referred in his question. [More…]
In opposing these Bills I want to make some remarks in this final stage of a debate which has been continuing since before this Government was elected in 1972. [More…]
This is the end result of a proposal which was designed by the present Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) prior to this Government being elected by the people of Australia. [More…]
This Government was elected on the promise that it would spend money in areas of need, and that is the philosophy of the Government. [More…]
We find that the Government that has been elected to office is concerned with the quality of life rather than with the commercial interests of life. [More…]
In those circumstances the quality of representation would be greatly undermined as electors faced continual changes in both their elected representatives and their electorates. [More…]
We know that we are afflicted in this country- I use the word ‘afflicted’ advisedly- by Upper Houses which are not democratically elected, which are not elected by the people, which flout the very principle about which Benjamin Franklin talked in his words that I read to the Parliament. [More…]
It is a most important part of our democratic structure that governments should be elected on the basis of one person one vote. [More…]
Day after day he argued that it was undemocratic and unfair that a government should be frustrated by senators who in some cases had been elected several years before Labor came to power. [More…]
In fact, quotas are determined on population and the first 75 members that were elected to this place were elected on the basis of roughly 50,000 electors per member. [More…]
They are elected as legislators, not just to become mere letter carriers to indicate that they have made some telephone call to a Minister and therefore that they are representing an area well- not at all. [More…]
It is because of a double dissolution caused by senators who are elected on the basis that they will look after State rights. [More…]
Admittedly, as a result of the double dissolution we did remove a splinter Party which supported the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party through thick and thin but did not have enough votes to have one person elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
There is no obstructionism from the Senate if we are democrats and recognise that the voice of the people can be expressed in 2 chambers each elected on a democratic basis. [More…]
If, for example, one looks at the quotas which senators have to achieve to be elected in the States of New South Wales and Victoria at a periodic half Senate election, and then looks at what would be required to elect a senator from the Territories one will have not only a remarkable admiration for the dexterity with which the one vote one value principle can be espoused and then denied by members of the Labor Party, but also a picture of how unjust the representation would be. [More…]
In 1970- the figures would be greater now, of course- a person required almost 300,000 votes to be elected as a senator in New South Wales. [More…]
But to be elected a senator for the Australian Capital Territory all that would have been required in 1973 was 28,000 votes and to be elected a senator from the Northern Territory all that would have been required was 10,600 votes. [More…]
As far as I can understand the system, senators, who are not State government people and who are not elected to the Senate as representatives of the New South Wales Government, the Queensland Government, the Victorian Government, the Tasmanian Government or the Western Australian Government, are elected to the Senate according to a different system of elections than those relating to the House of Representatives, but just as members of the House of Representatives are elected to that House to represent the people of a particular part of Australia, so too do senators represent people and not State governments. [More…]
A little while ago in the House of Representatives we heard the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) say in respect of one of the measures that the Joint Sitting will discuss tonight or tomorrow- I refer to the National Health legislation which proposes a health scheme on which this Government campaigned and was elected; it was proposed first to the Australian people in 1968 and was restated in 1969, 1972 and 1974-that he and the Opposition would go to the barricades rather than yield one iota, one inch, to the will of the people. [More…]
It is not an artificial argument to consider that members of the Senate are voted for and are elected by the electorate of Australia. [More…]
I rather thought he would be most apprehensive after the allegation which he has made about people who have been validly elected to a corporation which was established by vote in this chamber and, in the electoral process. [More…]
Now he queries the basis on which those people were elected. [More…]
Mr Chairman, we believe that as the Northern Territory moves towards statehood it should be given an opportunity to have the same sort of Senate voice as every other State, not a watered down Senate voice with senators who are to be elected for less than a full term and senators who are to be restricted in such a way as to reduce the power of those who are normal members of the Senate. [More…]
It is not surprising that the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council have for a number of years pressured Federal governments to give Senate representation to the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Because we believe that all senators should be elected at the same time as House of Representatives elections are held, we have written this present provision into the Bill which we hope after today will become the law of Australia. [More…]
Somehow it is suggested that because people live in these territories they are unworthy of being represented in the Senate and that elected representatives from the territories should not sit in the Senate. [More…]
They will be elected on different terms and at different times but with powers equal to any other bona fide senator. [More…]
It was largely due to the pressures applied by the honourable member for the Northern Territory and the elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Council that the former Liberal Party-Country Party Government made a firm offer to the Northern Territory towards constitutional advancement and executive power. [More…]
On present growth forecasts if they were elected at the time of the next electionin about 3 years time- they would each represent more than the number of people represented by each senator from Tasmania, [More…]
If we take a broader view and look at all the elected people in the States, the position is even more remarkable. [More…]
If we in the Australian Capital Territory had our new assembly of 18 elected legislative assembly members, 2 members of the House of Representatives and 2 senators, we would have one elected person to more than 5,000 electors. [More…]
If we look at the smallest States, we see that Western Australia has one elected member for each 387 electors, South Australia has one elected member for every 527 electors and Tasmania has one elected representative for each 480 electors. [More…]
I would not go before the people in an election campaign and advocate a policy in opposition of Labor, and then because the Government got a miserable majority of 5 in one House and a minority of 2 in another, come here and desert the causes that people elected me to represent. [More…]
We are elected by the people on adult suffrage with potency equal to that of the gentlemen and ladies who inhabit the House of Representatives. [More…]
They are to go out every time the Prime Minister goes to the hustings, in the hope that he can get a Labor senator elected from each of the Territories. [More…]
They elected 6 senators and 5 members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
These are the realities of the Senate: Because it is elected equally from the States, it is almost bound to be equally divided after an election. [More…]
But let me say something about it and for it as a non-voter in the Australian Capital Territory but as one who has been deeply involved in it ever since I was elected to this place 19 years ago. [More…]
We may well take the honourable member for Moreton at his word and have 5, 15 or 50 senators from each Territory, but so long as they are elected on the system advocated and proposed in the Bill it will not make a jot of difference to the balance in the Senate. [More…]
The honourable Minister appears far too busy of late to come to the Territory to discuss matters with elected members even when they paid the courtesy of writing to him or indicating that urgent discussions are needed. [More…]
Are members of the Opposition parties being so complimentary to us as to say that the Australian Labor Party will receive over twothirds of the votes in each of those Territories and thus have its senators elected? [More…]
What conceivable difference can it make from a party point of view if there are 2 senators from each Territory elected on the basis of proportional representation? [More…]
Does not reason suggest that there will be one member in support of the Government and one member in support of the Opposition elected from each of these Territories? [More…]
The reason is that in the House of government the Australian Labor Party has a majority to which it was elected, and in the Senate a combination of misfit organisations holds a majority owing to the flukes of preferential voting. [More…]
I have always been a little mystified as to why the fact that someone was elected to Parliament in 1899 makes him more sagacious than somebody who was elected to Parliament in 1974. [More…]
We say that each of those 2 senators should be elected by the proportional representation system on each occasion that the elections take place. [More…]
There are to be senators from the States elected- the public has voted for this at Senate elections- separately, if necessary, as States and groups of States. [More…]
There are to be Territorial representatives elected at each House of Representatives election. [More…]
There are to be Territorial representatives elected under a formula of by-elections, quite differently. [More…]
The first member for the Northern Territory was elected in 1922, and until 1936 he had no vote in the House of Representatives. [More…]
They are to be elected differently. [More…]
Although we have been regarded as obstructing the wish of the Australian Government to introduce its health scheme, I believe that I represent the people of Victoria who have elected me to this place, and I assure them that it will not be my vote that will enable a nationalised health scheme to be introduced into this country. [More…]
In fact a most radical step was suggested- that members of the boards of these funds should be elected by the contributors. [More…]
But the Senate is a States House because there are 10 senators from each State elected to it so that an equal representation from each State is maintamed. [More…]
I think the people of Queensland should be congratulated on having elected Senator Sheil to the Senate. [More…]
For instance, the Hospital Benefits Association in Victoria is run by a committee of twenty-eight, only eight of whom are elected by the contributors. [More…]
In other words, in government the Liberal and Country Parties did not believe in governing and out of government they do not believe in allowing the elected popular government to govern. [More…]
He said that the Senate is not elected democratically. [More…]
Not democratically elected? [More…]
Senator Murphy will be upset about being accused of not being elected democratically. [More…]
The history of the United States would have been a lot better if a conservationist in the person of Senator Edward Muskie had been elected President instead of what did happen. [More…]
Under our out-of-date for the 1970s form of government, with the States warring with the Australian Government, a hostile Senate with extraordinary powers able to frustrate the will of the popularly elected House of Representatives, members of the Opposition have plenty of opportunities to practice this obstructionism. [More…]
At that meeting the members of that Committee elected me as their chairman and, when I was responding to the honour that they had bestowed upon me, I mentioned the services rendered to the Committee by its former chairman, the former Western Australian senator, Hartley Cant. [More…]
I state clearly on behalf of the people who have elected me why I will vote against the Opposition’s motion if it is taken to a vote. [More…]
However, I think that I can well and truly say that unlike the Liberal Party, which at the last election undertook, if elected to office, to abolish the Department of the Media, whilst there is a Labor government in office there certainly will always be a Department of the Media. [More…]
Did any Liberal or Country Party senator elected since 1972 make any similar protest? [More…]
We will attempt in the Committee stage to amend the Bills to ensure that responsibility lies with those who are elected to carry the responsibility. [More…]
We are all Australians and no government has any prior claim on the Australian’s money over any other elected authority in Australia. [More…]
In order to protect democracy in Australia we have to make certain that local authorities elected by ratepayers have a sense of responsibility, a capacity to plan and a capacity to spend. [More…]
In 1965 he was elected Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party- the youngest in the Party’s history and the first to hold the office of Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party and President of the Labour Party at the same time. [More…]
He was re-elected to both of these positions in 1968. [More…]
At 30 years of age Mr Kirk became one of the youngest local government leaders in New Zealand when he was elected mayor of his home town. [More…]
The Government has been elected to carry out its policies. [More…]
Senators are elected to provide a check on government, to advise government and to enlarge the sum of knowledge that is available to the electors. [More…]
That the committee elect as Deputy Chairman one of the members nominated by the Leader of the Opposition being a member from a different House than the Chairman, and that the member so elected act as Chairman of the committee at any time when the Chairman is not present at a meeting of the committee. [More…]
He has declined to provide the information and he has succumbed to that which his own Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), before he was elected to the Prime Ministership, declared to be the demeaning idea that government knows best and that only government knows best. [More…]
Does the Liberal Party say that if it were elected to government it would cancel recognition of the Government in Peking and say that the real Government of China is in Taipei? [More…]
Eventually, amongst the small nations, Australia was able to muster enough votes to enable Dr Evatt to be elected as the President of the United Nations. [More…]
The point is that this afternoon Senator Wheeldon said that the Australian foreign policy is directed towards attempting to have my friend Senator Willesee elected as the President of the United Nations. [More…]
That is why the people elected me here. [More…]
But if he can prove to the people who elected him to the Senate and to the people who elected me here that I sit on fences, I say good luck to him. [More…]
At present there is no specific provision enabling a public servant who resigns to contest an election in the Northern Territory to be re-appointed or re-employed in the Public Service if he fails to be elected. [More…]
A person who retired from the Public Service to contest an election for the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory may, if he fails to be elected, be reappointed or re-employed at his previous level. [More…]
Consistent with its Party platform, on the basis of which it was elected to office in 1972 and reconfirmed in that office last May, the Labor Government lays great emphasis on the need to approach the development of Australia’s uranium industry in an orderly and coherent manner. [More…]
On 24 May 1971 the Liberal Party of Australia, Queensland Division, selected me to fill a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin. [More…]
On 18 May 1974 1 was again elected by the people of Queensland including- I emphasise the word ‘including’- a special vote of confidence by some 20,000 citizens of my State. [More…]
The Aborigines in Queensland should not be worse off, by virtue of the fact that they have a Premier elected by a minority vote, than Aborigines in other parts of the country who live in States in which there is properly elected majority rule in the State Parliaments. [More…]
What is required in this country is a consistent attitude which enshrines the public interest as represented in the government elected by the people and seeks to check the unrestricted exercise of power by groups who cannot claim the legitimacy of public support which the Government which exercises power can claim. [More…]
In a situation in which people may belong to a union for three or four months, because they happen to work in the Shepparton canneries or the wool industry for three of four months, it is absolutely ludicrous to say that they should be placed in a position n of equal importance with officials and elected officers of that union who have contributed to its running over many years. [More…]
In the following positions only sufficient nominations were received to fill the vacancies required and accordingly the members concerned are declared elected unopposed: [More…]
We have enormous problems of interpretation which in fact multiply the difficulties which the Minister seeks to overcome and which undermine the authority of a union leadership which, when it is appointed, ought to have the respect of the union membership after it is elected in accordance with democratic procedures. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States’ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign states formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources of their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
Following those actions of the Government in 1973 in relation to tariffs and revaluation, we had in 1974 the May election which was brought about by the refusal of supply to the elected government. [More…]
It is in this context that the people in my Party who selected me and the people who elected me in Western Australia would expect me to make judgments on matters which affect Western Australia and to exercise the power which has been vested in me as a member of the Senate. [More…]
I was reminded the other night that during the last election campaign Mr Snedden said that interest rates would have to go up, before they would come down, even if his Party were elected to office. [More…]
Once again let us emphasise what Mr Whitlam was promising in the policy speech on which he was elected- required to see the program through. [More…]
The actions of the Government since it was elected do not support the promise made in that policy speech. [More…]
In the event the Prime Minister and the Government late last year elected to lengthen the loan period. [More…]
When the 1972 general election campaign was being fought- nowhere was it fought more bitterly than Townsville- the Labor candidate and the then Labor Leader, Mr Whitlam, made it clear that if Labor were elected to office it would immediately provide funds for the construction of stage 2 of the Ross River dam. [More…]
That is the best discipline of all to make certain that those who are elected are people of the proper calibre and integrity. [More…]
Conflict of interests surely is the most important matter for us to consider, but to me it is overridden by the knowledge that when a member is elected to the Senate or the House of Representatives or obtains public support by vote and is elected to a local council or to a State parliament there is a demonstration of public confidence in his record and an acknowledgement that he is a man of some repute, a man of honour who will vote fairly on matters. [More…]
It no doubt has a lot of substance when related to the House of Commons, an elected House, in its relationship to the House of Lords, a non-elected House. [More…]
It is a chamber which is freely elected on the same franchise as the other place. [More…]
The members of the Senate are perhaps more democratically elected because we come here by proportional representation vote. [More…]
Senator Button, who was elected in May, said people should not be frightened of the apparent disorder as it was all a pan of society’s growth. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite should have a look at the record of South Australia where a Labor Government was never able to be elected unless it received 56 per cent of the vote. [More…]
When Walshe was elected he had to get 55 per cent of the vote. [More…]
When Dunstan was elected he had to get 56 per cent of the vote. [More…]
It is a panel elected by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects to advise my Department on Aboriginal housing. [More…]
The Government was not elected on socialisation. [More…]
The next speaker in the Budget debate is Senator Bessell from Tasmania, who is the last of the IS newly elected senators to make a maiden speech in the chamber. [More…]
I remind the Senate that it is a time honoured custom that a newly elected senator making his initial speech to the Senate is heard without interjection or interruption. [More…]
That is why, from the moment the Government was elected, it has worked unremittingly, ceaselessly, to attack inflation at its roots. [More…]
Mr Whitlam made these statements about the system before Labor was elected to office. [More…]
Is it not a fact that although the Aboriginal Housing Panel is elected by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects it is wholly funded by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and in fact received a sum of $100,000 for its activities? [More…]
I offer my congratulations to the newly elected senators who have made their maiden speeches in the Budget debate. [More…]
Indeed, I am so bold as to say that probably the best speeches on the Budget which have come down in this session were given by newly elected senators. [More…]
The Budget reacts against primary producers in respect of telephones as compared with the people Labor was elected to look after, the city folk. [More…]
But, Sir, I have a great deal of worry about you as the representative of the Senate, the elected leader of the Senate and the President of the Senate. [More…]
The important aspect about the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party is that for the whole of this century there has been a great party representing about half of the people- sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less than half- and it has evolved a democratic structure whereby delegates are elected properly from the various States and from trade union organisations to conferences at State level. [More…]
In conclusion I would like to refer to a remark which sometimes one hears or reads in the Press in Tasmania in relation to the representation of its elected representatives in this Parliament. [More…]
It would show the people who elected us to this place- on whichever side of your chair, Mr President, we may sit- that we are vitally interested in what is going on and that we earnestly desire to get together to try to formulate a plan that will act as a solution for the disadvantaged people in Tasmania who have suffered, unfortunately, for too long a period. [More…]
Senator Bessell suggested that the reason for the travelling to Tasmania by Ministers of this Government which has gone on since we were elected in 1972 was that we recognised that we were in some difficulty in Tasmania. [More…]
In this instance we have an agreement between the elected representatives of Tasmania on a State basis and on a Federal basis to further the interests of Tasmania. [More…]
When I was elected to the House of Representatives in 1966 I quite naturally took a very intimate interest in railway projects, particularly in South Australia. [More…]
Late in the election campaign when I was gaining some confidence, and recognising the dangers of a politician’s making any promises, I said at Whyalla that when I was elected to the House of Representatives I would ensure that a railway line was constructed from Port Augusta to Whyalla. [More…]
Moreover, if a branch has become defunct, participation on the union’s committee of management of representatives purporting to have been elected to the Federal body to represent the branch may result in invalidities in the proceedings of the Committee. [More…]
As an elected member of this chamber I felt that I had the right to do so and to say the things that I said. [More…]
I think that the Opposition ought not to remind the people of the disastrous period that it had in office and its disastrous steps in forcing a government, which was properly elected, to go to a premature election at which the Opposition was defeated. [More…]
It rumbles still and talks about what it might do to prevent the properly elected Government of Australia carrying out its mandate. [More…]
I have mentioned previously in this place that the Government, having assured the people when it was elected in 1972 that it would not increase taxation, eventually imposed a 10 per cent increase in company taxation on proprietary limited companies. [More…]
I wonder which is closer to the people, whether it is the Minister who is elected to this House or the Commission without the responsibility to the public and in the fashion as Senator Greenwood recommends it. [More…]
-I think it is fair to say that the trade union movement in general around Australia worked very hard to have a Labor Government elected in 1972 and again worked very hard to have that Government stay in power in the election in May this year. [More…]
I am sure that at the next election- whenever it comes- the trade union movement in general again will work very hard to have the Labor Government re-elected, as it will be, because again that will be to the advantage of the members of the trade unions. [More…]
As in so many areas of government, it was necessary for a Labor Government to be elected to power in this country before any serious attempt was made to grapple with this problem. [More…]
But what I want to say is this: A government is elected to govern. [More…]
And whereas the Senate is not only an independent House of Review elected democratically by the people with its own mandate to protect their heritage and constitutional rights, but is the States ‘ House by which all Australians in their own sovereign States formed long before Federation can bring together ideas and plans and resources for their mutual benefit and advancement, [More…]
Before this Government was elected to office a report was prepared by that Committee. [More…]
I am glad that Senator Sir Magnus Cormack has become engrossed in the possibility of an Australian being elected president of the General Assembly next year. [More…]
The councils are commonly called the third tier of government but their representatives are directly elected by the people in a way that makes them probably the most responsive of all elected officials in this country. [More…]
At the meeting which was held, I think in Essendon in February 1 974 where a council was elected, which is the interim council for this western region, various accounts were given as to the circumstances in which the members of the council were elected. [More…]
There is another area which causes me very grave concern: We have elected groups already established in this country which are being bypassed. [More…]
They are elected bodies. [More…]
We have bodies already established in this country and accepted as responsible bodies by the community and elected by the community. [More…]
I am not convinced that we could not achieve the same aims with regard to the provision of welfare services if we worked through our local elected councils. [More…]
We know that the councils are elected in a democratic fashion. [More…]
I repeat what I was saying before: Local government councils elected in open elections are closer to the people than these regional councils. [More…]
I have met the members of the councils who have been elected by the people in a democratic ballot. [More…]
I think that Senator Cavanagh should respect the wishes of the elected councils regarding this matter of the permit system. [More…]
Every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island reserve in the State has its elected council. [More…]
I asked Mr Hewitt to discuss with me the question of Palm Island at the time he visited this democratically elected council. [More…]
I was elected by the people, which is more than he was. [More…]
Sir Reginald was appointed by a government elected by the people. [More…]
I do not want to create the impression here or anywhere else that I would take away the democratic right of people to lobby their elected representatives. [More…]
What concerns me further is the fact that although male senators are under some restriction as to what they are allowed to wear in this chamber, female senators appear to be under no restriction because if I look to my right tonight I can see a newly elected female senator, Senator Coleman, dressed in what I would describe as an open-neck shirt. [More…]
We know that there is a democratically elected Federal Conference consisting of delegates elected by the Party congress in each State, the Labor Premiers or the Labor Leaders of the Opposition in each State and also now the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, Senator Willesee and myself. [More…]
Before the Australian Labor Party was elected to office in 1 972 the war widows ‘ pension was $20 a week and the domestic allowance, which is received by most war widows, was $8.50 a week. [More…]
If one wants to know about the obstruction all one has to do is turn up the record of the Senate to see an unparalleled performance of frustration and obstruction of a duly elected government of the people. [More…]
When he was elected he sold out to Mr Bolte in Victoria. [More…]
We accept him as an elected representative of the people of South Australia but I am a little disturbed that he, as a representative of the people of South Australia, should come into this chamber and use these two housing Bills we are debating tonight as a vehicle by which to denigrate the Premier of South Australia. [More…]
He defeated the honourable senator as Premier of South Australia and has been twice elected Premier of that State. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Services and Property: Is he able to offer any reasonable excuse on behalf of the present Labor socialist Government as to why such utter failure has followed this Government and why the Australian Labor Party was unable to win even one seat in the fully elected Northern Territory Legislative Assembly for which elections were held some weeks ago? [More…]
What has happened, therefore, is this: Some 2 years ago the Whitlam Government was elected on a fraud. [More…]
They were asked to remember the situation that obtained when they elected the Government in 1972. [More…]
It is a greater tribute than any I can pay to recall that, after his first term, U Thant was re-appointed for a further 5 years as Secretary-General, and would have received the confidence of the United Nations for a third term had he not elected to retire. [More…]
It is therefore proposed to require an elector to mark his order of preference on the ballot paper only up to the number of candidates to be elected. [More…]
Therefore, not a single senator could be elected until about 3 weeks. [More…]
The power of industrial blackmail is endeavouring to elevate the authority of a few union leaders above the authority of the elected and responsible members of the Parliament. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the elected Government and the elected Government in Victoria some 10 years ago, through its State Electricity Commission, commenced the investigation ofthe power needs of Victoria to meet peak loads and to meet the overall requirements in the latter part of the 1970s through into the 1980s and so on for the balance of this century. [More…]
No group of people, no matter how deserving they might claim to be or how public spirited their plea might be, has the right to put its judgment and its voice in the place of the judgment of the people as demonstrated through the elected government. [More…]
At the time that that statement was made the Victorian Premier properly said that the unions attitude represented a defiance of parliament and the elected government. [More…]
1 believe every opportunity ought to be taken to emphasise that there is a threat to the position of Parliament, to the position of an elected Government and the whole institution of democracy in this country. [More…]
One cannot expect political parties or people who happen to be elected to this Parliament to come to finite decisions on a statement of intent until they see the Bill. [More…]
People can be elected on tickets, as they are in this place. [More…]
one result of a system that does not require electors to vote for all candidates whose names appear in the ballot paper is that a candidate may be declared elected although the total number of votes credited to him falls short or the required quota. [More…]
It has been shown in many places on many occasions that a first past the post system, or a system of optional preferential voting which is perhaps a prelude to first past the post, is a form of voting which has elected minority governments on many occasions. [More…]
This system was tried, as Senator Wood said, in Queensland in the 1930s and when it last operated there, in 1941, 1 notice that with something like 5 1 per cent of the votes the government of that day was elected with 66 per cent of the seats. [More…]
I do not want to get dragged into discussing what was said because I would then be making the same mistake of going into a Committee debate, but Senator Wood took an over-simplistic approach when he said that the full preferential system is the perfect system because if the first candidate is not elected he then looks to preferences from the second candidate assuming he is not elected and so on down the list of candidates. [More…]
The Minister has already had a very unpleasant shock from the reactions of the island communities and the reservation communities which are freely elected by an ordinary democratic vote. [More…]
These are intelligent men and women who were elected by their community to serve their communities. [More…]
With all the cries that come from the other side of the chamber about self-determination and all that sort of jazz, it seems strange that over the years there have been only three, or two, Aborigines so far who have been elected to any parliament in Australia- myself here for the Liberal Party, and a chap in the Northern Territory [More…]
I, … do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen as a member of the Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1 922- 1 9 , for the purpose of the appeal made by (here insert name of appellant) (or in the case of the Chairman or elected representative of the Division to which the appellant belongs as a member of any Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , of which I may be a member) and that 1 will perform the duties and exercise the powers imposed or conferred upon me as such member without fear or favour affection or ill-will. [More…]
do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen as a member of the Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , for the purpose of the appeal made by (here insert name of appellant) (or in the case of the Chairman or elected representative of the Division to which the appellant belongs as a member of any Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , of which I may be a member) and that I will perform the duties and exercise the powers imposed or conferred upon me as such member without fear or favour affection or ill-will. [More…]
They can be done better by those people who are elected by the people of Australia to do these very things. [More…]
Nothing in this Bill and nothing in the financial Bills which the Government puts forward indicates any acceptance of that principle, and it will obviously not be before another government is elected that that principle will be accepted. [More…]
I think it is lamentable that Opposition senators should presume to understand what it means to the real little people of this countrythe pensioners- for whom this Government has done more than any Government ever did in the 23 years before we were elected to office. [More…]
It was promised that it would be introduced after the Whitlam Government was elected to office. [More…]
I think these are the people whom the Government tells us it is elected to look after. [More…]
The evidence would tend to support the view that a large number of the elected councils on the various reserves in Queensland do not want some of the provisions in this Bill. [More…]
Aboriginal affairs must be taken out of the inflexible archaic bureaucratic institutions of Australian Public Service and a national Aboriginal statutory commission control and operated by elected Aboriginal people with a secretariat to implement its decisions. [More…]
For that reason it is the Opposition’s view that debate on this Bill should be adjourned to enable the Government to consult with the Aboriginal people living in the reserve communities in the State of Queensland and with their elected councils and other representative bodies, and further to ascertain, by a poll taken within those communities, the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those community areas. [More…]
If that is carried, on the motion that the resumption of the debate be made an order of the day for the next day of sitting or for a later hour, whichever the Minister would like, I would move that it be the first day of sitting in March 1975, to enable the Government to consult the Aboriginal people living in the reserve communities in Queensland, their elected councils and other bodies and further to ascertain, by poll taken within those communities, the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those community areas. [More…]
John Watson, who is quite a nice young bloke, is Chairman of the Council on Palm Island because of white interference in the Council which had been properly elected previously. [More…]
They do have councils democratically elected. [More…]
The position under Queensland law is that no person can enter, visit or reside on a reserve without a permit from the democratically elected council- not from any European or anybody of that nature- and the main purpose of the Bill is to maintain that condition on these reserves and settlements and on the islands. [More…]
Leave out all words after ‘Order ofthe Day’, insert ‘for the first sitting day in March 1975 to enable the Government to consult with the Aboriginal people living in reserve communities in the State of Queensland and their elected councils and other bodies and further to ascertain by poll taken within those communities the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those community areas ‘. [More…]
I should like to quote from a Press statement which was released by the elected leaders of the Queensland Aboriginal reserve residents. [More…]
Despite what has been said here this afternoon the councils are fully and freely elected. [More…]
Did he not notice that the Aboriginal candidate, Hyacinth Tungatalum, who was elected, is a member of the Country-Liberal Party in the Northern Territory? [More…]
I support the amendment that will be moved by Senator Rae to leave out all words after ‘order of the day’ and to insert: for the first sitting day in March 1 975 to enable the Government to consult with the Aboriginal people living in the reserve communities in the State of Queensland and their elected councils and other bodies and further to ascertain by poll taken within those communities the wishes of those people in relation to future restrictions upon the right of entry to those communities. [More…]
Whilst there are provisions within clause 5 with which we agree- for example, that there be a rotation of the membership and that all the members should not be elected at the one time- we are concerned that if this clause is passed certain members of the Corporation will be replaced before their term is due to expire. [More…]
We believe that it was part of the mandate on which we were elected to office. [More…]
The self-regulatory role of stock exchanges The management of a stock exchange in Australia is in the hands of a committee elected from its members. [More…]
Whatever may be the views of the people of Queensland, the people of Australia have elected Mr Whitlam twice. [More…]
I just thought that it is the appropriate day for it to pass in his absence because as I understand it, it is 25 years today since he was elected to the Senate. [More…]
He was elected on 10 December 1949. [More…]
To say that he is not a duly elected representative of the Cherbourg settlement, as honourable senators opposite are trying to make out, is, I think, absolutely wrong. [More…]
The people elected to the councils are democratically elected, despite what Senator Keeffe says. [More…]
I make no apology for standing up for the Aboriginal people in the communities and for the councillors who have been duly elected by the Aboriginal people in the communities. [More…]
It is hypocrisy on the part of the Minister and Senator Keeffe to say that the Aboriginal councils, which were duly elected by the people, should not have the right to say who enters their communities. [More…]
The councils were elected by the people. [More…]
I want to see clauses 6 and 7 deleted from this Bill to allow the responsibility of the communities to lie in the hands of the duly elected Aboriginal councils. [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…]
I am very keen to take part in opposing this measure because I believe that if there is one element which should belong to the fully elected assembly or council of a self governing community it is the right to decide the use to be made of the urban lands. [More…]
Surely these lands should rightly be controlled by the elected members of such a body and not by distant Canberra. [More…]
I emphasise the words ‘the Government’s’- wish to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory by 3 1 December 1 974. [More…]
So the Committee set up by the Government recommended in its report that there be control of urban land by the newly and fully elected Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I do not think that people will argue against the fact that the acquisition, provision and pricing of urban land will be done more in the interests of the people of the Territory if it is done by the elected members of the Legislative Assembly who are responsible to the electors. [More…]
In that statement he said that he would refer to the full elected Legislative Assembly, a decision on a request by Darwin nudists to establish a free beach in the area, but he will not give that Assembly the power to legislate and control urban land in Darwin. [More…]
When this Government came into office it had already stated 2 policy objectives which are relevant here: Firstly, it wanted to stabilise land prices throughout Australia; and secondly, it wanted to give the Northern Territory a fully elected Assembly and then transfer certain functions to it after a joint committee of this Parliament had examined self-government measures for the Northern Territory. [More…]
On the second objective of the Government the Minister has moved quickly to give effect to the first stage of constitutional reform for the Northern Territory, namely, a fully elected Assembly. [More…]
A. Smith was told this morning that the Australian Labor Party had pledged the Australian National Line for the King Island run if it is elected to the Government in December. [More…]
I say to Senator Rae in the concluding stages of this debate tonight: Let the Opposition tell us, not next week, not next year, but now, before the debate on this Bill concludes, specifically what it will promise for the King Island shipping services if it is elected to government. [More…]
Is it not the right of an elected government to make appointments to senior positions in the Public Service and government instrumentalities, and was not that right freely exercised under the last Liberal Party-Country Party Government? [More…]
without new members democratically elected having their say - [More…]
I was elected by people who support the point of view I adopt, people who believe it is right to oppose this bad legislation. [More…]
Senator Baume adopted the very respectable and proper view that it is the democratic right of an elected government to implement its policies. [More…]
The Government was elected on a particular program about which every voter in Australia was quite clear- that if the Labor Government was re-elected we would get this health insurance program. [More…]
tables report (b) Government considers executive role newly elected Assembly after studying above report (c) Ministers for Northern Territory and Environment have discussions Assembly representatives (d) Northern Territory public properly consulted stop Further passage Bill this week would show contempt Territory people and new Assembly. [More…]
Having completed 25 years of service since first being elected as senators they are commencing their next quarter century of service. [More…]
Of course the day those honourable senators were elected to this Senate was a great day not only for them. [More…]
Another senator was elected that day who is still in the Parliament, namely, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) in another place. [More…]
During the course of last year the Prime Minister on many occasions stated, and stated correctly, that the Government had been elected for a 3-year term to implement the policy which it had put before the Australian people. [More…]
On my return to Europe I visited Greece, where I had talks on 3 January with the recently elected Prime Minister, Mr Karamanlis. [More…]
He asked the people to remember what it was like when they elected the Labor Party in 1972. [More…]
When you elected us in 1972 unemployment was at its worst for 10 years. [More…]
Notwithstanding Sir Charles Court’s assertion that inflation could be beaten State by State, what has happened since he has been elected is that the consumer price index for Western Australia, which at the time of his election in March 1974 stood at the national average, has rocketed to 58 per cent above the Australian average. [More…]
A State Parliament or Governor is not bound to choose as a successor to a vacating senator some one belonging to that senator’s party or who subscribes to the platform which the senator supported when he was last elected as senator. [More…]
Mr Poyser is being nominated and elected because of a procedure established by this Government. [More…]
They elected an individual, one Lionel Keith Murphy. [More…]
That is who they elected. [More…]
I thought we were all elected as individual members of the Senate or of the House of Representatives. [More…]
As to the argument that the proportional system must prevail throughout the term of those senators- basically that is the argument which the Government is putting- it is saying that if 5 senators are elected for a 6-year term, two from one group and three from another group, that proportion must remain for the totality of the 6 years. [More…]
As I recall it, in 1 96 1 Senator Paltridge and Senator Vincent were elected to this place. [More…]
The Labor Party is saying that the practice which has been followed since 1951, as I understand Mr Odgers’ book, should be followed for the sole reason that a person was elected by a proportional representation system of voting. [More…]
I am amazed that the Leader of the Opposition, who came to the Senate under a system of proportional representation, stands here and acquiesces in Mr Lewis’s stand, because those of us who have been elected to this Parliament by the people of the States that we were chosen to represent have been elected because we are members of a political party, except perhaps Senator Townley, who was elected as an independent member of the Parliament but who became a member of the Liberal Party yesterday. [More…]
It is humbug for a senator to stand in this chamber and say that Mr Murphy was elected to the Parliament as an individual and not as a member of the Labor movement. [More…]
He was elected in 1961 as the second candidate on the Labor ticket in New South Wales. [More…]
He was elected .in 1967 as the second candidate on the Labor ticket in New South Wales, and he was elected again in 1974 by the people of New South Wales as the number one person on the Labor ticket. [More…]
-He was elected to the Senate, but he was chosen by the Government to accept a judicial post and he accepted that judicial post, as other members of the present High Court of Australia did. [More…]
Senator Murphy was elected as a member of the Labor movement. [More…]
He was elected as the Leader of the Labor team in New South Wales at the last elections 8 months ago. [More…]
Let me remind honourable senators that the Premier of New South Wales himself has not been elected by the people of New South Wales as Premier of New South Wales. [More…]
The House of Representatives is elected by way of a preferential system and the members of the Senate, all 60 of us, are elected on the basis of proportional representation. [More…]
Despite the fact that a mere 7 months before the people of New South Wales by their votes had elected Mr Murphy and other Labor candidates to this Senate, Mr Lewis is now cutting across the expressed wish of the people of New South Wales and determining to rip up that convention and that vote. [More…]
I can understand Mr Bjelke-Petersen and Mr Anthony wanting Mr Lewis to take this action because I dare say that if he did take such action then the next person to be elected would probably be a member of the Country Party, in view of the fact that the last candidate on the ticket who was not elected at the 1974 elections was a member of the Country Party. [More…]
We had an election in 1972; the Government was elected with a 3-year mandate. [More…]
In this instance there is an attempt by a Premier of a State government which was elected when he was not the Premier to usurp the power of the ballot box and of the people of his State. [More…]
We would then have a situation that across Kings Hall we might have a Liberal-Country Party government that had been elected a year ago, 2 years ago or even for the gestation period of 9 months, which is somehow said to be damaging to us because Senator Murphy was elected only 9 months ago, and in the Senate there was an adventitious majority for the wicked socialists of 3 1 senators to 29 senators. [More…]
If that happened the democratically elected Liberal government would be thrown out by the sheer accident and unprincipled conduct of the Labor governments in South Australia and Tasmania and democracy would be denied. [More…]
It is understandable that we on this side of the chamber have a respect for the Premier of that State of Australia, but surely as parliamentarians we all have a respect for any elected member of any House of Parliament in this country. [More…]
We are an elected house of Parliament and we have constitutional rights and responsibilities. [More…]
Because we have been elected we are able to function and accept the constitutional responsibilities. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have been stressing that they are elected members of the Australian Senate. [More…]
Mr Acting Deputy President, various Acts passed through this Parliament are now residing in the High Court of Australia under challenge by the States of Australia because those Acts were devised by the Commonwealth Government to circumvent what have been the accepted and traditional roles of State Governments in the exercise of their elected responsibilities. [More…]
I believe that much thought has been given to the filling of casual vacancies in this Senate not only in order to preserve the balance of the representatives from the various States of Australia but also to keep in mind the spirit of the Australian Constitution and the system under which we are elected. [More…]
Honourable senators are assured of the Government’s intention to reestablish the city, and given the continued cooperation of elected community representatives, the business community, the trade union movement and the many individuals and organisations all with a view about reconstruction, we will proceed with rebuilding as we have done with recovery. [More…]
In addition to these considerations, we are also concerned that the citizens of Darwin and their leaders should have an opportunity to consider this measure- not only the citizens of Darwin but the people of the Northern Territory generally and particularly the members of the recently democratically elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
They elected an individual . [More…]
This is who they elected. [More…]
I think it was Senator Jessop who, by interjection last night, spoke about my blackmailing the party in South Australia into preselectingwe will ask him when he comes backMartin Cameron as a replacement senator in this place and who was elected by South Australia - [More…]
That was in days when senators were elected by a system which resulted in a ludicrous spectacle- on one occasion of 33 members being on one side of the chamber and 3 on another. [More…]
The term of the person coming in to fill the casual vacancy is temporary, ad hoc or interim until there is another election giving the opportunity for that person to be elected. [More…]
Section 1 5 of the Constitution, in committing the decision not to a political party, not to an Executive and not to an independent, but to the elected members of the State Parliament, I would have thought commits the responsibility to a body democratically elected and constitutionally indicated in that section. [More…]
The most satisfactory way to ensure this result, the Committee considered, was by a provision in the law that any votes credited to an ex-senator be transferred to the next in line according to his ballot papers and the candidate elected by a continuation of the count would serve until the expiration of the term or until the election of a successor at the next election, whichever should first occur. [More…]
To transfer to a political party the right which now belongs to a parliament of a State elected by the people is a very big political bridge to cross. [More…]
Be it noted that the claim that is made for this so-called convention- I call it a practice, I want to be specific- is not that the next on the ballot paper shall have the adoption from the State members of parliament but that the nominee of the political party of which the vacating senator was a member shall be elected by the fully elected members of both Houses of State Parliament. [More…]
I have no doubt that the elected members of the New South Wales Parliament can be trusted to discharge their duties with integrity, knowledge and judgment equal to that of anybody here. [More…]
Having regard to what we have said, I am prepared to leave the matter to the judgment of those elected and trusted persons. [More…]
In some countries judges are elected directly by the people. [More…]
We have a Senate whose members are elected according to a system of proportional representation. [More…]
We have a House of Representatives whose members are elected on a basis roughly approximating the populations of the electorates which they represent. [More…]
Twice in a little over 2 years the Australian people quite clearly and quite definitely have elected the Australian Labor Party to govern this country for 3 years. [More…]
This fact has not been accepted by the people who sit opposite or by the people whom they really represent- the people who are opposed to the policies which the Australian Labor Party is trying to implement, with the support of those people who elected it to government. [More…]
It means that the man who was appointed as his replacement was a member of the party to which Senator Hannaford belonged at the time he was elected. [More…]
The Labor Government in Western Australia appointed to the Senate a man who was here for only a few monthsthe State President of the Country Party in Western Australia- something which would in normal circumstances have made it much easier for him to be re-elected and to retain Senator Prowse ‘s seat in the Senate. [More…]
If you are going to depart from the principles which govern a parliamentary democracy and make enough people think that, though they voted in an election and elected a party to govern, that is really meaningless and all sorts of steps can be taken to abort what they have tried to do with that vote, those people who are already dissatisfied because of economic circumstances and do not like the economic system will also have a contempt for the political system. [More…]
You do not preserve the democratic system by engaging in shabby tricks and manoeuvres to gain a majority in Parliament to which you were not elected, nor do you gain it by discrediting the judges of the courts of this country who have been appointed in the traditional manner. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate, but he was chosen by the Government to accept a judicial post and he accepted that judicial post, as other members of the present High Court of Australia did. [More…]
He had been elected by the people of Queensland with 16% per cent of the vote. [More…]
He was not an Independent at the time he was elected. [More…]
I refer in particular to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, which has been elected recently and which has the fullest authority of the electorate as conferred on it as recently as last October, and naturally the Darwin City Council. [More…]
It is that now and in the future the Government and this Parliament must have the closest regard to the views of the citizens of Darwin, to their elected representatives and to the community groups that have been formed, and will be formed, to express the views of the citizens of Darwin in relation to the rebuilding of their city. [More…]
I find it rather strange that the Liberal Party should have so much concern about the rights of individuals and the rights of elected representatives. [More…]
The elected representatives no longer have any say. [More…]
The elected representatives who hitherto were supplied from the local government representatives have been abolished and in their place a bureaucracy has been appointed subject to the Minister. [More…]
This is strange coming from a Liberal Party which recently sponsored in New South Wales a change in the whole local government system which would vest more power in the general manager and less power in the elected representatives by virtue of the general manager system. [More…]
That Commission which was appointed by the Askin Government was designed to remove certain powers of the elected representatives and to vest them in the general manager. [More…]
In those circumstances, what action has been taken by the elected representatives of Darwin those members of the Corporation of the City of Darwin and the elected representatives of the former Northern Territory Legislative Council? [More…]
What did the elected representatives do? [More…]
But public participation does not mean that the elected representatives and governments abdicate their responsibility. [More…]
It would be a great tragedy for the Australian nation and for the compassion that was expressed in the weeks after cyclone Tracy, it would be a tragedy for the people of Darwin, and it would be a tragedy for the elected representatives of Darwin in the Legislative Assembly and in the Darwin City Council if we did not seek to improve the building code and to learn from what has been an obvious example of what could happen to Darwin in the future. [More…]
The local bunch of newly elected members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, because of their political persuasion and because the Labor Government was promising to rebuild Darwin, tried to wreak havoc in everything the Labor Government proposed for Darwin. [More…]
The majority of members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory were not elected by Darwin electors. [More…]
Surely there is local representation through the elected member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and the elected member of the Darwin City Council. [More…]
There is provision for 2 other members who can be elected to the Commission. [More…]
I wish to point out that the amendment has been worked out in conjunction with elected members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory and in consultation with the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder). [More…]
The elected chairman of the Darwin Citizens’ Council has been accorded the right to attend meetings of the Commission and will have access to all information of a non-confidential nature, except, for example, tender documents etc. [More…]
-I would like the people of Darwin to know that it is on record that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs believes that their properly elected body, which overwhelmingly voted these people into power, is going to delay. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite cannot camouflage that by saying that members of the Legislative Assembly were elected by the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I remind honourable senators of the local Darwin representation on the Commission, to which I have referred, by the elected members. [More…]
The Opposition argues that the people closest to the area obviously are the elected representatives of the people of Darwin and of the Northern Territory. [More…]
In the reconstruction of Darwin after the disaster the elected people of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly should have a big voice in all the decisions and in the appeals relating to the rebuilding of the northern city. [More…]
Any sitting member in this Parliament, no matter in which House he is, is campaigning from the day he is elected until the day his election comes again and that gives him an enormous advantage. [More…]
I seem to recall that even that sort of thing happened in Victoria many years ago until the Victorian electors decided that it was about time they got rid of the types of governments which had tolerated that sort of thing happening in Victoria and they elected Liberal governments. [More…]
Union officials would not willingly allow themselves to be caught in a position which revealed a lack of rapport with the members they were elected to represent. [More…]
Have honourable senators noted that a Labor socialist Government which proposes that one vote one value is the true type of electoral system was able to nominate who would be the electoral officers and the redistribution commissioners to give the Government the criteria on how the electorate should be broken up and how there would be the first fully elected Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory? [More…]
This Bill can be criticised because it is totally unfair to those smaller parties and minority groups which may wish to have their views put forward or perhaps be elected to office. [More…]
Senator Webster referred primarily to the ability of persons on the staffs to be elected and to what they could do before the election. [More…]
We found, and in fact are still finding, people being elected to a council on a vote as low as 25 per cent of the potential vote in municipal elections. [More…]
From the time I was elected to the national Parliament- twenty-two years ago at the end of this month- I refused to accept what was then the conventional wisdom that the sole or chief concerns of the national Parliament should be foreign affairs, defence, the annual Budget and the level of the major social welfare payments. [More…]
The result of that old approach was that the functions which a modern community requires should be performed through its elected representatives were either done inadequately or not done at all, were financed inadequately and unfairly or not financed at all. [More…]
In this way the national Government will be able to have direct financial dealings with local government bodies in helping them to do the job for which they were elected . [More…]
It must be remembered that this Government was elected on 2 December 1972 and that on 15 December, within the first fortnight of operation of the Government, the Prime Minister issued a Press statement announcing the setting up of a judicial inquiry into the legal recognition of Aboriginal land rights and the appointment of Mr Justice Woodward to conduct the inquiry. [More…]
One of the specific platforms of policy on which this Government was elected to powerand re-elected- is that we would expand the activities of AIDC to enable it to do its job more effectively. [More…]
We say that it is a forward step further to democratise elections in this country by making it possible for all Australians to be elected, and not necessarily just the wealthy sections of the electorate. [More…]
If the House of Representatives is brought to an election in a period shorter than the period of 3 years for which it was elected, of what concern is that to the Senate, the constitutional chamber of this Parliament of Australia? [More…]
I was not elected to this chamber to be a yes man; I was elected to this chamber to speak and to vote according to the way I feel. [More…]
How can this body be effective as a responsible brake of the community if it is to be elected simultaneously forever with the House of Representatives? [More…]
If half the members of the Senate are elected at a time they will represent a continuing view which changes over the years, and a real measure of stability must be introduced by that measure alone. [More…]
The other most significant feature of the Senate’s being elected in halves is that it provides the Australian people- the electorate- with a real opportunity to pass judgment on the government of the day. [More…]
The clients for whom I acted won the election and the man who had been elected in this ballot as secretary of the union turned up in the union office to occupy his office and was told by the defeated secretary: ‘Yes, you can have a seat over there in that corner of the office. [More…]
-As a matter of fact, the Government presently in power was elected twice within 14 months with a mandate that Senator Durack does not understand or accept. [More…]
This Government was elected twice within 14 months on a pledge to acquire for the Australian people the benefits that could accrue from exploration and exploitation ofthe tremendous wealth that our mineral resources could provide for the Australian community. [More…]
This Government was elected in 1 972 and one aspect of its election platform was to protect the mineral resources of this country for the Australian people. [More…]
We were re-elected in 1974 on that basis and since then have endeavoured to bring this legislation forward to ensure that the interests of the Australian public were protected. [More…]
Is it a fact that of the 2 part-time members to be elected to the Australian Capital Territory Health Services Commission one will be a nursing employee elected by the nursing employees? [More…]
It is a fact that the Minister for Health, Dr Everingham, has announced that he proposes that two of the part time members of the Australian Capital Territory Health Services Commission will be elected by the employees, one by the nursing employees and the other by employees other than nurses. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, now the government of this country, was elected by this method. [More…]
As is well known, many of the Federal officials were elected by committees of management. [More…]
All I say is that if persons are elected and they have the confidence of their members they ought to be allowed a period of time in which to carry out the jobs they have been given. [More…]
One of the specific platforms and policies on which this Government was elected and re-elected was that it would expand the activities of the AIDC and enable it more effectively to do the jobs that it was designed to do. [More…]
That provision was in our platform when we went to the electors in December 1 972 and again when we were re-elected in May 1974. [More…]
If that is to be said to be the way in which we are to fund the exploration for and exploitation of our natural resources and /or to assist our own secondary industries and rural industries, why should that sort of technique and that philosophy not be employed through the representatives of the Australian people as elected by the Australian people and not through the board of directors of company A or company B? [More…]
A situation in which the elected representatives were answerable to the Australian community would be more preferable to the situation at present in which private companies are beholden to no one except their shareholders. [More…]
The Advisory Council, which until September of last year was a small body consisting of persons elected by the community and nominees of departments, was replaced by a chamber of 18 members, all elected on an adult franchise. [More…]
It is our recommendation that there should be a unicameral assembly to be called the Legislative Assembly consisting of 19 elected members of the Legislative Assembly who should be regarded as employed full time on their parliamentary duties and paid accordingly. [More…]
When the Government was elected early moves were made to give effect to these proposals. [More…]
It is nice to think that there could be some elected members of the boards and of the Council and I, with others, have given a lot of thought to this particular problem. [More…]
I, … do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen as a member of the Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , for the purpose of the appeal made by (here insert name of appellant) (or in the case of the Chairman or elected representative of the Division to which the appellant belongs as a member of any Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , of which I may be a member) and that I will perform the duties and exercise the powers imposed or conferred upon me as such member without fear or favour affection or ill-will. [More…]
do solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady the Queen as a memberof the Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , for the purpose of the appeal made by (here insert name of appellant) (or in the case of the Chairman or elected representative of the Division to which the appellant belongs as a member of any Appeal Board constituted under the Public Service Act 1922-19 , of which I may be a member) and that I will perform the duties and exercise the powers imposed or conferred upon me as such member without fear or favour affection or illwill. [More…]
At the New South Wales Young Labor Conference its members managed to get motion after motion carried and one of their most active members, Franc Timmerman, was elected to the Young Labor Executive. [More…]
I am not sure whether members of the Opposition, in their blind thrust for power, realise that if we backtrack 12 months- the period mentioned by Senator Withers- from 1 2 April, it takes us back to a point approximately half way through the first Autumn session of the new Parliament, when the newly elected Australian Labor Party Government had not even been in office for 6 months. [More…]
But as long as the Opposition continues to hold a threat over the duly elected Government of the day and so long as one has regard to what Mr Killen and Sir Robert Gordon Menzies said as to the way in which the Opposition has abused and prostituted this establishment and the Constitution- so long as there exists the instability that is presently within our community- then likewise the security of this nation is threatened. [More…]
It is not an elected body. [More…]
The management of a stock exchange in Australia is in the hands of a committee elected from its members. [More…]
In all the open funds- some of them are quite small- we find this quite mysterious way in which boards of directors are elected. [More…]
We do not dispute the fact that these eminent people from the Labor Party were elected to those positions in the funds. [More…]
The electorate believed that when a government is elected it should be elected for a 3-year term, more particularly in the case of a government that has been elected twice in Vh years. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite believe that some governments are not elected democratically, why do they no go to the United Nations to ensure that elections do take place democratically? [More…]
Naturally they look for leadership not to the Opposition or to some State government but to the elected Government of this country. [More…]
The Government was elected to office in December 1972. [More…]
If the Committee had elected to conduct an inquiry into the ownership of land in Australia, and if that inquiry was to be carried out by the Committee in accordance with its terms of reference, as it had the power to do, more than one million titles to land in Australia alone would have had to be investigated. [More…]
Section 44 (v) of the Constitution is alleged to apply in the assertion that I was incapable of being chosen, nominated, elected or to sit as a senator. [More…]
Quite frankly, I was absolutely amazed to see a statement by the recently elected or appointed President of the Australian Film Council that no discussions had taken place. [More…]
Despite the criticism that has been profferred of me by Mr Scott, the newly elected or recently appointed President of the Australian Film Council, may I say that on 20 February of this year after the passage through the Parliament of the Australian Film Commission legislationthat is, after the Senate passed the Bill- I received the following telegram from Mr Scott: [More…]
The reference covers not only the question of whether Senator Webster was capable of being chosen as a senator but also the question of whether subsequent to being elected as a senator he then became subject to disqualification. [More…]
It ensures that the person elected is preferred by 50 per cent plus one of the electorate, and what can be more democratic than that? [More…]
Another example of the Government’s determination to deprive small parties and individuals of their right to be elected is contained in its proposals to lift the deposits for Senate elections. [More…]
They want to vote for the necessary number of people to be elected and leave it at that. [More…]
This Bill introduces the proposition of optional preferential voting, a system whereby a voter will have his vote counted, so long as he has marked the ballot paper to cover the number of members to be elected. [More…]
It seems somewhat strange that we should be facing this very lengthy Bill of some 74 clauses on electoral laws when only 1 1 months ago the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) suggested that there would be no such changes and that he would seek no changes to the electoral laws in the life of the Parliament that was then about to be elected. [More…]
They are among the most important areas that concern a democratic society- the way in which the Government is elected- and indeed there are very many countries around the world today that bear evidence of the extraordinary traumas that will result if we depart from the democratic methods that we have in Australia today. [More…]
There are occasions when independent candidates, because they receive that support, are elected from various places on the ballot paper. [More…]
When I was elected last year I think it was about 1 per cent of the vote for the top group in the Senate. [More…]
The system works there, and it would work elsewhere, I suggest, where the will of the people- the desire of the electorate- in relation to the type of government they want to see in power has been expressed and the government of their wish has been elected. [More…]
That ought not to be the basis upon which people are elected to the Parliament. [More…]
If people cannot get the man or woman they want to be elected, under the preferential voting system they have the opportunity to sit down and to say: ‘If I cannot have this person I will have that person. [More…]
However today the State of Queensland is back to preferential voting, the system by which members for both Houses of this Parliament are at present elected. [More…]
Therefore we should cast the net widely and make the voting system elastic so that notwithstanding the faults of the voters we get as many votes as possible, and that when the election result is announced it is what the people of the country really intend- a government of their choice elected to govern this country for the following 3 years. [More…]
Mr Daly’s office was responsible for the legislation to give the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The Country Party holds seventeen of the 19 seats in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and its members were elected under a system of optional preferential voting. [More…]
I will be interested to see how it performs in the Northern Territory in the years ahead, its members having been elected under this system. [More…]
Today we heard of one honourable senator here being elected under one party name in Western Australia and taking his place in the Senate as a member of another party, the Country Party. [More…]
In fact, optional preference voting is one of the most sensible amendments to the Australian electoral system since its creation 72 years ago, and deserves the support of all who take an interest in the way parliaments are elected. [More…]
Those who advocated the introduction of preferential voting in 1917 and earlier had in mind the need to make sure that the person elected to represent a constituency genuinely enjoyed the support of a majority of the electors. [More…]
It seems that the Government is making another attempt to alter the electoral laws of this country, about which it has had a preoccupation since it was elected to government and came to power in December 1 972 and also since its quite narrow election victory in May of last year. [More…]
It needs a result in which the people, by their votes, say who they do not want to be elected as well as who they do want to be elected. [More…]
We have in this country electoral history which tells us that exhausted votes do occur and that they can complicate the correct decision about who has been elected and who has not, and they can be the cause of much dissatisfaction and disputation. [More…]
However, I believe that in these times a person who has some chance of being elected and who genuinely has some support in the electorate would be able to raise that amount of money. [More…]
This occurred because the system that we have in our Party insists that all members of the Government must be elected by Caucus. [More…]
Caucus is composed of the duly elected members of the Federal Parliament. [More…]
In this Bill the Government is attempting to restrict the freedom of one or more persons to form a party, calling itself what it likes and seeking to get candidates under that banner elected to Parliament. [More…]
After all, if one wants to go back to a basic principle, members of Parliament are elected as individuals; they are not elected as party servants. [More…]
Members in the House of Representatives sit as members for the division which elected them. [More…]
They are not elected in the constitutional sense as members of a political party. [More…]
I want to take up with Senator Withers his statement about honourable senators elected to this place not being bound by a party ticket. [More…]
If we had to stand under our own names as candidates for the Senate- as Mr Withers or Mr McLaren- without the backing of our parties and without giving an undertaking to the electors that we would support the policy of our parties, we would have no hope of being elected. [More…]
We argue the matter, look at it and make judgments on it on the basis of there being a double dissolution, with 10 senators or 5 senators, to be elected. [More…]
Candidates could be completely unconscious but the Government believes they should be elected because they have a tag bearing the name of a party on them. [More…]
It is not right for him to be elected because he has a tag around his neck. [More…]
I would like candidates to stand up in their own right to be elected. [More…]
People have been elected to this Parliament as independents and have then joined other political parties when they have seen that it is in their interests to do so. [More…]
They have said that they are independent, but having been elected as independents they switch over to a political party. [More…]
I think that is conclusive proof that unless one has a party tag one has little chance to become elected to the Parliament in any of the mainland States. [More…]
He was elected as a member of the National Alliance and he now sits in this chamber as the official leader of the Australian Country Party. [More…]
Candidates should not be allowed to put advertisements in the newspapers indicating that they are members of one party and then, if elected, come into this place, rejoin or revert to another party, as did Senator Drake-Brockman. [More…]
If they do so the electors, as a whole, will not continue to be misled by opportunists who seek election to this place and then, after they are elected, disregard all the promises that they made to the electors. [More…]
has resigned from the Parliament of a State and has the right, under the law of the State, if not elected to the Parliament of the Commonwealth, to be reelected to the Parliament of the State without the holding of a poll, shall be capable of being nominated as a Senator, or as a Member of the House of Representatives. [More…]
As honourable senators are well aware, clause 23 of the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill seeks to extend this prohibition on members of State parliaments being elected to the Federal Parliament to members of the legislative assemblies of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory being elected to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
If they are elected, they will be elected on their reputation. [More…]
Whether a man is a member of Parliament, a senior public servant or is in some public employ or is selfemployed, he has to be elected on merits that he must prove to the public. [More…]
has resigned from the Parliament of a State and has the right, under the law of the State, if not elected to the .Parliament of the Commonwealth, to .bc reelected to the Parliament of the State without the holding of a poll. [More…]
The position as I understand and know it is this: It has happened on a number of occasions that people have been elected as senators of the Commonwealth of Australia in December, which was the normal time for a Senate election, but were not to take office until 1 July the following yearsome have been public servants and one is now a Minister in this House- and they had to relinquish their Public Service office and then wait some time before being sworn in. [More…]
This section has never been tested but all the legal advice that has been tendered to persons in this situation has been not to continue in their office of profit under the Crown after they have been elected even though they are not to be sworn in until 6 or 7 months later. [More…]
He was a court reporter in the Commonwealth Reporting Branch of the Attorney-General’s Department and had to relinquish this position almost 7 months before he was sworn in because he had been elected, although he was not then a member of this chamber within the meaning of this section of the Constitution. [More…]
If he contests a State election he can hold that position of train driver until such duy as he is elected or is defeated. [More…]
The meaning of this provision has never been tested, but the advice that has been given to persons elected to this Senate, even though they are not to take their seat in this chamber until some 7 months later- and this has happened on a number of occasions- is that they must first resign from their office of profit under the Crown, and they have been advised not to continue in that position during that 7 months period even though they are not in that time officially members of this Senate. [More…]
I would not pretend to know the electoral Acts of the various States but perhaps that may be a device which could be looked at, that is, that a person resigns conditionally upon his being elected. [More…]
Parliament may not be sitting at the time, and I believe there is a lot of merit, if we are to make this national Parliament open to those who want to stand for election, in having some form of procedure that will enable the member of another parliament to contest an election either independently or as an endorsed candidate and, if not elected, to retain the seat he had in the other parliament. [More…]
The result of a Senate or a House of Representatives election in a close seat is not made known until 1 7 or 2 1 days after the date of the election, and the pay of a person elected starts from midnight on the date of the election. [More…]
Therefore, the member of the State parliament so elected would be entitled to Commonwealth Parliamentary pay from the date of the election and may have, because the end of the month had come, received pay. [More…]
As my leader, the father of Senator Michael Townley, came along and congratulated me, having had a little confidence that I was going to be elected I had my resignation from my position of temporary public servant as secretary to the Leader of the Opposition signed and in the hands of Mr Townley. [More…]
If Senator Hall’s amendment were accepted there would be no reason why very quickly the necessary legislation could not be inserted into this Bill to make sure that everything be of a watertight character and that people would be receiving a salary and allowances from only the one parliament to which they had been elected. [More…]
It is all very well to say that they may have been freaks, oncers or oddities who got thrown up in odd electoral circumstances; the simple fact is that they were elected. [More…]
The Committee elected me to be Chairman only 2 months ago. [More…]
It would be grossly wrong if any honourable senator used his elected position for his personal advantage. [More…]
They are intended to ensure that every honourable senator is seen to be a person committed to carrying out the job he or she has been elected to Parliament to do. [More…]
For example, the question of dual nationality is involved in section 44 (i) which prevents anyone who is a citizen of a foreign power being elected. [More…]
At present it debars anyone convicted of an offence punishable by more than one year’s imprisonment from being elected. [More…]
Persons cannot be elected to the Parliament and remain here in possible breach of the Constitution. [More…]
If one looks over a large proportion of elections in the past 30 years, I think one can see that it is fairly clear before midnight on polling day which Party will be elected to govern. [More…]
I do not think that, in 1972, there was any doubt on polling night that the Labor Party had been elected. [More…]
I do not know whether anybody is elected to Federal Parliament because people do not know for whom they are voting. [More…]
However, the electors of Werriwa and Bruce knew what they were about, as both those honourable gentlemen were re-elected to the House of Representatives. [More…]
I would say that every one of those members was elected on preferences. [More…]
I know that they were very disappointed that they drew so far down the ballot paper in the Senate election in which 1 was elected, because I happened to come into this place on the Liberal Party’s preferences. [More…]
They also draw there for positions when they line up for the race, and this is the way it ought to be when we line up for the greatest race in the world, namely, to see who can be elected to this Parliament. [More…]
I always remember Sir Robert Menzies saying that a government elected to Parliament under a certain system of voting never changes that system, because people who do not like it bring down their wrath on the government at the next election. [More…]
Regarding whether there is a so-called donkey vote- and I hate that expression- if one looked up the records of the 1966 election, when Prime Minister Holt was returned to power with the biggest majority the non-Labor parties have had in my term in the Parliament, one would see, I believe, that 23 new people were elected as members of the Liberal-Country Party coalition. [More…]
Quite a large percentage of seats in Australia are or have been semi-blue ribbon or blue ribbon seats but in the 1 966 election the people of Australia- they were not changing a government, but were re-electing it to office with a new Prime Minister- elected, out of a total of 123 members, 23 new members to the Parliament from the non-Labor Parties. [More…]
New names in politics came forward and people such as Irwin, the member for Mitchell, were elected in the middle of the field in proLabor seats. [More…]
His incredible story is a weapon that must now be used by elected politicians, by Parliament, by the Government in Canberra, for defence against these extremists. [More…]
Obviously Senator Greenwood decided to pick up the suggestion that this incredible weapon be used by elected politicians, lt continues with headlines such as: Sex, Sabotage, Crime Makes Max’s World’. [More…]
I am concerned about the fact that the security of this country is in jeopardy while people are able to misuse and abuse the privilege of this Senate to attempt to undermine a Government which has been elected twice within 14 months. [More…]
That this House requires the Court of Disputed Returns to hear and determine whether the Honourable Ronald William Walsh is a person capable of being elected a member of the Legislative Council or of continuing to be a member, pursuant to the qualification requirements of section 73 of The Constitution Act Amendment Act 1 958 (No. [More…]
Any natural-born or naturalised subject of Her Majesty, who is of the full age of twenty-one years, shall be qualified to be elected a member of the Council: [More…]
Provided that no person shall be capable of being elected or continuing to be a member of the Council who- [More…]
1 ) If any person who is not qualified to be or nor capable of being elected a member of the Council is elected and returned as a member of the Council such election and return may be declared by the Court of Disputed Returns to be void to all intents and purposes. [More…]
If any person so elected and returned contrary to the provisions of this Part sits or votes in the Council, he shall be l iable to a penalty of Two hundred pounds to be recovered by any person who sues for the same in any court of competent jurisdiction. [More…]
I have heard suggestions from time to time that those members- I have been among them- who have occupied government flats in Canberra might be disqualified under the Constitution from holding their seats or being elected. [More…]
I support the elected Leader of the Liberal Party . [More…]
We must not lose sight of the fact that councils are elected by the people. [More…]
Local government councils possess elected policy makers and are required by law to have qualified officers in every realm of council administration. [More…]
We find that local government is being cast aside, that corporations are being formed, that authorities are being formed and that boards are being created to ride roughshod over the elected people of local government. [More…]
We have a democratic system whereby it is necessary that elected people should have the say over appointed people. [More…]
It is necessary that all forms of government should realise that people who are elected by the public should have the last say. [More…]
I have consistently taken the stand and discussed with members of Parliament my thoughts on the issue of justice to elected people. [More…]
I feel it incumbent upon me to stress the ability of councils within regions to amalgamate on matters of mutual interest, realising that we have ready made regional councils within the structure of local governmentcouncils well geared and acceptable to the people, the members of which are elected and not merely appointed. [More…]
Until the provisions of sections 44 and 45 have been clarified- that may take a very long time- it would be most unjust if members who have been elected in good faith and who have done things which by common practice and custom have become accepted as not being in contravention of the sections but which have later found to be in contravention of those sections were penalised. [More…]
As I said in the Senate only recently, what a long haul it is from a party that was elected in all sorts of cant and prejudice to one that offered the Leyland plant at Rosebery for purchase by the Communist Chinese Government. [More…]
It is that of being dishonest to the people who elected it. [More…]
The Australian Government has made very clear its disapproval of the military overthrow of the democratically elected Chilean Government of President Allende in 1973, as well as its disapproval of the treatment of opponents of the present Chilean Government. [More…]
Then this official of the AMP Society went on elsewhere to say that they should work together in order to force the Australian Labor Party Government, which was twice elected within 18 months, to change its policy or to force it from office. [More…]
If next year the suffering public of Australia finds it is still governed by this Government and we find $400m in the Advance to the Treasurer, I think members of Parliament will have ceased to perform the functions for which they were elected. [More…]
They know that good old candidate X or good old candidate Y, to whichever Party he belongs, is going to be elected and they tend to be somewhat careless in marking their ballot papers for House of Representatives elections and certainly for Senate elections. [More…]
Are the major parties to be elected to office or sent into opposition on the votes of the least intelligent in the communitythose who need mark the ballot paper with only the number 1 in a House of Representatives election and with the numbers 1 to 5 when voting in a Senate election? [More…]
I think that was certainly the experience in the Austraiian Capital Territory when the Legislative Assembly was elected on an optional preferential basis in a proportional system. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister will agree that wherever optional preferential voting has been used and wherever there has been a quota for the election of senators- even going back to the New South Wales experience in the 1920s- exhausted votes have meant that quotas could no longer be met for the later candidates to be elected. [More…]
It seems strange also that the Government should be proposing to make this alteration to the electoral laws at this time in view of the fact that on 11 April 1974 the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) gave an undertaking that there would be no changes in the procedures of electoral laws in the life of the Parliament which was at that time about to be elected. [More…]
It is true that in a first past the post system it is possible for a candidate to be elected who is not wanted by more than half of the electors. [More…]
If more than 90 per cent flow to candidate B he is elected. [More…]
Under the optional preferential system of voting which is proposed, although it is mandatory to vote only for the number of persons to be elected- one in the case of a House of Representatives election and five in the case of a normal periodical Senate election- every voter has the option of indicating further preferences for some or all of the remaining candidates. [More…]
In the case of a Senate election the number to be elected is five. [More…]
We say: ‘All right, you vote for the 5 people that you want elected’. [More…]
The proposed optional preferential system, which allows for optional marking of preferences beyond the number of candidates to be elected, is fair and it eases the burden on the voters. [More…]
You must indicate the order of your preference for at least [here to be printed number of candidates to be elected] candidates. [More…]
This means that you must use all the numbers [here to be printed 1 , 2 and so on up to the number of candidates to be elected] but may use additional consecutive numbers. [More…]
He was elected as the member for Riverina because of that dirty, vicious, racist campaign- the most racist campaign that has ever been waged in this country. [More…]
I never realised until I was elected to this place the degree of discrimination to which the previous LiberalCountry Party Government turned a blind eye for so many years. [More…]
I do not believe that Sir Vincent Fairfax and his fellow members of the board of the Australian Mutual Provident Society are entitled to make a deduction from the premiums paid by policy holders in that Society in order to wage a campaign against the Australian Government which was elected on this policy. [More…]
Does the Government intend to ignore the expressions of protest by the elected assemblies of the 2 Territories in this matter? [More…]
The Labor Party was elected by a majority vote and, because of the voting system, the Opposition in this House has been able to pursue a wrangling opposition for 2V4 years by knocking back whatever legislation it wants to knock back. [More…]
They are the people who see the laws of the elected Parliament coming into this chamber to be ruthlessly slashed about or rejected altogether because of the short-sighted policies of senators opposite. [More…]
The Labor Party, even when in Opposition, made it quite clear over many years that the Inter-State Commission would, in fact, be reformed in the event of a Labor Government being elected. [More…]
The Senate is properly debating legislation which was properly placed before the House of Representatives and properly passed by that House, in accordance with the normal procedures of the Parliament for bringing legislation before the 2 Houses of Parliament, for the purpose of implementing the policy upon which this Government was elected in 1972 and reelected in 1974. [More…]
Not understanding the nature of the Bill they have resorted to their usual charade of nonsense and a tirade of abuse of the Government in its endeavours to implement the policies on which it was elected in 1972. [More…]
That policy speech was a comprehensive one which sought to change the emphasis of government in this country and to fill up the gaps which had resulted from years of neglect by the Opposition parties which now have nothing but their brutal numbers in this place with which to try to sabotage and defer the policies on which this Government was elected and which it is trying to implement. [More…]
However, this Government was elected on a program and it has not introduced any major pieces of legislation in its 2Vi years of office that was not a part of its comprehensive program. [More…]
Although he had the support of the Liberal Movement in winning back the seat, as soon as he was elected he reverted to the parent party, which at that time I think was called the Liberal Country League. [More…]
No announcement was made to the Senate that he had repudiated the Party for which he was elected when he again took up his position as Leader of the Country Party in this place. [More…]
I am not one who has defended Senator Hall, but I will defend him on the ground that he has stood up in this place and remained as a member of the Liberal Movement, the Party for which he was elected. [More…]
It cannot be said of Senator Townley that he has remained a member of the Party for which he was elected, because he went to the electors as an independent and he has now come under the cloak of the Liberal Party to safeguard his place. [More…]
People have been saying that about Mr Duthie since he was first elected in 1946. [More…]
It was unfortunate that the candidate the Liberal Party selected to stand against Mr Barnard was a lieutenant-colonel from Hobart who was born out of the electorate. [More…]
The National Schools Council, which has the executive, financial and general overview control of education, has elected to decentralise curriculum development. [More…]
It has elected to emphasise diversity by setting up not one but a whole number of curriculum development centres in England to encourage local regions to do their own curriculum development, without being bound by a central body, to emphasise and maximise local autonomy. [More…]
In fact what used to happen was that, instead of these Country Party politicians tramping around their vast electorates, within a year of being elected they moved to the city to live, outside their electorates and they were never seen except when they were canvassing for an election or when the local show was on. [More…]
There is a blot on everybody who comes from Queensland because they are represented by a hillbilly Premier who is elected by 17 per cent or 18 per cent of the population. [More…]
That is why it is inseparable from democracy and why, to be true to itself, it must work through a government responsible to a universally elected assembly. [More…]
Quite frankly, tragedy will strike in this land if we are dictated to by a few people who elect themselves by one means or another to govern this country but who are not elected to govern this country. [More…]
While there should not normally be provisions to prevent an Aborigine from going on to a reserve it was felt that it would be desirous for the town councils, which are elected under the laws of the Queensland Government, to have the right to say who should go onto reserves in their areas. [More…]
1 subject to the preservation of the right of a duly elected council to have the say as to who goes on to a reserve. [More…]
The Aboriginal community with its elected council ought to have, in our view, the right which is being given to it by the proposal now put forward by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh). [More…]
The decision would be made by the council which is elected by the community. [More…]
The 5 councillors on each community are elected by the Aboriginal people on the community. [More…]
It is interesting to note, as Senator Button has said, that despite the allegedly spontaneous demonstrations which have been taking place throughout Australia the democratically elected executives of both organisations have at no stage expressed opposition to the establishment of an [More…]
I suggest that if that is their view they take it up with members of the AMP Society Staff Association who, as I understand it, are very well satisfied with the representation which is given to them by the elected officials of their organisation. [More…]
Yet the Australian Government was not prepared to assert the rights of the established Government of South Vietnam, a government, may I say, elected in accordance with democratic processes, which could not be said of the Government of North Vietnam which was seeking to overthrow it. [More…]
What is a matter of current concern is the fact that the Government in Chile, albeit a government which has come into power by overthrowing the constitutionally elected government, has been recognised by the Australian Government as the valid Government of Chile. [More…]
As I understand the recent history in Chile, a legally elected government that was seeking to produce some reform and improvements in the social relationships in that country was overthrown by a combination of military forces - [More…]
-Given enough time I can produce authority to indicate that the subversion- ‘subversion’ is a word that Senator Greenwood is very fond of- of the legally elected government of Chile was assisted and advanced by the CIA and by some rather sinister forces in American society. [More…]
The second thing that has to be clearly understood is that the dead President of Chile was elected by about 34 per cent to 36 per cent of the popular vote. [More…]
In fact, even if the point were to be made that the armed forces did have the right which by some curious source of misinformation Senator Sir Magnus Cormack relies upon, even if the armed forces had that authority, I should have thought that the honourable senator would have been well aware of the fact that the Chief of the Chilean General Staff, General Gonzalez Prats, opposed the coup which took place against the democratically elected government and fled the country and was subsequently murdered. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack told the Senate that Dr Allende was elected with 34 per cent of the votes. [More…]
When he was elected ultimately he was elected with over 60 per cent of the votes because the Christian Democratic Party supported him in the run-off election. [More…]
But how does he refer to the democratically elected representatives of the Israeli people? [More…]
If only we had a television camera and if every word of Senator Greenwood could be heard and every gesture and grimace of Senator Wright could be seen we would not need to spend a penny on any election campaign; we would win with an undisputed majority, the same sort of majority as that which was gained by Dr Allende when he was elected President of Chile in the last democratic elections that took place in that country. [More…]
President Allende was a legally elected president of a republic of southern America. [More…]
Then our old colleague, Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, a former President of this Senate, a man who is somewhat out of date, entered the debate in defence of an attack by the military junta upon an elected parliament, and this seems to me to be quite improper in this debate. [More…]
We have made no secret of the fact that a democratically elected government in Chile was overthrown. [More…]
If the President is not present at a meeting of the Council, the members present shall elect one of their number to preside at that meeting and the person so elected shall preside accordingly. [More…]
We were told at the last Committee meeting when I raised questions that we, as members of the Parliament who are elected to the Joint House Committee, have very little power at all. [More…]
It is true, and the Government must be given full credit for the fact, that soon after it was elected to office in 1972 it established a committee, which is now known as the Hope Committee, to inquire into and report upon the National Estate. [More…]
In regard to the national trusts I think it is worth noting, as the Hope Committee report itself notes, that in 1972- at the end of which year the present Government was elected- there were no fewer than 37 000 members of national trusts in various parts of Australia. [More…]
Before I was elected a senator I sometimes thought, when I listened on the radio to speeches in Parliament, that people so often proceeded to find their government white and every other government black; they discovered that everything has started from the moment their government came into office; they could see nothing wrong with anything that had been done since. [More…]
Since I have been an elected member of Parliament I have never promoted optometry in isolation. [More…]
Indeed, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Malcolm Fraser, said that the Opposition, if and when elected to office, would abolish the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
The older age 65 contributor would be faced with an immediate substantial increase in his contributions to the age 60 basis if he elected to remain in the present scheme, in most cases far beyond his capacity to pay. [More…]
I am sure we all realise that under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund legislation introduced by the former Minister for Defence, Mr Barnard, Lieutentant-Colonel Newman would receive a lump sum of about $23,500, if he wished it, plus approximately $5000 a year which would have been a help if he was defeated in the election and retired to the farm that he already owns in Tasmania and would have been a very healthy addition to his parliamentary salary if he was elected. [More…]
In recent times the people of the Northern Territory elected a Legislative Assembly in accordance with legislation which was enacted by this present Government. [More…]
I think the advances which were made up until we went out of government were taking the people of the Northern Territory along a quite clear course which was leading to selfgovernment, which was in accord with the wishes of the elected Legislative Councillors and the national Government and which, if oppurtunity had been allowed to develop, would have provided a tremendous satisfying form of selfgovernment. [More…]
The course of conduct of 1 972 was brought to an abrupt end with the change of government and a different approach to self-government was adopted, including this concept of an elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Although naturally such a disorganised rabble is unlikely ever to be elected to office, at the same time the Government believes that in the interests of constructive debate in this chamber there ought to be some sort of unity within the Liberal Party. [More…]
The Senate and the Government can now see the frustrations, day after day, of the legislative programs of a democratically elected and progressive government. [More…]
It was a pretty daunting task when one considers that whilst three of us were elected to undertake that responsibility only two of us contributed until the later stages when the third member of the Labor Party appointed to the Committee was able to rejoin that Committee after a period of illness. [More…]
When he was first elected to this chamber his health was not the very best, but he carried out his parliamentary duties in the manner of someone who had never experienced ill health in his life. [More…]
Does the Government intend to ignore these expressions of protest made by the elected Assemblies of the two Territories in this matter. [More…]
Our Constitution and practice are that, instead of having a complete separation between legislature and executive, we have our inherited system of ‘responsible government’, under which Ministers sit in Parliament after being elected to Parliament, answer questions and engage in debate. [More…]
In or about March 1971 I was elected in a court controlled ballot of the rank and file members the full-time Secretary of the Australian Leather and Allied Industries Branch and a delegate to State Council of the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia and I held those offices for some three years until 1974. [More…]
In or about March 1974 I was elected in a courtcontrolled ballot of the rank and file members the full-time Secretary of the Australian Leather and Allied Industries Branch, delegate to Federal Council and delegate to State Council of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia and I held these offices until Thursday 6th February 1975. [More…]
Only one candidate was elected to a full-time position and this was oneNorm Bray. [More…]
Those figures might give the Australian public some idea of the type of frustration, the deep seated frustration, that this Government, duly elected on 2 occasions by a mandate of the Australian people, still has had to suffer at the hands of the combined Opposition parties in this chamber. [More…]
Dame Ivy was the first woman elected to the Senate to represent Victoria and played a full and active role in this chamber from her election in 1949 until her retirement in July 1 97 1 . [More…]
She had the distinction of becoming the first woman Chairman of a Senate committee when, in 1 968, she was elected to chair the Senate ‘s Select Committee on Medical and Hospital Costs. [More…]
She was elected to this Senate on 5 occasions and her constructive contribution to the work of this chamber is indelibly marked in its records. [More…]
Senator Withers, who is not only the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate but also a member of the Standing Orders Committee, and I tended to agree that we should set out to preserve and protect the rights of back bench members of the Parliament, particularly those of a person who is not a member of a political party but who is elected to the Senate as an independent senator. [More…]
It is said that, if an insurance corporation were responsible to the elected government of the country, for some reason that has not been explained, it would develop into some sort of juggernaut which would erode civil liberties and ride roughshod over the interests and desires of the people. [More…]
The proposal was spelt out very clearly before the election in May 1974 at which, I remind Senator Wright, the people re-elected the present Government. [More…]
I will not read the whole of that statement, but the Prime Minister made the following points: It remains Australia’s firm policy that Papua New Guinea come to independence as one country in accordance with the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Papua New Guinea’s elected representatives. [More…]
I believe that my chances of being reelected are benefited greatly because of the facilities provided free to me by this Government. [More…]
Where is the equality for the poor person who wishes to contest my place and to have himself elected in my stead? [More…]
The elected Government of the Australian people is not going to be answerable to the vested interests, the minority groups and the institutions which, over the last 6 months, have waged an infamous propaganda campaign. [More…]
If a government were elected with a policy of nationalising insurance it would make no difference whether there were an Australian Government insurance corporation or whether there were not. [More…]
If the Government were pouring vast sums of money into an unprofitable enterprise then it would be answerable at the elections in a way in which the directors in Zurich, Amsterdam, London and New York of insurance companies that are operating in Australia are not responsible to their policy holders when they use their funds to defeat a democratically elected Australian government. [More…]
Has he noted that, despite the Opposition’s declared intention of abolishing the Prices Justification Tribunal if elected to government, a senior businessman at the meeting is reported as supporting the Tribunal because, among other things, the work and self-examination required for submissions to the Tribunal are good for the companies themselves? [More…]
I believe that the standard of debates and the knowledge that could be made available to the people of Australia through their elected representatives would be much better if the persons who are employed as research officers and other staff members, the need for whom has been clearly established, were available in this House for use at the required time. [More…]
I do not believe that it is relevant to advertise for the defeat of a democratically elected government or proposals on which that Government was elected. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Labor and Immigration been drawn to a statement made by the Leader of the Opposition in Perth last week to the effect that the Opposition, if elected, would attempt to end discrimination in employment? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of continuing concern expressed by the island’s elected committee about the irregularity of mail services under present arrangements? [More…]
This has been stated already around the hustings by elected members of the Liberal Party. [More…]
If it receives the support of all sections of the community and not the knocking sort of attitude that our opponents in this chamber have tried to attach to it, this country will be quickly restored to a state of total prosperity, and the disadvantaged people whom we have set out to assist since we were first elected in December 1972 will not have any of their rights eroded. [More…]
Speaking about defence, I mention what this Government did when it was elected. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe referred to Disraeli and brought to mind a story that I believe true about Disraeli and which is very applicable to the honourable senator’s speech: A young member of the House of Commons, recently elected, went to Disraeli and said: ‘Sir, should I make my maiden speech at the first opportunity?’ [More…]
Finally, and I acknowledge this quite objectively, the implementation of the expenditure program on which the Labor Government was elected in 1 972 was a final contributing factor. [More…]
It is quite clear that one section which has been treated extremely generously by the present national Government, not only this year but each year since it was elected, is the States. [More…]
On being elected as the Minister for Defence, Mr [More…]
I am aware of the concern by the elected committee of Lord Howe Island concerning the irregularity of mail services. [More…]
Mr Crean must be good because he has been elected to a position in the ministry for the second or third time. [More…]
The Government was elected on a policy of low interest. [More…]
The Government has elected to destroy some of the value of the pension increases. [More…]
I should think that in due course they will be found out and the majority of people will go to those doctors whom they know to conduct themselves responsibly and to regard the care of their patients as being the primary object in life and not the making of money or the sabotaging of a democratically elected government’s policy. [More…]
In 1962 Sir Robert Menzies caused to be elected a committee, which comprised a number of the most eminent men in industry, commerce and public service in this country, and which was subsequently known as the Vernon Committee. [More…]
We were elected in 1972 with a mandate from the Australian people to bring about massive social changes. [More…]
We were elected to office at a time when there was a fairly high level of economic buoyancy throughout 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…]
Dr Mai Colston will be elected to the Senate. [More…]
When I was elected to this chamber I relinquished poultry farming and, unlike Senator Webster, I devote myself full-time to representing the people who sent me here. [More…]
Party because he is the newly elected Leader but obviously the wrongly elected Leader. [More…]
A House of Assembly was elected in quite remarkable circumstances in a country in which the concept of election had not previously been experienced. [More…]
If the honourable senator is talking about the misconception which arose during the election campaign when he was elected to Parliament, I think that if he studies the statement which was made he will get a different view of what was intended. [More…]
That is why it is inseparable from democracy and why, to be true to itself it must work through a government responsible to a universally elected assembly. [More…]
They take their learning from yesterday’s newspaper and do not understand that as recently as 1900 this chamber was elected on a democratic basis, in sharp contrast to the hereditary basis of the House of Lords which by that time had been reduced almost to a position of complete impotence in respect of money measures, with the authority to reject any measure. [More…]
I think that the very sad thing about this Budget is that if the sentiments contained in it had been in the hearts and minds of the Government supporters when they were elected in 1 972, they may well have gone down in history as a great reformist and most successful government. [More…]
Since this Government was elected in late 1972 it has been responsible for 2 proposals, each of which has been introduced by words to the effect that a permanent solution was about to be introduced. [More…]
This authority would comprise only members elected for a specific period, and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the Community; [More…]
The Interim council to be replaced by a fully elected council as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. [More…]
In any case, after this Government was elected it was decided that it was not necessary for us to pursue this matter because Australian pensions generally became portable from May 1973. [More…]
I generally believe if a government is elected to power in the Lower House, it has the numbers and can maintain the numbers in the Lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the 3-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene. [More…]
What constitutional authority is there, other than yesterday’s newspapers or the newspapers that repeat themselves and grow within themselves, as does Senator Hall, on constitutional matters, for an idea that a parliament elected by the people is entitled to run its term? [More…]
We have been elected on a democratic basis and on a franchise no different from that which applies in the Lower House. [More…]
We exist in this chamber- a completely democratically elected chamberwith 2 adjuncts of appointees which add to the reason, in the proper political democratic sense, for the Parliament to face the people. [More…]
I feel that the people of my State would not be any happier if there were a change of government in light of the avowed policies which the Opposition has said it would implement if it were elected to power. [More…]
The Government’s attitude is that we have been elected for 3 years by a mandate of the Australian people. [More…]
I repeat, as I have said on numerous occasions, that I supported the Party room decision of last November and that I support the elected leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
Mr Fraser said: 1 generally believe that if a government is elected to power in the lower House and has the-numbers and can maintain the numbers in the lower House, it is entitled to expect that it will govern for the 3-year term unless quite extraordinary events intervene. [More…]
The Government’s attitude is that we have been elected for 3 years by a mandate of the Australian people. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he can, on behalf of the Government, give the Senate a firm undertaking that if the Senate did not defeat any Supply or appropriation Bills the Government would not call an election for the House of Representatives until the expiration of the maximum 3-year term for which it was elected in May 1 974. [More…]
I know he has stated on many occasions- it is a matter about which he feels strongly- that, being elected in 1974 for a 3-year term, the Government is entitled to continue in government without being obstructed, unsettled, or disrupted by the majority opinion of the Opposition in the Senate. [More…]
I think one ought to pause here to remember that until Labor was elected to office and until Mr Connor took over that portfolio the people who ran the mining industry in Australia were not associated with the Government. [More…]
Senator Jessop said that Mr Dunstan did not have a mandate, but of course it was there in the policy speech made by the Prime Minister in 1972 when the Labor Party was elected to Government. [More…]
Does anyone believe that the people of Queensland would vote for a man who, if elected to the Canberra Parliament, is pledged to vote in favour of homosexual marriages? [More…]
This is what Dr Colston would do if he were elected, and that is why I know the people of Queensland would not elect him. [More…]
When Senator Georges was elected as an ALP Senator, I told the following story. [More…]
In my opinion, it is time we did the job the Australian people elected us to this Parliament to do, whether in government or in opposition. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter is if an elected government does stray away from the guidelines it can go back and introduce additional legislation. [More…]
When all is said and done, I suppose that country people, who are living in developing areas, are more entitled to the ear of their elected representatives than city residents are entitled to the ear of their elected representatives because the city is established. [More…]
In that development it is necessary that we take full cognisance of the necessity to give the people in the outback the opportunity to approach their elected representatives because those electors have more to seek than their brothers and sisters in the city have. [More…]
What has happened when Labor, during its term of government, has decided to give a free vote and a fully elected council in a particular area? [More…]
The proper and, I believe, the appropriate and perhaps the normal way to deal with a redistribution proposal is to put it before a freely elected House, such as the Senate is, and to take a vote upon it. [More…]
What Senator Webster did not tell the Senate was that the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory is elected on the basis of population. [More…]
It runs right around the whole area of Queensland and is to be represented by one elected member from Queensland. [More…]
Can honourable senators imagine the elected member giving representation and service to the people of that vast electorate of Flynn? [More…]
So as he passes Senator McAuliffe, Senator Sheil, myself or any other of our Queensland senators in this building he must feel ashamed to think that he has been elected to this chamber to represent so few people. [More…]
The Federal Government is elected under a common Electoral Act, so there is no room for comparison. [More…]
1 am not sure whether this has been so ever since Federation, but ever since I can remember- that goes back at least 30 years; some of my Tasmanian colleagues may be able to be more precise and help me with this - the Parliament of Tasmania has been elected on a system which follows- [More…]
Since 1912 the Tasmanian Parliament has been elected on a system which follows the federal boundaries, and the federal boundaries have never deviated more than 20 per cent; or at the time of the redistribution, the federal electoral boundaries did not deviate more than 20 per cent from the mean. [More…]
The present Government was elected at the same time as this Senate was elected, yet the Government is always going around saying that the Senate is acting unconstitutionally. [More…]
But I submit that those people are represented in Parliament because when a member is elected he is elected to represent all the people in his electorate. [More…]
If there was an electorate with, say, 100 people and 3 candidates for election, and the first candidate got 35 votes, the second candidate 33 votes and the third candidate 32 votes, on first past the post or optional preferences voting the first candidate would be elected with 35 votes. [More…]
I may sit here wearing other hats, but I have been elected and sworn in as a senator for my State, and nobody is going to take that away from me, be it the Government or my own Party. [More…]
The constitutional authority of a Premier rests almost entirely upon his success at a general election, and upon his continued authority in the popularly elected House, and not upon irresponsible speculations as to whether he would have lost his majority if the Constitution had provided for annual and not triennial elections. [More…]
Public finance becomes a remote problem to most people who, once they have elected a government to manage their national affairs, presume that financial negotiations made on behalf of the people will be carried out with legality and integrity. [More…]
Those who put their faith in Labor, those who elected this Government, in truth did not elect it for that socialist activity, but we have seen in almost every area a pro-socialist, pro-communist attitude expressed by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Can we be surprised if the people who have some hopes of a reform and who see that a reforming government such as ours, no matter what mistakes it may have made- I freely concede that we have made mistakes- is not to be allowed to govern but is to be thrown out because there is an adventitious majority against it in the non-elected House, decide to abandon the parliamentary system and resort to direct action? [More…]
Can our opponents not see that the mere statement of those figures refutes the notion that this House should in any way in matters like this be on an equal footing with the House of Representatives which is elected by all the people? [More…]
He described trie Senate as a non-elected House. [More…]
It is a democratically elected House but he seems to be overlooking the compact of federation in its Constitution and in the way in which it represents the people of Australia. [More…]
It must be a House which has the recognition of the present Government because of its eagerness to add to its numbers and to use the Constitution in a way that could add to its numbers members elected from the people of the Territories of Australia. [More…]
To suggest that this is a non-elected House, as has been done by the Minister, is to be grossly inaccurate. [More…]
Those are the consequences, if we wish to use that word, which perhaps has led the Government to its present attack on the elected Senate of Australia. [More…]
Between 28 February 1974 and 10 April 1974- the time when the Opposition threatened to reject Supply to the Government on the last occasion; a mere 1 8 months after we were elected to office- there were 45 divisions. [More…]
It is only since that time- as a result of Senator Townley becoming a member of the official Opposition after he had been elected as an Independent, as a result of Senator Murphy retiring from this place to become a Justice of the High Court, and as a result of the death of Senator Milliner from Queenslandthat the Senate is now in its present situation. [More…]
That conversation took place around a table on the occasion of a meeting held before Mr Fraser was elected Leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
So even before Mr Fraser was elected to the leadership the Opposition had the information which now constitutes what is claimed to be reprehensible circumstances. [More…]
Section 7 of the Constitution provides for the House of Representatives to elected for 3 years. [More…]
-They had not only just been elected. [More…]
It has forgotten how to honour its obligations to the people who elected it. [More…]
A half Senate election cannot resolve the crisis because of the 36 senators who would be elected 30 would not take up their seats until after 1 July 1 976. [More…]
The fact that they are prepared to do this for the first time since Federation and virtually force not just the Australian Government to its knees but also the Australian people to their knees in order to obtain power 1 8 months after this Government was elected for a 3-year period shows the nature of the people who would seek power m this Parliament today. [More…]
He is obviously a most indecisive man who, for the first time, has been through a test over the past few months since he was elected Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
After 23 years in Opposition we were elected as a government in 1972. [More…]
Four months after the Labor Government was elected in Australia, a plan was embarked upon to bring about a House of Representatives election by the use of Opposition numbers in the Senate. [More…]
We have had a lot of talk and pious cant about there being no prohibition in the Constitution to their carrying it out; but they are seeking tonight to reject a popularly elected government, and the Senate is not a popularly elected House, whatever they might try to say about that. [More…]
They have been elected by proportional representation. [More…]
There is a senator sitting in this chamber tonight who was elected as an independent and who has become the greatest political transvestite in history. [More…]
Six months after being elected as an independent he suddenly became a [More…]
There are 2 senators here who were not elected at all. [More…]
It is these people who seek to interfere with the right of a government to fulfil and carry out the 3-year term for which it was elected. [More…]
We are told that the Opposition, if elected to government, would introduce at a cost of about $ 1,000m tax indexation straight away in response to the call of trade unions which have persistently sought wage indexation and tax indexation. [More…]
It is remarkable that as soon as a Labor Government is elected a section of the business community says: ‘It is time for us to button up’. [More…]
It is because this Government was elected last year for 3 years. [More…]
That fact was accepted by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Malcolm Fraser, only a matter of weeks ago when he supported the contention that if a government is elected for 3 years in the House of Representatives it is entitled to serve out that term. [More…]
I point out that there is one essential difference between last year and the present time, and that is that the vote that the Opposition was able to muster yesterday was as a result of the death of a properly elected senator from Queensland. [More…]
The Government having been elected to the House of Representatives, the Bill having been floated in the House of Representatives, having been debated in the House of Representatives and having been passed by that place, we now believe that a message setting out the terms of the Senate’s determination yesterday should be transmitted to the House of Representatives for the information of the members of that place and for the Government in particular. [More…]
The purposes of this Bill are to make special long service leave provisions for those New South Wales and South Australian teachers who were employed in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory respectively in 1973 and who elected to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service before 1 January 1974; to enable provision to be made for the employment of teachers at technical colleges in the Australian Capital Territory; to alter the name of the Service to the Australian Teaching Service; and to make other amendments to the legislation arising from the provisions of enactments which have been made since the Teaching Service legislation was last amended. [More…]
Therefore the issue that will be fought is the right to obstruct the people’s democratically elected House. [More…]
I have never changed or flinched from my acceptance of the fact that when we were elected in 1974 those who were given the majority in the House of Representatives were given the mandate to govern and those who were given the numbers in this Senate with the power to qualify that power of judgment were given it for a purpose. [More…]
Moreover the Senate is as democratically elected as is the House of Representatives. [More…]
Arguments which are derived from the days when upper Houses were hereditary, were property based or were elected from a restricted franchise have no relevance. [More…]
The often quoted dictum of Sir Isaac Isaacs in 1947 that the Legislative Council of Victoria erred in withholding Supply in 1 947 was directed towards the impropriety of a House elected on a restricted franchise frustrating the will of a House elected on adult franchise. [More…]
Indeed, in 1952 in the State of Victoria the upper House, which at that time was partly elected on a restricted franchise but which was controlled by the Australian Labor Party, used its powers in the Legislative Council to take to the people a government of a different colour. [More…]
Where there are 2 democratically representative chambers, each elected at the same time but existing in constant conflict, why should the people not be given the opportunity to resolve that conflict? [More…]
The proposal which is being put by the Opposition is, in effect, that the Government which was elected twice within the last 3 years, should be subjected to a third election within 3 years. [More…]
I have no opinions from learned counsel or professors of law but I do put to the Senate that the position at present is that in December 1972 and again in May 1974 the Australian people elected a Labour government. [More…]
They have found since they elected that Labor Government in 1972 and reelected it in 1974 that constantly that Government has been unable to introduce major parts of its program, that most of the things which it was elected to do it has been unable to do and has constantly had to conduct its business in an atmosphere of crisis and under the threat of being driven from office, a situation which is intolerable at the best of times and especially damaging in the situation in which we find ourselves at present. [More…]
They are not born to rule, but they represent people who elected them. [More…]
It is that because of the letter of the Constitution the people of Australia should not be entitled to have the Government which they have twice elected within 3 years. [More…]
One of the traditions is that when a government is elected for a term it sees out that term. [More…]
I have seen them vote for motions to bring down a democratically elected government, while people on this side have argued that democracy should be preserved. [More…]
The Parliament of Queensland has appointed to this Parliament a scandalous wretch, to replace a man who had been elected by the people of that State. [More…]
But if he and his colleagues are elected, it is they who will have to talk to the coalminers and to the workers in the building industry and in the metal trades industry. [More…]
This Bill, therefore, proposes that an elector be required to mark his order of preference on the Senate ballot-paper only up to the number of candidates to be elected. [More…]
The fact is, of course, that the system we propose is considerably less restrictive than that applying for Senate elections between1919 and 1931, under which electors were required to express preferences for double the number of candidates to be elected, plus one. [More…]
2) 1975 which I introduced earlier today, whereunder electors should only be compelled to express a preference for the number of candidates to be elected, is also inherent in this Bill. [More…]
Under the optional preferential system proposed by this Bill a candidate cannot be elected unless he has received more than 50 per cent of the votes in the count at the stage he is elected. [More…]
He was elected as an independent senator to do justice for Tasmania. [More…]
Senator Wright started by saying that the Premier will not tell him that the democratically elected Parliament or House has no right to refuse supply. [More…]
As part of that democratic process this Government was elected in 1972 to serve for 3 years. [More…]
If a Prime Minister can defy the elected Parliament there is not need for elections. [More…]
Where is the responsibility and the seriousness in the action of the Opposition in deferring the Appropriation Bills and also in making this new move to reject a message from the House of Representatives, which is the popularly elected House, which is the House that has the support of the Australian electorate and which is the House that, in association with the Senate, should guide the destiny of the nation? [More…]
The first assertion- it is a wrong one, because each of the 5 claims is wrong- is that a government elected to office constitutionally should be permitted to remain in office for the whole of its term. [More…]
Of course, the principle of Parliament is this: The power of the purse, the power to tax the people and to control the taxes of the people should lie within the Parliament and should lie within the power of the elected people of the Parliament- not that it should lie in the Commons or the lower House, but that it should lie within the hands of those who are democratically elected, whether in the lower House or whether in the upper House. [More…]
I remind the Senate- I need not do so- that the Senate is as democratically elected in a general franchise of all the people of Australia as is the House of Representatives. [More…]
I remind them that there are specifically elected wholly and democratically by the people of Australia some 30 Liberal and National Country Party senators on the Opposition benches, not nominated in any way - [More…]
There are 30 such senators fully elected by the people of Australia. [More…]
They are the figures today and by the mandate of the people the Senate Opposition can, all of its members fully and democratically elected representatives, negative any legislation that is brought forward by this Government. [More…]
When the Whitlam Government was elected it was, in its own euphemism, transferred to power because it had a glorious and devine right to govern, but if the Opposition were to be given a mandate to govern it would be, in the Government’s words, seizing power. [More…]
Does anyone doubt that when we are elected to government we will inherit the worst mess of major problems that has ever been inherited and that the task before us will be a formidable one? [More…]
I put it to Opposition senators that this Government has been elected and is committed to bringing in innovation. [More…]
If they deny us the opportunity to govern for the elected period of time to see these innovations work they should not expect Labor senators to go to the trade union movement or to any group and say that by evolution they can achieve their objectives because they cannot. [More…]
We are using the mechanism of the elected senators in this country to force this Government to the Australian people. [More…]
It is for all these reasons that having had many messages from people whom I respect and who are concerned at this time- and I have had many more messages from people who are obviously supporters of the Government in relation to dealing with this situation- I insist, as an elected senator for Australia, that the constitutional provisions to deal with the deadlock between the 2 Houses of Parliament should immediately be put into operation by the Prime Minister. [More…]
It should allow the democratic process to take effect so that we can have a government elected which will have the confidence and trust of the Australian people. [More…]
In actual fact, in the time of the Hawke Labor Government, both Mr Lynch and Mr Diver, members of the Country Party, stated their attitude that the platform on which the Hawke Government was elected was such that the Government should be allowed to have Supply. [More…]
The communications I am getting openly state that the people concerned do not necessarily support the Labor Party at electionsthat they may not have voted for the Labor Party at the last election- but that they will not stand idly by and watch the Opposition in its attempts to gain control of the Government benches when we have a freely elected Government, twice freely elected government, already on those Government benches. [More…]
We are reminded- it is true- that the Government was returned to office on that occasion, but it is not brought to the forefront of people’s concern that when the Government was re-elected 1 8 months ago it was re-elected with a majority that was reduced in the House of Representatives from nine to five and it failed to gain control of the people’s only brake in this Parliament, the Senate. [More…]
The House of Lords is not, as is the Senate, an elected House. [More…]
The Senate is elected by exactly the same number and character of people as elect the House of Representatives. [More…]
We in the Senate are democratically elected by the people of the States. [More…]
Unlike most other upper Houses, the Senate is a people’s House, fully elected. [More…]
The constitutional authority of a Premier rests almost entirely upon his success at a general election, and upon his continued authority in the popularly elected House, and not upon irresponsible speculations as to whether he would have lost his majority if the Constitution had provided for annual and not triennial elections. [More…]
I shall not go into this in any great depth, but just to set the record straight for the benefit of Senator Carrick and the people who read Hansard, when the 1974 Senate election was held 29 Labor senators were elected, one Independent, one Liberal Movement- Senator Hall- 28 members of the Liberal and Country Parties and one member ofthe National AllianceSenator Drake-Brockman from Western Australia. [More…]
Subsequent to their election, and as a breach of faith with the people who had elected them, Senator Drake-Brockman joined the Country Party, subsequently called the National Country Party, and Senator Townley joined the Liberal Party, which gives the Opposition its current number of 30. [More…]
But 28 were elected as Liberal or Country Party senators. [More…]
We as the elected Government of Australia- the Government solely because the people gave us a majority in this House- must now so conduct ourselves that this act of aggression by the Senate shall never again be attempted. [More…]
The taxpayers’ control over their money through their elected representatives in the people’s House is the foundation of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister suggest that the Senate is not an elected House? [More…]
The Senate is not a House of Lords; it is a duly constituted and elected body which has the right to speak for those who elect it, who are the same people as those who elect the House of Representatives. [More…]
Concurrent with that right, that privilege of democracy, there is the responsibility of all elected members to take upon themselves the task of surveying government expenditure, deciding whether the Government is acting as it should, and whether that power of the purse is being exercised as it should be. [More…]
Every honourable senator who is present knows that there is no equivalent in the House of Representatives of the sort of surveillance that is meant to be given by the elected representatives of the people to the disbursement of public funds as is given in the Senate Estimates Committees. [More…]
-When this debate, which drones on and on like many in this place, is extended further into the population of this country, it will be about whether an Upper House, not elected on the same democratic basis as the Lower House in this country, should refuse Supply, therefore throwing out a democratically elected government. [More…]
As Senator Steele Hall and others have said, the question will be: Should an Upper House in this country throw out a democratically elected government in a Lower House? [More…]
We have heard Senator Wright and others state that this House is as democratic as the Lower House, it is a people’s House elected by the people. [More…]
It is disappointing to me that the members of a party, which for some extraordinary reason calls itself the Liberal Party, in this House will follow the instructions of this group and will obey the call of those who attempt to defeat this democratically elected government. [More…]
The constitutional authority of a Premier rests almost entirely upon his success at a general election, and upon his continued authority in the popularly elected House, and not upon irresponsible speculations as to whether he would have lost his majority if the Constitution had provided for annual and not triennial elections. [More…]
This Government was elected in 1972 for a term of 3 years. [More…]
Time will demonstrate that this Government, elected as it was for its 3-year program in 1974, will be vindicated and endorsed by the majority of Australians. [More…]
Further, is it not a fact that despite the claims about the great return of the Government at the double dissolution election, the Government was returned in the House of Representatives with a reduced overall majority, and with very small majorities in some electorates, and that in this Senate, which was elected by the same electors, the Government did not secure a majority? [More…]
The Australian people will not surrender the support for the Government which they have elected twice in 3 years. [More…]
The House of Lords has taken the view that it should not have the right to throw out of office a constitutionally elected government. [More…]
I give the warning to the Opposition that, because of the very nature of this House, because it is elected on the basis of proportional representation, governments in the future will have to hope that death takes a holiday. [More…]
Of course, as has been said by the Prime Minister time and time again in this last week or so, by making decisions to amend, delay or reject the Appropriation Bills we are placing an elected Government into a twice yearly crisis position. [More…]
We all recall that in 1949 he was elected to put value back into the pound. [More…]
Sir Isaac Isaacs and other eminent constitutional lawyers have constantly placed before the Australian people the need to see the Senate as a House of review and not as a House bent to bring down the elected government. [More…]
The draftsmen and founders of the Australian Federation, familiar as they were with colonial ( to become State) patriotisms and sometimes sharp differences of policy, devised a Constitution which provided for a Senate made up of an equal number of senators from each State, and a House of Representatives elected by individual constituencies and therefore representative, not of States but of people. [More…]
In all such general matters, the clear fact is that the Senate has become a party house, senators from each State (except for one recent exception in Tasmania) being elected on party tickets, and therefore becoming members of the parliamentary parties, adhering, broadly, to their party policy. [More…]
For the first time in Commonwealth political history, the majority Government party in the House of Representatives has elected a senator to be its leader and Prime Minister. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable senator that if he has any complaints about radio station 2JJ he should raise them with the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Professor Downing, or with the General Manager of the ABC, Mr Duckmanton, or he might like to discuss the matter with Mr Marius Webb who just recently has been appointed a commissioner of the ABC, after being elected by the staff of the Commission and who I understand is an operator of radio station 2JJ. [More…]
It is quite true that the inquiry was established in October 1971 by the previous Government and that upon Labor being elected in December 1972 the time was extended for Mr Justice Toose to complete his report. [More…]
They must be feeling very sad for the Government for which they had such high hopes when they elected it. [More…]
-Mal Fraser, the Leader of the minority Party in the House of Representatives, has, at the behest of Mr Anthony, instructed the Liberal-Country Party Opposition to block Supply and to try to force the democratically elected Government to the polls. [More…]
When the Senate uses its executive powers to dictate to a democratically elected government, then we can say that the principles embodied in a free constitution are irrevocably lost. [More…]
We are creating a state of affairs which strikes at the very heart of the Constitution, about which we have heard so much, and which strikes at the very heart of the people who have elected folk to Parliament. [More…]
It is because the Constitution requires a government to be elected every 3 years and because the expressed will of the electors should be observed in a democratic society. [More…]
Last year the Labor Government was re-elected to office, lt was given a mandate by the people in the House of Representatives. [More…]
At that Senate election 29 Government senators, 29 Liberal Party senators, one Liberal Movement senator and one independent senator were elected. [More…]
Those conventions which we all understand and know about in the Senate deliberately set out to provide for periods of stability of government on a democratically elected basis. [More…]
The people elected a governmen t and they elected an Opposition. [More…]
The Senate has been pursuing that matter in the interests of the people whom it is elected to represent. [More…]
It would be but for the very grave consequences of the course which the Opposition has adopted and but for the line of argument which the Opposition has followed in its tortuous search for reprehensible circumstances to try to justify that criterion which Mr Fraser laid down when he was elected Leader of the Opposition and from which he has since departed. [More…]
It may be all right for Senator James McClelland to say, as I remember him saying yesterday, that the Senate is not a democratically elected House; but it is a democratically elected House. [More…]
In Chile and other countries around the world his ilk have used the CIA and guns to overthrow democratically elected governments. [More…]
It would like to see this Government overthrown, a government which has been popularly elected twice within 3 years and given a mandate. [More…]
It is extraordinary that Government senators who are elected under the Commonwealth Constitution should set about denying the very powers under which they are elected and from which their responsibilities operate. [More…]
Nobody in Australia should see it as a defiance of the people, because in Australia as in America the Senate is elected on the full general adult franchise of all the Australian people. [More…]
I for one, having been elected by the people of Western Australia- like Senator Everett, I am proud to claim to be an Australian- intend to vote in a way which I believe best serves the interests of the people of Western Australia. [More…]
The United States Senate is elected in the same way as the Senate of Australia. [More…]
The present Prime Minister’s claim that the removal of a government from office before the end of the term for which it has been elected would be a blow to parliamentary government and democratic institutions is manifestly untenable. [More…]
We have already had extensive references to the attitude adopted by the now Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, in 1970 when he clearly indicated in the House of Representatives that the then Labor Opposition proposed to oppose the Budget, to destroy the Budget and by destroying the Budget, to destroy the then Gorton Government, a government which I point out had been elected at that time only 10 months. [More…]
Because it had exercised its power through the elected politicians it had been presented as hostile to government programs and an anomaly to modern government. [More…]
We did what I believe the people of Australia elected us to do. [More…]
They know that the people who elected them have been largely neglected. [More…]
On this occasion the Opposition is endeavouring to force to the people, to the polls, for the third time in 3 years a government that was legitimately elected after being in the political wilderness for a generation. [More…]
It is 12 months since the Legislative Assembly for the Northern Territory was elected. [More…]
It has been argued, of course, that the Government was elected for a 3-year term. [More…]
A government is elected and should remain in office only so long as it has the confidence of the Parliament. [More…]
A government is not elected for a 3-year term. [More…]
The Parliament is not elected for 3 years, it can be dissolved at any time by the GovernorGeneral on the advice of the Prime Minister. [More…]
It is elected and can remain in office only so long as it has the confidence of the Parliament. [More…]
The situation in which we now find ourselves would not have arisen if it had not been for the lunatic course upon which the Opposition set itself, namely, to try, for the second time within 2 years, to destroy a government which was elected for the first time less than 3 years ago. [More…]
Since then we have tried to carry out the policy on which we were elected. [More…]
For that reason it is hellbent on destroying the Government which the Australian people elected by overwhelming majorities in 1 972 and 1 974. [More…]
It is that if a government is elected for a 3-year term it is completely improper and completely undemocratic that an undemocratically constituted Upper House should be able to pick the time for that government to go to an election. [More…]
We also submit that the Federal Government’s intention to eliminate the differentials in Nursing Home Benefits between States, is an action contrary to the Labor Governments’ 1974 policy speech on Social Security Benefits and Welfare Services, delivered at the Fitzroy Town Hall on May 1 , 1 974 on which it was elected to Govern. [More…]
They follow an endless sequence of manoeuvres which the Opposition has pursued in order to remove a democratically elected Government from office. [More…]
We have not been able to pursue many of the programs on which we were elected and for which the Australian people voted for us. [More…]
Here is somebody who has been elected to the leadership of the Liberal Party- admittedly he has attained that high office by stepping over innumerable corpses- coming into that position at a time when there is a world-wide economic recession and when there is inflation and unemployment in this country. [More…]
Then they will see just what the Australian people think of those who would be prepared to prostitute Parliament by presenting this piffle as an excuse for not allowing a democratically elected government to carry out the business of the country. [More…]
I think it is essential in the interests of the Australian public to understand precisely what has happened since the Australian people elected the Labor Government in December 1972. [More…]
The Australian people elected the Labor Government on 2 December 1972. [More…]
It means briefly this: If we take into account that this statement was made on 10 April 1974 and if we traverse back the period of 12 months which was referred to by Senator Withers it is seen that the Government which was elected on 2 December 1972 was not even half-way through its first autumn period of the new Parliament when the Opposition determined to destroy that Government. [More…]
Despite the fact that we were legitimately elected for a 3-year period then, similar tactics were employed in May 1974 when the gallup polls in the early part of the year showed that the Government could be defeated. [More…]
It remains a matter of concern for the world that the situation in Lebanon should have been seized from the hands of the elected representatives, and that the Lebanese experiment in multicommunal democracy should have been brought by violence to the brink of failure. [More…]
declares that the Constitution and the conventions of the Constitution vest in the House of Representatives the control of the supply of moneys to the elected Government and that the action of the Senate constitutes a gross violation of the roles of the respective Houses of the Parliament in relation to the appropriation of moneys: [More…]
On behalf of myself and my family, we thank you for your condemnation of Mr Fraser for his attempt to overthrow our elected government. [More…]
That is only a short letter but it is so representative of what the public is thinking- that Mr Fraser is overthrowing our elected government. [More…]
If the people are for the Labor Government in the great majorities that have been suggested, what an easy ride home the Government would have by accepting the situation upon which the Opposition has placed its confidence, namely, that the people ought to be consulted as to whether this Government is entitled to the supply of money by us- the people who are representatives elected from the taxpayers who provide the money. [More…]
They thought that they had elected a Government which believed in direct taxation and not indirect taxation, but they find now that they will pay nearly 70 per cent more in total taxation this year compared with last year. [More…]
The circumstance that the existing House of Representatives was or was not elected during the term of office of the advising Ministers is also a relevant circumstance. [More…]
The coup, the overthrow of a properly elected government, I adjourned the Senate at 20 minutes past two until the ringing of the bells. [More…]
I did not do my homework as well as he has done, mainly because I had not anticipated that you would be elected- I say with great respect. [More…]
You were first elected to the South Australian Parliament in 19S6, representing the Barrossa area. [More…]
You were re-elected in 1959 and again in 1962. [More…]
Senator O’BYRNE (Tasmania)-I join with other honourable senators in congratulating you, Mr President, on having been elected to the very high and honourable office of President of the Senate. [More…]
Senator Maunsell is the National Country Party Whip in the Senate and Senator Scott has been elected as the Deputy Leader of the Party in the Senate. [More…]
Senator DrakeBrockman is therefore elected Chairman of Committees. [More…]
He was re-elected in 1964, 1970, 1974 and 1975. [More…]
He is the only senator since Federation to have been elected to the position of Chairman of Committees on a second occasion, there being an intervening period between the 2 elections. [More…]
I congratulate him on being elected. [More…]
Possibly I am free to say that Malcolm Fraser and Sir Garfield Barwick were part of a plot and that His Excellency the Governor-General was the instrument by which the plot they conceived was put into operation and that he unconstitutionally dismissed a government which had been elected by the people of Australia and which had the full confidence of the people’s House. [More…]
1 ) The name of the Senator first elected shall be placed first on the Senators’ Roll for each State and the name of the Senator next elected shall be placed next, and so on in rotation. [More…]
In 1 974 the Territory gained a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I would like to refer to the electors of South Australia, who made me feel very humble on 13 December 1975 when they elected me as one of the senators for that State. [More…]
It is a great honour to have been elected to represent the views of the people of that State and to act on their behalf before the people of Australia. [More…]
I believe that the only way in which we can obtain meaningful results is by bringing government and the elected representatives close to the people. [More…]
Seeing that all this water has passed under the bridge, let us look now at the justification for this extraordinary act of getting rid of a legally elected government, of dismissing a legally elected Prime Minister. [More…]
1 believe that this Government, which claims to have been elected to fight inflation, has already kissed the fight against inflation goodbye because it has lost the confidence of the trade unions; it has lost any credibility with the trade unions. [More…]
It was being done at a time when the Governor-General must have known that 2 hours after the event he would be bent upon a course of action that no Australian citizen ever thought he would live to see- the dismissal by the Governor-General of Australia of a properly elected government with a mandate awarded to it in 1 972 and reaffirmed in 1 974. [More…]
I want honourable senators on the Government side to ponder seriously these events because I believe that those honourable senators are as interested as we are in seeing the preservation of parliamentary democracy in this country- a system whereby men and women are elected to come to this Parliament to speak on behalf of their constituents and whereby the party with the greatest number of people elected to the floor of the House of Representatives forms the constitutionally elected government. [More…]
They are thinking that the bugles, the brass bands and, if you like the buns and the biscuits are brought out when a conservative government is elected to office but that when a Labor government is elected to office, especially if it does not have a majority in the upper chamber, the Labor government is not to be given a fair go by the establishment. [More…]
My friends opposite and those who write for the media have to understand the feelings of men and women- the little men and women- and kids who worked, toiled, strained and fought for nearly a quarter of a century to see a Labor Government elected. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland tonight referred to the fact that the Whitlam Government had been elected in 1972 for a 3-year term. [More…]
The Senate, which has been a very important place, unfortunately was used last year as a device for getting rid of a popularly elected government- the Labor Government. [More…]
We saw the situation in the other place where, after the Labor Government had been sacked, it showed in a vote that it still had a majority among the elected members of that House. [More…]
The purposes of this Bill are to make special long service leave provisions for those New South Wales and South Australian teachers who were employed in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory respectively in 1973 and who elected to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service before 1 January 1974, to enable provision to be made for the employment of teachers at technical colleges in the Australian Capital Territory, and to make other amendments to the legislation arising from the provisions of enactments which have been made since the Teaching Service legislation was last amended. [More…]
One would expect that there should be some justification for the manner in which a government which was elected for 3 years was subjected to re-election after serving 18 months in office and, after getting a second mandate from the people found that after another short period it again had to face the people as a result of an action which I have described as being contrary to the Constitution of Australia. [More…]
But when that Labor government was elected, we found that it could be thrown out by a coup d’etat and that that Government could be defeated by the powerful Press of Australia. [More…]
We have a group of people who have elected to fashion their lives to living on the dole, and in some cases to living as a group in a house. [More…]
They are people who have elected to utilise a system that we have introduced for the purpose of obtaining their livelihood. [More…]
It is far better for increased leisure time to be in the hands of those who have selected it than of those who are forced into it. [More…]
If we cannot provide job opportunities we should seriously consider whether our contribution should be to ensure that such people are not in competition with those who wish to work or living a life that is other than they have selected and is resulting in their taking income away from another section of the community. [More…]
It can be anticipated that the Government will now run its 3-year term of office, but precedents have been established that make it essential that we look seriously at the Constitution and consider whether the State-elected House should have the right to have supremacy over the people-elected House to such an extent that it can in effect dismiss the people-elected Government. [More…]
The word ‘junior’ referred not to the position to which he was elected but to his cerebral development. [More…]
It was elected on 3 1 May 1 9 1 3. [More…]
I remind the Labor Party of the Eleventh Parliament, which was elected on 1 1 November 1928 and dissolved in September 1929. [More…]
I was cheated out of a job that I was elected to do for a period of 3 years by the electors in Western Australia. [More…]
Not only were my colleagues and I cheated, but the people who elected us and reelected us in May 1974 feel a sense of being cheated in that they also believed that we were being elected for a period of 3 years. [More…]
We heard the gospel according to the minority and honourable senators opposite were in a minority in the House that matters, the democratically elected House of Representatives, at the time of the coup on 11 November. [More…]
She said how those people who elected the Australian Labor Party felt cheated. [More…]
I submit that we of the Australian Labor Party find ourselves in a somewhat similar position at present because since we were elected to government in 1972 we have been threatened with a type of political terrorism that has been unknown in this country. [More…]
People will not forget what this Government when in opposition did to the popularly elected Labor Government. [More…]
as an elected member of the Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Australia for the time being for the good management of public affairs of Australia and that I will not directly or indirectly reveal such matters as shall be debated in Council and committed to my secrecy, but that I will in all things be a true and faithful Councillor. [More…]
The Opposition naturally is opposing the motion moved by one of the newly-elected senators in relation to the Address-in-Reply to the Governor-General’s Speech. [More…]
Mr President, it is the usual practice in such a debate for honourable senators to express felicitations to those who have been elected to high office and it is in order to welcome the newlyelected senators and to congratulate those who have made their maiden speeches as well as, of course, to extend to you and the Chairman of Committees congratulations on reaching the office you and he now hold. [More…]
But what has to be said and certainly what the newly-elected senators have to learn is that what one says in this place has very little relevance, very little value, in terms of parliamentary democracy, in terms of one’s contribution to the maintenance of parliamentary democracy and in terms of one’s understanding of the way in which our society operates. [More…]
What has a political party got to do to be elected and to carry out its responsibilities to those people who put it into public office? [More…]
We say that the principle or precedent has been established that the Governor-General has the power to dismiss an elected government. [More…]
She made a valid point by saying that we really find little significance in the actual election results if we do not accept the fact that it is in the House of Representatives- in the popular House- where governments are elected. [More…]
Already admissions have been made in the depositions of those inquiries that people involved in that organisation have brought about the overthrow of elected governments and assassinations of elected leaders. [More…]
We now read how the popularly and properly elected Premier of the Congo, now described as Zaire, Patrice Lumumba, was shot in cold blood after being kidnapped by forces under the orders of the CIA. [More…]
We now learn that General Schneider, a personal friend of the democratically elected President of Chile, President Allende who was Chief of the General Staff in Chile and also a constitutionalist, was murdered following his abduction by agents paid and encouraged by the CIA. [More…]
I also congratulate him on the fact that he has been elected only 1 8 months after the last President was elected to that office. [More…]
Who would have thought 3 years ago that twice in a period of 3 years a new President of the Senate would be elected? [More…]
As one honourable senator put it to me the other day: Who would have thought that he would be elected 3 times in 5 years for a 6-year term in the Senate? [More…]
I also congratulate the President because it appears from what has happened in the past few months in this chamber that he has been elected to the office of Presiding Officer of one of the most powerful legislative chambers in the world. [More…]
It is a chamber which can apparently force elections at whim, can reject a Budget, can defeat a government by delaying a Budget and can defeat a legislative program which the Government was elected to carry out. [More…]
In being elected to the office the President has taken on, I respectfully submit, an awesome responsibility, so much so that I feel a sense of awe in my heart when the Usher of the Black Rod announces the President each daythe same sense of awe as no doubt would be struck in the hearts of Ugandan parliamentarians when the equivalent officer announces the President of Uganda. [More…]
Be that as it may, the President has been elected to this position. [More…]
The point which I wish to make is simply this: If a parliamentary system is to work- as I came here 1 8 months ago believing it ought to work- it should work on the basis of a government being elected to fulfil a program over a defined period of time. [More…]
Although I come into the debate at a late stage, I wish to extend my congratulations to all the new senators and trust that I and they may endeavour to use this Senate to be objective and for the purpose for which we were all elected. [More…]
A Legislative Assembly for the Territory was elected as a first step towards giving the people both a voice in the administration of local affairs and a way to participate in the policies by which the affairs of the Territory are regulated. [More…]
As the elected representative of this Territory, I must fight against the developments to which I have just referred. [More…]
The Labor Government which was elected in 1972 recognised these facts. [More…]
One of the first acts of the newly elected Labor Government in December 1972 was to re-open the equal pay case. [More…]
That he should be elected Chairman of Committees only reinforces my admiration for him. [More…]
Like all of the new honourable senators and I suppose like most of those who have been recently re-elected I am aware of the responsibility that I have towards the people who elected me, in this case the people of Queensland. [More…]
One thing however detracts from our great State- and I think I must say this tonight- and that is the abysmally poor State government in Queensland which has been elected on malapportioned electorates. [More…]
Some of the newly elected senators probably fit into this category. [More…]
I come here to represent the people of Queensland, the people who elected me to this chamber, and in representing them I intend at all times to fight for their rights, and I intend especially to fight for the rights of the underprivileged. [More…]
I also congratulate other honourable senators who have been elected to positions both within this chamber and within their parties, and I congratulate those honourable senators who have made their first speeches in this chamber. [More…]
I was elected to the position to represent the workers and in having to spend my time simply in defending myself I felt I was getting nowhere. [More…]
On 13 December last year I was elected as a senator for Queensland by almost 600 000 people. [More…]
Governments were elected and Parliaments served a term of 3 years. [More…]
That was one of the first things about which my Government did something when it was first elected in 1972. [More…]
However, that may be a new reason why the Australian people elected a Parliament with only about one-third its members being members of the honourable senator’s Party. [More…]
He attended only when he felt like it and then finally got off the Committee when Senator Sheil was elected to his place. [More…]
As to the matter of old references which was raised by both Senator Douglas McClelland and Senator Keeffe, I hope that if and when the committees are established and the chairmen are elected the chairmen will be able to come to some amicable arrangement. [More…]
Whilst still in that position he was elected in 1941, as a member of the Committee of Management of the N.S.W. [More…]
In 1954 he was elected by the members of the Branch to the position of President, which subsequently was made a paid position. [More…]
Subsequently he was elected by the Committee of Management as its Federal Executive member. [More…]
As a result of a Labor Government coming to office, we found out that an agent of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was operating from our embassy in Santiago and playing a very difficult role, a nefarious role, an improper role in respect of the events that took place in that country and which subsequently resulted in the death of that country’s properly elected leader. [More…]
If the Labor Government were elected for the third time in succession, would the military take over the Government as has happened in other countries? [More…]
But I was reminded of what 4 officers of the Army were alleged to have said in Queensland, namely, that if a socialist or Communist government were elected in Australia they would not hesitate to overturn the government elected. [More…]
What would happen if the South Australian Labor Government elected 5 Labor senators in their place? [More…]
Although in the last 3 double dissolutions the question of who will have the long term of 6 years and who will have the short term of 3 years has been settled rather amicably by both sides of the Senate, it could so happen that in an election 30 senators from the Government side, 30 senators from the Opposition side and 4 independent senators or senators from a small political party were elected. [More…]
Those 4 senators, could be elected on the preference votes of the other political parties. [More…]
Thus, instead of giving to the 5 senators who were first elected in each State the long term in office and the 5 senators who were last elected the short term in office, the Senate could easily reverse that position and give the 5 senators last elected the long term of office and the 5 senators first elected the short term of office. [More…]
I believe that matter should be looked at and that the practice followed in the past 3 double dissolutions could quite easily be written into the Constitution so that for all time the people of Australia would know, in the event of any elections, how senators would be placed and whether they were being elected for a long term or a short term. [More…]
After 3 years of dynamic reform and unprecedented social change, we have had elected a conservative government with the largest House of Representatives majority in a generation. [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…]
Already, after only a short space of 2 months in elected office, the [More…]
The Speech sets forth the program of the Government which was elected on 1 3 December. [More…]
I congratulate Senator Drake-Brockman on being elected as Chairman of Committees and those other honourable senators who have been chosen to fill positions of responsibility in the chamber. [More…]
Mr Nelson, like his father before him, served as a member for the Northern Territory and fought for voting rights, an elected assembly and Senate representation. [More…]
We have achieved a fully elected Legislative Assembly, Senate representation and the development of local government in both European and Aboriginal communities. [More…]
So soon after the new Government has been elected these types of views are rammed home, for example, by those representing sporting groups who, I presume, have written to all honourable senators saying how bad it is that they are missing out on sporting subsidies that they were to receive from the previous Government. [More…]
At the risk of encouraging or inviting criticism from the Government I propose to deal with some facets of those events when a democratically elected Government, twice preferred and twice elected within 18 months, was summarily dismissed by the Governor-General. [More…]
Governor-General to dismiss an elected Government was a serious one, unprecedented in modern history. [More…]
-The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will recall saying yesterday that continuing financial assistance for growth centres was now under review despite the Government’s assurance during the election campaign that, if elected, it would continue commitments entered into by the Whitlam Government. [More…]
Let me say that Mr Daly, the Minister for Administrative Services in the last Government, was more considerate of the needs of backbenchers of this Parliament than any other Minister has been in the whole of the 26 years that have elapsed since I was elected to the Senate. [More…]
I said that because I always believed that I was elected to this chamber to make decisions and not to hide behind outside bodies. [More…]
During the campaign Liberal Party members went to very great pains to say that they would defer this measure if they were elected to government. [More…]
This Government has been elected to office at a time when the Australian economy is experiencing the results of its most serious setback in the post war period. [More…]
The Parliament consists of two Houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate, each popularly elected, and each with the same legislative power, with the one exception that the Senate may not originate nor amend a money Bill. [More…]
There is no analogy in respect of a Prime Minister’s duty between the situation of the Parliament under the federal Constitution of Australia and the relationship between the House of Commons, a popularly elected body, and the House of Lords, a non-elected body in the unitary form of government functioning in the United Kingdon. [More…]
A Government having the confidence of the House of Representatives but not that of the Senate, both elected Houses, cannot secure Supply to the Crown. [More…]
Notoriously the new Ministry lacked the support of one elected House; equally notoriously, the former Ministry was unable to continue governing constitutionally, for want of sufficient support in the other elected House. [More…]
Out of the blue we were suddenly told that the merely titular non-elected head of state had taken the matter out of our hands in a manner which offended against just about every canon of parliamentary government one can readily call to mind. [More…]
Notoriously the new Ministry lacked the support of one elected House; equally notoriously, the former Ministry was unable to continue governing constitutionally, for want of sufficient support in the other elected House. [More…]
We have heard Senator Wright desperately trying to whitewash the actions of the GovernorGeneral in dismissing a properly elected Government from office. [More…]
The constitutional authority of a Premier rests almost entirely upon his success at a general election and upon his continued authority in the popularly elected House, and not upon irresponsible speculations as to whether he would have lost his majority if the Constitution had provided for annual and not triennial elections. [More…]
I have a statement by Mr David Hamer who was elected at the last election. [More…]
As a result he was re-elected to this Parliament under a system with which he himself did not agree. [More…]
But the honourable senator freely admits that in 1973, less than 12 months after the Whitlam Government was elected, he was conniving to get rid of it by using the power in this place to deny Supply. [More…]
We find that even though the Government was twice elected within a space of 18 months the honourable senator’s Party did not accept the will of the people. [More…]
When we have as Prime Minister a person who will go to those lengths to bring about the downfall of a government legitimately elected twice in 18 months I think honourable senators opposite and the Liberal Party have a lot to answer for. [More…]
I can assure honourable senators opposite that the members of the Parliamentary Labor Party and the Party’s organisation outside are determined to remind the Australian people continually of what took place and to show to what murky depths the Liberal Party sank in order to remove the elected Labor Government from office. [More…]
I also take the opportunity of congratulating Senator Drake-Brockman on being elected Chairman of Committees. [More…]
If it did not accept it, it would not have fielded candidates from the Territories to be elected to the Senate. [More…]
I want to say this in fairness to Senator Kilgariff: He appeared before the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory when we were examining the possibility of having a fully elected parliament for the Northern Territory. [More…]
Do the petitions of Helen Therese Berrill and Bruce Noel Hill, as tabled by the President in the Senate on the last day we met, 4 March 1 976, to the Court of Disputed Returns seek a declaration of the Court that all senators elected for South Australia and Tasmania on 13 December last are not duly elected? [More…]
I understand that Mr Noble in New South Wales carried out his duties to the best of his ability and with great satisfaction to the 10 senators who were elected. [More…]
In fact, they so manipulated what they are now prepared to call a simple machinery Bill, so distorted the proper role of the Senate as a House of review, that by what I and many people believe to be improper methods they brought about the destruction of a properly elected government. [More…]
How free are the people of this country when we remember how we were forced out of office in November last year after the Australian people at a free election had elected a government for a term of 3 years? [More…]
The Whitlam Government was swept from office and the Fraser Government was elected. [More…]
Significant in this result was the fact that for the first time in over 20 years in South Australia we were able to return, as a first elected senator, a candidate from the Liberal Party, not from the Labor Party. [More…]
-I open my remarks in this debate by extending congratulations to yourself, Mr Acting Deputy President, and to the other office bearers who were elected, including the President. [More…]
I believe that I am the last of the newly elected senators to make a maiden speech, and I have a more difficult task as I am following a series of excellent speeches given by the newly elected senators. [More…]
Also we are elected basically to see that it is carried into full force and effect. [More…]
We were elected partly because of our commitment to the rights of people within the States. [More…]
I said, and Senator Button distinctly said that we of the Labor movement accepted the verdict of the people but that we did query and we did express concern about the manner and the circumstances in which the election was able to be brought about by the dismissal of a previously properly elected government. [More…]
He expressed that concern last September, but again as recently as a month ago, on 13 February, Mr Cairns, now re-elected by this time to the Federal Parliament, went to the trouble of issuing a Press release- he did not make a statement in the Parliament- saying: [More…]
Since Senator Greenwood was elected to Government, he has not been prepared to further take that case to the Royal Commission into Petroleum. [More…]
The reason I look forward to that debate is that perhaps, somewhat naively, when I was first elected to this Senate I thought that senators from both sides of the chamber would have the opportunity to debate proposals put forward by the Government and would be able to allow their feelings on all matters to be made known. [More…]
In 1973 the Aboriginal council at Aurukun, which had 3 elected members and 2 members appointed by the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs, asked Mr Frank Purcell, a Melbourne lawyer, to act for them in their efforts to get land rights. [More…]
I am making a slur on the Government for not doing the job it was elected to do and for not carrying out the promises to which the Government’s present [More…]
We the members of the National Congress of the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders, assembled at Canberra, Australia this 10th day of March 1 976, do hereby, as the democratically elected representatives of our people, solemnly and unanimously resolve that we claim for our people the following inalienable rights:- the right to natural justice, the right to self determination as a separate and distinct people, with our own laws and customs, languages culture and heritage, living in our ancient home-land and with the right to a full voice in and influence on our own affairs, the right to be free from the racial oppression and discrimination imposed upon us by the uninvited European people who have invaded our country and imposed their own laws and way of life upon us, the right to preserve in perpetuity for our people the surviving tribal lands reserves and sacred sites in all Australian states and territories, the right to fair and just compensation to our scattered tribes, our detribalised and urban people, for the lands seized from our forefathers, and for the inhuman and violent treatment of our people. [More…]
We the members of the National Congress of the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait Islanders, assembled at Canberra, Australia this 10th day of March 1976, do hereby, as the democratically elected representatives of our people, solemnly and unanimously resolve that we claim for our people the following inalienable rights: the right to natural justice, the right to self determination as a separate and distinct people, with our own laws and customs, languages culture and heritage, living in our ancient home-land and with the right to a full voice in and influence on our own affairs, the right to be free from the racial oppression and discrimination imposed upon us by the uninvited European people who have invaded our country and imposed their own laws and way of life upon us, the right to preserve in perpetuity for our people the surviving tribal lands reserves and sacred sites in all Australian states and territories, the right to fair and just compensation to our scattered tribes, our detribalised and urban people, for the lands seized from our forefathers, and for the inhuman and violent treatment of our people. [More…]
Was an announcement made on 23 October 1975, by the former Minister for Science, that a pan-time representative WOuld oe elected oy start m m- CommonMiami Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to the Organisation’s governing executive. [More…]
I refer to a paper published recently by the Australian Institute of Urban Studies which reported upon the proposed legislative program of the Government which was elected last year. [More…]
He stated clearly that he was elected by a court controlled ballot of the rank and file as full-time secretary of the Australian Leather and Allied Industries Branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
Such people have been popularly elected by our Party. [More…]
It appeared to me that the whole proposition may have been a brilliantly conceived promotional stunt, and typical of those which the recently elected Mayor of the Gold Coast, Sir Bruce Small, might use on such occasions. [More…]
I was pleased to confirm to the Palace in December last, after the Government had been elected to office, the invitation which had been extended at an earlier date by the former Prime Minister. [More…]
The highest was in the 3 years from December 1949 to December 1952 when it was 52.6 per cent under the MenziesFadden Government which had been elected mainly on the platform of putting value back into the pound. [More…]
The Council of the School has elected one of its members, Mr John J. Morris, as Deputy Chairman to continue the function until a new appointment is made. [More…]
Both Bills, particularly the Social Services Amendment Bill, repudiate the promises made to pensioners and to pensioner organisations in the course of the election campaign of November-December last that the value of social welfare benefits in this country would not be reduced if a Liberal-National Country Party government was elected. [More…]
Secondly, neither Bill fulfils the promised policies of the Liberal and National Country Parties that there would be an instant and automatic adjustment of pensions and benefits in line with movements in the consumer price index if a coalition government was elected. [More…]
As a new senator who had been recently elected but who had not yet come into this chamber to be able to voice his opinion in this forum of the national Parliament, it disturbed me that such an announcement would be made before the Parliament was called together as, in this way, senators and members in the House of Representatives would not be able to use Parliament at that stage to voice their opinions. [More…]
In 1972 when the Labor Government was elected it was the first occasion on which a Federal Government set about solving Australia’s national problems with a national approach. [More…]
Of course they will next Saturday, ls there the slightest doubt that the decrepit Labor machine of New South Wales will not be elected but will once more find itself in defeat? [More…]
Mr Whitlam would commit himself to visit Iraq officially in his capacity of the real and democratically elected Prime Minister of Australia and would cement the relationship on a strong and permanent relationship between the 2 countries. [More…]
But it is significant that during the period that this Government has been elected there is rarely a Minister in the chamber. [More…]
Unless there is something very wrong I shall always vote with the popularly elected party in this place’. [More…]
In my own State of Western Australia, where all people are equal, but some are 16 times as equal as others because they have a vote in the Legislative Council of Western Australia which is worth 16 votes of other Western Australian citizens, quite massive income taxes can be and may be applied by a Parliament which is elected on a basis which is democratic to the extent of a ratio of 16 to one. [More…]
But since the elected Fraser Government came into power last December we have lived in an atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty on many Government projects, including water filtration, with hints of cut-backs and threats of reductions in financial assistance’, he said. [More…]
It is rather ironical and, I think, hypocritical to hear senators indicating that the whole problem with Commonwealth-State relationships began in December 1972 when a Labor government was elected. [More…]
Mr Bridges is a part- Aborigine, the mayor of Hall’s Creek, who was elected on a white man’s vote. [More…]
Whichever way an appointment is made, however, the significant fact is that it is not made by the electorate but by a State parliament; for, in the latter case, unless the successor is earlier elected or the appointee ‘s term earlier expires, a permanent appointment is made subsequently by the Houses of Parliament of the State. [More…]
Since 1949, however, senators have been elected under a system of proportional representation and the effect has been to have a more evenly divided Senate. [More…]
By deliberately altering the composition of one of the Houses of the national Parliament from that which the Australian electors set in 1974, a democratically elected government was eventually dismissed from office. [More…]
There are some trade unions which demonstrate and have demonstrated over many years that basic representation of the rank and file worker, but no one can say that where there is a union membership of something like 170 000 people and only -2000 of them vote the people elected by those 2000 in any way represent the 170 000. [More…]
But I would have thought that with the prospect of a third State Labor Government being elected next week and a fourth State Labor Government being elected next year also, the present Federal Government might have been alert to make sure that this did not happen and that the States would have to account properly for the way that the money was spent. [More…]
Mr J. Moskala was elected Co ordinator and Mr Drewniak his assistant. [More…]
Twelve members of the Committee were also elected whose names are as follows: [More…]
The meeting elected its Chairman for the duration of the meeting, Mr B. Jedra. [More…]
The Committee then proceeded to elect its oke bearers who were elected in a written ballot. [More…]
This was in the period when we had 6 nominated people, 8 elected people and 3 non-official people on the Council. [More…]
I emphasise that prior to the Whitlam Government being elected in 1972 and before we amended the Grants Commission Act 1973 this organisation was known as the Commonwealth Grants Commission and it had been known as such from about 1932 or 1933 when it was established. [More…]
Apparently it is the intention of the Government to confine authorities to elected local government authorities thus, I suggest, including regional bodies such as county councils and other regional local government organisations. [More…]
Clearly, what is intended is to provide for the manner in which a State can give to an area which has no elected local government authority the services which normally would be provided by a local government authority if one existed, and to provide no further. [More…]
If Mr Nixon really thinks that this is important, I hope that his legal judgment is sounder than his political judgment because later in the statement he made on 23 April he said that the prospect of the Labor Party being elected to government in New South Wales was so remote that it was unlikely the people of that State would suffer. [More…]
The Government should have learned a lesson when Labor was elected as the State Government in New South Wales recently. [More…]
That was one of the reasons for this Government being elected on 1 3 December. [More…]
The reason for that decision was that the partly elected Legislative Council of that Territory had power, conferred by statute, to make ordinances for the Territory, and such ordinances were no longer subject to disallowance by either House of the Parliament. [More…]
Although there is now a fully elected Legislative Assembly in the Capital Territory, it is itself established by ordinance and not by Act of the Parliament. [More…]
In 1929 a Labor government was elected, there were 14 per cent unemployed and the Who’s For Australia League was formed in Sydney; in 1931, this was absorbed into the All Australia League. [More…]
In 1930, Jack Lang was elected Premier of New South Wales. [More…]
I, Ron Riley (elected Member of the New South Wales Aboriginal Advisory Council and Aboriginal Lands Trust) of 206 Wills Street, Broken Hill in the State of New South Wales, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: [More…]
I speak on these matters not only because of my concern as an elected representative of the people of the Territory but also because I think that the way in which the Government handles the situation in this Territory is a pretty good test of what sort of economic management it really can offer this country. [More…]
The task force was appointed shortly after the Government was elected in December. [More…]
When this Government was elected to office the sum of $3m was added to those loan funds to ensure that they continued through this financial year. [More…]
I suppose it is fair to say that the pledge to introduce Medibank, amongst a number of pledges, was one of the reasons why the Australian Labor Party was elected to government in 1972. [More…]
-On 13 December last year- some 6 months ago- the Fraser Government was elected by an overwhelming mandate of the people of Australia, primarily because of the economic chaos that had been caused by the previous Labor Government. [More…]
It was made quite clear by the Fraser Government when it was in Opposition that it would introduce tax indexation if it were elected on 13 December last year. [More…]
The Government that Senator McLaren supports, the Whitlam Government, promised that if elected to power in 1 972 it would remove the tax on table wines which was imposed admittedly in 1970-71. [More…]
I would say to Senator Jessop that not only is this Government of which Senator Jessop is one of the junior supporters reversing completely what it undertook to do but at the same time it is completing reversing what has been the consensus of every advanced Western capitalist country since Roosevelt was elected to the presidency of the United States in 1932- that is, a modern country cannot be conducted on the basis that the business of the country is solely private business. [More…]
The simple and sad fact is that the present Government is totally bereft of moral authority because of the sleazy circumstances- to use Senator Hall’s succinct phrase- under which it seized power and the succession of repudiations of its pre-election policy in which it has indulged since it was elected to office in December last. [More…]
Yet the previous Prime Minister was often criticised by senators opposite when he was overseas on business, doing the work which he was elected to do. [More…]
We had 5 out of 5 Tasmanian Liberals elected to the House of Representatives and all the Labor Party could muster was 4 out of 10 senators. [More…]
However, when the nominations were called for a person was elected unopposed and it did not take the long time it would have taken to fill this vacancy if an election had been held during the wet season. [More…]
Promises were made by my Party that if we were elected to office we would abolish the wine excise. [More…]
Promises were made by the Government, when in Opposition, that if it were elected to government it would see that section 31a was reinserted in the Income Tax Assessment Act. [More…]
If so, does such a loan carry with it any conditions disallowing expanded social welfare programs and benefits to the Australian community such as have been laid down in the past to dictatorships such as Chile, which received funds from the IMF after the coup which overthrew the elected Allende Government in September 1973? [More…]
Government was elected. [More…]
A suggestion yesterday by former Liberal leader Bill Snedden that a Fraser government elected on Saturday might have drastically to change Medibank brought a swift and sharp response from the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser. [More…]
One of the first acts of this Australian Government when it was officially elected was to reject the incorporation ofthe Baltic States into the Soviet Union because of the rights of the people. [More…]
So proposed section 4(4) refers only to those who must come up for election and not to those who must be elected by postal ballot. [More…]
Proposed new paragraph (db) of subsection ( 1 ), section 133 reads: shall not permit a person to be elected to hold an office within the association or organisation for a period exceeding 4 years without being re-elected; [More…]
So trade union officials can be elected for a term of 4 years and no longer under this legislation. [More…]
There are factional differences between Moscow and Peking and anarchists elected to positions on the waterfront. [More…]
Everybody of all sorts of conceivable political positions are elected. [More…]
Surely the Government, as an elected legislator, has the right, and indeed, as I believe I said before, the obligation, to present on behalf of the people in the public interest all those attitudes and all those matters that are relevant to the state of the economy, which surely has to be taken into account in the final deliberations of these particular commissions or courts. [More…]
It does not seem to me or to the great mass of Australian unionists or Australians in general that a representative elected by 2 per cent of the people is necessarily a satisfactory representative. [More…]
In the first place there is the recommendation that a period of 4 years should be the period for which executive members are elected. [More…]
My contribution to the debate on the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill will relate mainly to the provisions for compulsory postal secret ballots and the limitation on the term of office of elected union officials. [More…]
The Government, in its haste to provide in the Bill for what it has been telling the people of Australia it would do if it were elected to Government last year, had forgotten. [More…]
He promised that if the Government were elected it would support wage indexation, restore the superphosphate bounty, reduce unemployment and reduce inflation. [More…]
It will try to put the blame on the trade union movement for strikes and election ballots that do not please the Government; ballots in which the wrong officials are elected or officials are elected who place too much importance on conditions and the welfare of the members of the union. [More…]
The reason why I say this is that any trade union official in Australia elected to office and doing his job in the interests of the members whom he represents has no worries about how a ballot will be conducted. [More…]
It is only the officials of unions who have been elected by some devious means through the rules of their organisations and who do not carry out the objectives of their members and look after the welfare of those members who have anything to hide, who have any need to worry and who need to seek protection from the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to retain their jobs. [More…]
The last reference that I wish to make to the Bill now being debated concerns the provision seeking to limit the term of office of any elected official of a trade union. [More…]
As Senator Button mentioned here tonight, several applications have been made to the Commonwealth Industrial Court regarding the tenure of office of elected officials of trade unions. [More…]
I have come to the conclusion that, having regard to the size of the union, the duties of its elected officials, and the control over them by members as provided by the rules, their five-year term of office is not unreasonable, notwithstanding that it is a substantially long period of office for persons who are elected representatives. [More…]
I have read the judgments of Dunphy and Joske JJ., and agreed with them that the five-year term of office provided for by the rules ofthe Australian Workers Union for holders of elective offices in the union is not unreasonable having regard for the nature ofthe union, its size, the many callings and industries it covers, its widespread geographical coverage, the great numbers of awards it obtains and administers, its complex and extensive administrative problems, the duties of its elected officials and the control over them by members as provided by the rules. [More…]
A five-year term of office, looking at the matter broadly, does not of its own nature appear to me to be oppressive, unreasonable or unjust, and I can readily believe that in the situation in which registered organisations find themselves in this country, operating under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and being involved in an elaborate system of compulsory arbitration, some such organisations might well regard a five-year term of office as most advantageous if strong-minded, constructive, useful and responsible work is to be done by its elected officers. [More…]
It could well be that the affairs of a particular branch of a trade union have become run down as a result of mismanagement by an elected officer or an appointed officer. [More…]
shall not provide for the dismissal from office of a person elected to an office within the association or organisation unless he has been found guilty, in accordance with the rules of the associations or organisation, of misappropriation of the funds of the association or organisation, a substantial breach of the rules ofthe association or organisation - [More…]
I am not saying that there were not others but there was a strong feeling that this provision had to be made for the Clerks Union because it and the Government were somewhat sympathetic to each other and the Government could not have an alternative system to that which elected officials for the Clerks Union. [More…]
Max Maguire was elected unopposed. [More…]
Therefore when we consider that the office bearers will be elected by about 1 per cent of the union membership, it is quite clear that there is something wrong. [More…]
With its known natural resources guaranteeing it a secure economic base, allied with the strength, resourcefulness and initiative of its people and under the guiding hand of the Territory’s own fully elected legislature, the future of the Territory must surely be bright. [More…]
As promised, this Government, immediately on being elected, began moves towards executive responsibility for the Legislative Assembly based on the recommendations of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Constitutional Development of the Northern Territory- recommendations which were available to the previous government for twelve months. [More…]
Whilst I welcome the action taken in 1 974 to establish a fully elected Legislative Assembly, there was little point in bringing that about without the transfer to the Assembly of real powers and responsibilities. [More…]
Indeed, the previous Government promised that not only would a fully elected Legislative Assembly be established for the Territory, it also promised increasing autonomy to the Territory through that Assembly. [More…]
It is, most importantly, an indication that the Government intends to work in a spirit of amicable cooperation with the people of the Territory and their elected representatives in the task of giving birth to Australia’s seventh State. [More…]
The present Liberal-National Country Party Government has elected to continue for one more year- that is, 1976-77- the operation of a floor price in the wool market. [More…]
I can recall throughout much of the 1950s and all of the 1960s telling woolgrowers that such a scheme was unlikely to be implemented until a Labor Government was elected. [More…]
No such scheme was implemented until a Labor Government was elected. [More…]
The fact is that the governments of France and West Germany have been elected by virtue of the dairy vote. [More…]
I have no reason to believe that there will be any substantial change in the very close United States- Australian relationship, irrespective of who is elected as the next President of the United States. [More…]
Senator Aylett was elected to the Senate for Tasmania at the general election in 1937, taking his place here on 1 July 1938. [More…]
When this Government was elected on 13 December last, Australia was in bad shape. [More…]
Since 1 May, when the Wran Labor Government was elected to office in New South Wales, they have found another excuse. [More…]
These were the promises upon which they were elected. [More…]
It is totally understandable that Senator Cotton and all his colleagues who promised that unemployment would disappear if a Liberal-National Country Party Government was elected last year regret the fact that the Opposition has taken this opportunity to draw attention to their duplicity, their dishonesty and their manifest failure to deliver what they promised the people after their reprehensible actions of October and November last year. [More…]
A Liberal government was elected and unemployment continued to rise. [More…]
It consisted of a Chairman and two other members, one of whom was to be elected by the ‘Advisory Council ‘ of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Similar families which receive allowances by bank credit will receive their payments on 7 September if they have not elected to change the method which they chose for the payments to be made. [More…]
Those who have chosen to have a 4- weekly cheque approximate 43 per cent of the people who are entitled to family allowances, a 4-weekly credit has been elected by about 3 per cent and the 12-weekly credit, which will be due on 7 September, has been the way in which 54 per cent of the people have elected to have their payments made. [More…]
This authority would comprise only members elected for a specific period, and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the Community; [More…]
As I was saying, on 23 July Mr Forrester, in the SubCommittee of Small Territories of the Committee of Twenty-Four, pointed out that a new Australian Government was elected to office last December. [More…]
There are no elected community representatives. [More…]
We have to introduce some form of democratically elected political assembly which, perhaps initially should be an advisory body to the Administrator but which eventually should be fitted to deal with the internal affairs of the islands. [More…]
I think we would all be interested to know how consumer representatives could be elected and how they would be selected by a departmental process. [More…]
It deliberately and knowingly created a situation which could and subsequently did assist in bringing down a properly elected government- a government elected twice in 3 years by the people of Australia- just because that government was of a different political colour. [More…]
Richard Carlton on the program This Day Tonight actually asked the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Fraser, to spell out the promises he was making and the program he offered as leader of the government of Australia if he were elected. [More…]
Farmers were led to believe that it would start to rain again when Malcolm Fraser was elected Prime Minister on 13 December last year. [More…]
Demonstrations like the one we saw last Monday against the elected Prime Minister of the country where, according to the newspapers there were 1000 demonstrators- the nucleus from outside the University- where violence of the type reported occurred; where a brick was thrown through the glass doors causing flying glass to hit the face of Sergeant Barry Carpenter; where Mr Fraser ‘s Assistant Press Secretary was kicked; where Mr Fraser was spat upon and his car kicked and thumped yet no arrests were made, are no longer the prerogative of any person living in a democracy. [More…]
For example, the people in the rural sector thought it would rain again when Mr Fraser was elected as Prime Minister. [More…]
The Labor Government was in an extraordinary rush to implement an ideology, regardless of the socio-economic consequences on the millions of Australians who elected it. [More…]
The only official bodies specifically excluded are those of a judicial nature and the elected Legislative Assemblies of the Territories. [More…]
There has never been a violent action which more justified demonstration than when the Liberal-Country Party Government had 500 of our kids shot in Vietnam or when a GovernorGeneral tore up the Constitution and threw the people’s elected government out of office. [More…]
How can people have resort in a ballot box when one man can throw the people’s elected government out of office and elect a man as Prime Minister of Australia and retain him after a vote of no confidence in that man has been passed in the people’s House of the Parliament of Australia? [More…]
Yet as an elected senator from South Australia and as a representative of constituents who are vitally concerned about this matter I cannot get a copy of the report under the due processes of this Parliament to enable me to discuss it with constituents who live in the River Murray area. [More…]
When the present Government was seeking power in November and December of last year, it promised that it would slash unemployment if it were elected. [More…]
During the life of its last elected Government, 7 members have resigned, including a Premier, a Deputy Premier and 3 other Cabinet Ministers, and we are now left with the rump only. [More…]
Last year the Government claimed that, if elected, it would inspire business and consumer confidence because it claimed to stand for the same things for which business and the consumers stand. [More…]
This Government was elected with a policy. [More…]
That meant that because of the way in which the debate was able to flow through the chamber it was far more exciting than the present debate because this Government has followed a consistent economic pattern since it was elected in December. [More…]
When the Government was elected the whole of Australia accepted that the Government would have to exercise financial restraint. [More…]
The Liberal Party was elected to government. [More…]
Jim Harrison was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1942 and served there until he won the federal seat of Blaxland in 1949. [More…]
One would think the elected leader of a parliamentary party would be involved in anything in which the President of his Party is involved. [More…]
We have Mr Hawke desperately searching to find a seat in the national Parliament, where I suppose his main objective will be to up-end the currently elected leader of his Party. [More…]
I think it is a great shame that a political party which has a so-called Federal President does not quite know what it has, whether it has a challenger to the elected parliamentary leader in this place, whether its Federal President is using his position to promote his own ambitions in the Parliament, or whether he really represents the views of the Australian Labor Party and is voicing them as its national president. [More…]
It remained for the Senate Opposition at that time to use its numbers ruthlessly to displace the rightfully elected Government. [More…]
At that time the Conservative parties used all the nefarious and subversive actions conceivable in that situation to bring about the defeat of an elected government. [More…]
We all know about that famous telegram that was sent during the election campaign by Mr Ellicott, who was then the Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, to all the Aboriginal communities in Australia pointing out to them that if a Liberal-National Country Party government was elected there would be no reduction, not even by one cent, of expenditure on Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
If the Liberal and National Country parties were of the opinion whilst we were in Government that funds that we had allocated to Aboriginal affairs were wasted, why on earth did Mr Ellicott sign that famous telegram sent to the Aboriginal communities which said that if his government was elected it would not cut expenditure by one cent? [More…]
A government was elected in December of 1972 with a majority in the other place but it did not have a majority in this chamber and the Government was not allowed to govern. [More…]
Of course, we now find ourselves in the situation where a political party in this country that represents the wealth of this country can dismiss a properly elected government at the whim of the Governor-General. [More…]
That is the remedy that we said the then Opposition would adopt if it were elected to government. [More…]
When in Opposition the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said often that confidence would return to the private sector immediately a Liberal-National Country Party Government was elected. [More…]
But as the disastrous regime of the Whitlam Government proceeded and we saw all the errors of an elected ministry, within 12 months of making the decision to elect our shadow ministry we thought: If we are risking coming to office again with a ramshackle ministry like the Labor Party, for goodness’ sake let us go back to an appointed ministry. [More…]
His Party has an elected shadow ministry and a leader who is subservient to his Caucus. [More…]
I think it was the first or second division after I was elected as a senator that I voted against the Government. [More…]
The present Government was elected to office in December 1975. [More…]
As an elected member of this Parliament I find great difficulty in explaining to electors when they come to my office the way in which the Medibank scheme, which was introduced by my Government, has been mutilated by the present Government. [More…]
In all sincerity how can we as elected members of Parliament answer the people’s questions when great confusion has been created by this Government? [More…]
A continuous and sustained campaign was maintained against that Government which was twice democratically elected by the Australian people in 18 months. [More…]
Senate and the House of Representatives and that such sackings are subject to subsequent Caucus approval, I ask the Minister whether the Government is considering any similar restrictions on the Prime Minister, or do the Government and the Government parties trust the elected Leader of the Liberal Party to determine the composition of the Ministry? [More…]
Will the Minister agree that the comments which the Governor-General was forced to make arose from a situation which he created by dismissing a democratically elected government on 1 1 November last year and that the dismissal arose from the obstruction in this place of the Opposition at that time? [More…]
I think it is good to see that as a result of efforts of elected members of the Parliament decisions can be reversed in the interests of those whom members are appointed to serve. [More…]
The Liberal party, if elected to power, would make crown land available to young home builders for nominal amounts, the state opposition leader, Mr Askin, said yesterday. [More…]
Fortunately the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 and it has approached the issue from an administrative point of view having due regard to the concerns that are really worrying the people- the cost of their care, their choice and the real interests that they have in choosing their own form of health care. [More…]
can overrule elected representatives of the people but in the ultimate he can check the elected representatives in any rule of law or the customary usages of Australian Government and he could do so by forcing a crisis. ‘ [More…]
As I said in the short time in which I had to speak on the Budget debate, the main ground for the conduct of the then Opposition during the 1972-75 period in pursuing a course designed to destroy a government which had been democratically elected twice within 18 months was its claim: Elect us and we will correct unemployment, inflation and a great range of other things’. [More…]
The private funds knew in advance that the then Opposition, when elected to government, would introduce a levy and would create Medibank Private and allow it to compete partly with the private funds. [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…]
The Opposition has previously given figures to show that since this Government was elected unemployment in most parts of the Northern Territory has increased by up to 50 per cent over a period of a few months. [More…]
If the Electoral Act in Queensland was changed and there was no gerrymander, and members were elected on the basis of one vote one value, the Labor Party would have only 5 members. [More…]
When I became Leader of the Opposition in 1972 Ivor Greenwood was elected by his colleagues as my deputy. [More…]
Yet this Government went to the people and made a policy statement that if elected to office it would set up a rural bank. [More…]
It was a real issue then and the people rejected the proposal of new federalism and elected the Labor Party to office in that State. [More…]
I would not go into a town or a city without seeking to have contact with elected representatives of local government because they have much to say which is important to those who represent those areas in the Federal Parliament. [More…]
The Federal Government will give members of our communtiy- who are not elected representatives of the people but who have much to contribute- an opportunity to participate in the Council. [More…]
When I came into this place at the time when the Labor Government was elected in 1972, my rates for that same piece of land had increased to $210. [More…]
In view of the sudden and violent coup d’etat which has resulted in the overthrow of Thailand’s democratically elected Government, is the Minister aware that many Thai students now in Australia are deeply concerned that their lives or safety might be endangered if they were forced to return to Thailand? [More…]
As a preface to my question, I draw the Senate’s attention to the fact that union leaders are often elected by only a small percentage of their members and that the total labour force constitutes approximately only 50 per cent of the population over the age of 15. [More…]
Can the Minister explain what legal rights trade unionists have in dictating their political beliefs- or more likely those of their irresponsible leaders- to the community of Australia or against the democratically elected Government of Australia? [More…]
November undertake to reintroduce the RED scheme when elected to office? [More…]
One used to regard it as a sort of civil libertarian standard that people in positions of authority and power should try to behave in such a way that there was no conflict of interest between the performance of their duties as people in power and the interests which they were elected to represent. [More…]
I refer, of course, to the resignation of the State Secretary of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland, Mr Bart Lourigan, who is also the Federal Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party, elected to that position in the place of the late- and, in Labor Party terms, unlamented- Party Vice-President Sir John Egerton. [More…]
In nominating persons to be the members referred to in paragraph (2) (j), the Council of Local Government Associations shall ensure that the local governing bodies in each State are represented by one of those persons, being a person elected for that purpose, in accordance with a method determined by the Council of Local Government Associations, by the members of the local government councils in the State. [More…]
In short, the amendment we have moved provides that each potential member of the Council coming from local government in each State should be chosen by the elected members of the local government bodies in each State. [More…]
We in South Australia have been denied this right for many years by the Upper House- the Legislative Council, in which until recently only half of the members were elected on a democratic franchise. [More…]
In Queensland councillors are elected from the common roll. [More…]
It should spell out that the persons who are to be the representatives of the various State governments are to be fully elected, not nominated, because we live in what we hope is a democratic system. [More…]
It may be that I have overlooked something in the Bill which gets away from ‘nominated members’, but I would like the Minister to explain how the people from my own State of South Australia are going to be fully represented when their representatives on this Council will be chosen because the people on the body nominating them have been elected and are not persons who are in some way associated with local government because nowhere in the Bill does it spell out what association they have to have. [More…]
It is elected by the 6 States and it represents the 6 States. [More…]
In effect, these people are deprived from being elected to councils and we, in South Australia, will be at some disadvantage compared to other States. [More…]
I could talk about that but I do not want to invite criticism from one Tasmanian senator at least as to whether people should be elected from the rank and file or whether the collegiate system of voting is a good one. [More…]
Senator Walters’ leader is on record as saying as early as 1973, and Senator Walters was not here then, not 6 months after we had been elected, that things had been put in train to wreck the Labor Government. [More…]
And when we were re-elected what happened? [More…]
This is what he said before he was elected as Prime Minister. [More…]
The truth is that the House of Representatives and the Senate are elected for the purpose of governing on behalf of the people. [More…]
We set out to carry out the policy on which we were elected in 1 972, and that was to bring justice to the needy people of this community. [More…]
An attempt was made today by Senator Wriedt to suggest that the Commonwealth Government’s policies are wrong and that the Commonwealth Government has been recreant in the task for which it was elected, of restoring sane economic management to this country, of reducing inflation to manageable levels and of bringing back employment opportunities. [More…]
It has been elected by the only electoral system in this country that cannot be gerrymandered. [More…]
They have the gall and the temerity to stand here and criticise a government which was properly elected, which had to face 3 elections in 3 years and which had to face obstinacy and obstruction by the conservatives who never accepted the view of the Australian people when it was made clear on 2 separate occasions and who then used every trick in the political book to bring about the defeat of a properly and constitutionally elected government. [More…]
In July this year in a statement to the Canberra Times he said that the reason why there was so much unemployment in New South Wales was that the Wran Government was elected on 1 May. [More…]
Less than 3 months after that election the Australian Prime Minister was not saying that a national government was responsible for unemployment but he was trying to lay the blame on the newly elected Labor Government in New South Wales which had not even met to put forward its legislative program. [More…]
That was the very issue, Mr President, that you and your colleagues used to bring down a properly elected constitutional government when you took the infamous action just a year ago of denying the right of this Parliament to look at the Appropriation Bills. [More…]
As honourable senators would know, I was elected as the tenth senator from New South Wales after the first complete recount that has taken place since the present system was introduced in 1948. [More…]
When we consider that the final vote which elected the last senator, who happened to be myself, showed a majority of 2016, those 10 000 plus votes tend to assume rather critical significance. [More…]
If we go back also to 1974 and look at the Queensland ballot paper, we find that my colleague who now sits in this place, Senator Mal Colston, would probably h ave been elected had it not been for these extreme measures that are needed to fill out the ballot paper. [More…]
But it is beyond doubt that Labor accepts that the Senate has no right to take action to dismiss the people’s elected government. [More…]
But whether that is so or not, Labor fought the last election on the issue that the Senate, a State House, has no right to take action to dismiss a people ‘s elected government. [More…]
Offices, the duties of which are full time in nature, may be elected by direct vote of the appropriate section of the rank and file. [More…]
Alternatively, the organisation may choose a one-tier collegiate system, that is, a system whereby a conference or council is elected by direct vote of the appropriate section of the rank and file membership and that conference or council elects from its members the full-time officers. [More…]
In relation to offices, the duties of which are not full time in nature, the position whereby organisations may adopt a direct election, onetier or a multiple-tier system of collegiate election, for example, a system whereby the conference or council which is elected by direct vote may elect from its members another body which then elects from its members the part time officers, will be restored. [More…]
The Bill recognises, however, that an unqualified requirement that persons elected by a college must also be elected from the members of that college, can be disadvantageous to the organisation because of the possible loss of continuity of experienced management. [More…]
Those office bearers must have been elected originally to the college and by the college to those positions or, alternatively, to those positions by a direct voting system and must have held office continuously, though not necessarily the same office, since being first elected to office. [More…]
Therefore this elected body, supported by the committee the Government established, is not permitted to meet in this 12 months because the Government has not made allowance for it. [More…]
Friendly Societies Health Services- The Committee of Management consists of one representative from each affiliated society, elected at the annual general meeting by representatives of the affiliated societies each of which has 4 representatives. [More…]
Government Employees’ Hospital and Medical Benefits Fund Incorporated- The Board of Directors consists of 6 financial members elected by the members of the Fund. [More…]
Directors are elected by a ballot of members present at the annual general meeting and are proposed and seconded by financial members of the Fund. [More…]
Goldfields Medical Fund (Incorporated)- The Committee of Management, which consists of 3 representatives of each of the Boulder United Friendly Societies and the Kalgoorlie United Friendly Societies Association, one representative from each of the Australian Workers Union, Boilermakers Society, Carpenters and Joiners Union, Engine Drivers and Firemens Union, Mines Supervisors Association, Plumbers and Sheet Metal Workers Union, the Chamber of Mines of Western Australia (Inc.), and 2 members of the Coolgardie Medical Fund, and one contributors’ representative of the Goldfields Medical Fund, are elected at a special meeting following the annual general meeting by the respective bodies referred to above. [More…]
All persons so elected must be contributors to the Fund. [More…]
That whereas this nation through its duly elected Houses of Parliament is deemed to abide by the true aims and principles of the United Nations Chaner and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [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…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected- democratically elected- by their unions. [More…]
The danger that we see in the alteration which is now made is that under the proposed alteration an appointed administrative officer of a union will be able to operate and, in fact, perform almost identical functions to the functions which are performed by an elected officer. [More…]
It is one of the grave difficulties which an elected officer of a trade union faces and one of the grave responsiblities which he assumes that by virtue of his office and his election he is entitled to do certain things; indeed, he is bound to do certain things. [More…]
But to arrive at a definition of the word office’ which in fact allows an appointed administrative officer to perform many of the functions which are now exclusively reserved for an elected officer in our view is fraught with dangers in terms of the much vaunted democratic principle which is enunciated in the second reading speech. [More…]
Those office bearers must have been elected originally to the college and by the college to those positions or, alternatively, to those positions by a direct voting system and must have held office continuously, though not necessarily the same office, since being first elected to office. [More…]
He has not been elected to the Federal Council of his union for 22 years. [More…]
The Federal President of the Organisation, John Peter Maynes, was elected to the Federal Council in approximately 1950 in an election by the Victorian Branch membership as a whole. [More…]
Since 1954 Mr Maynes has continuously acted as Federal President of the Organisation, having been reelected to the said position in 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1974 by the members of Federal Council pursuant to Rule 23(1) of the Rules of the Organisation. [More…]
Earlier this year, John Grenville advised me that when he was elected he was not a member of the Clerics’ Union and was not eligible to run. [More…]
He said that if the union did this the national president could be elected by 0.02 per cent of the membership. [More…]
-I did not say that Mr Carmichael was elected by a collegiate system. [More…]
A collegiate body of 20 could have elected the officials. [More…]
If he did mean that, I wonder how he views a circumstance in which I understand that in one union, which is perhaps the biggest trade union in Australia, less than 2 per cent of the membership elected its leaders. [More…]
Those people who might be able to make such a contribution sometimes face great difficulties, whether they be financial, geographic or otherwise, to present themselves to their friends and to the vast membership of the union in such a manner that they have any chance of being elected. [More…]
Consequently it seems that from the point of view of the far flung smaller branches and from the point of view of trade union members in the smaller States there is perhaps a case worth considering for instituting what we have suggested should be a one-tier collegiate system of voting under which a college is elected by a total vote of the grass roots membership of the organisation. [More…]
Prior to 1973 officials in unions were elected either under the rank and file system or under a number of collegiate systems according to the rules of the particular organisations involved. [More…]
To encourage this, the Liberal-National Country Party Government would provide secret ballots under Commonwealth Electoral Office supervision for the election of officers to elected positions. [More…]
We believe that by conducting elections along these lines and by giving maximum publicity to union elections more members will participate in the voting, and that the elected officers will reflect the wants of the rank and file. [More…]
They will be able to maintain their current leadership, which is not a democratically elected leadership. [More…]
The present leadership, which I repeat is not a democratically elected leadership, will be entrenched by the legislation before us. [More…]
So, we will have an entrenchment of non-elected leadership which will be able to possibly remain- I would say very probably in many cases- against the wishes ofthe rank and file. [More…]
Only the organisation itself may exercise a choice; the rank and file members are stuck with what their non-democratically elected representative officials may decide. [More…]
The defintion of ‘office’ is now extended to enable unions, that is, management of unionsagain not the rank and file members of unions- to appoint persons to undertake duties similar to those performed by an elected officer. [More…]
Similarly the amendment introduced during the course of the debate in another place which provided that 15 per cent of the Federal college should not have to face re-election after they are once elected is another way of eroding the rights of rank and file membership. [More…]
These choices are: The full-time office bearers may be elected by either a direct vote of the rank and file members of the union or, alternatively, by a one-tier collegiate electoral system. [More…]
Take a large Australia-wide union which, under the previous legislation, elected its office bearers by rank and file voting. [More…]
Carmichael and Halfpenny are elected by rank and file voting - [More…]
In each State the part time office bearers can be elected under a multi-tier system. [More…]
To ensure that the number of office bearers standing is not out of proportion to the rank and file valid members, which is the amendment about which Senator Cavanagh is talking, we have introduced an amendment to overcome the fact that when each State elects its office bearers, and when one of those office bearers is elected president or secretary etc., that State loses its effective representation because the president must become the president of the union as a whole. [More…]
If they continue to have the confidence of the college behind them and are re-elected, that is fine. [More…]
If they fail to have the confidence ofthe college, they are out, and a vote is taken, the president, secretary and the members of the executive are elected by the college which in turn is elected by the rank and file. [More…]
This will not entail a take over by the elected collegiate. [More…]
Senator Ryan claimed that the Government had assisted the executive of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, which had not been democratically elected, to stay in power. [More…]
had to be elected by and from the college. [More…]
Determined by the Federal Conference of the ALP, all the members of which were elected by a collegiate voting system. [More…]
The Federal Conference of the ALP is elected under a multitiered collegiate voting system. [More…]
I put the proposition that in many organisations the collegiate system gives more effective rank and file control over the national officers than does the direct ballot system, in that the national officers are accountable to representatives directly elected by the rank and file members who are very well aware of the real record of those officials and aware of their abilities. [More…]
This system also constitutes the accountability situation, where those officers must account to the elected representatives of the membership. [More…]
The rules of an organisation shall not provide for the dismissal from office of a person elected to an office within the association or organisation unless he has been found guilty, in accordance with the rules of the association or organisation, of misappropriation of the funds of the association or organisation, a substantial breach of the rules of the association or organisation, or gross misbehaviour, or gross neglect of duty, or has ceased, according to the rules of the association or organisation, to be eligible to hold the office. [More…]
A delegate from Tasmania is elected by a direct vote from that State to the federal council. [More…]
He is elected federal secretary by the federal council. [More…]
Those people in the House of Representatives who opposed these provisions have been elected by or participated in the collegiate system in their own unions. [More…]
He was elected under a collegiate voting system. [More…]
She had been elected under the collegiate system and was removed by the collegiate system. [More…]
But the Government has come to his assistance with a provision that states that 1 5 per cent of the college need not be elected by the rank and file. [More…]
But at least under that system I was elected by the majority at the annual meetings. [More…]
The application states that the rules of the Federated Clerks Union which currently allow for officers to be added to the elected members of the federal council for the purpose of forming an electoral college for the election of the office in fact are oppressive, unreasonable and unjust. [More…]
The Bill provides that part-time officers can be elected on the one-tier collegiate system if they so qualified 3 years ago, but that qualification would not be extended after the end of November. [More…]
He said that an organiser was elected by a vote of one per cent of the 15 000 members of the union. [More…]
For instance, Mr Maynes, the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union, was elected to his position with a majority of the vote of the members of its Federal Council. [More…]
Senator Hall criticised the way that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in South Australia elected an organiser who is not on the management committee of the organisation. [More…]
A different situation applies, of course, in respect of the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union, who is not elected by the rank and file members of that organisation and who knows very well that unless this Government comes to his rescue and changes the Act before 13 November his position as Federal President is doomed. [More…]
The Federal Council of the Australian Workers Union is elected with members coming from States on an equal basis, the same as the Senate. [More…]
I am proud to support the fact that at all times the Australian Workers Union has elected all its full time officials. [More…]
In 1973 the then Minister for Labor, Mr Clyde Cameron, brought in amendments to provide that within 3 years the elections of not only the full time officials but anybody who was then carrying out functions similar to the role of those officials, should all be elected by the direct voting system. [More…]
He seemed to be under the impression that once the college had been elected it could elect anybody it liked as one of its full time officials. [More…]
In the first place, the elected college must elect somebody from among its members. [More…]
The 15 per cent from whom subsequent full time officials can be elected must have been elected by the rank and file in the first place. [More…]
Those office bearers must have been elected originally to the college and by the college to those positions or, alternatively, to those positions by a direct voting system and must have held office continuously, though not necessarily the same office, since being first elected to office. [More…]
As I see it, any person elected to a number of offices by a direct voting effort is eligible to be elected to a federal council or an executive council. [More…]
Having been elected to that office by a direct voting method he would be eligible to be appointed to the federal council, provided he did not represent any more than 15 per cent. [More…]
He is elected as an officer of a branch. [More…]
He is then eligible to be elected to fill one of the 1 5 per cent vacancies on the federal council. [More…]
means a method of election comprising a first stage, at which persons are elected to a number of offices by a direct voting system - [More…]
That is the college- and a subsequent stage or subsequent stages at which persons are elected by and from the persons elected at the next preceding stage; [More…]
So it seems clear to me that full time officials can be elected under a collegiate type election, which is provided for in this Bill by the rank and file voting for the college and then that college electing persons by and from the people elected at the first stage. [More…]
The only qualification to that is provided for in clause 3 (d) which specifies that a number of persons not exceeding 15 per cent of the total number of members of the body- those members having had to be elected originally in the college and having been elected to a full time position such as secretary- may in future years be re-elected, even though that re-election is not by the rank and file, as members of a college. [More…]
Apparently it is very impractical to require that all such persons should have to be regarded as holding an office in the union and as having to be elected on every occasion. [More…]
The officials to which I refer are those who work under the full time elected officials. [More…]
They may be doing work which is similar to that undertaken by the full time elected officials but they are not in the same category. [More…]
The Government believes, in accordance with the representations it has received from unions, that it is quite unnecessary and in fact impractical to require such officials to be elected in the same way as the full time permanent officials are. [More…]
Under the collegiate system of voting do all members of the college have to be elected by a direct rank and file vote of members? [More…]
By saying that, we mean he need never have been an elected councillor, alderman, mayor, or whatever such officials may be called in other States. [More…]
It concerns the political realities of South Australia in terms of the sovereign government of South Australia as the electors of South Australia have elected and established that sovereign government. [More…]
In the Legislative Council in South Australia half of the Upper House has been elected on a restricted franchise- that is, every person did not have the right to vote for its members because they have been there so long. [More…]
I am asking Senator Carrick to appeal to these members of the Upper House to pass legislation, which has been put up on more than one occasion by the popularly elected House, to give adult franchise for local government elections. [More…]
Until that legislation is passed in South Australia we will not be equally represented on the State Grants Commission, nor will the Premier or the Minister for Local Government, Mr Virgo, have the opportuntly to select someone who has been elected by all the people in the State who are entitled to vote, as is the case in Queensland where every person over the age of eighteen has the right to vote. [More…]
It is being frustrated in its efforts by a Liberal dominated Upper House which, in the main, has not been elected by a popular franchise. [More…]
I also find it hard to understand why the Government resists the idea of giving properly and democratically elected school boards a small amount of financial autonomy when both sides of the chamber have been happy to give to the private school sector almost complete autonomy in the handling of large amounts of government funds. [More…]
I was elected to this Senate with a fair sort of background in the area of education. [More…]
Does this Government have a broad plan aimed at overcoming those problems or will we simply see a continuation of the ad hoc program that we have seen ever since this Government was elected. [More…]
If I may say so in passing, it is interesting, when one hears remarks about who is running the country and about the shocking malfeasances of trade unions in organising demonstrations against policies of the present Government, to note that there was certainly no objection from members of the present Government when they were in Opposition to the use of policy holders’ money by insurance companies and to the time that was taken by employees of insurance companies, which again was a burden on the policy holders of those companies and allegedly mutual life assurance societies, in demonstrations throughout Australia against the Labor Government which was then in office, having been twice democratically elected on a program of introducing legislation similar to that which we introduced. [More…]
When the new Government was elected in December 1972 it was obvious that this was part of the policy for which the Australian people decided to change the administration. [More…]
It had more nominated people than elected people, but it was the elected people of the day who decided that the Aboriginal culture and art should be protected. [More…]
He had elected, as I understood it, to pay part of the fee or the whole of it to a charity rather than to have it used for political purposes. [More…]
The other thing that has always interested me is why the Australian Labor Party should continue with its wish for the abolition of the Senate when, by its own admission, the Senate is the only democratically elected house of parliament in Australia. [More…]
As I say, on their own admission, this was the only chamber in the Australian parliaments which had been elected democratically. [More…]
Of course, the hopeful recovery that the Government promised when it took steps last year to belittle and remove from office a constitutionally elected Government has been deliberately stalled. [More…]
The States themselves elected to cut their taxes. [More…]
Three Aborigines shall be elected by the resident Aborigines of the Reserve in respect of which the Council is established. [More…]
The chairman of each council is elected by the members of the Council, both elected and appointed, at the first meeting of a new Council. [More…]
Because not all councillors are elected, some chairmen might be appointed rather than elected representatives, but with this qualification the Advisory Council is representative of Aboriginal people living on reserves in Queensland. [More…]
However, the prospect of the Labor Party being elected to govern in New South Wales was so remote that it was unlikely that the people of that State would suffer. [More…]
It did not take Mr Whitiam long to get busy after being elected and announce that he was going to help the fruit growing industry. [More…]
In order to be elected American candidates just turned down their thumbs on Downunder. [More…]
During the 1975 election campaign, Liberal and National Country Party spokesmen promised repeatedly that the Community Health Program would be maintained if they were elected. [More…]
Now that the Labor Government has at least admitted that inflation is an urgent national problem, it seems that one of the first actions it would take if re-elected would be to cancel the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty. [More…]
Mr Sinclair had asserted earlier in that same statement that the Labor Party would do precisely that if re-elected. [More…]
He then said that if the Liberal-National Country Parties were elected to government in 1974 they would ‘ensure that the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty continues’. [More…]
Dr Patterson replied to Mr Sinclair’s allegation that the Labor Government, if reelected, would cancel the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty. [More…]
What he actually said on 8 May 1974 in his Press statement was this: the Labor Government if re-elected would immediately cancel the nitrogenous fertiliser bounty. [More…]
Then again during the 1975 election campaign Mr Sinclair repeated his previous false assertion that the Labor Party would, if elected, immediately eliminate the bounty and so on. [More…]
I want to refer to the policy of the Liberal and National Country Parties on primary industry which forms part of the overall policy on which it was elected in December 1975. [More…]
Since being elected, the Government has taken many actions to bring about a decrease in inflation. [More…]
It has since been considered as a local matter for elected members of the Legislative Assembly to decide. [More…]
I want them on the record because they show that this Government has not kept its promise in any way to the Aboriginal people since 13 December, which is the day on which it was elected to office. [More…]
In it Mr Anderson, who is an elected representative of the Aboriginal people, points out the many unsatisfactory aspects of the Bill and the ways in which the Bill must be improved if it is to give a guarantee of land rights to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
In the Aboriginal Land Councils, advised by lawyers, are elected representatives of the oldest tribal areas and spokesmen for the oldest tribal customs but we are now seeking to divide the Aboriginal communities by trying to convey the idea that there is a drunken element amongst the Aboriginals. [More…]
I have been concerned that many times in this chamber we have heard Government supporters and Ministers elected by the people of Western Australia say that they do not read the Western Australian newspapers. [More…]
I speak of Western Australia so often because the people of Western Australia elected me to represent them in this place. [More…]
It is expected by this Government that the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly will introduce an ordinance to provide that persons such as policemen and public servants acting in the course of their duties, candidates for elected office and members of the Australian Parliament or the Legislative Assembly, will not require entry permits and that Aboriginal communities may authorise the entry of other persons. [More…]
Senator Keeffe and I religiously stuck to our duties to bring about a fully elected Legislative Assembly in the Northern Territory and to give it certain powers. [More…]
The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is now a fully elected body and now has certain powers because of the actions of the Whitlam Labor Government, not because of the actions of a previous Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
Having been a member of the committee which came down with the recommendation that the Northern Territory be given a fully elected Legislative Assembly, I think that I am entitled to stand up for the Whitlam Government and say what it did in this respect. [More…]
Senator Kilgariff was elected to this chamber because of the Whitlam Government’s actions. [More…]
Let them have elected an Aboriginal representative as a member of the Labor Party, whether it is sitting on this side of the chamber or on the other side. [More…]
I was amazed to read the findings of the Victoria board of inquiry into the activities of various people and organisations who were elected supposedly to help the industry. [More…]
I would just like to remind Senator Wright, for his information, that right up to the time when Senator Primmer was elected to the Senate he was a practising dairy farmer in the south-western district of Victoria. [More…]
It is a matter of common knowledge in this town, this little closed community where nothing is secret for very long, that people such as Mr Jim Malone, the head of FACTSFACTS’ is a curious title for an outfit that has little to do with truth- which is the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations, and a man named Des Foster, who is the head of an organisation called FARB, which is the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters, and Mr Kerry Packer, who probably does not need to be designated, have been in and out of the corridors of power in the last few weeks, whereas people demonstrating on behalf of the ABC and on behalf of the survival of an elected commissioner of the ABC such as Marius Webb have to take their place out on the lawn. [More…]
The NACC has expressed concern about the extension of the terms of office of its members who were elected for 2 years in 1973 and I want to avoid any undue delay in deciding the future of the NACC. [More…]
Does the protection afforded by standing order 418 against the use of offensive words in respect of a House of a State Parliament extend to offensive words used in respect of an elected assembly in a Territory? [More…]
At end of paragraph (b) of proposed sub-section 31(1), add ‘, of whom one shall be the elected representative of the Australian Broadcasting Commission staff’. [More…]
The first amendment relates to a staff elected representative on the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
Our position, however, is that the ABC has a staff elected commissioner. [More…]
At the moment an elected staff representative is a member of the Commission. [More…]
But at the same time, it is not prepared to make the desirable, sensible, and perfectly acceptable provision for the appointment of an elected representative of the staff to the Commission. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the amendment to provide for a representative to be elected by the staff to serve on the Commission is probably the most important amendment the Opposition has moved to this Bill. [More…]
This is a most important step for the Northern Territory, following as it does the decision of the Labor Government to establish a fully elected Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and to arrange for the transfer of powers to give the people of the Northern Territory greater involvement in the decision-making process. [More…]
In 1967 he became Minister for Industrial Development and Company Affairs and, 3 years later, Food Minister, which he remained until elected President in August 1974. [More…]
As far as the industrial relations bureau is concerned, the Minister whom I represent has already announced the decision of the Government in principle to establish the bureau and has referred to the employment and industrial relations policy on which the Government was elected in 1975, which set out in some detail the nature of the industrial relations bureau. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Social Security aware that in November 1975 the then caretaker Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, wrote that a coalition government, if elected, would introduce a lone fathers’ pension? [More…]
Incidentally, I ask: Who should determine where development will take place in Western Australia, the Japanese Government or the elected Government of Western Australia? [More…]
Sir Charles Court promised things would be done when he was elected in 1974 and they have not been done, particularly with regard to the development of the north-west. [More…]
He promised that, if elected, a Liberal Party government would proceed to do just that, that is, to beat inflation State by State. [More…]
By that, he meant that he could generate thousands of additional jobs and cure unemployment within 6 months of being elected Premier of Western Australia. [More…]
In fact, since he was elected almost 3 years ago, the Western Australia Premier has presided over the highest rate of inflation of any Australian State. [More…]
The Labor Party was elected to office, but not really to government owing to the fact that it was never able to control the Senate and was constantly under threat- threats that materialised on 2 occasions during the course of the Labor Party’s 3 years in office. [More…]
We were elected in 1972. [More…]
When we were elected we discovered that the social welfare system of this country, which once had been the envy of the whole Western word, had degenerated to such an extent that it was well behind the social welfare systems of all of northern and western Europe and that the areas from which previously large numbers of immigrants had come to this country had dried up because working people were not prepared to leave the Netherlands, West Germany, France, Austria, Norway or Sweden to come to this country. [More…]
We introduced the Medibank scheme, which the present Government, when it was contesting the last election, pledged itself to support but which, as is so often the case with its promises, it promptly forgot once it was elected to office. [More…]
We were elected on an expectation, which was shared by not only members of the Australian Labor Government but also people throughout the world, that the current prosperity of the Western capitalist world was going to continue. [More…]
But at least it seemed that one could understand what the Government was saying when it was elected. [More…]
Mr Malcolm Fraser in his policy statement prior to the election referred to the employment creating incentives of his Government’s policy when it was elected to office. [More…]
Why was not Mr Fraser honest enough to tell us that before he was elected? [More…]
This means that the State will be regarded as one division and the members, to the number as determined, will be elected for that one division. [More…]
Those regional councils, established in States where neither the State or local government elected members have any experience or interest in the welfare needs of the people, were very apprehensive about the likelihood of their State governments wanting to take up where the Commonwealth had left off. [More…]
The House of Representatives is elected for a period of three years subject to earlier dissolution by the Governor-General. [More…]
The Senate is a continuing body with Senators elected for sue year terms and it cannot be dissolved except in the event of a double dissolution. [More…]
The other deficiency relates to persons who are elected as Senators, but who have died, resigned or become disqualified before the commencement of their terms of service. [More…]
In that event the person chosen by the State Parliament is to hold office until the expiration of the term of the Senator who was elected by the people. [More…]
That this Convention affirms the principle that a casual vacancy in the Senate which occurs by reason of the death of a senator or the disqualification or resignation of a senator caused by bona fide illness or incapacity should, in order to maintain the principle of proportional representation and the wishes of the people of the State at the relevant Senate election, be filled by a member of the same political party as the senator whose vacancy is to be filled but in reaffirming this principle the Convention recommends that the Constitution be amended to provide that the person elected by the Houses of Parliament of the State should hold office for the balance of the term of the senator whose place he is taking. ‘ [More…]
That appointment is a salutary reminder of the emptiness of the slogan ‘there will be no more jobs for the boys after we are elected to office’, which was, of course, a slogan used in the election campaign of 1 975. [More…]
It appears to me that this Government has designed deliberately a situation in which, if it and the present Prime Minister lose office and a Labor government is elected, this Government is binding that Labor government - [More…]
I think it would be more to the advantage of government and the Public Service if the problem of the permanency of First Division officers were to be met in this way: A First Division officer- a head of a department; a Secretary of a department- ought not to consider himself elected in perpetuity. [More…]
It is a disadvantage to the elected government of the country in that, if a head of a department is not in its opinion capable of carrying out its policy or in some way frustrates its policy, he should be able to be retrenched in some way; it should not be necessary to appoint him to a senior position overseas in the ambassadorial service. [More…]
It was suggested once that Second Division public servants should represent a pool from which First Division officers should be appointed for the term of the elected government. [More…]
The fact is that this measure arises out of certain circumstances which occurred in appointments made to the First Division by the former Labor Government, As a result, the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the then Leader of the Opposition, announced that if elected our parties would take certain measures to correct the situation. [More…]
In fact, when the representatives of the news media of whatever form, whether it was radio, television, the mass circulation journals or the so-called newspapers of opinion, have telephoned me, as they did last week, on every occasion I replied that my views would be expressed in the place where I was elected to express them, that is, in the Senate. [More…]
Whereas the United Nations, in apparent illegality has imposed many restrictions and sanctions upon Rhodesia which has been remarkably free from the bloodshed and turmoil of the other aforementioned lands, even to the extent now of actively encouraging armed conflict against the elected Rhodesian government, and [More…]
As I have pointed out, the people have to come to King William Street to see their elected representatives. [More…]
As soon as those representatives are elected they domicile themselves in Adelaide. [More…]
The same thing applies to some of the South Australian Liberal senators, who were living in the country when they were elected. [More…]
In one particular case, when one man obtained bis endorsement he was living at Port Augusta but even before he was elected he moved to Adelaide to conduct his business. [More…]
whenever an alteration is made in the number of Members of the House of Representatives to be elected for the State; and [More…]
I am informed that in the first national Parliament South Australia and Tasmania elected their members under the system of using the whole State. [More…]
However, only 5 members from each State were to be elected. [More…]
One would expect that at least 150 candidates would be standing for election in New South Wales from which 44 or 45 would be elected to Parliament. [More…]
How could we ever operate under a system whereby 45 members are elected by using a State as one electorate? [More…]
I come now to the point that Senator Cavanagh just raised, that is, that if the same sort of system were used as the one that is used to elect senators to this chamber there would be a system in New South Wales under which somebody could be elected to the House of Representatives with under 3 per cent of the vote. [More…]
If we consider the length of time it took the Commonwealth Electoral Office to determine who the senators were for New South Wales after the last double dissolution we see that it is not possible for the Electoral Office to determine within 60 days who the elected members for New South Wales are to be. [More…]
Within 60 days it is not humanly possible to determine who the elected representatives for New South Wales are to be. [More…]
Governments that win office on gerrymandered boundaries cannot be said to be really democratically elected governments. [More…]
Incidentally, when the results were announced and the members were elected for that State, I presume that all of them would receive the higher electorate allowance because their electorate- the whole State- would be more than 5000 square kilometres. [More…]
Even though senators do not receive that allowance at this stage, I assume it would happen under an election at large when the members of the House of Representatives would all be elected for an electorate larger than 5000 square kilometres. [More…]
Each candidate elected needed nearly 92 000 primary votes. [More…]
The Liberal Party of Australia got approximately 42 per cent of the vote and sixty-eight of its members were elected to the House of Representatives on a basis of 47 000 votes per member elected. [More…]
The National Country Party, with a little over 1 1 per cent of the votes, had 23 members elected to the House of Representatives on an average of 37 000 votes for each candidate. [More…]
If this meant, for example, an infinitesimal quota for election being set in New South Wales some odd people who might mean well in support of a particular cause might be elected. [More…]
Because of the High Court’s decision, if we did not carry out a proper redistribution when a State has a change in the number of members it is entitled to there would have to be an election at large- an election whereby all the members for that State would be elected in one large ballot- which would be a sort of monstrous three times over Senate-type poll. [More…]
Fifty-eight per cent of people who vote want a member of the Liberal Party or a member of the National Country Party to be elected. [More…]
Apart from when the Democratic Labor Party was represented in this chamber, I have never heard anybody in this Parliament argue that the House of Representatives ought to be elected on other than single member electorates. [More…]
What I do put to the Senate is that I believe, and I am sure most of us believe, that those who are elected to the House of Representatives should, as far as is humanly possible, represent the will of the electorate. [More…]
We know what happened in 1970 when, at a loss to the major parties of both sides of this Parliament, small parties and independents and people with rather exotic eccentric ideas on one particular subject- abolition of death duties was the feature of one platformwere elected. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh, you know that in an ordinary election candidates are not elected on the basis of one issue. [More…]
I put it to you that, in fact, it is curious, when members are elected to this place to deal with all the matters involved such as the economy and the state of the nation, to find a candidate elected who has committed himself on only one issue. [More…]
The people who are elected will go straight into the Parliament. [More…]
I take up a point that Senator Missen made last night, namely, that in half elections partaking of the character of by-elections all sorts of eccentrics, which was the kind word he used, are encouraged to run and people who represent nothing but some partial aspiration which happens to catch the mood of the electorate at that time are elected to the Parliament. [More…]
The next thing foreseen by those who gave so much thought to this Constitution which some people would dismantle almost with the levity with which they would smoke a pipe, was that we had to have a powerful Senate- a Senate which Quick and Garran writing at the time said was unquestionably the most important and one of the most conspicuous of all of the Federal features of the Constitution- because if the House of Representatives were elected with numbers proportionate to the people, the great metropolitan States of Victoria and New South Wales would have a commanding domination of the Parliament unless the Senate showed an independence in its spirit to protect the States. [More…]
When a senator is elected to this chamber, according to the provisions of the Constitution as at present the term of that senator is 6 years. [More…]
In our system we have a people’s house elected by the people and I think it is an essential requirement of democracy but it can be turned out of office, sacked at will every 6 months by a State appointed house in this smaller chamber, the Senate. [More…]
Here is a knowledgeable man suggesting that if we are to have only one House we should do away with the democratically elected House. [More…]
I was elected at a simultaneous election and received almost twice the quota; so I do not mind in the slightest having simultaneous elections. [More…]
It is attempting to change the ground rules and extend the current term of office of persons who have been elected. [More…]
If a union tried to extend the current term of office of officials who were elected the industrial registrar would reject the proposal under regulation 115 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Regulations on the ground that it was unreasonable, oppressive and unjust. [More…]
However, now the Government is attempting to change the ground rules, is attempting to give to members of this Senate an extra six or eight months in the Senate for which they were not elected. [More…]
They will not allow honourable senators to extend the terms for which they were elected. [More…]
Governments in Australia already have the shortest term of office of governments in any western democracy as they are elected for 3 years only. [More…]
Governments in this country do not continue in office beyond 3 years unless they are re-elected. [More…]
However I feel that in 1 977 in Australia the Australian people should be given the opportunity to pass judgment on this question, particularly as it was supported by such a wide spectrum of responsible elected representatives in the 3 tiers of government at the Hobart Convention in 1976. [More…]
The party I represent has been consistent in saying that it will support this type of legislation so that the House of Representatives and the Senate will be elected at the same time. [More…]
I admit that only half the members of the Senate would be elected each time that the House of Representatives is elected. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the Government has now introduced a Bill to provide for a referendum to alter the Constitution so that the House of Representatives and the Senate can be elected on the same date, not because of the principle involved but because of political expediency. [More…]
It is not conducive to sound Government that the future of a recently elected Government should depend upon the eventualities of elections for senators which take place during the normal life of the House of Representatives … [More…]
If that government had been elected for 6 months, a guiltless Senate would be dragged out to go to the people merely because the members of the House of Representatives could not agree amongst themselves. [More…]
I do not agree with the former Prime Minister (Mr E. G. Whitlam) on most things but on that occasion I thought he had something when he said that people who had been elected in 1967 and in 1970 were able to make a decision to send the people who were elected in 1972 to 2 elections without going to an election themselves. [More…]
This would allow it a further 2 years in which to right the economic mess that it has striven so strenuously to create since it was elected to office. [More…]
It is called The Elected Monarch. [More…]
Indeed, only half the Senate will be elected every 3 years. [More…]
Each State has 10 senators and each senator, in normal circumstances, is elected for 6 years. [More…]
I would be surprised, Senator, if you could go round Tasmania and convince people in the trade union movement- you did pretty well in the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions- that the trade union movement can look to its elected representatives to get unfettered progress of industrial legislation and at the present time fight an interim Senate election where a lot of what we want can be vetoed. [More…]
The present system is that senators are elected for a 6-year term. [More…]
Frustrating and exasperating though it often is, its value lies primarily in its being an effective brake to the legislative ambitions of the popularly elected Chamber, in New South Wales the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The present system is that Senators are elected for a sixyear term. [More…]
It is not conducive to sound government that the future of a recently elected government should depend upon the eventualities of elections for senators which take place during the normal life of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Is it our exclusive club, a club belonging to 64 Australians who have been elected to this place? [More…]
Is it suggested that suddenly the new Prime Minister, having just been elected after some period in Opposition, having just formed his Government, with all the enthusiasm that a new government would have and with all the hopes that it would have, is going to turn round within a very short time and call another general election and thus put the government at risk? [More…]
I have just been elected with a thumping majority and I want another election.’ [More…]
I am indebted to him because he has pointed out to the electorate at large that in order to keep the elections in kilter in years gone by people who had been elected to the House of Representatives on the understanding that they would have a 3-year term in most cases had their term of office cut short. [More…]
Much was said here yesterday by Senator Wood and again today by Senator Wright to the effect that senators, having been elected to this place, should be assured that they can see out their term of office of 6 years. [More…]
I instance my own case and that of many other senators who are in this chamber now and who were elected at the 1970 elections. [More…]
Why did Senator Wright and Senator Wood in 1974 and 1975 not try to preserve the rights of those citizens elected to this Parliament at the 1970 elections? [More…]
Over the years we have heard from his side of the chamber of divisions in the Australian Labor Party, but never have there been divisions in the Labor Party such as we are witnessing in this chamber this week between 1 1 honourable senators opposite and their elected leader. [More…]
It is for the Prime Minister, who is the elected nominee of the majority from Sydney and Melbourne, to advise the Governor-General that an election is required and to send half this Senate to the people. [More…]
But the danger to this Senate is that the Prime Minister, who will be elected substantially by votes from Sydney and Melbourne, will have power to dissolve half the Senate. [More…]
There was some discussion in the course of the debate about situations which arose in which honourable senators elected anything up to 5 years previously acted to effectively obstruct or dismiss the House of Representatives. [More…]
The Prime Minister primarily is elected by the 2 largest States and he would have power over this States’ House. [More…]
For that reason they were able to force the properly elected Government to the people, and they will still have the right to do that if this amendment is carried. [More…]
Senator Hall touched on the fact that many people, almost all of them on the conservative side I think, who are elected to this Senate appear to acquire delusions of grandeur about the Senate’s importance and their importance as senators. [More…]
It should not be forgotten that the purpose of the proposals that are to go to the people is to change the ground rules upon which members of this Senate are elected and upon which their terms of office are established. [More…]
The second part of the amendment, which is likewise most valuable and originates from the Constitutional Convention last year, is the provision that the person appointed to fill a vacancy shall not just fill it until the next election, when he may be thrown out and proportional representation would no longer apply in the State he represented, he will in fact now serve the balance of the term of the person who was elected originally. [More…]
He was elected in 1 90 1 as a protectionist. [More…]
He was reelected in 1906 as an anti-socialist and, as far as can be ascertained from the records, he was later a part of Deakin ‘s fusion group. [More…]
Max Poulter was elected to the Senate as a senator from Queensland but before he could take his place in the Senate he died. [More…]
Peter Westerway was nominated by the Australian Labor Party to take Senator Murphy ‘s-place, But the New South Wales Parliament elected Senator Bunton. [More…]
Three days after his retirement, acting in accordance with a rule of the fund, he elected to commute half of his pension entitlement into a lump sum. [More…]
Further, with proportional representation, I believe there can be no doubt that this House is the most democratically elected House of Parliament in Australia. [More…]
They were prepared to deny Supply to an elected government. [More…]
They are prepared to see the labour force represented in the Parliament, but they are not prepared to let a Labor government- a properly and democratically elected Labor governmentexercise power in the Parliament. [More…]
I suppose that was a fair tactic because I remember that when we came into government in November 1972 and I was elected to the Ministry I blamed the previous Government for creating the difficulties that we had to overcome. [More…]
Then, five or six months after this Government was elected to office there was a change of government in New South Wales where a Labor government was elected. [More…]
If those agreements had been kept the projects would nave proceeded more quickly and the slowing down which has occurred since this Government was elected would not have happened. [More…]
This Government has a comprehensive program which it was elected to pursue in 1975 and which it is midway through implementing. [More…]
As far as the other part of the question is concerned, I emphasise that the policy on which the Government was elected in 1975 remains the policy of the Government. [More…]
He and his colleagues made a grab for power and would not allow a democratically elected government to conclude its 3-year term of office. [More…]
But, casting back to 1975, we recall that the caretaker government came into power because it would not allow a government elected by the people to go for its full 3 years. [More…]
The second task which the newly-elected Government had to undertake was to reduce the level of unemployment in Australia. [More…]
Three years later, at the early age of 29, he was elected to the Senate as a senator representing New South Wales. [More…]
In 1951 he was elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and occupied that position until 1956. [More…]
A year after he left the Senate in 1962 he was appointed Chairman of the Sydney County Council and he occupied that important position until 1965- some 2 years, when he achieved one of his lifelong ambitions to be democratically elected by the people of Sydney as its Lord Mayor. [More…]
Honourable senators, as elected representatives of the people, are entitled to express their points of view in the Senate in the manner that they see fit. [More…]
As elected members of this Parliament we should be allowed to make that decision ourselves. [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…]
Such a practice would add to the quality of debates in the Parliament and would enhance the kinds of arguments which are put forward by those here as representing the views of the people who elected them. [More…]
They were the dominant issues upon which Her Majesty’s representative in this country dismissed a lawfully and properly elected Government. [More…]
Yet Her Majesty’s representative in this country used the deficit as one of the reasons to dismiss an elected Labor Government from office. [More…]
I want to draw some attention to the various alibis which this Government has adopted since it was elected for the failure of its election promises and the failure of its economic management, but before I do I shall contrast some of the failures with the promises that were made in 1975- the promise to restore business confidence, the promise to reduce inflation and the promise to slash unemployment by 200 000 people if this Government were elected. [More…]
We were no sooner elected with a majority, than Senator Young and his colleagues were running around with stilettos, guns and machines guns trying to get rid of us. [More…]
The Liberal Party blocked the passage of” the Appropriation Bills and persuaded the GovernorGeneral to sack a properly elected government. [More…]
He cited tonight the percentage of migrants who are elected in union elections. [More…]
I would be surprised if that figure were any lower than the percentage of migrants who are elected to public life right throughout Australia. [More…]
In December 1975 the now Government was elected to office on the promise that it would right the economic mess that was created by the Labor Administration. [More…]
He would have some political feelings if we elected him in the same way as the President of the United States is elected. [More…]
The fact is that the prestige and strength of the Senate comes from the character of the people elected to it - [More…]
I repeat, ‘from the character of the people elected to it’- and from the Senate’s committee system. [More…]
The present system is that Senators are elected for a sixyear term. [More…]
I refer to 1965 when I was illegally sacked from the position of elected secretary of the South Australian branch of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Frankly, I think it is totally irrelevant whether Sir John Kerr is an appointed Governor-General or an elected president. [More…]
If we had had an elected president during the time of the constitutional crisis, he would have had the power to do what Sir John Kerr did which was to dismiss us and send us to an election in the event that we could not agree to the carrying on of government by the granting of Supply. [More…]
One of the most important changes, one ofthe most revolutionary changes, one of the most heartening changes that has taken place or appears to be going to take place- it is early at this stage to say whether it will really take placehave been the statements made and the actions taken by President Carter since he was elected to the presidency ofthe United States of America. [More…]
Recently a new government was elected in Japan. [More…]
The sum of $7m was pared from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs appropriation in February 1 976, less than 8 weeks after the Government was elected. [More…]
Mr Withnall said the Minister should use more temperate language because the Assembly was no longer a puppet Parliament, it was a fully elected Assembly, fully responsible to Territory people to make laws. [More…]
It will be recalled that the Whitlam Labor Government was elected to office in November 1972 and, during the period when I was Minister for the Media in that Government from December 1972 to June 1975, Mr Atkinson was a senior officer in my Department. [More…]
He made no statement at all as to whether compulsory voting applied in various circumstances; whether there were elected to the House of Assembly in South Australia independents who supported the government of the day; or whether many seats were contested in those elections. [More…]
Because certain of Senator Harradine ‘s supporters could not get elected at democratic elections, they defied the law and made no attempt to alter their rules. [More…]
Instead they made an agreement with this Government when it was elected to change the Act so that they would not have to hold democratic elections. [More…]
He gave figures to show that at no time during the many years of the Playford Government was it ever elected by a majority of voters. [More…]
He showed that on every occasion the Australian Labor Party never received less than 40 per cent of the votes and that a government, receiving a minority of votes, was elected. [More…]
Two years later the elected body representing the people of Canberra passed a resolution calling for the liberalisation of abortion laws. [More…]
Mr Enderby was elected with an absolute majority. [More…]
He was then re-elected in 1974, despite the further efforts of the Right-to-Life campaign. [More…]
If I may say so with a note of almost supreme modesty, the Department of Industry and Commerce has succeeded in having one of its officers elected for the first time in history as chairman of the World Council of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Industry. [More…]
I cannot specifically say how local government elected its 6 members. [More…]
After all, they pay taxes, they serve in the armed forces, they are entitled to be elected to the Parliament, they are entitled to all the normal civil rights of most Australians. [More…]
-They can be elected for New South Wales, even though perhaps not for the Territory. [More…]
The Bill allows former members of the New South Wales teaching service who were teaching in Australian Capital Territory technical institutions in 1976 and who elected to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service after 31 December 1976 and before 1 April 1977 to preserve their long service leave conditions that applied under State legislation in force immediately prior to their joining the Commonwealth Teaching Service and to treat future teaching service as if it were State service for the purposes of that legislation. [More…]
It seems to me that governments have to make decisions about whether they want to interfere in the affairs of other countries by way of armed incursions and that it is the responsibility of governments to do that as governments and as elected representatives of the Australian people. [More…]
It is a case of Cabinet control over the parliamentary system of Australia instead of the people’s elected representatives having that control. [More…]
The then caretaker Prime Minister promised quite clearly, without any equivocation at all, that the system of wage indexation then in operation would be continued under a LiberalCountry Party Government if it were elected. [More…]
I believe that the rank and file unionists realise that in the past the unions have escaped from much responsibility for their actions, that they have held the Australian people to ransom, that they have tried to take over the job of the properly elected government of this country. [More…]
People want the government that they have elected to do this job, and they want that government to be able to do the job unhindered by any union action. [More…]
Surely it is within our province as members of this Parliament, as elected representatives of the Australian people, as citizens as well as humanitarians, as those concerned with the rights of others, to make a determination and, I suggest, a favourable determination on this motion. [More…]
Elected 26 November 1966 to fill long casual vacancy to 30 June 1968. [More…]
Elected 2 December 1972 to fill long casual vacancy to 30 June 1974. [More…]
Re-elected 18 May 1974. [More…]
Term expired 11 November 1975 and re-elected 13 December 1975. [More…]
That the United Nations, in apparent illegality, has imposed many restrictions and sanctions upon Rhodesia which has been remarkably free from the bloodshed and turmoil of northern and central African lands, even to the extent now of actively encouraging armed conflict against the legally elected Government of Rhodesia. [More…]
On 22 April 1 976 the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia attacked the Australian Government- this was only some months after this Government had been elected- and said: [More…]
Surely it is now apparent that the flimsy, superficial and illegal methods used in 1975 to destroy a constitutionally elected government had no substance and, in point of fact, contributed to this lack of business confidence we hear so much about. [More…]
Yet a month after the Wran Government was elected in New South Wales, the Prime Minister- ignoring the fact that there was a report on manufacturing industry known as the Jackson report and ignoring the structural difficulties that manufacturing industry had in Australia- in his typical, inane and inept way, had the temerity to suggest that the decline in the work force in New South Wales arose primarily as a result of Mr Wran’s election. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate in 1946 and he took his seat in 1947. [More…]
The Government was elected with a clear mandate from the people to establish this Bureau. [More…]
If the honourable senator believes that it would be a good thing to have the House of Representatives elected at an election at large instead of by single member constituencies let him say so, but I think there is a general desire, certainly by members of that place, for the single constituency member to continue. [More…]
It is not for me to put a judgment on that as a senator, but as an elector I prefer a single member constituency to having all the House of Representatives members elected in a single constituency sense. [More…]
Yet already he has made 6 overseas trips since being elected and 2 more trips are looming within the next few months. [More…]
In the last 1 8 months since being elected, this Government has acted to bring about reforms which implement Liberal principles, which translate liberalism into reality. [More…]
a ) suspended if she is elected to the Parliament; [More…]
Shortly after I was elected, but before I took my place in this chamber, I started to become disillusioned with some of the actions of the present Government in relation to social security benefits. [More…]
Young people came to me, as I am sure they came to a number of other elected representatives. [More…]
The first senator elected was Senator Rae. [More…]
The second senator elected was Senator Wriedt. [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…]
One of the provisions in the proposed law relating to casual vacancies is: a senator holding office at the commencement of the Constitution Alteration (Senate Casual Vacancies) 1977 who was chosen by the House or Houses of Parliament of a State in consequence of a vacancy that had at any time occurred in the place of a senator chosen by the people of the State shall be deemed to have been chosen to hold office until the expiration of the term of service of the senator elected by the people of the State. [More…]
On further reflection, because this Government decided as soon as it was elected not to reconstitute that committee and because I believe the topic is far too important to be given the slightest possibility of being sidestepped, I have amended my original motion to provide that the inquiry be carried out by the Senate Standing Committee on Trade and Commerce. [More…]
But what Senator Wood does not go on to tell the people and what none of his colleagues in the No campaign told the people is that, whilst they are not prepared to sacrifice any of their term of office for which they were elected under the present Constitution, they are quite happy to have members in another place sacrifice some part of their term of office of 3 years to bring about a simultaneous election. [More…]
We are the representatives of the people, yet honourable senators who sit opposite decided that a democratically elected Labor government should not be allowed to maintain office because they did not like that Government’s policies. [More…]
Of course, this Government was elected on 13 December. [More…]
Right after it was elected to office it decided to close down some of the enterprises in country areas. [More…]
I take it that in his continuous 1 6 months attack on federalism and on the system of federalism- despite the unanimity of the Premiers- what he is saying to the Senate is that the Labor Party not only rejects the policy of federalism but also, if elected to power, would return to the tax reimbursement uniform taxation that it in fact had in government, that it rejects tax sharing and that it favours tax reimbursement. [More…]
He seemed to accuse me of flitting from committee to committee and implied that that was not good enough; that I ought to be elected to one committee, do my job on that committee, and then perhaps raise other matters in the Committee of the Whole. [More…]
A senator must be strong and attach himself to one or two committees and carry out the work he is elected to do. [More…]
That is why it was important to make reference to somebody who retires before reaching the compulsory retiring age of 65, becomes entitled to superannuation, and is then reengaged at a fee equivalent to the income he would have received had he stayed on the job, over and above which he is receiving superannuation as a result of his having elected to retire. [More…]
Can the Minister advise the method by which this executive is elected? [More…]
I must stress to the honourable senator that the State governments have elected to bring in tax reduction and therefore to forgo revenue rather than to use revenue to employ people. [More…]
I am sure that no honourable senator will suggest that this is because Mr Wran was elected Premier on 1 May 1976. [More…]
That the United Nations, in apparent illegality, has imposed many restrictions and sanctions upon Rhodesia which has been remarkably free from the bloodshed and turmoil of northern and central African lands, even to the extent now of actively encouraging armed conflict against the legally elected Government of Rhodesia. [More…]
A producer consultative group to consist of persons elected to represent the interests of livestock producers in each State and the Northern Territory is to be created. [More…]
The clause provides for a fancy change of words to give the impression that the Government is honouring an election reform that it said it would introduce if elected. [More…]
Unless we as a Parliament, the elected representatives of the great mass of the community, are entitled to expect and require service by the Public Service we will disintegrate into anarchy. [More…]
They have produced a great deal of good for their members and in a very real sense for the community as a whole, but they have reached, somewhat disastrously I believe, a point where in many circumstances they seek to override the proper duties and responsibilities of elected government. [More…]
in replyWhen this debate began many hours ago Senator Button, who led on behalf of the Opposition, quoted from the policy of the Liberal and National Country Parties on employment and industrial relations- a policy on which the present Government was elected in December 1975. [More…]
That policy contained 2 very important matters which the Government said it would implement if it were elected. [More…]
I refer to the policies on which this Government was elected. [More…]
I refer to the present Attorney-General, Mr Ellicott, who sent out very lengthy political telegrams making false statements to Aboriginal communities all over Australia, claiming that the Government of which he was a member, the caretaker Government, would not do certain things if elected. [More…]
Of course, no sooner was it elected than it did the very opposite to the promises which were made by Mr Ellicott. [More…]
He was democratically elected by the students. [More…]
One thing that we have in common in this place is a desire to see decent democracy in this country and to see decent elections so that people elected to office really represent the groups whom they allege they represent. [More…]
I take his action to be a vocal condemnation of an elected Minister, such as I have never heard before. [More…]
Roosevelt was elected in 1931 and gave the carte blanche to unions to go their hardest. [More…]
One of the basic planks on which the Governmnent was elected was to get the country back on its feet, to restore confidence in the business community and in general promote policies which would generate the investment of risk capital with a consequent increase in gross national product, further employment opportunities and all the other benefits which flow from a buoyant business community. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate in 1961 and served this chamber and his State with distinction in a variety of roles before ill health forced his retirement in 1973. [More…]
The fact is that by a judgment of the then Labor Government it was elected to let the Bill lapse. [More…]
I remind the honourable senator that the New South Wales Government, in common with a number of other State governments, when it put together its current Budget elected to give tax cuts, thus forgoing revenue rather than using the money which would otherwise have been available to pursue policies. [More…]
It has been suggested by the Minister that the Producer Consultative Group be elected by a poll of producers. [More…]
Members of the meat board and the wool board in New Zealand are elected in this way. [More…]
First of all, we must not have this consultative group elected, for instance, by Victorian dairy farmers, Western [More…]
We do not have the faintest idea of the manner in which these consultative groups, these components of the Meat and Live-stock Corporation, will be elected. [More…]
The quality of the people elected to the Corporation will be of paramount importance. [More…]
In 19S0, he was elected both as archbishop and ethnarch-national leader of the Greek people of Cyprus. [More…]
It is a tribute to his qualities that he was elected as both the spiritual and political leader of his country. [More…]
Following the London Agreement in 1959 that Cyprus would become an independent republic, he returned to Cyprus and was elected its first President. [More…]
His turbulent career involved the great powers, and despite exile for some years he eventually returned to Cyprus and was elected President of the newly independent republic. [More…]
Former Senator Foll was successively elected as a senator for Queensland from 1917 until his retirement in 1 947. [More…]
Former Senator Nicholls was elected to the Senate for South Australia in 1 943, and again at the elections of 1949, 1951, 1955 and 1961. [More…]
The late Senator Foll, who was elected to the Senate in 1917, was a member of this Parliament for 30 years. [More…]
He was elected to the Senate in 1943 and served here until 1968. [More…]
He became a senator for the State of South Australia in 1943 under the preferential system whereby a party either had three members elected or none. [More…]
There was no question of two members from one party and three from another party being elected in those days. [More…]
In the 1961 election, when I was elected to the Senate, Theo Nicholls was the leader of the Labor team. [More…]
I believe that it was the only time when the third Labor man was elected in South Australia without the elimination of any Labor candidate on the ballot paper. [More…]
When I was elected as an impoverished senator he came to me and said: ‘It will be a month before you get any money from that hard crowd over there. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh and I were elected to the Parliament in 1961. [More…]
When this Government was elected on December 13 last Australia was in bad shape, inflation was out of hand, economic activity was falling again and unemployment had risen to record levels. [More…]
This body would be elected by industry members, funded by a levy on grape growers and winemakers and be independent of government. [More…]
We are both countries enjoying democratic systems and freely elected government, both strong believers in and upholders of human rights, of traditions of freedom and of the maintenance of free institutions. [More…]
However an increasing number of South Australian students at Year 12 level have elected to follow a school-designed curriculum which does not qualify students for tertiary studies. [More…]
Mr J. Crocker, member of Council elected by all staff. [More…]
Mr L. Fischer, member of Council elected by professional staff. [More…]
Of the 1 1 Council members, 8 are appointed by the Minister, 2 are elected by the staff of the School, 1 is elected by the student body, and one is the Director of the School. [More…]
One was the refusal of Supply and the sudden dismissal of an elected government. [More…]
The public at large will not be fooled on this issue as it was fooled on 1 1 November 1975 when the Liberal and National Country parties usurped the rights of the properly elected government. [More…]
They co-operated with the Governor-General to sack a properly elected government. [More…]
Let me say this, Mr President: The Government is elected to look after the whole of the Australian electorate and it has a duty to look after all Australians. [More…]
Mr President, I hope that no honourable senator will ever claim that he is being personally inconvenienced because the House of Parliament to which he is elected has to sit. [More…]
I think it is contrary to the principles on which we are elected. [More…]
You will remember at the last meeting of the Joint House Committee prior to the Parliament’s rising for the winter recess that the Committee was told by the Speaker of the other place that the nominated and elected members of that Committee had no jurisdiction or authority whatever to make any decision as members of that duly elected or appointed Committee and that the sole responsibility for any decision taken by the House Committee rested within the province of the two Presiding Officers. [More…]
I want you to clarify for the Senate- I do not expect you to do so tonight; I want you to give it some thought- the duties and the responsibilities of the persons who are nominated in each chamber and are duly elected to that body. [More…]
I feel that if that is correct the members of the Joint House Committee over the many years it has been in operation have been wasting not only their own time but also the time of the persons who have nominated them in their various party rooms and have brought the nominations into this chamber and into the other place so that the members could be duly elected to that body. [More…]
We are never able to discuss business which has been brought to our notice by the elected members of this Parliament. [More…]
If the case is the reverse of what Mr Speaker has said I think the time has come for the Joint House Committee to be put on a proper basis so that the members who are elected to it know where,they are going and what their responsibilities, are. [More…]
If the Parliament was not prepared to sit upon the request of the Executive when it says that it needs specific power, the Parliament would be wanting and not discharging those functions that the people elected it to perform. [More…]
This device which has been developed over the last decade or so whereby a whole enterprise can be held to ransom by a selected section of key personnel going out or refusing to do work necessitates that we consider disruption by key personnel as being of special significance. [More…]
This Parliament, the elected representatives of the people, appoints Ministers to administer departments and services, and if the servants engaged to discharge the duties of transmitting the post or carrying on the airways or the railways or shipping or communication services refuse to carry out their jobs according to current awards and laws, how shameful it would be for an Executive to flinch from the duty of requiring that the services should be performed, by putting aside the people who refuse to do it- nothing else; suspending those who engage in the industrial action; and if they persist in paralysing the enterprise, standing down, so that the country will not be under the burden of paying useless salaries, the great majority whose work has been rendered impossible by the striking minority. [More…]
I suggest that honest workers have never been more exploited in this country than they are at the moment by dishonest union leaders who rise to a position of prominence on the claim that they will promote the welfare of the worker and who forget about that claim when they are elected to office. [More…]
In 1 950 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wollongong-Kembla, which he held continuously until 1963 when he resigned to stand for Federal Parliament. [More…]
He was elected as an alderman of the Wollongong City Council in 1938 and remained a member of that Council until 1 944. [More…]
When he was elected in 1938 he successfully moved on the Council for the amalgamation of the then municipality of Wollongong and the municipality of Central and North Illawarra. [More…]
He was elected as State member for Wollongong-Kembla in 1950 and held that seat for the Labor movement until 1963 when, as has been said, he entered the Australian Parliament and served here for some 14 years. [More…]
I first became acquainted with Rex Connor shortly after he was first elected to the New South Wales Parliament, during the by-election for the then seat of Bulli. [More…]
Rex Connor was the only man I ever knew who came before the Executive to put his case as to why he ought to be elected, and who started spot on time, was not cut off in mid-air and did not end his remarks a minute before time. [More…]
Of course, in a few short years- within a decade- he had made his mark by being elected to the shadow Ministry and, ultimately, to the Ministry. [More…]
That the United Nations, in apparent illegality, has imposed many restrictions and sanctions upon Rhodesia which has been remarkably free from the bloodshed and turmoil of Northern and Central African lands, even to the extent now of actively encouraging armed conflict against the legally elected Government of Rhodesia. [More…]
Members of the Council are elected by the Assembly of the Organisation, at which all contracting states are entitled to be present. [More…]
The Council, of which Australia has been an elected member since ICAO came into being, meets in almost continuous session throughout each year. [More…]
I believe that Forrester was fined for breaches of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act when he forged documents and acted improperly in the conduct of elections for the purpose of getting NCC members elected to the Miscellaneous Workers Union in Victoria. [More…]
Mr Coates was known by members on this side and many members on the other side in the other place for the enormous amount of time he put into his job, the enormous amount of help he gave to the people of Denison, and because he was elected in 1974 when really he should have been one of the first candidates to be defeated and in 1975, when he was defeated, he was defeated by a lower margin than most other people in this country, in a seat which is normally a very safe Liberal seat. [More…]
If he was elected vicepatron, he certainly does not know that he was elected. [More…]
The simple fact of the matter is that it would not be surprising if the local member were elected vicepatron of such a society, as many members of Parliament on both sides of the House are vicepatrons of all sorts of friendship societies in their various States. [More…]
I have no doubt that if he had succeeded he would have enlivened the proceedings and he might well have been a member of this chamber when he died had he been elected on that occasion in the mid-1960s. [More…]
That the United Nations, in apparent illegality, has imposed many restrictions and sanctions upon Rhodesia which has been remarkably free from the bloodshed and turmoil of Northern and Central African lands, even to the extent now of actively encouraging armed conflict against the legally elected Government of Rhodesia. [More…]
That the United Nations, in apparent illegality, has imposed many restrictions and sanctions upon Rhodesia which has been remarkably free from the bloodshed and turmoil of Northern and Central African lands, even to the extent now of actively encouraging armed conflict against the legally elected Government of Rhodesia. [More…]
Surely if anyone knows how the money ought to be spent within the confines of the municipality, it is those good men and true who are elected by the ratepayers of the municipality to serve their interests and to decide how the money will be spent. [More…]
That is a right which I think the democratically elected local governing authority ought to have. [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…]
It is also opposing a policy on which the Fraser Government was elected, a policy established in 1972, that is, a policy of 20 per cent per capita grants without means test to be matched by the States. [More…]
What has happened since the Labor Party elected to bring up this matter of ‘ the Schools Commission? [More…]
Under the proposals now released it is envisaged that legislative and executive responsibility for a significant portion of territorial activities will be transferred in one step to an elected Assembly. [More…]
Under the proposals the financial arrangements for Commonwealth assistance to territorial activities would require negotiations on a regular basis between the Commonwealth and the elected Assembly with critical appraisal of expenditure levels. [More…]
Under the present Government and the previous Government discussions have taken place as to the desirability of reposing in a locally elected body the carrying out of what I think have been defined on occasions as state and local government functions. [More…]
I found, for instance, during my time on the Committee that there seemed to be- I do not know whether or not this is a correct assumption on my part- a very large body of local opinion which was not in favour of the transfer of functions to a locally elected body. [More…]
There are others, of course, such as students of democracy and the development of political systems, who believe that communities ought to be involved and ought to have a responsiblity for the running of their own affairs even if, in fact, that has to be brought about compulsorily, as would be the situation with an elected assembly carrying out municipal and state type functions. [More…]
I suppose there is a tendency to make laws on a purist sort of basis without the sort of regard for the finer feelings of people in a community that you get with a locally elected institution running the community’s affairs. [More…]
As my colleague, the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt) has said, the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 on three specific undertakings which were spelt out in clear terms: To restore prosperity; to defeat inflation; and to provide jobs for all. [More…]
The authority would comprise members elected for a specific period and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the community. [More…]
The Press release stated: the broad details of Australia ‘s Cocos policy were: a representative form of local government for the Cocos community to be established with the ultimate aim being creation of a fully elected body; [More…]
There are blacks elected to the Parliament and blacks appointed to the Parliament. [More…]
We were told by Government spokesmen when the Government was first elected that it was necessary to improve profits so that unemployment would decrease. [More…]
He said: ‘Unemployment will be slashed by 200,000 if a Liberal-Country Party government is elected’. [More…]
Therefore the Government’s policies- those policies on which we were elected in December 1975- were designed to tackle the root causes of the economic problems of the community and the unemployment in the community, the root causes being inflation and the high levels of wage rises. [More…]
It ought to be remembered that this Government was elected in the most extraordinary circumstances in 1975 on an undertaking that it would bring down inflation, reduce unemployment, stimulate business and get the economy going. [More…]
It was elected on an undertaking that it would stay in office for three years in order to carry out the policies that were so essential after the three years of office of the Labor Government that this Government did so much to disrupt. [More…]
As Senator Walsh has pointed out tonight, the present Leader of the Government is on record in the Senate Hansard as saying on more than one occasion that immediately after the election of 1972 he and others in the Liberal Party set about destroying the Labor Government despite the fact that the Labor Party had been elected by a majority of the people. [More…]
As Senator Hall has pointed out, the Liberal Party, running true to form, although it could not be in government itself, was going to prevent the properly elected government from governing the way the people wanted it to govern, and so much so that we were forced to go to the people again in 1974. [More…]
When the Labor Party was going to lose the numbers in this place after being democratically elected, a person in Queensland went to the depths of despair because he did not want a Labor government in Canberra. [More…]
So he used all the dirty tricks he could think of in an endeavour- and he was successful- to prevent the Labor Government which had been elected on a second occasion in May 1974 from carrying out the policy which it was elected to carry out. [More…]
So, when we look back in history we see that, although the Labor Government was elected on two occasions within three years to carry out a policy with which the people agreed, we were not allowed to carry it out because the Liberals had the numbers in this place. [More…]
As Senator Hall has rightly pointed out- it now looks almost certain because of the way the present Government has got the country into an economic mess, with rising unemployment which is the worst since the last Depression- even if Mr Fraser holds an election in December and is the loser he will still ride roughshod over the democratically elected government because he will have the numbers in this place. [More…]
By going to the people early, not only would he extend his government’s term of office by two years, if re-elected. [More…]
I was elected in the first place for a term of six years but, because of the unsatisfactory way in which this Senate operates, I had to face two more elections even before my first six-year term finished. [More…]
He was not saying that if the coalition parties were elected to government things would get worse, but that is the very thing that happened. [More…]
Small businesses and their association are on record as saying that since this Government was elected 12,000 small businesses a year are going to the wall. [More…]
We intend to do exactly that when next we are elected to govern Australia. [More…]
I remind the Senate that the Wran Government was elected on the promise that it would employ all unemployed teachers. [More…]
At the last Senate election I was elected by only a very narrow margin and perhaps I could say that that was because of the 200,000-odd people in those North Shore safe Liberal electorates who voted for the Labor Party. [More…]
In the elections for both of those councils for the first time Labor Party people have been elected to the councils on the official ALP ticket. [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…]
I proposed also that a local government type of authority be established with l egal and formal status to manage and control the affairs of the community- this authority would comprise only members elected for a specific period and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the community; all future Australian Government contracts involving the [More…]
What steps are being taken by the present Government to establish a representative form of local government for the Cocos community whose ultimate aim would be the creation of a fully elected body? [More…]
An Interim Advisory Council, established in September 1 975 to hold consultations with the community and to advise the Administrator, was to be replaced by a fully elected Council as soon as the necessary arrangements could be made. [More…]
The report states that I had been elected as chairman and that some 14 months later I had resigned. [More…]
Any person responsible to this Parliament, especially someone elected to this Parliament, who becomes involved in this area must see immediately the need for the Auditor-General to have such access not only for the protection of the operation but also for his own protection. [More…]
I think that those on this side of the Parliament who were elected to improve the economy and to do a job ought to get on with it. [More…]
This year, about $2m is to be spent on developing and expanding in a decentralised way and working with local government, while enabling people in voluntary organisations to be elected to regional councils and to be active in the determination of expenditure on various family and community projects. [More…]
The people in this country have elected the Government, but the Opposition still has a job to do. [More…]
After all is said and done, Tasmania is the State which is particularly covered by section 24 of the Constitution which provides that a minimum of five members of the House of Representatives should be elected to represent any State. [More…]
When this Government was elected to office in 1975- almost two years ago- it was given an overwhelming mandate to reduce inflation, to reduce unemployment and to bring about stability in the Australian economy. [More…]
The Minister for the Capital Territory has failed to bring about a devolution of decision-making powers to a locally elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The situation which we have at the moment, and which it seems we may have indefinitely, is that there is only one tier of government in the Australian Capital Territory and people in the Territory find that many decisions affecting their lives in the most basic ways are taken not by their elected representatives but by one person- the Minister for the Capital Territory, who of course is not answerable or accountable in any way to the residents of the Territory. [More…]
There is no way that the locally elected body, the Legislative Assembly, can affect the situation because it has been given no powers to do so. [More…]
Nevertheless, the States elected to try the current year. [More…]
The Government moved quickly when elected to office to introduce a number of financial measures to relieve the plight of all businesses. [More…]
I am concerned, as I am sure all of my colleagues on this side of the chamber are concerned, that sufficient money is not available at the moment to enable us to do all the things that we as a government and as a group of concerned people would like to do for all the people for whom we accept responsibility as their elected representatives in this Parliament, whether it be in the other place or in this chamber. [More…]
Governments are elected to govern, and this Government has taken a decision after one of the most intense inquiries ever conducted into an industry. [More…]
When the present Prime Minister was elected I thought he talked about honesty in government as being an important factor. [More…]
We have a body of 10 people, five of whom are nominated by the Minister and five of whom are elected. [More…]
They were used by the Nationalists as slogans in the 1948 election, which was the time when the Nationalists were elected, and they are: [More…]
If one looks through any of the old Nationalist propaganda- if one looks at the material that was used in 1948 when the Nationalists were elected- one will see accusations that Smuts and Hofmeyr, his deputy leader, were secret Jews. [More…]
That was said by a white man, a man who would be conservative in his economic views, a man who has been elected by white electors to the South African Parliament. [More…]
I hark back into the distant past to Lloyd George who fought an election on the basis that if the country elected him he would hang the Kaiser. [More…]
He was elected but the Kaiser died peacefully in his bed in Holland 20 years later. [More…]
Two years ago he was elected as the editor of the OnDit magazine circulating on the Adelaide University campus. [More…]
He was elected at the last election and he knew very well that he had no chance of getting back to this place again if he faced the electors as a senator. [More…]
The reforms have been matters of Government policy on which we were elected. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite deferred and delayed the Bill and sought an excuse to throw out the elected government. [More…]
That is Senator Steele Hall- for your condemnation of Mr Fraser for his attempt to overthrow our elected Government. [More…]
He tried to fool the people of the electorate for which he wants to be elected into believing that he has some real concern for their interests. [More…]
I am sure that the people in the electorate of Hawker will be very grateful that I have reminded them of all the disputes between Senator Hall and the members of the Government party for which he now seeks to be elected, whenever the election may be. [More…]
It was the Labor Party which elected Mr Millhouse with its preferences. [More…]
It will be an offence for a person to hold office knowing that he was not elected to that office by secret postal ballot where required by the Act. [More…]
When Eric Deeral was elected in Cook, the Country Party pea for the area was a local policeman named Mahoney. [More…]
-In the absence of the Minister who represents the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, I have elected to do what I can to answer such questions. [More…]
I believe there has been an actual attempt in these last two years to overthrow the elected government. [More…]
Should it be the elected government or a union? [More…]
I ask honourable senators opposite to answer that question because at the moment the union and not the elected government of this country is saying whether we should trade our wheat with Chile. [More…]
Not the elected leaders, however the election may be made; certainly not the elected leaders in relation to the strike in Victoria. [More…]
What does he do to put the management of unions back where it ought to be- at the elected management level of the union structure? [More…]
It is high time in this country that the shop stewards were made to realise that they are not the Government of this country but that the elected Government is the government of this country. [More…]
Yet Senator Young, and he is joined by even Mr Fraser and other leaders of his Party, says there is too much power in the hands of the elected trade union officials. [More…]
It is, most importantly, an indication that the Government intends to work in a spirit of amicable co-operation with the people of the Territory and their elected representatives in the task of giving birth to Australia ‘s seventh State. [More…]
In 1947 the Legislative Council was established, with six elected and seven official members. [More…]
These were people with a wealth of background, able to come in and assist the elected members. [More…]
In 1959 there were eight elected, six official and three nominated members. [More…]
In 1968, a greater step forward occurred when 1 1 elected members and six official members made up the Council. [More…]
Of course, in 1974, thanks to the efforts of the Australian Labor Party, we had a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
It was Mr Fraser himself who said when he was undermining confidence in the then Liberal Party leader, Mr Snedden, that a government was elected for three years and that it was entitled to serve its three-year term in office. [More…]
Might I say that for the 23 years before the Whitlam Labor Government was elected by the people in 1972 this nation had been held in harness with reins tight. [More…]
We all remember the situation in 1972 when the Whitlam Labor Government was elected. [More…]
Mr Whitlam ‘s wants are no different from or more significant than those of any other person who is elected to this Parliament. [More…]
What greater uncertainty could there be in this community, when one surveys the political scene, than trying to guess who would be the Prime Minister of Australia in the unlikely event that Labor was elected at the next election? [More…]
Members of the House of Representatives were elected on 13 December 1975; its term expires on 16 February 1979. [More…]
At the time the Government was elected in December 1975, Australia was in a state of severe depression marked by rapid inflation, rapidly rising unemployment, and declining output. [More…]
So far as simultaneous elections are concerned, senators who are elected in December will not take their places in the Senate until July, 7 months later. [More…]
We have a parliament elected by the majority, but the fact that it is elected by the majority does not mean that the minority- those people who live in our rural areas- should be disadvantaged. [More…]
That will create considerable difficulties for whoever is elected to represent that division. [More…]
I think we would be here until the Christmas after this one attempting to find out who had been elected. [More…]
Many of the reforms were foreshadowed by the Prime Minister in his policy speech and in speaking on other policy matters on which the Government was elected on 13 December 1975. [More…]
Livestock sellers have continually raised the question of collusion and lot splitting and had the Australian Government been really concerned they could have taken action under the Trade Practices Act at any time since they were elected. [More…]
We were elected on the basis that we would bring about more efficient government. [More…]
By not rejecting but by deferring a Bill until such time as the people’s elected government submitted itself to the people was a complete distortion and betrayal of the Senate ‘s responsibility. [More…]
Senator Wright’s desire to reform the conference role of the two Houses for the purpose of deciding on an allocation of money does not get over the fact that the Senate has rejected the peoples’ elected government. [More…]
For the first time we found that the Senate had the power to dismiss the elected government of the people and that is a power which the people never thought this Chamber possessed. [More…]
But, after all, the idea of having an election is to make certain that the right government is elected and not to make things easier for anybody in the community. [More…]
Because the new averaging arrangements applicable under the new personal tax system will, for 1978-79 and subsequent years, always be of benefit to primary producers, the Bill also provides that all primary producers, including those who have elected to withdraw from the averaging system, will automatically have averaging applied for those years when it is to their advantage for that to be done. [More…]
On behalf of myself and my family, we thank you for your condemnation of Mr Fraser for his attempt to overthrow our elected government. [More…]
Senator Hall is on record as claiming those things against the very Party for which he now wants to be elected as a member of the House of Representatives. [More…]
My remarks were directed to the denigration of this chamber which results from its ability to defeat a government which was elected by the people, as was demonstrated and put into operation in November and December 1975. [More…]
It is not as bad for the members, about whom I spoke earlier, who never go outside the metropolitan area, particularly those members in South Australia, many of whom were elected when they lived in the country and soon shifted to Adelaide and became domiciled in the metropolitan area with an office in the metropolitan area. [More…]
Is it also a fact that in Mount Isa yesterday the Premier of Queensland, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, stated publicly that if the National Party candidate was not elected State and Commonwealth government funds for the Lake Julius water scheme would not be provided? [More…]
When those people elected a Government they found that that Government was sacked at a moment’s notice at the behest of the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Accordingly the Government which twice has been elected by the people is able to govern. [More…]
He was no longer, in the eyes of the duly-elected members of the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
The present Government was elected to office. [More…]
He claims he was one of the architects of the various steps taken to obtain the dismissal of an elected government. [More…]
We have had an elected government dismissed. [More…]
In fact, the Premier inferred that any member for Mount Isa who was not a National Party member would be denied his right to make representation to the State Government on behalf of the people who elected him. [More…]
I believe that we are elected to office because people think that we are responsible. [More…]
I was rather interested in the honourable senator’s view that if a Labor government were elected- God forbid- it would have learned from its mistakes and it would not be the same sort of government. [More…]
No doubt that is what would happen if the Labor Party were elected to government on 10 December. [More…]
Now, no doubt by the strength of its criticism of this principle, the Labor Party is indicating quite clearly that if it is elected to government it will not continue to maintain 20 per cent per capita grants without means test in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
He suggested that if the Labor member were elected, as he will be, he would have no access to the Premier, providing he remains the Premier, when he was elected to parliament. [More…]
Eventually, however, members will be elected by the language groups themselves. [More…]
The effect is to enhance these provisions in respect of certain late entrant officers who elected to limit their contributions to the old DFRB scheme, with a consequential reduction in benefit expectation, but who, because of the conversion arrangements from the old to the new scheme, were placed in a disproportionately worse position visavis others transferred to the new scheme. [More…]
Is it not a fact that it was the elected Aboriginal councils of the Aboriginal communities in Queensland which requested the removal of the two field officers concerned in the Queensland trachoma campaign? [More…]
I point out, Mr President, that the Aboriginal councils are elected and that the two field officers are self-appointed Aboriginal political activists. [More…]
The Opposition believes that the $3 a box for apples and the $1.20 a box for pears are necessary to keep the apple and pear growers alive until a Labor government is elected and effective restructuring arrangements are introduced. [More…]
It was said in 1975 that if a Liberal-Country Party government were elected it would expand the areas of export, it would find new markets and it would solve the problems of denial of access to markets for our beef producers. [More…]
Although a statement was made in the LiberalNational Country parties policy speech put down on 25 November 1975 that a high priority would be placed on this matter, Senator Webster said that the Minister for Primary Industry had advised him that early in 1976, just a few months after this Government had been elected to office, the Liberal and National Country parties did not propose to proceed with the animal health laboratory at Geelong. [More…]
Four of our colleagues face an election- four territorians and if they are not elected at the forthcoming election they will not come back. [More…]
He was elected President of the Senate in 1951, a position he held until 1953. [More…]
Sir John was elected to the Senate for Victoria at the 1940 election, was defeated in 1943 and was then re-elected at the subsequent elections of 1949, 1951 and 1955. [More…]
The co-operation and trust which exists between employer and employee should also exist between the elected government and its people. [More…]
To the Tories of this place it may seem like par for the course and in the natural order of things that a GovernorGeneral would dismiss an elected Labor government and put them in its place. [More…]
Then we came to about the late 1930s- the beginning of the Second World War- when we were fortunate enough to have Thomas Playford elected as Premier of the State. [More…]
The Labor Government, supported by Robin Millhouse, who is now leader of the Australian Democrats in South Australia, argued that the Liberal Movement of which Senator Steele Hall was a member when he was elected to the Senate no longer existed and that it had been taken over by the Australian Democrats. [More…]
The Labor Government took the attitude that in accordance with the wish expressed in the change to the Constitution it should appoint someone close to the feeling of the electors at the time they elected the senator who had retired. [More…]
Senator Hall was elected for a three+year term. [More…]
However, the referendum proposal was not to fill a vacancy with someone who expressed the opinion of the electors at the time they elected the person who retired and created the vacancy. [More…]
There was a suggestion that the appointment by the State Government should have been held over until after the Federal elections so that if the fate of Senator Steele Hall was what it in fact proved to be he could be re-appointed for the six-month term as nearly expressing the opinion of the people who elected him. [More…]
Everyone knows that at the time Senator Steele Hall was originally elected he had different beliefs, different politics and made different utterances than he had and made when he stood at the last election. [More…]
He no longer represented the party for which he was originally elected. [More…]
We must be careful in our interpretation of the wish of the people expressed in the constitutional referendum that we keep the numbers of the party for which the electorate originally voted so as not to give an advantage to another party which was not elected by the people of Australia. [More…]
It could have elected a Labor Party member but to give the Premier his due his justification for the appointment was that he thought he was better expressing the wish of the electors at the time and the referendum decision to change the Constitution by putting someone from the Australian Democrats into the Senate. [More…]
Instead of ridiculing South Australia’s elected Government and the standard of living in South Australia the Federal Government should give to South Australia those rewards and monetary payments which were promised by it but which have not been given. [More…]
The Government has been elected for another 3 years on its pledge that it will continue to do what it has done over the past 2 years, that is, to reduce government expenditure and tighten the belts of everyone in order to reduce inflation. [More…]
Therefore, as provided for in the Constitution, unaltered by the amendment, the State from which the senator was elected had the unfettered right to choose a senator. [More…]
The people of South Australia then elected Senator-elect Baden Teague, a very able man, who will take up his term in July. [More…]
We have been elected to that body and therefore I think it is highly desirable that we should ratify the Covenant. [More…]
We as a Government have been elected by a very strong majority and that is an important thing. [More…]
They threw us out and elected the Labor Party with great expectations as to what it would provide in government. [More…]
Senators are elected by parties. [More…]
The Leader of the Government in the Senate is not elected by Senators- he is appointed by the leader of the Executive, by the Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]
But as this will not happen, as Senator Rae and his ilk are firmly committed to the concept of a Senate which can at any time throw out the lower House even though the Senate cannot in any way be considered representative of the people in the same way as the other House is and even though many members of that Senate will have been elected many years before the election of whatever government is in office, I believe the Senate will remain the rubber stamp it is. [More…]
Since the Fraser Government was first elected in December 1975 it has engaged in a continual assault on the independence of the ABC. [More…]
There has been a steady contraction of job opportunities in all sectors since the Fraser Government was first elected. [More…]
I was one who believed after the elected Government was sacked in 1975 and convincingly defeated at the polls that the majority of Australians agreed with Kerr’s actions; but at least 40 per cent violently disagreed with them. [More…]
Who would have believed that so cynical a deal, and so dishonest a deal, could have been set up- a job in exchange for sacking an elected government, for calling an unjustifiable early election and then retiring in time for the electorate to forget about the shame of 1 1 November. [More…]
They are not elected. [More…]
For example, it would be possible by offering various taxation and other incentives to corporations involved in the media to encourage the establishment within the structure of each newspaper of an editorial board of the professional journalists working for the newspaper elected by the reporting staff of that paper. [More…]
Nevertheless, I wish her well while she serves the term for which she was elected by the Parliament of South Australia. [More…]
Having been rejected on political grounds by the Queensland Parliament I was subsequently elected by the people of Queensland later in 1975. [More…]
We have, as elected representatives of the people, a special responsibility to ensure that they see that what we do is relevant to them; that we are representing them and are working for the good of our country in the way that we see best, whatever our political philosophy or affiliation. [More…]
They see themselves headed for the same sort of problem because they cannot get access to Australia Post and Telecom when the decisions are being made and it seems that their elected representatives are not capable of doing so either. [More…]
I raised with him- I think it was one of those occasions when he was ducking and weaving on the ropes- the subject of the way in which Mr Justice Smithers was able to obtain information about the calibre of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation operatives and their recruitmenttheir immaturity was under consideration in this case- that had been denied to the elected members of parliament. [More…]
The elected Senate has managed initiatives independently of the Executive Government but it is a threatened institution for doing so. [More…]
As the former Governor-General deceived not only the elected government but also his friends in the Labor movement, one can understand why from time to time very strongly voiced views are expressed by those members of Parliament who are rightly aggrieved about the actions of the Governor-General. [More…]
They forced us to an election 18 months after we were elected into government. [More…]
In 1 974 we were re-elected, but again they would not accept the decision of the electors and connived with the GovernorGeneral to sack the Whitlam Government. [More…]
Last year 400 employees at Adelaide’s Minda Home- a home for the physically and mentally handicapped- elected worker directors to the board. [More…]
However, it appears that under the Association of Incorporations Act it may not be proper for employees to have elected board representatives. [More…]
We as a Government have been elected by a very strong majority and that is an important thing. [More…]
So much at least is clear in cases where a ministry is refused supply by a popularly elected Lower House. [More…]
The Senate is, like the House, a popularly elected chamber. [More…]
There can be no question of the manoeuvres that took place, manoeuvres which created an impossible situation, in which the Governor-General was forced into wrongly making a decision which dismissed the elected government of the day and appointed another - [More…]
Bill Wood has, on a number of occasions, decided to do that which we and most Australians consider to be in the best tradition of citizenship in this country, that is to seek an endorsement to stand for Parliament and perhaps to be elected to Parliament. [More…]
Most Australians accept that to be elected to Parliament is a great privilege and most Australians respect those who stand for Parliament. [More…]
However, precedent and the intent of the Crown Employees Act are that if a person fails to be elected he can return to his former position. [More…]
With respect, Mr President, I think that that comes within your scope because you are charged with the responsibility of ensuring that senators who are elected by the people of their States are given adequate participation in the business of the Parliament. [More…]
Frankly, this provision gives inadequate representation in the business of the Senate to those senators elected by the States who do not happen to be members of either the Government or the Opposition parties. [More…]
If the Standing Orders Committee is to look at the composition of a joint committee I request that it also take into account the attendance at meetings of committees of members who are nominated and then elected to committees. [More…]
While people are elected to this chamber on a basis of proportional representation, they are entitled to have their views heard. [More…]
Although I certainly do not accept the idea of proportional representationI say that quite frankly here and nowwhile we have it we must give those people who are elected on a proportional representation basis the right to be heard in this Parliament. [More…]
The great thing to remember is that Churchill said that democratic institutions in the United Kingdom maintained their integrity by insisting that members elected to a representative chamber were the spokesmen not of governments but of the people. [More…]
The Deaf Society is a private charitable organisation, run by a private board in Queensland, elected annually by the deaf community and other Society members at a public meeting. [More…]
That the United Nations, in apparent illegality, has imposed many restrictions and sanctions upon Rhodesia which has been remarkably free from the bloodshed and turmoil of Northern and Central African lands, even to the extent now of actively encouraging armed conflict against the legally elected Government of Rhodesia. [More…]
Apparently this situation follows an election in late 1 977 for a position in the Tasmanian division of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations when a Mr Cooper, who had been the nominee of ACSPA, was defeated and Mr Lavey was elected. [More…]
She does not drive to or from either full time or part time work, but she is gainfully employed in the sense that she elected to stay home, to keep house and to continue in her community activities role. [More…]
The case of South Australia and the observations made by Mr Justice Hope about State Special Branches make it clear that a drastic overhaul of the systems will be needed to protect civil liberties, to place police intelligence activities firmly under the guidance and control of elected political authorities, and to give people who have been the subjects of security reports access to these reports and the means to appeal against them. [More…]
If, as I am led to believe by this notice, senators are to be appointed to the Joint House Committee, on Thursday, that Committee will function for at least the next three years with no opportunity- unless there are resignations- for any of the nine new senators to be elected to it. [More…]
Further, is it true that the Government intends to alter the relevant legislation so that the Director of the Trade Union Training Authority will become a nominee of the Government instead of being elected by the Council of the Trade Union Training Authority? [More…]
Mr Playford talked about it right up to 1965 and I think Mr Hall was elected in 1 968 on a policy of filtered water for Adelaide. [More…]
On the other hand, Mr Whitlam and Mr Uren have pledged a Federal Labor Government to fund the program to its completion and at the weekend Mr Uren announced that if a Labor Government is elected it will inject almost immediately an additional $ 1 7m- including $5m for water filtration- into the public works sphere in South Australia. [More…]
If anyone wants to make a name for himself within a State or to be elected to Parliament, the first thing he does if he comes from a rural area is to say: ‘We will have to have a dam here, and if I am elected to Parliament I will advocate that a dam be built’. [More…]
If he comes from an area such as suburban Brisbane, for example, he says: ‘If I am elected to Parliament I shall see that action is taken to prevent any future flooding of the Brisbane River’. [More…]
But in peace time surveillance reduces this country and its government to the position of an elected dictatorship. [More…]
In Queensland, where the Government is an elected dictatorship, it is quite common for Special Branch people to enter homes without authorisation. [More…]
We have seen it happen in so many other countries as a prelude to greater power being taken, whether by an elected dictatorship or a military dictatorship. [More…]
In particular, it has ignored the policies of the Government elected in 1975 and 1977. [More…]
Such an inference this Government cannot admit without disloyalty both to the Federal Constitution and to the Parliament which was elected under it. [More…]
Before I was elected to this chamber I sought information through party colleagues on this feasibility study. [More…]
When I was elected I pursued the matter and I still could not obtain any information. [More…]
The Territory has been subjected to a number of extraordinarily harsh policies with respect to employment, funding, rates charges, rents on government accommodation, and so forth, and none of those measures has come about as a result of a decision of the locally elected body. [More…]
When Mr Staley was Minister for the Capital Territory, after about 1 8 months in the portfolio he finally came up with a rather lengthy draft of proposals for devolution of powers to a locally elected body. [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…]
As I have said, a number of charges have been imposed on the citizens of the Territory in the last 2h years that have not been imposed by anybody elected by the citizens but by the Minister, first Mr Staley and now Mr Ellicott. [More…]
They were the days of what was then called the 7-6 treatment, there being seven nominated members of the Assembly, and six elected from the Northern Territory. [More…]
No matter what the people of the Territory felt, no matter what they asked their elected members to do within the Legislative Council, no matter how they acted, the Federal Government was in a situation in which its seven nominees could veto any action taken on behalf of the Territory. [More…]
From that day onwards the situation persisted up to the time when certain moves were made, notably the elected members walking out of the [More…]
The number of elected members was increased. [More…]
Even then the elected members of the Territory within the Legislative Council were outnumbered by appointees. [More…]
At last it was decided that the Territory should have a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The report became the bible for further constitutional change that produced a fully elected council. [More…]
So this further constitutional change to a fully elected council occurred. [More…]
However, this took a little while because although the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly became a fully elected body, it was given no teeth. [More…]
Although it enacted the amendment to the Northern Territory Administration Act that created a fully elected council, it did not pursue the recommendations of the joint committee, which would have transferred to the Territory more executive responsibility and allowed it more say in its own affairs. [More…]
We have been elected to this place by the people of our various States, and the minute we start taking away the rights of individual senators this institution will start to disintegrate. [More…]
They are able to travel about the Parliament to see their elected representatives. [More…]
The real desire of people to whom one talks is not to have a military guard between them and their elected representatives. [More…]
Like most members of the public, I assumed when I was elected that there was some sort of security and that so long as I was in this building I was reasonably secure at any time of the day or night. [More…]
This is a small indication of the good relations that exist between the general community and the elected representatives who sit in parliament. [More…]
What we are seeking to do when looking at our privileges as members of Parliament is simply to ensure that we retain the freedom to carry out our duties as elected representatives. [More…]
They are the officers elected by us for the purpose of ensuring proper control and management. [More…]
They are run by the elected officers of the Parliament. [More…]
I have had occasion, particularly after I was elected to the executive of my Party as a shadow Minister, to have discussions with a wide ranging group of people. [More…]
I see no reason why the elected members of parliament should insist that they be put in a category different from that of other people who use this building. [More…]
There is no reason in my mind why we as elected members should not have to follow the same processes as everyone else. [More…]
I hope that we will see a gradual development of a better system of security in this Parliament not only for those who are elected and serve in the chambers but also for those several thousand people who work in the Parliament or who visit the building regularly. [More…]
It has been said that members of Parliament, having been elected, accept the risk of being public figures. [More…]
I have always understood that an elected member of Parliament is entitled to enter this place at any hour of the day or night, any day of the week, and that nobody could impede his progress. [More…]
Many words have been spoken during this debate on the protection of the people who occupy the Parliament, whether they be elected members or the staff. [More…]
I will be interested to hear the Minister say how he will ensure that every taxi or hire car driver who transports us to and from this place, particularly late at night, can be trusted and whether they are going to have their photographs taken and put on an identity card so that each and every personnot only the elected members but also the staff- can identify the driver. [More…]
The mere presence of members of Parliament in this building is apt to attract to it, as a chief focal point, those who are minded to use violence or terrorism as a means of expressing their will against elected representatives. [More…]
I would hope that those who were elected would make at least one or two visits to this place within the fortnight after their election. [More…]
For God’s sake please let us remember that we are trustees of the public money and that if internal security requirements can be reduced by reason of this system of external surveillance, let us remember that we would better represent the taxpayer by relieving him of the burden of the unnecessary expense involved in footling about with the imaginary idea that he is to be handicapped when he comes here on lawful occasions to see his elected member. [More…]
I have been told by a union official in Melbourne that a possible reason for the official trade union hostility is that on several occasions women associated with the centre have attempted to by-pass the elected officials of unions and enter factories and work places in order to spread their propaganda. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs may declare that the legislation applies to a reserve or community on request by a council established under the Queensland law or if he is satisfied that a substantial majority of the adults resident on the reserve or community wish it; an existing council established under Queensland law or a body declared to be a council for the purposes of the Act, will have the function of managing community affairs and the necessary powers to carry out that function; any declared body established under the regulations will be an elected council or otherwise a properly incorporated body; councils will have power to make by-laws and to authorise entry to reserves; by express provision, councils and individual Aboriginals and Islanders will not be bound to obey directions given by officials under the Queensland legislation; councils will be responsible only to their communities; the Commonwealth may, if it becomes necessary in order to give effect to the purposes of the legislation, make available to councils land acquired by or otherwise vested in the Commonwealth; and in the case of acquisition, the provisions of the Lands Acquisition Act will apply. [More…]
It seems to us that the Prime Minister has demonstrated to the Australian public and to the Aborigines the insincerity of the position in which he says he holds the Aborigines ‘own elected body. [More…]
On 18 November, 1975, the Aurukun people’s elected council, five in number, personally requested the Department to assume management of the Aurukun community, and after full discussion and a verbal approach to the Director on that day they then confirmed their request by presentation of a formal letter. [More…]
We spoke to the Community Councils, the groups of Aborigines elected by the Aborigines to run, in cooperation with the Uniting Church, the affairs of the Aboriginal community. [More…]
To support his argument Senator Bonner produced a Press statement from the elected leader of the Queensland Aboriginal reserve residents, Mr Fisher, which stated: [More…]
It is pitiful beyond expression that we white men, the elected representatives in the State field, on the one hand, and, with one exception- I refer to Senator Bonner, whose advent to this Parliament is a unique achievement; I have no need to flatter him because his abilities are self-evident- in the Federal Parliament of Australia, on the other hand, are exhibiting a contention between one another as to the proper reconciliation of the claims made by the Aboriginals to the two governments, State and Federal. [More…]
The two elected governments or parliaments constitute together the government of Australia. [More…]
It is very sad-it is a quite disturbing situation- to be in Australia in 1978 and find that people such as those at Aurukun and Mornington Island are disturbed and worried by the thought that their administration may be taken over by one of our State governments, a government elected by the people of that State. [More…]
The Federal Minister can be put in the same sort of situation on those occasions when he disagrees with the expressions of opinion made to him by the people’s elected council. [More…]
The National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, which was an Aboriginal elected body and which was truly representative of the Aboriginal people, now is only an Aboriginal council which has no greater powers than to appoint five members to a body to which the Minister also appoints five members. [More…]
If, for example, there were changes in Queensland legislation which did not provide for an elected council but provided for an appointed council, the Minister, if the amendments were to take effect, would be required, by way of a mandatory act, to do what a council asked him to do irrespective of the fact that the council was not elected but was appointed and may not reflect the wishes of the majority of the community. [More…]
We believe, if there is to be any genuine act of self-determination, the powers of the council which has been elected or appointed under this legislation must extend over all of the reserve land. [More…]
That has been a very conscious and deliberate policy of this Government since it was elected in 1975. [More…]
Australia has been elected to the very important position of Co-Chairman of Working Group 3 of INFCE dealing with the major questions on fuel supply assurances in the context of nuclear non-proliferation. [More…]
I do not pretend to have an ability in the nautical sphere, like the two previous speakers, Senator Wriedt and Senator Wright but I have had a considerable interest in this topic since I first was elected to this Parliament and in fact before then. [More…]
When the Fraser Government was elected, it was to the credit of the present Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, that he honoured the undertaking that was given during the Bass by-election and the Maritime College Bill was introduced by the previous Administration. [More…]
I have been told by a union official in Melbourne that a possible reason for the official trade union hostility is that on several occasions women associated with the Centre have attempted to by-pass the elected officials of unions and enter factories and work places in order to spread their propaganda. [More…]
In the first place, there is no official trade union hostility to the Working Women’s Centre and, secondly, Senator Harradine gives no information of those instances when the Centre has bypassed the elected officials of unions. [More…]
Senator Carrick, in the web of fantasy which he has spun around himself on this issue, would have us believe that the State governments entered, in the financial sense, a golden age when the Fraser Government was elected and when the fiscal policies of new federalism became partially operative. [More…]
Honourable Senators should remember that the private sector was supposed to be the engine for economic growth which would lead us to recovery once a Liberal government was elected. [More…]
It has been the purpose of the Fraser Government since being elected in 1975 to seek the devolution of power both by means of expenditure and by means of alterations to laws. [More…]
In that sense the Minister for Local Government has the right- as such Ministers have in other States- to dismiss elected councils. [More…]
That is, members of the Council- one shall be elected by the whole of the teaching staff of the College and the other shall be elected by the senior teaching staff of the College. [More…]
It seems to me to be patently absurd if we have a situation in which a member of the academic staff of an academic institution who is an elected member of the council is precluded by a provision such as this from being present and participating in any discussion about matters such as housing, superannuation or any other matter which can come before a council for proper consideration, deliberation and decision. [More…]
That might be understood by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) to be already a recognition by some elected parliaments that they have to go cap in hand to the union to obtain the services that the people require to be supplied. [More…]
This represents a clear betrayal of the authority vested in elected parliaments for them to make the laws pursuant to which the people of the community carry on their trading and other activities. [More…]
Does the Minister recall that the Minister for Primary Industry stated in a Press release dated 5 July 1977 that an interim beef producers consultative group nominated by producer organisations was to be set up to enable the October 1977 target date for the formation of the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation to be met, but that arrangements would be made for an elected producer consultative group to succeed the interim body by March 1978? [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Minister last month wrote to producer group leaders saying that those elections should now be delayed and reviewed at the end of 1978 on the grounds, firstly, that the cost involved was $250,000; secondly, that not all producer organisations supported the concept of an elected producer consultative group; and, thirdly, that the Stage 1 report on amalgamation of producer groups called for the establishment of a federal cattle council to provide the membership of the producer consultative group? [More…]
Was the Government prepared to meet the cost of these elections when the Minister promised an elected producer consultative group last year? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the Government was aware at the time it promised an elected producer consultative group and set up the interim group that the proposal did not have unanimous support of producer groups but nevertheless had strong majority support? [More…]
The governments of Australia, Commonwealth and State, have between them complete power to decide how any land, any project or any aspect of the environment shall be managed for the future, so if this project is developed complete control over it lies with the elected governments. [More…]
-Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that because of constitutional difficulties Queensland could become a State without a properly elected government? [More…]
I have an answer from the Minister for Primary Industry as follows: It is true that a decision was taken in mid 1977 to make arrangements for an elected Producer Consultative Group to be established under the provisions of the Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Act 1977. [More…]
The intention was to replace this interim body with an elected Producer Consultative Group by March of this year. [More…]
All senators are elected to serve in this place. [More…]
One of the aspects of the negotiations which led to the acceptance of that Bill by a number of members of the Government was, importantly, statements of acceptance by the Government of the principle of an elected producer consultative group which reflected a very strong feeling amongst many meat producers that that consultative group to the AMLC must be elected by them. [More…]
In a statement dated 5 July 1977 to which I referred last week he promised that an interim beef producers consultative group to be nominated by producer organisations would be set up to enable the October 1 977 target date for the formation of the AMLC to be met, but that arrangements would be made for an elected producer consultative group to succeed the interim body by March 1978- that is, a body elected by all the beef producers in Australia. [More…]
On that basis many producers who had some misgivings about the Bill accepted it and they have looked forward to the opportunity of having an elected representative producer consultative group to express their point of view. [More…]
When I returned to this place and pursued my inquiries in relation to it- because I was quite unaware of it- I found that no public announcement had been made by the Minister but that he had written to the leaders of certain producer groups in April indicating that the Government believed on certain grounds that the previous decision for a producer elected consultative group should be delayed and reviewed at the end of this year. [More…]
I indicated in my question that I was aware that not all producers or even all producer groups had supported the concept of a producer elected consultative group. [More…]
Last year producers made very clear the fact that they want this producer consultative group to be elected by producers. [More…]
Last year organisations accepted appointment to the interim producer consultative group only on the grounds that it was an interim group and that it would be followed by a fully elected body. [More…]
By 13 April we should have had a fully elected producer consultative group which should have established a relationship with the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation. [More…]
What particularly concerns me is that judging by the Minister’s statement today it is as clear as it can be that the Government has changed its mind about the undertakings it gave last year concerning an elected producer consultative group. [More…]
I think the Minister indicated in his statement the intention to replace the interim body by an elected producer consultative group. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) have stated that the reserve lands as such should be handed to the Aboriginal people of Aurukun and Mornington Island on lease with the elected councils as the trustees. [More…]
When I first came to this chamber in 1974 I was elected as a member of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control. [More…]
We must never reach the stage where we, the elected members of the chamber, are spokesmen for the Government as distinct from spokesmen for the people, to refer to a phrase used by Sir Winston Churchill when he opened the first Inter-Parliamentary Union conference. [More…]
We are elected directly by the States to represent the States in this place. [More…]
What ought to be said is that, following a great deal of consultation, much of which has been discussed previously in the Senate, an agreement was reached on 1 1 April which ensures that the Aboriginal people of the two reserves can now manage their own affairs under the framework of the Queensland local government system, initially through their existing councils and then through local councils elected under local government legislation. [More…]
That is the position with regard to the policy of the Government on land rights for Aborigines and to state that policy in any other way overlooks completely not only the policy which has been clearly stated but also the actions which have been taken by the Government since it was elected in 1975. [More…]
When the Fraser Government was elected to office in December 1975, it was abundantly clear that one of the challenges of management of the economy in difficult conditions was to arrest the rapidly spiralling costs of health care. [More…]
We are elected directly by the States to represent the States in this place. [More…]
He was not elected to this place initially but came here as a nominee to look after the interests of South Australia. [More…]
We must never reach the stage where we, the elected members of the chamber, are spokesmen for the Government as distinct from spokesmen for the people . [More…]
That atleast acknowledged the existence and rights of individuals and groups elected by the people to represent them and their interests but not belonging to what are referred to as the major parties. [More…]
The regulation further provides that if elected the officer shall resign from the day before he becomes entitled to a member’s salary. [More…]
If not elected, he must resume duty on the day after his approved leave expires. [More…]
If the public servant resigns and fails to be elected he may be reappointed pursuant to section 44 of the South Australian Public Service Act 1 967. [More…]
One State parliamentarian from Victoria was elected to this place after retiring from the Victorian Parliament with $2 1 1 ,000- the ex- Leader of the Labor Opposition in Victoria. [More…]
This brings me to the question of the position of the staff-elected commissioner of the ABC which is currently held by Marius Webb. [More…]
During the course of this debate I seek an assurance from the Minister that the Government intends, at the termination of Mr Webb’s period of appointment, to continue with the principle established during the period of the Labor Government of having one commissioner, out of the total of II, elected by staff members. [More…]
I certainly think that the principle of a staff elected commissioner should be embodied in legislation. [More…]
I think there is a necessity for a little consideration to be given, even to some of the principles for an elected Constitutional Convention. [More…]
I know that Bills have been introduced as far back as 1921 to give consideration to an elected convention to consider the Constitution. [More…]
The executives were elected, not for the purpose of considering the Constitution, but to run the day-to-day government of their States or the country. [More…]
I support the motion but, like Senator Rae, I strongly advocate that we should be leading on to a popular convention, one elected by the people. [More…]
I am saying - I am agreeing strongly with Senator Rae- that a popularly elected convention would bring a great deal more knowledge of and concern for constitutional change to the people of Australia. [More…]
What I am saying is that if we moved now to an elected convention where people had to choose delegates and had to think whether those people would be the most suitable persons to be delegates at a convention for the purpose of looking at a constitutional change, I believe we would have a better understanding of the proposals that are put forward. [More…]
Nonetheless, we are in agreement upon the essential importance of the Senate of constitutional change and on the need for greater knowledge and deep understanding of it, and on the need for a democratically elected convention. [More…]
Also, on 30 November 1977 one of the four major groups, one which I might add previously favoured an elected rather than a nominated group, wrote to the Minister for Primary Industry seeking substantive changes to the PCG electoral procedures he had announced in July. [More…]
The Government has taken no decision on whether PCG membership should be other than elected. [More…]
Although not all organisations have responded formally, indications are that organisations representing the vast majority of relevant primary producers have now taken a position against an elected Producers Consultative Group. [More…]
I can remember well that before I became a member of the Senate promises were made by the then caretaker Government that if it were elected it would cure the ills of Australia’s economy and would create conditions in which there would be full employment. [More…]
In summary, that Bill provides, firstly, that the Council of the University shall not authorise a students representative council to expend moneys raised by the University for the provision of amenities or services unless the governing body of that Council is elected by students in an election at which not less than one quarter of the students entitled to vote have voted; secondly, that the Council of the University is to have a duty to ensure that any moneys it makes available to a student organisation for the provision of amenities and services are applied bona fide to the provision of amenities and services of direct benefit to the University; thirdly, that the Council is to have published and freely available to students at least twice a year an audited statement as to the amount of fees paid by students for amenities or services that are not of an academic nature, the organisations to which any part of these moneys have been paid and the purposes for which they have been expended; and fourthly, a provision that no person shall be required to be a member of any body or organisation in order to entitle him to be admitted as a student or to graduate. [More…]
All the States have elected- this is the important thing- to cut taxes rather than to increase programs. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to consider how she and thousands of other small farmers in this country look upon a government that was elected with such a magnificent majority which took the occasion yesterday to bring in a Bill to give its members additional benefits, and which took into account for the eligibility of those benefits all past service as Ministers, repaying anything that has been returned to them and paying their contribution of 1 1 1/2 per cent of salary. [More…]
In the case of a senator who is elected for six years and at the expiration of 3 years after the commencement of his term of office he has ceased to be a senator for any reason- ‘for any reason’ are the words that have been left out- then he shall be deemed to have been retired or to have failed to secure a renewal of office and he shall qualify under this section. [More…]
So it applies only to the term of a senator who was elected for six years and leaves the Senate for any reason after serving three years. [More…]
The clause is being amended in relation to a senator who is elected for six years but who ceases to be a senator after three years. [More…]
It seems to be reasonable that a person who retired on the grounds of ill-health may, if he were permitted to commute his entitlement, have a benefit immediately whereas a person who had a long period of service after his retirement and who had elected to commute would perhaps have a lesser benefit. [More…]
We had one member who was elected to Parliament in recent times six years ago who became a victim of a terminal illness which progressed so rapidly that he died before taking office. [More…]
If they can divorce themselves from the passing piece of rhetoric and emotionalism, they will find that not only does this matter of public importance have no substance to it, but that in fact the Government which they have elected twice in the last 2lA years with resounding majorities is in fact taking this country along a sound and tough course. [More…]
It was far too short because of the obstruction by members of the present Government while in opposition, using their massive numbers to deny the people’s elected government the right to govern. [More…]
The people of the Northern Territory, in common with other citizens of our federal Commonwealth have the right- indeed the duty- to control their own affairs through a democratically elected legislature. [More…]
Through the 1950’s and 1960’s a succession of reforms to that Council was introduced by Liberal-Country Party Governments, culminating, in 1968, with a majority of elected over appointed members. [More…]
In 1974 the then Labor Government created the first fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The fact is that if a government elected by the people has been negligent in permitting a large loss of revenue to take place, then I am afraid that the people who will have to carry the can for that loss are the people who elected that government. [More…]
Since the Government has elected to discriminate in the retrospectivity of its legislation, I support the amendment. [More…]
It was a Labor government which, in 1974, created the first Legislative Council with a number of elected members. [More…]
It was the Whitlam Government which, during its term of office, gave the Territory a fully elected Legislative Assembly and also made the financial arrangements which enabled people to enter the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
In fairness, I must say that the LiberalCountry Party played its part during the period between the setting up of the Council and the granting of the first fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The Liberal-National Country Party increased the number of elected members to the point where there were more elected members than there were nominated members. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, and I think the general proposition would be accepted, elected people should have the opportunity for their legislation to be dealt with effectively. [More…]
Following the report of the Joint Committee, a fully elected Legislative Assembly was established in 1974, and over the next two years it participated in preparing for the changes we are now debating. [More…]
In 1947 the Commonwealth Government saw fit to form a legislative council in the Northern Territory consisting of 13 people- seven nominated official members from the Commonwealth Public Service and six elected members representing the six electorates that were formed in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Despite the fact that a legislative council had been formed, it was a very sad day because the elected members of the Northern Territory had very little say in the affairs of the Northern Territory. [More…]
No matter what the six elected members said on behalf of the Northern Territory, the seven official members from the Commonwealth Public Service voted en bloc against them. [More…]
There were then eight elected members, six nominated members and three non-official members of the Legislative Council. [More…]
It was not right that the people of the Territory should have had inflicted upon them a majority of nominated people and a minority of elected people. [More…]
The submission talked about a fully elected legislative council and its responsibilities within the Northern Territory- responsibilities in areas such as health, mining, law enforcement, labour, secondary industries, urban and rural affairs, land courts, the Department of the AttorneyGeneral and so on. [More…]
I should like to refer to the committee which was set up to inquire into the question of whether the members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly should be fully elected. [More…]
If we look at the history of the Northern Territory- Senator Kilgariff spoke at length about the great efforts made by people in the Northern Territory to bring about an elected government for the Territory- we find that it was not until 1947 that there was even a governmental body in the Territory which represented the people. [More…]
Of course it took the Whitlam Government to give them a fully elected Legislative Assembly, on which I shall elaborate a little later. [More…]
Nothing was said in the second reading speech that the Committee recommended that there should be a house of 1 9 elected members and that the election of those members should be carried out by way of optional preferential voting. [More…]
Gough Whitlam said in our policy speech of 1 972 that we would give the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected legislative assembly. [More…]
As I pointed out earlier, those people could not do a thing until they got a Labor government in Canberra which gave them the right to have a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that this was on 1 May- not even three months after the first meeting of Parliament after the Whitlam Government was elected. [More…]
We came to office in December, the Parliament assembled in February and we received the message from the House of Representatives on 10 April- pretty quick work in setting up a committee to look at the question of a fully elected legislative assembly for the Northern Territory. [More…]
Within a couple of months of being elected to office we set things in train to give to the people of the Northern Territory the right to vote. [More…]
We see in the Hansard report from which I have quoted- I do not intend to go over it again- that Senator Webster was elected to the Committee. [More…]
Of course, one of the first matters the Committee will consider is the constitution as it stands and it will endeavour to bring down a recommendation to this Parliament that it should give the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Council at the next election. [More…]
Three months after we were elected to office he criticised us for not having done something for the Northern Territory. [More…]
I did not deny the people of the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I was happy to sign my name to the report which recommended a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I have often suspected that the reason the Labor Party polled so poorly in 1974 was that the people of the Territory took out their spite on the Labor Party because it gave them a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The members of the Committee were happy to recommend that the Legislative Assembly be fully elected. [More…]
For example, I found it very difficult to follow whether or not he was saying it was a good thing that we had an elected Assembly. [More…]
He also said in his speech that he thought the fact that the Legislative Assembly had been made a fully elected body was the reason the Labor Party was decimated in the election that took place immediately after. [More…]
It seems to the Opposition that it is a travesty of democracy where the Administrator has power to veto or to override the elected government, that is, the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
If the clause remains unaltered the Bill becomes an insult to the elected representatives of the Legislative Assembly and they become little more than advisers. [More…]
He can point out constitutional weaknesses, but in the final analysis, it is my contention and the thrust of our argument, he must take the advice of the elected representatives of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The people of the Northern Territory, in common with other citizens of our Federal Commonwealth, have the right- indeed the duty- to control their own affairs through a democratically elected legislature. [More…]
No State has a right, purely through its elected assembly, to make laws and to decide that those laws will be followed. [More…]
The amendment submitted by the Opposition, through its spokesman Senator Robertson is designed to guard against that and to ensure that the people of the Northern Territory will be able to have their say through their elected members. [More…]
There ought to be provision for the Executive Council to come together but what we are trying to do is take this responsibility away from the Administrator and give it to the elected Assembly. [More…]
Surely it is better to have the responsibility with the majority party; in other words, back with the elected representatives. [More…]
Surely this is the prerogative of the senior officer of the elected group, whether it is the Chief Minister, the Chief Secretary or the Majority Leader- whatever term is used. [More…]
I was terribly annoyed with the way in which the then Opposition behaved in this Parliament when we were elected to govern this country, because they put every obstacle in our way and prevented u.s from doing so. [More…]
As I said, the industry is composed of many wool growers, large and small, but the members of the AWIC are elected by the wool growers themselves. [More…]
Also from those meetings delegates to the regional conventions were elected. [More…]
From those conventions delegates were elected to the State councils where discussions took place as to whether individual States and organisations within those States would agree to the exporting of some merino rams. [More…]
Marketing was one of the great concerns of the industry, but nevertheless agreement was reached, and delegates from those State conventions were elected from the two major organisationsthe Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council and the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
The Cabinet members are appointed officials under an elected President and are responsible to him. [More…]
For 22 months after it had been elected it did nothing but brought in this legislation and passed it in the week before the Parliament rose for the last election. [More…]
The history of these Bills goes back to late 1975 when the Liberal Party, which was then in Opposition, advised during the general election campaign of that year that if it were elected to office it would introduce the new federalism policy and that that policy would mean that the States would be given the power to introduce a State income tax. [More…]
During the last election campaign the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was challenged to say whether this legislation would be introduced if he were re-elected. [More…]
At no stage did they say that if their Government were re-elected it would bring in legislation to enable the States to introduce a State income tax. [More…]
I am talking about the people who have elected to go to Medibank. [More…]
It is a complete repudiation of a promise given by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during the 1 975 election campaign that the Liberal-National Country parties, if elected, would not interfere with Medibank. [More…]
His knowledge of procedures and his concern for fair play was recognised by his own party, which in 1972 elected him as its Chairman, a post he occupied until only a few weeks ago. [More…]
I hope that Senator Sibraa will be elected again because he has already made his mark in the Parliament. [More…]
During that time I have had the honour on three occasions, in the absence of both the President and the Deputy President, of having been elected to the position of Acting President of the Senate. [More…]
Senator Laucke is therefore elected President of the Senate in accordance with the Standing Orders. [More…]
-Mr President, I join with other senators in congratulating you on being elected to the office of President of the Senate. [More…]
I am sure that you will continue to act in the way that you have acted over the past three years, to my knowledge, in providing the opportunity as required for independent senators and other senators who are not members of the major parties to express the viewpoints for which they were elected by the people of their particular State. [More…]
-I advise the Senate that I have had the honour to be elected parliamentary leader of the Australian Democrats and that Senator Colin Mason has been elected my Deputy Leader. [More…]
I declare Senator Scott of New South Wales elected as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
-Mr President and honourable senators, I would sincerely thank the Senate for having elected me to this high and responsible office of Deputy President and Chairman of Committees. [More…]
This is the first occasion on which Senator Scott has been elected to the office of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
the possible reference of the question to a Constitutional Convention of which half the membership would be members of the public and the other half would be members of Parliament, elected by both Houses, at a Joint Sitting. [More…]
The Opposition agrees that this minority group, as it is defined in the amendment, has been elected to this Parliament with what must be conceded to be a significant minority support from the Australian community. [More…]
Once one puts one’s hat in the ring one has to take the chance of being elected or otherwise. [More…]
-Mr Chairman, may I take the opportunity that other honourable senators have taken to say how delighted I am that you have been elected to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Mr Chairman, I would like firstly to take the opportunity of congratulating you on being elected to your office of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
That was the end of an elected government. [More…]
He elected to stay with a friend. [More…]
Affairs, which at least is composed of elected members of Parliament and not of officials who presumably would be concerned about the consequences of any freedom of information legislation. [More…]
the possible reference of the question to a Constitutional Convention of which half the membership would be members of the public and the other half would be members of Parliament, elected by both Houses, at a Joint Sitting. [More…]
Governments are elected to serve the whole community. [More…]
They are not elected to pursue a narrow political line designed to serve only a section of the community. [More…]
The list is larger and indicates just how willing the Prime Minister is to break promises on which he was elected to power. [More…]
We are the elected representatives of the Australian people and ought not to permit to other bodies the resolution of complex questions of our social arrangements. [More…]
It is not for others to decide whether by our default or our permission- a default which allows elitist groups, whether in board rooms or in political cells to manipulate society- or a permission, or perhaps submission, which allows a non-elected bench of High Court justices to put parameters on our society. [More…]
We have been fettered and hindered in the task of developing forms of commercial life appropriate to the critical needs of the Australian community by the non-elected Bench of High Court justices, particularly in the period immediately after the Second World War. [More…]
If this House does have a useful role to play in the legislative process, it does not lie in menacing or threatening a properly elected government with the power of life or death based on some spurious conception of the Senate’s position as a defender of States’ rights or federalism or the more recently fashionable notion that it is a last resort defender of the national interest against the Huns and Visigoths of the lower House. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, this is the first opportunity that I have had to participate in a debate since you have been elected to the position of Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Recently I was elected to the House Committee. [More…]
They were the comments of the newly elected President of the Labor Party. [More…]
I feel honoured to be an elected representative of South Australia, which I consider to be one of the best States in the Commonwealth, and to be a member of the oldest and biggest political movement in Australia- the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
There should be a moral obligation for the elected government to carry out without changes its expressed policies until the next election. [More…]
I am very conscious that it is the people of South Australia who have elected me to the Senate, and I will aim to represent the people in all that I will do as a senator. [More…]
It is a matter of concern to me not only that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has brought himself into disrepute by this complete about-face from that which he promised and that to which he committed himself in 1977 but, also, to me as an elected representative ofthe people, that this sort of about turn, this breaking of promises, calls into disrepute the whole of our Parliament and the whole of our parliamentary system. [More…]
How can the citizens of Australia be expected to have confidence in and to trust their elected representatives when we have performances of this kind from the Prime Minister and his Cabinet? [More…]
I have been a member of this Parliament for a number of years; in fact, it is about 1 1 years since I was first elected to the lower House of the Parliament. [More…]
The Senate House Committee, which is an elected body of this Parliament, was completely ignored over this matter. [More…]
We have a very important matter like this which has hit the headlines in every daily newspaper and which has been on the national news, yet the Senate House Committee, which is an elected body of the Parliament, was completely ignored. [More…]
Could it be that this is another instance of this elected committee being ignored when important decisions are taken? [More…]
That budgetary policy has been designed to further the campaign of the Government, which it has followed since it was elected to office, to fight inflation and significantly to reduce the rate of inflation in this country. [More…]
That is a serious position in which a constitutionally elected government should place itself. [More…]
Within the Territory, a Legislative Council first met in 1948; it has evolved, and the elected strength has progressively grown with steps in 1 959 and 1 968, culminating in the establishment of a fully elected Legislative Assembly of nineteen members in 1974. [More…]
In 196S he was replaced as President of the Legislative Council by an elected member. [More…]
In 1 974, with the coming of the fully elected Legislative Assembly, the Administrator’s Council was reconstituted to comprise the Administrator and five elected members. [More…]
I was under the impression- obviously a false impression- that every member of the Labor Party, on being endorsed and on being elected, signs a pledge to obey party dictates, Caucus decisions, at all times, otherwise to suffer immediate expulsion. [More…]
Finally, if he is elected as a Labor member of the Legislative Council will he stand down from his position as co-ordinator of Greek programs on ethnic radio in Sydney? [More…]
In any case, I and, I think, my Party believe that referendums on questions such as this can and even should be overruled by elected governments if, as in 1974, there is a compelling reason and a logical argument to justify such government action. [More…]
But if Senator Webster or any other honourable senator cares to look at the history of voting in municipal elections in Victoria, for example, he will see that for 20, 30 or 40 years councillors and people in the local government area have been elected to office by a minority of citizens voting at municipal elections. [More…]
Does this mean that Senator Walsh also believes that governments should not be pushed around by trade unions and that a government is elected by the people to act for the people and not to stand aside and let others try to take over government, as some of the unions are trying to do at present regarding the export of merino rams from this country? [More…]
Even now there are elements in Australia seeking to replace the government of men by the administration of things, a trend to which we in Parliament have contributed by unthinkingly vesting power over people in non-elected bodies and corporations and by seeking to rely upon ombudsmen and tribunals to protect the rights of individuals when in fact it is we who should be making the decisions and we who should be providing the protection. [More…]
It is our responsibility as elected representatives to address ourselves accordingly, to remember that we are not sent here to scratch out each other’s eyes, no matter how much we might enjoy that sort of thing, but to serve the people who sent us here. [More…]
But the people know that if the Dunstan Government is elected for another three years we will see industrial democracy. [More…]
The restrictions on us, as democratically elected people, in seeking information from Ministers and public servants are so finite as to make work on a committee almost useless. [More…]
But the Commission is not elected, nor is it answerable either to the Government or the electorate. [More…]
So, he was elected to government in 1970 on these promises. [More…]
He was elected by his own people to do the job as chairman of that Land Council. [More…]
Negotiations will be held among Egypt, Israel and, if it agrees to participate, Jordan, as well as elected representatives of the Palestinians to determine the final status of the West Bank and Gaza and, it is hoped, to produce a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. [More…]
The first recommendation that appears on page 1 14 of the report of the Senate Committee which was headed by Senator Sheil, in the section dealing with the conclusions, was that the Australian Wine Board, the Australian Wine and Brandy Producers Association Inc. and the Federal Grape Growers Council of Australia should combine to form an Australian wine and grape corporation which would be elected by industry members and be completely independent of the Government. [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…]
Will he indicate to the Senate where the responsibility lies in this country for ensuring that those people who are elected to office in universities can in fact do the jobs which they are elected to do? [More…]
From the interjection of a Labor Party senator, I take it that the Labor Party is in favour of locking out a duly elected representative from his rightful access. [More…]
He has gained the confidence of the elected members of that Council and he had gained the support and the confidence of the tribal elders, Because of some misunderstanding on this particular occasion, he has now been forced to go back to the elders. [More…]
has one tier of government only and that is the Federal Government, although we have a locally elected body which many of us had hoped would become a territorial government. [More…]
As a locally elected senator- a representative of this community- I am very much aware of the long delays in attending to very urgent matters, such as processing housing applications, processing applications for emergency housing for homeless families, processing applications for emergency welfare assistance from women who have been deserted or from homeless youth or any other person in urgent need of assistance. [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…]
In all this situation the locally elected representatives of the Australian Capital Territory- that is, the members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly- have had no say whatsoever. [More…]
Sir John Guise further said on 1 5 August that he would not reveal any information on these matters coming to him, in his capacity as an elected member, from anyone from Australia or Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Some rural industry spokesmen should be asking themselves who elected them and why. [More…]
Since the Government was elected in 1975 with promises of better things to come in the area of industrial relations, nothing has really happened apart from legislation introduced in this chamber. [More…]
I might say that that is a decision motivated by our public pledge before the 1977 election that we would never vote against a Supply Bill brought forward by a government elected by a majority of Australians regardless of the political complexion of that government. [More…]
The Australian Democrats will not then be blockers purely for the sake of blocking and we will honour in this Parliament the pledges that we made before we were elected to it. [More…]
We should be doing something effective about our outmoded Constitution and political system so that members of this Parliament are elected on a basis of representing all Australians, not just half of them, and so that the Australian people are consulted more adequately and more honestly about their own affairs. [More…]
We were elected in 1972 with a mandate to govern this country. [More…]
They forced us to the people 17 months after we were elected by threatening not to pass the Budget. [More…]
We were elected to government and abolished it immediately. [More…]
I think that it is important that young people in schools have the opportunity to see their elected representatives from time to time. [More…]
As you would probably know, Mr President, from many things that were mentioned in this chamber and probably outside the chamber before I was elected to the Senate, I am not really Mr Bjelke-Petersen’s pin-up boy. [More…]
Elected to the papacy on 26 August, his reign was tragically brief. [More…]
On being elected Pope, he chose to have a simple ceremony for his investiture in St Peters Square. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index Figures. [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken part in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into effect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their state objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely- o Revoking the legislation for twice-yearly pension payments. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; it is the current intention of the same Government to legislate for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken pan in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into effect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their stated objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely- Revoking the legislation for twice-yearly pension payments. [More…]
The Ordinance, in its present form, has been brought in by the Government in order to circumvent the clearly expressed wishes of the people of Canberra and their elected representatives on the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
We have decided as a government, and quite rightly so, that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
Honourable senators will understand from those words of Mr Hunt that the Government had promised the people of Canberra that they could decide through their elected body, the Legislative Assembly, the manner in which abortions would be carried out in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
So the people of Canberra, both through their elected representatives and in reputable opinion polls, have made very clear their wish for a quality medical facility for early term abortions. [More…]
It appears that, rather than respect the democratic decision of the Australian Capital Territory’s elected representatives, the Government has made the temporary ordinance permanent. [More…]
that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
During the period of time that this matter will be resolved the Government should develop and present to the Parliament a permanent ordinance which will honour its promise to the people of Canberra that their elected representatives will take decisions in respect of the way in which abortions will be carried out in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Also, I think that in the debate we have been able to show that the Government’s promises upon which it was elected have been disregarded not only in this Budget but also in previous Budgets. [More…]
That, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their stated objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely:- [More…]
That, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their state objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely:- [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index Figures; [More…]
Of course, such an instance was in 1975 when he interfered with the proper purpose of a duly and democratically elected government. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; it is the current intention of the same Government to legislate for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index Figures; [More…]
I am the chairman of the Warruwi Council Incorporated, the Community Council for Goulburn Island in the said Territory, and I am also a duly elected counsellor for the community on the Northern Land Council, and I have been duly appointed as a counsellor by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
I am one of three representatives of the Croker Island community on the council of the Northern Land Council having been duly elected and confirmed by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index Figures; [More…]
That whereas the Faser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; it is the current intention of the same Government to legislate for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence. [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken part in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into effect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their stated objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enacting legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely: Revoking the legislation for twice-yearly pension payments. [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken part in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into effect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their stated objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enacting legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely: Revoking the legislation for twice-yearly pension payments. [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken part in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into effect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their stated objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enacting legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely: Revoking the legislation for twice-yearly pension payments. [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken pan in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into effect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their state objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely: [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken pan in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into effect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their state objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely:- [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken pan in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into effect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their state objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely:- Revoking the legislation for twice-yearly pension payments. [More…]
I am afraid that the Government has been given its answer on the only two occasions on which the people have had the opportunity to express an opinion since the Government was elected in 1977. [More…]
I have quoted figures right back to the time when Menzies was elected to office on the promise of abolishing petrol rationing. [More…]
In fact he denies the people who elected him the opportunity of his voice and his vote in the matter about to be voted on. [More…]
2 elected in South Australia at the last election. [More…]
When one starts advocating in this chamber that we just cut out what we want to cut out or increase what we want to increase in this way or that, I think that has to be viewed in the context of the responsibility of the elected government- a responsibility which it must carry- to prepare a Budget which can be rejected and on which the people have a chance to vote or which is otherwise relatively unalterable by this chamber, whatever this chamber may think about it. [More…]
I think that there are times in the life of every government when perhaps not all wisdom is demonstrated in the decisions taken by the group which comprises the senior executive of the party that is in government; and that the democratic process involves some opportunity for input by all the elected people who constitute the total Parliament. [More…]
Surely, as elected parliamentarians, we have a responsibility to conduct the business of this country. [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken part in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1 975 and again in December 1 977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into affect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their state objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extend to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely: [More…]
Although South Africa is to proceed with internal elections, it has agreed to use its best efforts to persuade the elected leaders seriously to consider ways and means of achieving international recognition through the good offices of the Secretary-General’s Special Representative and the South African Administrator-General for Namibia. [More…]
During the period of time that this matter will be resolved the Government should develop and present to the Parliament a permanent ordinance which will honour its promise to the people of Canberra that their elected representatives will take decisions in respect of the way in which abortions will be carried out in the Australian Capital Territory … [More…]
I note that, as distinct from the recommendations of the Birch report, it is proposed that the Chairman of the Advisory Council be appointed by the Minister and not elected. [More…]
It is of course the consistent view of this Government that staff representatives should not be elected to the bodies of organisations such as this- either to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, for example, or the CSIRO. [More…]
As I understand it, the Birch report recommended that the Chairman of the Advisory Council be elected. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; it is the current intention of the same Government to legislate for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence. [More…]
That decision to deny a staff-elected commissioner was taken against the wishes of the ABC Staff Association, many members of the management, other members of staff and some commissioners. [More…]
I remind the Senate that when he was Acting Prime Minister after the coup d d’etat and later after he was elected, he said that his idea of a properly run media was to have sport, and sport alone, on the front pages of the newspapers. [More…]
To bring the debate back to today’s industrial action, which is the reason why I am speaking on this subject, I draw the attention ofthe Senate to the present major imbalance on the Commission caused by the Government’s denial of the appointment of a staff elected commissioner. [More…]
The Minister claimed that he would not appoint a staff elected commissioner because such a decision somehow would interfere with the independence of the ABC. [More…]
He said that if he were invited by the commissioners to consider the appointment of a staff elected commissioner he would do so. [More…]
He also claimed that there was no need, in the view of the Government, for the appointment of a staff elected commissioner because trade unionists were appointed to the Commission. [More…]
All of these claims by the Minister do not answer the arguments raised by the ABC Staff Association in favour of the appointment of a staff elected commissioner. [More…]
But what happened last Wednesday when one commissioner moved that a delegation from the Staff Association be heard by the Commission in order to present the case of a staff elected commissioner? [More…]
So I think it is clear from the action of those two commissioners that Mr Staley ‘s view about having trade unionists appointed to the Commission does not answer the case put strongly by the Staff Association for a staff elected commissioner. [More…]
I must add that the Minister is evading his responsibility by trying to suggest that somehow it is the responsibility of the other members of the Commission to invite the Minister to appoint a staff elected commmissioner. [More…]
In the words of another commissioner, the Minister should not use the Commission in this way to get himself off the hook with regard to the staff elected commissioner position. [More…]
The decision not to allow a staff elected commissioner to be appointed is bad because the Commission cannot discharge its responsibilities properly without information about the day to day concerns of its staff. [More…]
The Commission will not have this day to day information about the staff without a commissioner elected by the staff. [More…]
At this point in the debate I express the hope that at a future meeting the newly constituted Commission will reverse the decision of the Commission announced last Wednesday, will reopen the question ofthe appointment of a staff elected commissioner and accept Mr Staley ‘s invitation to put such a proposal to him. [More…]
I call for a balanced Commission, which must include a staff elected Commissioner. [More…]
What apparently exercised the staff into having a strike today and what apparently exercised the Opposition into bringing forward this matter of public importance is the fact that a staff elected commissioner has not been reappointed by the present Government. [More…]
In fact the one staff elected commissioner, Mr Marius Webb, was appointed by the previous Government. [More…]
The Opposition spokesman has very kindly outlined the position of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) with respect to a staff elected Commissioner. [More…]
Witness, for example, the present Minister for Post and Telecommunications sheltering behind the commissioners of .the ABC for not having offered him advice regarding the reappointment or- otherwise of a staff-elected commissioner when Cabinet Ministers had made up their minds that so far as they were concerned they would not have a bar of the appointment of a staff-elected commissioner. [More…]
Upon the suggestion of the Public Service Board, its board included a person elected by the staff. [More…]
He pointed out that it was the responsibility of the legislature to introduce the elected representatives ofthe Commonwealth. [More…]
We have heard from time to time the Minister and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) say- of course, there are the famous statements made by Mr Ellicott to which I referred in this chamber earlier this year- that things would be better and not worse if the Fraser Government were elected instead of the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken part in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1 975 and again in December 1 977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into affect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their state objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extent to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely:- Revoking the legislation for twice-yearly pension payments. [More…]
When the leading Opposition party in Australia says that if it gets back into government it will repudiate the arrangements which the lawfully and democratically elected government has entered into and the trading arrangements which have been entered into as a result of government decisions, of course that will be most damaging to Australia’s reputation as a reliable trading partner in the international sphere. [More…]
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the term of the current Staff Elected Commissioner expires on the 22nd October 1978. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; it is the current intention of the same Government to legislate for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence. [More…]
Senators are elected periodically, by secret ballot, with universal franchise, and the quota-preferential method of proportional representation ensures that the vote values within states are equal as nearly as can be. [More…]
That the people of Australia having taken part in the government of Australia through universal suffrage in December 1975 and again in December 1977 and that on the basis of their expressed choice at the ballot box the people of Australia gave authority to the LiberalNational Country Party Coalition to form a federal government to bring into affect specific policies promulgated throughout the length and breadth of Australia by the said Coalition and that, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their stated objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extent to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to the will of the people, namely:- Revoking the legislation for twice-yearly pension payments. [More…]
As a new senator I recognise that my obligations extend far wider than to the people who directly elected me as I now have responsibilities to the whole community of Tasmania- a State that I am proud to represent. [More…]
I believe that the elected representative; **f the Australian people are not at present in . [More…]
The petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth that the term of the current Staff Elected Commissioner expires on the 22 October 1978. [More…]
We have decided as a government, and quite rightly so, that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community, will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
The real issue is whether on a subject such as abortion the wishes ofthe locally elected legislature should be paramount. [More…]
We have decided as a government, and quite rightly so, that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
If we want to achieve the situation in which that democratically elected and representative Assembly’s recommendations may be implemented, there are various means by which that can be done. [More…]
Senator Ryan said that we should obey the elected representatives of the Australian Capital Territory and their recommendations. [More…]
If we look at the number of people who were elected at that time- 18 members were elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly- we find that nearly one-third of them have since retired or died. [More…]
So only two-thirds of the original elected Assembly have made that decision. [More…]
The rest- nearly one-third or five members of the Assembly- have not been elected but have been appointed to their positions. [More…]
We have decided as a government, and quite rightly so, that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
The elected representatives in a legislature, when finding themselves in conflict with a decision of the Executive Government, should consider very clearly that the underpinning of this system is that the will of the elected members as a whole should prevail over the will of the Executive of any parliamentary institution. [More…]
I believe that the residents of the Territory who voted at the last elections for the Assembly- 38,500 people voted from the Canberra electorate and 41,000 from the Fraser electorate- are entitled to see their elected representatives pass legislation and make decisions affecting their lives because those representatives are the only people who are directly responsible, other than the four members of this Parliament, to the people whose lives are being affected. [More…]
I believe that the fundamental underpinning of the concept of representative democracy is not only that the representatives elected by individuals and citizens should make decisions of this nature and not people who are not elected by the citizens, but also that when the lives of individuals are affected they ought to have recourse against or in support of the people who made those decisions. [More…]
What recourse do the citizens of the Capital Territory have other than to the four members of this Parliament who are immediately elected by them when it comes to a decision about the representative nature of the other members here? [More…]
Just as he rightly rejected making the people of the Capital Territory guinea pigs in a social laboratory, so we should reject making the people of the Capital Territory guinea pigs in a social fossil reflecting the prejudices of the Federal Government at the expense of the views of the elected representatives of the Capital Territory. [More…]
It may well be that people believe that the elected representatives of the Capital Territory have no part to play in this debate. [More…]
This Assembly is elected by the people of the Australian Capital Territory, regardless of whether it has powers at this stage. [More…]
A second major issue is involved, that is, the extent to which the wishes of the Legislative Assembly, admittedly without powers, nevertheless elected by the people of the Australian Capital Territory, should be taken into account by the [More…]
As this issue has far-reaching social consequences for the people of the Australian Capital Territory, I feel it should be discussed and debated by the elected members of the Legislative Assembly in Canberra. [More…]
I emphasise the words ‘final decisions’- of the elected representatives of Canberra in the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
During the course of her speech she made great play of the fact that this issue was not an election issue for the Assembly when it was last elected. [More…]
I am saying, in a sense, that members of this chamber and of this Parliament went to the electors and were elected last year and therefore people are entitled to say that it was an election issue insofar as we are concerned. [More…]
That would be a respectable point of view, but I think that on such a massive moral issue, an issue which affects something like a quarter of a million Australian women a year, those women are entitled to hear the views of their elected senators. [More…]
In conclusion let me say that I think every one of these recommendations- Senator Hamer said that there were 51- carry a great deal of common sense, but surely the whole point is that the question was investigated and adjudged by the democratically elected members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I am confounded to know what rights senators from Victoria, New South Wales or Western Australia have to support a government which says to the people of the Australian Capital Territory: ‘We do not give a damn about what your elected representatives said after a 90-day survey. [More…]
It was designed as a means of putting before this chamber the recommendations of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, the properly elected body representing the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The central issue is whether or not the duly elected representatives of the people of the Capital Territory have the right to bring down a report that should be accepted by the Minister. [More…]
Honourable senators should not, however, represent members of a committee of an advisory body, several of whom I am told are appointed and not elected, as being in a position to speak for the people of the Australian Capital Territory, regardless of whether the matter is political or one of conscience. [More…]
I understood him to say that matters dealing with moral and conscience issues ought to be determined by the elected representatives of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Imagine what people would say about this chamber if one-third of our numbers- 2 1 senators- were not elected. [More…]
We have decided as a government, and quite rightly so, that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
If the Legislative Assembly, which was not elected with this question as an election issue, opts for free standing abortion clinics, does the Government - [More…]
Mr HUNT; We have decided as a government, and quite rightly so, that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters that have great social consequence and matters that have wide-ranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
that matters relating to the Australian Capital Territory, matters of great social consequence and matters that have wideranging consequences for the people in this community will be debated, discussed and decided by those people who were elected by the local community. [More…]
The 47 recommendations were heard in one night’s debate by a part-time Legislative Assembly, one-third of whose members were not elected but appointed. [More…]
Secondly, it has the support of a majority of the people and specifically, I suggest, of the women of the Australian Capital Territory and of the elected representatives. [More…]
If Senator Ryan had not taken the opportunity to give notice of disallowance of the Ordinance in order to have this matter debated, the Legislative Assembly’s decision would not have been given mature consideration and the people of the Australian Capital Territory would not have had a chance to express through their elected representatives the belief that there should be established such principles and such ordinances that would bring the Australian Capital Territory into line with the way in which most Australian States are operating. [More…]
The very simple strategem that Senator Ryan has adopted in this case is to give the Senate an opportunity to disallow an ordinance which was made by the Minister when he put aside the advice given to him by the elected representatives of the people of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
But I hope that he does not mean that it should have self-government so long as the elected body does not make any decisions that would embarrass the Federal Government. [More…]
It is the report of the locally elected Legislative Assembly of the ACT. [More…]
It is also abhorrent to us who hold strongly to the democratic principles that a Minister of this Parliament should make a promise in this Parliament that the elected representatives ofthe people of the Australian Capital Territory, the Legislative Assembly, could make decisions with regard to the termination of pregnancy and then later repudiate his serious promise. [More…]
Surely this democratically elected chamber should not have restrictions placed on it from which the High Court- that non-elected bench of justices- has managed to escape. [More…]
The Chairman of the Remuneration Tribunal, the Honourable Mr Justice W. B. Campbell, has been elected Chancellor of the University of Queensland. [More…]
When I was first elected to this Parliament some three years ago the committees were well established and, like other things that one accepts when one moves into this chamber, I accepted them as part of the procedure of the House. [More…]
Recently I did what I should have done a long time ago- namely, shortly after I was elected to this place- that is, to go back and look at the original purpose of the Senate Estimates committees to see the background which went into the setting up of those committees. [More…]
It was the Labor Government that gave the Northern Territory a fully elected Legislative Assembly. [More…]
The person elected by this Senate to be the President of this Senate- is that the Public Service Board has concurred in his view that 10 new positions should be created to cope with the new functions and extra work load of the Senate, but that these positions must be staffed from within the staff ceiling imposed by the Government in June. [More…]
I think it is a scandalous situation when this House of the Parliament is elected by the people to represent the States, all of us elected by the people within the States come to this Parliament and elect a President to be the custodian of the Senate ‘s rights, he goes cap in hand to the Executive Government in a bid to carry out the administrative functions, roles and procedures of Parliament, and the Executive Government or the President- whichever one it may be- goes to the Public Service Board for an increase in staff so that the Parliament, but particularly the Senate, may carry out its work effectively, and we are told that because of Government policy, because of staff ceilings imposed by the Government in June, this Senate, this House of the Parliament of Australia, is deprived of proper staff representation. [More…]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation to Bonn, of which I was a member and which consisted of 10 or 12 members of this Parliament elected by the Parliament to represent the Australian Parliament at Bonn, was subject to a budgetary allocation by the Executivesomething that was determined by the Executive. [More…]
Having been elected to the Parliament, we then have to wait for a considerable period before we receive the facilities that are necessary for us to do our jobs correctly. [More…]
Before I refer to a matter which I consider important may I take the opportunity of saying that the Senate staff, the pay staff in particular, is very courteous and prompt, but I agree with what Senator Georges said concerning a newly-elected senator. [More…]
It is important that he gets a bit of pay in his pocket as soon as he is elected. [More…]
I might mention that in my case it was a couple of months after I was elected that I got my first pay cheque. [More…]
Upon being elected I went into my office and received a large number of telephone calls from the heads of this and that department in Canberra offering courtesies and services, for which I was very grateful, but the phone call did not come for quite a period of time in fact, until some time in February. [More…]
No doubt that person has since been promoted, but may I just make that point on behalf of senators who will be elected in the future. [More…]
Unlike Senator Harradine, senators-elect in this Parliament had to wait six or seven months before being paid, during which time they were regarded by the public as being people who had been elected to the Senate and were servants of the public and were there to do things. [More…]
He has been in the public eye, has been elected and such matters come forward. [More…]
I hope that when the Board looks at the matter it will be able to remedy it and see that people who really need this extra travel assistance get it so that they may be successful politicians and carry out the duties for which they have been elected. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index Figures; [More…]
Another amendment enabled voters to vote by recording a vote for one candidate in addition to the number of candidates to be elected. [More…]
On 31 October these four persons, together with Judge Morozov ( USSR), were elected as Judges of the Court for 5 years from February next. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; it is the current intention of the same Government to legislate for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence. [More…]
The Council met for the first time on 11 October and elected Mr T. B. Swanson as Chairman and Mr J. K. Edwards from Launceston as Deputy Chairman. [More…]
That is why, initially, we focussed on Aborigines living in or near an urban environment, on the empirical evidence that they had elected to live and work in close contact with the European dominated market economy. [More…]
I repeat that State governments and local governments, as elected representatives, should take the responsibilities for decisions relating to State government and local government road programs. [More…]
For example, last week Labor’s spokesman on the Australian Capital Territory announced that self-government in the Capital Territory would cost ‘no more ‘ if Labor were elected. [More…]
That is why I say that when the Labor Party is in government the Liberal Party uses the chamber as a House of frustration and frustrates not only the Labor government but also the will of the electors who in 1972 and again in 1974 elected a Labor government under the Prime Ministership of Gough Whitlam. [More…]
We gave to the grape growers a clear undertaking in our 1972 election policy that if Labor was elected we would remove the excise. [More…]
Just for the information of Senator Baume, shortly after that we were elected to office and we did remove the excise. [More…]
Of course, price control over grapes in South Australia was introduced in 1965 when Mrwho was the Premier at that time after Labor was elected? [More…]
We in the Labor Party stand by what we did in 1965 when we were elected to office in South Australia and introduced price control on grapes because it was of major assistance to the grape growers who were at the mercy of the wineries. [More…]
I will not delve into that statement because it is already on the record but it is clear to everyone that when Mr Lynch was Treasurer he gave an undertaking to the grape growers throughout the length and breadth of Australia that if the Liberal and National Country Parties were re-elected they would reinstate section 31a and thereby remedy the situation which the Labor Party had been criticised for creating. [More…]
The Bill provides also that in application of these principles the University will not be able to allocate compulsory fees moneys to student representative organisations on campus unless the members of the governing body of those organisations have been elected by at least one-quarter of the members. [More…]
The question could be raised about what would happen if a public servant was elected and did not resign his public servant appointment. [More…]
These amendments will be necessary because some existing legislation is based on the assumption that public servants cannot be elected to the Federal Parliament whilst still holding their public service appointment. [More…]
After I came into the Senate, in due course I was elected as a member of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly consumer price index figures. [More…]
That, whereas by virtue of being elected through universal suffrage, the Government Members now sitting in the House of Representatives were authorised to implement their state objectives by legislation and that such authority did not extent to acting otherwise or to enact legislation not previously submitted to he will of the people, namely: [More…]
A grand total of something like 2.5 million human beings in this country were resting on an assumption that when Mr Fraser and his Government were re-elected they would continue indexing those pensions at least once every six months. [More…]
When an event happens that threatens the very power of this democratically elected institution- the Parliament- they do not even notice that it has occurred. [More…]
I do not care what a majority of the democratically elected representatives of the people say by way of vote. [More…]
I sometimes wonder what is wrong with us as parliamentarians because we go through this charade of coming to the Parliament as the elected representatives of the people and we allow the head of the Executive Government to make a statement such as the one to which I have referred. [More…]
I hope that people listening to this broadcast are aware that she is smiling because I do not believe that her attitude is one which expresses the concern that should be felt by a person who has been elected to this place to cater for the needs of the people of Australia. [More…]
That promise was repeated in 1977, and it was one of the first of the promises to be broken by the Liberal and National Country Party Government after it was elected. [More…]
Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that we have a great many pensioners in the community who rely on us as their elected representatives to look after their needs, and this Government is not catering for the needs of people. [More…]
It mentions how he was elected to serve in an honorary capacity. [More…]
That seemed to me and I think to many people to be an exercise in politics which only goes to confirm what I am saying now, that is, that some vital and basic step needs to be taken by the Parliament to show the people of this country that it genuinely consists of a group of people who have been elected in the interests of the nation and that it is not afraid- I repeat that the Parliament is not afraid- of placing more power in the hands of the people. [More…]
This authority would comprise only members elected for a specific period, and would have powers which reflected the wishes of the Community; [More…]
I believe that it is quite defeatist and wrong and perhaps we are failing in our duty to the public who elected us even to suggest or begin to feel that basic agreement on a future plan should not be laid down with basic guidelines to which every party might agree. [More…]
I do not use that word lightly because if they do so they are failing to do the things they were elected to do. [More…]
They were not elected to be members of a political party. [More…]
They were elected to be senators and members of parliament for electorates and constituencies in Australia. [More…]
Candidates are partially reimbursed for election expenses if they are elected or receive more than 15 per cent of the total votes cast in their electoral district. [More…]
The recommendations continue: Secondly, as a party, it must have polled at least 150,000 votes and had at least one member elected in the previous election; or thirdly, as a party, it must have had at least two of its candidates returned as members in the previous election. [More…]
With the exception of Senator Harradine, all the present senators are endorsed by a political party and are elected to represent that political party. [More…]
I would suggest that if these ideas are not raised and ventilated they tend to disappear back into obscurity when, of course, we should always be looking at our role, our methods and the way in which we can best serve people who elected us to this Parliament and who pay us. [More…]
The Government is so accustomed to feeling that it is the be-all and end-all, even though it was elected by a minority of Australians. [More…]
I repeat that it was elected by a minority of Australians. [More…]
This latest resignation, of course, just continues the record of scandal with which this Government was ridden even before it was elected. [More…]
This resignation is part of a continuing sequence of scandal which has ridden this Government since before it was elected the first time and which has continued unabated ever since. [More…]
The elected government will then decide on the date for independence which will occur by 1980. [More…]
A moderate Prime Minister was elected in that country. [More…]
It removed the democratically elected government in Iran and installed one of the most barbaric dictatorships to be found anywhere in the world- the dictatorship of that cowardly cur, the Shah of Persia, a man who flew around in aeroplanes apparently with gold taps and gold baths; the man who, according to some reports, in conjunction with his family has been able to ship $ 17,000m worth of assets out of the country. [More…]
When I, as an elected senator from South Australia, placed a question on notice referring to a Mr John Kerr, the ex-Governor-General, I found that the name was altered to read ‘Sir John Kerr’. [More…]
Honourable senators might ask how he was elected. [More…]
He was elected on a recount. [More…]
Mr Swanson was elected Chairman and Mr Edwards, the General Manager of the Port of Launceston Authority, was elected Deputy Chairman. [More…]
Although I readily acknowledge that citizen initiative does enjoy some current popularity in certain overseas countries, particularly the United States, it is true that the idea of citizen initiative and a referendum dates from the time, and was most fashionable at the time, when nations were essentially run by elites elected by rich and powerful minorities, when full adult franchise was unknown, when representative democracy was not fully developed, and when there was genuine frustration at the absence of an opportunity for the popular voice to make itself heard in the business of government. [More…]
They have two elections every three years if both the State and Federal parliaments run their full terms and if upper and lower Houses are elected at the same time. [More…]
On the basis of two senators from each of the Territories being elected, their positions are pretty secure if they satisfy their parties rather than spending all their time campaigning outside. [More…]
It is not an elected chamber, and there are severe limitations on its activities. [More…]
Since the Government was elected in 1975 it has made continual alterations to the work test and the conditions which apply to those receiving unemployment benefit. [More…]
In the Dominican Republic a democratic socialist government under Pena Gomez has been elected. [More…]
When the Government was elected by the Australian people, it was elected to carry out its vows during its term of office in a responsible way, and I would suggest that does not give it an unfettered right to carry on actions when there is clear evidence of a large degree of dissent from those actions among the Australian people. [More…]
As an elected representative of this Territory, I affirm and reinforce what Mr Barnett said. [More…]
It was only when the present Government was elected that those projects were put back to the full rate of construction. [More…]
The High Court is a non-elected bench of justices who are politically irresponsible in a strict sense in that they do not have to answer to anyone for their activity no matter how devastating that activity may be within the community. [More…]
If we could say that once again as a Parliament it would be, I believe, a very foolhardy High Court which would then attempt to water down by legalistic interpretation this new statement of the firm view of the elected representatives of the ordinary taxpayers in this country. [More…]
Without knowing any of the circumstances or the details of the matters that have been raised by Senator Colston, who has been elected by the Queensland people to represent them in the Australian Parliament, it appears to me that, prima facie, on the statements that have been made by him in the adjournment debate tonight and the photographic evidence that he has tendered to the Senate, very serious accusations have been made against members of the Queensland Police Force. [More…]
I now regard the matter as closed, and I see no reason why Mr Lynch should not be re-elected as Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
Senator Kilgariff in particular, having been elected as a Country Party senator, now changes horses in midstream and calls himself a Liberal Party senator. [More…]
I said he was elected here as a member of the Country Party. [More…]
This political control of the Defence Force- subservience to the elected Government- is not in dispute in this country. [More…]
But I do not want to criticise those who have been elected; they are not responsible for this state of affairs. [More…]
It is all too evident that there is concern about the performance of elected parliamentary governments in this country and in other countries. [More…]
George Ill’s attempt to reassert the power of the monarchy stimulated the development of the doctrine that Ministers should be united by political principle and that the Prime Minister should be the freely elected chosen leader of his colleagues. [More…]
I believe that a central point of this legislation, and indeed any legislation dealing with security, will be the establishment of the relationship between the security service, its director-general or permanent head, whatever title he may have at the time, and the elected government of the day. [More…]
The responsibility of a security chieftain or of a security service must be clearly to the elected government. [More…]
In his interview with the Premier on 13 January 1978 Mr Salisbury said that special branches of Police Forces had duties which he considered to be to the Crown, to the law and not to any political party or elected Government. [More…]
It is to the Crown and not to any politically elected Government or to any politician or to anyone else for that matter’. [More…]
That statement, insofar as it seems to divorce a duty to the Crown from a duty to the politically elected Government, suggests an absence of understanding of the constitutional system of South Australia or, for that matter, of the United Kingdom. [More…]
The nature of democracy is that it is a publicly observable process, that decisions are made as a result of information made available to the public, debated by the public and dealt with ultimately by the elected representatives of the public. [More…]
Time will not permit me to give an answer as to what Labor did in its three years of office, but it did insist on its members declaring their pecuniary interests to the Prime Minister when Ministers were elected to the Cabinet. [More…]
The net result has been that the Constitution has been designed on such a basis that we have the most powerful, the most independent, elected upper House, probably, in the world. [More…]
It so happens that the Senate in Canada- a not particularly powerful Senate and, unfortunately, a non-elected Senate- has taken to itself the role of scrutiny of legislation which is proposed in its lower House, the House of Commons. [More…]
I believe that we are all elected as members of parliament. [More…]
It is a little one, that will become a big one later, when the new Council is elected. [More…]
You were concerned with the application of the health insurance levy at family rates within your assessment, pointing out that both you and your wife were in receipt of income and that you elected to pay a single levy while your wife elected to obtain private hospital and medical cover. [More…]
You were concerned with the application of the health insurance levy at family rates within your assessment, pointing out that both you and your wife were in receipt of income and that you elected to pay a single levy while your wife elected to obtain private hospital and medical cover. [More…]
He has now seen fit to have himself elected to the South Australian Egg Board. [More…]
I suggest also that it is totally repugnant to the meaning of democracy to have powerful agencies investigating and reporting upon private citizens without those agencies being accountable to an elected body. [More…]
As the elected representatives of the people of Australia, I feel that we should know some more about such matters in order that we can make a proper judgment on the value of this legislation, or just what ASIO has been all about and on what it is likely to be about in the future- whether it is worth the provision which is made for it in the Budget. [More…]
The inference I draw from those paragraphs is not only that the organisation was incompetent but also that it was quite obvious that those in charge of it had to have their arms twisted up their backs before they would give Mr Justice Hope the information he sought under his charter- a charter from the democratically elected government of the day. [More…]
I genuinely and strongly believe that but for the activities of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation being used as a political arm of the Government of that day a Labor government would have been elected in 1954. [More…]
I think that if the political records of this country are perused it will be seen that we had to get only about 200 votes over about four seats throughout the length and breadth of Australia and a Labor government would have been elected. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly Consumer Price Index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; it is the current intention of the same Government to legislate for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence. [More…]
One of the problems is that I do not think that a number of the parliaments represented would qualify as democratic parliaments or democratically elected parliaments. [More…]
Despite the fact that we had four undesirable candidates who would corrupt the Commonwealth Parliament if they were elected, in the electorate of Moreton in Brisbane the Labor Party lost by only 14 votes after the distribution of the Communist Party preferences and Killen the magnificent was returned. [More…]
Cavanagh in South Australia, for the first time in any State in the Commonwealth, was elected from third position on the ticket without an elimination of candidates on the basis of preferences. [More…]
There has often been a feeling in the Committee, I discern, that really important subject matters of territorial ordinances, matters of sensitivity, difficulty or real significance, ought to be subject to proper debate and indeed enactment by a properly elected legislative body. [More…]
No capacity exists on the part of any authority, representative or elected institution in this Territory to create such a preference. [More…]
I am advised that in each of these places the councils which had been sitting, prior to their being dismissed, were re-elected. [More…]
It is also a matter of gratification to the Government that the agreement which was made with the Queensland Government in April 1978 has reached the point where we now have elected shire councils with statutory rights and with leases to the original land areas of Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
Therefore, I would prefer to see a system developed where we would have not only single electorate constituencies but also some people elected to the House of Representatives from the whole of the State by a system of proportional representation. [More…]
I wonder how much of the agitation against Sir John Kerr in 1975- he was hounded and cried down at universities and at various demonstrations in Australia- was contributed to by the subversion of Labor Party members because of their description of Sir John Kerr’s dismissal of a lawfully, democratically elected government? [More…]
If it were not I ask: Who were the other officers and people, who have not been publicly identified, who made a decision to withhold proper information from ‘the properly constituted and elected Government’- that wonderful group of words that keeps coming into debates in this Parliament. [More…]
Since this Government was elected in December 1975 all its efforts have been directed towards improving the industrial relations climate in Australia. [More…]
When President Carter was elected he said in one of his promises to the nation that a safety officer would be employed at every nuclear reactor throughout the country. [More…]
In the last two or three years a conservative government was elected in Sweden. [More…]
I said yesterday that each of the councils had been re-elected. [More…]
All were elected. [More…]
Of these two appear to have been elected, the election of one because of postal voting, is still in doubt, and two appear to have been defeated. [More…]
It has urged that clemency be exercised in respect of this political leader- a man who was elected twice to the highest position in Pakistan and a man who was deposed. [More…]
At its annual meeting on 12 April of last year the group expressed strong concern about the recent trial and threatened execution of Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the elected Prime Minister for Pakistan, who was subsequently deposed by a military coup in that country. [More…]
Mr Bhutto was a member of parliament and the elected political leader of his country. [More…]
He was removed from the office to which he was elected by a substantial majority of the Pakistan voters in a violent coup by the people who now constitute the Pakistan Government. [More…]
Therefore the Government is saying that any person who is a trade unionist may be held under surveillance because in the opinion of the ASIO officer the person may ultimately be involved in a challenge to the constitutional or elected government or may be involved in an unlawful act. [More…]
This chamber, which exercised unlawful activities in refusing Supply to a lawfully and constitutionally elected government in 1974 and 1975, is now charged by the AttorneyGeneral with not carrying out its proper function and with engaging in idle speculation in reviewing the legislation to see whether the words mean what they say or whether they mean much more than they say or they are alleged to say. [More…]
Not to carry out those responsibilities would put me in a position where I would fail in my obligations as an elected representative. [More…]
This may surprise some of those senators who have been elected more recently. [More…]
If democracy means anything we have to maximise the power and responsibility of the elected official at the expense of the unelected. [More…]
At Aurukun, where the council had previously been dismissed, four of the five previous councillors who ran for re-election were elected. [More…]
Two of these councillors appear to have been re-elected. [More…]
Secondly, it draws attention to the local government elections in Queensland and draws particular attention to the fact that the Aboriginal people of that area have re-elected councillors who previously were not regarded with great favour by the Queensland Government. [More…]
Those councillors have had a substantial reaffirmation of their mandate by the people they have been elected to serve. [More…]
As a result four out of eight of their choice were elected on one occasion- four of the retiring five- and on another occasion they were successful with two others. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and the Queensland Minister for Local Government will be visiting Aurukun and Mornington Island at the weekend and have been invited to attend the inaugural meetings ot the two councils where the elected councillors will decide upon their chairmen. [More…]
The Commonwealth now has before it an express request from a newly elected Council at Yarrabah reserve for the application of the terms of the SelfManagement Act. [More…]
In relation to the councils that were elected last Saturday, we have not had all the details; things have been filtering through. [More…]
Apparently they were suppressed because some people were elected whom the hierarchy did not want elected. [More…]
The results of the elections at both communities still have to be declared but the figures so far are rather enlightening in view of the fact that some months ago the Queensland Government sacked the elected Aboriginal councils on both [More…]
Because the two communities have now been declared local government areas, there has been an increase in the number of councillors elected at both Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
But the most interesting part about it is that out of the eight councillors elected, five were members of the former Aboriginal council which was sacked by the Queensland Government under the direction of the Minister for Local Government, the Honourable, in inverted commas, Russ Hinze. [More…]
On Aurukun, four of the previous Aboriginal councillors out of eight were re-elected. [More…]
Donald Painkinna of Aurukun was also re-elected. [More…]
So there are five members of the Council out of a total number of eight who have been re-elected. [More…]
But the point is that three additional councillors have been elected to local government so that when one looks at the election of four out of five of the previous councillors at Aurukun and five out of five of the previous councillors at Mornington Island who have been re-elected to the councils of both of these communities, it surely proves to us in this chamber that negotiations between the Commonwealth Government, through the previous Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Ian Viner, and the present Minister, Fred Chaney, have been successful. [More…]
Fully elected shire councillors of both communities have been re-elected to those councils to run the affairs of the Aboriginal people of both of those communities. [More…]
We have at last reached the stage when councils have been elected and a form of self-government is working in those two communities. [More…]
Just because the councils have now been elected that is not the end of the Commonwealth’s task. [More…]
I first came to know him 14 years ago when I was elected to the Senate. [More…]
Sir David had a distinguished parliamentary career, having been elected to the State Parliament in 1945. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Wriedt) mentioned, he was the first elected Liberal member in Australia. [More…]
One can hope only that Australia ‘s role will be to see whether we can bring together elements, other than those of the newly elected government, to obtain some kind of compromise so that lasting peace can be achieved. [More…]
As announced in May 1978, the Government believes that it should try to develop for Norfolk Island an appropriate form of government involving the Island’s own elected representatives, under which the revenue necessary to sustain that Government will be raised internally by its own system of law. [More…]
Under the Bill, wide powers will be exercised by an elected Legislative Assembly and an Executive Council of Norfolk Island comprising the executive members of the Legislative Assembly who will have ministerial-type responsibilities. [More…]
At present there is a Norfolk Island Council of eight elected members which may consider, and tender advice to the Administrator, concerning any matters affecting the peace, order and good government of the Territory. [More…]
This Council will be abolished and replaced by a Legislative Assembly of the Territory consisting of nine elected members, with the wide powers that I have described earlier. [More…]
The Government intends that the dialogue between the Commonwealth and the elected representatives of the people of Norfolk Island will continue, with the object of advancing progressively towards the internal self-government of the Island. [More…]
Although the visits referred to in ( I ) above were official visits I have as it happens elected to pay the departure tax personally on each occasion. [More…]
The members of committees and subcommittees of Council are elected on the basis of their value to committees or subcommittees as individuals and not as representatives of particular groups or ogranisations, except in the case of those committees and subcommittees approved by the Council to require State, group or organisation representation. [More…]
Other major provisions of the legislation are the sharing of control over mining by both the Pitjantjatjara people and the State Government, Aboriginal control over access by non-Pitjantjatjara people, mining royalties to be paid to the Pitjantjatjara people and an elected Aboriginal executive of the Pitjantjatjara body corporate. [More…]
Senator Wriedt did not indicate that the only time this tax has been mentioned in elections was when an undertaking was given by a State parliamentary party that, if elected, it would grant a rebate, a reduction of personal income tax- not an increase. [More…]
This is what happened under a Federal Labor government and this will happen if a Victorian Labor government is elected. [More…]
Only in two of the 10 seats created was there any chance for the Australian Labor Party in any normal election to have its candidate elected whatever the vote, unless there were a landslide. [More…]
He was elected at the council election held in late March this year. [More…]
After Alderman St Ledger was elected to the Brisbane City Council, he was subsequently elected by his fellow Labor aldermen to be Chairman of Works. [More…]
Because he needed such an experienced person, about one week after he was elected he approached Mrs Slack. [More…]
That is the kind of constraint which we regard as a minor practical price to pay for the maintenance of this quite crucial principle to which I now return: When we are exercising powers of this sweeping, Draconic and potentially privacy-invading kind- we have spoken about them at length before- we have to be sure that if they are not to be exercised on the authority of a judge, which many people regard as the desirable way of doing things, at least they are exercised by an elected Minister of the Crown who is directly and personally accountable to the Parliament. [More…]
He was elected to the House of Representatives at 11 elections; in 1955 he was elected unopposed. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 1975 after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly consumer price index figures; and whereas that Government subsequently announced that pension adjustments should properly be made half yearly each May and November; and whereas the Government has now legislated for pensions to be adjusted only once a year, and this constitutes a serious breach of generally accepted ethics of democratic government and also deprives many needy pensioners of increases that are essential to their subsistence. [More…]
But it seems to me that the point that has been put forward by Senator Missen, that is, that the decision to deny to an individual Australian citizen any notification of the fact that an adverse security assessment of him exists, should not be left solely in the hands of a person who, whatever his character as AttorneyGeneral, is also nevertheless a partisan political figure who has been elected in a partisan political situation. [More…]
The question therefore is not a matter of debating that, but a matter of debating whether in fact the civil liberties of the individual concerned are adequately protected by vesting this power in one elected public official or whether they are better protected by vesting them initially in one elected public official, with that official being required to have his decision subject to review or further consideration by a person who has been appointed to a particularly sensitive position as the presidential member of the Security Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
The Parliament exists for the elected representatives. [More…]
We, the representatives of the people who are elected to this Parliament, cannot even be told whether the size of the ASIO workforce or staff has been increased or how the money is being spent. [More…]
In the document which the Liberal Party published in September 1 975 simply called Federalism Policy’, it outlined what it intended to do if elected. [More…]
Of course it was elected, and it is interesting to cast our minds back and look at some of the things contained in that document. [More…]
It was at about this time that the Commonwealth public servants who had previously attended to their affairs were withdrawn from the Aboriginal settlements and the formation of elected Aboriginal Councils was encouraged. [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…]
that members of the Legislative Assembly be elected by a method of proportional representation, the whole of Norfolk Island constituting a single electoral division; [More…]
The key things to appreciate about the constitutional system which is created by this Bill are as follows: First of all, it confers minimal powers on the elected Legislative Assembly; secondly, it confers negligible powers on the appointed Executive Council; thirdly, it gives quite excessive powers to the Australian Government appointed administrator; and, fourthly, it enables the retention by the Australian Government, acting through the Governor-General, as the Bill puts it, of quite excessive residual powers. [More…]
The position of Administrator is not an elected office but rather is filled on appointment by the Australian Government. [More…]
I emphasise that, contrary to comments that have been made in certain quarters about the Bill, there has been the utmost consultation throughout its consideration and preparation over a period of a year with the elected representatives of the Island’s residents, the Norfolk Island Council. [More…]
The Government is confident that the elected representatives of the Norfolk Island people will respond to the challenge and that they and the Norfolk Island people will avail themselves to the utmost of the opportunity now given to them to manage the affairs of the Island. [More…]
The Opposition takes the view that for power of this kind to be vested in the Governor-General and not be subject to any sanction, any power, any intervention or any redress, if the islanders are unhappy about it, by the elected Legislative Assembly, is to make absolute nonsense of the supposed scheme of the Bill which vests primary money powers in respect to activities on the island in that Legislative Assembly. [More…]
-The Leader of the Government in the Senate will recall that after fewer than 500 days in office the Whitlam Government, which was elected in 1972, was forced to go to the polls, and that after the Whitlam Government was re-elected in 1974 only 579 days in office were possible before the Parliament was dissolved. [More…]
It is my experience as an elected representative of the Australian Capital Territory, and it is the experience of many of my colleagues, that the parents of young unemployed persons do not wish those young people to be forced away from home to look for work. [More…]
The members of committees and subcommittees of the NH & MRC are elected on the basis of their value to committees or subcommittees as individuals and not as representatives of particular groups or organisations, except in the case of those committees and subcommittees approved by the NH & MRC to require State, group or organisation representation. [More…]
The Government also claimed at the time it was elected that it was reprehensible to borrow money overseas. [More…]
I suppose that, without exception, the capitalistic Press has severely criticised the Government and has taken it to task for having been elected on false promises not once but twice- in 1 975 and again in 1 977. [More…]
It is not like the system with the Parliamentary Labor Party, under which members of the Cabinet are elected by colleagues at a party meeting. [More…]
In the Liberal Party Ministers are selected. [More…]
We all know that after the election in 1975 Senator Chipp was not selected as a Minister. [More…]
I do not think that even if we had the numbers we would stoop to the underhand tactics of our leader sneaking over to Yarralumla, asking the driver to park the car behind the Governor-General’s residence and then hiding in a secluded room while the legitimately elected Prime Minister was called over and told that he had been given the sack. [More…]
I repeat, as I have said on numerous occasions, that I supported the Party room decision of last November and that 1 support the elected leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
Aged and invalid pensions went from approximately 22 per cent of average weekly earnings to 25 per cent of average weekly earnings, which was the commitment upon which the Labor Government had been elected. [More…]
If, after examination, what I have said is found to be correct are we going to say that no penalty should be imposed on a man who is supposed to be an honourable and responsible elected member of Her Majesty’s Parliament and who has behaved in that way against someone doing a service for politicians? [More…]
Apart from the doublespeak in the statement the really objectionable principle is that the courts are asserting that they have the right to make political judgments and to decide whether the political judgments of the elected parliament will stand in law. [More…]
The Senate is aware that when the Whitlam Government was elected in 1 972 it appointed an Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
-There was one in that area who happened to be elected to the Federal Senate. [More…]
Although the visits referred to in ( 1 ) above were official visits I have as it happens elected to pay the departure tax personally on each occasion. [More…]
It was somewhat unusual to have the reply that the departure tax could have been paid as an official charge but the Prime Minister elected to pay it himself. [More…]
If there is a rule that Ministers of the Crown and the Prime Minister can have the cost of their departure tax met from official sources, surely members of this Parliament who are elected to attend official delegations as representatives of the Parliament and the country are also entitled to have their departure tax paid. [More…]
The present arrangements included a provision whereby 10 per cent of the profits from poker machines in Australian Capital Territory clubs were to be allocated to local charitable, welfare and community organisations by the Legislative Assembly, the elected body of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The Minister decided to withdraw this power from the Legislative Assembly, without consulting it or giving it, as the elected body of the Australian Capital Territory, any notice of his intentions in the matter. [More…]
Unlike the Minister for the Capital Territory, Mr Ellicott, unlike Government members and senators generally in this place, I do not disregard a call from the locally elected body. [More…]
In particular, I do not disregard a call from the locally elected body when it is unanimous and so clearly based injustice and right. [More…]
We do have elected local representatives of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
In fact, it will not have escaped the notice of honourable senators that we have now a newly elected body of people representing the Australian Capital Territory, of which the majorityprobably the vast majority- will be Labor Party members. [More…]
The fact remains that we have a locally elected body which ought to be able to express the wishes of the people who elected it in matters such as the disbursement of poker machine funds. [More…]
It is a retrograde step, in what is supposed to be a democratic system, that the rights of a properly and democratically elected body to make decisions with regard to local community organisations should have been taken away arbitrarily and placed in the hands of the Minister himself. [More…]
Even though he is not elected by the people of the Australian Capital Territory he will now make all the decisions about the disbursement of poker machine funds to local charities and organisations. [More…]
Despite this undemocratic situation, he has decided simply to take the money in question- we are talking about a substantial amount of approximately $2m a year- unto himself and allocate it as he chooses, in absolute opposition to the wishes of the locally elected body. [More…]
The debate is not about particular decisions taken by a body of the Legislative Assembly at a particular time; it is about whether we are to follow the democratic principle of locally elected members making decisions or whether we are to be subject to the extremely arbitrary decisions taken by the [More…]
I submit that those decisions should be made, as they were made properly and legally prior to the introduction of this ordinance, by the locally elected body. [More…]
No doubt the Minister for the Capital Territory wants the advice of the House of Assembly, as the properly and democratically elected voice of the people in the Territory. [More…]
They made it clear that they wanted their locally elected representatives to advise the Minister and not to make executive decisions. [More…]
If the present Government had not been elected the figure would have continued to multiply in that fashion. [More…]
We have only to look at the Treasurer’s statement of last Thursday and at the Bill that we have before us now to see again how this Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, was misleading the electors in telling them what would happen to them by way of taxation if a Labor Government were elected. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that if Labor were elected to office high unemployment would be created. [More…]
In its first Budget after being elected it imposed a 1 V4 per cent tax surcharge. [More…]
The Liberals know that if the Aborigines in the Kimberleys are listed on the elected roll, they will not hold the seat. [More…]
I do not think there is anything more salutary to an elected politician than knowing that a substantial portion of his electorate is concerned about the policies which he is supporting. [More…]
It would be consistent with the explicit terms of the Australian Labor Party platform, which emphasises not only that the Public Service should be politically responsive in the sense of being capable of satisfying the requirements of the elected government of the day, and not only that the Public Service be responsive and accountable to the community as a whole, but also that the Public Service should operate with the maximum efficiency in delivering analysis, advice and program implementation. [More…]
If I called a strike and got only 50 per cent of my members out, I would not be elected next time. [More…]
Mr President, you and those honourable senators who are on the Parliamentary Library Committee and on other committees associated with the operation of this Parliament know as well as I do how jealously we regard our rights; that is, the rights of this Parliament- a body of representative persons directly elected by the people of Australia- against the intrusions of the Executive Government. [More…]
I believe that it is a cause of concern that the Government does tend to regard this sort of controversial social legislation as something that they can bulldoze through, as if it is a matter for political advantage taking and numbers rather than the sort of consultation and reasonable consensus that this Parliament ought properly to provide since everyone of us here after all has been elected by Australians to this place. [More…]
In the process they have attended, in numbers, meetings at which they have heard reports from their elected officials and have subsequently taken certain action. [More…]
That employment is subject to the needs of the Australian people as conveived by the elected Australian Government. [More…]
This would make the democratically elected Minister accountable for police actions. [More…]
The only other point I wish to make involves the division of powers between the elected government and the monarch of the day. [More…]
Thirdly, the notion of operational autonomy, which looms very large, of course, in the Mark report, and presumably in the Government’s thinking in writing this Bill in the way it has, ought not in the Opposition’s view to be attained at the cost of removing or weakening the principle of the accountability of police to the elected government of the day. [More…]
It is provided in the Bill that the Commissioner should be operationally independent and administratively accountable to the Minister and the elected Government. [More…]
The reason why we want to do that is to make it absolutely clear that this clause does not refer to any personal discretion vested in the GovernorGeneral, but rather of an essentially political decision which is made in accordance with the advice rendered to the Governor-General by his elected Ministers. [More…]
He asserted that that allegiance was not in any sense qualified by any loyalty or subjection to the direction of the elected government of the day. [More…]
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and South West Africa-Namibia are now destined to become independent countries with popularly elected governments, with or without the blessing of the international community. [More…]
The role of the Senate is not being talked about at all at the moment, but one-third of the people who were elected to the Senate are from the white minority and one-third are from the ranks of the tribal chiefs. [More…]
It should be brought to the attention of every elector, how the Government of the day just uses this House to ramrod its legislation through without giving any consideration to the people elected as the Opposition and who want to put a point of view. [More…]
That whereas the Fraser Government was elected in December 197S after promising that pensions would be adjusted instantly and automatically in relation to quarterly consumer price index figures; [More…]
Developments over the past few months within Namibia, including the installation on 2 1 May of the internally elected Namibian Constituent Assembly as a national assembly with legislative powers and reports of continuing armed clashes between the South African forces and the South West African People’s Organisation can only further retard prospects for an early implementation of the plan. [More…]
The electors of Australia clearly recall the Fraser Government’s frequent promises that tax would be reduced and that, if they elected and subsequently re-elected, the Liberal-National Country parties they would be, in fact, supporting lower taxation. [More…]
The Prime Minister leads a Government- and Senator Carrick leads that same Government in the Senate- which was elected almost four years ago on the basis of a number of solemn undertakings to the Australian people. [More…]
We were elected in 1 974 on the basis of reducing taxation and putting spending power back in the dollar after tax. [More…]
The end of the world did not come in respect of our relations with the United States, and there is absolutely no evidence, except in the thinking processes of this Government or of the intelligence organisations, that these sorts of consequences would flow from any attempt by the elected representatives of the Australian people to exercise some surveillance, some control and some influence over what we on this side of the House believe ought to be the correct and responsible role of the legislator. [More…]
Indeed, for some 58 of those 79 years they have elected governments of our philosophy and kidney- governments of a federalist nature- and have rejected, for all but 20 years, governments of a socialist, centralist nature. [More…]
I think one of the reasons why it has not been used is that fortunately people would be ashamed to use such a procedure which would take the right of discussion away from the elected members and, as it were, lock it up behind closed doors by limiting who may enter the discussion in the Senate. [More…]
I believe this for two reasons, first because the terms of settlement it envisages are essentially right in themselves in that they are based on the principles that the people of Zimbabweall the people- have the right to chose who shall govern them, and that the government so elected should have real control over the affairs of the country. [More…]
I have also noticed that there is to be a stay of proceedings before the elected officials actually take office. [More…]
He has not the right, as a democratically-elected senator, to say what he believes about Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. [More…]
I remind some of those judges that, in fact, they are in contempt of Parliament, which is an even higher offence, if they ignore the wishes of democratically elected people. [More…]
Senators are elected periodically, by secret ballot, with universal franchises, and the quota-preferential method of proportional representation ensures that the vote values within states are equal as nearly as can be. [More…]
He broke a promise he made to the people of Australia when he was elected in 1975 because he said then that the Government would not disrupt Medibank- that Medibank would stay whole. [More…]
The advertisement attempted to hoodwink and fool the workers that they were going to get this by way of a taxation deduction, per week mind you, from their income if they re-elected the Fraser Government. [More…]
No sooner was that Government elected than it imposed a 2lA per cent surcharge on income tax. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party was elected to government in the Federal Parliament in 1972. [More…]
Some of the members of that Council were elected eight years ago and have not faced the electors since and they want to sit there for another 1 8 months or 19 months. [More…]
We well know that under the present constitution in South Australia members of the lower House are elected for a maximum term of three years but that those of the upper House, under legislation that was drawn up by the old bluebirds of many years ago, serve for a minimum of six years. [More…]
I struck a lot of pensioners who said to me: ‘How can the Labor Party expect to get a vote for your candidates for the State Parliament when the candidate’- I am not going to name him because he is not in Parliament nowwas along yesterday and told all the pensioners that if he were elected he would see that our pensions were increased? [More…]
Half the people in this chamber had been elected before the 1 972 election. [More…]
When I was first elected to the Senate it seemed to me to be a sacrilege that excellent reports were simply disposed of, or disappeared. [More…]
Honourable senators who are familiar with the operation of local government in Australia undoubtedly have been affronted from time to time to see the alleged representations of the people- the elected representatives of the people- hive themselves off into private and secret discussion and make decisions which affect individuals and ratepayers without making themselves open to public and Press scrutiny. [More…]
When it was elected it regarded itself as the saviour of the Australian people. [More…]
Each year since Mr Fraser and his Government were elected to office in 1975 more and more people have been out of work. [More…]
-In the course of the 1 975 election campaign, the then Leader of the Opposition, Mr Malcolm Fraser, promised that if his party was elected to power in this country it would provide what he called government for all the people. [More…]
In case there are a few other gullible people who have been persuaded by Senator Messner’s incoherent argument- that State governments exert a substantial influence on the levels of employment and economic activity- I emphasise the fact that in 1 974 when a Liberal government was last elected to office in Western Australia, that State had the lowest rates of unemployment and of inflation in the Commonwealth, but that after four years of Sir Charles Court’s Government it had the highest figures of any State in both categories. [More…]
Also, when the present Labor Government of New South Wales was elected it encountered the highest rate of unemployment in Australia. [More…]
Just before he was elected, Mr Fraser said: We will support wage indexation’. [More…]
My concern and anger, as was the case last year when I was first elected to the Senate, are about the marvellous potential of my home State being wasted and underdeveloped and the State becoming the poor State of Australia. [More…]
I am ashamed to think that I am a member of a parliament operating under the Westminster system when the elected government of my State cannot get a proper voice in the media. [More…]
We will not indicate whether we should let the elected Parliament take control or whether, despite the extent to which we have gone in trying to fathom the justice of the matter, a government will override. [More…]
the people’s elected representatives and state what it will do. [More…]
The timber industry has changed much as a result of the changes in the national economy since I was elected to this place at the beginning of 1 976. [More…]
I believe that, more and more, Australians recognise in Malcolm Fraser the sort of leader that they really want, the sort of leader that, incidentally, they have elected twice in three years with the highest majorities that this country has ever afforded to any leader. [More…]
When elected, the new Government immediately set about reestablishing the authority of the conciliation and arbitration system and adapting the industrial relations framework to meet the needs of the parties involved and the community. [More…]
The Labor Party may try and claim that if elected this policy gives them the opportunity to seek some kind of social contract with the trade unions. [More…]
Section 260 of the Act itself embodies the view of the Parliament- the elected representatives of this country- that certain transactions entered into, whilst legal in themselves and allowed to stand in relation to every other aspect of their operation, ought not to have any effect against the Commonwealth revenue, and tax avoidance is thereby branded by this Parliament as anti-social and therefore null and void as against the Treasury. [More…]
It is more effective, not because Parliament has agreed with the proposition that tax avoidance is good whilst tax evasion is evil; tax avoidance has become effective because it has been aided and abetted, I regret to say, by a non-elected and therefore, in a strict sense, politically irresponsible bench of judges. [More…]
But whatever it is and however it emerges from this Parliament, I believe that it would be a very fool-hardy High Court which would then attempt to water down by legalistic interpretation that new statement of the firm view of the elected representatives of the ordinary taxpayers in this country. [More…]
We are not to be frustrated in that regard by a non-elected and, as I said, therefore in the strict sense politically irresponsible, bench of judges 1 wish to say some words about retrospectivity. [More…]
They deliberately deny revenue to the elected government. [More…]
They are refusing to contribute their fair share to the revenues of elected government for its programs, democratically arrived at, and they are creating gross unfairness between various sectors in the community. [More…]
With the newly elected Government in South Australia in agreement with the mining of uranium in the State, can the Minister give any indication as to what federal conditions would have to be met, including environmental conditions? [More…]
The Local Government Ordinance 1979 which came into force on 25 July 1979, provides for an elected Cocos (Keeling) Islands Council to have responsibility for a wide range of functions in the Home Island village area and to advise the Administrator on any matter affecting the Territory. [More…]
It has elected to forgo revenue by way of tax reduction instead of increasing programs. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that when elected in 1975, the Government said that one of its principal objectives was to reduce interest rates. [More…]
If ever a cause needed supporting in this chamber by the elected representatives of the people, surely it must be the cause of the injured worker who sacrifices his physical fitness, and perhaps the welfare of his family, through an accident at work, serving industry for the benefit of the nation. [More…]
The Committee drew attention to the danger of this type of clause and to the fact that the Executive government ought not to be allowed a free hand to modify an Act by regulation, thus depriving the elected members of Parliament of their rights. [More…]
Since the Fraser Government was first elected, it has refused to index these payments although all other government benefits have been indexed. [More…]
It has a council composed of community representatives, elected staff and student representatives, and State Government nominees. [More…]
Senators are elected periodically, by secret ballot, with universal franchise, and the quota-preferential methodof proportional representation ensures that the vote values within states are equal as nearly as can be. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that petitions have now been lodged with the Registry of the Supreme Court of Tasmania challenging the right of all those members of the House of Assembly declared elected following the recent State elections to take their seats? [More…]
Does the Minister think it is a slight on every New South Wales senator that, in view of the 72-hour limitation on this breathing space, in effect, on Friday his legal officers will go into court and indicate the Government’s intentions when information is denied to elected senators from New South Wales on how the Government is going to overcome the impasse? [More…]
I think it is proper that, if possible, the people ‘s elected representatives should have a say in every decision made by the Parliament. [More…]
One of my Government’s first promises when we were elected just over two years ago was to restore the integrity and honesty of Government [More…]
The present Minister for Special Trade Representations, Mr Garland, went off within six weeks of this Government of propriety having been elected. [More…]
It is interesting that my friend, Senator Messner from South Australia, should interject because for the first time ever at the last State election in New South Wales, a Labor candidate, Mr Mair, was elected as the State Labor member for Albury. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that in the 1973-75 period three, if not four, such adjustments were made but only one, in 1976, has been made since this Government was elected to office. [More…]
The fact that it was a lie was proven because the votes for a candidate for the Australian Democrats- a minority party- were counted and he was elected. [More…]
In the 1975 election campaign it was promised in Kalgoorlie by Mr Lynch, among others, that a Liberal Party Government, if elected, would take steps to ensure that the gold mining industry in Kalgoorlie was sustained at the level which then operated. [More…]
Of course, the elected Liberal Government did nothing and allowed the gold mines to close. [More…]
The then Opposition refused to accept that verdict and immediately began to institute a series of procedures in order to defeat the elected government of the day, and it succeeded. [More…]
The Leader of the Government needs to be reminded again and again that the then Opposition used the Loan Bill in this place as a device to stop the flow of funds to the community in order to defeat the elected government of the day. [More…]
Let us not refer to the ballot boxes of 1975 or 1977 because the then Opposition took the elected government of the day to the ballot box at the height of its unpopularity. [More…]
This House was misused for the sole purpose of destroying the elected government of the day and of denying the people their right to the ballot box. [More…]
Let us face the fact that honourable senators opposite deliberately used the device of this Bill to defeat the elected Government of the day. [More…]
As I have said before- it will be repeated again and again in this place- the Liberal-National Country Party coalition used the device falsely in this place and brought this chamber into discredit to defeat the elected government of the day. [More…]
Looking at the Bill initially, it seemed that this was a classic case of the Government’s doing what it ought to do, namely, removing restrictions on a human right from the realm of administrative decision and Executive discretion and putting down a statement in the Parliament on the criteria so that the elected representatives could either adopt them or reject them. [More…]
If an administrative discretion is exercisable, it would seem only appropriate that the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ought to be available to ensure that the discretion is exercised in accordance with criteria laid down by the elected representatives, if this Bill is passed into law. [More…]
Those were the policies upon which this Government was elected and which it has an obligation at least to attempt to fulfil. [More…]
It is too important to the State that Senator Jessop and I represent to go unnoticed, with no great concern being shown by the elected members. [More…]
After these accidents in July, the French Polynesian Territorial Assembly, the popularly elected representatives of the people who live in the area, resolved that the French Government had to suspend atomic testing at Mururoa until a Territorial commission of inquiry had carried out its own inquiry into safety at the site. [More…]
I ask: What steps does the Government propose should be taken to bring the Public Service Board under the jurisdiction of the Parliament so that its authoritarian and undemocratic procedures are supervised by the elected representatives of the people? [More…]
Certainly they are not inspiring the regeneration of the economy which was supposed to have been the strategy of this Government when it was elected to office in 1 975. [More…]
Shortly after the Fraser Government was elected, it embarked on a program to phase-out the nitrogenous fertilisers bounty which had stood for many years at a level of $80 per tonne of nitrogen. [More…]
Of course, it may be deterred from doing that by the fact that next year will be an election year and it will probably wait, hoping to be re-elected in 1980- although that looks an increasingly forlorn hope- with the intention of passing legislation in 1981 to phase out the bounty from 1 January 1982. [More…]
In fact, the reduction in the subsidy did not take place until the first Fraser Administration was elected. [More…]
It would seem from what has happened since the Fraser Government was elected that the advisers of the Government have decided that the laws relating to industrial relations ought to be tightened in respect to the trade union movement. [More…]
In December 1975 my Government was elected with a clear mandate to rectify this problem. [More…]
That statement adds to my confusion, apprehension and disenchantment of this place as a forum for democratically elected senators to express a view verbally and in a vote. [More…]
It promised in 1975 that if it was elected to office it would introduce proposals for tax and wage indexation. [More…]
I was much pleased when Mr Tonkin’s Government was elected to see that the first thing he did was to have discussions with the Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, for the purpose of co-operation, if nothing else. [More…]
But the three Liberal Party governments that are trying to create a dispute with the trade unions have served half of their elected terms. [More…]
The system by which they are elected is beyond reproach. [More…]
The Parliament, as we are all fully aware, is elected by the people. [More…]
They are elected by members of the unions themselves. [More…]
Before the motion for the adjournment of the Senate was put I was saying that security had been increased quite alarmingly since I was elected to this place. [More…]
I thought when I was elected to this Parliament that we would solve some of our problems. [More…]
The Federal Opposition and, in particular, the elected representatives from rural and outback Australia, are very well aware of the communications needs of outback Australia. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that in 1975 Mr Fraser was elected because he promised the Australian people that only under a Liberal government would there be jobs for all who wanted to work. [More…]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected on a policy that under his New Deal he would do something to correct the difficulties. [More…]
I can recall that not long after this Government was elected in 1975, it moved savagely against some social services beneficiaries. [More…]
Although I was elected to the Senate in 1975, I had not taken my place in this chamber before the assault started. [More…]
As the Labor Party announces its social security program and its pre-election programs, the people of this country can at least be assured that if elected to government it will carry out those programs, unlike the present Government, which we well remember put forward a platform for the indexation of pensions automatically and immediately in line with cost of living increases. [More…]
The executive of the union has a meeting and, on behalf of all of the members who elected it, instructs those members on the wharf to lift the ban. [More…]
Therefore, those people, through their elected officials, have done the right thing. [More…]
In that instance decisions were taken by the governing body of the organisation elected by union members. [More…]
I will give a guarantee right here and now that as an elected official of a union I will not provide lists of the names of my union members to the Director-General unless I am directed to do so by the members of the union. [More…]
The Australian Medical Association considers that it is the best judge of who is disadvantaged in this country and who is in need of assistance; it is not the Government or the elected representatives of the people and not the welfare workers or researchers in the community who view the statistics and look at the social problems we have, but the doctors who are the best people to judge. [More…]
It has broken taxation promises that were the very cornerstone of the policies on which it was elected at the last two elections. [More…]
My information is that on 1 November the elected civilian government of President Walter Guerrera was overthrown by rebel forces led by Army Colonel Alberto Natush Busch. [More…]
Nevertheless we are fully convinced, following the submissions we have received and the evidence we have heard, that if our democratic system of government is to be properly responsive to the views of those whom we are elected to serve, the Government’s legislation must be strengthened. [More…]
If we believe, as the Committee has clearly stated, that democracy as a system of government is operational only when there is available a maximum degree of public information about what the elected representatives of the people, and their permanent servants, are up to- if that belief is held not only by the Committee but also by the members of the Parliament who constitute the Executive- I believe the report and its recommendations should see their way speedily into legislative form. [More…]
I can assure you that all of the five persons elected as councillors at the last election at Yarrabah were present for the whole of the formal discussion and in this case, as I was actually present, you might accept my version of what happened. [More…]
1 think most people, if not all who have visited Aurukun and Mornington Island, would agree that those communities, with their elected councils, upholding tenure of the land under 50-year renewable leases, has been a success story which - [More…]
Of great single importance was the extension of the powers and prerogatives of elected Community Councils, which as corporate bodies are now able to accept greater responsibilities for the conduct of their communities. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
Every year since the Fraser Government was elected it has changed that federalism policy to try to make it work but on every occasion it has been unsuccessful. [More…]
For example, in 1949, when the Menzies Administration was first elected, the Australian Council of Local Government Associations first adopted the principle that local government funds should be augmented by revenue from the national Government. [More…]
When the provisional program was made available to the Parliament it was proposed that we would sit during the whole of November for the purpose of carrying out the legislative responsibilities for which we are elected. [More…]
We believe that we have been elected to do a job. [More…]
When I was elected to this chamber 13 or 14 years ago it was run of the mill for us to stay here until 5 a.m., 6 a.m. or even as late as 7.30 a.m. while legislation was being rammed through. [More…]
There were the old fashioned Parliament men, if I can so describe them, like Jim Killen, who were against what they perceived to be an encroachment by the judiciary on the rights, prerogatives and preserves of the democratically elected representatives of the Parliament. [More…]
One reason we ought to ratify it is that we have been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. [More…]
Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. [More…]
We, as the elected representatives of the Australian people, are involved in creating for the first time an Act relating to human rights. [More…]
That is quite different from the proposition I am putting that one needs a judicial Bill of rights or list of human rights in the sense that, once they are denned with as great a precision as is possible by the elected representatives, an independent and impartial tribunal, a judiciary, ought to be given the power to enforce them. [More…]
What this Government has failed to do is to go through the hard exercise of developing a list of human rights appropriate to the Australian situation, detailed as unambiguously as possible, and then to say to the judiciary: ‘We have done our part as elected representatives in identifying the rights necessary for Australians in a democratic society; you develop the remedies and apply them, whether by way of injunction, direction, damages or whatever’. [More…]
I might perhaps say for completeness of this part of the Hansard record that I believe that Senator Puplick and Senator Missen, in their remarks on the judicial enforceability of a Bill of Rights, were directing their remarks only to the need, with which I agree, to have a list of human rights which is sufficiently precise, comprehensive and free of ambiguity that it amounts to a direction by the elected representatives of the people to the courts that these are the rights to be secured. [More…]
What we need is an Australian government, or an Australian parliament, which is prepared to say that we are the elected representatives of the people and that these are the rights which ought to be secured, as appropriate to the Australian context. [More…]
A non-elected bench of justices, an impartial body, should then have the task of enforcing them by means of directions, injunctions, disallowing of evidence and so on. [More…]
I thought that the elected representatives should be in some way made more responsible for securing any particular human right which is said by the Human Rights Commission to have been violated. [More…]
I am saying that the elected representatives, on the tabling of that report, ought to be faced with the difficult decision of either affirming the law or saying that, an inconsistency with a human right having been revealed, it ought not to operate. [More…]
In other words, the tabling ought to lead to a decision by the elected representatives as to which will prevailthe law which authorises the action or the human right of the person concerned. [More…]
Moreover, as a member of the international community in good standing and also as a recently elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, it is very embarrassing for us not to have ratified a covenant on human rights. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
As I said in this Parliament some days ago, the present Government in South Australia was elected on an untruth, and it has to live with it. [More…]
When elected both in 1975 and 1977, there was no doubt in the mind of anybody who cared to investigate the matter that the Government parties were opposed to the principles of compulsory unionism and would seek where possible to bring about a situation in which membership of any such organisations was entirely voluntary. [More…]
It is not arrayed merely against the student associations on the various campuses- associations democratically elected, associations not captured by the Australian Liberal Students Federation, to which I will come in a moment and which is behind this legislation. [More…]
If there is to be an elected body of any sort its success or failure will depend fairly heavily upon student participation. [More…]
Previously the executive had largely been elected on a State by State basis allowing groups with a narrow majority in certain States to achieve an overwhelming majority on the executive. [More…]
Previously the regional organisers had been elected by delegates at AUS regional conferences under a collegiate system and that, in turn, resulted in the appointment of some people which might have been thought, perhaps properly in some quarters, as inappropriate. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
The honourable senator may not know that last week the executive of the National Aboriginal Conference, which is the elected body representing Aboriginal opinion around Australia, dealt with the proposal for a treaty. [More…]
expresses its concern at the lack of effective accountability of the proposed Commission to either the Government or Parliament of the Commonwealth, or to any other single elected Government or Parliament; [More…]
The third major problem with this legislation is that expressed in paragraph (c) of the second reading amendment, which states that the Senate: expresses its concern at the lack of effective accountability of the proposed Commission to either the Government or Parliament of the Commonwealth, or to any other single elected Government or Parliament. [More…]
When Mr Whitlam was elected to office in 1972 one of the first things that he did was to honour Labor’s promise that he would abolish the wine excise. [More…]
Why cannot we, as elected representatives of the Australian taxpayer, be given the costs of those two residences so we can compare what this Prime Minister is costing the taxpayer with what he claimed the previous incumbent of the Prime Ministership was costing the taxpayer? [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
This is the first statutory recognition of the National Aboriginal Conference and thus focuses on the National Aboriginal Conference as the elected representative body of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The problem of a divided nation which some people have mentioned does not arise in the dealings between the Commonwealth and the National Aboriginal Conference as the elected representatives of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Members of Parliament are elected as custodians of the people’s purse. [More…]
The Prime Minister decided, in answer to all the ills of the Northern Territory and to keep the people on side, to get Senator Kilgariff elected to the chamber and to get the member of the House of Representatives re-elected, to make some son of promise. [More…]
Members of the Opposition like honourable senators opposite are elected to the Parliament. [More…]
We are elected to the Parliament to put a point of view on behalf of a very large section of the Australian community. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; [More…]
I repeat what Senator Grimes said about the way these people are elected: It could be done in a much better way, having regard to the tried and true formula as applied by the Immigration Advisory Council over a long time. [More…]
A government elected by the people is entitled to carry out programs and to get funding to carry out those programs. [More…]
The elected representatives of this community have consistently said that tax avoidance is something anti-social and something which should have no effect against the revenue. [More…]
Under the system of voting for the Senate they must have at least one senator returned with the possibility of having a second member of their team elected. [More…]
Again, with a separate team, they can expect to have their team leader elected. [More…]
Apparently she is a serious contender for first place, where she certainly would be elected, or second place, where she would have some chance. [More…]
If Mrs Bjelke-Petersen headed the National Party team she would undoubtedly be elected. [More…]
It is not so much to have his wife elected but to enter the Senate himself by way of filling a casual vacancy created by her resignation. [More…]
All of those people who see themselves with something of a chance will be doing all they can to have Mrs Bjelke-Petersen elected to this chamber. [More…]
I was elected by the Parliament to go on that overseas trip. [More…]
Provisions for anticipation of sick leave are available to staff, including former public servants who have been re-appointed to the service, in the event of a particular need for sick leave beyond a current entitlement, (d) The Superannuation Act 1976 provides that, on reemployment by the Commonwealth, a former contributor, who on resignation had elected for preservation of superannuation rights, may, in certain circumstances, have his previous contributory service recognised on again becoming a member of the scheme. [More…]
An example of the selective criteria which are applied her is that the council of a university shall not authorise a students representative council to expend money unless that council is elected by one quarter of the students entitled to vote. [More…]